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. A service of mystery, joy, music and scripture. There will be incense at this service

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. 

10am: Journey to the Cross, an All-Age 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. 

An ecumenical service of prayer, in celebration of World Day of Prayer. Hosted by women from the Central Cambridge Ecumenical Network, the Parish of the Ascension, Downing Place URC, St Bene’t’s, and others. The 2026 World Day of Prayer materials from Nigeria bring us a powerful invitation drawn from Matthew 11:28-30. At a time when people worldwide are carrying heavy burdens, our Nigerian sisters offer profound insights into finding rest in God. ​

We're so looking forward the the launch of our newest 'Resourcing Faith' series with Little St Mary's and St Bene't's Cambridge. Our first in this series on Christian Virtue is 10.45am on Saturday 28 Feb, a conversation with The Rev'd Dr Cally Hammond on Faith as a Christian Virtue — we meet this time at Little St Mary’s, on Trumpington Street next to Peterhouse College.

Tickets at faithvirtue.eventbrite.co.uk

Our annual Candlemas service begins at the chapel of Corpus Christi College at 10am on Sunday 1 February, followed by a sung procession to St Bene’t’s, where the Candlemas Eucharist continues. The Rev’d Dr Rob Hawkins will preach, and the choir of Corpus Christi will sing the service music.

This year’s service also includes a baptism, for which we give especial thanks.

On 25 January, the Mayor and Corporation of Cambridge will join us at the 10am service, during which the vicar (in his role as Mayor’s Chaplain) will preach the Chevin Sermon — traditionally given on the Sunday before Candlemas since 1589. Everyone is invited to attend and to meet the Mayor and members of City Council.

Interfaith Connection Cambridge comes to St Bene’t’s on Tuesday 20 January at 6pm, for an interfaith conversation about the many ways in which water flows through our different religious traditions, exploring together the spiritual significance of water.

Your RSVP will help us plan: https://shorturl.at/IfPBu

Be sure to join us at 8pm on the First Sunday of the month, for a candlelit Taizé service of song, silence, and prayer.

This month’s Taizé service particularly celebrates the Feast of the Epiphany, the revelation of Christ.

A festal Eucharist for the Feast of the Epiphany (trans.), with incense, at 10am with familiar carols and hymns.

PS: ‘trans.’? Just church-speak for ‘Translated’, meaning the Festival has been translated (moved) from it’s normal date — 6 January — to the closest Sunday.

Our main Christmas Day service, 10am on 25 December! With familiar Christmas carols and hymns, the Eucharist, a joyful sermon, and plenty of good cheer.

There is also an 8am spoken, traditional language Eucharist on Christmas Day, which finishes at 8.40am

An All-Age Christmas Eve

People of all ages are invited to our annual ‘Journey to Bethlehem’ all-age Christmas Eve service. Especially appropriate for very young ones, but everyone is warmly welcome!

The trumpets sound, the angels proclaim!

Come gather outside St Bene’t’s for our annual Community Carols, with the Bene’t’s Choir and the always-fabulous Waterbeach Brass Band. After a rousing round of traditional carols, we’ll gather in the church for mulled drinks and mince pies. All are welcome to this free evening of cheer and song!

A contemplative, candlelit service of Taizé: Song, Scripture, Silence and Serenity. This month’s Taizé service is especially focused on the season of Advent, and the Eve of the Feast of the Conception of Our Lady.

All are welcome; doors open at 7.45pm

Disability History Month

You’re invited to a reading group during Disability History Month. We’ll be looking together at Amy Kenny’s My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church, on Saturdays at 4.30pm from 22 November thru 13 December

This week we’re meeting in church and over Zoom. Click here for the Zoom link.

This week: Online Only!

You’re invited to a reading group during Disability History Month. We’ll be looking together at Amy Kenny’s My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church, on Saturdays at 4.30pm from 22 November thru 13 December

This week we are meeting online-only; Click here for the Zoom link.

Join us for a drinks reception as we celebrate the temporary artwork installation of Laut Adalah Kehidupan (The Ocean is Life, 2018) and Ratapan Lautan (Lament of the Ocean, 2025). For details see stbenetschurch.org/laut

You’re invited to a reading group during Disability History Month ! We’ll be looking together at Amy Kenny’s My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church.

This group is hybrid, meeting St Bene’t’s and over Zoom, on Saturdays at 4.30pm from 22 November thru 13 December

The church is wheelchair accessible, but we don’t yet have accessible toilets.

Click here for the Zoom link.

A solemn, spoken Requiem eucharist for the Feast of All Souls — the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed.

“'The believer's pilgrimage of faith is lived out with the mutual support of all the people of God. In Christ all the faithful, both living and departed, are bound together in a communion of prayer.' This simple, agreed statement from the Anglican--Roman Catholic International Commission explains the purpose of the celebration on this day. Since its foundation, Christians have recognised that the Church, the ecclesia, the assembled people of God, is at its most perfect when it recognises its unity in God's redeeming love with all who have said, who say now, and who will say in the fullness of time, 'Jesus is Lord'. “

(Exciting Holiness, © European Province of the Society of Saint Francis, 1997)

A contemplative, candlelit service of Taizé: Song, Scripture, Silence and Serenity. This month’s Taizé service is especially focused on the feasts of All Saints’ and All Souls’.