SS PETER AND PAUL, TORREVIEJA The Church of England in the Southern Costa Blanca, Costa Cálida and eastern Murcia, España worshipping in Word and Sacrament at Lago Jardín, San Fulgencio, Los Balcones, La Siesta, La Regia, Pinar de Campoverde, La Manga. Chaplain: Father Richard A. Seabrook SSC Calle Manuel de Falla 240 Urbanización Montemar 03169 Algorfa España Contact details: + 34 966 840 136 + 34 693 932 438 Chaplaincy Mobile frras@c-of-e-torrevieja.com www.c-of-e-torrevieja.com @anglicantorrevieja THE CHAPLAIN S WEEKLY NEWSLETTER Sunday 9 th December 2018 SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Worship this week: The response for the Responsorial Psalm at the Eucharist is: Blessed be the Lord, who sets his people free. Sunday 9 th December 1800 Holy Eucharist (Saturday) Lago Jardín There is no service at San Fulgencio this morning. 1030 Holy Eucharist Los Balcones 1800 Holy Eucharist Campoverde 1800 Ecumenical Carol Service San Fulgencio Father Richard is the celebrant at Lago Jardín and officiating with Father Ramón at San Fulgencio. Monday 10 th December 1800 Ecumenical Carol Service La Siesta Wednesday 12 th December 1000 Holy Eucharist Chaplaincy House 1800 Nine Lessons and Carols Los Balcones with the Royal British Legion Band Thursday 13 th December 1100 Holy Eucharist Cristo Resucitado 1800 Nine Lessons and Carols Campoverde with Coro Pilar Sunday 16 th December 1800 Holy Eucharist (Saturday) Lago Jardín GAUDETE SUNDAY 1000 Holy Eucharist San Fulgencio 1030 Christingle Service Los Balcones 1115 Holy Eucharist La Siesta 1800 Evening Prayer Campoverde Father Richard is the celebrant at La Siesta. The Blessed Sacrament lamp in Lago Jardín burns this week for: John Simmons RIP, anniversary of death 24 th November (2001), birthday 15 th December The Blessed Sacrament Lamp at Lago Jardín If you would like the lamp to burn for a particular prayer intention, for a loved one, or in memory of someone, please let Father Richard know in plenty of time. Each week the weekly bulletin will give the name of the intention or person (with RIP added for the deceased) or will say for a private intention if you wish it to remain just known to yourself. The cost for this will be 5 and will go towards the cost of the special oil that is needed. Please contact Father Richard by telephone or email and arrange to give the money to him when you see him. Please start early for 2019.
The Chaplain s Prayer List for December 2018 Please pray for the sick and those in particular need at this time: Ian Sharpe, Father Terence, Milton Piers, Ginny Smith, Eileen Catlin, Peter Allgood, Father Helge, Solveig Pettersson, Mylene, Mikki Crouch, Colin, Alan, Gwen Simmons, Paul Moore, Margaret Rose Codona, Sheila Hewitt. If you wish a name to be added to this list you must email Father Richard or write to him giving permission for yourself or ensure permission has been granted by someone else for their name to appear on this list. (GDPR regulations) Alternatively write the name on the sheet of paper available at each church before the liturgy. Please pray for the Anglican Church in Perú, for Bishop Jorge Aguilar, and the Bishops, Priests, Deacons and Laity there. Father Richard s Study Group next meets on Tuesday 18 th December at 1000 for a 1015 start for an Advent session followed by a shared lunch. The Upper Room Group next meets Tuesday 8 th January 2019 at 1700 at Bar Epoca, San Fulgencio. Please contact Roger Harrison. The Campoverde Bible Study and Discussion Group meets in the Rusty Nail in Campoverde at 1500 each Tuesday afternoon and continues each week. Please contact Maggie Dew. Dates ahead: Please would organisers send details to Father Richard for inclusion on this sheet as well as the other publicity opportunities in the Chaplaincy. This gives people an idea of what is coming up (and so we don t get clashes or overloaded...). Please contact Father Richard if anything has been omitted and please contact Father Richard before any dates are set to make sure he is available or otherwise. Tuesday 11 th December 1900 EVENING OF FESTIVE CHEER at the home of Sue and Peter Maude in Quesada. Mulled wine, wine, mince pies, stollen, nibbles, raffle. Tickets 5 from Sue or Peter. Sunday 16 th December Los Balcones Christmass lunch at the Chinese Restaurant in the Filton Centre. 15 to include a three course lunch, one drink, the gratuity and a raffle ticket. Monday 17 th December 1700 Holy Hour at Lago Jardín Church We begin with Evening Prayer and then have a time of prayer and reflection in the presence Our Blessed Lord. Come and be still for the presence of the Lord, the Holy One, is here. Don t forget to keep Father Richard informed of people who need home visits and hospital visits and Holy Communion at home. He is always willing to respond to pastoral and sacramental needs.
