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HIghbrook Hundred 2024

Tickets for this year’s Highbrook Hundred Club season are now on sale!

One ticket of £12 buys you a number which is entered in every draw throughout the year with a first prize of £25.  If we sell enough tickets then we’ll be able to add more prizes. Draws are on the first Sunday of the month immediately after Evensong. There’s no limit on the number of tickets you can buy and all proceeds go to the work and upkeep of All Saints’ Highbrook.  Download your form here  or pick up a form from the table at the back of church.

First draw will be after Evensong on Sunday 9th April.  For further information speak to Heather Chapman or please Hand or post completed forms and payment to Mrs Heather Chapman. Whitestone, Highbrook Lane, West Hoathly, RH19 4PL. If you’d like a specific “lucky” number please let Heather know soon.

Last year the Hundred Club raised over £300 – many thanks to everyone who bought a ticket (and there’s still the March draw to go so if you haven’t been lucky yet this month could see your ticket come up!).

Thank you!

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Lent Course 2024.

This year’s Lent Course will take place at West Hoathly Vicarage, North Lane RH19 4QF on four Saturdays during Lent. Each session will start at 11.30am and end with the option of staying for a simple lunch.

Rev’d Heather will be leading 4 reflective sessions in Lent based on the book ‘Lent in Plain Sight’ by Jill Duffield – which is a devotion through ten objects.

You can buy the book if you like but you don’t need to as Rev’d Heather will be adapting it to form four sessions and will provide the relevant material for each session. The sessions will each be stand-alone so if you can only make it to one morning that’s fine!

In order that sufficient materials and lunch can be prepared for each session, please let Heather know if you would like to be part of the group and whether you would like to stay on for lunch. Please sign up on the sheet in either church or email: heather.wilkin78@gmail.com or ring 01342 529047.

All sessions begin at 11.30am.

Saturday 24th February
Saturday 2nd March
Saturday 9th March
Saturday 16th March.

 

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Choral Evensong for the Second Sunday before Lent.

Evensong for the Second Sunday before Lent. Watch here via youtube.

(Apologies for the camera wobble during the first reading.)
Music.
Anthem – Fairest Lord Jesus. L Sinclair Stevenson / Trad Silesian, arr. Martin How.
Congregational hymns
All creatures of our God and King. Melody from Geistliche Kirchengesang, Cologne (1623). arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958)
Immortal, Invisible. W. Chalmers Smith / St. Denio.
Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis, Charles Hylton Stewart. Psalm 65, CM Garrett.

Click here to watch.

 

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Epiphany

Chalk was blessed at our Epiphany service last Sunday. It is now available at the back of church, together with a short explanation of the tradition and a prayer. We encourage you to take some and use it to add the Epiphany blessing to your homes. We then invite you to take a photo of your blessed door and email it to Rev’d Heather. We would love to see all the homes across our parish blessed!

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Music and Readings on an Angelic Theme. Advent 2023.

The film of Music and Readings on an Angelic Theme can be watched here on youtube.

Music and Readings on an Angelic Theme. All Saints Highbrook, 2nd December 2023.

All Saints choir and guest soloist.

Accompanist Jennifer Kirk. Angel Voices. Congregational hymn.

Welcome and introduction by The Rev’d Heather Wilkin.

Angel Tidings. Choir.

The Angels appear to the Shepherds.

The Angels and the Shepherds. Bohemian Traditional Carol arranged by CH Trevor with text adapted from the writing of HA Dickinson.

The Angel. William Blake.

Softly and Gently. The Angel’s Farewell from The Dream of Gerontius by Edward Elgar. Soloist Lena Touqan.

Let all mortal flesh keep silence. Congregational hymn.

An Angel speaks to Elijah.

O Rest in The Lord from Elijah by Mendelssohn. Soloist Emma Dawson.

Verses from Hymn on the morning of Christ’s Nativity. John Milton.

Angels Carol. Words and music by John Rutter. Choir.

Touched by an Angel. Maya Angelou.

Angels. Robbie Williams.

Panis Angelicus. Choir.

Teresa of Avila’s Vision of Heaven, where angels dwell.

In Paradisum, from Faure’s Requiem.

Hark the Herald Angels Sing. Congregational hymn.

All copyrighted items performed under CCL License 649991

 

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Angels Festival

The first day of Angels Festival 2023 was busy with many visitors enjoying the angels flying in the nave whilst sipping winter warmer drinks from our pop up bar at the back of church.

We were pleased to have a full church for Music and Readings at the end of the afternoon (the film will follow shortly) and hope you all enjoyed the specially selected programme.

All Saints is open as normal for you to visit and see the installation and there’ll be a team there on Friday and Saturday evening for Angel Lates.  Pop into church during Lates and see the installation fully lit and enjoy a drink from our pop up bar or enjoy it during the peace of the day.

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Music and Readings on an Angelic theme.

This  promises to be a wonderful musical finale to the Angels Festival and Village Hall Market day. We’re promised a varied selection of music with major  highlights being Lena Touqan singing the Angel’s Farewell from Gerontius and a group of talented young singing Robbie Williams ‘Angels’  Don’t miss this very special event (free entry).

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Angels – the build begins.

The Angels Festival is coming up fast at the end of next week.  Thanks to everyone who has helped this week – we’ve achieved a lot!

The frame’s now up and in position and on Monday the Angels will take flight. If you’d like to join and be part of the project just turn up – all help welcomed!

Today this fabulous angel silhouette was put up in the churchyard waiting for tomorrow evening’s Christmas light switch on by the Village Hall Committee.  Many thanks to Pauline and team for creating it!