Dear all
I am looking forward to seeing many of you at Handel’s Messiah Part 1 this Sunday evening at 5.30 pm, with our professional choir and the Purcell Players. If you haven’t already purchased tickets for this beautiful St Mary Abbots tradition, you can still do so HERE until 2pm on Sunday, after which there will be some available on the door. We also have our regular morning services for this third Sunday of Advent. As our external Carol Services have now all taken place, with several thousand people coming to celebrate this joyful season in word and music, our regular service of Evening Prayer at 5.30 pm will be resuming every evening from Monday 16th December. This week also sees our monthly Healing Eucharist at 12 noon on Wednesday 18th, followed by a sandwich lunch. You are very welcome as we pray for healing for ourselves, those dear to us, and our broken world. On Thursday we will hold the St Mary Abbots School Carol Service, and wish all the staff, pupils, parents and governors a peaceful and joyous Christmas holiday. Next weekend, we have our Service of Nine Lessons and Carols by Candlelight at 5.30 pm on Sunday 22nd December. We are not restricting tickets, but last year the church was very nearly full, so we do encourage you to arrive promptly to join with us to hear this wonderful, familiar narrative, sing traditional carols, and enjoy music from our professional choir. A quick advance notice that between Christmas and New Year, the church will be open from 10 am to 6 pm every day (except Sunday, which will open for the 8 am as normal, of course!), and there will be no service of Morning Prayer online on 26th, 27th, 30th or 31st December, or on New Year’s Day. The parish office is closed during this period, but a member of the clergy will be on duty throughout and the 12 noon Eucharist and 5.30 pm Evening Prayer will be said as usual in church each day. Everything will revert to our normal pattern on Thursday 2nd January 2025. I pray that you will find moments of Advent stillness and holiness amidst the busy preparations for Christmas. People of God, return! You are called to be God’s own. From the mountains announce the good news. God comes in justice and peace, to all who follow his ways. You are God’s children. Lord, make us one in the peace of Christ, today and forever. Amen [Prayers at the Advent Wreath, Advent 3, Times and Seasons] With my love and prayers Mother Emma 12th December 2024 |
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