A Corporate Act of Prayer Members of the Society are encouraged to join together in saying the following Collect at the same time in their own homes, at 10.00 p.m. each Sunday evening.
THE COLLECT OF THE SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY O LORD, we beseech thee, let thy continual pity cleanse and defend thy Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour, preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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vicar Confirmed speakers: The growing popularity of e-mail bulletins The Rt Revd the Lord Williams of listing current clergy job vacancies in churches Oystermouth (keynote address); using the Book of Common Prayer for services Dr Bridget Nichols; means that 100 subscribers now are receiving the Revd Robert Mackley; details of around 40 vacancies every week. Dr Fraser Watts; The free service launched four years ago by the Revd Margaret Widdess the Prayer Book Society details the nature of each vacancy as well as the church and the The speakers will consider: diocese in which it is located. It also provides an • Penitence in the Prayer Book structures and indication of the extent to which the Book of liturgies of Divine Worship Common Prayer is used currently. Online links • The Commination (appointed for Ash Wednesday) to individual advertisements are provided, and • Penitence in the Prayer Book as a basis for mission the closing date for applications is stated where • Penitence in the Prayer Book as a basis for known. The names and details of clergy who use personal piety the e-bulletin to review or apply for vacancies • Resonance with the individual and society are kept strictly confidential by the Society, which does not disclose them to parishes or any Further details to include venue, booking other third parties. arrangements, directions etc. in due course; but please save the date now .
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3 Didsbury and learning to love the Prayer Book Nick Bundock his morning I want to talk to you about St ‘the best type of Christianity’, but by its very James, Didsbury, in the most southerly corner brokenness to point to the universal Church of the diocese of Manchester. The parish is the wherein all have died. lTast before reaching Chester diocese, and the upper reaches of the river Mersey form the boundary This is very much the soul of St James and between the two episcopal sees. St James is part of Emmanuel, Didsbury. A church which, as I will show the united parish of St James and Emmanuel. Many of you, has a curious limp born of greatness and you will have heard of St James’ more famous sister, profound weakness all at the same time. Emmanuel, which has been home of the Daily On 30th November 1585, some 300 years after Service on Radio 4 since the early 1990s. But today St James’ Church was founded, a baby called Edward we bring the great aunt, the forgotten church, out Barlow was baptised, who in 1607 converted to from behind her famous sibling—today is St James’ Roman Catholicism and became a priest. Some 35 moment in the sun. years later Barlow was hanged, drawn, quartered and My story this morning is one of rediscovery. then boiled in oil. His head was then placed on a It’s also the flourishing of joy and the discovery of spike. Ambrose Barlow was canonised in 1929 and is the ancient, the enduring and the unexpected. one of the so-called Forty Martyrs of England and It’s also quite an ordinary tale. I don’t come with Wales. stories of the miraculous, just the quiet and very I mention this fact in order to illustrate that not ordinary life of a small Church of England parish as everyone at St James, Didsbury has had an easy it winds along its God-given pathway. relationship with Cranmer’s Prayer Book, but I can The parish I serve reminds me in many ways of also reassure you that our current observance is far the Anglican Church beloved by the former more peaceable. archbishop Michael Ramsey, who in 1936 wrote: It has not gone without remark that Didsbury and Dibley sound alike—our PCC is in many ways as The Anglican Church’s credentials are its idiosyncratic and humorous as the one in Dibley and incompleteness, with the tension and travail in I’m strangely flattered when such comparisons are its soul. It is clumsy and untidy, it baffles neatness made. and logic. For it is sent not to commend itself as Didsbury is a media-saturated corner of Manchester. We have a permanent BBC studio in Emmanuel. The Chief Executive Producer of Coronation Street is a regular member of St James, as are two of the actors. St James is also the Coronation Street church of choice for occasional offices and a few years ago was host to an ITV Christmas Eve Special featuring Aled Jones as presenter. Fans of Last Tango in Halifax won’t remember, but St James acted as a set for an episode. But what of the regular congregations? We have two congregations at St James. The larger of the two is at 10.30 a.m. The Prayer Book congregation says hello! and very mixed in ages and
4 though it was being slowly pastored into oblivion. On many occasions it felt as though the congregation was just too thin to justify seating the congregation in the nave and I would bring the people up into the choir stalls in the chancel. The prophet Isaiah wrote: ‘A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.’ Most of us love the underdog. I do. St James was always the underdog next to Emmanuel and I loved her all the more for it. The 9.00 a.m. was always the underdog to the 10.30 a.m. and I couldn’t bear to see the smoking flax snuffed out. So back in 2012 a small group of us met together to pray and discern the next step for the 9.00 a.m. There was no grand revelation, no grandiose vision. But out of that meeting at the local pub came a decision. We would ask the congregation if they would welcome the return of the Book of Common Prayer. The process was fairly simple but it did rely upon the generosity of St James’ Church Tower strangers. The first of those was John Service here at the Prayer Book Society. backgrounds. They use Common Worship Order 1 John kindly answered my questions, put me in touch and have always seen themselves as the ‘main’ with local Prayer Book churches and gave me space congregation. That was certainly the case until the to ask all the silly questions that a priest who’d never smaller of the two congregations, the 9.00 a.m., used the Prayer Book as part of regular worship rediscovered the Book of Common Prayer. They have might ask. been terribly excited that I’m coming to speak to you The second kind stranger was one N. J. Inkley of this morning. I was asked how they might send their the Edith Matthias Prayer Book Trust Fund. greetings to you today. We came up with the idea of I explained our situation to the Trust and was a photograph. And here they are waving to you. delighted when we were awarded a generous grant This was taken on the Sunday of the August Bank that enabled us to purchase a set of regular and large- Holiday weekend this year. Sadly, most of the print Prayer Books. During this time, we also children are missing owing to holidays, but this canvassed the opinion of the congregation, who group has grown steadily since we rediscovered the were more than happy to give it a go. We set a date ancient book and dusted down its covers. for our first Prayer Book Communion, invited a guest I can’t tell you when the Prayer Book was preacher and commissioned the choir to sing a discarded by the people of St James and Emmanuel, communion setting and anthems for the occasion, although I imagine it was in the 1980s—no books which they duly set about fulfilling. remained in church when I arrived in 2005. The other decision we made as a steering group The 9.00 a.m. service bumbled along with a was to make the experience as authentic as possible. congregation of mainly older members and those We were play-acting, really, having fun more than who preferred to worship early and get on with the anything. But we decided to re-introduce, along with day. The service was, and still is, choral twice a the liturgy, such things as: sticking to the rubrics at month, but it was one of those services that felt as the start of the service with only the priest reciting
5 the Lord’s Prayer and Collect for Purity; beginning speaks to people? I’m not sure I know the answer, but the service at the north end of the altar table; and I wonder if this insight is significant? reciting the Ten Commandments each week. The sermon was the third most important, We did, however, produce a small card to slip followed by the music. The congregation, building into each Prayer Book to help congregants lost by the and time of day were the least important aspects of page jumps. We did this to avoid making numerous the service. Which suggests, and this is perhaps page announcements, of which I am personally not a important, that the BCP does not need to reside only fan. in ancient churches or at the early service, because Everything was set for the big launch. The service word and silence can be experienced in countryside was a tremendous success, and the first Choral and council estate alike. Communion was followed by something else that My next question again fills me with hope. had been dispensed with at some point in the mists I asked respondents if they had shared their of time: coffee. But this time we stepped up and attendance at this service with family and friends. served fresh coffee and, with it, homemade Over 90% had. Clearly there was no embarrassment chocolate brownies. This has become a regular at sharing their worshipping habits, and share it they feature of our worship since, and we now use a do. Since the Prayer Book reappeared we have gained special blend of fresh coffee and secret brownie new families, new children, an Argentinian, a Swiss recipe known only to two people. man, an American and part of the Manchester City It’s been some years since we launched our first Supporters Club. Not to mention the celebrity Stuart Prayer Book Communion. Since that time, I’ve been Hall, who, upon his release from prison, made asked to conduct a Prayer Book wedding, a straight for St James and has, over the months since churching of women service and a Prayer Book he joined us, found friendship, a home and funeral. Something of a renaissance, you might say. rehabilitation. As a priest my role is to bring God closer to the My penultimate question asked if people thought people and the people closer to God, and if the it was not important, nice but not essential or vital Prayer Book can achieve this end then I feel I have that the Church of England continue to provide fulfilled my call. Prayer Book worship. The consensus was that it was, When I found out I was going to be speaking to if not vital, highly desirable that Prayer Book worship you this morning I did some research with my be offered as widely as possible. A church without congregation. We took the opportunity of this talk to roots is hardly a church, after all. review our progress and our feelings about the Finally, I asked the congregation to tell me in re-introduction. their own words what they most loved about the I commissioned a short questionnaire. My first Prayer Book. I’ve placed their responses in a word question asked the respondents how frequently they map. Four words really stand out again and again. attended the 9.00 a.m. Prayer Book service. 55% The first is familiarity. This word speaks of close attend weekly, which is much higher than for any acquaintance and, ironically, the absence of formality. other service across the four Sunday congregations. ‘Words’ and ‘language’ were the other features on the 20% attend monthly and a similar number attend word map. This is hardly surprising but reminds us occasionally. For my second question I asked the that there is something profound and special in this respondents if reverting to the Prayer Book was a little book, and we mustn’t forget it when we return good idea. 8% said that they were unsure, 2% didn’t to our parishes this afternoon. care either way and 5% said no. But an The final big feature on the word map was a overwhelming 85% agreed that it was a good idea. word I didn’t expect, and that was ‘love’. In the short My third question was the most interesting to time we have been rediscovering the Book of me. I asked the respondents to rank the most Common Prayer, over brownies and a hot cup of important aspects of the 9.00 a.m. in order of coffee, we’ve rediscovered love. For each other, yes, preference from 1-7. The choices were: the ancient for God, certainly, but all rooted in the living and setting, the music, the liturgy, the congregation, the astounding liturgy that embodies the very essence of quiet atmosphere, the sermon and, finally, the time love—God’s love for us… of the service. Much to my surprise the top answer was the The Revd Nick Bundock is Vicar of St James and Emmanuel, quiet atmosphere, closely followed by the liturgy. Didsbury and contributes to Radio 4’s Prayer for the Day . The quiet and the liturgy—the word and the absence This is part of an address given at the of words. What is it in that presence and absence that 2016 Annual Conference.
