St Clements Urmston

All are welcome

Welcome to our church All are invited, all are included All are made welcome, none are excluded. We’re here for everyone. Everyone is welcome at our church. Want to come to church? Come along! Just turn up. You will be welcome. One of the great things about being in a church with the doors open […]

11Aug

Stained and Painted Glass at St Clements – including windows by Shrigley and Hunt

The windows of St Clements Church are a particularly interesting part of the church fabric. Although many are plain glass there are a number of painted/stained glass windows that were commissioned to be memorials for people significant to the life of the church or local

08Aug

Church community or church in the community – some ideas about reordering from the experience of others

If we were to design churches now, they would look very different; accessible, catering facilities, toilets, meeting spaces, audio visual equipment etc but its unlikely we could ever afford the incredible stone buildings that our forebears built that we enjoy (and often take for granted) now. Most of us love the

30Jul

Raising the Roof – programme of roof repairs

Once again we are looking at how we can raise money for the final phase of the roof repairs here at St Clements. If you are new to St Clements you may not know that the church has Grade 2 listed status; because of the quality of the architectural heritage that it provides. It is […]

30Jul

50 Things to Do In a Church

Sing Pray Be silent Talk to the vicar Have a cup of tea Listen to the gospel Celebrate communion Listen to the sermon Look at the stained glass windows Light a candle Listen to the sermon If you get stuck after this it is perhaps not surprising as these are what we have been used to […]

18Mar

What is ‘Holy Week’?

The introduction to ‘Passiontide and Easter’ in the official liturgical books of the Church of England give some interesting historical background to this season in Lent. The origins of this annual memorial of the the death and resurrection of Christ are lost in the mists of time. We do not know when

03Feb

‘Ordinary’ time

What makes something ordinary? Maybe the fact that its not extra ordinary? Not outside the usual way of things? My granddaughter said the other day ‘wouldn’t it be awful if it was Christmas everyday! You would get presents but you would never have any time to enjoy them before you got another

02Feb

Candlemas

Today (2nd February) is known in the Church as the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. It is a celebration of the recognition of Jesus as the Christ, the Messiah, who was promised from old and who would bring redemption of Jerusalem and, ultimately, through Jesus’s widening of the invitation

02Feb

VALENTINES DAY – Let’s celebrate the feast!

Do you know the origins of Valentines Day? In fact St Valentine was a Christian Martyr called Valentinus, though we don’t really know which one he was (there were several). Lots of stories grew up about St Valentine, Wikipedia quotes this one: ‘ Saint Valentine of Rome was imprisoned for performing

13Jan

Epiphany

We are now in the middle of the season of Epiphany. Christmas has flown by! In the UK Epiphanytide doesn’t get much of a good press. Once Christmas day is over and the easter eggs are in the shops no one seems to remember the wise men, or the magi as they are often called. […]

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