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The next week in the St Faith’s Community
Sunday 9th December
8am Book of Common Prayer Holy Communion
9.30am Parish Eucharist 11.00am Sundays@11
6.00pm Evening Prayer
Tuesday 11th December
9.30am Rainbow Toddlers
7.30pm Alpha Course 10
Wednesday 12th December
10.30am ‘Living in the Light’ Advent Course 3
Thursday 13th December
11.30am Eucharist
2.00pm Cuppa & Company
8.00pm ‘Living in the Light’ Advent Course 3
Friday 14th November
11.00 Funeral of Frederick Furber
6.15pm Choir & Worship Group practices
Sunday 16th December
8am Book of Common Prayer Holy Communion
9.30am Parish Eucharist with Prayer Ministry
11.00am Sundays@11
6.00pm Carol Service
The Creeds, part 2:
I believe in God,
the Father almighty,
Creator of heaven and earth. Welcome to St Faith’s. If you are a visitor, we hope you enjoy your time with us. If
you would like to know more about St Faith’s, please fill in a
Welcome Card, found on the desk near the entrance to the church.
St Faith’s Vision
Our vis ion is to be a welcoming progressive
Christian community of all ages and all stages of faith, nurturing
spiritual growth, and representing God’s living presence in our town.
Weekly Notes
9th December 2018
2nd Sunday of Advent
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Traidcraft The last stall before Christmas, for your purchases and any
donations for Traidcraft Exchange, will be next Sunday the 16th
December. Thank you very much for all your custom in the past
year, and particularly over the past few weeks. I hope to be able
to tell you how much we can send to the Exchange Christmas appeal very
soon.
Trading will be resumed on 13th January, 2019. With all good wishes, Cecily
Parkinson.
Missing Keys - do you have them?
We are missing a set of 7- 8 keys consisting of 2 brass
keys, 2 chrome keys and keys of other types. These
are a set of church keys but there are no identifying
marks on them to indicate where they can be used.
Please check if you happened to use these keys and
have forgotten to return them.
Christmas Day Lunch
If you know someone who would like to come to the Christmas
Lunch, please let them know that it is happening. You can book
them a place by calling the church office on 023 9255 6445.
Lee Choral Society Christmas Concert
Saturday 15th December
at 7.30pm in St Faith’s Church Conductor: Richard Dewland Organist: Andrew Cleary
‘Magnificat’...John Rutter
‘Christmas Bells are Ringing’...Christmas Medley
Carols, with audience participation
Tickets £10.00, Concessions £8.50
Tickets available from LCS members, the Church Office, on the door,
or by ringing 023 9311 3534
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2018 Christmas Fayre Thank you to the Christmas Fayre
committee for all their hard wok in organising
last week’s Christmas Fayre. A great deal of
hard work was involved and it was much ap-
preciated by all those who came to the Fayre.
On the day the sum of £2,976 was raised and, in addition to that sum, £400
was raised from the sale of tables to other groups. At the time of writing
there are £159 known expenses.
Crockery missing from
the Parish Centre Have you taken a plate or dish home from the
Parish Centre, perhaps with some food in, and
not bought it back? We’re missing quite a few
plates, bowls and other items! If you do have
crockery at home, please could you return it?
Thank you!
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During Advent, the Revd Ann Leonard, a member of
our Ministry Team, will be writing a weekly reflection
about this season in the Church Year. Her second
reflection is below.
Advent Reflection - Week 2
There is no doubt what many of us (though I
realise not all) will be doing over the next week
or so. The Christmas rush is well and truly on
with cards still to write, last minute presents to
buy and wrap and post, food preparation, plans for hospitality and visiting –
stress! Will we be ready in time? Some are consoling themselves with the
thought that in just over two weeks it will all be over!
Will life be just the same again or will we be changed?
If we take Advent seriously I hope we will be changed, because we shall
have had the opportunity to reflect again on what it means to say that God
became human in the humility and shocking squalor of the birth at
Bethlehem – and that he still comes into the world in all its mess and pain
and joy – longing for us to recognise him and welcome him.
I want to put the season of Advent and Christmas in perspective,
because actually it isn’t all over on December 26th even though the sales will
have begun! Today we are entering the second week of an important nine-
week season in the church year. These nine weeks come in three parts –
Advent, Christmas and Epiphany and culminate in Candlemas – the
presentation of the baby Jesus at the Temple (at the beginning of February).
The whole season together explores how gradually, the meaning of Christ’s
coming (the Incarnation) is revealed and how key elements in the Christian
understanding of God emerge.
Advent is the getting ready season; Christmas celebrates the coming of God
into our world and into our hearts and lives and although that is the climax
of the season it is not the end because we then have Epiphany tide which is
the revealing of the mystery of God coming to earth – the making known
to others of what has happened. (The season of Epiphany begins on January
6th with the visit of the wise men but continues until Candlemas).
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All three seasons teach us vitally important things about Christ and form
part of a whole. Firstly preparation – then Christ’s coming and finally our
response which is to make him known in our world.
