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We have a regular pattern of worship, normally with three Sunday services. A simple table can be found on our 'Other Regular Services' page to help you plan ahead. A full detailed programme for each month can be found below. Please scroll down.
Details are published here, in our bimonthly Church News newsletter
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Wednesday Evening: Compline
Online weekly, except SECOND WEDNESDAY OF MONTH - LIVE at St Giles', Wyddial.
Please note our Wednesday Communion remains suspended for thetime being.
CHRISTMAS SERVICES CARD AVAILABLE HERE
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January 2025 |
When? |
Where? |
What? |
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Sunday 5th |
9.30am |
Great Hormead |
Holy Communion |
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Epiphany |
11.15am |
Wyddial |
Holy Communion |
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6.00pm |
Anstey |
Evensong |
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Sunday 12th |
9.30am |
Meesden |
Holy Communion |
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Baptism of Christ |
11.00am |
Great Hormead |
Family Service with Baptism |
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6.00pm |
Brent Pelham |
Evensong |
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Sunday 19th |
9.30am |
Great Hormead |
Holy Communion |
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11.00am |
Anstey |
Holy Communion |
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6.00pm |
Wyddial |
Evening Worship |
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Sunday 26th |
9.30am |
Great Hormead |
Holy Communion |
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11.00am |
Brent Pelham |
Family Holy Communion |
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5.00pm |
Meesden |
Service of Light |
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February |
When? |
Where? |
What? |
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Sunday 2nd |
9.30am |
Great Hormead |
Holy Communion |
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Candlemas |
11.15am |
Wyddial |
Holy Communion |
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6.00pm |
Anstey |
Evensong |
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Sunday 9th |
9.30am |
Meesden |
Holy Communion followed by parish lunch |
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4th Sunday before Lent |
11.00am |
Great Hormead |
Mattins |
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6.00pm |
Brent Pelham |
Evensong |
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Sunday 16th |
9.30am |
Great Hormead |
Holy Communion |
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3rd Sunday before Lent |
11.00am |
Anstey |
Holy Communion |
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6.00pm |
Wyddial |
Evening Worship |
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Sunday 23rd |
9.30am |
Great Hormead |
Holy Communion |
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2nd Sunday before Lent |
11.00am |
Brent Pelham |
Family Holy Communion |
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5.00pm |
Meesden |
Service of Light |
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March |
When? |
Where? |
What? |
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Sunday 2nd |
9.30am |
Great Hormead |
Holy Communion |
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Sunday before Lent |
11.15am |
Wyddial |
Holy Communion |
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6.00pm |
Anstey |
Evensong |
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Shrove Tuesday 4th |
10.30am |
Great Hormead |
Halo Club 2025 launch & Pancakes |
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Ash
Wednesday 5th |
7.30pm |
Wyddial |
Communion and Compline |
Dates for your Diary 2025
3rd November - All Saints Day
2nd February - Candlemas
9th February - Parish Lunch, Great Hormead
4th March - Shrove Tuesday - Pancake day and Halo Club launch
5th March - ASH WEDNESDAY - Start of Lent
30th March - MOTHERING SUNDAY - BST also begins - Patronal Festival of the BV Mary - Brent Pelham
6th April - Passiontide begins
13th April - PALM SUNDAY (Holy Week begins)
17th April - Maundy Thursday (Cathedral Chrism Service, morning. Commemoration of the Last Supper, evening)
18th April - GOOD FRIDAY
19th April - Easter Vigil
20th April - EASTER DAY
27th April - Second Sunday of Easter and St George's Patronal Festival, Anstey.
25th May - Rogation Sunday
26 May - Bank Holiday ROGATION WALK
29th May - (Thursday) ASCENSION DAY - Service.
8th June - PENTECOST
15th June - TRINITY SUNDAY and Father's Day
20th July - Patronal Festival Mary Magdelene at Meesden
7th September - Patronal Festival for St Giles at Wyddlial.
21th September - HARVEST (Hormead and Wyddial)
28th September - HARVEST (Brent Pelham and Meesden)
5th October - HARVEST (Anstey)
26th October - BST ends
2nd November - All Saints Day (In Loving Memory Anstey 6pm)
9th November - Remembrance Sunday
11th November - Armistice (Tuesday, Anstey remembers 398th)
30th November - Advent Sunday (Advent season begins, Carols Anstey)
6th December (SATURDAY) St Nicholas Festive Fair.
7th December - St Nicholas' Patronal Festival at Great Hormead.
24 December - Wednesday - Christmas Eve
25 December - Thursday - Christmas Day
28 December - Sunday - Parish Walk
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Find all our scheduled live broadcasts and links to recorded services on our Worship Resources pages.
Churces are also open for private prayer in the week. Prayer stations with resources and palm crosses are available in those churches, do pick one up. You can of course email us with your prayers using this link.
If you plan to attend a church for Private Prayer
- Only attend if you are sure you are well and have not been in contact with anyone with Covid-19 in the past 14 days.
- Wash your hands before entering or use the hand sanitiser if you have touched anything since washing.
- Maintain a safe social distance (2m) between household groups and keep left, giving priority to people leaving the church building.
- A maximum of 10 people in each church in this benefice.
- Place a pebble in the basket provided to keep a tally of visitors.
- Where provided, take a post it note to leave in the pew where you sit t pray. Do not sit where someone else has left a post it note.
- If you write a prayer, please use your own pen.
- Only touch what is essential. do not touch books. You may take free prayer resources left for you.
- It is suggested you sanitise your hands again on exit and thoroughly wash hands again when you arrive home.
- We invite you to participate in our own simple 'Track and Trace' system if you want to help us keep visitors informed of their risk of infection should you or they subsequently fall ill. Details are posted in the church where available.
Please note, not all churches in the UK are able to open.
I will be saying prayers and celebrating eucharist from home, usually live streamed, on YouTube or Zoom. Do join me. I also encourage everyone to set aside the time you would normally be at church, and maybe a little extra time, to offer prayers wherever you are.
Revd James Sawyer
Our regular pattern of services will vary for a while ase we get back on our feet after lockdown. Here's waht will happen in the short term:
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Services |
When? |
Where? |
What? |
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Sundays |
9.30m |
See above |
Holy Communion |
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Sundays |
from 9.30am |
You Tube/ |
Sunday Worship |
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Wednesdays |
9.30am |
Brent Pelham |
Holy Communion |
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Wednesdays |
8.00pm |
Zoom |
Compline |
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Last Wednesday |
8.30pm |
Meesden |
Night Prayer |
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Activities |
When? |
Where? |
What? |
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THURSDAYS |
11.00am |
Zoom |
Virtual Coffee Morning |
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Pray with our Ministry Team:
Revd James Sawyer - 01763 289 258
Mrs Patricia Hamilton - 01763 848536
Dr Mike West - 01279 777427
Mr James Wyld - 01763 289 738
Rev'd Paddy Cable - Retired Priest
Every Wednesday
9.30am MID-WEEK
INFORMAL HOLY COMMUNION SERVICE (Currently Suspended)
Around the altar at
Brent Pelham Church, ALL are welcome ~ Coffee afterwards (except in Holy Week and the week after Christmas).
Contact
The Vicarage
Great Hormead
Buntingford
Hertfordshire
SG9 0NT
01763 289258