Celebrant: Fr Marcus Walker, The Rector
Deacon & Preacher: Fr Jeremy Haselock, Associate Priest

Mass Setting: Requiem in D minor– Mozart

Our annual commemoration of the departed (All Souls' Day) takes place on Monday 2nd November, at 7pm. During the Choral Eucharist, the names of those we have loved and see no longer are read, whilst the congregation places candles in remembrance. If you would like loved ones included in this list, please use the link to access the form.

Do you miss a well-sung Evensong with interesting preachers and good hymns? Do you work in or near the City of London? Evensong in the City is for you! At 7pm on Thursday night it should allow you to come straight from work and enjoy the peace and beauty of Choral Evensong in London’s oldest church.

As well as promising you well-known, singable, hymns we will also serve up bangers and mash after the service – and open the bar in the cloister!

A short Eucharist for children and their families, with hymns (in non-Covid times) and a talk.

Please join us outside the Tudor Gatehouse, in front of the church, at 10.45am as we begin our act of Remembrance at the war memorial.

Celebrant: Fr Marcus Walker, The Rector
Deacon & Preacher: Fr Taylor Wilton-Morgan, Assistant Priest

Introit: The souls of the righteous – Marchant
Mass Setting: Communion Service in E "Collegium Regale" – Darke
Psalm: 121 – Walford Davies
Offertory Motet: Crossing the bar – Parry
Communion Motet: So they gave their bodies – Aston

Old Testament: Wisdom 6:12–16
Epistle: 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18
Gospel: Matthew 25:1–13

The service is held in church and streamed to our online congregation on YouTube. The recording then remains available for two months.

A service with all the bells and whistles that the Covid emergency will allow: Three sacred ministers celebrate a traditional-language East-facing high mass; our professional choir sings a full choral mass setting.

Choral Evensong has returned to the Priory Church with choir and sermon.

A service strictly using the Book of Common Prayer Holy Communion Service using the style of worship of the Old High Church. The clergy will be in copes, the service will be at the North End, the Ten Commandments and the Exhortation shall be read. The choir will sing music only from the English Choral Tradition.

On the 21st November, we will be holding the fourth and final service in our series of reconstructions of Reformation era services at Saint Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, in Central London. We started this series a couple of years ago with the Use of Sarum, then the first English Prayer Book of 1549, and then the 1559 Prayer Book, as it would have been performed under Elizabeth I. This last service will again be from the 1559 Prayer Book but as it was performed under Charles I on the eve of the Civil War and subsequent Interregnum.

With the High Church party at their height, this reconstruction of Mattins and Litany and Sermon, will look to resurrect the ceremony of Laud and his acolytes (most notably Dr Cosin) as it may been in places like Durham Cathedral, Peterhouse Chapel and the Chapel Royal in particular. We have also consulted the works of their forerunners, such as Lancelot Andrewes.

The music has all been taken from contemporary sources including the Peterhouse partbooks. Polyphony will be by Tomkins, Weelkes, Loosemore and Archbishop Laud himself. The service will also involve a number of organ verses and a metrical psalm: Dowland’s setting of All people that on earth, as published in Thomas Ravenscrofts 1621 version of Sternhold & Hopkins.

All are very welcome to attend this historically curious liturgy. This event is free to attend, because it is a service.

Officiant: Fr Taylor Wilton-Morgan

Our traditional Advent Carol Service recounts the prophecies that the Messiah will come, and describes the visit of the Angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary to announce that she will be the Messiah's mother. Between the readings, our professional choir sings music that carries forward the story. It's a great way to make a start on the themes that will bring us to Christmas night.