St Mary the Virgin
Twickenham
Sunday 9th November
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
WELCO ME to the Church`s worship on this REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY.
Today, Requiem Masses will be offered for the souls of all those who died
from our community during the First World War. Please let Jeff our Vicar
know if you would like the names of your departed loved ones included in the
prayers this evening at the 6 o`clock service, when we shall be joined
by members of the Twickenham Choral Society and members of the Church
Choir for the singing of Faure`s Requiem. Do make special efforts to
attend this service if at all possible.
Coffee and tea will be provided in the hall after the 9.30 Eucharist where the
refreshments will be served by Sandy and friends.
8.0 0 am
REQUIEM EUCHARIST and an Act of Remembrance
Reading
Gospel
1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18
Matthew 25: 1-13
(David Wardrop)
10 .0 0 am (Please
REQUIEM EUCHARIST and an Act of Remembrance
note change of time)
O rgan music
O Salutaris Elgar
Hymns
366, *I vow to thee, *God is our strength, 328, 31
(* These hymns are printed on pages 6 and 7 of the news sheet).
Reading
1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18 (Wendy Verrall)
Gospel
Matthew 25: 1-13
Intercessions
Jean Love
O rgan music
March in C Alfred Hollins
6.0 0 pm
REQUIEM EUCHARIST and an Act of Remembrance.
with Twickenham Choral Society who will be singing Faure’s
Requiem as part of the celebration of the Eucharist. At this service
we shall also be praying for the souls of all those who died from
this community during the 1st World War and the souls of all
those who have been part of our lives.
Intercessions
We pray for all members of our congregation; for Crossway Pregnancy Crisis
Centre and Double O Charity.
We pray for all those seeking God’s intervention, guidance and healing in their
lives, amongst them:
Ewa Grudzien
Ali
Ruth Ann Renick
Janice Coxall
Margaret Hastings
Nicholas
Andy Dennison
Nansi Collier
Linda
Christopher Price
Iain
Raquel Ebbutt
Ronald Leeson
Gordon Hollis
Colin Rennie
Kenneth Miller
Valerie Smith
Keith Schofield
John Palmer
Sylvia Butler
Julia
David
Simon
Peter Ball
Ida Curtis
Eve
Alan Stanton
Barbara Jenkins
Fiona Roe
Raoul Franklin
We pray for those who have died that they may know new and eternal life:
Baby Margot Martini
Winifred Hearn
Vera Dunk
and Peter Howard Long whose funeral will be held in church on Thursday.
If you would like the names of anyone included or re-added to the Intercessions list,
please e-mail Jeff, our Vicar, on [email protected]
or speak to him after the service.
Please can we remind you to keep your valuables with you
at all times while you are in church.
Thank you.
2.
Today
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
REQ UIEMS will be offered at 8am, 10 am (please note change of time) and
6pm, when the Eucharist will include the singing of Faure`s Requiem.
Faure Requiem at 6.0 0 pm
An opportunity to mark Remembrance Day in a fitting manner in the context
of a Eucharist in memory of those who gave their lives in 1914-18 from
Twickenham and all those we love and see no more.
The choir will be conducted by Freddie Brown, assistant conductor of
Twickenham Choral Society, and several members of TCS will be singing.
All are welcome to attend.
PARISH CHRISTMAS CARD
Many thanks for the contribution of photographs and pictures offered for use
in this year`s Card, the selection is currently being made and the completed
cards are expected to be available for collection next Sunday.
The list of streets for the house to house delivery of cards is now available for
checking and signing up to and will be on display on the noticeboard at the
rear of church today. Please check your own groups and for those without an
assigned name please do consider volunteering and taking part in this
important aspect of our mission and welcome
to our local community this Christmastide.
Please enter any amendments and add your names as appropriate to the sheets,
alternatively contact the Parish O ffice (8744 2693) tomorrow, Monday, or
next Friday so that the list may be brought up to date for next week.
Thank you.
Traidcraft Stall
Come and buy Advent Calendars in time for 1st December
as well as fairly-traded Christmas cards! Today we have some new products Geobakes and gluten-free Geobars, plus our usual groceries, snacks
and cleaning range using fair-trade palm oil. Do make an order for Christmas
presents from the winter catalogue, free of postage costs.
3.
Forthcoming Events
St Mary’s Group O ur next meeting is tomorrow evening, Monday 10 th
November, at 8.0 0 pm in the Windsor Room when Audrey Flower will talk to
us on her life as a ballerina.
