The Vicar's Christmas Epistle
Dearly Beloved Parishioners, I write with Tidings of Comfort and Joy,
Attached you will see a poster which proclaims the truth from above, that even in this bleak midwinter, a light shineth in darkness; our doors will be open as we celebrate this great and mighty wonder! We hope that you will not lay ybounden at home but come, all ye faithful, to our Christmas Services.
It may be that you can come, upon a midnight clear, for the First Communion of Christmas, to rejoice and be merry that unto us a boy is born. Perhaps, though, you will prefer to defer your visit until the following morning and then dutifully prime your mattin chime, though if you plan to beautifully rhyme your eve’time song, then you will have to wait until the First Sunday of Christmas on the 29th, for past three o’clock, the Vicar will be asleep in the hay.
For those of you I will not see over the twelve days of Christmas, I send my love and my prayers, not to mention my gratitude for your kindness, faithfulness and company over the year.
May Christ, who by his incarnation gathered into one things earthly and heavenly, fill you with peace and goodwill and make you partakers of the divine nature.
As ever,
Max
The Reverend Max Bayliss
Vicar
Chelsea Old Church
CONTACTS
VICAR
The Reverend Max Bayliss
vicar@chelseaoldchurch.org.uk
020 7352 5627
PARISH ADMINISTRATOR
Sophie Wilson
office@chelseaoldchurch.org.uk
020 7795 1019
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