N.B. Details below may be inaccurate during the current interregnum.
Pplease refer to section on Services
Normal Sunday services are an 8am Communion using the Book of Common Prayer and a 9.30am sung Parish Communion using a form of Common Worship on three Sundays and the Book of Common Prayer on the second and fifth Sundays. On the second Sunday of each month there is a well attended 11.15 am Family Service in the modern idiom and on the first Sunday, Evensong at 6pm.
During the week, the Vicar and lay members are involved in a busy round of services . Morning Prayer is said in church on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday and Evensong on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, often with lay-leadership. Midweek Communion is celebrated in the Church and at various Residential and Care Homes around the parish; on Monday at 11am at Windmill House and later in the day at 3pm at Birchville Court,; on Wednesday at 9.30am in church; on Friday at 10am in the Church Army Chapel; on Saturday at 9am in church and monthly at Heath House. Additional services are held on Festivals and on most of the Greater Holy Days. We observe a full liturgical Holy Week and Easter, including an all-night vigil at the Altar of Repose on Maundy Thursday and a Dawn Vigil at 5am on Easter Day.
The Healing Ministry has for some years been an integral part of our prayer life. At the Parish Eucharist on the first Sunday of each month, a fully trained Healing team working in pairs, offer the Laying on of Hands at the High Altar and Lady Chapel. Where appropriate, Holy Oils are administered. The Healing team also visit, on request, the housebound, the sick and the distressed, either in hospital or at home.
