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Weekly news sheet for Sunday 2 January 2022

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Dear Friends

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2022, I’m sure many of you are pleased to see the back of 2021, but there were good days in amongst the sad ones. We were lucky enough to watch our youngest granddaughter grow into the active toddler she is today and my eldest daughter, her husband and two children finally managed to sell their small two bedroom flat in Newham with no garden (lockdown was a challenge!), and move to the sunny space of Suffolk. They maybe technically homeless at the moment (they are living with her husband’s parents) but they love their new life and have just got their first dog.

I’m not a great one for new year’s resolutions, but I do always check in and think about things I would like to change if I can. I love that every day gives you a new beginning, so one can keep on starting over, not just on 1st January. This year I would like to spend more time reading my bible. I’ve followed a ‘read the bible in one year’ programme for a few years now, which is great, but doesn’t always give one the chance to look more deeply at some of the biblical mysteries. Our bible groups help with this as they look in more depth at various biblical books. This year I have also decided to read NT Wright’s relatively new book – ’The Autobiography of Paul’, his writings take up so much of the New Testament, so any chance to get to know his world better I feel is a good thing.

If you are looking to deepen your knowledge of the bible this year, do join one of our bible groups, the weekly one meets on Monday afternoons 3-5pm and the monthly one generally meets on a Monday evening at 7.30pm. just drop me an email and I’ll forward it to the relevant people.

This week’s services are as follows:

9.30am. Matins at Ockley
10.30am Family Communion at Capel
The answers to last weeks Christmas quiz are attached.

You will find the new copy of Inspire in our churches so do pick one up. This months issue has kindly been sponsored by Kindred Spirits who run the Pavilion Cafe in Ockley which is such a wonderful resource. Remember the cafe is open every Wednesday from 9.30am for coffee and cake. The last Wednesday of each month they also serve bacon butties!

This week we have two photos, the lovely Christmas scene at Ockley church, and the new front cover of Inspire

With love and prayers

Debbie von Bergen
debbievonbergen@icloud.com
07774 784008

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Issue 57 January 2022 Happy New Year to all our Readers

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“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” In this issue we see in the New Year and celebrate Candlemas with our annual Christingle service on 30th January.  Plus we have a New Year Cafe church to look forward to on 9th January.

*As for the future….*
O my Father, my God, I am in Your hand;
and may I rejoice above all things in being so.
Do with me what seems good in Your sight;
only let me love you with all mind, soul and strength.

By John Wesley

 

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Boxing Day – All age Service

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Churches from across the Diocese of Guildford have come together to help create a wonderful collaborative All Age Online Boxing Day Service. The service include worship songs, prayers, interactive activities and a short talk from the Bishop of Dorking, The Rt Revd Dr Jo Bailey Wells.

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Christmas Day Service 2021 @ St Margaret’s, Ockley

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A recording of the Christmas Day Service held at St Margaret’s Church, Ockley on 25 December 2021. This video has been produced for those who are currently either unable or not ready to come to church services at this time.
Details below: Officiant: Rev Liz Richardson

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Weekly news sheet for Christmas and Boxing Day

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Dear Friends,

It’s finally arrived, Christmas 2021 – Merry Christmas to you all! I do hope all your preparations are finished and that you are warm and well, I look forward to seeing some of you at church services over the weekend, but many I know are choosing to stay at home this year, being extra careful with the rise in covid cases.

If you would like to watch an online church service during your festivities can I recommend the ones broadcast from The Church of England. Their services are available through our website and can be found here:
www.capelandockleychurch.org.uk/services/services-on-line/church-of-england-services-on-line/

If you would like to come to one of our services here is the run down, the times are slightly different to normal, so please read carefully:

Tonight (Friday) 24 December 11.00pm Midnight Holy Communion, Capel Church

Tomorrow (Christmas Day) 10.00am Parish Celebration Worship, Ockley

Sunday Boxing Day
9.30am. Matins at Ockley taken by Gill Christie at Ockley
9.30am Holy Communion with Rev Jo at Capel

I attach the sheets and readings for both Christmas Day and Boxing Day Sunday. The Christmas Day weekly sheet is different to normal and includes a Christmas quiz. The answers will be emailed out next week, but if you would like to send me your answers there maybe a small prize for the one who gets most right! Here are the questions:

1. Only two gospels have the details of Jesus’s conception and birth, which are they?

2. What was the name of the angel who appeared to Elizabeth, Mary’s cousin to tell her she would give birth to John the Baptist?

