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• Reflection for the Feast of the Holy Name

  Wednesday, 1st January 2025

  Discover how the Feast of the Holy Name and the Abbey's Islip Chapel are connected, in this reflection from The Reverend Canon James Hawkey.

• First Sunday of Lent

  Sunday, 9th March 2025

  Explore Jesus' journey through the wilderness, and how this inspires our Lenten journey of repentance. We welcome The Reverend Catherine Williams - an Anglican priest, spiritual director, and writer - as a guest contributor to our reflections throughout this season.

• Palm Sunday

  Sunday, 13th April 2025

  The Reverend Helena Bickley-Percival, Minor Canon and Sacrist at the Abbey, reflects on the Arma Christi, the symbols of Christ’s passion, on the High Altar’s Lenten array.

• Sermon Given at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Christmas 2017

  Sunday, 1st January 2017

  Sermon given by The Right Reverend Jonathan, Goodall Bishop of Ebbsfleet.

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

  Sunday, 26th April 2015

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

• Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 2016

  Sunday, 11th September 2016

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

• 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.

• Sermon Given at Evensong on the Last Sunday after Trinity 2017

  Sunday, 29th October 2017

  Sermon given by The Reverend David Stanton Canon in Residence.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Christmas 2018

  Sunday, 30th December 2018

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Christmas 2018: There is so much we do not know... Over Christmas, so we are informed, almost half the population of the.

• 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 at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday before Lent 2019

  Sunday, 3rd February 2019

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday before Lent 2019: In God’s house, it’s old and young together, needing each other, valuing and validating each other. This morning in Luke’s.

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

  Sunday, 18th August 2019

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Ninth Sunday after Trinity 2019: 'We are haunted by God’s large purposes.' The American Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann writes, ‘We are a strange lot:.

• Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2015

  Sunday, 26th July 2015

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

• Sermon Given at Matins on the First Sunday of Christmas 2015

  Sunday, 27th December 2015

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

• Sermon at Evensong on the Day of Pentecost 2018

  Sunday, 20th May 2018

  Sermon at Evensong on the Day of Pentecost 2018: "Together we form the temple of the Holy Spirit." Today, fifty days after Easter, we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost and we rejoice.

• Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple 2023

  Thursday, 2nd February 2023

  Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple 2023: A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel. Candlemas is a radiant.

• A Homily given at Holy Communion on Sunday 4 August 2024

  Sunday, 4th August 2024

  When did you last have a good cry?

• Fourth Sunday of Lent

  Sunday, 30th March 2025

  The Reverend Dr James Hawkey, Canon Theologian and Almoner at the Abbey, examines Jesus’ beloved parable of the prodigal son, with its reminder of the new life that repentance can bring.

• 22nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 10th May 2007

  Delivered by The Reverend Dr Richard A. Burridge, Dean of King's College London at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 10th May 2007 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• The Charles Gore Lecture 2008

  Tuesday, 29th April 2008

  I was interested to hear recently from a distinguished professor of liturgics in the United States that he considers Charles Gore's book, The Body of Christ, to be a classical and enduring exposition of the Eucharist and assigns it to be read by his students.