Light Up a Life 2025 - St Joseph's Hospice

Welcome to the St Joseph’s Hospice Light Up a Life service for 2025.
Wherever you are watching from, we’d like to say thank you for joining us to remember and celebrate the lives of those who we love and miss.

Order of Service:
Opening Music – The Salvation Army
Welcome – Dr Rachel Black
Music – Amazing Grace performed by Dinah O’Brien
Reading from Ecclesiastes – Read by Gary Murphy
Life Lanterns – Jody Spargo
Music – The Little Drummer Boy performed by the Hospice choir and led by Gina Fergione
Islamic Reading from the Holy Qur’an – Read by Imam Muhammad Karim
Music – In My Life performed by Dominic Cookson and Johan Lindskog
Poem – Up-Hill by Christina Rossetti read by Dorothy Dodoo and Sr Maria Coates
Music – Away in a Manger performed by The Salvation Army
Scripture Reading – Read by Sr Maria Coates
Music – Mary, Did You Know performed by pupils from the Holy Family Catholic School, Walthamstow
Prayer – Read by Kelly Doyle
Music – Silent Night performed by the Hospice Choir and led by Gina Fergione
Lighting of the Tree – Countdown to lighting the tree, followed by a moment of quiet
Music – Hallelujah performed by Dinah O’Brien
Prayer and Blessing – Led by Fr Terence Seasman
Music – O Come, All Ye Faithful performed by The Salvation Army

Links ⭐
View the full Order of Service booklet and follow along at home: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/stjh-lu...
View the Book of Remembrance: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/lual25-...
Make a dedication to appear in the appendix to the Book of Remembrance, which will be shared on our website on 23rd December 2025: www.stjh.org.uk/lightupalife

About St Joseph’s Hospice 💙
St Joseph’s Hospice is one of the oldest and largest hospices in the UK, having stood in the heart of Hackney since we opened 120 years ago in 1905.
We provide high quality, specialist palliative care and support to people in our local community who have a life-limiting illness. All our services are free of charge.
As a charity with just over half of our income coming from the NHS, we need to raise around £6 million each year just to meet our running costs.
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