6 Discovering the wonders of Morning Prayer ur excellent parish incumbent holds the reading BCP Evening Prayer at the same time but benefice in addition to being a full- on our own, matching the two together in a time chaplain of a neighbouring educational pleasing and prayerful harmony. fOacility. Wholly understandably, he took holiday across • St Barnabas’s Day brought us to the Athanasian July and August such that our usual Wednesday 1662 Creed, which I had not read aloud in thirty years. BCP Holy Communion (regular congregation two) I wouldn’t choose to read it every day, but it is had to be cancelled for two months; however, rather good to be reminded formally that ‘we worship than abandon Divine Service completely, my co- one God’ and that I should occasionally attempt to parishioner and I agreed to continue to meet at the articulate the Homoousion! same time each week and say Morning Prayer • The BCP Lectionary was something new to me. together. My co-parishioner is a long-standing I have tended to use a Bible study programme, member of the PBS so was keen to use the BCP rather rather than a Bible reading plan which starts at than Common Worship, and I agreed that, if we were Genesis 1 and ends at Revelation 22, and I think going to do it, we had to do it correctly. that I may have been omitting something Week One was dedicated to Morning Prayer (with important. I’m now trying to add the BCP the full morning’s psalter read ‘in course’ plus the morning psalms and readings back into my appropriate BCP Lectionary entries from the King existing arrangements (currently John Stott’s James Version), then the Litany and the Ante- Through the Bible: Through the Year and Clay Roundtree’s Communion all run straight through as one epic The Daily Prayer Rosary ). I hope to embed these service. It took 50 minutes. More senior PBS members changes in the coming weeks, and I can then add may remember this as the ‘Morning Marathon’ the evening readings in after Christmas. but both my co-parishioner and I found the whole An alternative could be to use Common Worship’s thing to be rather shapeless and strangely Revised Common Lectionary to keep in step with unsatisfactory. the wider Church, but I’m reluctant to include Week Two was Morning Prayer & Litany, followed another reference table in addition to a BCP, KJV separately by the Ante-Communion. Morning Prayer and Daily Prayer Rosary; an abundance of cross- & Litany was successful but, again, the Ante- references may interrupt the serenity of the Communion was rather unconvincing; it didn’t gain moment and will add to the inconvenience. any momentum and didn’t seem to achieve anything. • The Litany is a masterpiece of consolidated prayer It took nearly an hour. I would be interested to know and doctrine and I have not been appreciating it if other PBS members have had experiences of BCP sufficiently. People may be put off by its length but Ante-Communion which they could share. we folded it into Morning Prayer immediately Weeks Three to Eight were dedicated to a after the Third Collect, and Divine Service was straightforward Morning Prayer and Litany. The whole greatly enriched by it. The images and teaching thing took 35 minutes and the experience was link backwards into the Lessons, the Creeds and transformative. It has caused me to look again at my the Psalms, and pull it all together. The Litany is a private devotions and consider re-structuring them. treasure and it’s shorter than it looks: everyone I know that my co-parishioner and I will both be should use it! having a meeting with the incumbent to discuss how • We read Morning Prayer exactly as the rubrics we can take forward our learning points: commanded (Sentences, Introduction, General Confession, Trinity XXI Collect, Lord’s Prayer, • Routinely running the morning’s psalter in course Preces ...). I strangely felt that the Lord’s Prayer had introduced us to psalms which neither of us knew. two different emphases in the two different Common Worship tends to focus on locations even though it was the same set of individual psalms in order to illustrate a specific words. I think I have been missing something point, with the unfortunate side-effect that other valuable here which Common Worship does not psalms can be neglected. capture. • Having read BCP Morning Prayer together in • We had the freedom to alternate between and church, we were more inclined to finish the day learn all of the canticles, especially the Venite,
7 Benedicite and Benedictus which may not get without the sometimes-welcome distraction of much exposure on Sunday mornings. It was lovely crochet and quaver forced me to grapple with to pray the Benedicite on a bright summer’s some details which I can occasionally overlook. morning and link it to the Litany suffrage about Lightning & Tempests, and then on to the My co-parishioner and I hope that we can continue Thanksgiving for Plenty. these arrangements into the future, perhaps to begin • As there were just two of us, we read Divine an element of public weekday daily prayer or to use it Service antiphonally, alternating throughout and as our liturgical preparation for Holy not just for the psalms. We felt that to keep strictly Communion. Using the BCP as Cranmer wrote it to the printed roles of the Minister vs the (almost!), has strengthened my understanding of the People would have involved the Minister in a great Faith, re-introduced me to old classics, re-grounded deal of talking. By dividing the load equally but me in the ‘nuts and bolts’ of my religion and alternating the start, we both learnt the service prompted me to go off and read around the subject from the inside out and noticed connections (I’m just starting Tom Wright’s How God Became King ). which had been hitherto hidden from I would be interested in knowing more about PBS us: Morning Prayer & Litany is a service permitted members’ experiences in this area: to the laity, so we made the most of it and made it our own. • Have any PBS members had similar experiences • We started to look at the Prayers & Thanksgivings, starting a regular weekday incumbent-less service? occasionally incorporating as seemed expedient • What do PBS members think of the Ante- (e.g. Fair Weather, Rain, General Thanksgiving). Communion and/or the ‘Morning Marathon’? Again, this took us to corners of the BCP of which • What do they think of Morning Prayer & Litany as we both had only a hazy understanding. a regular combined routine service? The more we • We both had to be more organised. We both had a did it, the more the communal monastic nature of BCP and KJV, each laden with a bouquet of the office became clear to us, and the more we bookmarks (Morning Prayer, Trinity XXI Collect, began to appreciate what it can give us as distinct Psalms, Collect of the Day, Athanasian Creed from the Holy Communion. (as required), Litany, Thanksgivings, OT and two • How have members found using the daily BCP NT readings). This was a more compact approach prayer offices as part of their own regular routine? to worship but, without any extra service sheets, it Do they routinely use Morning Prayer & Litany as seemed to make the experience more intimate, preparation for Holy Communion? How do they personalised, intense and rooted. use the Lectionaries and why do they prefer one • Saying the service together as a pair, as opposed to over another? individually reading the service privately, opened • The Orders for the Visitation and Communion of up unrealised links between us, prayer, the the Sick could have a rough equivalent in readings and the wider Church. On the mornings Common Worship’s Services of Healing and when we met, I deliberately did not start the day Wholeness and for the Reconciliation of a with my own version of Morning Prayer, Penitent. When I next come to use the latter preferring to focus on the joint exercise later that services, I might ask to use the former instead. day. Furthermore, our weekday Morning Prayer & Do PBS members have experience and preferences Litany was a different experience to the normal in these choices? Sunday morning Mattins, where the flow of the service can be interrupted by hymns, notices, I have found the last eight weeks to be a refreshment, offertory collections, sermons and intercessions. and I am only sorry that it has taken me so long to All have their important places in the life of the learn that which other PBS members have known for Church but this experiment was specifically about an age; I am also grateful to my co-parishioner for praying the stripped-down weekday public steadying my nerve while our experiment found its Morning Prayer as an addition or amendment to feet. the routine of private prayer we are all doing every I’d welcome replies from any experienced PBSers day. on some of these questions, views, problems and • I am a keen individual member of the Royal ideas. Correspondence can be forwarded to me via the School of Church Music and my default position is Editor. usually worship via song, but as much as music can lift and elevate, it can also sometimes distract. Reading the whole service aloud from end to end
