Saint Martin’s Church in Fenny Stratford
In Aylesbury Street at the heart of Bletchley
Serving the Communities of Fenny Stratford, Central Bletchley and Granby
Saint Martin’s Church in Fenny Stratford In Aylesbury Street at the heart of Bletchley Serving the Communities of Fenny Stratford, Central Bletchley and Granby |
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Parish Events Diary
January 2011 - Month of the Epiphany
Saturday 1st (Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God) |
10.00am Low Mass |
Sunday 2nd (Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Solemn Mass with Sunday School The Proclamation of the Date of Easter and the Blessing of Chalk takes place during the Solemn Mass. The Chalk is to take home to mark the doorposts or lintels of the main entrance with the names of the Three Kings asking God's protection for the coming year.
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Sunday 9th (Feast of the Baptism of the Lord) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School |
Sunday 16th (2nd in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Sung Vespers and Benediction The Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity begins today. We bear in mind the wider Church of which we are merely a part and we pray for the work of Churches Together in Bletchley. |
Sunday 23rd (3rd in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School |
Saturday 29th (Saint Charles, King and Martyr, 1649) |
11.30 am Low Mass 3.00 pm Sung Mass for the Guild of the Servants of the Sanctuary followed by their Annual General Meeting and Tea. |
Sunday 30th (Feast of the Presentation of the Lord - Candlemass) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am The Blessing of Candles, Procession and Solemn Mass followed by our second Parish Consultation on the Future of the Anglo-Catholic Movement in the Church of England and our own Parish Future - A look at the Synodical Process over the Ordination of Women as Bishops, the Apostolic Constitution offered by Pope Benedict for Anglicans and other possible ways forward. |
February 2011 - Month of Discipline
Tuesday 1st | P.C.C. Meeting beginning with Mass at 7.00 pm. | |
Thursday 3rd (Saint Blaise's Day) | 9.15 am Low Mass with the blessing of Throats. We ask God's protection against ailments of the Throat and Respiratory System. | |
Sunday 6th (5th in Ordinary Time) | 8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Evensong and Benediction | |
Sunday 13th (6th in Ordinary Time) | 8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School | |
Sunday 20th (7th in Ordinary Time) | 8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Vespers and Benediction | |
Sunday 27th (8th in Ordinary Time) | 8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School |
March 2011 - Month of the Passion
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Tuesday 1st |
P.C.C. Meeting beginning with Mass at 7.00 pm. |
Sunday 6th (9th Sunday in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Evensong and Benediction |
Tuesday 8th (Shrove Tuesday) |
7.30 pm Pancake Party at the Vicarage. Bring a bottle. |
Wednesday 9th (Ash Wednesday - the beginning of Lent) |
12.15 pm Low Mass with the Imposition of Ashes 7.30 pm Solemn Mass with the Imposition of Ashes |
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The Keeping of Lent Lent is a forty day journey. We travel with Christ to Jerusalem to be with Him in His suffering and death in order to be with Him also in His resurrection to glory. Ash Wednesday provides the starting point, when we recall our status as 'dust of the earth', bought to life by God's creative power alone. The first two Sundays present us with the great paradox of Jesus - the man who is subject to temptation just as we are (1st Sunday) is also the Son of God, a glimpse of whose glory we share with His disciples at His transfiguration (2nd Sunday). Easter is the traditional time for Baptism; the Sundays of Lent therefore are an intensive preparation for the baptismal liturgy at the Easter Vigil. Christ is the living water which opens the eyes of the spiritually blind to faith in Him, for He is the Resurrection and the Life to all who believe in Him. Palm or Passion Sunday marks the end of Lenten preparation and the beginning of Holy Week, when Christ enters Jerusalem to jubilant cries of 'Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes!' - voices that were to cry 'Crucify Him!' only days later. If our faith is not to be as fickle and week as those voices then the message of Ash Wednesday, 'Now, now - come back to me with all your hearts' must ring in our ears. We must therefore spiritually go up to Jerusalem with the Lord during Lent so that we too may be in His company eternally. This we do by making the Lenten disciplines of Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving real and alive in our own lives. Extra Lenten Services and Groups - Tuesdays - Lent Group in the Vestry Hall at 7.30 pm. Wednesdays - Stations of the Cross after Mass at 12.15 pm.
