Dear FriendsElsewhere on this page is a Service for use at Home in Advent along with the two readings for this Sunday - Advent Sunday.I'll be sending out readings for each of the Sundays in Advent and a service for use at home at Christmas when the time comes.I hope this finds you safe and well and coping with the various complications of lockdown and the like...I knew it would end in tiers.The new edition of the Parish Magazine is out in print and a version we can email to you will be available later this week - but print subscribers on the English side of the border may have to wait until lockdown is over before your copy can be delivered.There you will find details of what we're planning and hoping to offer in the way of services at Christmas. It won't be quite the usual pattern, and we will sorely miss some of the regular events that we just can't deliver this time. But I hope that there will be something for everyone and that, if you are able and allowed to do so, you'll join us in person.With very best wishes for a Happy New (Christian) Year!Stevex
Dear FriendsPlease find elsewhere on this page the readings and collect for this Sunday - the Festival of Christ the King - the last Sunday in the Church's Year.We have Morning Service according to Common Worship at 11 in St Andrew's and Common Worship Holy Communion at 6.30 in Discoed this Sunday.Then the following Sunday, there'll be a special service for Advent Sunday in Presteigne at 11 and I'll be sending out an Advent Special for those who receive services for use at home.A new edition of The Parish Magazine will be out next week - Roger and the team are very kindly publishing an online version as well as a paper version. Those living in England probably won't get their paper copies of the magazine until December due to lockdown, but it will be very much worth waiting for as it will be the bumper December / January issue!The details of the services we plan (and hope!) to provide at Christmas will be in the new magazine.Fingers crossed!Keep safe and wellSteve
Services in the Presteigne Group of Parishes next Sunday 22 November (Sunday next before Advent) are as follows:11 am Morning Service according to Common Worship, St Andrew's6.30 pm Holy Communion according to Common Worship, St Michael's DiscoedSocial distancing measures will continue to be in place, we must ask all those who are not medically exempt to wear masks throughout the services except when receiving communion, and we are not allowed to sing hymns or to mingle socially in church. In recent services we have been humming quietly along to hymns, following the words in hymn books as they are played on the organ.Unfortunately we cannot hold services at Lingen, Knill or Kinsham due to the English lockdown, and we cannot allow members of those congregations to attend the services in our two Welsh churches.
