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Welcome

Parish Eucharist

Sunday 11:00am

Lunchtime Mass

Monday - Friday 12:30pm

Sung Compline (Term Time)

Tuesday 6:30pm

Choral Evensong (Term Time)

Wednesday 6:30pm

Further details below

Solemn Mass

Sunday 11:00am

Lunchtime Mass

Monday - Friday 12:30pm

Sung Compline (Term Time)

Tuesday 6:30pm

Choral Evensong (Term Time)

Wednesday 6:30pm

Further details below

Do join us for next week's extra special Choral Evensong on Wednesday 26th March at 18:30, which will be followed by the launch of NUNC! by Quentin Letts.

Nunc! is a gracious yet beautifully navigated meditation on life, love and death.
Jerusalem is ruled by rosemary-scented King Herod. By the bougainvillea in Deuteronomy Square, Reuben's tea stall keeps customers sweet with lemon koloochehs. Onesimus the greengrocer piles his polished pears and pineapples in ziggurats, blind harpist Tabitha captivates bachelor Pharisees, Roman sentries doze and the widower Simeon, beset by gout and befriended by a dog called Shlomo, watches the passing promenade. By day Simeon dodges bossy superintendent Kedar. By starlit night he contemplates lost loves and the visits of a bad-tempered angel.

Quentin Letts's delightful tales bring first-century Jerusalem to quirky life and show how the prophet Simeon, whose Nunc Dimittis became one of the great canticles of Christendom, can help an ailing twenty-first-century Englishman come to terms with his fate.

Do join us for next week's extra special Choral Evensong on Wednesday 26th March at 18:30, which will be followed by the launch of NUNC! by Quentin Letts.

Nunc! is a gracious yet beautifully navigated meditation on life, love and death.
Jerusalem is ruled by rosemary-scented King Herod. By the bougainvillea in Deuteronomy Square, Reuben's tea stall keeps customers sweet with lemon koloochehs. Onesimus the greengrocer piles his polished pears and pineapples in ziggurats, blind harpist Tabitha captivates bachelor Pharisees, Roman sentries doze and the widower Simeon, beset by gout and befriended by a dog called Shlomo, watches the passing promenade. By day Simeon dodges bossy superintendent Kedar. By starlit night he contemplates lost loves and the visits of a bad-tempered angel.

Quentin Letts's delightful tales bring first-century Jerusalem to quirky life and show how the prophet Simeon, whose Nunc Dimittis became one of the great canticles of Christendom, can help an ailing twenty-first-century Englishman come to terms with his fate.

Answer the call!

This Sunday, 9th March, at our local, The Speaker, meeting at 18:30.

St Matthew's team has a long history of victory in the pub quiz and we want to reclaim our title, so please do come and join - we need people with any kind of specialist knowledge!

Answer the call!

This Sunday, 9th March, at our local, The Speaker, meeting at 18:30.

St Matthew's team has a long history of victory in the pub quiz and we want to reclaim our title, so please do come and join - we need people with any kind of specialist knowledge!

Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we worthily lamenting our sins, and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we worthily lamenting our sins, and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Come and join our service of Choral Evensong this evening!

Come and join our service of Choral Evensong this evening!

You are all invited to our next concert, which is this Saturday at 18:00 by the Hammig String Quartet!

You are all invited to our next concert, which is this Saturday at 18:00 by the Hammig String Quartet!

February sunlight illuminating our iconic Ninian Comper Lady Chapel at Morning Prayer this morning.

This evening, do join us for Compline at 18:30 and at 19:00 our final discussion group of this term, when we will be considering whether the Bible is in fact woke. All are welcome!

February sunlight illuminating our iconic Ninian Comper Lady Chapel at Morning Prayer this morning.

This evening, do join us for Compline at 18:30 and at 19:00 our final discussion group of this term, when we will be considering whether the Bible is in fact woke. All are welcome!