The next Lunch O ut is next Thursday, 13th November at Pulcinella O steria in
Church Street Twickenham at 12 noon. All are welcome but please let me know
if you are coming. Joan Reddrop 8892 5911 or email [email protected]
Interfaith Knitters - We are delighted and give thanks to God that the 50
small blankets and hats that we knitted for the small babies of The Gambia,
which we were unable to send out because of Ebola, have now been taken out
by plane to Gambia with equipment to help nurse Ebola victims. We feel
overjoyed about this. Please note that our next meeting is on Saturday 15th
November, 10 .30 am-12.30 pm in the Windsor Room. I look forward to seeing
you all then. Barbara Witzenfeld 8892 1731.
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Welcare is celebrating its 120 Anniversary this year. There is going to be a
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Thanksgiving Service at Southwark Cathedral on Saturday 15 November at
11.0 0 am. All are welcome to attend. Welcare provides family support work to
families who are disadvantaged and are experiencing family breakdown and
other difficulties in their lives.
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Hymn Singing at Nightingale House will take place on Sunday 16 November.
New singers very welcome. Meet Pat Ingham in the hall at 10 .50 am.
The Mothers’ Union members will hold a Planning Meeting on Tuesday 18
November at 2.30 pm in the vestry, in place of the advertised programme.
Please come along to have your ideas considered in the branch’s future
activities. All are welcome.
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Friday 21 November, Twickenham’s Light Up Event - Church Street will be
closed for this major community event from 3.0 0 pm-9.0 0 pm with the lights
being switched on at 6.30 pm. Details to be confirmed but there will be:
Father Christmas, food stalls, children’s crafts, musical entertainment,
children’s procession, carols, displays in church, loads of fun! Please put this
event in your diary NO W, volunteer to help out if you can (Please!) and also
make a something for our cake and home produce stall. We really need
helpers for this big event in our calendar! Any offers of help or queries, please
contact Katherine on 0 7775 677842 or at [email protected]
4.
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Remembrance Day hymns
not included in Hymns Old & New
5.
I vow to thee, my country
1. I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above,
entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love:
the love that asks no question, the love that stands the test,
that lays upon the altar the dearest and the best;
the love that never falters, the love that pays the price,
the love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice.
2. And there's another country I've heard of long ago,
most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know;
we may not count her armies, we may not see her King;
her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering;
and soul by soul and silently her shining bounds increase,
and her ways are ways of gentleness and all her paths are peace.
Poem: Cecil Spring Rice (1859-1918)
Music: Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
6.
God is our strength and refuge
1. God is our strength and refuge,
our present help in trouble;
and we therefore will not fear,
though the earth should change!
Though mountains shake and tremble,
Though swirling waters are raging,
God the Lord of hosts is with us evermore!
2. There is a flowing river,
within God’s holy city;
God is in the midst of her –
she shall not be moved!
God’s help is swiftly given,
thrones vanish at his presence –
God the Lord of hosts is with us evermore!
3. Come, see the works of our maker,
learn of his deeds all-powerful;
wars will cease across the world
when he shatters the spear!
Be still and know your creator,
uplift him in the nations –
God the Lord of hosts is with us evermore!
From Psalm 46
Copyright Richard Bewes (born 1934)
7.
1914
War broke: and now the Winter of the world
with perishing great darkness closes in.
The foul tornado, centred at Berlin,
is over all the width of Europe whirled,
Rending the sails of progress. Rent or furled
are all Art's ensigns. Verse wails. Now begin
famines of thought and feeling. Love's wine's thin.
The grain of human Autumn rots, down-hurled.
For after Spring had bloomed in early Greece,
and Summer blazed her glory out with Rome,
an Autumn softly fell, a harvest home,
a slow grand age, and rich with all increase.
But now, for us, wild Winter, and the need
of sowings for new Spring, and blood for seed.
Wilfred O wen (1893-1918)
CHRISTMAS SERVICES
Sunday 30 th N ovember
6.0 0 pm Advent Carol Service.
Monday 8th December
7.0 0 pm
Christmas Carol Service for all those whose loved ones have recently died.
Sunday 14th December
4.0 0 pm Christingle Service.
Sunday 21st December
9.30 am Nativity Eucharist
6.0 0 pm Christmas Carol Service.
