Solihull Parish

The first point of contact for our clergy team is via the Parish Office – follow this link: Solihull Parish Office

All bookings and other enquiries (funerals/baptisms/weddings) should be made first via the Parish Office please.

However should you need urgent out of hours emergency clergy support the details are:

Nick Parker 07890 720240 or

Simon Marshall 0121 704 4730 or

Sue Chandler 07970 791288.

St. Alphege hosted the annual Civic Service on Sunday 30^th June, welcoming and praying for the mayor and elected councillors. Our new Mayor, Cllr Shahin Ashraf MBE, is Muslim, and we were therefore pleased to include a reading from the Qur’an focussing upon God’s truth and light. This was wonderfully intoned by Imam Qari Elaimy from The Hub, Solihull, with the English translation read by Madam Mayor. We then heard ‘Ya Ellahi’, an Arabic rendition of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’, sung beautifully by Mikhael Mala. The related themes for the service were unity and light, in view of the growing diversity of Solihull Metropolitan Borough, as well as the general election, then just a few days away. We enjoyed a fine sermon from the mayor’s chaplain, Rev. Paul Day, along with anthems by Bruckner and Stanford showcasing the talent of our St. Alphege choirs. Uplifting hymns included, ‘We have a dream’, based upon the famous speech by Dr. Martin Luther King. At the end of the service, before the mayor and councillors were commissioned, faith leaders from different traditions lit candles in honour of the uniqueness and integrity of each faith, whilst recognising that the light is one. The service concluded with the pronouncement of God’s blessing and singing of the National Anthem.

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What’s Happening

This week in the Parish:

Wednesday lunchtime recitals: are now on a Summer break, and will return in early September. Details to follow.

Recitals start at 1.10pm with tea/coffee and cake available from 12.30pm. Entry is free with a retiring collection held in aid of The Friends of St Alphege Music. All welcome. A full listing of upcoming performers can be found here.

Morning Prayer. Beginning each day with God:

Please note, during August Morning Prayer is held on Friday mornings at St Alphege

Monday, Thursday, Friday – 9.00am at St Alphege Church.
We will enter by the choir vestry door and ordinarily will meet in the Chantry Chapel.  If you would like to come but would find the stairs difficult, please contact the Parish Office so that we can arrange for the service to be held in the choir stalls. All are very welcome.   

Tuesday – 9.00am at St Helen’s Church, 6 St Helen’s Road, Solihull, B91 2DA

Wednesday – 9.30am at St Michael’s, Oak Cottage, Bryanston Road, Solihull, B91 1BS

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St. Alphege:

Thursday 5th September – 10.30am – Said Eucharist

Sunday 1st September – Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity

8.00am – Said Eucharist – President: & Preacher: Revd Roy Murray

10.30am – Sung Eucharist – President: Revd Simon Marshall & Preacher: Revd Roy Murray (click to link to livestream)

5.00pm – Congregational Evensong: Officiant: Michael Smith & Preacher: Revd Simon Marshall

St Helen’s and St Michael’s – 10.00am – Holy Communion

From Sunday 4th August to Sunday 25th August incl. St Michael’s will Worship with St Helen’s at St Helen’s Church, 6 St Helens Road, Solihull B91 2DA.