Have you heard the Nicene Creed in Old English? How recognisable is it to us today? This summer, we are celebrating the 1700th birthday of the Nicene Creed, one of the most enduring statements of Christian faith. 📜 Find out more at cofe.io/NiceneCreed.

#TodayWePray for the Two Cities candidates to be ordained priest by the Bishop of London at St Stephen, Rochester Row

Wonderful to ordain priest TwoCitiesArea London Diocese

Marked the 40th anniversary of my priesting at Stanjevici Monastery in Montenegro.

On this day, 22 years ago, I was made a deacon in the Church. What a rich and beautiful journey it has been! Such a joy to serve as a deacon today for our curate, Rachel’s first Eucharist. #treasureinheaven #deacon stpaulsmarylebone StCypriansBakerStreet London Diocese

Sunday 6 July. Mass at 10.30 am with Clare Dowding and wonderful Summer Concert of English music at 6 pm with Music at St Cyprian’s and Julian Collings

It's the feast of St Swithun, 9th-century Anglo-Saxon bishop of Winchester. Since the Middle Ages, his day has been linked to weather-lore: it's said that in mid-July weather patterns shift, and if it rains on St Swithun's Day it will rain for 40 days. aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2017/07/that-t…

Ninian Comper's memorial glass to his father John, in St Margaret's Episcopal Church, Aberdeen. Christ in Majesty is flanked by St Margaret of Scotland and St John, c1904. John Comper kneels at St John's feet. He was founder and first rector of the church. The church also

3/3 Looking east inside St Andrew's Episcopal Cathedral, Aberdeen. From 1935-41, Comper transformed the interior, adding vaulting to the flat-boarded ceilings and a baldachino and glass in the chancel. His work is in a number of other Episcopal churches in and around the city.

2/3 Comper's 1930s baldacchino in St Andrew's Episcopal cathedral, Aberdeen. It must have been very High Church in its day, although I'm afraid that both cathedral and diocese have fallen on hard times...

3/3 St Andrew's Episcopal Cathedral, Aberdeen. Comper vaulted the ceilings, and emblazoned the south aisle with the shields of Aberdeenshire Episcopalian families. In the north aisle there are shields of the American states. His makeover was paid for entirely with American money.

This Sunday 20 July. Mass at 10.30 am for our Dedication Festival. Free chamber music concert at 6 pm. You will be very welcome.

Thinking about going to church this Sunday? Find a service local to you at AChurchNearYou.com. 📍 St Giles Cripplegate

Free chamber music Sunday at 6 pm.

#TodayWePray for the Church of Pakistan (United) and that the holy inspiration of the Gospel may give us strength to share the Good News (Confident Disciples)

Today's the feast of the Transfiguration, instituted in 1456 and rarely found in English churches before the Reformation intervened. But on the early 16th Century screen at Westhall, Suffolk, it forms panels 5 to 7, Christ between Moses and Elijah. More: suffolkchurches.co.uk/Westhall.htm

A little Comper in a medieval setting is most complimentary. Ewelme, Oxon.

And in an urban Edwardian setting

#TodayWePray for St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb and St John, West Hendon, and St Peter, Cricklewood

2/3 Norfolk has a number of surviving medieval depictions of the Assumption, despite the doctrine being condemned by the reformers and images of it destroyed. A boss in the south porch at Walpole St Peter shows Mary in a mandorla of light being carried up to heaven by angels.