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  • Social engagement policy

    Westminster Abbey is committed to an active programme of social engagement. Social engagement means the Abbey’s engagement with the wider world in ways which contribute generally to human flourishing and specifically to social justice.

  • Sermon at a Meditation for Holy Week 2021

    Monday, 29th March 2021

    Sermon at a Meditation for Holy Week 2021: The beginning of the Church is often ascribed to Pentecost and the sending of the Holy Spirit.

  • 35th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 11th November 2021

    Loretta Minghella talks about Money, Bias and the Geography of the Heart

    Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  • Order of the Bath

    The Most Honourable Order of the Bath was established as a military order by George I on 18th May 1725. Since then the Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey has been used as their chapel.

    Notable people

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

    Sunday, 2nd June 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Seventh Sunday of Easter 2019: What does it mean to believe in the resurrection when there are no more resurrection appearances? Ascension Day passes, Pentecost.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2019

    Sunday, 11th August 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2019: In the novel Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell, (some of you may know the film) one of the stories concerns.

  • Sermon given at Midnight Mass, Christmas 2019

    Tuesday, 24th December 2019

    It is my first Christmas in the Abbey, I have been here a month. Kind people keep asking me if I am looking forward to my first Christmas here.

    Midnight Mass

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday before Lent 2022

    Sunday, 13th February 2022

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday before Lent 2022: “What will you be satisfied with?” Last year was the 700th anniversary of the death of the great Florentine.

  • The Sermon preached on the Day of Pentecost 2023

    Sunday, 28th May 2023

    The Sermon preached on the Day of Pentecost 2023: The Holy Spirit is the invitation to all people, in all their diversity, to share in the Power of all our powers. When.

  • Sermon preached at the Festival of St Margaret of Antioch 2023

    Thursday, 20th July 2023

    Sermon preached at the Festival of St Margaret of Antioch 2023: God is with us in our trials and tribulations and will ultimately uphold the righteous. A few weeks ago the Chaldean.

  • Sermon preach at the Sung Eucharist on the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple 2025

    Sunday, 2nd February 2025

    Candlemas is a work of chiaroscuro.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Last Sunday after Trinity 2018 commemorating the life of Walter Raleigh (c 1554–1618)

    Sunday, 28th October 2018

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Last Sunday after Trinity 2018 commemorating the life of Walter Raleigh (c 1554–1618): Do we see the hidden reality in the life of Sir Walter.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on Ash Wednesday 2024

    Wednesday, 14th February 2024

    ‘What’s love got to do with it?’

  • 23rd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 8th May 2008

    Delivered by The Reverend Canon Dr Jane Shaw, Dean of Divinity, Chaplain and Fellow, New College Oxford and Canon Theologian, Salisbury Cathedral at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 8th May 2008.

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Epiphany 2015

    Sunday, 25th January 2015

    Sermon given by The Venerable Andrew Tremlett, Sub-Dean and Rector of St Margaret's.

  • 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.

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity

    Sunday, 30th August 2015

    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 the Judges Service, 2016

    Monday, 3rd October 2016

    Sermon given by The Reverend Jane Sinclair, Canon of Westminster.

  • Sermon Given at First Eucharist of Christmas 2016

    Saturday, 24th December 2016

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

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