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THE VOICE OF CATHOLIC ANGLICANS CHRISTMAS 2019 Christmas: So what?
Father Philip Barnes writes...
One of the deflating reactions we sometimes get from the teenagers in our families is “so what?” I daresay most of us will have had the experience of enthusiastically imparting what we think of as exciting news or crucial information, and an eyebrow raises, an iPhone is momentarily lowered and a disinterested voice simply replies “so what?”
“So what?” is actually a pretty good theological question, and as you and I move through the season of Advent to the great feast of Christmas, and as we claim and proclaim that the child of Bethlehem, Jesus, is the Son of God, we might well ask “so what?” What difference does that make? It could be said that the birth of Jesus Christ has made not the slightest difference to how the world looks, and that everything appears to be going as it was two thousand years ago. People are still behaving badly towards one another; people still sin; people still fight; nations are still at war with one another; the greedy get greedier; the needy get needier. So what? What difference has Jesus made?
That question lies at the heart of the opening chapter of St John’s Gospel which is read in our churches on Christmas morning. It speaks of the birth of Jesus as the “Word becoming flesh”. The Word, the second person of the Trinity, one with the Father and the Holy Spirit has become a human being, in the only way that you can become a human being, through being born of a woman.
But that passage goes on to unfold for us the ‘so what?’ It says that when Jesus, the Messiah came he was unrecognised by the rulers and religious leaders of his own people. “He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God…” John 1.11,12
Here is no mere pretty story, told year after year, and set aside until Christmas comes around again; rather here is something that challenges us to the very depths of our being. John calls us in the opening of his gospel to ask ourselves: Am I one of those who know Jesus when he comes, or fail to know him? Am I among those who receive him, or those who reject him? Do I believe in his name, and have I entered into my spiritual inheritance as a child of God? Do I witness to the Light I have received, so that all may believe? Have I let the ‘so what’ of Christmas This picture was painted by Jeremy Thomas, and is called ‘A Light to Reveal’. Jeremy worships at St Mary’s Abergavenny, continued on page 2... where his artwork is displayed. Another piece by Jeremy, ‘By no means last’, can be found in the centre pages. We are grateful to Jeremy for allowing us to reproduce his work. Visit www.jeremythomasart.co.uk for more information on his work.
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...continued from page 1 transform my life? for you. He writes: depth to all human life which is now sharing in the L CURAT ‘overflow’ of his glory. A ES N S CATHOLIC VOCATIONS ARE Every figure in the Christmas story had a life- “Know then, that Christ Jesus hath done enough for The ‘so what?’ of that are the hundreds of night- IO O T C changing decision to make: Joseph, Mary, the inn- the salvation of all; but know too, that if there had shelters and food banks, the lunch clubs and after I I E keeper, the shepherds, the wise men, Herod the king. been no other name written in the book of life but school projects, the rehabilitation programmes and D T
D Each is challenged by the presence of the Christ- thine, he would have died for thee.” (Sermons IX 16) support groups, the refugee centres and Y STARTING TO TAKE OFF! child. No one can look into the manger and respond environmental initiatives, the myriad of pastoral A p There is a real sense of momentum here at the Additional Curates Society, and we are delighted that vocations with a shrug of the shoulders and a dis-interested ‘so We enter into the Christmas season recalling again encounters and patient accompanying of the a d s to the priesthood from Traditionalists are showing no sense of decline, in fact they seem to be ascending to new what?’ We are drawn into the story, we are brought the self-giving love of God, who desires us and who struggling offered by our churches. At the heart of the s o i heights. Here are a few of those who have started training this year and we commend them to your prayers. face to face with the Christ-child, and we have a wants us to be with him and to enjoy him for ever in Christmas message is the God who takes our o o n h decision to make because the world is changed for eternity. We have a purpose and a destiny because of material world absolutely seriously, and who uses a t But let us not get too complacent, because we still need to go much further as these ordinands are but a drop in t es ever because of God’s initiative of becoming flesh in Christmas: the Word has become flesh, God has physical things to communicate with us (above all in e a ri the ocean (to mix my metaphors) and the need to encourage more men of our constituency is not simply pie in the Bethlehem. come to live in the physical world in the real flesh the Sacramental life of his Church). We love and bout p sky, but an absolute necessity. Here are three very important dates that I would like to draw your attention to. Through the pages of this edition of Together you’ll and blood of Jesus. That means that human beings serve him through our cherishing of human dignity read how the ‘so what?’ of Christmas is being lived in matter and that human bodies matter. There’s a and as we try to echo his unconditional welcome of Sunday 3rd May 2020 – Vocations Sunday. Look out for lots of exciting material that will enable your parish to focus communities up and down the land, and all these basic dignity to each one of us because God raises us in our actions to others. attention on this important need. initiatives begin with the conviction that the Christ- human life to share in his life, and so respect for child tells us that God wants us to know him; and he human life should be the hallmark of who we are. Mother Julian of Norwich (1342 – c.1416) spoke of Saturday 4th July 2020 – Vocations Day 11am-3pm based at our Birmingham City Centre H.Q. for all those wants us to know that he loves us. So before we the incarnation as the Lord ‘coming down to the considering the possibility of ordination in the Church of England wherever they are in the process. begin to communicate the ‘so what?’ that flows from Another of the great texts that the Church invites us lowest part of our need’ in self-giving love, so that the manger of Bethlehem we must first grasp in the to think about on Christmas Day is part of a sermon even the darkness of our trials and tribulations are Friday 28th August through to Sunday 30th August – Vocations Conference at St Stephen’s House Oxford. depths of our own being that we are utterly desirable given by Pope St Leo the Great (c. 400 – 461) which redeemed and taken into his life. In our following of A residential weekend for those making a first enquiry about ordination led by the Bishop of Richborough on behalf of to God. Do you believe that about yourself? appears in the Office of Readings. Filled with joy he that pattern of love we live the “so what?” of the Catholic Society Bishops. reflects on the qualities of the happiness that mark Christmas, bringing hope and purpose to a world that There’s a wonderful idea of the poet John Donne our celebration of the nativity of Christ, and then he needs it more than ever. Therefore Brothers and Sisters, the sky really is the limit, so help us at the ACS launch our 2020 Vocations Initiative that (1572 –1631) who suggests that if you were the only says, thrillingly “O Christian, be aware of your nobility seeks to resource ministry for Traditionalists in the Church of England. person in the world there would still have been the – it is God’s own nature that you share”. The act of Fr Philip Barnes is Vicar of St Stephen’s Gloucester incarnation, and Jesus would still have died – if only God in assuming human flesh has given dignity and Road
Canonisation of The Church Union
