Come and be at home with God here… @stgilescg.bsky.social A packed 10am Parish Eucharist, a glorious ‘Progressive’ (aka safari) Lunch, and gorgeous 4pm (1st Sunday every month) Choral Evensong w/ The Solis Choir. Lent 2 was full of Grace and gift in #thelittlecountrychurchinthecity

Albert Barff, priest @stgilescg.bsky.social 1886 -1913. faithful servant who died aged 85 knocked over by 🚂 rushing to dinner w/ friends on Christmas Night. The current holder of this office has deep sympathies w/ Fr Barff, & suggests clergy should wear Frockcoats & birds of prey more…

Lent begins at #thelittlecountrychurchinthecity @stgilescg.bsky.social come one, come all!

Holy Eucharist including a time of silent prayer/meditation 11.00-11.20am on #newyearsday 1st Jan, followed by coffee/sherry - all are always welcome here! #startasyoumeantogoon @stgilescg.bsky.social

#christmasisntoveryet at #thelittlecountrychurchinthecity @stgilescg.bsky.social

Christmas isn’t great for everyone. Blue Christmas is 30 mins of music & readings when we honestly acknowledge the complexity & sadness many of us experience at Christmas. All are always welcome. @stgilescg.bsky.social

£Free unticketed, open to all! @stgilescg.bsky.social

All the fun of the #advent fair at #thelittlecountrychurchinthecity today @stgilescg.bsky.social

Come one, come all! @stgilescg.bsky.social

Join @stgilescg.bsky.social : inspiring music, deep sacramental worship, mixed community where everyone belongs, thoughtful preaching, warm & lighthearted welcome, homemade cake, decent coffee & sherry. what’s not to love? Let all the world in every corner sing!

Today @stgilescg.bsky.social

We will remember them, and work and pray for peace today and for the future. Our Act of Remembrance has grown and grown in the parish of #thelittlecountrychurchinthecity @stgilescg.bsky.social - a privilege to gather today with workers and other day time parishioners

All in the next week or so - not to be missed @stgilescg.bsky.social

St Giles’ clergy @stgilescg.bsky.social are at Church House, Westminster today for the @london diocese Bishops’ Study Day for clergy across London. Bishop Sarah opens the day with prayer and words to all. Then Bishop Rowan talks about ‘First things and last things, in Advent’… #hope

Ploughing the fields and scattering even in The City!

#evensong every first Sunday of the month at #thelittlecountrychurchinthecity … with @solis_choir … an oasis of #joy #peace and a glimpse of #glory to start the week… @dioceseoflondon.bsky.social @stgilescg.bsky.social

#evensong every first Sunday of the month at #thelittlecountrychurchinthecity … with @solis_choir … an oasis of #joy #peace and a glimpse of #glory to start the week… @dioceseoflondon.bsky.social @stgilescg.bsky.social

Great coffee. Homemade cake. 10am Sat morning @stgilescg.bsky.social #thelittlecountrychurchinthecity w/ our beloveds frm St Mary Moorfields RC, @wesleyschapel & Jewin Welsh Church, Charterhouse … for 1 of 3 #ecumenical #ruleoflife #wayoflife - wisdom, conversation, open hearts

Being strategic…. Staff & trustees away day at the fabulous St Luke’s Community Centre - ancient parish charity, now a thriving modern charity serving our community from cradle to grave in so many different ways - we’re building community and belonging when they are urgently needed in our country.

Just for the joy of it - and for donations to our organ fund - some wonderful members of the congregation at St Giles’ put on a concert this morning over coffee & Sherry after the Parish Eucharist. #churchfamily #allareathomehere @stgilescg.bsky.social

A #joy to bless Angel’s new flat this morning, round the corner from @stgilescg.bsky.social #thelittlecountrychurchinthecity - #parishchurch #community #godbless #athomewithjesus

This Sunday!! 4.00-4.40pm Choral Evensong, w/ @solischoir … Music: Ayleward, Palestrina, Elgar, & ‘How shall I sing that majesty’ w/ one of the most exciting young adult choirs in London - there is NOWHERE else to be this Sunday afternoon! #thelittlecountrychurchinthecity @stgilescg.bsky.social

Teddy zip wire?!? Yes - you heard correctly… come one, come all, and share the news!

A GLORIOUS St Giles’ Day - Parish Mass with Prebendary Jeremy Crossley as our guest preacher. Then Barbican & Golden Lane Summer Party in the Church, and Evening Prayer in the late summer sun. #blessed #thelittlecountrychurchinthecity @stgilescg.bsky.social

Don’t miss out! St Giles’ Day at #thelittlecountrychurchinthecity … all are welcome, no exceptions! @stgilescg.bsky.social

3.33am we’re walking our parish @stgilescg.bsky.social giving night workers prayer cards & chocs to say: ‘you’re not forgotten’, we pray for you daily, and you’re our community too. #parishchurch w/ Sarah, ordinand (priest in formation) @westcotthousecam.bsky.social

