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Lent Services & Sermon Series
LENT SERVICES
6th February, Ash Wednesday
1:15pm: Choral Eucharist and Imposition of Ashes
7pm: Concert - Allegri’s Miserere and Brahms’ Motets
10th February, Sunday
6:30pm: Choral Evensong with Sermon in Music
24th February, Sunday
6:30pm: Choral Evensong with Sermon in Music
9th March, Sunday
6:30pm Choral Evensong with Sermon in Music
16th March, Palm Sunday
11:00am: Choral Eucharist and Blessing of Palms
19th March, Wednesday
7pm: Concert - Lent Processional: The Way of the Cross
20th March, Maundy Thursday
1.15pm: Choral Eucharist and Stripping of the Altars
7pm: Passover Supper - Bridewell Hall, St Bride Institute
21st March, Good Friday
11am: Pergolesi - Stabat Mater
12noon: Three Hours Devotion
23rd March, Easter Sunday
5:45am: Dawn Service and Kindling of the New Fire
11:00am: Easter Day Family Eucharist
6:30pm: Choral Evensong and Sermon in Music
2nd April, Wednesday
7pm: Concert - Handel Messiah
This most famous of oratorios is a tour de force of vocal writing. St Bride's Choir is joined by the baroque ensemble, The Saraband Consort.
BY WHAT AUTHORITY?
In July 2008 the Archbishop and Bishops of the Anglican Communion
will gather in England for the Lambeth Conference. One of the issues
which will be uppermost in the Bishops’ minds will be the issue of
authority, because of the divisions that have appeared within the
Communion over the questions surrounding homosexuality, same sex
marriages and women bishops. It is timely and appropriate to spend
time this Lent asking where we find authority in today’s Church.
Historically the Anglican Church has grounded its understanding of
authority on the triad of scripture, tradition and reason. Scripture has
always been seen as the fundamental source of Christian revelation;
tradition is seen as the gradual unfolding of scriptural truth
throughout history, and reason, informed by experience, is the way in
which the first two sources can be evaluated and measured.
The triad doesn’t solve the problem of contradictory interpretations,
and so does not provide an authoritative magisterium such as is
found in the Roman Catholic Church.
However, Anglicans have usually understood authority as being
dispersed rather than centralised, with many elements, including the
Bible, the Creeds, the Witness of the Saints, and the continuing
experience of the Holy Spirit within the Church. Structurally the
Anglican Communion has no centralised government but sees itself
as a family of interdependent, self-governing church provinces
consisting of about 70 million members, whose leaders meet every ten
years for prayer, consultation and discussion. All are held together by
their practice of worshipping from a Book of Common Prayer, of
which there are now many regional variations. Authority for
Anglicans therefore finds expression in a spirituality and worship
derived from the English Prayer book of 1662 – Lex Orandi Lex
Credendi.
This sermon series is offered as a way of reflecting on this diffused
model of authority in the context of the controversies which have
beset the Anglican Communion in recent years and which will be on
the agenda of Lambeth 2008.
Where do we find authority in today’s Church?
10th February (Lent 1): “By What Authority?” – Canon David Meara,
Rector of St Bride’s.
17th February (Lent 2): “In the balance of Scripture, Reason and
Tradition” – The Revd Jonathan Clatworthy,
General Secretary of the Modern Churchpeople’s Union.
24th February (Lent 3): “In the Bible” – The Revd Jeremy Crossley,
Area Dean of the City of London.
2nd March (Lent 4): “Through moral Reasoning shaped by Christ” –
Lord Harries of Pentregarth, formerly Bishop
of Oxford.
9th March (Lent 5): “In the Tradition” – The Revd Dr Charlotte
Methuen, Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History,
University of Oxford.
16th March (Lent 6): “In Christ” – The Revd George Pitcher,
Curate of St Bride’s.
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