Wittenham Avenue, Tilehurst, RG31 5LN
You’re invited to “Experience Easter” with all the family – a fun, interactive, multi sensory event this Friday (10am at St Catherines) and Saturday (2pm in Calcot).
See below for details.
at 10am on Friday 18th April at
St Catherine’s Church, Wittenham Avenue, RG31 5LN
or at 2pm on Saturday 19th April at
The Jubilee Annexe, Calcot Community Centre, Highview, RG31 4XD
As we enter the last few days of Holy Week, you are invited to our Maundy Thursday service, starting at 7pm.
It will be a quiet reflective service including symbolic washing of hands and a simple communion.
Café Siena will be closed for it’s Easter break from Thursday 17th April until Friday 25th April.
Café Siena will re-open as usual on on Thursday May 1st.
MAUNDY THURSDAY – 17th April
7.00pm – SERVICE in church
A reflective service.
GOOD FRIDAY – 18th April
10.00 am – EXPERIENCE EASTER in Church
Come and Experience Easter with all the family – a fun, multi sensory event about the real reason for Easter.
12.00 noon – CHURCHES TOGETHER ACT OF WITNESS
at Tilehurst Triangle
Leaving St Catherine’s at 11:30am to walk to The Triangle.
2.00 pm – MEDITATIONS ON THE CROSS in Church.
A guided meditation focussing on different aspects of the crucifixion.
SATURDAY – 19th April
2.00 pm – EXPERIENCE EASTER in Calcot
Come and Experience Easter with all the family – a fun, multi sensory event about the real reason for Easter at The Jubilee Annexe, Calcot Community Centre, Highview, RG31 4XD
EASTER SUNDAY – 20th April
10.00 am – EASTER SUNDAY COMMUNION in Church
Join us in church as we celebrate Easter or watch via the live stream http://www.facebook.com/St.Catherines.Tilehurst/live
Friday Friends continues to meet 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.
See below for details of the program for April & May.
| April | 4th | Cards & Games |
| 11th | Carebus talk & quiz with Kimble Earl | |
| 18st | CLOSED for Good Friday | |
| 25th | Seated Exercises with Juliet | |
| May | 2nd | Cards & Games |
| 9th | Craft with Madeline | |
| 16th | Working as a BA Dispatcher with Hayley | |
| 23rd | Carol of the Bells | |
| 30th | Reminiscing Food, Past & Present with Christine Sanger |
An advance reminder that our popular “St Cat’s Lite” returns Saturday 5th April.
St Cat’s Lite is a fun, informal, all-age service. We start with different craft activities that help us think about the months theme. We continue exploring the theme through songs, stories and prayer. We finish with refreshments. While open to anyone of any age, it’s especially popular with children & families.
It takes place at St Catherine’s on the first Saturday of the month, starting at 3:30pm. The next one is Saturday 5th April where our theme will be “Hope”.
Everyone is very welcome at this or any of our activities.
Come and Experience Easter with all the family – a fun, multi sensory event about the real reason for Easter.
at 10am on Friday 18th April at
St Catherine’s Church, Wittenham Avenue, RG31 5LN
or at 2pm on Saturday 19th April at
The Jubilee Annexe, Calcot Community Centre, Highview, RG31 4XD
St Catherine’s Mothers’ Union are hosting the annual World Day of Prayer service, on Wednesday 12th March at 7:30pm.
This year the service has been prepared by Christian women in the Cook Islands. It is based on the words of Psalm 139 and this worship service invites us to recognise that God created each one of us with great attention and loving care.
This will be an unrehearsed and informal service, to which everyone is invited.
Tea/Coffee and biscuits will be available after the service.
It is common for St Catherine’s to offer a course during Lent.
This year we are offering the ‘Romans Course’ – the Bible Society’s follow up to their very popular “Bible Course”.
The course itself is not a course about Lent – instead it a 10 week course about the book of Romans, which we will be doing through Lent and beyond. It will take place Monday evenings, in church, at 7pm, starting on Monday 10th March.
The course tackles ten big themes found in the book of Romans which are key to understanding the Christian faith:
Each evening will offer a video to watch and some questions to help us chat to each other as we think about that weeks topic.
People are welcome to attend as many or as few sessions as they like. We not pop along to the first one and see !
We are delighted to be working alongside the team from Reach in local schools.
On Shrove Tuesday we welcomed year 6 from a local primary school into St Catherine’s to talk about why Easter is so important to us. The session was lead by the Reach team & used their ‘Easter Cracked’ material.
Last week we visited a local secondary school to help Reach provide a Coffee & Cake pitstop to staff on their inset day.
Reach is a small local Christian schools work charity mainly offering RE and pastoral support to secondary schools. However they also offer sessions to Year 6 in Primary Schools, and those sessions include “Easter Cracked”
We expect to be delivering an ‘Easter Cracked’ session for another local primary school early next month.
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