As we prepare for Easter, come and join us at St Mary’s at 9 pm for a short service of Compline (the late-evening monastic office).
John Partington
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Choral Evensong for Palm Sunday
Holy Week Services
Good Friday Holy Communion
In addition to the services for Holy Week advertised below, there will be a service of Holy Communion at St Mary’s on Good Friday at 8am. An opportunity to hear the story of the Passion of Christ, respond in silence and prayer, and receive Holy Communion from the Sacrament reserved from the Eucharist on Maundy Thursday.
Maundy Thursday Vigil
In addition to the services for Holy Week advertised below, there will be a Vigil on Maundy Thursday after the 7pm Eucharist. We watch and pray with Christ in Gethsemane. All welcome.
Good Friday Messy Church
Holy Week at the Ashmolean
Illustrated history talk by Dr Simon Draper – 19th March
‘New Light on the History of Charlbury Parish’
Thursday 19th March in St Mary’s Church. 6pm Drinks reception followed by the talk at 6.30pm.
Based on his recent research in the Evenlode Valley, Dr Simon Draper will enlighten us on his findings. This promises to be an insightful and captivating talk by a renowned historian. Simon is a professional local historian working for the long-running Victoria County History (VCH) research project in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, where he lives. An archaeologist by training, he has special interests in Anglo-Saxon and medieval landscapes as well as place-names.’
Tickets £18 from art@amandacooper.co.uk. Please email Amanda to book your place and she will send you the bank details. If you cannot attend a donation is always welcome.
Proceeds to both St Mary’s Charlbury and All Saints, Shorthampton.
Quiz night success
All heads down as Patrick Derham, Quizmaster Extraordinaire, exercises our brains. A wonderful evening last night as over a hundred people tried to force their grey matter into action in order to answer fiendishly difficult questions (or so they seemed to us) whilst being well fed and watered.
Wonderfully organised by Dine and his merry team of helpers.
An amazing £3,000 raised for the church.
When do we do it again?
Paddy.
Christingle Service and lunch raises money for Children’s Society
On Sunday Ist February there was a very successful Candlemas Christingle service with Communion. Following this the congregation sat down to a most enjoyable community lunch. We were all fed well. A collection raised the amazing sum of £183 for the Children’s Society.
Paddy Gallagher
