Flower Festival at St. Peter’s / Choral Evensong

Leicester Cathedral Choir to sing at St Peter’s Church Langton, Sunday 2nd July, 6pm

Leicester Cathedral Choir will sing at St. Peter’s Church for a full Choral Evensong on Sunday 2nd  July 6.00pm to mark the Festival of St. Petertide.

It may not be common knowledge, that Leicester Cathedral has been closed since
January 2022 for major restoration. During this time, the Cathedral Choir have been
invited to sing at churches around the Diocese and beyond in an initiative
called, ‘Together with Leicester Cathedral’.

Maxine Johnson invited them to attend to mark the occasion of our Patronal Festival
for St Peter. Everyone is welcome to join us for what we know will be a wonderful
occasion. 

St. Peter’s church is well known for its fabulous acoustics and of course its musical
heritage. 

We have no record if or when the Cathedral Choir have performed at St. Peter’s
before. This appearance could well be a first as the Cathedral Choir is relatively new.
St Martin’s in Leicester was chosen as Leicester Cathedral when the Diocese was
re-established in 1927.

The service will be lead by Canon Philip Norwood, a longtime friend of our local
churches. Canon Philip has been part of our spiritual life, preaching and leading
worship over the years at Church, Tur and more recently Thorpe Langton. 

Flower Festival – Saturday 1st July, and Sunday 2nd July, 10am – 4pm

We will also be holding a flower festival the same weekend. The PCC wants the
Church to look at its best for the occasion and believe that filling the building with
flowers will make it look spectacular. 

Read more about the ‘Together with Leicester’ concerts here 

Enjoy flower displays along with music

Christmas Appeal 2022

This year St Peter’s PCC is supporting SHARP, Shelter, Housing Advice Project for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, which has worked for homeless people in the area since 1974. The fundraising appeal is run by Christian churches across the denominations here in the city and two counties. See and read the letter below about this year’s appeal.

You can learn more and donate directly with https://leicestershelter.org.uk or you can donate with St Peter’s Church using the donate button below. We shall collate our donations and submit them together at the end of December.

Thank you!

Christmas Cards 2022

We are delighted to offer two Christmas card designs featuring St Peter’s church, both images taken on a gloriously snowy day last year by our super photographer parishioners Melissa Johnston and Dave Baxter. Thank you both for giving us permission to use your photos.

The front cover wording is ‘Christmas Greetings’ and the wording inside is ‘Wishing you Peace, Love and Joy’

The Christmas cards are on sale now – £1 each. Place your orders with Roz Folwell by email r.folwell@btinternet.com or phone on 01858 545160. Thanks to Roz for kindly organising these beautiful cards and overseeing the sales and production.

Thank you!

Dave Baxter (left) Melissa Johnston (right)