To help us prepare well for the celebration of Christ’s birth there are a number of opportunities for prayer and worship
Advent Extra – A booklet of prayers and meditations for Advent, available at the back of church
Daily Mass – see bulletin for times
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament – Thursdays from 6.45pm until Mass at 7.45pm
CHRIST CHURCH CARNFORTH
www.christchurchcarnforth.co.uk
Priests of the Parish
Canon Stephen Jones Tel. 732948
email: stephenjones17@hotmail.com
Fr Christopher Holden Tel. 730760
email: wilfridcgh@hotmail.com
Hon. Assistant Priests
Canon Brian Oddy Tel. 732048
Canon Brian Pithers Tel. 424786
27th November 2011
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT (Year B)
We begin a new Christian Year today, and Jesus calls us to ‘be on your guard, stay awake’. The Advent season is a time for preparation and renewal. Let us strive to observe it as such, maintaining a truly Christian orientation (as act of witness) amidst all the cultural distraction.
• Toilets are to the left out of the main door.
• Please let young children explore.
• Collection during the second hymn.
• Large print hymn books available on request.
MASS THIS WEEK AND INTENTIONS
Monday 7.00pm Departed of November
Tuesday 12 noon Unborn children
Wednesday 9.15am People of Scotland
ST ANDREW
Thursday *9.15am (changed time) ‘The Society’
Friday 9.15am The sick
Saturday 9.15am Missionaries
St Francis Xavier
DIVINE OFFICE (The Prayer of the Church)
Morning Prayer: Sun 7.30am; Mon – Sat 8.55am
Evening Prayer: Sun 5.30pm; Mon – Fri 5.00pm
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
By appointment only this week.
NEXT SUNDAY: MASSES at 8.00 & 10.00am.
TODAY’S ORGAN MUSIC
Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland (Come, our Redeemer) (BWV 599
Prelude in B minor (BWV 544)
J.S. Bach
FROM FR STEPHEN ‘Thank you to all who came to Blackburn last Sunday. You presence there meant a great deal to me; thank you, too, to those who sent cards etc. All very much appreciated.’
ADVENT CAROL SERVICE
Today at 6.00pm
Choral, congregational and organ music with readings, by candlelight.
Do come, and bring others.
Readers: please collect your reading from Fr S this morning, and arrive in church by 5.40pm this evening so that we can go through the routine beforehand. Thank you.
ADVENT EXTRA (‘Your Journey to Christmas’) is available today, price £2.00. If you haven’t got the money with you today, just take a copy and pay later.
2012 FLOWER LIST This is now in a folder at the back of church. Money for flowers should be given to Brenda Trewhitt two weeks before your flowers are due to be done (GIFT AID, if you can).
LITURGICAL CALENDAR for 2011/12 is available in church today, prepared by Fr Chris.
THE SOCIETY OF ST WILFRID & ST HILDA (‘The Society’) is to be inaugurated in the dioceses of Blackburn and Carlisle with a Sung Mass in Preston Minster at 7.30pm on Thursday this week, with the bishops of Blackburn and Burnley. If you’re coming, please meet on our car park here promptly at 6.20pm, and then we can sort out what cars we need.
*CHANGE OF MASS TIME Thursday’s Mass this week is at 9.15am, because of the SSWSH Mass in Preston. Back to normal next week. Sorry for any inconvenience.
CHRISTMAS FAIR Saturday 10th December, 11 – 2. Raffle tickets are available today for you to sell. Please do your best with this.
NEW ALTAR MISSAL We have had to purchase, for the first time in 30 years, a new altar book containing the Eucharistic texts, because the texts have been revised. The cost of this book is £235. It’s a beautiful leather-bound volume. If you would like to make a one-off contribution to help defray the cost, please use a GIFT AID envelope and let Fr Stephen have it. Thank you for the donations received so far.
BRITTEN’S A Ceremony of Carols is to be sung here by the Royal School of Church Music (Lancashire Area) Choir here on Sunday 11th December at 6.30pm. Tickets are now available, from Elizabeth Battersby-Hill. Please note the date and resolve to come. The choir is donating all proceeds to us, so we really must give this event our fullest support.
READERS Please collect your readings from the sacristy. Thank you.
Do stay for coffee after the 10.00am Mass.
Please take this bulletin home with you.
CONFIRMATION
Solemn Mass
This Friday at 7.30pm,
with the Bishop of Burnley.
Please pray for Dylan Battersby-Hill, Lorna Carr and Marionne Fenol, and the other candidates form Warton, Bolton le Sands and one from the Cathedral, and resolve to come along to support them with your presence.
Refreshments to follow.
