We have booked priests to take services on the following dates:
Sunday 23rd March 2025
Sunday 27th April 2025
Sunday 4th May 2025
Sunday 29th June – Patronal Festival
If you or someone you know is a priest of our tradition and would like to take a service, please get in touch.
Join us on Sunday May 7th for our Coronation Big Lunch. 12pm after the service.
All welcome, bring a picnic lunch to eat in our street party themed cafe. Hot drinks available.
More info to follow…
With the end of Lent and the celebration of our Risen Lord fast approaching, here are our Easter service times for you to make a note of and hopefully come and join us – all are welcome! please note there will be no organ concert for April as it falls on Holy Saturday.
Psalm 33:20-22 We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name. May your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you.
We join with the nation, and indeed, the world, in mourning the loss our beloved Queen Elizabeth II, head of the Church of England, and diginified inspirational monarch. Stockport MBC have chosen St. Peter’s Square as the site of a Memorial Garden for people to lay flowers in remembrance of Her Majesty, so we at St. Peter’s Church will ensure the church is open as often as possible for those visiting to pause and light a candle, say a prayer, or find a moment of peace. There will also be light refreshments available, and the toilets of course.
The opening hours are planned as follows from Mon 12th September:
Mon, Tues, Weds and Fri , Sat 12 noon – 1.30pm and 5pm – 6.30pm
Thursday 15th Sept 5pm – 6.30pm
We will now also open on Sunday at 7.45pm as the nation comes together in a minute of silence at 8pm.
We are pleased to announce that our monthly free organ concerts will be restarting from Saturday September 11th 2021. They will follow the usual format, starting at 10am and continuing until 1pm. Refreshments will be available throughout, and you can come and go as you please. Guest organists to be confirmed, updates will appear on this site when avilable.
Following the first organ concert on September 11th, we will be participating in the Heritage Open Days which this year is focussed on the beautiful embroidered processional banners we have.
Most of these fascinating banners are on display on the gallery and not accessible up close. Each one has been photographed and studied to produce an informative booklet – available free on the day to visitors. Close up photographs and a short description will also be on display.
People are also welcome to just have alook around the Grade II listed church, and refreshments will still be available.
This year we are happy to be able to welcome all to our Easter Services, a sign that things are better than last year if nothing else! Services as follows:
7.30pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper followed by the Watch (optional) until 9.30pm
1.00pm Stations of the Cross
2.00pm Liturgy of the Day
Allleluia! Christ is Risen!
10.30am Sung Mass with Easter Ceremonies
We are still using the side door (opposite Cobden) instead of the main tower doors, and have hand sanitizer available on entry. You are required to wear a face covering unless exempt. Service books are placed on the pews marking socially distanced places. If you are unable to get to church please see the Easter service from last year for you to go through at home http://stpetersstockport.org.uk/uncategorized/an-easter-service-for-use-at-home/
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.
Matthew 28: 18 – 20
Now that most of our vulnerable members of the congregation have had their jabs, we have decided to open for the ‘normal’ socially distanced services on Sundays.
Mass starts 10.30am from Sunday 19th February
Masks must be worn unless you have an exemption, and hand sanitiser is available near the door. We are continuing to use the side entrance (opposite the Polish shop) instead of the tower doors whilst restrictions are still in place.
All welcome, we hope to see you soon!
With the majority of people at St. Peter’s being vulnerable or extremely vulnerable we have taken the reluctant decsion to close for Sunday worship. However, St. Peter’s will be open on Friday afternoons 12 – 1.30pm for private prayer and Mass on request. Hand sanitiser etc available on entry, toilets open. Please use side door (nearest to Cobden).
We will be reopening for prayer first of all, and then Mass from Friday 10th July:
Following this we will continue with normal Mass times – Friday 12.30pm, Sunday 10.30am and Holy Days 12.30pm. The toilet and cafe area are still undergoing refurbishment but the toilets are fully functional and availalble! Please use the side door as the tower entrance needs some repairs and is fenced off. We look forward to welcoming back friends old and new.
Come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. Come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker. Psalm 95 extract verses 1-6
This year is of course like no other, and the Feast of Corpus Christi has to be celebrated without partaking in the Eucharist within church. In this short devotional video on the theme of Corpus Christi (below), the Bishop of Fulham speaks powerfully of the vital role the Blessed Sacrament has in our spiritual lives. The film is a joint initiative between The Society and the Church Union and was made in accordance with the Government guidelines in place during the pandemic. It is the final film in a series of eight such films, covering the themes of Holy Week, Easter, Our Lady, Pentecost, praying for the dead and, now, Corpus Christi.
Chester Cathedral would like to invite you to join in with a course for 12 weeks at 1.10 -2pm on Wednesdays starting on 13 May and concluding on 5 August.
Clergy from around the diocese, including Bishop Keith Sinclair will talk about sections of Mark’s gospel each week and will take us through the whole gospel.
There are two ways you can join in
Read Mark: Session 1/12 – click here to view.
Read Mark: Session 2/12 – click here to view.
Read Mark: Session 3/12 – click here to view.
Read Mark: Session 4/12 – click here to view.
Read Mark: Session 5/12 – click here to view.
You will find it helpful to bring a version of Mark’s gospel for the session.
The speakers are following the sections from here, and some will use the material whilst others may refer to it. You may wish to read it beforehand or afterwards or simply listen to the speakers.
We look forward to joining with you in, ‘READING MARK, learn and inwardly digest’ this summer.
Although many churches will be opening for private prayer this week, we unfortunately will not be able to at the moment. This is because the kitchen and toilet areas are being upgraded to provide much better facilities for everyone when we do reopen. We’ll keep you posted on works and any plans to reopen. In the meantime, we have a list of online resources you may find helpful.