Newsletter 20th November 2016

NOTICES:
There are still tickets available for the Christmas Concert featuring Worsbrough Brass who will be playing a selection of Christmas themed songs and carols. This is taking place in church on Thursday 15th December 2016 at 7.30pm. Cost is £6.00 to include refreshments. The draw will also take place for the Christmas Hamper and other prizes.
Tickets for the concert are available at the Tuesday Coffee Mornings which are held in the meeting area at the back of the church from 10.00am to 11.45am. Catch up on the news from your friends or come along and make new ones.  
The Christmas Dinner will take place on Monday 5th December at 7.00pm, see poster below for full details.

SERVICES:
Thursday 24th 9.30am Said Mass
​Sunday 27th 9.30am 1st in Advent Parish Mass
Wednesday 6.30pm Patronal Festival of St Andrew
Christmas Services:
Sunday 11th   Christingle  St Andrew’s 4.30pm
Sunday 18th   9 Lessons & Carols   St Peter’s 4.00pm
Christmas Eve    Crib Service   St Peter’s 4.00pm
Christmas Eve   Midnight Mass    St Andrew’s 11.30pm
Christmas Morning    Mass    St Peter’s 10.00am 

LATEST READINGS:
First Reading: 2 Samuel 5:1-3
A reading from the second book of Samuel.
All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron. “Look,” they said, “we are your own flesh and blood. In days past when Saul was our king, it was you who led Israel in all their exploits....
Second Reading: Colossians 1:12-20
A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Colossians.
We give thanks to the Father who has made it possible for you to join the saints and with them to inherit the light. Because that is what he has done: he has taken us out of the power of darkness....
Gospel: Luke 23:35-43
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke.
The people stayed there before the cross, watching Jesus. As for the leaders, they jeered at him. “He saved others,” they said, “let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.”....

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 121
I rejoiced when I heard them say:
“Let us go to God’s house.”
And now our feet are standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
Response: I rejoiced when I heard them say:
“Let us go to God’s house.”
Jerusalem is built as a city
strongly compact.
It is there that the tribes go up,
the tribes of the Lord.
Response: I rejoiced when I heard them say:
“Let us go to God’s house.”
For Israel’s law it is,
there to praise the Lord’s name.
There were set the thrones of judgement
of the house of David.
Response: I rejoiced when I heard them say:
“Let us go to God’s house.”