Church of the Annunciation, Marble Arch, London
Services
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Sunday 16 December 2018 at 10:30am
Liturgy Details Hymns: 12 On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry
((Lent Prose - Motet))17 When came in flesh the incarnate Word 5 Hark, a thrilling voice is sounding 8 Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates
(tune 128 ii if needed)First Lesson: Zephaniah 3. 14-end Gospel: Luke 3. 7-18 Mass Setting: Communion Service in G - Charles Hutchings Motet: Canite tuba in Zion - G.P. da Palestrina Voluntary: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (S. 661) - J.S. Bach
Role People Clergy Fr Stephen Flatt Sidesman Bob Jones
Reader Bob Jones
Server
Refreshments
Sunday School Session Leader Benoit Brousson
Sunday School 8+ Leader Fiona Milligan
Sunday School Crafts Coordinator
Sunday School Music
Children's Church Attendance
Sunday School Tables Volunteer
Clearing up
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Thursday 20 December 2018 at 09:30am
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Sunday 23 December 2018 at 10:30am
Liturgy Details Hymns: 186 Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord
(if needed)185 Sing we of the Blessed Mother 387 Jesus, good above all other 6 Hark the glad sound! the Saviour comes
(if needed)First Lesson: Micah 5. 2-5a Gospel: Luke 1. 39-45 Mass Setting: Missa "O Magnum Mysterium" - T.L. de Victoria Motet: Alma Redemptoris mater - Orlandus Lassus Voluntary: Wachet Auf (S.645) - J.S. Bach
Role People Clergy Fr Gerald Beauchamp Sidesman
Reader
Server
Refreshments
Sunday School Session Leader
Sunday School 8+ Leader Thomas Vester
Sunday School Crafts Coordinator
Sunday School Music
Children's Church Attendance
Sunday School Tables Volunteer
Clearing up
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Monday 24 December 2018 at 16:00pm
Liturgy Details
Role People Clergy Sidesman
Reader
Server
Refreshments
Sunday School Session Leader
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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Monday 24 December 2018 at 23:00pm
Liturgy Details Hymns: 26 Hark, the herald angels sing 19 Come, thou Redeemer of the earth 28 In the bleak midwinter 30 O come, all ye faithful First Lesson: Isaiah 52. 7-10 Second Lesson: Hebrews 1. 1-4; 2. 5-12 Gospel: John 1. 1-14
Role People Clergy Fr Gerald Beauchamp Sidesman
Reader
Server
Refreshments
Sunday School Session Leader
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 25 December 2018 at 10:30am
Liturgy Details Hymns: 30 O come, all ye faithful 32 O little town of Bethlehem 22 Away in a manger, no crib for a bed 21 A great and mighty wonder First Lesson: Isaiah 9. 2-7 Gospel: Luke 2. 1-14
Role People Clergy Fr Gerald Beauchamp Sidesman
Reader
Server
Refreshments
Sunday School Session Leader
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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Sunday 30 December 2018 at 10:30am
Liturgy Details Hymns: 36 The first Nowell the angel did say 40 What child is this, who, laid to rest 39 Unto us a boy is born 42 While shepherds watched their flocks by night First Lesson: Colossians 3. 12-17 Gospel: Luke 2. 41-end
Role People Clergy Fr Gerald Beauchamp & Members of the Chaplainc Sidesman
Reader
Server
Refreshments
Sunday School Session Leader
Sunday School 8+ Leader Maria Kastani
Sunday School Crafts Coordinator
Sunday School Music
Children's Church Attendance
Sunday School Tables Volunteer
Clearing up
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Sunday 6 January 2019 at 10:30am
Liturgy Details First Lesson: Isaiah 60.1-6 Gospel: Matthew 2. 1-12
Role People Clergy Sidesman
Reader
Server
Refreshments
Sunday School Session Leader Abi Goldsbrough
Sunday School 8+ Leader Vladka Thwaites
Sunday School Crafts Coordinator
Sunday School Music
Children's Church Attendance
Sunday School Tables Volunteer
Clearing up
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Sunday 13 January 2019 at 10:30am
Liturgy Details First Lesson: Acts 8. 14-17 Gospel: Luke 3. 15-17 & 21-22
Role People Clergy Sidesman
Reader
Server
Refreshments
Sunday School Session Leader (Olu)Funke Ajenifuja
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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Friday 14th December 2018Fr Gerald's Weekly Email
This Sunday (16 December)
… is the Third Sunday of Advent.
