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  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Lent 2017

    Sunday, 26th March 2017

    Sermon given by The Reverend David Stanton, Canon Treasurer and Almoner.

    When Christ celebrated the Last Supper with his disciples, he said of the sharing in the broken bread: Do this in remembrance of me.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday of Lent 2025

    Sunday, 6th April 2025

    ‘No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known’.

    Spencer’s paintings, the Last Supper, Jesus carrying the cross, and the crucifixion all take place in the village of Cookham – and the general resurrection on...

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Feast of Corpus Christi 2016

    Thursday, 26th May 2016

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

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Seventh Sunday of Easter 2023

    Sunday, 21st May 2023

    Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Seventh Sunday of Easter 2023: Hope and Despair Do you remember Clockwise, the John Cleese film about a headmaster who’s ordered world goes horribly.

    It is a Final Discourse because to comes just after the disciples have finished their meal at the Last Supper.

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

    Sunday, 17th March 2024

    And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.

  • 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.

    the Last Supper Judas slipped away into the darkness and we are told ‘it was night’; later, as Jesus hung suspended between heaven and earth on the cross, darkness...

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Eve of St Peter 2019

    Friday, 28th June 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Eve of St Peter 2019: Should we think of St Peter as a good role model? Jesus called Peter a rock. But should we think.

    He ran away and hid, as did most of the disciples, probably in the same Upper Room where they had eaten the Last Supper with Jesus.

    St Peter's Day

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Feast of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor 2019

    Sunday, 13th October 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Feast of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor 2019: Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? Jesus said.

    We share that Eucharistic cup in explicit memory – co-memoration – of Jesus’ actions at the Last Supper and of his passion and death.

    Edwardtide

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on Easter Day 2015

    Sunday, 5th April 2015

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

    Jesus took, blessed, broke and distributed bread to his disciples at the Last Supper.

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

    Sunday, 6th August 2017

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

    ...Manna their ancestor’s received through Moses, and pointing us forwards to the Last Supper, when he would again take bread, give thanks, break and distribute...

  • Sermon at the Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2020

    Sunday, 2nd August 2020

    Sermon at the Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2020: We give thanks for this offering, and for its multiplication. One of the questions that people of faith are sometimes challenged.

    ...Christ himself—the Eucharist takes its pattern, its shape, not just from the Last Supper, but equally from the feeding of multitudes that all the evangelists

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 2023

    Sunday, 3rd September 2023

    Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 2023: How will you engage in community with others in the Church? In the name of the Father, and of.

    You will recall that Jesus said during the Last Supper, ‘No one has any greater love than to lay down his life for his friends’ and that’s precisely what Christ...

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 2024

    Sunday, 25th August 2024

    This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?

  • 13th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 7th May 1998

    Delivered by Canon Eric James FKC at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 7th May 1998 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the feast of Corpus Christi 2021

    Thursday, 3rd June 2021

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the feast of Corpus Christi 2021: Today is a feast of food, and it is a feast of the body. Jesus said, “Whoever eats me.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary 2025

    Friday, 15th August 2025

    For the Mighty One has done great things for me, and Holy is his name.

  • Sermon at Memorial Eucharist For Eric Symes Abbott

    Wednesday, 12th June 1985

    Delivered by The Reverend John Robson. Chaplain of Wellington College, Berkshire.

  • 31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 26th May 2016

    Roger Scruton, philosopher, public commentator and author, gives the 31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on the topic of The Sacred, the Profane and the Desecrated.

  • Sermon preached at Evensong on Easter Day 2025

    Sunday, 20th April 2025

    Jesus came and stood among them, and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ (John 20: 19)

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on All Saints' Day 2025

    Saturday, 1st November 2025

    The saints are the shape and colour of our hope.

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