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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

• Taverner: Western Wynde Mass

  James O’Donnell brings composer John Taverner to the fore, presenting two of the undisputed choral masterpieces from sixteenth-century England.

• 34th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 9th May 2019

  Sir James MacMillan argues that the search for the sacred did not end with modernity in music and that it has grown and become complex.

  Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

• 37th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 25th May 2023

  Loretta Minghella talks about Money, Bias and the Geography of the Heart

• 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.

• 35th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 11th November 2021

  Loretta Minghella talks about Money, Bias and the Geography of the Heart

• 39th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 22nd May 2025

  Rhidian Brook gives the 2025 Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture, discussing Writing in good faith: a pilgrimage in fiction, film and thought.

• 38th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 23rd May 2024

  Canon Paula Gooder gives the 2024 Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture, discussing truth telling and storytelling

• Sermon given at Midnight Mass at Christmas 2018

  Monday, 24th December 2018

  ‘When the angels had left them, the shepherds said one to another, “Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.”’

• 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.

• 28th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 2nd May 2013

  Dame Averil Cameron gives the 28th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on Constantine's Vision and the Church Today - From the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (AD 312) to the twenty-first century.

• 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.

• 11th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 9th May 1996

  Delivered by David Hare, Playwright at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 9th May 1996 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• 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.

• 10th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 4th May 1995

  Delivered by The Most Revd Richard Holloway D.D., Bishop of Edinburgh, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 4th May 1995 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford and Lincoln Theological College.

• Charles Gore Memorial Lectures

  As a memorial to Charles Gore, a fund for a series of lectures was established. Since 1935 a lecture has been held almost every year.

• 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.

• 21st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 11th May 2006

  Delivered by The Very Reverend Vivienne Faull, Dean of Leicester at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 11th May 2006 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• 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.

• Address at the dedication of a memorial to Owen and Henry Chadwick

  Thursday, 1st February 2018

  Address given by Professor Eamon Duffy, Professor of the History of Christianity, University of Cambridge