This Week
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Guest preacher for Holy Week 2022, the Rt Rev Dr Peter Selby
We are delighted to welcome, as our guest preacher for Holy Week, the Rt Rev Dr Peter Selby, former Bishop of Worcester and now Assistant Bishop in our own Diocese of Southwark. Bishop Peter will take the theme A Terrible Forgetting as the focus for his preaching. Lent began with the reminder of our mortality and its challenge. In […]
A Sunday of many celebrations
This Sunday we celebrate many things at St John’s – baptism, confirmation. We also give thanks for the memories of Eric and Pamela Maurice, and Marshall Graham. Their families have given financial gifts which have contributed towards the restoration of the Crucifixion painting. This Sunday at the High Mass the painting will be unveiled and […]
Praying the Rosary at St John’s
In our Christian faith it’s good to find points which encourage our contemplation of the Faith and our devotion to God. The Rosary is the means by which we can do both. Contemplate the life of God revealed in Jesus and in our contemplations come to be ever more devoted to God as we understand […]
Hampers for Evolve Housing
Last week, we had the great pleasure at St John’s Upper Norwood of delivering 80 hampers to Evolve Housing on Sylvan Hill, who we have had a relationship with for a number of years. Evolve Housing not only provides a home but also a range of support services to 80 homeless young people aged 16 […]
Thank you for your support of St John’s
Thank you for your support of St John’s before and during the Covid-19 Pandemic. We are an open and safe space. High Mass every Sunday 10.30am Evensong & Benediction 6pm on the first Sunday of the month Low Mass 10am on Wednesday & Saturday For more information see www.sjun.org.uk September CELEBRATING & CARING […]
St John’s runs new campaign about Believing Women
I’d like to introduce to you a short campaign that we are running in the parish over the next 6 to 7 weeks about BELIEVING WOMEN and how we value the voices and contribution of women within our church, within scripture, within our society and local community. Archdeacon Rosemarie Mallett when she was an academic […]
Christian Meditation from a different perspective: Finding My Right Mind by Vanessa Potter
When Vanessa Potter woke up one day to find herself blind and paralyzed, she was stunned to discover that it was meditating, not drugs, that saved her mind. Convinced she had more to learn, she embarked on her own consciousness road-trip, exploring the major schools of meditation. It is thus that she found her way […]
We welcome Lionel Bourne as Organist and Master of Music
Lionel Bourne On Easter Day we welcome Lionel Bourne as Organist and Master of Music. Lionel comes to St John’s after fourteen fruitful years as Organist and Director of Music at St John the Divine, Kennington. With his wife Jill, he has lived locally since the early 1990s and is very familiar with our church […]
Re-opening St John’s to public worship
Last week, the Prime Minister laid out the government’s timetable for the resumption of something approximating to “normal” life. In view of the continued fall in infections, both locally and nationally, the Churchwardens and I have decided that this is an appropriate time to begin a cautious re-opening of St John’s to public worship. Last […]
St John’s Organ Fundraising Campaign
Photo by Andrew Prior The pipe organ at St John’s is a remarkable instrument which is reported to be one of the finest organs in any Parish Church in London. Now I suspect every parish priest says that about their pipe organ – but of the TC Lewis Organ at St John’s Upper Norwood it is […]
