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A Jazz Celebration for Pentecost
St Martin’s hosts this year’s live BBC One worship broadcast for Pentecost on Sunday 20 May.
A Celebration of Ascension Day
Reserve your free ticket for this live BBC Radio 4 broadcast for Ascension Day, featuring guest preacher Rt Revd June Osborne.
The Nazareth Community launched at St Martin-in-the-Fields
On Sunday 18 March 2018 47 people made their promises and were blessed by the vicar, Revd Dr Sam Wells, as a new community was formed at St Martin-in-the-Fields.
Latest Parish Notices
Sunday 18 November, The Second Sunday before Advent
Parish notices for Sunday 18 November
Sunday 11 November, Remembrance Sunday & Patronal Festival
Parish notices for Sunday 11 November
Sunday 4 November, All Saints’ and All Souls’ Sunday
Parish notices for Sunday 4 November
Latest Podcasts
Stand Therefore
Duration: 9:48
Recorded on: 11.11.2018
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Remembrance Sunday
Duration: 14:35
Recorded on: 11.11.2018
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Encountering the Sacred Q&A
Duration: 22:13
Recorded on: 05.11.2018
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Latest Sermons
The Second Sunday before Advent
When I was in year 4, school was really only about one thing. That one thing was the football game we played at break time. One day the ball got kicked onto the school roof by mistake. My friends and I faced the unthinkable prospect of 45 minutes’ break time with no ball to entertain us. Can you imagine?
Patronal Festival Addresses
Four addresses given at St Martin-in-the-Fields on November 11, 2018
Patronal Festival
In 1915 the American physiologist Walter Bradford Cannon coined the term ‘fight or flight’ to describe how the nervous system of an animal’s body responds to threats. Quickly the insight was applied to human reactions in a much wider context.
Latest Thought for the Week
Reasons to be cheerful
I was quite taken by a recent tweet from Bill Gates.
Inconceivable Sacrifice
One hundred years ago at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, during the time today when we are celebrating the Eucharist, ended a world war that had brought inconceivable suffering.
All Saints and All Souls
I saw the making of a saint in Rome on 14 October, the Canonisation of Oscar Romero.
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Latest Videos
Encountering the Sacred
Duration: 1:18:36 Taking RS Thomas’ poem “The Bright Field” as their starting point each of our speakers will be speaking about their own encounter with the sacred. The Church of England and BBC’s Richard Coles chairs the evening and is joined by Neil MacGregor, Nicola Green and Ben Okri
Encountering London
Duration: 01:14:27 Two of the Church of England’s first female Bishops speak about Encountering London with all its diversity, challenges, social inequalities, opportunities and creativity.
Encountering Jesus of Nazareth
Duration: 1:19:14 Encountering Jesus of Nazareth with Mark Oakley, Rose Hudson-Wilkin and Brother Sam SSF. In an evening chaired by Katherine Hedderly each of the speakers have chosen a Gospel passage which tells of an encounter with Christ that has in some way changed or transformed their own lives.