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  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes on Ash Wednesday 2015

    Wednesday, 18th February 2015

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

  • Where does wise leadership come from?

    In our parliamentary democracy, leaders are not only elected by the people, they are themselves drawn from the people.

  • Where do Christians go on pilgrimage?

  • Where, why and how do Christians pray?

  • Sermon at Evensong on Easter Day 2019

    Sunday, 21st April 2019

    Sermon at Evensong on Easter Day 2019: One of the most enduring images of this last week was the majestic golden altar cross seen glowing among the ashes of Notre Dame cathedral..

    Easter Day

  • Sermon given at Sung Eucharist with the Imposition of Ashes, 2020

    Wednesday, 26th February 2020

    There are some things that have to be said today, things I have said before, elsewhere, but not said here in the Abbey.

    Ash Wednesday

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

    Sunday, 24th March 2019

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Lent 2019: Where will I end up? Before the city of Venice arose from its salty lagoon, raised on sunken piles.

  • Sermon at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday of Advent 2019

    Sunday, 22nd December 2019

    Sermon at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday of Advent 2019: Where we have come from and where we belong now? As we stand on the brink of Christmas, many of us here.

  • Sermon given at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Advent 2022

    Sunday, 6th November 2022

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Advent 2022: ‘O where shall wisdom be found?’ More years ago than I would care to admit, I was as chorister in a.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Feast of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor 2021

    Wednesday, 13th October 2021

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Feast of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor 2021: Where do you think you belong? I met Simon Jenkins this week, the former.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 2024

    Sunday, 29th September 2024

    Stumbling can be spiritual.

  • Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 2022

    Sunday, 25th September 2022

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 2022: Honest and the knowledge that a different sort of community exists in God and can be ours. I have.

    State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Epiphany 2022

    Sunday, 16th January 2022

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Epiphany 2022: Through Cana, we can see the fullness of life Christ came to bring. In the beautiful Italian hill town.

  • 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.

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

    Sunday, 15th July 2018

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Seventh Sunday after Trinity 2018: Who’s in charge? It can matter quite a lot. Who’s in charge? Sometimes the question is irrelevant. It doesn’t matter.

  • The Cloisters

    The Cloisters date mainly from the 13th to the 15th centuries and were where the Abbey’s monks spent much of their time.

    Architecture

  • Buried among the kings

    Honouring the Unknown Warrior, a centenary after his burial in Westminster Abbey.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on Easter Day 2023

    Sunday, 9th April 2023

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on Easte Day 2023: Every broken fragment can now know healing in the light of Easter. The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has a new.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Annunciation of Our Lord 2024

    Monday, 8th April 2024

    If we can but bear it, we will see that all around are the fields of paradise.

  • Ashes of Stephen Hawking buried in the Abbey

    Friday, 15th June 2018

    A Service of Thanksgiving for Stephen Hawking was held at Westminster Abbey on 15th June 2018, during which his ashes were interred in the Nave.

    Stephen Hawking Memorial dedication

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