December News

Services and Events in December

Sun      1       The First Sunday of Advent

                        10.30 a.m.  SUNG EUCHARIST

                        4.00 p.m.  Advent Carol Service – ‘From Darkness to Light’

Fri        6       Nicholas, Bishop of Myra

Sat       7       Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher

Sun      8       The Second Sunday of Advent

Tues     10   10.30 a.m.  Town Mayor’s Service for Year 6 Children

Wed     11   7.00 p.m.  Creative Quarter Carol Concert

Fri        13     Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse

                        2.00 p.m.  St Eanswythe’s School Carol Service

                        7.00 p.m.  Christmas Concert – Britten’s Ceremony of  Carols

Sat       14     John of the Cross, Poet, Teacher

                        12.30 p.m.  Wedding of Graham Alexander Deaves and  Pauline Elizabeth Saffery

Sun      15     The Third Sunday of Advent

                         10.30 a.m.  SUNG EUCHARIST

                         4.00 p.m.  Christmas Service of Nine Lessons and Carols

Mon     16   7.30 p.m.  Harvey Grammar School Carol Service

Tues     17   2.00 p.m.  St Mary’s School Carol Service

Wed     18   3.30 p.m.  Bayle Residents Concert to raise funds for the  Winter Shelter

Sun       22   The Fourth Sunday of Advent

                        10.30 a.m.  SUNG EUCHARIST

Tues     24   Christmas Eve

                        4.00 p.m.  Crib Service

                        6.00 p.m.  Living Advent Calendar

                        11.30 p.m.  MIDNIGHT EUCHARIST

Wed     25   CHRISTMAS DAY

                        10.30 a.m.  SUNG EUCHARIST

                        Celebrant and Preacher:

                        The Rt Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkins, Bishop of Dover

Thurs    26  Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr

Fri        27     John, Apostle and Evangelist

Sat       28     The Holy Innocents

Sun      29     The First Sunday of Christmas

                         10.30 a.m.  SUNG EUCHARIST

Wed  1 Jan The Naming and Circumcision of Jesus

Thurs    2     Basil the Great and Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishops, Teachers

Sun      5        The Second Sunday of Christmas/Epiphany

                         10.30 a.m.  SUNG EUCHARIST