Serving God in the heart of our community since 1881

St Andrew's Church, Taunton

 

Appointment of new Vicar at St. Andrew's Taunton

We welcome you to our website

"St. Andrew's is a community of celebration and of hope"

This is how one of our church members recently described St Andrew's, and our aim is for this website to capture that spirit online - our faith, our worship, our people, and our community. We hope that you will enjoy looking around, and will come back often, as the site is updated every week.

 

Our church is first of all a spiritual centre, a place where people can find God, be nourished in their spiritual journey, and grow in their life of faith. If you could come along to one of our services your presence would be a joy to us and to God.

 

If you have any questions or suggestions please do contact us using the 'Get in Touch' button.  You will find all of our contact details there, including access to a location map. We also love to know a little more about our web guests, and would really appreciate it if you could take a moment to sign our Visitors' Book. 

 

Again, welcome and thank you for visiting our site.

Worship at St. Andrew's Church Taunton UK
Sunday 6 May 2007 Fifth Sunday of Easter   8.00am: Holy Communion (said) A quiet and reflective start to Sunday   10.00am: Parish Communion An opportunity to offer the events of the past week to God, and to be renewed and nurtured in preparation for the week to come. A warm welcome awaits you at this sung Eucharist, which is at the heart of our weekly pattern of worship at St. Andrew's.	Wednesday 9 May 2007   10.00am: Holy Communion (said)	Sunday 13 May 2007 Sixth Sunday of Easter   8.00am: Holy Communion (said) A quiet and reflective start to Sunday   10.00am: Service for all ages Worship, a Bible reading, a talk and of course some hymns and songs. A warm welcome awaits you and we hope that you will stay for a chat and refreshments afterwards. A Traidcraft stall will follow the 10am service.   6pm: Holy Communion at Kilkenny Court

 

Gospel Reading for Sunday 13 May 2007

John 13: 31-35

Jesus Heals on the Sabbath

After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralysed. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, ‘Do you want to be made well?’ The sick man answered him, ‘Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Stand up, take your mat and walk.’ At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk.

Now that day was a sabbath.

Quote of the Week

“God was with Mary in Joseph’s companionship on the road to Bethlehem.  When we look for God’s presence in our lives, we must look not for signs but for people.  God’s love rarely comes to us as an abstract mystical force.  It is almost always incarnate, channelled through human agents, expressed and experienced only in community.”

From “Rediscovering Mary” by Tina Beattie, available in the Parish Library.