ALL SAINTS 31st March 2019 Lent 4 Mothering Sunday (Laetare Sunday)

NEWS st Daylight Saving Starts Sunday 31 March Remember, the clocks go back at 0100 hours on Sunday 31 March 2019

Ian Yemm

As you are aware, Ian Yemm has been recommended for ordination training in the Province of the Church in Wales. Bishop June Osborne of the Diocese of Llandaff is has organised for him to the St Padarn’s Institute in Cardiff for a year of formation starting in September 2019. He will be based in a parish context from the outset and he will continue in that parish for his Curacy.

Consequently today is the final ‘formal’ day that Ian is with us in his role as an LLM (Licensed Lay Minister). However, I have absolutely no doubt that he will be back amongst us soon as a guest deacon then priest.

Ian and Bernhard have called All Saints their spiritual home and have been part of our worshipping community since 2004. Please keep Ian and Bernhard in your prayers and we look forward to welcoming both back in the not too distant future.

Posy Making – Saturday 30th March at 10.00am

Sunday is Mothering Sunday. A group of Posy Makers will collect together in church on Saturday

morning at 10.00 am to create posies ready for Sunday worship. Posies will be distributed as part of the All Ages Service and at the start of the Parish Mass.

Mothering Sunday

Don’t forget – no Joint Service this Mothering Sunday……..

Mothering Sunday Services on Sunday 31st March are All Ages at 9.30am and Parish Mass at 11.00am. Posies will be distributed during the All Ages at the commencement of the Parish Mass.

And…..don’t forget the Mothering Sunday Lunch – this year, following a Lenten Theme which is based on the experience of the church in India will be an Indian Lunch. This also recognises our Lent Charity

USPG and in particular their work in India.

Contact us

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Email [email protected] Address 68 Pembroke Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 3ED

Vicar Fr. Charles Sutton Home 0117 9078088 Mobile 07785912663 Email [email protected] Associate Priest Revd Wendy Bray

ALL SAINTS NEWS EVENTS Easter Eggs – Sisters of the Church

Sisters Teresa and Rosie are collecting gifts of Easter Eggs for the Easter Food Bank. Please bring any gifts of eggs this Sunday or make sure they are delivered to the office on Monday (1st April) for delivery to the Sisters on Tuesday 2nd April.

The Meeting of Parishioners and the Annual Parochial Church Meeting

Better and more simply known as the APCM. This takes place on Sunday 7th April (Passion Sunday) after

the Parish Mass. The purpose is to conduct some important business, such as the election of

Churchwardens and new PCC Members, the presentation of the Electoral Roll, question, accept and

discuss the annual financial report and the Vicar’s report, confirm Sidespeople and eat the traditional All

Saints APCM lunch!

In advance of the APCM please note that in the Atrium there are:

▪ Churchwarden Election Forms ▪ PCC Member Election Forms (there are four vacancies this year)

Please note: ▪ No proposals for the above roles can be accepted on the day - these applications need to be completed in advance

▪ The Electoral Roll is now closed until the conclusion of the APCM

st Monday Morning Mass on 1 April 2019 will be at 8.30am

st St John’s School will be holding their Easter Service on Monday 1 April at 9.30am at All Saints. This will be for the Junior School, the infants service will be at 1.30pm (at school).

Saturday April 6th

Sacristy spring

cleaning

and

silver cleaning

9.30 am

A unique opportunity to handle the beautiful If you would like to order an Church silver ! Easter Lily this year, please sign Also: Volunteers are still needed to support the the list in the porch. Sacristy Team with washing and ironing the linen £3 per flower used during services – please can you help?

Please note The AGM of the All Saints Society has been brought forward to the 14th of April at 12.45pm

ALL SAINTS NEWS

EVENTS Obituary: Canon Tony Williamson

CANON Anthony William Williamson, the ’s

unique worker priest, died at his Watlington home on 12th

February, aged 85.

For 30 years, 261092 was Tony’s clock number at Pressed Steel in Cowley. He was one of 12,000 employees, each easily replaceable, whom he saw as neglected by the Church, though each an individual of utmost value to God. That deep theological and socialist conviction was rooted for Tony in Matthew 25.31-46, read by two of his grandsons at the service of thanksgiving for his life.