Saint John Henry Newman My name is Warren Mitchell and at the age of 49 having On Sunday 13th October in St Peter’s Square in Christian denominations. An example of faith, charity worked in the Rome, Pope Francis declared John Henry Newman a and determination that spoke most strongly to me Hi, my name is Tim Davies and I am I have just started at St Stephen’s My name is James Walton, I have telecommunications saint. This was a significant day for both Anglicans during my time at St Stephen’s House. St John Henry, currently working in an Engineering industry I also have Company and am excited to be taking up House having completed my studies been a HGV Mechanic since I left and Roman Catholics. For the first half of his life, as much of what we heard over the course of the in Sheffield. My name is Michael school at 16 and I have just just begun training at my training in 2020, having been Mirfield. Newman was an Anglican and he was a leading weekend told us, was a man wracked with self-doubt recommended for ordination. Dixon and I am 23 years of age. started at St Stephen’s House. figure in the Oxford Movement, and we are grateful and at times a sense of failure, yet the achievements for his thinking on the Catholicity of the Church of of this saint’s life shine now like a beacon of hope, I have had a Hello my name is Ryan and I’m England for the tradition which we share today. not only through his canonisation and sainthood and variety of jobs from 29 years old a qualified the path that brought this to its conclusion, but that working in teacher of Computer Science, warehouses, West recently concentrating on Father Blair Radford, Assistant Curate of St Paul, we can all take hope from a man, who despite these Midlands Police, students with severe special Monk Bretton, was present in Rome for the feelings and setbacks, as he perceived, achieved so Sandwell Council educational needs. This is canonisation, and shares his reflections with us: much for God’s kingdom on earth. and latterly as a where I started to sense God’s House Husband. call to ordained ministry, The tone and tempo were set from the moment I The weekend was a joyous fiesta of pilgrimage, My name is Phil working with such a diverse set Garrett and I have of needs my pastoral skills stepped into Rome airport with familiar faces (both moving from official services and events, to events to come, by the time we arrived at St Peter’s just started a part- were being put the test daily Anglican and Roman Catholic) already in the gatherings of friends old and new, private prayer and we were both giddy with excitement, the Holy Spirt time course at both in my job, my daily life and passport control queue. Rome would be full of contemplation. The weekend started on the leading, as St John Henry’s hymn says as a kindly Queens. at church. people known to us all, indeed people joked about Saturday with various events across Rome, including light toward the Mass. In another unplanned moment who might still be in England on Sunday to say Mass a vigil of prayer in preparation for the Canonisation I then, isn’t God great, met with friends from all At 48 I never for the people. Mass the next day. aspects of my life, as I found myself by chance in a though I would be Most people think group of brother priests and friends as we found our looking at chocolate is heaven, There are moments in one’s life, this was surely one seats for the Mass. The rest, as they say, is history, Theological my name is Andrew of them, where being in the right place at the right College, but I also Bailey and I am giving the moment of the canonisation will live and inspire have just started at up a career managing time, felt as if there were an influence from the me for ever, as will the joy and friendship of those SSH. My name is Hotel Chocolat in order divine. As soon as the Canonisation of John Henry with whom I shared this most special of days. Tony and I have to point people to the Newman was announced I knew I had to be in Rome worked on the land real heaven. I have for that great day. A devotion to the saint, born in The evening found us attending a service of prayer and hopefully I am just started my Oxford and nurtured since then, ensured that. The now going to be training at St and reflection lead by the various Oratorian Houses harvesting a Stephen’s House. Sunday before the canonisation, I had preached in from around the world, a much need time for thanks different crop. our parish and reflection. about going to the Mass at St. Monday brought my final day and a chance to see my Peter’s as an Godson, a pupil at the Oratory School just outside Anglican, Oxford, serve Cardinal Nichols at the Mass of steeped in our Thanksgiving at the Basilica di San Giovanni in Catholic Laterano. Packed, even for such a church, this was tradition, to the climax of the weekend and a much needed celebrate this chance, as Cardinal Nichols said, to say thank you to great priest St. John Henry, but also to all those who had worked and the Sunday dawned, bright and warm, and as I walked so hard to make the weekend’s events so special. example of from where I was staying for the weekend, I found the strong streets quiet and empty, almost ghostly in the The glow remains, even as I write this, when I think Ladies and Gentlemen, my name is Jonathan Roberts and since the age of determined absence of people, which allowed me space to about those times in Rome and what they have given 19 I have been working in the travel industry, both as a holiday rep and as an Air Steward. I have just begun my training at Mirfield. faith, left by St contemplate what was to come. I then met an to me as a faithful priest and servant of the church. John Henry to Oratorian of my acquaintance and shared the last Deo Gratias. May St John Henry Newman pray for us people of all mile of my walk with his. His joy undoubted at the all. Contact us @ [email protected] www.additionalcurates.co.uk Tel: 0121 382 5533 Forward Christmas 2019 FINAL.qxp_Layout 1 30/11/2019 14:11 Page 4
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From 2011 he was Clerk Dr. Colin Podmore will to the Synod and Director of Ecumenical Relations. be retiring in February In this role his familiarity “Come, come, come to the manger…” with the law, theology 2020 as Director of and politics of the Church Bishop Roger reflects on the Eucharist, the manger to see the child Jesus in the manger of Bethlehem morning reminds us, “Trace we the Babe, who hath of England enabled him and Bethlehem were, after Mary and Joseph, the first to behold his retrieved our loss, from his poor manger to his bitter glory, the first to see that blessing and grace from cross.” “Behold, I bring you good news of a great Forward in Faith after to make an exceptional Bread is, of course, a symbol of life. Jesus came, God. There they saw the Bread of Life lying in an joy which will come to all the people” were the nearly seven years in contribution. says St John, that we might “have life, and have it animals’ feeding trough. The root of the English words of the angel to the shepherds who then Colin joined Forward in abundantly”. No wonder then that Jesus says to the word manger comes from the French verb to eat. “went with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and Faith at a difficult disciples after the feeding of the five thousand, “I Anyone coming to a manger in a cattle shed would the babe lying in a manger.” I wonder what were post. moment for the Church of am the bread of life” and, in explaining this, he expect to find something there to eat. The the first words of Mary and Joseph as they greeted England, shortly after the says: “I am the living bread which came down from shepherds did indeed find food to eat, but not what those marvelling shepherds? Could they have been Before coming to this post, he served for Synod had narrowly heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for they expected. The angel messenger had told them “Behold the man”? Or even “Behold the Lamb of twenty-five years in various posts at Church rejected legislation to ever; and the bread I shall give for the life of the to go to Bethlehem to see “a babe… lying in a God”? House, Westminster. From 1988 to 2013 Colin enable women to world is my flesh”. St John is the evangelist who manger” and which would be a “sign” for them – a describes the birth of Jesus, this gift of living bread pointer to God’s purpose to make his