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• 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 Evensong of the Baptism of Christ 2020

  Sunday, 12th January 2020

  Sermon at Evensong of the Baptism of Christ 2020: Today, again is Epiphany, today is Theophany. The Baptism of Jesus by John in the River Jordan which we celebrate today is one.

• 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.

• Abbey installs new Canon Theologian

  Friday, 6th May 2011

  The Reverend Vernon White was installed as a Canon of Westminster at Evensong on Saturday 7th May 2011.

  Reverend Vernon White

• Canon Theologian to retire

  Tuesday, 6th March 2018

  The Reverend Professor Vernon White, who has been Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey since June 2011 and a Visiting Professor at King’s College London, is to retire at the end of September 2018.

• New Canon Theologian appointed

  Monday, 20th December 2010

  It is announced today (Tuesday 21st December 2010) from 10 Downing Street that Her Majesty The Queen has approved the appointment of The Reverend Vernon White as a Canon of Westminster. He will become Canon Theologian in succession to the Reverend Canon Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, who will be leaving the Abbey in January.

• Edward Vernon

  Politician and Sailor

  Edward Vernon has a marble memorial in the north transept, near the entry door. He was born in Westminster on 12th November 1684.

• Robert White

  Musician and Composer

  Robert White, composer, and his wife Ellen (Tye) were buried in St Margaret's Westminster. He was Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey.

• Vernon Faithfull Storr

  Priest/Minister

  The Reverend Vernon Faithfull Storr has a memorial stone in the north cloister of Westminster Abbey. He is buried at Matfield church in Kent.

• Harold Costley-White

  Priest/Minister

  The ashes of Harold Costley-White, Canon of Westminster 1936-1938 and Head Master of Westminster School, are buried in the vault of the Islip chapel.