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  • Florence Nightingale Service 2021 Sermon

    Wednesday, 12th May 2021

    Over the last year nurses, midwives and health visitors across the world have been a sign of hope. You have rolled up your sleeves and given of yourselves more than either we or you would have imagined, and we are profoundly thankful.

    Florence Nightingale

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

    Sunday, 30th December 2018

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Christmas 2018: There is so much we do not know... Over Christmas, so we are informed, almost half the population of the.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2021

    Sunday, 25th July 2021

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2021: The song that Jesus sings is a redemptive song—a song of love and mercy. You will have noticed we.

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

    Sunday, 25th September 2022

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 2022: George Herbert Two of this month’s sermons at Evensong are based upon religious figures educated (at different times) at Westminster School.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 2023

    Sunday, 3rd September 2023

    Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 2023: How will you engage in community with others in the Church? In the name of the Father, and of.

  • Sermon at the Liturgy on Easter Day 2018

    Sunday, 1st April 2018

    Sermon at the Liturgy on Easter Day 2018: God raised Jesus of Nazareth from the dead and because of that, nothing in this world can ever be the last word for us..

  • The Charles Gore Lecture 2008

    Tuesday, 29th April 2008

    I was interested to hear recently from a distinguished professor of liturgics in the United States that he considers Charles Gore's book, The Body of Christ, to be a classical and enduring exposition of the Eucharist and assigns it to be read by his students.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Dedication of Westminster Abbey 2020

    Sunday, 18th October 2020

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Dedication of Westminster Abbey 2020: Even the Dean of Westminster could not, should not tell you what the outcome will be. I grew up in.

  • 21st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 11th May 2006

    Delivered by The Very Reverend Vivienne Faull, Dean of Leicester at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 11th May 2006 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • 27th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 10th May 2012

    The well-rehearsed arguments about the establishment of the Church of England require revisiting at a time when the nature of sovereignty and location of power have substantially shifted.

  • 15th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 4th May 2000

    Delivered by The Reverend Canon Dr Martyn Percy at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 4th May 2000 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford and the Cathedral, Sheffield.

  • 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.

  • Truth in the Public Square

    Lecture given by Claire Foster-Gilbert, Westminster Abbey Institute, at the 2015 conference of the Newbigin House of Studies Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 15th July 2015.

  • 26th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 26th May 2011

    Delivered by Richard Chartres KCVO, Bishop of London at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 26th May 2011 and at Keble College, Oxford on Friday 27th May 2011.

  • 23rd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 8th May 2008

    Delivered by The Reverend Canon Dr Jane Shaw, Dean of Divinity, Chaplain and Fellow, New College Oxford and Canon Theologian, Salisbury Cathedral at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 8th May 2008.

  • One People Oration 2006

    Wednesday, 22nd February 2006

    Speaker: Mr Tony Colman (former Chair, UK Parliament UN Group)

  • 32nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 11th May 2017

    Salley Vickers addresses the crucial role of the arts in giving shape and form to abiding intangible realities, suggesting the vital importance of nurturing the imagination through the arts in an increasingly secular society.

  • 19th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 27th May 2004

    Delivered by Father Timothy Radcliffe OP at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 27th May 2004 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • 16th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 10th May 2001

    Delivered by Professor Stephen Clark, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 10th May 2001 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • 3rd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Wednesday, 1st June 1988

    Delivered by Dame Janet Baker at King's College London on Wednesday 1st May 1988.

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