Church During Covid-19
In these challenging times we hope this page will offer spiritual nourishment and avenues for practical care.
Online Services & Virtual Gatherings
Sunday 18th April 2021
10.30am live streamed service in the church
Past services - still available to view
Sunday 12th July, 5th Sunday after Trinity: Service link
Sunday 5th July, 4th Sunday after Trinity: Service link
Sunday 28th June, Ss Peter & Paul: Service link
Sunday 21st June, 2nd Sunday after Trinity: Service Link
Sunday 14th June, 1st Sunday after Trinity: Service Link Service Sheet for Trinity 1
Sunday 7th June, Trinity Sunday: Link to Service. Service Sheet for Trinity Sunday
Sunday 31st May, Pentecost: Link to Service. Service Sheet for Pentecost
Sunday 24th May: Link to Service. Service Sheet for Easter 7
Sunday 17th May: Link to Service. Service Sheet for Easter 6
- Sunday 10th May: Link to Service Video. Service Sheet for Easter 5
- Sunday 3rd May: Link to Video. Service Sheet for Easter 4
- Sunday 26th April: Link to Service, 26th April. Service Sheet for Easter 3
- Sunday 19th April: 2nd Sunday of Easter Service
- Palm Sunday Worship April 5th: Link to Palm Sunday Service, 5th April. Palm Sunday 2020 service sheet
- Sunday Worship March 29th: Link to Service 29.03.20. Downloadable Service Sheet: 29.03.20 – Fifth Sunday of Lent
- Sunday Worship March 22nd: Mothering Sunday Benefice Service @ 10.00am. Click here to view. You can download the accompanying service sheet here: Mothering Sunday service 22 March.
Holy Week: Still Available to view
- Monday April 6th: Online reflection – Video link here.
- Tuesday April 7th: Online reflection – Video Link here.
- Wednesday April 8th: Online reflection. Video Link here
- Maundy Thursday April 9th: Link to 7.30pm service. Accompanying .Maundy Thursday order of service
- Good Friday April 10th: Good Friday Reflections: Link here – A series of reflections with accompanying artwork, music and silence. Streaming of the the Liturgy of Good Friday via Facebook – link here: https://www.facebook.com/CothamParishChurch/ You do not need to have a Facebook account to view.Good Friday service sheet
- Easter Sunday April 12th: 10am Celebratory Service, with Bishop Viv’s Easter Message, service link here. Service Sheet for Easter Day
Downloadable Holy Week resources and Covid Prayer resources that you can print at home and use for your own meditation and prayer. Covid Prayer & Holy Week Resources
Every Week
New Opportunity to join with Daily Morning Prayer @ 9am (M, T, W). Join our daily Morning Prayer using the Daily Office.
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Thursday Eucharist @ 9am. You will be able to join this using Zoom. A link for the service will be sent in an email the day before. If you would like to be added to the mailing list email highburypartnership@googlemail.com.
- The Thursday Pause @12.30pm. Currently via Zoom, this is a 30 minute pause in your day offering mindfulness and meditation grounded in Christian spirituality. A supportive, peaceful space. All are welcome. Zoom Meeting ID: 780 0786 5113, Passcode: 54911
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/78007865113?pwd=a1U5U0dOTitkTTJFUkh4TXFyOWdwdz09
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Sunday 5.48 Prayer Group: Meeting to hear each other’s stories of connection to St Paul’s and to pray for our way forward: Renew, Relinquish and Restore. Contact highburypartnership@gmail.com for more details, and zoom login. Meets Sunday’s during Lent at 5.48pm.
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Helpful Information about Zoom
Zoom is an online video conferencing application. It allows groups of people to gather for meetings using a computer, a tablet, or a smartphone. It even allows people to call in with any kind of phone and participate in gatherings. A Zoom meeting needs to be hosted by someone, usually the meeting’s organizer. They are the “host” and have some control over the meeting, like sending out invitations to join the meeting.
Joining A Zoom Meeting There are several ways to join a Zoom meeting.
1) You can join using a link provided in an email. Click the link and your computer’s browser will automatically prompt you to download the Zoom app. You must allow this to join the meeting. NOTE: in order to participate in a Zoom meeting, your computer must have a microphone and speakers. To allow others to see you, you will need a webcam, which most laptops have but not desktop computers. External webcams connected to a computer work fine as well. You don’t need a camera to use Zoom and see what is on the screen. A camera only allows others to see you.
