As we move towards Christmas we celebrate with carols sung both in church and outside, and on Christmas Eve we hold crib services at all three churches (two crib services at St George’s!) and then Midnight Mass beginning at 11.30pm in St George’s and St John’s.
We then celebrate the wonderful news of the incarnation of God on Christmas morning in all three churches.
Here are the special services in December:
Carols
Sunday, December 8th, 6pm at St John’s. Sunday, December 15th, 6pm at St George’s. Friday, December 20th, 6pm at Hale Chapels (cemetery, Alma Lane), followed by refreshments at St Mark’s. Monday, December 23rd, 6pm around the tree at St George’s.
Crib Services
All Tuesday, December 24th. Come dressed as your favourite Nativity character.
3pm: St John’s. 3pm: St George’s especially for toddlers. 5pm: St Mark’s. 5.30pm: St George’s.
Midnight Mass
Tuesday, December 24th, 11.30pm, at St John’s and St George’s.
Christmas morning
9.30am, St John’s. 10am, St George’s. 11am, St Mark’s.
We are asking for material for parish videos and you don’t have to have any particularly advanced technology to record and send them. It can be as simple as a phone call. Read on…
If you have only a telephone with no special features …
Alan can record any comments you would like to make over the phone. Please call the Rectory and arrange a time to do this. It will involve calling Alan on his mobile – and a number will be provided to do this.
If you have a smartphone/computer with camera and microphone
If you don’t know how to use the computer to do this
Click on the magnifying glass at the bottom left of the screen.
Search for Camera (or Voice Recorder if you just want to record your voice)
Click on the Camera App option/Voice Recorder Option
Click on the Video button on the right hand side of the screen so that it is white and click on it again to start recording. It will turn red, click there to stop recording.
The Voice recorder will look like one of the other two pictures, depending on whether there is already a recording in the folder. Click on the microphone to start recording. There will be a blue circle with a square in it to stop recording.
Open File Explorer Pictures / Camera Roll – you should find the video you have recorded there. Sound is in Documents/Sound Recording.
Use FileMail, TransferXL or PCloud (works better on mobiles) to select a video and send it to Alan.
Using a mobile/tablet
Record the video – turn your device to landscape mode – it gives a bigger picture.
Use PCloud to select the video and send it to Alan.
“Click Here” to attach a file.
Click on Files
Find the Video and click on it.
Fill in Alan’s email address: revd.alan@badshotleaandhale.org and your own and an optional message and click SEND FILES.
On the first three days of this Holy Week we will be having services of Compline with a short video and reflection. Today we look at the Watch.
If you click on the YouTube logo at the bottom of the screen you can make the video full screen. This doesn’t work on the video clip, as the clip doesn’t stop if you do!
If you cannot see the responses at the top of the screen, please move your mouse so that it is not over the video.
On the first three days of this Holy Week we will be having services of Compline with a short video and reflection. We start today with the foot washing.
As these services use a clip from a longer piece, you cannot click through to YouTube for the video clip, as the clip doesn’t stop if you do!
I have just discovered that my videos have text over the words I put into them. If you move the mouse away from the video these other display items will disappear, allowing you to read the text.
During the week we experimented with a video conference service, but the delay made it very awkward, so this week we are back to this format. However, I have found out a bit more about how things work, so as well as the different options for different churches I have joined them together so that you can click once and watch one service all the way through. If you wish to see bits from other services I have also included them. As with last week some of the videos may have adverts at the beginning, but you can skip these after 5 seconds. If you want to see one of the videos playing on this screen in full screen, start playing it, and then click on the YouTube logo at the bottom of it, and it should open another Window.
I have included a hymn sheet this week; click here to download it: Palm Sunday Hymn Sheet. The hymns aren’t necessarily in the right order, and I can’t guarantee that the words are the same or in the same order – sorry. If anyone would like to check this for future weeks, please let me know.
We are looking for people to contribute to the Web site with various offerings – particularly things which offer an insight into Holy Week, but also other things. Livy and June sang some Taize; Pamela has written something (which is already up); Kris has sent in some photos (including one of an Easter Garden she has made); Richard has videoed a poem he has written – these will be used during next week. If you would like to submit something, instructions can be found here: https://badshotleaandhale.org/2020/03/29/future-services/
There will be a Taize service tonight up from 6:00pm; Compline with Meditation Monday to Wednesday up from 6:00pm; a Service like this on Maundy Thursday, up from 6:00pm; Services at 9:00 – The Good Friday Liturgy and 12:00 – An hour at the Cross; Holy Saturday, from 6:00 Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday from 9:00 another service like this.
Usually on Palm Sunday we hand out Palm Crosses and bless them at the start of the service. Whilst some churches are posting out Palm Crosses, we have been advised that this is risky, so instead I invite you to make your own Palm Cross from whatever you have to hand! And don’t forget to have them for Sunday’s service.
Worship has developed over the years into the form that it has, but now we are temporarily unable to meet there are other ways to express our faith.
Please let me know whether you would like a live service that lots of people can join and join in. Unfortunately we don’t think the technology is up to this for large numbers. We are however experimenting with smaller numbers.
Many of you will have seen the service for 29th March. For future services I would like to enable more people to contribute. So…
If you have only a telephone with no special features …
Alan can record any comments you would like to make over the phone. Please call the Rectory and arrange a time to do this. It will involve calling Alan on his mobile – and a number will be provided to do this.
If you have a smartphone/computer with camera and microphone
If you would like to record a video or sound; make something and take a picture of it; write some prose; share something you found on the web – whatever you have found that has fed you spiritually; please send it to Alan to pull it together.
I am not going to stream a service. Instead I will curate (not as in a curate) one, picking bits and pieces from all over the place! The links are all to YouTube and they will open in another window. Close that window to return here. Some videos have adverts, but there is usually a button at the bottom right that will skip them after about 5 seconds.
Most merciful God,
who by the death and resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ
delivered and saved the world:
grant that by faith in him who suffered on the cross
we may triumph in the power of his victory;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
OR
Gracious Father,
you gave up your Son
out of love for the world:
lead us to ponder the mysteries of his passion,
that we may know eternal peace
through the shedding of our Saviour’s blood,
Jesus Christ our Lord.
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 Pontius Pilate; 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 worshipped 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 the world to come. Amen.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.
Please send feedback on this service to Alan. Also, it is possible that we could hold a live service that anyone with a computer with a camera and microphone can join in along with everyone else. Is this something that you are interested in doing? Please email Alan.
I hope you enjoyed this. If you would like to take part in a future service by contributing a clip, please let Alan know. I am trying to follow the rota, but of course there isn’t one for St Mark’s, and not everyone on the rota has the ability to record a video.
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