Choral Eucharist: Trinity IListen Online

Sunday 18th June

Setting: Missa Brevis – Dove
Psalm: 100 
Anthem: O salutaris – Elgar

Choral Eucharist: Pentecost - with orchestraListen Online

Sunday 4th June

Setting: Missa solemnis in C, K337 - Mozart
Anthem: Agnus Dei from Missa solemnis in C - Mozart

We extend our thanks to the orchestra for their invaluable contribution to our worship.

(Please note the performance takes place away from the usual position of the choir and so occasionally sounds more distant than usual.)

Choral Evensong with Sermon in MusicListen Online

Sunday 28th May

Responses: Leighton
Psalm: 47
Setting: Evening Service in B minor – Howells
Sermon in Music: i) O clap your hands together – Gibbons; ii) God is gone up – Finzi

Choral Evensong (London Festival of Contemporary Church Music)Listen Online

Sunday 7th May

Responses: Matthew Martin
Psalm: 29
Setting: Evening Service – Philip Cooke
Anthem: Beauty for ashes – Bob Chilcott

Choral EucharistListen Online

Sunday 7th May

Setting: Missa Brevis - Berkeley
Psalm: 23
Anthem: Credo quod Redemptor - Parsons

Easter: A musical reviewListen Online

2017

St Bride's was delighted to welcome so many visitors and congregants during Holy Week and the Easter festival. Here is a selection of some of the musical highlights from that period.

Lest We ForgetListen Online

Wednesday 9th November 2016

A Commemorative Service was held at St Bride's Church on Wednesday 9th November at 6:30pm.

As consumers of news in a fast-changing world, we demand a great deal of our journalists and foreign correspondents.

We expect them to keep us informed about difficult and complex situations in the trouble spots of the world, often at great personal risk, and sometimes, tragically, they pay the ultimate price.

So it is important that, as representatives of the media industry and the public life of this nation, we honour their memory in this service and remind ourselves of the sacrifice they make in order to bring us the truth.

View Order of Service & Transcripts of Sarah Sands Address and Readings

Journalists' Memorial Service: A Telling WitnessListen Online

Tuesday 10th November, 2015

As consumers of news in a fast-changing world, we demand a great deal of our journalists and foreign correspondents.

We expect them to keep us informed about difficult and complex situations in the trouble spots of the world, often at great personal risk, and sometimes, tragically, they pay the ultimate price.

View Order of Service & Transcripts of Addresses and Readings

So it is important that, as representatives of the media industry and the public life of this nation, we honour their memory in this service and remind ourselves of their sacrifice to bring us the truth.

The Pen is Mightier than the SwordListen Online

Wednesday 5th November

A service to commemorate and celebrate all those in the media industry whose mission to bring us the news faces peril and uncertainty

View Order of Service & Transcripts of Addresses and Readings

As consumers of news in a fast-changing world, we demand a great deal of our journalists and foreign correspondents. We expect them to keep us informed about difficult and complex situations in the trouble spots of the world, often at great personal risk, and sometimes, tragically, they pay the ultimate price.

So it is important that, as representatives of the media industry and the public life of this nation, we honour their memory in this service and remind ourselves of their sacrifice to bring us the truth.

Journalists, cameramen and support staff have always been casualties during the conflicts they are sent to cover. In recent years more journalists than ever have lost their lives and in many parts of the world are now regarded as “legitimate targets” within the conflict zones of the world. The atrocious executions of journalists and other citizens during 2014 have further challenged us to comprehend the extremes of human behaviour.

This year, we are particularly conscious of the barbarism of various factions in the Middle East and elsewhere, but we come together as journalists, and celebrate the priceless value of freedom of speech, as we demonstrate that the Pen is, indeed, mightier than the Sword.

Journalists' Memorial Service: A Mission in PerilListen Online

Tuesday 12th November

Celebrating The Media in Troubled Times

A service to commemorate and celebrate all those in the media industry whose mission to bring us the news faces peril and uncertainty was held at St Bride's Church on Tuesday 12th November at 6:30pm.

View Order of Service & Transcripts of Lindsey Hilsum's Address and Readings

INTRODUCTION

The word 'mission' implies a sense of vocation, a calling to go to the frontiers and trouble-spots of the world to understand, to interpret and to bear witness. It is a word with unmistakably religious connotations but it is also an appropriate description of the journalist's duty to keep in touch with all that is happening in the world, to spot the events of significance, and to relay them to others in a form which can be readily understood.

Public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. As journalists we further those ends by seeking truth and providing a fair and comprehensive account of events and issues. Recent events in the Middle East and especially in Syria have highlighted the importance of accurate reporting on the ground and the risks associated with this.

This year, our title 'A Mission In Peril: Celebrating The Media in Troubled Times' refers not only to those on the front line, but to everyone in an industry which more than ever faces perils now and uncertainty ahead.

So tonight we remember once again all whose mission it is to bring us the news, sometimes at terrible cost, and we celebrate the profession of journalism, and the priceless value of freedom of speech.