Please note:Due
to the current situation, our Parish Administrator is
now part furloughed and the Parish Office opening hours
are changed. The Office is CLOSED on Mondays and
Wednesdays, and will be open on Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Fridays 9.30am-12.30pm and 1.00pm-4.00pm. Please
telephone during working hours ONLY. If there is no
answer, please leave a telephone message or
alternatively send an email and someone will respond to
you during working hours. Details are on our
Contact
Us page.
Please note:Owing
to staff annual leave the Parish Office will be closed
from Monday 9 August to Friday 13 August inclusive.
Notice:
To see a full list of the planned services for this
month please go to our
Services Coming Up
page.
Covid-Safe Public Worship
(Updated:
26 July 2021)
In
accordance with the Prime Minister’s confirmation of
Stage 4 of the Government’s route map out of lockdown on
19 July, communal worship at St Matthew’s continues as
advertised without legal restriction.
Instead, and by local decision, we advise worshippers of
certain Covid-related measures intended to keep everyone
safe whilst at St Matthew’:
We ask that a face covering is worn whilst in church.
Seating – couples, households and former ‘bubbles’ in
particular are now able to sit together if they wish.
All others are asked to respect one another’s space,
spread out, and take advantage of our spacious
environment. Individual chairs remain available in the
transepts.
As far as possible, we ask that you keep the touching of
other surfaces to a minimum.
The church toilet facilities are available for use.
Holy Communion is be administered in one ‘kind’ only,
standing, at the front of the nave.
After the service we warmly invite you to join us on the
green for fellowship.
Please note that Sunday morning services, and other
occasional services, are live streamed via this website
and on Facebook.
It is our intention to live stream our
Ninth Sunday after Trinity Parish Mass on our
website and via our
facebook page.
Those that do not have a facebook account
should be able to
view the stream on our live stream page.
Our Eighth Sunday after Trinity Parish
Mass was live
streamed via
facebook at
10:15am on 25 July. If you missed
it, you can
watch the service online now. If you
would like to follow along with the service,
please download the order of service PDF
below to view online or print.
Welcome to the Parish
Website for St Matthew's, Northampton.
Welcome to the Parish
Website for St Matthew's, Northampton. We hope that you will find
your visit both informative and interesting, a valuable resource in
discovering more about the on-going life and activity of our Parish.
Above all we hope that you will feel encouraged to come and see us
in person.
We are an Anglican Parish Church, in the catholic tradition, whose
primary purpose is to bring others to faith in Jesus Christ and to
promote the Christian Gospel. We seek to inspire lives of committed
service and, in all respects, live the implications of our faith
within our contemporary setting.
We strive to be a welcoming community where worshippers enjoy a
sense of belonging to a 'parish family'. Such a community is
characterized by mutual respect and affirmation based on a
recognition that, though unique, we are each created in the likeness
of Christ.
We aspire to be outward looking, a witnessing community within our
local setting for which we have particular responsibilities, and
further afield. We do so through a well promoted pattern of prayer
and worship, and through a wide variety of community-based
activities that attract a broad cross-section of society.
Thinking of joining
us for worship?
You'll be very welcome!
See
the Times of Services
See
this month's Music List
See
this month's Worship Calendar
Special
Services Coming up
Information about special services
being held at St Matthew's Church can be found
here
Weekday Scripture Readings
Step forward in your discipleship and join
others in weekday scripture readings. Find
out more
here.
Forthcoming
Musical Events
Information about forthcoming musical events
accompanied by event posters can be found
here.
Baptisms
& Weddings
If you are located within the boundary of St
Matthew's Church, information about baptisms
and weddings can be found
here.
St Matthew's
Parish
Centre
The St Matthew's Parish Centre, has
excellent facilities and is available to
hire at exceptional rates. Find out more
here.
Floodlighting of the Church
Celebrate an anniversary or remember a loved
one by floodlighting the church for
the evening. Find out more
here.
Become a Friend of
St Matthew's Music
More information about becoming a friend of
St Matthew's Music can be found
here.
To signup or renew your membership,
click here.
Safeguarding
Information
For
information about the Safeguarding of
Children and Vulnerable Adults at St Matthew's, read our
Safeguarding Policy
Stewardship
& Giving
To find out how you can donate to St
Matthew's Church, click
here.
Data
Protection & Privacy Information
For
information about privacy and how we use
store and process your information, please
read
Our Privacy
Policy.
Give Consent
to Receive Information
If you would
like to keep informed about news, events,
activities and services, please complete and
return our
Consent
Form.
A Sermon delivered at St Matthew's Church, Northampton,
5 May 1946
First published as Five Sermons by Laymen, 1946 Matthew 11.28. 'Come unto me, all ye that labour and
are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.'
"When I came into this church for the first
time in my life, which was yesterday evening
- coming in by that South West door over
there - I wanted to go down on my knees. For
this is the sort of church which brings you
to your knees. These soaring vistas of pale
stone arches, the superb proportion of
window to wall space, the delicacy of much
of the detail from the profound, primitive
simplicity of Henry Moore's Madonna and
Child, to the lace-like tracery of this
beautiful wrought-iron chancel screen, the
way the genius of Holding, the architect,
leads your eye to the high altar there below
the flashing jewels of the East Window, that
altar where the Greatest Mystery in the
World happens Sunday after Sunday, and
where, as we who try to be Christians try to
believe, the Creator of the world, of the
universe, of the trees and birds in the road
outside, of the stones which Holding used to
build the church, of the bones which help
you sit upright in your seats tonight, where
the Maker of our souls and minds, our very
selves becomes present to hear our needs and
answer our prayers in accordance with His
Will - as I thought of all these things I
did indeed want to fall on my knees and
thank God for the beauty which man has made
to the Glory of God in St Matthew's."
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