This year’s harvest festival will be held on Sunday 2nd October at 11am, at St Michael’s Church, followed by buffet lunch at Footpath House, 23 Gains Lane. Everyone is welcome to either or both.
Please bring food to share; hot and cold beverages, crockery and cutlery will be provided.
Lunch will be al fresco (there will be gazebo cover for wet weather).
Any queries please contact Mrs Purllant, tel: 01832 293943 or email: clarabeth@hotmail.com
An exhibition of ongoing research into those from the Giddings who served in the Great War has been mounted in St Michael’s Church.
The exhibition will run from Friday 7th November until Thursday 13th November, and will be open from 8.30am – 4.00pm each day.
A delightful and varied programme of music is in store at St Michael’s Church this summer.
Ball & Socket captivated an enthusiastic audience here two years ago, and we are delighted to welome them back with their mix of Flanders and Swann songs and other material in similar vein.
Tickets: £12 (includes finger buffet and glass of wine). To purchase tickets, please telephone: 01832 293357
Proceeds in aid of Chancel Roof Restoration Fund
An illustrated talk by Dr Gillian Ward Russell on the London organist, and her forebear, William Russell (1777-1813).
Tickets: £10 (available at the church door on the day)
Promoted by Peterborough & District Organist’s Association
Voluntary: Choral Dorien (Alain)
Introit: One thing I have desired (Sumsion)
Responses: Barber
Canticles: Ridout in F
Anthem: Never weather-beaten sail (Parry)
Address: Reverend (Wing Commander) Mike Elliott, Royal Air Force (Retd)
Voluntary: Fantasia in A minor BWV 904 (J.S Bach)
Steven McIntyre (Organ Scholar, Peterborough Cathedral)
Leslie Crowson (tenor)
Music by Bach, Stanley, Mendelssohn, Stanford and Mushel
Tickets: £6 (available at the church door on the night)
Proceeds in aid of Chancel Roof Restoration Fund
Voluntary: Choral Prelude ‘Nun danket alle Gott’ (Kauffmann)
Introit: In omnem terram (Giovanni Francesco Aneiro)
Opening responses: Caesar de Zachariis
Magnificat: Francesco Soriano (octavi toni)
Nunc Dimitis: Ivo de Vento (quarti toni)
Responses after the Creed: plainchant
Anthem: Beati eritis (Giovanni Croce)
Address: Reverend Paul Skirrow, Honorary Warden, Ferrar House, Little Gidding
Voluntary: Te lucis ante terminum (John Redford)
As Mary, Brian and Neville prepared St Michael’s Church bells for the Remembrance Sunday Service in Great Gidding we had a sneak view of the church tower and steeple and then out onto the parapet to see the views across the village towards Hamerton, Luddington and north towards Sawtry.
Video of view from St Michael’s Church in Great Gidding
As part of a self-intiated project (and to bump us up Google rankings!) we are making videos of various aspects of the Giddings. To start with here are videos of St Michael’s Church in Great Gidding, St John’s Church in Little Gidding and St Andrew’s Church in Steeple Gidding. If any one has any ideas or suggestions of other subjects suitable for videoing and related to the Giddings (keep it clean!) please email Paul.
Paul Crank
Rogation Sunday is traditionally the Sunday when the rural community walk around their village to places where crops grow and animals are kept, to seek God’s blessing on their work, and especially to pray for a good harvest.
Rogation Sunday falls on 5th May this year, and we are marking it with a Rogationtide Walk, followed by a picnic.
We meet in St Michael’s Church at 11am, and then walk around the village stopping at a number of points for readings and prayers. Please come dressed for all weathers! Some rain won’t put us off.
Afterwards, we go to Churchside House (John De Val’s home next to the church) where we will enjoy our picnic – outdoors if fine, indoors if wet!
Please come and join us and bring your own picnic – drinks (of all sorts) will be provided.
Please do come along and find out the acheivements and challenges faced by your local church.
Over the last few years, many things have happened in St Michael’s Church which have enhanced the beauty of this place of worship as well as improving the facilities.
On Sunday 21st April we are holding a Service of Thanksgiving to reflect our thanks to God for his goodness as well as recognising the generosity of so many people, both in terms of giving and creating. After the service there will be refreshments.
May we extend a warm welcome to you to join as at this service. St Michael’s Church is an important part of the infastructure of the village, and this is obviously recognised by the number of people who give so generously of their time, money and talents.
The service starts at 3pm.
Sadly the Palm Sunday procession and service have had to be cancelled thanks to the dire weather we are experiencing this weekend. We apologise for any disappointment.
A big ‘thank you’ to everyone who contributed to making the Chilli Evening with the “Auction of Promises” such a huge success. It was a really enjoyable evening, mainly as a result of the wonderful food and drink, followed by the excellent performance of our auctioneer who succeeded in persuading people to bid generously (and occasionally unwittingly!) for the many items up for auction. We were delighted to welcome friends from Winwick and to be able to “get our own back” – in the nicest possible way! The evening raised the staggering sum of over £2000 for church funds.
None of this would have happened but for the hard work of Mary Read, Sue Shepherd, Jane Edwards, Anthea Keck and all the team who organised the event. Yet this effort would have been for nothing had not the evening received the tremendous support it did from people far and wide.
Once again thank you to everyone for your time, generosity and support.
Revd Mary Jepp, Lois Jordan & John DeVal