Benefice Service Pattern
All Saints, Swallowfield
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1st Sunday, 8.00am BCP, 10.30am, “First Sunday” service, informal worship, often lay-led.
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2nd and 4th Sunday, 10.30am, Common Worship, Holy Communion
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3rd Sunday, 8.00am Book of Common Prayer Communion, 10.30am Celtic Service
St Mary’s, Shinfield
- 1st & 3rd Sunday, 9.30am Family worship & craft in church & via Zoom
- 2nd Sunday 8:00am Book of Common Prayer Communion, 10.30am Morning Worship with the option to attend via Zoom
- 4th Sunday, 8:00am Book of Common Prayer Communion, 10.30am Celtic Service with the option to attend via Zoom
St Mary the Virgin, Beech Hill
- 1st Sunday 9.30am CW, Holy Communion
- 2nd & 3rd & 4th Sunday 9.30am Morning Worship
St Michael & All Angels, Spencers Wood
- 1st Sunday 10.30am Morning Praise with the option to attend via Zoom
- 2nd Sunday 10.30am CW, Holy Communion with the option to attend via Zoom
- 3rd Sunday 10.30am People's Praise with the optiion to attend via Zoom
- 4th Sunday 10.30am Morning Praise with the option to ttend via Zoom
Benefice Newsletter
The 97th Benefice Newsletter for Sunday 30th January 2022 click here
Resources
10.00am Sunday worship from the Oxford Diocese
9.00am Sunday worship from the Church of England
There's Diocesan Worship on Sundays and Holy Days on 01865 920930. You need to dial 0 for the short service or 1 for the full Church at Home
Daily Hope offers music, prayers and reflections as well as full worship services from the Church of England at the end of a telephone line. The line – which is available 24 hours a day on 0800 804 8044 – has been set up particularly with those unable to join online church services during the period of restrictions in mind.
For anyone caring for someone in a care home or elsewhere, please click here for Visual Prayers at the bedside.
If anyone wishes to follow a liturgy for a funeral service they are unable to attend please click here
Reflections from Bishop Steven
Bishop Steven Autumn podcast:
1. Exiles
2. Resillience
3. Living Stone
4. Chosen
5. Distinctive
Prayer Resources
Daily prayer online
Daily prayer app Apple or Android
Lectio365 daily devotional prayer app Apple or Android
Pray as you Go daily reflections app Apple or Android
Archbishop Stephen Cottrell -daily prayer reflections - Prayer - where to start and how to keep going
Bible app on your phone, click here or the Bible in one year are some examples
Wellbeing
Family life during lockdown This helpful guide has been put together by a range of agencies including the local NHS, local authorities and the Berkshire West Safeguarding Children Partnership
Church of England supporting good Mental Health
Soul time Christian meditation & Mindfulness app for Apple or Android
3 minute retreat app Apple or Android or online
Sacred space online or Apple or Android
Our thoughts and prayers are with you all at this time as we come together to work out how to do things differently but still staying connected.
