Dear all
It’s a joy to have seen so many of you returning from the Christmas holiday with smiles on your faces. But don’t forget – Christmas doesn’t end until 2 February and the feast of Candlemas when we celebrate the Presentation of Christ in the Temple and bless the candles to be used in church over the next year. So keep celebrating! Thank you to those of you who have already donated towards the purchase of candles. A sign-up sheet showing the candles still remaining to be sponsored will be available in church after the Sunday services or contact Leonora to find out more. With the return to work and school comes a return to our usual round of weekly services and groups with the School Parent Prayer group on Monday morning at 9am: the Bitesized Bible Group on Wednesday mornings at 8.35 am in the church; the School Eucharist service on Thursday mornings at 9.30 am and Mini Abbots Baby and Toddler Group at 9.30 am at the centre. The Royal College of Music free lunchtime concerts start next week on the 17th January - and their programme can be found here. A reminder that this Wednesday, 15th January, we will welcome Opera Holland Park back for a free afternoon concert at 2pm - please come and join us. On Wednesday, 22 January at 7pm there will be an ecumenical service of Choral Evensong for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Fr Anthony Aziz from St Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church will be preaching. We continue as always to pray that Christians everywhere will be united in love and service under the teaching of the apostles. Looking further ahead, on Sunday 9 February YMIC (Youth Ministry in Communion) will be heading off down the Thames on a boat, with silent disco, murder mystery, games, and worship, starting from Putney. There will be a small charge of £6 for this but please ask Martina or Fr Tim for more details. On Sunday we continue the theme of Epiphany (‘manifestation’ or ‘revelation’) with the feast of the Baptism of Christ, where Jesus is acknowledged as the divine Son of God by his Father accompanied by the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. At our 5.30 pm evensong there will be the voluntary choir - please come at 5pm for a rehearsal if you would like to join. Father in heaven, who at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan didst proclaim him thy beloved Son and anoint him with the Holy Spirit: Grant that all who are baptized into his Name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Saviour; who with thee and the same Spirit liveth and reigneth, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen. (Collect for the Baptism of Christ from The Anglican Service Book) In the peace of Christ, Fr Evan 9th January 2025 |
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