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  • 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.

  • Address given at a Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving to mark ANZAC Day

    Wednesday, 25th April 2018

    Address 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 at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Advent 2018

    Sunday, 2nd December 2018

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Advent 2018: Today we start the new Church Year with the beginning of a new season of Advent. Today we start the.

  • Sermon at the The Whitehall Carol Service 2018

    Tuesday, 18th December 2018

    Is it possible or sensible to talk of a Golden Age? And if so, when might there have been a Golden Age?

    Whitehall Carol Service Dean of Westminster

  • 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 at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday before Advent 2019

    Sunday, 17th November 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday before Advent 2019: ‘See, the day is coming, burning like an oven.’ ‘On the 8th of the Jewish month of Ab, in late.

  • Sermon at Evening Prayer on the Third Sunday of Easter 2021

    Sunday, 18th April 2021

    Sermon at Evening Prayer on the Third Sunday of Easter 2021: There is something important about the strangeness of scripture. Research publicised by the BBC this week has brought the documents known.

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

    Sunday, 10th July 2022

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday after Trinity 2022: "Music and poetry have in all ages been counted divine..." In 1688, the publisher and playwright Henry Playford had a bit.

  • 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 Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2023

    Sunday, 30th July 2023

    Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2023: Our life and our work can be given the dignity of revealing something of the kingdom of heaven. The.

  • Sermon Christmas Day 2023

    Monday, 25th December 2023

    Sermon Christmas Day 2023: In the beginning was the Word. Now, I need some room, some leeway. this morning. Perhaps, and please, you might be patient? I do know it is Christmas.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday after Trinity

    Sunday, 30th June 2024

    You hid your face from me and I was utterly dismayed.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Easter 2025

    Sunday, 27th April 2025

    'Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.'

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • One People Oration 2011

    Thursday, 10th March 2011

    Speaker: His Excellency Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth Secretary-General

  • Sermon at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday before Lent 2019

    Sunday, 10th February 2019

    Sermon at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday before Lent 2019: Seeing the light The Feast of Candlemas, which the Church observed nine days ago, celebrates one of the most symbolically “full” moments.

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    Sunday, 2nd June 2024

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

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    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.

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