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Remembrance Sunday - 12 November

We will mark Remembrance Sunday this year on 12 November at the 10.30am High Mass.

During the four years commemorating the centenary of the First World War, the OSP history group has been researching and recording the stories of OSP members who lost their lives in that war. During High Mass on Remembrance Sunday, group members will tell the stories of a few of the men who died in 1917. We will remember them and all the others with two minutes’ silence. 

Each year the group publishes the stories of those who died that year one hundred years ago. This year’s volume of Old Saint Paul’s Remembers the First World War will be available to buy on Remembrance Sunday in church, or can be ordered from admin@osp.org.uk.

Please come and be part of our commemoration at High Mass on Remembrance Sunday, and buy your copy of Old Saint Paul’s Remembers the First World War - 1917.

Christ the King - 26 November

The final Sunday of the liturgical year is the Feast of Christ the King. As the Scottish Episcopal Church’s website puts it, “On this day we give thanks for Jesus Christ the servant king, and look forward to that wonderful time when all the peoples of the world will be gathered together under his gentle and loving rule.”  

Old Saint Paul’s marks this important feast day with Procession and High Mass on Sunday 26 November at 10.30am, followed by a joyful parish lunch. We hope you will join us for the Feast.

Advent Sunday - 3 December

Advent begins this year on Sunday 3 December.  It is a season of anticipation and longing as we not only look forward to Jesus' birth, but also his coming again.

Advent Sunday, the beginning of the liturgical year, marks the beginning of this period of reflection. Our Advent Carol Service on Sunday 3 December at 6.30pm is a particularly reflective service set in candlelight, with music, hymns and readings offered.

OSP Annual General Meeting - 10 December

At this year’s Annual Meeting of the Congregation, the Vestry will be recommending an option for the development of the church hall and lower level. The meeting will take place after High Mass on 10 December. 

At the meeting, the Vestry will also present its usual Report and Accounts on the activities of the year, and there will be elections to the Vestry, the Church’s management council. Elections will be held for Lay Representative, Alternate Lay Representative, and 2 other vacancies on the Vestry require to be filled. Nomination forms will be available in church from 20 November, and the Report and Accounts will be available in church and on the website from 3 December.

All members of the congregation are urged to come along on 10 December to take part in these important discussions about the future of our facilities. 

To find out more about about the hall development option to be recommended, please see last month’s White Rose.