A word of thanks to all who made the Advent and Christmas services possible.
Your assistance as always much valued and appreciated.
Thanks also to those who contributed to the Start Up boxes in church.
Rotas
Callander
Sandra or Peter
Aberfoyle
James Stirling and George Willis
This week
Wednesday 1st January
No midweek services
Sunday 5th January
Epiphany
Collect
O God,
who by the leading of a star
manifested your only Son to the peoples of the earth:
mercifully grant that we,
who know you now by faith,
may at last behold your glory face to face;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Services & Readings
10.00 Callander
BCP
Eph. 3.1-12
Matt. 2.1-12
11.15 Aberfoyle
Isa. 60.1-6
Eph. 3.1-12
Matt. 2.1-12
Wednesday 8th January
10.00 Callander
Mark 6.34-44
Our campaign to assist Start Up Stirling is ongoing to allow contributions of the following
items to be delivered to the tray in church on any Sunday. Thank you to all who contribute.
Tinned meat/fish/veg/beans, soup/fruit
Dried foods
Ready meals
Cooking sauces
Breakfast cereals
UHT milk
Tea/coffee/sugar
Snacks
Toiletries
Cleaning products
Household goods – good quality crockery, cutlery, towels, pots and pans.
n
a special Christmas video message recorded for Aid to the Church in
Need’s website, HRH The Prince of Wales has reached out to suffering
Christians and assured them of his prayers.
In
his message, His Royal Highness describes meeting a Syrian Sister and a
priest from Sri Lanka before highlighting the recent suffering of
Christians in both countries.
He describes the Sister’s work in Aleppo reaching out to Christians and
others, providing them with emergency help and supporting them in
prayer.
The Prince goes on to reference the findings of ACN’s Persecuted and Forgotten? A report on Christians oppressed for their Faith 2017-19, which showed the precarious position of Middle East Christians.
He states the report’s finding that within a decade up to two-thirds of
Christians have fled Syria and that in Iraq, the faithful have dwindled
by up to 90 percent within a generation.
Over
the Christmas period, please spare a thought for our suffering brothers
and sisters in Christ and join His Royal Highness in saying a prayer for
them.
To watch the video, read our news story, and the video transcript, please click here:
Notices
for the week beginning 16th December for a fortnight
Christmas
greeting when it comes!
Rotas
Callander
Luna Faulds- Baird
Aberfoyle
24th December
Christopher and Elizabeth Roads
25th December
Christopher and Elizabeth Roads, Mark Seymour
29th December
Mark Seymour
John Dymond
This week
Wednesday 18th December
Matthew 1:18-24
Thursday 19th December
14.15
St Joseph’s Callander
Christmas respite with music, readings meditation and prayer
All welcome
Friday 20th December
AM Christmas decoration team in church
Saturday 21st December
AM Choir rehearsing
Sunday 22nd December
Advent 4
Collect
God our redeemer,
who prepared the Blessed Virgin Mary
to be the mother of your Son:
grant that, as she looked for his coming as our saviour,
so we may be ready to greet him
when he comes again as our judge;
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Services
10.00 Callander
Isaiah 7:10-16
Romans 1:1-7
Matthew 1:18 – end
11.15 Aberfoyle
No morning service
16.00 St
Mary’s Carol Service
Tuesday 24th December (Christmas Eve)
23.30 Aberfoyle
Collect
Almighty God,
you make us glad with the yearly remembrance
of the birth of your Son Jesus Christ:
grant that, as we joyfully receive him as our redeemer,
so we may with sure confidence behold him
when he shall come to be our judge;
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
2.Sam. 7.1-5,8-11
Acts 13.16-26
Luke 1.67-79
Wednesday 25th December (Christmas Day)
Collect
Almighty God,
you have given us your only-begotten Son
to take our nature upon him
and as at this time to be born of a pure virgin:
grant that we, who have been born again
and made your children by adoption and grace,
may daily be renewed by your Holy Spirit;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
08.00 Balfron
Luke 2. 1-14
10.00 Callander
Isa. 9.2-7
Titus 2.11-14
Luke 2. 1-14
11.15 Aberfoyle
Isa. 9.2-7
Titus 2.11-14
Luke 2. 1-14
Sunday 29th December
1st Sunday of Christmas
Collect
Almighty God,
who wonderfully created us in your own image
and yet more wonderfully restored us
through your Son Jesus Christ:
grant that, as he came to share in our humanity,
so we may share the life of his divinity;
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
10.00 Callander
Isa. 63.7-9
Heb. 2.10-end
Matt. 2.13-end
11.15 Aberfoyle
Isa. 63.7-9
Heb. 2.10-end
Matt. 2.13-end
Our
campaign to assist Start Up Stirling is ongoing to
allow contributions of the following items to be delivered to the tray
in church on any Sunday. Thank you to all who contribute.
Tinned
meat/fish/veg/beans, soup/fruit
Dried
foods
Ready
meals
Cooking
sauces
Breakfast
cereals
UHT
milk
Tea/coffee/sugar
Snacks
Toiletries
Cleaning
products
Household
goods – good quality crockery, cutlery, towels, pots and pans.