2) You can join with a smartphone. It is similar to joining with a computer; you need the Zoom app to join. The steps are similar to joining with a computer.
Let’s look at joining a meeting on a computer:
Start by clicking the link in the meeting invitation. Your computer’s default browser will automatically try to launch the Zoom software. If the software is not already on your computer, the browser will automatically download the app. Follow all the prompts to install it (just click where it tells you to click). If it asks you to “Run” a file, click yes or run. You will join the meeting as soon as the software installs. This should only take a few seconds. If the software is already on the computer, you will be asked to “launch” the Zoom app. Before entering the meeting you will be asked to join audio. Click “Join with Computer Audio.”
Virtual Groups
Lent Groups – Listening Lent: Tuesdays at 7.45pm, starting February 23rd. An invitation to listen to God, one another and the world. Every Tuesday evening we will meet on zoom to reflect on a reading, listen to lockdown experiences, and have an opportunity to share together in smaller breakout groups, finishing with a simple service of compline (evening prayer). Finishes at 9pm. All very welcome.
Virtual Book Group – The Benefice Book Group is alive and well and ‘met’ recently. More details of March’s book and meeting date to come soon.
Everyone is very welcome. It’s an informal group – still getting to grips with the technology! Do get reading, and please contact Rob via highburypartnership@googlemail.com if you’d like to join the next discussion. Bring your own tea!
Student Group – Currently meeting virtually for a cup of tea and catch up every few weeks, contact Pippa for more details. Students also very warmly invited to The Thursday Pause (see above.)
Pastoral Support
- Call or email the office if you would like a phone call or to let us know if you need support. 0117 973 3395, cothamandstpaul@gmail.com
- Prayer list. Firstly, please know you are all being prayed for daily. Those on our intercessions list will be circulated with our weekly email newsletter. If you would like to pray with someone over the phone, or wish your prayer request to remain anonymous, please email cothamandstpaul@gmail.com and one of our clergy will be in touch.
- Phone a friend. Whilst we can’t be together in person, we can call, WhatsApp or even write a good old fashioned letter, let’s be in good touch with each other and beat social isolation.
- Bristol Sanctuary Offer a mental health service in partnership with the NHS that would normally provide a safe physical place for people to come to for a few hours in the evening if they are struggling emotionally. Whilst currently not seeing people face-to-face they are offering telephone support seven nights a week from 4-10pm. Call 01179542952 or 07709295661 from 4pm
- Oasis Trust Friendship Phone Line, if you fancy a chat Oasis have opened a special Friendship phone line during Covid-19. Open M-F, 11-3pm: 020 7921 4272.
- MIND resources. Mental health charity MIND have created an excellent set of resources for coping with all that Covid-19 is meaning for our mental health, particularly in coping with social distancing, anxiety and depression. Click here for more information.
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Clic is a free online community here to support everyone with their mental health. A place to connect with others for mutual support, share your thoughts and find helpful information.
Online Resources – new resources added
- Pray As You Go App – a wonderful 10 minute led daily prayer meditation, with music, scripture, space to pray and reflect. Highly recommended. Download here for computer, or search for the App on your tablet/smartphone.
- Daily Meditation (via email) from the Centre for Contemplation by Fr Richard Rohr. A short centering email meditation, offering helpful perspective and spiritual resources for our current situation. Visit www.cac.org to sign up for the daily email.
- A Prayer for Sleep – an 18 minute guided prayer for when you are finding sleep hard, from Spiritual Director Julian Maddock. Link here.
- Insight Timer: a smartphone app to support a spiritual practice, with meditations and prayers lead by people from all religious traditions
- Reimagining the Examen: another smartphone app, this time with wonderful takes on the Examen
- Sacred Space: screen-based prayer, with options for prayer in this time of pandemic.
- The BBC’s Daily Service and Sunday Worship
- Prayer for the day – each day the Church of England publishes audio and text of the Prayer for the Day.
- Smart speakers – daily prayer and other helpful audio content can be accessed via our smart speaker apps.
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