8 Prayers known to soldiers on the Somme to feature in this year’s cenotaph services ssistance for churches, military organisations familiar to large numbers of troops. Mattins and and others starting preparations for this year’s Evensong were widely attended at the time of acts of remembrance at cenotaphs and war both World Wars. Some of the prayers used every mAemorials on Armistice Day (November 11) and Sunday were familiar to many and also very apt Remembrance Sunday (November 13) is announced in situations of danger. by the Prayer Book Society, which has identified prayers from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer that Many of the troops will have experienced the use of would have been familiar to Church of England and psalms in Prayer Book worship, according to other Anglican troops in both World Wars. Richard, who says that Psalm 23 in particular, Coinciding with the hundredth anniversary of ‘The Lord is my shepherd’, will have been known the Battle of the Somme, the Society has provided a and loved. It was, and still is, often used in times of selection of prayers suitable for use at Remembrance- anxiety, injury or death. He adds: tide. Armistice Day this year occurs just a week before the hundredth anniversary of the end of the Battle of I am sure that, at nightfall in dangerous the Somme on 18th November. situations, soldiers with a church background The prayers range from one written for use ‘in often would have recalled from Evensong the the time of War and Tumults’ to the Third Collect for ‘Lighten our darkness’ prayer and the much- Aid against all Perils. Used during the service of loved words of the Nunc Dimittis. It opens: Evensong, it opens with the words ‘Lighten our ‘Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord.’ peace: according to thy word.’ The Revd Richard Hoyal, until recently a trustee of the Prayer Book Society, who compiled the For a copy of Prayers for use at Remembrance-tide e-mail selection, said: the Prayer Book Society at [email protected] or call 0118 984 2582. Alternatively write to the office Some of these prayers—particularly those used at Copyhold Farm. frequently by Army padres—would have been
ERRATUM: PBS Annual Report and Accounts
hose members who attended the Society’s AGM at Cambridge on 9th September will be aware that there was an unfortunate error in the accounts caused as a result of expenditure incurred by both the Edith Matthias Prayer Book Trust Fund and the Eileen Freeman Bequest being debited to T‘unrestricted funds’ rather than these ‘restricted funds’. As a result, several amendments had to be made to the accounts as published. Fortunately, none of these affected the bottom line of either the Statement of Financial Activities or the Balance Sheet. The corrections were issued in an amendment given to those attending the AGM and the accounts were then approved unanimously. Any member unable to attend who wishes to receive a copy of the amendment, please contact the Society Office. Both the Honorary Treasurer and our accountants regret the oversight prior to publication of the original document.
9 The answer to our prayer is a former stable in a rural idyll Tim Stanley former stable surrounded by fields where sheep safely graze in ancient pastures would seem to have all the right connotations for the lAocation of the office of the Prayer Book Society. And for a decade that has indeed been the registered charity’s home. Hitherto located in the back room office of a volunteer supporter’s home, the Society now has five office-based staff who occupy the former farm shop—previously a stable—on the 120-acre Copyhold Farm in Goring Heath, Oxfordshire, around four miles north of Pangbourne. ‘It really was the answer to a prayer when we The original farmhouse at Copyhold Farm started looking for somewhere affordable to base ourselves,’ says John Service, who co-ordinates the Established to encourage rediscovery and use of Society’s links with churches and clergy across the the majesty and spiritual depth of the Book of country. Common Prayer at the heart of the Church of Despite being located in a rural idyll, the Prayer England’s worship, the Society has 3,750 members Book Society’s office is well placed for easy access to across the country and 65 churches have joined as the motorway network, Reading station (less than Corporate Members. They include the nearby Grade I thirty minutes from London) and Oxford, whose Listed St Bartholomew’s Chapel in Goring Heath. three theological colleges are among the most It forms part of a fine eighteenth-century group of popular for the training of clergy. almshouses built in 1724 by Henry Allnutt, a London lawyer.
From left to right: Adrienne Syrett, Office Manager, John Service, Churches and Clergy Co-ordinator, Kaz French (and Bertie), PBS Trading, Geri Brooksbank (and Gally), Financial & Administration, and Belinda Clarke, Financial
10 Goring Heath Almshouses are adjacent to Copyhold Farm
The Society was founded in 1972 amidst course making use of the farm’s natural woodland, liturgical reform in the Church of England when it hedges and undulations. Seventy years ago the local was feared that Archbishop Thomas Cranmer’s Book woodland provided valuable cover for a secret RAF of Common Prayer—despite its continued status as supply base serving Oxfordshire’s numerous World the Church of England’s official standard of War II airfields. teaching—would fall into disuse, being replaced by When visiting the spacious farmhouse at contemporary forms of worship. Copyhold it is hard to imagine that it started life as a Now its work is bearing fruit as it reports two-up, two-down worker’s cottage, probably built growing numbers of young worshippers being in the 1670s. Since then Georgian, Victorian and attracted to Prayer Book services. Furthermore, the twentieth-century additions have transformed it into number of theological college students currently is at the pretty home it is today. one of the highest levels for years, and many of the Former occupiers include William Barefield- new ordinands in their twenties are embracing the Hutt, who was born in the farmhouse in April 1910. Book of Common Prayer enthusiastically. Bill, as he was known, celebrated his hundredth To compile the Prayer Book, Cranmer drew birthday in 2010, receiving a congratulations card extensively on his personal library of 600 printed from The Queen. He started writing at the age of books and more than 60 manuscripts. Although eighteen and became well known as the author of revisions were made in four subsequent editions dozens of books about local history. published in 1552, 1559, 1604 and 1662, the Previously, having worked as a milk boy, content of the 1662 Prayer Book in use today blacksmith and lorry driver, he set up a successful remains significantly as he wrote it. building maintenance business. During the Second Copyhold Farm—which takes its name from a World War he became an engineer and assisted the mediaeval form of feudal tenure—was one of three armed services in secret experimental work. on the former 800-acre estate owned by the Palmer Now a new chapter in Copyhold’s history is family of Reading-based Huntley & Palmers, of about to be written as the Prayer Book Society has biscuit-making fame. They sold it in 1952 and, just acquired new neighbours. Following Richard’s having changed hands over the years, it is now home decision to let more outbuildings, one is occupied by to Dr Richard Berman and his family. a saddlery maker and another is home to a furniture In addition to raising sheep, he has hosted the maker. Goring Heath Horse Trials, with the cross-country Tim Stanley is the Prayer Book Society’s Press Officer.
