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  • Sermon Given on Ascension Day 2017

    Thursday, 25th May 2017

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

  • Sermon Given at the Judges Service 2017

    Monday, 2nd October 2017

    Sermon given by The Right Reverend Michael Doe Preacher of Gray’s Inn.

  • Sermon at Evensong on Palm Sunday 2018

    Sunday, 25th March 2018

    Sermon at Evensong on Palm Sunday 2018: Conversion: seeing differently.

  • 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 at Evensong on Trinity Sunday 2018

    Sunday, 27th May 2018

    Sermon at Evensong on Trinity Sunday 2018: It is God "that breathes fire into the equations of the universe." Next month, on Friday 15 June, a Service of Thanksgiving will take place here.

  • Sermon at Evensong on the Day of Pentecost 2019

    Sunday, 9th June 2019

    Sermon at Evensong on the Day of Pentecost 2019: 'Time is how you spend your love.' At the beginning of her novel On Beauty, Zadie Smith quotes a line from a poem.

  • Sermon at a Meditation for Holy Week 2021

    Monday, 29th March 2021

    Sermon at a Meditation for Holy Week 2021: The beginning of the Church is often ascribed to Pentecost and the sending of the Holy Spirit.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on Easter Day

    Sunday, 4th April 2021

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on Easter Day: Easter morning. John’s Gospel. Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Mag-dalene came to the tomb.

  • Florence Nightingale Service 2021 Sermon

    Wednesday, 12th May 2021

    Over the last year nurses, midwives and health visitors across the world have been a sign of hope. You have rolled up your sleeves and given of yourselves more than either we or you would have imagined, and we are profoundly thankful.

    Florence Nightingale

  • Sermon at Matins on Christmas Day 2016

    Sunday, 25th December 2016

    Sermon at Matins on Christmas Day 2016: What’s in a name? What’s in a name? The famous quotation from Shakespeare assures us that a rose by any other name would smell as.

  • Sermon at Matins on Good Friday 2018

    Friday, 30th March 2018

    Sermon at Matins on Good Friday 2018: Why should the tortured death of one man on a cross 2000 years ago on a scrubby hill in the Middle East matter to us.

  • Sermon at the Liturgy on Easter Day 2018

    Sunday, 1st April 2018

    Sermon at the Liturgy on Easter Day 2018: God raised Jesus of Nazareth from the dead and because of that, nothing in this world can ever be the last word for us..

  • Sermon at the Liturgy on Easter Day 2017

    Sunday, 16th April 2017

    Sermon at the Liturgy on Easter Day 2017: In him was life Some years ago The Listener carried the script of a radio talk by an American woman.  She had pioneered new.

  • 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.

  • Sermon preached at Evensong on the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity 2023

    Sunday, 20th August 2023

    Sermon preached at Evensong on the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity 2023: Humanitarianism is fundamental to the Christian faith. Last Thursday their Royal Highnesses The Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine of.

  • Sermon preached at Evensong on the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity 2023

    Sunday, 27th August 2023

    Sermon preached at Evensong on the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity 2023: 'Let your gentleness be known to everyone.' Words from this afternoon’s Psalm, 139: If I climb up into heaven, thou.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Annunciation of Our Lord 2024

    Monday, 8th April 2024

    If we can but bear it, we will see that all around are the fields of paradise.

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

    Sunday, 9th June 2024

    To love is to be vulnerable.

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

    Sunday, 11th August 2024

    The virtue we call ‘humility’.

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

    Sunday, 15th September 2024

    God be with you till we meet again.

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