Sermon - Presenting Anna

Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, James Whistler, 1871

A homily given at Choral Evensong at St-Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 28th February 2024 based on Luke 2.22-40.

Prayers of Intercession - The Feast of Candlemas

La presentación de Cristo en el templo, Kelly Latimore

Prayers of Intercession written for the Choral Eucharist at St Stephen Walbrook on Thursday 2nd February 2023. The Feast of Candlemas. Based on texts from Malachi 3.1-5, Psalm 24, Hebrews 2.14-end and Luke 2.22-40.

Prayers of Intercession - Light of the World

Anthony McCall, Solid Light

Prayers written for the Sung Eucharist at St Stephen Walbrook on Thursday 3rd February 2022 (Epiphany 4, Year C), based on the text of Luke 2.22-40 (the Presentation of Christ in the Temple).

Let us pray to God our Father that the world might be filled with the light of his Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Start-Stop : A Song for Anna

A Song for Simeon - by Edward McKnight Kauffer to accompany T.S.Eliot's poem, 1928

Start Stop at St Stephen Walbrook offers the chance for busy commuters to start their day by stopping to pray and reflect for ten minutes. Reflections start every quarter of an hour on Tuesday mornings from 7.45am with the last reflection starting at 9.00am. This is the script of my reflection from Tuesday 4th February 2020.

Hypapante (The Meeting of the Lord)

The Thursday lunchtime Choral Eucharist at St Stephen Walbrook follows the lectionary for the preceding Sunday, so today we celebrated Candlemas. During his sermon, Reverend Stephen Baxter explained that in the Orthodox church this feast is also known as Hypapante – or The Meeting of the Lord.