In a way this pattern of preparation, meeting and making known is
repeated each Sunday in our Eucharist. We prepare ourselves by coming
to church and confessing our sins and praying together. Then we meet
Christ in the word (the gospel) and in the sacrament (the bread and wine)
which is the climax, but not the end. The service ends when we are
commissioned afresh to go out from church sharing the love, light and
hope of Christ with those we meet
and making his presence known to
the world – ever new Epiphanies!
The uniqueness of our faith, in
comparison with other faiths, is
God’s coming to us in the flesh (and
God’s death at our hands). Other
faiths are about the people’s search for God. Our faith is about God’s
search for us. He came to find us and dwell with us. That’s what
Emmanuel means and that is what Christmas is really all about and where
our hope lies.
Two of the major themes of Advent are hope and the light of Christ
coming into the darkness. I came across this thought in a book written by
an Irish nun. She says, ‘Hope is daring, courageous; it has the audacity to reach
a hand into the darkness and come out with a handful of light.’
I have seen and been moved by this kind of hope and determination in
people who are facing what I think must be unbearable strain in their work
or homes and yet they press on regardless, some of them even cheerfully.
I have seen it in friends who have been bereaved, who have remarkably
found energy to haul themselves along the hard path of grief, not only
surviving, but discovering treasures on their journey which they have been
able to share with others. I have seen it in some internationally known
people; those who have carried amazing beacons of light like the
courageous Nelson Mandela, the inspiring Desmond Tutu and the
compassionate Mother Teresa.
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‘Hope is daring, courageous; it has the audacity
to reach a hand into the darkness and come out
with a handful of light.’
In these uncertain days of political turmoil in
our world let us pray that we can be daring
and courageous enough to reach a hand into
the darkness and come out with a handful
of Christ’s light – to share with others for
whom the darkness feels overwhelming.
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Helpers needed at Christmas Eve
Crib and Christingle Services
Both of these services will be very large, and we would appreciate help to
steward at both. At the Crib Service costumes are available for you to wear!
We will need to take the stage down quickly after the crib service, to prepare
for the Christingle service, and help is needed with this.
Christingle making -
Sunday 23rd December after Sundays@11
We will be preparing for our Christingle service by making
200 Christingles. All items needed will be provided, although
if you could bring an apple corer with you, that would be very
useful!
To help with any of the above, please sign up on the Welcome Table
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Christmas Services Please do note the Christmas services below, and invite your friends and family
to join us as we celebrate the birth of Jesus!
Sunday 16th Dec 6pm Carol Service
Christmas Eve 3pm Crib Service
4.30pm Christingle service
11pm Midnight Mass
Christmas Day 8am Book of Common Prayer Holy Communion
10am Christmas Celebration
Services on Sunday 23rd December and Sunday 30th December are as normal!
Remember: the carol service is next Sunday!
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Sunday 9th December - 2nd Sunday of Advent 8.00am Book of Common Prayer Holy Communion
A traditional communion service using the 1662 order of service
President: Michael & Jan Beer Assistant: David Fordham
Collect: Page 89
9.30am Parish Eucharist
A formal choral service of Holy Communion
President: Mary Kells Deacon: Paul Chamberlain
Preacher: Trevor Reader
Epistle reading: Philippians 1:3-11 Sue Hamilton
Gospel reading: Luke 3:1-6 June Witham
Intercessions: Carolyn Keyzor
Chalice Assistants: Margaret Hunt, Pam Rigg, Dorothie Garratt and Carolyn Marshall
Hymns: All the hymns are in the Order of Service or on the screen.
Before the service:: Wait for the Lord Choir only
Processional: On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry Page 17
Candle Lighting Hymn: Verse 2 Page 17
Offertory: Hail to the Lord’s anointed Page17
Communion Chant: Come to me Choir only
Closing Hymn: People, look east to see at last Page 19
11.00am Sundays@11
A service for all ages, with a music group, various media, and activities for adults and children.
Leader: Becca Chamberlain Preacher: Mary Kells
Kids@11 team: Kevin Dean, Carolyn Marshall, Paul Chamberlain
Songs: Praise is Rising, We are Waiting, King of Love, Everyone Needs
Compassion, These are the Days of Elijah
6.00pm Evening Prayer
A traditional reflective service with music and a sermon
Officiant: Steve Dent
Opening Hymn: 10 Long ago, prophets knew
Psalm: 75 First reading: Isaiah 40:1-11 Jo Drew
Second reading: Luke 1:1-25 Jo Drew
Homily: Steve Dent
Hymn: 18 Ye servants of the Lord
Intercessions: Gillian Sinclair Hymn: 16 Wake, o wake!
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For your prayers during the next week
Collect for the 2nd Sunday in Advent
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. Amen.
Those who are unwell: Martin Over, Norah Drew, Pam Dickey,
Sue Harrap, Brian Nutting, Rosie Dawson (Trevor & Joyce Dawson’s
grand-daughter), Malcolm Dean, Maisie & Fred Kitching and Vicki Edwards.
