Posts by Bryony Taylor (Page 50)

Giving to church during the pandemic – and beyond!

While our churches are closed we cannot receive all the monetary gifts we usually do, here’s how you can help by joining the Parish Giving Scheme and giving by Direct Debit. A regular gift really helps our cash flow, prevents the need for us to count cash and go to the bank (thereby keeping us safe) and the scheme automatically claims Gift Aid. It gives all of us peace of mind – you’re not worrying about your envelopes with your…

Daily Hope – free phone line of hymns, reflections & prayers 0800 804 8044

Do you have friends and relatives who don’t use the internet? This new phone line nicely complements our Dial a Sermon system so now you can attend church over the phone! For Rev’d Bryony’s sermon of the week from the parishes of Barlborough and Clowne dial 01246 388487. For hymns and prayers and the national Sunday service dial 0800 804 8044, read more here: https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/news/archbishop-canterbury-launches-free-dial-worship-phone-line-during

Spiritual Communion Online Service for the 3rd Sunday of Easter

Join us for worship by pressing play below. Make sure your speakers are turned up nice and loud! I know some people found the sound dropping in the church service a bit today. I will make sure that doesn’t happen next week, I was using some new video editing software. Did you know, however, that you can add subtitles? Just click on the CC button in the bottom right of the screen and subtitles will automatically appear:

Said Eucharist live on Facebook for St George’s Day

Watch and take part in a spiritual communion service for St George’s day. Follow the order of service by downloading it here: Apologies, the signal dropped just after the gospel reading so the rest of the service is here: https://www.facebook.com/revbryonytaylor/videos/10157339194325756/

What kind of funeral do you want? Take the opportunity now to think it through and share with family

We all really struggle to talk about death and dying. It truly is the last taboo in our society. But every day at the moment on the news we hear the sad news of further (mostly untimely) deaths. As a priest, I spend a lot of time having to confront death and dying as I visit sick parishioners and regularly take funerals. One of the most stressful things for a family organising a funeral is if the person who has…

A simple daily prayer service to say at home during Eastertide

In New Zealand people are not using the term lockdown to describe the current restrictions on our lives, they are using a Maori term: rāhui. Rāhui is a spiritual ritual of temporary reserving, a prohibition placed on an area of land to allow it the time to recover. This “closed season” is often imposed when there is a threat of losing the sacred natural resources so that there can be restoration and healing. Not only does the whole world deeply…

Online Service of Spiritual Communion for the 2nd Sunday of Easter

Welcome to our service on the 2nd Sunday of Easter. Turn your speakers up, make yourselves comfortable and press play! Before you watch you may want to read the Gospel reading which I forgot to include in the video! You can listen here: John 20.19–31 19 When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood…

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