Richborough . Sunday: 8am Low Mass, 10.30am Solemn Mass. Weekdays - Low Mass: Tues 7pm, Thur 12 noon. Contact Father David Adlington or Father David Goodburn SSC - tel: 01303 parish directory 254472 www.stpeterschurchfolkestone. org.uk e-mail: [email protected] BEXHILL on SEA CARDIFF St Augustine’s , Cooden Drive, TN39 3AZ near rail, bus, Millennium Stadium, city centre and Bay GRIMSBY Sunday: Mass at 8am, Parish Mass with Junior Church at1 0am. Daily Mass St Mary , Bute Street Sunday: Solemn Mass 11am; St Augustine , Legsby Avenue Lovely Grade II Church by Sir Charles Nicholson. A Forward in Faith Parish under Further details: Father Robert Coates SSC on 01424 210 785 St Dyfrig and St Samson , Pentre Gardens Sunday: Solemn Mass 9.30am. Parish Priest: Fr Graham Francis 02920 487777. Bishop of Richborough . Sunday: Parish Mass 9.30am, Solemn BIRMINGHAM St Agatha , Stratford Road, Sparkbrook (B11 Associate Priest: Fr David Morris 029 2221 2177 Evensong and Benediction 6pm (First Sunday). Weekday Mass: 1QT) “If it is worth believing in, it is worth travelling for” Sunday Mass Mon 7.00pm, Wed 9.30am, Sat 9.30am. Parish Priest: Fr.Martin 11am. Secure Parking. Contact Churchwarden on 07854 147412 CHARD The Good Shepherd , Furnham . Resolutions ABC 07736 711360 Sunday: Sung Mass 9.45am, Solemn Evensong and Benediction BISHOP AUCKLAND St Helen Auckland , Manor Road, (3rd Sunday only) 6pm. Weekday Masses: Tues 10am, Wed HARTLEPOOL St Oswald’s , Brougham Terrace . A Forward in West Auckland Medieval church, Forward in Faith , ABC . Sunday: 6.30pm (with Healing and Reconciliation on the 4th Wed of the Faith Parish under the episcopal care of the Bishop of Beverly . Sung Mass 10am, Evensong and Benediction 6pm. Weekday month). Contact: Fr Jeff Williams 01460 419527 Sunday: Sung Mass 9.30am, Benediction 6pm. Daily Mass, Mass: Mon 7pm, Tues, Thur, Fri, Sat 9.30am, Wed 10am, Rosary www.churchofthegoodshepherd-chard.weebly.com Offices and Confessions as displayed. Parish Priest: Fr Graeme Mon 6.30pm. Parish Priest: Canon Robert McTeer SSC 01388 Buttery SSC 01429 273201 604152 www.sthelenschurch.co.uk CHESTERFIELD St Paul , Hasland, Derbyshire Sunday: Sung Mass 9.45am (Family Mass 1st Sunday), Evening Prayer 3.30pm. HEMPTON Holy Trinity (near Fakenham, Norfolk) . ABC, FiF . BLACKPOOL St Stephen on the Cliffs , Holmfield Road, Masses: Tues 7.15pm (Benediction last Tues of month), Friday 12 The Church on the Green. Visit us on the way to Walsingham. North Shore ABC, Forward in Faith, SSWSH Parish . Vicar: Canon noon, Sat 8.30am. St James , Temple Normanton, Mass on Sundays and Wednesdays at 10am. Linked to the Andrew Sage SSC . Sundays: Said Mass 9am, Solemn Mass Chesterfield, Derbyshire Sunday: Parish Mass 11.30am, Thur: Shrine of OLW. Parish Priest: Fr Lockett SSC 01328 820030 (Traditional Language) 10.30am, Evening Service 6pm; easy Mass 7.15pm. Fr Malcolm Ainscough SSC 01246 232486 access and loop. Tel: 01253 351484 www.ststephenblackpool.co.uk KINGSTON-upon-THAMES St Luke , Gibbon Road (short CHOPwELL Saint John the Evangelist NE17 7AN Forward walk from Kingston railway station) Sunday: Low Mass (English BOSTON LINCOLNSHIRE St Nicholas , Skirbeck in Faith Parish ABC . Sunday - Sung Mass 10am. Daily Office & Missal) 8am, Sung Mass (Western Rite) 10.30am, Evensong and Boston’s oldest Parish Church. Forward in Faith Parish under the Mass as displayed. Parish Priest: Fr Paul R Murray SSC 01207 Benediction 5pm. 3rd Sunday each month: Teddy Bears Service Episcopal care of the Bishop of Richborough. Sunday . Low Mass 561248 [email protected] for pre-schoolers 9.30am. Wed, 7pm Exposition, 8pm Mass. First 8am (1st and 3rd), Sung Mass 9.30am. Daily Mass, offices, Sat of the month, 11.15am Mass of Our Lady of Walsingham. benediction and confessions as displayed on notice boards. For further information phone Fr Martin Hislop: Parish Office Rector: Fr Paul Noble SSC 01205 362734 020 8974 8079 www.stlukeskingston.co.uk www.forwardinfaithlincs.org.uk/stnicholasboston.html LEAMINGTON SPA St John the Baptist Parish under BOURNEMOUTH St Ambrose , West Cliff Road, BH4 8BE . the Episcopal care of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet - all resolutions A Forward in Faith Parish, Resolutions ABC in place . Sunday: passed . Daily Mass. Sunday: Low Mass 8am, Parish Mass 8am Low Mass BCP, 10am Sung Mass Traditional Ceremonial, 9.30am, Solemn Evensong and Benediction (1st Sunday only) 6pm Evensong, 2nd Sunday of the month Choral Evensong with 3.30pm. Traditional Catholic Worship in a friendly atmosphere. Benediction. Parish Priest Fr Adrian Pearce SSC 01202 911569; Parish Priest: Fr David Lawson SSC 01926 422208 Parish office 01202 766772. Email: [email protected] www.fifparish.com/stjohnleamington BOURNEMOUTH St Francis of Assisi , Charminster Road LIVERPOOL St Agnes and St Pancras , Toxteth Park (FiF & (corner of East Way) A Forward in Faith Parish under the care of the ABC) Sunday: Parish Mass 10am; Evensong and Benediction Bishop of Richborough. Resolutions ABC . Sunday: 8am Low 6.30pm. Daily Mass. Sunday School. Glorious J L Pearson Church, Mass, Parish Mass 10am (Family Mass last Sunday of the with modern catholic worship, good music and friendly Month), Evening Service 6.30pm - first Sunday of each month. atmosphere. Parish Priest: Canon Christopher Cook SSC 0151 733 [email protected]. 1742 www.stagnes.org.uk www.stfrancis-bournemouth. org.uk BRADFORD, St Chad LONDON E1w BOwBURN , Durham Christ the King , Forward in Faith, St Peter’s , London Docks A Forward in Faith parish in the Fulham Bishopric . Sunday 8am Mass. 10am ABC . Sunday: 11am Sung Mass and Sunday School; Weekday COLCHESTER St Barnabas Church , Abbott’s Road, Old Mass: Wed 9.30am, Fri 6.30pm; Evening Prayer and Benediction Solemn Mass Daily Mass and Offices. Father T E Jones SSC 020 Heath, Colchester A Forward in Faith Parish. Resolutions ABC . 7481 2985 www.stpeterslondondocks.org.uk 5.30pm last Saturday of month; Parish Priest: Fr John Livesley Sunday: Mass 10am (Sung). Weekday Masses: Mon 6pm, Tues SSC 01388 814817 10am, Thur 7pm, Holy Days 7.30pm. Check website for other LONDON EC3 St Magnus the Martyr , Lower Thames BRADFORD St Chad , Toller Lane (B6144, 1 mile from city daily services www.stbarnabasoldheath. wordpress.com Street (nearest Tube: Monument or Bank) Resolutions ABC . Mass: centre). Sunday services: Low Mass 8.30am, Solemn Mass Vicar: Fr Richard Tillbrook SSC 01206 79748 1 Sunday 11am, refreshments following, Tues, Wed, Thur and Fri 10.45am, Evensong and Benediction 6.30pm. Weekday Masses [email protected] 12.30. Visitors very welcome. www.stmagnusmartyr.org.uk Fr Philip Warner rector@ stmagnusmartyr.org.uk 8am (except Wednesday 7.30pm and Thursday 9.15am). Parish CROYDON S Michael & All Angels , Poplar Walk . FiF ABC . Priest: Canon Ralph Crowe SSC 01274 543957. Resolutions ABC . Sunday: Low Mass 8.00am, Family Mass 9.30am, High Mass LONDON N1 Holy Trinity , Hoxton Sunday: 10am Parish English Missal/BCP www.st.chads. dial.pipex.com 11.00am, Evensong & Benediction 3.30pm. Daily Mass Mon – Mass and Sunday School. Midweek Services: contact Fr Andrew BRIDPORT St Swithun Resolutions ABC . Sunday: Low Fri 12.30pm, also Wed 7.30am. Sat 11.00am. Fr Ian Brothwood Newcombe 020 7253 4796 Mass 8am; Sung Mass 9.30am, Evening Prayer and Benediction 020 8686 9343 usually on second Sunday 6pm. Weekday Masses: Thur 10am. LONDON N21 Holy Trinity , Winchmore Hill . A Forward DEVIZES St Peter’s , Bath Road, Devizes, Wiltshire FiF Parish in Faith, Resolution A,B & C, modern catholic parish . Every Enquiries should be made to the Churchwarden. Tel 01308 under the episcopal care of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet. All 425375. Sunday: Said Mass 9.00am and Sung Mass10.30am with Junior resolutions passed . Sunday: 8am BCP Low Mass; 10am Sung Church. Weekdays: Tues to Fri 12 noon Angelus and Mass. BRIGHTON wAGNER GROUP The Annunciation Mass. Wednesdays - 7pm Low Mass. On major festivals & Saturday Mass 10am. For the Sacrament of Reconcilliation and (11am) Fr Michael Wells 01273 681431. St Barthlomew’s Saints' Days - times vary. Contact Fr. Vincent Perricone 01380 other enquires contact Fr Richard Bolton at (11am) Fr. David Clues 01273 620491. St Martin’s (10am) Fr 501481 [email protected] or phone 0208 364 1583 Trevor Buxton 01273 604687. St Michael’s (10.30am) Parish DONCASTER St Wilfrid’s , Cantley DN4 6QP A beautiful and Office 01 273 822284. St Paul’s (11am) Parish Office 01 273 historically significant church with much Comper restoration. LONDON Nw9 Kingsbury St Andrew A Fif Parish under 822284. (Sunday Principal Mass times in brackets.) Parish under the Episcopal care of the Bishop of Beverley – all the Episcopal care of the Bishop of Fulham Sunday: Sung Mass resolutions passed. Modern catholic worship with a friendly 10am; , Thursday Mass 10am – both followed by refreshments. BRISTOL Christ Church , Broad Street, Old City Centre BS1 2EJ Tube to Wembley Park then 83 Bus to Church Lane Contact: Fr.Jason Resolutions ABC . Sunday 11am Choral Eucharist, 6.30pm Choral atmosphere . Sunday: 8am Mass and 10am Parish Mass. Wednesday: 9.30am Mass (followed by coffee morning). Friday: Rendell on 020 8205 7447 or Evensong with Anthem and Sermon. Georgian gem, Prayer [email protected] Book services, robed men and boys’ choir, Renatus Harris organ. 8pm Mass. Visitors very welcome. Contact: Fr. Andrew Howard ssc. (01302) 285316. [email protected] Tues, Thurs and major holy days: 1.05pm Eucharist. Regular LONDON SE11 4BB St Agnes Kennington Park, St Agnes recitals and concerts (see website). During Interregnum contact EASTBOURNE St Saviour’s A Forward in Faith Parish with Place - 8 minutes walk from both Kennington and the Oval tube stations Roger Metcalfe, Churchwarden on 01275 332851 Resolution ABC . Sunday: Low Mass 8am, Solemn Mass 10.30am. (Northern line) ABC/FinF . Sunday: 10am Solemn Mass. Daily Mass: www.christchurchcitybristol.org Daily Mass and Office. Details and information from Fr Jeffery Mon to Fri 10am - Bible Study after Mass on Wed. BROMLEY St George's Church , Bickley Sunday - 8.00am Gunn 01323 722317 www.stsaviourseastbourne.org.uk saintagneskenningtonpark. co.uk 020 7820 8050 Low Mass, 10.30am Sung Mass. Fri 9.30am. For Weekday [email protected] Services see website. Fr.Richard Norman 0208 295 6411. Parish FOLKESTONE Kent , St Peter on the East Cliff ABC, A website: www.stgeorgebickley.co.uk Forward in Faith Parish under the episcopal care of the Bishop of Continued on page 33
2 ■ new directions ■ April 2015 content regulars Vol 18 No 238 April 2015 12 FAITH OF OUR FATHERS ARTHUR MIDDLETON 4 LEAD STORY 18 Views, reviews & previews on catechesis why I am a Catholic ART : Owen Higgs on Sargent: Anglican Portraits of Artists and 15 DEVOTIONAL AMIAN EENEY D F Friends ARTHUR MIDDLETON offers a personal reflection on BOOKS: John Gribben CR on John Henry Newman’s Advice to the his journey from Roman Beauty – Spirit – Maer Christian Catholicism to Anglican John Turnbull on Catholicism Moral Psychology and 15 GHOSTLY COUNSEL Human Agency ANDY HAwES 6 The new agenda Anthony Saville on on Resurrection life NICHOLAS TURNER e Promises of God explains one initiative that takes us Len Driver on 21 THE wAY wE LIVE NOw beyond women bishops Footsteps of Jesus CHRISTOPHER SMITH worries about the ways of the fourth 7 Catholic Love estate THE BISHOP OF EBBSFLEET preaches at the Licensing of Fr DIRECTORY 2, 29, 30 Jones Mutemwakwenda as Priest in EDITORIAL 16 Charge of All Hallows, Easton BISHOPS OF THE SOCIETY 31 9 The white Rose J. A LAN SMITH considers issues of legitimate 26 BOOK OF THE MONTH authority and state power LUKE BRIERS welcomes two books on the Rosary 10 ‘The Most Immaculate and Blessed Virgin’ 29 SECULAR LITURGIES COLIN PODMORE TOM SUTCLIFFE looks at devotion to Mary in the explores issues of immigration and pre-Traarian Church of England women’s freedom 11 A lost opportunity 32 TOUCHING PLACE MARTIN HISLOP SIMON COTTON takes issue with the distribution St Mary, Credenhill and communication of the recent Pastoral Leer from the House of Bishops 14 The First Glorious Mystery THE BISHOP OF FULHAM finds help in preaching the Resurrection 15 Pews A look at some noteworthy wooden pews E R Easter Day in the Forward in E G
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April 2015 ■ new directions ■ 3 why I am a Catholic Anglican Lead Damian Feeney offers a personal reflection on his journey from Roman Catholicism to Story Anglican Catholicism
hank you for your welcome, and for this opportunity. generally positive. I even explored, briefly, the thought that I And, of course, the title I have been given – ‘Why I might be called to be a priest during those days. Later on I T am a Catholic Anglican’ has done the work it was discovered that to be true. Before that recognition, though, a meant to do, and has got thoroughly under my skin. And, like fair quantity of water had to flow under the bridge. I went to anyone else wrestling with labels which are applied to University in Durham, reading music, and ent a few years themselves, there are times when my only answer fluctuates of relative spiritual instability – indeed, for much of the time between ‘Because it’s true, of course, can’t you see that?’ to ‘I it could have been construed as chaotic. I worshipped have no earthly idea.’ Sometimes the premises upon which everywhere, and nowhere. I was immensely grateful for a such titles and claims are made appear to be made of straw, brilliant Roman Catholic Chaplain, Fr John James, who gave and sometimes they appear to be all there is. me time and space to talk, to reflect, to be critical in a fairly undergraduate kind of way. I also came to a real appreciation Different questions of the Society of Friends. A short answer is, perhaps, that it provides me with a framework, a scaffolding which supports my poor aempts to Contact with Anglicanism be faithful to God. at in itself begs several other ‘how’ and I le Durham for Cheltenham, and stopped going to church. ‘why’ questions, of course. And there is a difference in the I had a teaching post, and I played rugby, hard as that may be answers you will get, depending on to imagine now. One teaching how you have asked the question. pilgrimages are important because colleague asked me if I aed. I said If you ask me ‘Why are you a they call to mind the greater journey that I did. Would I like to join a Catholic Anglican? I will hear ‘We drama society? Certainly. It’s based know why you are an Anglican – which is our life’s journey home at our church. Fine. I was in, playing why are you a Catholic one?’ If you the part of Ferrovius in Shaw’s ask me ‘why are you a Catholic Anglican ?’ I will hear ‘We know Androcles and the Lion. And I came into contact with a gentle, why you are a Catholic – why are you an Anglican?’ It’s a very loving and araive Christian community – of the Anglican different interrogation. variety. I, and my fiancée, became more and more involved, I am going to assume that you want a bit of both, because I musically, liturgically, pastorally. As the time drew near for us am more Anglican than I realize, and seek the middle way to be married, we had come to the conclusion that we both between two mistakes. In answering the question – and how wanted to value what we had received, as well as to present to successfully I do that is for your judgement – I will draw on our children (please God) a consistent and stable faith two principal sources. One is autobiographical, because we are background. Talk about history repeating itself. I was received all very much the products of our origins and upbringing – into the Church of England, while Fiona was confirmed, and and the other is Blessed John Henry Newman, another we were married three weeks later. Canterbury/Rome traveler, albeit in the opposite direction, who has been influential in my spiritual journey since I can A significant metaphor remember. One or two other heroes may crop up along the e parish was very much in the Anglo-Catholic tradition, way. What this can’t be is a complete exposé of Catholic upholding beauty in worship, good preaching and the virtues Doctrine, which will probably come as a total relief to you all. of liturgical and corporate prayer very highly. It was a wonderful place, at a wonderful time, and we made friendships Nature and nurture at the time which endure almost thirty years later. On To a degree, we are products of our nature, and our nurture. I reflection I realized that the journey I had undertaken, from was brought up in north-west Lancashire in a family of mixed Roman Catholicism to Anglican Catholicism, was significant heritage, at least in religious terms. My father’s side of the for a number of reasons. family were devout Roman Catholics, whilst my mother’s side e first point of significance was that it was a journey at were Wesleyan Methodists, with perhaps just a dash of all. I have always, when forced to sit through e X Factor by Evensong. My mother was received into the Roman Catholic my younger daughter (it’s called ‘quality time’), detested those Church the night before she married my father, in 1954 . I Cheryl Cole (or, should I say, Fernandez-Versini) moments suppose we are products not only of our denomination and when she says to some poor hapless soul of a contestant ‘Pet, tradition, but also our generation. you’ve been on a journey.’ However, journey is important. e schools I went to were Roman Catholic: a local Pilgrimages are important because they call to mind the primary school, and then educated by the Christian Brothers greater journey which is our life’s journey home – home, that in a Grammar School. Neither were particularly pleasant is, to our true home in heaven. ey are very much part of the experiences, although throughout my experience of faith was Catholic way – to go to places where, as Eliot puts it ‘prayer
