Lucy, Miralee Askew, Iris Pope, Leonard Lloyd, Johanna Sarathay, May Corbett, Daniel, Christopher Brown, Richard Black, Audrey Samuel, Pam Daly, Paul Daly Jackie Percy
Gillian Pettifer
Helen Vollans (26th), Jenny Livermore (30th), Eddy White (31st), Dave O’Mahoney, Edwin Kaye (2nd).
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 copy of the Advent Prayer Calendar from the back of either church.
Between now and Christmas, the clergy and reader are working hard to prepare for Christmas Services both in Church and across Moseley. We therefore ask that from today until Epiphany, all matters other than relating to worship and pastoral care wait until next year. If you know of someone who would like a visit or Holy Communion over the next 2 weeks please contact us. Many Thanks. Jeremy
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.
Can you help? St Mary’s church will need to have stewards during the festival. Can you offer a two hour slot on 21 or 22 December? Please contact Jonathan Hodgson 449 2307.
Help urgently required to make this community outreach event successful. Please sign up at the back of both churches if you can provide transport, be involved with preparations or come on the day! Donations of sherry, wine or soft drinks would be welcome.
For holding a very successful coffee morning in aid of Christmas Day Together! The sum of £102 was raised. Many thanks to all others who have made generous donations.
The new bumper edition for December and January is available today for 60p. Please pick up your copy. Diaries also available minimum donation 50p Benefice Office Will be open on Tuesday and Wednesday only next week and closed between December 28th-January 4th 2010. There will be no pew leaflet next week.
Thanks to all who helped to distribute these.
Liz Blakey| Service | First Reading | Second Reading |
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| Morning | Micah 5:2-5 | Gospel: Luke 1:39-45 |
| 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 with nativity Celebrant: Revd Jeremy Dussek Hymns: 89,75,165,311(omit v3) Anthem: Angelus Ad Virginem |
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| 11:00 a.m. | Crib Service Printed Order of Service |
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| 5:00 p.m. | Carol Service All are welcome. Relive the Moseley Mysteries as God and the devil turn up for a final showdown! Followed by mulled wine and mince pies |
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| 6:30 p.m. | Festival of Lessons and Carols for Christmas Printed Order of Service |
| Day | Time | St Mary’s | St Anne’s |
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| Mon-21-Dec | 9:00 a.m. | Morning Prayer | |
| Tue-22-Dec | 9:00 a.m. | Holy Communion | |
| St Anne’s Christmas Services in Sheltered Housing and Rest Homes. If you are available to sing carols and give approximately half an hour, please do come and support the pastoral team in this ministry. | |||
| Tue-22-Dec | 11:00 a.m. | Alexander Court, Park Hill | |
| Time | St Mary’s | St Anne’s |
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| Christmas Eve | ||
| 5:00 p.m. | Christingle | |
| 11:30 p.m. | Midnight Mass | |
| 11:30 p.m. | Midnight Mass | |
| Christmas Day | ||
| 8:00 a.m. | Holy Communion | |
| 10:00 a.m. | Sung Eucharist | |
| 11:00 a.m. | Sung Eucharist | |
| 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Christmas Day Together at St Anne’s to which all are welcome. | |
| Next Sunday 27 December, John the Evangelist | ||
| 10:00 a.m. | Sung Eucharist | |
| 11:00 a.m. | Sung Eucharist | |
| Sunday 3 January 2010, Epiphany Sunday | ||
| 8:00 a.m. | Holy Communion | |
| 10:00 a.m. | Sung Eucharist | |
| 11:00 a.m. | Sung Eucharist | |
| 6:30 p.m. | Festival of Readings and Music for Epiphany | |
| 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 – 5:00 p.m. | |
| Sun | 12:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | |
| Fri-25-Dec | 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Christmas Day Together! At St Anne’s. Help urgently required to make this community outreach event successful. Please sign up at the back of both churches if you can provide transport, be involved with preparations or come on the day. Donations of sherry, wine or soft drinks would be welcome. |
| 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. | ||
‘May I come about 6:00 a.m. and leave my car with you?’
‘Of course’, I say blithely.
Later my enthusiasm cools a little, but it is seldom enough that I can do anything for this person. There is always much visiting to and fro at Christmas time and the decisions to visit and meet involve much joyful planning. (I mustn’t forget the chestnut stuffing, that’s their favourite.) Christmas may be thought to be commercialised but the festival turns the world upside down, and in the hunched-up homeless person and the inarticulate asylum seeker we may discern the child of Mary. And nearer home we may find the grace to listen yet again to Uncle Edward’s stories, and in the telling and the listening find a celebration of each other’s presence.
In our gospel for today, we learn that Elizabeth, now six months pregnant with the infant John the Baptist, had a deep sense of privilege at Mary’s visit. She called out,‘Why should this great thing happen to me, that my Lord’s mother comes to visit me?’ But we have an even greater blessing as Jesus comes, not just on a Christmas visit, but promising to be with us always. As John Betjemens’s well known poem says, no Christmas things (even the ‘hideous tie so kindly meant’), ‘Can with this single truth compare, That God was man in Palestine, And lives today in bread and wine.’
God our redeemer, who prepared the Blessed Virgin Mary to be the mother of your Son: grant that, as she looked for his coming as our saviour, so we may be ready to greet him when he comes again as our judge; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Eternal God, who made this most holy night to shine with the brightness of your one true light: bring us, who have known the revelation of that light on earth, to see the radiance of your heavenly glory; 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.