The Church Of The Holy Rood -- Wool, Dorset, U.K.
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The Church Of The Holy Rood -- Wool, Dorset, U.K.
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January 2005From the Parish News — January 2005Rev. Judy Hill writes: By now we’ve packed away the Christmas decorations, hoovered up the pine needles - well most of them, anyway - and finished eating the turkey. For many, Christmas will now be packed away in a box or a cupboard until December 2005. But (like the RSPCA advert, ‘a dog is for life not just for Christmas’) Christ is ‘for life not just for Christmas.’ Why not at the beginning of this New Year think about that life we have been celebrating. Jesus didn’t stay a baby in a manger just to be brought out of a cupboard at Christmas. He lived on this earth as a human being, he suffered and died for us and rose from the dead. As we are reminded in John 3. 16, ‘God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life’. Many of you will have attended services and nativity plays over the Christmas period. Why not come and join us in one of the regular services, or the Home Groups, or pick up one of the leaflets, or Bible reading notes, at the back of church, and explore and experience for yourselves that wonderful promise that God has given to each one of us. Every blessing for the coming year. Judy
Christmas Flowers Many thanks to everyone who donated money, and those who helped to decorate the church for Christmas. Thanks also to the Explorers for decorating the Christmas tree.
Church Flowers Would you like to take a turn at church flowers? We need volunteers on a weekly basis to do the flowers in church. Perhaps you might like to do an arrangement in memory of a loved one, or for a special anniversary. This can either be a pedestal arrangement, or a vase in one of the windows. If you would like to help, please contact me. Judy Hill 01929 462888
Home Communion for the sick and housebound The pastoral Team, LPA’s and Readers, have recently received some teaching on taking communion to the sick and housebound. Some of them will be taking the sacrament out into the community after the Communion Service in church, usually on a Wednesday. If you or anyone you know is unable to come to any of the services, either in Holy Rood, Knowlewood Knap or Hyde Place please let me know, and I will arrange for you to receive communion at home. Judy Hill 462888
Special Services in January
EPIPHANY CAROL SERVICE Holy Rood Church 6.30pm Sunday 2nd January
TAIZE SERVICE Holy Rood Church 4.00pm Sunday 16th January Taize is an international and ecumenical monastic community founded in 1940, by Brother Roger, near Cluny, in SE France. His aim was to open up ways of healing the divisions between Christians and through the reconciliation of Christians to overcome conflicts within humanity. He began by sheltering Jews and other refugees in his home. After the end of the Second World War, he obtained permission to welcome German prisoners of war from a nearby camp. The first brothers took life-vows in 1949. There are now about 90 brothers, from some 20 countries and every continent. Weekly meetings bring together young people from many countries, often as many as 6,000 at a time. Songs from Taize are used in groups and parishes around the world. ‘Nothing is more conducive to a communion with the living God than a meditative common prayer with, at its high point, singing that never ends and continues in the silence of our heart when one is alone again.’ Come and experience some of the worship of Taize with us.
COVENANT SERVICE Methodist Chapel 10.30 am Sunday 16th January Our annual tradition is to meet together with our Methodist friends at the start of a New Year. We'll be thinking about what our faith means to us and how we can serve God better in the year to come. About the Covenant Service From the earliest days of the Methodist societies, John Wesley invited the Methodist people to renew their covenant relationship with God. The service has been revised on several occasions since its inception. The present Covenant Service moves from praise of the Trinity to listening to the word in scripture, read and preached, and then follows a penitential approach to the words of the Covenant. Changes in the use and understanding of language have led to the version of the Covenant Prayer used in this service. The emphasis of the whole service is on God's readiness to enfold us in generous love, not dependent on our deserving. Our response, also in love, springs with penitent joy from thankful recognition of God's grace. The Covenant is not just a one-to-one transaction between individuals and God, but the act of the whole faith community. The prayers of intercession which follow emphasize our unity with all humanity. The service proceeds to the Lord's Supper, for which a special form has been provided to emphasize the continuity between word, response and sacrament. The service is meant to lead us, by a path both similar to and differing from that of normal Sunday worship, to that commitment which all worship seeks both to inspire and to strengthen.
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Wool Churches Together United Service at
St. Josephs Roman Catholic Church
3.00pm Sunday 23rd January Do come along and join us
PRAYER AND PRAISE SERVICE Holy Rood Church 7.30 - 8.30 pm Thursday 27th January With friends from the other local Christian churches
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