Anniversaries of Death: Frances Jane Bennett (9th); Virginia Kirby (10th);
Jimmy Reynolds (11th); Joyce Batten & Dora Mills (14th); Francis MacDonald,
Arthur Dalby & Peter Driffill (15th).
Those who have died:- Frederick Furber, Shelagh Kenvin and Vic Parrett
Lord our God, we seek your face and long to find you. May we find you as
your people found you in times past when you drew near with many signs and
miracles. May our hearts come before you in awe and trust and draw their
strength from you. May many in our time seek you and receive your comfort
and help, for you provide strength and courage for the poor and destitute, for the suffering and the dying. Do not let our age pass by in vain, O great and
almighty God. A new time must surely come, a new day must be born from
this present age. This is your will, and in your will we trust. Amen.
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In the Church and Parish Centre 9th-16th December
Church Bulson Hall Lowry Room Sun
9th
Dec
8.00 Holy Communion
9.30 Parish Eucharist
11.00 Sundays@11
6.00pm Evening Prayer
Refreshments
11.15am Sundays@11
9.00am Choir
11.15am Sundays@11
Mon
10th
Dec
8.00 Silent Prayer
8.30 Morning Prayer
5.00pm Evening Prayer
9.30-12.30pm Lunch Club
6.15-7.15pm Yoga
10.00-11.00 Pilates
6.15-7.15pm Sally’s
Zumba
8.00-9.00 Dance Fitness
Tue
11th
Dec
8.00 Silent Prayer
8.30 Morning Prayer
5.00pm Evening Prayer
9.30-11.15 Rainbow
Toddlers
1.30-2.30pm Pilates
2.45-3.45pm Pilates
6.15-7.15pm Yoga
9.30-10.30 Claire’s
Zumba
5.30-7.00pm Brownies
7.30-9.30pm Alpha
Course 10
Wed
12th
Dec
8.00 Silent Prayer
8.30 Morning Prayer
5.00pm Evening Prayer
7.30-9.15pm Lee Choral
Society
10.00-12.00 CSPA
1.00-3.00pm Weight
Watchers
7.30-9.30pm Christmas
Wreath Making
10.30-12.00 Advent
Course 3
9.30-7.30-8.30pm Sally’s
Zumba
Thur
13th
Dec
8.00 Silent Prayer
8.30 Morning Prayer
11.30 Eucharist
5.00pm Evening Prayer
9.30-10.30 Yoga
11.00-1.00 Piano Tuner
12.00-4.30pm Mothers’
Union Christmas lunch
5.30-6.30pm Yoga
6.45-7.45pm Pilates
8.00-9.30pm Advent
Course 3
10.00-1.00pm Lowry Art
Group
2.00-3.00pm Cuppa &
Company
6.30-9.00pm Lee
Voluntary Care Group
Christmas Party
Fri
14th
Dec
8.00 Silent Prayer
8.30 Morning Prayer
11.00 Funeral of
Frederick Furber
5.00 Evening Prayer
6.15-9.00pm Choir
Practices
1.00-2.00pm Zumba Gold
7.30-9.30pm ‘Shall we
dance?’ ballroom dancing
10.00-11.00 Jiggy
Wrigglers
2.00-4.00pm Knit &
Natter
7.30-9.30pm Hampshire
& IOW Wildlife Trust.
Sat
15th
Dec
9.30-11.30 Lee Choral
Society practice
7.30-10.00pm Lee
Choral Society concert
9.30-10.30 Sally’s Zumba
2.30-5.30pm Private Party
7.00-10.00 Lee Choral
Society refreshments
Sun
16th
Dec
8.00 Holy Communion
9.30 Parish Eucharist
with Prayer Ministry
11.00 Sundays@11
6.00pm Carol Service
Refreshments
11.15am Sundays@11
9.00am Choir
11.15am Sundays@11
12.15pm Christingle
making
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Church & Parish Centre Contact Details
Vicar
Revd Dr Paul Chamberlain
023 9200 6184
Curate
Revd Steve Dent
07722 902 344
Curate
Revd Dr Mary Kells
01329 556151
Director of Music
Richard Dewland
07561 318 355
Churchwarden
Cliff Rook
023 9255 1300
Churchwarden
Rita Morgan
023 9255 4078
Pastoral Care Team
Co-ordinator
Joyce Dawson
023 9255 2987
Youth Group Team
Rebecca Parrett, Jon Booth &
Alison Jeanneret
Parish Office
Church Administrator: Andrew Munro
Telephone 023 9255 6445
The Church Office is from 10.30am-12.30pm each weekday.
For Church enquiries: [email protected]
For Parish Centre enquiries: [email protected]
St Faith’s Church & Parish Centre
Victoria Square, Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, PO13 9NF
www.stfaithslee.org.uk
www.stfaithsparishcentre.org.uk