4 ■ new directions ■ April 2015 has been valid.’ Walsingham, Lourdes, Compostela, Fatima, And I take with joy whatever Iona – the so-called ‘thin places’ where earth and heaven seen Now besets me, pain or fear, very close together. But the journeying is as much a thing as And with a strong will I sever the arriving, and therefore the journey metaphor is significant All the ties which bind me here. for me too. And whilst you can chart a route, plot where you are going, load satnavs and consult maps, the truth is that once Adoration aye be given, you are commied to walking the way with Jesus Christ you With and through the angelic host, have less and less control over where the journey goes. To the God of earth and heaven, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. e answer I am a Catholic Anglican because I love the Lord Jesus. I am a e penultimate verse is generally le out when we sing in Catholic Anglican because I believe and accept what is set church, a verse more appropriate to the death bed than the forth in the Catholic creeds. I love Mary, the Mother of the hymnal. Nevertheless, it is wonderful, so I include it. Perhaps, Lord, and am devoted to her. I love the Saints, in all shapes and though, it is the verse before that which gives us most to think sizes. Particular favourites? Oh, go on then. Peter and Paul, about, containing as it does the words: Cecilia (that’s the music dealt with), Wilfrid, Cuthbert, Hilda and the saints ‘up north,’ Benedict, Anselm, Augustine, And I hold in veneration, Bernard, Dominic, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Jesus, John for the love of him alone, of the Cross. holy Church as his creation, I am, by profession, a music teacher. Music is at the core of and her teachings as his own. my being. One of my most formative experiences as a young man was being taken to a performance of Elgar’s Dream of Food for thought Gerontius in Manchester. e music is Elgar’s, but the words is prods, perhaps, at one of the points of distinction and are a saga poem by Blessed John Henry Newman, who is one difference which you may wish to dwell on. e teachings of of my heroes of the faith. If you want full on, blatant Jesus, Newman implies, are as one with the teachings of the Edwardian Catholicism, then this is Church, a point of ultimate the piece for you. It contains my I think we have a healthy obedience and abandonment, a favourite hymn in the whole world – disposition towards having our recognition that the Church, Praise to the Holiest in the Height – however frail, is still the body of and another hymn, sung by disagreements in public Christ, and divinely inspired. In this Gerontius himself on his death bed context, you will be aware, Newman as an affirmation of faith – Firmly I Believe and Truly. Elgar sets was referring to the Roman Catholic Church, which he had it to a tune worthy of grand opera – faith is, aer all, a entered in 1845 at almost the precise mid-point in his life. dramatic thing – and when I sing it in church I can’t help the Newman had, as you will know, started as an evangelical feeling that our usual hymn tunes don’t do it justice. Perhaps Anglican, serving his title at St Clement’s, here in Oxford. e these words sum up why I am a Catholic Anglican. Dream of Gerontius dates from 1865, twenty years aer his crossing of the Tiber. Firmly I believe and truly e question of the status of the Church’s teaching as God is ree, and God is One; inerrant is interesting from an Anglican perective. I think And I next acknowledge duly we have a healthy disposition towards having our Manhood taken by the Son. disagreements in public, which cannot always be said of Roman Catholicism in quite the same way (although the And I trust and hope most fully recent Synod on the Family was, to my mind, a healthy start). In that Manhood crucified; at said, we also end up bearing our scars in public as well, And each thought and deed unruly which is slightly less edifying. e question for a Catholic Do to death, as he has died. Anglican is the degree to which one can seek a drawing together of the hermeneutics and teachings of two ecclesial Simply to his grace and wholly bodies which are so very different in charaer – but it is worth Light and life and strength belong, saying that for the Catholic Anglican the teachings of the And I love supremely, solely, Roman Catholic Church are profoundly significant. Perhaps Him the holy, him the strong. I could sting you into later response by an o quoted statement of uncertain origin (but it wasn ’t me, honest) which And I hold in veneration, goes something like ‘I am a Christian first, a Catholic second, For the love of him alone, and an Anglican third.’ It is sweeping, but at least points to the Holy Church as his creation, truth that a Catholic Christian is what I am, and Anglicanism And her teachings as his own. is what I am part of. continues on page 26
April 2015 ■ new directions ■ 5 The new agenda
Nicholas Turner explains one initiative that takes us beyond women bishops
or years, at FiF assemblies and in the pages of New denominations is complicated: we need to come to that later. Directions , we have expressed the desire to get off the Just before the Act came into force, on St Valentine’s Day F battlefield and onto the mission field. Now, despite the last year the House of Bishops issued a document entitled best efforts of Watch to delay it, women can be made bishops, Pastoral Guidance on Same Sex Marriage . Ah bless! There are, the battle has been fought, and we have left the battlefield: we as the Act makes clear, two forms of marriage current in discover a great deal of work to be done, and it is we who must England, and ‘same sex marriage’ isn’t one of them. This was do it. A challenge, but an exciting one. the whole purpose of the legislation – though not, it is true, of much of the propaganda. Background We may guess, from what they wrote, that the Bishops were In late January, Bishop Tony Robinson invited his Society confusing the issues raised by the Marriage Act with those clergy in the new mega-diocese of West Yorkshire and the raised by the Pilling Report. Unfortunately, it seems there are Dales to gather for a residential in no plans to update this pastoral Leeds. It was principally a chance an Equal Civil Marriage lacks both the guidance so as to deal with the to meet and pray together; and to actual rather than the consider our future in this new form and the substance of marriage (mis)perceived issues. Which is a conglomerate. Moving beyond the as understood by the CofE pity, as the full implications of the important but technical details of Act are still emerging. The Bishops our common life, we began to may be excused from not knowing think about what new issues confront us. at the time, for nor did anyone else; but wishing will not make It was Bishop Glyn who informally suggested a Theology the issue go away. Group to guide the particular subjects, and as we were going Until last year, civil and church marriages were in essence to Evening Prayer picked out its members: Fr Thomas Seville, the same thing, two sides of the same coin. This is no longer of the Mirfield Community, and member of General Synod; the case. An Equal Civil Marriage lacks both the form and the Fr Ian McCormack, vicar of Grimethorpe, in the historic substance of marriage as understood by the Church of Wakefield diocese; Fr Andreas Wenzel, assistant curate of England. It is, quite intentionally, not the same thing (Clause Horbury, in the historic Wakefield diocese; Fr Nicholas 1.3). Turner, rector of Broughton, Marton & Thornton, in the historic Bradford diocese. What happens next So after supper, we sat down and got on with it. There is a How did this misunderstanding arise? There are several lot to be said for such simple arrangements: if there’s work to possible answers. The Government and its supporters wished, be done, do it. Bishop Tony Robinson’s Theology Group, to for political reasons, to present their legislation as gay marriage give us our semi-formal title, will – and this was supported by rather than as a redefinition of civil marriage. Because it was the rest of the company at our session the next morning – all done in such haste, the government did not fully tackle two pressing issues. Fr Seville CR will take the lead on understand the implications when they first proposed the idea. producing a clear defence of the Seal of the Confessional, of The Bishops, meanwhile, were immersed in wider issues of which more on another occasion. human sexuality, and what we generally call the gay issue. I have been charged with producing a response to the Perhaps they did not read the Act, but only the tendentious Marriage Act 2013. And, with the first anniversary of its media commentary; perhaps some of them wanted to keep implementation coming on the 29th of this month, to begin the focus on the gay issue; perhaps they were given the wrong by outlining the issue that faces us. Some time, almost certainly theological analysis. within the next four years, we (which probably means the All this may have crept up on us, but we now face the simple Council of Bishops and The Society more generally) must fact that opposite-sex couples can enter two forms of decide what to do when faced with an ordinand living in a civil marriage, and only one of them is recognized by the Canons marriage contracted after 24.03.14. of the Church of England. The implications need to be worked out and understood in detail, and this is the work we are The nature of the problem engaged upon. The new and fundamental fact, on which all marriage At its simplest, we demand of our priests that they be discussion must now be founded, is that since the enactment properly baptised, properly confirmed, and properly ordained. of the Marriage Act 2013, there are in England two distinct How could we then say that such a man living with a wife and forms of marriage. There is Equal Civil Marriage, managed by children does not need to be properly married? There is work state registrars, and there is Holy Matrimony, according to the to be done. We invite others to join us. ND Canons of the Church of England. This is made clear, right at the beginning of the Act, in Clause 1.3. What happens in other 6 ■ new directions ■ April 2015 Catholic Love
The Bishop of Ebbsfleet preaches at the Licensing of Fr Jones Mutemwakwenda as Priest in Charge of All Hallows, Easton (Bristol) r Jones Chibuye Mutemwakwenda was born and ordained in his Last Supper, as he hands himself over to his disciples in Zambia. He was formerly Archdeacon, Diocesan before ever he is handed over to the authorities, he goes even F Administrator and Vicar General of the Diocese of Lusaka. further and provides both a model and a measure of love. It’s Having undertaken further theological studies in England and no longer just ‘love your enemies,’ but ‘love one another as I served as an Honorary Assistant Priest at Holy Trinity, Westbury- have loved you’ — without limit (John 13.1). Here is the one on-Trym, he was licensed as Priest in Charge of All Hallows, Easton Christian commandment – the only one by which, if it’s lived (Bristol) on 16 March 2015. out, you can recognize the disciples of Jesus (cf. John 13.35). This is the condition for Christianity. In one of his letters the Jesus said, ‘Love one another as I have loved you.’ (John 15.12) same John explained, ‘No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God remains in us’ (1John 4.12). This is The ancient Greeks, well before Jesus, had a saying, ‘From Christianity: nothing else! And whenever it loses its centrality, Africa there is always something new.’ Well, my dear Fr Jones, its uniqueness, its clarity in the lives of Christians, then through all the long history of that ancient proverb, it’s true in Christianity ceases to be good news; it even becomes bad news, its very best sense tonight. We thank God for you, for Gladys as empty religion so often can. and for your family; for your love of this place, and your desire But there’s a second crucial insight here. Loving as Jesus to serve here as its new priest-in-charge. loved us means loving unconditionally. The world out there, Thank you too for directing our attention, in your choice the world around us in Easton, has its difficulties, its violence, of gospel reading for this evening’s celebration. It takes us, like even its darkness; but the most obvious thing about the world a well-aimed dart, right into the heart of Jesus’s teaching at the is that it is a place where love is conditional. In the world, we Last Supper, and right to the heart of what this parish is called humans love people like ourselves. But at the Last Supper we to in the coming years. Luke’s Last Supper is 38 verses, hear Jesus puncturing that view of love like popping a balloon. Matthew’s 15, Mark’s a tiny 13; but John’s account of the Last Supper is a whacking 155 verses, full of teaching about the nature of our relationship with Jesus Christ and one another. In the verses just before our reading, to emphasize his unity Forward in Faith with them, Jesus is reinterpreting the great Old Testament image of the People of God as a vine: ‘I am the vine stock, you are the branches; remain in my love, grow from me,’ he says to wishes all readers of his rather worried disciples, ‘and you will bear much fruit.’ New Directions All Hallows is one of the smallest parishes in the Diocese of Bristol, and statistically it is the most socially deprived. The challenges to the people who live in this part of the city are huge; and the little flock of Jesus Christ here can easily seem a Happy Easter and overwhelmed. But that is not bad news. If the story of a joyful Eastertide. salvation and the experience of Jesus are anything to go by, All Hallows is ideally placed to do great things for God: or (to put it better) is ideally placed for God to do great things through Alleluia. Christ is Risen. it. The only condition is the word from the Lord which arrives with Fr Jones tonight: ‘Remain in me, keep my command,’ He is risen indeed. Alleluia. Jesus says, ‘and you will bear much fruit.’ ✠
Let’s stay with St John a moment, and try to bring out one or two key thoughts. First, Jesus is giving a totally new commandment. You remember, he begins with parables like the Good Samaritan, teaching his hearers to recognize and love their neighbour as much as they love God (cf. Luke 10.25-28). Later, he takes them further: ‘You have heard it said, ‘Love your neighbour, and hate your enemies’; but I say, ‘Love your enemies.’ But now,
