SUNDAY SERVICES
8.00am                                     Holy Eucharist (BCP)
9.30am                                     Parish Eucharist (Provision for accompanied children in the Long Playground)
11.15am                                  Matins 
The church will be open for private prayer until 6pm.

We will record one of our Sunday Services and upload it during the afternoon for those who are unable to come to the church.  The link will be available by clicking on the poster below Mother Emma's message.
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​If you would like to come to a service, and so we can monitor attendance numbers, please chose a service time on eventbrite below.

You can also read our risk assessments for private and public worship.
Eventbrite link to St Mary Abbots Services
 WEEKDAY SERVICES
9 am                  Morning Prayer on Zoom                             Monday -  Friday.      Email  pa@smaw8.org to join
10 am               Church opens for Private Prayer             Monday - Saturday
12 Noon         Midday prayer in the church                       Monday – Saturday
12.15 pm       Holy Eucharist                                                    Tuesday and Thursday only
2 pm                 Church closes                                                       Monday - Saturday (6 pm on Sunday)
5.30 pm          Evening Prayer said individually.              https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/join-us-service-daily-prayer

CHURCH ACCESS
 Access to the church will only be possible through the cloisters and the south door.   Opening the church is dependent upon our maintenance of good practices including:
  • Sanitising our hands at the entrance
  • Wearing masks in the church
  • maintaining 2 metre distancing from others
  • following the one way system
The back of the church will be roped off, but the front of the church and the two chapels are available for you to sit and pray.  Please be very aware of others praying and avoid sitting near to them. If possible do not use the ends of the pews as this tends to be where everyone sits and it will leave you closer to those passing in the aisle.

A message from Mother Emma
 
Dear all
 
Greetings at the end of this extraordinarily warm week!  It has been lovely to see or speak to many of you over recent days, and we look forward to welcoming some of you back to church for our services this Sunday (please remember to sign up via Eventbrite!).  We also hold in our prayers and thoughts everyone who is away on holiday at this time, and, of course, people who remain self-isolating at home.
 
The Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary and 75th Anniversary of VJ Day, Saturday 15th August
This weekend the church marks the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and we also remember VJ Day - the ending of the Second World War, seventy-five years ago.  To commemorate both these events, we shall be offering an additional Eucharist on Saturday 15th August at 12 noon, with Fr Jonathan presiding and me preaching, and this service will be recorded and will then become our online provision for this weekend.  Places can be booked using the eventbrite button above.  On Saturday the service will be available by clicking on the button on the poster below.
 
Children's Sunday Provision
Please note that our Curate, Alice, and her husband, Cain, who has been leading our children's activities on a Sunday morning in recent weeks, will be taking a well-deserved break over the next two Sundays, so individual activity packs will be available for children in church.
 
APCM and Electoral Roll
You may be aware that our Annual Parochial Church Meeting and Annual Meeting of Parishioners had to be postponed from 1st April due to the beginning of lockdown.  We have now re-scheduled them for Wednesday 16 September at 6.30 pm, and the formal notice will be up in church this weekend.  This means that we are required to revise our Electoral Roll and bring it right up to date once again, and the forms will be back in church this Sunday.  If you did not sign up to the Roll in March, and are a regular worshipper and/or live within the parish boundaries, please do fill in a form at church or contact Ed Warrick, our Electoral Roll Officer on er@smaw8.org or on the electoral roll page of this website: www.smaw8.org/electoral-roll.html
 
As we remember all who lost their lives in the Second World War and all who work for peace or fight for justice today, we pray:
 
For the peace of the world
O God, who would fold both heaven and earth
in a single peace;
let the design of your great love lighten
upon the waste of our wraths and sorrows
and give peace to your church, peace among nations,
peace in our dwellings and peace in our hearts;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
 
With my love and prayers
 
Mother Emma 
VIRTUAL DONATION PLATE
If you would like to make a donation during our services, or at any time, we have set up an  online virtual collection plate below. 
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