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Welcome to our church.  ​We hope you will enjoy exploring our website. For further information about what we do here, please find the relevant contact
 SERVICES & EVENTS FOR ADVENT & CHRISTMAS 2019
Sunday 1 December ADVENT SUNDAY
  6.30pm The Advent Procession
Advent readings and music led by our professional choir
Sunday 8 December
  6.30pm Performance of Handel’s Messiah
  Baroque performance by candlelight
Wednesday 11 December
  1.00pm Community Carol Service
  A service for all sponsored by Kensington businesses 
Sunday 15 December

  9.30am Family Eucharist with Children’s Nativity Play
  written, produced and performed by our young people
Thursday 19 December
  7.00pm Nine Lessons and Carols by Candlelight
  The traditional service – mulled wine and mince pies
Tuesday 24 December CHRISTMAS EVE
  4.00pm Children’s Crib Service
  Children dress up as the Nativity Scene characters
  11.30pm Midnight Mass
Wednesday 25 December CHRISTMAS DAY
  8.00am Holy Eucharist
  9.30am Family Eucharist
  11.15am Solemn Matins
  12.30pm Holy Eucharist
  4.00pm Carols around the Crib

Sunday 29 December
  4.00pm New Year Service

OUR MINISTRY TO TOURISTS AND VISITORS - could you spare a couple of hours each week? 

Every day visitors from all over the world visit St Mary Abbots. Our team of church watchers extends them a warm welcome. At St Mary Abbots it’s our privilege to keeping our church open every day of the year, an extraordinary resource valued by so many who come in to pray, to give thanks, to find help in despair.  But this is only possible thanks to our team of CHURCHWATCHERS.   We now have serious gaps in this provision and we are eager to find people who will commit to a couple of hours once a week, once a fortnight, once a month.  

Contact the Virger  020 7937 5136 we’re always looking for new volunteers.
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DAILY WORSHIP at St Mary Abbots
Morning Prayer is said in church each week day at 8am (9.40am on Saturday).  Evening Prayer is said in Church each day at 5.30pm. We also have a daily celebration of the Holy Eucharist. Please click here for details about times, which vary with the calendar. 
If you can't join us, but would like to join in the Church's daily prayer, click here for links to today's Services of Morning, Evening and Night Prayer.  
 SAFEGUARDING

We are committed to high standards in the safeguarding and care of children, young people and vulnerable adults.  Our safeguarding policy can be found here.
Our Safeguarding Officer is Andrew Freestone: safeguardingofficer@stmaryabbotschurch.org or 
​Tel: 07974 085 896

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We are transforming St Mary Abbots Church, so it can continue to support the heart of Kensington for generations to come.  Once we have built the kitchen and toilets (including disabled and baby changing facilities) the church will be a more comfortable place to worship, a more welcoming place to visit and a practical place to gather the Kensington community.
 
Our magnificent font will be repaired and re-positioned, as befits the importance of baptism and the prominent role of children within our church.  An area will be cleared, creating opportunities to gather after services and an accessible, single level, space for use by other groups in the Kensington community.  We will also create a glass lobby at the West Door, keeping the wooden doors open, bringing in daylight and showing our doors are open to all. 

"Transforming St Mary Abbots" is a fundraising project, for works to the fabric of the building, which operates within the PCC of St Mary Abbots, a Registered Charity : Number 1132235
The PCC of St Mary Abbots is a Registered Charity : Number 1132235

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