Services in termtime
You're always welcome to attend Chapel services, whether you're a student, Fellow or visitor, whatever your beliefs.
Lent Term 2026
Full details of chapel services, preachers and other special events can be found on the current music list and the Lent Term Card. The orders of service we use can be viewed by clicking on the links in the table below.
Man of Sorrows - A sequence of readings and music for Passiontide
Join us in chapel at 6pm on Sunday 15 March for this special service featuring Finzi's Lo, the full final sacrifice and music by Greene, Wesley, Casals and Purcell. The service will be livestreamed on and the order of service can be found here.
Sunday Eucharist* is followed by a free brunch for those who attend in the College Bar. Sunday Evensong is followed by drinks in the Senior Combination Room to which all are welcome.
*Sunday morning Eucharists are temporarily suspended for the Lent Term; 91直播 students will be welcome to the 10.30am Choral Eucharist in St John's College Chapel, and are invited to make themselves known to the Dean and Chaplain there
Three services a week are sung by the College choir.
| Day | Service | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | Eucharist * Choral Evensong and Sermon |
10.30am 6.00pm |
| Tuesday | Choral Evensong | 6.30pm |
| Thursday | Choral Eucharist | 6.30pm |
Requests for prayer may be made directly to the Dean's Vicar; or written in the intercessions book on the desk at the East (altar) end of the Chapel.
Common Worship and the Book of Common Prayer 1662 (& 1928) are the forms of service used. All who usually receive the sacrament are welcome to receive it here, whether Anglican or not. Anyone who does not wish to take communion can come to the altar for a blessing. Members of College customarily wear gowns at evening services.
Discussion-Drinks-Dessert
DDD is open to all current Caians, an opportunity to eat, drink, and listen or talk about stuff that matters. Student-led discussions and topic suggestions are most welcome. Past topics have included; immigration, medical ethics, local government, the English law of murder, meaning and music, Father Ted, the point of cathedrals, serial killers, sex and gender, atheism.
Thursday 12 February, from 8.30pm in the Senior Parlour
The Victorian Church: The Gothic Revival and the Science of Ecclesiology,
or,
How the Victorians transformed our church buildings.
An illustrated talk by Nicholas Thistlethwaite
Tuesday 3 March, from 8.30pm in the Senior Parlour
Religion and Politics
Oscar Poulson