11 1662 and the gardener Anthony Jennings ave Our Parsonages (SOP) is devoted to the the Rural Theology Association, happens to be cause of supporting parishioners up and down descended from one, Christopher Alderson, who did the country in their battle to keep their designs for Queen Charlotte at Frogmore. His clerical tSraditional parsonage, for the benefit of both church grandfather also took pride in his four-acre garden in and community. The importance of the traditional Worcestershire, with its lake, lawns, water garden, parsonage lies not just in the house itself, but in the trees, hedges, vegetables and fruit. But he had two garden, as a place of sanctuary and recreation, where gardeners to look after it. the parish priest may welcome the local community The English Vicarage Garden (published 1988, ed. for so many gatherings and events, such as the Piers Dudgeon) describes thirty parsonage gardens: garden fetes which the hard-pressed Parochial ten from the past, chiefly Victorian, among them Church Council needs for fundraising and which are Charles Kingsley’s, Canon Ellacombe’s and Dean so good for community relations. Hole’s; ten gardens of parsonages which had been SOP itself has its AGM at a fine traditional sold off by the Church, including Jeffrey Archer’s at parsonage every year, and also an annual event Grantchester; and ten created and cared for by clergy consisting of a visit to two or three traditional still in post, including Bulwick, where Mervyn was parsonages in different parts of the country which rector at the time. Most of the gardens described are are still at the hub of the local community. A feature in rural villages, where it is likely that incumbents of these events is always the garden. Vicarage gardens would still be using the 1662 book. There are also are a delight in themselves. But is there any affinity two in cities, where it is more likely that newer forms between the 1662 Prayer Book and gardening? of service will have been used. Clearly up to the Is there some deep, perhaps difficult-to-analyse 1970s, clerical gardeners will have used 1662. It is sympathy between gardeners and the content and true that the newer services sometimes gave more style of the Prayer Book? freedom to adapt worship to the locality: in There are historical lines of enquiry. In the Bermondsey where Mervyn was then rector, and nineteenth century and before, there were many already a keen gardener, the congregation found pure notable clerical gardeners. Mervyn Wilson, a long- 1662 more difficult and preferred the ASB. standing member of our committee and a founder of There is some affinity between gardeners and
Potterne Vicarage Garden, Devises
12 1662 in the lectionary. The Old Testament Holy are needy, and our own comfort; through Jesus Communion reading for Septuagesima is Genesis 1. Christ our Lord.’ At the end of January, root growth is stirring and the ‘Relief of those that are needy’ with produce queen bee will soon be laying. This is the time of new from their large and fruitful gardens was something growth in the plant and animal world. There are no that past generations of clergy often saw as an such affinities to be found with the new lectionary. important part of their calling; nowadays only a few Rather the opposite, most noticeably at the end of the are able to follow suit. It is likely that many gardeners Church’s year. Under the old lectionary the year do prefer 1662, at least for evening. The cadences of might come to a climax with All Saints, but there was the older language are more in accord with the no mention of the new till the Sunday next before gardener’s appreciation of balance in design and Advent. To those aware of the natural seasons, harmony, in beauty of form, in bright spots of November is the deadest month, not only because of colour, in an underlying order that echoes the divine Remembrance Sunday, but because this is the time creation. There may be something of this in the leaves finally fall, and there are no signs of new modern Communion service, as well as in BCP growth, and few flowers, while the fruit has mostly Mattins and Evensong, but not in the Morning and been picked. True, this dead season for the gardener Evening Prayer of Common Worship. goes on into December, but then the Church directs Do older people see this affinity because of us to the hope beyond hope that lifts the world from associations built up over the years? Will a young despair and first hears the distant chimes of gardener see it, one who comes new to 1662, in a Christmas. Now too, hens begin to lay. church where Common Worship prevails? Is there Such affinities are lost in the new lectionary, something in the projects of the gardener whose which decides to call the first Sunday in November a concern it is to maintain harmony among the greedy Sunday before Advent. It seems open rather to a plants and to look after the ones less good at looking commercial than a natural affinity, and loses the after themselves, who dreams of Eden, where all is sense of all things ending that will enhance the new vibrant peace? Does this something find an echo in dawn when it comes. the 1662 book, published soon after the Restoration, Then gardeners and growers will most probably concerned with the recovery of peace and order and prefer BCP Evensong for Harvest. Psalm 65 and the concord after all the argumentations of the early great Victorian hymns strike chords hard to hear in Reformation, and the recent Civil War? Common Worship. They will also see Harvest as a Many are the examples of busy and embattled thanksgiving for what they have grown, and an men and women who have found peace and appreciation of the Creator. Many may be inspired to restoration in their gardens. And many have found share their plenty in just the way that one of the and still find the same in the worship of the Church, ‘occasional’ prayers exhorts: ‘O God, merciful Father with the Book of Common Prayer. … grant that we, receiving thy bountiful liberality, Anthony Jennings is Director of Save Our Parsonages. may use the same to thy glory, the relief of those that
SAVE OUR PARSONAGES Sales of old rectories and vicarages have continued unabated for more than 60 years, with the result that the historic parsonage still in church use is now a seriously endangered species. SAVE OUR PARSONAGES supports these remaining houses and encourages and advises those in the parishes who strive to preserve them. There is a feeling among laity and clergy alike that it is high time to acknowledge the importance of the historic parsonage in the life of the community. Rectories and vicarages are part of our ecclesiastical heritage, just as much as churches and the Book of Common Prayer, and like them they are major resources for parishes. Their heritage significance is matched by their practical value. They are focal points for parish life in a way that newer houses cannot be. If you can support us in our efforts please become a member. Our annual membership subscription is £15. Group memberships from parochial church councils or dioceses are welcome (additional £10 suggested). Members automatically receive our annual newsletter and an invitation to join us for our tours of traditional parsonages in different parts of the country. Donations are also much appreciated. We would like to hear from you even if you are unable to contribute. Contact Anthony Jennings at Flat Z, 12-18 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QA. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.saveourparsonarges.co.uk
13 Co-ordinator’s column John Service BCP Glossary A version specifically designed for the purpose has been placed in each copy of the BCP given to new ordinands who started training in September. Other versions can be created for different purposes, e.g. for distribution to PBS members etc.
Members, as well as with those who are potential Corporate Members. Each acrylic stand (with a sticker attached with my contact details to order further supplies of wallets) contains ten membership wallets, the contents of which are as follows:
• the personal membership application form • the ‘Why the Book of Common Prayer’ leaflet • YouTube BCP services videos promotion sheet • a photostat of the Co-ordinator’s column from The Prayer Book Today to show potential members and Corporate Members the pro-active nature of the Society’s work, especially with ordinands, clergy and readers etc.
New Membership Wallets Members are urged to request from the office a stand full of membership leaflets if they have permission to place them in a church. I have put in hand a major roll-out programme designed to place a supply of the wallets in every Corporate Member church and as many sympathetic churches (and potential new Corporate Members) as I can. To this end a database has been set up in the PBS office so that regular contact can be kept with these churches to facilitate replenishment of the acrylic stands and maintain contact with those who are existing Corporate
14 Hail and Farewell: Changes on the Board of Trustees he Annual General Meeting of the Prayer Book affections in Calvin’s Society, at which the Chairman and Trustees Commentary on the are elected each year, took place at Girton Psalms. He served his CTollege, Cambridge in September during the Annual title at St John’s, Conference. Weymouth, and will There were two retirements from the Board: shortly take up the the Revd Paul Thomas, until recently the Society’s post of Associate Deputy Chairman and a long-standing Trustee; and Minister at St John’s, the Revd Richard Hoyal. Both have made significant Woking. Daniel first contributions to the work of the Society, most discovered the Book recently in the online ‘how-to’ videos on conducting of Common Prayer Prayer Book services, and will be greatly missed. when he tuned into They are succeeded by the Revd Dr Stephen Radio 3 after Games Daniel Newman Photography: Gerry Lynch Edmonds and the Revd Dr Daniel Newman. at school and heard Stephen Edmonds (33) is from London, and the Psalms being sung on Choral Evensong, and he began his calling as a Methodist Preacher whilst a grew to love it through services at Brasenose Chapel. student at the University of Kent at Canterbury, but Daniel is married to Brooke and they currently have was drawn to the four children, Cædmon, Jerome, Reuben, and Church of England Anastasia, whom he is trying to introduce the Book through study of the of Common Prayer. Church Fathers and traditional worship at the cathedral. He further tested his vocation whilst work- ing in London, and took an MA in Theology at Heythrop College, University of London. He read for Stephen Edmonds Photography: Gerry Lynch Holy Orders in Cambridge, and took a PhD in Church History at Selwyn College, where he served as Gosden Scholar, enjoying Choral Evensong thrice weekly. He is Curate at St Bartholomew’s, Sydenham in Southwark diocese and serves on the London & Southwark Branch of the Prayer Book Society. He enjoys visits to the West Country, opera, loose-leaf tea, good coffee, The Spectator and Radio 4. He is engaged to be married to Rosie in May next year. Daniel Newman (31) grew up in Dorset and read Medicine at Brasenose College, Oxford, before being recommended for ordained ministry. Whilst training for ordination at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, he read for the Theological Tripos at Fitzwilliam College and took an MA in Christian Theology through the Cambridge Theological Federation and Anglia Ruskin University. He wrote his dissertation on the
15 Annual Conference 2016
eptember saw a return to The opening speaker of the Girton College, Cambridge Conference on the Thursday for a varied and lively evening was the Revd Dr ASnnual Conference. There was a Malcolm Guite, Chaplain of moment of anxiety when it was Girton College, who is also a discovered that Rowan Williams singer-songwriter and a was expecting to be with us on a published poet specialising in different day from that sonnets. His talk, intriguingly scheduled; but goodwill and entitled ‘Between the “Mag” and flexibility all round meant that “Nunc”: Evensong as an the planned speakers were all invitation to imaginative role able to be fitted into the play’ was based on his annual programme, albeit not in the introduction to Evensong for planned order! new students, and was This was the first year when impressive in its combination of the Conference took place from a clarity and depth. Thursday evening to Saturday On Friday morning, the lunchtime rather than Friday to Revd Dr Lee Gatiss, Director of Sunday: the purpose of this was the conservative evangelical to make it easier for clergy and Church Society, addressed the ordinands to attend, and the new Conference on ‘Cranmer on the timing appears to have been very Lord’s Supper: Evangelising a successful. Overall attendance Liturgical People’, and was well up this year, standing at emphasised the importance of 115 at the busiest time—an Some of the younger Conference-goers the Prayer Book’s scriptural increase of almost 40% on the basis. He was followed by the previous norm—and, while this was almost certainly Revd Dr Nick Bundock, Vicar of St James and due in part to the presence of the former Archbishop, Emmanuel, Didsbury in Manchester, speaking on this does not seem to have been the only factor. ‘Books, brownies and bonhomie: Didsbury rediscovers the BCP’. He described how—having had no Prayer Book worship at all for several decades—the parish had succeeded in reviving the flagging 9.00 a.m. service at St James and attracting young families through the use of the BCP, along with providing coffee after the service (accompanied by brownies, which turned out to be baked goods rather than 7-to-10- year-old girls). He displayed a photograph of members of the congregation waving to the Conference, to which of course Conference-goers responded by waving back for a reciprocal A question from the audience photo.
