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Parish Eucharist - Sunday 30th November at 10.00am - Advent Sunday | St Martin-in-the-Fields | YouTubeToText
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This content is a recording of an Advent Sunday service, focusing on the themes of anticipation, divine coming, and the unexpected nature of God's plans, encouraging readiness and faith amidst life's disappointments.
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[Music] Lord.
I see coming.
coming. [Music]
Glory. [Music]
I look from afar
>> the power of God coming and a cloud
covering the whole earth. Welcome.
Welcome everybody to St. Martin in the
Fields here on Advent Sunday as we
celebrate together the beginning of
Advent. Our choir for today is the choir
of St. Martin in the Fields and our
preacher is our vicar, the Reverend Dr.
Sam Wells who will be talking about what
we have to look forward to in Advent. So
we look forward to that. Um when we come
to the Holy Communion, everyone here is
very welcome to receive Holy Communion
at St. Martins's either at the central
altar or at the two sites. If you're new
here and would like to receive
glutenfree bread or alcohol free wine,
please go to my leftand side, your right
hand side, and ask for it there. If
you'd like to receive just a blessing,
do come to the front and keep your heads
bowed and your hands cross. We'd be glad
to bless you. Please stand now for a
[Music]
I know from Satan. singjol.
singjol. [Music]
[Music] is
[Music] shore.
rejuven. [Music]
I know heaven
[Music]
[Music]
[Music] [Applause]
[Applause] Rejoice.
When the Lord comes, all that is now
hidden in darkness will be brought to
light, and the secret purposes of the
heart will be disclosed.
And let us keep silence as we hold our
lives open before God, asking for his
You bring our fear into the light of
love. We prefer to hide in the shadows.
>> You promise healing for the earth.
We turn our backs on our common world.
You come near in the vulnerable word
made flesh.
We are unprepared for your coming.
mercy. [Music]
Christ have mercy. Christ
Christ
Your mighty and merciful Lord grant you
pardon and forgiveness of all your sins.
Time for amendment of life and the grace
Let us [Music]
for I will save the foreign
foreign [Music]
to cast away the w of darkness.
to put on the armor of light now in the
time of this mortal life in which your
son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility
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 is
alive and reigns with you in the unity
of the Holy Spirit one God now and
The word that Isaiah son of Amos saw
concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
In days to come, the mountain of the
Lord's house shall be established as the
highest of the mountains and shall be
raised above the hills. All the nations
shall stream to it.
Many peoples shall come and say, "Come,
let us go up to the mountain of the
Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways, and that
we may walk in his paths.
For out of Zion shall go forth instruction,
instruction,
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations and
shall arbitrate for many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares
plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation.
nation.
Neither shall they learn war anymore.
Oh house of Jacob, come. Let us walk in
>> Besides this, you know what time it is.
how it is now the moment for you to wake
from sleep. For salvation is nearer to
us now than when we became believers.
The night is far gone. The day is near.
Let us then lay aside the works of
darkness and put on the armor of light.
Let us live honorably as in the day, not
in reing and drunkenness, not in
deborttery and lentiousness,
not in quarreling and jealousy.
Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ
and make no provision for the flesh to
gratify its desires.
[Music] uses.
[Music] The
The [Music]
[Music] world
world [Music]
[Music]
set us free. [Music]
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ
But about that day and hour, no one
knows, and neither the angels of heaven
nor the Son, but only the Father. For as
the days of Noah were, so will be the
coming of the Son of Man. For as in
those days before the flood, they were
eating and drinking, marrying and giving
in marriage, until the day Noah entered
the ark. and they knew nothing until the
flood came and swept them all away. So
too will be the coming of the son of man.
man.
Then two will be in the field, one will
be taken and one will be left. Two women
will be grinding meal together. One will
be taken and one will be left.
Keep awake, therefore, for you do not
know on what day your Lord is coming.
