The Beacon Team have lined up a full schedule of online services for Holy Week, running all the way from Holy Communion at 10am on Palm Sunday through to Holy Communion on Easter Day morning. They are all using the free video call program Zoom. If you’ve never used it before, there’s no need to … [Read more…]
Canon Andrew Knowles, from St George’s Church, reflects on the Gospel for Palm Sunday. Click the link below to read online or download and print. Meditation for Palm Sunday
Bishop James, as lead bishop on health and social care, has endorsed a series of reflections on how to cope with anxiety and loneliness in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, published today by the Church of England. The booklet gives advice ranging from putting aside time to rest and eating and sleeping well, to using … [Read more…]
The second Beacon Team email order of service includes all you need to celebrate Palm Sunday at home this coming Sunday. Once again, it includes the readings in full, a short homily and an opening and closing hymn to sing or say. Click here to read or download it, or visit our Worship page to sign up … [Read more…]
Owing to the coronavirus restrictions, we are not producing a printed copy of the church magazine for the time being. However, our indefatigable editor, Pam, has managed to put together another packed edition for our enjoyment all the same. Our Calendar of Events page may be missing this month but most of our usual features … [Read more…]
Rev Tricia Rogers, Methodist minister for Sandylands, Stricklandgate and Fellside Methodist Churches in Kendal, has started writing a ‘Thought for the Day’ two or three times a week to keep her congregations’ spiritual resources topped up at this time. They are being published on the Sandylands Facebook page and Stricklandgate Methodist Church website, but she’s … [Read more…]
Lucy, who often writes Sunday intercessions for our Sunday worship at St George’s, has kindly offered to provide a special Sunday prayer for us all every week during this period of isolation. The first one comes from an order of service for evening prayer from the Northumbria Community (www.northumbriacommunity.org). Lord, You have always given bread … [Read more…]
Each week that we are unable to meet together in church, we’re hoping to select just a few resources from the Roots website (www.rootsontheweb.com) to help us all reflect on the gospel reading for each Sunday. They will include a short guided reflection and some music to sing along with or listen to. Tomorrow’s gospel … [Read more…]
In response to the need to close churches at this time, the Church of England prayer movement, Thy Kingdom Come, is offering this year’s online Lent Bible Study course, Simply Jesus, completely free (the usual price is £149.99). But you have to enrol online before 5pm today (Friday 27 March) to benefit. The course, based on … [Read more…]
While we are all experimenting with our own way to worship at home, among other things the Beacon Team will be doing is making a special order of service for Sunday Worship. This will be freely available to anyone who’d like to receive it, every week on a Wednesday. Based on the usual order of … [Read more…]
