St Mary REdcliffe Parish Magazine Dec 2019 Jan 2020

PARISH REGISTER — Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals
Our apologies: for privacy reasons (GDPR) the publication of the Register in the magazine
is under review; we will keep readers informed but it remains suspended until then. — Ed
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SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICE ATTENDANCE — Period: 27 October–24 November*
Date 2019 27 Oct 3 Nov 10 Nov 17 Nov 24 Nov
Adult Child Adult Child Adult Child Adult Child Adult Child
8:00am
9:30am
11:15am
6:30pm
*Figures have been received for the period above but due to technical problems it hasn’t
been possible to inset them. Apologies for the inconvenience and we will include them
instead in the next edition of the magazine.
Editor’s note
email: editor.mag@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
Christmas... “Immortal, invisible” are the opening words of a
well-known hymn — a meditation on the qualities of God: our
experience during Advent? At Christmas that second descriptor
is surely “visible” — God whom men and women have in fact seen,
who has been made visible to all generations in the Gospels, in later
writings, in poetry and (some may say) in art; known aurally through
preaching, action and music: the list goes on. At the centre of it all, a
newborn; a family in harm’s way; children in mortal danger; refugees.
God at the margins.
“ a detail of a piece inspired by the painting the adoration of the shepherds (studio of rembrandt), 1646 ”
INCARNATIONAL — the word I heard Kat say at last month’s Diocesan
Synod, and it struck a chord. God in all creation; in the stuff of life; God
who is apprehended through our senses. Thank you to all contributors in
this issue and, again, to all contributors this year — let’s finish the year and
start the next with Dan’s paean of praise to “the Son of Mary and the Son
of God” and thanks for the flock at SMR. Enough said; Happy Christmas!
adoration / monoprint / EV
— best wishes, Eleanor
Eleanor Vousden, Editor; tel: 0117-9634856 (direct) or 0117-2310060 (Parish Office)
The February–March 2020 edition deadline is Thursday 18 January
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