Rockland All Saints

First of all, a very happy Christmas and a peaceful and healthy 2025 to all our friends from across the two benefices from all at All Saints’ PCC. After ~3 somewhat challenging years, we have finally got a new priest-in-charge in 2024 and we welcome Revd. Tori to our fold with open arms! Next year is looking good!

Very many thanks to all who came to the Advent Sunday carol service on December 1st, to hear Archdeacon Steven Betts preach. We are especially grateful to John Brown and St Peter’s PCC for allowing us to use their larger (and warmer!) church for the service. Thanks too to all who provided delicious cakes etc for us to nibble on during the ‘chat’ at the village hall afterwards and for providing teas and coffees. All those I have spoken to found it a very productive morning and it was lovely to socialise with people we hadn’t met before.

At RAS we held the annual Christingle service in the afternoon on December 15th. We were so pleased to welcome 96 people to the service (46 youngsters and 50 adults) , most of whom are not regular worshippers. Rocklands School choir sang beautiful renditions of ‘A little road to Bethlehem’ and ‘When Santa comes to town’ all a cappella….and all the children from all year groups remembered every single word and hit the correct notes in the right order!! When the Christingles were lit and we could see all the little faces in the candleglow , and they sang ‘Away in a manger’ as generations of children have done before them at that very spot, there was an amazing sense of history and magic. The collection for The Children’s Society was made up to £100 by the PCC.

We have no services in January, as without electricity it is hard to make the church comfortable, so, after the ‘Midnight Mass’ on Christmas Eve (10.30pm) our next service will be Candlemas on February 2nd. This is an informal service which is always fun and lively….but please wrap up warm!

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