Church of the Annunciation, Marble Arch, London
Services
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Sunday 22 April 2018 at 10:30am
Liturgy Details Hymns: 120 Thine be the glory, risen, conquering Son 106 Come, ye faithful, raise the strain 107 Good Christian men, rejoice and sing 114 Now is eternal life
(if needed)First Lesson: Acts 4. 5-12 Gospel: John 10. 11-18 Mass Setting: Missa "Ave Domine Jesu Christe" - Claudio Monteverdi Motet: Cantate Domino - William Byrd
Role People Clergy Fr Gerald Beauchamp Sidesman Simon Templeton
Reader Simon Templeton
Server
Refreshments Annie Tassinari
Sunday School Session Leader Julia Duhamel
Sunday School 8+ Leader Margaret Gold
Sunday School Crafts Coordinator Sherry Robbins
Sunday School Music Steve Phillips
Children's Church Attendance Gavin Monk
Sunday School Tables Volunteer
Clearing up
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Tuesday 24 April 2018 at 12:30pm
Liturgy Details
Role People Clergy Server
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Sunday 29 April 2018 at 10:30am
Deaf Chaplaincy
Liturgy Details Hymns: 105 Christ the Lord is risen again
((Tune 2))104 At the Lamb's high feast we sing 296 Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendor
(tune 1)118 The Lord is risen indeed First Lesson: Acts 8. 26-40 Gospel: John 15. 1-8
Role People Clergy Fr Gerald Beauchamp Sidesman
Reader
Server
Refreshments Tahereh Shariaty
Sunday School Session Leader Nicholas Mole
Sunday School 8+ Leader
Sunday School Crafts Coordinator
Sunday School Music Martin Cullingford
Children's Church Attendance
Sunday School Tables Volunteer
Clearing up
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Tuesday 1 May 2018 at 12:30pm
Liturgy Details
Role People Clergy Server
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Sunday 6 May 2018 at 10:30am
Liturgy Details First Lesson: Acts 10. 44-48 Gospel: John 15. 9-17
Role People Clergy Fr Stephen Flatt Sidesman
Reader
Server
Refreshments
Sunday School Session Leader Priya Dhingra
Sunday School 8+ Leader
Sunday School Crafts Coordinator
Sunday School Music
Children's Church Attendance
Sunday School Tables Volunteer
Clearing up
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Tuesday 8 May 2018 at 12:30pm
Liturgy Details
Role People Clergy Server
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Sunday 13 May 2018 at 10:30am
Liturgy Details First Lesson: Acts 1. 15-17 & 21-26 Gospel: John 17.6-19
Role People Clergy Fr Stephen Flatt Sidesman
Reader
Server
Refreshments
Sunday School Session Leader Laure Boizard
Sunday School 8+ Leader
Sunday School Crafts Coordinator
Sunday School Music
Children's Church Attendance
Sunday School Tables Volunteer
Clearing up
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Tuesday 15 May 2018 at 12:30pm
Liturgy Details
Role People Clergy Server
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Sunday 20 May 2018 at 10:30am
Liturgy Details First Lesson: Acts 2. 1-21 Gospel: John 15. 26-27; 16. 4b-15
Role People Clergy Fr Gerald Beauchamp Sidesman
Reader
Server
Refreshments
Sunday School Session Leader Elyas Chowdhury
Sunday School 8+ Leader
Sunday School Crafts Coordinator
Sunday School Music
Children's Church Attendance
Sunday School Tables Volunteer
Clearing up
News
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Saturday 21st April 2018Fr Gerald's Weekly Email
I hope that you had a good Easter break. Welcome back if you’ve been away and thanks for bringing back some decent weather.
The Annual Meeting is this Tuesday (24 April), 7.30pm at church. It is an important meeting because it will set the direction of travel for the parish as we think about how to restore the building. Please make attendance a priority and let me know that you will be coming so that I can organise the catering. Donations towards the expenses will be welcome on the day. Suggested donation: £20 per head. Thank you.
This Sunday (22 April)
… is the Fourth Sunday of Easter. The gospel readings now move from recounting resurrection appearances to St John’s meditations on what Christ’s risen life means for us.
Today the image of the Good Shepherd conveys the message that in him we find our place of safety. Life can be fraught with dangers. Its easy to become a nervous wreck. But in Christ we face the world with equanimity and spread a peace which the world cannot and does not give.
