- Advent & Christmas 2026
- Epiphany 2027
- Lent 2027
- Eight Days in the City 2027
- Easter 2027
- Summer Term 2027
- Forty Days of Summer 2027
- Creationtide 2027
- Kingdom Season 2027
- Advent & Christmas 2027
- Epiphany Season 2028
Advent & Christmas 2026
Plans include a nativity play Advent for grown-ups called ‘Worth Waiting For’, a posada experience in St Barnabas and a liturgical season built around the hymn ‘The Hills of the North’. The season will be supported by an ABIDE booklet
- Sunday 29th November: Advent 1
- Sunday 6th December: Advent 2
- Sunday 13th December: Advent 3
- Sunday 20th December: Advent 4
- Thursday 24th December: Christmas Eve
- Friday 25th December: Christmas Day
- Sunday 27th December: Sunday after Christmas
Epiphany 2027
FIRST IMPRESSIONS This Epiphany season looks at the first people who meet Jesus and the initial conclusions they draw. It includes the Magi, the baptism, the first callings and Jesus’ early teaching in Capernaum. Pastorally, it helps us notice our own first impressions — of God, of faith, of church, of one another — and how those early assumptions can open up, shift or deepen as we keep paying attention.
- Sunday 3rd January: Epiphany Sunday
- Sunday 10th January: Baptism of Christ
- Sunday 17th January: Epiphany 2
- Sunday 24th January: Epiphany 3
- Sunday 31st January: Epiphany 4
- Tuesday 2nd February: Candlemas
Lent 2027
A provisional season entitled ‘The Wrong Messiah’, exploring how Jesus confounded every expectation in his own day, and how we might experience this in our own generation. The season will be supported by an ABIDE booklet.
- Sunday 7th February: Alleluia Sunday The messiah with the wrong mountain
- Wednesday 10th February: Ash Wednesday
- Sunday 14th February: Lent 1 The messiah with the wrong start
- Sunday 21st February: Lent 2 The messiah with the wrong road
- Sunday 28th February: Lent 3 The messiah with the wrong enemies
- Sunday 7th March: Mothering Sunday The messiah with the wrong mission
- Sunday 14th March: Passion Sunday The messiah with the wrong glory
Eight Days in the City 2027
As Holy Week falls in term time this year, we are planning to run the schools event the previous week. However, we intend to open up St Wulstans for an ‘Eight Days in the City’ immersive labyrinth experience, giving all who come the chance to live through the days of Holy Week and Easter. There will be daily acts of worship in person and online, with ABIDE resources to support our journey.
- Sunday 21st March: Palm Sunday
- Monday 22nd March: Monday of Holy Week
- Tuesday 23rd March: Tuesday of Holy Week
- Wednesday 24th March: Wednesday of Holy Week
- Thursday 25th March: Maundy Thursday
- Friday 26th March: Good Friday
- Saturday 27th March: Easter Eve
- Sunday 28th March: Easter Sunday
Easter 2027
Our provisional season for Easter in 2027 is ‘To be Continued’ and is the story of the Apostles as told through the Book of Acts. The season will be supported with an ABIDE booklet and ABIDE groups meeting at the Vicarage.
- Sunday 4th April: Easter 2
- Monday 5th April: Feast of the Annunciation
- Sunday 11th April: Easter 3
- Sunday 18th April: Easter 4
- Sunday 25th April: Easter 5
- Sunday 2nd May: Easter 6
- Sunday 9th May: Ascension Sunday
- Sunday 16th May: Pentecost Sunday
- Sunday 23rd May: Trinity Sunday
Summer Term 2027
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO This first of our summer seasons follows Jesus in Mark’s gospel. He is misunderstood, resisted, and misread, yet steadily reveals what his authority is really like: not spectacle but compassion, not control but trust, not purity rules but a transformed heart. Week by week, we watch him calm storms, restore lives, send disciples, confront corruption, and teach what truly matters, so that the question “What would Jesus do?” becomes less about guessing and more about seeing him clearly and learning his way.
- Sunday 30th May: Trinity 1
- Sunday 6th June: Trinity 2
- Sunday 13th June: Trinity 3
- Sunday 20th June: Trinity 4
- Sunday 27th June: Trinity 5
- Sunday 4th July: Trinity 6
- Sunday 11th July: Trinity 7
- Sunday 18th July: Trinity 8
Forty Days of Summer 2027
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM For our ‘Forty Nights of Summer’ this year, we follow some of Scripture’s most vivid dreams and visions — moments when God speaks in the night, redirects a life, reveals what cannot yet be seen, or unsettles the comfortable path. These stories show that dreams in the Bible are rarely decorative: they warn, call, disturb, guide, and open the future. In the long light of summer, this season invites us to pay attention to the ways God still prompts, nudges, and awakens us, often when we are least in control and most ready to listen. Each preacher will choose favourite episode to focus on and the series will be supported with an ABIDE booklet.
- Sunday 25th July: Trinity 9
- Sunday 1st August: Trinity 10
- Sunday 8th August: Trinity 11
- Sunday 15th August: Trinity 12
- Sunday 22nd August: Trinity 13
- Sunday 29th August: Trinity 14
Creationtide 2027
FRUITFUL This Creationtide season will use the Beatitudes to explore the kind of life Jesus calls blessed. Over the eight Sundays we look at how qualities like mercy, peace‑making, humility and hunger for justice shape our shared life and the way we affect the world around us. The season keeps us focused on the renewal of all creation, and on the part our own habits and choices play in that work. We can decide on which Sunday to mark Harvest nearer the time. The season will be supported with an ABIDE booklet and ABIDE groups meeting at the Vicarage.
- Sunday 5th September: The poor in spirit
- Sunday 12th September: Those who mourn
- Sunday 19th September: The meek
- Sunday 26th September: Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness
- Sunday 3rd October: The merciful
- Sunday 10th October: The pure in heart
- Sunday 17th October: The peacemakers
- Sunday 24th October: Those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake
Kingdom Season 2027
Following the lectionary
- Sunday 31st October: All Saints Day
- Sunday 7th November: Kingdom 2
- Sunday 14th November: Remembrance
- Sunday 21st November: Christ the King
Advent & Christmas 2027
HALLOWED BE THY NAME This season takes the names of Jesus seriously. Not as decoration, but as claims: titles that tell you who he is, what he does, and why it matters. Each week pairs two names that sit in tension or widen the frame — beginning and end, humanity and divinity, strength and sacrifice, promise and presence. Across Advent and Christmas, the names build a picture of the one we wait for and the one who comes, until the whole story comes into view once again as the child in Mary’s arms.
- Sunday 28th November: Advent 1 the Alpha and the Omega
- Sunday 5th December: Advent 2 the Last Adam and the Imago Dei
- Sunday 12th December: Advent 3 the Lion and the Lamb
- Sunday 19th December: Advent 4 the Messiah and the Logos
- Friday 24th December: Christmas Eve the Saviour and Emmanuel
- Saturday 25th December: Christmas Day the Saviour and Emmanuel
- Sunday 26th December: St Stephen’s Day (no services)
Epiphany Season 2028
- Sunday 2nd January: Epiphany Sunday
Eight Points of the Compass 