dwelling with Let us come, then, to the manger and worship the was involved in delivering an unusual number become bishops. The fact come down from heaven, in an innovative way as his people and to be the one who would sustain King, saying those familiar words with which we of complex and challenging projects. In the that revised legislation incarnation: “The Word became flesh and dwelt them, feeding them with the bread which he would prepare to feed on the Bread of Life: “Lord, I am not 1990s his theological and historical knowledge passed by clear among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld give for the life of the world, that is, his very flesh. worthy that you should enter under my roof…” and proficiency in German enabled him to majorities in 2014 owed his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father”. make an outstanding personal contribution to much to the willingness And “from his fullness have we all received”. God’s It is now that we recall that Bethlehem, the place of He leaves all His glory behind, a landmark agreement between the Church of of those with sharply a broad church. He has deployed his great loving gift to the world of his incarnate Son is one of the Saviour’s birth, means House of Bread. How To be born and to die for mankind; England and the German churches of the opposing views to come to an accommodation powers of organisation to ensure that effective abundant generosity: “I am the bread of life; he who marvellous, then, is the purpose of God! Food for With grateful beasts His cradle chooses, comes to me shall not hunger…”. those the Lord calls his sheep is given them from Thankless man His love refuses, Lutheran and Reformed tradition. in the light of their mutual commitment to each new support structures for traditionalist clergy Subsequently he helped guide the passage of other as Anglicans. Within the traditional Jesus taught his disciples to pray “Give us this day the very beginning. From the first moment of his Lord, have pity and mercy on me! and parishes have been put in place. And he our daily bread.” This means bread sufficient for birth, the Father reveals his Son to be the one to the Common Worship liturgies through the Catholic constituency Colin played a pivotal role has worked unstintingly in travelling the each day, sufficient to keep us from ever being whom all should come in order to feed so as never Bishop Roger Jupp Synodical process and oversaw the ambitious in the process to secure a solution which had country, working with far fewer resources than hungry. To have bread in abundance is a blessing to be hungry again and, in this way, know the Superior-General of the Confraternity of the publication programme that followed. He was up to then proved elusive. We owe him a great he had been accustomed to at Church House and a grace from God. Those shepherds who came fullness of life. And so the hymn of Christmas Blessed Sacrament Secretary to two major reviews of Crown deal for his part in the establishment of The yet continuing to show a commitment that is appointments in 2001 and 2007 contributing Society of Saint Wilfrid and Saint Hilda and his not confined to his constituency but extends to an historical perspective to the sensitive and serving as secretary to the Council of Bishops the welfare of the whole Church of England. shifting boundary between Church and State. of The Society. Colin is a scholarly, wise, politically astute and As Secretary of the Dioceses Commission he decent hard-working servant of the Church of helped oversee the first successful attempt in He has continued to give confidence that there England in a series of roles. We thank him more than a century to abolish three dioceses will still be a place for traditionalists within a particularly for all he has done for traditional and create one more coherent diocese in their Church of England that has abolished gender Catholics as Director of Forward in Faith. The Guild of All Souls has sought to fulfill two main wrote to Carole, the Guild secretary, inviting her to place. distinctions in its ministry yet aspires to remain tasks since its foundation in 1873. First, to maintain come, as she had seen The Guild’s contact details on a continuous chain of intercession for the souls of the the back of the prayer cards. Carole in turn asked me faithful departed as a practical witness to the if I would represent The Guild as I live much nearer doctrines of the Communion of Saints and the Ipswich. However, it was only when I read Marie’s Tom worships at St Silas, Kentish Town. He is in Faith and Colin Podmore in promoting the Resurrection of the Dead. Secondly, to care for the blog on her website that we knew anything of her visit We are delighted that dying, the dead and the bereaved. to our church. Philip, my husband, who is the Vicar, Treasurer of the Society of Mary and has Catholic faith as we have received it in the invited her to hold her exhibition in St Mary’s and we recently been appointed as Clerk to the Church of England.” An annual Intercession Paper is issued to members; compiled the service to complement it. Tom Middleton has Trustees of the Cleaver Ordination Candidates we publish other materials and prayer cards, and we Fund. We give thanks for Colin’s work, and pray for sponsor an annual Day Conference at Walsingham. Marie said afterwards that she certainly felt divinely been appointed to guided to Mendlesham church; it’s probably the only him as he prepares to retire. We also pray for Here Anne Gray, a Trustee of the Guild, writes about a rural church in the diocese which has candles for the Bishop Tony Robinson, Chairman of Forward in Tom as he prepares to take on his new role. recent pastoral connection made through a Guild departed, the Blessed Sacrament reserved, Guild of succeed Colin. Faith, commented: “I am delighted that Tom publication and its impact on the life of a parish. All Souls prayer cards and is open every day. has agreed to be our next Director. He comes On Saturday 23rd November in our parish church of The service is now held annually and has proved Tom currently works as the Greater London to us after a distinguished career working in St Mary the Virgin Mendlesham, Suffolk, we will hold extremely helpful for a number of people – perhaps Authority’s Assistant Director of Finance and finance and governance. He will bring a wide a Service of Light for all families bereaved of a child, most memorably a 94 year-old widow in our Governance, and leads a team of 35 people at range of skills which will help us develop even whether before or after birth, of whatever cause and congregation who afterwards said that at last she felt London’s City Hall, where he has worked for further over the coming years. I look forward to however long ago. at peace; years ago she had given birth to a baby girl the past 18 years. the next chapter of Forward in Faith’s task of who had died straight away and she had grieved ever strengthening the place of The Society within It started in 2017, inspired by a lady called Marie. Earlier that year, experiencing such anguish after a since. She herself died four weeks later. He was previously on the staff of the Audit the Church of England.” miscarriage, she got into her car and drove without I’ve heard since of a series of services called Commission and the National Audit Office. He knowing where she was heading. She ended up in ‘Goodbye services’ but ours is most specifically ‘au holds a degree in theology from Durham Tom said. “I am greatly honoured to be taking our church about 15 miles away, though she had revoir’ in the sure and certain hope of the University and a postgraduate diploma in up this role. I look forward to meeting as many never heard of it previously. There she found a haven Resurrection, so the overriding theme is hope rather of peace, candles to light for the departed and some public finance and leadership from Warwick of my fellow members of Forward in Faith as I than sorrow. University, and is a member of the Chartered can, and to working with the trustees, Council prayer cards published by The Guild of All Souls which Institute for Public Finance and Administration. members and branch officers. I shall do my spoke to her in her need. If you would like more information, to become a member of the Guild, or to order publications, see our utmost to continue the sterling work of Forward Marie is an artist who, later that year, held an website: www.guildofallsouls.org.uk exhibition in Ipswich on the theme of her loss. She Forward Christmas 2019 FINAL.qxp_Layout 1 30/11/2019 14:11 Page 6
