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• Advent IV: God's faithfulness to us

  Sunday, 21st December 2025

  The Reverend Helena Bickley-Percival discusses the meaning of Zechariah's prophecy, and how God remains faithful to us even when we doubt.

  ...holiness and righteousness before him all our days. And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most...

• Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on Christmas Day 2016

  Sunday, 25th December 2016

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

  A child on the top deck of a bus with his mother.

• 14th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 6th May 1999

  Delivered by The Rt Hon Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 6th May 1999 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  Judges or magistrates have to decide with which parent a child should be placed in a dispute over the child’s home.

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

  Sunday, 11th June 2023

  Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday after Trinity 2023: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ A former Canon of.

  Our instruction this morning comes in the form of a dead child and a haemorrhaging woman.

• Sermon preached at Evensong on the Baptism of Christ 2024

  Sunday, 7th January 2024

  Sermon preached for the Baptism of Christ 2024: Returning from Bethlehem. ‘Homewards’ is the name of the Prince of Wales’s new anti-homelessness initiative. Prince William has decided to focus an enormous amount.

  ...festival of the Epiphany, when the Magi—‘wise men from the east’—came to worship the Christchild, offering him deeply symbolic gifts of gold, frankincense and

• A Reflection for the First Sunday of Christmas: God who is being revealed to us

  Sunday, 29th December 2024

  Ponder the meaning of young Jesus' teaching in the temple with The Reverend Amanda Bourne in a reflection for the First Sunday of Christmas.

  When his parents saw him they were astonished; and his mother said to him, ‘Child, why have you treated us like this?

• Advent III: God's judgement of love

  Sunday, 14th December 2025

  The Reverend Dr James Hawkey explores Mary's Magnificat and what her prophetic words tell us about the great and mighty wonder of God's love.

  ...of the prophets come cascading into one place through the news of Mary’s child: the humble will be called blessed, God’s strength will scatter the proud in...

• 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.

  My second work is also religious, though perhaps less overtly so: Henry Moore’s Madonna and Child from St Matthew’s church in Northampton.

• Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Advent 2015

  Sunday, 20th December 2015

  Sermon given by The Reverend Professor Vernon White, Canon Theologian.

  Each has an unborn child in the womb.

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

  Sunday, 28th February 2016

  Sermon given by The Venerable Andrew Tremlett, Canon in Residence.

  ...tale, told in order to explain why Israel had renounced (or had never taken up) the practice of child sacrifice that was pervasive in the surrounding cultures".

• Sermon Given at Matins on the Fifth Sunday of Easter 2017

  Sunday, 14th May 2017

  Sermon given by The Reverend Professor Vernon White, Canon in Residence.

  A menacing crack of thunder, a nightmare, or just some unaccountable frisson of fear…and a young child runs to its mother.

• Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on Corpus Christi 2017

  Thursday, 15th June 2017

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

  ...Cup, ‘We give thanks to you, our Father, for the Holy Vine of David your child, which, you made known to us through Jesus your child; to you be glory for ever.’...

• Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Christmas 2023

  Sunday, 1st January 2023

  Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Christmas 2023: A reflection on a much-overlooked part of the Christmas story from the Gospel of Matthew, and encourages us to.

  Namely, the massacre of children by a tyrant king...

• Sermon preached at the First Eucharist of Christmas 2023

  Sunday, 24th December 2023

  Sermon preached at the First Eucharist of Christmas 2023: The Incarnation of Jesus Christ is not a myth. It’s a very particular sound-world. At Christmas, in the villages surrounding Rome, you can.

  ...pifferari; traditional musical instruments played, often beneath an image of the Virgin and Child, which remind us of the shepherds who were the first pilgrims to...

• Sermon preached at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Advent 2024

  Sunday, 8th December 2024

  What is the spirit of this Advent season?

  ...of which can enrich and deepen our knowledge of the one on whom we call; the child in the manger, the Lord of the Church, in word and sacrament, and the King...

• Sermon preached on the First Evensong of the Epiphany of Our Lord 2025

  Sunday, 5th January 2025

  The pilgrimage of the Magi is essentially rooted in some kind of trusting hunch.

  In our imagination, we join the Magi on the final leg of their long journey towards the Christchild.

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Advent 2025

  Sunday, 21st December 2025

  Being a Christian has consequences.

  ...possibly used to thinking of Joseph as an older, staid, silent figure, but he is quietly radical in his response to the promise of a child that will change the

• Sermon preached at Evensong on the First Sunday of Christmas 2025

  Sunday, 28th December 2025

  The manger has become so familiar, so comforting, that we perhaps need to look a little deeper.

  By now, the mangers which were empty for the few days and hours before Christmas have received their central focus, the figure of the Christ-child himself.

• O praise the Lord: Restoration music from Westminster Abbey

  The Choir of Westminster Abbey under director James O’Donnell delves into the Abbey’s vaults for this fascinating programme of music from the Restoration era.

  O praise the LordBlow Voluntary in ABlow God is our hope and strengthBlow VeniteTurner Psalm 113Blow Voluntary in D minorPurcell Benedicite (Complete Service...

• A Christmas Caroll from Westminster Abbey

  Works by Leighton, Poulenc, Rutter and Walton feature in this delightful and unusual selection of music for Christmas.

  ...composers across the ages: light shining in darkness; the tenderness of mother and child; the fulfilment of promise; and the warm merriment of corporate