Our services to which all are welcome!
Dear Friends, each of you, whether living in Evington or elsewhere, is warmly welcome to come to St. Denys or other locations where stated, for our Christmas services and events. These are:
Tuesday 16th December, Night Prayer (Compline) via Zoom only, 8pm. A short, quiet and reflective prayerful service. This will be led by our former Curate Revd Mark Batchelor. Zoom ID: 820 0369 6332. Please e-mail office@stdenys.org.uk for the passcode.
Wednesday 17th December, Carol Singing in the Cow and Plough pub, 7pm, 2 Gartree Road, Oadby LE2 2FB. Join members of St. Denys church and the community in hearty singing and merriment over your favourite tipple!
Saturday 20th December, 10am – 12noon, St. Denys Church. Do you find Christmas difficult for any reason? Blue Christmas is an informal, quiet time to reflect, light a candle, pray and be with others in a similar situation. You do not have to stay for the whole time (but can if you want to!)
Sunday 21st December, 6pm, Traditional candlelit service of 9 Lessons and Carols in St. Denys, with your favourite carols to join in with, supported by a full choir and organ. This will be followed by mulled wine and mince pies in the adjoining parish centre, if you wish to stay and partake.
Wednesday 24th December (Christmas Eve), 4pm, Combined informal Crib and Christingle service, for all and especially enjoyed by families with young children.
Wednesday 24th December (Christmas Eve), 11.15pm, Christmas Holy Communion (Common Worship) leading into Christmas Day and our celebrations of the birth of our Lord and Saviour, with carols and sermon.
Thursday 25th December (Christmas Day), 10am, Informal Christmas Day Holy Communion
Sunday 28th December (1st Sunday of Christmas), 10am, Holy Communion (Common Worship) with hymns and sermon.
Do join us!
Followed by a Bring and Share Harvest Lunch!
This coming Sunday 12th October at 10am, we celebrate our annual harvest festival and Holy Communion. This is a service for all the family! Please bring any donations of non perishable food and other items to church before the service begins for which we will be very grateful. This year, they will be given to the foodbank at Wesley Hall in Evington.
During the service, our Pastoral Warden, Kimberley Tyler, will be commissioned as a ‘Locally Authorised Minister’ for St. Denys, exciting times for St. Denys in our ministry within the Evington village and parish. Do come along if you can to support her.
After the service, a bring and share harvest lunch will be held in the parish centre attached to the church. All are welcome to this time of fellowship together.
It is suggested that, if staying for the lunch but not bringing a contribution of food along, a donation of £10 is made per such person. A donation of £2 is suggested for tea and coffee.
St. Denys would like to invite all who have been bereaved at any time, to join us for our annual service for All Souls on Sunday 2nd November starting at 4pm.
This is a quiet and reflective service, with appropriate hymns and readings, during which we read out the names of all those who have recently and not so recently died, and we pray for God’s comfort and strength in our loss. There will also be an opportunity to light a candle in memory of our loved ones.
After the service, tea and coffee will be served in our parish centre attached to the church,.
We hope you may be able to join us and look forward to seeing you. You are most welcome.
If you wish for the name or names of a departed loved one or more to be read out at this service, irrespective of whether or not you can attend on the day, please e-mail the Administrator with the name/s and he will add it to the list. The e-mail address is: office@stdenys.org.uk
Thank you.
On Sunday 5th October at 4pm, the choir of Leicester Cathedral will visit St. Denys to sing Choral Evensong. This is part of their ‘Together With’ scheme visiting parishes around the diocese. It will be their second visit to us, the first being on Easter Day 2022.
It is very rare these days to find Choral Evensong being performed in smaller parish churches, especially by a professional choir of a very high standard.
Come along to soak in beautiful music and, experience a big uplift to your spiritual well being in the process, as they join with us to worship God in this way.
Don’t miss this opportunity! All are welcome. Refreshments will be served in the Parish Centre attached to the church at the end of the service.
