Chapel Services

Divine Service during Lent Full Term

Sunday

Holy Communion, followed by breakfast: 9:00 am
Choral Evensong, followed by drinks in the Combination Room: 6:00 pm

Preachers at Sunday Evensong

January          19^th    The Rev’d Dr Stephen Hampton, Dean of Peterhouse Chapel

                      26^th    The Rt Rev’d Anne Dyer, Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney, Scottish Episcopal Church

February        2^nd      Ralf Meister, Landesbischof of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover, Germany

                      9^th      The Very Rev’d Andrew Nunn, Dean of Southwark Cathedral

                      16^th    The Rt Rev’d Stephen Cottrell, Bishop of Chelmsford and Archbishop-Elect of York

                      23^rd    The Very Rev’d John Witcombe, Dean of Coventry

March            1^st      The Rev’d Dr Stephen Hampton           

                      8^th      Passiontide Service

SERMON SERIES

Evensong sermons in Lent term will explore Jesus’s identity through the ‘I am’ sayings in the Gospel of John.

SPECIAL SERVICES & EVENTS

February            

1^st  The choir will sing Evensong at St Edmundsbury Cathedral at 3.30 pm on Saturday. All are welcome.

2^nd      The Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Candlemas) will be observed Sunday at 9.00am and 6.00pm.

3^rd      A short candlelit service of Choral Compline (sung night prayer) will take place once this term on Monday at 9.00pm.

7^th      The Commemoration of Benefactors will begin at 7.00pm. The preacher is the Rev’d Dr Geoff Dumbreck, former Assistant Chaplain at Peterhouse and now vicar in Croydon. All are invited to drinks in the Combination Room afterwards.

13^th    Corporate Communion will take place at 6.00pm. All members of College are warmly invited to this service followed by supper in the Combination Room. If you plan to come to supper, please email the Assistant Chaplain.

19^th    The choir will sing a Joint Evensong at Fitzwilliam on Wednesday (time TBD). We will have evening prayer instead.

26^th    Ash Wednesday will be observed with two services: Morning Prayer with the Litany and Commination at 8.15am, and a Choral Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes at 6.00pm.

March           

2^nd      An informal, meditative service of Taizé music and prayers will be held in the Chapel at 9.00 pm, followed by cocoa.

13^th-15^th    The Chapel Retreat will take place after term at Shepherd’s Dene retreat house in Northumberland. The Rev’d Anna Matthews, vicar of St Bene’t’s Church in Cambridge will lead the retreat. Please contact the Assistant Chaplain with questions or to sign up. More details to follow.

CHARITABLE GIVING

During the Lent Term, the Chapel will be supporting Whitworth House which provides accommodation for vulnerable young women in Cambridge.