But understand this, if the owner of the
house had known in what part of the
night the thief was coming, he would
have stayed awake and would not have let
his house be broken into.
Therefore, you also must be ready, for
the Son of Man is coming at an
This is the Gospel of the Lord. Praise
to you, O Christ. Glor
Jesus. [Music]
I speak in the name of the living God,
It's often said the words we most fear
aren't, "I'm angry with you," but, "I'm
disappointed in you."
It may be because the words are meant
kindly, but somehow they sink deep.
Perhaps it's because if a person's
angry, we can say it's about them. They
need to control their emotions better.
They need to gain empathy and realize I
was acting out of motives they haven't
fully appreciated.
But if they're disappointed, it's
because they had a story about who we
were and how we would conduct ourselves.
And what's come to light is a truth
about us that doesn't fit that narrative
and shows we're not the person they
hoped we'd be.
So they say, "I'm disappointed in you."
thereby placing a cloud of failure over
us and leaving us with a sense of guilt
we're not sure we can ever escape
all while they get to feel magnanimous
and communicate to us they could have
been even harsher in their judgment. In
fact, while we feel crushed, they
If you want to make God laugh, you say,
"These are my plans."
Life has an extraordinary way of never
turning out quite as we expect.
We spend our whole lives creating
narratives and assuming things will
follow their predicted course. Most of
our misunderstandings arise because we
had a story in our head of how an
evening or a holiday or a relationship
would go and the other person had a
different story in their head and it
didn't occur to us to check the stories
were in any way similar.
Many of us spend much of our lives
experiencing disappointment.
I always hoped I'd meet a partner.
It's a competitive profession and I
never got the grades or made it through probation.
probation.
I just assumed I'd have children and
didn't really think about infertility.
I've never understood why I kept on
being overlooked for promotion.
We never had enough money to buy our own home.
home.
All these are one-s sentence versions of
stories that didn't turn out as we expected.
expected.
They can leave us feeling life has
passed us by or that nothing will ever
make up for hopes that remained unrealized.
unrealized.
We seldom recognize that the Christian
faith in general and the church in
particular are founded on two profound disappointments.
disappointments.
It's hard to imagine Christianity
without the cross. It's the universal
symbol of the faith and the most widely
historically attested fact about Jesus's
life. But for the first disciples, it
was an utter catastrophe.
This was not the way the story was
supposed to go. Throughout the gospels,
we get consistent indications that
disciples thought they were part of a
restoration movement by which Jesus
would go to Jerusalem, seize power,
expel the Romans, and inaugurate an
unprecedented period of justice and peace.
peace.
That was what Messiahs were supposed to
do. For him to be crucified was a
crushing disappointment.
You can't understand the temptation
narratives at the beginning of the
gospels unless you realize these were
the three things everyone expected of
someone known as the Christ. You did
miracles that fed the hungry. You did
dramatic things with angels that caught
people's attention. And you took
political control.
You can read half the New Testament as a
way of coming to terms with the
desperate disappointment constituted by
The other half of the New Testament you
can read as coming to terms with a
second disappointment. It's often said
Jesus preached the kingdom of God but
The phrase kingdom of God occurs 68
times in the New Testament. It sounds
like an upbeat proclamation that God is
sovereign and all places will conform to
God's purpose of restored and healthy
relationships and flourishing life. But
underneath is another story of disappointment.
disappointment.
This time the disappointment is that
Jesus didn't return in glory a short
while after his ascension. It's as if
the expectation was that Jesus would
descend on the clouds and inaugurate the
kingdom. But what happened instead was
that the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost
and empowered the apostles to establish
the church.
What the Acts of the Apostles describes
as a dramatic and invigorating event of
sending the apostles to preach the
gospel to every tribe in every tongue is
actually a recalibration of an
expectation that the world would end and
all would be swaythed in justice and peace.
peace.
It's hard for us to call the non-ending
of the world a disappointment because if
the world had ended then, none of us
would ever have existed.
