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

Our Sunday Eucharist will be led by the young people of St Bene’t’s Church, and everyone is invited.

The service will be our regular Sunday liturgy, but the prayers, sermon, and readings will all be led by the young people of St Bene’t’s.

Meet at the Cambridge Central Mosque on Mill Road – by Brookfields Hospital – for a parish tour of the new Cambridge Central Mosque, winner of the Royal Institute of Britsh Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize People’s Vote.

Please contact the vicar in advance, as spaces are limited for this tour.

Join us for a festal service of Holy Communion, with the chapel choir of Corpus Christi College, as we mark the Feast of the Presentation. The Rev’d Dr Matthew Bullimore, Chaplain of Corpus, will preach, and blessed candles will be shared with the congregation.

One of the oldest feasts in Christianity, Candlemas commemorates the presentation of Jesus at the Temple by Joseph and Mary ( Luke 2:22–40), and marks the end of the seasons of Christmas and Epiphany.

The tradition of giving out blessed candles on this day dates back to the 5th century, and is a way to commemorate Jesus as the Light of the World – and to symbolically bring that light into our own homes.

Everyone is invited to our Christmas Day services of Holy Communion,

• 8am (spoken, Traditional Language)

• 10am (with carols, sermon, and play area for young children)

Journey to Bethlehem: All-Age Christmas Eve

An All-Age Christmas Eve service, as we celebrate together the story of the Nativity.

Join us as we gather outside the church to sing carols, enjoy hot drinks, and with our neighbours make ready for Christmas! There’ll be a collection for the Cambridge Churches Homelessness Project, and everyone is warmly welcome

On the shortest day of the year - a good time to be together for a time of quiet prayer and Taizé music — especially for those of us who find the holidays a struggle.

You are invited to join ReSound as we sing some of our favourite songs of Love, Peace, Hope and Resilience in the beautiful and  resonant St Bene’t’s Church (the oldest building in Cambridge).  Please aim to arrive around 1.45pm, though the doors will be open before … This is a free event but you are encouraged to donate.

From 3.00 – 3.50 pm, we will all go outside to the Church garden (or stay in the church if it’s wet) and sing carols and festive songs, led by Rowena Whitehead, with anyone who cares to join us.

Song sheets will be provided. Dress warmly with thick shoes! As always at these events (which go back well over 15 years) we will be collecting for Wintercomfort, the Cambridge charity which supports homeless people, so please bring cash for the collecting tin;  a card reader will be available for card donations

Mel Eyeons will be leading our Advent Book Group on Thursdays at 7pm over Zoom, starting 28 November.

We’ll be reading Rachel Mann’s Do Not Be Afraid: The Joy of Waiting in a Time of Fear, which is The Archbishop of York's Advent Book 2024.

To sign up, contact Mel (meleyeons@hotmail.com) or the Vicar.

Zoom link here

Reflections’ is a 45-minute lunchtime concert programme devised and performed by bassoonist Laurence Perkins, who is regularly featured on Classic FM, BBC Radio 3 and worldwide radio stations.

Admission is free, and donations will be invited for UK-Med and Music Action International - two registered charities who are providing vital medical and therapy support work with survivors from the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

For more information and a 2-minute sampler video —>

 https://laurenceperkins.com/concertsforpeace

Save the Date: Sunday Supplement with Embrace The Middle East.

Make a note in your diaries for an informative and interesting discussion after the 10am service.

A representative from the charity Embrace will talk about Gaza, the West Bank and other Middle Eastern areas. Further details to follow.

A presentation and open conversation on Assisted Dying legislation and Christian ethics. This is a Resoucrcing Faith annex event — a similar format to our Resourcing Faith conversations, but free.

The conversation will begin with a presentation by PhD candidate George Palmer. Small group and conversations will be supported to ensure a safe, pastoral environment for all.

St Bene't's is wheelchair accessible.

Tickets available at eventbrite

Join us for the first Resourcing Faith study day of the academic year, hosted jointly by St Bene't's Church and Little St Mary's, Cambridge - The Many Faces of Christianism: From the 'Russian World' to the Challenge of Illiberalism in Contemporary Democracies

Can Christianity be reclaimed from populism?

Dr Mariëtta van der Tol, Research Fellow at the Faculty of Divinity, will explore questions of politics, populism, Christian nationalism, religious plurality, and the future of democracy.

Specialising in the comparative study of politics, law and religion, she leads the interdisciplinary networks ‘Religion, ethnicity and politics in German, Dutch and Anglo-American contexts: nationalism and the future of democracy’ and ‘Protestant political thought: religion, state, nation’.

Her book Constitutional Intolerance: the fashioning of 'the other' in Europe's constitutional repertoires (2024) appears in the CUP series comparative constitutional law and policy.

Tickets are £5 and available from https://resourcingfaith12oct.eventbrite.co.uk/

(please enquire directly if you require a free ticket)

Coffee is available from 10am

At the church - all are welcome