• Remember, clocks go forward this Sunday morning at 2 am

Remember, British Summer Time begins on Easter Sunday Morning!

Remember to set your alarms, so you don't miss our Festival Sung Eucharists at 10 am British Summer Time!

Holy Week 2024 in Chingford Parish

  Sunday 24 March is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week, the most solemn week of the Christian year. Please join us as we observe the events of Holy Week in words, readings, prayer and music. All are welcome. Holy Week in SS Peter and Paul's Church Palm Sunday, 24 March 8.00 am Holy Eucharist 10.00 am Blessing of the Palms and the Passion Gospel 6.30 pm ‘Lazarus, Come Forth!’ Devotional Service Monday in Holy Week, 25 March and Tuesday in Holy Week, 26 March 7.00 pm Sung Eucharist (followed

A Prayer for the King’s Majesty

A Prayer for the King's Majesty O Lord our heavenly Father, high and mighty, King of kings, Lord of lords, the only Ruler of princes, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth; most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious Sovereign Lord, King Charles; and so replenish him with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, that he may alway incline to thy will, and walk in thy way: endue him plenteously with heavenly gifts; grant him in health and wealth long to

How to keep a Holy Lent, 2024

Details of our Lent worship and education programmes have been published today on the Parish Website https://parishofchingford.org.uk/lent-course-2024

Learning Together, 2023-2024

WHAT CAN WE SAY ABOUT GOD? WHAT IS THE PROPER CHRISTIAN LIFE? HOW SHOULD WE WORSHIP? St Augustine, fifteen hundred years ago, described the Christian’s hope of heaven like this: “We shall rest and we shall see, we shall love and we shall praise, in the end which is no end.” Come and join us as we learn together in Chingford Parish this autumn what it means to be a faithful Christian today:  

Church Choir Award presentation

We were delighted to welcome Jonathan Macdonald, Chair-elect of the Cathedral Music Trust to Choral Evensong on 25 September to present our Church Choir Award which they have made with the Royal School of Church Music for our chorister bursary scheme. Many thanks! Music for the service included the anthem In our service by Tony Hewitt-Jones, written earlier this year to mark the Platinum Jubilee of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and now offered in grateful remembrance.

Award to establish chorister bursary scheme

Music for Holy Week – The Lord is My Shepherd

The boys and men of Chingford Parish Church have recorded "The Lord is My Shepherd (Psalm 23)" by Howard Goodall. Famous as the theme to the BBC TV series The Vicar of Dibley, the solo is sung by James Shaw, the organist is Felix Pethue. Directed by Michael Emerson, and mixed and edited by Luke Kerr, the recording shows the depth of skill and heights of achievement of our parish musicians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TesJwE21vpE

SS Peter and Paul – from a different point of view

We were very excited to be the location for a training session by local Drone Survey company S4G Drone Services. Mark Elliott and his team expertly flew all over the Parish Church, liaising with local residents and the police, and took some amazing videos of the building ~ from a point of view that only the Chingford parakeets have previously enjoyed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGHXjKG7UF8   (we can see here very clearly work that will need to be done on the tower this year...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsW24Sm6ry0   Mark is even able

More scam emails

Avoiding Scam Emails Some members of the parish may have received a scam email today or recently purporting to come from the Rector, and asking for assistance in buying online gift cards to be reimbursed later. THIS IS A SCAM. You can know that it is a scam by three things: The email doesn’t come from the Rector of Chingford email address but from a randomly generated email address. Check the address after the name, which might spoof my own. If it isn't the Rector's email address, it isn't from me.The