It’s one of only two in the year when the liturgical colour is rose pink. The other is the Fourth Sunday of Lent. The colour indicates a relaxing in the middle of a penitential season from the more sombre colour purple.
Following the pattern of thinking about Christ’s forerunners on the Sundays in Advent, the third Sunday puts St John the Baptist centre stage.
He’s a deeply unsettling character – austere, uncompromising, fearless. Such people are hard to be around but the world needs more people like him.
John wasn’t provocative for the sake of it. He was outspoken for the Kingdom. He wasn’t pushing people away. He was drawing them in through the waters of new life.
News
It was a special day on Thursday for Fr Barrie Newton. He has been a good friend to Hampden Gurney School for many years. It was his 80th birthday and he celebrated the school mass. Each class made him cards and he was presented with a cake and a gift from the staff. I’ve known Fr Barrie for over 30 years and amazingly, he’s hardly changed!
Fr Stephen’s last Sunday will be 6 January. I hope that if you are not still away before the beginning of the new school term you will come to mass that Sunday to say ‘good-bye’ to him. Please pray for the appointment of his successor.
Informal Prayer Group
… meets at the vicarage on Tuesday 18 December, 7.00pm. Need a prayerful space in the midst of the mayhem? Then please come and seek that ‘peace which passes all understanding’.
Christmas Services
Saturday 15 December
6.30pm Lessons & Carols for Christmas followed by Mulled Wine & Refreshments
Thursday 20 December
9.30am Hampden Gurney School Mass in Church
6.30pm – 9.00pm Christmas Fizz Drinks Party for Adults at the Vicarage. Everyone in the congregation invited and we’ll be joined by other members of the community. Please Fr Gerald know if you are coming for catering purposes. Thank you.
Monday 24 December Christmas Eve
4.00pm Short Informal Crib Service for Children
11.00pm Midnight Mass
Tuesday 25 December Christmas Day
10.30am Parish Mass
Next Year & Beyond
The Children’s Choir begins again on Tuesday 15 January.
Parish Brunch at the Marriott on Sunday 3 February 2019 after mass. £23 per adult. Children free, dogs welcome. This is a new venture to see if people would like to get together after mass from time to time to have brunch. We’re being offered a deal by the Marriott and they will give us reserved seating. To register your interest please let me know by Sunday 9 December if you hope to come. I’ll then book accordingly.
The next Community Dinner will be on Tuesday 11 February, 7.30pm in church. The speakers will be Percy Smend and his father who is coming over from Germany. The Smend family actively opposed the rise of fascism in the 1930s. It will be fascinating to hear their story. Please put the date in your diary. Details nearer the time about the caterer and cost.
The Feast of the Annunciation, Monday 25 March 2019. 7.30pm High Mass & Procession. Celebrant & Preacher: The Rt Revd & Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, Bishop of London. This will be a really important day in the life of the parish so please put in your 2019 diaries.
Pilgrimage to Armenia in May 2020. Please let me know if you might be interested.
Fr Stephen will be with you on Sunday and I’ll be at St Cyprian’s. So, if I don’t see you before, I hope that you have a very Happy Christmas.
Yours in Christ
Fr Gerald
vicar.annunciationmarblearch@gmail.com
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Friday 7th December 2018Fr Gerald's Weekly Email
This Sunday (9 December)
… is the Second Sunday of Advent.
