Join us on Easter Day to celebrate Christ’s Resurrection. The service with Holy Communion will be led by the Revd David Marshall-Jones at 11:00. Everyone is very welcome. We look forward to seeing you. There will be an Easter egg hunt for the children.
One of Ukraine’s most famous Easter traditions is their intricately decorated Easter eggs known as ‘pysanka’. The word pysanka comes from the verb pysaty, ‘to write’. Creating pysanka is extremely complicated. The smoothest and best-shaped eggs are used to make pysanka. A stylus is often used to ensure and perfect the clean lines and intricate …
If you were unable to join us for our Good Friday service, you can now listen to it here. Our thanks to the URC Daily Devotions team for making this available. On Good Friday, at 10:30am, our service will be a quiet and meditative service based on one devised by the URC’s General Secretary, the Revd …
Daily Devotions from the United Reformed ChurchWorship for Good Friday 2022 The Rev’d Dr John BradburyGeneral Secretary of the United Reformed Church Call to Worship God so loved the world that he gave his own dearly beloved Son so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life. On this day of remembrance …
St Luke 23: 46-42 As they led him away, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming from the country, and they laid the cross on him, and made him carry it behind Jesus. A great number of the people followed him, and among them were women who were beating their breasts and …
St Luke 23: 13 – 24 Pilate then called together the chief priests, the leaders, and the people, and said to them, ‘You brought me this man as one who was perverting the people; and here I have examined him in your presence and have not found this man guilty of any of your charges …
The service at 8pm on Maundy Thursday, 14 April, will include Holy Communion and Tenebrae. It will be led by the Revd David Marshall-Jones (retired URC minister). Tenebrae (latin for “darkness”) takes place in a darkened church lit by a number of candles. A series of Scripture readings chronicles Jesus’s final week. After each reading …
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St Luke 22: 54 – 71 Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high priest’s house. But Peter was following at a distance. When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat among them. Then a servant-girl, seeing him in the …