The Church of England has squared up to commercial giants John Lewis, Sainsbury’s and Marks & Spencer with its bid for Christmas ad of the year.
The Church’s new two minute film “Joy to The World” features Gogglebox vicar and Songs of Praise presenter Kate Bottley and has been released on the Church’s official website and social media channels.
The film highlights the hectic life of a vicar at Christmas, combining priest, social worker, parent and dog owner up to the traditional midnight service on Christmas Eve and the magical first moment of Christmas Day.
As someone equally frazzled and exhausted at Christmas for the same reasons as her, I enjoyed this. However, Fr Terry Pedantic-Tee notes that the vicar was also too rushed to change the altar frontal from Advent purple to Christmas white or gold. Tut!