3. This same angel appeared to Mary to tell of Jesus’s birth – how many months later was this?

4. Which prophet prophesied that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem?

5. How did Joseph and Mary get to Bethlehem?

6. When the shepherds went looking for Jesus what was the sign they were to look for?

7. Which Old Testament prophet had the most to say about the birth of Christ?

8. How many wisemen or Magi came to see Jesus and how old was Jesus when they arrived?

9. When Joseph and Mary took the baby Jesus to the temple for the purification rites they met two people, who were they?

10. Which emperor ordered all the boys under 2 in Bethlehem to be killed?

11. Where did Jesus and his parents move to, to escape from this?

12. How long did they stay there?

Many of you will have seen the wonderful nativity scene outside Rev Liz’s house – it’s even larger than last year and looks fantastic. I’ve been down to take photos of it a couple of times. Each time I have met people also admiring it and taking their own pictures. The lady yesterday morning commented that she found it very moving – how wonderful that Rev Liz has been able to touch people’s hearts in this way. Do go and have a look if you haven’t already – our photo of the week is of course a picture of the scene at night time.

I hope all of you have the most fantastic day tomorrow, please say a prayer for all those who will be alone or in trouble this Christmas – may 2022 be a year of new beginning for them.

With love and prayers

Debbie von Bergen
debbievonbergen@icloud.com
07774 784008

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9 Lessons and Carols Service 2021 @ St John the Baptist, Capel

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A recording of the ‘Nine Lessons and Carols’ Service held at St John The Baptist Church, Capel on 19 December 2021. This video has been produced for those who are currently either unable or not ready to come to church services at this time. Details below:

Officiant: Rev Liz Richardson
Organist: Anthea Smallwood

Choir Introit: ‘A Christmas Round’

Carol 81: ‘Once In Royal David’s City’

First Lesson: Genesis 3 : 8 -15 Adam and Eve are afraid of God because they have eaten from the forbidden tree.

Choir: ‘Adam Lay Ybounden’ (John Ireland)

Second Lesson: Isiah 9: 2b, 6-7 Christ’s birth and kingdom are foretold by the prophet.

Carol 68: ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’

Third Lesson: Isiah 11: 1 – 9 The peace that Christ will bring is foreshown.

Choir: ‘Amid the Silence’ (Polish carol)

Fourth Lesson: Luke 1: 26 – 38 The Angel Gabriel appears to Mary.

Carol 85: ‘The Angel Gabriel’

Fifth lesson: Matthew 1: 18- 23 St Matthew tells of the birth of the Emmanuel.

Choir: ‘Kneel and Adore Him’ (Howard Thompson)

Sixth Lesson: Luke 2: 1 – 7 Luke tells of the birth of Jesus

Choir: ‘Myn Lyking’ (C. Upton)

Carol 79: ‘O Little town of Bethlehem’

Seventh Lesson: Luke 2 : 8 – 16 The shepherds go to the manger

Choir: ‘A sound of angels’ (Christopher Tye)

Carol 84: ‘Silent Night’

Eighth Lesson: Matthew 2: 1 – 12 The wise men are led by the star to Jesus

Choir: ‘Behold that Star’ (Thomas W. Talley)

Ninth Lesson: John 1: 1 – 14 John unfolds the great mystery of the incarnation

Carol 66: ‘Hark the herald angels sing’

Carol 78: ‘O come all ye faithful’

Choir Extroit: ‘Ring Christmas Bells’ (Mykola Leontovich)

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Weekly news sheet for Sunday 19 December 2021

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Dear Friends,

My goodness it’s been a tough week, the news has just got worse and worse, lockdowns loom and it sometimes feels that we are getting nowhere. It would be easy for us all to want to curl up in a little ball and not go out again until spring arrives, but then I read Revd Liz’s latest newsletter ‘Keep looking up’. She is so right we have to look up to see all the beauty that surrounds us, even with the pandemic still raging and Christmas plans looking precarious there is hope and joy and beauty to be seen, just as there was in Bethlehem in the days of Jesus’s birth. Many of you know that I find walking a great solace, it connects me to the created world and gives me time to admire it all, even when it’s wet or freezing cold I never regret going for a walk.

This Sunday’s services are as follows:
9.30am Matins at Ockley with Graham Everness
10.30am Family communion at Capel
6.00pm Nine lessons and Carols at Capel

Due to the increasing numbers of Covid cases we have taken the decision to not serve refreshments after services for the moment. Please let us know if you would prefer to be seated in a socially distanced area. We will do our best to accommodate you. Finally, a reminder that masks are now mandatory in church unless you are exempt on medical grounds.

If you can’t come into church at the moment but have access to the internet you can watch the Church of England weekly service on their YouTube channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2Kq-zw8K-U <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2Kq-zw8K-U>. These Services are also published on our own website here: https://www.capelandockleychurch.org.uk/services/services-on-line/church-of-england-services-on-line/.

The weekly sheets and readings are attached as normal, and our photos this week are of the wonderful flower arrangements and Christmas decorations in Capel Church – the flower arrangers have excelled themselves – do go and take a look.

With love and prayers

Debbie von Bergen
debbievonbergen@icloud.com
07774 784008

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