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Bishop Martin's Easter Day sermon

Published: 20th April 2025

A sermon for Easter Sunday morning preached by Bishop Martin.

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Chrism Eucharist Sermon and Photos

Published: 14th April 2025

View photos and read Bishop Martin's sermon from this year's Chrism Eucharist.

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Bishop Martin's Easter Message 2025

Published: 14th April 2025

An Easter Message from the Bishop of Dudley and Acting Bishop of Worcester, Martin Gorick.

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A series of reflections for Easter

Published: 8th April 2025

Reflections for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, which can be downloaded and used in churches as part of your Holy Week services.

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Ashing at St Barnabas Primary School

Published: 6th March 2025

Pupils in Key Stage 2 at St Barnabas CE Primary School in Worcester took part in a special assembly on Ash Wednesday to learn about Lent, receive ashes and share communion together.

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Ashes To Go in Wall Heath High Street

Published: 5th March 2025

Today, on Ash Wednesday, following a service to mark the start of Lent and the giving of Ashes at Church of the Ascension in Wall Heath, Mission Priest Sarah Roberts-Malpass and Curate Chris Smith, visited the nearby high street to offer ‘Ashes to go’ to passersby.

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Bishop Martin's Lent Message 2025

Published: 4th March 2025

In this year's Lent Message from Bishop Martin, he encourages us to use Lent as a time to reset and refocus on God through prayer, fasting, and acts of kindness.

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Lent Appeal 2025: The Morogoro Bible College Scholarship Fund

Published: 3rd March 2025

This year’s Lent Appeal will raise funds for the newly created Morogoro Bible College Scholarship Fund to support the costs of tuition and board for catechists, evangelists and pastors from the mission parishes across our link Diocese of Morogoro in Tanzania.

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Celebrating Easter in the Brierley Hill team

Published: 4th April 2024

The Brierley Hill team held a number of different services and activities to engage their community over the Easter weekend. Here, Licensed Lay Minister, Tracey Skidmore shares some of what happened.

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Lent lunch raises funds for the Friends of the Holy Land

Published: 27th March 2024

St Anne’s church in Wyre Piddle hosted a very happy lunch get-together last Thursday in their village hall in support of the Friends of the Holy Land.

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Easter messages from our bishops

Published: 26th March 2024

Read Easter messages from Bishop John and Bishop Martin.

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Hanley Castle Beer and Ethics Lent series now in 10th year

Published: 6th March 2024

The parish of Hanley Castle run a very successful Beer and Ethics Lent series, led by Sue Adeney, which is now in its tenth year. The principal is that people from the community that have interesting jobs, interests or circumstances are interviewed about their work but from an ethical point of view.

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Her Majesty the Queen to distribute Royal Maundy gifts in Worcester

Published: 4th March 2024

The annual Royal Maundy Service will be coming to Worcester on Thursday 28 March when Her Majesty The Queen will be distributing the Royal Maundy gifts on behalf of His Majesty The King at the Cathedral.

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Bishop John's Lent appeal for 2024

Published: 14th February 2024

Bishop John’s Lent Appeal this year will be for the Friends of the Holy Land.

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Praying for Climate Justice this Lent

Published: 1st February 2024

The diocesan Eco Church Group is inviting all of us to pray and work for a change of heart and mind in caring for our planet and responding to the climate emergency.

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Act on poverty this Lent

Published: 2nd January 2024

As the UK gears up for a much-anticipated General Election, Christian Aid has formed a new partnership with churches and other organisations to launch a new 6-week course called 'Act on Poverty'.

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Interactive treasure trail around Malvern

Published: 3rd April 2023

St Andrews and All Saints Churches in Malvern have developed a free interactive treasure hunt around the town and hills, which can be completed any time between 1 and 17 April.


Messages of hope this Eastertime

Published: 1st April 2023

This year's Easter messages from our bishops remind us that the Easter story always gives us hope in a difficult world.


Bishop John's Lent appeal 2023

Published: 3rd February 2023

Bishop John’s Lent Appeal in 2023 will be for the Anglican Diocese of Peru.


Easter messages from our Bishops

Published: 13th April 2022

Bishop John and Bishop Martin have both written messages for Easter.

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Funerals pilot in Pershore & Evesham

29th April 2025

A pilot project to support parishes and increase the number of church-led funerals will be starting in Pershore and Evesham Deanery in the summer.

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Every two weeks we produce a short video reflection. These cover a range of topics and themes and are published on the website and our social media channels.

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