The Church at St. Anne’s wishes you a very happy and holy Christmas!
Advent Sunday
Sunday 2nd December
6pm – A Service for Advent by candlelight.
A beautiful service of choral music, readings and hymns.
Christmas Eve
Monday 24th December
Children’s Nativity and Carols – 5pm
The most popular service of the season…be early to get a seat!
Midnight Mass – 11.30pm
Christmas Day
Tuesday 25th December
Festive Eucharist – 10.30am
New Year’s Day
Mary, Mother of God
Tuesday 1st January 2019
Said Eucharist – 12noon
followed by drinks
The Feast of the Epiphany
Sunday 6th January
10.30am – Parish Eucharist
The Feast of Candlemas
Sunday 3rd February 10.30am – Parish Eucharist
Welcome to Saint Anne’s Church
Welcome to St. Anne’s
Many of you will already feel caught up with preparations for Christmas, planning parties, buying presents, getting the tree and so on. For others, the prospect of Christmas means a period of loneliness even worse than the rest of the year. As with Easter, the Church provides a penitential season before Christmas, Advent, which encourages us to reflect, quietly, on our failings and what we are about and what is not right and good in our lives as we await that day when Christ will come again. Christmas too, for many, is a time for recalling what is important in our lives, family, friendships, community and also what is not, those things which can often clutter up our time but which are neither healthy nor enriching.
I hope you that you may find time this Christmas to join us at St. Anne’s and reflect with us, as we celebrate the birth of the one who came to bring us life and life to the full on what is good in your life and what is not. Perhaps too, as you approach those New Year’s resolutions, to resolve to strengthen those ties of family, friendship and community, to reach out to that neighbour on their own or in need, to rejoice in the joy in your life and to be one who brings joy into the lives of others.
However you celebrate Christmas, I pray that it may be for you a time of happiness, reflection and joy and that it leads you into a blessed and fruitful 2019.
The Church at St. Anne’s wishes you a very happy and holy Christmas!
Everyone is welcome at St. Anne’s from the deeply faithful to the questioning and the curious. Wherever you fall, I hope that you will find a safe place of prayer and friendship where you may encounter something of the God who loves us all.
Fr. Andrew+
Every week at St. Anne’s
Sunday Services
8am – Said Eucharist
10.30am – Parish Eucharist with Children’s Church
Every Tuesday 8am
Morning Prayer and breakfast
Every Wednesday
11.30am – Eucharist
Community Lunches
Come and join our lunches every
Tuesday and Wednesday – £3
12 noon – 1.30pm
Meet new people – make new friends!!
Coming up soon
Compline with Address
A short service of Night prayer.
Wednesday 12th December – 8pm
‘Women at the well’
A place for exploring and deepening our spirituality as we grow older. We will reflect on Scripture and other input as relating to our present stage of life, to try to discern what we may offer in response to God’s love and care for us.
Friday 14th December, 11am, followed by lunch.
November Fair
With many thanks to all who supported the Fair which raised over £2,100
New Year’s Day
The Feast of Mary, Mother of God
12 noon – Said Eucharist with drinks afterwards.
Calendar Winter 2018 – 2019
| Saturday 1 |
Gospel Study Session, 10:30am – 12noon |
| Sunday 2 |
Advent Sunday; Advent Carol Service, 6pm |
| Saturday 8 |
Immaculate Conception Mass, 12noon Church cleaning before |
| Sunday 9 | Advent 2 |
| Monday 10 | Scripture Speak, 7:30pm |
| Thursday 13 | Women at the Well, 10:30 for 11:00am |
| Sunday 16 | Advent 3 |
| Tuesday 18 | Christmas Requiem, 7:30pm |
| Sunday 23 | Advent 4 |
| Monday 24 | Children’s Nativity & Carols, 5pm Midnight Mass, 11:30pm |
| Tuesday 25 | CHRISTMAS DAY – Festive Eucharist, 10:30am |
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