FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT (YEAR C):
19/20th December 2009
Expectant Mothers' Sunday
Fr Frank writes:
As Christmas approaches it is good to focus on the fact that Jesus was born into a human family. With this in mind, I shall include a few meditations on 'Home is a Holy Place' in the run up to the great Feast of Christ's Nativity.
By welcoming children, by birth and by adoption, as gifts of God, the Christian family is the foundation, the living stones, both of society and the Church. In caring for the aged, the sick and the vulnerable among them, families proclaim the gospel of life. Through works that teach and by daily gestures of kindness, tenderness and forgiveness, the family cultivates in one another a sense of the fullness and richness of God's life. So Christian families are places where faith and values are passed on and developed across the generations. (The Bishops of the Americas)
Read more at www.homeisaholyplace.org.uk
May God fill you with his love.
Father Frank
CHRISTMAS MASSES:
| Thursday 24th December - Christmas Eve | ||
| Christ Our Saviour, Chelmer Village | 6.00pm | |
| St Augustine | 8.00pm | |
| New Hall Chapel (Off White Hart Lane) | 11.00pm | |
| Friday 25th December - Christmas Day | ||
| St Augustine | 9.00am | |
| New Hall | 10.45am | |