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Westminster Abbey is officially recognising the central role played by The Shakespeare Ladies Club in reviving Shakespeare’s ...
Welcome to Westminster Abbey. Daily prayer has been offered in this place for over a thousand years, and your participation in today's service is warmly welcomed. At choral Evensong most of the ...
Keith Lowe reflects on how nations around the world have commemorated the Second World War, 80 years on since the end of the conflict. The Second World War came to an end 80 years ago, and yet it ...
If you buy an online ticket via the Westminster Abbey website you can upgrade it to an annual pass free of charge. This will enable you to visit the Abbey three times for the price of one. Simply ask ...
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Clergy, musicians, bell-ringers, vergers and support staff – these are just some of the people running St Margaret’s. It’s a privilege to live and work here – the Abbey really is the heart of the ...
to the glory of your name. Laudamus te, benedicimus te, adoramus te, glorificamus te, gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam, Domine Deus, Rex caelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens. Domine Fili ...
The service always includes one or more psalms. These ancient prayers, taken from the Old Testament, reflect the full range ...
‘That which had not been told them, they shall see, and that which they had not heard, they shall contemplate.’ Isaiah 52: 15 I will never forget my first night in Jerusalem, over two decades ago. We ...
His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent today attended a service of Thanksgiving to mark 200 years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). The Duke, the charity’s President, was joined in the ...
There is a beautiful story told by St Jerome, towards the end of the 300s AD, about the end of the life of St John the Evangelist, the writer of the fourth gospel, who has given the Church so much of ...