Wittenham Avenue, Tilehurst, RG31 5LN
You are invited to come and celebrate at our St Cat’s Lite Good Friday All Age Service on April 3rd – 10 am to 11:30 am
Join us as we explore the Easter Story by making an Easter Garden and having an Easter Egg Hunt
An all-age, fun, informal service with stories, songs, craft activities and refreshments after.
All ages are very welcome – this is a popular service for both young in age and young in heart !
Café Siena is closed for it’s Easter Break on Thursday 2nd April and Good Friday 3rd April.
It opens again, as usual, on Thursday 9th April.
PALM SUNDAY – 29th March
10.00am – Palm Sunday Service
Children’s group as usual. Refreshments after
WEDNESDAY 1st April
9:30am – Spoken Communion Service
GOOD FRIDAY – 3rd April
10.00 am – St Cat’s Lite Family Service
Explore the Easter story through making an Easter Garden. With Crafts, Song, Story & Prayers. Refreshments after.
12.00 noon – Churches Together Act of Witness – Outside at Tilehurst Triangle
2.00 pm – Hour of reflection – at St Catherines
Readings, music and poems reflecting on what happened that first Good Friday.
EASTER SUNDAY – 5th April
10.00 am – Easter Celebration All Age Service
Join us in church as we celebrate Easter. With communion. Refreshments after.
Join us, or watch Sunday services via the live stream www.facebook.com/St.Catherines.Tilehurst/live
Come and join us at our Mothering Sunday All Age Service on Sunday 15th March at 10am. There will be gifts for all women who attend. The service will be followed by refreshments.
Everybody welcome.
St Catherine’s Mothers’ Union are hosting the annual World Day of Prayer service, on Wednesday 11th March at 7:30pm.
This year the service has been prepared by Christian women in Nigeria.
This will be an unrehearsed and informal service, to which everyone is invited.
Tea/Coffee and biscuits will be available after the service.
Café Siena retains it’s Five Star food hygiene rating after an unexpected inspection!
Well done to Lynn who suddenly found herself guiding a health inspector through all the policies and practices that Jo, Sonia & the rest of the Café team have put in place, enabling us to keep our Five Star rating.
Our next ‘St Cat’s Lite’ service is Saturday 7th March, at it’s normal time of 3:30pm.
We’re starting a series of themes called “Meals with Jesus”. This month the wedding at Cana where Jesus turned water into wine.
Everybody is welcome.
St Cat’s Lite is a fun, informal, all-age service. While open to anyone of any age, it’s especially popular with children & families.
We start with different craft activities that help us think about the theme. We continue exploring the theme through songs, stories and prayer. We finish with refreshments.
Everyone is very welcome at this or any of our activities.
This year’s Lent Course from the Church of England is called “Draw Near : Life-giving habits for Lent”
You can follow daily readings via their App or get them emailed to you. Printed booklets are also available for purchase.
For further details visit https://cofe.io/DrawNear
To mark the beginning of Lent, we offer two Ash Wednesday services.
The regular 9:30am Communion will include distribution of ashes.
There is also an Ash Wednesday service at 7:00pm without communion.
Everybody is welcome.
Friday Friends meets from 2.00 – 4.00pm every Friday, price £3.50 (carers free), offering a mix of talks, light exercise, singing together, table top games or craft activities in a safe, warm and friendly environment – with tea and cakes.
See below for details of the program for February & March ’26.
| February | 6th | Cards & Games |
| 13th | Richard & Friends Singalong | |
| 20th | Curling with Paddy | |
| 27th | Seated exercises with Juliet | |
| March | 6th | Cards & Games |
| 13th | Alan Copeland’s Curiosities | |
| 20rd | Wiltshire Farm Foods | |
| 27th | Craft with Cat Chapman |
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