Services for Epiphany 2024

Services for January and February

Happy New Year!

The Feast of the Epiphany, which always falls on 6 January, marks the beginning of a season which recognizes Jesus to be the Son of God.

The word ‘epiphany’ means ‘manifestation’ or ‘appearance’, and the Feast of the Epiphany marks the recognition of the newborn Jesus by the world. Later, the Church remembers the Baptism of Christ by John, when a voice from heaven declares Jesus to be God’s beloved Son. Finally, on 2 February, the season of Epiphany ends with the Feast of the Presentation. Jesus is brought to the Temple by his parents according to the law of Israel. There, he is recognized by Simeon, who declares him to be ‘a light to lighten the Gentiles and the glory of God’s people Israel.’ The traditional service for this feast includes a procession of candles, and so it is often known as Candlemas.

Services for December 2023

Services for Advent and Christmas

This weekend sees the first Sunday of Advent when Christians anticipate and remember the birth of Jesus.

Advent is a time of quiet contemplation and prayer for four weeks before the festival of Christmas itself. It has its own hymns and carols such as O Come Emanuel, which reflect this beautiful time.

Christmas, at the end of December is the most joyous season as we all know and love, with feast and song as the news of Jesus’s birth brings hope and light!

This December, we are delighted to offer worship and activities to reflect both Advent and Christmas in all our villages in the Langtons and Welham Benefices.

We have produced a Christmas card with all the details. The card will be delivered to the parishioners of St Peter’s Church this weekend, but for friends further afield, there is a PDF to download below, with all the services listed, along with a Christmas message from our Lay Incumbent, Maxine Johnson.

We hope you can join us for some of the services but also wish our friends and followers here who live further away, a very peaceful Advent season and a joyful Christmas when it comes. Thank you 🙏

Full list of services
Christmas message and first service of Advent
St Peter’s in the Snow

Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day

Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day are as important this year as ever, as we remember everyone who has sacrificed so much in continued difficult times, but especially this year, the ongoing war in Ukraine and now the dreadful violence in Israel, Gaza and the wider dangers.

Remembrance Sunday service for the Langton villages

Remembrance Service: Sunday 12th November, 10.30am,
St Peter’s Church, Church Langton

The service will take place in St Peter’s Church in Church Langton, starting at 10.30am and lasts for about an hour. The service will be lead by Rev Martin Hathaway and Lay Incubment, Maxine Johnson, with contributions from our church members from Tur and Thorpe Langton.

The collection taken at the service in St Peter’s will support the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal.

Act of Remembrance and Two-Minute Silence: 11am

The Act of Remembrance and two-minute silence at 11am take place inside the church as part of the Remembrance Service, when the names of our local war dead are read and the wreaths for the Langton villages are blessed.

Laying of wreaths at the War Memorial: 11:45 – 12noon

After the service in church, the congregation will process from the church to the village green where where the wreath for Church Langton will be laid on the War Memorial.

The wreaths from our sister villages will be returned and laid at their village memorials separately.

We hope you can join us for the service in St Peter’s and the laying of the wreath at the village green.


“When you go home, tell them of us and say
For your tomorrow, we gave our today.”

— John Maxwell Edmonds

For the Fallen is a painting by Maxine Dodd, inspired by 'Gassed' by John Singer Sargent. It shows a line of soldiers in silhouette against a storming sky trudging over a field of muddy poppies. Mixed media painting with collage.
For the Fallen – Maxine Dodd