Join us in a Service of Morning Prayer. See https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/join-us-service-daily-prayer for the Order of Service.
Good Friday Walk of Witness (3 April) – begins from Our Lady of Good Counsel at 10.00 am
Service of Light – 5.30 am St Mary’s, followed by breakfast
Our Services at 9.30 am are most regularly a Eucharist but there is Morning Praise every third Sunday and an All-Age Service on the third Sunday in each month.
The Church gathers primarily for worship, to celebrate all that God is and all that God has done, to be drawn into the life of the Trinity: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We offer God songs and words of praise in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. We attend to God’s words in Scripture. We gather around the table of the Lord in the Holy Communion. We offer prayers for our own needs and the needs of the world. When we do this we join our prayers – thin and weak as they often are – with the great hymn of praise of the Church in both earth and heaven, in time and in eternity.
The Eucharist or Holy Communion is celebrated by the whole people of God gathered for worship. The ministry of the members of the congregation is expressed through their active participation together in the words and actions of the service, but also by some of them reading the Scripture passages, leading the prayers of intercession, and, if authorized, assisting with the distribution of communion.
Eucharist – 9.30 am St Mary’s; Eucharist – 10.00 am St Andrew’s; Eucharist – 11.00 am St Catherine’s
Saturday 11 April, 10.30 am – 3.30 pm, St Mary’s Runwell
Explore prayer through poetry, with poems about prayers and poems that are prayers. Enjoy poems by John Berryman, John Donne, Carol Ann Duffy, George Herbert, Ann Lewin, and Spencer Reece among others.
Reflect in the magnificent mediaeval building that is St Mary’s Runwell, and relax in its beautiful churchyard. St. Mary’s itself is often described by visitors and by regular worshippers as a powerful sacred space to which they have been drawn. Experience this yourself, while also exploring its art and heritage.
Led by Revd Jonathan Evens, Team Rector, Wickford and Runwell Team Ministry, with Fr Spencer Reece, Rector, St Paul’s Wickford, Rhode Island
Cost: £8.00 per person, including sandwich lunch (pay on the day)
To book: Phone 07803 562329 or email [email protected]
Fr Spencer Reece will preach at the 9.30 am Eucharist in St Mary's Runwell on Sunday 12 April.
Fr Spencer is Rector of St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Wickford, Rhode Island, and an internationally acclaimed poet. His project teaching poetry to abandoned girls at the Our Little Roses orphanage in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, was made into an award-winning film, Voices Beyond the Wall: 12 Love Poems from the Murder Capital of the World. His dream, prayer, and ultimate goal for his time with St. Paul’s Church is to continue the ongoing work of the parish in spreading Jesus’ radical love. “Let kindness be our legacy,” he has said.
Men's Breakfast - Fellowship in the Park
Men’s Fellowship breakfast takes place on a monthly basis (3rd Saturday in the month).
It is held at Memorial Park Café, Wickford Memorial Park from 9.00am and is a time for food, friendship, conversation and laughter.
Please come and join us for fellowship in the park. Please let Steve Talbot or Revd Jonathan if you plan to come so we can give them an idea of numbers.
For more information on Memorial Park Café find them on Facebook:
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or their menus: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=122116023308639134&set=pb.61569174024379.-2207520000&type=3&locale=en_GB
Open Days at St Nicholas Rawreth, All Saints Rettendon, and St Mary’s Runwell on Saturday 16 May from 10am - 4pm
Visit all three churches, discover their history, see heritage displays, and enjoy refreshments.