Sunday Eucharist
8am Spoken, traditional language
10am Our main service, a sung Eucharist (Holy Communion) where all are welcome. Hymns, a sermon, lay-led prayers, children and youth groups, and sometimes incense, the service is 70 minutes long and is followed by coffee
Weekday Eucharist
A spoken half-hour weekday service::
Monday 7pm
Tuesday 10:30am
Wednesday & Thursday 12:30 pm
Friday 8am
Saturday 9am
Evening Prayer
6pm daily (Hybrid service, in church and Zoom)
St Bene’t’s building is the oldest in Cambridge, a tradition of prayer and worship going back a thousand years.
Prayer remains at the heart of what we are about, as we seek to respond to the God who in Christ has already reached out to find us. There are regular daily services at St Bene’t’s, and the church is open every day for people to visit and explore the history of the church or simply to find some stillness and peace in the midst of a busy city.
People come to St Bene’t’s from a range of backgrounds, with different gifts and experiences. We rejoice in the diversity of people God calls to follow him. So we seek to be an inclusive community, and to put into practice St Benedict’s teaching that everyone must be welcomed as Christ himself. As we try to keep that tradition of hospitality alive, we look forward to welcoming you.
How to speak of those things that we truly desire and long for?
God is constantly calling us, constantly generating newness within us.
There’s always someone ready to judge that your faith is too dour, or too liturgical, or not formal enough, or too loud…
The raven, however, knew what was happening.
I desire mercy, not sacrifice.
We are made people through other people.
It is our job to bring the Good News to the World.
Do we run the risk of treating our faith as a favourite football team?
We journey and tell stories and break bread because that is what the risen Lord has done for us.
Be buoyant. Float and flow on this river of light. Hold your hands not fiercely tight. Hold them open, cupped and spread so that the water of eternal life may pour into your life and out from your heart.
We will step with Nicodemus into the darkness of the tomb.
Let love be the river that bears the church through history.
We dare to imagine another possible world where violent conflict becomes peaceful reconciliation.
At noon, the only people coming the well were those who didn’t want to be seen by others.
Jesus tells Nicodemus and us that new life is a gift freely given to everyone who wants it.
How would our Lent change if —in a world worshiping strength and power, twisting institutions to serve the interests of the strong — our intention was ask Christ who hungered in the desert:
Where, Lord, am I weakest?
Where do you feel closest to God?
It’s all very good to have a clever idea. But it’s better to plan for maintenance and upkeep.
Feeling powerless and being powerless are very different things.
Baptism is a time of change.
I am certain that the gifts we receive from God are exactly the gifts we need.
Today is the day we remember that Christ came for all of us, to bring us all Good News.
The eternal Being of the Divine, and the mystery of the Incarnation, begins with Silence.
We are waiting for something deeper, more solid, more lasting and more wonderful than we can imagine.
Christian Hope is a fierce, deliberate, purposeful act of defiance.
If his throne is the cross, then his people must stand where suffering is real.
Unexpected, unfamiliar music, a song that rises, unbidden, from the heart.
We give thanks for the stones and the hands that raised them.


