This Month at St. Bede’s

Welcome to December at St. Bede’s

December at St. Bede’s will be quite a busy time.

Our Christmas Services are:
Sunday 17th December:
8.00 am and 9.30 am – services as normal.
11.00 am – Festive Morning Tea (if you plan to come, please put your name on the list at the Welcoming Table).
Sunday 24th December
8.00 am and 9.30 am – services as normal.
4.00 pm – Nativity Play for All Ages
8.00 pm Sung Eucharist
Sunday 25th December
9.30 am – Sung Eucharist

Our final Art and Craft morning will be held on Thursday 7th December from 10.00 am. Everyone is welcome to this time of friendship.

On Sunday 10th December from 4.00 pm, a family Community Event will be held at Bartley Terrace, West Lakes. Full Details are here.

On Sunday 31st December we farewell Fr. Gwilym in his role as Locum Tenens with a
celebratory morning tea after the 9.30 am service.

Our song for December is an instrumental version of O Come O Come Emmanuel

Prayers During This Pandemic

Church leaders, including our Archbishop, ask us to pause for prayer at 8 am every Friday.
We are asked to pray for:

• An end to the pandemic
• Healing for people suffering from the illness
• Those researching a vaccine
• Our political and community leaders as they try to provide wise leadership
• Our health workers, as they are at the front line.

Almighty and All–loving God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
We pray to you through Christ the Healer for those who suffer from the Coronavirus Covid–19
in and across the world.
We pray too for all who reach out to those who mourn the loss of each and every person who has died as a result of contracting the disease.
Give wisdom to policymakers, skill to healthcare professionals and researchers, comfort to everyone in distress and a sense of calm to us all in these days of uncertainty and distress.
This we ask in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord,
who showed compassion to the outcast, acceptance to the rejected and love to those to whom no love was shown. Amen. 
 
Archbishop Michael Jackson (Dublin & Glendalough)