16 The Annual General Meeting The Conference was greatly followed on the Friday enhanced by the presence of a afternoon. In the evening, the record total of over twenty after-dinner speaker was the Rt bursary candidates, most of Revd Graeme Knowles, formerly whom were young, including a Dean of St Paul’s, prior to that number of clergy, ordinands, and Bishop of Sodor and Man, who young people discerning a remarked on the Prayer Book possible future vocation to Society’s spirit of optimism. ordained ministry. They spoke of The Revd Dr Cally how the Conference had greatly Hammond, Dean of Gonville & encouraged them, and how much Caius College, Cambridge, spoke they had appreciated the on the Saturday morning on ‘The opportunity provided by the Sound of the Liturgy’, bursary scheme. These bursaries highlighting the ways in which have been funded by generous Cally Hammond addresses the the phrasing of the Book of donations from members of the Conference Common Prayer contributes to Prayer Book Society, to whom we its effectiveness as a means of communication. are most grateful. The proceedings were rounded off by the Rt Revd Dr Thanks, as ever, go to the Conference organiser, Rowan Williams, Lord Williams of Oystermouth, Mrs Rosemary Hall, for her unfailing thoughtfulness Master of Magdalene College, and attention to detail. Also Cambridge and formerly deserving a special mention are Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr Hilary Rudge and the Revd Williams’ topic was ‘“Prevent us, Richard Hoyal, who organised O Lord…”: What the Prayer Book the Conference services; says about going where God has Benjamin Tyler, who took charge gone’, and he reminded those of the music; and Kaz French present that mission is not a from the PBS office at Copyhold human endeavour which can Farm, who set up and manned succeed or fail, but an action of the ever-popular PBS Trading God in which we participate. bookstall. Each day of the Conference Next year’s Conference was framed by worship with Practising the organ before the service will run from Thursday, 7th to hymns; but, since the Conference Saturday, 9th September 2017, was not taking place on a Sunday, it had been decided again at Girton: please put the date in your diary to reduce the number of fully sung services to make now! Prudence Dailey way for an additional speaker. Compline was sung Conference photography: George Redgrave after dinner on the Thursday. On the Friday, a choir made up of people attending the Conference supported the congregational singing of the responses and canticles at Evensong, while a smaller group of singers con-tributed an anthem. The preacher was the Revd Jim Robinson, Curate of St Wulfram’s, Grantham, whose baby son, Aubrey, provided occasional additional congregational participation, to the delight of those present. The Conference waves back to Didsbury
17 The following letter was received from Fergus Butler-Gallie, an ordinand at Westcott House who received a bursary to attend the Conference:
Madam Chairman I am writing on behalf of those of us who received bursary places to this year’s Prayer Book Society Conference. I was wondering whether you would be so kind as to pass on our most sincere thanks to those who so generously contributed to the fund that made our attendance possible. I genuinely believe we are on the cusp of a change in attitude and use of the Book of Common Prayer. Younger people in the Church, both laity and ordinands such as myself, are discovering the Prayer Book, its elucidation of doctrine, and the beauty and depths of its liturgy for the first time and with new enthusiasm. Being able to attend the Conference was an opportunity to grow in knowledge, experience, and fellowship. I have no doubt that as each of us returns to our respective preparations for ministry and engagement with the life of the Church, we will take lessons learnt, friendships made, and, above all, a rejuvenated zeal for the cause of the Prayer Book with us. Such an opportunity and the benefits reaped would have been impossible without the generosity of those who gave towards the bursary fund. Just as we are grateful to previous generations for their safeguarding of the Prayer Book tradition, so too we now offer our gratitude for their financial aid, which has enabled a new generation to bring the wonders of the Book of Common Prayer to generations to come. Please pass this most hearty thanks to those who gave so generously. Yours sincerely Fergus Butler-Gallie
We will, of course, also be repeating next year the bursary scheme, which is open to clergy, ordinands and anyone under thirty, and entitles recipients to attend the full residential Conference for only £50. Donations to the scheme will also be very gratefully received.
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18 Correspondence
Sir Bishop John Coleridge Patteson. Bishop John On Saturday, 10th June, a Thanksgiving Service was Coleridge Patteson was an assistant to Bishop Selwyn held in St Paul’s Cathedral in London to celebrate in his missions to the Pacific Islands and was martyred The Queen’s ninetieth birthday. While the pageantry on 20th September 1871. The cross is adjacent to the was, as ever, of a tremendously high standard (albeit old A30 London to Penzance road where it crosses the The Queen did arrive ten minutes late) and the music Ottery St Mary to Feniton road. Originally known as was, as expected, of exemplary quality, the content of Spence Cross, its name changed to Patteson’s Cross the service left, in my humble opinion, much to be after the erection of the monument in 1873. desired. Why, oh why, must the liturgists who design The appellation is used nowadays for both crossroads these national services insist that every visiting cleric, and monument. With its prominent location it has of whatever faith, must be somehow involved? become very useful when giving directions to drivers, Why must they include what I can only call but its value in historical terms is far greater. I should ‘entertainment’, in the form, in this case, of a rather like to make your readers aware of the current project boring piano recital and a long diatribe from the to refurbish the monument and restore it to a state in nonagenarian author of the Paddington Bear stories? which we can take pride. The Queen is Supreme Governor of the Church of The memorial has received no attention during the England. Why can she not have had the simplicity of past twenty-five years, and its condition shows an offering of Choral Mattins from the Book of increasing signs of deterioration. A local resident Common Prayer? The hymns could have been the brought this to the attention of the Ottery St Mary same; the Jubilate Deo was already included; Psalm Heritage Society, one of whose objectives is the 139 could have been sung by the combined choirs; preservation of structures of historical interest within the same anthems could have been included; the same our parish. sermon preached and the same blessing given Whilst trying to identify ownership, (although Mattins should end with the Grace). or responsibility for maintenance, of the monument The Old Testament lesson could have been Joshua 1: (with no success!), a gratifying level of interest in the 1-10, or Proverbs 8: 1-17, those suggested in the venture was expressed, so the Society undertook to Prayer Book for the Accession Service for the reigning organise a self-funding refurbishment programme. monarch. The intercessions could have included the It is planned to cleanse the monument thoroughly, Prayer for The Queen’s Majesty, the Prayer for the Royal do minor repairs to brick and stonework, replace a Family and the Prayer for the Clergy and People, all section where the inscription has been eroded, rounded up with the General Thanksgiving. Instead, highlight all inscriptions in black paint and re-paint it suffered from the unedifying spectacle of the protective railings. It must be stated that this representatives of Christian denominations and world project is a one-off initiative by the Society, and does faiths gathering around the nave altar to repeat the mantra, ‘We give thanks and praise.’ A service of Choral Mattins would have been a most fitting act of worship for such an auspicious occasion. I am sure that The Prince of Wales, Royal Patron of the Prayer Book Society, would have happily concurred with this sentiment. Yours faithfully David Fuller
Patteson’s Cross Memorial In the geographical heart of East Devon, Patteson’s Cross is the location of a unique memorial to