But there's no question the New
Testament is written by people
bewildered that the story didn't turn
out as it was supposed to.
Once we recognize these two fundamental
disappointments that lie at the heart of
the New Testament, we can begin to see
two further and subtler disappointments
that characterize the story.
Think for a moment about Christmas. The
Christmas story is a curious mixture of
two kinds of event. On the one hand, we
have a grand narrative. We have a huge
family tree going back to Abraham in one
case and to God in the other. We have a
magnificent display of angels filling
the sky and kings crossing the desert.
On the other hand, we have a young girl,
a pregnancy outside marriage, a grueling
journey, a manger, and no place at the
inn. If the God who made heaven and
earth were finally to enter the story,
surely you'd expect a more arresting
beginning than this. It's painfully
ordinary. It's a bitter disappointment.
Then look at the most extraordinary
moment in the whole story. Something
unprecedented, impossible, incomprehensible.
incomprehensible.
The resurrection of Jesus after two
nights in the tomb.
You'd think this was such a spectacular
event it would be beamed live around the
world like a World Cup final. Instead,
Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene, a woman
of no standing in a garden and to
disciples behind locked doors. You don't
need to have a degree in marketing to
sense it's a missed opportunity.
If part of the point of the resurrection
was to persuade the wider public that
Jesus was truly the son of God, you have
to put Jesus's way of rising from the
tomb as a major disappointment.
By now, you may be getting the idea. The
major elements in the story of Jesus for
Christians, the focal story in the
Bible, and the central series of events
in the history of the world, they're all disappointments.
disappointments.
I wonder what that's telling us.
Anes Gon Bo Yaju was a Kosafar Albanian
who was born in Scopier, now capital of
North Macedonia.
After profound spiritual encounters at a
shrine in Kosovo, she went to Ireland
aged 18 to train to be a nun and began
her nvicate in Dargiling aged 20.
While she remained fervent in prayer,
she became deeply troubled by the
poverty of Kolkata.
And after 20 years, she founded her own
order, the missionaries of charity,
devoted, in her words, to the hungry,
the naked, the homeless, the crippled,
the blind, the lepers, all those people
who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for
throughout society, people that have
become a burden to the society and are
shunned by everyone.
She became known as Mother Theresa.
Her work was widely admired and
sometimes criticized, but unknown to the
world from this time forward, she
experienced repeated, if not permanent,
desolation in her spiritual life. In
letters published after her death, she
expressed her grief in these words,
"Where is my faith? Even deep down,
there is nothing but emptiness and
darkness. If there be God, please
forgive me. When I try to raise my
thoughts to heaven, there is such
convicting emptiness that those very
thoughts return like sharp knives and
hurt my very soul.
People have tried to find meaning in
Mother Theresa's emptiness and sense of abandonment.
abandonment.
They've also expressed dismay that a
person seen as holy by so many and
subsequently recognized as a saint could
have felt so empty before God.
But Mother Theresa's experience simply
bears out what we've seen about the four
great moments in the gospel story.
The incarnation is an obscure
disappointment. The cross is a crushing
disappointment. The resurrection is a
secretive disappointment. The return of
Christ is a bewildering disappointment.
So it seems less beusing that the
spiritual life of the best known holy
person of the late 20th century was
Advent is about the coming of Jesus in
two moments. It's about his coming on
the last day in clouds of glory to
vindicate the oppressed, to bring
history to an end, and to change us all
from glory into glory. and it's about
his first coming as a tiny child in
obscure Bethlehem to unknown Mary in a
lonely manger.
What we've seen is that both are disappointments.
disappointments.
The last day because it never happened
when it was expected to and Christmas
because it was such a mysterious event
the whole world basically missed it.
What these two moments have in common is
that neither happened as everyone expected.
expected.
But Advent is a season that transcends
the disappointments of our lives.
We think we know how the story is going
to go, how the relationship is going to
go, how everything with God and
ourselves is going to go. It turns out
we're mistaken over and over again.
