Anno Domini 2025 November 29

Beloved of the Lord:

Today is Saturday, 29 November, in the year of our Lord 2025. The scheduled services are as-follows:

• Sunday (tomorrow): 8:30 &10:00 AM, Mass, Advent I.
  Immediately following the 10:00 Mass, monthly Parish Brunch, Park Lane Tavern, 4200 Kilgore Ave., Hampton.
• Monday: 10:00 AM, Mass, S. Andrew, Apostle & Martyr.
• Tuesday: 5:30 PM, Mass, Feria. 6:30 PM, Holy Rosary & Sung Evensong.
• Wednesday: 12:10 PM, Mass, S. Francis Xavier, Confessor.
• Thursday: 6:30 PM, Sung Evensong, Holy Communion, Soup & Study. (S. Peter Chrysologus, Bishop, Confessor, Doctor).
• Friday: 9:00 AM, Mass, S. Sabas, Abbot, with the Gregorian Canon.
  Immediately following, Veneration of the Blessed Sacrament.
• Saturday: Holy Communion. (S. Nicholas, Bishop & Confessor)
• Sunday: 8:30 & 10:00 AM, Mass, Advent II, Comm. S. Ambrose, Bishop, Confessor, Doctor.

PLEASE NOTE that after the 10:00 Mass tomorrow, we will have our monthly Parish Brunch. We will leave directly after Mass, and proceed to the Park Lane Tavern in Hampton, address above. There, we shall break the fast together, as brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus had ought to do!

Commencing tomorrow, we will have Greens on the Altar, but no flowers. Advent is a Violet (penitential) Season in Holy Church, and as such, is not primarily joyous, but somber, in tone. Donations may still be made for the greening of the Altar, just as we do for the flowering. Please indicate the thanksgiving, memorial, or other sentiment that you wish to appear in the bulletin, by printing it on your envelope

Happy New Year! Tomorrow will be the first day of the new Christian Year. We will begin with reflection, in Advent. Our sin necessitated His coming into this World. As we ponder this, and our individual failings, and how we may yet better them, we prepare for Christ Mass.

We will then move to the now, at Christ Mass. The immediacy and constancy of His Coming. What that means to- and for us, and our due response this this grace.

Lastly, the basic and yet never-ending nature of Epiphany ~ the ceaseless revelation of our God to us. 'To look for Him in all things and places, and at all times. He teaches us all things, if we will but hear Him.

All of these processes ~ the trinity of them ~ is eternal. Never-ending. And all for our sakes. This first half of the Christian year is dedicated to the study of the life of our Lord. And so, we begin again, giving our time and our very lives over to the ways and works of Jesus, the Christ, remaining

in His praise,

The Rt. Rev'd T. L. Crowder

Pastor, Saint Matthew's Parish