The Ancient Faith for a Modern People
Bulletin
St. Andrew’s Parish
Mission Statement
A Parish of the Diocese of Quincy
Meeting at 3501 Central Avenue
P. O. Box 90201, Nashville, TN 37209
The Very Rev. James M. Guill, SSC, Rector
Church Phone: 292-9935
Email: standrewsnash@gmail.com
Website: standrewsnashville.org
Our mission is:
“to restore all people to unity with
“God and each other in Christ,”
in an Anglo-Catholic parish
with a rich tradition of community
within the full scriptural and
sacramental life of the church.”
Year C
Sunday, December 6, 2015
2nd Sunday of Advent
8:00 a.m. — Choir Practice
8:30 a.m. — High Mass with Homily
9:30 a.m. coffee
10:00 a.m. — Rector’s class
Welcome, Visitors!
We extend a most cordial welcome to our visitors. Please use the Visitor’s Guide in the pew to
follow our service. As you enter the Lord’s House, be thoughtful, be silent, and be reverent. PLEASE
REMEMBER TO TURN OFF ALL CELL PHONES AND PAGERS. Before Mass, speak to the Lord; during
Mass, let the Lord speak to you; after Mass, speak to the Lord through one another, as you join the
Parish Family for fellowship in the Parish House. Remember to sign our guest book, please!
ADVENT LESSONS
AND CAROLS
We will have a service
of Advent Lessons and Carols
this year on Gaudete Sunday,
which is December 13 this year.
We will invite the RWENA folks
as well as our friends at
Concordia. The service will
begin at 4:00 p.m. that afternoon,
and there will be a nice reception
for everyone in the undercroft
afterwards. Please plan to be
here and support our fine choir
and organist and the time they
will put in for practice!
ST. ANDREW’S OUTREACH
MINISTRIES
For some months now,
Fr. Roger Allen, Randy Watjen
and Ken Pitts have been
providing an Anglican Low
Mass every Tuesday night for
the residents of Windland’s
South apartments at 3800 Sam
Boney Drive off of Nolensville
Rd across from the Zoo entrance.
The service begins at 7:00 p.m. If
you’d ever like to attend a
service, call Randy at (731) 2279751. This is where he lives, and
he will meet you and escort you
to the service.
Fr. Allen also has a
service at Room for the Inn on
Thursday mornings at 10:30 a.m.
Fr. Allen functions under the
authority of a license from Bp.
Morales and under Fr. Guill in
the Nashville Deanery.
LOOKING AHEAD
We will have Christmas
Lessons and Carols Christmas
Eve at 8:00 p.m., with our
Christ’s Mass beginning around
8:30 p.m. for our Christmas
Service.
That following Sunday,
December 27, at 3:00 p.m., we
will have a special event: our
own John Carpenter will present
a one-man performance of
Dicken’s immortal A Christmas
Carol. He will hold this in the
Undercroft/Fellowship Hall,
and the event will be open to our
friends at Concordia and
RWENA. At the conclusion of
the 1 ½ hour play, John will
discussion this classic against the
background of the Christmas
story, which will be very
appropriate for the 1st Sunday of
Christmas!
THE “O” ANTIPHONS
The weekdays of the
week before Christmas
beginning December 16 have
been especially enriched by the
use of a series of antiphons for
the Magnificat. In Latin they
begin with the vocative “O”
(whence the name). They are a
very unique work of art and a
special ornament of the preChristmas liturgy. Each “O”
Antiphon combines a laudatory
invocation of the expected
Messiah with a petition of this
coming as Savior. Much is made
of these “Great O’s of Advent”
in monasteries and those
cathedrals where the divine
office is well sung, but in
ordinary parish churches much
of the biblical content of these
mosaic compositions is lost to
the ordinary people.
A copy of these
antiphons, to be said or sung
before and after the Magnificat
at Evening Prayer, is available
from the office. You might want
to make use of them along with
The Magnificat from Daily
Evening Prayer on page 65 of
The Book of Common Prayer in
your own personal devotions.
ISLAM
AND
CHRISTIANITY
We continue our study
of Islam and Christianity this
week with discussion of the life
of Mohammed in The Sira as
edited by Dr. Bill Warner, head
of the Center for the Study of
Political Islam. We will be
delving into more original
sources of Islam in the coming
weeks.
RECTOR’S
DISCRETIONARY FUND
Please remember that
the open offering from the first
Sunday of each month goes
toward the Rector’s
Discretionary Fund.
END OF YEAR PLEDGES
The end of the year is
fast approaching and we are
slightly behind on our pledge
contributions. Please remember
that any pledge money you wish
to claim on your 2015 income tax
returns must be turned in by
noon December 30th at the latest,
so it can be deposited in the
bank by the end of the year.
ADVENT COLLECTION FOR
CHRISTMAS
Because we will be
using the Christmas decoration
plans of Concordia, our Advent
collection will not be primarily
directed to Christmas Eve
flowers. We will have two vases
of flowers for Christmas, but
Concordia will supply the
wreaths, poinsettias and advent
wreath. Please make your
advent donations as memorials
as you wish, and your
memorials will be in the
Christmas service sheet. Any
excess memorials will be used
for flowers for 1st Sunday of
Christmas, and to cover the
shortfall in our flower fund.
IT’S ADVENT-HAVE YOU
REVISED YOUR WILL?
As we read in the
rubrics on page 445 of the BCP,
“It is the clergy’s duty to instruct
the people…about the duty of
Christian parents for the
wellbeing of the families, and all
persons to make their will”. As
we prepare for the Second
Coming during Advent, it is a
good time to contemplate this
duty.
Other Items
Confessions: Please call Fr. Guill to schedule your confession at any time.
During the penitential season of Advent, we have the Advent Wreath.
The Nursery Worker volunteer for this week is Carolyn Story.
The Old Testament Lector for High Mass this month is John Carpenter. Next month’s lector is Doris
Hendrix.
The Coffee Time Last Sunday was courtesy of Doris Ann Hendrix.
Mon., Dec. 7: Ambrose, Bp. of Milan, 397(white)
Tues., Dec. 8: Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (white)
10:00 a.m. Bible Study
11:00 a.m. Morning Prayer
7:00 p.m. Low Mass at Windland’s South, 3800 Sam Boney Drive, Nashville, TN 37211
Wed., Dec. 9: Advent Feria (purple)
Thurs., Dec. 10: Advent Feria (purple)
Fri, Dec. 11: Advent Feria (purple)
Sat., Dec 12: Jane Frances de Chantal, 1641(white)