Dear All Saints and St Marys
This weekend we gather in different ways and in different places for Remembrance Sunday. At All Saints Church we join with our Scout Groups and at St Marys we gather at the war memorial in the park. And although we are in different parts of Fishponds, we will be joined together by the collective silences, with a multitude of other gatherings all over the world, as people hold a pause. A moment. A time. A Space. A Silence. There is power to a collective gathering of remembrance. When we look around at others who join in the same simultaneous act, there is a glimpse of hope. In our unified silence I often find a gentle defiance that we know that we are people who are not made for war but for peace. In this I find a renewed commitment to want to be part of a more just world. I look forward to us remembering together.
Our services this Remembrance Sunday – 13th November
8am – All Saints – Holy Communion
10am – St Marys – Sung Holy Communion followed by
10.55 – An Act of Remembrance in Fishponds Park
10.45am – All Saints – Service of Remembrance with the Scouting Association.
7.15pm – All Saints – Generations – Looking at Saints
THE WEEK AHEAD
Wednesday 16th 09.00 – Celtic Morning Prayer at All Saints Church
Thursday 17th 10.00 – Holy Communion at St Mary’s Church
Sunday 20th 10.00 – Baptism Sung Communion at St Mary’s Church
10.30 – Holy Communion at All Saints Church
A prayer of Peace (Church of England)
O God of the nations,
as we look to that day when you will gather people
from north and south, east and west,
into the unity of your peaceable Kingdom,
guide with your just and gentle wisdom all who take counsel
for the nations of the world,
that all your people may spend their days in security, freedom, and peace,
through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Blessings
Revd. Lizzie
St Mary's, Fishponds 