Advent challenges us to say, "Maybe not
everything has to go the way I hope and expect.
expect.
Maybe there's more important than what I
think I want. Even something on which I
focused my hopes for a long time
because Advent is saying two things.
The story will one day come to an end.
And whatever happens, whatever goes
wrong or disappoints or fails or
founders, God will finally draw all
things together for good.
And in the time. Whether we feel it, see
it, or even believe it, God is with us
constantly. Even in obscure ways, like a
tiny baby it would be easy to miss, or
in transformations like a resurrection
only a few people actually see.
God may be a disappointment to us a lot
of the time, but we are not a
disappointment to God.
God has committed everything to us at Christmas
Christmas
and will fulfill that commitment at the
end of time.
And in the end, that's
Great storm.
storm. [Music]
[Music] shadow.
[Music] Come
We believe in one God, the Father, the
Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of
all that is seen and unseen. We believe
in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only son
of God, eternally begotten of the
Father, God from God, light from light,
true God from true God, begotten not
made, of one being with the Father.
Through him all things were made. For us
and for our salvation, he came down from
heaven, was incarnate from the Holy
Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and was made
man. For our sake, he was crucified
under Pontious Pilot. He suffered death
and was buried. On the third day, he
rose again in accordance with the
scriptures. He ascended into heaven and
is seated at the right hand of the
father. He will come again in glory to
judge the living and the dead, and his
kingdom will have no end. We believe in
the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of
life, who proceeds from the Father and
the Son, who with the Father and the Son
is worshiped and glorified, who has
spoken through the prophets. We believe
in one holy, Catholic, and apostolic
church. We acknowledge one baptism for
the forgiveness of sins. We look for the
resurrection of the dead and the life of
Let us pray for the whole church of
Christ and for all people everywhere
Incarnational God,
as we enter the Advent season,
inspire us to wonder a new at the
extraordinary lengths that you went to
to be with us.
Focus our minds to recognize the grace
that re that we receive daily.
Open the hearts to receive blessings in
unexpected ways and through unexpected people.
people.
Embolden us to share the good news of
Emmanuel, God with us and remove
barriers that prevent people from
experiencing your all embracing love.
In this upcoming time of intense activity,
activity,
sustain all who work and volunteer at
St. Martins's.
Renew the Church of England to offer
faithful and hopeful communities of
welcome and belonging for all
and unite your whole church in humility,
mutual respect and shared joy.
God of wonder and love,
>> here our prayer.
>> Peacemaking God, in Christ you beat
swords into plowshares and spears into
pruning hooks, turning instruments of
Teach us your ways that we may refrain
from quarreling, jealousy, or violence.
but instead walk in your path of peace.
Bless the work of peacemakers
around the world. Protect all fleeing
conflict and seeking shelter.
And reconcile people and nations,
particularly Ukraine and Russia,
Give all discerning minds to seek the
truth, generous hearts to resist
scapegoating and discrimination,
and gentle hands to reach across divides
Guide those in positions of power to use
that power in service of others with
integrity, honesty and accountability
for the flourishing of all.
God of wonder and love, here our prayer.
>> God of light, your servant Paul wrote
that the night is far gone and the day
is near.
Be close to all who feel that they are
living in perpetual darkness
and any whose emotional, social, and
financial struggles are magnified by the
upcoming festive season.
Give strength to any battling addiction
and give armors of light to all
suffering abuse.
Reinvigorate the energies of all caregivers.
caregivers.
Bless the work of health care professionals
professionals
and keep watch over emergency responders
who run towards danger when everyone
else flees.
Shine your light on all affected by the
ferocious fire in Hong Kong and the
severe floods in Southeast Asia
that they may find safety, support, and
>> God of outstretched hands, in becoming
human, your son experienced the frailty
and fragility of the human mind, body,
and spirit.
Be close to all who are sick or in distress.
distress.
