#Follow the Star This year the Church of England has launched a new Advent/Christmas digital resource to help us focus on the message of Christmas. It also gives us daily readings, reflections and prayers for the twelve days from Christmas to Epiphany. As a Church, we have signed up to use #Follow the Star as we advertise our Christmas events and services, and to help signpost our parish on the Church of England ‘A Church Near You’ website. We will be giving out #Follow the Star prayer booklets on Advent IV, Christmas Eve, Midnight Mass and on Christmas Day. These will have a reading, reflection and a prayer for each day until our Patronal Festival when we celebrate Epiphany. If you are digitally minded, can I recommend that you sign up for daily readings and reflections, which will be emailed to you from the Church of England? If you go to https://www.churchofengland.org/followthestar , you will be able to input your details so that daily emails arrive to your inbox. Why not try to spend a few minutes each day in preparation for the greatest gift of all, as we look to celebrate the birth of Christ, Emmanuel, Christ with us. Rev Anne