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read moreHOLY WEEK & EASTER 2021, 28 March – 4 April
We are intending to reopen for public worship on Sundays from 28 March, which is Palm Sunday. We will continue to stream that and all other services on Zoom. Access to the streams can be found here, or here. Palm Sunday, 10am, church open for Mass (with recorded hymns) and streamed online. No procession! Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in Holy Week, 7pm, streamed Said Mass Maundy Thursday, 7pm, streamed Mass with hymns Good Friday, 10am, Stations of the Cross Good Friday, 2pm, streamed Solemn Liturgy and (symbolic) Veneration of the...
read moreOPEN FOR WORSHIP ON SUNDAYS FROM 28 MARCH 2021 – PALM SUNDAY
St John’s will open for a simple form of Said Mass from 28 March, Palm Sunday. The church will be open from 9.30am and Mass will start at 10am. Social distancing and all required guidelines will be followed. Face coverings will be required for all who enter the church, except those with medical exemption (disposable masks will be available). There will be no access to vestries or toilets. Please bring bottled water if needed. Entry will be through the main church doors – no access from the vestry or Vaughan Room...
read moreJOIN OUR STREAMED MASSES FROM ST JOHN’S
St John’s has now reopened for Sunday Mass from 28 March, Palm Sunday. At present we are only opening on Sundays, so the 7pm Tuesday Mass and the Thursday 1pm Mass will be available here as a Zoom stream. Sunday Masses at 10am will be with a congregation in church and a Zoom stream here. Some browsers are not completely compatible and may not give you option of sound. If that is the case, you can either use a standard browser, such as Chrome, or click the link to download the zoom app onto your device. You may need to enter a...
read moreGREENFALL TOWER MEMORIAL
Church bells to ring across London to mark 3rd anniversary of tragedy at Grenfell Tower Church bells across London will ring 72 times to at 6pm on Sunday, 14th June to mark the third anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, in a coordinated effort to ensure the victims of the tragedy continue to be remembered. Over 80 churches across the Capital, including St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and Southwark Cathedral will join the bell ringing, as will St Clement Notting Dale, the parish in which Grenfell...
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...
read moreTHE FEAST OF ST JOHN BEFORE THE LATIN GATE
Wednesday 6 May 2020 IN the year 95, St. John, who was the only surviving apostle, and governed all the churches of Asia, was apprehended at Ephesus, and sent prisoner to Rome. The Emperor Domitian did not relent at the sight of the venerable old man, but condemned him to be cast into a cauldron of boiling oil. The martyr doubtless heard, with great joy, this barbarous sentence; the most cruel torments seemed to him light and most agreeable, because they would, he hoped, unite him forever to his divine Master and Saviour. But God...
read moreSaturday 28 March – Piano Day 2020: Elliot Galvin, Yshani Perinpanayagam & Kerry Yong, 7pm
Arctic Circle presents an evening of metamorphosis and transmutation as bird song is set free, insects dodge the hitting of a hammer and the shimmering colours of the piano keys combine in strange and addictive configurations.During this evening sit back, close you eyes and listen to a minimalistic masterpiece from Philip Glass (Metamorphosis), extracts from Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux (‘catalogue of birds’) and the sonic landscapes of jazz pianist and composer Elliot Galvin.On the 88th Day of the year we’d like you to...
read moreMothering Sunday – 22 March
Half way through Lent – time to celebrate Mothers and Mothering! Parish Eucharist, 10am with daffodils.
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