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  • Sermon Given at Matins on the Fourth Sunday of Lent 2016

    Sunday, 6th March 2016

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

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Advent 2016

    Sunday, 27th November 2016

    Sermon given by The Reverend Professor Vernon White, Sub-Dean, Canon Theologian, and Archdeacon of Westminster.

  • Sermon given at Evensong on the Baptism of Christ 2018

    Sunday, 7th January 2018

    Sermon given by The Reverend David Stanton, Canon in Residence

  • A Homily given at Holy Communion on Sunday 4 August 2024

    Sunday, 4th August 2024

    When did you last have a good cry?

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

    Sunday, 25th August 2024

    This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?

  • Sermon preached at Evensong on the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 2024

    Sunday, 15th September 2024

    God be with you till we meet again.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2025

    Sunday, 10th August 2025

    Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Feast of Candlemas 2015

    Monday, 2nd February 2015

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

  • Sermon at the Evening Service on Easter Day 2018

    Sunday, 1st April 2018

    Sermon given by The Reverend Dr Tony Kyriakides, Priest Vicar.

  • Sermon at Evensong on the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018

    Sunday, 7th October 2018

    Sermon at Evensong on the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018: Beyond catastrophe On the Sunday before the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Randall Davidson.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on St Peter's Day, 2021

    Tuesday, 29th June 2021

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on St Peter's Day, 2021: The life of our heavenly patron St Peter reminds us that even when we get it wrong, the love of Christ.

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

    Sunday, 17th July 2022

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Fifth Sunday after Trinity 2022: Do not take yourself too seriously, but take the faith extremely seriously. Isn’t boasting unattractive? Right up there in the list.

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

    Sunday, 23rd October 2022

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Last Sunday after Trinity 2022: ‘Vanity of Vanities, says the Teacher; all is vanity.’ ‘Vanity of Vanities, says the Teacher; all is vanity’ Not exactly the most.

  • 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 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 preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Seventh Sunday after Trinity 2024

    Sunday, 14th July 2024

    Until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 2025

    Sunday, 14th September 2025

    Knowing our need of God.

  • Sermon preached at the Festival Eucharist in the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor

    Saturday, 18th October 2025

    'Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner.’

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 2017

    Sunday, 1st October 2017

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 2017: The unfairness of God Religion doesn’t work, does it?  At least, that’s what popular opinion says.  Religion is just not.

  • Sermon at Matins on Good Friday 2018

    Friday, 30th March 2018

    Sermon at Matins on Good Friday 2018: Why should the tortured death of one man on a cross 2000 years ago on a scrubby hill in the Middle East matter to us.

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