This year St Peter’s is the right place and right community for you to share the joyful celebration of Christmas. Whether you’re looking for something traditional or atmospheric or fun – HPC has all of this as we celebrate Christmas 2022 and put Christ at the centre of that celebration. Beer and Carols does what…
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Advent at HPC – Waiting together and exploring our faith
During Advent in the church we make time to think about what it means that God came into the world as a human being, as Jesus, God with us. We think about how our lives reflect God’s love and how we invite God into our lives, our relationships and our communities. We do this in…
Sermon for First Sunday of Advent from Rev Amanda
Readings: Isa 2.1-5 , Matthew 24.36-44 Service on YouTube: https://youtu.be/uvm0uN-LJ8c (Sermon at 19:00mins) We hear the tick tock of a clock I wonder how that tick tock of waiting made you feel – whether it brought comfort or discomfort? Are you good at waiting? As presents appear under the tree will you peep, feel, shake,…
Advent Liturgy
Here is our order of service for the four Sundays in Advent – with apologies that it wasn’t posted before this morning’s service.
Sermon for Christ the King
Because we kept Safeguarding Sunday as well as Christ the King on November 20th the sermon was quite informative rather than reflective – with information about how Safeguarding Works in our church specifically. We’ll be posting some more information about that here on the blog – but in the meantime Rev Amanda has shared the…
Reverse Advent Calendar 2022
Most Advent Calendars are full of little indulgent treats. Here at St Peter’s, and at other churches and schools in our area, we really enjoy giving something good as well as getting something good. Supporting The Welcome Centre, one of our key charity partners in Huddersfield, we encourage anyone and everyone to join in too….
Remembrance Day Sermons
This is the text for the Sermons preached by the Rev Amanda at the 9am Eucharist and at the Kirklees Civic Remembrance Service on Sunday November 13th 2022. You can watch the whole Civic service or just the sermon here on YouTube. (Sermon is at 30:00) 9am Eucharist – There are some memories so precious…
Serving our Worship
Since we returned to worshipping on site together, and the restrictions required for social distancing have been relaxed, we have been re-building our serving team at St Peter’s. The “servers” are volunteers who robe and participate in our services – in ways that help the rest of us to worship. We asked Pam Czerepaniak, who…
A Diaconal Detour
This is a guest blog from our part-time curate Carol “As some of you will know I have been absent from HPC for a few months. The reason for my absence was so that I could take up a placement with the Mirfield team parish. God must have had his own plan for all this…