This Month at St. Bede’s

 

Welcome to December at St. Bede’s

December brings us to the season of Advent, a time of waiting and preparing for the coming of our Lord at Christmas. 
There is a lot happening at St. Bede’s in our preparations for Christmas, so read on from the Service times.  Everyone is welcome to what is happening.

Our Christmas Service Times are

Friday December 24 – Christmas Eve
4.00 pm  Is There Room?  Family Christmas Story Event (see details here)
11.00 pm Midnight Mass (Sung Eucharist)

Saturday December 25th – Christmas Day
9.30 am Holy Communion with Carols

Sunday 26 December
8.00 am and 9.30 am Holy Communion

On Sunday 5th December at 11.00 am, we will stand outside St. Bede’s for 3 minutes of silence as part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gendered Based Violence.  Further details are here, and a link to Eventbrite is here.

Our Parish Christmas Morning Tea (Party) will be held on Sunday December 19, at 11.45 in the Parish Hall.  If you would like to join us, please add your name to the list at the back of the Church, or call the Parish Office (8449 5064)

Please join us for our Carol Service on Sunday 19th December at 7.30 pm.

Our song for this month is a beautiful 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)