April 2015 ■ new directions ■ 7 The love that is embodied in Jesus, and in the friends of Jesus, proclaiming that it is part of a universal tradition, the Church is not a love for people like us, not a love that is completely of all times and places. It takes its confidence from the habits bound up with belonging to this or that group. It is a catholic and commitments of that universal tradition. Dear Friends, love: a love that is extravagantly poured out, that perseveres you must not be afraid to embrace that identity and grow in when it’s ignored or rejected or injured, that knows no it. Catholic tradition is not a ‘style’ of worship, or a range of boundaries. Jesus reminds his friends in these words that God’s goods things alongside others: it is a teaching and a belonging love has no start button, no stop button. God’s love has no and a destiny as universal and overwhelming as the catholic cause; it’s totally free, totally sovereign, and utterly unlike the love of God in Christ. It is a life obedient to Jesus Christ, world’s conditional love. Jesus tells us Christians to love one caught up in his resurrected and ascended life. It has come to another as he loves us because in his every moment, his every us from the Apostles’ preaching and witness, and we share it word, his every act, in the death he endures and the life he with catholic Christians across the globe. regains, Jesus is the stream of his Father’s unstoppable causeless love. This unconditional love is what makes the Church catholic, what makes it evangelistic. And it’s a constant ✠ challenge to the Church, because inside each human being (all Christians included) is the deep-rooted desire to love people like us rather than to love with the Lord’s divine and catholic Tonight this parish starts on a new stage of its pilgrimage, love. under new leadership. In recent years you have been fortunate Jesus forces us to rethink love, to rethink belonging, to in your pastors, particularly in your last priest in charge, Fr rethink our future; and he draws us to himself, so that with Richard Hoyal. The past two-and-a-half years have been his unconditional love we can go to every other conceivable difficult ones. But you have survived, and even grown stronger human situation and create more belonging, create unity. in adversity. Now you welcome a new pastor, Fr Jones We’ve got to go to where our almighty Father’s unreasonable Mutemwakwenda. love already is, to catch up, and make his welcome and mercy Beloved brother: do not fear. You are a gift to us from the and grace available for our contemporaries. Our job is to create catholic riches of Christ. The greatest gift you give to All the belonging-in-Jesus that God’s universal overwhelming love Hallows is simply yourself and your priesthood, a person and wants to bring to life. That’s what the Church is for: that’s what a priesthood that was nurtured and grew up and flourished the Scriptures declare, what the Sacraments nourish, what all far from here, far from England. Remain in Christ, and you the Saints witness to. will soon see what needs to be done. Just at the moment when Christianity in Europe is tired (even in some places in a state of barely-stifled panic), Africa reminds us that where God’s ✠ catholic love is received with faith it can transform every condition of human life. Now it’s well known that All Hallows stands for a tradition Your challenge now is to embody Jesus Christ for the people in the Church of England that is not confined to the Church of Easton, and to motivate your own congregation to keep his of England. When it identifies itself as ‘Catholic,’ it’s command , and to work enthusiastically with you to show their love for one another in the world around. As your Bishop, I shall always The Society of Mary be ready to support your ministry here. The May Devotion and Annual General Meeting will be held Never be afraid to ask my help when at the Churches of S. Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town and The Most Holy Trinity LONDON you need it. on Saturday 2nd May 2015 at 12noon And to others from the S. Silas the Martyr, St Silas Place (off Prince of Wales Road) Kentish Town neighbourhood here this evening, I Solemn Pontifical Concelebrated Mass, would say: give Fr Jones a huge followed by Procession of Our Lady through the streets welcome; help him to be himself, and let to the Church of The Most Holy Trinity, Hartland Road, NW1. All Hallows be itself. And to the people Principal Celebrant: The Rt Revd Robert Ladds, Superior General of The Society of Westbury-on-Trym who are here, I (All priest members of the Society who wish to concelebrate should inform Fr Rowlands of their intention by Tuesday 28th April and bring an alb, etc. with them) say: Thank you for showing such love 1.30pm Lunch, in Holy Trinity Church Hall and friendship to Fr Jones and his (Minimum Donation £10 TO BE GIVEN -ON-THE DAY ) family while they have been with you. 3.30pm Annual General Meeting of the Society in Holy Trinity Church Please let unconditional love and followed by: friendship well up and overflow into a 4.00pm Solemn Vespers, Sermon, and Pontifical Benediction friendship between the two parishes. Preacher: The Revd Dr George Westhaver ‘I am one with you,’ Jesus says; PRINCIPAL - Pusey House, Oxford (Priest members of the Society are invited to sit in choir, please inform Fr Rowlands of their intention) ‘Remain in me, love as I have loved you, then you will bear much fruit, and your To reach S. Silas Underground to Chalk Farm on Northern Line or by Buses 24, 46 or 393 to Malden Rd To reach Holy Trinity Underground to Chalk Farm or by Bus 46 to Hawley Rd, or buses 24, 27, 31 or 168 to Camden joy will be full.’ Market.
8 ■ new directions ■ April 2015 The white Rose
J. Alan Smith considers issues of legitimate authority and state power
ne of the important messages proclaimed by our armies of the Kings of France, forming the nucleus of a civilization is that there is a distinction to be made Jacobite force. This led to the adoption of the White Rose as O between authority and power. Those who possess a Jacobite badge. Once again the White Rose became a symbol the one do not necessarily possess the other; there can be rulers of legitimate monarchy in contrast to the mere occupation of and regimes that lack legitimacy. This article examines the way a throne. this truth has been represented in history by the white flower, particularly the white rose, which, like the white lily, is a Resistance movement symbol of Our Lady. Among students in Munich during World War II there was a The Wars of the Roses derived their name from the badges Christian anti-Nazi resistance movement called the White of the Houses of Lancaster and York, the two branches of the Rose group which was led by brother and sister Hans and Plantagenet dynasty whose rival claims to the throne Sophie Scholl. As Christians, they saw Hitler as Antichrist and produced the conflict. Edmund Crouchback, second son of circulated anti-Nazi letters among their friends. On 16 Henry III and first Earl of Lancaster, took the Red Rose as his February 1943, just after Stalingrad, the Gauleiter of Bavaria badge from his mother, Eleanor of Provence. John of Gaunt, addressed the students and received a hostile response. Three fourth son of Edward III, became Duke of Lancaster through days later the Scholls produced a leaflet attacking him and marriage to Blanche of Lancaster. Edmund of Langley, fifth distributed it between lectures. Within ten days they and over son of Edward III and first Duke of York, took the White Rose a hundred friends were dead, most of them after torture. They as his badge. were witnesses to the truth that possession of power does not necessarily convey legitimate authority. C.M. Woodhouse Symbol of legitimate monarchy wrote: ‘Being German, they show better than anyone else the Henry IV, son of John of Gaunt, usurped the throne from his true purpose of resistance: to save a nation’s soul.’ cousin, Richard II, the son of the Black Prince who was the eldest son of Edward III. Following Richard’s subsequent death Unborn children the legitimist claim to the throne passed to the nine-year-old In the last half-century the Society for the Protection of Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, who was in no position to Unborn Children has used the white flower to commemorate exercise it. Edmund was the great-grandson of Lionel of those unborn children who were killed because they were Antwerp, Duke of Clarence and unwanted. White is doubly third son of Edward III. On they were witnesses to the truth that appropriate for it is the symbol Edmund’s death the claim passed both of penance and of to Richard, the fourteen-year-old possession of power does not innocence: the white sheet was Duke of York. Henry VI, the necessarily convey legitimate authority worn by penitents; white for Lancastrian occupant of the innocence is the colour for bridal throne, was descended from the dresses and the liturgical colour fourth son of Edward III; Richard, Duke of York was of requiems for young children. descended in the male line from the fifth son of Edward III but We rightly despise those societies in the past that permitted his claim to the throne was based on descent in the female line slavery and the employment of women and young children for from the third son of Edward III. Thus the White Rose became unrestricted periods in factories and down mines. How will a symbol of legitimate monarchy. posterity judge a society that permitted the large-scale slaughter of its unborn members? ‘Out of sight, out of mind’ A Jacobite badge is not a generally accepted principle of ethics. The White Rose reappeared during Stuart times. Government The white flower is a protest against a State that has officers wore in their hats a cockade, a form of rosette. Under undermined its own authority by its own unjust acts. The Charles I the cockade was scarlet, an appropriate colour for a United Kingdom not only neglects its duty to protect its martyr. It is interesting to note in passing how rich the Stuart unborn citizens, it also positively acts in an unjust manner by story is in Christian symbolism: a royal martyr; loyalty to the performing abortion through the NHS and by promoting rightful king, currently absent from power; the belief that ‘all abortion through propaganda and discrimination in NHS things will be well when the King enjoys his own again.’ At the appointments. Aquinas wrote of temporal rulers that ‘if they Restoration Charles II adopted a white cockade which James command things to be done which are unjust, their subjects II, in due course, retained. Following his successful invasion are not bound to obey them.’ Should a crisis come, we must William of Orange naturally introduced an orange cockade. give our allegiance directly to the overlord of every temporal In exile, James II and his successors continued to use the white ruler; CHRISTUS REGNAT, OK? ND cockade; in particular, it was worn by the Irish Brigades in the
April 2015 ■ new directions ■ 9 ‘The Most Immaculate and Blessed Virgin’ Colin Podmore looks at devotion to Mary in the pre-Tractarian Church of England
t was once popularly thought that in the eighteenth- upon her; the singular Goodness and Piety of Joseph, to whom century Church of England was at its most protestant, she was espoused; have persuaded the Church of God in all I dominated by a cold, rationalist theology – not an era in Ages to believe that she still continued in the same Virginity, which one would expect to find Marian devotion. However, and therefore is to be acknowledged e Ever Virgin Mary .’ recent scholarship has underlined the persistence of high churchmanship within the Hanoverian Established Church. Anglican doctrine One fruit of this was the addition in 1721 of the Assumption at is what lay Anglicans were taught about Our Lady in this of the Blessed Virgin Mary to the Oxford University Calendar most popular eighteenth-century Anglican devotional work. (otherwise largely that of the Prayer Book). It has remained ose words were in fact a quotation from An Exposition of the there ever since. Creed , published in 1659 by John Pearson (1613–86), later Bishop of Chester – a standard guide to the doctrines of the Prayer Book Creed that was republished, in full or in an abridgement, right e Prayer Book was one of the forces that kept devotion to through to the end of the nineteenth century. Pearson Our Lady alive. Generations of lay Anglicans, eecially summarized the Anglican doctrine on this point thus: ‘We perhaps children and young people, sat in the pews studying believe the mother of our Lord to have been not only before their Prayer Books in the less scintillating moments of lengthy and aer his nativity, but also for ever, the most immaculate sermons. ere they found Marian feasts in the Calendar, and blessed virgin.’ Behind that formulation we can hear references to Mary as ‘the Blessed Virgin Mary’ and ‘Our Lady,’ Lancelot Andrewes’ translation from the Orthodox Liturgy in the Christmas Collect and Preface (new compositions in 1549 his Preces Privatae (first published in 1648): ‘the allholy, which mention Our Lord’s Mother – unlike the Sarum texts immaculate, more than blessed mother of God and ever-virgin that they replaced), and the Magnificat at the heart of Evening Mary.’ ese are surely are the classical themes of Anglican Prayer. One of the most damaging developments in the last Marian devotion: purity, motherhood, and above all fiy years has been the disappearance of the Prayer Book from blessedness and perpetual virginity, summed up in the most the pew, supplanted by local booklets that contain only those typical Anglican designation: ‘the Blessed Virgin Mary.’ extracts from the liturgy that have been chosen for that church or even that day. e new technology that has made that Cleverly wrien hymn possible brings huge advantages, and we cannot uninvent it, Blessedness and virginity come together in the beautiful hymn but this development does involve an unprecedented loss of ‘Virgin-born we bow before thee’ ( New English Hymnal , 187) context, whereby the people in the pew are no longer inducted, by Reginald Heber, who was born in 1783 and died as Bishop almost by osmosis, into the tradition. of Calcua in 1826, not yet 43 years old. It appeared in his ground-breaking Anglican collection of hymns for the Robert Nelson Christian Year (the importance of which for Anglican piety Central to the whole logic of the Prayer Book is the Christian we note again), which was published posthumously in 1827: Year, and that therefore provided the framework for devotional writing for lay Anglicans. Probably the most Virgin-born, we bow before thee: important example of this was A Companion for the Feasts and Blessed was the womb that bore thee; Fasts of the Church of England: with coects and prayers for each Mary, Mother meek and mild, solemnity , by the layman Robert Nelson (1656–1715), first Blessed was she in her Child. published in 1704. Nelson was a Nonjuror when he wrote it. ough he later returned to the worship of the Established Blessed was the breast that fed thee; Church, he never resiled from his Nonjuring views. None the Blessed was the hand that led thee; less, the book was distributed by the SPCK and read very Blessed was the parent’s eye widely throughout the eighteenth century and well into the at watched thy slumbering infancy. nineteenth (my copy, published in 1795, is the 27th edition; the 36th was published in 1826). is demonstrates the Blessed she by all creation, influence of the Nonjurors on the large number of high-church Who brought forth the world’s salvation, Anglicans who stayed within the Established Church. And blessed they, for ever blest, In his section on the Annunciation, Nelson first answers the Who love thee most and serve thee best. question ‘Why is the blessed Virgin styled the Mother of God?’ en he goes on to say this of her perpetual virginity: Virgin-born…, we bow before thee… ‘e peculiar Eminency, and unparalleled Privilege of that Mother; the ecial Honour and Reverence due unto that Son, and ever paid by her; the Regard of that Holy Ghost that came continued on page 31 10 ■ new directions ■ April 2015 A lost opportunity