Give strength to any who have received
disappointing diagnosis
and comfort those who are close to death.
death.
Cast your loving embrace around Suzanne
Wood, Philip Gallon, Denny Mia Hacken,
Gray, Lara Campbell, Nichollet Merchant,
Pete Cwley, Yosha Stemu, Ruth
Hutchinson, Roger Shaene, Cilla Allen,
In the knowledge that at the end of time
you will draw all things together for
good. We remember before you those who
have recently died including Rita
Pelton, Thomas Loms, Guy Brown,
Tom Stoppard,
and all those who perished in the fire
in Hong Kong and in the floods in
Southeast Asia.
God of wonder and love, hear our prayer.
God of infinite possibilities,
remind us that no one is a
disappointment to you.
Renew our faith, embolden our hope,
amplify our love.
Free us to rejoice this Advent for
Emanuel has come to us.
Merciful Father, accept these prayers
for the sake of your son, our savior
>> In a moment, we'll be singing our
offetry hymn in which a collection will
be taken for the work of this church.
Please give generously to support all
that goes on in this wonderful church.
In the tender mercy of our God, the
dayspring from on high shall break upon
us to give light to those who dwell in
darkness and the shadow of death and to
guide our feet into the way of peace.
The peace of the Lord be always with you.
you.
>> Let us offer one another a sign of
Christ's peace. Peace be with you. Peace
our Jerusale.
[Music] is
is sing.
[Music]
The Lord be with you.
>> Lift up your hearts. Give them to the Lord.
Lord.
>> Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
>> It is right to give thanks and
>> covenant God. In the beginning, you
called your creation good and flooded it
with beauty and bounty with goodness and
grace. In the days of Noah, you drowned
your creation to wash away sin and draw
your own sons and daughters to yourself.
Through your covenant with Israel, your
promises flowed to all nations. And in
Jesus Christ, you draw drew us out of
our waywardness into the relentless
flood of your mercy.
His death was the drowning of our sin.
His resurrection and ascension bless all
nations to stream towards you in glory.
And so we praise you with angels and
archangels and all the company of heaven
as we join their unending hymn of praise.
Holy, holy,
holy, holy
holy Lord
Lord God.
God. [Music]
bless. Blessed
is he.
Oh, bless
is he
who comes
in the name
highest. [Music]
[Music]
Peacemaking God, in Christ you made an
ending of the life of spears and swords
and came to us with plowshares and
pruning hooks, the tools of planting and
cultivating that we might be fed. In
him, you showed us how to study war no
more, how to lay down our swords and
shields, and how to feast with the
prince of peace.
As you came to us to be our very food
and drink, send your holy spirit upon
this bread and this cup and make them be
for us the body and blood of your son
Jesus Christ our Lord.
who at supper with his disciples, took
bread and gave it to his disciples,
saying, "Take, eat. This is my body
which is given for you.
And in the same way, after supper, he
took the cup. Again he gave you thanks
and gave it to his disciples saying,
"Drink this all of you. This is my blood
of the new covenant which is shed for
you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.
sins.
Do this as often as you drink it in
>> God of prophets and promises as you turn
swords into plowshares. Take our sin and
res shape us for salvation.
Take our foolishness and bend us towards
faith. Take our hostility and refashion
us for heaven in the crucible of your
love. Stir your church with wakening
hope that soon and very soon we are
going to see you as our king. Quicken
our spirits with trust in the day when
we have been blessed with such hope and
gather around your throne with saints of
every age in praise and thanksgiving to
you. One God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
>> As our Savior Jesus Christ has taught
us, so we pray, each in our own
preferred language.
Our Father in heaven,
>> be your name. Your kingdom come. Your
will be done on earth as in heaven. Give
us our daily.
Forgive our
as we forgive those who s against us.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver
us from evil. For the kingdom, the
power, and the glory are yours and
every time we Eat this bread and drink
this cup. We proclaim the Lord Jesus
[Music]
All the world [Music]
All the world. [Music]
This is Christ's body offered for the redemption of the world. And he will
redemption of the world. And he will come again with power and great glory.
