Our lovely village Garden Fete is back again!Sunday afternoon 28th June 2026 2pm onwards atThe Innocents, Berrick Prior (courtesy of Nicol and Ian Glyn).Stalls, competitions, kids’ races, tug-of-war, teas, Pimms, games, outdoor fun and ice creams.Door to door collection...Thursday 25 June 2026 18h00 - 19h00If you have any of the following items to donate to stalls:Bottles (any content, shape or size) Toys & games Books Gifts (new/very nearly new)White Elephants (saleable pre-loved items)these can be collected from you between 6 and 7 pm on Thursday 25th June - just leave them (labelled please!) outside your gate/door.Please bring any cakes, preserves and plants to the stalls on the day.Do please come along - and bring your friends. We are working hard to ensure that our lovely historic village church will still be here for future generations...See you there!St Helen's PCC
As we enter Passiontide and look forward to Easter please see below for the services which will be held at St Helen's: Palm Sunday (29th March) – Gather at The Chequers at 11am to collect our palm crosses, then process with Basil, the village 'ponkey', up the lane to St Helen's for a Family Service with activity and refreshments. Good Friday (3rd April) – a reflective Good Friday Liturgy service (10h00), followed by Coffee and Hot Cross Buns at Meadow Croft Easter Day (5th April) – Easter Day Family Communion Service (11h00) with Easter Egg hunt in the churchyard!
If you are new to the village, you may not know about our lovely churchyard.Do come up when you have a few spare minutes and admire the snowdrops - they are just opening!
Welcome to Choral EvensongOn Sunday 25 January 2026 our quarterly Benefice Choral Evensong will be held at St Mary's Church, Chalgrove, starting at 16h00. The service will start at 4 pm and will last for approximately an hour, followed by refreshments.O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness, bow down before him, his glory proclaim. (J.S.B. Monsell)The service of Evensong is a quintessentially Anglican Service! It was compiled by Archbishop Cranmer in the sixteenth century, from much earlier monastic services of evening prayer and night prayer (Compline), which is why it contains canticles (The Magnificat, The Nunc Dimittis) from both services. An interesting article describing Evensong can be found here.The beauty of Evensong is its simplicity: solemn worship is offered to God, with all the resources and creativity at our disposal. This is our core purpose as God’s creatures, and points, as does our building, to our belief in the centrality of God in the life of every community, including Chalgrove and Berrick Salome.The essence of this service is praise: the words of the Psalms, inspired by God, carry our minds and hearts into the worship of God. Readings from Scripture direct us to our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh. And The Blessed Virgin Mary’s great song of triumph, The Magnificat, points us to the new relationship with God which he brings about. The prayers and responses commit us to the life of service to which Christians are called.We live in a busy world; it is our prayer that this act of worship may both glorify God and provide an opportunity for the recharging of spiritual batteries.
