Does anyone have a surplus small Altar that we could use as a nave altar in Leicester’s oldest church – St. Nicholas? Our sightlines mean only a small percentage of our growing congregation can see the current altar, which is too large to move into the smaller space on our Chancel step.
If you may be [...]

First the Quake and now the Deluge 
PORT-AU-PRINCE, 3 March 2010 – Thirteen dead. Submerged houses. Fields and banana plantations waterlogged. Drowned livestock. Impassable roads. Fresh trauma for quake-displaced thousands. This is the plight of Les Cayes, a city on Haiti’s south coast, after an unseasonal deluge. And hurricane season is not far off.
Trucks loaded with [...]

Let us draw some specific titles to your attention this week.
Tom Wright’s latest offering is VIRTUE REBORN £12.99. Full of biblical exploration, the author seeks to help the reader find the answers to the questions “What am I here for?” and “How should I behave?”
MISSION SHAPED EVANGELISM by Steve Hollinghurst is sub-titled The Gospel in [...]

Event Date: Mothering Sunday 14th March
This informal service will be held at Hall Farm, Brooksby Melton College with the address given by Bishop Tim.
As well as the ewes and lambs, there will also be calves and piglets on view. If you bring a vehicle please park on the College Playing Field Car Park (just south [...]

Over quite a number of years now, a mixed choir comprising of voices from across the Diocese has sung as part of the Maundy Thursday Diocesan Eucharist…and it has always produced a fine result and added so much to this important and evocative Liturgy in the Diocesan Calendar. 
If you would like to sing this year, [...]

Event Date: Wednesday 24th March
Will be held at Leicester College on Wednesday 24th March 7.00 for 7.30pm to mark Revd Simon Harvey’s service as Warden of Readers. Readers and anyone else who would like to share in this occasion, please contact Malcolm Britton (01664 434490 or mr.britton@virgin.net) for further details. Last date for booking and [...]

Question Teen is an event for the young people of the Diocese
‘Question Teen is where politicans listen to you!! So the politicians have started campaigning for your vote, saying you’re their priority, and that your voice counts….but does it?? Come to Emmanuel Church, on Forest Road in Loughborough on Thursday April 22nd, and ask genuine [...]

Event Date: 25th, 27th and 30th April
The City Deanery is hosting three hustings/question time type events in April.
The first at St John’s Clarendon Park on the 25th, the second at St Aidan’s, New Parks on the 27th and the third at Christ Church, Thurnby Lodge on the 30th. All will start at 7.30pm.
These gatherings will [...]

Director of Music required for the city centre church of St Margaret’s. Two organs, one 4 manuals by Taylor, rebuilt by Nicholson. A weekly evening choir rehearsal, for children and adults. Sunday Eucharist at 11.00 a.m., preceded by a practice. RSCM salary guidelines, A salaried organist is part of the music team. This post would suit a musician [...]

Sunday 14th March at 5.30pm
The Faith Leaders Forum presents a Question Time event.
confirmed panellists are:
Sir Peter Soulsby MP, Labour Leicester South
Jane Hunt, Conservatives PPC Leicester East
Zuffar Haq, Liberal Democrats PPC Harborough
Geoff Forse, Green Party PPC Leicester West
Please download the attached poster to put up and support this event.
To find out more about the Election visit [...]

The Bishop announces that Reverend Elaine Matthews-Loydall, Chaplain to Deaf People, will conclude her time in this role with effect from 14 April 2010

Saturday, March 20th 2010 at 7.00p.m. in St Margaret’s Church, Leicester (corner of St. Margaret’s Way)
‘Hope against Cancer’ (in association with Heritage Music) presents a unique candlelit performance in 18th century costume of Handel’s Messiah.
 Total proceeds for Hope against Cancer. 
The Graff Orchestra of England
The Handel Singers
Directed by Celia Davies
Download details and booking form below
messiah details

The Third Lent Lecture entitled: Should Politicians Do God? will be at Leicester Cathedral at 7pm. Admission is free and refreshments are provided
The first two lectures are available to download here

The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) is offering organ scholarships to two young organists at the 2010 Bath Summer Course for Young People. The successful candidates will have the opportunity to play the four-manual Klais organ in the city’s splendid Abbey church; the setting for some of the choral services. They will assist the [...]

Dr Clive Marsh, Director of Learning and Teaching in the Institute of Lifelong Learning at the University of Leicester, is to give the 2010 Fernley Hartley Lecture on Friday 7 May.
Entitled ‘Adventures in Affective Space: The Reconstruction of Piety in an Age of Entertainment’, the lecture asks whether popular culture has replaced religion or whether [...]

Pilgrims of St Francis are a small British  Christian group part of Compagnons de Saint Francois. Which is active in 8 European countries. Though it is primarily Christian its activities are open to all people of goodwill. Many people both in the UK and on the continent have found on pilgrimage a deepening of their spiritual experience [...]

17th of March, at 7.30pm at Bishop’s Lodge, 12 Springfield Road, Leicester
Young people and accompanying adults have been invited to meet with Brother Paolo of Taizé as part of his tour of the UK, meeting with young people and church leaders. Taizé is an ecumenical monastic community in Burgundy, France. It is famous for its [...]