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
Rector’s Message
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.
Ian Whittle is very keen that we continue to offer services for any who are not able to come to church.
I have been delighted to take part in Divine Worship on Zoom, made possible by Mr. Ian & Canon Fiona Newton, with whom I’ve worked closely over these last months. Vast thanks to all.
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RECTOR’S LETTER
Dear Friends and Parishioners,
This is an exciting part of the year in any part of the country. Thomas Hardy writing about Dorset in ‘The Darkling Thrush’ compares winter desolation to all that has gone before: ‘Century’s corpse outleant; His crypt the cloudy canopy, The wind his death-lament.’ Winter has a poor effect upon many. But suddenly Thomas Hardy sees ‘An aged thrush, frail, gaunt and small, In blast-beruffled plume,’ who sings ‘thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom.’ The poet, moved, admits
‘That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.’
Here is hope, not so far removed from the great Hope and Pledge of our resurrection tied to that of Christ Jesus. Our hope in the Spring is a natural swish to our eternal Hope; and hope springs eternal in the human heart.
May I wish you delight in these months of beauty and promise, and may we deal with each other and all humanity with the same urge to care, to protect, to be vigilant and to be bold.
Yours very truly,
Ian Whittle
The Rectory, Langham 01328 830246
Forthcoming Service Times – April
5th June | Sunday | Pentecost | 11.00am | Holy Communion |
12th June | Sunday | Trinity Sunday | 11.00am | Morning Prayer BCP |
19th June | Sunday | First Sunday after Trinity Sunday | 11.00am | Morning Prayer BCP |
26th June | Sunday | Second Sunday after Trinity | 9.30am | Holy Communion |
May
7th May | Sunday | The Fifth Sunday of Easter | 11.00am | Songs of Praise for the Coronation |
14th May | Sunday | The Sixth Sunday of Easter | 11.00am | Morning Prayer |
18th May | Thursday | Ascension Day | 11.00am | Ascension Day Service at Langahm |
21st May | Sunday | The Seventh Sunday of Waster | 11.00am | Morning Prayer |
28th May | Sunday | Pentecost | 9.30am | Holy Communion |