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Our Services this week - Advent Sunday 1 December

8am

BCP Holy Communion
in the Octagon

Join us in St Peter's Church at 8am for a quiet, traditional-language communion service using the Book of Common Prayer.

10am

All Age Service
Longing for Light

Join us a St Peter's church on Sunday 1 December for our All Age worship with Communion.

Everyone is welcome to stay for tea, coffee and a chance to chat after the service.

The service is also live streamed and available here.

6pm

Advent Carol Service

Start the season of preparation with Advent music and readings. At 6pm on Advent Sunday 1 December.

11am Tuesdays

Midweek Communion

Join us in church on Tuesdays at 11am for a short communion service.

Followed by tea and coffee.

Events

Up Coming Events

Saturday 30 November 5.30pm

International Organ Festival Concert

Matthew Martin is Precentor and Director of College Music at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. He read Music at Magdalen College, Oxford, before studying at the Royal Academy of Music with David Titterington, and afterwards with Marie-Claire Alain in Paris with support from the Eric Thompson Trust. From 2015 to 2020 he was Director of Music at Keble College, Oxford, and Artistic Director of the Keble Early Music Festival. Read more here

Monday 2 December at 11am

Lectio Divina

Everyone is welcome to attend Lectio Divina which is held once a month in the church library. Starting at 11am we meet for about an hour and a quarter, to read a short passage of scripture. For more information click here.

Tuesday 3 December at 1.50pm

Christmas Treats on Tuesday

Join us this for Christmas Treats on Tuesday on 3 December. Plenty of chat, tea and Christmas cake and time to socialise. We will be entertained by pupils from Alban City School choir. We look forward to seeing you then. If you would like more information please contact the church office.

Wednesday 4 December at 1pm

Lunchtime Concerts

Join us on 4 December at 1pm for our last lunchtime concert of the year. This pianists Emma Adlard and Stephanie Rawlins of Alban due will be performing piano duet music inspired by dance forms and for the festive season.
Concerts take place every Wednesday at 1pm during term time. Concerts last just under and hour and are followed by light refreshments in the Octagon.
Click here for this terms schedule.

Saturday 7 December 10am-12pm

Christmas Family Fun Time

Christmas Family Fun Time (previously Messy Church) is on Saturday 7 December 10am-12noon.

Christmas crafts and festive fun with refreshments. Aimed at toddlers and children under 11 plus their family and friends.

Saturday 7 December 7.30pm

Voix De Vivre Concert

Choral Director Neil MacKenzie

Organ Hannah Gill

Requiem - Gabriel Faure

Der Abend - Richard Strauss

Motets - Anton Bruckner

Tickets available here.

For more information click here

Sunday 8 December 7pm

St Albans Choral Society Concert
Ding Dong Merrily

Christmas readings and carols for choir and audience.

Conductor - George Vass

Organ - Edward Kemp-Luck

For more information click here

Tickets available here

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Watch our services online:

All Age Service for Advent Sunday - Longing for Light from St Peter's on Sunday 1 December at 10am

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Morning Worship with Communion from St Peter's on Sunday 24 November at 10am

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Morning Worship with Communion from St Peter's on Sunday 17 November at 10am

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All Age service for All Saints Day from St Peter's on Sunday 3 November at 10am

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About Us

Our church has long been a place of hospitality as one the city’s ancient gateway churches and people have worshipped here for over a thousand years.

Today we continue to offer a welcome to many from across the city and surrounding area, whether drawn by the quality of our music and choral tradition, our provision for children and young families, our offering of diverse opportunities for worship, prayer and learning, the strong sense of community we seek to foster - or for many other reasons. Our vision is “everyone is included, loving and generous service is celebrated, faith is nurtured and developed, and everyone is inspired to reach their God-given potential”. If you would like to join us for any of our services or midweek activities, we hope you will feel at home, make new friends, and most important of all, be enabled to grow in friendship with God.

We are part of the Church of England, in the Diocese of St Albans, and we have a special relationship with Marlborough Road Methodist Church, with whom we celebrate key services during the year.

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