Martin Hislop takes issue with the distribution and communication of the recent Pastoral Letter from the House of Bishops n Faith in the Public Square , his last book as archbishop, Media and politicians Rowan Williams calls the Church a ‘political seminar … In addition two significant public institutions, the Media and I God transforms society and not just human individuals.’ the Parliament, appear to have been inadequately briefed or This theme characterized his decade in office. In one of the utilized in the publication and reception of the Letter. speeches included in the book he stated, ‘it’s not a matter of Surely someone within the Communications cadres of the Church binding its vision to the agenda of this or that Lambeth Palace and Church House undertook an assessment party, not a matter of the Church creating a political party to of just how this Letter would be received by the media and embody its vision and its priorities. Much more, it’s a matter politicians? of the Christian gospel motivating a grass-roots politics and An elementary first step in communications or marketing activism of generosity and mutuality.’ is to evaluate the risks and maximize the strengths and These sentiments could have been written as a Preface to opportunities. The Church of England has been here many the much criticized Pastoral Letter from the House of Bishops times before. Every entry into public policy debate has in the run up to the General Election. attracted accusations of ideological obsession and/or party political bias. The Church of England has been characterized Extraordinary as the Tory Party at Prayer in one century to the hot bed of It is not with the contents of the Letter, let alone its political Marxists in another. So why was this Letter released without construction, that I am concerned, but rather the manner of any apparent anticipation of its reception and strategies in its publication, distribution and overall communication of place to minimize or counter predictable reactions? which I am critical. What steps were taken to provide all MPs and Lords with I find it extraordinary that a document that in its own a comprehensive briefing ahead of its publication? What steps words is addressed to the parishes and were taken to provide known people of the Church of England was practising Christian MPs and Peers not actually distributed to the parishes. the parishes and in particular with the necessary backgrounders so For days it could not be easily accessed the clergy were ignored in the that they were in a position to provide on the Church of England website. document’s distribution constructive comments and support When accessed, the Letter for what the Bishops were seeking to (through an odd choice of font size) encourage? was the length of an Epistle or rather pretentiously that of a Papal Encyclical. No summary was provided and no guidance Lack of strategy given as to how the Letter might be used in a parish context. Various Christian charitable agencies ranging from Us to Ekklesia and the Christian Institute exist, but little evidence Woefully executed can be found to establish that they were adequately briefed In publishing such a document one presumes the bishops were and enlisted as active friends to encourage a constructive seeking to exercise their collective responsibility to act as chief reception and consideration of the Letter and its important shepherds to the flock and provide guidance for individual insights. church members in how they might foster ‘a grass roots politics In a society where social media is so important in effective and activism of generosity and mutuality’ envisaged by Rowan communication and political debate it is surprising if not Williams above. In addition, one presumes the House of negligent to find that no strategy appears to be in place to Bishops were seeking to exercise a legitimate role in the harness Twitter and Facebook, especially in reaching out to fostering of considered debate in the marketplace of ideas and opinion makers and the young. policies. The Church receives a bad press. As George Pitcher, a That being the case then I would respectfully submit that former Archbishop’s Secretary for Public Affairs puts it, the despite serried ranks of professional communications staffers, Church ‘needs to engage a media milieu that increasingly assorted policy advisors and ecclesial civil service mandarins doesn’t want complexity in its reporting of the Church. It the delivery of this exercise in public engagement was woefully wants boxes. It wants the UK to be like the US. It wants executed. liberals and conservatives, or liberals and evangelicals. It wants Not only were the parishes and in particular the clergy ‘nice Christians’ and ‘nasty Christians.’ ignored in the document’s distribution but no strategy There may well be a difficult, indifferent if not hostile appeared to be in place to equip the front line workers with media milieu but the Church of England must lift its own the direction and resources to make effective use of what is game if it is to communicate effectively let alone proclaim the clearly a document that arose out of much considered and Good News. ND prayerful consideration. A lost opportunity. April 2015 ■ new directions ■ 11 faith of our fathers Arthur Middleton on catechesis odern liturgies have made state of their souls; to a conversation a combination of both elements in a us familiar with with their minister in spiritual complex whole. M distinguishing Word and things, to an enquiry concerning all Sacrament. In the Primitive Church the parts of their duty: for by preaching Building up faith Ministry of the Word was the Liturgy of and catechizing, and private It was a difficult time for the Anglicans the Catechumens. It embodied the intercourse, all the needs of souls when everything seemed lost due to transmission of the faith to new can best be served; but by preaching Cromwell’s attempt to presbyterianize members as an essential part of church alone they cannot.’ the Church of England. The catechetical life. The need for Christian books had a cumulative effect in education has not diminished, but it embodied the transmission of building up Anglicans in their faith some methods need questioning, when outwardly all seemed lost. That particularly when the Liturgy of the the faith to new members as an great Anglican John Evelyn, the friend Word becomes an arena for essential part of church life of Pepys and like him a diarist, experiment in methods of complained that no real Christian instruction. Too often there has been an instruction was being given in the parish These seventeenth-century Anglicans intrusion of classroom models and churches. In his diary he wrote, ‘there saw catechesis as part of the Ministry technology, a teaching method academic was now nothing practical preached, or of the Word. Richard Hooker in character, that reduces the commended it: ‘Catechizing may be in that pressed for reformation of life, but understanding of the Word to the purely schools, it may be in private families. high and speculative points and straines ‘verbal level.’ Little effort is made to find But when we make it a kind of ... which left people very ignorant and of a way of spiritually reading the reality preaching, we mean always the public no steady principles.’ He catechized his the liturgy expresses and communicates, performance in the open hearing of family on Sunday afternoons. a way of discovering its spirit, its eternal men.’ Lancelot Andrewes’s Pattern of meaning, the essence and spirit of what Catechistical Doctrine published after his liturgical action is. Sums of divinity death in 1630 is probably the earliest of Liturgical catechesis is an ancient way George Herbert in The Country Parson these books. Henry Hammond’s of teaching Christian doctrine and life. gives a whole chapter to the catechism Practical Catechism (1644), William Its primary aim is to bring the individual ‘to which all divinity may easily be Nicholson’s Plain and Full Exposition of into the life of the Church rather than reduced.’ He writes: ‘The Country the Catechism (1655) and Richard merely communicate ‘religious Parson values catechizing highly… He Sherlock’s The Catechism of the Church of knowledge’ on a cerebral level. Its exacts of all the Doctrine of the England Explained (1656) appeared. In concern is edification, the ‘building up’ Catechism; of the younger sort, the very The Golden Grove , which really started of a member of the Body of Christ, words; of the older, the substance… He out as such an exposition, Taylor offers introducing people into the life of the requires all to be present at Catechizing.’ his book as an alternative to the view of Church rather than into an enfolding of He understood catechesis to be a those who had destroyed the Church its meaning, contents and purpose. This doctrine-devotion synthesis: ‘For there that ‘all religion is a sermon.’ can only be by participation in the being three points of his duty; the one, liturgical services and their explanation. to infuse a competent knowledge of Substantial contribution ‘O taste and see how good the Lord is.’ salvation in every one of his flock; the The usual layout following that of the First taste, then see; that is, understand. other, to multiply and build up this Catechism is an exposition of the Creed, knowledge to a spiritual temple; the the Lord’s Prayer or prayer generally, and Ministry of the Word third, to influence this knowledge, to the sacraments, followed by an In the seventeenth century this was fully press and drive it to practice, turning it explanation of the Decalogue, and when understood and accepted. The pattern to reformation of life, by pithy and lively the Church of England was restored of instruction in the meaning of exhortations; Catechizing is the first such handbooks of faith and practice membership was through preaching, point, and but by Catechizing, the other were still needed. Thomas Ken’s catechism and personal spiritual cannot be attained.’ Exposition of the Church Catechism counselling. In an Episcopal Charge Catechesis is for the translation of appeared in 1685 and William (1661), Jeremy Taylor told his clergy: devotion and doctrine into Christian Beveridge’s The Church Catechism ‘Let every minister teach his people living, into practical divinity. This Explained in 1704.This kind of book then the use, practice, methods and understanding of catechesis is in the made a substantial contribution to the benefits of meditation or mental minds of the authors of the various Anglican heritage both in theology and prayer… Let every minister exhort catechetical books who called them devotion. ND his people to a frequent confession ‘sums of divinity.’ Doctrine and devotion of their sins, and a declaration of the are not separable. They form a synthesis, 12 ■ new directions ■ April 2015 Advice to the Christian devotional John Henry Newman ur duty lies in acts – acts of with himself at all times – ‘never less made a good profession, aim at course of every kind, acts of the alone than when alone.’ He can lay his consistency; and let those who take O mind, as well as of the tongue, head on his pillow at night, and own in pleasure in religious worship, aim at or of the hand; but anyhow, it lies mainly God’s sight, with overflowing heart, that inward sanctity; and let those who have in acts; it does not directly lie in moods or he wants nothing – that he ‘is full and knowledge, learn to love; and let those feelings. He who aims at praying well, abounds’ – that God has been all things to who meditate, forget not mortification loving sincerely, disputing meekly, as the him, and that nothing is not his which (Sermons on Subjects of the Day ). respective duties occur, is wise and God could give him. More thankfulness, Be quite sure that resolute, consistent religious; but he who aims vaguely and more holiness, more of heaven he needs obedience, though unattended with high generally at being in a spiritual frame of indeed, but the thought that he can have transport and warm emotion, is far more mind, is entangled in a deceit of words, more is not a thought of trouble, but of acceptable to Him than all those which gain a meaning only by being made joy. It does not interfere with his peace to passionate longings to live in His sight, mischievous ( Parochial and Plain Sermons, know that he may grow nearer God. Such which look more like religion to the Vol. II ). is the Christian’s peace, when, with a uninstructed. At the very best these latter single heart and the Cross in his eye, he are but the graceful beginnings of Hidden peace addresses and commends himself to Him obedience, graceful and becoming in The Christian has a deep, silent, hidden with whom the night is as clear as the day children, but in grown spiritual men peace, which the world sees not – like (Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. V ). indecorous, as the sports of boyhood some well in a retired and shady place, would seem in advanced years. Learn to difficult of access. He is the greater part of Inward sanctity live by faith, which is a calrn, deliberate, his time by himself, and when he is in Let those who have had seasons of rational principle, full of peace and solitude, that is his real state. What he is seriousness, lengthen them into a life; and comfort ( Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. when left to himself and to his God, that let those who have made good resolves in I). is his true life. He can bear himself; he can Lent, remember them in Eastertide; and Excerpts from The Vision of John Henry (as it were) joy in himself, for it is the grace let those who have hitherto lived Newman , compiled by John Van de Weyer of God within him, it is the presence of religiously, learn devotion; and let those and Pat Saunders, edited by Arthur the Eternal Comforter, in which he joys. who have lived in good conscience, learn Middleton. ND He can bear, he finds it pleasant, to be to live by faith; and let those who have Last November I attended a lecture by and done in some of the modern Fr John Behr, a Russian Orthodox Anglican rites I have attended recently theologian, titled ‘Reclaiming Death’. Ghostly which deal with death with a He outlined the current situation in saccharine smile and a cloud of western societies where death is platitudes. pushed to the edge of community life. Counsel If our prayer – that is to say, our ‘Death’ is the dirty word of our time. Resurrection life relationship with God – is to be real, He came out with some staggering one of vital engagement, it has to have statistics including that in the United Andy Hawes is Warden of death near its centre. Reflect on some States 80% of expenditure in health Edenham Regional Retreat House of our most frequently used ‘classic care is on the last two months of life. prayer we must befriend death. Bishop prayers’ : in the Angelus we ask Our So determined are we to delay death Edward King used to advise retreatants Lady to ‘to pray for us sinners now and that in some cases ‘we have to be killed that a good place to seek renewal in at the hour of death,’ in the Anima before we can die.’ Here are echoes of their spiritual life was to visualize their Christi we pray ‘ at the hour of my Revelation 9.5: ‘they seek after death own funeral, and then in imagination death call me, and bid me come to but do not find it.’ He urged his come back to their own grave once the thee, that I may live with thy saints for listeners to reclaim death as an organic flowers had begun to fade and wither. ever.’ part of community life and as an The fact of death teaches us to seek St Paul writes: ‘you have died and essential part of being human. Fr Behr ‘those things that last forever.’ your life is hid with Christ in God.’ If drew our attention to a saying of St One of the spiritual challenges for through our baptism we have died and Irenaeus of Lyon – ‘Jesus has destroyed our generation is not only the have risen in Christ, it means our life death to make it a tool in his hand.’ reclamation of death in its social has a different dynamic, focus and end. This leads me to the place of death context, but also to reclaim it as a This should affect profoundly the way in our prayer life. Many readers will source of vitality in our spiritual life. we approach God. There should be less know the verse of Bishop Ken’s Evening whether we like it or not, we do pick in our prayer about personal Hymn; ‘teach me to live that I may up and are influenced by the humanist development and more about learning dread the grave as little as my bed, approach to death. Having attended how not to fear the grave. In this is teach me to die that so I may raise my cousin’s humanist funeral, I could found a freedom to serve. In this way glorious at that awful day.’ In our see little difference to what was said we lose our life in order to find it.
