‘Weekly Post. Anno Domini 2023 December 06

Beloved of the Lord:

Today is Wednesday, 6 December, in the year of our Lord 2023. The scheduled services are as-follows:

• Wednesday (today): 12:10PM, Mass, S. Nicholas, Bishop & Confessor.
• Thursday: 6:30 PM, Mass, S. Ambrose, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor, with Soup & Study to follow.
• Friday: 9:00 AM, Sung Mass, Conception of the BVM, with Gregorian Canon.
  Immediately following, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
  12:00 Noon, Requiem Mass, for David Pearce Radcliffe, followed by reception, followed by Graveside Service.
• Saturday: 5:00 PM, Mass, of the Octave of the 'Conception.
• Sunday: 8:30 & 10:00 AM, Mass, Advent II.

PLEASE NOTE that this Friday, the day after tomorrow, will be the Requiem for our dearly departed friend and brother, Dave Radcliffe. That service will begin at Noon. Immediately following, there will be a reception in the Parish Hall. At about 2:20 PM, those who will be attending the Graveside Service will depart the Parish for the Albert G. Horton, Jr. Veteran's Cemetery, in Suffolk. Dave will receive military honours there, followed by a brief service on the part of the Church.

In the same sense that Dave is now preparing to meet his Lord, so, too, are we, through the benefit of the Season of Advent. Just as has the weather, our colours have turned dark, we being bound in our penitential Violet vestments. This is a Season in which we reflect and repent upon and for our sins. Make this work your chief occupation, now, that ye may obtain that greater reward, then. I remain

in His praise,

The Rev'd Canon. T. L. Crowder

Pastor, Saint Matthew's Parish