Lucy, Miralee Askew, Iris Pope, Kay Harrison, Leonard Lloyd ,Magdalena Sagvari, Joyce Rimmer, Johanna Sarathay and Malcolm McDonald.
Peter Jupe (1st), Patrick Burke (2nd), Christian Blyth (4th), Jean Ruston (5th).
The Benefice Office is open on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. St Mary’s Church open on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday between 10:00 a.m. — 12 noon.
St Mary’s notices can be sent to the Parish Office at info@stmarysmoseley.co.uk, or by phone: 0121 449 2243 (mornings) by 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday. Voicemail messages can be left at any time. Also see http://www.stmarysmoseley.co.uk.
St Anne’s notices can be sent to Revd Rosemary Donovan at info@st-annes-moseley.org.uk, or by phone: 0121 449 1071 by Thursday. Also see http://www.st-annes-moseley.org.uk.
Gift Aid: If you are a taxpayer, please maximise your giving in the Offertory Plate by using the Gift Aid envelopes provided.
St Mary’s has a loop system for the hard of hearing, in the centre block of seats. Turn your hearing aid to the ‘T’ setting.
Children aged 3 to 11 meet on the 2nd 3rd and 4th Sundays during the 10:00 a.m. service. They continue worship in their groups and meet their leaders at the back of the church after the collect for the day. All children are welcome. There is a crèche facility at all 10:00 a.m. services.
Children meet on the 1st, 3rd and 4th Sundays during the 10:15 a.m. service. They leave with their leaders after the first hymn. All children are welcome.
The Youth Group meets on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. at St Mary’s.
M*A*S*S meets on Thursday at 3:45 p.m. at Moseley School.
Free, half hour music session on Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m. for children aged 0+ years old. We aim to sing nursery rhymes, Christian songs, play simple musical instruments, hear stories from the Bible, learn basic musical concepts and move to music. Parents or care-givers help their child through each activity or song. No previous musical experience is required. Squash and bikkies after each session!
For more information please Contact Mick Perrier on: 07967 595 881, or via mick@mperrier.freeserve.co.uk.
We have received a donation of large quantities of DK wool in various colours. If you would be interested in knitting a complete garment rather than squares please contact Kate Stocks on 449 1763.
There will be a warehouse in Kings Norton for checking shoe boxes. Help is requested on Mondays and Tuesdays in November beginning on Monday 9 November. Further details from Mike Newbold Tel 443 3037.
Please place contributions in the back of either church by the 15th November. For further info please see flyer.
Thanks RosemaryFrom Sunday 1 November until the end of Epiphany, St Mary’s Church is beginning a ‘kaleidoscope’ project both following and portraying the Church’s liturgical journey in colour from All Saints to Candlemas. To mark the stages on the journey, each bay in the Church is going to be hung with symbols and colours made by our Children’s Groups. Today Angels appear to mark All Saints. Watch and wait for further signs to come. Generations have learnt from the symbolism and our pilgrimage will provide us figures and signs to reflect on. Come with us over the next two months to find Christ being with us on our journey to Bethlehem this year and beyond.
