The Guild of Our Lady of Good Counsel is organising carol singing in London Tube Stations, where we can also take up a collection, on several days during December.
Every year The Good Counsel Network helps to save the lives of hundreds of unborn babies. The Guild of Our Lady of Good Counsel is a charity which supports this work and can only continue this work through fundraising events like this.
If you can sing or if you just wish to help with the collecting please reply(indicating whether you are a singer or collector) with your availability for any of the following dates:
- 1st December at Oxford Circus
- 3rd December at Piccadilly Circus
- 16th December at Paddington(tube)
- 22nd December at Bond Street.
info@goodcounselnetwork.freeserve.co.uk
1 comment:
Is it appropriate to be singing carols at the start of Advent? Isn't it rather like singing Easter hymns at the start of Lent?
I appreciate the need to meet the secular world where it is at, but shouldn't we be trying to reclaim the season of Advent, rather than just fitting in with the secular view that the Christmas Season is from 1 Dec to 25 Dec (whereas the Catholic view is that it is from 25 Dec to 6 Jan)?
Ditto for Christmas parties and meals. Why do so many Catholic groups (even the more orthodix new movements) arrange Christmas parties and meals well before Christmas has even begun? It ends up spoiling the Christmas season itself in my view. Sure, it's good to have an end-of-year celebration, but please let's stop calling them Christmas parties. And let's restrict our carol singing to the week before Christmas and to the Christmas Season itself, as is the case at good churches like St Etheldreda's and the Brompton Oratory.
Paul
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