6 Together CHRISTMAS 2019 THE VOICE OF CATHOLIC ANGLICANS Together CHRISTMAS 2019 7 Christmas Meditation “He at whose voice Archangels and Angels tremble…” CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS... The priests and people of The Society minister in a wide range of contexts. Over the next few pages are reflections on those different contexts and how they celebrate Christmas, and what that says to them about the birth of Jesus. The measure of our devotion and love for Mary resurrection of her beloved child. There are the and ensuing rapture of the resurrection and is the measure of our yearning to know Jesus entrancing accounts, in St Matthew and St Luke, ascension of her son and in the outpouring of Please do pray for all of them, and their witness to the Incarnation. Christ: it’s a simple, homely and home truth that of the events leading up to the birth of Christ; the Holy Spirit at the first Pentecost, the Birth of we are blessed to recall in the wonder and then the snapshots of those first days and Holy Church. silence of this season of Advent, as we prepare weeks, together with brief glimpses of to celebrate the birth of the Saviour. Why, you childhood. Then Mary, the ‘Virgin with Child’ on St Hilary of Poitiers was one of the early Fathers may ask? Because Jesus Christ is fully God and so many Christmas cards, is present to witness of the Church (living and serving in Gaul in the fully man: he is fully the son of his father, our the torment and bloody destruction of her child, 4th Century) and a passionate teacher of a right …IN LEEDS father, in heaven; and he is fully the son of his meeting him in the crowds on his final journey understanding of the mystery of the person of mother, Mary. In these darkening days of and standing, at the last, at the foot of his cross, Jesus Christ and the way in which God and Man For some folk in our community, the misery of up a three course Christmas meal. No one is ever enables them to become strong that they are the December, the light of the Incarnation grows with the beloved disciple. His body is once again are brought together in him at his conception Christmas draws nearer. Saint Hilda’s Church, turned away, and last year we fed more than 40 salt of the earth. ever brighter as we prepare for this, the great cradled in her lap, but this time as he is taken and birth. He helps open up this mystery when Cross Green, Leeds is the 64th poorest parish in people. The sense of community is demonstrated in mystery that is Christmas. Such a mystery is too for burial. Mary too is caught up in the confusion he writes of the tender, human love between the United Kingdom and is very much an island in that even some single mums, having cooked for Even though at times society writes them off, St hard for mere mortals to grasp, but Mary Mary and Jesus, reminding us of the tiny the country’s sixth richest city and the wealthiest in their own families, come afterwards to church to Hilda’s is a hospital for sinners, where the broken is the key that unlocks the doors of our cries of the infant son of God. He says the North of England. This is because the inner help with the washing up. are put back together. For me as the Interim Parish understanding and she is also the “He at whose voice Archangels and ring road circumnavigates the parish, and if you did Priest I just feel absolutely privileged and honoured gracious means of our learning. Angels tremble, and heaven and earth not live here you would have no need to come here. If this lunch did not happen, then 40 folk would sit to have been called here to Cross Green where and all the elements of the world are In every direction the community has been written at home, not be part of anything and Christmas having been in interregnum for five-and-a-half What is this mystery that we are preparing melted, was heard in the wailing of an off and for some folk here Christmas can, and will, would just roll into another miserable day of years, God’s people needed a shepherd, a to celebrate? It is twofold: firstly, Jesus is infant….was wrapped in a cradle.” He be a really miserable time. However St Hilda’s is existence. But along with Mary, the volunteers and shepherd who would love and encourage them so fully the son of his heavenly Father: think continues that, in case the weakness of very much the heartbeat of the community. the Church they can come and be part of a wider that through the Incarnation we are not a for a moment of the occasions when the Mary’s human frame is overwhelmed and family. community that is written off. disciples heard the Father address Jesus broken by the power of God, the Holy On Advent Sunday our Nativity figures of Mary and directly and audibly or when they heard Spirit “casts the cloud of his might around Joseph will be going into the local ‘Club and Being part of that wider family also brings home the We may not have any money but what we do have is Jesus address his father directly and her”…that he might fortify her bodily Institute’ from where they will start a journey message of Christmas and community expressed a heart for mission where love, words and sincerity audibly. I think especially of those two frame to receive the power of God. Such around the parish staying in schools, houses and through the Christingle service which brings cost nothing, but when they are put together they great mysteries of the Baptism of the Lord is the glory of the conception of the Son local businesses, arriving in church on the Fourth together members of the congregation and people can have a massive impact. in the waters of the River Jordan and of of God and Mary, because she gave him Sunday in Advent for our Christingle Service. This who would not usually attend church. journey, from house to house, symbolises not only Fr Darren Percival the Transfiguration of the Lord up on our human nature, our flesh and blood, the homeless asylum seekers who move through St Hilda’s also shows how it is the focal point for the Mount Tabor. They are like the bookends she gave him life and the very milk of a the West Yorkshire Destitute Asylum Network, but parish by using the building for a Community Fun to our Lord’s public ministry. On both mother’s love: because of this she is the also those of our own community who sofa surf, or Day with a bouncy castle, games, stalls, Christmas occasions those gathered around heard guarantor of our salvation. squat as they have no fixed abode. Carols and a visit from Father Christmas. the booming, thundering voice of the Father: “Behold my beloved son in whom I The greatest Christian scholars have Nearly eight years ago Mary Brenan, a spirited When I came here three-and-a-half years ago, I was am well-pleased.” The heavens opened studied and written at length about this human dynamo in the community for nearly 30 deeply touched by the plight of the community and and the voice of God was heard, removing great mystery: but that is not the path for years whose is door is always open, set up what has how it had been left without a shepherd and the any doubt about who this mysterious many of us to take, especially in Advent! become the Wednesday Group where each week words of St Paul in his second letter to the people person was, Jesus the Christ. And think of However, the good news is that the we feed between 30 and 40 of the most vulnerable of Corinth are with me each day as I deal with those times when our Lord prays aloud to attention and honour and devotion that of the parish, in a venture staffed by volunteers poverty and its consequences. his father-perhaps most poignantly in we offer to Mary in our worship and from the local community as well as church. What “For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the Gethsemane, “Father let this cup pass prayers will open these mysteries to us began as pilot scheme to provide what for some is power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in from me, yet not my will but yours be more swiftly and completely