THIRD SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT – Remembrance Sunday
8.00 am. Holy Communion
10.50 am. Matins with Act of Remembrance
Hymns: 537, 355, 358, 413, 443, 354. Psalm46 (Prayer Book page 403)
Our collection today will be for the work of the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen’s Families Association (SSAFA)
Next Sunday, 16th November: Second Sunday before Advent. 11.00 am. Family Communion
875 Celebrations: This year’s events conclude with a performance of Handel’s Messiah at Christ Church, Malvern, on Saturday 22nd November at 7.00 pm. The work is performed by the 875 Celebration Choir, professional soloists and a full orchestra, conducted by Alison Hunka. Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/friends-of-little-malvern-priory
Charity Christmas Card Sale and Pop-up Café at ARCOS (Association for Rehabilitation of Communication and Oral Skills) for one day only – Friday 5th December, from 12.00 noon to 4.00 pm, at ARCOS, Hatherton Lodge, Avenue Road, Malvern, WR14 3AG.
Remembrance reading: John 15: 12-17
Jesus said, “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends., because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit; fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands, so that you may love one another.”
The New Testament reading at Matins: Romans 8: 31-39
What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor thing present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.”