The text of my #StGiles Day sermon for Choral Evensong. Join us tonight at 6.30pm at St Giles-in-the-Fields - all welcome: onebodyonebread.blogspot.com/2024/08/sermon…

Please join me in the West End & the City this week: ✝️Weds 4th Sept-1.05pm-Eucharist St Mary-le-Bow Church ✝️Sun 8th Sept-11am-Holy Communion (BCP) St Giles-in-the-Fields with a sermon marking The Accession Day. ✝️Sunday 8th Sept-6.30pm-Evensong (BCP) St Giles-in-the-Fields All welcome!

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In Luke's account, Simon Peter’s first encounter with Jesus is through an appeal to cure his sick mother in law. My Thought for the Day for the service St Mary-le-Bow Church today begins with an imagined whatsapp exchange between Simon Peter and his wife: onebodyonebread.blogspot.com/2024/09/though…

Evensong for Accession Day 👑🇬🇧 Music from the West End Evensong Choir. 🎶Anthem: Lo, round the throne a glorious band (Henry G. Ley 1887-1962) | Accession Day Suffrages 🗣️Phillip Dawson

Sunday 8th September 2024 11.00am-12.00pm Holy Communion for The Accession Day 👑🇬🇧 at St Giles-in-the-Fields We explore the writings of a former Rector of St-Giles-in-the-Fields and Chaplain to George II to consider why we should pray for the King? All welcome!

🎵Sing Ballads of Bloomsbury 📔Dickens & St Giles 🗣️St Giles The Hidden Heart of London 👣The Creators of St Giles Walking Tour Just some of the events taking place in October as part of the Bloomsbury Festival of which St Giles-in-the-Fields is a partner. Programme: bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/2024-festival-…

One of my favourite composers, Bruckner, died 200 years ago this week. In him I think we see a life lived in the Augustinian tradition; a lifetime search for wisdom & truth & supreme confidence in God’s purposes: onebodyonebread.blogspot.com/2018/08/anton-… #Bruckner200 #christiantiy #spirituality

Why pray for the King? A former Rector of St Giles-in-the-Fields and Chaplain to George II gave us three reasons why. Have they stood the test of time? My sermon for #AccessionDay : onebodyonebread.blogspot.com/2024/09/sermon…

Join us at 6.30pm St Giles-in-the-Fields for #evensong this Accession Day. My sermon is based on the imagery of Proverbs 8.1-17 & Revelation 21.22-22.4 the words of the first verse of the national anthem. “God Save Our Gracious Church”: onebodyonebread.blogspot.com/2024/09/sermon…

We welcome Graham Kings to St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 22nd September at 6.30pm as part of our "Year for Prayer" season of guest speakers. Graham will speak about his creative experiences of the Liturgical Commissions in Kenya and England. All welcome! eventbrite.co.uk/e/evensong-yea…

Please join me this week if you can: ✝️ 11/09 - 1pm - Holy Communion St Giles-in-the-Fields - "Seeing the Beatitudes" ✝️15/09 - 10.30am - Sung Eucharist St Georges Bloomsbury - "A trip to Caesarea Philippi via the British Museum" 🎵 15/09 - 6.30pm - Evensong St Giles-in-the-Fields - "12 Angry Men"

In today's Gospel reading, Jesus lifts up his eyes on his disciples & speaks what we now call 'The Beatitudes'. As he lifts up his eyes on us today, who or what do we see in these words? Join us for our lunchtime service St Giles-in-the-Fields from 1pm-1.20pm. onebodyonebread.blogspot.com/2024/09/though…

Knowing something about the place in which the events of today’s gospel reading took place can help illuminate our understanding of it’s message. 'A Trip to Caesarea Philippi' - my #sermon at St Georges Bloomsbury on Sunday morning at the link: onebodyonebread.blogspot.com/2024/09/sermon… #preaching

Is the classic film Twelve Angry Men a dramatization of Matthew 7.1-14? My sermon given at Evensong on Sunday evening St Giles-in-the-Fields at the link below: onebodyonebread.blogspot.com/2024/09/sermon… #judgement #justice #preaching #sermon

Please join me over the next few weeks: Wednesday 18th September - 1pm - Holy Communion (BCP) St Giles-in-the-Fields Sunday 22nd September - 6.30pm - Officiating at Choral Evensong St Giles-in-the-Fields Sunday 29th September - 10am - Preaching at the Mass St Barnabas Pimlico Road #HarvestFestival

Thought for the Day - On the primacy of love in the Christian life, inspired by the writing of Dag Hammarskjöld who died on this day in 1961. Join us for a short service of Holy Communion (BCP) at St Giles-in-the-Fields today - 1pm-1.25pm. onebodyonebread.blogspot.com/2024/09/though… St Giles-in-the-Fields

A homily written for the baptism of Frederick William Wright at St Mary-le-Bow Church inspired by one of the readings chosen by his family - 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' by William Wordsworth: onebodyonebread.blogspot.com/2024/09/homily… #baptism #preaching #christening #churchofengland #holyspirit