than a library their only meal in the week has also become their dealing with you we will live with him by the power done” and the following day, calling in his full of books, and this is partly because so own sense of community where they share their of God.” final agony from the cross: “My God, my many of the ancient hymns and texts of problems and know people care. God, why have you forsaken me?” And devotion to Mary are the priceless fruit of Jesus was crucified in weakness and rose through think of that beautiful, long prayer, known as the a great root structure of learning and prayer (NB From this we decided very early on to open on the power of the Resurrection to become strong High Priestly Prayer which makes up Chapter 17 Hymns 213-218 in the English Hymnal are a Christmas Day where we will serve whoever turns and it’-s through working with the vulnerable that of St John’s Gospel (incidentally, the anchor-hold good place to start, together with the Salve of our ecclesiology and of our desire for the Regina). Mary is the key that unlocks the doors reunion of the Church-but that’s for another “Mary is the of our understanding and she is also the time….), when we eavesdrop, together with the gracious means of our learning. Think of the disciples in the Upper Room, on the most centuries of art, music and literature that have intimate and tender prayer from son to father. key that been born of Mary: a great and wonderful So we are assured of whom this is as we hear outpouring of our love for God and for his son these and many other exchanges between Jesus Christ, all of which was made possible heavenly son and heavenly father. unlocks the through the simple ‘yes’ of Mary. Be it unto me according to thy word. May we learn her words to Secondly, Jesus is also fully the son of Mary. be our own this Advent, as we prepare to Not so many exchanges of words are recorded, doors of our welcome the living Word into our hearts and though there were doubtless a fair few, lives, that one day she will lead us to see fully, especially in those early years….but we are without shadow or fear, the fruit of her womb, presented with scene after scene in the Gospels understanding” our Saviour Christ. in which Mary is patiently and faithfully present, witnessing the unfolding of the extraordinary Father Jonathan Beswick SSC is Vicar of story of God’s love for us, his people, told St Peter, London Docks through the conception, birth, life, death and Forward Christmas 2019 FINAL.qxp_Layout 1 30/11/2019 14:11 Page 8
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Barnsley NHS Hospital Foundation Trust is like Equally It was always joyful and fulfilling to see staff full of the joy of the day, this flowed over LROYA NAVY CHAPLAINCY SERVICE any secular institution in that Christmas begins in people going home on Christmas Eve, restored onto the wards, and if patients were too ill to late October. Wards have their raffles, local and healthy enough to enjoy a family celebration. enter into the spirit of the day, they were During Advent and at Christmas many parishes are For me, Christmas at sea, has been off Iraq, the quiet hours- on a chart table, in the corner of a getting ready through the usual busyness of Carol South China sea, off Antarctica and in Afghanistan- mess deck. Truly here, God is made present. football stars visit the children's wards and staff surrounded by the love and care of the staff services, Christingles, Christmas fairs, meals, giving communion there to over 400 soldiers, Christmas parties are organised. Then, in the On Christmas Eve there was an early Midnight festooned with charity appeals etc. The festivities envelop our sailors and aircrew from around the world- with For more information about Chaplaincy in the weeks leading up to Christmas, Christmas trees Mass at 7:30pm, with the Christmas Martyrology reindeer antlers lives, whether we are followers of the Christ child bullet proof vests and helmets at the ready. All Royal Navy - www.royalnavy.mod.uk/careers/roles- and decorations appear in wards and public proclaimed and chapel doors wide open. The and flashing or not. Many folks will be working over the different expressions of how we do deploying and-specialisations/branches/chaplaincy areas. Bambino was carried in a little procession and Christmas Christmas holidays, medics, emergency workers, ministry. The Venerable Martyn Gough, Chaplain of the Fleet placed on the Altar until the Crib was blessed badges! after Holy Communion. I chose 7:30 as it was a hospitality employees, but for those in the Royal Of course there is always the odd complaint The run up to Christmas will be very quiet; no good time to catch staff before shift change, and Navy life is somewhat different. about a picture of Mary and Joseph on a poster in The chaplain is endless Christmas music or commercialisation the Children’s A&E being ‘too religious’! visitors leaving the wards. Faithful volunteers able, particularly There is no significant conflict at present, but the because we are at sea and an operational warship. would bring those patients who could leave the during the Royal Navy is busier than ever; disaster relief in the No endless TV adverts or bombarded with social For the Chaplaincy, Christmas in the hospital wards, down for the services. Christmas Caribbean, migrant rescue, freedom of passage in media feeds, because we are deployed. For the begins a week before Christmas Day itself, with season, to cut the Far East. As an island nation, 98% of our trade Chaplain in the Type 45 in the Far East, Christmas the Hospital Carol Service. I avoided the ‘carol There was always something deeply moving about through the secularism of the institution, which is via the sea and the Royal Navy plays a vital role Day will be spent on patrol, with Mass and carols sandwich’ by building up the crib during the celebrating our salvation within a hospital, and a nearly all the staff and patients truly appreciate. in the security, stability and prosperity of our squeezed into the day and Christmas lunch served service. As an ex- Franciscan Friar, the Crib was very profound privilege of being the channel by The ministry of laying on of hands, care of the nation and that of our allies. No doubt you have to the whole Ship’s Company. For my chaplain who built underneath the Altar; remembering St. which the sacraments of salvation were dying and the dead, administering the seen HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, our new aircraft is deployed with the submarine, he left some Francis’ teaching that “every Altar is another celebrated with and for the sick. After Mass, the sacraments was responded to with appreciation carrier and the importance that plays in our weeks ago and unlike those in the Surface world, Bethlehem”. Mary and Joseph were not put in hospital would be quiet, even expectant. and sensitivity by the staff and patients. nation’s defence. he has absolutely no contact with the rest of the the Crib as they were on the ‘posada’, calling at a world. On Christmas Day, somewhere under the Many ships and submarines will be deployed on different ward and unit all through Advent on their Christmas Day was an early start. Visiting every ocean, he will say Mass for the Ship’s Company The frail and vulnerable child in the manger, was operations over the Christmas period; some would way to Bethlehem (the hospital chapel) arriving ward, armed with a sack full of Christmas onboard the Vanguard class submarine. And the person in intensive care or A&E or on the have left the UK back at the end of the summer, so on Christmas Eve. chocolate for every patient and member of staff, Nativity plays? Oh yes!!! We have put-on full-scale birthing unit. As a priest, like the Shepherds, you preparations such as turkey and mince pies would plus a little Christmas card (religious of course) productions with angels, donkeys, mock ups of have nothing to give them but the lamb; the Lamb have had to have been loaded onboard before Christmas becomes a time of deep emotional and for everyone who wanted it. Also finding those Bethlehem, rehearsed choirs and remember what I of God, Jesus, in prayer, blessing, word and setting sail. Royal Navy Chaplains will be with their spiritual contrasts in hospital. I remember an 8 patients