WelcomeWelcome to the official website of Whiston Parish Church. Situated in the heart of the community, St Mary Magdalene is the parish church serving Whiston Village and the surrounding areas. The church is now open again for public worship services and funerals. For the next few weeks there will be a spoken Eucharist service on a Sunday at 9.45am, with doors open from 9.15am. The services will be led by one of our two Oversight Ministers, either Revd Karen Skidmore or Revd Toby Gibbons. If you or anyone in your household is showing symptoms of COVID-19, please do not come to church because of the risk that you pose to others; but remain at home and self-isolate. These services will be very different from how we worshipped before COVID-19 and so we have drawn up a set of guidelines with the aim of keeping everyone as safe as possible during worship. These guidelines can be found in the section below this article; or on the church Facebook page; and they are available as you enter church. The guidelines are updated whenever the Government issues new guidance. We hope to resume our previous pattern of worship later in the year as the situation improves, but in the meantime we look forward to welcoming you safely at Whiston Parish Church on a Sunday morning.
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength . . . Love your neighbour as yourself. Guidelines for Church Services
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PCC Statement: COVID Procedures from 19th July 2021 onwardsThe Parochial Church Council met on 13th July 2021 and decided that, in view of the rising number of cases of Covid-19, the current measures for services at Whiston Parish Church will remain in place until September 2021. This means that masks have to be worn, hand sanitizer used, track and trace complied with; and social distancing maintained. We understand that some people may be disappointed but our priority, is to keep everyone as safe as possible |
Greetings from Whiston Parish Church on our Patronal FestivalIf anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see everything has become new! 2 Corinthians 5:17Dear Friends
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On Sunday we celebrate our Patronal Festival, the Feast of Mary Magdalene. In the Gospel reading we find Mary Magdalene seeing for the first time the Risen Lord and entering into a completely new relationship with him. In that moment of encounter her grief gives way to joy and a new world is ushered in. The Resurrection of Jesus changes everything. It changed things for Mary and the disciples, and it changes things for us today. Christ leads us into a new life, a life where sins are forgiven, a life where there is hope. Hope is everything. To say yes to Jesus and to new life is where hope began for Mary. It is where it can begin again with us as we slowly emerge from Lockdown.
We read today’s Gospel: John 20: 1-2, 11-18
We say or sing verses from the hymn Love divine:
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Please contact any of us if you need to talk or simply to have a chat.
Email: whistonparishchurch@gmail.com Take care of each other and remember God is good.
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