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• Her Majesty The Queen attends the Commonwealth Service

  Her Majesty The Queen led the congregation at the annual Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey on Monday 9th March 2020.

• Westminster Abbey offers help to churches planning First World War Vigils

  Thursday, 17th April 2014

  Westminster Abbey has published a suggested First World War Vigil structure online which is intended to offer material to the wider Church, community groups and other faith communities which may be helpful in planning their own commemorative event on the night of 4th August 2014.

  WW1

• A Reflection for Good Friday

  Friday, 10th April 2020

  I was outside in the Abbey garden. The sun shone on cherry blossom and tulips. Spring ablaze before me, full of new life and promise.

  Friday Reflection COVID-19 Holy Week and Easter

• Explore Christianity in 10 objects

  Tuesday, 6th July 2021

  Westminster Abbey has launched a free online resource designed to help schools and families explore Christianity through ten treasures from the Abbey collection.

• Seminar: Speaking of Human Flourishing - salvation, happiness, rhetoric

  Thursday, 17th October 2024

  Join us for the first of this term’s online seminar talks with Nadia Marais, a Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, an ordained minister in the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa.

• Seminar: Making Deification Real - the Goal of Christian Life in Eastern Christianity

  Monday, 18th November 2024

  Join us for the first of this term’s online seminar talks with Nadia Marais, a Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, an ordained minister in the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa.

• What does a season of repentance look like?

  Spend time with God this Lent, and explore what repentance means and why it matters.

• Lunchtime Talk: The People's Victory

  Wednesday, 14th May 2025

  Join Professor Lucy Noakes as she explores what VE Day was like for those who lived through the Second World War, particularly for those who had experienced loss.

  Events Beyond Victory

• Abbey finds rare 17th century manuscript in tin trunk

  Friday, 3rd November 2017

  The manuscript, thought to date from 1603-1604, is a copy of Donne’s The Courtier’s Library, a satirical attack on corruptions in the church and establishment: rather like a 17th century version of Private Eye.

• Chorister Experience Day

  Saturday, 31st January 2026

  Find out what it’s like to be an Abbey chorister, ideal for primary school-aged boys.

  Westminster Abbey Choir School

• Abbey welcomes Pope Tawadros

  Thursday, 11th May 2017

  His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Bishop of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark, was joined by the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, and other representatives of the Church of England, at Evensong at Westminster Abbey on Friday 12th May 2017.

• Metropolitan Police Commissioner reads for Trinity Sunday

  Sunday, 7th June 2020

  The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, Dame Cressida Dick, is the guest reader for today’s edition of Abbeycast, the Abbey’s lockdown podcast.

  Abbeycast Metropolitan Police

• Shop at the Abbey

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• Abbey choir recordings

  The Abbey’s centuries-old musical tradition is maintained by our world-famous choir of men and boys and our four organists.

• Dove, Weir & Martin: Choral works

  This recording, featuring the Choir of Westminster Abbey, provides a vivid and powerful contemporary illustration of music by three living British composers Jonathan Dove, Judith Weir and Matthew Martin

• Parry: Songs of farewell & works by Stanford, Gray & Wood

  Stanford’s eight-part Latin Magnificat was posthumously dedicated to Parry, whose own Songs of farewell are unmistakably valedictory in mood. Personal as well as musical associations run deep in this poignantly expressive programme, recorded in June 2019 at All Hallows’ Church, Gospel Oak.

• Bairstow, Harris & Stanford: Choral Works

  Westminster Abbey Choir presents seminal works by another trio of composers whose contributions to the Anglican choral tradition are rich in historical significance.

• Ludford: Missa Videte miraculum

  The Choir of Westminster Abbey discovers the forgotten works of lesser-known Tudor composer Nicholas Ludford in this recording.

• Finzi, Bax & Ireland: Choral Music

  A disc exploring the work of three twentieth-century composers whose work was crucial to the Anglican choral tradition.

• Taverner: Western Wynde Mass

  James O’Donnell brings composer John Taverner to the fore, presenting two of the undisputed choral masterpieces from sixteenth-century England.