and staff who couldn't leave the wards said? These are rough, tough, tattooed sailors; bit sacrament. ships. year old boy dying just an hour before the but wanted to make their Communion. of challenge finding cherubs! Christmas Day Mass; rushing up to the bedside to Fr Peter Needham was until earlier this year a My first Christmas as sea was in 1998 on HMS anoint him, then returning to the chapel trying, by The Christmas Day Mass was always a special hospital chaplain in Barnsley, he is now serving BOXER in the Arabian Gulf. We were at high the grace of God, to be full of Christmas cheer. occasion with volunteers, visitors, patients and When we are deployed across oceans far and readiness because of insurgent activity. Speaking as a parish priest. wide, we have a Ships Company that is with the Captain, we agreed to say Mass at Mid- predominantly male and under 40. These are men night but with the proviso, if we came under and women who place their lives on the line, who attack, the Emergency alarm would go and the serve away from home for many months at a time. congregation bomb bursts. Mass was set up in the …IN ENGLAND’S NAZARETH Sacramental life to them is important. They may dining hall with about 30 young sailors and just not always have the religious literacy- but they are after the second carol, the alarm goes off and the receptive to the Good News. They want to know “Her Virgin eyes saw God incarnate born families or on holiday on the Norfolk coast do ship reverts to action stations. The threat passes that prayers are said for them, that the confession When she to Bethl’em came that happy morn.” come to have a look around. and an hour later we return to the hall, but this is available; that in the corner of a cabin, very time not 40 sailors, but closer to 200 come to often each day, the office recited, mass said in the Bishop Thomas Ken’s famous hymn, often In the village they see the usual display of Mass. sung at the Shrine, celebrates Mary’s life and Christmas trees and lights decorating the High her virtues and begins with the mystery we Street and in the Common Place, by the Pump, celebrate at Christmas. The joy of this feast, there is a large Nativity Scene recently donated the ‘happy morn’ which dawned in Bethlehem, to the community by both the Anglican and …IN PRISON is at the heart of Walsingham’s Shrine, which Catholic Shrines. It is blessed every year by the exists “to honour the Incarnation of God the Parish Priest, with the assistance of the Rector In the outside world, families prepare for their Service and on Christmas morning The Right eternal Son, the Second Person of the Holy and Priest Administrator, representing the Christmas festivities by buying and wrapping Reverend David Urquhart Anglican Bishop of Trinity, and the Virgin Mary, his Mother.” Shrines. The beautifully made figures reflect presents and shopping for all those delicious Birmingham conducts a service for the Christian Walsingham’s particular and historic devotion For the first time this year, instead of the Shrine foodstuffs and drinks that we indulge ourselves population whilst Archbishop Bernard Longley So it really is Christmas every day in as England’s Nazareth to Jesus, Mary and Church, the beautiful and spacious St. Mary’s with at Christmas time. Come Christmas Day, the conducts Mass for the Roman Catholic inmates. Walsingham! Joseph, the Holy Family who were eventually to fruits of their labours are enjoyed by opening They then go on to their respective Cathedrals for Church in Walsingham will welcome the return from Bethlehem to their home town in presents, having a full English breakfast, visiting the remainder of their Christmas worship and Yet the feast of the Lord’s Nativity has a children and families of villagers and visitors to Galilee, to where the joy of the Incarnation was family and friends and having guests over for a festivities. particular sense of wonder and beauty in the annual Crib Service on Christmas Eve, a first experienced by Mary at the message of an Christmas dinner with all the trimmings, England’s Nazareth. It is, of course, one of the move which is part of its developing work of angel. Christmas pudding and mince pies with brandy Every year the same thought runs through my quieter times of the year for the Shrine and or to receive gifts. Thankfully there are a number outreach to the parish community. Both Shrine sauce all washed down with our favourite tipple mind when the respective Bishops have left us village. Pilgrims and visitors are few and far and Parish gather together for the Midnight of charitable organisations who help to relieve Those who visit the Shrine and the Holy House and we continue to indulge ourselves to New Year and they go on to the splendour of their between, though if the winter sun breaks Mass which draws many worshippers and also the burden and sadness of separation. For at Christmas see the Image of Our Lady of and beyond. respective Cathedrals and the celebrations through the grey East Anglian clouds a steady for the Mass of the Day. Shrine and Parish then example, The Prison Fellowship run a scheme Walsingham in the Holy House crowned and thereafter: “which of these environments is stream of those spending Christmas with their continue to share the rich feast of Solemnities called Angel Tree, whereby, through their vested in the best mantle, embroidered with Not so In prison. Christmas morning begins like closer to the actual event of our Saviour’s birth?” and Feasts through the Christmas Octave fundraising efforts throughout the year, they are flowers and fruits associated with Christmas every other morning of the year - a basic able to send gifts to prisoner’s children and this My answer to myself is in the words of the carol concluding with the Feast of the Baptism of and Mary’s virtues. The Sanctuary of the breakfast of cereal, and lunch consists of what is is done in such a way that it appears to be a gift In The Bleak Midwinter the Lord. Shrine Church has in its centre a Nativity Scene usually served up for Sunday dinner, a chicken from Daddy. The Mother’s Union send hundreds “What can I give Him, poor as I am? leg with all the trimmings. But today it is slightly If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb; with distinctive figures carved in wood and It may be Christmas every day in Walsingham, of Christmas cards to inmates wishing them different, instead of the usual apple orange or If I were a Wise Man, I would do my part; surrounded with candles and flowers, before but there is no place quite like it to hear again seasons greeting and making them feel that they banana; pudding today is a warm mince pie, Yet what I can I give Him: give my heart”. which pilgrims and visitors are invited to pray on that happy morn the news of Our Saviour’s haven’t been totally forgotten and that they do washed down with tea, coffee or fruit juice, all Like that stable everything in prison is stripped and light candles. On Christmas Eve, the birth and to celebrate what lies at the heart of matter. eaten in their prison cell with their cell mate for back to basics and people bring nothing to our faith, how the Word was made flesh and Solemn Vigil Mass of the Nativity of the Lord is company and the festivities end there. No visible Christmas but celebrated at the High Altar. In contrast, the dwelt among us. In the run up to Christmas, the chapel is sign that today is any different to any other day of decorated with the figures of Jesus, Mary and themselves and their faith. Mass of Christmas Dawn is offered in the Holy Fr Kevin Smith SSC the year. House with few people present, a quiet and Priest Administrator Joseph, and Christmas tree and other Visitors are not allowed on Christmas Day and decorations that have been donated by Fr Patrick Gillon is a prison chaplain in intimate encounter with the new-born King in The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham inmates have to wait until Boxing Day to see their volunteers. The Chaplaincy organise a Carol Birmingham Word and Sacrament. families and friends. They are not allowed to give Forward Christmas 2019 FINAL.qxp_Layout 1 30/11/2019 14:11 Page 10
