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• The Coronation Church

• Sermon at a Sung Eucharist of Thanksgiving at St Margaret's Church

  Saturday, 31st October 2020

  Sermon at a Sung Eucharist of Thanksgiving at St Margaret's Church: There is a file full of letters on my desk. Some of them, probably, written by people now sitting here.

• Why is church a special place?

• Why are there lots of candles in church?

• Why are there lots of crosses in church?

• St Margaret's Church

  St. Margaret’s is a 12th-century church next to Westminster Abbey. It’s sometimes called ‘the parish Church of the House of Commons’. Everyone’s welcome to visit.

• What happens during a church service?

• Which objects will you find in a church?

• Which signs and symbols will you find in a church?

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday after Trinity 2017

  Sunday, 25th June 2017

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday after Trinity 2017: The vocation of the Church Imagine, if you will, Jerusalem.  Not the sprawl of modern Jerusalem of today; but a.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday before Lent 2019

  Sunday, 10th February 2019

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday before Lent 2019: An apostolic Church Some years ago I enjoyed a wonderful summer holiday with a group of friends in the south-west.

• 17th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 2nd May 2002

  Delivered by The Reverend Mark Oakley, St Paul's Covent Garden at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 2nd May 2002 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 2016

  Sunday, 4th September 2016

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 2016: The Church in Parliament Square ‘Choose life’ says Moses to the Israelites. As they prepare to enter their promised land,.

• 20th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 12th May 2005

  Delivered by The Reverend Nicholas Holtam, Vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 12th May 2005 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• One People Oration 2019

  Monday, 21st October 2019

  There are many churches and cathedrals in the world, some of which are more beautiful, more ancient, more glorious than Westminster Abbey.

  One People Oration

• 27th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 10th May 2012

  The well-rehearsed arguments about the establishment of the Church of England require revisiting at a time when the nature of sovereignty and location of power have substantially shifted.

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 2023

  Sunday, 3rd September 2023

  Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 2023: How will you engage in community with others in the Church? In the name of the Father, and of.

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist of the Feast of the Epiphany 2024

  Saturday, 6th January 2024

  Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist of the Feast of the Epiphany 2024: The challenge for the Church is to acknowledge, to welcome, the insight of outsiders. In former generations this mystery.

• One People Oration 2002

  Monday, 17th June 2002

  Speaker: Lord Carey of Clifton (then Archbishop of Canterbury)

• A history of coronations

  Westminster Abbey has been Britain’s coronation church since 1066, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II. King Charles III will be crowned on 6th May 2023.

  Royalty Coronations