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

  Sunday, 7th September 2025

  Christianity is not a passive faith which you can just sit back and absorb, but one in which you have to actively make the choice to put Jesus above everything else.

• History

  Westminster Abbey is a treasure house of paintings, stained glass, textiles and artefacts – and is also where some significant people are buried or remembered.

  Art Architecture Christianity Notable people Royalty

• Explore our History

  Explore our History:.

• Address given at a service to recognise fifty years of Continuous At Sea Deterrent

  Friday, 3rd May 2019

  We do owe a debt of gratitude to all those countless men and women who in the past fifty years have maintained the deterrent.

• 11th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 9th May 1996

  Delivered by David Hare, Playwright at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 9th May 1996 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• 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.

• 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

• The Choir

  The Choir of Westminster Abbey is renowned worldwide. Comprising thirty boys and twelve adult singers, its main focus is to sing the daily choral services.

• Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity 2016

  Sunday, 7th August 2016

  Sermon given by The Reverend David Stanton, Canon Treasurer and Almoner.

• Sermon preached at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday of Advent 2025

  Sunday, 21st December 2025

  ‘Surely, I am coming soon.’

• Sermon Given at Matins on the Second Sunday of Epiphany 2016

  Sunday, 17th January 2016

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

• Sermon at the Solemn Evensong of Thanksgiving for the Canonisation of St Oscar Romero

  Saturday, 17th November 2018

  We celebrate today the canonisation of St Oscar Romero, Bishop and Martyr, that took place in Rome on 14th October 2018.

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on All Saints' Day 2023

  Wednesday, 1st November 2023

  Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on All Saints' Day 2023: God will wipe away every tear. Today's readings centre on the theme of  "Praising God and thanking Him for His love.

• Sermon at the Evening Service on Easter Day 2018

  Sunday, 1st April 2018

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

• In the Public Eye

  The media make people and events public. Love it or loathe it, people in public life have to live with it.

• Sermon Given at Evensong on Palm Sunday 2016

  Sunday, 20th March 2016

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

• Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on All Saints’ Day 2017

  Wednesday, 1st November 2017

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

• 5th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 31st May 1990

  Delivered by The Very Reverend Alan Jones, Dean of Grace Cathedral San Francisco at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 31st May 1990 and subsequently at Lincoln Minster and Keble College, Oxford.

• 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.

• Sermon at Ascension Day 2019

  Thursday, 30th May 2019

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

  Ascension Day