Church Of The Annunciation, Chislehurst
About Church Of The Annunciation, Chislehurst
A church in the Catholic tradition of the Church of England, serving the people of West Chislehurst in the London Borough of Bromley, in the Diocese of Rochester.
Church Of The Annunciation, Chislehurst Description
The Annunciation is a church in the Catholic tradition of the Church of England. We are part of the Diocese of Rochester under the pastoral and sacramental care of the Bishop of Richborough and a member of Churches Together in Chislehurst and Bickley.
Our main service is the Sung at 10. 00 am each Sunday, and the church is well served by public transport, with buses 61, 160, 161, 162 and 273 all passing nearby. Elmstead Woods is the closest station but over a mile away, so it's better to go to Mottingham, cross the road, and catch the 161 to Albany Road!
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Notices for Sunday 7 July
PETER AND PAUL 30 June 2019
A few words only this morning, in view of the congregation, about something we don’t often think about: friendship. The bible speaks very highly of friendship. ‘A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter: he that has found one has found a treasure’, says Ecclesiasticus. ‘There is nothing so precious as a faithful friend, and no scales can measure his excellence.’
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Notices for Sunday 30 June
CORPUS CHRISTI Year C 23 June 2019
At every Mass, either before our gifts of bread and wine are presented at the altar or - depending on the rite and the predilection of the celebrant - before we present ourselves at the altar to receive Holy Communion, we are invited to turn to those around us and offer them a sign of peace.
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Notices for Sunday 23 June
TRINITY SUNDAY Year C Christ Church Chislehurst 9.00am / S George Bickley 10.30am 16 June 2019
One of the things clergy do is take funerals. It’s part of our mandate as the Church of England to respond to the needs of all who turn to us, and to minister the love and compassion of Jesus to those who seek it, regardless of their attendance at church or their ability to articulate their Christian faith. And it is a privilege and joy to be invited into people’s lives in that way....
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Notices for Trinity Sunday 16 June
PENTECOST/WHITSUNDAY Year C 9 June 2019
We use a lot of different words to talk about the Holy Spirit: Advocate, Comforter, Counsellor, Friend, Helper and Strengthener are just a few; but all are attempts to translate the same Greek word, the word Jesus himself uses in our Gospel today, parakletos, or as it is sometimes rendered in English, paraclete: I will ask the Father, and he will give you another _____ to be with you forever.
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Notices for Whitsunday 9 June
SOLEMNITY OF THE ASCENSION 30 May 2019
I have to confess that the Ascension is one of my favourite feasts of the Church’s year. There is to it an indefinable ‘haze of glory’, as it were, despite its easily-mocked presuppositions of a triple-decker universe with heaven above, earth below, and hell beneath our feet.
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Notices for Sunday 2 June
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Year C 26 May 2019
It has been said that the Bible begins in Genesis with the image of a perfect garden, and ends in Revelation with the image of a perfect city. It's a reminder that, taken as a whole, scripture tells a story: a story that begins before the beginning of time itself with creation and the placing of Adam and Eve in Eden, and comes to fulfilment at the end of time, when the harmony between God and his creation is restored and all is once ...
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Notices for Sunday 26 May
FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER, 12 May 2019 Father Paul's sermon for the May Devotion at S Barnabas, Ottawa
What a joy it is to be back with you at Saint Barnabas! I did attend a weekday mass two years ago when I visited Father Frank during his cancer treatment here in Ottawa, but it must be a dozen years at least since I was here on a Sunday.
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Notices for Sunday 19 May
Notices for Sunday 12 May
THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER 5 May 2019
Our readings this morning speak to us of conversion and repentance, the essential elements of our turning to Christ.
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