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Baptisms - Sunday 12:15pm These services normally take place on the second Sunday of the month and in a suitable service lasting for forty minutes with hymns baptisms take place. Bi-monthly
memorial service We have now devised a special service to help those whose funeral has recently taken place either at the church or the local crematorium. Those who have had a loved one die are invited to a service that has incorporated within it gentle hymns, a bible reading, poems, lighting of candles, a reflective address and appropriate prayers. Members of our Pastoral Care Team are on hand to speak to the bereaved afterwards over refreshments. Worship being planned for 2009 A monthly youth service on Sundays at 8pm A ‘seeker style service’ once a month for three months taking place in the summer/ autumn ‘Farming/ rural services’ covering not simply the themes of Harvest, but also Rogation, Lammas and Plough Sunday |
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Plough Sunday is a traditional English celebration of the beginning
of the
agricultural year that has seen some revival over recent years.
Plough Sunday celebrations usually involve bringing a ploughshare into
a
church with prayers for the blessing of the land.
It is traditionally
held on the Sunday after Epiphany,
the Sunday between 7 January and 13
January.
Accordingly, work in the fields did not begin until the day
after Plough Sunday: Plough Monday.
As well as a ploughshare, in rural
areas, it is common for
local farmers
to attend the service with their tractors - both new and old (see photo).
traditionally set apart for solemn processions to invoke God's mercy.
They are April 25, the Major Rogation, coinciding with St. Mark's Day;
and the three days preceding Ascension Day, the Minor Rogations
On this day it was customary to bring to church a loaf made
from the new crop. In many parts of England, tenants were bound to
present freshly harvested wheat to their landlords on or before the first day of August.
