If I were to try to sum up Advent in one word, it would have to be ‘bracing’. The main themes of this short season could ...

A service to Mark the Festival of St Cecilia - the patron saint of music and musicians - was held at Westminster Abbey in conjunction with Help Musicians UK on Wednesday 19th November 2025. The ...

Join us for the annual Festival of St Cecilia, featuring the combined choirs of St Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey.

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HRH The Princess of Wales will return to Westminster Abbey to host her fifth annual Together at Christmas carol service on ...

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis. Te decet hymnus, Deus in Sion: et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem: exaudi orationem meam, ad te omnis caro veniet. Rest eternal grant to ...

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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 Matins most of the service is sung ...

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 ...

Celebrate the life of Saint Edward with us, as we mark the day of his translation to the Shrine in the centre of the Abbey. The service will mark 756 years since the remains of Saint Edward the ...