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  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity 2020

    Sunday, 13th September 2020

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity 2020: Our choosing to be saved is significant and important. A few weeks ago, in this very pulpit, I waded into.

  • Sermon at Evensong on the First Sunday of Christmas 2019

    Sunday, 29th December 2019

    Sermon at Evensong on the First Sunday of Christmas 2019: We travel in faith, for the nativity story is one of journeys. The great Christmas story is still ringing in our ears,.

  • Sermon given at Evensong on the Ninth Sunday after Trinity 2022

    Sunday, 14th August 2022

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Tenth Sunday after Trinity 2022: Whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? “Whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom.

  • Sermon Given at the Evening Service on the Seventh Sunday after Trinity 2017

    Sunday, 30th July 2017

    Sermon given by The Reverend Tony Kyriakides Priest Vicar.

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on Easter Day 2017

    Sunday, 16th April 2017

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

  • Statesmen’s Aisle

    The north transept of Westminster Abbey is known as Statesmen's Aisle due to the many memorials there to politicians.

  • 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.

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Dedication Festival 2017

    Sunday, 15th October 2017

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

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on Easter Day 2018

    Sunday, 1st April 2018

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

  • Sermon at Evensong on Palm Sunday 2018

    Sunday, 25th March 2018

    Sermon at Evensong on Palm Sunday 2018: Conversion: seeing differently.

  • Sermon in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, on Good Friday 2019

    Friday, 19th April 2019

    Sermon in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace on Good Friday 2019: The passion and death of our Lord Jesus Christ stand at the centre of our historic inheritance in this country..

  • Sermon given at Evensong on the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 2022

    Sunday, 2nd October 2022

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 2022: ‘May you live in interesting times’ ‘May you live in interesting times’ is often claimed to be a translation of a.

  • Sermon given at Evensong on the Third Sunday of Epiphany 2018

    Sunday, 21st January 2018

    Sermon given by The Venerable David Stanton, Canon in Residence

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Lent 2019

    Sunday, 10th March 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Lent 2019: Lent 2019 is an exciting, but testing time to live the holy life. Lent 2019 is an exciting,.

  • Fourth Sunday of Lent

    Sunday, 30th March 2025

    The Reverend Dr James Hawkey, Canon Theologian and Almoner at the Abbey, examines Jesus’ beloved parable of the prodigal son, with its reminder of the new life that repentance can bring.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Advent 2020

    Sunday, 13th December 2020

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Advent 2020: Putting right what was wrong. Ten years ago, I was appointed Dean of Bristol.  A friend sent me a.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday before Advent 2023

    Sunday, 19th November 2023

    Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday before Advent 2023: Where is the violence we see and sometimes experience actually coming from? In a world full of wrath, and.

  • 29th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Friday, 25th July 2014

    The Reverend Dr Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, gives the 29th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on the topic 'Beyond Justice'.

  • Sermon Given at Matins on the First Sunday after Trinity 2015

    Sunday, 7th June 2015

    Sermon given by The Reverend Professor Vernon White, Canon in Residence.

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist for the Translation of St Edward the Confessor 2015

    Tuesday, 13th October 2015

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

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