Quiz Night
Saturday 4th March 2023
Join us for a evening testing your knowledge in aid of the maintenance and repair of St Stephen’s bell ropes.
Quiz Night
Author: Stephen Barker
Etty Hillesum Evening
Tickets are now available for an evening talk by Rowan Williams and Klaas Smelik exploring the importance of Etty Hillesum, the Dutch-Jewish writer murdered in the Holocaust in 1943. The event will take place on Friday 24th February 2023, 7pm, in the Canterbury Cathedral Lodge at 7pm. Tickets (£5 / £1) can be booked at https://Etty.eventbrite.co.uk .
The Dutch-Jewish writer Etty Hillesum was murdered in 1943 by the Nazis in Auschwitz. Famously, as related in her posthumously published diaries, she refused to allow hatred to cloud her response to genocide. Her example of courage, service for others, and inner resilience is relevant today as it was then. Her insistence on replacing hate with love sets an example which inspires and challenges.
The evening will consist of lectures follwed by Q&A by two leading experts on Etty’s life and thought. Prof. Klaas Smelik is the editor of Etty’s diaries, and founder of the Etty Hillesum Research Centre; Lord Rowan Williams is the former Archbishop of Canterbury. In the break there will be an opportunity to read quotes from Etty’s diary, view a short video and other educational resources, and to meet Dr Lotte Bergen, the Director of the Etty Hillesum House in the Netherlands.
This event is part of the Etty Exchange, a Straits Committee Small Project Initiative, co-funded by Kent County Council and Provincie Zeeland, and organised by the Etty Hillesum House Middelburg and the Poetry Practice Ltd. Canterbury.
Advance booking essential. Tickets (£5 / £1) include refreshments and are available at https://Etty.eventbrite.co.uk
Tea @ 3
Tea @ 3 is a social event for everyone but particularly those who live on their own but also for couples and others who would just like a afternoon of activity and fun.
Please do email Margaret if you would like to join in.
Advent and Christmas Services at St Stephen’s
Join us at St Stephen’s this Christmas as we celebrate the Birth of Jesus.
For details of all our services, pease see our special Advent and Christmas page.
Compline for St Simon and St Jude
Join us either in church or online on Friday 28th October at 8.45pm as we mark the Feast Day of St Simon and St Jude with a special service of Compline, with music sung by our choir.
All Souls’ Requiem Eucharist
7.00pm Wednesday 2nd November 2022
This Wednesday evening, join us for a special Requiem Eucharist at which we remember those who are no longer with us. If you would like to remember someone by name, please add them to the list at the back of church, or send an email to Kevin: {This email is obscured. Your must have javascript enabled to see it}
Bishop of Dover leading our All Saints’ Eucharist
We welcome Bishop Rose, Bishop of Dover, who is Presiding and Preaching at our Sung Eucharist on All Saints’ Sunday. Do join us in church or online.
Sponsored Knitathon!
St Stephen’s Mothers’ Union are holding a Sponsored Knitathon on Saturday 5th November from 10.00 am – 3.00 pm at 27 Abbey Gardens, Canterbury, CT2 7EU to knit/crochet squares to make knee blankets for use by the parishioners in the church during the winter. There is a registration fee of £5.00 and you are asked to get your friends and family to sponsor you per inch you knit. There will be refreshments and lunch provided for a small charge. All proceeds will be shared between the Mothers‘ Union and the church. Sponsor forms will be available at the back of the church for the next two Sundays. I do hope some of you will come along and join in with this event – you don’t need to stay all the time if you cannot do that but the more the merrier and we can have the knee blankets available as soon as possible.
Thank you in anticipation of your support,
Margaret
‘Pop-up’ Choral Evensong
On Sunday 25th September, we’ll be taking our Choral Evensong on the road, and holding our service on the campus of the University of Kent. Join us at 6pm outside the shop and student union building, not far from Eliot College.