Later on Sunday
Miles Ashdown, the Director of the Children’s Music has put together a children’s choir to sing Evensong at St George’s Southwark, 6.30pm. Some of our children are taking part and it would be wonderful if people came and supported this.
This Week
There will be low mass as usual on Tuesday at 12.30pm. We’ll be in the baptistery at the west end of the church.
The children’s choir rehearsal is on Tuesday afternoon after school.
Confirmation classes for children are on Wednesdays after school at Hampden Gurney and Saturdays, 2.00pm at church.
Looking Ahead
A Capella Coffee Tuesday Mornings, 9.30am – 10.30am starting on 1 May at church. Miles Ashdown, Director of the Annunciation's Children's Choir, invites parents, carers, and friends to sing pop, rock, Motown, funk, soul, and musical theatre to come along and sing. It’s a fun, relaxing, hassle-free way to be in a choir. £8 (first session free). For more information please contact Miles milesashdown@hotmail.com.
Windrush 70th Anniversary Service @ Westminster Abbey. National Service of Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey, 12 noon, 22 June 2018. (Doors open at 10.45am, seated by 11.45am) to mark the 70th anniversary of the docking of MV Empire Windrush. If you wish to attend you will need to register on Eventbrite quickly as it is anticipated that this event will be booked up fairly fast. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spirit-of-windrush-a-service-of-thanksgiving-tickets-44188760773
I look forward to seeing you on Sunday.
Yours in Christ
Fr Gerald
vicar.annunciationmarblearch@gmail.com
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Friday 13th April 2018Fr Gerald's Weekly Email
This Sunday (15 April)
… is the Third Sunday of Easter. The gospel recounts another resurrection appearance – one in which Christ eats fish.
The passage is heavy with symbolism. The Greek word for fish is ‘ichthys’. In the early persecutions of the Church the symbol of a fish was used as a code to designate places of Christian gathering.
Fr Stephen will be with us this Sunday so I’ll be dividing my time between the mass and Sunday School.
This Week
There will be low mass as usual on Tuesday at 12.30pm. We’ll be in the baptistery at the west end of the church.
The children’s choir rehearsals start again on Tuesday afternoon.
Confirmation classes for children are on Wednesdays after school at Hampden Gurney and Saturdays, 2.00pm at church.
Children & Communion
Just to repeat what I said last week:
This is a bit of a complicated topic. Practice varies widely across the Church.
Members of the Eastern Orthodox churches are baptized, confirmed and given first communion all at the same time as babies.
Roman Catholics are prepared for communion around the age of seven.
Anglicans tend to see Confirmation as the passport to communion. This used to happen in people’s teens although I prepare children in Years 5 & 6 at Hampden Gurney and sometimes Year 4 where a child has an older sibling in Confirmation classes and is able to take it seriously.
In America parents sometimes break the communion host and give it to their child.
At the Annunciation we have children from many backgrounds. Where they are permitted to receive elsewhere or are having instruction I will give them communion if they are being sincere. But I don’t think that parents should break off a piece of the host because a young child wants it.
Please note that receiving communion is something that is taken seriously at the Annunciation. If you would like to talk to me about this, please get in touch. Thank you.
Looking Ahead
Confirmation classes on Saturdays start again on 14 April, 2.00pm in church. The Wednesday classes after school at Hampden Gurney recommence on 18 April.
Miles Ashdown, the Director of the Children’s Music is putting together a children’s choir to sing Evensong at St George’s Southwark, 6.00pm on Sunday 22 April. Some of our children are taking part and it would be wonderful if people came and supported this.
The Annual Parochial Church Meeting will be on Tuesday 24 April, 7.30pm in church with dinner.
Over the last couple of years, the Parochial Church Council and a working group has been working on the implications of the architect’s report on the condition of the church.
We are building up to a big conversation about the future. Life has moved on since the Annunciation was opened. Now is the time for a new vision – and it needs to be one in which the congregation and neighbourhood is involved.
So please put the date in your diary. Let me know if you’re coming so that the catering can be arranged. Thank you.
In preparation for the meeting the parish’s Electoral Roll is being revised. If you aren’t on the Roll and have been worshipping at the Annunciation for at least six months please do join. Forms are available when you arrive at church.
