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SUMMARY:Pews News 3 December 2023 Advent Sunday!
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DESCRIPTION:Bowland Benefice\nPews News 3 December 2023\nAdvent Sunday!\n\
 nHark! A herald voice is calling:\n‘Christ is nigh!’ it seems to say.\
 n\nCollect\nAlmighty God\,\nas your kingdom dawns\,\nturn us from the dark
 ness of sin to the\nlight of holiness\,\nthat we may be ready to meet you\
 nin our Lord and Saviour\, Jesus Christ. Amen.\nThis week in the Benefice\
 nSunday\n3 December\n\n10.30am Christingle Service\nin Upton Snodsbury\n11
 .00am Holy Communion in\nPeopleton\n6.00pm Advent Carol\nService in White\
 nLadies Aston\n\nFriday\n8 December\n\n6.00pm The Nativity at The\nCrown\,
  Peopleton\n\nSaturday\n9 December\n\n10.30am\nto 4.00pm\n\nChristmas Tree
 \nFestival in Upton\nSnodsbury\n\nSunday\n10 December\nAdvent 2\n\n10.30am
  Holy Communion in\nUpton Snodsbury\n\n2.00pm\nto 4.00pm\n\nChristmas Tree
 \nFestival continues in\nUpton Snodsbury\n10.30am Christingle Service\nin 
 White Ladies\nAston\n3.00pm Carol Service in\nChurchill\n4.00pm Christingl
 e Service\nin Peopleton\n\nA thank you\n\nThank you to everyone who contri
 buted bedding\,\ntoiletries etc to St Paul’s Hostel last weekend. It has
  all\nbeen safely delivered and will be put to very good use.\nAdvent and 
 Christmas can be difficult for people. If\nyou feel a chat with Revd Clair
 e would help\, please\n\nring her on 07921 101320.\nHope for today\n\nWe l
 ook forward to the time when the power of love\nwill replace the love of p
 ower.\nThen our world will know the blessings of peace.\n(William Gladston
 e 1809-1898)\n\nThank you to everyone who contributed bedding\,\ntoiletrie
 s etc to St Paul’s Hostel last weekend. It has all\nbeen safely delivere
 d and will be put to very good use\n\nat the Hostel. Gill Creed\nand……
 .A plea\n\nPlease don’t forget the needs of the two local Food\nBanks to
 o. Festive items and basic foods can be\ndonated by leaving in the box in 
 Peopleton Church\, at\nThe Pantry\, Peopleton and in the boxes in most\nsu
 permarkets. Many thanks.\nA bit about Advent\n\nThe word Advent comes from
  the Latin Adventus\,\nmeaning coming. During the 4 th and 5 th century it
 \nwas a season of preparation for the baptism of new\nChristians at the Fe
 stival of Epiphany.\n40 days were spent in penance\, prayer and fasting.\n
 By the 6 th century Advent was tied to the ‘coming’\nof Christ – his
  second coming in the clouds as judge\n\nof the world.\n\nDuring the Middl
 e Ages Advent became linked to\nChristmas. Nowadays there are 4 Sundays in
 \nAdvent\, balancing elements of remembrance and\nanticipation. The first 
 2 Sundays look forward to\nChrist’s second coming and the last 2 look\nb
 ackwards to remember Jesus’s first coming as a\nbaby in the manger in Be
 thlehem.\nIt is difficult to keep in mind\, during the hustle and\nbustle 
 and stress of December\, that Advent is\nintended to be a season of fastin
 g\, and reflection\non all the evil in the world - and there is certainly\
 nenough of that at the moment. - A time to cry out\nfor God to make things
  right and to put death’s\n\ndark shadows to flight.\n\nA time to look a
 t our own lives and where we have\ngone wrong\; a time of contemplation on
  our need\nfor God’s grace and healing touch.\nO come Thou Day-Spring Co
 me and cheer\nOur spirits by thy Advent here\nDisperse the gloomy clouds o
 f night\nAnd death’s dark shadows put to flight\nRejoice! Rejoice! Emman
 uel\nShall come to thee\, O Israel.\nPlease support Revd Claire\, the cong
 regation of St\nJohn the Baptist and the White Ladies Aston\nSingers on Su
 nday at 6.00pm as they prepare for a\nnew and exciting service for Advent 
 – an Advent\nCarol Service with wonderful strong and dark\nAdvent music 
 and hymns and the Old Testament\nreadings preparing us for Advent. Please 
 do go\nalong. You will be made very welcome!\nNext Friday 8 December pleas
 e again venture out\nfor 6.00pm\, this time to The Crown in Peopleton\nwhe
 re a group of people\, led by Revd Claire will re-\nenact the Christmas Na
 tivity Story. Then warm up\n\nin the pub afterwards!
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