Choral Evensong: Easter Sunday – Sunday 01 April, 2018

Responses: Clucas

Psalm: 66: 1-11

Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Evening Service in C - Stanford

Anthem: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem - Stanford

Choral Eucharist: Easter Day – Sunday 01 April, 2018

Setting: Messe solonnelle - Langlais
Canticle: Easter Hymn from Cavalleria rusticana - Mascagni
Anthems: i) Haec dies - Byrd; ii) Haec dies - Sheppard

Choral Evensong with Sermon in Music: Lent II – Sunday 25 February, 2018

Responses: Ebdon
Psalm: 135: 1-14
Setting: Evening Service in G - Blow
Sermon in Music: i) Turn Thee unto me, O Lord - Boyce; ii) Lord, let me know mine end - Greene

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Choral Evensong: Second before Lent – Sunday 04 February, 2018

Responses: Ayleward
Psalm: 65
Setting: Evening Service in E minor - Daniel Purcell
Anthem: The Heavens are telling - Haydn

Choral Evensong with Sermon in Music: Candlemas – Sunday 28 January, 2018

On this Candlemas day, our Sermon in Music is based on the theme of light.

Responses: Radcliffe
Psalm: 34: 1-10
Setting: Evening Service in D - Brewer
Sermon in Music: i) Hymn to the Creator of Light - Rutter; ii) Light of the World - Elgar

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Choral Eucharist: Guild Sunday – Sunday 21 January, 2018

Members of the Guild of St Bride convene for their annual Act of Rededication at our Sunday morning Choral Eucharist.

Setting: Communion Service in E - Darke
Anthems: i) Lord, who may dwell in your sanctuary - Morley; ii) O sacrum convivium - Tallis

Choral Evensong: Epiphany III – Sunday 21 January, 2018

Responses: Leighton
Psalm: 33: 1-12
Setting: Evening Service in G - Sumsion
Anthem: Evening Hymn - Balfour Gardiner

Choral Evensong: Epiphany Sunday – Sunday 07 January, 2018

Responses: Shephard
Psalm: 99
Setting: 'Edington' Evening Service - Ives
Anthem: In Wintertime - Berkeley

In the Eye of the Storm – Tuesday 21 November, 2017

A Commemorative Service was held at St Bride's Church on Tuesday 21st 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.

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Lest We Forget – Wednesday 09 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 the Readings

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On Wednesday, 9th November, 2016, at 6:30pm a service was held at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street to commemorate all those in the media industry whose mission to bring us the news faces peril and uncertainty and sometimes, tragically, demands the ultimate price.

Review of Service by James Sutton, Guild Journalism Bursary Scholar 2016

INTRODUCTION

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.

WELCOME & OPENING PRAYER

The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce delivered the bidding:-

Welcome to St Bride's for our annual service of commemoration, at which we honour the memory and give thanks for the lives of those journalists, camera-crew and support staff who have died, particularly those who have lost their lives during the course of their professional duties.

This is also an occasion on which we remember and hold in our prayers those
members of the profession who are currently held captive and all whose work
places them in situations of grave risk or personal danger.

In remembering them today we mark their courage, their dedication, and their
commitment. And as we celebrate all that is best in investigative journalism, we
do so mindful of the fact that our news is sometimes brought to us at terrible
cost - a price that is paid by those journalists, and by their families, friends and
colleagues.

Almighty Father,
in whose perfect realm
no sword is drawn but the sword of justice,
and no strength known but the strength of love:
guide and protect all who seek to bear witness
to the truth of your troubled world;
all who seek to give a voice to the voiceless,
and to tell stories that would otherwise remain untold.
We remember especially this day all members of this profession
who have died, or whose fate is unknown
that you may bless their work,
and strengthen and sustain those who love them.
In Jesus' name we pray.

Amen.