Sean’s pastoral message number 7 – 8th May 2020
Sean’s in training for his challenge
He’ll be climbing Table Mountain via the Rectory stairs starting at 7.30am on Monday morning.
Please consider sponsoring him. Much more here: https://rawchurch.org.uk/table-mountain
Thank you, Bishop Richard
It was great having the Bishop of Hereford with us yesterday for our digital coffee session after the service. His first official visit!
If you missed the service (which received nearly 600 hits yesterday) you can catch up with it here. Our biggest cast yet!
This week’s service is now live on the website
https://rawchurch.org.uk/digital-services
This week our service is being shared by congregations throughout Herefordshire and South Shropshire.
Join us for virtual coffee at 10.30 onwards, details on the website. The Bishop of Hereford will be there.
Sean’s Pastoral Message 6
This morning’s service is now live on the website
Two services, in fact, this morning. Our usual 9.30 Eucharist and a service which you can watch any time from 10 am by the Intergenerational Missioners from across the diocese.
https://rawchurch.org.uk/digital-services
This week’s message from Sean
Howard Davies
We have just heard the sad news that Howard Davies, who was organist and choirmaster at St Mary’s between 1989 and 1995 has died. He will be buried quietly at Huntley Church on Tuesday and a memorial service will be held for him in better times.
Howard came to St Mary’s from St Catharine’s Church in Gloucester and he returned there for a while when he left us. Howard lived in Hunley and had a strong association with Huntley Church. Many at St Mary’s will remember the dedication that he brought to the music in Ross during his time here. We send our condolences to Margaret his wife, and family.
Today’s service
This week’s message from Sean Semple
Easter Day Evensong
Choral Evensong for Easter Day can be found now on our website. https://rawchurch.org.uk/digital-services.
This service has been compiled mainly from archive recordings of the choir but with some new material.
Please join us in the virtual Kings’s Head for a drink after the service. Details on the website.
Morning Prayer during Easter Week
Morning Prayer was something of a success last week so the ministry team is continuing with an open invitation to join them all again this week.
The service will be Monday 13th to Saturday 18th April at 9.00 am Zoom, Join in – The meeting password is 196418 – Help here
Happy Easter! …
From St Mary’s, Walford and Brampton Abbotts Churches.
A Eucharist for Easter Day is now live on our website: https://rawchurch.org.uk/digital-services
Please join us for virtual coffee at 10.30 am
At 6.00 pm today there will be a compilation service of Choral Evensong for Easter Day created from archive and some new material: https://rawchurch.org.uk/digital-services.
Happy Easter!
Today is Holy Saturday …
… or Easter Eve. The day when Christ rested in the sealed tomb.
Normally, this day is not at all restful in our church buildings which are a frenzy of activity from cleaners, flower arrangers, altar frontal changers, musicians in rehearsal … for Easter Day tomorrow.
This year our churches are empty and locked and we can take more of a rest.
As we do so here are a couple of musical offerings. One from our Organist, Adrian Taylor, recorded at his home this week, the other from our choir, recorded in Hereford Cathedral 20 years ago, it also happens to be a piece that featured in the last service in St Mary’s in March.
We are back tomorrow with a Eucharist for Easter day at 9.30 am and a specially compiled Easter Day Choral Evensong at 6 pm – both are taking shape on our website: https://rawchurch.org.uk/digital-services.
Today is Good Friday …
… the most solemn day in the Church year, the day on which Jesus was crucified.
Today we offer a beautifully constructed series of resources for personal meditation which include prayers, paintings and artwork, music from St Mary’s Choir archive and meditations. You can use as much of it as you wish at any time during the day. Begin your journey at:
https://rawchurch.org.uk/a-meditation-for-good-friday
Full details of the services for the remainder of Holy Week and Easter Day are on our website:
https://rawchurch.org.uk/holy-week-and-easter-2020
Church Floodlighting
You may be aware that we’re planning to replace the church floodlighting with something that works and is much cheaper to run. As part of the planning process we need to ask if there are any comments people wish to make to the proposal. Please let us know if this is the case, or reply as indicated in the planning notice. This needs to be done before 4th May.
Night Prayer is about to start
Wednesday 8th April – 9.00 pm.
Prebendary Caroline Pascoe is about to lead a short service of Night Prayer. To join in head over to our website https://rawchurch.org.uk/holy-week-and-easter-2020 where you’ll find an order of service to download and a link to join the service via Zoom. Oh, and a candle would be nice.
A call to prayer from the Dean of Hereford
Sean’s pastoral message for Holy Week
Join Colin for a Palm Sunday Ross Walk
Live on the website now at https://rawchurch.org.uk/digital-services is Revd Colin Leggate’s walk around parts of the town with thoughts on Palm Sunday, our local community and our current crisis.
More on next week’s many services at https://rawchurch.org.uk/holy-week-and-easter-2020/
And here is a very useful resource to occupied through the whole week to come from Caroline:Download
Or make a palm cross with these instructions from Christine:
