Do join us for an afternoon of fun and refreshment, eat at the barbecue, quench your thirst with a Pimm’s or tea, satisfy your sweet tooth with cakes and strawberries, all whilst being entertained by live music. Take a chance on Father John’s tombola or bid for a lot on the promises auction. Games and […]
Programme notes for St John’s Upper Norwood 21.07.22 Mons Leidvin Takle (b.1942) – Yes! Based near Kristiansand in Norway, Mons Leidvin Takle studied in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Chicago, New York and at Stavanger Conservatoire. Not only a church musician, he is also a well-travelled concert organist and prolific composer of vocal, instrumental and widely performed organ […]
St John Upper Norwood 23 June 2022 Cecilia McDowall b 1951 – Church bells beyond the stars Fantasia – attributed to William Smith 1603-1645 edited by Andrew Fowler Chorale preludes for the Eve of St John Baptist: Diderik Buxtehude 1637-1707 – Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam BuxWV 180 Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 – Christ […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dear friends When I wrote to you on Wednesday, detailing the steps we were taking to keep St John’s safe while we remained open, I said “We will continue to monitor the situation and will respond appropriately and quickly if and when any changes to the above become necessary or desirable.” Yesterday afternoon, the Mayor […]
9pm and 11.30pm Christmas Eve – MIDNIGHT MASS SERVICES The tradition of keeping a Mass in the evening before Christmas Day began in the East, and was observed in the late fourth century in Jerusalem by a Christian woman named Egeria on the night of January 5. The tradition reached the Western world in the […]
On Christmas Eve it will be wonderful to welcome children and their families or carers to St John’s Church and to our Crib Services at 2pm and 4pm. You all know that it’s going to look different this year… but the story is the same: that God loves us so much he comes to us […]
Many things have been different this year and St John’s Christmas Carol Services are no exception. This year we will have three Christmas Carol Services to ensure that we have enough space to invite everyone who wants to join us for these special services. We are extremely blessed to have found three amazing choirs who […]
We believe in inclusive Church - a church which celebrates and affirms every person and does not discriminate. We will continue to challenge the church where it continues to discriminate against people on grounds of disability, economic power, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, learning disability, mental health, neurodiversity, or sexuality. We believe in a Church which welcomes and serves all people in the name of Jesus Christ; which is scripturally faithful; which seeks to proclaim the Gospel afresh for each generation; and which, in the power of the Holy Spirit, allows all people to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Jesus Christ.
