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  • Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Christmas 2022

    Sunday, 2nd January 2022

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Christmas 2022: God is love, and love is his first gift to us. As the procession of choir and clergy entered the Abbey.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Advent 2024

    Sunday, 1st December 2024

    'Year passes year, silently; Christ’s coming is ever nearer.'

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2019

    Sunday, 11th August 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2019: In the novel Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell, (some of you may know the film) one of the stories concerns.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on St Peter's Day 2016

    Wednesday, 29th June 2016

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

  • Sermon Given at Matins on the Third Sunday before Lent 2017

    Sunday, 12th February 2017

    Sermon given by The Reverend David Stanton, Canon in Residence.

  • Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on the Epiphany of Our Lord

    Monday, 6th January 2020

    Epiphany, the tinsel and the Christmas lights come down, a few chocolates wait on the sideboard for the moment when firm January convictions fail and we are back to business as usual.

    Epiphany

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist with Inauguration of St Margaret's Choristers

    Sunday, 1st October 2023

    Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist with Inauguration of St Margaret's Choristers: This is wonderful, but it is also a little awkward. This is a bit awkward. Mainly, this is wonderful, but.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the feast of Christ the King 2023

    Sunday, 26th November 2023

    Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the feast of Christ the King 2023: Today is a summons to believe in God, not ourselves. It is the Feast of Christ the King.

  • 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.

  • Reflection: Fourth Sunday of Lent

    Monday, 1st January 0001

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

  • Reflection: Maundy Thursday

    Monday, 1st January 0001

    Read or listen to the reflection for Maundy Thursday

  • The Charles Gore Lecture 2005 No. 2

    Wednesday, 28th September 2005

    Charles Gore died in 1932, leaving a daunting legacy for anyone who would presume to lecture in his name.

  • 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.

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

    Sunday, 2nd June 2024

    The sabbath was made for humankind, not humankind for the sabbath.

  • 6th Eric Symes Abbot Memorial Lecture

    Wednesday, 26th June 1991

    Delivered by Timothy Schroder at Keble College Oxford, King's College London, and Lincoln Theological College in May and June 1991.

  • 12th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 15th May 1997

    Delivered by The Rt Rev. and Rt Hon. Lord Habgood at Westminster Abbey on Thursday the 15th May 1997 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • President of Malawi honours Dr David Livingstone

    Wednesday, 20th March 2013

    Her Excellency Joyce Banda, President of Malawi, attended a Wreathlaying Ceremony at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday 19th March 2013 on the Bicentenary of the Birth of Dr David Livingstone.

    Dr David Livingstone Wreathlaying

  • 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.

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