CORVID-19 UPDATE – 12 JUNE 2020
We were reluctant to close our doors on Mothering Sunday this year as lockdown was announced – but recognised how important it is to keep the community safe – both our congregation and the wider community who would be affected by our actions. Since then Fr Alan has continued to say Morning Prayer every day in the closed church and a regular pattern of Masses – Sunday 10am, Tuesday and Wednesday 7pm as well as the major festivals. With any luck (!) you can join all of these Masses on our website here and, in addition, the information to join each service on zoom can be...
Read MoreJOIN OUR STREAMED MASSES FROM ST JOHN’S
Until the church can safely reopen Fr Alan is celebrating the Mass in the closed church and streaming by Zoom. You are very welcome to join the Mass: Sunday at 10am, Tuesday at 7pm, Wednesday at 7pm. During August only the Sunday Mass will be streamed, and only on 2 and 9 August. There will be a non-eucharistic service on Sunday 16 and 23 August. Who would have imagined! But I’m now convinced that the health of our congregation and our local community is more important than our pattern of services. Does our worship continue? Yes, in our prayers and in our service of our...
Read MoreCORPUS CHRISTI MASS WITH BENEDICTION – Thursday 11 June, 7pm
The streamed service will be here Meeting ID: 731 493 2697 Password: 6DwUji The Feast of Corpus Christi, or the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ (as it is often called today), goes back to the 13th century, but it celebrates something far older: the institution of the Sacrament of Holy Communion at the Last Supper. While Holy Thursday is also a celebration of this mystery, the solemn nature of Holy Week, and the focus on Christ’s Passion on Good Friday, overshadows that aspect of Holy Thursday. This service provides the opportunity both to contemplate and to participate in the...
Read MoreMothering Sunday – 22 March
Half way through Lent – time to celebrate Mothers and Mothering! Parish Eucharist, 10am with daffodils.
Read MoreBethnal Green Tube Disaster Annual Memorial Service, Sunday 1 March, 2pm
Remembering the 173 people who lost their lives on the steps of the underground station on 3 March, 1943. Here’s a piece from the Guardian of 16 December 2017 by our local MP, Rushanara Ali, at the time the new memorial was unveiled: On Sunday morning, adjacent to Bethnal Green tube station in east London, a memorial marking the deadliest civilian incident in Britain during the second world war will be unveiled. On the night of 3 March 1943, local people were alarmed after a new anti-aircraft battery gunperformed an unannounced test. War-hardy east Londoners fled to their nearest air...
Read MoreWednesday 26 February, 7pm
Service For the Beginning of Lent with Ashing and Communion. 7pm Sung Mass
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