19 not imply ownership or responsibility for future county town of East Sussex. www.st-thomas- maintenance. lewes.org.uk As the monument is Grade II Listed, the With blessings, appropriate Listed Building Consent has been Trevor Butler, Churchwarden, obtained. The minimum funding required is £5,500, St Thomas à Becket Church, Lewes of which two thirds has been received or pledged. Further fundraising included a social event at Feniton In the next two or three months I will be moving out Parish Church on 23rd September. A short film was of London, so have been sorting out my possessions. shown, made by the Blue Peter producer Alex Leger One of the most cherished items is the Book of during the visit this year to the Solomon Islands with Common Prayer given to me by my godmother in members of the Melanesian Mission UK. This is the March 1944 when I was fourteen. Slipped into it is a real legacy of Bishop Patteson, and the memorial small, yellowing cutting from the letter page of provides a tangible reminder of his life—a place that The Independent. It reads as follows: all visitors from the Pacific Islands in particular want to see. I should be delighted to assist any of your Olivier’s Prayer Book readers who would like: further information on the Dear Sir project; to visit the memorial sometime; or to make a contribution towards the cost of this project. When in 1979 I was looking for signatures to a Thank you, petition asking for the continued use of the Book of Chris Saunders, Hon. Secretary, Common Prayer, I wrote to Laurence Olivier Ottery St Mary Heritage Society reminding him of his early years as an acolyte at All Tel: 01404 812962 Saints, Margaret Street, W.1. I received a reply which E-mail: [email protected] looked as if devised maybe by a protective secretary, pointing out that it was impossible to put a signature A note of sincere thanks to you for including news of to all the good causes soliciting his support. our Restoration Appeal in the last issue of the This letter was then crossed out in a couple of magazine; it resulted in a number of most kind exuberant strokes with the words: ‘I’ll sign!’ donations for which we are extremely grateful. It was the Book of Common Prayer which rested As with most projects of this kind, costs have increased on his coffin last Friday. as extra work has been discovered once the scaffolding Yours sincerely was erected and the craftsmen began their work. David Martin We would welcome your continued prayerful Woking, Surrey support as we seek to restore this ancient building, 15 July (1989) believed to have been built at the direct orders of Archbishop Thomas Becket, so that it remains our best From Barbara Cooper, a long-standing member of the mission tool to promote the Kingdom of God in the PBS Cranmer Awards 2017 choolchildren across the country are choosing will have memorised their chosen passages so that they prayers and readings from church services in the can speak them by heart in front of an audience of 1662 Book of Common Prayer as they prepare to more than 100, comprising parents, teachers, clergy Stake part in the annual Cranmer Awards competition. and members of the Prayer Book Society. The contest—held annually since 1989—encourages The competition attracts huge interest every year, awareness and understanding of the Prayer Book reports Prudence Dailey, Chairman of the Prayer Book created by Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury Society: ‘Many young people are struck by the beauty during the Reformation. and relevance of the Prayer Book’s language and the Last year more than 300 pupils aged between 11 way it has influenced writers like William Shakespeare and 18 took part in regional heats before twenty-eight whose plays contain numerous Prayer Book-inspired finalists competed to share £1,000 in prize money. lines.’ Each winner also received a certificate and a copy of Schools and churches wishing to nominate the Book of Common Prayer. children to compete in regional heats are asked to The venue for the national finals and awards contact the office at Copyhold Farm, call 0118 984 ceremony on Saturday, 25th February 2017 will be The 2582, e-mail [email protected] or visit Old Palace in Worcester. Prior to the event the finalists www.pbs.org.uk.
20 21 News from the Branches
Blackburn of Bury Grammar School and now who might consider themselves The Blackburn Branch Festival: a Residentiary Canon of Newcastle powerless, could make a On 14th May 2016 we marked the Cathedral. difference, he ended with the end of an era. At the AGM that The service was sung by words ‘Many a large door swings afternoon Mr Neil Inkley stood Octavius and began with Parry’s on very little hinges.’ down as Hon. Secretary and ‘I was glad’, without the Vivats as Lord Clitheroe presented Neil Treasurer after exactly thirty years The Queen was not present. with a book token to which the in office. Increasing immobility, After lunch and the AGM Neil members working with him had rather than age itself, dictated this Inkley marked his retirement by subscribed. As well as the decision. This was the Branch’s giving the customary afternoon Blackburn members present there 31st festival, going back to 1986, paper. He looked back over these were old members from Carlisle, and Neil had arranged the last thirty years, during which he had Liverpool, Chester, Newcastle and thirty. also been a Vice-Chairman of the York. The Bishop of Blackburn was The Eucharist in Blackburn Society, editor of its Newsletter in attendance and he paid his own Cathedral was celebrated by Canon and Chairman of the Branches tribute to Neil. The day ended with Dr Ian Stockton (Canon Representative Council. Choral Evensong led by Canon Chancellor), the Epistle was read He observed what had Andrew Hindley (Canon Sacrist). by the Ven. Michael Everitt happened to our Liturgy over these The carefully chosen last hymn (Archdeacon of Lancaster) and the years (and a little longer), sought was ‘Lord for tomorrow and its Gospel was read by the Revd Dr out some of the reasons and needs I do not pray…just for Mike Kirby (Cathedral Curate). suggested what our members today’. The preacher was Canon could do to make things a little The next Branch Secretary in Steven Harvey, preciously a Branch better. Blackburn is Christopher Norton, member when he was Headmaster Emphasising that individuals, previously Minutes Secretary.
22 Coventry strident. She was an intrepid Trustee, Mr Dick Wilkinson, as The Branch’s summer Evensong traveller and some said that she speaker. His address was on ‘The was held at Sherbourne on 7th was ‘Patron Saint of National Prayer Book Society Today’, and May, where we were grateful to the Express’. Widow of the late Revd amongst other points he talked Revd Neil Patterson who both Preb. F. O. Urwin, she was interred about the revival of interest in the officiated and preached. The Oken in the churchyard of St Thomas of BCP with students and ordinands, Singers in their last outing sang for Canterbury, Dodbrooke, a former reflecting an increase in support us as beautifully as ever. parish of her husband. R.I.P. for Choral Evensong. He was duly There was a crowded On Wednesday, 18th May a thanked by the Chairman. attendance at Aston Cantlow for Service of Mattins was held at St Tea was served, followed by the AGM and annual supper, the James’ Church, Avonwick, South Evensong conducted by Mr Paul latter the glorious result of the Brent by kind invitation of Mrs Colman (Reader) at St John’s work of many members, and—an Marigold Seager-Berry. The Branch Church, Bovey Tracey by kind innovation—members crossed the Chairman, the Revd Preb. Paul permission of Fr Gregory Stanton. road to the parish church at the Hancock, officiated and preached. end of proceedings and said Fr Antony Woodason read the First Lincoln Compline. Lesson. Everyone then met up at On Saturday, 24th September In June the Society was the Avon Inn for lunch afterwards. members joined the congregation privileged to visit the much- Saturday, 18th June at the of St Augustine’s Grimsby for a timbered Lord Leycester Hospital, Wickham Hall, Bovey Tracey, saw service of Choral Evensong. Warwick’s Tudor showpiece, the the Branch AGM where members Afterwards there was an home for eight fortunate retired welcomed South West Regional opportunity to view the collection servicemen. The tour was made sparkling by our guide, the Master, Lt Col Gerald Lesinski. Afterwards we said Evensong in its chapel which sits over the town’s west gate. There was another good turnout at the Chairman’s tea kindly held at her house in August. Afterwards members went to the adjacent parish church where Evensong was said. The Revd David Pym kindly officiated at the last three services.
Exeter We report the death on 7th August of Mrs Joan Urwin, who was Branch Secretary from May 1992 to July 2007 and Branch President for nine years until her death. We give thanks for all her dedicated work and support both for the Branch and the Society. Joan will be remembered by many long-standing members of the PBS. She was involved in its formative period and she identified with all the orthodoxies of the Church of England. She was always firm but had a manner which did not require her to be
23 of Bibles and Prayer Books belonging to the vicar, Fr Edward Martin. Among the treasures were a Prayer Book from 1629 and one from 1728 bound up with a Bible which was pocket size.
