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Advent

advent

Please note these dates for our celebration of the season of Advent and Christmas.

Full details for all of them are on our special 3 Churches Advent and Christmas info sheet.

Tuesday 7 December
7pm – Advent Service at St Brigid’s and live-streamed

Tuesday 21 December
7.30pm – Carol Service at St Brigid’s and live-streamed

Monday/Tuesday 20/21 December
“Bambinelli” – Children’s Christmas Blessing in each church

Christmas Masses

Christmas Eve
6pm – Christ the King and St Paul’s
8pm – St Brigid’s

Christmas Day
9am – Christ the King and St Paul’s
10.30am – St Brigid’s

Booking will be necessary for the Christmas Masses. Contact details will be given next weekend.

Food Market – During Advent we will be seeking support for our outreach to the needy.

It’s Advent…

advent

Dear parishioners and friends of our 3 Churches,

It’s Advent – a new Church year. The season’s themes point us to the future, and we are invited to prepare not just for the great feast of December 25 .

This first Sunday we also prepare for the great Second Coming of Christ, and so find ourselves “in between”. We are in between the first and second advents of Jesus. Our faith rooted in the first gives us great expectation of the second, and a firm and clear route to get from the one to the other – the road of the Gospel.

As the Year of the Word moves to its conclusion, let us set out on this royal road with renewed faith and conviction.

Fr Matthew