the parish

The word Spirituality comes from a word meaning “breath”. We are all spiritual because the breath of God is within us. Spirituality is about how we experience and relate to God.

Christian life or discipleship is finding out what it means to follow Jesus.

 It is about living our lives in relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

It means living a disciplined life of prayer and openness to God, discovering what faith is all about.

It means allowing the story of Jesus to affect us, as we put his message of love into practice in our own lives.

Father – God is love, he cares for creation and for each one of us as his beloved children.

Son – God revealed himself in the historical person of Jesus, who lived a human life. In his life, death and resurrection we have the key to knowing and loving God, and to making sense of our own living and dying.

Holy Spirit – God is sustaining the life of the world through the spiritual gifts of his spirit to individuals and Christian communities. He is alive and active today, inspiring us to be loving and active disciples of Jesus seeking to change lives and transform society.

Because of Jesus and the life he lived on earth, human nature can be transformed through faith and the gift of the Holy Spirit, which is given to empower us and to serve others.

For Christians, developing our spiritual lives together enables us to meet our own needs and aspirations, and helps us to live in a loving way in the world, because we try to put our focus on living in the consciousness of God’s will for our lives.

This includes things like using discernment to make loving decisions, and having an awareness that helps us to let go of the past, trust in the future and live in the now of God’s presence.

It also involves the appropriate use of feelings that means we can accept one another without judgement, express our own feelings appropriately and also learn from these experiences from each other.

It means too, that we recognise our faults and mistakes as we journey together as Christians, helping one another to experience forgiveness, healing and joy, and a re-aligning of values in terms of our behaviour, needs and desires. The Church is a community of people who are on this journey together, strengthening one another in faith, hope and love through prayer and worship and fellowship.

For further information on Spirituality and Jesus have a look at rejesus and download a PDF document from shalomplace .

ST ALPHEGE

Sundays

8.00am Holy Eucharist (said)

9.15am Parish Eucharist & Sunday Club (2nd Sunday : All-age Eucharist)

Plus on 4th Sunday 'easy' in OBH rejoining Parish Eucharist at communion

11.00am Sung Eucharist

(traditional language)

6.30pm (except 4th Sunday)

Choral Evensong

6.30pm (4th Sunday)

Congregational Evensong

Plus at 6.00pm (1st Sunday)

‘the space’ – informal parish worship

(in the Oliver Bird Hall)

Weekday Eucharists

Monday 9.30am

Tuesday 9.30am

Wednesday 10.15am

Thursday 10.30am

  1st in month - Healing

  3rd in month - Mothers' Union

  Corporate Eucharist

Saturday 9.30am

Daily Morning Prayer

Mon-Sat 9.00am

(Wednesday 8.30am in term time)

ST HELEN

Sundays

8.00am Eucharist (Book of Common Prayer)

10.00am Parish Eucharist and Sunday Club 3rd Sunday : All-age worship (non-eucharistic)

6.30pm Evening Worship in Chapel

6.30pm (2nd Sunday) Wholeness and Healing service in Chapel.

Weekday Eucharist

Friday 10.00am

ST MICHAEL

Sundays

10.30am Holy Eucharist and Sunday Club (Sharmans Cross School)

10.30am (2nd Sunday) All-age worship (Sharmans Cross School).

4.30pm (2nd Sunday) Holy Communion (St Michael's Chapel).

Weekday Eucharist

Wednesday 10.00am at Oak Cottage