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Service Times

Sunday
  8.00 am Morning Office  
  8:30 am Mass (traditional language)
  10.00 am PARISH MASS  
  6.00 pm Evensong  
 
 
There is a daily Mass (occasionally replaced with a Liturgy of the Word).  We welcome those working in the town, or anyone visiting, to join us for a quiet half-hour.
 
     
  Monday   10.00 am  
     
  Tuesday   7.30 pm  
     
  Wednesday   7.45 am  
     
  Thursday   1.10 pm  
     
  Friday   11.00 am  
     
  Saturday   7:45 am  
     
      On Solemnities we may have a Sung Mass in the evening  
     
 
 
Evening Prayer
(from the Liturgy of the Hours, Roman Rite with a longer reading from Common Worship) is said most weekdays at about 5:30 pm.
 
 

Ministry of Healing
We pray daily at Mass for all who need healing of any kind.  The laying on of hands and anointing is offered at the Parish Mass on the first Sunday of each month.  The Guild of St Raphael pray privately for those who particularly need healing. 

Their website is at www.guild-of-st-raphael.org.uk

Our Guild secretary is Jan Davidson who can be contacted via the parish office on parishoffice@stnicolas-guildford.fsnet.co.uk

 
 
Ministry of Reconciliation
Private confession to a priest after the Friday 11 am Mass, or by appointment.
 
Our forms of worship

'Lex orandi, lex credendi’: the way we pray is to do with what we believe, and vice versa. So it is that the liturgy at St Nicolas’ expresses a vision of Catholic unity. 'Catholic' means we are aware of our heritage as part of the one Church of Jesus Christ, and we pray as much as possible in tune with our brothers and sisters in the historic Church of the West from whom, because of history, we are partly separated. But we are also appreciative of our own Anglican spiritual riches. 'Catholic' also means that we open out to the whole world, and seek to be welcoming, mindful of our Lord opening wide his arms on the Cross for all people.    

Regular worship at St Nicolas’ is based on the provision of Common Worship; with Collects from the Book of Common Prayer (when provided), thus drawing on the richness of our Anglican Patrimony; and with readings and other prayers from the Roman Rite (as allowed by Canon B5).

The heart of the Mass is the Eucharistic Prayer, and we mainly use what is called Eucharistic Prayer B in Common Worship. This one is based on ancient Christian words used since the earliest centuries of the Church. The Roman Rite also includes a version of this same prayer. Into our Common Worship version we often insert a short clause taken from Prayer G:

Remember, Lord, your Church in every land;

together with N our bishop, his assistant bishop N,

and N our provincial,

with your servant Pope N,

and all our fellow Christians,

reveal her unity, guard her faith,

and preserve her in peace.

We follow the Universal Calendar of the Catholic Church with our own Anglican commemorations.

Another traditional prayer used at the offertory at Mass expresses our hope for unity with all our fellow Christians – and for faithfulness in all things to the Lord Jesus Christ:

Pray, beloved, that our sacrifice

may be acceptable to God,

the almighty Father.

May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands

for the praise and glory of his name,

for our good, and the good of all his Church.

 

 
contact
 
St.Nicolas Church
Parish Office
Bury Street
Guildford, Surrey GU2 4AW
England
 
Tel : +44 (0)1483 564 526
   
Email : parishoffice@stnicolas-
guildford.fsnet.co.uk
 
Map to our Church
 
 
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