Parish Magazine
Our parish magazine has gone digital! Here are the offerings since the 2020 lockdown.
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Livestreamed, online and pre-recorded Services
Video compilations and recordings of livestreamed services, together with the orders of service, since July 2020. Videos of services compiled at the start of lockdown between March 2020 and June 2020 can also be viewed on the church’s Sunday Services playlist on YouTube.
July 2021
18 July: Trinity 7
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11 July: Trinity 6
9.30am Parish Eucharist
Resources
4 July: Climate Sunday
9.30am Parish Eucharist
Resources
Evensong
June 2021
27 June: Fourth Sunday after Trinity
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
20 June: Third Sunday after Trinity
9.30am Parish Eucharist
Resources
6.30pm Evening Reflection
13 June: Second Sunday after Trinity
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6 June: First Sunday after Trinity
9.30am Parish Eucharist
Resources
6.30pm Evensong
May 2021
30 May: Trinity Sunday
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
23 May: Pentecost
9.30am Parish Eucharist
4.00pm Service of readings and hymns
Resources
16 May: Seventh Sunday of Easter
9.30am Parish Eucharist
Resources
13 May: Ascension Day
7.30pm Parish Eucharist
9 May: Sixth Sunday of Easter
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
2 May: Fifth Sunday of Easter
9.30am Parish Eucharist
Resources
April 2021
25 Apil: Fourth Sunday of Easter
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
18 Apil: Third Sunday of Easter
9.30am Parish Eucharist
Resources
11 Apil: Second Sunday of Easter
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
4 Apil: Easter Day
9.30am Parish Eucharist
6.30pm Easter Evening Service
3 April: Easter Eve
8pm Easter Vigil
2 April: Good Friday
10am Diddy Disciples Good Friday service
11.00am Journey to the Cross: All Age service
2pm Good Friday Service
1 April: Maundy Thursday
7.30pm Eucharist
March 2021
14 March: Mothering Sunday
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Informal Worship
7 March: Third Sunday of Lent
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Evensong
February 2021
28 February: Second Sunday of Lent
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Evensong
21 February: First Sunday of Lent
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Evensong
17 February: Ash Wednesday
7.00pm Eucharist
14 February: Sunday next before Lent
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
7 February: Second Sunday before Lent
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
January 2021
31 January: Presentation of Christ in the Temple
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Prayer in the style of the Taizé Community
24 January: Third Sunday of Epiphany
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
17 January: Second Sunday of Epiphany
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Evensong
10 January: Baptism of Christ
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
3 January: Epiphany
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Epiphany Carol Service
2020
December 2020
24 December: Christmas Eve
4.00pm Christingle service
11.30pm Midnight Mass
20 December: Fourth Sunday of Advent
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Carol Service
13 December: Third Sunday of Advent
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
3.00pm Special Lives
6 December: Second Sunday of Advent
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Evensong
November 2020
29 November: Advent Sunday
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Advent Carol Service
22 November: Christ the King
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Prayer in the style of the Taizé Community
15 November: Second Sunday before Advent
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Evensong
8 November: Remembrance Sunday
8.30am Parish Eucharist
10.55am Service of Remembrance
6.30pm Service for Peace
1 November: All Saints
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Evensong
October 2020
25 October: Dedication Festival
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
18 October: Luke the Evangelist
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Informal Worship
11 October: 18th Sunday after Trinity
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
4 October: Harvest Festival
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Evensong
September 2020
27 September: 16th Sunday after Trinity
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
20 September: 15th Sunday after Trinity
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Prayer in the style of the Taizé Community
13 September: 14th Sunday after Trinity
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6 September: 13th Sunday after Trinity
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Evensong
August 2020
30 August: 12th Sunday after Trinity
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
23 August: 11th Sunday after Trinity
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
16 August: 10th Sunday after Trinity
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
9 August: 9th Sunday after Trinity
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
2 August: 8th Sunday after Trinity
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
July 2020
26 July: St James the Apostle
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Patronal Festival Evensong
19 July: 6th Sunday after Trinity
9.30am Parish Eucharist
12 July: 5th Sunday after Trinity
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Informal Worship
5 July: 4th Sunday after Trinity
9.30am Parish Eucharist
11.00am Church Alive
6.30pm Prayer in the style of the Taizé Community
Other videos on our YouTube channel
Something for everyone!
Bible Story Time
As part of an intergenerational project, our church members have been recording Bible Stories to share with young children. Go to YouTube playlist
Holy Habits
Holy Habits is about a way of life, a rhythm formed in response to the call of Jesus, and has parallels with our Bishop Tim’s initiative a couple of years ago encouraging us to write and follow a Rule of Life, a flexible framework to help us to grow more like Christ. By creating our own Rule we can incorporate a practical way of responding to the love of God by committing ourselves to a number of actions that will help us grow up in our faith.
Sponsored by the Methodist Church and promoted by the United Reformed Church, the Holy Habits material is being used by a variety of denominations, and some parishes in our Diocese and Deanery have been using the series for discussion groups to explore the breadth of discipleship.
Our series is prepared by Alan Jenkins LLM. Weekly sessions will be made available over the first few months of 2021. Go to YouTube playlist
Thoughts for the week
A midweek offering prepared by our Ministry Team in 2020. Go to YouTube playlist
Mark’s Gospel
Mark’s Gospel in six parts recorded by Mike O’Brien, BCM Worship Leader.
The church cycle of readings for 2020/21 (Year B) focuses on Mark’s Gospel. Each Sunday we explore a few verses of a gospel telling us about the life of Jesus. Perhaps it’s a bit like going up a mountain and each Sunday we can explore just a little view ahead. It can be so helpful sometimes to step right back and take in the whole mountain, the whole story of Jesus life, death and resurrection, and be filled with wonder and awe at the magnitude and mystery of it.
Stations of the Cross
The Stations of the Cross, also known as ‘The Way of the Cross’, refers to walking with Jesus in reflection and prayer using 14 images depicting Jesus’ journey to Golgotha. At St James’ Church we have ‘station’ images around the walls of the Nave. In Lent we make the opportunity to pause by each image, taking time to stop be still, watch and pray.
Recorded as part of a series during the Coronavirus Pandemic in 2020 when our churches were closed in an unprecedented attempt to limit the spread of the disease, and with the United Kingdom and most of the world in ‘lockdown’. Prepared by Carol Kidd LLM.
Pew news
These have been paused while the majority of our worshippers are not able to join us in the pews because of the Covid-19 restrictions. For current notices please see the homepage.
Our online archive of pew news are generally available for Sundays between 1 July 2018 and 8 March 2020. To download, please type into your browser address bar:
http://www.stjameswestend.org.uk/documents/pew-news/[year]/[year]-[month]-[day]PewNews.pdf
For example, 5 January 2020 pew news can be found at
http://www.stjameswestend.org.uk/documents/pew-news/2020/2020-01-05PewNews.pdf
PCC annual reports and financial statements
This section contains the annual trustee report and accounts submitted to the Charity Commission over the past five years. Public records of church’s financial details can be found at the Charity Commission website.
An archive of most of our digital content since around 2020