St Peter & St Paul Church Services.
The monthly service diary can be downloaded from here: This month's Service Diary.
We have different types of services to meet different needs. The main Sunday service takes place at 10am (and finishes around 11.15), with tea and coffee served after the service.
1st Sunday All Age Worship
2nd Sunday Parish Communion
3rd Sunday Parish Communion
4th Sunday Parish Communion
There are also 8am Holy Communion services (using the Book of Common Prayer) on 2nd and 4th Sundays.There is a Wednesday Holy Communion service at 10am most weeks.
The Sunday evening services known as 'Ignite' start at 6pm and encompass other types of service such as Taizé and Healing services as well as Communion but in a non-liturgical format. More details of the Ignite service can be found here.
For Study & Prayer - please see the Prayer page for more details.
Special Services.
The office deals with general enquiries, church bookings and baptisms. Please call the office for more details.
Baptisms
Baptism is a wonderful moment in which we welcome our new members to the family of Christ. If you would like to know more then do contact us. General information is available from the Church of England website.
Confirmations
Please contact the Parish Office for more details.
Weddings: What is a Christian Marriage?
God has made us for relationship. "He who made them from the beginning made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one." (Matthew 19 v 4) We are social animals and we need relationships on a deep personal and spiritual level. Christians believe that the belonging together of a couple in a life-long union is the best way of finding our deepest fulfilment. This gives us a sense of meaning and identity as we realise within the marriage relationship who we are, and what we mean to our partner and to God.
Marriage is a union on a spiritual as well as a physical level. In Christian marriage we accept God's right to make rules for us to live by, and we open ourselves up to that help what Jesus Christ offers as out friend and Saviour. By asking for a marriage ceremony in church you want a service in which you can offer to God the whole of your lives together. You are acknowledging the claims God makes on us and the resources He gives us by which we live. During the service you are reminded of Jesus' presence at the wedding at Cana in Galilee and that He is present at your wedding too.
So the moment when you stand before the altar and make your promises " to have and to hold, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish" until parted by death, is indeed a solemn moment. You are being asked to make a very serious commitment which will totally change your life; a commitment which means giving rather than receiving. Perhaps before you go any further you ought to ask yourselves the question "Is this really what I want?"
For further details about weddings and the Church of England please visit the Your Church Wedding website.
Marriage Preparation
As part of our service to couples preparing for marriage, we run a Marriage Preparation course, and all couples wishing to get married in one of the benefice churches, Buckingham, Whaddon, Nash, Beachampton, Thornborough and Radclive, will be expected to attend this course. The course is now available to couples getting married across the whole of the Buckingham Deanery. Please contact the Parish Office for more details.
Funerals
Please contact the Parish Office for more details. For some general advice, please refer to the Church of England website.
