Monday 25th November - Sunday 1st December Mon 25th
10am-2pm Open Church in St Ben’s. Come and join us! 7pm Tai Chi, St Ben’s Church.
Tues 26th
9am 10.30am 10.30am 1.15pm
Morning Prayer, St Ben’s Church. Holy Communion, St Patrick’s Chapel. Holy Communion, St Ben’s Church. St Ben’s School Collective Worship, St Ben’s Church.
9am 10.15am 3pm 6.30pm
Morning Prayer, St Ben’s Church. Glastonbury Voices Choir, St Ben’s Church. Visiting Teammeeting, Sue Gowland’s home. ReMix Youth Group, St Ben’s Church.
Wed 27th
Thurs 9am 28th 12noon 7pm 7pm 7.45pm Fri 29th Sat 30th
Morning Prayer, Anne Lampson’shome. Funeral of Marie Harris, St Ben’sChurch. Licensing Service for Revd. Andrea Harwood, Othery Church. Choir practice, St Ben’s Church. Bell-ringing practice, St Ben’s Church.
Vicar n/a - Conference at the Bishop’s Palace 9am 12noon
Morning Prayer, Abbey House. Soup lunches, St Ben’s Church.
GLASTONBURY FROST FAYRE 10.30am Christmas Market, St Ben’s Church. 11am-3pm ‘Pop-up’ sale, St John’s Centre. 4.30pm Churches Together, Carols around the Christmas Tree, Market Place.
SUNDAY 1ST DECEMBER 2019 The First Sunday of Advent
P L EA S E CO NT A CT U S: Vicar & Area Dean: Day off Monday The Revd. David MacGeoch Tel: (01458) 834281 Mob: 07712 862 692 Email: vicarabbeyparish@btinternet.com
Welcome to the Benefice of Glastonbury with Meare 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 College Tuesday
BENEFICE OFFICE: 3, Church Lane, GLASTONBURY, Somerset, BA6 9JQ. Tel: (01458) 830060 E-mail: abbeyparishes@gmail.com
Please note : NO EVENSONG Readings: Rom.13:11-end; Matt.24:36-44
St .Mary’s, Meare 11am: Holy Communion Celebrant & Preacher: The Revd. Andrea Harwood
COLLECT
MONDAY - FRIDAY 9am - 4pm
Eternal Father; whose Son Jesus Christ ascended to the throne of heaven that he might rule over all things as Lord and King: keep the Church in the unity of the Spirit and in the bond of peace, and bring the whole created order to worship at his feet; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God now and for ever. Amen
[Closed for lunch between 1 & 2pm]
8am: Holy Communion [BCP], St Ben’s Church
11am: Holy Communion [St Ben’s], St Ben’s Church
St. Benedict’s 8am: Holy Communion [BCP] Celebrant: The Revd. Pamela Heazell 9.30am: Holy Communion Celebrant & Preacher: The Vicar 11.15am: Worship & Word Leader & Preacher: The Revd. Diana Greenfield 1pm: “Goodbye” Lunch for Andrea, Andrew & Laura Harwood
OFFICE OPEN THIS WEEK:
[CW Year A begins]
9.30am: Holy Communion [St John’s], St Ben’s Church
Sunday 24th November 2019
Please visit your church website to check for recent updates: St John's: stjohns-glastonbury.uk St Ben’s: www.stbens.ukpc.net St Mary's, Meare:: is.gd/stmarymeare Abbey Parishes online diary:www.apdiary.ukpc.net
Hymns for the 930am Service in St Ben’s Church: 13, 296, 426 & 142
READINGS
Please keep the following people & their families in your prayers: Amber Liz Affleck-Edwards Dorothy Badman Scott Barki Steve Brain Fr. Robert Featherstone Joan Green Brian & Eve Low Rosemary Martin Valerie Moreton Rick Pudner Jean Rooney Sheila Scott-Evans Rosemary Turnbull
ON Saturday 30th November [Frost Fayre], we are holding a ‘pop-up’ sale 11am - 3pm in St John’s Centre, Church Lane, Glastonbury and will be ‘setting up’ on Friday 29th November between 2 4pm. Please could you bring donations of really sale-able items; clothes, fabric, good household items, etc. Anything that can be sold for church funds! Pam Burrough & Kay Wych
RIP: BARBARA FEAR; BERNICE HARRIS; MARIE HARRIS; WALTER RIDOUT
WE are having a cake stall in St Ben’s Church for the Frost Fair and would like all you talented, lovely ladies and gentlemen to make some cakes for us to sell! There will be a sign-up sheet at the back of church, or you can phone me on tel: 440124. Cakes can be left in St Ben’s on Friday afternoon (29th) or on Saturday morning (30th). Annie Wynter-Crofts
NEW TESTAMENT - Col. 1:11-20
GOSPEL - Luke 23:33-43
May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience, while joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. The Supremacy of Christ
When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. [[ Then Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.’]] And they cast lots to divide his clothing. And the people stood by, watching; but the leaders scoffed at him, saying, ‘He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Messiah of God, his chosen one!’ The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine, and saying, ‘If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!’ There was also an inscription over him, ‘This is the King of the Jews.’
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers— all things have been created through him and for him. He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.
One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him and saying, ‘Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!’ But the other rebuked him, saying, ‘Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed have been condemned justly, for we are getting what we deserve for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.’ Then he said, ‘Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.’ He replied, ‘Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.’
Michele Kitto: I am delighted to announce that, from Sunday 28th June 2020, Michele Kitto will be our Training Curate. Michele remains Chaplain of Millfield Prep School and so will be with us as a selfsupporting Curate. We hold Michele and her family in our prayers as she continues as an Ordinand with us here and begins her Formation towards Ordination. David, Vicar IMPORTANT NOTICE - PLEASE READ: Due to personal circumstances, Lydia Vincent, Churchwarden of St Ben’s, has decided to take a short sabbatical with immediate effect; this will be reviewed again at the beginning of 2020. At the PCC meeting on Tuesday 12th November it was agreed that Di Grenter and Phil Wynter-Crofts would act as Deputy Wardens for the foreseeable future. Therefore, if you have anything you need to discuss, relating to the church, please contact Di or Phil, rather than Lydia. We hold Lydia and her family in our Prayers. David, Vicar