We’re moving back indoors for our Sunday Services from 5th September.
We’ll keep social distancing and masks will be required.
The service will also be livestreamed to our Facebook Page.
Indoor Sunday Services – from 5th September
Mothers’ Union Afternoon Tea – Wed 18th August
The Mothers’ Union will be holding their annual Afternoon Tea on Wednesday 18th August in the Church Hall starting at 2.30pm. Tea/Coffee, sandwiches, scones and cakes will be available at a cost of £3.50 per person.
Everyone is welcome.
Proceeds will be donated to the MU Summer of Hope Appeal, helping to provide a brighter future for women around the world
Seated exercises
After our initial trial run, we are pleased to announce that Get Berkshire Active have returned to offer Seated Exercise sessions during the summer holidays – starting Friday 30th July at 11.30 am.
All sessions will be led by a qualified trainer who will help you to get moving!
Alas our free trial has ended, but we hope our minimal fee of £2 per session is within everyone’s budget.
If you’ve not been with us before, a form must be completed for Health and Safety reasons.
Why not come along, enjoy the class and then have a coffee or a snack in Café Siena afterwards?
RG31 Magazine – Summer 2021
The Summer ’21 issue of RG31 – our Parish Magazine – is now available on-line here, or click on the image.
Church Activities and Coronavirus
As daily life settles into a new pace, changes caused by the Coronavirus Pandemic occur less often. The current status of Church Activities as affected by Coronavirus has now been moved to a separate page where the minor changes no longer appear as ‘latest news’.
Please click here for the latest details.
Updated and main details moved on 31st October.
Post re-dated to “Freedom day” – July 19th – in order to de-emphasise it in the news stream.
Originally published 16th March 2020 9:00 am.
ECO Sale – Saturday 24th July ’21
As part of our commitment to the environment and an outdoor fundraising event, we’re holding an Outdoor Eco Sale -on Saturday 24th July 12noon – 3pm.
Instead of a fair, which, in present circumstances has been difficult to plan, our Eco Sale will be a “Car Boot Table” style event with a public launch of our Recycling Points! There will be a BBQ, refreshments, Cake Stall, Raffle, plants and produce, sales tables etc. and maybe some music to entertain us all!?
Please contact us if you’d like a stall or want more information.
#ThankYouDay Open Air Service – Sunday 4th July
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!!!
Thank You Day – Sunday 4th July
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!
Livestream from Church – Sunday 27th June
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
Summer Open Air Services
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!
