What we do
The Junior Church meets every Sunday during term time in St. Cedd’s Hall, and enjoy a range of worship and activities based on each Sunday’s readings organised and delivered by a group of parents led by Jo Themistocleous one of the cathedral’s Pastoral Assistants, and a member of the clergy team. They then come over to the cathedral and join the congregation for the second half of the 9.30am service, with different age groups of young people invited to stand round the altar during the saying of the Eucharistic Prayer.
As well as Sunday morning teaching, activities and worship, the Junior Church enjoy a range of activities throughout the year, including Easter and Christmas workshops, ‘find out about your cathedral’ mornings (for parents as well!), outings, contributions to cathedral worship and a trip to the pantomime in December!
Junior Church is there for young people up to the age of 10-11, after which they are invited to join the cathedral’s youth group.
For more information about Chelmsford Cathedral’s Junior Church and to enquire about membership for a child, please contact the cathedral office on 01245 294492, marion.palmer@chelmsfordcathedral.org.uk
We need parents to complete a registration form for each child attending Junior Church. Please return completed forms to the Cathedral Office or bring it with you to Junior Church. Parents of children in the Crèche and Pre-school are asked to collect their child from the Chapter House as children attending these groups must be signed in and out.
Programme for Spring Term 2019
13th January - The Baptism of Christ
20th January - Feast of Dedication
27th January - Epiphany
3rd February - no Junior Church - Candlemas
10th January - Fishing
17th and 24th February - no Junior Church - half term
3rd March - Transfiguration
10th March - Temptations
17th March - Jerusalem
24th March - The Tree of Life
31st March - No Junior Church - Mothering Sunday
7th April - No Junior Church - Easter Holidays
This is a picture of some of our young people cutting out some flags of the world, ready to lay them around an impromptu stable scene we had constructed on the floor of St. Cedd’s Hall in the Cathedral Chapter House just before Christmas.
They were taking part in an all-age Eucharist, which is now being held once a term as part of the Sunday morning Junior Church activities. The flags represented the visit of the wise men to the stable, who represent the other nations of the world and the Christmas message that Christ’s birth and message is for all people. The children also made and wrote Christmas cards and displayed them around the crib, which were messages and prayers to the world’s poor, reflected by the fact that the first visitors to the stable were very poor shepherds.
The children also enjoyed a Eucharistic Prayer written as a poem, and Caroline Robinson, a member of the cathedral congregation, brought some home- made baked bread!