Love shown with laundry @stgilescg.bsky.social ... These linens will be used for the most important thing we ever do - Holy Communion. How wonderful that this fabulous member of our congregation has cared for them (and God, and God’s people) with such love! #showlove #care #showitmatters

It used to be a pile of scrap covered in a dirty tarpaulin… 👀 at it now! beautiful City garden, on SW corner @stgilescg.bsky.social done by lovely volunteers in our wonderful community. #city #citygarden @gardenliveryco #thelittlecountrychurchinthecity … #church for #barbican #oldstreet #moorgate

Been on study leave 3 mnths - USA, Rome & Tanzania. Has been such a privilege to have this time to study, travel, read, pray, invest in friendships & be given new ones. To be a member of this amazing global family & receive such generous hospitality in so many different ways - amazing #bodyofchrist

9 years a priest today. 10 years a deacon in a week or so. Thanking God for so much grace, and so many wonderful adventures. @dioceseoflondon.bsky.social @churchofengland.org

Still glowing from the Easter Vigil @stgilescg.bsky.social … rather appropriate really, the Paschal Candle burns from the night of Easter for 50 days of Eastertide. Come & join the resurrection every day of Eastertide @ St Giles’! stgileschurch.com #thelittlecountrychurchinthecity

A joyful Eastertide has begun at #thelittlecountrychurchinthecity @stgilescg.bsky.social …. Jesus is Risen! Death has been destroyed. Everything has changed, for ever. #hope #faith #love

Christ is Risen! Alleluia! In #thelittlecountrychurchinthecity more Easter Sunday at 10am!

#palmsunday🌿⛪️ was quite something at #thelittlecountrychurchinthecity … donkey, palms, crowds - we entered ‘Jerusalem’ … come with Jesus every day this week to the Upper Room on Thursday, the Cross on Good Friday, and His Resurrection on Sat night & Sunday @stgilescg.bsky.social

Come and join us! In #thelittlecountrychurchinthecity church for Moorgate, Barbican, Golden Lane and Old Street… #HolyWeek2025 @stgilescg.bsky.social

#passiontide begins @stgilescg.bsky.social … heat turns up in these final 2 weeks of Lent… join us Sundays & midweek (see our website!) esp Holy Week. … images are veiled to fast our eyes until the joy of Easter. Even our parishioners Defoe, Bunyan, Cromwell & Milton are entering into the spirit….

Essex today visiting Pat, formerly @stgilescg.bsky.social , now in care home here. Pat’s ministry (at 95!) is visiting fellow residents w/ a cheery word & especially sitting with the dying. She prays. Lots. Ministry of the baptized never ends, it just changes…

Have you ever thought about training to become a spiritual director? Find out more with the London Centre for Spiritual Direction at a free online open evening on 6 May. All info on www.lcsd.org.uk/events/ #spirituality #spiritualdirection

Happy Lady Day! exactly 9 mnths to 25th Dec the feast of Mary conceiving Jesus! The Annunciation. 0830 Morning Prayer, 1730 Evening Prayer, 1800 Mass… #today @stgilescg.bsky.social Today was New Year’s Day in England frm 1155 until 1752, when the Gregorian calendar was adopted and Jan 1st instead

Beautiful #stationsofthecross✝️ @stjohnbethnalgreenchurch with our EC1+EC2 Churches (Anglican, Roman Catholic, Welsh Presbyterian, Lutheran and Methodist) praying in and for God’s world. #weadoreyouofchristandweblessyoubecausebyyourholycrossyouhaveredeemedtheworld @stgilescg.bsky.social

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don't miss #tomorrow #saturday 22.03.25 gather 10-10.30 at St John Bethnal Green for a 10.30 start: Ecumenical Stations of the Cross with Chris Gollon's inspiring Stations. @stgilescg.bsky.social @WesleysChapel St Mary Moorfields & St Joe's @RCWestminster Jewin Welsh Church. ALL WELCOME. #Lent

Wonderful to contribute to the Lent programme going out to 200,000 young people across the Anglican Church of South India today #anglicancommunion @stgilescg.bsky.social #lent

Shrove errr Sunday…? Someone brought crepes for all after Parish Eucharist this 1st Sunday in Lent @stgilescg.bluesky.social Naughty but nice. & every Sunday (even in Lent!) is a feast of the Resurrection of the Lord! Back to Lenten fasts tomorrow… #lent #spiritualhunger #pancakes #hospitality #fun

this week is #ashwednesday - start Lent right @stgilescg.bsky.social

A #blessed weekend for City pilgrims to Community of the Resurrection from @stgilescg.bsky.social Christ is all in all.

We’re #stillhere, still doing our thing. Come and find your home with God in #thelittlecountrychurchinthecity … services Sundays and midweek pitstops before work/school, lunchtime & after work/school. #oldstreet #moorgate #barbican #goldenlaneestate … #allarewelcome #always @stgilescg.bsky.social

Help toddled up & lent a hand during the notices on Sunday @stgilescg.bsky.social … were they just going on too long?…. It’s possible… join young and old, single and hitched, from near and far, in discovering life in God’s family midweek and Sundays… everyday, all are welcome… www.stgileschurch.com