Tadcaster Benefice

We are looking forward to hearing from John and Gillian Robinson on life at the Place of Grace in Thailand during the pandemic.

Please join us at 2pm at St Mary's, Tadcaster to hear from them.

Kirkby Wharfe fete will be returning for 2021 on Saturday 21st August.  Please get this date in your diary, this event extremely popular and a lovely day out for all.  It raises fund for St John the Baptist, Kirkby Wharfe.  The church weren't able to hold the fete in 2020 and missed out on the vital funds the fete provides.

Please join us for a special Morning Prayer service on Tuesday 23rd March to mark the National Day of Reflection.  We invite all to join us, particularly those who have lost a loved one in the last year.

Our service will be held on zoom and livestreamed to Facebook on our Tadcaster Benefice facebook page, if you aren't able to join us live you will be able to watch the service on Facebook at any time afterwards.

Zoom meeting ID 9861012744
​Password 377646

We also encourage all to join the minute of silence at 12noon, and to light a candle/lantern and place in your window at 8pm.

Please join us on zoom/facebook live on Sunday 14th March for our Mothering Sunday service, celebrating and giving thanks for all who play a caring role in our lives.

Meeting ID 9861012744
Password 377646

As a Benefice we would like to share our love of prayer with each other and with the wider community.
During February we will be particularly focusing on prayer. 
 
At St Mary’s, Tadcaster and St Mary’s, Church Fenton we have placed ‘say one for me’ prayer post boxes, and encourage all to add any prayer requests.  Where appropriate we will read these prayers at Morning Prayer or other services. 
 
For our children and young people Rev Lucy is using a prayer tree as part of the Virtual Assembly and encourages them to use the leaf template available on our website: prayer_leaves.pdf (stmarystadcaster.co.uk) so we can add leaves of prayers to the prayer tree. 
 
We offer space for prayer each day of the week; with Morning Prayer at 9.30am Monday-Friday, Compline on Sunday, Tuesday and Friday evenings, and on Saturdays in February St Mary’s, Tadcaster will be open for private prayer.  We will shortly have details available of when other churches in our Benefice will also be open for private prayer.
 
As we did in November, we will again join in with the Archbishop’s Prayer for the Nation with a prayer for each day at 6pm:
 
In response to reaching the terrible milestone of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19, the Archbishops invite all to call on God in Prayer. Starting on 1 February we invite you to set aside time every evening to pray, particularly at 6pm each day. More than ever, this is a time when we need to love each other. Prayer is an expression of love.

We’re very excited to be able to offer Morning Prayer on Tuesday to Friday at 9.30am on Facebook Live.  Go to the www.facebook.com/TadcasterBenefice page to join us, you may need to sign up for a facebook account if you don’t currently have one.  We will ask you to submit things you would like prayers for in the comments, please remember this is public so just use initials if asking for prayers for people.  This is new to all of us, so please bear with us as we get used to offering this.  If you’d like to have a service sheet you’ll be able to find them for each day on our website:  Social - Tadcaster Benefice (stmarystadcaster.co.uk)

For children we have a Storytime on zoom session at 10.30am on Tuesday’s.  This is aimed at 0-5 year old’s and their grown ups.  There will be a story and activity.  On Tuesday 12th the story is ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’.  Why not dress up as a bear or make a den at home before you join the meeting!  We’ll be using our usual zoom details for this. 
 
Rev Lucy will also be providing a ‘virtual assembly’ each week, at 10.30am on Wednesday’s, this will be held on facebook live on the Tadcaster Benefice facebook page.
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A reminder…
We have a weekly quiz scheduled for at least the next three weeks, that will be at 11am on Thursdays on our usual zoom meeting details.  These are just for fun and very social.
 
Don’t forget we have a coffee morning each Saturday on zoom at 11am on our usual zoom details, grab a hot drink and join the meeting for some chat – maybe Chris Edmond would be tempted to treat us to a song?!

Photo Challenge
We enjoyed the New Year photo challenge on Facebook so much that it’s been extended to be a whole of January challenge.  Head to our Tadcaster Benefice facebook page to find out more.

All are invited to join us on zoom or facebook live on Sunday 13th December at 4pm for our Benefice Christingle Service.

Normally we have teams making up Christingles for us to give out during services - this year we are making Christingle Kit bags and everyone will make their Christingles together in the service.

Christingle kit bags will be available to pick up at selected times on Saturday 12th December.  The bags will have been put together more than 72 hours in advance of the service and will be fully covid secure.

St Mary's, Tadcaster will be open on Wednesday 2nd December for private prayer, 11am to 2pm.

St John's, Kirkby Wharfe & Ulleskelf will be open for private prayer on Saturday 5th December, 2-3pm.