Twenty Fifth Sunday
in Ordinary Time, Year A
20th September, 2020
COVID-19: for our Risk Assessment and Guidance for coming to worship at St Gabriel’s, please see our website.
8.00 a.m. Holy Communion (trad. language)
Gilbert House
10.30 a.m. Mass
Parish and Congregation
12 noon Heaven’s Gate Mass
at the Parish House
6.00 p.m. Sung Evensong
Introit: O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit, Tallis
Responses: Smith
Canticle: Latin service, Tallis
Anthem: Salvator Mundi I, Tallis
Voluntary: Toccata in G, Dubois
Pimlico voices, dir. James Green
7.30 p.m. Mass
Mass: Twenty Fifth Week in Ordinary Time,
Year 2
Tuesday 9.30 a.m. St Matthew trans.
Gillingham Row, Gillingham Street
Wednesday 9.15 a.m. School Mass
5.00 p.m. Choral Evensong
7.00 p.m. Feria
Glastonbury House, Gloucester Street
Thursday 9.30 a.m. Feria
Grosvenor Road, Guildhouse Street
Friday 10.00 a.m. Feria
Hallam House, Hawthorne House
Saturday 9.30 a.m. of Our Lady
Hugh Mews, Hugh Street
Twenty Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
St Michael and All Angels
8.00 a.m. Holy Communion (trad. language)
Jane Austen House, Keats House
10.30 a.m. Mass
Parish and Congregation
12 noon Heaven’s Gate Mass
at the Parish House
6.00 p.m. Evensong & Benediction
7.30 p.m. Mass
GDPR
The Parish’s GDPR General Notice is published in hardcopy on the noticeboard at the back of church. For further information, please see James Farmer.
dates for the diary
this week
Today:
Wednesday: Choral Evensong, 5.00 p.m., with the Pimlico Musical Foundation.
Next Sunday, 27th September. Though we are not yet clear about all our arrangements on the day, Fr Pat Browne from Holy Apostles (and the Palace of Westminster) will be preaching for us at Sung Evensong and the service will be sung by the Cantus Ensemble under the direction of Dominic Brennan.
Parish Pray-ers meet after the 10.30 a.m. Mass.
Annual Parochial Church Meeting
The meeting will take place after the 10.30 a.m. Mass on Sunday, 4th October. Before the meeting there will be the annual election of churchwardens.
The Electoral Roll will be open between Sunday, 6th and Sunday, 20th September.
Holy Water
The custom of blessing water for use in church and the home goes back at least to the fifth century, and probably earlier since it was a custom Christians carried on from their Jewish forebears.
The water is not magical but is used by God to give a blessing to people or their homes. In fact blessings with holy water can be applied to all sorts of things, from the sacred vessels of the Mass to a new motor car. This is a sign to us of God’s care for the whole of His creation and how the Spirit of God makes all things new (Is. 65.17, Rev. 21.5).
The water also reminds us of our baptism. So in happier times when we come into church we make the sign of the cross on our foreheads as a reminder that we entered Christ’s Body the Church through baptism.
Holy water is a symbol of God’s strength to both protect us and give us new life.
Prayer of blessing
Blessed are you, Lord, all-powerful God,
who in Christ, the living water of salvation,
blessed and transformed us.
Grant that when we are sprinkled with this water
or make use of it,
we will be refreshed inwardly by the power
of the Holy Spirit
and continue to walk in the new life
we received at Baptism.
We ask this though Christ our Lord.
R. Amen.
If you would like to make your usual church worship at home, please see the link Spiritual Communion 2020
The Westminster Chapel Foodbank which usually meets in the Parish Halls as part of the Pimlico Hub at St Gabriel’s, requests the following items;
Cleaning fluids Toiletries Toilet roll
Sanitary towels Cooking oil Herbs & Spices
Also
Tins of fruit Juice
UHT milk Rice pudding/custard
Coffee Sugar
Tinned tomatoes Pasta sauce Tinned vegetables
For the moment we ask that you take your donations to Sainsburys in Wilton Road for collection and distribution to the needy – thank you.
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Vicar: Fr Owen Higgs
St Gabriel’s Church
30 Warwick Square
London SW1V 2AD
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