We meet together in St Margaret's Church every Tuesday and Friday

Nearly every Sunday at St Luke's Church there is a service. The Fourth Sunday is usually a Non-Eucharist Service.

Please join us, you will be very welcome.

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/85693878714

Everyone very warmly welcomed at St Luke's Church Rooms (School Road). Drop in for a few minutes or stay for a chat, or to do puzzles or both!
Great way to make new friends so come and give it a go.

A Service on Zoom with the link available on the left hand menu.

An Autumn Study Group on Wednesday Mornings - Coffee from 10.40am
So, why do we pray? Is it about - Adoration - Petition - Intercession - Unanswered Prayer - Contemplation - Listening - Sprirual Warfare

For more information contact Maggie Stirling-Troy on 01392 681631 or [email protected]

There is another group following the same course but at St Luke's. You may join either course and at any time.

A concert given by Ilyran Ilynska, Soprano with John Draisey, piano.

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A coffee morning to which you are invited. Come to support those with cancer. For more information go to the attachment.

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Joyce Clarke makes a welcome return to St Margaret's with a programme of music under the heading of Classical and Romantic.

Not to be missed.

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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 September Elizabeth writes - Our focus for prayer this month will be for:

• Anne Plested and her work supporting the Bethlehem Bible college.
• Ben & Katy Ray in Tanzania st Luke’s CMS mission link.
• people around the world in war torn areas/conflict and those living in fear and not free to worship.
• our children and teachers heading back to schools and universities.
• our Mission Community family worker and children’s ministry within St Margaret’s and St Luke’s.
• Current affairs.

All are welcome.

Peter King loves the organ and can play it really well.

Come and hear him, former Director of Music at Bath Abbey and an International Organ Recitalist.

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‘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.

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.

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]

A programme of easy listening music along with a bit of jazz and some classical.

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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.

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]