The Ascension, Lavender Hill

A joyful start to 2026, as we gathered this lunchtime for a Sung Mass on the Octave day of Christmas to honour Our Lady, the Holy Mother of God. The Mass was offered for the life and witness of @ShrineOLW. May God bless and keep us at the beginning of this new year

Final preparations underway for our worship tonight. We hope you can join us tonight or tomorrow as we rejoice in the birth of the Saviour of the world. We wish all our parishioners, friends and followers a happy, blessed Christmas!

We’re looking forward to welcoming you to worship the newborn King in these next holy days. Monday-Wednesday: Mass of Advent at 10.00am Tuesday & Wednesday: Confessions after Mass

Some more highlights from last night’s Nine Lessons and Carols, beautifully sung by @symbelchoir. Our thanks to all who made it such a beautiful, reverent act of worship; and to those who assisted w. hospitality afterwards. Our Christmas services: 24th: 11.00pm 25th: 10.30am

Rejoice! A beautiful celebration of Advent 3 this morning, followed by assembly of the Nativity scene and Christmas decorations. Looking forward to our Nine Lessons and Carols tonight at 5pm with our friends Symbel Choir. We hope you can join us - seasonal refreshments to follow

Some more photos of yesterday's wonderful celebration. Congratulations to our newly confirmed parishioners, and our thanks both to Bishop Jonathan and to our visiting choir for being with us!

Wonderful morning here - our congratulations to the newly confirmed and particular thanks to the visiting choir whose singing enriched our worship so beautifully - particularly with James MacMillan’s Advent motet ‘O Radiant Dawn’ @SouthwarkCofE

This essential item has arrived in the nick of time for Sunday morning! Join us on Sunday at 11.00am as we celebrate the beginning of a new liturgical year. Bishop Jonathan will be our celebrant and preacher, and will confirm two of our parishioners. Please pray for them.

A joyful celebration of Christ the King on Sunday. Our thanks to Fr Houlding for celebrating and preaching. Please keep our Confirmation candidates in your prayers. We look forward to having @bishopoffulham with us to preside, preach and to confirm on Advent Sunday! Mass at 11am

A reminder that our Sunday Mass begins at 10.50am tomorrow, with the Act of Remembrance by the Parish war memorial on Acanthus Road. We look forward to seeing you then! 'We will remember them.'

We had a blessed pilgrimage to @ShrineOLW at the weekend. Wonderful to be there in particular to celebrate All Saints’ Day!

A new experience today - planning a Christmas carol service in August! So pleased to meet with Miss Shanley and her team this afternoon at @Parkgate_House to make plans for their Christmas service, to be held in church in the first week of December. Thanks for your warm welcome!

Our love and prayers for our neighbour and sometime Area Dean Fr Geoffrey. Look forward to being at @ShrineOLW for our parish pilgrimage at the end of October, joined by friends from Christ Church, Battersea.

A joyful celebration of the Lord’s Day. Glad to welcome a visiting choir who enriched our worship with polyphony from Hassler & Byrd. Fr Philip was glad to meet Serab, who lives in the Parish, and to administer her Oath and Declarations as she prepares to become a Public Notary.

Lots of summer birthdays to celebrate today! Many happy returns to Joan, Fr Philip, Ruth, Carlene, Alex and Ekow. Thanks to Ruth and family for providing some delicious refreshments which we enjoyed together after Mass, and to Gloria for baking a beautiful birthday cake!

Happy memories of Archbishop Cyril's visit to us in June 2022. He was Assistant Priest in our parish while undertaking doctoral studies. Our prayers for him and the clergy and people of the Province of West Africa.

Joyful gathering yesterday for Sunday worship and glad to welcome some visitors - among them friends and family of our congregation visiting London for the weekend; also PSCOs Sophie, Tony and Manuela from Lavender Hill Police Station. Our prayers for them and their colleagues!

@jackmccormick03 @letthemexult This is an important example - where concelebration may allow an ill or frail priest to exercise their ministry at the altar. Jack, please give Fr Pollock my good wishes. Fr Philip

I just do not get concelebration. It looks messy. It downplays the priest’s ordination to the diaconate. From an Anglican perspective, it is completely outwith our patrimony. Keen to hear from its advocates, especially those in the Anglican Communion.

After our Dedication Fest. last Sun, a welcome return to the green of Ordinary Time 8 sets of Banns called today. Lovely to welcome 3 of the couples and their families today to hear their Banns being called; prayers & good wishes to them as they prepare for their celebrations!