April 2015 ■ new directions ■ 13 The First Glorious Mystery
The Bishop of Fulham finds help in preaching the Resurrection
ross or Resurrection? It is absurd to make them into and to be free from sin (Romans 6.4, 11). alternatives, but oen we can be tempted to do just Fih , the Resurrection of Christ completes our salvation. C that. We pray in aid uncritical reflections on e death of Christ on the Cross was to deliver us from evil; Christian art, or liturgy: the Latin West for the Cross, the so his Resurrection is to open the way for our glorification. Orthodox East for the Resurrection, generalizations only (Romans 4.25). slightly less convincing than the conviction felt by so many that Lovers of the Book of Common Prayer might, in particular, ‘Celtic Christians’ were all for vegetarianism and nature- wish to reflect on how these last two of these themes are worship. reflected in the Collects for the Sundays aer Easter: for example in the Collect for the First Sunday aer Easter (the Historical religion old Collect for the second Communion service on Easter Day Perhaps we should not be too hard on ourselves, or on others, in the 1549 Book). when we struggle to hold together at one moment both Good Friday and Easter Day. e mysteries of salvation unfold Two more questions sequentially; Christianity is an historical religion. Jesus Christ In the Second and ird Articles of Q.53, omas goes on to was born according to the flesh, then crucified, then rose again consider two questions which might seem to us less pressing: from the dead and ascended into heaven. In our thinking and Whether it was fiing for Christ to rise again on the third day? in our praying, perhaps we can cope with only one thing at a And, Whether Christ was the first to rise from the dead? time. omas answers the first question with a mixture of very So now the Church gives us the season of Eastertide: the praical and more eculative thinking. Christ has to rise Great Fiy Days in which we are called to celebrate with from the dead eedily: his Resurrection should not be deferred ecial emphasis and joy Christ’s until the end of the world. But it was rising from the tomb. Every Sunday St Thomas Aquinas considers the also needful that there should be a is the Day of Resurrection: now is the gap between death and resurrection, Season of Resurrection, in Resurrection of Jesus Christ in his lest some should think that he was Augustine’s famous phrase, ‘We are treatise on Christology not truly dead. is is the praical an Easter people and Alleluia is our reason. More eculatively: three is song.’ the perfect number, the number of everything (having a beginning, a middle and an end); and the Its necessity third epoch begins with the Resurrection, the first being before St omas Aquinas considers the Resurrection of Jesus Christ the Law, the second under the Law, and the third under grace. in his treatise on Christology in Part III of the Summa As to the question in the ird Article, omas argues that eologica , Q.53. In the First Article of Q.53, he asks Whether while others had been resurrected to life before Christ’s it was necessary for Christ to rise again? omas quotes St Luke resurrection (e.g. those brought back to life by Elijah and 24.46 (‘us it is wrien, that the Christ should suffer and on Elisha; those who, according to St Mahew’s Goel, came out the third day rise from the dead’), and offers five reasons why of their graves at the moment of Christ’s death), they would this is so. I summarize them below: they make a sound basis die again: Christ is indeed the first to be raised to the for a series of Easter sermons from Low Sunday to the Sunday resurrection life, to life everlasting. before Ascension Day, inclusive. Note how closely St omas roots all his reasoning in Scripture. Divine power First , the Resurrection of Christ aests to the Justice of God. Finally, in the Fourth Article of Q.53, Aquinas asks whether God exalts those who humble themselves for his sake (see Luke Christ was the cause of his own Resurrection. He answers that 1.52). Christ has humbled himself on the Cross, out of love for insofar as Christ is raised by the divine power, and that this is God, and obedience to him; therefore, God has lied him up the same thing as the operation of Father and Son, yes, Christ to a glorious Resurrection. was raised up by the divine power of the Father, and by his Second , the Resurrection of Christ instructs us and confirms own power. us in our faith. e Resurrection proves Christ’s divinity (2 So the Angelic Doctor and father of Western theology gives Corinthians 13.4) and it establishes the sure ground for our us plentiful teaching and reflection on the First Glorious belief in him (1 Corinthians 15.14; Psalm 29.10). Mystery, the mystery of the Resurrection which we celebrate ird , the Resurrection of Christ is the grounds for our with ecial intensity and joy for these Fiy Days. ND hope, for where Christ our Head has gone, we too hope to follow (1 Corinthians 15.12; Job 19.25, 27.) Fourth , the Resurrection of Christ enables us to live justly
14 ■ new directions ■ April 2015 Pews 2
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Christopher Smith worries about the ways of the fourth estate and how the Bishops should deal with it
do sometimes scratch my head in links including access to the weekly C of ‘overlooked by policy makers.’ Surely, in puzzlement over the modern news E podcast and the Church the current climate, those promoting the I agenda. I eat my porridge Commissioners Annual Report for work of such institutions are pushing at wondering why the front page of a once- 2013. At the bottom of a long press an open door. great newspaper is dominated by a story release was a link to the letter itself, a And so we come to the nub of it in about Jeremy Clarkson and a fight over link to Church House bookshop who paragraph 118: don’t be apathetic and a cold collation. Page three is given over would sell me a printed copy for £3.99 cynical, for ‘It is the duty of every to ‘Rags to riches: ex-wife claims hippy’s plus postage, and a link to a ‘guide’ to the Christian adult to vote, even though it fortune 23 years later,’ page five is pastoral letter which seemed to have may have to be a vote for something less dominated by a picture of vacuous been produced for the benefit of those than a vision that inspires us.’ Can’t say ‘artwork’ chronicling every defeat of the who couldn’t be bothered to read the fairer than that, but did they really need England football team since 1874, and whole thing. 56 pages to say it? Perhaps something page seven (all of it) takes us back to the And that’s a pity, because, of course, shorter that didn’t need a press release Clarkson story. This edition of New no-one in the mainstream media was to work the media up into a frenzy Directions lands on your mat as we ever going to read the whole thing if would have been better, but perhaps celebrate Easter, but you won’t be seeing there was a summary. And the without the frenzy there would have much of that in the press. Perhaps there summary really didn’t do justice to the been no media coverage. Ah well. will be another awards Whilst I would never want to ceremony to cover. perhaps something shorter that didn’t strip idealism out of politics, What will undoubtedly be all need a press release to work the media perhaps we have to accept that over your newspaper by now is there is no abiding city here on the home straight of the General up into a frenzy would have been better earth. All we can know is that Election campaign. Of course, God’s intervention in human this journal has no place telling you how original. Because for all the kerfuffle, the history has been decisive and salvific. to vote, and neither does this column. original isn’t that bad. Like me, it is The tomb was empty, the body was not But you may have thought that the studiously politically neutral, and in its corrupted by death. We don’t know the bishops of the Church of England were continual balancing of right and left, free how, but we do know the why. And, as trying to do so with the recent markets and state regulation, Thatcher Austin Farrer once said, we do not come publication of their pastoral letter, ‘Who and Attlee, almost anodyne. Modern to God for a little help, for a little is my Neighbour?’ Having heard that politicians are excoriated because they support for our own good intentions. such a letter had been addressed to ‘all have ‘failed to offer attractive visions of We come to him for our resurrection. members of the church,’ I sat back and the kind of society and culture they wish We don’t come for a little thing; we come waited for the postman. And if not the to see,’ and the bishops have noticed that for everything. And, as Farrer also once postman, I assumed, then the diocesan election turnout is down and ‘a majority said, ‘those who have found God still email system, or perhaps something of people think that it will make no have God to find.’ Perhaps this is the ‘cascaded’ through the deanery. But no. difference whichever party is in power.’ ‘core message’ (to use the jargon) that the I knew it existed because there was some But whilst they fear that we have bishops would be better trying to get argy-bargy in the press, but whereas it become more a ‘society of strangers’ than across to a sceptical and needy world. had clearly been delivered to the media, a ‘community of communities,’ they ND it was certainly not delivered to us make few suggestions that are actually humble parochial clergy. practicable by any party or coalition But of course, I needed to go to the coming to power. Church of England’s website, which I Perhaps that is their point, but only visit in the normal run of things to motherhood and apple pie are easier to check the latest version of the Table of talk about than to create. They get very Parochial Fees so that I know how much excited about ‘intermediate institutions’ the diocese wants off me for doing a like the local church, credit unions and funeral or a wedding. There I housing associations (‘a lot bigger than discovered the letter behind a rotating the family but far smaller than the button, sharing its space with eight other state’), but then moan that these are
April 2015 ■ new directions ■ 17 views, reviews and previews art
SARGENT Portraits of Artists and Friends National Portrait Gaery 12 February–25 May Admission £14.50, concessions available
If John Singer Sargent were a novelist, he would fall between Henry James (middle period) and E.F. Benson. He had terrific facility and was immensely fashionable but what did he do with his talent? is show makes an aempt to present him as an artist at the forefront of his age. And it is true he was a friend of Monet. It may also be true he was the most advanced landscape painter in England in the 1880s. But who remembers any English landscape painter in the 1880s? – there is none of the first or even the second rank. And it is embarrassing to compare Sargent’s pictures of artists and ladies sketching with the painting of modern life by the Impressionists. No factories, no artisans, no common people enjoying themselves in a vulgar sort of way. No experiments with colour or light. Nothing like the grit and experimentation of contemporaries like Sickert. And yet, there was something there. e standout pictures in this show are and bohemian background. If they were clever, ugly, almost devilish Jew? not the fashionable portraits but two Londoners they would be pure Wertheimer didn’t think so – he went small pictures of Robert Louis Hampstead or Dulwich. on to commission eleven family portraits Stevenson. In one the skinny author ose children’s aloofness from the from Sargent – but you couldn’t paint it nervously stalks the room while his wife common herd is a theme in many of nowadays. in Indian costume curls up on the sofa. these portraits. Time and again the head Too oen Sargent just didn’t get In the other the author sits in a cane is raised and the eyes look down over further into the charaer of his siers chair informally talking to the viewer as sharp cheekbones, challenging the than they or Society wanted. He was if to an old friend. is is someone we onlooker. is assumption of superiority, more of a Van Dyck than a Rembrandt. would like to meet. the triumph of the thespian will, But he was always good at so fabrics. Among other good pictures there is becomes tiresome when it does not end e classic of the genre, W. Graham the early portrait of his teacher Carolus- in farce – Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, Robertson , was, as Sargent pointed out, Duran where the technique slips down all lurid greens and hammy histrionics, primarily the picture of an overcoat, like an oyster and Carolus-Duran’s force is simply misjudged. Or is it just of its though the jade topped cane is good too. and ésprit energizes the canvas. e twin time, the pictorial representation of the Almost as good though much fussier portrait Portraits de M.E.P. et de Me L.P. style of aing we see in silent films? in design is the first picture in the show, is another extraordinary picture. ese A similar suension of judgement is Madame Ramón Subercaseaux . is was children – Sargent is generally very needed for Asher Wertheimer , a leading Sargent’s breakthrough into the Salon sympathetic to children – pose with the art dealer and friend of Sargent’s. Is it and he does the beautiful, sexy woman, precocity which comes from a privileged anti-Semitic? a caricature of the rich, her silks and fashionable surroundings 18 ■ new directions ■ April 2015 with the same verve as a Mario Testino. controversies and a cogent argument in As Christ’s Incarnation inaugurated Indeed Testino might even be working their favour as a defence of the doctrine the work of salvation for the whole in a tradition begun by Sargent. Some of of the Incarnation. Here we are cosmos, so icons bring an appreciation of his Princess Dianas in black and white introduced to a vast array of the sayings maer. Christ takes up the material hint strongly at Sargent’s notorious of the Church Fathers and the acts of the world in his body and the icon allows the Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau). councils. Naturally for the author the material world to play its part in Sadly that picture does not qualify for Seventh Ecumenical Council is pivotal: honouring the Son of God. As the the exhibition since Madame was a ‘For the honour which is paid to the introduction puts it: ‘because icons are beauty rather than an artist or a friend. image passes on to that which the image physical objects that partake in the And Sargent didn’t paint any other represents and he who reveres the image spiritual life, this book is more broadly pictures with showed the extreme reveres in it the subject represented.’ Of about the role that the material world décolletage of a woman who owed her this Hart says: ‘e iconodules [icon plays in our relationship with our place in Society to her sexuality. He worshippers] asserted that an image creator and our neighbour, and that our wasn’t an artist to get ahead of his times. does not aempt to reproduce the body plays in our fulfilment as human In the end this show is frustrating. It nature of the person depicted but does beings.’ is well presented, if a lile over eager. represent their person. e aention of e book is araively produced on e ticketing is, not for the first time at the people when they are venerating an quality paper with a fine selection of the NPG, a nightmare, with too few staff icon is not the image itself but the person illustrations (the majority being the and an unnecessarily complex pricing depicted thereon.’ work of the author) and is very good structure. But the real frustration is Most of the book is not easy or light. value at £14.99. Sargent. So oen he holds something It doesn’t read like a thriller but it is a John Gribben CR back or chooses not to go deeper. In the weighty treasury of the reflections of manner of Charles Ryder, his art orthodox theology on the relationship of MORAL PSYCHOLOGY & succumbs to its own charm. But when beauty and maer to the Divine. So we HUMAN AGENCY he lets go he is joyous. look at icons and (almost incidentally) Owen Higgs at other art. While the author pays due Edited by Justin D’Arms and Daniel reect to the works of Rothko and Jacobson other modern artists, it is hard to believe OUP, 290pp, hbk books that he takes western art seriously as a 978 0198717812, £40 vehicle of approach to the Divine. at Moral psychology is the discipline best said, what we have is an approach to the known, in popular books, for proving BEAUTY – SPIRIT – MATTER Incarnation that allows the worshipper that we do not reach our moral to feel the intimacy that should exist Icons in the Modern world conclusions by the rational means we between this realm and that of the Aidan Hart generally claim, but by alarm-like Divine. Jesus is the primary icon – Gracewing, 288pp + 32 colour plates, pbk emotional responses or evolution-based Divine Word beheld in maer. Whoever 978 0852447826, £14.99 instincts. We think we have reasons for sees Jesus has seen the Father also. He is doing what we do, but really these are no the image of the invisible God and is excellent book is very difficult to more than rationalizations devised aer because he lived as a man that image can categorise – Natural theology, the event. ere is no doubt that this be portrayed. Icons, like hymns, enable ecclesiology, worship, history art and pessimism, or cynicism, about human the heart as well as the mind to be science all sit comfortably side by side – conduct has been highly influential and involved in worship. as the quotation from Stratford made a great deal of money for a number Caldeco’s review says, the author ‘has of popular authors: if you are stuck in an revived a sensitivity for God’s presence airport, you will easily find a handful of in all things – God, one of whose names such books to while away the time. is Beauty.’ In the academic world, you might Although the work of a single author, hope that this empirical investigation of the form of this book is essay style and moral decision-making would be more so it is a mistake to look for progression sober in its judgement and offer a useful or development from chapter to chapter, link to the more traditional area of but each chapter is a well-ordered and moral philosophy. If so, your hopes will consistent work. e overarching unity be largely disappointed. Partly, this is is provided by the title – beauty spirit, because moral psychology is about how maer. we make, or claim to make, our moral Chapter 1 – the eology of the Icon decisions; while moral philosophy is – is a tour de force as an apologia for the about the nature of good and bad, and use of icons, for an historical panorama what we mean by right and wrong. e of the history of the iconoclast laer asks moral questions, the former April 2015 ■ new directions ■ 19 does not. To make maers worse, many religion and morality, leaving only only Paul being typically Paul.’ of the praitioners of empirical disconnected strands, which may then What this careful study shows is that psychology (and sociology) are so taken manifest themselves in quite contrary he is much more of the deliberate with their success that they virtually behaviour. It is not that the sufferer is scholar than we oen suppose. If he had dismiss the philosophical questions. now manifesting a completely new had a word-processor, he would surely Ethics, good and bad, right and wrong, charaer trait of vicious meanness, but have come up with multiple volumes of just is what we end up doing. rather (now dysfunctional) remnants of careful exposition; which would ese essays are an aempt to ask that charaer. certainly have been more coherent, but philosophical questions about the no doubt less convincing. observations and experiments in moral Conway’s thesis is this. When psychology, and in most cases to reassert eaking about the divine pledge, the importance of those philosophical revealed in the pages of the Jewish questions. e most common Scriptures, Paul rejects the terms used in conclusion these scholars share is that the Septuagint and contemporary too much of the scientific work, or writers in Greek, for the much narrower rather the writing based on that word group epangelia . On the face of it, scientific work, is unjustifiably simplistic. this is a most odd thing to do, when Absolutely right. Ironically, the papers commending his teaching to his fellow- are so technical, so interwoven with the Jews. is choice, of a word group not papers they are refuting, that few outside used by others, has two marked effects. a philosophy faculty would be helped by First, it focuses on the promise to them. e first and last essays, in Abraham, which then becomes the particular, are both excellently wrien paradigm for the whole of the Lord’s philosophical demolitions; but the very Such an investigation should make us pledge, promise and covenant with his fact they have to do it in such precise and more sensitive to dementia sufferers. people. Second, it links immediately to technical language only shows how far More significant, and the challenge it the technical term and word group he scientism’s malign influence has spread. posed to me, is: what does this say about inherited from the early Church and his So is moral psychology a waste of my own moral life as old age fellow apostles, namely euangelion . time? Certainly not. It does have much approaches? As one who has long Promise and Goel, epangelia and to teach us. e most vivid paper is enjoyed a considerable level of euangelion , become the terms that entitled ‘Remnants of Charaer’ in abstraion in both my moral and my express the continuity and fulfilment of which David Shoemaker considers the religious life, I do feel worried. I shall not God’s purpose, that link the promise to moral accountability of dementia set the abstraion aside (or why would Abraham ecifically to ‘his seed’ sufferers, and how we should respond: a I be reading books like this?) but I shall (singular), namely Jesus, that explain genuine concern. While victims of seek to deepen my personal relationship why this original promise was first Alzheimer’s may be exempt from moral with the Lord Jesus Christ. What faith proclaimed to his direct descendants, responsibility it would be wrong, the will remain when my intellect has and that allow the original evidence suggests, to deny them all share vanished? Promise/Goel to be opened out the in the world of moral aions. To be John Turnbu Gentiles as well as God’s chosen people. exempt from accountability is one thing; Consider Galatians 3.8, ‘e Scriptures to be removed entirely from the THE PROMISES OF GOD preached the Goel beforehand to humanizing realm of responsibility is Kevin Conway Abraham,’ or again Romans 1.2, ‘the quite another. e moral life of the de Gruyter, 320pp, hbk Goel he promised beforehand through sufferer is evidently much impaired, but 978 3110375077, €120 his prophets in the holy Scriptures.’ As if we analyse the impairment, as for Conway puts it, ‘Paul stands alone example in memory or communication, Paul as theologian is charaerized by among New Testament writers in his we can gain a deeper appreciation of the his presentation of the New Covenant, exclusive use of epangelia for God’s nature of that impairment. both in continuity and in contrast to the promise to Abraham that is so closely ere are no grand conclusions from revelation of the Old Covenant. Both identified with Paul’s euangelion of this paper, but there is great deal of features are vividly and forcefully salvation in Christ.’ sensitivity. He argues for moral traits, proclaimed in his leers. Under the Paul has carefully and deliberately such as kindness, as being the result of influence of commentators, no doubt, I linked two linguistically similar terms to what he calls ‘clusters of cares and have too oen understood this energetic convey the central continuity and commitments,’ built up through a long contradiction in terms of Paul’s own contrast of God’s revelation. It means life. What dementia may do in some personality. I confess that I have allowed that the bulk of this book is a detailed cases, through the loss of effective myself to fall too oen, when faced with and exhaustive analysis of the use of memory, is virtually to remove the more this apparent rhetorical exaggeration, epangelia in the Greek Scriptures and abstract elements of that cluster, such as into the disparaging response: ‘Oh, it’s their commentators, as well as 20 ■ new directions ■ April 2015 POPE FRANCIS: LIFE AND we learn that ‘Padre Jorge’ is polite to REVOLUTION hotel staff; that he wears the same mitre now as when he was first ordained A Biography of Jorge Bergoglio bishop; that he rises at 4.15am to say his Elisabea Piqué prayers; that he does not use a computer DLT, 328pp, pbk or a mobile phone; that he likes a nice 978 0232531640, £9.99 pudding (‘he loves sweets but controls himself’); that he does not wear white e reviewer picks up the book and trousers under his white cassock, and so begins to read. He is struck at once by on. the fact that Elisabea Piqué’s biography As well as her own experiences with of Pope Francis is wrien in the present Pope Francis (he is rarely off the phone tense, even though chronologically we to her), Piqué’s main sources are jump about a bit. It is, he thinks, like interviews with journalists and priests. reading Wolf Ha all over again. is For chay information (gossip?) about creates, he realizes, an effect which is his personal life, and indeed for the ins contemporary Jewish and non-Jewish unusual in reading biography. He, the and outs of Vatican intrigue, this is just authors, followed by the same detailed reviewer, cannot help but think that it is fine. For example, her clandestine analysis of Paul’s undisputed writings, not wholly satisfactory. And yet he meeting with ‘a Bishop of the followed by the disputed epistles and the continues to read, for the story told conservative anti-Bergoglio group,’ which rest of the New Testament: all this is for within the pages is indeed a powerful concludes with said bishop warning that university students only. I think you are one. And since the parts of this book ‘it would really be a pity if my beer off not reading his analysis too that he, the reviewer, enjoys most are permanent accreditation to the Vatican closely, for the evidence is not quite as those which deal with curial intrigue and Press Office were to be taken away,’ reads clear as one would like (we are dealing Vatican back-stabbing, the comparison like the stuff of which thrillers are made. with relatively few texts aer all). with Wolf Ha is not entirely an idle one. Worst of all, in his conclusion, He would not be entirely surprised to Conway can write such phrases as, ‘In find Cardinal Wolsey suddenly lurking sum, Paul is rather unique among non- in these pages. Jewish, Jewish, and even Christian NT A lile later he, the reviewer, pauses Greek writers, both prior to and nearly as he realizes that the descriptions of contemporary with himself, in his Rome, stylish and evocative if present exclusive use of the epangelia word group tense narrative is one’s thing, remind for the divine promise.’ Did none of the him of the descriptions of Venice in good people whom he thanks in his omas Harris’ Hannibal . He finds the acknowledgements shriek with horror thought unseling. when they proof-read this abject He is equally unseled when, for a sentence? Presumably not. Fascinating, brief moment, Elisabea Piqué leaves isn’t it? When I read this, three pages the continuous present behind – only to from the end, it seemed I was being revert to it a few pages later. Whether laughed at for wasting my time on so this is a quirk of the translation, it is demanding but inconsequential a study. impossible for an English eaker to At other times, Piqué’s penchant for In a sense, maybe, this book is a waste of know. What is clear is that Piqué is a somewhat gets the beer of paper. journalist, and she writes like one. tabloidese her. As she receives Holy Communion If, however, one ignores his wretched Whether or not this book finds favour from Cardinal Scherer of Brazil on the word counts and concentrates on his with the reader will therefore depend on eve of the Conclave which elects central thesis, it is a simple and exciting whether or not he enjoys reading a text Bergoglio, ‘something inside me tells me idea, that any of us can use when reading that is effectively a book-length version that he will not be the next Pope.’ e the epistles. We are also given an of a Sunday colour supplement article. weather during the Mass which initiates interesting picture of Paul as careful, It has to be said that there are the conclave is terrible: ‘Outside, the scholarly theologian; who seems (that’s strengths to this approach. Piqué is at storm still rages; there is even hail. Is it good enough for me) to have deliberately her best when dealing with back-stage the wrath of God?’ Et cetera, et cetera, picked his own technical term for the machinations, and when revealing the et cetera. Interestingly, the (in)famous Old Testament divine pledge, in order to lile aects of Pope Francis’ life and remark of the new Pope that ‘the bring out more clearly and memorably daily routine which, while hardly carnival is over’ is here relayed in the his presentation of both the uniqueness illuminating the great themes of his rather more polite and prosaic form, ‘it’s and the continuity of the Goel of Jesus Pontificate and his preceding ministry, not carnival time,’ as he declines the red Christ. nonetheless do illustrate the type of man mozzea. Anthony Savie he is and the type of life he leads. us April 2015 ■ new directions ■ 21 e appreciation – or otherwise – of that ‘you should not be afraid to use your much of this will genuinely be down to FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS tourist muscle to get the trip you want personal style. Where it does let the A pilgrim traveller’s guide to the rather than the run-of-the-mill trip that reader – and the subject maer – down Holy Land the tour operator may be keen to sell is in the book’s discussion of Bergoglio’s Pey Buck you.’ more distant past. Here, the present BRF, 232pp, pbk e book is divided into geographical tense grates, the chat-show style 978 0857463456, £10.99 chapters, which conclude with a brief reporting seems less adequate, and the chapter on Egypt and Jordan. e text is anecdotal tone is not weighty enough to Christianity has no equivalent of the interersed with ‘footsteps’ – Buck’s make convincingly the points that Piqué personal recollections of his own Hajj . ere is no central or obligatory wishes to get across. Piqué’s pilgrimage which forms a part of the experiences as pilgrim and traveller in conversational style simply is not strong common experience of Christianity. the Holy Land. Quotations from enough to be helpful in dealing with And yet, as the author of this accessible relevant Bible passages help to set the Bergoglio’s unpopularity in some and interesting guide puts it succinctly scene, and in a table at the start of the quarters of the Jesuit order, and in in the introduction to this volume, book events from the life of Christ are disproving the old allegations about his ‘within a relatively small and easily matched up to the pages that deal with supposed collaboration with the navigated part of the world, there is those places here. Black and white maps Argentinian dictatorship. is reviewer every opportunity to walk in the and a number of colour photographs does not doubt that Piqué’s assertion of footsteps of Jesus himself.’ When such an complete this araive volume. the Pope’s innocence is correct: he opportunity is so readily available, it is a merely asserts that her style is not the great sadness that more Christians do most helpful in this weighty arena. not avail themselves of it – and that of Nor is Piqué an independent or those that do, so many choose to stay dispassionate commentator. She believes confined within the rigid and narrow that Padre Jorge is ‘a kind of super-hero’; parameters set down by the big tour and while she is never openly critical of companies for their own convenience. Benedict XVI, by implication and at is the gist of the journalist and comparison he does not come out of this travel writer Perry Buck’s motivation for account well. Piqué places great weight writing this book, and the result is a on the present Pope’s choice of name – pleasing one on every level. Buck is Francis, who heard the call from God, ‘go adamant that the Holy Land is – with repair my house, which is in ruins.’ e one or two exceptions which he taking of this name, she asserts, ‘makes signposts very clearly – a safe, secure and prelates all over the world tremble.’ araive place to visit. And so he offers Piqué ends on more solid ground: this small volume as a combination of with a discussion of the early days and tourist guidebook and pilgrimage months of Francis’ pontificate, his manual. By and large, he steers clear of Footsteps of Jesus will be of value to all insistence on reforming the Curia, and the complicated political situation in the with an interest in the lands where Jesus his first journeys abroad as Pope. In this region, beyond noting its existence. e walked; it will be of praical help to context, her Sunday supplement style exceptions to this are his criticisms of the those planning a pilgrimage to the Holy becomes more suitable again, and the Jewish selers in the West Bank, and his Land, individually or as part of a large reader is swept along on what is insistence that as Christians we should group. It will also serve as a helpful undoubtedly a whirlwind journey. both visit the West Bank and support memento for those who have been to the e reviewer finishes the book. He our brothers and sisters in Christ who Holy Land before and wish to recall the concludes that a number of paradoxes live there. experience in the hands of an emerge. e priest from the end of the Buck is an astute guide to the experienced and capable guide. at is, world who comes to occupy the Chair of praicalities of travelling around the broadly eaking, my own experience. Peter. e other-worldly prelate who Holy Land, reserving most of his Having been to the Holy Land just once, nevertheless knows precisely what he scepticism for the commercial tour as part of a tour party, I would love to go wants and how to achieve it. e humble companies rather than local businesses back in a much smaller group, and Pope who ruthlessly exercises power in and individuals. He is clear that for explore the riches of the area the pursuit of his goals. He, the reviewer, many people, travelling round the Holy independently. is book is an is uncertain where this story will finish. Land on your own with the aid of public inspiration, and may one day be a But, he concludes, there will be worse transport and hire cars is not only safe praical tool, in helping me to do just narrators as it unfolds than Elisabea but a fantastic way to see the region. that. Piqué. And for those who would feel more Len Driver Paul orpe comfortable being part of a more structured visit, he is quick to suggest 22 ■ new directions ■ April 2015 Book of the month Luke Briers welcomes two books which unpack the gifts of the Rosary
A WALSINGHAM ROSARY Philip and Anne Gray Canterbury Press, 110pp, pbk 978 1848256309, £9.99
PRAYING THE ROSARY A JOURNEY THROUGH SCRIPTURE AND ART Denis McBride Redemptorist Publications, 136pp, pbk 978 0852314159, £12.95
ere are two handsome books which take the Rosary as their starting point and foundation and go on to H offer not only useful tools for praying the devotion, but much more besides. A Walsingham Rosary is a welcome new edition of a much- loved volume, updated to include the Luminous Mysteries. e book begins with a useful and araive guide to all aects of praying the Rosary. It would therefore be a worthy gi for somebody who was beginning to explore praying the Rosary. e meditation for each decade begins with a suitable Bible e rest of the book – purposely ecumenical in tone and passage – usually from the Goels and sometimes quite intent – is given over to the mysteries themselves, with lengthy – followed by a pause for thought. ere is then an suggested routes for praying the Rosary at stations in Act of Penitence. ese take the form of Kyrie confessions, Walsingham and the surrounding area: Binham Priory, Great and so could equally be used at other liturgies, including at Walsingham and South Creake are examples of places outside Mass. e same might be said of the brief intercessions that of Lile Walsingham which feature to good effect here. Many follow. Finally, there is a prayer which everyone present is of the features of the Shrines (Anglican and Roman Catholic), invited to say together, followed by further suggestions for and of Lile Walsingham itself, that are known and loved by thought and an intention for the decade. Among its other pilgrims are also given due aention. Each station is qualities, this book is a rich liturgical resource. introduced by a brief history of the location and points of interest to note. Araive maps, black and white line drawings and photos, and clear directions to the relevant sites mean that this book has value as a guide book to Walsingham and its environs, quite apart from its spiritual worth!
April 2015 ■ new directions ■ 23 Because this book is araively presented, and because some of the prayers are designed to be said by everyone together, it would be beneficial if each member of the group had a copy of the book. However, this is not essential. And of course, A Walsingham Rosary could profitably be used away from Walsingham as well: eecially by a Walsingham Cell or other groups who know and love the place. Denis McBride’s Praying the Rosary is an equally rich volume. For each decade of the Rosary, there is a reading from the New Testament, a meditation upon it, a painting, a reflection on the painting, and a prayer. All of the wrien material – Bible passage, meditation, reflection on the painting – is of a length that requires a sizeable amount of time to be set aside if it is to be used in its fullness by a group praying the Rosary together. On the other hand, this depth of detail means that the book will be a wonderful resource for individuals seeking to increase and develop their own devotion. And, like A Walsingham Rosary , there is much here that can be borrowed and used profitably in other contexts. In many ways, the real stars of this book are the paintings. Redemptorist Publications are to be congratulated on producing the book so lavishly: printed in full colour and on glossy paper throughout, it really allows the paintings to shine. McBride’s reflections draw out the depth of meaning to be found in paintings ranging from classics such as Titian’s ‘e Assumption of the Virgin’ and Bellini’s ‘e Agony in the circumstances of the time. In other words, to become a Garden’ to contemporary works such as John Collier’s ‘e witness, imaginatively and prayerfully, to the extraordinary Annunciation’ and less well-known pieces such as an story that was the Incarnation. In so doing, the events become anonymous alabaster relief of the Ascension. a meaningful part of our own lives. ‘Meditating on the Rosary Printed on the back cover of Praying the Rosary , and as the we are invited to look and listen; then look again. We are backdrop to several pages within it, is a map of the Holy Land. encouraged not only to say the prayers but go beyond recital is is significant because it roots the mysteries celebrated in and enter the beauty and complexity of the drama.’ the Rosary in the particular context that was the Incarnation. In these words, McBride neatly sums up why the Rosary is As McBride says in his introduction, ‘e beauty of the Rosary such a beautiful devotion, and such a wonderful gi to all is that it is a leisurely journey, through twenty episodes, of the Christians. Praying the Rosary seeks to unpack this gi through lives of Jesus and Mary. Apart from one decade, the four sets the riches of art; A Walsingham Rosary seeks to do so through of five mysteries focus directly on Jesus and Mary as the the riches of Walsingham and its neighbours. Both are priced principal charaers in the ongoing drama.’ He then invites the so as to make them eminently accessible. And both are warmly reader to use the praying of the Rosary – unburdened from recommended. ND remembering the actual prayers that are recited – to place herself in each scene and to imagine the particular
24 ■ new directions ■ April 2015 Tragedy and Comedy Secular Tom Sutcliffe explores issues of immigration and women’s freedom – and enjoys a good laugh in Liturgies Berlin I missed A View from the Bridge at the weakness is inescapable. Even the final relevant and painful issues today in Young Vic last year, but seized a £39 flood of sweet-smelling orange liquid, Britain. The Americans have been matinee ticket to catch it just now at the like a rain of blood covering them all in trying to pull up the drawbridge and Wyndham’s – where my seat was on the a tangled mass of distress and failed seldom welcome whom they allow in for side of the stage, right up close. It was prevention and pain and death, seems almost a century now. Our excuse here extraordinary: sharply focussed action, not an excess by the director but a good is that it’s a small island. But everything no scenery – just a doorway in the arrest of the process. Michael Gould as is comparative, and the poverty in post- middle of the back wall and an enclosing Alfieri – the lawyer who narrates, war Sicily that drove the illegals in wall round the space that could be sat explains – could not be better judged. Miller’s play is no different from the on. But physically the actors’ poverty and war and famine driving performances were completely Africans northwards to escape to naturalistic, intimate, confessional, Immigrants and women’s Europe. It is one world, which the searingly credible and irresistibly freedom are burningly relevant good Samaritan teaches us. involving. This domestic tragedy by and painful issues today in Britain In the evening after my passionate Arthur Miller, originally written in Miller matinee I watched the BBC’s verse and telling the story in one act, documentary India’s Daughter , in he reworked with Peter Brook for its Nicola Walker as the put-upon wife who which one of the rapists and his lawyer London premiere in 1956 in prose and can see the outcome well in advance is proclaim their view that the victim was two acts. Ingo van Hove the Belgian brilliant. Phoebe Fox as Catherine has to blame for enabling rape to happen by director here did it without interval, just the right modest determination to her inappropriate untimely presence built slowly, coolly. The piece is all about be herself and have her love. Emun and, moreover, responsible for what’s in Eddie’s mind, and Mark Strong Elliott’s Marco is the Sicilian sense of provoking her own cruelly murderous is phenomenal in the role. A honour debased – demanding revenge physical assault by resisting the rapists. longshoreman of Sicilian extraction, and fulfilling it after Eddie betrays the What is fitting for a girl (thinking in loco Eddie is in loco parentis for Catherine, illegals. parentis ) is a crucial part of the inner who lost her mother. The story centres The performance was profoundly minds exposed in India’s Daughter , where on parenthood that is carried out wrong, cathartic, and shocking, but it stirred the extreme dignity of the victim’s so sad that may be just infatuation. Illegal recognition from me more than mere parents made the ghastly circumstance immigrants who are cousins of Eddie’s useless tears that Eddie’s betrayal of trust of what occurred almost unbearably wife Beatrice have landed and are going is as dire and sinful as a deliberate act of moving. The documentary did move me to stay. One, Marco, works more murder. Human tragedy, I suppose, is to tears because of the excruciatingly resolutely than Rodolpho, who can sing always a judgment in the ultimate court painful but simple terms in which it and is beautiful and for whom inevitably from which there is no escape – the day demonstrated what was martyrdom. Catherine falls. The switch in the piece of wrath. Miller’s play is an Her rapists casually convicted their to mortal danger is when Eddie kisses extraordinary work. Tragedies cannot be virtuous victim without any justice, Rodolpho long and hard on the turning this girl, a medical student mouth, trying to show Catherine with no advantages of status, what he believes: that she cannot Utterly hilarious what tricks all motivated only by a desire to become trust him because he has to be a healer, and simply returning with homosexual. Previously, he had rated these people get up to her boyfriend home after a visit to the Rodolpho untrustworthy as just cinema, into a mere tool for their wanting to get married to an satisfaction. But old habits do die American so he would stop being an written in every age, but this one has the hard. The elderly Indian female judge illegal. The play builds sickeningly permanence (in its aspirational poverty who spoke of it with precision and through each inevitable step one can context) of a Greek classic. Maybe we intelligence was a world away from the dread coming. only deserve new mind-opening defence lawyer and perpetrators who in The production by van Hove just tragedies in our theatre when we are up their views are probably with the Indian never puts a foot wrong. The truth in to them and have the strength – even in majority were it asked. Caste, like class, how they all react to each other is a modern age when everything seems to immobilises the witnessing of truth, precisely and perfectly observed: the run too fast to value, let alone properly unless something as powerful as religion affection, the caring, the jealousy, the observe. fury, the fear, the resentment. At no Immigrants and women’s freedom, point does one doubt that human Miller’s subject matter, are burningly continued on page 27 April 2015 ■ new directions ■ 25 why I am a Catholic Anglican continued from page 4
