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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SUNDAY 4th DECEMBER 2ND SUNDAY OF ADVENT 8.00am Holy Communion (BCP) 10.00am Parish Communion 4.00pm Evening Prayer Wed 7th 10.00am Holy Communion Thurs 8th 7.00pm Healing Service
SUNDAY 11th DECMBER 3rd SUNDAY OF ADVENT 8.00am Holy Communion (BCP) 10.00am Parish Communion 4.00pm Evening Prayer Tues 13th 5.00pm Christingle Service Wed 14th 10.00am Holy Communion
SUNDAY 18th DECEMBER 4th SUNDAY OF ADVENT 8.00am Holy Communion (BCP) 10.00am Service led by Sunday School 6.30pm Carol Service Wed 21st 10.00am Holy Communion (BCP)
SATURDAY 24th DECEMBER CHRISTMAS EVE 11.30pm First Communion of Christmas
SUNDAY 25th DECEMBER CHRISTMAS DAY 8.00am Holy Communion (BCP) 10.00am Parish Communion Wed 28th 10.00am Holy Communion
PLEASE NOTE THE TIMES OF EVENING SERVICES
Knowlewood Knap: Holy Communion 6th December at 10am in the day room. Hyde Place: Holy Communion 8th December at 10am in the day room. Anyone may go along to these services especially if you feel that you are unable to access Holy Rood Church for the services there. Explorers Group: 17th December at 7.00pm 9High Street Close Prayers for the parish every Friday at 7.00pm at 23 Hillside Road.
CHRISTMAS SERVICES AT HOLY ROOD
13th DECEMBER: 5:00pm CHRISTINGLE SERVICE
18th DECEMBER : 8:00am HOLY COMMUNION 10:00am SUNDAY SCHOOL SERVICE 6:30pm CANDLELIGHT CAROL SERVICE
24th DECEMBER: 11:30pm MIDNIGHT MASS
25th DECEMBER: 8:00am HOLY COMMUNION 10:00am PARISH COMMUNION
Special Services
Tuesday 13th December - Christingle Service
TUESDAY 13th DECEMBER 5.00PM HOLY ROOD CHURCH ALL WELCOME
Why celebrate Christingle? The Children’s Society hold its special Christingle appeal each year to raise vital funds for the children facing life’s harshest challenges. Children, who, this winter, find themselves sleeping rough in parks, bus shelters and shop doorways. The funds raised from Christingle help us to shine a light into the darkness of their lives. The history of Christingle Christingle was established by the Moravian Church in 1747 as a symbol of Christ’s light and love. The Children’s Society introduced it to the Church of England in 1968 and it has since become a popular family and community event. What is a Christingle? The Christingle itself is made up of a lighted candle (symbolising Jesus, the light of the world), mounted n an orange (representing the world), and a red ribbon around the middle of the orange (indicating the blood of Christ). Four cocktail sticks bearing dried fruit or sweets are stuck into the orange to represent the four seasons and the fruits of the earth.
Sunday 18th December - CAROL SERVICE BY CANDLELIGHT
HOLY ROOD CHURCH, WOOLCAROL SERVICE BY CANDLELIGHTSUNDAY DECEMBER 18THAT 6.30PM
ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS CARDWe will be having an alternative Christmas Card in Holy Rood again this year. You can add you greetings to the card in church and the money you would have spent on Christmas Cards can be donated to World Vision. These are some of the gifts we could buy with the money, for more ideas see the ‘Alternative Gift Catalogue’ in church £50.00 will buy a bicycle and help a child get to school. £80.00 will buy a flock of sheep will buy six sheep in places like Albania or Ethiopia and will help families earn an income, enjoy better food and better health and have the means to educate their children. £204.00 will buy a mobile pharmacy to help reach 5,000 people in hard to reach rural communities to access vital medicines and supplements, and establish a long-term fund to provide ongoing health care in villages.
READINGS IN DECEMBER4th DECEMBER Second of Advent Isa. 40. 1-11 2 Pet. 3. 8-15a Mark 1. 1-8 John the Baptist prepares the way for the coming of the Messiah by helping the people to realign their lives.
11th DECEMBER Third of Advent Isa. 61. 1-4, 8-11 1 Thess. 5. 16-24 John 1. 6-8, 19-28 In Jesus, God will be fulfilling the Messianic prophecies about the promised Saviour.
18th DECEMBER Fourth of Advent 2 Sam. 7. 1-11, 16 Rom. 16. 25-27 Luke 1. 26-38 God’s promised kingdom, announced both to King David in ancient times and to Mary by the angel Gabriel, will go on for ever.
25th DECEMBER Christmas Day Isa. 9. 2-7 Titus 2. 11-14 Luke 2. 1-20 Jesus Christ, the world’s Saviour, is here with us, born as a human baby.
Unwrap the gift The love of Christ is a gift But it doesn’t come All wrapped up with paper and string And we don’t say: "Just what I always wanted To put in the hall, or to wear or to eat, Or do nothing at all with But just look and enjoy."
We can’t put it aside until next year, Just bringing it just for special events: To celebrate Christmas or Easter or Lent. There isn’t a place in the house To put it away or to leave it alone: The life of Christ wants our lives as a home.
The life of Christ is a call Whispering in the night Crying out through the day Sometimes coming quite suddenly to say: ‘Look at this some other way’. Don’t think it’s enough, just to sing and to pray Don’t think it’s enough just to mean what you say Hoping for the best as you turn away.
We can’t turn it off When it’s hard to think Hoping to be let off the hook We have to face things That leave us confused To see them head on we must look.
The life of Christ is a dare. Do we dare? How dare we dare? Could we dare without anything there? The word of the past and the future is now It’s a fight and a strain as we try to know how To live smack up against the challenge of now.
There’s no little room where the light doesn’t reach No space of my own, where only my thoughts Have a power and a place. No look in the mirror to see my own face And to wonder just ‘how do I seem?’ The eyes and the ears and the lives That are opened look out- They don’t need to look in! Virginia Becher
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