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SUMMARY:Good Friday: Part One – Pergolesi Stabat Mater
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DESCRIPTION:The companionship and servitude of the Last Supper on Maundy T
 hursday give way to the utter bleakness and desolation of Good Friday.\n\n
 We mark this in music\, words and prayer at St Bride’s in our Three Hour
 s’ Devotion which begins with a performance of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mate
 r at 12 noon on Good Friday\, 3rd April\, 2026.\n\nThe devotion continues 
 at 1pm with an hour of words and music entitled At the foot of the Cross a
 nd concludes at 2pm with God so loved the world – an hour of choral musi
 c and poetry for Passiontide.\n\nYou are warmly invited to attend all or a
 ny part of the three hours.\n\nWe are delighted that the performance by si
 ngers Claire Seaton and Charlie Morris from St Bride’s Choir will be acc
 ompanied by a string quintet of players from the St Bride’s Orchestra to
 gether with organ continuo.\n\nThis is the best-known setting of the 13th 
 century poem based upon the prophecy of Simeon that a sword shall pierce t
 he heart of Christ’s mother Mary (Luke 2: 35) and compassionately descri
 bes the sorrowing Mary as she keeps station at the foot of the cross.\n\nT
 he poet\, debatably Jacapone da Todi\, a thirteenth century Franciscan mon
 k\, prays to Mary to let him share her grief and to let him suffer with Je
 sus and for her intercession. In the last stanza the poet prays directly t
 o God for a place in paradise.\n\nPergolesi’s setting was written in abo
 ut 1735 and was first printed in London in 1749. It became the most freque
 ntly published single work of the 18th century.\n\nPergolesi (1710-1736) c
 omposed it at the end of his life which was spent at a Franciscan monaster
 y in Pozzuoli and it was written as a replacement for the Allesandro Scarl
 atti setting in use at the church of Maria dei Sette Dolori in Naples.\n\n
 SUPPORT ST BRIDE'S\nThere will be a collection at the performance to suppo
 rt the work\, ministry and music-making of St Bride's and help maintain ou
 r magnificent Wren church.\n\nSt Bride's is wholly reliant on and deeply g
 rateful for the generous support of our visitors and congregation.\n\nDona
 tions can be made by cash or contactless at church or via JustGiving. Do p
 lease Gift Aid your donation if you are eligible which generates an extra 
 25p in every £1 donated.
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LOCATION:St Bride's Church\, Fleet Street
URL:https://www.stbrides.com/events/good-friday-stabat-mater-pergolesi/
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