Harvest Festival
Our Harvest celebrations begin on Friday 1st October with the Harvest Supper at Mobberley Cricket Club. As usual we shall be holding a quiz night with party games and enjoy a traditional Harvest hotpot. Tickets cost £10 for adults and £5 for children.
The Church will be open for visitors on Saturday 2nd October between 10 - 4 and refreshments will be available all day. The church will be decorated for Harvest to our usual high standard. Today is also Gift Day in which everyone is invited to make a Thank Offering for the life of the Church.
This year we shall be holding a new event which is our Charity Golf Day. This is open to everyone, experts and novices alike and to level the playing field that is where we shall be playing, on specially prepared fields around the church. Contact us for more information.
Our Harvest celebrations climax on Sunday 3rd October with our services of Harvest Thanksgiving at 10 a.m. and Harvest Songs of Praise at 6.30 p.m. This latter service has grown in popularity over the last couple of years and is a collection of favourite harvest and creation hymns and readings, both bibllcal and otherwise, on the subject of harvest and autumn.
Patronal Festival
On the second Sunday of October we celebrate the Feast Day of our patron saints, Wilfrid of Ripon. Wilfrid was an important figure in the life of the early Church in this country particularly at the point where the Church was moving from a Celtic to a Roman model of church structure.
At our special All-Age Patronal Festival service we are joined by children from Mobberley Primary School, which for many years was also known as St. Wilfrid's School, who enact the story of the life of St. Wilfrid.
Patronal Festival
Sunday 10th October
10 a.m.
All Saints' Day
On this day we remember all those whom the Church has recognised as being great Ambassadors for Christ throughout 2000 years of Christian history. We give thanks for their examples of goodly and Godly living and we seek to emulate them in their faithfulness, commitment and dedication.
Our service is a sung service of Holy Communion conducted according to the Book of Common Prayer.
All Saints' Day Service
Monday 1st November
7.30 p.m.
All Souls' Day
There is, of course, a tension between these two commemorations of All Saints' and All Souls', after all we are all of us called to be Saints. And yet there is a place to remember both those whose example shines for all to see and those whose love, care and wisdom has helped to illuminate our own path through life. On this day we recall those known to us who have revealed the love of God through word and deed.
During this said service of Holy Communion we commemorate the faithful departed and recall by name those who mean so much to us.
Commemoration of the Faithful Departed
Tuesday 2nd November
7.30 p.m.
Remembrance Sunday
The commemoration of Remembrance Sunday not only remains constant but has actually been growing over recent years due to the spate of World War 2 anniversaries but also the recent and ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. At St. Wilfrid's we believe it is important that everybody, and especially children, are given the opportunity to remember and give thanks for those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the freedoms we enjoy, and at times abuse.
Our Remembrance Sunday service is accesible by both adults and children alike and concludes with the act of Remembrance with 2 minutes silence at the war memorial.
Remembrance Sunday Service
Sunday 14th November
10 a.m.
Act of Remembrance
Mobberley War Memorial
10.50 a.m.
