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Sunday Service Guide
Saint Nicholas
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9.00am
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Mass
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Saint Andrew's
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8.00am
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Holy Communion
from the Book of Common Prayer. Not the last Sunday of the month nor during the month of August.
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10.30am
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Parish Mass
: Sung Mass with Sunday School
Youth Mass
on last Sunday of the month. Led by young people from the Youth Group and Uniformed organisations.
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12 noon
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Holy Baptism
: monthly Christening service, usually the last Sunday of the month.
or 12.30pm on months when it is not the last Sunday of month
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Weekdays
Friday Hour is held every month at 6pm in St Nicholas.
See
DIARY
for dates for this and other activities Midweek this month.
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Hildegard of Bingen
celebrated at
Friday Hour
on her Feast Day - Fri 17th Sep
The Parish of Buckland-in-Dover,
situated on the very south-eastern tip of England (see
MAP),
includes the ancient Church of
ST ANDREW,
and a modern church on the Buckland Estate,
ST NICHOLAS
, both centres of Christian worship and support.
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YOUTH MASS
Once a month, usually on the last Sunday, the Parish Mass is partly led by young people from the Andy's Church Youth Group and the Uniformed Organisations.
The Youth Mass is more informal and shorter than the Parish Mass.
There is no Sunday School.
HOLY COMMUNION
Holy Communion is the eating of the consecrated bread and wine: Holy because the priest has blessed the bread and wine (known as the elements);
Communion because the consecrating prayer over the bread and wine recalls the words of Jesus at his Last Supper with his disciples,
This is my body...this is my blood.
This 8am service is known as BCP Communion because the Book of Common Prayer, sanctioned for use by Parliament in the Church of England in
1662 (although much of it is based on earlier books of 1549 and 1552 largely written by Archbishop Cramner), is used. The language is archaic but beautiful.
The service is said (ie. no music is used) and lasts about half an hour.
Fr Tim has to rush off afterwards to get to St Nicholas!
There is no service on the last Sunday of the month or during August.
PARISH MASS
The main service of the day: Parish because the Church of England divides the country into parishes, each with its own Parish Church,
at which the main service of the day is offered for the needs of everyone living in the parish. Mass because the service is Common Worship the
new service book of the Church of England produced in 2000 with the addition of some words from the Roman Catholic Missal.
The service is sung (ie. there are hymns and Fr Tim sings some of the prayers) and there is a Sunday School (except during August): everyone starts the service together,
then, after the Readings from the Bible, children aged up to 12 years old go to the Sunday School room for part of the service.
The service lasts about an hour; coffee and biscuits are served afterwards.
HOLY BAPTISM
Once a month, except during Lent - the six week before Easter - and December, there is a Christening service.
Baptism is another word for Christening: Baptism reflects the use of water from the Greek word for washing;
Christening means Jesus (Christ) receives the one Baptism into the family of the Church.
Children and adults can be Christened. Children can have up to six Godparents adults dont need any.
The service lasts about half an hour and is open to anyone with an association with Buckland church
living locally or with family members who have been Christened or married in the church.
Contact Fr Tim to make an appointment to arrange a Christening
MIDWEEK MASS
A shorter version of the Parish Mass without music.
THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS
St Margaret Mary Alacoque, 1647 – 1690, had a difficult start to life. Her father died when she was only eight years old and she was sent to
the Poor Clares Convent at Charolles in Burgundy. As a teenager she was bedridden for five years with rhuematic fever.
After professing as a nun in 1672, she received a series of spiritual revelations from which she developed a devotion to the Sacred
Heart of Jesus. There was some opposition to her ideas within the Convent, but eventually a chapel was built and the devotion spread
through the wider church finally receiving official approval in 1765.
In her ‘Revelations of Our Lord’ St Margaret Mary wrote:
"And He showed me that it was His great desire of being loved by men and of withdrawing them from the path of ruin into which Satan hurls
such crowds of them, that made Him form the design of manifesting His Heart to men, with all the treasures of love, of mercy, of grace,
of sanctification and salvation which it contains, in order that those who desire to render Him and procure for Him all the honour and
love possible, might themselves be abundantly enriched with those divine treasures of which this Heart is the source.
He should be honoured under the figure of this Heart of flesh, and its image should be exposed...He promised me that wherever
this image should be exposed with a view to showing it special honour, He would pour forth His blessings and graces. This devotion
was the last effort of His love that He would grant to men in these latter ages, in order to withdraw them from the empire of Satan
which He desired to destroy, and thus to introduce them into the sweet liberty of the rule of His love, which He wished to restore
in the hearts of all those who should embrace this devotion."..... "The devotion is so pleasing to Him that He can refuse nothing to
those who practice it."
ST NICHOLAS MASS
St Nicholas is a modern church on the Buckland Estate in a multipurpose building including a Childrens Centre.
The Sunday Mass has hymns and lasts half an hour.
Although there is no Sunday School, the short service is good for adults and children.
FRIDAY HOUR
Friday Hour is monthly (check the Diary for the date this month) at 6pm in St Nicholas church.
It lasts about an hour no suprises there!
The first half hour is a mix of music, readings and meditation - the second half hour is for chat, tea and biscuits.
FRIDAY HOUR
Friday Hour is monthly (check the Diary for the date this month) at 6pm in St Nicholas church.
It lasts about an hour no suprises there!
The first half hour is a mix of music, readings and meditation - the second half hour is for chat, tea and biscuits.
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