Tickets for the Victorian Society Talk
on Brompton and Kensal Green Cemeteries, 22nd March HERE
on Brompton and Kensal Green Cemeteries, 22nd March HERE
Tickets for Handel's Messiah Parts II & III, Sunday 2nd April: HERE
Dear all
St Mary Abbots provided a wonderful setting last night for the very well-attended piano concert given by the pianist, organist and composer, Peter Roper-Curzon, a former member of our school and church community. We were delighted to welcome him back after some years and much enjoyed his beautiful performance. We are very grateful that the concert helped raise money towards the work of the Church. As we move through Lent, we are now preparing to celebrate Mothering Sunday during our Parish Eucharist at 9.30 am this Sunday. This will be a Family Eucharist, with our children’s choir augmented by adults, and our prayers led by mothers and children to mark this special day. If you would still like to join the choir, please let Mother Alice know here. We pray for our Mother Church, we remember the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, who is our Patron Saint here at St Mary Abbots, and we also give thanks for our own mothers and all who have cared for us throughout our lifetimes. At the end of the service, we shall be giving out flowers, and we would be very grateful if anyone is available on Saturday morning between 10 am and 12 noon to help make up the bunches. Please contact Martina here, or turn up at the church. On Sunday afternoon we shall be holding our next Lent Study Group discussing 'The Father' at 4 pm, followed by this month’s Taizé Eucharist at 5.30 pm. Looking ahead to Holy Week and Easter, our services for this period are now up on the website HERE. Holy Week begins on April 2nd, with a procession in the morning for Palm Sunday(more of that next week), and in the evening a performance of Handel’s Messiah parts II & III (the Holy Week and Easter part of Jesus’ story) at 5.30 pm. Tickets are available HERE. Please do join us for these beautiful and poignant sections of the Messiah as we prepare to walk through Holy Week together. We congratulate our Glass Door Walk team for completing the 10km walk through London last week. If you have not yet got round to sponsoring them, their giving page is still open for support for this very important cause HERE. And finally, our progress on our church fabric continues, as the work on the spire has now been completed, and this past week contractors have been at the church restoring the exterior lighting of the church and spire, kindly donated by the Friends of St Mary Abbots at the time of the Millennium, which have not been working for the past few years. It looks as though this restoration should be finished in Holy Week, and I hope and pray that we shall be able to illuminate the church again for the first time as we celebrate the light of Christ’s rising on Easter Eve after the darkness of Good Friday. God of compassion, whose Son Jesus Christ, the child of Mary, shared the life of a home in Nazareth, and on the cross drew the whole human family to himself: strengthen us in our daily living that in joy and in sorrow we may know the power of your presence to bind together and to heal; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. [Prayer for family life, Church of England] With my love and prayers Mother Emma 16th March 2023 |
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