W ednesday 24th December
3.30 pm Crib Service, especially suitable for young children
4.30 pm Crib Service, especially suitable for older children
11.0 0 pm Midnight Mass.
Thursday 25th December
10 .0 0 am Festival Eucharist of Christmas.
Sunday 28th December
10 .0 0 am Parish Eucharist.
9.
General N otices
Vera Dunk R.I.P.
Vera has been a member of the St Mary’s family for many years and will be
sadly missed by her many friends at church, including the bell ringers and
Twickenham Scouts.
Readers and Intercessors Rota
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Intercessors required from 30 November please.
St Mary's Families - We have plenty arranged for the next few months,
including two Christmas parties - one for the kids and one for the grown ups!
To be part of this ever growing network of families, for meet ups, playdates,
nights out and the odd bit of church and local news, please email Lizzie
Wilkinson on [email protected]
Twickenham Town Business A ssociation - Is there anyone who would like to
represent St Mary's on the TTBA and Church St. Association? This enhances
our relationship with and involvement in the local community, particularly with
what is going on in Church Street. There are informal meetings of the TTBA
about every two months usually in the early evening during the week in
central Twickenham. If you are interested, please speak to Charlotte West (tel.
8891 0 461).
Garden of Remembrance - We are looking for a few volunteers to take over
the weeding and general care of the rose beds in the Garden of Remembrance.
If you are able to help, could you contact Barbara Carmona on 8755 3955.
Can you help ? - Is there anyone in our congregation who has a working
knowledge of the Deafblind Alphabet? A lady who has minimal sight and
hearing would like to attend church and I am looking for a way to help her do
that, and for ways in which we can communicate with her and make her
welcome. If there is anyone who could help with this in any way, please call
Margaret Mence on 8977 3679.
10.
Please pray for these events which are taking place amongst the
Church family during the coming week.
Monday
8.45 am
Thursday
8.0 0 pm
9.0 0 am
11.0 0 am - 12 noon
10 .0 0 am-5.0 0 pm
4.0 0 pm
8.0 0 pm
10 .0 0 am
11.0 0 am-5.0 0 pm
10 .0 0 am
Friday
10 .0 0 am-5.0 0 pm
Tuesday
Wednesday
Music meeting, please email Jeff our Vicar
to suggest hymns for forthcoming Sundays,
[email protected]
PCC meets in the large vestry.
Ministerial Review meeting.
Minnows meeting in the vestry.
The organ will be in use.
St. Mary`s School Ethos Meeting.
Reordering Fundraising Meeting.
Holy Eucharist
The organ will be in use.
The Funeral of Peter Howard Long will take
place in church.
The organ will be in use.
Sunday 16th November
Second Sunday before Advent
8.0 0 am Holy Eucharist
1 Thessalonians 5: 1-11
Matthew 25: 14-30
1 Thessalonians 5: 1-11
Matthew 25: 14-30
1 Thessalonians 5: 1-11
Matthew 25: 14-30
Psalm 89: 19-37
1 Kings 1: 15-40
Revelation 1: 4-18
9.30 am Parish Eucharist
11.30 am Holy Eucharist
6.0 0 pm
Evening Prayer
11.
St Mary the Virgin
Church Street Twickenham Middlesex TW1 3NJ
website: www.stmarytwick.org.uk
Parish Priest
The Revd R J Hopkin Williams
email: [email protected]
0 20 -8892 2318
Assistant Priest
The Rev’d Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski email: [email protected]
0 20 -8891 5421 (Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays)
Churchwardens
Charlotte West: 0 20 -8891 0 461
Tony Dempsey: 0 20 -8898 2860
[email protected]
[email protected]
Parish Office
0 20 -8744 2693
(9am-11am daily Monday-Friday & 2pm-4pm Monday & Friday)
email:
communications: [email protected]
finance:
[email protected]
Parish Visitor Co-ordinator
Margaret Mence 0 20 -8977 3679
Peter Sheil
Parish Giving Recorder
email: [email protected]
0 20 -8755 0 454
Parish List and Data Protection
If you are new to St Mary’s or your details have changed, please complete as
below, tear off and pass the slip to a churchwarden and this will assist in
ensuring the parish list is kept up-to-date.
St Mary’s Church is committed to protecting your privacy and will handle all personal
data in accordance with the principles required by the Data Protection Act 1998. A parish
list is maintained and all information provided will be used only for the administrative
purposes of parish life and your details will not be shared with any other organisation,
institution or company.
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