A contemplative, candlelit service of Taizé: Song, Scripture, Silence and Serenity. This month’s Taizé service is especially focused on the season of Advent, and the Eve of the Feast of the Conception of Our Lady.

All are welcome; doors open at 7.45pm

Disability History Month

You’re invited to a reading group during Disability History Month. We’ll be looking together at Amy Kenny’s My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church, on Saturdays at 4.30pm from 22 November thru 13 December

This week we’re meeting in church and over Zoom. Click here for the Zoom link.

This week: Online Only!

You’re invited to a reading group during Disability History Month. We’ll be looking together at Amy Kenny’s My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church, on Saturdays at 4.30pm from 22 November thru 13 December

This week we are meeting online-only; Click here for the Zoom link.

Join us for a drinks reception as we celebrate the temporary artwork installation of Laut Adalah Kehidupan (The Ocean is Life, 2018) and Ratapan Lautan (Lament of the Ocean, 2025). For details see stbenetschurch.org/laut

You’re invited to a reading group during Disability History Month ! We’ll be looking together at Amy Kenny’s My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church.

This group is hybrid, meeting St Bene’t’s and over Zoom, on Saturdays at 4.30pm from 22 November thru 13 December

The church is wheelchair accessible, but we don’t yet have accessible toilets.

Click here for the Zoom link.

A solemn, spoken Requiem eucharist for the Feast of All Souls — the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed.

“'The believer's pilgrimage of faith is lived out with the mutual support of all the people of God. In Christ all the faithful, both living and departed, are bound together in a communion of prayer.' This simple, agreed statement from the Anglican--Roman Catholic International Commission explains the purpose of the celebration on this day. Since its foundation, Christians have recognised that the Church, the ecclesia, the assembled people of God, is at its most perfect when it recognises its unity in God's redeeming love with all who have said, who say now, and who will say in the fullness of time, 'Jesus is Lord'. “

(Exciting Holiness, © European Province of the Society of Saint Francis, 1997)

A contemplative, candlelit service of Taizé: Song, Scripture, Silence and Serenity. This month’s Taizé service is especially focused on the feasts of All Saints’ and All Souls’.

A festal sung Eucharist for All Saints’ Sunday. From its earliest days, the Church has recognised those heroes of the faith whose lives have inspired others to holiness, and has assumed a communion between the Church on earth and the Church in heaven. Celebrating the feast of All Saints began in the fourth century, as we give thanks for those lights of their several generations and pray for the grace to follow in their footsteps.

NB: There will be incense used at this service.

Join us as we celebrate St Bene’t’s Church, at our annual Dedication Festival — when we give thanks for the founding of St Bene’t’s, over a thousand years ago!

Almighty God,

to whose glory we celebrate the dedication of this house of prayer:

we praise you for the many blessings

you have given to those who worship you here:

and we pray that all who seek you in this place may find you,

and, being filled with the Holy Spirit,

may become a living temple acceptable to you;

through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,

who is alive and reigns with you,

in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, now and for ever.

Our young adults group meets with with Hannah Fytche, a PhD student in New Testament at the Faculty of Divinity (University of Cambridge), to discuss the women of Romans 16.

The 20s & 30s Group meets on Tuesday evenings, with snacks at 6.30, and Bible study and conversation from 7pm, ending with a sung Compline service.

Join us on the first Tuesday of every month after the 10.30am Eucharist for an informal time of coffee, tea and biscuits with friends. Including friends you haven’t met yet!

On the Feast of St Matthew come hear our Creationtide preacher, the Rev’d Imogen Nay — Bishop's Advisor for Climate, and Vicar of St Paul’s, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Imogen has been involved in local environmental action since her curacy, when, instead of asking the congregation to give up food for Lent, she encouraged people to take steps to give up actions that hurt the environment. Later, in her first incumbency, she was part of a team that pioneered Muddy Church, a place for people to gather together, outside and to connect with the space and God. 

Imogen's parish in Rugby won the prestigious A Rocha Eco Church Gold Award, a scheme for churches in England and Wales to equip your church to express your care for God’s world in your worship and teaching; in how you look after your buildings and land; in how you engage with your local community and in global campaigns, and in the personal lifestyles of your congregation.

Since then, Imogen has organised conferences on eco-theology, led green retreats and workshops, promoted the A Rocha scheme and enjoyed new forms of outdoor worship. Imogen is looking forward to the networking eco-lunches that are happening across the diocese and in collaborating with others to ensure we are able to rightly value and rejoice in God's abundant and diverse creation. 

Imogen has recently published an article on wild swimming, nature spirituality and baptism.

Patronal Festival & Lunch

Join us as we celebrate St Benet's' and Saint Benedict!

Following the 10am sung eucharist, we will share a festive lunch in the garden.

Refuge Egypt is one of our Mission Giving partners, based at the Anglican/Episcopal cathedral in Cairo. They provide care for refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in Egypt, especially from Sudan and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Following the 10am service, parishioner Sheila Rozeik will share her experiences with them and their work in Cairo for 15-20 minutes, leaving plenty of time for Q&A

For background information, see UNHCR - Refugee Context in Egypt.

Interfaith Picnic

Extend hospitality and become friends through sharing at the Woolf Institute, Madingley Road.

Participants are encouraged to "bring and share" different dishes from their religious or cultural traditions. All should be vegetarian due to dietary requirements.

Children are welcome, always supervised by adults.

Grantchester Orchard Trip

On the afternoon of Sunday 18th May we will be walking to The Orchard in Grantchester for tea and cake. - all walking speeds welcome.

Please meet in church at 1:45pm for a 2pm start (or join us at The Orchard from 3pm).

Any questions please contact Nicola Pearson…otherwise just turn up! All are welcome.

Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM)

We meet to celebrate the ministries of St Benet's', to review our finances, to look forward in our mission and this year to elect two churchwardens and three PCC members, as well as a Deanery Synod representative.

Confirmation Service with Bishop Dagmar Winter

8am Traditional language Eucharist
10am Sung Festive Eucharist

Our traditional Easter Vigil service, with the Lighting of the New Fire, and First Eucharist of Easter

10am: Journey to the Cross, a service particularly suitable for children and families
11.30am: Ecumenical act of witness, in the Market Square
12noon: Preaching the Passion, followed by prayerful silence and then the Good Friday liturgy, ending at 3pm. 

Join us for our annual pre-Lenten quiz night!

A fun evening of trivia, food and drink.

All are warmly welcome