[Music] are
are [Music]
[Music] glory.
glory. Glorious.
Glorious. [Music]
[Music] All the earthship.
may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for
abound in love for one another and for all just as we abound in love for you.
all just as we abound in love for you. And may he so strengthen your hearts in
And may he so strengthen your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless
holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming
before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his
of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
saints. Oh Lord our God, make us watchful and
Oh Lord our God, make us watchful and keep us faithful as we await the coming
keep us faithful as we await the coming of your son, our Lord. That when he
of your son, our Lord. That when he shall appear, he may not find us
shall appear, he may not find us sleeping in sin, but active in his
sleeping in sin, but active in his service and joyful in his praise.
service and joyful in his praise. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
If you've uh come this morning with your heart hurting about a person or an issue
heart hurting about a person or an issue in the world, there will be people to
in the world, there will be people to pray with you and offer prayers for
pray with you and offer prayers for healing after the service at the altar
healing after the service at the altar rail behind me.
rail behind me. Uh today's refreshments are in the
Uh today's refreshments are in the winter bar marquee. It doesn't get a
winter bar marquee. It doesn't get a grander name than that, does it? I think
grander name than that, does it? I think that's known as the tent behind the
that's known as the tent behind the church, but it's a rather grand name.
church, but it's a rather grand name. Anyway, do make your way uh out of the
Anyway, do make your way uh out of the church round round the back and to the
church round round the back and to the winter bar marquee. And the reason it's
winter bar marquee. And the reason it's in the winter bar marquee is because
in the winter bar marquee is because after you have shared in refreshments,
after you have shared in refreshments, uh you will spend all your money in the
uh you will spend all your money in the craft fair in the hall.
craft fair in the hall. So, uh, if you're new, uh, we're
So, uh, if you're new, uh, we're thrilled to see you and somebody close
thrilled to see you and somebody close sitting close by you will take you by
sitting close by you will take you by the hand and say, "I'd like to take you
the hand and say, "I'd like to take you and treat you to a refreshment in the
and treat you to a refreshment in the winter bar marquee." Let's see what
winter bar marquee." Let's see what happens. Now, at 12:00, Christine is
happens. Now, at 12:00, Christine is here she is, is going to tell us what
here she is, is going to tell us what theology group is going to be about.
>> Morning everyone. Um, Can I first of all thank you all for signing the pledge. It
thank you all for signing the pledge. It was a pleasure on safeguarding Sunday to
was a pleasure on safeguarding Sunday to see so many people stand and make a
see so many people stand and make a pledge and allegiance to safeguarding.
pledge and allegiance to safeguarding. So today guess what theology group's
So today guess what theology group's going to be about safeguarding. We are
going to be about safeguarding. We are talking with Sam. Sam's going to be
talking with Sam. Sam's going to be reflecting thinking about faith and
reflecting thinking about faith and safeguarding. And this is an important
safeguarding. And this is an important time as Fiona often says we gather as
time as Fiona often says we gather as members of the congregation with needs
members of the congregation with needs and gifts. So, as we welcome more
and gifts. So, as we welcome more people, let's be thoughtful and think
people, let's be thoughtful and think about our faith and safeguarding. So,
about our faith and safeguarding. So, you're all invited to attend, of course,
you're all invited to attend, of course, after you've been to after you've been
after you've been to after you've been to the marquee. Thank you.
