TODAY’s Charity: During Christmas we consider refugees struggling to claim asylum. Fangamusow / Huize Agnes. Fanga Musow houses undocumented women and children in Utrecht and helps them pursue their claims. Huize Agnes in Utrecht provides temporary shelter to refugee women and their children residing in the Netherlands without a valid residence permit. They help women and their children in the areas of health, education, language and finances.HELP WANTED: A couple who are moving from Melbourne to the centre of Utrecht (temporary accomodation) are looking for help from an experienced babysitter. More information from Kit or David VL.UPCOMING EVENTS AND SERVICES:

THURSDAY:Wedding of Danielle and David

CHRISTMASWHEN Mary laid Jesus Christ upon her knees, when she searched him with her eyes, when she fed him at the breast, she did not study to love him because she ought, she loved him because he was dear: he was her Son.  His conception had been supernatural, perplexing, affrighting; it had called for faith in the incomprehensible, and obedience beyond the limit of human power.  His nativity was human and sweet, and the love with which she embraced it was a natural growth, inseparable from the thing she loved.  She was blessed above all creatures, because she loved her Maker inevitably and by simple nature; even though it needed the sword—wounds of the Passion to teach her fully that it was her Maker whom she loved.  The Son of Mary is the Son of all human kind; we embrace him with the love of our kind, that we may be led up with Mary to a love beyond kind, a selfless love for the supreme Goodness, when we too shall have climbed the ladder of the cross. Austin Farrer

Weekly Paragraphs on the Sacrament

A warm welcome to you all!Please join us for refreshments and fellowship after the service.

Daily Bible Readings – Advent 3 – December 17 to 22  Morning Prayer Evening Prayer

Monday Isaiah 62 Luke 12.35-48

Deu. 10.12—11.1 Luke 21.25-36

Circumsision

Gen. 17.1-13

Rom. 2.17-end Deuteron. 30 Romans 13

Wednesday Isaiah 63:1-6

Matt. 1:18-end

Isaiah 63:7-end

1 Thessalonians 1

Thursday Isaiah 64 Matth. 2 Isaiah 65:1-16 1 Thess. 2:1-16

Friday Isa. 65:17-end

Mat. 3:1—4:11 Isaiah 66:1-9 1 Ths.2:17—

3endSat/Epiphany

Isaiah 66:10-end

Matthew 4:12-5:16 Isaiah 49:1-13 Romans 15:8-

21

Holy Trinity DirectoryVan Hogendorpstraat 26,

3581 KE Utrechtww w. ho ly t r in i tyu t recht . n l

The Bishop of GibraltarRobert Innes (+44 20 7898 1160)

ChaplainDavid Phillips (06 124 104 31)

revdgphillips@hotmail.comAmersfoort Chaplain

Grant Crowe (06 29 97 23 03)grantcrowe@ziggo.nl

Chaplaincy AdministratorDavid Vollmer-Laarman

(0628552953) office@holytrinityutrecht.nl

Coordinator of Student MinistryErik Heemskerk: (06 311 845 90)

heemskerk.erik@gmail.comLay Pastoral Assistants:

Harry Barrowcloughharrybar@xs4all.nl

Danielle Losdaniellelos@yahoo.com

Master of the Choir and OrganistHenk Korff (06 53 13 00 86)

Wardens:Tjeerd Bijl

Kit de Bolsterwarden@holytrinityutrecht.nl

TreasurerHenry Miechielsen

treasurer@holytrinityutrecht.nlCouncil SecretarySimon Urquhart

secretary@holytrinityutrecht.nlSafeguarding Officer

Ineke Cornet (06 57175624)safeguarding@holytrinityutrecht.nl

 SacristanFrank Boneschanscher (0620061558)

Altar GuildMaria Koppenol (0645494717)

maria@allea.nl

Worship ScheduleEvery Sunday

10:30 am Sung/Choral Communion

(English) On the 3rd Sunday a healing ministry is offered after the

service

2 nd and 4 th Sundays 9:00 am Sung Holy

Communion(Dutch)

2 nd Sunday of the month

2:30 pm Choral Evensong

3 rd Saturday of the month 7:30 pm Evening Prayer &

Praise Contemporary Gospel worship and sermon

Quarterly Healing Services The next Healing Service is

January 20th 2019

Mid-week WorshipWednesdays

7:00 pm Holy Communion

Daily Offices:

Tuesday to Friday 8:00 am Morning Prayer 5:30 pm Evening prayer

Saturdays9:00 am Morning Prayer 5:00 pm Evening Prayer

Welcome to Worship!

H O L Y T R I N I T Y A N G L I C A N C H U R C H U T R E C H T

The First Sunday after Christmas

1030 December 30 AD 2018

Giotto di Bondone, Capella degli Scrovegni

She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people

from their sins.

St Matthew 1:21The First Sunday after

ChristmasService setting: Merbecke

Opening Hymn: 51 From heaven high I come to you

Our worship continues on page 1 of the liturgy booklets.

The Collects:  Almighty God, you have given us your only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him and as at this time to be born of a pure virgin: grant that we, who have been born again and made your children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by your Holy Spirit; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Psalm 45:1-7

1My heart is inditing of a ‘ good ‘ matter: I speak of the things which I have ‘ made ‘ unto the ‘ king.2My tongue is the ‘ pen : of a ‘ ready ‘ writer.

3Thou art fairer than the ‘ children of ‘ men : full of grace are thy lips, because God hath ‘ bless-ed ‘ thee for ‘ ever.4Gird thee with thy sword upon thy thigh O ‘ thou most ‘ Mighty : according to thy ‘ worship ‘ and re’nown.

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5Good luck have thou ‘ with thine ‘ honour : ride on because of the word of truth, of meekness and righteousness, and thy right hand shall ‘ teach thee ‘ terrible ‘ things.6Thy arrows are very sharp, and the people shall be subdued ‘ unto ‘ thee : even in the midst a’mong the ‘ King's ‘ enemies7Thy seat O God en’dureth for ‘ ever : the sceptre of thy kingdom ‘ is a ‘ right ‘ sceptre.Glory be to the Father ’ and to • the ’ Son : and ’ to the ’ Holy ’ Ghost;As it was in the beginning is ’ now and • ever ’ shall be : world without ’ end. A ’ — ’ men.

Epistle: Galatians 4:1-7I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

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The Gospel: St Matthew 1:18-25Before the Gospel we say: Glory to you, O LordNow the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,and they shall call his name Immanuel”(which means, God with us).When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife, but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.After the Gospel we say: Praise to you, O Christ

Sermon The Rev Dr. George WesthaverPrincipal, Pusey House, Oxford

Offertory Hymn: 67 See, amid the winter’s snow

Your offerings will be received during this hymn.

The basket is to support the work of this chaplaincy.

The blue bag is for : Fangamusow / Huize Agnes

Hymn during Communion:56 (vs 1,3,5) It came upon a midnight clear

Post Communion Hymn:74 What child is this, who, laid to

rest

Closing Hymn:91 (vs 1,5) We three kings of Orient are