St Paul's Church - Knightsbridge

Order of Service 25 July 2010

nick — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:00:30 +0000

You can see the complete Order of Service for 25th July 2010, the Feast of St James the Apostle, with readings and music notes here: PDF

Weekly News Sheet 25 July 2010

nick — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:00:09 +0000

You can see the Weekly News sheet for 25th July 2010, St James’s Day, here: PDF

Weekly Sheet 18 July 2010

nick — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:00:01 +0000

You can see the Weekly News sheet for 18th July 2010, the Seventh Sunday after Trinity, here: PDF

Order of Service 11 July 2010

nick — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:00:59 +0000

You can see the complete Order of Service for 11th July 2010, the Sixth Sunday after Trinity, with readings and music notes here: PDF

Weekly Sheet 11 July 2010

nick — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:00:36 +0000

You can see the Weekly News sheet for 11th July 2010, the Sixth Sunday after Trinity, here: PDF

Order of Service 4 July 2010

nick — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:00:37 +0000

You can see the complete Order of Service for 4th July 2010, the Fifth Sunday after Trinity, with readings and music notes here: PDF

Weekly Sheet 4 July 2010

nick — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:00:01 +0000

You can see the Weekly News sheet for 4th July 2010, the Fifth Sunday after Trinity, here: PDF

Order of Service 27 June 2010

nick — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:00:42 +0000

You can see the complete Order of Service for 27th June 2010, the Fourth Sunday after Trinity, with readings and music notes here: PDF

Weekly Sheet 27 June 2010

nick — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:00:16 +0000

You can see the Weekly News sheet for 27th June 2010, the Fourth Sunday after Trinity, here: PDF

Weekly Email 27 June 2010

nick — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:13:10 +0000

Scenes from Clerical Life
(and not by George Eliot!)
by Fr Alan Gyle, Vicar

On Monday evening at 10pm, BBC Two shows the first episode in a new comedy series about the life of the Church of England and its clergy. Set in the gritty city (filmed in Shoreditch in East London), ‘Rev.’ is as far from the frothy rural idyll that was ‘The Vicar of Dibley’ as it’s possible to imagine – and pulls fewer punches as it paints an amusing but acutely observed and sometimes punishingly honest picture of the Church’s struggle to minister, to proclaim faith and to maintain integrity in an urban context. It focuses on a clergyman – The Revd Adam Smallbone – a good man who is compassionate and committed but who sometimes struggles to see the connection between his ‘vocation’ and the reality of church life and who lives with all the frustrations common to most clergy. If the fictional and failing ‘St Saviour’s’ seems a world away from our own fuller and more confident St Paul’s Knightsbridge, it is, though many of the issues are recognisable: the church as a place where transcendence, vision and hope meet (and sometimes clash with) all-too-human frailty, need and wilfulness; ‘big’ characters who are unaware of their impact on others; the tensions of holding onto church as a place of encounter and holiness while at the same time making sure that as a business it is financially viable; the internal politics of an institution obsessed with market ‘success’, still in hoc to the legacy of the past and to powerful societal expectations and projections. You’ll also recognise some of the actors: Tom Hollander as the reassuringly human vicar (he read, and lit our Christmas tree, at the Foundation event a couple of years ago) and Alexander Armstrong ((congratulations, by the way, to him and to Hannah on the birth this week of Edward) who’s a worshipper here) as a pushy parent and local MP who wants to get his children into the local C of E School.

Will it go down well? I suspect that some will be a little shocked at the honesty – many may feel it is irreverent. But if so, it is worth living with your discomfort. ‘Rev.’ is certainly witty, but also well-observed and absolutely of the moment. Watch and enjoy!

THE WEEK AHEAD
SUNDAY: (Trinity 4: 27th June 2010)
Family Mass at 09:00 / Solemn Mass at 11:00
(Byrd & Palestrina)
Preacher: Fr Alan Gyle

WEDNESDAY: The Wednesday Evening Service at 18:45, followed by refreshments

THURSDAY: The Parish Garden Party from 18:30, with jazz, drinks, sunshine* and good company (*sunshine isn’t guaranteed!)

NEXT SUNDAY: (Trinity 5: 4th July 2010)
Family Mass at 09:00 (with a farewell to the Sorensen family)
Solemn Mass at 11:00 (Howells & Rossini)
Preacher (once again!): Fr Alan Gyle