8.00 am - Holy Communion at St Lawrence (Traditional language).
9.00 am - Holy Communion with hymns at St Saviour (Traditional language).
10.00 am - Parish Communion at St Lawrence (Modern language) followed by coffee in the Church Hall.
On the 1st Sunday of the month the service is a Family Communion. This is the usual time for Baptisms.
6.00 pm - on the 1st Sunday of the month there is a service at St Saviour, which may be Evening Prayer, a Healing Service, or a Meditative service using Taizé chant.
There are also occasional special services at St Lawrence. These will be announced in the Diary.
The Young Pilgrims group (for children aged from 3 or 4 upwards) meets during the 10am Parish Communion service at St Lawrence. Children come into church for the start of the service, then leave for their own time of fun, learning and worship in the Church Hall, before rejoining their parents in church for communion.
A crêche is available but children are also welcome to stay with the adults in the service and there is a carpeted area in church for toddlers to play on.
ABOUT TAIZE
The evening service at St Saviour sometimes takes the form of simple worship based on that of the Taizé Community in France.
It combines songs, short passages from the bible and spoken prayer with periods of silence.
The Taizé monastic community was founded by the young Brother Roger Schultz in France, initially in the middle of World War II - he had to leave when the authorities discovered he was harbouring refugees, including Jews in hiding from the Nazis, but he returned to Taize after the war.
Brother Schultz is Roman Catholic but the international following and the worship that his community has inspired cuts across the boundaries between different denominations. And the simplicity and directness often appeal to those who do not generally feel at home within organised religion.
If you are interested to find out more about Taizé you can make a “virtual” visit via www.taize.fr/en
ABOUT THE HEALING SERVICES
The Sunday evening healing services at St Saviour are times of quiet and prayerfulness.
If you would like to receive laying on of hands for yourself or someone else for physical, emotional or mental illness or problemS - anything you might call dis-ease - there is an invitation to come to the altar during the service but there is absolutely no sense of pressure to do so. You may simply want to sit in the calm and peace of St Saviour.
And you don't have to be a regular churchgoer to appreciate this short break away from the rush and pressure of busy lives.
