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• The Abbey and national memory

  The Abbey is the resting place of more than 3000 great Britons: what better place to explore the concept of British Values?

• Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Advent 2021

  Sunday, 5th December 2021

  Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Advent 2021: Memory and hope belong together. St Luke has quite a number of accolades to his name in popular tradition. First, of.

• The Coronation Church

• Sermon at a Sung Eucharist of Thanksgiving at St Margaret's Church

  Saturday, 31st October 2020

  Sermon at a Sung Eucharist of Thanksgiving at St Margaret's Church: There is a file full of letters on my desk. Some of them, probably, written by people now sitting here.

• Sermon at the Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2020

  Sunday, 2nd August 2020

  Sermon at the Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2020: We give thanks for this offering, and for its multiplication. One of the questions that people of faith are sometimes challenged.

• Why is church a special place?

• Why are there lots of candles in church?

• Why are there lots of crosses in church?

• St Margaret's Church

  St. Margaret’s is a 12th-century church next to Westminster Abbey. It’s sometimes called ‘the parish Church of the House of Commons’. Everyone’s welcome to visit.

• 20th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 12th May 2005

  Delivered by The Reverend Nicholas Holtam, Vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 12th May 2005 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• What happens during a church service?

• Which objects will you find in a church?

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday after Trinity 2017

  Sunday, 25th June 2017

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday after Trinity 2017: The vocation of the Church Imagine, if you will, Jerusalem.  Not the sprawl of modern Jerusalem of today; but a.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday before Lent 2019

  Sunday, 10th February 2019

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday before Lent 2019: An apostolic Church Some years ago I enjoyed a wonderful summer holiday with a group of friends in the south-west.

• One People Oration 2002

  Monday, 17th June 2002

  Speaker: Lord Carey of Clifton (then Archbishop of Canterbury)

• Which signs and symbols will you find in a church?

• 17th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 2nd May 2002

  Delivered by The Reverend Mark Oakley, St Paul's Covent Garden at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 2nd May 2002 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• News & media

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• The Nation's Memory

  When Charles Dickens died at his home in Kent on 9th June 1870, it was presumed that he would be buried in Rochester Cathedral or in one of the nearby parish churches at Cobham or Shorne. This, after all, was what the author of some of the greatest novels in the English language had wanted.

• Sermon given at the Service attended by the Judges, 2018

  Monday, 1st October 2018

  Sermon given at the Service attended by the Judges, 2018, by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall Dean of Westminster.

  Judges Service Special Service Dean of Westminster