A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM THE VICAR… Please contact Us:
Joy to the World, the Lord is Come! Vicar & Area Dean:
I wonder how many of us have really looked at our crib this year? Many of us put up a crib alongside our tree and then walk away, hopefully most of us have not put baby Jesus in the crib until Christmas Day. May I encourage you this year, when you place the baby in the crib, to look again at the Holy Family of Joseph & Mary in a stable, and then in your heart know that, through the love of God giving us His Son, that joy to the world is brought to each of us by His Love and Light. May God Bless each one of us this Christmas and that through Joy, we may have Peace, and through Peace, we may have Hope.
Not Available 26th - 27th & 29th Dec 2019 - 1st Jan 2020 incl.
The Revd. David MacGeoch Tel: (01458) 834281 Mob: 07712 862 692 Email: vicarabbeyparish@btinternet.com Pioneer Minister: The Revd. Diana Greenfield Day off Monday Tel: (01458) 446838 Mob: 07921 858 094 Email: dmgreenfield@me.com Trainee Youth Worker: Naomi Peachey Day off Monday Email: Naomi.youthwork@hotmail.com
Happy Christmas! OFFICE NOW CLOSED. REOPEN 9AM MONDAY 6TH JANUARY 2020 Please keep the following people & their families in your prayers: Amber Liz Affleck-Edwards Alan Barki Scott Barki Steve Brain Jonathon Crees Fr. Robert Featherstone Joan Green Peggy Hext Rosemary Martin Valerie Moreton Basil Powell Rick Pudner Robin & Sylvia Ray Ev Ridout Jean Rooney Sheila Scott-Evans Rosemary Turnbull Anne Walsh-Waring
Please visit your church website to check for recent updates: St John's: St Ben's: St Mary's, Meare:
stjohns-glastonbury.uk www.stbens.ukpc.net is.gd/stmarymeare
Abbey Parishes online diary:
www.apdiary.ukpc.net
This newsletter can be downloaded from the St John's website (News page)
RIP JOAN CHAFFEY; IRIS CHAPMAN; MARY FRENCH; STAN HONEYBUN; RICHARD PLASTER; BERNARD RAYNER; HORACE VINCENT
5pm: Crib Service in the Town Hall Led by: The Vicar St Ben’s 6.30pm: Carol Service Led by: Mrs Di Grenter 11.30pm: Midnight Mass Celebrant & Preacher: The Vicar
St Mary’s, Meare 4pm: Crib Service Led by: The Vicar 10pm: Christmas Communion Celebrant & Preacher: The Revd. Pamela Heazell
St Ben’s 8am: Holy Communion [BCP] Celebrant: The Revd. Pamela Heazell 10am: Christmas Day Family Communion Service Celebrant: The Vicar Preacher: Mrs Michele Kitto All welcome!
Sunday 29th December 2019 St Ben’s 8am: Holy Communion [BCP]
St Mary’s, Meare 10am: Benefice Communion Service
Sunday 5th January 2020 St Ben’s 8am: Holy Communion [BCP] 9.30am: Holy Communion [St John’s] 11am: Holy Communion [St Ben’s] 5pm: Evensong
St. Benedict’s 8am: Holy Communion [BCP] Celebrant: The Vicar 9.30am: Holy Communion Celebrant & Preacher: The Vicar 11.15am: Worship & Word Led by: Mrs. Annie Wynter-Crofts 6pm: NINE LESSONS & CAROLS Led by: The Vicar & clergy team
St .Mary’s, Meare 11am: Matins Leader & Preacher: Mrs. Philippa Chapman
Collect 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. Amen. Hymns for the 9.30am Service in St Ben’s : 198, 470, 358 & 307