St Mary's has been awarded the Bronze Eco Church award. We are committed to working towards the Net Zero target.To achieve this award we have been working in partnership with St Barnabas Bethnal Green, St Paul's Bow Common and St George-in-the-East, offering each other support, sharing tips and encouragement. We intend to keep working to embed environmental consciousness into life at St Mary's and hope that in time, with work, we will be able to achieve our Silver Award.
You can watch here Fr Peter moonlighting, taking the Evensong service at Westminster Abbey MusicPoulenc Videntes stellamRose ResponsesMuhly Westminster ServiceMcDowall O sing unto the LordParry The Old HundredthWe are not quite as grand as this at St Mary's.
Fr Peter has reviewed Paul Dominiak's book, The Love that Moves the Sun: Advent hope in a time of crisis, in the Church Times.'Intending it as a book for Advent, he takes the old Sunday themes for that season (heaven, hell, death, and judgement) and reclaims their biblical meanings, restoring them through a Christian lens of hope and expectation. Properly understood, they are means by which the believer can develop what the author calls an “apocalyptic imagination”. That is to say, we and the world around us are called to judgement and transformation in, and of, the here-and-now.'The book review can be read in full here Book review: The Love That Moves the Sun: Advent hope in a time of crisis by Paul Dominiak
St Mary's Harvest Festival will take place during our regular Sunday Mass on 6 October. Non-perishable food items and toiletries can be brought and will be donated to a local charity.
