Daily Holy Communion service at Chester Cathedral, with the Liturgy of the Word at its core.
Holy Communion is on at Chester Cathedral tomorrow, Sunday 1 November, in the Lady Chapel. It's part of the Cathedral's daily worship, a pattern that follows the same rhythm as its Benedictine predecessors at St Werburgh's Abbey. The Liturgy of the Word sits at the core, interwoven with canticles and followed by intercessory prayer.
If you're not familiar with the daily schedule, it's a regular thing: Holy Communion is held every day at 12.30pm, on Sundays as well as Monday to Friday. This Sunday's service is in the Lady Chapel, one of the smaller, more intimate spaces within the Cathedral, rather than the main nave.
There's a bit of a wider story to the way things are run here, too. The Cathedral is working towards being carbon neutral by 2030 and stopped printing one-time-use documents back in 2019, so service notes are projected onto large screens instead. It's a small detail that points to a bigger shift in how they're managing the building. That building is a massive part of the equation: caring for the historic structure and maintaining the tradition of worship and music costs around £6,000 a day.
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So, if you're around the city on Sunday, you can find it at Chester Cathedral in the Lady Chapel, starting at 12.30pm.
