The church building will re-open for private prayer with effect, Friday 19 June, between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m
Diocese of Oxford
Diocese of Oxford
Covid News (Page 8)
We shall be ringing the church bells every Sunday at 11:55 to remind the village that we continue to pray for our community, which the Rector will do at 12 noon. We cannot gather for corporate worship, but we can worship individually outdoors at any time, respecting social distancing should others be nearby
Personal prayer will be permitted in church from next week. We are putting measures in place to allow anyone who wishes to pray in church, to safely do so. Please see the notices on the boards.
God of compassion, be close to those who are ill, afraid or in isolation. In their loneliness, be their consolation; in their anxiety, be their hope; in their darkness, be their light; through him who suffered alone on the cross, but reigns with you in glory, Jesus Christ our Lord. O God, help me to trust you, help me to know that…
Dear Friends How wonderful that we are on the verge of having our beautiful church building open, once again, for people to come into for private prayer. The members of our leadership team are currently working hard to enable the safe opening of the church in line with recent government guidance. It will probably be a while before we can all…
Parish Letter, 20200607 Dear Friends, If you haven’t yet had the opportunity to walk the meandering path in our wild meadow to the east of the churchyard, then I would encourage you to pop up there and take time to observe the diversity of plants which are growing there, even in this very dry early summer. I was fortunate to meet Sally…
Sadly we have taken the decision to cancel the Friends of St Bartholomew’s wine and nibbles on June 18th, because of the high, daily number of new cases of Covid-19
A letter from our Church Warden, Roger Barnes Dear Fellow Members of St Bartholomew’s This Sunday is Pentecost, or Whitsunday as the Book of Common Prayer has it. The word Pentecost is from the Greek word meaning fiftieth and marks the start of the Jewish Harvest Festival 50 days after Passover (Easter to us). Pentecost is the birthday of the Christian Church…
Letter from the Rector 22 May 2020 With my greetings, at this Ascension-tide: I expect that, like most of us, you have planned to use the time we have “spare” during lockdown to spend on those things we have been meaning to do for a long time… and surely here’s the opportunity to get on and do it! Or perhaps not,…
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