We normally refer to our main Sunday morning Service as our Parish Mass or Solemn Eucharist. Eucharist means ‘thanksgiving’, reminding us of Christ’s prayer of thanksgiving when he took bread and wine at the Last Supper.

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When we refer to our Parish Mass as a ‘Solemn’ Mass, we mean that in our we worship we are going to use all our senses, including sight, sound and smell. So we use different colours in the altar frontals and vestments, indicating different church seasons and we use candles. Incense is used to symbolise the mystery of our prayers as they rise to God. Bells are used to mark important events in the service; and we use music - through our singing and listening to the organ - all these enhances our prayers and enrich our worship of God.

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Children’s activities are provided. Children learn about the day’s themes and do related activities. Sometimes, the children help with parts of the main service.

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A different times of the year we also hold additional service later in the day, which may be Evening Prayer or Evensong. These traditional services are used to thank God for the day and to ask for his protection during the night hours. We will often include Eucharistic Devotions as part of this service.

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Eucharistic Devotions, also known as Benediction, which include prayers, readings and hymns and the important ceremony of blessing the people present with the exposed Blessed Sacrament,

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We look forward to welcoming you to our services.