Choral Eucharist for Ascension Day: Thursday 13th May 7.30pm

This Thursday evening we will be celebrating a Eucharist for the Feast of the Ascension. You are invited to join us in person at St Clement's Church, but the service will also be streamed live via Zoom if you prefer to attend from home (see our website for details of how to join us). 

To mark the festival occasion, soloists from the choir will be singing Byrd's Mass for Three Voices, alongside motets by Couperin and Carturan. The service begins at 7.30pm, and will last about an hour, following a traditional Book of Common Prayer order. All are welcome, and we hope to see you there.

Opening St Clement's Church

We're pleased to announce that St Clement's church building has reopened, with a few changes to our layout in order to adhere to careful social distancing and safety protocols. The church building is open on weekdays, 12 noon to 3pm for private prayer.

We're also delighted that some public worship is resuming in the church, with a short, spoken service of Matins and Holy Communion in the South Aisle on Wednesdays at 11am. Please do join us if you are able to, and are comfortable coming into the church.

Our 11am Sunday Mass continues to be celebrated via Zoom, please do see our website or previous news items for details of how to join us.

Motet: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace

This Sunday at our online Zoom Eucharist, the choir presented their next multi-track recording, singing Wesley's sublime anthem, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace". It's a great joy that even though the choir isn't able to meet in the same space to rehearse and sing, they are at least able to stay in touch and create music from their own homes for our congregation to share and enjoy.

Motet for Corpus Christi

Last Sunday at our online Zoom Eucharist, we celebrated the feast of Corpus Christi. To enhance our worship, the choir prepared their first ever multi-track recording, singing Byrd's beautiful setting of Ave Verum Corpus. Like many others, the choir can't wait to be back singing together in the same space, but for now we are pleased we are able to bring the singers together virtually for this performance. We hope you enjoy!

Sermon by Fr John Summers - 17th May 2020

We offer our apologies to those who were unable to join last Sunday's service online via Zoom. We suffered a number of technical issues with the online platform, and were not the only church in the UK experiencing difficulties that morning.

For those who missed Fr John Summers' excellent sermon that morning, we are pleased to be able to offer it online on our YouTube channel (alongside recordings of past sermons and services). We hope you enjoy!

Palm Sunday Eucharist available online

Unfortunately, a late change in Zoom's policies meant that not everyone was able to access this Sunday's online Eucharist for Palm Sunday. A recording of the service is now available to watch on our YouTube channel, including Bp Rowan's wonderful sermon reflecting on the Passion Gospel.

We apologise for the occasional loss of quality or poor audio in this video - we hope to have a more reliably recorded service next time around. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel to revisit the latest services when they are uploaded.

Holy Week 2020 at St Clement's

We hope you can join us online for our Holy Week services at St Clement's. These are available to access via Zoom at: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/6200111351.

Our services are:

• Sunday 5th April, 11.00am, Sung Mass for Palm Sunday
• Thursday 9th April, 6.30pm, Low Mass for Maundy Thursday
• Friday 10th April, 2.00pm, "An hour by the Cross"
• Sunday 12th April, 11.00am, Sung Mass for Easter Day

On Good Friday, we will also be releasing a video for the Stations of the Cross you are welcome to use in your own prayers and reflections, featuring devotional images, scripture and poetry. Please check back here for more details.

Online worship at St Clement's

Due to the ongoing needs to contain the coronavirus epidemic, we are unfortunately unable to broadcast our services from St Clement's Church itself. However, we invite you to join our 'digital' congregation online, with our Sunday Eucharist celebrated at 11am. The service will be available via the Zoom platform, at https://us04web.zoom.us/j/6200111351, with the online meeting staying open for some time after the service to allow for conversation and social contact.

We do hope you can join us for our service, and we look forward to welcoming you to our online church.

Sunday 22nd March 2020: Sung Mass at St Clement's

We invite you to join in with our Communion, at a celebration of this Sunday morning's Sung Mass at St Clement's. With celebrant and preacher Fr Robert van de Weyer, and cantors from the Choir of St Clement's Church.

Please do follow our website, YouTube channel, and Facebook page to participate in new services when they are broadcast.