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Saturday 12th |
Church Spring Cleaning between 10 am - 1 pm. All hands to the pumps would be appreciated. |
Sunday 13th (1st Sunday of Lent) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Penitential Procession and Parish Mass with Sunday School beginning in the Vestry Hall 6.00 pm Service of Reconciliation and Benediction (with the opportunity for individual Confession at the end of the Service) |
Sunday 20th (2nd Sunday of Lent) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Mass with Sunday School |
Thursday 24th (Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord) |
9.15 am Low Mass |
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Sunday 27th (3rd Sunday of Lent) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Lenten Vespers and Benediction |
April 2011 - Month of the Divine Mercy
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Sunday 3rd (4th Sunday of Lent) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Mass with Sunday School |
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Sunday 10th (5th Sunday of Lent) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Mass with Sunday School The Parish Annual General Meeting beginning at 11.30 am. after the Sung Mass. 6.00 pm Lenten Vespers and Benediction |
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Sunday 17th (Palm Sunday) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Blessing of Palms, Procession and Parish Mass with Sunday School beginning in the Vestry Hall |
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Monday 18th In Holy Week |
7.00 pm Low Mass with Address |
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Tuesday 19th In Holy Week |
7.00 pm Low Mass with Address |
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Wednesday 20th In Holy Week |
12.15 am Low Mass with Address |
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Thursday 21st (Maundy Thursday) |
7.30 pm Sung Mass of the Lord's Supper, Foot Washing and Procession to the Altar of Repose |
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Friday 22nd (Good Friday) |
1.00 pm Children's Workshop, Stations of the Cross and Party 3.00 pm Liturgy of the Lord's Passion and Holy Communion |
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Saturday 23rd (Holy Saturday) |
10.00 am Office of Readings and Lauds 8.00 pm Blessing of the New Fire, Vigil of Readings and First Mass of Easter |
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Sunday 24th (Easter Sunday) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Sung Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Procession, Blessing of Easter Garden and Solemn High Mass |
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Saturday 30th |
Society of Mary National Festival at St. Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town, London. Mass starting at 12 noon. |
May 2011 - Month of Our Lady
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Sunday 1st (Low Sunday - Dominica in Albis) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Solemn Easter Baptismal Vespers and Benediction |
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Monday 2nd (Solemnity of Saint George, Martyr, Patron Saint of England) |
7.30 pm Solemn Mass |
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Tuesday 3rd |
P.C.C. Meeting beginning with Mass at 7.00 pm. |
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Sunday 8th (3rd Sunday in Eastertide) |
8.00 am Low
Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer)
9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School May Devotions in honour of Mary, the Mother of God at the Parish Mass at 9.30 am. |
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Sunday 15th (4th Sunday in Eastertide) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Vespers and Benediction |
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Sunday 22nd (5th Sunday in Eastertide) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School |
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Sunday 29th (6th Sunday in Eastertide) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School |
June 2011 - Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
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Sunday 5th (Ascension Sunday) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Solemn Parish Mass and Sunday School 6.00 pm Solemn Evensong and Benediction |
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Sunday 12th (Solemnity of Pentecost) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Solemn Parish Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Solemn Vespers and Benediction to close Easter-tide |
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Sunday 19th (Feast of the Holy Trinity) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School Midsummer Madness at the Leon Recreation Ground with Church Stalls and Displays from St. Martin’s in aid of church funds from 11.30 am |
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Sunday 26th (Solemnity of the Body & Blood of Christ - Corpus Christi) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Solemn Mass with Outdoor Procession of the Blessed Sacrament (Weather Permitting) and Sunday School |
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Tuesday 28th (Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul) |
7.30 pm Solemn Sung Mass |
July 2011 - Month of the Precious Blood
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Friday 1st (Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) |
Low Mass at 10.00 am |
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Sunday 3rd (14th in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Evensong and Benediction |
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Tuesday 5th |
P.C.C. Meeting beginning with Mass at 7.00 pm. |
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Sunday 10th (15th in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School |
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Sunday 17th (16th in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Sung Vespers and Benediction |
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Sunday 24th (17th in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School |
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Sunday 31st (18th in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School |
August - Month of Divine Light ( PLEASE NOTE - From here all dates to be reconstructed )
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Sunday 1st (18th in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Evensong and Benediction |
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Friday 6th (The Feast of the Transfiguration) |
Low Mass 10.00 am Sung Mass at 7.30 pm. |
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Sunday 8th (19th in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School |
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Sunday 15th (Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Sung Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Solemn Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Solemn Vespers, Procession and Benediction |
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Sunday 22nd (21st in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School Fenny Poppers Street Festival and our Parish Summer Fayre. Our biggest Fund Raiser. From 11 am. Come along and enjoy the fun. For more info on the Festival go to: www.fennyfestival.org.uk |
