Fr Paul Roberts explores Anglicanism

Ideal for those who have recently started their journey, as well as those further along the way.

The Exploring Christianity sessions will be held in the Randall Room at 12.30pm after Parish Mass, led either by Fr Paul Hawkins and Mthr Nicola Stanley who explore a topic central to the Christian faith.  The sessions are standalone, so you can come to one or more of the sessions, as you wish.

Sandwich lunch provided.  No need to book.  All are welcome and we look forward to seeing you!


   
 

Festival Parish Mass with Rowan Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth bishop, theologian and poet, who served as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012.

• A dementia accessible Café on the FIRST Thursday of every month from 10am to 12pm 
• Support, guidance, information and friendship
• Tea, coffee and delicious home-made cake!
• Everyone is welcome

Dates for 2026 - all at 10am-12pm

                                                        
 

A morning sharing the story of the Gloucester WW1 poet and composer curated by Chris Hillman - taking place at the All Saints Sacristy from 10am to 1pm on Saturday 7th November.

Gloucester-born Ivor Gurney was inspired to become a composer after hearing Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis at the 1910 Three Choirs Festival. He went on to study at the Royal College of Music alongside Herbert Howells, but his studies were interrupted by the First World War, where he discovered a gift for poetry as a way of making sense of the brutality and strange beauty of war.

Gassed and sent home in 1917, he struggled with his mental health and spent his later years in a mental hospital, still writing about the trauma of the war and his beloved Gloucestershire. Largely forgotten after his death in 1937, he has since been recognised as a poet and composer of real worth. This morning explores his poems, his music and his love of nature and asks how we understand and care for those who struggle with mind and mood.





 

Song of Songs - choral settings from the 16th to 20th centuries.
Cantadissa, directed by Marie Power





 

Mthr Nicola Stanley explores the Sacraments

Ideal for those who have recently started their journey, as well as those further along the way.

The Exploring Christianity sessions will be held in the Randall Room at 12.30pm after Parish Mass, led either by Fr Paul Hawkins and Mthr Nicola Stanley who explore a topic central to the Christian faith.  The sessions are standalone, so you can come to one or more of the sessions, as you wish.

Sandwich lunch provided.  No need to book.  All are welcome and we look forward to seeing you!


   
 

• A dementia accessible Café on the FIRST Thursday of every month from 10am to 12pm 
• Support, guidance, information and friendship
• Tea, coffee and delicious home-made cake!
• Everyone is welcome

Dates for 2026 - all at 10am-12pm