Serving God in the heart of our community since 1881

St Andrew's Church, Taunton

 

Appointment of new Vicar at St. Andrew's Taunton

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"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 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	Wednesday 16 May 2007   10.00am: Holy Communion (said)     Thursday 17 May Ascension Day Holy Communion with Canon Russell Bowman-Eadie   (Please note that incense will be used at this service)   Read more about this service	Sunday 20 May 2007 Seventh 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.

 

Gospel Reading for Ascension Day 17 May 2007

Luke 24:44-end

Then he said to them, ‘These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.’ Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, ‘Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And see, I am sending upon you what my Father promised; so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.’

Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them. While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy; and they were continually in the temple blessing God.

Quote of the Week

“God’s compassion is not something abstract or indefinite, but a concrete, specific gesture in which God reaches out to us.  In Jesus Christ we see the fullness of God’s compassion.  To us who cry out from the depth of our brokenness for a hand that will touch us, an arm that can embrace us, lips that will kiss us, a word that speaks to us here and now, and a heart that is not afraid of our fears and tremblings;  to us, who feel our own pain as no other human feels it, has felt it, or ever will feel it and who are always waiting for someone who dares to come close - to us a man has come who could truly say, “I am with you.”

From “Compassion” by  Henri J. M. Nouwen, available in the Parish Library.