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

    Sunday, 18th May 2025

    This is the Lord’s commandment; and if you keep it, it is enough.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Easter 2023

    Sunday, 16th April 2023

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Easter 2023: Peace be with you. When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week. That is.

  • Sung Eucharist on Easter Day

    Sunday, 20th April 2025

    Our evening Easter service, sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort, celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

    Easter Day Holy Week and Easter St Margaret's Church

  • Requiem Mass Marks Start of Lady Chapel Festival

    Friday, 22nd April 2016

    The Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr John Hall, celebrated Requiem Mass in the Lady Chapel, Westminster Abbey, on Thursday 21st April 2016, the Anniversary of the Death of King Henry VII.

    Lady Chapel The Choir of Westminster Abbey Requiem Mass Henry VII 500 Years of Wonder

  • New Mass setting to premiere on St Peter’s Day

    Thursday, 23rd June 2022

    A new Mass setting by acclaimed Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan will receive its premiere at Westminster Abbey during Sung Eucharist at 5.00pm on St Peter’s Day, Wednesday 29th June 2022.

  • New Mass for Abbey’s 450th celebrations

    Wednesday, 16th June 2010

    Bell Mass by one of Britain’s pre-eminent composers, Julian Anderson, which was commissioned by the Dean & Chapter of Westminster as part of the celebrations to mark the 450th anniversary of the Abbey's Collegiate Charter receives its first performance at the Abbey on Tuesday 29th June at 5.00pm.

    Westminster Abbey 450th anniversary

  • Sung Eucharist on Easter Day

    Sunday, 20th April 2025

    The Abbey’s principal Easter service, sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey, celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

  • Clare College appoints Reverend Dr James Hawkey as its new Dean

    Friday, 14th November 2014

    Clare College, Cambridge, has announced that the Reverend Dr James Hawkey will be its next Dean and Director of Studies in Theology, to succeed the Reverend Dr Gregory Seach who is leaving to take up the post of Warden of Wollaston College in Western Australia.

    Reverend Dr James Hawkey

  • Dr James Hawkey appointed New Canon Theologian

    Wednesday, 13th June 2018

    Reverend Dr James Hawkey has been appointed to the Canonry of Westminster to be made vacant through the retirement of the Reverend Professor Vernon White.

  • Abbey Celebrates St Peter's Day

    Thursday, 30th June 2016

    Westminster Abbey, since 1560 the Collegiate Church of St Peter Westminster, has from the beginning been under the patronage of St Peter, Apostle and Martyr. On St Peter's Day, Wednesday 29th June 2016, a Sung Eucharist was celebrated at which the Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr John Hall, preached the sermon.

    St Peter's Day

  • Abbey hosts annual St Cecilia service

    Wednesday, 20th November 2019

    A service to Mark the Festival of St Cecilia was held at Westminster Abbey in conjunction with Help Musicians UK on Wednesday 20th November 2019.

    St Cecilia Special Service

  • A podcast for the Feast of the Translation of St Edward

    Tuesday, 13th October 2020

    Simrin Rahman, a student at Harris Westminster Sixth Form, reads from St Matthew’s gospel for a special edition of Abbeycast released today for the Feast of the Translation of St Edward.

    St Edward the Confessor Edwardtide Abbeycast

  • St George's Day

    Saturday, 23rd April 2005

    Representations of St George and his dragon can be seen in Westminster Abbey on Henry VIIs tomb and grille, in the Lady Chapel statue series, in stained glass windows to the YMCA and Sir Benjamin Baker in the nave, and in the window in St Benedicts chapel.

    St George

  • Sung Eucharist on Easter Day

    Sunday, 31st March 2024

    The Abbey’s principal Easter service, sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey, celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

  • Westminster Abbey Choir to sing at St Peter's in Rome

    Monday, 25th June 2012

    Westminster Abbey’s world-famous choir arrives in Italy this week (Tuesday 26th June) for a tour of Rome and Montecassino which will include singing for Pope Benedict XVI, with the Cappella Musicale Pontificia ‘Sistina’, the Sistine Chapel Choir, at the Papal Mass marking the Solemnity of St Peter and St Paul (Friday 29th June) in St Peter’s Basilica.

    Choir of Westminster Abbey Pope Benedict XVI St Peter’s Basilica

  • Holy Communion (BCP) on Easter Day

    Sunday, 20th April 2025

    A quiet, said service, in traditional language, according to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, lasting around 40 minutes.

  • An Abbey welcome to Holy Week and Easter

    Friday, 23rd March 2018

    Westminster Abbey and St Margaret’s Church welcome worshippers and visitors to our annual celebration of Holy Week, the most solemn week of the Church’s year, culminating in the most joyful festival, Easter Day.

  • Vigil and First Eucharist of Easter

    Saturday, 30th March 2024

    A beautiful and joyous service that celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

    Holy Week Easter

  • St Cecilia Festival Celebrates Britten Centenary

    Wednesday, 20th November 2013

    A Service to Mark the Festival of St Cecilia was held at Westminster Abbey in conjunction with the Musicians Benevolent Fund on Wednesday 20th November 2013.

    Benjamin Britten

  • Celebrate Holy Week and Easter with us

    Monday, 29th March 2021

    Celebrate Holy Week and Easter with Westminster Abbey

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