When I was young, the four Sundays of Advent were regarded as opportunities for preaching on ‘the Four Last Things: Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell’. Although we recognize our mortality these themes don’t chime with a culture that has been celebrating the festive season since the end of November.
More recently, if we’re looking for themes in the run up to Christmas, the Church emphasizes Christ’s forerunners: The Patriarchs & Matriarchs, the Prophets, St John the Baptist and the Blessed Virgin Mary. These are all people who heard the word of the Lord and put it into action. They did so at some if not great personal cost yet they did it because they knew that life was not all about them. It was about more: a vision of creation renewed.
So, this Sunday we think about prophecy. Prophecy isn’t crystal ball gazing but reading the times through the lens of faith. Our values give us voice. Is the world in which we live, just? Does it enable everyone to flourish? If not, how are we going to change it? The prophets knew that they don’t just live for themselves but have a responsibility for something greater.
I should have said last week that as we begin a new Church’s year, we also begin a new cycle of mass readings. This year we will hear most often from St Luke on Sunday mornings.
St Luke has a lot of unique details: the visit by the shepherds to the new-born Christ, the parable of the Prodigal Son and the Sermon on the Plain with its ‘woes’ for the rich and powerful. So, this year we’ll be circling round the theme of wealth and poverty in its many guises. These affect us all.
News
Fr Stephen’s last Sunday will be 6 January. I hope that if you are not still away before the beginning of the new school term you will come to mass that Sunday to say ‘good-bye’ to him. Please pray for the appointment of his successor.
Informal Prayer Group
… meets at the vicarage on Tuesday 18 December, 7.00pm. Need a prayerful space in the midst of the mayhem? Then please come and seek that ‘peace which passes all understanding’.
Christmas Services
Saturday 15 December
6.30pm Lessons & Carols for Christmas followed by Mulled Wine & Mince Pies
Thursday 20 December
9.30am Hampden Gurney School Mass in Church
6.30pm – 9.00pm Christmas Fizz Drinks Party for Adults at the Vicarage. Everyone in the congregation invited and we’ll be joined by other members of the community. Please Fr Gerald know if you are coming for catering purposes. Thank you.
Monday 24 December Christmas Eve
4.00pm Short Informal Crib Service for Children
11.00pm Midnight Mass
Tuesday 25 December Christmas Day
10.30am Parish Mass
Next Year & Beyond
The Children’s Choir begins again on Tuesday 15 January.
Parish Brunch at the Marriott on Sunday 3 February 2019 after mass. £23 per adult. Children free, dogs welcome. This is a new venture to see if people would like to get together after mass from time to time to have brunch. We’re being offered a deal by the Marriott and they will give us reserved seating. To register your interest please let me know by Sunday 9 December if you hope to come. I’ll then book accordingly.
The Feast of the Annunciation, Monday 25 March 2019. 7.30pm High Mass & Procession. Celebrant & Preacher: The Rt Revd & Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, Bishop of London. This will be a really important day in the life of the parish so please put in your 2019 diaries.
Pilgrimage to Armenia in May 2020. Please let me know if you might be interested.
I look forward to seeing you on Sunday.
Yours in Christ
Fr Gerald
vicar.annunciationmarblearch@gmail.com
Events
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Tuesday 18th December 2018 9:30am-10:30am
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Tuesday 15th January 2019 at 7:30pm
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Tuesday 15th January 2019 3:45pm-4:45pm
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Tuesday 22nd January 2019 3:45pm-4:45pm
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Tuesday 29th January 2019 3:45pm-4:45pm
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Tuesday 5th February 2019 3:45pm-4:45pm
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Tuesday 12th February 2019 3:45pm-4:45pm
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Tuesday 26th February 2019 3:45pm-4:45pm
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Tuesday 5th March 2019 3:45pm-4:45pm
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Tuesday 12th March 2019 3:45pm-4:45pm
