A welcoming Christian community in the heart of Cambridge, since 1020AD. Prayer and worship are central to St Bene’t’s. Our common life is rooted in the daily offering of the Eucharist and Evening Prayer, with our main service 10am on Sundays. The Eucharist is celebrated daily: Sunday (8am and 10am), as well as spoken half-hour services of Holy Communion on Monday (7pm), Tuesday (10.30am), Wednesday (12.30pm), Thursday (12.30pm), Friday (8am), Saturday (9am). Evening Prayer is daily at 6pm, in church and over zoom. Our worship style is sacramental but not fussy, in the Liberal Catholic tradition. Space is made in our services for silence, and many people value the prayerful and holy atmosphere of the church. We are open daily, from 9am to 6pm.
A traditional language spoken Eucharist, with sermon
A welcoming Eucharist (Holy Communion) with hymns, sermon, Children's Church, and coffee and fellowship afterwards.
Evening Prayer takes place 6pm daily, at the church as well as on Zoom.
A 40 minute spoken service of Holy Communion. All are welcome
A spoken service of Holy Communion. All are welcome
A spoken service of Holy Communion. All are welcome.
Eucharist service
Eucharist service
Eucharist service
Join us for a choral Palm Sunday eucharist as we process from Corpus Christi College to St Bene't's, where there will be a dramatic reading of the Passion.
Tenebrae is Latin for 'shadows.' The purpose of the Tenebrae service is to recreate the emotional aspects of the passion story, through drama, darkness, music, prayer and Scripture. Join us on Spy Wednesday for Tenebrae in the thousand-year-old sanctuary of St Bene't's, Cambridge
A traditional Maundy Thursday Eucharist, with washing of feet and stripping of the altar, followed by a vigil — Keeping watch with the Reserved Sacrament at the Altar of Repose — as well as an address from Canon Dr Sanjee Perera
A Good Friday service particularly suitable for children and families
Our annual Good Friday service, starting with readings and a series of reflections from the Rev'd Devin McLachlan. A time of silent prayer follows, after which the traditional Good Friday liturgy is held, with communion from the reserved sacrament, concluding at 3pm.
Dr Perera is an honorary lay Canon of Liverpool Cathedral, and a trustee of groups including SPCK, the College of Catholic Anglican Women and Queens foundation. She previously served as the Archbishops' Adviser on Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns, and is a noted speaker and lay preacher. A Cognitive Ecclesiologist, Sanjee is an Associate Fellow at the Open University School of Law; Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Theology at the University of Durham; Honorary Research Fellow in Theology and Religious Studies, at the University of Chester. She is an avid gardener, choral singer, and a church crawler with a passion for stained glass.
A joyful, traditional Easter Vigil service, with the Lighting of the New Fire, readings, and First Eucharist of Easter.
Join us at 10am for a choral Eucharist on Easter Sunday (and at 8am for a traditional language Easter Sunday eucharist). All are welcome on this festive, wonderful day!
A contemplative, candlelit service of Taizé. Join us on the first Sunday of the month for Song, Scripture, Silence and Serenity.