Our young adults group meets with with Hannah Fytche, a PhD student in New Testament at the Faculty of Divinity (University of Cambridge), to discuss the women of Romans 16.

The 20s & 30s Group meets on Tuesday evenings, with snacks at 6.30, and Bible study and conversation from 7pm, ending with a sung Compline service.

Join us on the first Tuesday of every month after the 10.30am Eucharist for an informal time of coffee, tea and biscuits with friends. Including friends you haven’t met yet!

On the Feast of St Matthew come hear our Creationtide preacher, the Rev’d Imogen Nay — Bishop's Advisor for Climate, and Vicar of St Paul’s, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Imogen has been involved in local environmental action since her curacy, when, instead of asking the congregation to give up food for Lent, she encouraged people to take steps to give up actions that hurt the environment. Later, in her first incumbency, she was part of a team that pioneered Muddy Church, a place for people to gather together, outside and to connect with the space and God. 

Imogen's parish in Rugby won the prestigious A Rocha Eco Church Gold Award, a scheme for churches in England and Wales to equip your church to express your care for God’s world in your worship and teaching; in how you look after your buildings and land; in how you engage with your local community and in global campaigns, and in the personal lifestyles of your congregation.

Since then, Imogen has organised conferences on eco-theology, led green retreats and workshops, promoted the A Rocha scheme and enjoyed new forms of outdoor worship. Imogen is looking forward to the networking eco-lunches that are happening across the diocese and in collaborating with others to ensure we are able to rightly value and rejoice in God's abundant and diverse creation. 

Imogen has recently published an article on wild swimming, nature spirituality and baptism.

Patronal Festival & Lunch

Join us as we celebrate St Benet's' and Saint Benedict!

Following the 10am sung eucharist, we will share a festive lunch in the garden.

Refuge Egypt is one of our Mission Giving partners, based at the Anglican/Episcopal cathedral in Cairo. They provide care for refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in Egypt, especially from Sudan and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Following the 10am service, parishioner Sheila Rozeik will share her experiences with them and their work in Cairo for 15-20 minutes, leaving plenty of time for Q&A

For background information, see UNHCR - Refugee Context in Egypt.

Interfaith Picnic

Extend hospitality and become friends through sharing at the Woolf Institute, Madingley Road.

Participants are encouraged to "bring and share" different dishes from their religious or cultural traditions. All should be vegetarian due to dietary requirements.

Children are welcome, always supervised by adults.

Grantchester Orchard Trip

On the afternoon of Sunday 18th May we will be walking to The Orchard in Grantchester for tea and cake. - all walking speeds welcome.

Please meet in church at 1:45pm for a 2pm start (or join us at The Orchard from 3pm).

Any questions please contact Nicola Pearson…otherwise just turn up! All are welcome.

Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM)

We meet to celebrate the ministries of St Benet's', to review our finances, to look forward in our mission and this year to elect two churchwardens and three PCC members, as well as a Deanery Synod representative.

Confirmation Service with Bishop Dagmar Winter

8am Traditional language Eucharist
10am Sung Festive Eucharist

Our traditional Easter Vigil service, with the Lighting of the New Fire, and First Eucharist of Easter

10am: Journey to the Cross, a service particularly suitable for children and families
11.30am: Ecumenical act of witness, in the Market Square
12noon: Preaching the Passion, followed by prayerful silence and then the Good Friday liturgy, ending at 3pm. 

Join us for our annual pre-Lenten quiz night!

A fun evening of trivia, food and drink.

All are warmly welcome

Our Sunday Eucharist will be led by the young people of St Bene’t’s Church, and everyone is invited.

The service will be our regular Sunday liturgy, but the prayers, sermon, and readings will all be led by the young people of St Bene’t’s.

Meet at the Cambridge Central Mosque on Mill Road – by Brookfields Hospital – for a parish tour of the new Cambridge Central Mosque, winner of the Royal Institute of Britsh Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize People’s Vote.

Please contact the vicar in advance, as spaces are limited for this tour.

Join us for a festal service of Holy Communion, with the chapel choir of Corpus Christi College, as we mark the Feast of the Presentation. The Rev’d Dr Matthew Bullimore, Chaplain of Corpus, will preach, and blessed candles will be shared with the congregation.

One of the oldest feasts in Christianity, Candlemas commemorates the presentation of Jesus at the Temple by Joseph and Mary ( Luke 2:22–40), and marks the end of the seasons of Christmas and Epiphany.

The tradition of giving out blessed candles on this day dates back to the 5th century, and is a way to commemorate Jesus as the Light of the World – and to symbolically bring that light into our own homes.

Everyone is invited to our Christmas Day services of Holy Communion,

• 8am (spoken, Traditional Language)

• 10am (with carols, sermon, and play area for young children)

Journey to Bethlehem: All-Age Christmas Eve

An All-Age Christmas Eve service, as we celebrate together the story of the Nativity.

Join us as we gather outside the church to sing carols, enjoy hot drinks, and with our neighbours make ready for Christmas! There’ll be a collection for the Cambridge Churches Homelessness Project, and everyone is warmly welcome

On the shortest day of the year - a good time to be together for a time of quiet prayer and Taizé music — especially for those of us who find the holidays a struggle.

You are invited to join ReSound as we sing some of our favourite songs of Love, Peace, Hope and Resilience in the beautiful and  resonant St Bene’t’s Church (the oldest building in Cambridge).  Please aim to arrive around 1.45pm, though the doors will be open before … This is a free event but you are encouraged to donate.

From 3.00 – 3.50 pm, we will all go outside to the Church garden (or stay in the church if it’s wet) and sing carols and festive songs, led by Rowena Whitehead, with anyone who cares to join us.

Song sheets will be provided. Dress warmly with thick shoes! As always at these events (which go back well over 15 years) we will be collecting for Wintercomfort, the Cambridge charity which supports homeless people, so please bring cash for the collecting tin;  a card reader will be available for card donations

Mel Eyeons will be leading our Advent Book Group on Thursdays at 7pm over Zoom, starting 28 November.

We’ll be reading Rachel Mann’s Do Not Be Afraid: The Joy of Waiting in a Time of Fear, which is The Archbishop of York's Advent Book 2024.

To sign up, contact Mel (meleyeons@hotmail.com) or the Vicar.

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