Welcome to St Mary’s & St Anne’s Moseley
December 2011

Welcome

If you are here for the first time, please do introduce yourself to a sidesperson or priest. There is a loop system for the hard of hearing available in the nave at St Mary’s and in any part of the church at St Anne’s.

Receiving Communion

Baptised communicant members of any Church are welcome to receive Communion. If you would like to receive a blessing, please come forward holding your service leaflet.

Your Offering

A collection for the work of the church is usually taken during each service. Please use the Gift Aid envelope if you are a UK taxpayer. There will also be a collection from the parents in the children’s groups

Mobile Phones

Please ensure phones are switched off as they interfere with the hearing loop and the PA system.

Contact details for the Vicar, Wardens & Admin

• Church Office: 25 St Mary’s Row, B13 8HW
• Telephone: 0121 449 2243
• Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

There will be limited cover in the office between Friday 23rd December and Wednesday 4th January. Please leave messages on the answer phone as this will be checked regularly.

Parish Hall and Room Bookings

• Contact: Chrissy McAteer
• Telephone: 0121 449 2243
• Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Chrissy will be on annual leave from Monday 26th December until Sunday 2nd January. Please make every effort to tidy up after any events in the hall and the Churches.

St Mary’s Junior Church
St Anne’s Children’s Groups

Children meet on most Sundays and recommence on 22nd January

Notices

Christmas Wishes

Rosemary, Craig & Strider send their Christmas wishes from Epsom.

Christmas Visits and Communions

If you know of anyone who is ill or needs a visit in hospital / home, or Home Communion, please let the Clergy know via the Office. To ensure that we are able to concentrate on Pastoral Care and Worship in the next week, please keep other items of business until the New Year.

Charities for Christmas

St Mary’s will be having a retiring collection at both the Christingle Service and Community Carol Singing for the Acorns Hospice Appeal.

St Anne’s will be having a collection over Christmas services for Crisis at Christmas and Restore.

A New Voice for St Mary’s.

A Faculty has been granted for the removal of the existing steel bells and the installation of ten new bells. This exciting news means that the Trustees of the St Mary’s Bells Installation Fund have now instructed Taylor’s of Loughborough to prepare a schedule of work with the aim of having the bells ringing in time for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Future Events

Charity Carol Singing in Moseley

Wednesday 21 December, 7:00 p.m.
Following last year’s success we are once again doing the ‘Holy Pub Crawl’ through Moseley village. We will be singing carols and collecting for ‘Acorns Hospice Appeal’. Please come and join us and members of the choir, starting at The Prince of Wales at 7:00 p.m.

Prayer Circle

Tuesday 10 January, 7:30 p.m.
St Mary’s Courtyard Room (Enter via gate between Chamberlains & Indigo). The next prayer circle will meet on Tuesday 10 January. There will be prayer and a play reading for the Epiphany season.

Chamber Music Concert

Sunday 15th January, 3:00 p.m.

In aid of "The New Voice for St Mary’s" Opus 9 will perform works by Schubert , Brahms and Lachner. A retiring collection will be taken. See the advertisement.

Welcome to Hazel White

Our new Associate Vicar for Discipleship for St Mary’s and St Anne’s We’re looking forward to Hazel moving to Moseley in the New Year. Once work on 15 Park Hill is completed, we’d like to welcome her with a ‘surprise larder’! Between now and 8th January, bring any bottles of wine, preserves, fine food, non perishables – anything reasonable to show a warm and generous welcome. Please place items in the containers at the back of both churches. Hazel will be licensed on the feast of Candlemas, Thursday 2 February 2012.

Prayer & Reflection

The Benefice prays for:

• Birmingham Open Christmas Scheme for homeless people.
• Those spending Christmas alone
• All our Children’s Groups for the Nativity plays
• Our Choirs, Music Groups. Clergy, Wardens, Christmas Day Together Helpers, Decorators, Bell Ringers Admin Staff and all helping to prepare for Christmas
• Caroline and Geoff and their marriage blessing at St Anne’s on Thursday 29 December

Prayers are asked for:

Matthew , Hannah & Bethany Davies, Leo Charles, Nancy Alexander, Arthur Dudleston, Judith Eden, Sheila Peers, Kelvin Jervis, Buff & Bernard Madden, Richard Erskine

We pray for the souls of:

Gary

We celebrate the Birthdays of:

Imogen Burbidge (22nd)

Collect – Advent 4

O Lord Jesus Christ, who at your first coming sent your messenger to prepare your way before you: grant that the ministers and stewards of your mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready your way by turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, that at your second coming to judge the world we may be found an acceptable people in your sight; for you are alive and reign with the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Collect – Christmas Eve

Almighty God, you make us glad with the yearly remembrance of the birth of your Son Jesus Christ: grant that, as we joyfully receive him as our redeemer, so we may with sure confidence behold him when he shall come and be our judge; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Collect – Christmas Day

Almighty God, you have given us your only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him and as at this time to be born of a pure virgin: grant that we, who have been born again and made your children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by your Holy Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord. who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Collect – New Years Day

Almighty God, who wonderfully created us in your own image and yet more wonderfully restored us through your Son Jesus Christ; grant that, as he came to share in our humanity, so we may share the life of his divinity; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

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