Dear FriendsPlease find elsewhere on this page the readings and collect for this Sunday - the Festival of Christ the King - the last Sunday in the Church's Year.We have Morning Service according to Common Worship at 11 in St Andrew's and Common Worship Holy Communion at 6.30 in Discoed this Sunday.Then the following Sunday, there'll be a special service for Advent Sunday in Presteigne at 11 and I'll be sending out an Advent Special for those who receive services for use at home.A new edition of The Parish Magazine will be out next week - Roger and the team are very kindly publishing an online version as well as a paper version. Those living in England probably won't get their paper copies of the magazine until December due to lockdown, but it will be very much worth waiting for as it will be the bumper December / January issue!The details of the services we plan (and hope!) to provide at Christmas will be in the new magazine.Fingers crossed!Keep safe and wellSteve
Services in the Presteigne Group of Parishes next Sunday 22 November (Sunday next before Advent) are as follows:11 am Morning Service according to Common Worship, St Andrew's6.30 pm Holy Communion according to Common Worship, St Michael's DiscoedSocial distancing measures will continue to be in place, we must ask all those who are not medically exempt to wear masks throughout the services except when receiving communion, and we are not allowed to sing hymns or to mingle socially in church. In recent services we have been humming quietly along to hymns, following the words in hymn books as they are played on the organ.Unfortunately we cannot hold services at Lingen, Knill or Kinsham due to the English lockdown, and we cannot allow members of those congregations to attend the services in our two Welsh churches.
We have just one service in our benefice this Sunday, Holy Communion according to the Book of Common Prayer at St Andrew's, Presteigne. Social distancing will be observed, face masks must be worn unless you are exempt and we may not sing hymns, but we are very pleased that the church is open again after the Welsh lockdown.Unfortunately members of the congregations of our three English parishes are not allowed to cross the border to join us, and their churches remain closed while the English coronavirus restrictions are in place.
