- Reading - Mark 13, v24-37
- Prayer, Talk - hope and fears
- So the countdown begins to whatever Christmas will be this year
- Will you travel or stay at home?
- The government says Christmas has been saved
- Is the plan enough to save it from the excess and poverty, the stresses and strains, the mental pressures?
- Advent helps us refocus on that first great mystery, God in a child who became part of a refugee family
- Rather than us saving Christmas, Christmas can save us
- Meeting God through the cries of help in our hurting world
- Our charity and pastoral work at this time of year is especially potent
- Meeting with Christ in the hungry and needy
- "Whatever you did for the least of these" Christ says, "you did for me"
- Prayers that the Government will change the plans to claw back part of the overseas aid budget
