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• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary 2025

  Friday, 15th August 2025

  For the Mighty One has done great things for me, and Holy is his name.

• 28th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 2nd May 2013

  Dame Averil Cameron gives the 28th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on Constantine's Vision and the Church Today - From the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (AD 312) to the twenty-first century.

• Address given at the National Harvest Service

  Thursday, 16th October 2025

  Loving recognition of the gift before us can open us up to hopeful change.

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on All Saints' Day 2024

  Friday, 1st November 2024

  Tonight we must be open to the saints, who call to us because we are vulnerable, bound, and mortal.

• Sermon at Ascension Day 2019

  Thursday, 30th May 2019

  We celebrate today the last of our Lord’s resurrection appearances.

  Ascension Day

• 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.

• Royal tombs

  Westminster Abbey is the final resting place of many kings and queens, starting with King Edward the Confessor whose shrine stands just behind the High Altar.

  Royalty

• Homily given at Holy Communion on the Third Sunday of Easter 2023

  Sunday, 23rd April 2023

  Homily given at Holy Communion on the Third Sunday of Easter 2023: Today is the day we traditionally honour St George. Today, April 23, is the day we traditionally honour St George. He.

• Sermon given at the Dedication Festival Sung Eucharist

  Sunday, 20th October 2019

  Today, we celebrate the anniversary of the dedication of this third Abbey Church, which took place 750 years ago last Sunday.

  Edwardtide

• 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.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixth Sunday of Easter 2019

  Sunday, 26th May 2019

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixth Sunday of Easter 2019: ‘Those who love me will keep my word.’ We all believe that words matter. They are memorable, they build connections,.

• Address given at a Service of Commemoration to mark the 5th anniversary of the terrorist attack on Westminster Bridge and in New palace Yard

  Tuesday, 22nd March 2022

  Address given at a Service of Commemoration to mark the 5th anniversary of the terrorist attack on Westminster Bridge and in New palace Yard: Today is a day to unite against evil..

• 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 preached on the feast of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor, 2023

  Friday, 13th October 2023

  Sermon preached on the feast of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor, 2023: This is an astonishing place, and today we honour the Saint whose gift it is. On this day,.

• Celebrating the re-building of Westminster Abbey 1269 in the presence of HM The Queen

  Tuesday, 15th October 2019

  Our celebration today marks a particular moment in the long history of this Abbey Church.

  750th anniversary Special Service

• The Charles Gore Lecture 2003

  Monday, 24th February 2003

  The Basis of Anglican Fellowship in Faith in Organisation is the rather stodgy title which Bishop Charles Gore gave to an Open Letter he wrote to his clergy in the Diocese of Oxford in 1914.

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

  Sunday, 18th February 2024

  ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.’

• Me and Mr Bennett

• Using our library and archives

  The Library and Muniments are open to researchers but for more limited times.

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on Ash Wednesday 2024

  Wednesday, 14th February 2024

  ‘What’s love got to do with it?’