Daylight Music – Saturday 4 June, Midday
Minihi, Rattle + Fatima Lahham4 June 2022 at St John on Bethnal Green, midday to 2pm | advance tickets Space In This Place: we find ourselves in a gathering of musicians and the instruments they surround themselves with, of all sizes and shapes. Through the movements of mallets and of breath, they chime, they chirp or sing revealing the influence of many centuries of music and history. Watch carefully as a thought becomes an action, an action become a sound and those sounds fly back to us transforming into sensations, emotions,...
read morePENTECOST AT ST JOHN ON BETHNAL GREEN, 10am, Sunday 5 June 2022
Pentecost celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to Jesus’ disciples following His Ascension after returning to them on Easter Day. It is derived from the Jewish Festival of Weeks – a celebration of the harvest. The growth of the disciples from the frightened group huddling in the Upper Room after Jesus’ arrest, to the confident Apostles ready to go out across the known world preaching Jesus’ message of divine love represents that first harvest for the Church. Come and join with us celebrating this festival with a...
read moreAscension Day
Mass for the Festival of the Ascension Thursday 26th May, 7pm “Jesus hasn’t just gone away. He has gone deeper into the heart of reality – our reality and God’s. He has become far more than a visible friend and companion; he has shown himself to be the very centre of our life, the source of our loving energy in the world and the source of our prayerful, trustful waiting on God. He has made us able to be a new kind of human being, silently and patiently trusting God as a loving parent, actively and hopefully at work to make a...
read moreDAYLIGHT MUSIC, Noon, Saturday 7 May
Ted Barnes, Julia Biel + Me for Queen7 May 2022 at St John on Bethnal Green, midday to 2pm | advance tickets Postcards from the Past: What is a song if not a carefully constructed time capsule made of words, music, sounds, sensations, harmonies and history? This afternoon we enter the lives and experiences of three very different songwriters from different backgrounds. We will get to know them as they share these snapshots in song of their lives and of the musical moments they polished and perfected and now perform for us. Ted...
read moreJOZEF VAN WISSAM, 10 May, 7.30pm
Jozef van Wissem is a Dutch minimalist composer and lute player based in Brooklyn. In 2013 van Wissem won the Cannes Soundtrack Award for the score of Only Lovers Left Alive at the Cannes Film Festival. Josef is renowned for his unusual approach to the Renaissance lute. Once the most popular of portable instruments, now a couple hundred years on, Van Wissem brings it back to life complimenting its past with a late Renaissance influence while merging his own distinct contemporary folk stamp on it. Tickets...
read moreMothering Sunday – 27 March
Half way through Lent – time to celebrate Mothers and Mothering! Parish Eucharist, 10am with daffodils.
read moreWednesday 2 March, 7pm
Service For the Beginning of Lent with Ashing and Communion. 7pm Sung Mass In church and by zoom stream: Meeting ID: 853 4667 7873Passcode: 934565
read moreHOLY WEEK & EASTER 2022
For the first time since 2019 we are planning to be open for our full set of services for Holy Week and Easter. You are very welcome to join us for any or all these services! Palm Sunday 10 April, 10am (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85327692664?pwd=MjNBd3BBbWRTdDJQT2xrQnFQRzdwdz09 Meeting ID: 853 2769 2664, Passcode: 850665) Blessing of Palms at 10am in the church hall, followed by procession through Museum Gardens and Sung Mass in church Monday 11 April, 7.30pm Mass and Address Tuesday 12 April, 7.30pm Mass and Address Wednesday 13...
read moreALL SOULS REQUIEM
ALL SOULS REQUIEM COMMEMORATION OF THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED Tuesday 3rd November, 7pm The annual service to give thanks to God for those who have died. Names in our Book of Remembrance will be read out, along with those whose funerals we have conducted during the Pandemic. All welcome. The service will also be streamed online...
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Wednesday 21 July, Doors 7pm ewe live with support from Anna Byrne & a special guest in support of Play For Progress Presented by: Hearts + Minds A night of acoustic music from folk trio ewe, with support from Lily Lyons and Anna Byrne. We’ll be raising money for Play for Progress, a charity that taps into the healing power of music, the arts, play, and creative therapies to build healthy and resilient relationships that support and amplify the voices of unaccompanied refugees and asylum-seekers.As a rough guide,...
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