The Fund-raising Renovation Committee will meet on Wednesday, 28th March, 2012 at 5.0 pm in the church Hall. Subsequently the Chaplaincy Council will meet at 6.15 pm also in the church hall.
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AGM News
April 30, 2008The Annual General Meeting for Holy Trinity was held on Sunday, 27 April. At that time five new council members were elected: Ted Dexter, Ann Hyde, Pat Fortune, Liam Ginn, and Catherine Gardie. Congratulations to each and all good wishes as you join a fine group of folks working very hard to support the church community.
Also at the meeting, Peter Vancanah finished and retired from his term as Church Warden. He worked diligently and devotedly for Holy Trinity during his tenure. Many thanks go to him for all of his efforts. And elected as new Church Warden was Geoff Treloar. Geoff has been on the Council for several years and will make an excellent Warden as well. Congratulations, Geoff.
Many thanks to all of these folks willing to work with and for Holy Trinity in so many ways.
Children’s Corner invitation
January 13, 2008Please let folks who might be interested know about the Children’s Corner that began in early December here at Holy Trinity for age groups 3-5 years and 6-8 years!
Led by teams of accredited members of the Church, Children’s Corner begins at 10h50 on Sundays and is held in the Church Hall.
The team tells well-known Bible stories using excellent material from various church publishers. These
materials are used by many Christians throughout the English-speaking world and include songs, pictures, pasting, games, colouring, etc. Children are accompanied to join their parents in church at around 11.30 a.m.
For further info e-mail: Carole (labro@math.unice.fr) or telephone: Mary, 0493 81 22 88.
Parking possible near the Church Hall
Children’s Corner to open 2 December
November 26, 2007The Chaplain and members of Holy Trinity Anglican church in Nice are delighted to be able to invite parents of young children to bring them along on Sunday mornings when a special CHILDREN’S CORNER will be held in the Church Hall during the Sunday service. The Corner will be led by teams of accredited members of the church for age groups 3-5 years and 6-8 years and will commence on Sunday morning at 10.50 a.m.
The team will be telling the well-known Bible stories and using excellent material from various church publishers. These materials are used by many Christians throughout the English-speaking world and include songs, pictures, pasting, games, colouring, etc. Children will be accompanied to join their parents in church at around 11.30 a.m.
Tentative date set for Annual General Meeting
November 26, 2007The proposed date for the next AGM meeting of Holy Trinity is 27 April, 2008. More information to follow.
Spring Newsletter just released
April 19, 2007
The Spring edition of the quarterly newsletter was just released and can be gotten most Sundays after the 11h service with a contribution to the church Preservation Fund.
The features in this issue include…
–an Easter message from our Bishop, The Right Reverend Geoffrey Rowell
–a poem, “In the Upper Room”
–a Report from the Convention of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe
–an announcement of Father Ken’s appointment as Archdeacon of France
–News of the Autumn Sale, the Church-cleaning day, the Retreat at Laghet, the 50th Anniversary of the British Association
–Upcoming news about the Annual General Meeting and Sunday schools
–Part 2 of “The Scallops of St. James or A Short Walk in Northern Spain”
–”New Zealand–Put it on your list”
–Humor
–People
–News from St. Hugh’s in Vence
–upcoming Festivals and Feast Days
…40 pages packed with goodies!!
Annual Meeting
April 15, 2007The Annual Meeting of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Nice will be held in the hall on Sunday, 29 April 2007 after the church servicel.
A Christmass Letter from our Diocesan Bishop
December 27, 2006Some two months ago, on a rare Sunday in England, I was presiding at the Sunday morning Eucharist in an old and beautiful Sussex village church. The parish priest and his wife had invited me to baptize their new baby boy whom they had named “Theodore”, which means gift of God – this was probably more appropriate than the name of a baby I baptized a year or so earlier, who had been called simply “Theo”, which means “God”.
By one of those happy chances, the Gospel reading was from the ninth chapter of St Mark’s Gospel. Mark tells how Jesus having heard his disciples disputing as they walked together were along the road, knew that they had been arguing about who was the greatest. So he takes a child and sets the child in front of them and says in effect this little child is the greatest. If you want to be great, you must be like this little child. As a visual aid, I asked the vicar to stand up with his tiny baby in his arms and said that the greatest in this congregation is this little child.
In the Acts of the Apostles we are told that when Paul and Silas came to Thessalonika on their missionary journey, they were complained about as the men who had turned the whole world upside down. But it is God who turns the world upside down in its assumptions, its pretensions of power, its self-aggrandisement. At Christmas a little child, a fragile, vulnerable, new-born baby is set in the midst of us; the one who has the whole world in his hands, turning the world upside down. As his mother Mary sings in her Magnificat, “He has put down the mighty from their seats of power and has lifted high the humble and meek.”
It is of this that our Christmas cribs remind us. When St. Francis of Assisi in the thirteenth century made the first ever Christmas crib for the poor and illiterate people of Greccio, it was to set before them this amazing grace and love of God; the God who turns our worldly expectations upside down.
The wonder, the overwhelming wonder of Christmas, its enduring magic and mystery, is this astounding reaching out of the love of God to the world and to each one of us. To enter the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem the doorway is so low that you have to stoop to enter. The baggage which all of us carry, of status, pride and possessions, must be left behind if we are to come and adore the child in the manger. Our God is not an autocrat, a powerful tyrant, like a Roman emperor or a Victorian headmaster, though sadly the Church (and for some people their own families), have distorted God in this way, our God is a God, who as St. Paul says, “empties himself”, “makes himself nothing”, stoops down to the lowest part of our need. He comes into the world in a filthy, dung ridden-cave for cattle. His family flee from massacre and terror to be asylum seekers in Egypt. He is among the outcast and the marginalized, and at the end he dies an excruciating death between two thieves outside the holy city, condemned by religious leaders and political power brokers alike.
So “he humbled himself”, made himself nothing, and of him we dare to say, yes, here is God. We call it ‘incarnation’, the enfleshing of God, God taking our nature upon himself. The Creator in a free outporing of re-creating love for a world gone wrong, for human beings who think themselves little gods, for men and women enslaved to greed or drugs or distorted desire, comes down to the lowest part of our need. And why? That we may find in that love ‘”so amazing, so divine” the very thing for which we were made, that which reaches out to change and transform us, to draw us to share in that love, to become Christlike, to be even, as St Peter tells us, “partakers of the divine nature”? Perhaps there was a sense in which the child I baptized as ‘Theo’ pointed us to Christian truth after all.
May the God of this surpassing love and wonder, who came to us at Bethlehem and took us by the hand, bless you all this Christmas and fill your lives, even in the darkest places, with his grace and his glory.
+Geoffrey Gibraltar.
