Thaxted Parish Church

10/07/2026

This Sunday 12th July: worship in the benefice (do come! it would be lovely to see you!), Holy Communion 8am St Mary the Virgin Little Sampford, 9.30am St Michael the Archangel Great Sampford, 11am Sung mass, St John the Baptist with Our Lady and St Laurence, Thaxted. The parable of the sower is our gospel reading.

09/07/2026

This week’s pewsheet for you 🙂 enjoy! https://mailchi.mp/ttsrh/allyouneedforthisweekandthenext-913
Image: The Sower, by Jean-Francois Millet, c.1850, to go with the gospel for Sunday, 12th July, 6th Sunday after Trinity (and Joey, the rector’s dog, by a field soon to be harvested)

07/07/2026

‘…the very failures and radical insufficiency of our lives are what lead us into larger life and love.’ Richard Rohr, from The Immortal Diamond

03/07/2026

Your pewsheet for Sunday and the coming week, enjoy!
https://mailchi.mp/ttsrh/allyouneedforthisweekandthenext-050726

(Image: St Peter, by Isobel Gloag, in St John the Baptist with Our Lady and St Laurence, Thaxted)

29/06/2026

The feast of Saints Peter and Paul, 29th June,
Happy feast 🙂


Acts 12.1–11
https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Acts+12.1–11

2 Timothy 4.6–8, 17, 18
https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=2+Timothy+4.6-8,+17-18

Matthew 16.13–19 https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Matthew+16.13–19

27/06/2026

We would love to see you tomorrow, Sunday, 28th June, when we will be keeping the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul.
Worship across the benefice:
St Michael's, Great Sampford 8.00am Eucharist, St Andrew's Hempstead 9.30am Eucharist,
St John the Baptist with Our Lady and St Laurence Thaxted 11.00am Festival Mass. Mass setting by Christopher Weston, Thaxted festival Artistic Director, with music from Wolfson College Chamber Singers and their Director of Music, Lynette Alcántara, together with Thaxted Church Choir and a jazz quartet.
Everyone always welcome

27/06/2026

Something for you, June's benefice letter

Dear sisters and brothers,

22/06/2026

Well done to the team who created this beautiful carpet of flowers in Thaxted Parish Church ahead of their Corpus Christi service earlier this month.

🌹🌼🌻🌷🪻

22/06/2026

Do come to worship with us this coming Sunday 28th at 11am 🙏. There is a 🎷mass 🎶 setting by Christopher Weston (composer and festival artistic dir) and a focus on Saints Peter and Paul*.
As always, everyone is welcome.

Thank you Sarah Barfoot for the 👌 poster.
*one day early for their feast day of the 29th.

20/06/2026

The Thaxted Parish Church Patronal festival with the Thaxted Morris Men performing the Abbot’s Bromley.