Father Richard writes: Thank you for two recent events. The Los Balcones concert on Friday 23 rd December raised 87.60 and the Lago Jardín Christmass Quiz raised 191 for Chaplaincy funds. Thank you to all who worked to get these events off the ground and thank you for your support for them two very enjoyable occasions. The season of Advent is a most striking time of the year as the dignified liturgical colour of purple contrasts with red and gold of the secular world. As Christians we are called to make the Advent message known, a message of hope and expectation which will be fulfilled when Christ the Lord comes again in great glory to judge the quick and the dead as the Prayer Book says. Advent can be so easily lost in a world of pre-christmass celebrations. The Advent cry is a pleading Come. But not a languid pleading. Rather it is an urgent pleading. O come quickly! says the hymn Lo! he comes with clouds descending. Lawrence Tuttiet s hymn (in the New English Hymnal) cries out eight times in its four verses: O quickly come. There is a sense of urgency each Advent in the prayer of the Church. Yes, we want the Lord to return! It will be the completion of everything for which we have been striving since He came among us in his first coming. The challenge of Advent is to each and everyone of us: When the Lord comes again, will he find us watching and waiting? Or will we be so concerned with ourselves that the desire for him to quickly come may be lessened in us? Might we even miss him? This week the Chaplaincy has a number of carol services and I hope and pray particularly for those who might only be exposed to the Christian understanding of Christmass only once this year that these services may be a time of praise and blessing celebrating the birth of the long desired of all the earth. However, it is not Christmass. Christmass only begins when we come to the altar, beginning on Christmass Eve, for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist whereby the Lord of the stable of Bethlehem is received in the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. This and only then is Christmass. Only this can fulfil our deepest longings and hope of which we have given voice during the weeks of Advent. May John the Baptist s voice, a voice that cries still in the wilderness of this passing world, give voice to our Advent desire to prepare the way for the Lord. I urge you to use these Advent days to prepare your hearts, mind and lives for his coming yes, his coming in human flesh but also his coming again in glory and majesty. For this is our Advent longing. May the Blessed Virgin Mary, exemplar of faith, be our model this Advent. She waited upon the Lord and sang his praises for the great things he had done. Mary, chosen, prepared, honoured by the Lord to be the fitting vessel by which the Incarnation could take place is our model of faith. How can this be? she says. Yes, Mary, how can it be? But let us rejoice that it was, through you, whom all generations call blessed, that our salvation was begun. Hail Mary, full of grace! May God bless you all in these Advent days. Father Richard
ADVENT AND CHRISTMASS IN THE CHAPLAINCY Sunday 9 th December Monday 10 th December Wednesday 12 th December Thursday 13 th December 1800 Ecumenical Carol Service San Fulgencio 1800 Ecumenical Carol Service La Siesta 1800 Nine Lessons and Carols Los Balcones with the Royal British Legion Band 1800 Nine Lessons and Carols Campoverde with Coro Pilar Sunday 16 th December 1030 Christingle Service Los Balcones Monday 17 th December 1700 Advent Holy Hour Lago Jardín Thursday 20 th December 1800 Outdoors Carol Singing Lago Jardín Sunday 23 rd December 1800 Carols at the Rusty Nail Campoverde Monday 24 th December 1800 Holy Eucharist La Manga 2030 Holy Eucharist Campoverde 2330 Midnight Mass La Siesta Celebrant and preacher: Father Richard A. Seabrook SSC Tuesday 25 th December 1030 Holy Eucharist Los Balcones Celebrant and preacher: Father Richard Dunstan-Meadows, assisted by Father Richard Seabrook. Sunday 30 th December 1800 Christingle Service Campoverde Father Richard writes: There will not be a Christmass Eve celebration of the Holy Eucharist at Lago Jardín this year neither at San Fulgencio on Christmass Day but there are plenty of other options for the Eucharist in the Chaplaincy remember we are ONE chaplaincy.
CHAPLAINCY CHRISTMASS CARDS The Chaplaincy has Christmass cards for sale! Please do consider buying your supplies from your local churchwarden in each church. The draft designs are above there are two sorts and the second one will say Happy rather than Merry. A box of ten is only 5 euros and all proceeds will go to the Chaplaincy. They may be some left still!