The Ross Parishes: Ross-on-Wye, Walford & Brampton Abbotts
Inspiring faith, hope and love in each generation.
If you’ve been counting your blessings this Lent, we thank you. This is our Lent fundraiser. If you’ve not been counting, lost count or lost your way you can still give us a donation.
And again, THANK YOU! £264 so far
Today is Palm Sunday. The 9.30 service from St Mary’s is about to get underway.
Or if you prefer there’s a Family Service at 11 am on Zoom.
This week we celebrate Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week. Don’t forget to collect your palm cross from St Mary’s before the service on Sunday. The church is open from 9-5 tomorrow, as usual.
Join us at 9.30 on YouTube. There’s also a Family Service, via Zoom, at 11 am.
Taking inspiration from ‘Jesus Christ the apple tree’ (a very Herefordshire image!), and knowing that Christine will be replanting her garden following building work, our gift to Christine from the Ross Parishes was this lovely Herefordshire grown apple tree together with garden vouchers. Hanging from the tree were also packets of fun seeds to grow from St Mary’s Messy Church. Sean
We congratulate our Rector, The Rev’d Sean Semple, who has been invited by the Bishop of Hereford to become the next Rural Dean of the Ross and Archenfield Deanery. He will be licensed in a short ceremony at the Bishop’s Palace on the 29th March 2021.
As Rural Dean, he will provide missional and strategic leadership of the 40 parishes and churches in the south of the Diocese of Hereford and county, together with the Rev’d Tim Starling who will become Assistant Rural Dean when he takes up his post as Priest in Charge of the Wye Reaches Group of Parishes (near Monmouth) in the summer, and Major Patrick Darling who is the Lay Co-chair of the Deanery.
The appointment comes at a challenging time for a Deanery that has been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and faces a number of clergy retirements in the next few years. Sean asks for your ongoing prayers as he takes on this important role.
This week is Holy Week. You’ll find details of all that’s going on in the Ross Parishes at https://rossparishes.uk/easter-2022/
Tomorrow (Tuesday) marks a year since the first lockdown of this pandemic.
The Ross Parishes will be participating in the National Day of Reflection with a short service starting at 11:55 including a minute of silence.
Please join us as we remember all those that have been lost in this pandemic and give thanks for all those who have worked so hard through it. 11.55 am either at the Plague Cross in Ross Churchyard or in the churchyard in Walford. Alternatively, The Ross service will be live streamed on Facebook.
In this morning’s service from St Mary’s we turn our attention to the NHS and hear from a range of health care practitioners in Ross and beyond.
Join us on You Tube at 9.30 am.
Throughout Lent, in our 9.30 Sunday live streamed services from St Mary’s, we’ve been listening to stories from people in our community about how the last 12 months have affected them.
Today we focus once more on our town, and hear from Rachel Lewis. Rachel’s role at the Town Council is to focus on Projects. She explains how the pandemic has changed her approach over the last 12 months.
#LiveLent #MotheringSunday
Throughout Lent, in our 9.30 Sunday live streamed services from St Mary’s, we’ve been listening to stories from people in our community about how the last 12 months have affected them.
In the week of Mothering Sunday, here’s a very upbeat Rachel – We all want some of that!
#LiveLent #MotheringSunday
Throughout Lent, in our 9.30 Sunday live streamed services from St Mary’s, we’ve been listening to stories from people in our community about how the last 12 months have affected them.
In the week of Mothering Sunday, here’s how Ruth & David have been getting on:
#LiveLent #MotheringSunday
We wish everyone (especially all the Mums) a very happy Mothering Sunday.
Our service is about to start in St Mary’s. You can join it now on YouTube.
The Mothers’ Union at St Mary’s invites you to come and collect a small plant for your mum from the north porch at St Mary’s. Normally flowers would be given for this purpose in the 9.30 service, this is the best we can do this year. When they’re gone, they’re gone!
Our Mothering Sunday Service will be live streamed on YouTube from St Mary’s on Sunday morning at 9.30.
Throughout Lent, in our 9.30 Sunday live streamed services from St Mary’s, we’ve been listening to stories from people in our community about how the last 12 months have affected them. As we reach the mid point of Lent (Mothering Sunday) we offer you key moments in a series of posts.
Today: how have they been doing at Brampton Abbotts Primary School? #LiveLent
Throughout Lent, in our 9.30 Sunday live streamed services from St Mary’s, we’ve been listening to stories from people in our community about how the last 12 months have affected them. As we reach the mid point of Lent (Mothering Sunday) we offer you key moments in a series of posts.
First up – Our Mayor, Cllr Danny Lister (with the hair)
In this morning’s service we focus on how the pandemic has affected children in schools, with a film created by children at Walford Primary School.
You can join the service live now on YouTube:
Today we say a final farewell to Sylvia Churchus. Her funeral takes palace today at 2.30 pm in St Mary’s. You can join it now on YouTube.
It’s Messy Church this week…! Don’t forget to pick up your Messy@Home bags from St Mary’s porch today or tomorrow – or email back / message if you’d like us to deliver.
Then tomorrow (Thursday 4th), we’d love to welcome you to our Messy Celebration video from 4pm. Link on rossparishes.uk and social media.
And, at 4.15pm we’ll also be on Zoom as an extra option if you’d like to get together to show and tell about the Messy crafts, chat, catch up with each other, snack together. The Zoom link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88147943218 Please sign in with your own name for safeguarding purposes so we know who is in the waiting room to come in!
We look forward to seeing you! Invite your friends!
Caroline
PS We’re very much hoping that it won’t be too long before we can all get together in St Mary’s again – perhaps even for Easter! More info to follow!
As you may know, we’ve been posting regular Toast Story Time videos during lockdown, we hope you’ve been enjoying them, and thanks for your company. If you’ve missed any you can catch up at https://rossparishes.uk/toast
We’ve decided, now, to take a break for a while, until Wednesday 19th May when we’re hoping we can be back in church for a physical meeting.
More about that nearer the time. In the meantime – continue to keep safe, and we’re really looking forward to seeing you all.
For those who enjoy the weekly Toast Storytime video, here is this week’s offering from the Toast Makers at St Mary’s.
