News for 1st December & Week Ahead

Dearest friends,

The team behind the Live Nativity at St. Luke’s on Christmas eve met this week and we need your help!

We’re going to have five ‘stations’ outside St. Luke’s and we’d like to invite you to volunteer to build and run one of these stations. They are:

• The Annunciation
• The Inn (journey to Bethlehem)
• The Birth of Jesus (the stable)
• The Wise Men
• The Shepherds

A script will be written and provided, but we’d really like to invite you to own each station and make it as you see fit. We’ll walk around the stations as a large group and tell the story of Jesus birth – at each station we’ll also sing a carol. 

At the end of the evening we’ll head into church for chocolate, cake, and other treats. If you’d like to volunteer to help with that we’d be ever so grateful.

It’s going to be an amazing way to start Christmas and so much fun for children of Newton Abbot, Bovey and beyond. 

If you’d like to help in any way please speak to Claire Barker in St. Luke’s and Rebecca Burton in St. John’s. 

We’ll offer as much help and support as you need – help us bring new people to church this Christmas!

Fr. Matthew

Notices

Rev’d Dr. Chris Moore
THIS SUNDAY!
Make sure you come along at 3pm to St. Luke’s on Sunday for an amazing talk from the Rev’d Dr. Chris Moore – A Time Travellers Guide to the Gospel of Mark. We’ll serve refreshments afterwards and end with a short service of Evening Prayer.

Holy Habits
It’s the last Holy Habits this Thursday at 7pm (28^th Nov) – we’ll concentrate on daily prayer and scripture and talk about why we bow, bend, and kneel in church. 

Christmas Fayre, St. Luke’s
Donations of raffle prizes etc. are needed for the Christmas Fayre. We are particularly looking for donations for the hampers. Please contact Claire Baker with any questions.

Civic Service
The Mayors civic service on the 8^th December has been cancelled by the Town Council.

Confirmation
Bishop Paul will be with us in February. If you’ve not been confirmed (or don’t know what it means!) and would like to discuss being confirmed, please do speak to Fr. Matthew.

Advent Carols
This Saturday at 6pm at St. John’s come and join us for Advent Carols. A selection of the best advent carols and some beautiful scripture. It’s the perfect way to start advent and get your heart and mind in the right place ahead of Christmas. Sherry will be served after the service.

Christingle at St. John’s

On the 15^th December St. John’s will be hosting and running a Christingle service for St. Catherine’s school (and anyone else who’d like to come along). We’re having a planning meeting next Thursday (5^th December) at 5pm in the parish office of St. John’s and if you can help in any way please do come along. 

Sunday 1^st December

1^st Sunday of Advent
9:15am – Sung Parish Mass, St. John’s
11am – Sung Parish Mass, St. Luke’s
3pm – A Time Travellers Guide to Mark, St. Luke’s
Divine Office Psalter Week 1, C(I),  Advent 1

November
30^th – Advent Carols [SJ] 6pm
December
1^st – A Time Travellers Guide to Mark [SL] 3pm
4^th – St. Luke’s PCC, 7pm, Church Hall
5^th – Christingle Planning Meeting, 5pm [SJ]
7^th  – Christmas Fayre [SL] 
11^th – Over 60s Christmas Concert [SJ] 2pm
15^th  –  December Parish Lunch [SL] 
Christingle Service [SJ] 11am
19^th  –  Cantemos Carol Concert [SJ] 7pm
22^nd  – Christmas Carols [SL] 4pm
           Nine Lessons and Carols [SJ] 7pm
24^th –  Live Nativity [SL] 4pm
           1^st Mass of Christmas [SJ] 8pm
           Midnight Mass [SL] 11:30pm
25^th – Christmas Day Mass [SL & SJ] 10am
29^th – Joint Mass at St. John’s 10am with dedication of Holy     
          Family Chapel
January
8^th – St. Luke’s PCC
12^th – St. Luke’s Parish Lunch
16^th – St. John’s PCC
25^th – Jesus, This Is Your Life & Burns Night Supper [SJ]
February 
12^th – St. Luke’s PCC