Posts by Bryony Taylor (Page 48)

Sing Easter Hymns with us and people around the world on Easter Day at 10am from your garden or window!

Easter Sunday 2020 will be an Easter Sunday like no other before it. We cannot sing the great Easter hymns inside our churches, but we can sing them in this way… At 10am on Easter Sunday 12 April 2020 we call on all who want to celebrate the resurrection to go outside and sing Jesus Christ is Risen Today and Thine be the Glory at the top of their voices! You could sing them… in your garden in your street like an Italian from…

Funerals during the pandemic

It is now possible to have a funeral service in our churches again. In accordance with government guidelines, attendee numbers are limited to 30 and there will be no communal singing but the organ may be played or recorded music. Please tell your funeral director in the usual way if you would like Rev Bryony Taylor to take your loved one’s funeral. The service will be shorter than usual with of fewer people in attendance. Next year you may wish…

Take part in this Sunday’s service – sign up to help

I would like as much as possible to involve people in our online Sunday worship. There are 4 ways to help: send in a voice recording send in a video send me some text (ie. write intercessions as normal and email them to me for me to read out) send me a photo or picture that you’ve drawn Doing a reading: To take part in the readings, figure out how to record your voice on your phone using the built…

An act of Spiritual Communion – to say at home

The term ‘Spiritual Communion’ has been used historically to describe the means of grace by which a person, prevented for some serious reason from sharing in a celebration of the Eucharist, nonetheless shares in the communion of Jesus Christ. The form of prayer below offers Christians an opportunity to give thanks for their communion with him, particularly at times when they would ordinarily be present at the Eucharist. The Book of Common Prayer instructs us that if we offer ourselves…

Online Sunday School ideas

Now children are not in school, this is an opportunity for them to help us with our online services! Children are far better with new technologies than adults and can be very creative. So to get your creative juices flowing, Rev Bryony is issuing a challenge to all creative kids to make a video, audio recording or picture to send in for inclusion in our Sunday service. Send it by email to Rev Bryony or direct via our Facebook pages.…

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