St Bride's Church, Fleet Street

This service of Choral Evensong with a Sermon in Music for the Third Sunday of Easter, 23rd April 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/3URSlEY Responses:...

This service of Choral Eucharist for the Second Sunday of Easter, 16th April 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/3UAvayZ Setting: Missa vinum bonum – Or...

We mark Good Friday in music, words and prayer at St Bride's in our Three Hours' Devotion. Download Order of Service → https://bit.ly/411OxTn The central section of our Three Hour Good Friday observance this year is a reflection on the Passion narrative in St John’s Gospel, focussing on three themes within St John’s account of the Passion of Christ with the headings: ‘I find no case against him;’...

This service of Choral Eucharist for Maundy Thursday, 6th April 2022, 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/3KyZdDT Setting: Mass for five voices – William Byrd...

This service of Choral Eucharist for Palm Sunday, 2nd April 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/3nzJ4ol Setting: Missa brevis in D, K194 – Wolfgang Amad...

This service of Choral Evensong with a Sermon in Music for the Passion Sunday, 26th March 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. Responses: Kenneth Leighton Psalm: 130 Canticles: Second Evening Service in...

This service of Choral Evensong with a Sermon in Music for the Third Sunday of Lent, 12th March 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/3T0WjtW Responses: T...

This service of Choral Eucharist for the Second Sunday of Lent, 5th March 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: Communion Service in A minor – Harold Darke Psalm: 121 Sermon: The Revd Steve Morr...

This service of Choral Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes for Ash Wednesday, 22nd 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. Setting: Messe Basse – Gabriel Fauré Canticle: O Lord, in thy wrath – Orlando Gibbons Anthem: Agnus Dei from Mass for five voices – W...

This service of Choral Eucharist for the Sunday Next before Lent, 19th 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 sung by our professional St Bride's Choir. Download Order of Service (pdf) → https://bit.ly/3KgBqc4 Setting: Berliner Messe – Ar...

This service of Choral Evensong with a Sermon in Music for the Second Sunday before Lent, 12th 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 sung by our professional St Bride's Choir. Responses: John Reading Psalm: 150 Canticles: Evening Service...

This Patronal Festival service of Choral Eucharist with Orchestra for St Brigid of Kildare, Sunday, 5th 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 sung by our professional St Bride's Choir. Setting: Missa Solemnis in C, K337 – Wolfgang Amadeu...

This service of Choral Eucharist for the Second Sunday of Epiphany, 15th January 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 Aeterna Christi munera – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Psalm: 40:...

This service of Choral Evensong with Sermon in Music for Epiphany Sunday, 8th January 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/3GH18UL Responses: Humphrey Cl...

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 25th December 2022, 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: ‘Coronation’ Mass in C major, K317 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sermon: The Revd...

This service of Choral Eucharist for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, 18th December 2022, 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 Psalm: 80: 1-8 Sermon: The Revd Can...

Our Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols on Sunday 18th 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) → https://bit.ly/3uWid6H This as-live recording features the same content which would be heard in church with specially recorded reading...

This service of Choral Eucharist for the Third Sunday after Advent, 11th December 2022, 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 Papae Marcelli – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Canticle: Benedict...

Our annual performance of Britten's Ceremony of Carols on the Third Sunday of Advent, 11th 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/3iMxDaI The work opens and closes with the chant "Hodie Christus natus est" (Today Christ is b...

This service of Choral Eucharist for the Second Sunday of Advent, 4th December 2022, 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 A minor – Harold Darke Psalm: 72: 1-7 Sermon: The Revd S...

This service of Choral Eucharist for Advent Sunday, 27th November 2022, 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 for four voices – William Byrd Canticle: Benedicite in B flat – Herbert Sumsion Sermo...

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 Sunday 27th November, 2022 at 5:30pm. The first and most dramatic of our Advent events. Download the Order of Service (pdf) → http://bit.ly/3AIuMpg Advent is a time of preparation and our anthems, hymns and readings help us reflect on the needs of the world an...

This service of Choral Eucharist for the Feast of Christ the King, Sunday 20th November 2022, 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 – Charles Villiers Stanford Psalm: 46 Sermon:...

This service of Choral Evensong on the Feast of Christ the King, 20th November 2022, 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. Responses: Kenneth Leighton Psalm: 72 Canticles: Evening Service in D – George Dyson A...