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• Sermon Given at a Service of Thanksgiving to Mark the Centenary of Blind Veterans UK

  Tuesday, 6th October 2015

  Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster.

• The Challenge of Bioethics to Decision-Making in the UK

  A lecture for the Von Hugel Institute series ‘Ethics in Public Life’, 5th February 2015, given by Claire Foster-Gilbert, Director, Westminster Abbey Institute.

• 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.

• Why is the Resurrection so important to Christians today?

• The Coronation 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 given at the Sung Eucharist on the feast of Corpus Christi 2021

  Thursday, 3rd June 2021

  Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the feast of Corpus Christi 2021: Today is a feast of food, and it is a feast of the body. Jesus said, “Whoever eats me.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 Evensong of the Baptism of Christ 2020

  Sunday, 12th January 2020

  Sermon at Evensong of the Baptism of Christ 2020: Today, again is Epiphany, today is Theophany. The Baptism of Jesus by John in the River Jordan which we celebrate today is one.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Advent 2018

  Sunday, 2nd December 2018

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Advent 2018: Today we start the new Church Year with the beginning of a new season of Advent. Today we start the.

• 33rd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 24th May 2018

  Speaker: The Reverend Richard Coles FKC, Vicar of Finedon, Northamptonshire

• What happens during a church service?

• Which objects will you find in a church?

• 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.

• Sermon given at the Dedication Festival Sung Eucharist

  Sunday, 20th October 2019

  Today, we celebrate the anniversary of the dedication of this third Abbey Church, which took place 750 years ago last Sunday.

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