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Sermon Given at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Lent 2017
Sunday, 12th February 2017
Sermon given by The Reverend Graham Hamilton, Vicar, St Peter and St Paul, Bovey Tracey.
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Sermon Given at Matins on the Seventh Sunday of Easter 2017
Sunday, 28th May 2017
Sermon given by The Reverend Professor Vernon White, Canon in Residence.
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Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Sunday next before Lent 2018
Sunday, 11th February 2018
Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Sunday next before Lent 2018: Transfiguration and the meaning of glory.
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Sermon given at Evensong on Palm Sunday 2019
Sunday, 14th April 2019
Sermon given at Evensong on Palm Sunday 2019: Above all, this coming week is all about grace. Today is Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week, the week in which we.
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Sermon at Evensong on Easter Day 2019
Sunday, 21st April 2019
Sermon at Evensong on Easter Day 2019: One of the most enduring images of this last week was the majestic golden altar cross seen glowing among the ashes of Notre Dame cathedral..
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Sermon at Evensong on the Seventh Sunday after Trinity
Sunday, 4th August 2019
Sermon at Evensong on the Seventh Sunday after Trinity: The Collect set for today (Trinity 7) speaks of grafting in our hearts the love of thy name, and our New Testament Lesson.
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Address for an Easter Day podcast, with HRH The Prince of Wales
Sunday, 12th April 2020
From the vantage point of life in Christ, we begin to see, often through our tears, the renewal of all creation.
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Sermon at a Service of Morning Prayer in Thanksgiving for the Life of HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Sunday, 11th April 2021
A sermon remembering the life and work of HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
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Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on Ascension Day 2021
Thursday, 13th May 2021
Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on Ascension Day 2021: We are made for freedom—made to soar—made to share the unlimited life of heaven. For several years I worked in a school for.
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Address given at a Service of Commemoration to mark the 5th anniversary of the terrorist attack on Westminster Bridge and in New palace Yard
Tuesday, 22nd March 2022
Address given at a Service of Commemoration to mark the 5th anniversary of the terrorist attack on Westminster Bridge and in New palace Yard: Today is a day to unite against evil..
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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.
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34th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 9th May 2019
Sir James MacMillan argues that the search for the sacred did not end with modernity in music and that it has grown and become complex.
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George, Charles & Stratford Canning
Politician and Statesman
In the north transept are three statues commemorating George Canning, Prime Minister, his son Charles John, Earl Canning, and George’s cousin Stratford Canning.
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Charles Agar, Earl of Normanton
Priest/Minister and Philanthropist
Charles Agar, Earl of Normanton and his wife Jane are buried in the north transept. A monument to him was erected in the north choir.
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Sir George Gilbert Scott
Architect, Historian and Writer
In the centre of the nave is the grave of Sir George Gilbert Scott, architect and Surveyor of the Fabric at the Abbey from 1849-1878.
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David Livingstone
Writer, Explorer, Physician and Doctor
David Livingstone, missionary and explorer, died at Ilala in the centre of Africa in May 1873. His grave is in the centre of the Nave.
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John Howard, Earl of Stafford & family
In the chapel of St Edmund is a marble monument to John Paul Howard, 4th Earl of Stafford. The monument is by Robert Chambers.
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William Murray, Lord Mansfield
Statesman, Lawyer and Abolitionist
William Murray, Earl of Mansfield was buried in the north transept and has a large monument by John Flaxman.
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Herbert Thorndyke
Writer and Priest/Minister
Herbert Thorndike, priest, was buried in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey with his brother John. There is no marked gravestone to see.
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The rough trade of politics
On 18th October 2021, Westminster Abbey welcomed Parliamentarians to St Margaret’s Church as we mourned the tragic death of Sir David Amess MP.