Notices
for the week beginning 2nd December until Christmas Eve
Service timetable for December
Sunday 8th December
Normal timetable
Sunday 15th December
8.00 Balfron Holy Communion
10.00 No service at Callander
11.15 Holy Communion Aberfoyle
18.30 Carol Service at Callander
Sunday 22nd December
10.00 Holy Communion Callander
No service at Aberfoyle
16.00 Aberfoyle Carol Service
Linkage
Mary
Bates writes ‘Loch Lomond and Trossachs 2020 Calendar is now available,
featuring for the first time, St Mary’s in the December picture. A
kitchen calendar with a tear-off postcard plus a recipe for each month,
it is great value for money at £3.50 each – or
£3 each if you buy 2 or more. Available at St Mary’s (supplies are in
my car boot!) or contact me by email at marybates@btinternet.com and I can arrange delivery – within reason. A donation for each calendar sold through the church will be made to the Linkage’.
Diocesan
Newsletter
The Diocesan Newsletter is available online via the Diocesan Website www.standrews.anglican.org The
front page near the bottom allows the addition of your email address.
Once this has been entered, your details you will be added to the
mailing list.
Christmas Service Readers – St Mary’s
Volunteers are required please for sides persons/readers for the Midnight Service and Christmas Day. Names to Richard, please.
Rotas
Sunday 8th December
Callander
John Champness
Aberfoyle
Judith and Christopher Poulton
Sunday 15th December
Callander
No morning service
Aberfoyle
Elizabeth and Christopher Roads
Sunday 22nd December
Callander
Luna Faulds- Baird
Aberfoyle
No morning service
Wednesday 4th Dec
10.00 Callander
11.30
Killearn
Matt.15.29-37
Sunday 8th December
Advent 2
O Lord, raise up, we pray, your power
and come among us,
and with great might succour us;
that whereas, through our sins and wickedness
we are grievously hindered
in running the race that is set before us,
your bountiful grace and mercy
may speedily help and deliver us;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
to whom with you and the Holy Spirit,
be honour and glory, now and for ever.
Services & Readings
10.00 Callander
Isa. 11.1-10
Rom. 15.4-13
Matt. 3.1-12
11.15 Aberfoyle
Isa. 11.1-10
Rom. 15.4-13
Matt. 3.1-12
following the morning service at 11.15, St Mary’s Annual Parish Meeting. The Agenda is at the foot of this Post
16.30
Diocesan Advent Carol Service at
the Cathedral
19.00 Gartmore
Village Hall
Strathendrick Singers Christmas concert
The concert will feature Britten’s Ceremony of Carols as well the usual favourites for all to sing along.
Festive refreshments will be provided in the interval
Tickets (£10, £3 for children) at the door or from choir members
grant that the ministers and stewards of your mysteries
may likewise so prepare and make ready your way
by turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just,
that at your second coming to judge the world
we may be found an acceptable people in your sight;
for you are alive and reign with the Father
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Services
8.00 Balfron
Matthew 11:2-11
10.00 Callander
No morning service
11.15 Aberfoyle
Isaiah 35:1-10
James 5:7-10
Matthew 11:2-11
18.30 St Andrews Carol Service
19.00 Killearn Kirk
Strathendrick Singers Christmas concert
As above
Wednesday 18th December
Matthew 1:18-24
Thursday 19th December
14.15
St Joseph’s Callander
Christmas respite with music, readings meditation and prayer
All welcome
Sunday 22nd December
Advent 4
Collect
God our redeemer,
who prepared the Blessed Virgin Mary
to be the mother of your Son:
grant that, as she looked for his coming as our saviour,
so we may be ready to greet him
when he comes again as our judge;
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Services
10.00 Callander
Isaiah 7:10-16
Romans 1:1-7
Matthew 1:18 – end
11.15 Aberfoyle
No morning service
16.00 St
Mary’s Carol Service
Future Notices
Tuesday
24th December
Christmas
Eve
23.30
Midnight Holy Communion Service
Wednesday
25th December
8.00
Holy Communion BCP Balfron
10.00
Holy Communion Callander
11.15
Holy Communion Aberfoyle.
Our
campaign to assist Start Up Stirling is ongoing to
allow contributions of the following items to be delivered to the tray
in church on any Sunday. Thank you to all who contribute.
Tinned
meat/fish/veg/beans, soup/fruit
Dried
foods
Ready
meals
Cooking
sauces
Breakfast
cereals
UHT
milk
Tea/coffee/sugar
Snacks
Toiletries
Cleaning
products
Household
goods – good quality crockery, cutlery, towels, pots and pans.
No
fresh fruit nor vegetables please.
St Mary’s ANNUAL MEETING
To be held in the Church on 8th December 2019
Following
the 11.15 am Morning Service
Agenda
1. Apologies
2. Minutes of the 2018 Annual Meeting – held on
9th December 2018
3. Rectors and Vestry Report
4. Presentation of Accounts 2018/2019
5. Lay Representative’s Report
6. Vestry Membership and Appointment of Lay
Representative
and Alternate Lay Representative (Canon
63)
7. Appointment & Retiral – Members of the
Vestry
8. Children and
Vulnerable Adults
9. Any other business (including Matters
Arising that have not already