We are looking forward to next week’s Choral Evensong on February 12th, which will be sung by the talented choir of @salisburycathedral @salcathchoir @salisburycathedralschool

All are welcome, and please note the slightly earlier time of 18:00.

We are looking forward to next week’s Choral Evensong on February 12th, which will be sung by the talented choir of @salisburycathedral @salcathchoir @salisburycathedralschool

All are welcome, and please note the slightly earlier time of 18:00.

Sung Compline, Tuesday 26th November 2024

Sung Compline, Tuesday 26th November 2024

40th Anniversary of the Rededication of the Church. To help us manage numbers at the Festal Mass, please book a free ticket. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/40th-anniversary-of-the-rededication-of-st-matthews-church-westminster-tickets-1069040070629?aff=oddtdtcreator

40th Anniversary of the Rededication of the Church. To help us manage numbers at the Festal Mass, please book a free ticket. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/40th-anniversary-of-the-rededication-of-st-matthews-church-westminster-tickets-1069040070629?aff=oddtdtcreator

Stillness after Sung Compline

Stillness after Sung Compline

The Psalm being sung at Compline

The Psalm being sung at Compline

Congratulations to our Assistant Priest, Fr John Henry, officially licensed by Bishop Sarah this morning

Congratulations to our Assistant Priest, Fr John Henry, officially licensed by Bishop Sarah this morning

Patronal Festival celebration 2024

Patronal Festival celebration 2024

We welcome @PandaCup to our courtyard from Monday - Friday 8.00-15.00

We welcome @PandaCup to our courtyard from Monday - Friday 8.00-15.00

Our choir have had a fabulous and very busy weekend singing in Salisbury Cathedral celebrating the work of Stanford, and those he influenced, on the Centenary of his death.

It was a joy to join the Cathedral Choirs (boys, girls and Lay Vicars) for services throughout the weekend, especially in concert and for the closing Choral Evensong of the festival singing Stanford’s Latin Magnificat, Holst’s Nunc Dimittis as well as Lord Thou Hast Been Our Refuge (Vaughan Williams) - an epic end to the festival.

Our choir have had a fabulous and very busy weekend singing in Salisbury Cathedral celebrating the work of Stanford, and those he influenced, on the Centenary of his death.

It was a joy to join the Cathedral Choirs (boys, girls and Lay Vicars) for services throughout the weekend, especially in concert and for the closing Choral Evensong of the festival singing Stanford’s Latin Magnificat, Holst’s Nunc Dimittis as well as Lord Thou Hast Been Our Refuge (Vaughan Williams) - an epic end to the festival.

We had a great celebration on Sunday as we welcomed Fr John Henry to join the clergy team, and also received David McDonough into full Communion of the Church of England.

We had a great celebration on Sunday as we welcomed Fr John Henry to join the clergy team, and also received David McDonough into full Communion of the Church of England.

This Saturday we welcome the Taillferre Ensemble to St Matthew’s.
The concert begins at 18.00.

This Saturday we welcome the Taillferre Ensemble to St Matthew’s.
The concert begins at 18.00.

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Upcoming services

TUESDAY 25th MARCH

18:30 Sung Compline followed by supper and film club (In the Name of The Father)

WEDNESDAY 26th MARCH

18:30 Evensong and book launch of NUNC by Quentin Letts

Responses

Richard Ayleward (1626-1669)

Psalm 119 (1-8)

Canticles in G minor

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Anthem

Cantique de Jean Racine

Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)

Hymn

O Thou who camest from above

REH 548

Organ Postlude

Wenn wir in hochsten Noten sein

J S Bach (1685-1750)

MOTHERING SUNDAY 30th MARCH - Lent 4

Mass Setting

Mass for four voices

William Byrd (1540-1623)

Organ Prelude

Prelude in G

William Harris (1883-1973)

After the first reading

Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Agnus Dei during Communion

Organ Postlude

Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt

J S Bach (1685-1750)

St Matthew’s is entirely self-financing and relies upon the generous support of its various congregations and communities to support its mission.

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