London & Southwark The Revd Dr Stephen Edmonds (Curate, St Bartholomew, Sydenham, Southwark), who preached at the 2015 Society Conference, was ordained to the priesthood this July. He requested to offer his first celebration of the Holy Communion for the Feast of St Thomas the Apostle according to the Book of Common Prayer. Another member of the Society, and former attendee of the followed by a tour of the church, smiling lady helper handed out Conference, was the Revd Dr tea and the most magnificent piping hot cups of tea with Thomas Plant (Vicar, St Michael, weekday Sung Evensong. Our biscuits. Many thanks to all Old St Pancras, London) who hosts were even so kind as to say involved and—for anyone reading assisted as deacon of the rite (to that it was a treat for them as well this who can visit Attleborough— the left). to have this special weekday do look round this lovely church service. and attend a service if possible. Norwich The church itself has so much AGM and Visit to St Mary’s of interest that space only allows Oxford Attleborough, 16th June 2016: the mention of a few items. The Parish Visits: The Branch struck gold for the Rood Screen catches the eye Several times a year committee second time this year with our immediately, dated around 1500 members visit local churches visit to this beautiful church, and stretching across the nave and using the BCP to give them our officially The Church of the both side aisles, a width of 52 support. Sometimes these visits Assumption of the Blessed Virgin feet. Above the screen is part of a are unannounced but on Sunday, Mary, standing in the centre of the wall painting, also dated around 1st May Branch Chairman market town of Attleborough, a 1500, and a pair of ancient Geoffrey Horne and Secretary position it has occupied for windows. There is a pulpit with John Dearing attended Evensong worship for a considerable time, carving attributed to Grinling at a church which had requested Saxon foundations having been Gibbons, stained-glass windows such a visit. This was the church of discovered. of interest, an alms box that would St Lawrence, Tubney, near Oxford. The available church leaflet have given trouble even to the We received a warm welcome states ‘You are warmly welcomed Hatton Garden raiders and an from the vicar, David Pickering, to our church’ but this proved to ancient coffin lid set in the floor and the small congregation, and be an understatement in our case. with a cross design in the form of left some PBS literature. Following The June edition of the Parish a pair of battle-axes. the service, rather than a sermon Magazine ‘The Link’ devoted a The Branch is indebted to so we heard a lecture on Ecology and whole page to the Prayer Book many people for our visit— the Bible by parishioner Prof. Jeff Society, its history and imminent among them our host, the Revd Burley from Oxford, who also arrival in Attleborough. Members Matthew Jackson, who conducted played the organ. The folk at attending included our PBS the service, and the Revd Richard Tubney would welcome Regional Trustee, Nicholas Hurst, Stanton, his curate. The organist worshippers in the locality who always a popular visitor. We were and choir were excellent. Our share their love of the BCP, which given the use of the Church guide to the church gave us much is used exclusively at St Rooms for our AGM, which was valuable information and a Lawrence’s. The church also has
24 another claim to fame. It is the PBS. The day commenced with by the diocesan authorities. only Anglican church designed by said Holy Communion at 11.00 Geoffrey Horne made a brief the great Roman Catholic architect a.m., continued with a concert speech about the Society, pointing Augustus Welby Pugin. and afternoon tea, and concluded out the immense value of the with sung Evensong where the Prayer Book in Anglican church AGM: preacher was the Ven. Martin life and expressing the hope that it Our AGM was held at St Mary’s, Gorick, Archdeacon of Oxford. might be used more regularly at Winkfield, near Bracknell, The lessons were read by PBS main services. Berkshire, on 3rd June. Officers members, and before the service and committee members were re- Branch Chairman Geoffrey Horne Summer Outing: elected with the exception of the presented a superior copy of the The Oxford Branch’s annual Revd Jason St John Nicolle and Mr Prayer Book to Stan Hope who summer outing took place on Stan Hope who retired from the had retired after nearly ten years Saturday, 9th July with a visit to committee, with the Revd Andrew organising the Branch heats in the Pinewood Film Studios at Iver Montgomerie and Mr John Service annual Cranmer Awards. The Heath in Buckinghamshire. We volunteering to join it. Following weather was pleasantly warm and had a very interesting tour of the the formalities, a paper entitled members appreciated our extensive site, with buggy ‘Theological Amnesia’ by the Revd continuing association with St transport provided for those who David Harris, Deputy Chairman of Bartholomew’s and its chaplain, needed it. For security reasons it PBS, was read by Branch Secretary the Revd Peter Dewey. was not possible to visit any of the John Dearing, as the author had current film sets but we saw one been prevented from attending. Presentation of Prayer Books: building where the set had The afternoon concluded with tea On Wednesday, 29th June Branch recently been dismantled and a provided by the Church, and President the Revd Dr Roger television studio set up for the Evensong conducted by the newly Beckwith and Chairman Geoffrey National Lottery draw. We were appointed vicar, the Revd Huw Horne attended Ripon Theological also shown the enormous water Mordecai. College, Cuddesdon, near Oxford, tank with backing screen used for to present Prayer Books to twenty- sea-going shots. There was even a Royal Birthday: four ordinands to be ordained pit into which stricken ships During the weekend of HM The deacons. In addition, each could sink! Also of interest was the Queen’s official birthday local candidate received the PBS special admin building where ‘Oscar’ members attended a royal eraser which the Chairman statuettes and other memorabilia celebration at St Bartholomew’s suggested would be useful to from the film world were on Chapel, Goring Heath. This is the those who wrote their sermons in display. Following the tour we chapel of Allnutt’s Almshouses and pencil! This is an annual event for enjoyed tea and Choral Evensong it is a corporate member of the the Branch and much appreciated at St Margaret’s, Iver Heath hosted by the vicar, the Revd Andrew Montgomerie, our regional ADVERTISING trustee and recently elected May I take this opportunity to thank all those members who have committee member, who also responded to adverts in this magazine over the years I have been devised the afternoon with our involved? long-serving bulletin editor and This makes my job that much easier when I approach the lay minister at St Margaret’s, John advertiser for a second time asking him or her to continue with us Mitchell. for another year. If they know they have got a return on their investment they are pleased to have made a correct choice. This is Winchester & Portsmouth reflected in their comments to me. Annual Parish Gathering of the If members have relatives or friends who run businesses who East Winchester benefice: they would think would profit by advertising with us, please At 3.00 p.m. on Sunday, 26th contact me through my personal e-mail address – June our rector, the Revd Canon [email protected] – or my telephone, 01380 870384. Paul Kennedy, took the service of Ian Woodhead BCP Evensong at St Andrew’s Advertising and Marketing Church, Chilcomb, Hamp- shire. The Bishop of Basingstoke,
25 the Rt Revd David Williams, village of Chilcomb, from other the Friends of St Andrew’s, Lt Col preached a moving and thought- churches in the benefice, and Mark Dillon, and his wife Lucy. ful sermon; our parish organist from Winchester City. There There was a traditional tea, with and small choir provided an were people on holiday brought homemade cakes and a raffle, and anthem and led the singing of by friends. The flowers were as many young people as old took three traditional and much-loved beautifully arranged by local part. hymns. ladies. It was all very English, and Seventy-three people crammed After the service we all went to somehow healing after the bitter into our little Saxon-Norman the Gathering, held in the garden divisions of the referendum a few church, set on a hill in deep of the Manor House, Chilcomb by days earlier. And the rain held off countryside. They came from the kind invitation of the Chairman of until it was time to go home! Retreating with the Prayer Book In December in Lincolnshire Edenham Regional House is again hosting an Advent retreat using the Book of Common Prayer in worship and prayer. This will take place from Monday, 5th to Friday, 9th December at Edenham in south Lincolnshire (three miles from Bourne). The conductor will be Canon Andrew Hawes and his theme will be ‘Isaiah the Great Spiritual Director’. Log fires ensure a warm time will be had by all. The suggested contribution towards the cost is £175. Contact 01778 591358 or [email protected].
During summer in the Yorkshire Dales For many years the Anglican Association has organised a retreat at Parcevall Hall in the Yorkshire Dales. The Association was established in 1969 to be open to all and takes the form of a traditional silent an advocate for Anglican Theology, Liturgy and retreat with addresses. Spirituality, and the retreat, which enjoys the use of Next year the retreat is from Monday, 5th to the Prayer Book and the Authorised Version in all its Friday, 9th June and will be conducted by the Revd worship, is one expression of its work. The retreat is Preb. Bill Scott, who was until recently Sub-Dean to the Chapel Royal. For full details please apply to Mrs Rosemary Hall, 23 Beatty Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 3QN, telephone: 0191 285 7534, e-mail: [email protected]. Places should be requested as soon as possible, as the hall can only take a medium-sized group. Accommodation will be in rooms for single use, unless couples wish to share. Only a small number of rooms are en suite. All food is home cooked. The extensive gardens and grounds at the hall are available to retreatants at all times, and the whole area is of outstanding beauty. Car travellers should note that the last part of the journey is by narrow country lanes. Those not travelling by car will need to take taxis from Skipton Railway Station and return. The cost for the retreat will be £270, and successful applicants will be requested to send a £50 deposit if a place is available.
