Weekly Notices 14th December, 2025
THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT, Year A
14th December, 2025
Tonight
6.00 p.m. Choral Evensong & Benediction
Introit: Drop, drop, slow tears, Gibbons
Responses: Plainsong
Canticles: Second Service, Moore
Anthem: Locus iste, Bruckner
Voluntary: Ciacona in E Minor, BuxWV 160, Buxtehude
P.M.F. Choirs, dir. James Day
Mass: Third Week of Advent, Year 2
Tuesday 8.00 a.m. Feria
Tachbrook Mews, Telford Terrace
Wednesday 9.10 a.m. School Mass
5.30 p.m. No Choral Evensong
Returns 21st January
6.30 p.m. Feria
O Sapientia – O, Wisdom
Upper Tachbrook Street
Thursday 9.30 a.m. Feria
O Adonaï – O, God Most High
Tintern House, Tyrell House
Friday 9.30 a.m. Feria
O Radix Jesse – O, Root of Jesse
Turpentine Lane
Saturday 9.30 a.m. Feria
O Clavis David – O, Key of David
Vauxhall Bridge Road, Warwick Square Mews
FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT Year A
8.00 a.m. Said Mass (trad. language)
Warwick Square
10.30 a.m. Sung Mass
O Oriens – O, Daystar
Parish & Congregation
6.00 p.m. Evensong and Exposition
Notices
your giving
If you wish to give to the work of our church, please contact Fr Owen or the wardens via the website. To learn more about regular giving, please ask to be referred to James Farmer. To give online, please use the Zettle card reader.
GDPR
The Parish’s GDPR General Notice is published in hardcopy on the noticeboard at the back of church. For further information, please contact James Farmer.
this week
Wednesday: Last time this year: Sung Compline and Social, 7.00 p.m., every Wednesday, especially for ages 18-35, with opportunity to learn Plainsong.
Thursday: Parish Study Group at 7.00 p.m., 30 Warwick Square. All welcome.
looking forward
Tuesday, 16th and Thursday, 18th December:
7.00 p.m. Nine Lessons and Carols by candlelight
Mulled wine and mince pies follow.
Free tickets: linktr.ee/stgabrielschristmas
Christmas Church Decoration: from 10.00 a.m.,
Wednesday, 24th December. If you cannot come then but
would like to help, please see Fr Owen.
Christmas Eve
4.00 p.m. Crib Service
with members of the St Gabriel’s Choir
11.00 p.m. Sung Midnight Mass & blessing of the crib
Christmas Day
8.00 a.m. Holy Communion (trad. language)
10.30 a.m. Sung Mass (inc. Haydn’s ‘Little Organ Mass’)
International Friends of St Gabriel’s
If you live outside the UK and are interested in what goes on
at our church, please consider joining this new Facebook
group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2813330592189047/
Confirmation & Exploring our Faith
We look to begin preparing for confirmation & exploring our Faith in the near future. These are open-ended times with no obligation to go forward to confirmation. If you are interested, see Fr Owen.
Concerts
St Gabriel’s Concerts
English Baroque Choir
Handel’s Messiah Part 1 plus Carols
Conductor Harry Bradfield
There will be a retiring collection for
Bowel Research UK
Saturday 20th December
7.30 p.m.
MedyArte Charity Concert – Christmas by Candlelight
Vivaldi, The Four Seasons; music from The Snowman, Love Actually; other festive favourites
Soloists and graduates of the Royal Academy of Music
Monday 22nd December
6.30 p.m.
Tickets from https://fixr.co/event/christmas-by-candlelight-medyarte-charity-concert-tickets-361818337?lang=en-US, or £5–£15 on the door (pay what you can)
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If you would like to learn more about the Christian Faith, perhaps with a view to Christening or Confirmation, please see Fr Owen