After five terms at , Tony began work as a “trucker”. It took 18 months to persuade the cautious Bishop to ordain him to serve his title at St Luke’s, Cowley, for the nominal stipend of 1s. a year; he still clocked on at 7.15, after celebrating the eucharist at 6.30 on Wednesdays. He joined the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), which met on Sunday mornings — for Tony this was after an eight-o’clock communion; and he chaired the largest UK TGWU Branch for 16 years.

Election to City Council led, through hours of thorough and caring case-work, to Chair of the Housing Committee for ten years, leadership of the Labour Party in both City and County Councils, Lord Mayor of Oxford, and Life Alderman of the County. One Polling Day, a voter arrived to “vote for Tony”, only to find that he wasn’t a candidate in that ward. “Where is he standing? I’ll go there!” Tony lobbied Buckingham Palace to allow Barbara and all their four children to witness his award of the OBE.

Tony was the son of Fr Joe of Poplar, widely known in his own day, and to viewers of Call the Midwife. For lack of schooling, Joe, too, struggled to be ordained; so he made sure that his children had the best chances. Tony went to the Dragon School, Marlborough, and Trinity, Oxford, gaining a third in Geography — with greater success at hockey. His wife, Barbara, a Somerville alumna, was cleverer, a JP and careers adviser. Tony repaid his debt to her as devoted mother, generous host, and wise critic, tirelessly giving her for four years the fullest possible life after a severe stroke. Days before his death, his four children helped Tony to finish a project that had been important to their parents. They reached the Thames Barrier, the end of the 180-mile Thames Path that Tony and Barbara had started walking in 2010.

Thirty years’ “clocking on” was followed by spending 11 years as Oxford Diocesan Director of Education. He pioneered a sustainable scheme of professional advisers in church and county schools. In Watlington, the “retyred turbo-charged vicar” in his yellow BMW Mini fought for a new primary school and sheltered housing, and every week worked alongside community payback teams clearing the churchyard. He supported clergy as a union representative for the Faithworkers’ Branch of Unite. On Barbara’s garden trolley, his ashes were drawn by his granddaughters in recession from the church as the Strawbs sang “I’m part of the union till the day I die”. Tony put into practice his lifelong belief in the union of God and the human family.

Canon Christopher Hall

ALL SAINTS NEWS

PRAYER

April 2019 1 Mass 8.30am Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest & Teacher 1872 1838 published The Kingdom of Christ, a discussion of the causes and cures of divisions within the Christian Church. He was much concerned with the role of the Church in speaking to social questions, speaking of "faith in a God who has redeemed mankind, in whom I may vindicate my rights as a man." He organized the Christian Socialist Movement, which, he wrote, "will commit us at once to the conflict we must engage in sooner or later with the unsocial Christians and unchristian Socialists." His work is one of the reasons why Socialism in England has been largely devoid of the avowedly anti-Christian overtones it had in many other countries. St John’s School Easter Services 9.30am & 1.30pm 2 Mass 7.00pm Pray for those without faith, for those searching, for those who have experienced trauma that means they are unable to have faith. An estimated 2% of the world population are atheist. 3 Mass 9.30am Pray for all in healthcare administration – leadership, management and administration of public health systems, hospitals and hospital networks. Pray for smooth running, positive and effective connections between different structures and organizations, and the achievement of positive outcomes for the common goal which is the good health of society. Pray for parts of the world without these facilities.

4 Mass 7.00pm Rats, usually the though brings negative associations. In the west rats are thought to have spread disease and damage goods and food supplies. The term is used as an expletive or to describe unscrupulous characters. Pray for all who are negatively and unfairly ‘labelled’ in this and other societies, may we become increasingly aware of the meaning and effect of language we use about others.

5 Mass 10.30am Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blessed: The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

6 Mass 10.30am Pray for those in the uniformed services In our own country and throughout the world. May their actions always be shaped by mercy, peace, justice and the common good.

Matinee Concert – 4.00pm 7 Lent 5 Passion Sunday

Most merciful God, who by the death and resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ delivered and saved the world: grant that by faith in him who suffered on the cross we may triumph in the power of his victory

Mass 8.00am All Age Eucharist 9.30am Parish Mass 11.00am Evening Prayer 6.00pm

APCM and Lunch