The Ross Parishes: Ross-on-Wye, Walford & Brampton Abbotts
Inspiring faith, hope and love in each generation.
Saturday 29th April, 7.30 pm- Ross Choral Society. Tickets (£15) available on the door:
Sunday 30th April, 7.30 – The Einaudi Experience Tickets (£17) available on the door.
And, of course there are a few services, the main Sunday Eucharist is at 9.30 am, or join us online: https://youtube.com/live/392eWsEOpYo?feature=share
Following the popularity of last year’s talk and walk here is another evening of local history, stories from St Mary’s churchyard. Wednesday 28th June 2023, 7.30 pm.
We’ll begin the evening in church with a presentation from Heather, over a glass or two of wine to hear about the development of the churchyard and its surrounding buildings and who is buried in it. After that, weather permitting, we’ll wander out (glass in hand) for one of Heather’s guided walks (a short one) to see it all in context.
This event is preceded at 7pm by the Friends of St Mary’s Annual General Meeting.
There is much more on offer at St Mary’s over the course of the Bank Holiday weekend.
Details at https://rossparishes.uk/coronation
This Saturday (22nd April) we are pleased to be welcoming the Hereford Police Choir to St Mary’s once more for a St George’s Day Concert the concert is at 7pm. This time they also feature a choir from Cornwall – so two for the price of one. Details below.
Brampton Abbotts PCC said thank you to Rosemary Knapp, retiring Churchwarden, after many years service from both her and her late husband John, as churchwardens. David Hughes presented her with a pastel drawing of the church which he had drawn especially for her.
Here’s another chance to hear the music of Ludovico Einaudi played by local pianist Ross Macmillan when he returns to St Mary’s on Sunday 30th April at 7.30 pm.
Saturday 15th April 2023 – 6pm. The Fever of the World
St Mary’s Church, Ross-on-Wye
Join Phil Rickman for a talk about The Fever of the World, the latest Merrily Watkins novel. Book 16 in the Merrily Watkins series – now a critically acclaimed ITV drama starring Anna Maxwell-Martin.
Merrily Watkins is Deliverance Consultant or Advisor on the Paranormal for the Diocese of Hereford. Or Exorcist, as it used to be known. It’s a real job; there’s at least one in every diocese in the UK. They work with psychiatrists, social workers and the police. And their own beliefs are often tested. There are few certainties. The borderline between psychology and the unexplained is often laid out in barbed wire.
Welcome to the River Wye: a place of poetry, historic obsession… and occult murder.
The curious death of an estate agent is being investigated by detective David Vaynor who, before joining the police, studied the famous 18th century poet William Wordsworth. As Vaynor is discovering, the dark paganism that changed Wordsworth’s life still lingers on the banks of the River Wye today – and there are some killings even the police can’t approach…
Enter Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mum, and diocesan exorcist for Hereford. Called away from her local hauntings, Merrily finds herself confronting the riverside ghosts who, as Wordsworth puts it, ‘promote ill purposes and flatter foul desires’. In the ancient heart of the Wye Valley, a buried grudge is about to come to light.
A joint event organised by and benefitting The Friends of St Mary’s Ross on Wye and Rossiter Books. £3 off the price of the book if you buy a signed copy on the evening.
This is your invitation to come on our final day when the risen Jesus meets his disciples.
On Maundy Thursday we had our Easter Celebration. We had created prayer and bible leaves for the trees in the Easter Garden and have made lots of flowers and birds which you will find when you come to St Mary’s on Easter Day.
These are the main events at St Mary’s. Full details of all these and more across the Ross Parishes can be found at https://rossparishes.uk/easter-2023/
Christians and Muslims venerate Jesus deeply. The Gospels and the Qur’an both call him the Word of God, narrate his birth from the Virgin Mary and detail his miracles. However, they also differ profoundly over crucial aspects of his life and person.
At this most poignant time in the church’s year, can any insights in the Islamic portrayal aid Christians? This talk will outline the Islamic portrayal of Jesus and enquire into possibilities.
Saturday 1st April – Coffee & Sgwrs @ St Mary’s with cakes and a raffle (and Welsh conversation if you wish) from 10.30 am until Noon, everyone welcome.
This month it’s provided by St Mary’s Toast & Toddle group.
Wednesday 5th April – Toast and Toddle, Easter special, from 10am
Wednesday 12th April – NO Toast and Toddle
Wednesday 19th April – Back to normal, 8.45 am
We are approaching the most exciting week of the Christian Year. We can’t pretend it’s a new story and there have been plenty of plot spoilers over the last 2000 years. But you’ll find the full range of services on our website at https://rossparishes.uk/easter-2023
Save the dates and join us for some or all of the journey which begins this Sunday (2nd April) with Palm Sunday services at Ross and Walford including a performance of the popular Faure Requiem in a service for Holy Week at St Mary’s, performed by our 60 strong Come & Sing choir. There’s still time to join that choir if you wish.
We are pleased to be welcoming the Hereford Police Choir to St Mary’s once more for a St George’s Day Concert on Saturday 26th April 2025, at 7pm.
This time their concert also features the Marches Military Wives Choir.
Saturday 1st April – Coffee & Sgwrs @ St Mary’s, with cakes and a raffle (and Welsh conversation if you wish) from 10am, everyone welcome.
Wednesday 5th April – Toast and Toddle, Easter special, from 10am
Wednesday 12th April – NO Toast and Toddle
Wednesday 19th April – Back to normal, 8.45 am
THIS WEDNESDAY
Wednesday 29th March 2023 – 7pm. The Story of the Quakers in Ross
John will give a talk in St Mary’s which will centre on the subject of his book but cover other aspects of church life, especially with reference to St Mary’s.
Book tickets on Ticket Source:
NEXT WEDNESDAY
Wednesday 5th April 2023 – 7pm. Easter & Islam
St Mary’s is recognised as a
Dementia Friendly Organisation by Dementia Friends
an Alzheimer’s Society Initiative.
Please visit rossparishes.uk/dementia-friends .
Our link is Derek Glover. He will be delighted to hear from you.
We would like you to take just five minutes to become a Dementia Friend.
We do it anyway, so please register then our attitude and action are known to others.
We have many opportunities to show our dementia friendliness:
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