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  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on Maundy Thursday 2019

    Thursday, 18th April 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on Maundy Thursday 2019: Our Lord Jesus Christ offered his back to the smiters and his body on the Cross on Good Friday. Our Lord Jesus Christ.

    And tonight, on Maundy Thursday, at the Last Supper, Jesus gave his disciples his own Body and Blood for food in order to unite them with him for ever.

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist with the Washing of the Feet on Maundy Thursday 2015

    Thursday, 2nd April 2015

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

    we know, after the Last Supper, the supper that we heard described in the Gospel reading just now, Jesus went with Peter, James and John to the Mount of Olives...

  • Reflection: Maundy Thursday

    Monday, 1st January 0001

    Read or listen to the reflection for Maundy Thursday

  • Sermon Given at Evensong on Palm Sunday 2016

    Sunday, 20th March 2016

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

    During the Last Supper, Christ blessed the bread and wine with words we recognise from our liturgies today to consecrate the body and blood of Christ.

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on Maundy Thursday 2016

    Thursday, 24th March 2016

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

    of the curious little group of people with whom Jesus ate the Last Supper, a motley crew, perhaps something of a rabble, as they lounged round the table in...

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on Easter Day 2019

    Sunday, 21st April 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on Easter Day 2019: Now we enter fully into the joy of the risen Lord. Many of us have journeyed in a particular way with Jesus Christ.

    On Maundy Thursday, we celebrated the gift of the Last Supper.

    Easter Day

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Epiphany of Our Lord 2019

    Sunday, 6th January 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Epiphany of Our Lord 2019: We must live like Jesus in loving service of our fellow men and women, now in this blessed year, 2019.

    ...a fellow-traveller with St Paul, and was possibly the young man who slipped away naked at the arrest of Jesus following the Last Supper, avoiding his own

  • High Altar

    The Sacrarium or Sanctuary is at the heart of the Abbey where the High Altar stands.

    The mosaic of the Last Supper was designed by J.R.

  • Sermon Given at Matins on the Second Sunday of Easter 2015

    Sunday, 12th April 2015

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

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

    Sunday, 3rd March 2024

    The Wedding at Cana

  • 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.

    ...sharing in the body of Christ, in the light of what Jesus did and said at the Last Supper, when he took bread and blessed it and gave it to his disciples saying, as...

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

    Sunday, 16th April 2023

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Easter 2023: Peace be with you. When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week. That is.

    It is the Cross and Easter, Christian Faith and Hope, and it is the Last Supper, the bread and the wine, the story that gives us this service.

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on Easter Day 2017

    Sunday, 16th April 2017

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

    They locked themselves again in the Upper Room where they had eaten the Last Supper with their Lord and Master.

  • 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.

    this Last Supper with his apostles, he will pray in Gethsemane and he will be betrayed by one of his companions at the Supper, one of his closest disciples,...

  • Sermon at Evensong on the Third Sunday after Trinity 2018

    Sunday, 17th June 2018

    Sermon at Evensong on the Third Sunday after Trinity 2018: Lo, the full, final, sacrifice How are we to meet with God today, we who are created, mere creatures, yet are the.

    ...in this Abbey Church; but was first given by Jesus to his disciples at the last supper which he shared with them before his death on the cross: the meal which...

  • Sermon given at Evensong on the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity

    Sunday, 9th October 2022

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity: 'I have called you friends.' A year ago a major US study, reported that ‘the role of friends is experiencing a pronounced decline,.

    Around the table of the Last Supper were a most unlikely group.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on Easter Day 2023

    Sunday, 9th April 2023

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on Easte Day 2023: Every broken fragment can now know healing in the light of Easter. The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has a new.

    Holy Week, we have come with Jesus from the Mount of Olives, through his Last Supper and hearing afresh his commandment to love one another, to the foot of the...

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist with the Washing of the Feet, Maundy Thursday 2017

    Thursday, 13th April 2017

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

    the word Maundy derives from the words of our Lord at the Last Supper with his disciples, ‘mandatum’ being the Latin word for ‘commandment’, ‘I give you a new...

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Easter 2017

    Sunday, 23rd April 2017

    Sermon given by The Reverend Tony Kyriakides, Priest Vicar.

    It is the last supper, the disciples’ feet have been washed and Judas has left the room in order to betray Jesus to the Jewish authorities.

  • Benedictine monastery

    The monks at Westminster Abbey wore the habit of the Order of St Benedict, who established the Benedictine rules for the monks in about 540AD.

    ...else had washed them first to make sure they were clean!), kissed their feet and distributed the Maundy alms in memory of Christ's last supper with his

    Christianity

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