On Sunday 5th October at 10am, we are pleased to welcome the Bishop of Leicester, the Right Reverend Martyn Snow to preside and preach at our service of Holy Communion.
It is a while since his last visit. All are welcome as ever. Following the service, light refreshments will be served in the Parish Centre attached to the church.
This coming Sunday 20th July at 10am, will be the last service with us, before moving on to pastures new, for one of our two Readers, Sian Rigby.
Sian has served as a Reader with us for nearly 10 years as well as being on the PCC, Temporary Safeguarding Officer, Lay Vice Chair and of course, leading services and preaching.
We are very sorry to see Sian go and thank her for all that she has contributed, towards the faith, life and work of St. Denys Church. Her time with us has been highly valued and we are very grateful. Thank you very much Sian.
On a different note, the PCC and people of St. Denys extend warmest congratulations to Sian and her fiancee Zak on the occasion of their wedding being held at St. Denys in early August. We wish you both a lovely day and a lifetime of happiness together.
Please join us for this very important time in our faith and witness
Palm Sunday, 13th April, 9.45am, Holy Communion with the blessing of Palms, walk of witness to Evington village centre and back, and plenty of singing! We are delighted that the Right Reverend Saju Muthulaly, Bishop of Loughborough, will be presiding and preaching.
Monday 14th, Tuesday 15th, Wednesday 16th, Compline via Zoom only, 7pm, Zoom ID: 820 0369 6332 – please e-mail: office@stdenys.org.uk to request the password.
Maundy Thursday 17th, 10am, Holy Communion with foot washing and stripping of the altars. Refreshments at the back of the church will follow at the end, after a suitable pause. This will be the only service in church this day.
Good Friday 18th, 2pm, ‘The Last Hour’
Easter Day 20th, Alleluia, he is risen! 6am, Holy Communion Dawn service around the firepit in the church gardens (weather permitting!) If poor weather, the service will be held inside the church.
Easter Day 20th, He is risen indeed! 10am, Holy Communion for all in church followed by refreshments in the adjoining parish centre.
All are very welcome to any or all of our services!
and there was light!
To celebrate the completion of the installation of our brand new exterior lighting system at St. Denys, a Songs of Praise and Thanksgiving Service will be held in the church tomorrow, Saturday 12th April at 3pm. This will be followed by tea and cake in the adjoining parish centre!
All the hymns and songs sung during the service have been chosen by members of the congregation and some will briefly say what their choice means to them, before it is sung.
We are most grateful to all those who have sponsored each of the lights that now line the pathways around the church, greatly enhancing the safety of all who access the church and parish centre and contributing massively to a rather heart warming atmosphere.
All are welcome to attend. We wish to make this a big celebration. See you there!
A celebration of Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem on a donkey
On Palm Sunday, this coming Sunday, we are delighted to welcome the Right Reverend Saju Muthulaly, Bishop of Loughborough, to preside and preach at our Palm Sunday service of Holy Communion. The service, designed by our Pastoral Warden Kimberley, will include the blessing of Palms and a short walk of witness to Evington village centre, possibly singing a hymn, before returning to church to complete the service.
Bishop Saju will be accompanied informally, by the new diocesan Director of Racial Equality, Sophie Holder, who is visiting different churches and worshipping with their congregations to get to know people in the diocese as part of her new role.
Please note that this service will begin at the earlier than usual time of 9.45am.
Following the service, all are very welcome to stay and chat over tea, coffee and biscuits with Bishop Saju and Sophie in the adjoining Parish Centre.
Sarah, our Youth and Community Worker had worked for St. Denys for 6 years. Sadly, due to the uncertainty surrounding the forthcoming re-structuring of the Leicester diocese, affecting all churches within it, the PCC has not felt it possible to renew Sarah’s contract. Last Sunday 6th April, we therefore said goodbye to Sarah at the morning service. We express our sincere thanks for all the work she has done, many things of which would not have been possible without her, including the technology for services, Musical Toddlers, Youth Club and our current work in our local secondary schools.
Thank you so much Sarah, we are indebted to you. We wish you all the best for the future.
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