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• 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.

• Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on 23rd December 2018

  Sunday, 23rd December 2018

  In but a couple of days’ time the feast will be upon us.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018

  Sunday, 2nd September 2018

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018: What is true religion? What does the Lord really require? So ‘give heed to the statutes, ordinances, laws, I am.

• Sermon given at Festival of Our Lady of Walsingham Solemn Eucharist

  Saturday, 4th May 2019

  Into this great Abbey church - burial site of kings, the place of coronations - we have just carried a penniless peasant girl from Nazareth.

  Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham

• Sermon at Evensong on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018

  Sunday, 9th September 2018

  Sermon at Evensong on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018: The Lord’s Prayer; how we should pray, and with what attitude and with what motives. Our second lesson this afternoon, from St.

• Sermon preached at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Advent 2023

  Sunday, 12th November 2023

  Sermon preached at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Advent 2023: What kind of a nation are we and what direction do we want to move in? This is my commandment, that.

• Sermon preached at Evensong on the Fifth Sunday after Trinity 2025

  Sunday, 20th July 2025

  What do we make of dreams?

• Address given at the Parliamentary Carol Service 2025

  Wednesday, 3rd December 2025

  What might people say of us?

• Sermon given at Evensong on the festival of the Baptism of Christ, 2022

  Sunday, 9th January 2022

  Sermon given at Evensong on the festival of the Baptism of Christ, 2022: What does the grace of baptism accomplish? Today we keep the feast of the Baptism of Christ. It’s somewhat ironic.

• Sermon given at Civic Matins 2022

  Sunday, 3rd July 2022

  Sermon given at Civic Matins 2022: What are you supposed to be? That interests me this morning. Let me take you back nearly 500 years. In December 1540, the City of Westminster.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Lent 2019

  Sunday, 10th March 2019

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Lent 2019: Lent 2019 is an exciting, but testing time to live the holy life. Lent 2019 is an exciting,.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Lent 2021

  Sunday, 14th March 2021

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Lent 2021: Talk about sin has been unfashionable for a long time now. Talk about sin has been unfashionable for a long.

• Sermon given at the Installation of Paul Baumann CBE as Receiver General

  Saturday, 12th January 2019

  "This time of year seems to me to leave us in a state of querulous anxiety."

  Paul Baumann Receiver General

• Sermon preached at the Festival Eucharist on the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor 2024

  Saturday, 19th October 2024

  What should be the pilgrim’s imprint upon the earth?

• Sermon preached at Evensong of the Fifth Sunday after Trinity 2024

  Sunday, 30th June 2024

  In the year 121 AD, the Emperor’s secretary completed what was to become a blockbuster.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist of Corpus Christi 2018

  Thursday, 31st May 2018

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist of Corpus Christi 2018: Might it have been said to Jesus, "Wonderful, Master, but what does it mean?" There is a story about the composer Robert Schumann..

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Dedication of Westminster Abbey 2020

  Sunday, 18th October 2020

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Dedication of Westminster Abbey 2020: Even the Dean of Westminster could not, should not tell you what the outcome will be. I grew up in.

• Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Ninth Sunday after Trinity 2022

  Sunday, 14th August 2022

  Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Ninth Sunday after Trinity 2022: When God peers into my life, what does he see? Who am I and, for that matter, who are.

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

  Sunday, 18th February 2024

  ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.’

• Our Lady of Pew

  The Society of Our Lady of Pew venerates the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, and regularly holds Mass and retreats in the Abbey.