The Ross Parishes: Ross-on-Wye, Walford & Brampton Abbotts
Inspiring faith, hope and love in each generation.
Sunday, 15 October, 6.00 pm in St Mary’s Church, Ross
A Vigil for Peace; Join us for thirty minutes of silent prayer, to lay before God the unfolding tragedy in the Middle East, and all involved.
People from across Ross and the area are invited.
We are delighted to be welcoming pianist, Jill Crossland to St Mary’s on Saturday 21st October. Her concert will feature music by Bach and Chopin among others.
The concert starts at 7.30 and tickets are available online or from Rossiter Books. https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/fosmross/piano-recital-jill-crossland/2023-10-21/19:30/t-dvllyry
Ross Educational Foundation offers grants to students up to the age of 25 whose homes are within the boundaries of Ross Town Council to help with the cost of books, equipment and travel who are following courses at universities and colleges and those at school undertaking special educational trips. The Trustees will be meeting again in October and applicants should contact the Secretary, Louise Jarvis tel. 01989 562175 or by e-mail administrator@rossparishes.uk for further information and an application form, which should be submitted before Friday 6th October.
Join us for a wonderful concert featuring Drybrook Ladies Choir, Drybrook Male Voice Choir and the A. W. Parker (Drybrook) Band on Saturday 30th September at 7pm. Tickets on the door at £10.
The coach is now full, but please register below if you’d like to join the waiting list, in case of cancellations – We’ll let you know.
We’ll be leaving from Wilton Road carpark at 5.45pm, Tuesday 7th November (the coach will then take us to the refreshments after the service, retuning to Ross around 10pm). Cost is £10 – please bring cash on the day.
We celebrate our patron saint (St Michael) on Friday 29th September with Evening Prayer at 6 pm, followed by drinks.
And Harvest Festival on Sunday 8th October at 11am, followed by harvest lunch.
… to visit h.Art@St Mary’s. Lunches and teas available today, Saturday and tomorrow, Sunday.
St Mary’s very own, Adrian Taylor is giving a recital in Linton Church tomorrow (Saturday 9th September). And it’s FREE!
ORGAN ODYSSEY: SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 7pm
In what is becoming an annual Organ Concert we are delighted to welcome Adrian Taylor
from St Mary’s Ross. The evening will include a demonstration of the Hauptwerk software
which can electronically change the sound of the organ so it can sound like some of the greatest organs from across the world. This software is currently being used in Gloucester Cathedral whilst its organ is restored so that the temporary electronic organ sounds like Hereford Cathedral. Admission is free with a retiring collection and refreshments in the interval.
Come and see us. There’s plenty to look at plus lunches and teas. We’re open from 10.30am to 5pm every day this week.
The Eucharist from St Mary’s is being streamed now (the link on the website is wrong)
The great music keeps coming at St Mary’s! On Saturday, 19th August, we welcome Laurence John (St Davids Cathedral) to St Mary’s once more for an organ recital.
Tickets / Details of this and many other events hosted by the Friends of St Mary’s at https://fosmross.org.uk/blog
Trumpet Tune in D major – Daniel Bishop (b 1981)
Sonata No 3 in A major – Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47)
A sad pavane for these distracted times – Thomas Tomkins (1572–1656)
Coronation March: Orb and Sceptre – William Walton (1902–83)
Prelude and Fugue in D major bwv 532 – J. S. Bach (1685–1750)
Three Preludes founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes – Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
Sortie in E flat major – L.–J. A. Lefébure-Wély (1817–69)
Decorate your tree at Ross-on-Wye’s popular Christmas Tree Festival. No charge to display a decorated tree – businesses, organisations and individuals all welcome. More information coming soon.
SUMMER TEA PARTY – Thursday 27th July, 2.30 to 4pm
Hosted by Sarah, Penny & Viv at Arthur’s Barn, Wilton, HR9 6BH (opposite Castle Lodge Hotel) All in aid of St Mary’s church Funds Tickets £5. Numbers are limited and booking is essential. We’ll be indoors if rains.
Contact Sarah for details and tickets sarahmcgillveray@gmail.com or 07775 942410
We want to improve the facilities in St Mary’s by adding a more accessible means of displaying visuals with a large drop-down screen and a projector. For some time now we’ve been using two TVs which are not big enough. This will be a discrete installation, professionally fitted, that will allow us more effectively to host a greater range of events, and from time-to-time enhance worship (though there is no plan to make use of it all the time in services).
We have already raised about half of the £20,000 cost through grants. The Friends of St Mary’s have agreed to donate £5,000 which leaves another £5,000 to be found and we wondered if we might be able to raise this with private donations.
Might you consider helping us? If so, you can use or crowdfunder page: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/projector-and-screen or better still just let us know and we’ll arrange something to suite you that doesn’t involve pay commission.
If you’d like to know more please be in touch.
A new bench has been installed in St Mary’s open churchyard this morning in memory of our much loved and lost member of St Mary’s congregation, Celia Glover.
The bench has been given by Derek and sited close to a place where most recently she loved to sit and rest on her way to church and to the town. We are grateful to Alan Sonn for his work on installing it.
A great deal has been going on in and around St Mary’s churchyards over the last few weeks, and a lot has been achieved. You can find out how we’re developing the maintenance of the space at https://rossparishes.uk/churchyard. There’s more to come.
It’s a busy time, with a lot of long grass to cut back, now that the height of the growing season is past. You can help by joining the next session of the Churchyard Angels on the first Saturday of the month from 9.30 am
Over 50 people attended our July Messy Church when we celebrated “moving on” with residents of Westbank Care Home. We all enjoyed afternoon tea together, followed by worship led by Caroline and the Youth Choir.
Our very special Sunday afternoon concert with the Gwent Chamber Orchestra (very good friends of St Mary’s and createROSS) is taking place at 3.00 pm on Sunday 2nd July. Tea and homemade cake will be served during the interval (£3.50 – pay on the day) There’s still time to get tickets (£10.00) for the concert. Full details and tickets at https://createross.co.uk/events.
St Mary’s Choir is now Out & About for Evensong during the summer. Catch us as follows:
If you’re a member of a local church and you’d like us to come and sing choral evensong for you between April and October in 2024 please let us know. Several dates are already gone.
This is a fun way to spend a Saturday evening, dining at the best restaurants around the town! The good news is, there’s still time to register your interest, as a host or as a guest (it’s assumed that hosts are also guests). Details are below but be quick, we need to know by Sunday 25th June as there’s planning to do!
The Ross Parishes: Ross-on-Wye, Walford & Brampton Abbotts 