We’re holding a Prayer Vigil for Ukraine every Saturday evening during Lent or until the conflict ceases. Please join us if you can at St Catherine’s on Saturday between 6 and 7pm.
Prayer Vigil for Ukraine
Ash Wednesday – 2nd March
To mark the beginning of Lent, there will be an Ash Wednesday Communion service at St Catherine’s on Wednesday 2nd March, starting at 7:30pm.
Everybody is welcome.
This service is in addition to the regular Wednesday morning Communion, which starts at 9:00am .
Lent Online Evening Prayer
Over Lent this year we will be offering a short daily prayer time at 5.30 pm on St Catherine’s Facebook page, using the Live Lent reflections on Embracing Justice.
Most sessions will be live, but for some practical reasons, some may be pre-recorded. Each evening will include a Scripture, a reflection and a prayer.
There will also be an Ash Wednesday service at St Catherine’s on Wednesday evening at 7:30pm.
Lent Course – Living in Love and Faith
How do questions about identity, sexuality, relationships and marriage fit within the bigger picture of the good news of Jesus Christ? What does it mean to live in love and faith together as a Church? All around us we see changing understandings of human identity, changing patterns in relationships and families, changing sexual attitudes and activity. What does it mean for followers of Jesus to walk in love, faith and holiness today?
This Lent we will be offering everyone in the church the opportunity to listen and reflect. The course, produced by the Church of England, takes part in 5 sessions – Learning Together; Identity; Relationships; Our Bodies and Sex; Life Together.
We’re inviting everyone in our church community to participate. Accordingly, we are offering the course in two ways :-
- Thursdays, by Zoom, at 7.45pm (first session on 3 March)
- Sunday afternoons, in Church, at 4.00pm, (first session on 6 March).
Each session will last about 1.5 hrs.
Alps22 Fundraising Concert
A fund raising concert in aid of explorer scouts going to the Alps22 ‘Jamboree in the Mountains’ is taking place on Saturday 5th March at 3pm in St Catherine’s Church.
Tickets £5 on the door. Raffle and Refreshments.
Storm Eunice – Friday 18th Feb ’22
Due to Storm Eunice arriving on Friday 18th, day time activities in Church have been cancelled. These include
- Tots Praise,
- Café Siena
- Friday Friends.
Friday Friends Programme – up to Easter 2022
Friday Friends meets weekly 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.
Why not arrive early and enjoy a meal in Café Siena.
The program for the rest of February through to Easter 2022 is as follows :-
| February | 18th | *** UPDATE : *** Cancelled – due to Storm Eunice *** |
| 25th | David Attenborough – Our Planet: Our Business | |
| March | 4th | Memory Box – Strong Women in our Society |
| 11th | Sing Along with Bert Randall | |
| 18th | A trip down Memory Lane | |
| 25th | British Comedy | |
| April | 1st | Craft (Easter bonnet, Easter eggs, animal painting) |
| 8th | CLOSED | |
| 15th | CLOSED | |
| 22nd | … |
Vivace Voices
Vivace Voices Ladies Choir meet most Wednesday afternoons at 1:30pm in St Catherine’s Church. They’d love you to join them. Why not pop along ?
See https://www.vivacevoices.uk/ for more details.
A Welcoming Space
We have a dream…!
…that we will be a welcoming space here for everyone in our community…where people are able to sit in the sunshine (or the rain!), chat, and build relationships, a place to be, and belong.
We are asking for donations towards a selection of outdoor furniture from below, which will go on the outside tarmac area in front of the Church.
All are made from 100% recycled plastic waste, will not rot or splinter, no more painting or staining required, weatherproof, long life span, maintains the appearance of treated timber.
There are donations envelopes incorporating Gift Aid declarations at church, or contact us and we will send you an envelope. Please talk to Rev Gill if you wish to donate the full price of any item.
Bible Book Club
Bible Book Club, Wednesdays, 4.00pm
A Book Club with a difference! It’s reading the Bible – and the rule is – only people who don’t go to church are allowed to attend!
We will be looking at a chunk of the Bible each week, and then discussing the questions that it raises for those who come.
Everyone is welcome – and if you’d like to join us, please contact Gill Rowell, our vicar, who will be leading the sessions, or email us here. They are fun, thought provoking and real.
