The St Bede Annual Lecture in Liturgy
2026: Abbot Primate Jeremias Schröder, O.S.B. on on Saturday 11 July 2026.
2025: em. Prof. Thomas O’Loughlin, University of Nottingham, Department of Theology and Religious Studies,
speaking on “Standing in the Presence of the Lord: Bede’s De Tabernaculo and the significance of the image of the desert tabernacle to the monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow” on 5 July 2025.
2024: Dr James Blackstone, Saint Dunstan Icons, Shrewsbury and of the Chichester Workshop for Liturgical Art
speaking on “Intoxication and Illumination: Art oriented toward the infinite beauty of God (SC 122)” on 7 July 2024.
2023: Rt Rev’d Mgr Bruce Harbert, executive director of the International Committee on English in the Liturgy
(ICEL) 2002-2009, speaking on “The use of the Latin language is to be preserved in the Latin rites (SC 36.1)” on 8 July 2023.
2022: Fr Bernhard Eckerstorfer, O.S.B., Rector, Athenaeum Sancti Anselmi de Urbe, Sant’Anselmo, Rome, speaking on “Worship with One Accord: In Memoriam Geoffrey Wainwright 1939-2020 (SC 1)” on 9 July 2022.
2021: Mr. Duco Vollebregt, Doctoral Researcher, KU Leuven speaking on “The Breadth of Sound Tradition: Recovering for our day early images of Easter night (SC 4)”, on 10 July 2021.
2020: Rev. prof. Stefan Geiger, O.S.B., Pontifical Institute of Liturgy, Sant’Anselmo, Rome, speaking on “something more is required than the mere observation of the laws governing valid and licit celebration (SC 11)”, on 11 July 2020.
2019: Prof. Dr Basilius Groen, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, speaking on “Anointing of the sick” is not a sacrament for those only who are at the point of death … (SC 73)” on Saturday 6 July 2019.
2018: Rev prof Gergely Bakoš, O.S.B. speaking on “From Philosophical Contemplation Towards Fruitful Participation in the Mystery of Christ (SC 11, 48” on 7 July 2018.
2017: Archbishop George Stack, speaking on “Constructing Churches for active participation in the Celebration of Liturgy, (SC 124), on 8 July 2017.
2016: Prof Joris Geldhof of KU Leuven, Belgium, who is to speak on Interiorising the Mystery of the Eucharist (SC 48), on 9 July 2016.
2014: Rt Rev. Alan Hopes, Bishop of East Anglia who returned to the topic of active participation in liturgy, this time from a diocesan perspective (SC 14) on 5 July 2014.
2013: Rt Rev. Cuthbert Brogan, OSB, Abbot of St Michael’s Abbey, Farnborough, where the lecture was held, who addressed specifically monastic models of participation in liturgy (SC 14).
2012: The Most Rev. Arthur Roche, Archbishop Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Divine Worship, speaking on “In the earthly liturgy we take part in a foretaste of that heavenly liturgy” on Saturday 14 July 2012,
2011: Rev. Dr Ephrem Carr, OSB, President of the Pontifical Institute of Liturgy, Sant’Anselmo, Rome gave the inaugural St Bede Lecture in Liturgy speaking on “Sacrosanctum concilium and its Consequences: The Reform of the Liturgy”, on 12 July 2011.
The St Ephrem Lecture in Syriac Studies
2026: Rev. Dr Youhanna Elie Semaan, LMO, “Restoring the Inner Icon in Us” at 2:30 PM on Saturday, 25 July 2026
2025: Rev. Dr Youhanna Elie Semaan, LMO, “Anthology of Early Syriac Writers” on Saturday, 19 July 2025.
2024: Sebastian Brock, Emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies, Oxford University, Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, gave teh inaugural St Ephrem Lecture in Syriac Studies speaking on “The (re-)discovery of three great Syriac Fathers: St Ephrem of Nisibis, St Jacob of Serugh, and St Isaac of Nineveh” on Saturday, 13 July 2024.
The Annual St Benet Biscop Lecture in Christian Art
2024: Aidan Hart speaking on “Life in Paradise: visual beauty in worship as a microcosm for life in the world” on 21 July 2024.
2023: Prof. Dr. em. Basilius Groen of the University of Graz and KU Leuven gave the inaugural lecture titled ‘Praying with Icons’ held in the parish centre, Ealing Abbey on 15 July 2023.