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Sunday Service Diary
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19th February - QUINQUAGESIMA
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8.00am
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St Andrew
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Communion
Book of Common Prayer
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9.00am
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St Nicholas
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Mass
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10.30am
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St Andrew
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Parish Mass
with Sunday School
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5.00pm
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St Nicholas
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Messy Church
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22nd February - ASH WEDNESDAY
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7.00pm
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St Nicholas
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Mass
with the Imposition of Ashes
NB No Open Church today
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26th February - 1st SUNDAY OF LENT
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8.00am
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St Andrew
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Communion
Book of Common Prayer
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9.00am
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St Nicholas
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Mass
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10.30am
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St Andrew
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Youth Mass
led by Andy's Youth Group
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5.00pm
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St Nicholas
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Messy Church
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4th March - 2nd SUNDAY OF LENT
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8.00am
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St Andrew
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Communion
Book of Common Prayer
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9.00am
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St Nicholas
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Mass
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10.30am
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St Andrew
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Parish Mass
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12 noon
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St Andrew
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Holy Baptism Leo Thorburn & Jake Xhelo
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5.00pm
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St Nicholas
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Messy Church
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11th March - 3rd SUNDAY OF LENT
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8.00am
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St Andrew
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Communion
Book of Common Prayer
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9.00am
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St Nicholas
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Mass
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10.30am
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St Andrew
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Parish Mass
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12 noon
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St Andrew
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Holy Baptism Harrison Smith & Lylah Cutts
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5.00pm
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St Nicholas
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Messy Church
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18th March - MOTHERING SUNDAY
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8.00am
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St Andrew
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Communion
Book of Common Prayer
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9.00am
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St Nicholas
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Mass
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10.30am
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St Andrew
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Youth Mass
with blessing of flowers
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5.00pm
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St Nicholas
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Messy Church
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25th March - 5th SUNDAY OF LENT
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8.00am
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St Andrew
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Communion
Book of Common Prayer
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9.00am
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St Nicholas
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Mass
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10.30am
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St Andrew
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Parish Mass
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5.00pm
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St Nicholas
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Messy Church
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Midweek Services
Every Wednesday except Feb 22nd St Nicholas church is open in the
morning from 11.30 until 1.30pm.
~ A quiet space for reflection from 11.30
~ Bible Study & Holy Communion at 12 noon
~ Soup and roll lunch 12.45
Once a month there is usually a cooked dinner - check
Diary
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Meeting and Event Diary
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Every Wed
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St Nicholas
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Open Church
11.30am to 1.30pm
No Open Church on Ash Wednesday 22nd Feb.
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Fri 17th Feb
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St Nicholas
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Friday Hour - 7pm
half an hour of readings, song and meditation followed by tea and biscuits.
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Wed 22nd Feb
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St Nicholas
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Ash Wednesday - 7pm
mass with the Imposition of Ashes.
No Open Church today.
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Fri 24th Feb
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St Andrew
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Stations of the Cross - 6pm
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Sat 25th Feb
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Minster Abbey
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PCC Away-Day 9.15am - 1.30pm
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Fri 2nd Mar
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St Andrew
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Stations of the Cross - 6pm
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The Rectory
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Lent Group - 7pm (first of four)
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Sat 3rd Mar
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St Nicholas
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KyCh - preparation for Baptism:
10.00 am family of Harrison Smith,
10.30 am family of Lylah Cutts,
11.00 am family of Leo Thorburn
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Wed 6th Mar
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Parish Office
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PCC Meeting - 7.30pm
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Fri 9th Mar
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St Andrew
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Stations of the Cross - 6pm
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The Rectory
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Lent Group - 7pm (second of four)
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Feast Days
Some Sundays are kept as special 'Feast Days' - they are indicated
opposite by gold writing on a red background.
As you can see, in the coming weeks we will be celebrating:
Sexagesima and Quinquagesima
Sexagesima and Quinquagesima are respectively the second Sunday and Sunday next before Lent: being the
60th and 50th Sundays (roughly speaking!) before Easter. Lent begins with Ash Wednesday, 22nd February.
Lent
The Season of Lent is the six weeks before Easter. It is a season for reflection
and self-examination, with extra time put aside for prayer, fasting and charitable giving. The
liturgical colour is purple.
