All around the world, while we struggle with Covid-19 epidemic, for Christians this week is Holy Week. Over the coming days, here you will find Holy Week resources for worshipping in your homes. These liturgies can be used together or on your own. Each of the prayers seek to hold the truth together, the truth of the pain and difficulty of our...

Watch TV or film and you could be given the impression that prayer is about bargaining with some unpredictable God, reciting a ‘shopping list of doom’ that lists all the things wrong in the world, or that prayer is about positive thinking, in which it is only permissible to praise God while denying suffering. Authentic prayer is not about these things....

An Awareness Examen can be used daily. It is a prayer practice, drawn from St Ignatius, that invites us to become aware of what is really going on within. It has three movements. You can engage in this practice for a couple of minutes or 10 minutes each day. Here are the 3 basic steps: Become still and open to God’s presence....

Welcome to Richmond Uniting Church’s Worship resources for Sunday 5 April. We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. Below you will find a brief film introduction to the online worship, as well as an audio recording that you can be used for worship at...

Welcome to Richmond Uniting Church’s Worship resources for Sunday 29 March. We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID-19 pandemic - but we are still worshipping together in new ways. Below you will find a brief film introduction to the online worship, as well as an audio recording that you can be used for worship at...

Welcome to Richmond Uniting Church’s Worship resources for Sunday March 22nd. We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the Corona Virus - but we are still worshipping together in new ways. Below you will find a brief film introduction to the resources, as well as an audio recording that you can be used for worship at home...

Christmas Fourth at Five Sunday 22 December 5pm - 6pm Gathering for worship over a simple evening meal, we will lean in to the wonder of Christmas – reflecting, praying and singing together and sharing in Holy Communion.  Everyone is welcome. Christmas Day  Wednesday 25th December 9.30am – 10.30am We gather to celebrate the mystery of the God who comes among us in Jesus in humility, grace...

At Richmond Uniting Church we stand in solidarity with all those who seek to care for the earth. This is because we understand the earth as the Divine's good creation. This is not some simplistic literalist understanding of the earth being made in 6 days. The biblical text makes it clear that creation stories are not meant to be understood literally,...

Last year during the national debate about Marriage Equality in Australia, Richmond Uniting Church Council voted to display posters supporting marriage equality out the front of our church.  This decision was made knowing that not all Uniting Church’s shared this view, but out of the deep concern that some Christian churches were claiming to speak for all Christians, as they...

Maundy Thursday 29th March at 7.30pm in the courtyard Leaning into the story of the night Jesus was betrayed Good Friday 30th March 2018 at 9am Gathering at the foot of the scandalous cross Ecumenical Stations of the Cross on Good Friday at 10.30am Beginning in Citizens’ Park, Church Street, we will walk together Easter Day Sunday 1st April at 10am Celebrating the wonder of the Divine’s...