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• What to see and do

  There are many parts of the Abbey you’ll want to see when you visit. Explore the most popular spots to find out which interests you.

• What happens during a church service?

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity 2019

  Sunday, 22nd September 2019

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity 2019: What is money for? Over the last four years or so, I’ve been taking Holy Communion to someone who was.

• Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity 2022

  Sunday, 9th October 2022

  Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity 2022: What do you want? I would like to begin by asking you a question. My question is this: What.

• Sermon given at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday of Advent 2021

  Sunday, 19th December 2021

  Sermon given at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday of Advent 2021: What is hope, and what do we hope for? Advent is often described as a season of hope. But what is.

• Sermon preached at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Advent 2023

  Sunday, 12th November 2023

  Sermon preached at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Advent 2023: What kind of a nation are we and what direction do we want to move in? This is my commandment, that.

• Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday before Lent 2022

  Sunday, 13th February 2022

  Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday before Lent 2022: “What will you be satisfied with?” Last year was the 700th anniversary of the death of the great Florentine.

• Sermon preached at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Advent 2024

  Sunday, 8th December 2024

  What is the spirit of this Advent season?

• Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Advent 2020

  Sunday, 13th December 2020

  Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Advent 2020: Putting right what was wrong. Ten years ago, I was appointed Dean of Bristol.  A friend sent me a.

• Sermon given at Evensong on the festival of the Baptism of Christ, 2022

  Sunday, 9th January 2022

  Sermon given at Evensong on the festival of the Baptism of Christ, 2022: What does the grace of baptism accomplish? Today we keep the feast of the Baptism of Christ. It’s somewhat ironic.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018

  Sunday, 2nd September 2018

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018: What is true religion? What does the Lord really require? So ‘give heed to the statutes, ordinances, laws, I am.

• Sermon given at Festival of Our Lady of Walsingham Solemn Eucharist

  Saturday, 4th May 2019

  Into this great Abbey church - burial site of kings, the place of coronations - we have just carried a penniless peasant girl from Nazareth.

  Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham

• Sermon at Evensong on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018

  Sunday, 9th September 2018

  Sermon at Evensong on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018: The Lord’s Prayer; how we should pray, and with what attitude and with what motives. Our second lesson this afternoon, from St.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Easter 2019

  Sunday, 12th May 2019

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Easter 2019: Tell us plainly what we need to know! The people asked: ‘If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.’ Jesus.

• Sermon at Evensong on the Second Sunday after Trinity 2019

  Sunday, 30th June 2019

  Sermon at Evensong on the Second Sunday after Trinity 2019: “With what two crownes is this Citie adorned?”.

• 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.

• Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Lent 2020

  Sunday, 1st March 2020

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Lent 2020: What is evil? How would we have knowledge of it? In recent years I have found myself increasingly subject.

• Sermon preached at the Festival Eucharist on the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor 2024

  Saturday, 19th October 2024

  What should be the pilgrim’s imprint upon the earth?

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Seventh Sunday of Easter 2019

  Sunday, 2nd June 2019

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Seventh Sunday of Easter 2019: What does it mean to believe in the resurrection when there are no more resurrection appearances? Ascension Day passes, Pentecost.

• Sermon preached at Evensong of the Fifth Sunday after Trinity 2024

  Sunday, 30th June 2024

  In the year 121 AD, the Emperor’s secretary completed what was to become a blockbuster.