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A Requiem Mass will be offered for Fr Kit Cunningham this Wednesday 12 January at 7.30pm at St Etheldreda’s, Ely Place. Fr Kit, who died just before Christmas in Ireland, was parish priest at Ely Place for 32 years and … Continue reading →

Journalist Anthony Howard was one of the many eminent people who worshipped at St Mary Abbots in Kensington. His funeral is at the church this Wednesday 5 January at 12 noon. He was seen in the pews on Sundays until … Continue reading →

There are many carol services to choose from in central London this month. Indeed the number seems to grow each year despite our more secular society. At St Paul’s Covent Garden the acting profession has its own carol service organised … Continue reading →

The funeral of the Dean of Southwark is to be at the cathedral on Saturday 4 December at 11am. The preacher will be The Dean of St Albans Jeffery John. Colin Slee’s body is being received at the cathedral on … Continue reading →

I don’t always agree with the Prayer Book Society but I am pleased to see that it is making a call for us all to hold off from celebrating Christmas until 24 December. This year has been the worst I … Continue reading →

Julian Lloyd Webber is suggesting that a statue of composer John Ireland should be erected in South Kensington. He was assistant organist at Holy Trinity Sloane Square at later organist and choirmaster at St Luke’s in Chelsea. The 50th anniversary … Continue reading →

Good to see Holy Trinity Portsmouth’s organ featured on BBC South Today. The claim that Handel played the organ is not far fetched. He may not have been to Gosport but he did play the organ when it was at … Continue reading →

St Helen’s Bishopsgate has become the first City Church to have its own app. Expect this idea to spread. See page 82.

With the opening next Thursday of the new shopping centre called One New Change behind St Paul’s Cathedral it could be that the City will suddenly be busy at weekends. Many people think so and already St Vedast in Foster … Continue reading →

Special services in City Churches this month include: ST ANDREW’S HOLBORN: Abbot Edmund Power of St Paul-without-the-Walls in Rome, the church devoted to Christian unity, is preaching at the Harvest Sung Eucharist on Wednesday 6 October at 6pm. ST MARY-AT-HILL: … Continue reading →