Join The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's, and St Bride's Choir for this week's reflection in words and music.

Our opening anthem – Everything holds together – is a song for the season of creation which was commissioned for St Bride's Choir by the Church of England's Environment Working Group. It is a setting composed by Ian Stephens of a poem by Malcolm Guite and is a timely reminder of our duty of stewardship to protect and enhance the environment in which we live.

Alison reflects this week on how St Bride's observes a candle-lit hour of silence at the end of each working day which we call a Space for Silence – offering the gift of stillness and quiet calm in the heart of one of the busiest cities on Earth.

We close with the hymn "For the beauty of the Earth" written by Folliott Pierpoint who was inspired to write the poem by the glorious view from a hilltop outside his home city of Bath in 1863.

Information about our weekly Sunday services in St Bride's of Choral Eucharist at 11am (https://www.stbrides.com/worship-music/worship/regular-services/choral-eucharist/) and Choral Evensong at 5:30pm (https://www.stbrides.com/worship-music/worship/regular-services/choral-evensong/) can be found on the website.

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