Handel’s Messiah at Christmas

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Sun 22 Dec 8pm

Enjoy a candlelit concert in the run-up to Christmas with a selection from Handel’s masterpiece, The Messiah.

  • St James’s aspires to be a place where all can belong, and where every person’s gifts and identities are welcome and celebrated. We are working to improve the experience at St James’s in the church building and the online community. We have step-free access from the courtyard to the church, and a toilet for disabled people. The courtyard and Redemption Roasters coffee shop are wheelchair accessible.

  • Featuring
    The Piccadilly Sinfonietta
    Susan Parkes (Soprano) and other operatic soloist to be announced. 

    Programme 

    Handel – A selection of highlights from The Messiah 

    What’s on

    Come and celebrate the hope and light that Christmas brings each winter

    Eco-Contemplative Liturgy

    Eco-contemplative services are held on the 4th Sunday of the month at 9.45am in the Southwood Garden in the southwest corner of the church site, and on Zoom.

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    Sunday Eucharist

    Sundays at 11am

    Our main weekly gathering, with music and a warm welcome.

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    Sunday Eucharist for the Patronal Festival of St James

    Sunday 26 July 11am in the courtyard

    Everyone is welcome to join our weekly Sunday Eucharist where we come together as a community in-person and online to celebrate God in word, sacrament, prayer and music.

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    Sunday Forum

    The Sunday Forum is an open online group, that runs parallel to the coffee after the service, from 12.30pm to 1pm on a Sunday, open to all.

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    Choral Evensong for the Patronal Festival of St James

    Sunday 26 July 3pm

    Music of celebration, bible readings, a sermon, hymns for all and prayers!

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    Weekday morning prayer

    Morning Prayer is said in the side chapel Mon, Tues, Thur & Fri at 8.30am, lasting 30 minutes.

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    Jiali Wang (piano)

    Monday 27 July 1.10pm

    Jiali Wang is a London-based pianist distinguished by her refined artistry and compelling musical voice.

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    Pilgrimage and Purpose: Building Community with Scripture

    Monday 1 June – Monday 27 July, 6.30-7.30pm on Zoom

    A new online weekly Bible series co-hosted by The Revd Lucy Winkett and The Revd Dr Ayla Lepine will explore stories of pilgrimage throughout Scripture.

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    Sanctuary

    Tuesdays from 6pm

    The Sanctuary service will be held at our partner church St Pancras, Euston Road.

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    Wednesday morning Eucharist

    Held each Wednesday morning from 8.30am-9am in the side chapel

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    Daniella Nassar (piano)

    Wednesday 29 July 1.10pm

    Daniella Nassar is an award-winning Cypriot–Lebanese pianist and composer based in London.

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    Holding the Silence

    Thur and Fri at 12noon

    A chance to gather, share some silence, share some reflections.

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    Thursday Afternoon Eucharist

    Held each Thursday from 1.10pm-1.40pm in church.

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    Gabriele Sutkute, piano

    Friday 31 July 1.10pm

    Lithuanian pianist Gabrielė Sutkutė has been praised for her “acute musical intuition, impeccable sense of style and genuine charisma’’.

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    Max Walsh, piano

    Wednesday 5 August 1.10pm

    Max Walsh was born in Birmingham, UK, in 2007 and began studying at the Junior Royal Birmingham Conservatoire at the age of eight.

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    Deep Abiding Prayer

    First Thursday each month,
    7.30-8.30pm on Zoom

    Deep Abiding Prayer is a healing prayer of the heart and of the Spirit. Its sources are in the Bible and in the Christian Contemplative tradition.

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