A Capella Coffee Tuesday Mornings, 9.30am – 10.30am starting on 1 May at church. Miles Ashdown, Director of the Annunciation's Children's Choir, invites parents, carers, and friends to sing pop, rock, Motown, funk, soul, and musical theatre to come along and sing. It’s a fun, relaxing, hassle-free way to be in a choir. £8 (first session free). For more information please contact Miles milesashdown@hotmail.com.
If you’re at home, I look forward to seeing you on Sunday. If you are traveling back this weekend I hope that you’ll do so safely.
Yours in Christ
Fr Gerald
vicar.annunciationmarblearch@gmail.com
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Friday 6th April 2018Fr Gerald's Weekly Email
This Sunday (8 April)
… is the Second Sunday of Easter. Its sometimes called ‘Low Sunday’ - a bit of a down day. Everyone is away on holiday after the great Festival of Easter. It is often a Sunday off for senior clergy.
Yet Sunday’s gospel is not to be missed and is one of the most moving. Thomas doubts the resurrection. When he experiences the living presence of Christ and sees the wounds made glorious for himself, he doubts no more.
Seeing is believing but faith does not rely on the senses alone. More of that in my sermon.
The falling plaster continues to be under investigation so we are still downstairs. Please enter the church via the back door and leave buggies at home if at all possible. Thank you.
This Week
There will be low mass as usual on Tuesday at 12.30pm. We’ll be in the baptistery at the west end of the church.
The Vicar’s New Email Address
Hopefully you picked up my email during the week concerning the problems with my email address. As a result, I’ve changed it to a gmail account: vicar.annunciationmarblearch@gmail.com. Please use this in future. Thank you.
Children & Communion
This is a bit of a complicated topic. Practice varies widely across the Church.
Members of the Eastern Orthodox churches are baptized, confirmed and given first communion all at the same time as babies.
Roman Catholics are prepared for communion around the age of seven.
Anglicans tend to see Confirmation as the passport to communion. This used to happen in people’s teens although I prepare children in Years 5 & 6 at Hampden Gurney and sometimes Year 4 where a child has an older sibling in Confirmation classes and is able to take it seriously.
In America parents sometimes break the communion host and give it to their child.
At the Annunciation we have children from many backgrounds. Where they are permitted to receive elsewhere or are having instruction I will give them communion if they are being sincere. But I don’t think that parents should break off a piece of the host because a young child wants it.
Please note that receiving communion is something that is taken seriously at the Annunciation. If you would like to talk to me about this, please get in touch. Thank you.
Looking Ahead
Confirmation classes on Saturdays start again on 14 April, 2.00pm in church. The Wednesday classes after school at Hampden Gurney recommence on 18 April.
Miles Ashdown, the Director of the Children’s Music is putting together a children’s choir to sing Evensong at St George’s Southwark, 6.00pm on Sunday 22 April. Some of our children are taking part and it would be wonderful if people came and supported this.
The Annual Parochial Church Meeting will be on Tuesday 24 April, 7.30pm in church with dinner.
Over the last couple of years, the Parochial Church Council and a working group has been working on the implications of the architect’s report on the condition of the church.
We are building up to a big conversation about the future. Life has moved on since the Annunciation was opened. Now is the time for a new vision – and it needs to be one in which the congregation and neighbourhood is involved.
So please put the date in your diary. Let me know if you’re coming so that the catering can be arranged. Thank you.
In preparation for the meeting the parish’s Electoral Roll is being revised. If you aren’t on the Roll and have been worshipping at the Annunciation for at least six months please do join. Forms are available when you arrive at church.
A Capella Coffee Tuesday Mornings, 9.30am – 10.30am starting on 1 May at church. Miles Ashdown, Director of the Annunciation's Children's Choir, invites parents, carers, and friends to sing pop, rock, Motown, funk, soul, and musical theatre to come along and sing. It’s a fun, relaxing, hassle-free way to be in a choir. £8 (first session free).
If you’re in town, I look forward to seeing you on Sunday. If you are away then I hope that you travel safely.
Yours in Christ
Fr Gerald
vicar.annunciationmarblearch@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheAnnunciation
http://www.annunciationmarblearch.org.uk
Events
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Tuesday 24th April 2018 at 7:30pm
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Saturday 28th April 2018 at 2:00pm
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Saturday 5th May 2018 at 2:00pm
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Saturday 19th May 2018 at 2:00pm
