Christmas Day Service

Date

Wed, 25/12/2024

Time

10am

Location

The Church of the Good Shepherd

A Sung Festal Eucharist to celebrate the birth of the Christ Child and the visit of the shepherds to his manger.

EVERYONE WELCOME

Our Weekly Services

Come and join us for worship you will be given a warm welcome.

Our Church services are:

Sunday at 10am & Wednesday at 11am

If you are unable to attend in person you are invited to join in with the service at home by following the material in the Spiritual Communion booklet:

Praying At Home Booklet

Praying At Home (short version)

Praying at Home - Lectionary Year A Advent I 2022 - Trinity Sunday 2023

2024 Year B Readings

Sunday 17th November Trinity XXV AGM Sunday

O Lord, forgive the transgressions of your people: and by your goodness release us from the snare of sin, in which, by our frailty, we have been caught; through Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen.

Daniel 12:1-3; Hebrews 10:11-25; Mark 13:1-8

Sunday 24th November The Feast of Christ-the-King

Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in the Kingdom of your well-beloved Son: mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, now divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule: through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen

Daniel 7:9-10 & 13-14; Revelation 1:4b-8; John 18:22b-37

Collect for the Week

Stir up, O Lord, the wills of your faithful people: that they, richly bearing the fruit of good works, may by you be richly rewarded; through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.

LECTIONARY YEAR C

Advent Sunday 2024 - Trinity Sunday 2025

ADVENT

The Advent Collect

Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and to put on the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which your Son Jesus Christ

came to us in great humility: that on the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.

Sunday 1st December Advent Sunday

Stir up your power, Lord, and come: that with you as our protector, we may be rescued from our sins; and with you as our deliverer we may be set free; for you live and reign with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.

Jeremiah 33:14-16; 1Thessalonians 3:9-13; Luke 21:25-36

Sunday 8th December Advent II

Stir up our hearts, Lord, to prepare the way of your only begotten-Son: that, in his coming, we might serve you with our hearts made pure; through the same Jesus Christ who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.

Malachi 3:1-4; Philippians 1:3-11; Luke 3:1-6

Sunday 15th December Advent III

Stir up our prayers, Lord, and hear us: that they who are sorrowful and suffering may rejoice at the Advent of your only-begotten Son; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.

Zephaniah 3:14-20; Philippians 4:4-7; Luke 3:7-18

Sunday 22nd December Advent IV

Stir up your power, Lord, and come: and strengthen us by the might of your love; that, although we are hindered by our sins, your abundant grace and mercy may quickly come and save us; for you live and reign with the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.

Micah 5:2-5a; Hebrews 10:5-10; Luke 1:39-55

CHRISTMASTIDE

Wednesday 25th December Christmas Day

Eternal God, whose Word has come among us in the Holy Child of Bethlehem, may the light of faith illumine our hearts and shine in our words and deeds; through him who is Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Isaiah 9:2-7; Titus 2:11-14; Luke 2:1-20

Sunday 29th December Christmas I

O God, you have shed upon us the new light of your incarnate Word. May this light, enkindled in our hearts, shine forth in our lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

1Samuel 2:18-20 &26; Colossians 3:12-17; Luke 2:41-52

The Good Shepherd