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  • Sermon Given at Matins on Trinity Sunday 2016

    Sunday, 22nd May 2016

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

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on St Peter's Day 2016

    Wednesday, 29th June 2016

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

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

    Sunday, 10th July 2016

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

  • Sermon Given at Evensong on the Last Sunday after Trinity 2016

    Sunday, 23rd October 2016

    Sermon given by The Reverend Melusi Francis Sibanda, Rector, St George, Dunsborough, Diocese of Bunbury, Western Australia.

  • 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.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on Maundy Thursday 2018

    Thursday, 29th March 2018

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

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on Ascension Day 2018

    Thursday, 10th May 2018

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on Ascension Day 2018: This is a day of triumph. ‘God is gone up with a triumphant shout: The Lord with sounding trumpets’ melodies.’ We heard.

  • Sermon at Evensong on the Second Sunday before Advent 2018

    Sunday, 18th November 2018

    Sermon at Evensong on the Second Sunday before Advent 2018: If our God is able… The roar of the flames is still to be heard in the distance; and the all-pervasive smell.

  • 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 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,.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday before Lent 2020

    Sunday, 16th February 2020

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday before Lent 2020: It is a risky business to have a commitment to something. Commitment, whether personal or professional, is out of fashion.

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

    Sunday, 24th October 2021

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Last Sunday after Trinity 2021: The story of blind Bartimaeus is moving one. The screen which faces the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor.

  • 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,.

  • Sermon preached at Evensong on the Tenth Sunday after Trinity 2024

    Sunday, 4th August 2024

    For millennia, humans have burrowed deep, searching for what is useful, beautiful, valuable, and meaningful.

  • 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.

  • One People Oration 2002

    Monday, 17th June 2002

    Speaker: Lord Carey of Clifton (then Archbishop of Canterbury)

  • 12th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    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.

  • 1st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Wednesday, 4th June 1986

    Delivered by His Eminence Cardinal Basil Hume OSB, Archbishop of Westminster at Westminster Abbey.

  • One People Oration 2001

    Monday, 2nd July 2001

    Speaker: Mr Richard Dowden

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    Lent and Easter can be times of reflection, hope and new beginnings for communities all over the world. Take on the kindness challenge in our Lent series and discover how C.S. Lewis' Narnia parallels the Christian story celebrated at Westminster Abbey.

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