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  Each year, we welcome over a million visitors. We’re generally open Monday to Saturday for visiting, and hold regular services to which all are welcome.

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• Address Given by His Grace The Archbishop of Canterbury at Evening Prayer in Westminster Abbey on the Occasion of the Visit of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to Britain

  Friday, 17th September 2010

  Address given by Right Honourable Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan.

• Where, why and how do Christians pray?

• How and why do Christians worship at Christmas?

• 32nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 11th May 2017

  Salley Vickers addresses the crucial role of the arts in giving shape and form to abiding intangible realities, suggesting the vital importance of nurturing the imagination through the arts in an increasingly secular society.

• Sermon at Evensong on the Day of Pentecost 2019

  Sunday, 9th June 2019

  Sermon at Evensong on the Day of Pentecost 2019: 'Time is how you spend your love.' At the beginning of her novel On Beauty, Zadie Smith quotes a line from a poem.

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 2023

  Sunday, 3rd September 2023

  Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 2023: How will you engage in community with others in the Church? In the name of the Father, and of.

• Celebrating the re-building of Westminster Abbey 1269 in the presence of HM The Queen

  Tuesday, 15th October 2019

  Our celebration today marks a particular moment in the long history of this Abbey Church.

  750th anniversary Special Service

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Lent 2021

  Sunday, 14th March 2021

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Lent 2021: Talk about sin has been unfashionable for a long time now. Talk about sin has been unfashionable for a long.

• The Charles Gore Lecture 2006

  Tuesday, 23rd May 2006

  It is a proper tribute to Charles Gore, Canon of Westminster, bishop successively of three dioceses, founder of the Community of the Resurrection and distinguished theologian, that a lecture should be named in his honour.

• 15th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 4th May 2000

  Delivered by The Reverend Canon Dr Martyn Percy at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 4th May 2000 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford and the Cathedral, Sheffield.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity 2018

  Sunday, 21st October 2018

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity 2018: How do we experience and understand silence?.

• Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Lent 2019

  Sunday, 17th March 2019

  Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Lent 2019: How far will we go for our neighbour? How far will we go to live a properly Christian life?.

• Sermon given at Evensong on the Fifth Sunday after Trinity 2021

  Sunday, 4th July 2021

  Sermon given at Evensong on the Fifth Sunday after Trinity 2021: Without darkness and weakness, how would the need for real humour arise? Over these many months of pandemic I’ve found a.

• Misericords

  The word misericord comes from the Latin misericordia, meaning pity or mercy. These hinged oak seats in the chapel tip up to form a ledge.

  Art

• Create an Order of Service shortcut for smartphone

  Create an Order of Service shortcut for smartphone: Find out how to create a shortcut on your smartphone so you can quickly access the latest Order of Service from your homescreen. For.

• Sermon at Evensong on the First Sunday after Trinity 2021

  Sunday, 6th June 2021

  Sermon at Evensong on the First Sunday after Trinity 2021: How is your soul? It would have been a tough job description; who could have sustained this calling? When God called Jeremiah,.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday after Trinity 2018

  Sunday, 3rd June 2018

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday after Trinity 2018: How can we learn again, what it means to live in a rhythm of work and rest? In Canary Wharf.

• Sermon given at Evensong on the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018

  Sunday, 16th September 2018

  Sermon given at Evensong on the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018: How we judge others says far more about us, than how we are judged by others. Just a few moments ago,.

• Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Lent 2020

  Sunday, 1st March 2020

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Lent 2020: What is evil? How would we have knowledge of it? In recent years I have found myself increasingly subject.