This Week at St Mary’s

Wednesday 4 December
12noon Midweek Midday Prayer

Thursday 5 December
10.30am Midweek Service
7.30pm Ladies Group at the Parish Centre

Friday 6 December
11.30am Funeral of Trevor Lockwood

Sunday 8 December – Second Sunday of Advent
8am BCP Communion
10am Communion
3pm Christmas without a Loved One

Monday 9 December
9am Morning Prayer on Zoom

Wednesday 11 December
12noon Midweek Midday Prayer
2pm Mothers Union Christmas Readings & Carols at the Parish Centre
4pm Ghyll Royd School Service

Thursday 12 December
10.30am Midweek Service
8pm Advent Compline on Zoom

Sunday 15 December – Third Sunday of Advent
8am BCP Communion
10am Service of the Word
3pm Christmas Praise at the Queens Hall

Link to This week’s readings

St Mary’s is usually open 9.30am until 5pm each day for private prayer and reflection. There are various acts of prayer and worship being led via our Facebook Page

Please pray this week for:
RIP: Trevor Lockwood
Sick: Pam Atkinson, Graham Baynes, Pavlo Mucha, Nancy Newberry, Carol O’Connor, Mike Robinson, Sheila Scott, Ros Wilkinson, Ronnie Woffindin, Graham.

Notices

A huge thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make last Sunday morning’s service such an uplifting occasion. Thank you everyone who helped, everyone who came along to support us and for all the gifts – there were so many!! We took a lot of then to Refugee Action on Wednesday and they were very grateful. Mary

Handel’s Messiah: Ilkley & Otley Choral Society are performing Handel’s Messiah on Saturday 14 December, 5.30pm at St Margaret’s Church Ilkley. Tickets: £20, under 18s & students free, from Grove Bookshop Ilkley & Browns Gallery Otley. Online at: ilkleymessiah.eventbrite.co.uk Please note the earlier start time: 5.30pm

Christmas calendars with photos of both Burley and Téréli are on sale at £6 each. Copies of Mirella Moxon’s book ‘A Most Unlikley Friendship’ are also available from me and make an excellent Christmas gift at £10. Mirella tells the story and development of this amazing relationship with an isolated village in Mali and the strength, culture and warmth of a people living on the edge of the Sahara. Also, Hilary has a new supply of Zaytoun Olive Oil, beautiful Palestinian Olive Oil which you can order through me. She brings a Fairtrade stall to the Methodist coffee morning 10-12 on the first Tuesday morning of each month. She will also have a Fairtrade stall in Salem Church at the Christmas Market on 30 November. Also I have a 3 copies of ‘Longing for Light’, 25 daily advent reflections from the Charity ‘EMBRACE the Middle East’ – a Christian charity which works in Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. £4 or a donation to Embrace. Janet Squire 862582

Meals Matter: Donations are requested for the Meals Matter Project; we are looking for items for Christmas so we can put together a Christmas Food Parcel for those in need. Please leave your donations at the Co-op or the Parish Centre; any donation is greatly appreciated. It will be nice to bring some Christmas Cheer, particularly for those with children, so Selection Boxes would be greatly appreciated in the sweet department. Thanking you for your generosity.

Advent Compline – weekly from Thursday 28 November at 8pm to 9pm – Online: This years weekly Advent Compline will be based each week on one of the women in ‘Women of the Nativity’ by Paula Gooder.  Published by Church House Publishing.  Price £9.89 from the publishers website.  It is available elsewhere.  There is also an ebook version available from the publishers website.   It would be great if you can read up about each of the women before each compline.  During the compline we will read a short passage of scripture about each of the Advent women and reflect on their experiences.  Look forward to being with you during Advent.  I trust it will give each of us a time to focus on the meaning of Advent and Christmas and just to step back for a short while each week and reflect.  The access code is the same as for the Monday morning online prayer time.  For further info contact Ros.