LSM Services
Epiphanytide 2021
Monday 18th — 25th January: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
Please see the important information below about our latest arrangements for continuing services, both in church and online. There are also links at the foot of this page to a variety of resources for prayer and worship from home.
Donations for the Foodbank will be welcome if they can be brought to church at service times during the week (or taken directly to foodbank collection points) but please do not leave them outside a locked church door!
Sunday services — online until further notice
The Parochial Church Council has agreed that for the safety of all, with effect from 17th January and until the Covid situation improves sufficiently, our Sunday worship should move exclusively online.
Mass at 10.30am and Evening Prayer at 6pm will be streamed live via our Facebook channel (link at lower right of all our web pages). Weekday services will continue according to the usual pattern as below, for as long as we are confident that this can be done safely. These arrangements will be kept under review as necessary.
Weekday services — in church and online
For the time being the Mass and daily offices will still be offered in church throughout the week. Daily Masses are at the following times:
- Monday & Friday 12.30pm
- Tuesday & Thursday 7.45am
- Wednesday (live streamed) & Saturday 10am
Morning Prayer is offered from Monday to Friday at 8.20am
Evening Prayer is said daily, including Sundays, at 6pm.
It is streamed live except on Fridays.
All these services take place in the body of the church to allow social distancing. Advance booking is not necessary (though under current guidance and regulations face coverings must be worn where possible). Worshippers are asked to leave contact details or log in using the NHS Covid-19 App.
If you are not happy to attend church in person or if you are housebound for any reason, if you are in hospital or living at a distance, you are encouraged to follow our streamed services (every day except Friday) or to use the resources linked below for prayer and worship.
Resources for Lockdown or Isolation
You can offer Morning and Evening Prayer daily using the readings given below:
- Readings for the Daily Office & this week's Reflection
- Worship from Home: you can use this order of service either to follow our streamed services week by week, or independently (you will need a Bible for the readings). If you would like a printed copy of the booklet please contact Elaine in the Parish Office.
- BBC Radio 3 broadcasts Choral Evensong from a different cathedral or church every Wednesday at 3.30pm (live when possible, and usually repeated the following Sunday at 3pm)
BBC Radio 4 broadcasts a 40-minute service each Sunday at 8.10am.
Radio 4 LW also broadcasts a 15-minute Daily Service from Monday – Friday at 9.45am.
These services are also available on BBC Sounds for 28 days after broadcast. - Corpus Christi — a meditation by Fr Andrew Hutchinson
- Latest news from the Church of England
- Spiritual Communion (poem)
- Daily prayer services
- Coronavirus: can words help? — an essay by the Rev'd Professor Donald MacLeod
- Rules for Worship
