The 7.15 Slot
Worship | Teaching | Ministry
‘Worship before the throne of God’ (Rev 7.15)
September 18 1 Corinthians 1: Unity in the church
October 16 1 Corinthians 8: Many idols or one God?
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January 15 1 Corinthians 12: The Holy Spirit’s work
February 12 1 Corinthians 15: The Resurrection body
April 29 1 Corinthians 13: Love comes from God
May 20 1 Corinthians 14: Worship
The Sunday 7.15 Worship, Teaching and Ministry slot is an informal service held in Beverley Minster Parish Hall with music led by the Music Group including confidential prayer offered by members of the Prayer Ministry Team.
The service finishes by 8.30pm.
Healing Service
Also in the 7.15 slot, the next Healing Service will be announced.
Transcendence
A service in the Sunday at 7.15 slot held three times a year.
Transcendence, an Ancient Future Mass, is a Multimedia Eucharist. The service is a collaboration between Beverley Minster and the Visions Alternative Worship arts collective.
We gather to celebrate a service of Holy Communion which contains all the elements of Common Worship Order One, expressed in a cultural form which makes the most of contemporary forms of imagery and technology. Transcendence is registered as an Anglo Catholic Fresh Expression: the minsters wear traditional vestments; there is incense and other ceremonial, and the aim is to provide a place where the tradition can be renewed for our contemporary situation.
A key element of Transcendence is the mixing up of old and new – plainsong chants over ambient beats, live video mixing using ancient iconography, beats and DJs working alongside Palestrina sung by the Minster’s musicians. We named the service Transcendence because we wanted to express a sense of awe; to inhabit a space where someone would want to fall on their knees in adoration of the majesty and mercy of God.
Going to Transcendence has been compared to stepping into a medieval painting, bathed in light and moving images. Its a place where you can sit on a cushion (or a chair) and watch incense curl through the projector beams, lighting up the futuristic technology, and journey around an ancient building by night kneeling at a creative prayer installation, before sharing in the ancient life-giving sacrament of the Eucharist in bread and wine.
Transcendence is designed to enable worshippers, or simply the curious, to participate in a way which is appropriate to them. You can use each one of the prayer installations, or simply be in the building. There is ample space for reflection, the lighting has a candlelit feel and no one is required to join in with anything which makes them feel uncomfortable.
Transcendence started at York Minster, and now takes place in York, Leeds Parish Church and Beverley Minster.
There’s coffee from 6.45pm and the service takes no more than 90 minutes.
For more information visit: www.transcendenceyork.org