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Worship Notes – St Alphege

The Christmas Season properly extends through all of January and so for much of the month
the Liturgical Colour is White. There are several important days to note in January:
1st January There will be only service on this Sunday Morning to Mark the New Year.
This will be at 11.00am and will be a Eucharist for all the Parish. There will
be refreshments after this service and opportunity for the whole parish to
spend time together.
2nd January The New Year Day Service displaces the feast of the naming of Jesus. This
is an important moment in the life of any Jewish boy and occurs on the
eighth day of his life. We mark this with a Eucharist act 9.30am.
8th January The Epiphany. This celebration commemorates the visitation of the wise
men to Jesus and the Holy Family sometime after his birth. It is properly
celebrated on 6th January, the twelfth day of Christmas. Like many
Churches we move the feast to Sunday 8th. There will be the usual Eucharist
at 8.00am, 9.15am and 11.00am as well as Evensong at 6.30pm.
22nd January This is the Sunday during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. There will
be no Evensong on this day. Instead we are asked to join Christians of other
denominations at a special service at 6.30pm which will be held in
Christchurch United Reformed Church on Warwick Road.
29th January The feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple or Candlemas. This
feast properly belongs on February 2nd and marks forty days since the birth
of Jesus. On this day Jesus was presented in the temple as required by the
Jewish law. Here he was acclaimed by Simeon and by Anna who both
recognised that this baby was the long expected Messiah. Eucharists at
8.00am, 9.15am and 11.00am and Evensong at 6.30pm.

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