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  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity 2017

    Sunday, 3rd September 2017

    Sermon given by The Reverend Mark Birch Minor Canon and Sacrist.

  • 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 Evensong on the Seventh Sunday of Easter 2018

    Sunday, 13th May 2018

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Seventh Sunday of Easter 2018: The clamour for attention..

  • 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 given on the Day of Pentecost

    Sunday, 9th June 2019

    ‘I am in the Father and the Father is in me.’ And he said, ‘I am going to the Father.’

  • Sermon given at the Dedication Festival Sung Eucharist

    Sunday, 20th October 2019

    Today, we celebrate the anniversary of the dedication of this third Abbey Church, which took place 750 years ago last Sunday.

    Edwardtide

  • Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Lent 2020

    Sunday, 1st March 2020

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Lent 2020: What is evil? How would we have knowledge of it? In recent years I have found myself increasingly subject.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday before Lent 2021

    Sunday, 7th February 2021

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday before Lent 2021: 'Without knowledge of self, there is no knowledge of God.' Last week, Canon Hawkey asked if we could remembered.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Sunday next before Lent 2021

    Sunday, 14th February 2021

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Sunday next before Lent 2021: For St Peter it doesn’t get much better than Moses and Elijah. ‘Let us make three dwellings’, said Peter,.

  • Sermon given at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday of Advent 2021

    Sunday, 19th December 2021

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday of Advent 2021: What is hope, and what do we hope for? Advent is often described as a season of hope. But what is.

  • Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday before Lent 2022

    Sunday, 20th February 2022

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday before Lent 2022: To begin to understand the present precarious situation in Ukraine we first need to understand what has happened in the past..

  • Sermon preached at Evensong of the feast of the Dedication of Westminster Abbey, 2023

    Sunday, 15th October 2023

    Sermon preached at Evensong of the feast of the Dedication of Westminster Abbey, 2023: May we hold onto the perspective of the heavenly city as we seek the peace and prosperity of.

  • Sermon preached at the First Eucharist of Christmas 2023

    Sunday, 24th December 2023

    Sermon preached at the First Eucharist of Christmas 2023: The Incarnation of Jesus Christ is not a myth. It’s a very particular sound-world. At Christmas, in the villages surrounding Rome, you can.

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

    Sunday, 23rd June 2024

    Jesus sees the world through the eyes of mercy.

  • Sermon preached at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday of Advent 2024

    Sunday, 22nd December 2024

    The great Advent Antiphons set the scene for Christmas.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Baptism of Christ 2025

    Sunday, 12th January 2025

    In the font we learn that water is thicker than blood.

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

    Sunday, 6th July 2025

    Be careful with your desires; don’t let them rule you.

  • Sermon at the First Eucharist of Christmas 2016

    Saturday, 24th December 2016

    Sermon at the First Eucharist of Christmas 2016: Light in the darkness Picture, if you will, a fertile windswept landscape of low hills and large horizons.  The land is farmed - arable.

  • 1st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Wednesday, 4th June 1986

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

  • The Charles Gore Lecture 2005 No. 2

    Wednesday, 28th September 2005

    Charles Gore died in 1932, leaving a daunting legacy for anyone who would presume to lecture in his name.

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