A Service on Zoom with the link available on the left hand menu.
Come and get creative in community at mini messy church every Thursday at St Margaret's church, 10-11.30am.
Start with story and song that fits in with the season or church festival/theme, then play and create as we connect and explore together.
Getting messy is optional, but great fun for those that like to!
All welcome.
Join with a group having a look at the Lord's Prayer. Refreshments will be available.
For more information please contact Revd Paeter Ingerslev - [email protected]
We meet together in St Margaret's Church every Tuesday and Friday
Help us install electric panels in St Margaret's so we can host small meetings in the North Transept without heating the whole church. YOUR CONTRIBUTION WILL BE DOUBLED BY THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND'S MATCHED FUNDING SCHEME.
Each week at St Margaret's Church we celebrate the Eucharist. All are welcome to join us.
The fourth Sunday is a more Family Friendly Service and for information go to the Family Communion page.
Monthly. Every Fourth Sunday at 10 a.m. for 1 hour
This service uses a more informal liturgy and music is accompanied by a band. More suited to young families maybe.
On the second and fourth Sunday of the month, St Margaret's Church hosts a Choral Evensong following the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) order of service. This starts at 6.30pm unless otherwise indicated in the Newsletter.
Providing parent/carer support for those with babies and infants and time to connect, and refresh.
Drop in with your little one - warm welcome and drink in your hand so you can take a break.
Mondays, 10-11am, St Margaret's
Every Monday evening at 7pm, on Zoom, with Revd. Peter. Night Prayer, or the Prayers at the End of the Day, is the final prayer liturgy of the day in the Christian tradition of canonical hours.
link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84778755584
Prayer Walk October. For our first prayer walk we will follow the new trail around Countess Wear. Please do meet at 2pm at St Luke's church, Tuesday 29th October as we begin with a prayer time. If you could let me know if you are coming.
Louise - [email protected]
Prayer Breakfast
A simple breakfast, a hymn, short reading & open or silent prayers of the heart.
Each month focusing upon an aspect of the mission community ministry and outreach.
For the month of November Elizabeth writes - Our focus for prayer this month will be for:
• Remembrance Sunday, for all the people in our armed forces, past and present.
• World stability and peace
• Our prisons, prisoners and those who work there
• For all those looking for hope, that they may find it
• For our heating and fundraising campaign at St Margaret’s
All are welcome.
‘Open the Story at St Luke’s Forest School’ is held in the grounds of Countess Wear Community School. A bible story is explored with lively activities planned. It culminates in discussion, prayer and a song round a bonfire. There are regularly twenty to thirty people of all ages attending, and sometimes more. The majority of these are children but it is a whole family event.
The theme each Sunday changes.
WE meet together for Contemplative Prayer. The time consists of a reading or a piece of music and a time to be still. Here is some information.
Julian meetings are held all over the world to foster the practice and teaching of meditation and contemplative prayer within the Christian tradition.
It is a chance to still oneself from the busyness of life, to enter into deep silence, stillness. Many people repeat a word quietly to centre their prayer and as the mind may wander, come back to the word.
We start with music to steady our thoughts. This leads us into our 40 minutes of silence and then music once again to lead us out from the depths of stillness.
Then before leaving for home or wherever there is tea and biscuits.
Why do we call it a Julian Meeting? The meetings are named after Mother Julian of Norwich who lived in late fourteenth-century England. At the age of thirty, she fell seriously ill. As she lay dying she had a lengthy vision of Christ’s suffering upon the cross and his redeeming love. She recovered and became an anchoress, walled into a small room, with one window into a
Church and one window onto the world.
This extreme enclosure, so foreign to modern sensibility, did not prevent her from having an active ministry. She is known to have provided spiritual advice to many over several decades.
Julian recorded her visions into a book,
‘Revelations of Divine Love, ’which is a spiritual classic and the earliest surviving book in the English language written by a woman. Her inspired writings accord that the highest form of prayer consists in simply waiting on God. “Be still and know that I am God” (psalm 46:10) If you would like to come along and give it a go, you can be sure of a very warm welcome as we enter silence together. We look forward to meeting you. If this has stirred your curiosity about Contemplative prayer, Julian of Norwich, or you would like to find out more then please do not hesitate to contact me.
Elizabeth Reed
email: [email protected]
The two churches come together on the 3rd Sunday of the month for a communion service. We alternate between St Margaret's Church and St Luke's Church.
Sunday 20th October at St Lukes and then 17th November at St Margaret's.
The Red Earth and Opera Group return to present a programme of favourite opera music.
Tickets are £15/£12 from TicketSource.co.uk/southdevonsingers
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