A Very Nearly Happy Christmas
- All Saints Fishponds
- Dec 20, 2025
- 2 min read
Dear All Saints and St Marys
As Christmas draws closer, this weekend marks the turning point from Advent to Christmas.
The weekend sees Carols around the Yew Tree (All Saints) and Carols by Candlelight (St Marys) start to move us from Advent to Christmas.
Schools have broken up for the holidays and many people are now travelling like the magi did across fields and mountains to be with family and friends.
If you have people visiting then do extend our warmest invitation to our worship at Christmas to them as well as yourselves.
As we get ready for those final preparations I would like to share with you a poem I am fond of at this time of year from Malcolm Guite - O Emmanuel - I have always found it helpfully reflective on why we celebrate with Joy, Love and Hope this Christmas
O come, O come, and be our God-with-us
O long-sought With-ness for a world without,
O secret seed, O hidden spring of light.
Come to us Wisdom, come unspoken Name
Come Root, and Key, and King, and holy Flame,
O quickened little wick so tightly curled,
Be folded with us into time and place,
Unfold for us the mystery of grace
And make a womb of all this wounded world.
O heart of heaven beating in the earth,
O tiny hope within our hopelessness
Come to be born, to bear us to our birth,
To touch a dying world with new-made hands
And make these rags of time our swaddling bands
Services this Christmas are as below. Look forward to seeing you at both All Saints and St Marys.
Sunday 21st December
10:00am | St Marys | Sung Holy Communion |
10:30am | All Saints | Holy Communion with Carols |
6:30pm | St Marys | Carols By Candlelight |
Christmas Eve: Wednesday 24th December
4:00pm | St Marys | Family Carols with Christingle |
7:30pm | All Saints | Carols By Candlelight |
11:30pm | St Marys | Midnight Mass |
Christmas Day: Thursday 25th December
10:00am | St Marys | Family Communion with Carols |
10:300am | All Saints | All Age Communion with Carols |
Sunday 28th December
8:00am | All Saints | Holy Communion |
10:00am | St. Marys | Holy Communion with Carols |
10:30am | All Saints | Cafe Church |
Please find below the weekly sheets for this weekend.
Blessings
Lizzie
Vicar of All Saints and St Marys Churches, Fishponds
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Please be advised that Monday is my day of rest so I do not respond to emails on that day of the week.
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