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PICTURE GALLERY

Corpus Christi 2024

Lent & Easter 2024

Palm Sunday 2024

Advent and Christmas 2023

Advent Carols 2023 clergy at High Alter 2

Advent Carols 2023 cingregation front view 3

Remembrance Sunday 2023

Alfred Mass in Wantage Town Square

Alfred Mass 2 Lords Prayer read in Old English

October 2023

Fr Benji led a Wantage contingent on a 5-mile stretch of the St Frideswide's Pilgrimage. The group walked from Wolvercote to Christ Church Cathedral, where prayers for the parish were said at the shrine of St Frideswide.

Meanwhile, the Junior Choir left their cassocks and ruffs behind on a trip to the bowling alley - a well deserved treat!

Harvest 2023

Giving thanks for for our bountiful food, flowers and fellowship

A hearty Harvest Brunch was served in Holy Trinity after the Harvest Festival service.

The churches were decked with a beautiful array of sustainable flowers, both real ... and crotcheted!

September 2023

The Battle of Britain was remembered with prayers at the Parish Church War Memorial.

Fr Benji was delighted to join the members of Charlton WI for tea and cake before saying prayers with them at the commemorative tree planted for the Late Queen’s Green Canopy in the churchyard at Holy Trinity. They were joined by Oxfordshire Chairman Tracy Strain and many supporters as they placed the plaque by the tree, dedicating it Queen Elizabeth’s reign and blessed memory.

Thanks to everyone who took part in and supported the 2023 Oxdordshire Historic Churches Ride & Stride.

Both churches had a good number of visitors and the parish receives half of the sponsorship money raised by our valiant riders and striders.

July 2023

Katherine was delighted to introduce Rosi Bartlett and James Clarke, who have both been offered a one-year role as Parish Assistant (subject to the normal safeguarding checks). James and Rosi are due to start work in September, and will be supporting Katherine and the team in all areas of the parish’s work, including, in due course, pastoral visiting, preaching and children’s activities.

July 2023

Fr Benji was presented with a cheque for £500, donated to Around Table by a group of local residents. The money was raised from their Coronation Lunch celebration, a Coffee Morning and generous donations. The residents said they were delighted to be able to support the Around Table initiative and thanked "all who make Wednesdays very special!"

See here for more information about Around Table.

SCHOOL LEAVERS' SERVICE

July 2023

All Year 6 pupils from Wantage CE Primary School lit candles and received a copy of the New Testament at the Leavers' Service in the Parish Church. Our prayers are with them as they prepare to move onto secondary school.

BISHOP VISITS AROUND TABLE

The Bishop of Dorchester, the Rt Revd Gavin Collins, greatly enjoyed his visit to Around Table at Holy Trinity on 21 June and gave the project a glowing endorsement in the following video on YouTube.

Watch the video HERE

Photos by Ed Nix

STREET PASTOR SUNDAY

On 'Street Pastor Sunday', Sylvia was commissioned as a Street Pastor and Elliot was made up to Junior Chorister, having earned his first RSCM medal.

Garter Day! Where our well-dressed clergy met former Wantage Parish curates, Fr James Wilkinson and Fr Chris Smith.

Petals at the ready for the Corpus Christi procession around the Parish Church

June 2023

Fr Benji gave a blessing at the start of the Gof Smith Memorial Walk, organised by his brother, Stephen, which raised over £700 towards an external defibrillator at Grove Rugby Club

May 2023

Ascension Day Prayer Walk

Beating (part of) the Parish Boundaries

May 2023

The Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla was celebrated in the Parish Church with a Civic Coronation Service, attended by members of the parish and local dignitaries including the Town Mayor and the Burgermeister of Wantage's German Twin Town, Seesen - followed by Afternoon Tea and Pimms!

Bishop Gavin of Dorchester led the joyful confirmation of our 7 candidates in May 2023

PULLING OUT ALL THE STOPS!

A wonderful tribute concert for our retiring organist, John Ridgway,

featuring a selection of his own compositions performed by the Parish Church Choir and

Faringdon Singers, with whom John has had a long association.

There were also performances from past and present Organ Scholars under the tutelage of John,

and an interview with the maestro himself!

Prayer and reflection at the end of the Good Friday Walking Pilgrimage

Palm Sunday processon in Wantage Market Place

Wantage Parish's collaboration with local charity partners in 2023 saw the initiation of

AROUND TABLE,

a community event, every Wednesday, where a hot meal, warm space and children's activities are offered to all.

click here for more information

Cancer Research Skipping Challenge

February 2023

PCC Treasurer David Law took on Cancer Research's challenge to do 100 skips every day during February 2023 to raise money for the charity in memory of his wife, Sue.

You can support David's challenge on his Just Giving page here.

Fr Benji joined in the fun!

James tossed the pancakes while David skipped at Holy Trinity's Pancake Party on Shrove Tuesday!

The Big Station Sleep Out

Fr Benji visited parisioner Andrew Haines and others at Waterloo Station and gave them a blessing and his prayers as they started their Big Station Sleep Out to raise money for the charity Railway Children.

CHRISTMAS 2022

Advent

Dickensian Evening

Trinity Tots Christingle: Holy Trinity Charlton

Christmas Eve Crib Service

Dickensian Evening prayer space

Dickensian Evening

Trinity Tots Christingle: Holy Trinity Charlton

Christmas 2022

Wantage CE Primary School Christingle

Charlton School visit to Holy Trinity

Preparing to make Christingles

with many thanks to Wantage CE Primary School and Charlton Primary School for permission to share these photos.

Pictures from 2022 and earlier

Bible Sunday 2022

Members of the congregations brought thier Bibles to church for a blessing and display. IMany encouraging conversations were had about the special place of each Bible in the lives of the Faithful.

Show the light of your countenance upon your servant
and teach me your statutes.
Words from Psalm 119

MOTHERING SUNDAY CHORAL EUCHARIST WITH TREASURE HUNT (FIND THE WEIRD CLOTHES), REAL-LIFE RECREATION OF THE SAN PIER MAGGIORE ALTARPIECE, PARTY CANON AND FLYING VESTMENTS. Images courtesy of Paul Thompson

The postponed pantomime - Snow White & the Elves of Wanetynge 2022.

ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
FEATURING: CARITAS CHILDREN’S CHOIR, WANTAGE MALE
VOICE CHOIR AND WANTAGE PARISH CHURCH CHOIR

Christmas 2021

Crib service and Midnight Mass at the Parish Church

Alfred Day Mass 2021

Alfred the Great, king and educator was celebrated in the Market Place of Wantage, the town of his birth, with an open air mass. We used bread specially provided and 'burnt' by Marco Polo Bakery, and many people received the body of Christ or a blessing.