Click here for Lent 2024Urban AbbeyDaily PrayersMattins, Evensong & Compline.
Mattins and Evensong are sung in the Church daily (except Monday), see schedule above for the timings. Compline is sung daily online at 9pm. Email us for a link. Feasts & Fasts |
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Old Wine ClubA university student or young adult? Interested in good companionship, a nice meal and seriously deep discussion about important stuff? This is definitely for you.
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Some Recent Sermons at S Giles-in-Reading
Palm Sunday
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Fifth Sunday in Lent (Passiontide)
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Third Sunday in Lent
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Second Sunday in Lent
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Wedding of Richard and Lizzie
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First Sunday in Lent, Fr Stuart Tanswell
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Sunday before Lent (Ord 6)
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4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Advent 2, 2023
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Christ the King, 2023
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Twenty-ninth Sunday in OT, 2023
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The final "hour" of Christian prayer is Compline. The word comes to us from the Old French, complie, to complete or finish. Christian prayer sees sleep as a "little death" as it brings the day (a little life) to an end; Compline is a sort of little "Viaticum" or "food for the journey." We meet online daily at 9pm, and we finish with a poem.
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