St Bride's Church, Fleet Street is a warm and welcoming Christian community, and one of the most famous and most fascinating historic churches in Central London. Our services are enhanced by wonderful music performed by our professional St Bride's Choir which sings Choral Eucharist at 11am & Choral Evensong at 5.30pm every Sunday of the year. They also sing at our many memorials, weddings, thanksgiving & carol services. St Bride's is known worldwide as the Journalists' Church, offering a…
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Join The Revd Steve Morris, Associate Priest of St Bride's, and St Bride's Choir for this week's reflection in words and music. We open this week with a hymn-like setting by Déodat de Séverac of the text "Tantum ergo sacramentum" from the hymn "Pange Lingua" by Thomas Aquinas. Its simple harmonies and structure lend an attractiveness that have made it the composer's best-known work in England. The…
Join The Revd Steve Morris, Associate Priest of St Bride's, and St Bride's Choir for this week's reflection in words and music. We open with an anthem published in 1925 by Herbert Howells which sets the poem "My eyes for beauty pine" by Robert Bridges, who was later to become poet laureate. It expresses a quiet yearning, rather than a dogmatic faith, which resonated with Howells's spiritual…
Join The Revd Steve Morris, Associate Priest of St Bride's, and St Bride's Choir for this week's reflection in words and music. This week's reflection opens with the motet "Ave verum corpus" by the English composer, William Byrd. It is his most performed and recorded work, in part because it is so expressive but also because it is simple technically to sing. Our reading from Matthew tells of the…
Join The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's, and St Bride's Choir for this week's reflection in words and music. The opening anthem this week is by Charles Wood. It sets the poem "Expectans expectavi" by Charles Sorley who was a First World War poet who was killed at the Battle of Loos in 1915, aged just 20. Wood wrote his setting in 1919 shortly after the death of his own son who…
Join The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's, and St Bride's Choir for this week's reflection in words and music. Edward Bairstow was supposedly the rudest Yorkshireman in a county famed for its blunt speaking but that is not apparent in the beautiful anthem "Blessed city, heavenly Salem" which he wrote in 1914. It sets words from a seventh-century hymn and crafts the plainsong melody…
Join The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's, and St Bride's Choir for this week's reflection in words and music. The English composer William Henry Harris was organist at St George’s Chapel, Windsor for over thirty years and was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order for his service. Whilst there, he wrote two orchestral works which were premiered at The Proms and…
Join The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's, and St Bride's Choir for this week's reflection in words and music. Instead of Choral Evensong in church this Sunday we have a special service celebrating the gift of marriage and love's enduring grace. The service incudes readings and music on that theme including the anthem which opens this reflection – "My true love hath my heart" by…
Join The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's, and St Bride's Choir for this week's reflection in words and music. Charles Villiers Stanford wrote his set of Three Motets, Op 38, while he was organist at Trinity College, Cambridge. They are among his best-known works. The final motet, "Beati quorum via", is in six vocal parts and is more restrained and prayerful than the other two. It…
Each year the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper makers returns to St Bride’s to honour one of its most traditional commitments: the Richard Johnson “Bubble” Service. Our Rector, The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, serves as Company Chaplain and this year added her voice to a long succession of clergy who have risen to the challenge of preaching at the service on Johnson’s chosen text,…
Join The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's, and St Bride's Choir for this week's reflection in words and music. "Christe, adoramus te" – Christ, we adore you – are the opening words of the short but moving choral anthem by Claudio Monteverdi which opens this week's reflection. Monteverdi was maestro di cappella at St Mark's, Venice for 30 years in the first half of the seventeenth…
Reflection in words & music - Sunday 14th June 2026 by St Bride's Church, Fleet Street