>> Um, today's Advent Sunday and uh at the Advent carol service is always a special
Advent carol service is always a special occasion in our year. The choir uh will
occasion in our year. The choir uh will be singing. Uh, I'll be saying a few
be singing. Uh, I'll be saying a few words about Advent. 5:00. It's a special
words about Advent. 5:00. It's a special service in the year. If you haven't been
service in the year. If you haven't been before, you must come. And if you have
before, you must come. And if you have been before,
been before, you must come.
you must come. Uh sacred space uh for Advent is
Uh sacred space uh for Advent is actually tonight because uh uh we're so
actually tonight because uh uh we're so excited about Advent, we're having it
excited about Advent, we're having it tonight rather than on as usual on the
tonight rather than on as usual on the first Sunday next week. So do come and
first Sunday next week. So do come and at 7 o'clock tonight for Advent Sacred
at 7 o'clock tonight for Advent Sacred Space. Um, I I was it was amazing
Space. Um, I I was it was amazing actually to have Christine here just 30
actually to have Christine here just 30 seconds ago without her making an appeal
seconds ago without her making an appeal for stewards for Advent and Christmas
for stewards for Advent and Christmas services. So, I'll make it on her
services. So, I'll make it on her behalf. Um, we there will be no
behalf. Um, we there will be no Christmas unless we have stewards for
Christmas unless we have stewards for our big outreach services. I'm just
our big outreach services. I'm just saying it's it's it's in your hands. So
saying it's it's it's in your hands. So it may be there is somebody in the pew
it may be there is somebody in the pew this morning thinking I am feeling a
this morning thinking I am feeling a vocation to be a steward at St. Martin
vocation to be a steward at St. Martin the Fields to enable the whole world to
the Fields to enable the whole world to have Christmas.
have Christmas. That could be you. If it's you uh do
That could be you. If it's you uh do speak to Christine who you've just met
speak to Christine who you've just met if you haven't met her before um uh and
if you haven't met her before um uh and and our other steward leaders or or to
and our other steward leaders or or to myself or the other clergy and we'd love
myself or the other clergy and we'd love to find a job for you. It's a really
to find a job for you. It's a really important role. It's not an overly
important role. It's not an overly complicated role, but without our
complicated role, but without our stewards, we can't welcome the whole
stewards, we can't welcome the whole world through our doors. Do look on the
world through our doors. Do look on the newsletter for details of being with
newsletter for details of being with courses. We have two special courses,
courses. We have two special courses, one on being with the end of life and
one on being with the end of life and one being with child. It's the first
one being with child. It's the first running of the being with child course.
running of the being with child course. So, uh, at the second running of the
So, uh, at the second running of the being with the end of life course, both
being with the end of life course, both starting in January, details on the
starting in January, details on the newsletter, and there's also an email
newsletter, and there's also an email address you can send in your name to if
address you can send in your name to if you'd like to join one of those courses,
you'd like to join one of those courses, or if you'd like to follow the leaflet
or if you'd like to follow the leaflet in your pew and join the core course if
in your pew and join the core course if you haven't done that before,
you haven't done that before, then you're very welcome to do so.
then you're very welcome to do so. And finally, uh, we have an Advent
And finally, uh, we have an Advent booklet for our devotions during this
booklet for our devotions during this season. It's available on your way out.
season. It's available on your way out. It's also available in the shop
It's also available in the shop downstairs for £10. You're very welcome
downstairs for £10. You're very welcome to participate in those Advent devotions
to participate in those Advent devotions as a community. Let's stand for God's
as a community. Let's stand for God's blessing.
May the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for
abound in love for one another and for all just as we abound in love. May God
all just as we abound in love. May God who brings heaven close to earth give
who brings heaven close to earth give truth to our judgment and flame our
truth to our judgment and flame our longings that our hearts might be ready
longings that our hearts might be ready to be born again in love. and the
to be born again in love. and the blessing of God, the Father, the Son,
blessing of God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit be among you and
and the Holy Spirit be among you and remain with you always.
remain with you always. Amen.
[Music] All
Hallelujah. [Music]
Deeply waiting,
waiting, deeply
[Music] sing.
sing. is
[Music] Glorious
Glorious Glorior
Glorior [Music]
will be with you.
you. [Music]
[Music] Just follow me.
Just follow me. [Music]
[Music] All
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