December 2011
Sidespersons
Dec 11 4th 8.00am P G Dunn
10.00am J & J Holland
11th 8.00am E Battersby – Hill
10.00am H & J Groom Hollis
18th 8.00am D Shipperd
10.00am P G Dunn & B Trewhitt
24th 11.30pm 2 volunteers please (Solemn Mass of Midnight)
25th 8:00am M Wheatherill (Nativity of our Lord)
10.00am T Maudsley & K Wearing
Readers
December
Dec 11 4th K Lawson
11th Jean Holland
18th R Riley
24th 11.30pm R Jephcote (Solemn Mass of Midnight)
25th P Threlfall (Nativity of our Lord)
CHRIST CHURCH CARNFORTH
www.christchurchcarnforth.co.uk
Priests of the Parish
Fr Stephen Jones Tel. 732948
email: stephenjones17@hotmail.com
Fr Christopher Holden Tel. 730760
email: wilfridcgh@hotmail.com
Hon. Assistant Priests
Canon Brian Oddy Tel. 732048
Canon Brian Pithers Tel. 424786
13th November 2011
THIRTY-THIRD ORDINARY SUNDAY
Remembrance
Today, we offer ourselves and all that we do to God, in faith and devotion.
We celebrate Remembrance Sunday in a spirit of prayer and penitence.
• Toilets are to the left out of the main door.
• Please let young children explore.
• Collection during the second hymn.
• Large print hymn books available on request.
MASS THIS WEEK AND INTENTIONS
Monday 7.00pm Royal British Legion
Tuesday 12 noon The Choir and Organist
Wednesday 9.15am Those in poverty
St Margaret of Scotland
Thursday 7.15pm The sick
St Elizabeth of Hungary
Friday 9.15am Confirmation candidates
***7.30pm CONFIRMATION MASS
Saturday 9.15am Local families
Of Our Lady
DIVINE OFFICE (The Prayer of the Church)
Morning Prayer: Sun 7.30am; Mon – Sat 8.55am
Evening Prayer: Sun 5.30pm; Mon – Fri 5.00pm
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
Saturday at 5.15pm (Fr Stephen) or by appointment.
NEXT SUNDAY: MASSES at 8.00 & 10.00am.
TODAY’S MUSIC
Solemn Melody
H. Walford Davies
Choir: Russian Contakion for the Departed
Fugue in E flat (BWV 552)
J.S. Bach
SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE at the town war memorial, 10.50am today, conducted by The Revd Robert Neale, the new Minister at the Congregational Church.
PLEASE SUPPORT Olivia Haygarth, who is to sell fairy cakes after the 10.00am Mass today in aid of Children in Need. 25p each. Thank you.
MISSION STATEMENT MEETING this evening at 7.00pm in church.
CONFIRMATION REHEARSAL Tuesday, 7.00pm in church, for candidates and sponsors.
STEWARDSHIP COMMITTEE Tuesday, 7.45pm at 42 Lancaster Road.
CONFIRMATION MASS
Friday at 7.30pm, with the Bishop of Burnley.
Please pray for Dylan Battersby-Hill, Lorna Carr and Marionne Fenol, and the other candidates form Warton, Bolton le Sands and one from the Cathedral, and resolve to come along to support them with your presence.
Refreshments to follow.
NEXT SUNDAY is the Feast of Christ the King, and our parish feast of title. 8.00 and 10.00am as always.
IF YOU’RE COMING ON THE COACH to the cathedral next Sunday, please let Anne Plevey or Fr Chris have your fare £8.00 as soon as you can (use GIFT AID if you can). The coach leaves North Road (Vicarage) at 2.15pm. There will be cars, too, so don’t worry if there seems to be no room on the coach.
PCC MINUTES AND AGENDA available today in the PCC file. Next meeting: 24th November.
THE SOCIETY OF ST WILFRID & ST HILDA (‘The Society’) is to be inaugurated in the dioceses of Blackburn and Carlisle with a Sung Mass in Preston Minster at 7.30pm on Thursday 1st December, with the bishops of Blackburn and Burnley. It’s hoped that a really good number of us can go (over 70 people from here have joined ‘The Society’), with a parish banner. There will be no evening Mass here that day (9.15am instead). There is a list at the back of church – please put your name on it if you’d like to go.
TWO PLEAS: 1. Please can we sit closer together in church at ten on Sundays. It’s easy to see why those with small children would choose to sit in the side aisles, but please would everyone else could come into the middle rather than sit at the side or the very back. This would make our liturgical celebrations much more cohesive. 2. Noise levels are rising before worship at ten. Large groups of visitors can be noisy, but it’s up to us all to create the right atmosphere for worship, and avoid conversation that can wait until afterwards.
FORWARD!plus The latest issue of Forward in Faith’s quarterly paper is available today – please take a copy.
READERS Please collect your readings from the sacristy. Thank you.
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