St George WELCOME A very warm welcome to St George’s Parish Church for our Sung Eucharist. There is Junior Church today in the hall. Large Print service- books are available. There is a loop system; please adjust the setting of your personal hearing aid. Please join us for coffee and conversation after the service. MALACHI The prophet Malachi paints a stunning picture of Israel’s unfaithfulness that shows them to be worthy of punishment. Malachi confronts the people with their neglect of the temple and false worship. However, woven throughout his prophecy is the theme of hope and the possibility of forgiveness. SUPPORT Thank you for supporting St George’s Church. You can make your donation even more valuable if you use the envelopes provided as we are able to reclaim the tax on your gift, but only if you fill in the details on the front of the envelope. ‘Not one stone will be left upon another’ Second Sunday Before Advent 17 Nov 2019 Malachi 4.1-2a The name Malachi means ‘my messenger’ and the keeping of the covenant relationship with God was the main concern of Malachi, soon after the return of the exiles from Babylon. 2 Thessalonians 3.6-13 Some of the converts in Thessalonica had decided that since Christ would soon return, there was no need for them to work and so in their idleness they depended upon other members of the community to support them. Luke 21.5-19 Part of the text known as the ‘Little Apocalypse’ in which Jesus predicts the destruction of the temple and the end of the present age. The essential message is that Jesus changes all of history.
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WELCOME A very warm welcome to St George’s Parish Church for our Sung Eucharist. There is Junior Church today in the hall. Large Print service-books are available. There is a loop system; please adjust the setting of your personal hearing aid. Please join us for cof fee and conver sa t ion a f t e r t he service.
MALACHI The prophet Malachi paints a stunning picture of Israel’s unfaithfulness that shows t hem to be wor t hy o f pun i shment . Malach i confronts the people with their neglect of the temple and false worship. However, wove n t h r o u g h o u t h i s prophecy is the theme of hope and the possibility of forgiveness.
SUPPORT Thank you for supporting St
George’s Church. You can
make your donation even
more valuable if you use the
envelopes provided as we
are able to reclaim the tax
on your gift, but only if you
fill in the details on the front
of the envelope.
‘Not one stone will be left upon another’
Second Sunday Before Advent 17 Nov 2019
Malachi 4.1-2a The name Malachi means ‘my messenger’ and the keeping of the covenant relationship with God was the main concern of Malachi, soon after the return of the exiles from Babylon.
2 Thessalonians 3.6-13 Some of the converts in Thessalonica had decided that since Christ would soon return, there was no need for them to work and so in their idleness they depended upon other members of the community to support them.
Luke 21.5-19 Part of the text known as the ‘Little Apocalypse’ in which Jesus predicts the destruction of the temple and the end of the present age. The essential message is that Jesus changes all of history.
hymnsProcessional: 231Who are these like starsGradual: 339 Be thou my visionOffertory: 197 For all the saintsRecessional: 466 Thou whose almighty word
musicSetting: Mozart Missa Brevis in F K192Psalm: 98Motets: Tye O come ye servants Gibbons Almighty and everlasting GodVoluntary: Bach Toccata in F BWV540i
psalm 98(8am service)Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvellous things.His own right hand and his holy arm have won for him the victory.The Lord has made known his salvation; his deliverance has he openly shown in the sight of the nations.He has remembered his mercy and faithfulnesstowards the house of Israel, and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. Sound praises to the Lord, all the earth; break into singing and make music.Make music to the Lord with the lyre, with the lyre and the voice of melody.With trumpets and the sound of the horn sound praises before the Lord, the King. Let the sea thunder and all that fills it, the world and all that dwell upon it.Let the rivers clap their hands and let the hills ring out together before the Lord,for he comes to judge the earth.In righteousness shall he judge the world and the peoples with equity.
Junior Church today, Sunday 17 Nov in the church hall, theme “Pull your weight”.
