St Bride's Church, Fleet Street

This service of Choral Eucharist for Easter Sunday, 31st March 2024, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers, sermon and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes. This service is sung by our professional St Bride's Choir. Download Order of Service (pdf) → https://bit.ly/4cCRD71 Setting: Messe solennelle – Jean Langlais Can...

We mark Good Friday in music, words and prayer at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, at our Three Hours' Devotion. Download Order of Service → https://bit.ly/3TTNmVk The central section of our Three Hour Good Friday observance this year is a reflection on the Passion narrative in St Matthew’s Gospel, focussing on three key individuals: Judas, Pilate and Jesus. Each section of this Gospel account is...

This service of Choral Eucharist for Maundy Thursday, 28th March 2024, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers, sermon and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes. This service is sung by our professional St Bride's Choir. Download Order of Service (pdf) → https://bit.ly/43P0zT3 Setting: Mass for four voices – William Byr...

This service of Choral Evensong with Sermon in Music for Palm Sunday, 24th March 2024, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers, sermon and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes. This service is sung by our professional St Bride's Choir. Download Order of Service (pdf) → to follow Responses: William Smith Psalm: 69: 1-20...

This service of Choral Eucharist for Passion Sunday, 15th March 2024, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers, sermon and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes. This service is sung by our professional St Bride's Choir. Setting: Communion Service in G – Percy Whitlock Psalm: 51: 1-11 Sermon: The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joy...

This service of Choral Evensong with a Sermon in Music for Mothering Sunday, the Fourth Sunday of Lent, 10th March 2024, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes. It features a Sermon in Music which gives our professional St Bride's Choir the opportunity to sing for an extended p...

This service of Choral Eucharist for the Third Sunday of Lent, 3rd March 2024, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers, sermon and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes. This service is sung by our professional St Bride's Choir. Setting: Mass in G minor – Ralph Vaughan Williams Canticle: Benedicite in B flat – Herbert S...

This service of Choral Evensong with a Sermon in Music for the Second Sunday of Lent, 25th February 2024, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes. It features a Sermon in Music which gives our professional St Bride's Choir the opportunity to sing for an extended period on a them...

This service of Choral Eucharist for the First Sunday of Lent, 18th February 2024, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers, sermon and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes. This service is sung by our professional St Bride's Choir. Download Order of Service (pdf) → https://bit.ly/48fkGdy Setting: Communion Service in E...

This service of Choral Evensong with a Sermon in Music for the Sunday Next before Lent, 11th February 2024, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes. It features a Sermon in Music which gives our professional St Bride's Choir the opportunity to sing for an extended period on a th...

This service Matronal Festival Service of Choral Eucharist celebrating the 1500th anniversary of Brigid of Kildare, Sunday 4th February 2023, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers, sermon and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes. This service is performed by St Bride's Choir & Orchestra. Download Order of Service (pd...

This service of Choral Evensong with a Sermon in Music for the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Candlemas), Sunday 28th January 2024, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes. It features a Sermon in Music which gives our professional St Bride's Choir the opport...

This service of Choral Eucharist for the Third Sunday of Epiphany, 21st January 2024, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers, sermon and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes. This service is sung by our professional St Bride's Choir. Setting: Communion Service in C – Henry Purcell Canticle: Jubilate in C – William Boy...

This service of Choral Eucharist on Epiphany Sunday, 7th January 2024, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers, sermon and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes. This service is sung by our professional St Bride's Choir. Setting: Missa brevis – Lennox Berkeley Canticle: Jubilate in F – John Ireland Sermon: The Revd Cano...

Sing Choirs of Angels is a recent addition to our Advent calendar and has proved immensely popular. It takes place on Christmas Eve 2022 at 4:30pm for all those who cannot make it to Midnight Mass or for those who need a moment to draw breath and reflect in this busiest of times. The service comprises seasonal music, readings and poetry conjuring up a celebratory yet reflective atmosphere ahead of...

This service of Choral Midnight Mass for Christmas Eve, Saturday 24th December 2023, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers, sermon and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes. This service is sung by our professional St Bride's Choir. Setting: Missa brevis in B flat, K275 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sermon: The Revd Canon...

Our Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols on the Third Sunday of Advent, 17th December at 5:30pm is a wonderful opportunity to hear the full range of Advent readings in the form of service devised by Eric Milner-White for King's College, Cambridge in 1918. Download Order of Service (pdf) → bit.ly/3uWid6H This as-live recording features the same content which would be heard in church with specially rec...

Our annual performance of Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols on the Third Sunday of Advent, 10th December 2022, is given by the upper voices of St Bride's Choir accompanied by harpist Sue Rothstein. It is preceded as usual by a short, candle-lit lower voices Evensong. Download Order of Service → https://bit.ly/47Miafp The work opens and closes with the chant "Hodie Christus natus est" (Today...

A traditional service of music and readings marking the beginning of Advent and the journey towards the light and hope of Christ's birth on Advent Sunday 3rd December, 2023 at 5:30pm. The first and most dramatic of our Advent events. Download the Order of Service (pdf) → https://bit.ly/3Gq1j64 Advent is a time of preparation and our anthems, hymns and readings help us reflect on the needs of the w...

This service of Choral Evensong with a Sermon in Music for the Feast of Christ the King, Sunday 26th November 2023, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes. It features a Sermon in Music which gives our professional St Bride's Choir the opportunity to sing for an extended period...

This service of Choral Eucharist for the Second Sunday before Advent, 19th November 2023, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers, sermon and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes. This service is sung by our professional St Bride's Choir. Setting: – Canticle/Psalm: – Sermon: The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce Anthem: – Org...

This special service for Remembrance Sunday, 12th November 2023, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers, sermon and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes. This service is sung by our professional St Bride's Choir who are joined by the St Bride's Orchestra in a liturgical performance of Duruflé's Requiem Op 9. If you en...

This service for All Souls, Sunday 5th November 2023, has been collated from archive recordings together with specially recorded material in church and in people's homes. This service is sung by our professional St Bride's Choir and is one of our most popular and most poignant services in the year. Readings, prayers, hymns and choral anthems help us commemorate family members, friends and loved on...

This service of Choral Eucharist for the Last Sunday after Trinity, 29th October 2023, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers, sermon and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes. This service is sung by our professional St Bride's Choir. Download Order of Service (pdf) → https://bit.ly/49dsSfQ Setting: Missa Princeps pac...

This service of Choral Evensong with a Sermon in Music for the Twentieth Sunday after Trinity, 22nd October 2023, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes. It features a Sermon in Music which gives our professional St Bride's Choir the opportunity to sing for an extended period o...