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SUMMARY:Holy Communion and Junior Church
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DESCRIPTION:Holy Communion for Advent Sunday: celebrant the Revd Tola Bade
 jo.  Junior Church takes place at the same time in the hall\, where the ch
 ildren will be preparing the Nativity Play.\n\nFirst reading: Romans 13. 1
 1 – 14\nGospel: Matthew 24. 36 – 44\n\n\nAdvent Sunday marks the start
  of the church's new year\, as we prepare for the celebration of Christmas
 . Despite this happy anticipation\, however\, Advent is also a season for 
 self-examination and penitence: as today's readings make clear\, our focus
  on the birth of the infant Christ in Bethlehem goes hand-in-hand with ref
 lection on his second coming in glory\, as judge of the world. Whether or 
 not we anticipate a literal 'second coming'\, we are led to measure our ow
 n lives and actions against the standards set by Jesus.\n\nAdvent also dra
 ws us into a fundamental and astonishing truth: in his incarnation\, God e
 ntrusts himself to a human family living in a troubled and imperfect human
  society. Unlike the Olympian gods of classical antiquity\, he is fully en
 gaged with human life\, as much today as in biblical times. Rogier van der
  Weyden's Annunciation Triptych places Mary's pregnancy firmly in the pres
 ent of his own time in fifteenth-century Flanders\, with an unknown figure
 \, presumably the donor of the altarpiece\, in its left-hand panel\; to th
 e artist and his fellow citizens\, these were contemporary and not histori
 cal events.
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