Coronavirus Response
Response to the Coronavirus There is a message from the Chaplain, The Reverend Canon Roger Hall MBE, here - recorded on 23 March. Our programme of events for the 500th Anniversary of the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula has naturally also been disrupted. We hope to reschedule events as soon as possible. On the right, you will find links to resources produced by the clergy, staff and members of the congregation of the Chapels Royal, HM Tower of London during the period of the Coronavirus restrictions on public worship. Please send any comments on these resources to us here. When you pray at home, we invite you to use this short prayer, written in reaction to the Coronavirus pandemic: God of love
You may also like to use the prayer provided by the Archbishop of Canterbury: Keep us, good Lord, You can find more prayer resources from Archbishop Justin here.
While our services are suspended, you may want to say Daily Prayer at home. If so, you might like to look at the following page on the Church of England A convenient alternative to the above, if you have an iPhone, iPad or an equivalent Android device, is to download the Daily Prayer app. This costs £2.99 for a year – about the price of one cup of coffee! It automatically does for you all of the above and, once you have paid for it, you can have it simultaneously on several devices.
The Chapels Royal at the Tower of London are long-standing partners of the Tower Hamlets Food Bank, run by the First Love Foundation. Members of the congregation, week by week, bring groceries and toiletries to relieve poverty in one of the most disadvantaged boroughs in the country. First Love Foundation Food Bank (Tower Hamlets) is moving to a remote service because of the Coronavirus pandemic. This means that the crisis centres are closed for now but First Love Foundation are still receiving referrals and completing home deliveries of emergency food support. There is a need for assistance in the warehouse from next week, which some of our congregation hope to be able to provide. While services are suspended, it is obviously not possible for us to maintain our usual weekly collection in the Chapel. Gill Howard, a member of our congregation who works with the Food Bank, has recorded a piece about it here. If anyone would like to donate money directly to the First Love Foundation, please follow this link: https://www.firstlovefoundation.org.uk.
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