Sunday 24 November 2019- Christ the King - (Year C) 8.00am Holy Communion (said)9.45am Sung Eucharist5.30pm Choral Evensong
Eucharist 5.30pm Choral Evensong First Reading: Jeremiah23. 1-6 1 Samuel 8. 4-20 Second Reading: Colossians 1. 11-20 John 18. 33-37 Gospel: Luke 23. 33-43
5.30pm Choral EvensongResponses: TomkinsPsalm: 46First Reading: Daniel 6Second Reading:
Matthew 13. 1-9, 18-23Canticles: Stanford in CAnthem: Mendelssohn
How lovely are the messengersHymn: 391King of glory, king of peaceVoluntary: Mendelssohn Allegro maestoso in C
Notices Advent and Christmas - details of our services are available at the back of the church.
Archdeacon of Bromley and Bexley Paul Wright, will lead Choral Evensong on Sunday 24 November at 5.30pm, during which Fr Jeremy will be commissioned as Area Dean for Beckenham.
Welcare in Bromley at Christmas – We have been asked to provide vouchers (not toys) for the Service Users this year. Please be generous to those less fortunate, who would like to get gifts, or even food, for their children. No voucher should be more than £10. One4All from the Post office (these cost £10 minimum) are useful as they can be spent at a large number of shops. Others suggested are Tesco and Sainsbury vouchers (£5 or £10). (NOT WHSmith). If you prefer you can give money and we can buy the vouchers. Please give vouchers or money to Mary in the office before Monday 9 Dec. Thank you Pamela Stuart, Parish Rep.
Bromley Homeless Shelter are looking for volunteers for this winter. If you can help contact them via their website www.bromleyshelter.org or speak to Revd. Maggie or David Davies for further information.
Prostate Cancer appeal - Steve and Michele Quick have trekked to Everest Base camp for this worthy charity they have been delighted to receive the sponsorship
Tickets for Beckenham Chorale and The Strawbs are now on sale from the Parish Office.
The choir is making its first foray into the central London concert scene on Sat 8 Feb 2020, with a concert at St John’s Smith Square. They will be performing alongside Russian pianist Arina Lazgiian and the Chameleon Arts Orchestra in a programme comprising Mozart’s Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor and Haydn’s Nelson Mass. Tickets are now on sale both from the SJSS box office, and from Mary in the church office.
Junior Church Christmas initiative 2019 IMPORTANT UPDATE
Thank you for the many donations of items and money for both of our initiatives to date. Keep on collecting and donating Our first charity is Bromley Homeless Shelter. It is open for Christmas and throughout the winter months. Our plan is to collect and wrap 12 shoe boxes and fill them with toiletries, underwear, socks, nibbles, scarves, gloves and hats to give to those who are in the shelter over Christmas. We will continue this initiative until the shelter closes.
Secondly we will collect and wrap 10 to 12 shoe boxes and fill them with toys, books, stationery, chocolate and sweets for Bromley Children Project which helps disadvantaged families with advice and support including parenting courses.
Our third charity is Bromley Brighter Beginnings. which provides essential items to local families in financial hardship. At Christmas, the charity makes hampers for the Bromley & Croydon Women’s Aid domestic violence refuges. Up to 6 shoeboxes will be going in the hampers. Because the hampers are being made up on Sat 23 Nov, we don’t have much time. If you can help put these together over the next few days, do speak to me after the service today or get in touch via 8663 6996. Similarly, if you can help to wrap a few shoeboxes please take from our supply at back of the church and return asap. Many thanks. June Mackenzie
CTiB Carols at Christmas 7 Dec - the event will be at Waitrose Beckenham.
collect Heavenly Father, whose blessed Son was revealedto destroy the works of the deviland to make us the children of God and heirs of eternal life:grant that we, having this hope,may purify ourselves even as he is pure;that when he shall appear in power and great glorywe may be made like him in his eternal and glorious kingdom; where he is alive and reigns with you,in the unity of the Holy Spirit,one God, now and for ever. Amen
‘He is God not of the dead, but of the living’
‘By your endurance you will gain your souls’
Jonathan Choat
Pearl Clark
Mary Doyle
John Emly
Tricia O’ Brien
Sid Paine
Doreen Russell
Nick Sales
Louise Williams
Colin Watts
Jennifer Hudd
For the departed: Iris Mulry - Funeral 18 Nov at 2.00pm in St George’s.John Abrahams - Funeral 19 Nov 1pm at Christchurch