26 27 Forthcoming Events
Coventry Saturday, 26th November: Branch Advent service based round the Advent collects with Advent hymns. Warwick School Chapel, 2.30 p.m.
Oxford Saturday, 10th December 2016, Advent Carol Service with Advent Collects and suitable lessons, 3.30 p.m. at St Michael at the North Gate, Cornmarket, Oxford, followed by refreshments. Tuesday, 21st March, 2017, Annual Commemoration of the Martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer.
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29 Branch Contacts
• BATH & WELLS: • ELY: • OXFORD: The Revd Philip Reynolds, St Aidan’s Mr Ian Girvan, 59 Kempthorne Lane, Mr P. K. C. White, The Orchard Mr J. B. Dearing, 27 Sherman Road, Vicarage, Radcliffe Street, Bath BA2 5DX House, 12 Thrift’s Walk, Old Reading, Berkshire RG1 2PJ Skelmanthorpe, Huddersfield HD8 Tel: 01225 830663 Chesterton, Cambridge CB4 1NR Tel: 0118 958 0377 9AF [email protected] Tel: 01223 324176 [email protected] Tel: 01484 863232 • BIRMINGHAM: [email protected] • PETERBOROUGH: [email protected] Please contact the office, Copyhold • EXETER: Mrs M. Stewart, The Sycamores, 3 • WINCHESTER & PORTSMOUTH: Farm Mrs Esme Heath, Brookfield, Oakham Road, Whissendine, Rutland Mrs Nikki Sales, 19 Heath Road • BLACKBURN: Stokenham, Kingsbridge, Devon LE15 7HA South, Locks Heath, Southampton Mr Neil Inkley, 6 Knot Lane, Walton- TQ7 2SL Tel: 01664 474353 SO31 6SJ le-Dale, Preston, Lancashire PR5 4BQ Tel: 01548 580615 [email protected] Tel: 01489 570899 Tel: 01772 821676 [email protected] • PORTSMOUTH: Please see • WORCESTER: Fax: 01772 259340 • GLOUCESTER: Winchester & Portsmouth Mr Stephen Evans, 14 Raven Lane, • BRISTOL: Miss S.M. Emson, 38 Gloucester • ROCHESTER: Ludlow, Shropshire SY8 1BW Mr Roger Tucker, 18 Springfield Road, Stratton, Cirencester GL7 2JY Mr G. Comer, 102 Marlborough Tel: 01584 873436 Grove, Westbury Park, Bristol BS6 Tel: 01285 654591 Crescent, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 2HR Mobile: 07920 200619 7XQ [email protected] Tel: 01732 461462 • YORK: Tel: 0117 9248629 • GUILDFORD: [email protected] Mrs Margaret Hammersley, email: [email protected] Dr John Verity, 65 Chart Lane, • ST ALBANS: 5 Maplehurst Avenue, York YO31 8JA Membership Secretary: Mrs Joyce Reigate RH2 7EA Dr Matthew A Clarke, 12 Kilby Road, Tel: 01904 636512 Morris, 29 St John’s Road, Clifton, Tel: 01737 210792 Stevenage SG1 2LT [email protected] Bristol BS8 2HD [email protected] Tel: 07866 430604 • NORTH WALES: • CANTERBURY: • HEREFORD: [email protected] The Revd Neil Fairlamb, 5 Tros-yr- Mr Derek Tee, 111 Rough Common Mr Stephen Evans, 14 Raven Lane, • ST EDMUNDSBURY & IPSWICH: afon, Beaumaris, Anglesey LL58 8BN Road, Canterbury CT2 9DA Ludlow, Shropshire SY8 1BW Mr Anthony C. Desch, 4 Byfield Way, Tel: 01248 811402 Tel: 01227 463903 Tel: 01584 873436 Bury St Edmunds IP33 2SN [email protected] [email protected] Mobile: 07920 200619 Tel: 01284 755355 • SOUTH WALES: • CARLISLE: • LEICESTER: [email protected] Dr J. H. E. Baker, 56 Bridge Street, Membership Secretary: Mrs Kate Mrs S. Packe-Drury-Lowe, 35 Green • SALISBURY: Llandaff CF5 2YN East, 10 Fernwood Drive, Kendal Lane, Seagrave, Loughborough LE12 Mrs Lucy Pearson, 10 Briar Close, Tel: 0292 057 8091 LA9 5BU 7LU Wyke, Gillingham, Dorset SP8 4SS • CHANNEL ISLANDS: Please see Tel: 01539 725055 Tel: 01509 815262 Tel: 01747 825392 Winchester & Portsmouth • CHELMSFORD: [email protected] [email protected] • OVERSEAS MEMBERS: Please contact the office, Copyhold • LICHFIELD: • SHEFFIELD: Mrs Sally Tipping, Woodland Cross Farm Mr D. Doggett, Grassendale, 5 Park Miss Rosemary Littlewood, Railway Cottage, Woodland Head, Yeoford, • CHESTER: Drive, Oswestry, Shropshire SY11 House, Hazlehead, Sheffield S36 4HJ Crediton, Devon EX17 5HE Mr J. Baldwin, Rosalie Farm, Church 1BN Tel: 01226 764092 [email protected] Minshull, Nantwich, Cheshire CW5 Tel: 01691 652902 [email protected] 6EF • LINCOLN: • SODOR & MAN: AFFILIATED BRANCHES Tel: 01270 528487 Mrs Clio Perraton-Williams, Pyrus Mrs Clare Faulds, The Lynague, • IRELAND: Please contact the office, [email protected] House, 12 Spital Terrace, German, Isle of Man IM5 2AQ Copyhold Farm • CHICHESTER: Gainsborough DN21 2HE Tel: 01624 842045 • SOUTH AFRICA: Please contact the CHICHESTER EAST Tel: 01673 818109 [email protected] office, Copyhold Farm Mr Benjamin Tyler, Browning Manor, [email protected] • SOUTHWARK: SISTER SOCIETIES Blackboys, East Sussex TN22 5HG • LIVERPOOL: Please see London & Southwark • AUSTRALIA: Tel: 07505 650754 Please contact the office, Copyhold • SOUTHWELL & NOTTINGHAM: Miss Margaret Steel, 9/63 O'Sullivan [email protected] Farm Mr A.F. Sunman, 1 Lunn Lane, South Road, Rose Bay, NSW 2029 CHICHESTER WEST • LONDON & SOUTHWARK: Collingham, Newark NG23 7LP [email protected] Mrs Valerie Dane, 225 Chichester Mr Paul Meitner, c/o the PBS office, Tel: 01636 893975 Mr F. Ford, PO Box 2, Heidelberg, Road, Bognor Regis PO21 5AQ Copyhold Farm [email protected] Victoria, 3084, Australia Tel: 01243 827330 Tel: 020 7212 6394 • TRURO: Mrs Joan Blanchard, 96 Devereux [email protected] [email protected] Mr J. St Brioc Hooper, 1 Tregarne Road, Beaumont, South Australia, • COVENTRY: • MANCHESTER: Terrace, St Austell PL25 4BE 5066, Australia Mr Peter Bolton, 19 Kineton Road, Please contact the office, Copyhold Tel: 01726 76382 • CANADA: Wellesbourne, Warwickshire CV35 Farm [email protected] The Prayer Book Society of Canada, 9NE • NEWCASTLE: • WEST YORKSHIRE & THE DALES P.O. Box 38060, 1430 Prince of Tel: 01789 840814 Mrs Rosemary Hall, 23 Beatty (BRADFORD) Wales Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K2C [email protected] Avenue, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 Please contact the office, Copyhold 3Y7, Canada www.prayerbook.ca • DERBY: 3QN Farm • SCOTLAND: Please contact the office, Copyhold Tel: 0191 285 7534 • WEST YORKSHIRE & THE DALES Mr J. C. Lord, 11 Melrose Gardens, Farm [email protected] (RIPON & LEEDS) Glasgow G20 6RB • DURHAM: • NORWICH: Mr J. R. Wimpress, Bishopton Grove Tel: 0141 946 5045 Mrs Rosemary Hall, 23 Beatty Mrs A. Wilson, The Old Rectory, House, Bishopton, Ripon HG4 2QL [email protected] Avenue, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 Burston Road, Dickleburgh, Diss, Tel: 01765 600888 • UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: 3QN Norfolk IP21 4NN [email protected] The Prayer Book Society, P.O. Box 137 Tel: 0191 285 7534 Tel: 01379 740561 • WEST YORKSHIRE & THE DALES Jenkintown, PA 19046-0137, USA [email protected] (WAKEFIELD) www.pbsusa.org
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