Our next church cleaning party is Thursday 23rd February from 11am-2pm with a focus on making the brass sparkle! Join us for as little or long as you like, we’ll bring coffee, you bring dusters, brushes or whatever you’d like to use! (there are plenty of jobs away from the brass).Together we can make All Saints’ shine.
Valentine’s coffee morning.
Valentine’s coffee morning in Highbrook. 10.00 – 12.30
Come and join us for a coffee and cake at our monthly coffee morning on Tuesday 14th February, at Highbrook Village Hall from 10.00 until 12.30.
Open to all residents and friends of Highbrook with no agenda, just bringing the community together for a chat with neighbours and friends
Admission free, (donations towards hall running costs will be very welcome)
Highbrook 100 Club relaunches.
We’re relaunching our Hundred Club with the first draw for £25 scheduled to take place after Evensong on Palm Sunday.
£12 buys a ticket for the whole year and draws will take place monthly after Evensong.
Download an entry form here or speak to Heather.
No printer? Either pick up a form from the table at the back of church or write your name, address, email and phone number on a piece of paper and put it in an envelope and hand it to Heather (cheques to All Saints Highbrook). And yes, you can have your lucky number if it’s still available!
Choral Evensong for Septuagesima. 5th February 2023.
Watch Choral Evensong for Septuagesima via this link to youtube.
Led by Canon David Tickner.
Music includes
For the Beauty of the Earth (Dix, Conrad Kocher 1786-1872)
Magnificat (Wiliam Knyvett 1752 – 1822)
Nunc Dimittis (William Dyce 1806 – 1864)
Psalm 9 (Sung to Melita, William Bacchus Dykes 1823 – 1876)
Choir Anthem – O Lead me Lord (Samuel Wesley 1810 – 1876)
Immortal Invisible God only wise (St Denio, trad. Welsh)
Choral Evensong for Candlemas 2023.
Watch Choral Evensong for Candlemas via this link.
Service led by Canon David Tickner.
Music includes Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis by Hylton Stewart (choir)
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind, Sir Hubert Parry (congregation)
Holy, Holy, Holy. Schubert (choir)
Christians Lift up your hearts, Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Church cleaning this Thursday, 29th December.
If you’re in need of a post-Christmas work out (or, whisper it, an escape from your household) join us for our monthly church cleaning session this Thursday. We’ll be focussing on clearing the Chrismas candles and chipping off the wax spots from the floor and wherever else they’ve landed.. We’ll meet at 11am and be there ’til 3pm with a break for lunch. Coffee and tea will be provided. Drop in and join us for a while – all help is much appreciated. Bring your own scrapers, dusters etc.
Good news!
We’re delighted to have received some very good news from the Diocese at a recent meeting with the Archdeacon. Our parish profile (which will be used to advertise for a vicar) has been received warmly, as has our intention to pay our full parish share for at least the next two years. Consequently the Bishop and Archdeacon have agreed that the lengthy suspension of our parish will now lapse and the Diocese will advertise for a full time priest in 2023.
Carols by Candlelight 2022.
We enjoyed a wonderful Carols by Candlelight last Sunday led by Canon David Tickner.
If you weren’t able to be with us then you can watch the service here on youtube
Many thanks to our wonderful choir and our terrific team of readers for creating such a special service for us to enjoy.
Music.
– Once in Royal David’s City. Solo, Choir and Congregation. – The Sussex Carol, Choir. Traditional words, Tune heard by Cecil Sharpe and Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1919 sung by a lady at Monk’s Gate c 3 miles south of Horsham – hence its name “The Sussex Carol”.
-Unto us is born a Son, King of Quires supernal.Choir and Congregation.
– O little town of Bethlehem. Choir and Congregation. – There is no Rose. Choir. Medieval words, composer John Joubert (1927-2019).
– See amid the winter’s snow. Choir and Congregation.
– In Dulci Jubilo. Choir. Composer R. Pearsall (1795-1856).
– Hark the Herald Angels Sing. Choir and Congregation.
-The First Nowell. Choir and Congregation. – Carol of the Bells. Choir. Tune – a Ukrainian Folk chant set by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych in 1914. Dedicated to all Ukrainians and particularly those staying locally and their families and hosts.
– Good King Wenceslas. Choir and Congregation. king Wenceslas was a legendary Bohemian King who gave to the poor. Composed in 1853 at Sackville College in East Grinstead by then Warden JM Neale.
– We wish you a Merry Christmas. Choir and Congregation. Traditional, West Country.
Readings.
1. Isaiah 9.2, 6-7 The Prophecy of The Messiah’s Birth.
2. Micah 5. 2-4. The Messiah will be born in Bethlehem.
3. Isaiah 11. 1-9. Kingdom of Peace.
4. Luke 1. 26-38. The Annunciation to Mary.
5. Matthew 1. 18-25. St Matthew tells of the Birth of Jesus.
6. Luke 2. 1-7. St Luke tells of the Birth of Jesus.
7. Luke 2. 8-16. The Shepherds go to the Manger.
8. Matthew 2. 1-11.The Magi are led by the star to Jesus.
9. John 1. 1-14. The Incarnation of the Word of God.
Christmas card Tree
This year you’re invited to send your Highbrook friends and neighbours a Christmas message by writing a card and hanging on the tree at the back of All Saints’. A donation towards the cost of the tree can be left, if you like, in the donation box just inside the door.
Church Working Parties in November
Many Thank to all who took park in the recent working parties in the Church yard and Church. The shrubs that had got very large have been cut away from the south wall of the Church ready for the Christmas lights. Inside the Church is sparkling and ready for Christmas, there is a lovely smell of wood and brass cleaner. well done everyone