On Sunday 16 June at 17:00 Ensemble Magnificat and friends will be performing European Madrigals, Dances and Poems as a Summer concert. Entrance is free, but a donation to support fees for professional soloists for future concerts would be very welcome.
Performers
Karen Bergquist Lüth, Traverso
Karsten Köppen, Theorbo
Iain Preston, Recitation
with Ensemble Magnifcat directed by Anna Ubbelohde and Yotin Tiewtrakul
Do come and enjoy!
For those who read French, here is an excellent piece about the renovation in the Berlin-based French La Gazette de Berlin.
Your webmaster is pleased to observe improvements in church websites that are occurring across the ethernet. Take a look at the new Anglican Communion News website. The Anglican Communion Office serves the Anglican Communion, comprising around 85 million members in 38 regional and national member churches around the globe in more than 165 countries.
This year is not only the bicentennial of Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi, but also the centenary one of Britain's outstanding composers Benjamin Britten. Britten founded the now world famous Aldeburgh music festival. Archbishop Justin Welby preached at Aldeburgh's St Peter and St Paul church – where Britten and his partner, the tenor Peter Pears, are buried – taking as his theme Britten's War Requiem which set the poems of World War 1 poet Wilfred Owen to music.
Click here to listen to an excellent sermon on the subject of human conflict.
“Life is infinitely complicated and putting God into the middle of it does not make it less so. Don’t expect easy answers because God is around. But taking God out of the picture does not make life simpler or easier either. Rather, doing that reduces life to the chaos and bitterness and evil that is all human existence in some ways,”
Sunday 16 June offers a full programme.
The Parish Eucharist at 10:30 will be a family service especially for children. Our visiting ordinand Anthony O'Grady from the Community of the Resurrection at Mirfield will preach. The service will be followed by a picnic. Prayers for good weather, please!
Then at 17:00 there will be a concert to raise money for the choir's acitivities. The concert is free, but it is hoped those who attend will be moved to donate to this worthy cause!
Today 9 June was Sea Sunday. It was also the day 35000 motorbikes hit Hamburg for the annual bikers service.
For those who did not make it to church today, here is the Service Sheet with notices.
Fresh from a recently visit to STB during Kirchentag for the Meissen Service, members of the Meissen Commission met with Archbishop Justin Welby in Leicester. In his address Archbishop Justin said 'Good relations between different Christian traditions are the “oxygen” that allows the Church to fulfil its mission and proclaim the Gospel'.
Don't we know it!
Full report on the ABC's website.
Archbishop Justin Welby's website has this short video about Pentecost.
Or the quick 2 min version courtesy of Busted Halo via Bosco Peters' Liturgy Blog.
Friends of Britain eV are organising a charity event with a showing of a film of the Queen's Coronation narrated by Laurence Oliver, eats and stalls to raise money for Kinderhaus Mignon which is under threat of closure. Kinderhaus Mignon provides a residential home for children and young people who have suffered trauma.
The event will be held in church 3 June at 19:00 (doors open 18:00). This is also an opportunity for STB members to raise some money for the church by contributing food and things to sell and helping out.
Please help promote the event and let Wendy Sprock know if you can help out.
On Tuesday 21 May at 19:30 there will be a healing service with the Sacrament of Anointing for those who desire.
On Wednesday 22 May at 19:00 Bible Study of the synoptic Gospels will continue, meeting in the Chaplain's flat.
Sunday 26 May:
10:30 Holy Communion – this will be our monthly service with traditional liturgy
17:00 Contemporary Worship Service with modern style worship, prayer and scripture for young and young at heart.