For all Lenten events click
HERE
Ash Wednesday
The beginning of Lent. The evening mass in St Nicholas at 7pm includes the traditional Imposition of Ashes.
There is no Open Church on Ash Wednesday.
Mothering Sunday
Mothering Sunday is the fourth Sunday in Lent, also known as Refreshment Sunday
because traditionally the Lenten fast is relaxed on this day half way through
Lent. In recent times it has come to be known as Mother's Day.
During the Youth Mass flowers are blessed and distributed. The liturgical colour in rose (pink).
Passiontide
The last two Sundays in Lent fall in Passiontide. From the 5th Sunday of Lent the images and
crucifixes are covered in 'Lenten Array' (purple cloth) as a reminder than our devotions are now directed
towards the coming Passion of Jesus - the events leading up to his crucifixion. The liturgical
colour is red.
Other Saint's Days are celebrated at
Open Church
on a Wednesday at St Nicholas. For details of these this month go to
Holy Days.
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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PRAYER & ANOINTING MASS
Every couple of months, the Parish Mass at St Andrew's includes the opportunity for the Laying-on of Hands and Anointing with Holy Oil.
The Laying-on of Hands is a special means of prayer where the priest lays hands on the head of the
person who has come forward for prayer. It is a sign that God gives special grace and blessing to the recipient.
It is used at Confirmation and Ordination: in this case the grace imparted is for healing and forgivenesss.
Anointing with Holy Oil is the Sacrament of Healing. A Sacrament is an outward sign of
something God is doing spiritually in a person.
The Sacrament of Anointing with Oil - oil which is blessed every year on Maundy Thursday in Holy Week at the Chrism Mass in Canterbury Cathedral - is the outward sign adminstered in the sign of the cross
on the forehead and palms of the hands of God's healing.
EPIPHANY
Feast of the Epiphany falls on the twelth day after Christmas, 6th January.
It marks the coming of the Wise Men to see Jesus, the symbolic moment of Jesus showing, 'epiphany', to
the wider world beyond God's chosen people, the Jews.
The Wise Men are placed in the nativity scene which is solemnly blessed for a second time.
After Epiphany, the Christmas decorations are removed from church and the Holy Family - Mary, Joseph and
Jesus are put under the altar until Candlemas (February 2nd).
The other two Epiphany signs are the Baptism of Christ by John the Baptist in the river Jordan,
and the miracle of turning water into wine at the Wedding in Cana.
OPEN CHURCH AT ST NICHOLAS
Every Wednesday, St Nicholas church is open in the morning from 11.30 until 1.30pm.
~ A quiet space for reflection from 11.30
~ Bible Study & Holy Communion at 12 noon
~ Soup and roll lunch 12.45
Once a month there is usually a cooked dinner - check Diary.
OPEN CHURCH AT ST NICHOLAS
Every Wednesday, St Nicholas church is open in the morning from 11.30 until 1.30pm.
~ A quiet space for reflection from 11.30
~ Bible Study & Holy Communion at 12 noon
~ Soup and roll lunch 12.45
Once a month there is usually a cooked dinner - check Diary.
MESSY CHURCH
Every Sunday at 5pm in St Nicholas, there is a Sunday Tea Service.
This is a Café Church - sitting informally at tables enjoying tea and cake, with 'Messy Church' activities
for kids - arts, crafts, etc.
Lasts for about an hour. All ages welcome.
CROSS-LINKS
Cross-Links is a fresh expression of church and part of the United Reformed Church, Methodist Church
and Church of England.
They are based in a shop premises on the Buckland estate, Dover and work in partnership with others to
serve the needs of the community.
Messy Church is sponsored by Cross-Links in St Nicholas
KNOW YOUR CHRISTENING (KyCh)
An hour's preparation for Baptism held in St Nicholas, usually on a Saturday morning.
Christening families and godparents come for a quiz session to explain the meaning of Christian Baptism.
CHARLES LISTER EVENING SERVICE
Once a month on a Sunday - the day varies - there is an informal evening service followed by tea and
biscuits in the common room for the residents of Charles Lister Court in London Road.
Others are welcome to join us.