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To proclaim Christ in our worship and in our community and make disciples of all generations

Welcome to St Cuthberts Ormesby

Always know you will be very welcome and we hope that you find us open and friendly people who can provide you with relevance and meaning in your daily life. There has been a church here for over a 1000 years and we want St Cuthbert’s Church to be here for all future generations.

Parish Safeguarding Policy

Dementia Friends

Dementia Friends and St Cuthberts

We are a Dementia Friendly Church

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Contact Details

Life Events: Weddings, Funerals and Baptisms

Christening and Wedding booking Sessions are held between 11am and 12noon each Sunday morning.

No need to book, just come along.

If you cannot make one of these Christening and Wedding Booking Sessions, then please use the online enquiry forms found on the Life Events pages of the church website (Life Events) or contact us by email or phone 01642 050687 (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday 10am to 5pm). Please note that we will still need to meet you in person at one of the Open Sessions.

For Funerals please contact Revd. Robert Opala by phone 01642 050687  (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday 10am to 5pm) or email him here.

For all other parish enquiries, please call one of the Church Wardens (see details under Contact menu) or email the church administration.

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Online offerings

We are all using contactless methods more often, it is easy to make an offering using the Give a Little link if you are unable to attend a service in church or make a donation to our JustGiving appeal and wish to support your local church.

Give A Little online offerings

The work of our church in the community, and its future, is reliant on people’s generosity, a generosity that is a hallmark of a lived-out faith and a testament to it. Now more than ever, please consider giving generously to support our mission and ministry.

  • Donate using your credit or debit card via the the Give a Little link below. If your donation is below £30 we can claim extra money under the Small Gifts Scheme. You can choose to receive a receipt by email.

Non-Gift Aided offerings - please note that only donations below £30 can be used to claim extra money from HMRC under the Small Gift Scheme (GASDS).

Click on the give a little button

Thank you for your support

A new roof for the church cost us £215,000 and we still need to urgently raise funds for restoration work on the tower, an internal re-ordering and a new lighting scheme.

Weʼre raising £5,000, please help us to help you by donating - click on the logo below.

Latest Posts

Enthronement of the 98th Archbishop of York

The Most Reverend Stephen Cottrell will be enthroned as the 98th Archbishop of York at a service of Evensong at 4.00pm on Sunday 18 October at York Minster.

It will take place on the Feast Day of St Luke, Apostle and Evangelist.

Much of the service will be sung by the adult singers of the Minster Choir and there will be readings, music and prayers. Elements of the service will be based on previous historic enthronements and Archbishop Stephen will take his oath on the York Gospels.

Joint Letter from Archbishops of Canterbury and York

The Archbishops of York and Canterbury say ‘The Church has a vital role to play in offering hope and comfort to the nation as we face an expected second wave of the coronavirus’.

In a joint letter to the bishops of the Church of England, Archbishops Stephen Cottrell and Justin Welby set out a stark assessment of the challenges facing the country amid the pandemic including hunger, homelessness, mental health pressures and domestic violence.

Click on the PDF image above to open it in a new browser window or download it to your PC to read it.

Coronavirus liturgy and prayer resources

The Church of England has put together a page contains prayers and intercessions for ‘personal or group use, special prayers for use if it isn’t possible to meet in church, and a simple form of prayer for the morning and evening, which can be downloaded, printed, and shared with those remaining at home or who are unable to access the Internet.’

Prayers about the outbreak (PDF)
Prayers with Children (PDF)
Personal Prayers particularly if you can’t get to church (PDF)
Worship at home (PDF)

Archbishops Letters

Weekly Bulletin

Regular worshippers at St. Cuthbert’s will be familiar with our weekly “pew sheet” which gives the Bible readings for the current Sunday, contact details for the church, news, and messages from the ministry team. Since all church services have been suspended until further notice, we will not issue the usual printed “pew sheet”. Instead, we will be putting a “mini-bulletin” on this website each week.

Click on one of the links below to open the appropriate bulletin.

Final bulletin as we welcome our congregation back from 5th July 2020

Sunday July 5th, 4th Sunday after Trinity (PDF)

Older bulletins

Sunday June 28th, 3rd Sunday after Trinity (PDF)

Sunday June 21st, 2nd Sunday after Trinity (PDF)

Sunday June 14th, 1st Sunday after Trinity (PDF)

Sunday June 7th, Trinity Sunday (PDF)

Sunday May 31st, Pentecost or Whit Sunday (PDF)

Sunday May 24th, The Sunday after Ascension Day (PDF)

Sunday, 17th May, 6th Sunday of Easter (PDF)

Sunday, 10th May, 5th Sunday of Easter (PDF)

Sunday, 3rd May, 4th Sunday of Easter (PDF)

Sunday, 26th April, 3rd Sunday of Easter (PDF)

Sunday, 19th April, 2nd Sunday of Easter (PDF)

Sunday, 12th April, Easter Sunday (PDF)

Sunday, 5th April, Palm Sunday (PDF)

Sunday March 29th, 5th in Lent (PDF)

Sunday March 22nd, 4th in Lent – Mothering Sunday (PDF)