Lucy, Miralee Askew, Iris Pope, Leonard Lloyd , Joyce Rimmer Johanna Sarathay, May Corbett, Daniel, Christopher Brown, Richard Black, Audrey Samuel
Yves Halliday, Yvonne Millar, Cathy Yarwood, Martin Brown, all those who were killed in accidents recently in Moseley
Nathan Light (7th), Helen Collett (9th), John Carey (12th)
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.
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.
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.
Thanks to all who helped to make this a success Despite the inclement weather the total raised so far is approximately £950. Thanks are due to Angela Brown for organizing the whole event.
Please can you help distribute the Churches together Christmas cards? Please see Rosemary Donovan at St Anne’s or Liz Blakey at St Mary’s to collect your street bundle.
St Anne’s Christmas cards to sign for Amnesty International prisoners will be available in the hall before the morning service on Sunday 13 December.
The new bumper edition for December and January is available on Sunday 6 December. Essential reading for only 60p! Please pick up your copy. Diaries also available for a minimum donation 50p.
The Advent Installations produced by local artists Leya Tutt and Clare Harrison, on display at St Anne’s, provide an opportunity to focus and reflect on what God is saying to you at this Advent season. Why not take time to visit and view? The church is open during service times on Sundays or by appointment with Revd Rosemary Donovan.
| Service | First Reading | Second Reading |
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| Morning | Malachi 3:1-4 | Gospel: Luke 3:1-6 |
| Evening | Isaiah 40:1-11 | Luke 1:1-25 |
| Time | St Mary’s | St Anne’s |
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| 8:00 a.m. | Holy Communion Celebrant & Preacher: Revd Jeremy Dussek |
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| 10:00 a.m. | Sung Eucharist Celebrant: Revd Rosemary Donovan Preacher: Revd Jeremy Dussek |
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| 11:00 a.m. | Sung Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: Revd Jeremy Dussek Hymns: 193,133,195,209 |
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| 6:30 p.m. | ChoraL Evensong Officiant: Revd Frank Berry |
| Day | Time | St Mary’s | St Anne’s |
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| Mon-7-Dec | 9:00 a.m. | Morning Prayer | |
| 12:15 a.m. | Holy Communion at the Lunch Club | ||
| Tue-8-Dec | 9:00 a.m. | Holy Communion | |
| 7:30 p.m. | Prayer Circle A quiet hour of Advent thoughts and prayers. |
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| Wed-9-Dec | 9:00 a.m. | Morning Prayer | |
| Thu-10-Dec | 9:00 a.m. | Morning Prayer | |
| 3:45 p.m. | M*A*S*S | ||
| Fri-11-Dec | 9:00 a.m. | Morning Prayer |
| Time | St Mary’s | St Anne’s |
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| Next Sunday 13 December, 3rd 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 | |
| 10:00 a.m. | Matins | |
| 11:00 a.m. | Informal Eucharist | |
| 6:30 p.m. | Evensong | |
| Date | Time | Details |
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| 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 – 5:00 p.m. | |
| Sun | 12:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | |
| 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. |
| 7:30 p.m. | Big Script Readings and Poems for Christmas at St Anne’s. Tickets £3:50. For more information please speak to John Gray. | |
| Thu-17-Dec | 7:30 p.m. | Cracking Carols and Christmas Cheer Moseley Christmas Tree Celebration and Concert in the presence of the Lord Mayor. Help Wanted: To enable both sponsors/decorators of the Christmas Trees access into the Church and also visitors to look around and see the spectacle during daylight hours, we need people to be in the church to welcome them. Would you be able to do a two hour slot on Tuesday 15 December, Wednesday 16 December, Friday 18 December, Saturday 19 December, Monday 21 December or Tuesday 22 December? If you could help out, please let Jan Miller (449 0970) or Jonathan Hodgson (449 2307) know. |
| Sun-20-Dec | 4:00 p.m. | Children’s Nativity Service |
| 6:30 p.m. | Festival of Lessons and Carols for Christmas | |
| Sat-16-Jan | During the evening | Bowling for children age 9 or 10 and above. Please sign up on the sheet at the back of both churches. Any queries, please see Chris Abbott, Chris Hirsch, Gillian Light, Fran Rowley or Becky Greenhill |
| Sun-17-Jan | 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Benefice Children’s Party St Anne’s church hall. There will be a sign-up sheet available at the back of both churches from Sunday 6 December. Volunteers to help with the party (before, during or after) would be most welcome. |
| 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.
O Lord, raise up, we pray, your power and come among us, and with great might succour us; that whereas, through our sins and wickedness we are grievously hindered in running the race that is set before us, your bountiful grace and mercy may speedily help and deliver us; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, to whom with you and the Holy Spirit, be honour and glory, now and for ever.