| Service | First Reading | Second Reading |
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| Morning | Revelation 21:1-6 | Gospel: John 11:32-44 |
| Evening | Revelation 21:1-6 | John 14:1-7 |
| Time | St Mary’s | St Anne’s |
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| 8:00 a.m. | Holy Communion Celebrant & Preacher: Revd Frank Berry |
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| 10:00 a.m. | Community Worship Officiant: Mick Perrier |
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| 10:15 a.m. | Sung Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: Revd Jeremy Dussek Hymns: 134,63,567,60,518 |
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| 11:15 a.m. | Sung Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: Revd Frank Berry |
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| 6:30 p.m. | Requiem for All Souls Officiant & Preacher: Revd Jeremy Dussek |
| Day | Time | St Mary’s | St Anne’s |
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| Mon-2-Nov | 9:00 a.m. | Morning Prayer | |
| Tue-3-Nov | 9:00 a.m. | Holy Communion | |
| Wed-4-Nov | 9:00 a.m. | Morning Prayer | |
| 2:45 p.m. | School Remembrance Service | ||
| Thu-5-Nov | 9:00 a.m. | No Morning Prayer | |
| Fri-6-Nov | 9:00 a.m. | No Morning Prayer | |
| Sat-7-Nov | 1:30 p.m. | Wedding of Sarah Stammers and lain Williams |
| Time | St Mary’s | St Anne’s |
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| Sunday 8 November, Remembrance | ||
| 8:00 a.m. | Holy Communion | |
| 10:00 a.m. | Sung Eucharist. We will be joined by members of RAFA | |
| 10:15 a.m. | Remembrance Service | |
| 6:30 p.m. | A special Service of Readings and Music for Remembrance | Holy Communion |
See also: Calendar of Future Events
| Date | Time | Details |
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| Sun-01-Nov | 6:30 p.m. | All Souls Service At this service we offer the souls and names of all those who have died both in the last year and at other times. If you would like to add a name a list will be available to sign before the start of the service. We are also inviting members of the congregation to sponsor a light on our Christmas tree (which will be outside St Mary’s) to celebrate the hope that Christ brings at Christmas. A collection will be taken at this service and any other donations can be given to the benefice office. |
| Fri-6-Nov | 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. | Save The Children Christmas Sale at 23, Chantry Road, Moseley |
| Sat-7-Nov | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. | |
| Sun-8-Nov | 10:00 a.m. | Remembrance Sunday Service at St Mary’s to mark the act of remembrance. We will be joined by members of the Royal Air Force Association. |
| 10:15 a.m. | Remembrance Sunday Service at St Anne’s to mark the act of remembrance. | |
| Sat-14-Nov | 7:30 p.m. | African Night Parish Hall at St Anne’s This will be a good night out with opportunity to explore future links with Malawi and Ghana, to enjoy some good food and entertainment by African Drummers and to win some prizes! Donations of £10 requested for the evening. Not to be missed! Could you make a curry for the refreshments please? Please let Angela Brown or Janet Thorne know. |
| Sat-28-Nov | The Benefice Christmas Fair will be held in and outside St Mary’s Church this year to coincide with the Farmer’s Market. If it is to be a success we need your help in the following ways:
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| Sun-29-Nov | 6:30 p.m. | Festival of Lessons and Carols for Advent |
| Thu-17-Dec | Moseley Christmas Tree Celebration and Concert Following last years’ success, we will be repeating this with a shorter event and our Charity this year is for the National Institute for Conductive Education here in Moseley. |
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| Sun-20-Dec | 4:00 p.m. | Children’s Nativity Service |
| 6:30 p.m. | Festival of Lessons and Carols for Christmas | |
| There is much to celebrate and give thanks for in the Benefice. Come and share God’s Glory with others. | ||
When you read this Sunday’s homily, I will be in Jerusalem. A Jerusalem made ugly by walls at whose check points Palestinians are routinely humiliated, a Jerusalem whose old streets are filled with the wailing of families made homeless in the land of their birth. Saint John saw a vision of a new Jerusalem where God is with all his people, where there will be no death, neither sorrow nor crying.
The Palestinians living in Jerusalem too see a vision where there will be no needless deaths, where their homes are not demolished and where they will be able to live in dignity. A well known charity states, ‘we believe in life before death’. The Palestinians wait for the establishment of a new and just Jerusalem in their lifetime.
On All Saints Day we remember with gratitude saints who by their lives made society a more just and compassionate place; who stood by what they believed in what was right in the face of opposition and even death at times. Whilst we remember the saints of days gone by, let us give thanks for those who have played such a role in the world in our own lifetime. At present as never before, we need men and women of courage and conviction who will speak out with a prophetic voice and work towards creating the vision of a new Jerusalem world wide. We each have a role to play in doing so.
Almighty God, you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of your Son Christ our Lord: grant us grace so to follow your blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living that we may come to those inexpressible joys that you have prepared for those who truly love you; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.