Worship at St Clement's

In line with Church of England and government policy, all public services and events at St Clement's are, regrettably, suspended until further notice.

However, this does not mean a lack of activity at St Clement's, and we hope to be able to support our community and congregation in many other ways in the coming weeks, and will keep you updated with news.

We will endeavour to keep the church open where possible, during the daytime, for private prayer and reflection. Prayer will continue at the church, with the Daily Offices of Morning Prayer, Ante-Communion and Evening Prayer spoken in the church. We invite you to join us in thoughts and words from wherever you may be at present, and you are welcome to get in touch with any requests for prayers in particular causes.

We will also continue to celebrate Sunday Mass at St Clement's. Though held in private, this service will be available to watch online shortly thereafter, and we will be posting details of how to take part in the service through the digital channel wherever you may be. We will be posting details of the latest videos and how to access them on our website and Facebook Page; do stay in touch.

Choral Eucharist for Ash Wednesday: 26th Feb, 7.30pm

We hope you can join us this Wednesday evening for a choral Eucharist as we celebrate Ash Wednesday. The choir will be singing Byrd's 4-part Mass setting, alongside Lassus' Super flumina Babilonys and a setting of Psalm 51.  All are welcome, and we hope to see you there.

Taizé Eucharist for Epiphany: Fri 10th Jan, 7.30pm

Join us this Friday evening as we celebrate a Taizé Eucharist in this seasons of Epiphany. This beautiful, candlelit service begins at 7.30pm, with chants, prayers, readings and silence. All are welcome, we hope to see you there!

Taizé Eucharist for Creationtide: Fri 20th Sept, 7.30pm

Please join us for our first Taizé service of the term, where we will be celebrating a Eucharist for Creationtide. There will be sung chants, readings, prayer and silence in the beautiful, reflective space of St Clement's Church. All are welcome, we to see you there!

Wed 6th March, 7.30pm - Choral Eucharist for Ash Wednesday

Join us this Wednesday evening for a choral service as we mark the start of Lent. The service will follow a traditional prayer book Eucharist, together with the imposition of ashes. Joined by the Orlando Singers, the choir will be singing Byrd's Mass for Four Voices, alongside music by Palestrina, and reflective psalms and plainsong.

The service begins at 7.30pm, and all are welcome. We hope to see you there.

Choral Mass for All Souls: Sun 4th Nov, 5.00pm

Join us this Sunday evening for a reflective, candlelit choral service for All Souls. As well as a Eucharist, there will be a Commemoration of the Departed, with readings, poetry and reflective silence.

The joint choirs of St Clement's and the Erasmus Chamber Choir will be singing music from Hernando Franco's beautiful Office for the Departed. This 16th century work was only recently rediscovered in Mexico (where it was written), and it is likely this is the first time this music will be sung as part of a liturgy here in the UK.

Beginning at 5.00pm, all are welcome, and we hope you can join us for this unique service!

Choral Eucharist: Sun 24th July, 5.30pm

Please join us this evening at 5.30pm for a special Choral Eucharist, with readings, poetry and meditative silence to mark the Nativity of St John the Baptist. Our choir will be joined by The Orlando Singers, singing Vierne's great Messe Solennelle, as well as Gibbons' "This is the record of John".

All are warmly invited to this unique service, and we hope to see you there!

Taizé service: Fri 15th Sept at 7.30pm

We will be celebrating a Taizé-style Eucharist this Friday evening to mark Holy Cross Day. Our service begins at 7.30pm. All are welcome, and we hope you can join us for prayer, readings, singing and silence by candlelight.

Sunday time change: 11AM from 3rd Sept 2017

It's been a quiet few weeks on our News Feed as activities wound down for the summer break. We have been beavering away behind the scenes though for events coming up over the next months, so stay tuned for more information in the next few days.

For now, just a reminder to all our digital followers that from this coming Sunday (3rd September) we will be shifting to a slightly later start-time for our principal Sunday morning service.

Sung Eucharist will now be celebrated at 11AM, though of course aside from this, our Sunday services and worship will remain unchanged. We look forward to seeing you there!