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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.

Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 2024

Sunday, 25th August 2024

This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?

Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 2016

Sunday, 11th September 2016

Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 2016: Does God feel emotion? Here’s a piece of advice offered to a small girl by her older and wiser brother:.

Sermon Given at Evensong on the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity

Sunday, 4th October 2015

Sermon given by The Reverend Mark Oakley, Canon Chancellor, St Paul's Cathedral.

Sermon given at Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday after Trinity, 2020

Sunday, 5th July 2020

We closed the Abbey doors on 20th March; a little over a hundred days ago. Then, this place of national memorial and celebration, this church that welcomes over a million visitors a year, went quiet.

Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Seventh Sunday after Trinity 2024

Sunday, 14th July 2024

Until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

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.

The Charles Gore Lecture 2005 No. 1

Tuesday, 15th February 2005

Before I moved to Westminster Abbey, I used to live near an Immigration Detention Centre. Three years ago, just before Christmas, I heard there was no priest working at the Chaplaincy.

5th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

Thursday, 31st May 1990

Delivered by The Very Reverend Alan Jones, Dean of Grace Cathedral San Francisco at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 31st May 1990 and subsequently at Lincoln Minster and Keble College, Oxford.

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.

37th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

Thursday, 25th May 2023

Loretta Minghella talks about Money, Bias and the Geography of the Heart

Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

One People Oration 2006

Wednesday, 22nd February 2006

Speaker: Mr Tony Colman (former Chair, UK Parliament UN Group)

22nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

Thursday, 10th May 2007

Delivered by The Reverend Dr Richard A. Burridge, Dean of King's College London at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 10th May 2007 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

11th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

Thursday, 9th May 1996

Delivered by David Hare, Playwright at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 9th May 1996 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

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Parry: Songs of farewell & works by Stanford, Gray & Wood

Stanford’s eight-part Latin Magnificat was posthumously dedicated to Parry, whose own Songs of farewell are unmistakably valedictory in mood. Personal as well as musical associations run deep in this poignantly expressive programme, recorded in June 2019 at All Hallows’ Church, Gospel Oak.