A new adventure in the South West!

Blesséd is now going to be spreading its wings into the South West and trying to form another Community in the Plymouth Area. To begin, we thought we'd bring one of our unique celebrations back and see if others would like to be drawn into our ramshackle, loose, idea of what it means to be a sacramental community. Do please come along if you'd like a taste of something different, and/or are interested in being part of Blesséd's next chapter.

There will be food (starting at 6.30pm - it'd be great to know numbers) and there will be worship, thinking about the Ascension. Bring yourself (and others) and be at home now, for God is here... and all are welcome.

During the worship we will be displaying a live Twitter feed of posts, reflections prayers and feedback sent to @BlessedAltW

Blessed_Rising.pdf

Download poster (pdf)

Who, what, when, where is Blesséd?

God cannot be pinned down: either captured between the pages of your little book or the limits of your imagination. Yet we sense deep within ourselves that He yearns to reach out to us and all of creation; making himself known through signs and symbols, through music and ritual, through worship and prayer, through stillness and through the roar of the crowd, the quietness of meditation and the jarring of confrontation. God is in all these and more.

Blesséd have been trying for the best part of a decade to explore the edge of where God and his created world meet: to rediscover a sacramental life in the sign and symbol of the ancient Church and proclaim it in new and radical ways: to push the boundaries of the Church's heritage into an engagement with the modern world. Deeply traditional, and yet wildly iconoclastic and rabidly Inclusive, Blesséd offers worship which both confronts and comforts, challenges and seeks to connect us with an ancient sacramental heritage using multimedia and ritual, video and action, incense, scripture and music.

Greenbelt, 2011

Examples of video from Blesséd can be found on Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/frsimon/videos  or on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/simonrundell 

You can also download production copies of any Blesséd video from the Agnus Dei website: http://www.agnusdei.org.uk/ 

Follow BlessedAltW on Twitter

Blesséd is an almost uniquely sacramental alt.worship community, deeply distrusted by academics and theologians, disturbers of the peace and causers of unsettling and radical liturgy, Blesséd have been trying for the best part of a decade to explore the edge of where God and his created world meet: to rediscover a sacramental life in the sign and symbol of the ancient Church and proclaim it in new and radical ways: deeply traditional, and yet wildly iconoclastic and rabidly Inclusive, Blesséd offers worship which both confronts and comforts, challenges and seeks to connect us with an ancient sacramental heritage using multimedia and ritual, video and action, incense, scripture and music.