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Sunday 21st December
Fourth Sunday of Advent
09.45 - Sunday Saints
10.00 - Sung Eucharist
Music:
Introit: The Advent Prose (v4)
Setting: Todd (Kyrie) and
Aston (Sanctus, Benedictus & Agnus)
Anthem: The
Angel Gabriel - Traditional, arr. Pettman
Hymns:
32 – O
come, O come, Emmanuel
58 – Long ago prophets knew
238 – For Mary, mother of our Lord
49 – Come thou redeemer of the earth
Voluntary: Advent-Hymnus ‘Alvus tumescit
virginis’ - Michael Praetorius
Readings for the
Eucharist here
19.00 - Carols by Candlelight
Monday 22nd December
11.30 - All Saints’ Unity Lunch Club Christmas lunch at
Masonic Hall
Tuesday 23rd December
09.00 - Morning Prayer
NO Bible
Study Group - resumes in the New Year
Wednesday 24th December Christmas Eve
09.00 - Morning Prayer
15.00 - Crib Service
23.30 - Midnight Mass
Thursday 25th December Christmas Day
NO Morning
Prayer
10.00 – Family Service
NO Little
Saints at Unity Centre, resumes 8th January
Next Sunday - Sunday 28th December
The Holy Innocents
NO Sunday
Saints’
10.00 - Sung Eucharist
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Appeal
update
Thank you to everyone in the
congregation who has donated or sponsored the
project so far. We are delighted that over 50
people have responded to the appeal, but it
isn’t too late if you are able to assist us,
every penny raised makes a difference. Why
not make it a Christmas gift that will keep
on giving, keeping the church warm and
well-lit for decades to come?
We have also heard the brilliant news
that the Garfield Weston Foundation have
awarded us a grant of £30,000 which brings us
ever closer to meeting our fundraising
target.
You may have noticed that the
contractors have made a good start on
undertaking preliminary works over the last
few weeks, fuelled by Clare’s bakes! This
means that they will be off to a flying start
when the scaffolding goes up after Christmas.
Finally, if you are interested in
buying one of the existing lighting
chandeliers they will be available for
purchase in January, please speak to Clare
Camp for details.
The Heating and Lighting Team
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Peregrine
Calendars
Stuart Wilson, one of the
Peregrines For People team, has produced a Stamford Peregrines
2026 Calendar. They will be on sale at Friday Coffee Bar and
after the service for £10, with £3 from each calendar going to
All Saints’ church funds.
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All Saints’
Unity Lunch Club
Thank you for all the red box
items left in Church on Sundays, we are very grateful, they are
always put to good use. We are also extremely grateful to the
Masonic Hall who have offered to provide us with a Christmas
Lunch on the 22nd. I know those who attended last year are
looking forward to this year's meal-Christmas jumpers to the
ready! The Unity Lunch Club will open again on the 5th of
January 2026 at the Unity Centre. Please continue to donate into
the red box on Sundays. Donations can also be dropped off on
Friday mornings during the coffee bar hours 10:00-14:00.
Thank you, Unity Lunch
Club.
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Arrangements
for January - March
From Sunday 4th January Sung
Eucharist will take place in the Stamford Endowed Schools’
Chapel. The staff team have visited the site which is warm and
leak free. We have been planning the move and resources to make
sure that the services will be as welcoming and as joyful as
usual. Tea and coffee will be served as usual after the service
provided, very kindly, by the school.
There is step free access from
the car park on East Street - marked 3 on the map below. This is
the best car park for those with limited mobility. Regular
parking please use Star Lane or Brazenose Lane, either on the
road or, if spaces, in the school car park - marked 4.
We hope to see as many of you as
possible on the 4th January. Please talk to any of the staff team
if you have concerns.
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Exciting Coffee Bar News
The Crown have very kindly offered to let us use part of their
restaurant to run Coffee Bar while we are closed because of the
Heating and Lighting Project . We will operate from The Jewel,
the back room at The Crown, on Tuesdays starting on 13th January
from 10.00- 13.00. We are also booked in for the 27th
January and if it is a success they will offer us future dates.
The Crown are letting us use this room free of charge and will
provide the tea and coffee while we sell our usual bakes. We will
still sell everything on a donation basis and any money we make
will go to All Saints’. I am so very grateful to The Crown
for their amazing generosity. So cake will continue -
hurrah! Clare
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Advent Course
Materials to read at home:
The Church of England booklet
‘The 12 Joys of Christmas’ is at the back of church. Please take
one and,if you can, make a donation.
- Central
Theme: "Joy" is the core message for the 2025
Advent and Christmas season for the Church of England.
- The booklet
is written by Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury,
exploring earthly joys (like Christmas jumpers, walks) as
pointers to heavenly joy.
- The booklet
offers daily themes, readings, prayers, and challenges from
Christmas Day to the Eve of Epiphany.
- It aims to be
a light, thoughtful guide, acknowledging that perfect
Christmas expectations can be stressful, but God's joy is a
free gift.
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Retreat Day
2026
"PARISH QUIET DAY, SATURDAY
31 JANUARY 2026
Saturday 31 January, Edenham
Retreat House. PE10 OLS.
The cost per head is £20 which
includes hot drinks and a simple lunch. The day will start with
coffee/tea at 10 am and finish at approx. 4pm. Please share lifts
if you can.
There is a sign-up sheet at the
back of the church. Maximum number 32.
The day will consist of 3 short
addresses, some quiet discussion, silence and worship. Our focus
will be on parts of the Nicene Creed which we recite every Sunday
but was written 1700 years ago with nigh-on unanimous agreement
from 300 bishops. Surely a miracle! Do join us!
Chris Armstrong
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Christmas Cards
Hannah
Dunnett Christmas cards are now on sale at
the back of church. All profits to All
Saints’ Church.
£2.50 each or 3 for £6.00.
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Communion
If getting to the altar to
receive communion is a problem, please speak to one of the
wardens at the start of the service and you can receive communion
in the pew.
When you
receive Communion please do not dip the host into the cup.
You may receive in one kind.
Father Neil
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Monthly Prayer
Meeting
The next prayer meeting takes
place Monday, 12th January at the Unity Centre at 15.00.
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Diary Dates
Sunday 21st December - Bellringers will
be ringing a Quarter Peal before the Carols
Sunday 21st December - Carols
by Candlelight at 19.00.
Wednesday 24th December - Crib
Service at 15.00.
Wednesday 24th December -
Midnight Mass at 23.30
Sunday 28th December - our final
service in church at 10.00 before the heating
and lighting project closes the church for 3
months.
Sunday 4th January - 10.00 - Our first
service at the chapel at Stamford Endowed
Schools.
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