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six@nick's

six@nick's is an act of worship held on the first Sunday of every month. We are in the church from 6 to 6.45pm and in the Lion pub in Tithebarn Street from 7pm onwards.

Eucharistic worship

On the night before he was murdered Jesus Christ gave a meal for his friends. He commanded them to continue to celebrate this meal after his death. He said that every time they did this, he would be present with them. That night he took bread, gave thanks to god for it, broke it and gave it to them, saying, “this is my body”; then he took a cup of wine, offered thanks, gave it to his friends and said “this is my blood”. Ever since then Christians have celebrated this meal - the ‘eucharist’ - so that through Christ’s presence in bread and wine they would recall his life, Death and resurrection, and be strengthened to serve him in this world and in the life to come.

Every six@nick’s will be a eucharist (also called the mass or holy communion) because that is how Jesus told us to encounter and love him. In symbol and movement, music and word, bread and wine, we will pursue and be pursued by that beauty “so ancient and so new” that nurtures and sustains us in being every moment of our lives.

Stunning music

Saint Augustine (a bishop in the 5th century) said that "he who sings, prays twice". The 17th century priest and poet John Donne said that in heaven there would be "neither noise nor silence, but one equal music". Since the beginning, music has been at the heart of christian worship. Its reconciliation of high and low, sharp and flat notes in melody - without any being obliterated - reflects the reconciliation of all things in heaven. Music lifts our hearts and minds and makes our spirits more attentive.

The Saint Nicholas Singers are a quintet of professional musicians formed in 1985 to provide occasional choral music at Liverpool Parish Church. They sing regularly on Radio 4’s daily service and performed on Songs of Praise after the asian tsunami in 2004. They will be lifting our worship at six@nick’s with mass settings, motets and psalms.

Intelligent thinking

Christianity should take thinking very seriously, not only because we need to understand our faith and our world, but because God has given us the gift of reason and gifts are given to be used. Too often it’s thought that faith is the opposite of reason or a suspension of reason. No: Christianity is the completion and ultimate destination of reason. Christianity has many mysteries but no secrets. Mysteries are not things alien to reason but rather things too deep for reason ever to get completely to the bottom of and which God invites us to spend our whole lives exploring with our hearts and our minds.

six@nick’s eucharists will have brief, interesting addresses which will connect Christian faith and life with our contemporary world.