All Souls’ Service

This year we shall again be holding a special service of choral music and readings for All Souls’ Day.

This is one of our most popular and most poignant services, at which we commemorate family, friends and loved ones who have passed away.

At the heart of the service, St Bride’s Choir will sing the Introit and Kyrie from the Officium Defunctorum, the Renaissance masterpiece composed by Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria. After which the names of the dearly departed are read aloud and candles lit on the altar in their memories.

If you would like someone to be remembered by name during this service, please contact our administrator claire.seaton@stbrides.com

Dozens of living flames flicker in the church, symbolising our loved ones who are now held safe in the arms of God, even though they are beyond our reach.

The choir then sings Allegri’s famous setting of Psalm 51, Miserere mei – Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness.

One short sleep past, we wake eternally
and death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

– John Donne