Binham Priory guided tours
Guided Tours of Binham Priory and its monastic precincts lasting for about an hour during the summer months May to September, can be arranged at mutually convenient times by contacting Maureen Frost on 01328 830362. A donation of £2 per person will help us to maintain this magnificent priory church.
Binham Priory Events
Binham Priory hosts a wide range of music, arts and social events and activities
The Priory Church of St Mary and the Holy Cross is open daily between 10am and 4.00pm for individual prayer in line with social distancing and hand hygiene guidelines.
The Priory Church of St Mary and the Holy Cross is open for worship as listed under Services.
ZOOM SERVICES
Zoom Services on Sundays will continue on a monthly basis – the first Sunday of the month at 5pm.
To participate please telephone Ian Newton on 01328 830947 or email iannewton46@ gmail.com. You will be warmly welcomed.
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Revd Ian Whittle’s LETTER
Dear Friends and Parishioners,
We enter now the Winter Season, this is Advent, which is the Coming of Our Lord as a baby at Bethlehem, and a month of Preparation for the Great Feast of Christmas, which marks the Beginning of our walk with the Saviour of the World. There is no present like it.
And how do we keep in touch? We pray.
All must pray to somebody or something. As Homer wrote (Odyssey 3:48), Everyone needs the gods. The word comes from precari, to beg or entreat. Luis of Grenada (1504 – 88), the Dominican authority, wrote:
‘Prayer, properly speaking, is a petition which we make to God for the things which pertain to our salvation. But it is also taken in another, broader sense to mean any raising of the heart of God.’ As Bishop Jeremy Taylor (loathed Northern Ireland and the rain, ungrateful man) says, ‘prayer is “the assent of the mind to God”.’
Let us pray for peace, forgiveness, contentment; and enjoy after the strictures of Advent, the Celebration of Christmas.
May I wish you a thoughtful December and a Glorious Christmas and New Year.
Yours truly,
Ian Whittle.
A trapped bird
A wrecked ship
An empty cup
A withered tree
Is he
Who scorns the will of the King above.
Pure gold
Bright sun
Filled wine-cup
Happy beautiful holy
Is he
Who does the will of the King of love.
Brendan Kennelly
Forthcoming Service Times – April
2nd June | Sunday | First Sunday after Trinity | 11.00am | Morning Prayer |
9th June | Sunday | Second Sunday after Trinity | 11.00am | Morning Prayer BCP |
16th June | Sunday | Third Sunday after Trinity | 11.00am | Morning Prayer BCP |
23rd June | Sunday | Fourth Sunday after Trinity | No Service | |
30th June | Sunday | Fifth Sunday after Trinity | 10.30am | Holy Communion Group Service at BALE |
May
5th May | Sunday | 6th Sunday after Easter | 11.00am | Morning Prayer |
12th May | Sunday | 7th Sunday after Easter | 11.00am | Morning Prayer |
19th May | No Service | |||
26th May | Sunday | Trinity Sunday | 9.30am | Holy Communion |