News and Information
Church Services Resume
Sunday morning services at St Andrew’s will resume as from this Sunday 19th July at 10.45 a.m. This week, the service will be Morning Prayer. To minimise the spread of infection, we shall meet in the churchyard during July and August. Individuals will be asked to keep a 2 metre safe distance. Members of households can sit together without distancing. We shall only meet inside the church if the weather makes outdoor worship impossible. Please bring your own chair(s) No…
Opening Churches for Private Prayer
As from this Monday 15th June Each church in the benefice will devise its own schedule of opening for personal private prayer, because there are restrictions and safety procedures which must be observed to protect those praying from the risk of infection and all are able to open for private prayer in accordance with governmental and diocesan guidelines. The Hills Churches St Michael’s, Raddington and St Mary Magdalene, Clatworthy are open 11am till 12 noon on Sundays, St Peter’s, Huish…
Happy Ordinary Time, everyone!
(If you’re wondering what that is, it is the period between Trinity Sunday (the climax of all the spiritual observances which began with Holy Week) and Advent Sunday on 28th November. But don’t get the idea that it will be “ordinary” in the sense of hum-drum, boring , or soporific: “ordinary” in this context means “ordered” – in other words, given a structure and a purpose. And that purpose is to live and grow in the life of God’s Spirit whom…
My 2020 Covid-19 Time Capsule
As a thank you from Pulsford Lodge for all the community is doing to keep the staff and residents spirits up, they have some activity packs for children. You can download it here. or If you would like a paper copy sent to you please get in touch on admin@wiveychurches.org.uk and I will send one to you. Pulsford lodge have also placed some paper copies out side the home in a basket if you are passing on your walk.
Easter Service of Light – Saturday at 8pm
On Easter Saturday evening at 8 p.m., the Greens will be in action on Zoom, celebrating an Easter Service of Light in their back garden, in which we can all share. If you have not yet dipped your toes into the waters of Zoom, this might be a very good opportunity to start. Please email Adam and Sue at light@summit.me.uk if you’d like to join in. They’ll send you a service sheet and a link to the event.
Holy week worship online in the Benefice and on the web
There is a wide variety of opportunities to worship for people of all ages this Holy Week. For Families Young families who enjoy zooming can experience worship with Katherine Lyddon, our Deanery pioneer, on Maundy Thursday, at 6 p.m., Good Friday at 10 a.m., and Easter Sunday at 10:15 a.m. To obtain a password to enter these meetings, please contact Martin (01984 248601) or Katherine. (katherinelyddon35@gmail.com) And there’s a great children’s activity for the weekend available here: Also attached is…
Look to the hills…..
For your daily constitutional over the Easter weekend, make sure you visit the ceremonial life-sized Cross which John Cottenham and John Osborne have erected at Fleed Cross (just off the main road going west out of Wivey after you’ve negotiated the Devil’s Elbow hairpin bends.) From it you can get a panoramic view over Wivey and pray a blessing of hope on the land and the community.
How to Contribute to an Online Church Service
How do I send my contribution? From any device (desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile) We would prefer you to use WeTransfer as it does not require an account like many of the major cloud platforms. Just go to wetransfer.com. Then click the “Plus+” button to add your file(s). In “email to” you can use benefice@wiveychurches.org.uk. Send us a message with your file, wait for the upload to complete and away you go! We will get a link to download the files…