Church Life
If you are joining us in the building please bring a face covering with you (unless exempt) and follow the social distancing measures outlined as your enter. We will continue to live-stream services online. For live-stream services please use our Facebook page or St Martin’s Digital.
Are you still shielding? Would you like to have a video conversation with Christian on the congregation-only Facebook page to share how you are doing with friends in the congregation? If you would, please contact Christian for more details (07846195972 / christian.saguyan@smitf.org).
Online Worship. We invite everyone to join with us in lighting a candle at the start of our worship to symbolise the presence of the Holy Spirit in each home, as well as in church.
Fortnightly Children’s Church/today, 4-5pm for children aged 4-12 on Zoom. For more information email sally.hitchiner@smitf.org.
Easter Flowers/The flowers in church to celebrate the risen Christ this Easter were truly wonderful. If you would like to contribute to the cost, please go to https://stmartininthefields.myiknowchurch.co.uk/giving and select Easter Flowers as the campaign. Thank you.
Phone Prayer/Mondays, 3.30-4.15pm. Call Christian on 07846195972 or email christian.saguyan@smitf.org.
Biblical Studies Class/Monday 12 April, 7.30-9pm. Lecture 7 – Matthew. Click here to register.
Sermon Preparation Workshop/Tuesday 13 April, 4.30pm. Livestreamed at the HeartEdge Facebook page.
Theology Reading Group/Sunday 18 April, 6pm. Explore and discuss Dante’s The Divine Comedy beginning, in this session, with the Inferno. Click here to register.
Faith Companions are groups of 3-4 congregation members who commit to making contact with each other once a week through the pandemic. If you are not in a faith companions group and would like to be contact sian.conway@smitf.org.
Baptisms and Confirmations with Bishop Sarah. If you haven’t been baptised or confirmed yet, please speak to Sally sally.hitchiner@smitf.org for more information.
On the Death of HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip has been at the heart of our national life since his marriage to the Princess Elizabeth in 1947. It’s hard for any of us to imagine him not being there. We came to assume he’d go on forever. The Christian faith is that, though no longer with us, by the mercy of Christ Prince Philip is now utterly with God. As St Paul said ‘I am convinced that neither death nor life shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.’
Here are some prayers we may say to entrust Prince Philip to God, his maker and redeemer.
God of time and eternity, you gave us the gift of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. In his vigour and humour you showed us the wind and flame of the Spirit, in his selfless devotion to Queen and country we see the sacrifice of the Son, in his care for creation and the outdoors we see the hand of our Father the creator. Make us people who love as he loved, lead as he led, and bring life as he brought life.
God of the future and the past, be close tonight to Her Majesty the Queen and all Prince Philip’s family and friends. Turn their grief to truer living, their sadness to firmer hope, and their sorrow to deeper joy. Give them grace to continue the Duke’s legacy, and to continue to inspire and guide this nation in the ways of justice and peace.
God of now and forever, we entrust Philip to your everlasting arms, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, promised by and embodied in your Son Jesus Christ. Amen.