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Church of England Events 2020 JANUARY Tuesday 7th JUNE SEPTEMBER Bishop of Richborough Chrism Mass Saturday 11th 12:00 Canterbury Cathedral Saturday 20th Wednesday 23rd Bishop of Fulham Epiphany Festival www.richborough.org.uk Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament Church Union AGM www.bishopoffulham.org.uk Festival Gordon Square Tuesday 7th 12:00 Mass St Stephen, Gloucester Road www.churchunion.co.uk Thursday 30th Bishop of Beverley Chrism Mass www.confraternity.org.uk Commemoration of King Charles the Martyr 11:30 Manchester Cathedral Friday 25th 11:40 – The Banqueting House, Whitehall www.seeofbeverley.org.uk Friday 19th – Sunday 21st Catholic Evangelism Lecture www.skcm.org ...IN THE FRIARY Tuesday 7th Family Fest South West 7:00 St Matthew, Carver Street, Sheffield Bishop of Ebbsfleet Chrism Mass TBC Dart Country Park www.churchunion.co.uk FEBRUARY 11:30 Exeter Cathedral [email protected] www.stmatthewscarverstreet.co.uk I am always extremely suspicious of anything which Incarnation extremely seriously and this seriousness upon over the Christmas period. The Word became www.ebbsfleet.org.uk claims to articulate an overarching and definitive ‘x’ may be seen, above all things, in the presence of flesh and dwelt among us not in a perfect ordered Monday 3rd – Friday 7th Thursday 25th Wednesday 8th or ‘y’ Spirituality. As a Franciscan Friar (and thus Cribs in all Franciscan Friaries and houses. One of world but in our imperfect, noisy, sad and troubled The Priests and Deacons Retreat Guild of All Souls Day Conference OCTOBER Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham Bishop of Richborough Chrism Mass 10:45 – 3:00 – Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham having lived constantly with Franciscan Friars for the many myths one hears about St Francis is that world as God’s Supreme and wonderful gift and in Saturday 3rd https://www.walsinghamanglican.org.uk/visit/wh 12:00 The Shrine Church, Walsingham www.guildofallsouls.org.uk more than ten years) I can safely say that not one of he invented the Crib. This is not the case, however, order that the world, through him, might be saved. Glastonbury Pilgrimage Association AGM ats-on/ www.richborough.org.uk us thinks or prays identically! Having said that, what is undeniably true is that St Francis Abbey House, Glastonbury however, there is certainly a ‘family resemblance’ in reinvigorated the practice of devotions before the “Let us Bless the Lord God Living and True; let us Wednesday 8th www.glastonburypilgrimage.com our thinking and praying and the figure of our Crib and, according to one of his earliest always give Him praise, glory, honour, blessing and Bishop of Beverley Chrism Mass JULY MARCH Monday 5th founder St Francis of Assisi inevitably figures large biographers (Thomas of Celano) he instituted the every good! Amen. Amen…” 6:00 St Aidan, Grangetown Saturday 4th Confraternity of the in our corporate prayer, in our reading and in our practice, in the Umbrian settlement of Greccio, of Friday 13th – Sunday 15th www.seeofbeverley.org.uk Additional Curates Society Vocations Day The Children’s Pilgrimage ‘Saving Water’ Blessed Sacrament Council General contemplation. When trying to explain the main the praesipio or the ‘living crib’ in which a statue of Brother Joseph Emmanuel SSF is Novice Guardian Wednesday 8th ACS Offices, Commercial Street, Birmingham Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham 11:30 Mass topoi of Franciscan thought (at least as I see them!) the baby Jesus was placed in an enclosure in which for the Society of St Francis and is based at Bishop of Ebbsfleet Chrism Mass TBC www.additionalcurates.co.uk www.walsinghamanglican.org.uk/visit/whats- www.confraternity.org.uk I tend to use three headings: Crib; Cross and Altar. live animals were housed so that, as Thomas Alnmouth Friary 11:30 Lichfield Cathedral on/ Saturday 11th www.ebbsfleet.org.uk Saturday 10th These are, of course, important reference points in records, the faithful might have an opportunity not Glastonbury Pilgrimage Guild of Servants of the Our Lord’s life (Birth, Death and Eternal Life) but St only to reflect on the wonder of the Incarnation and Monday 23rd - Thursday 26th 12:00 Mass Preacher: The Bishop of Beverley Saturday 18th Sanctuary Autumn Festival Francis responded to them on at least two levels; the Divine condescension which lay behind it but A Lenten Retreat ‘Mary and the Eucharist’ www.glastonburypilgrimage.com Guild of Servants of the St Mary de Castro, Leicester they were a source of wonder and the occasion of that they might also experience the sights, sounds Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham Sanctuary Easter Festival www.guild-of-servers-of-sanctuary.weebly.com praise for him but they also affected the way he and smells of the environment in which the King of www.walsinghamanglican.org.uk/visit/whats-on/ 12:00 St Stephen, Gloucester Road, London July 16th apprehended the world around him: Thus, not only Kings and Lord of Lords came to dwell in. In that www.guild-of-servers-of-sanctuary.weebly.com Church Union Theology Lecture Monday 12th - Thursday 15th did he weep over the cross, he wept over those who sense, this particular sort of Crib reminded them, 6:30 Holy Redeemer, Clerkenwell, London SSC International Synod Saturday 25th were crucified by the vagaries of life; he not only and reminds those of us who reflect upon it, that APRIL www.churchunion.co.uk www.sscholycross.com CBS Children’s Eucharistic Festival rejoiced in the Incarnation he also perceived that the Lord did not come into a perfect, spotless, www.holyredeemerclerkenwell.com Wednesday 1st Holy Family, Failsworth, Manchester the ‘stuff’ of the world in which the Incarnation had uncomplicated world. Far from it; he came into a Saturday 24th Bishop of Richborough Chrism Mass www.confraternity.org.uk Walsingham Festival taken place was, at least potentially, Sacred. noisy, violent, noisome world surrounded by the 7:30pm – St Hugh, Eyres Monsell, Leicester Durham Cathedral noise – and stench – of farm animals. The gritty AUGUST www.richborough.org.uk www.walsinghamanglican.org.uk/visit/whats-on/ Given the first of these topoi it should come as no reality – and the consequences – of the Incarnation MAY Saturday 1st Saturday 4th surprise that Friars take the celebration of the are, for me as a Franciscan, what I choose to reflect Society of Our Lady of Egmanton Monday 26th - Friday 30th Bishop of Richborough Chrism Mass Saturday 2nd 12:00 Mass Tuxford Road, Egmanton, NG22 0EZ The Families Pilgrimage 11:00 - Winchester Cathedral Society of Our Lady of Egmanton May Festival www.sole-egmanton.com Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham www.richborough.org.uk 12:00 Mass Tuxford Road, Egmanton, NG22 0EZ www.walsinghamanglican.org.uk/visit/whats-on/ www.sole-egmanton.com Monday 3rd - Friday 7th Sunday 5th Walsingham Youth Pilgrimage Sunday 3rd NOVEMBER …MISSION TO SEAFARERS Bishop of Beverley Chrism Mass Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham 6:00 St Aidan, Grangetown Vocations Sunday www.additionalcurates.co.uk www.walsinghamanglican.org.uk/the-shrine/the- Thursday 5th www.seeofbeverley.org.uk youth-pilgrimage/ Guild of All Souls Requiem The mission to Seafarers started over 150 years ago Sailors. These include such things as nice woolly concelebrate and distribute the Eucharist. We are Saturday 9th 7:00 St Stephens, Gloucester Road, London Sunday 5th Saturday 8th when a Parish Priest in Bristol began visiting ships hats, scarves, cards, hygiene products and perhaps supported with music and a Choir from the local Society of Mary May Devotion www.guildofallsouls.org.uk Bishop of Burnley Chrism Mass Richborough Family Festival 12:00 – Mass (St Silas, Kentish Town, London) and seafarers. We now operate in over 200 ports a torch as well as some sweets. Filipino Congregation. Ecumenical cooperation is Venue TBC 12:00 Mass St Alban’s Cathedral Saturday 7th 4:00 – Vespers (Holy Trinity, Kentish Town, around the world providing information, religious excellent. One of us does the Homily and we try to www.richborough.org.uk Society of Our Lady of Egmanton Requiem material, services, transport, clubs and counselling Our big activities are on 24 December and it begins not only address the miracle of the Incarnation, but Sunday 5th London) Preacher: Mgr John Armitage 