Yesterday evening, a week after the Prime Minister's announcement of the third national lockdown, the PCC Standing Committee resolved that we should close for public worship, as we have done in the previous two periods of lockdown.

Although I know that this will be a disappointment to some, the committee felt that the message from the government is clear: stay at home; and that we as a church should be supporting that message. With this highly transmissible new variant of the virus, the safest thing for all of us - congregation, volunteers and staff - is for our worship to be online only for the time being. 

Our regular pattern of online worship continues here as it has since March:

9.00am daily - Morning Prayer

10.00am Sundays - Eucharist, followed by Zoom coffee and chat

And on Zoom:

4.00pm first Sunday of the month - Family Service

In addition, this coming Sunday we will have an Epiphany Carol Service at 6.30pm.

Over the last year we have all learnt more than we thought possible about how to care for each other, how to worship and pray, how to be a church, without being together in the same place. We enter this new lockdown better prepared and better resourced than before. For now, let's do all we can to keep each other safe and well, so we can all be together again the other side of this. I hope and pray for that day to come soon.

Every blessing,

Kat

Rev'd Kat Campion-Spall

Associate Vicar

St Mary Redcliffe Church