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Welcome
to the Website of the Anglican Parish of Worth, Pound Hill and Maidenbower. There are two Churches in our Parish. St Nicholas
or Worth Church, Worth and St Barnabas Church, Pound Hill. We serve the North East side of Crawley - almost 30,000 residents.
The Revd. Canon Anthony J Ball
joined us as Rector on October 6th, 2011. We offer him, his wife, and son a sincere welcome, and look forward to his ministry
in this Parish.
Our parish has two churches - St Nicholas, Worth (which is estimated to be the 4th oldest in the country) and St Barnabas
Church, Pound Hill, built as part of the New Town expansion in the 1950s.
The parish is in the Deanery of East Grinstead and the Diocese of Chichester.
We hope that this website will
guide you around the Parish - our worship, events and organisations and contact points for any further information.
Introduction to the Season
In the Western churches, the Epiphany (‘manifestation’)
became an occasion to celebrate one element in the story of Christ’s birth, the visit of the far-travelled magi, understood as the manifestation of Christ to
the Gentiles. Matthew’s account
speaks simply of ‘wise men from the east’; later tradition fixed their number at three, made them kings and recalled their resonant names – Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar. In this perspective,
Epiphanytide is an apt season to
pray for the worldwide mission of the Church. The feast of the Conversion of St Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, appropriately falls in the Epiphany season, as does the Week of Prayer for Christian
Unity. In the Eastern churches,
the Epiphany is, rather, the celebration of Christ’s baptism at the hands of John, when the heavens were opened and a voice from heaven declared Jesus to be God’s beloved Son. The miracle of Cana
in Galilee, where Jesus ‘first
manifested his glory’, follows immediately:
Manifest
at Jordan’s stream,
Prophet, Priest, and King supreme;
and at Cana wedding-guest
in thy Godhead manifest. (Christopher Wordsworth)
The arrangement of the Sundays of Epiphany in the Revised Common
Lectionary deliberately draws out
these aspects.
The season of joyful celebration that begins at Christmas now continues through the successive Sundays of Epiphany, and the festal cycle
ends only with the Feast of the
Presentation (Candlemas). The child who has been manifested to the magi at his birth is now recognized by Simeon and Anna,when he comes to be presented in the Temple according to the Law
of Israel. He is both ‘a light
to lighten the Gentiles’ and ‘the glory of God’s people Israel’. But the redemption he will bring must be won through suffering; the Incarnation is directed to the Passion; and Simeon’s final
words move our attention away from
the celebration of Christmas and towards the mysteries of Easter.
http://www.churchofengland.org/media/41154/tandsepiphany.pdf
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Our usual worship (See our Events Calendar for special services)
At St Barnabas
Daily : 17:00 : Evening Prayer (Mon-Sat) Tuesday : 10:30 : Eucharist Sunday
: 10:00 : Eucharist.
At St Nicholas
Daily : 07:30 : Morning Prayer (Mon-Fri) Thursday : 10:30
: Eucharist
Saturday : 08:30 : Morning Prayer Sunday : 08:00 : Holy Communion
(BCP). Sunday : 09:45 : Sung Eucharist.
At Maidenbower Community Centre
Friday : 10:30 : Eucharist
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