Services

Parish Communion – a Sung Eucharist with Sunday School

Our most frequent Sunday morning service follows the traditional Anglican Communion, or Eucharistic, service. We have traditional hymns and the Gloria and Responses sung to the Patrick Appleford setting of the Mass in E.  The service lasts for almost an hour.  Sunday School for children is held in the adjoining vestry during the service, with the children joining in at the communion. Refreshments are served afterwards.

Sung Evensong (Book of Common Prayer)

Our usual Sunday Evensong follows the traditional Book of Common Prayer service.  It includes a sung Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis and Psalm as well as sung Responses and traditional hymns.  This service is often conducted by one of the Readers.

About four times in the year there is an alternative form of Evensong, often following the Ionia pattern.  These are advertised separately.

Midweek Holy Communion (Said Eucharist)

This midweek eucharist is a spoken service, based on a modernised Book of Common Prayer, generally held on Thursdays at 10:00am.  It lasts for a little under half an hour.

Sunday 5th January 2020

Parish Communion with the Bishop of Hertford

Sunday 2nd February 2020

Fr Tim Pilkington’s last service

Evening Eucharist in place of usual Evensong

Midweek Holy Communion (Said Eucharist)

This midweek eucharist is a spoken service, based on a modernised Book of Common Prayer, generally held on Thursdays at 10:00am.  It lasts for a little under half an hour.

Café Church

Café Church is a new type of service being offered in Little Gaddesden on the second Sunday of most months of the year, unless there is a clash which makes it impractical.  The format will be entirely different from our other services, including the Family Service that used to occupy the ‘second Sunday’ slot:

• Wonderful fresh coffee and pastries upon arrival.
• Informal seating at tables.
• Accessible worship on screen.
• Lively music.
• Time to think.
• Time to pray.
• No formality.
• Time to discuss (no boring sermon!), just an opportunity to ask questions and share, if you wish, in a non-threatening environment.
• There will be a separate teaching activity for younger children during part of the service.
• Service should last no more than 40 minutes.
• Stay after and finish the pastries!

 

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Café Church is inspired by ‘Reaching New People’ (RNP), one of St Albans’ Diocese’s key initiatives.  In 2020 we are going to explore new ways of reaching people who aren’t currently engaged with the Church, whilst at the same time inspiring, refreshing and enriching all those who are already part of the congregation. We also want to encourage those who used to come to church on a Sunday, but for whatever reason have let churchgoing become less of a priority in their lives, to return.

Sung Evensong (Book of Common Prayer)

Our usual Sunday Evensong follows the traditional Book of Common Prayer service.  It includes a sung Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis and Psalm as well as sung Responses and traditional hymns.  This service is often conducted by one of the Readers.

About four times in the year there is an alternative form of Evensong, often following the Ionia pattern.  These are advertised separately.

Holy Communion at Ashridge Chapel

The Ashridge Chaplency has been taken on by Revd John Russell.  A Eucharist service will be provided on a quarterly basis in the Chapel and will take the place of the mid-week communion at Little Gaddesden.

 

 

Header image by Ben Leto on Flickr (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Parish Communion – a Sung Eucharist with Sunday School

Our most frequent Sunday morning service follows the traditional Anglican Communion, or Eucharistic, service. We have traditional hymns and the Gloria and Responses sung to the Patrick Appleford setting of the Mass in E.  The service lasts for almost an hour.  Sunday School for children is held in the adjoining vestry during the service, with the children joining in at the communion.

Refreshments are served afterwards.