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Sunday 29th (22nd in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School |
September - Month of the Holy Cross
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Friday 3rd Solemnity of Saint Gregory the Great, Apostle to the English, Patron of the Ebbsfleet Apostolic Area |
Low Mass at 10.00 am |
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Sunday 5th (23rd in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low
Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer)
9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Evensong and Benediction |
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Tuesday 7th |
P.C.C. Meeting beginning with Mass at 7.00 pm |
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Sunday 12th (24th in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School |
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Sunday 19th (25th in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Sung Vespers and Benediction |
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Friday 24th Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham |
12.00 noon - 3.00 pm Sacred Synod Meeting for Clergy at the Emmanuel Centre, Westminster, London to discuss the way forward for Traditionalist Anglican Catholics Sung Mass at 7.30 pm for the Parish Cell of Our Lady of Walsingham and open to all |
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Sunday 26th Harvest Festival (26th in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low
Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer)
9.30am Harvest Festival Family Mass with Sunday School Songs of Praise Service at 6.00 pm |
October - Month of the Holy Rosary
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Sunday 3rd (27th in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low
Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer)
9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Evensong and Benediction |
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Sunday 10th (28th in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low
Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer)
9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School 5.00 pm October Devotions and Benediction followed by Tea at the Vicarage |
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Sunday 17th (29th in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Sung Vespers and Benediction |
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Tuesday 19th |
P.C.C. Meeting beginning with Mass at 7.30 pm |
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Friday 22nd - Saturday 23rd |
Forward in Faith National Assembly in the Emmanuel Centre, Westminster, London |
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Sunday 24th (30th in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School |
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Sunday 31st (Solemnity of All Saints) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Solemn High Mass with Sunday School Followed by a discussion on the Future for Anglo-Catholics in the Church of England. Providing a way forward - The Ordinariate? The Society of St. Wilfrid and St. Hilda? |
November - Month of the Holy Souls
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Tuesday 2nd (Feast of All Souls) |
10.00 am Low Mass of Requiem 12.00 noon Low Mass of Requiem and Blessing of those laid to rest in the Churchyard 7.30 pm Sung Requiem Mass with Act of Remembrance for those who have died over this last year and those on the Parish Chantry List |
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Friday 5th |
Bonfire Night Party at the Vicarage beginning at 6.30 pm - Making a Guy, Apple Bobbing and other Games for the Children. Baked Potatoes and Fillings. Hot Dogs. Bonfire and Fireworks. £1.50 per head |
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Sunday 7th (32nd in Ordinary Time |
8.00 am Low Mass of the Day 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Evensong and Benediction |
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Wednesday 10th Vigil of Saint Martin's Day (Patronal Festival) |
Solemn Concelebrated Mass and Veneration of the Relic of Saint Martin at 7.30 pm. Preacher: To be arranged. Perosi's Ecce Sacerdos Magnus, Haydn's Missa Brevis and other Music sung by the Leighton Buzzard Festival Singers The Solemn Mass will be followed by a Reception to which all are invited |
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Thursday 11th Saint Martin's Day (Patronal Festival) |
The Traditional Firing of the Fenny Poppers in Leon Recreation Ground at 12 noon, 2 pm and 4 pm in Honour of the Memory of Thomas Willis Solemn Vespers and Benediction at 6.30 pm Browne Willis Dinner at 7.30 pm for 8.00 pm (Attendance by Ticket only) & Anniversary Speaker: Mr. Harry Willis-Flemming. |
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Sunday 14th (Remembrance Sunday) (33rd in Ordinary Time) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Requiem Mass of Remembrance and 2 minute Silence with Sunday School - Visiting Choir from the Parish of Our Lady of Lourdes, Coffee Hall |
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Sunday 21st (Solemnity of Christ the King) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Solemn High Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Solemn Vespers and Benediction |
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Sunday 28th (1st Sunday of Advent) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School |
December - Month of the Advent of our God
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Sunday 6th (2nd Sunday of Advent) |
8.00 am Low
Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer)
9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Evensong and Benediction |
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Wednesday 8th (Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary) |
7.00 pm Low Mass with Hymns |
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Friday 11th |
6.30 pm - 8.00 pm Carols in the Churchyard - Bring a Lantern. Soup, Mulled Wine and Mince Pies provided. Tea and Coffee too. Craft Stalls. Christmas Cards. Cakes and Christmas Cakes and other stalls too!!! Music provided by Brass Band and Special Guest: Father Christmas (with sweets for the children) |
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Sunday 12th (3rd Sunday of Advent) |
8.00 am Low Mass of the Day 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School 6.00 pm Service of Nine Lessons and Carols |
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Sunday 19th (4th Sunday of Advent) |
8.00 am Low Mass of the Day 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School 4.00 pm Children's Christingle and Crib Service with Christmas Party |
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Saturday 25th Christmas Day (Solemnity of the Holy Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ) |
12.00 Midnight Midnight Mass with the Blessing of the Manger (Preceded from 11.30 pm by a Service of Poems and Carols) 9.30 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 10.00 am Sung Mass with Carols |
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Sunday 26th (Feast of the Holy Family) |
8.00 am Low Mass 9.00 am Lauds (Morning Prayer) 9.30am Sung Parish Mass with Sunday School |