Family Events and Celebrations
It is a privilege for the church community to host people when they come to celebrate and commemorate the important events of family and community life.
Whether you are wishing to celebrate the gift of new life through Baptism, or your marriage, to commend a loved one at the end of their life, or to commemorate or celebrate any event or achievement, you are most welcome to contact us about it.
Wherever you are on Life’s pilgrimage, we can assure you of our prayers.
Initially, please contact the Parish Priest.
Seasons, Feasts and Fasts 2024
Ascension Day: 9th May 2024
The day of Christ’s glorious ascension into heaven which we celebrate with worship and fun. Followed by nine days of prayer for the Holy Spirit.
7pm: at Orchard Barton Celebration Eucharist and Party!
Pentecost: 19th May 2024
A day to celebrate the sending of the Holy spirit on the first disciples, and to pray for the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire the church. Pentecost Sunday is often referred to as the Birthday of the Church.
This year Pentecost Sunday falls on a Third Sunday, so the Eucharist will be celebrated at 9.30am at Lifton and at 11.15am at Lewtrenchard.
Celebration of Christian Marriage and Family Life
Sunday 19th May 2024 3pm at St. Peter Lewtrenchard
Trinity Sunday: 26th May 2024
A day to think. Trinity Sunday is the day we are asked to contemplate the very nature of our loving God.
This is a fourth Sunday, so the Eucharist is celebrated at 9.30 at Thrushelton and at 11.15 at Stowford.
Priest's Letter May 2024
From the Parish Priest
Dear friends,
This year, because of the date of Easter, May is a month full of celebrations!
There have been some wonderful celebrations in our churches recently. Our commemorations of our Lord’s Passion Death and resurrection were appropriately solemn and joyful, and our gathering at Broadwoodwidger for our confirmation service was indeed a very special occasion. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to our church life and worship for these occasions.
The celebrations continue, with Ascension Day on the 9th May. This is a Principal Feast: as important as Christmas and Easter, but often forgotten about. Do please come and join us as we celebrate the triumph of Christ ascending into Heaven. This is one of those occasions when we are taking Church out of the building, this time to the lovely Barn at Orchard Barton. Where we will celebrate both with worship and with food and Fun!
The feast of Pentecost follows on the 19th, and this year coincides with one of our Baring-Gould Celebrations at Lewtrenchard: celebrating his marriage and family life. This should be a lovely celebration, and everyone is welcome.
Finally, on the 26th there is the Feast of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity! The day to contemplate the very nature of God.
We celebrate the love of God in the context of a world that seems to have forgotten what love is. The news from the Holy Land, Ukraine, and many other places is both deeply saddening and frightening. But we are taught that there is no situation, and no person, or group of people, that are beyond the reach of God’s love.
As we celebrate the truths of our faith, we should not rest in prayer and action to work for the Love of God in heaven to be demonstrated by his people on earth.
With love and prayers,
Philip