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  • Sermon given at Midnight Mass, Christmas 2019

    Tuesday, 24th December 2019

    It is my first Christmas in the Abbey, I have been here a month. Kind people keep asking me if I am looking forward to my first Christmas here.

    Midnight Mass

  • Sermon on The Feast of the Presentation of Christ 2020

    Sunday, 2nd February 2020

    Vicars live in Vicarages, Rectors live in Rectories and Deans live in Deaneries. This is important; it assures us we've put them in their place.

    Candlemas

  • A reflection for Low Sunday 2020

    Sunday, 19th April 2020

    For Christians who live in the age of the resurrection – that is, our own age – belief is an activity of the heart and the mind.

  • Address for an Easter Day podcast, with HRH The Prince of Wales

    Sunday, 12th April 2020

    From the vantage point of life in Christ, we begin to see, often through our tears, the renewal of all creation.

    Easter Day

  • Reflection: Easter Day

    Monday, 1st January 0001

    Read or listen to the reflection for Easter Day

  • Reflection: Fifth Sunday of Lent

    Monday, 1st January 0001

    Read or listen to the reflection for the Fifth Sunday of Lent 2024.

  • Sermon preached at Evensong on Easter Day 2025

    Sunday, 20th April 2025

    Jesus came and stood among them, and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ (John 20: 19)

  • Sermon given at Evensong on Palm Sunday 2019

    Sunday, 14th April 2019

    Sermon given at Evensong on Palm Sunday 2019: Above all, this coming week is all about grace. Today is Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week, the week in which we.

  • Sermon preached at Evensong on Palm Sunday 2025

    Sunday, 13th April 2025

    'If these were silent, the stones would shout out.'

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday before Lent 2024

    Sunday, 4th February 2024

    In the first few lines of John’s gospel, I hope anyone would find ideas that are gripping and enticing.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Epiphany 2023

    Sunday, 29th January 2023

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Epiphany 2023: Poverty was turned to riches, sorrow into joy. Earlier this week I was in Ethiopia and learned that after.

  • The Mystery of the Transfiguration: Seven Meditations

    These Meditations were first published in 1979, although they were originally delivered in the late 1940s.

  • 7th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 7th May 1992

    Delivered by John Fenton at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 7th May 1992 and at Lincoln Theological College and Keble College, Oxford.

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Epiphany 2016

    Sunday, 24th January 2016

    Sermon given by The Reverend David Stanton, Canon Treasurer and Almoner.

  • 22nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 10th May 2007

    Delivered by The Reverend Dr Richard A. Burridge, Dean of King's College London at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 10th May 2007 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • The Charles Gore Lecture 2008

    Tuesday, 29th April 2008

    I was interested to hear recently from a distinguished professor of liturgics in the United States that he considers Charles Gore's book, The Body of Christ, to be a classical and enduring exposition of the Eucharist and assigns it to be read by his students.

  • 31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 26th May 2016

    Roger Scruton, philosopher, public commentator and author, gives the 31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on the topic of The Sacred, the Profane and the Desecrated.

  • 27th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 10th May 2012

    The well-rehearsed arguments about the establishment of the Church of England require revisiting at a time when the nature of sovereignty and location of power have substantially shifted.

  • 26th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 26th May 2011

    Delivered by Richard Chartres KCVO, Bishop of London at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 26th May 2011 and at Keble College, Oxford on Friday 27th May 2011.

  • Reflection: Christmas Day

    Monday, 1st January 0001

    Watch or read the reflection from Christmas Day, Peace on earth

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