Special events

All are welcome at this candlelit service of Holy Communion with imposition of ashes to mark the beginning of Lent.
Please dress warmly as there is no heating in St Peter's

The second travel talk and supper at St Luke's, is presented by Paul and Sylvia Custerson. Their talk will combine two visits made to this fascinating country in 2005 and 2018.

Tickets will be available in the churches or from Margaret Cooper, at £12, which includes a hot two course meal with soft drinks. You may bring your own wine, if you wish.

There will be last travel evening will be in April:

Saturday 4th April; Bill Block will present a Trinidad and Tobago safari

This is an ecumenical Prayer group for the churches at Castle that will help us deepen our prayer lives and come closer to God in Quiet Reflection and Prayer. We will meet monthly in each church in rotation. We hope that the timing will enable those at work to drop in on their way home.

After greetings and refreshment there will be some opening prayers, usually a time of Bible reading and/or poetry, perhaps followed by some music. This will lead us into a short period of silence before our main time of prayer. The atmosphere will be informal, the prayers freely formatted; ‘the Spirit is the wind in the sails of our prayer’ (Michael Reeves).

St Augustine's: October 2019, 2020-January, April, July, October
St Giles': November 2019, 2020-February, May, August, November
St Luke's: December 2019, 2020-March, June, September, December

Elsa Strietman is Dutch but has not lived in Holland. She doesn’t speak Netherlandish but is Dutch, can’t claim to be Flemish but speaks the same language as the Flemish. Do the Flemish speak Belgian? Come and listen to some more confusing facts about the Low Countries, Les Pays-Bas, the Netherlands and, if you wish to see for yourselves, come on a visit to the treasures of the Map Room of the University Library at a later date.

This is the one in the Spring series of free talks and recitals for the community on Friday nights and weekends at St Augustine's. The full programme can be downloaded here

All are welcome Free entrance & refreshments Retiring collection