Holy Week

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Easter Sunday 4th April 2021

Join us for worship at 10am on this Easter Sunday! We will be online on our Facebook page, and on Castledown FM. There will also be an outdoor in person service in the churchyard, also at 10am.

Now we are able to have slightly longer outdoor services, please do dress warmly and bring your folding chair or picnic blanket as available seating is limited. Hope you can join us at one of our services to celebrate the joy of Easter together.

If you wish to make a financial offering to our church ministry, please click here for more infomation:https://stjamesludgershall.com/donations/

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Children’s Church on Good Friday

Children’s Church met today to have a Stations of the Cross Service in the churchyard and remember Jesus making His journey from the last supper, to the Garden of Gethsemane, to arrest, and death, until He was laid in the tomb. It was a great time of togetherness for our group as we await Easter Sunday with hope. The Stations remain up and available for everyone to use for another week, and readings and prayers can be found at this link: https://stjamesludgershall.com/2021/03/29/stations-of-the-cross/

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Holy Week

Friends, here is a quick reminder of the Holy Week services and events here at St James:
All week: our Stations of The Cross in the Churchyard
Maundy Thursday: in addition to our published programme, an outdoor Holy Communion service at 10:30am. There will also be online services available from the Cathedral on Thursday throughout the day.
Good Friday: a video led Stations of The Cross contemplation will be broadcast on this page at 1pm
Holy Saturday: an in person outdoor Easter Vigil and Service of Light in the churchyard around the Easter fire, and also an online broadcast Easter Vigil here on this page, all at 8pm.
Easter Sunday: Dawn Service broadcast on this page from Sidbury Hill at 6:30am, followed by an in person churchyard service or Holy Communion and an online service also broadcast by Castledown FM at 10am.

Rev’d Tim and Rev’d Jimmy will also be distributing Communion on your doorstep, if you live in our parish and would like them to do this and are unable to come to our in person Communion on either Thursday or Sunday. If you would like to have your name added to their list, please message us. Thank you.

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Stations Of The Cross

As part of our marking of the events of Holy Week, we have prepared an outdoor contemplative Stations Of The Cross in our Churchyard. It is up now, and will remain available to visit during this week of Holy Week, and next week as we start to celebrate Easter itself. Each station is a simple painted wood shape, and below is a guide with prayers and readings to use and consider at each station and as you make your way between stations. We pray this will be a blessing to you as we journey with Jesus to the Cross and beyond.

Stations of the Cross 2021Download


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Easter Sunday Morning Service

Please join us for a service of Easter joy this Easter Sunday morning at 10am, broadcast live on Castledown FM 104.7 and on our Facebook page. If you can, please have with you a hollow chocolate egg you are willing to smash! Rev’d Tim says he will reveal all at the service…
As usual, you can send in prayer requests, thoughts and contributions to us on Sunday morning on 01980 221047, and our service sheet will be available at this link: https://stjamesludgershall.com/service-sheets/.
We look forward to being with you then, and in the meantime we wish you a very peace-filled Holy Week.

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Stations of The Cross in the Churchyard

The Stations of the Cross help us to meditate on what it means to walk in Christ’s footsteps by tracing the events of Good Friday, the day of Jesus’ crucifixion and death. We have set up twelve stations in St. James’ churchyard for people to use for personal prayer and meditation during Holy Week on your once daily outdoor exercise. The symbol on each station which looks like a ‘P’ and an ‘X’ is an ancient symbol for Christ, called the Chi Rho. Please observe the required 2 metre distance from others while using the stations, and if you see more than five people in the churchyard on your arrival, please come back to pray at another time. The PDF below includes short prayers and Bible verses to use at each station. We hope you all have a very blessed Holy Week.

Stations of the Cross 2020

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Palm Sunday Service 5th April

Palm Sunday Morning Service at 10am. We will be live on our Facebook page and broadcast on Castledown FM 104.7, coming together to worship from the comfort of home while we cannot gather physically in our church. All welcome! You can text in with thoughts and prayers on Sunday morning on 01980 22 1047, and because our Gospel reading this week is the story of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, our theme for reflection is about our expectations of God. What does God do with our hopes? Do we ever feel surprised by God? Do we ever feel disappointed by God? Do text in with your thoughts. Service sheets will be available on our website http://www.stjamesludgershall.com/service-sheets/

After our service, coffee time via zoom is available at the link below. You need to click the link, you will be prompted to download zoom, and then if you click the link again you should arrive with us! Don’t forget to bring your coffee with you! All welcome.
Join Zoom Meeting: Coffee Time
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/279117796?pwd=RWhzaVNLZEtCRWNqS3c5RC9FTWlUdz09

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