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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.
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Sermon at Evensong on the Second Sunday before Lent 2019
Sunday, 24th February 2019
Sermon at Evensong on the Second Sunday before Advent 2019: Our relationship with creation The Feast of Candlemas, which the Church observed at the beginning of February, celebrates one of the most.
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31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 26th May 2016
Roger Scruton, philosopher, public commentator and author, gives the 31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on the topic of The Sacred, the Profane and the Desecrated.
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7th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 7th May 1992
Delivered by John Fenton at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 7th May 1992 and at Lincoln Theological College and Keble College, Oxford.
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Nicholas Hawksmoor
Architect
Nicholas Hawksmoor, architect, was the Abbey’s Surveyor of the Fabric from 1723 but he is not buried here nor does he have any memorial tablet.
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32nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 11th May 2017
Salley Vickers addresses the crucial role of the arts in giving shape and form to abiding intangible realities, suggesting the vital importance of nurturing the imagination through the arts in an increasingly secular society.
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A reflection on the Shrine
During Edwardtide, we celebrate the life of St Edward the Confessor, King of England 1042–1066 and the re-founder of Westminster Abbey.
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The Apprentice Challenge
Peckham Park Baptist Church approached us to support their half term “Apprentice Challenge”. Young people were tasked with exploring and understanding the Abbey before presenting their sales pitch inspired by their favourite area of this great church.
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Fragments of stained glass
Visit the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries to see this column capital, and many more objects, in real life. High above the Abbey floor, come face to face with the Abbey’s greatest treasures covering over 1,000 years of faith and history. Along with worship, examine objects that teach us about the building of Westminster Abbey, its role in national memory and its relationship with royalty.
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Get in touch
Unlimited free entry to the Abbey is just one of the advantages of joining the Abbey Association. But there’s much more on offer.
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Sung Eucharist with the Washing of Feet
Thursday, 28th March 2024
This Sung Eucharist service commemorates the Last Supper at which Jesus gave us the new commandment that we love one another (Latin mandatum, from which we derive the word Maundy).
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Sermon Given at Matins on the Fourth Sunday after Trinity 2016
Sunday, 19th June 2016
Sermon given by The Venerable Andrew Tremlett, Canon in Residence.
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Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Epiphany of Our Lord 2019
Sunday, 6th January 2019
Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Epiphany of Our Lord 2019: We must live like Jesus in loving service of our fellow men and women, now in this blessed year, 2019.
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Sermon given at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2022
Sunday, 30th October 2022
Sermon given at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2022: ‘The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end.’ ‘The steadfast love of the Lord.
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Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday of Lent 2024
Sunday, 17th March 2024
And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.
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30th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 21st May 2015
The Reverend Lucy Winkett asks what can the Church say about the Christian requirement for mercy as a public value? Is the quest for purity as damaging as it is noble? Do our public conversations confuse sincerity with truth? And is there any such thing as innocence?
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Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Seventh Sunday of Easter 2018
Sunday, 13th May 2018
Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Seventh Sunday of Easter 2018: Waiting expectantly I wonder how many of you watched the gripping final of the 2018 World Snooker Championships on.
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One People Oration 2011
Thursday, 10th March 2011
Speaker: His Excellency Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth Secretary-General
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Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Tenth Sunday after Trinity 2019
Sunday, 25th August 2019
Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Tenth Sunday after Trinity 2019: We need to recover a profound sense of the awe and wonder of God. One of the points of contention.
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The Queen presents Dean with KCVO
Wednesday, 30th October 2019
Her Majesty The Queen presented the Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster, with the KCVO at his farewell audience at Buckingham Palace today.