Lucy, Miralee Askew, Iris Pope, Leonard Lloyd , Joyce Rimmer, Johanna Sarathay, May Corbett, Daniel, Christopher Brown, Richard Black, and Audrey Samuel.
Yves Halliday
All those who were killed in accidents recently in Moseley.
Yvonne Millar, Cathy Yarwood, and Martin Brown.
The souls of those who we remember tonight as the Advent Tree is lit in memory of them.
Chris Brown, Kate Barnett, James Shakeshaft (30th), Lauren Wheeler, Lizzie Simon, Angus Watson (1st), Mark Griffiths, Mick Perrier, Maisie Cartmell (3rd).
Congratulations this week to Chris Brown on his 21st, Angus Watson on his 40th and Mick Perrier on his 60th.
If you are here for the first time, please do introduce yourself to a sidesperson or minister and take a welcome card.
Baptised members of any Church are welcome to receive Communion. If you do not wish to take communion but would like a blessing please come forward, holding your service leaflet.
A collection for the work of the church is usually taken during each service. Please use the Gift Aid envelope if you are a UK taxpayer.
We have loop systems for the hard of hearing. At St Mary’s it is available in the main nave. At St Anne’s it can be used in any part of the church.
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.
There will be a collection of foodstuffs on 22nd and 29th November at both churches.
From 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. 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.
These will be on sale from now until Christmas at the back of St Anne’s church price £5.
Please pick up a larger copy from the back of either church.
| Service | First Reading | Second Reading |
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| Morning | Jeremiah 33:14-16 | Gospel Luke 21:25-36 |
| 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. | Sung Eucharist Celebrant: Revd Jeremy Dussek Preacher: Revd Frank Berry Hymns 196,470,478,98 Anthem: Lift Up Your Heads (Mathias) |
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| 11:00 a.m. | Sung Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: Revd Frank Berry Hymns: 98,219,226,307 |
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| 6:30 p.m. | Festival of Readings and Music for Advent Officiant: Revd Jeremy Dussek Advent Procession: The Advent Procession will take the form of a journey from darkness to light. Please do come early and bring a torch if you find it difficult to read under lower lighting conditions Order of Service on Printed Sheet |
| Day | Time | St Mary’s | St Anne’s |
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| Mon-30-Nov | 9:00 a.m. | Morning Prayer | |
| Tue-1-Dec | 9:00 a.m. | Holy Communion | |
| Wed-2-Dec | 9:00 a.m. | Morning Prayer | |
| 2:45 p.m. | Advent Worship with Moseley School | ||
| Thu-3-Dec | 9:00 a.m. | Morning Prayer | |
| 3:45 p.m. | M*A*S*S at Moseley school | ||
| Fri-4-Dec | 9:00 a.m. | Morning Prayer | |
| Time | St Mary’s | St Anne’s |
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| Next Sunday 6 December, 2nd Sunday of Advent Please note the changes to the worship pattern |
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| 8:00 a.m. | Holy Communion | |
| 10:00 a.m. | Sung Eucharist | |
| 11:00 a.m. | Sung Eucharist | |
| 6:30 p.m. | Choral Evensong | |
| Date | Time | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Mon/Thurs/Sat | 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Nativity Trail Birmingham Museum and Art gallery. Admission free. Open to 6 January. |
| Fri | 10:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | |
| Sun | 12:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | |
| Sun-29-Nov | 6:30 p.m. | Advent Procession: A Festival of Lessons and Readings The Advent Procession will take the form of a journey from darkness to light. Please do come early and bring a torch if you find it difficult to read under low light conditions. |
| Sat-5-Dec | 2:00 p.m. | Restore Working with refugees and asylum seekers. International Carol Service at St Martin's in the Bullring. A multilingual celebration of the birth of Christ. |
| Sat-12-Dec | 10:00 a.m. – 12 noon | Coffee Morning 17, Hayfield Road, All are welcome .Please support this event which will help to raise funds for Christmas Day Together. |
| 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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| 7:30 p.m. | Cracking Carols and Christmas Cheer. St Mary's Church. More details next week. | |
| 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. | ||
Today is Advent Sunday, the start of the Christian year, four weeks before Christmas. The timing of Christmas was considered so critically important that people recalculated their calendars and diaries from the year when (so it is thought) Jesus was born. Every event had to be dated BC or AD, as mankind took account of ‘God’s time’. During this Advent season, even as we watch and wait and reflect on Christ’s first coming, we are reminded that one day, in God’s own time, Jesus will return in glorious majesty ‘to judge both the living and the dead’ (2 Timothy 4:1). None of us can know what these words actually mean and when will God’s clock strike again to announce ‘the day of the Lord’? What time has been set for his coming in majesty and great glory? The Advent season makes us expectant of Christmas, but what has happened to our expectancy of the Second Advent? Advent hymns are joyfully sung, ‘Lo! He comes with clouds descending… Christ appears on earth to reign’, but do we believe them? Are we eagerly anticipating Christ’s return? The final words of the risen and ascended Lord promises, ‘Surely I am coming soon. Amen.’ To which faith replies, ‘Even so, come Lord Jesus’ (Revelation 22:20). May Jesus truly ‘come to all of us’ this Christmas, if he hasn’t already returned before then.
Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and to put on the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which your Son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility; that on the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.