12:00 Mass Tuxford Road, Egmanton, NG22 0EZ to our 1.5 million sailors who bring us 90% of what by visiting the ships. We try and see as many ships also the fact that the Sailors are missing home and Bishop of Wakefield Chrism Mass www.societyofmary.weebly.com Friday 14th www.sole-egmanton.com we use in our daily lives. My ministry is mostly with as possible and give invitations for our Christmas family. I actually don’t meet many Seafarers who Venue TBC Assumptiontide Lecture Monday 11th – Friday 15th Friday 13th – Sunday 15th the crews of cargo and container ships and I visit Eve Mass which is followed by food and a Christmas are committed to life at sea out of love for the sea. 3:00 St Mary, Walsingham Walsingham Bible Weekend Monday 6th St John’s Guild Walsingham Pilgrimage www.churchunion.co.uk ships, take services and help out at our Seafarers Party. A good number, especially those with Crews Most of them do it so they can give their families a Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham Centre. We also help out with justice and welfare from the Philippines and India, are preparing for better life. A Filipino Sailor may be supporting up to Bishop of Richborough Chrism Mass www.walsinghamanglican.org.uk/visit/whats-on/ 12:00 Chelmsford Cathedral www.stjohnsguild.org Saturday 15th issues such as bullying or being forced to work in their Christmas Day celebrations on their ships. We 100 members of his family. www.richborough.org.uk Assumptiontide Festival Saturday 14th November substandard conditions. provide bus transport every evening to our Centre Saturday 16th 12:00 Mass Bristol Cathedral Forward in Faith National Assembly and the transport is especially full on Christmas Eve After the Mass the Sailors join us for some food and Monday 6th Anglo-Catholic History Lecture www.ebbsfleet.org.uk www.forwardinfaith.com Here is what I leave on each ship: Newspapers in with up to 75 joining us. drink and our Christmas Party begins. The Bishop of Beverley Chrism Mass 12:00 Mass, 2:00 Lecture Clumber Park Chapel their own language, religious booklets, seafaring Reformed Minister appears as Father Christmas 11:30 St Leonard, Loftus [email protected] Friday 28th - Sunday 30th Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd magazines, welfare information, transport We decorate our main hall at the Centre for with some helpers and we have some more singing www.seeofbeverley.org.uk Additional Curates Society Vocations Adoremus (18 to 30’s Pilgrimage) information, contact details and maps. Christmas as our Chapel is too small for these and the distribution of the Christmas parcels. It is a Saturday 16th Conference Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham numbers. We usually have 7 clergy for the Mass very good Evening and the Seafarers really seem to Monday 6th Richborough Festival St. Stephen’s House, Oxford www.walsinghamanglican.org.uk/visit/whats-on/ Bishop of Ebbsfleet Chrism Mass TBC Canterbury Cathedral Our preparations for Christmas start at the which starts at about 8 pm. We are a varied group appreciate it. The congregation includes Seafarers www.additionalcurates.co.uk 12:00 Bristol Cathedral www.richborough.org.uk beginning of Advent with our Christmas Bazaar. with 3 Lutheran Deacons, a Reformed Minister, an from many countries, but mostly from the www.ebbsfleet.org.uk Monday 31st DECEMBER Several hundred people attend it and we have Anglican Priest and 2 Roman Catholic Priests. They Philippines and India. We try to make it a very Monday 25th Pilgrimage for Healing and Renewal various stalls and services set up and serve a hot represent the Swedish Lutheran Mission, the special evening for them. Tuesday 7th Walsingham National Pilgrimage Friday 4th - Sunday 6th Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham Advent Retreat lunch and refreshments. German Seamen’s Mission (DSM), Sailors Society, Bishop of Fulham Chrism Mass 12:00 Mass, 2:30 Sermon and Procession - 12:00 – Mass Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham 11:00 – St. Andrew, Holborn Abbey Grounds Mission to Seafarers (MtS) and the Apostleship of Fr Brian Millson is Chaplain to the Mission to www.walsinghamanglican.org.uk/visit/whats-on/ www.walsinghamanglican.org.uk/visit/whats-on/ The week before Christmas a group of thirty or so of the Sea (AoS). We all take part in the service and Seafarers and Assistant Priest at St Boniface, www.bishopoffulham.org.uk www.w alsinghamanglican.org.uk/visit/whats-on/ us get together to make Christmas parcels for the the 3 Priests (Anglican and Roman Catholic) Antwerp
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Epiphany Christmas Day Christmas Eve 8am Mass & children at 5.00pm [email protected] Church ofTheAnnunciation South Wimbledon 5pm ChristingleandCribService, Sunday, 29thDecember,4pm St.Ambrose, Westbourne, Solemn MassofChristmasMidnight. 10.00am SungMassoftheDay. Bellevue Road, Ramsgate. St Anselm’s, HatchEnd Christmas Day Communion: 9:30am Fr.Adrian Pearce. 01 202911569. 8.00am Low MassoftheDawn, Children’s Carol Service and Children’s Carol Service Holy Trinity Church Mass ofChristmasDay withCarols 9 LessonsandCarols: 6pmSunday 11.45 MidnightSolemnMass. Christmas Day Communion:11am 6.30pm Carolsby Candlelight 4.00pm Readings&Carolsin Midnight Mass–11.30pm www.allsaintswimbledon.org.uk Midnight Mass11:30pm Tuesday 4.00pm Family CribService, Sunday 22ndDecember For moredetailsandallother Parish Office 01Parish Office 202766772. Crib Service: 5pmTuesdayCrib Service: 24th Parish Mass–10.00am. Christmas Services2019 Festival ofLessonsandCarols Christingle Workshop 2.00pm, Contact: 020 8467 3606 8467 020 Contact: Parish ofGodshill, preparation forChristmas. e-mail [email protected] Crib Service: 6:30pmTuesdayCrib Service: Parish Priest:Fr. ChristopherNoke stanselmshatchend.org.uk Christingle Service 3.00pm Christingle Service email: [email protected] Wednesday 25thDecember Wednesday 25thDecember 11.30pm SolemnMass Special ChristmasServices Special ChristmasServices Said Mass–8.00am services andeventssee: Vigil Mass–5.00pm Chislehurst. Chislehurst. All Saints 11am SolemnMass. Bournemouth 11.30pm MidnightMass. Rector andParishPriest. 10am SungMass(CW) Nine Lessons&Carols. Isle ofWight 22nd December Sunday 15thDecember Christmas Day Christmas Eve Sunday 8thDecember St Alban’s Ventnor All SaintsGodshill and onFacebook Christmas Day Christmas Day Christmas Day Christmas Eve Christmas Eve Christmas Eve TEL 01843654102 22rd December 24th December 24th December of Midnight. 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Children Society Midnight Mass Carol Service Christmas Day Christmas Eve 08:00 Mass 08:00 Mass Christmas Day Christmas inWalsingham Christmas Eve Christmas Eve Evangelist Stephen Advent 4 email - Mass Fr Harri Fr Harri SSCFrKevinWilliams SmithSSC - 9.30 AllAge - 9.30 S.Stephen, Protomartyr - 11.30pm Christmas Day ~ followed by drinks Christmas Eve ShrineChurch 10h30 BCPHolyCommunion(Stradsett) Blackfordby 9.30pmChristmas at Vigil St Margaret,Blackfordby& St Margarets 11.30pmMidnightMass 19h30 MassofChristmasNight(Hilgay) 26th DecStStephensDay Parish PriestFr.Simon Lumby, 10h30 Mass-said, withcarols(DMkt) Also dailymassesthroughoutthe 10am Patronal MassatStStephens (on theDerbyshire/Leicestershireboundary) Fr JamesMatherssc,Rector(01366)382187 Fr AlanDavies,Assoc.Priest(01553)810675 23h45 CribBlessing&MidnightMass CHRISTMAS INWESTNORFOLK CHRISTMAS And underthesamemanagement 16h30 ChristingleandCarols(DMkt) St Edmund’s Church, Downham Market www.saintaidansnewparks.co.uk DE11 8AB&8DQ Churches affiliated toChurches affiliated TheSociety 6pm Crib Service atStMargarets, 6pm CribService 25th DecChristmasDay 24th DecChristmasEve Christ theRedeemer 5pm Crib Service atStStephens, 5pm CribService 3pm NineLessons&CarolsatSt First SundayofChristmas,TheHolyFamily 10h30 BeneficeEucharist(DMkt) For fulldetailsofregularservices, Off theA10betweenElyand New Parks, Details: FrMichaelFishSSC St Stephen,Woodville Sunday 29thDecember 0116 2872342 10am Family EucharistatSt 15th Dec Advent III 15th DecAdvent St Mark’s Church, Ten MileBank on www.achurchnearyou.com Leicester usa 4hDecember Tuesday 24th Christmas 2019 St Aidan, St Mary’s Church,St Mary’s Stradsett Margarets, Blackfordby. 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