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With split-second timing, as befitting the world leader in punctuality, the sound of the trumpets reverberating around the walls and a packed congregation patiently waiting, our Sovereign Lady, her husband at her side, steps once more into the historical limelight of the spiritual home of journalists - St Bride's in Fleet Street.
In a busy workshop down a leafy lane in the cathedral city of St Albans, two highly-skilled cabinet makers are hard at work on one of the most important and potentially historical commissions they have tackled in their many years of furniture making.
Continue reading "Journalists' memorial cabinet begins to take shape" »
In the Name of Christ we Worship is a new hymn written to reflect the past, present and future of St Bride's and dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the church's restoration and rededication following enemy bombing in 1940. It is the work of one of the nation's most prolific hymn writers, Canon Michael Saward.
A vital aspect of the Christian message at St Bride's, as in all churches, is a thriving Sunday School, often rightly referred to as tomorrow's church.
Continue reading "Twenty Years On: The Sunday School celebrated on 18th March" »
To mark the 50th anniversary year of the church's rededication as well as the half century of the Guild of St Bride, Guild Sunday on February 4 saw the dedication of a new Guild virge (or wand) which will be carried in procession at the beginning and end of Eucharist.
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Bob Chilcott, one of the UK's most popular and prolific composers is set to write a special anthem for choir and organ, as part of the 2007 celebrations to mark the rededication of St Bride's in 1957.
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The night St Bride's didn't die: a service to commemorate the firebombing of St Bride's Church on 29th December, 1940. That was the description on the front cover of the service sheet for a special choral evensong in the church on 14th January, 2007.
Welcome to this new web site which St Bride's has created so that we can beam around the world news and events to be held over a two-year period and starting in the New Year. In 2007, it will be exactly 50 years since the church rose from the ashes after the devastation caused by World War II bombing, signalling a new chapter in Christian worship on the famous site where the church now stands in the heart of Fleet Street and the City of London.
December 29 is one of those days in the year which has, in many ways, become a 'no day.' It is sandwiched between the Christmas and New Year celebrations. The Wise men in the Christmas story have returned home. The Christ child has not quite left the manger with his parents, Mary and Joseph. In modern society, the shops are crowded with bargain hunters at the sales.
Continue reading "December 29 a no day? Not for these Guildsmen" »
