St. Nicholas’ services
Extra detail, and potentially variations, for services in the near future may be found in the pew leaflet, which is circulated by email via the mailing list, and is available for downloading on our “What’s On” page.
Regular Sunday Services
| 8.00am | Holy Communion (said) |
| 9.30am | Sung Eucharist (with Sunday Club during school terms) |
| 11.30am | Morning Praise |
| 4.30pm | Simply Worship (on first Sunday of selected months) |
| 6.30pm | Choral Evensong (no service during the school summer holidays) |
Weekday Services
Wednesday
| 9.15am | Morning Prayer (not in August) |
| 10.30am | Eucharist (said) |
Saturday
| 10.30am | Eucharist (said on the first Saturday of the month) |
Notes
All services are ‘Common Worship’ modern language except where indicated otherwise.
BCP = Book of Common Prayer Traditional Language.
SUNDAY
8.00am Holy Communion
This is a quiet traditional language Common Worship said Holy Communion service with a sermon.
9.30am Sung Eucharist
This service is a formal but family-friendly Common Worship Holy Communion service with a sermon. There is a robed choir assisting with the music and who sing an anthem each week. The service runs for about 75 minutes. There is a crèche for the under fours and Sunday Club for primary school age children. Refreshments are served in the church hall after the service. Six times a year there is an all-age service when everyone is in church and brownies, beavers, cubs and scouts attend in uniform, and there is often an orchestra as well as the organ playing.
11.30am Morning Praise
Engaging for young people, depth for adults
This family friendly service is for all ages and all stages of faith. Some have a clear strong faith in Jesus Christ, others are wondering if Christian faith can be relevant and true for life today, and many are somewhere in between.
Our aim is to give you the opportunity to encounter God in the ways of Jesus Christ and in the life of the Holy Spirit.
Our contemporary service includes opportunity to pause in the midst of full lives, to pray, to worship God, to reflect on life through looking at the Bible, and to be renewed through faith in Jesus Christ and the Spirit.
We are a growing congregation. We try to give a warm welcome, give opportunity to know others, and if it fits, to use your gifts.
‘welcome, worship, nourishment, service, shaped by the love and call of Jesus Christ’
For more information, please send an email to morningpraise@stnicholasharpenden.org
4.30pm Simply Worship – first Sunday of selected months (Sept, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Apr, May, July)
This is a simple informal service for all ages which generally lasts for about 45 minutes with hymns and songs and a short talk on a theme for the day. Children are present for the whole service. There is a play area at the back of church for younger ones. If you would like to sign up to our Simply Worship mailing list please click here
6.30pm Evensong
This is a traditional Book of Common Prayer choral evensong with hymns and a sermon. The choir sing a setting of the canticles, the psalm and an anthem. It is a lovely reflective service in which the music plays a large part in enabling the worship. It lasts up to an hour. There is no Evensong during the school summer holidays and other selected Sundays during the year. Please see the pew leaflet for details of each week’s services.
WEDNESDAY
10.30am Holy Communion
This is a said Common Worship service lasting for 40mins including a brief sermon. The congregation gathers in Cornelia’s for coffee afterwards.
SATURDAY
10.30am Holy Communion
On the first Saturday of each month we hold a Book of Common Prayer Holy Communion service, with no sermon or hymns. The congregation gathers in Cornelia’s for coffee afterwards. Please see the pew leaflet for any changes to the pattern of services.