We are starting a Lyfe Bible Study in St Catherine’s Church beginning on Monday 20th September at 2pm. We will be using the same material as the Wednesday Zoom Bible studies – The Lyfe material. It consists of teaching by video followed by discussion, led by Gill. But, of course, this will all be in person!
If you’d like to come, or know more, please email us
Places are no longer restricted and absolutely everyone is welcome.
The Summer ’21 issue of RG31 – our Parish Magazine – is now available on-line here, or click on the image.
We promised to make a weather related announcement regarding our #ThankYouDay Open Air Worship at 10.00 am Sunday 4th July.
The forecast looks like rain, so please bring your facemasks in case we have to worship indoors. (We can use the hall with livestream so hope we can accommodate everyone who comes!!)
Whether in or our, the service will be livestreamed. Please download the service booklet here.
We will do all we can to worship outdoors – but it just may not be possible, so come ready for IN OR OUT!!!
Our Sunday 10am Open Air services during July and August (weather permitting) start on July 4th with a special “Thank You Service”.
The 4th July is a national Thank You Day to celebrate the countless acts of kindness that have helped see us through this difficult year. Whether it’s an NHS hero, a volunteer who took groceries to someone shielding, binmen or friends making us smile over Zoom, we all have someone to thank. #ThankYouDay
All of our Open Air services will be short and simple, and followed by the opportunity to stay on for open air communion each week. If it rains, we’ll move indoors.
We’d love you to join us. Families very welcome!
This coming Sunday – the 27th June – will be our first livestream of the in-church service. It starts at 10am and can be watched in the same way as all our live videos – via our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/St.Catherines.Tilehurst/live .
This means that our ‘At Home’ video service on Sunday Mornings has now finished.
We will also no longer be holding our post service Zoom coffee. Many thanks to all of you who joined in and made it so enjoyable, but since services have resumed in St Catherine’s’ numbers joining our Zoom Coffee have dropped off.
Further, a reminder that next week – Sunday July 4th – will (weather permitting) be our first Summer Open Air service, and we start with a special ‘Thank You’ service.
You are encouraged to join us in church, in person, if you can. Otherwise we hope you can join in via our Live-stream
We are planning a series of 10am Open Air services during July and August (weather permitting) at St Catherine’s every Sunday.
We’ll start on July 4th which is a special “Thank You Service”.
We’d love you to join us. Families very welcome!
We are continuing our poplar series of Bible courses on Wednesday evenings at 7:45pm via Zoom.
We’re starting a new short series, so if you’ve wanted to join, but were worried about starting part way through something, now is a perfect time to join us.
The format is a welcome, a prayer, a short video, followed by discussion and finishing with a prayer. No expertise necessary!
If you would like to join us please contact us so that we can email you the joining details.
Starting on Wednesday 9th June, we will be launching a traditional Holy Communion Service, in person, in Church.
This will take place weekly at 9:00am – although plans may change when we can use the Garden Room again and relaunch our Thursday Noon Service.
Absolutely Everyone Welcome.
Following up on our recent Bible courses we will be having a one off Zoom Bible Study looking at the word ‘Witness’ in the scriptures.
The evening will follow a similar structure to our previous Bible courses (i.e. a video to get us thinking and then a discussion time).
We’ll be meeting at 7.45 on Wednesday 9th June on Zoom. If you would like to join us please contact us so that we can email you the joining details.
This page is regularly updated. Please return regularly to read the latest situation.
The Coronavirus Pandemic continues to change all our lives. As our level of restriction is continually under review, so our pattern of Sunday services and other midweek gatherings are affected again.
During these difficult times, we continue to explore how to be a different kind of church, and how to both keep in contact and provide practical help.
We encourage you to :-
Please refer to this page for Practical Help if you are ill or isolated.
Please refer to this page for Spiritual Help during this time.
Church Activities
At this time, most of our Church Activities are closed and will remain so while we are at Tier 2 or higher.
This includes, but is not limited to the following
At this time it is not known which activities will re-start at what time. Please check back on this web site or our Facebook page for further details.
Other Hall & Church Users
Some groups, such as St Catherine’s Pre-school, have a specification exemption from lockdown. They may continue to meet, in a strict Covid-secure environment.
We have contacted the people booking the Hall or Church to discuss the additional requirements that the latest government guidance puts upon them and the practicality of whether their groups may continue to meet.
At this time we do not know when any particular church centre users will restart their groups. Please check with them for further details.
Also note:
To reduce the chance of cross contamination, the centre is being operated in two halves – Church and Hall. Please use the north, car park entrance for the Church, and the south, road side entrance for the Hall.
Last updated 3rd June 2021 19:00 pm.
Originally published 16th March 2020 9:00 am.
