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Free entry to the Abbey for NHS staff as summer visiting hours are announced
Friday, 25th June 2021
NHS staff will be able to visit Westminster Abbey for free from July onwards. The gesture to NHS staff is an acknowledgment of all their hard work during the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.
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Sermon given at Civic Matins 2022
Sunday, 3rd July 2022
Sermon given at Civic Matins 2022: What are you supposed to be? That interests me this morning. Let me take you back nearly 500 years. In December 1540, the City of Westminster.
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Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2015
Sunday, 26th July 2015
Sermon given by The Reverend David Stanton, Canon Treasurer and Almoner.
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Sermon Given at Evensong of the Day of Pentecost 2017
Sunday, 4th June 2017
Sermon given by The Reverend David Stanton, Canon in Residence.
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Sermon at Evensong on the Fifth Sunday before Lent 2019
Sunday, 3rd February 2019
Sermon at Evensong on the Fifth Sunday before Lent 2019: 'There are two eyes of the soul, reason and love.' The Feast of Candlemas, which the Church celebrated yesterday, depicts one of.
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Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Christmas 2022
Sunday, 2nd January 2022
Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Christmas 2022: God is love, and love is his first gift to us. As the procession of choir and clergy entered the Abbey.
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William and Catherine Gladstone
Statesman
In 1903 a statue to William Gladstone, Prime Minister, was unveiled. A gravestone, to William and his wife Catherine, was put in after Catherine’s death.
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Head - Westminster Abbey Choir School
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Canaletto painting of the Abbey goes on display
Monday, 2nd March 2020
A Canaletto painting of Westminster Abbey rarely seen in public goes on display in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries this week until autumn 2020.
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Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist for the Dedication of Westminster Abbey
Sunday, 16th October 2016
Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster.
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Sermon Given at Evensong on the Last Sunday after Trinity 2016
Sunday, 23rd October 2016
Sermon given by The Reverend Melusi Francis Sibanda, Rector, St George, Dunsborough, Diocese of Bunbury, Western Australia.
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Sermon given at Evensong on the Third Sunday of Advent 2017
Sunday, 17th December 2017
Sermon given by The Reverend Canon Dr Emma Percy, Chaplain, Trinity College, Oxford.
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Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Ninth Sunday after Trinity 2019
Sunday, 18th August 2019
Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Ninth Sunday after Trinity 2019: 'We are haunted by God’s large purposes.' The American Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann writes, ‘We are a strange lot:.
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Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Easter 2022
Sunday, 24th April 2022
Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Easter 2022: Every eye will see him. No one, not a single Thomas, will be left in any doubt. How do.
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Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Easter 2022
Sunday, 1st May 2022
Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Easter 2022: Love bade me welcome. Someone I knew was recovering from an operation. They were not an easy patient, being.
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Sermon given at Matins on the Second Sunday before Lent 2023
Sunday, 12th February 2023
Sermon given at Matins on the Second Sunday before Lent 2023: Let anyone with ears to hear—listen! A story is told of Franklin D Roosevelt, the thirty-second President of the United States.
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Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday after Trinity 2018
Sunday, 24th June 2018
Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday after Trinity 2018: ‘When in distress to him I called, he to my rescue came.’ If we ever wanted to make a complaint.
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Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was married and crowned in the Abbey and had her funeral here in 2002.
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Richard, Earl of Cornwall (later King of Germany)
Soldier
Richard, Earl of Cornwall is not buried in Westminster Abbey but his carved shield is displayed in the nave of the Abbey.
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Blanche Parry
Blanche Parry, lady in waiting to Elizabeth I, is buried in St Margaret's church Westminster with a marble and alabaster monument.