Role of Scripture OPTET services might have a sense of this, along with what At this point it might be worth saying something about the might feel like a degree of excess (although I don’t think it is!). role of Scripture in the life of the Catholic Anglican. Quite I would also want to add that while the Mass – the Eucharist simply, to the Catholic Anglican Holy Scripture is the most – the Lord’s Supper – the Holy Communion – call it what you Catholic collection of writings there is; authored by God, will (what’s in a name?) is central to the life of the Catholic through the vehicle of human authors, teaching the truth. Not Christian, the importance of the daily round of Morning and a religion of the book, but a religion of the Word, living and Evening Prayer and the life of contemplative mental prayer Incarnate. It is to be read in the light of the same Spirit who cannot be underestimated – a bit like the three legs of a stool wrote it, while mindful of genre, history and context. Catholics – for further on this particular (and very Anglican) tradition are taught to aend to the content and unity of the whole of I refer you to the writings of Martin ornton, and in Scripture, to the living tradition of the whole Church and to particular his book Christian Proficiency . I quite like how the whole analogy of faith. similar that sounds to ‘Cycling Proficiency’ and it’s a good My caveat in all of this is that I am not a Scripture scholar analogy – something you can only learn by doing it. We in the professional academic sense, and so in discussing this become ‘proficient’ Christians, by praice, and by geing back feel a lile bit like agreeing to standing in a pit of lions and on every time we fall off. having a teeth-baring competition, so please be nice to me. As far as the centrality of scripture in the Catholic Tradition is Correct balance concerned, I quote to you from the Catechism of the Catholic One of the regulating factors in liturgy, which I have come to Church , which says it so much beer than I do: appreciate over the last few years, is the way in which a correct ‘erefore, the study of the sacred page should be the very balance is struck between personal preference and a right soul of sacred theology. e ministry of the Word, too – offering to God. e offering of Morning and Evening Prayer pastoral preaching, catechetics and all forms of Christian is simply that – an offering to God. If there is a benefit to us, instruction, among which the liturgical homily should hold it is secondary to that first priority. e benefit comes in pride of place – is healthily nourished and thrives in holiness recognizing that through these offices we are oriented towards through the Word of Scripture.’ God’s good pleasure, the priority of worship, and the offering And, in a nutshell, ‘Ignorance of the Scriptures is of praise and thanksgiving which asserts God’s dominion and ignorance of Christ.’ our creaturehood. In its orientation the Eucharist is quite different. St John-Marie Vianney, another hero of the Catholic Lectio divina faith to me, once pointed this out in saying: Further evidence of this view surfaces in the great schools of ‘All the good works in the world are not equal to the Holy prayer which form very much part of the Catholic tradition – Sacrifice of the Mass because they are the works of men; but in my own personal experience, the the Mass is the work of God. Benedictine and Ignatian traditions of to the Catholic Anglican Holy Martyrdom is nothing in comparison prayer stand tall in this regard. St for it is but the sacrifice of man to God; Benedict’s Rule emphasizes not only Scripture is the most Catholic but the Mass is the sacrifice of God for liturgical use of Scripture but also the collection of writings there is man.’ praice of lectio divina , an example of John-Marie Vianney, by the way, is a praice which has a usage far a hero because of his sheer holiness, his beyond the ecific tradition. In Ignatian spirituality, with its willingness to stay in an uncongenial place for his entire focus on the prayer of the imagination, the role of Scripture priestly life, his zeal for the Goel, and for his never receiving narrative, eecially the goels, is vital and indiensable . any kind of ecclesiastical preferment until canonization. He For the majority of Catholic Christians, exposure to also preached against dancing, and if people refused to give up Scripture principally takes the form of those passages of dancing, he refused them absolution. He is my kind of saint. Scripture which form the Mass lectionary. e Ministry of the Word at a Sunday Mass consists of what you will find in the Centrality of the Mass Common Worship Lectionary – readings from Old and New John-Marie Vianney’s words point to the centrality of the Testaments, a Psalm or Canticle, and a Goel Reading. For Mass in the Catholic life. One of three legs of the stool, yes, daily celebrations of the Mass, there would be one reading and but the solid foundation, identified completely with a Catholic a psalm. understanding of the nature of the Church. Put simply, it is indiensable, a core charaeristic of the Church. Of course Beauty and reverence that is so in diverse Christian theologies, but never more so is brings me neatly to one of the principal joys of Catholic than in Catholic faith and revelation. Dom Gregory Dix, Anglicanism – the emphasis upon liturgy and worship of formerly Prior of Nashdom and one of the Church’s great beauty and reverence, combining words, silence, music, colour, liturgical scholars, wrote this purple passage in his book e gesture and aion. ose of you who have visited us for Shape of the Liturgy: 26 ■ new directions ■ April 2015 ‘Was ever another command so obeyed? For century aer participates. Jesus in the Eucharist sends us out, that we might century, spreading slowly to every continent and country and assist in drawing all people to himself. And it is to among every race on earth, this aion has been done, in every incorporation, Baptism and Eucharistic fellowship that the conceivable human circumstance, for every conceivable church draws people to Jesus. at’s the core theology, I human need from infancy and before it to extreme old age and suppose, behind the impetus of the church plants in which I aer it, from the pinnacle of earthly was involved in earlier years – to bring greatness to the refuge of fugitives in Jesus in the Eucharist sends us people to Jesus in the Eucharist, and to the caves and dens of the earth. Men reveal him so present. e Eucharist is have found no beer thing than this to out, that we might assist in (among other things) an incredible do for kings at their crowning and for drawing all people to himself moral witness, eaking of how our criminals going to the scaffold; for lives should be ordered and what our armies in triumph or for a bride and priorities might be. bridegroom in a lile country church; for the proclamation of a dogma or for a good crop of wheat; for the wisdom of the Formative witness Parliament of a mighty nation or for a sick old woman afraid I can’t let this close without mentioning a vital area of Catholic to die; for a schoolboy siing an examination or for Columbus Anglican witness, and heroes – the laer part of the seing out to discover America; for the famine of whole nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth were provinces or for the soul of a dead lover; in thankfulness inhabited by some extraordinary charaers whose witness because my father did not die of pneumonia; for a village was formative for generations of priests and people: Charles headman much tempted to return to fetich because the yams Fuge Lowder (1820–80) who ministered in the slums at St had failed; because the Turk was at the gates of Vienna; for Peter’ s, London Docks. Alexander Heriot Mackonochie SSC the repentance of Margaret; for the selement of a strike; for (11 August 1825–14 December 1887) of St Alban’s Holborn, a son for a barren woman; for Captain so-and-so wounded and Charles Marrio (1811–58) of Oriel College and one and prisoner of war; while the lions roared in the nearby time principal of Chichester eological College, my old amphitheatre; on the beach at Dunkirk; while the hiss of college. I am privileged to bear his name in my full job title. scythes in the thick June grass came faintly through the Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941) is, quite simply, the most windows of the church; tremulously, by an old monk on the astonishing writer about mysticism and prayer. Perhaps the fiieth anniversary of his vows; furtively, by an exiled bishop most significant of my heroes from this batch is Basil Jellicoe who had hewn timber all day in a prison camp near (1899–1935). His ministry in the slums of Somerstown, near Murmansk; gorgeously, for the canonisation of S. Joan of Arc Euston Station, was instrumental in slum clearances and in – one could fill many pages with the reasons why men have the provision of social housing which is still evident today. Not done this, and not tell a hundredth part of them. And best of only that, but he raised the money to do it, and to fund other all, week by week and month by month, on a hundred housing projects. He died of sheer overwork at 36 – zeal for thousand successive Sundays, faithfully, unfailingly, across all housing consumed him – but he had accomplished many the parishes of Christendom, the pastors have done this just times over what some accomplish in longer lives. to make the plebs sancta Dei – the holy common people of I suppose, in the end, I am a Catholic Anglican because it God.’ is where God has placed me. It is a privilege, and it is a cross, like all Christian discipleship, and I have lile or no idea what Missiological task God may have in store. I do know, however, that it won’t be For the Catholic Anglican, the Eucharist is central to the dull. ND apostolic and missiological task in which the church is address was given to students at Wycliffe Ha in Oxford.
Secular Liturgies - Tragedy and Comedy continued from page 25 is able to break through. The Metropol-Theater, which is what the she is her daughter), and an admirer perpetrators with their old sense of how Komische used to be, and did not run for (whom the daughter is in love with) who things should be, how a girl should stay long because of the Nazi election win the loves the mother, and the father who has home, were all from the bottom and following February. Kosky and had custody and denied the mother any poorest of Indian society. conductor Adam Benzwi have made this connection with her daughter. It is a How different was the theme of musical comedy from the silver age of very good story, perhaps a little Barrie Kosky’s sublimely funny and operetta work perfectly for two advanced for 1932, but not unfamiliar in brilliantly arranged two-hander quick- sublimely accomplished veteran artists, today’s world. Utterly hilarious what change version of Oscar Straus’s Eine Dagmar Manzel and Max Hopp (the tricks all these people get up to, it being Frau, die weiss, was sie will! at the Berlin latter the most virtuoso of the two, he based on a 1920 farce by Louis Verneuil. Komische Oper, which I saw with tears plays 14 characters to her merely seven). The theatre of our dreams is a of laughter streaming down my face in a This is a backstage story using no set – wonderful place and I am very lucky to packed theatre rocking hysterically. A just a door at the front of the stage – have seen the masks of tragedy and of Woman who Knows what she Wants about a lascivious old operetta star and comedy within five days so astonishingly opened in autumn 1932 at the her daughter (who does not know that wielded. ND April 2015 ■ new directions ■ 27 touching place ST MARY, CREDENHILL, HEREFS upposing that someone who resided in this parish 350 years ago could return, S what difference would he notice in the church he knew well? The exterior would look much the same, though the palm tree to the east of the porch might have caused a raised eyebrow. Once his eyes grew accustomed to the dark interior, he would wonder where all that stained glass had come from. Then he would notice that all the box pews have gone, and spot that the font was unfamiliar (dated 1667, it came from Eaton Bishop church in 1885). A real surprise to him would be a stained glass window on the south side of the chancel, a gem this, covered up for many years at the Reformation. It has figures of two bishops – St Thomas à Becket and St Thomas Cantilupe, painted around 1310 – the surprise is deeper because our visitor is also named Thomas. And he would be amazed to see a monument to himself, erected in 1908, over 200 years after his death. Thomas Traherne was Rector of Credenhill from 1657 until shortly before his death, aged 37, from smallpox, the scourge of the times, in 1674. During his short life, he wrote poems and also his best-known work, for his friend Mrs Susanna Hopton, though Centuries of Meditations so nearly was lost. It is a treasury of profound meditation, witness: ‘Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: Our love to others, and others’ love to us. We ought therefore above all things to get acquainted with the nature of Love. For Love is the root and foundation of nature: Love is the Soul of Life and Crown of rewards. If we cannot be satisfied in the nature of Love we can never be satisfied at all. The very end for which God made the world, was that He might manifest His Love ’. Read Centuries , and also Denise Inge’s introductions to Traherne, notably Happiness and Holiness . Pray for the repose of the soul of Denise Longenecker Inge, who like her subject met a premature death. Map reference: SO450439 Simon Cotton
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28 ■ new directions ■ April 2015 of month); Weekday Masses: Tues 7pm, Thurs 9.30am.Parish Priest: Fr John Livesley SSC - 01388 814817 parish directory STAFFORD , St.Peter ,Rickerscote . A Forward in Faith Parish under the Episcopal Care of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet . Res.AB&C. continued Sunday - Parish Mass 10.15am. For further information contact Fr.David Baker SSC 01 785 259656 LONDON SE13 St Stephen , Lewisham (opposite Lewisham 10.30am. Mass every day except Thurs and Fri. Parish Priest: Fr Station) A Forward in Faith Parish under the episcopal care of the Adam Gaunt 01287 644047 STOKE-ON-TRENT, LONGTON SS Mary and Chad . A Bishop of Fulham . Sunday: Mass 8am, Parish Mass 10am. Forward in Faith Parish . Sunday: Parish Mass 10am. Weekdays: Weekdays: Mon 10am, Tues 6.30pm, Wed 12.15pm, Thurs OXFORD St John the Evangelist , New Hinksey (1 mile from Mon 10am, Tues 6.30pm, Wed 10am, Thur 11.30am, Fri 6.30pm. 10am, Fri 12.15pm, Sat 10am Parish Priest: Fr Philip Corbett - the city centre; Vicarage Road, OX1 4RE) Resolutions ABC . Sunday: Confessions after any Mass or by appointment. Fr Kevin Palmer - 07929 750054 Parish Mass 10.30am. Parish Priest: Fr James Wilkinson 01865 Parish Office - 01782 313142 - www.ssmaryandchad.com 245879 www. acny.org.uk/467 Come and discover Oxford’s LONDON SE16 St Mary Rotherhithe , St Marychurch hidden Comper Church! STOKE-ON-TRENT, SMALLTHORNE. St Saviour Street SE16 4JE A Fulham Parish . Sunday: Solemn Mass 10am, ABC. Convenient for Alton Towers & the Potteries . Parish Evening Prayer 6pm, Benediction monthly. Mass times: Tues 12 OXFORD St Thomas the Martyr , 12th century church close to Mass Sunday 11.00am. Weekdays: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, noon; Wed 10am School Mass; Thur 6pm; Fri 9.30am; Sat railway station and city centre; between Becket Street and St Thomas Saturday 09.30, Wednesday noon. During interregnum 9.30am. Tube: Jubilee Line Bermondsey/Canada Water/ Street OX1 1JL. Ebbsfleet Parish. Services: Saturdays 5.30pm Vigil phone 01 782 835941, Rotherhithe Overground. Visitors most welcome. Fr Mark Mass; Sundays 9:15am Morning Prayer (BCP); Wednesdays and Nicholls SSC 0207 394 3394 - 07909 546659 Fridays 12.30pm Mass. Traditional rite. Parish priest: Fr SUNDERLAND St Mary Magdalene , Wilson Street, www.stmaryrotherhithe.org Jonathan Beswick 01865 557530 Millfield . A Forward in Faith Parish under the episcopal care of the Bishop of Beverley . Sunday: Parish Mass 10.30am, LONDON SE18 St Nicholas - the Ancient Parish PLYMOUT H SACRED HEART MISSION COMMUNITY Benediction 6.30pm, Mass 7pm. Weekdays Mass: Mon and Wed Church - St Nicholas Road, Plumstead . A Forward in Faith Parish PARISHES A Forward in Faith Parish. Resolutions ABC, DSCR St 10.30am, Tues and Thur 7.30pm, Fri 7.30am, Sat 10am. Rosary under the episcopal care of the Bishop of Fulham . Masses: John , Exeter Street (PL4 0NG) Sunday: Mass 11.15am; St Thur 7.15pm, Sat 6.15pm. Confessions: Sat 6.30pm or by Sunday 8am; Solemn Sung 11am; Mon 8pm; Tu es 7.30pm; Wed Gabriel , Peverell Terrace (PL3 4JJ) Sunday: Mass 10am ; St Mary , appointment. Parish Priest: Fr Beresford Skelton 0191 565 6318 9.30am; Thur 7pm; Fri 12 noon; Sat 10am. Exposition of the Federation Road (PL3 6BR) Sunday: Mass 10am. Parish Priest: Fr www.st-marymagdalene.co.uk Blessed Sacrament half an hour before every Mass apart from Keith Haydon 01752 220644 SUTTON All Saints , Benhilton A Forward in Faith Parish Sunday. Modern rite, traditional ceremonial. Parish Priest: Fr READING St Giles-in-Reading , Southampton Street (next to Andrew Stevens 020 8854 0461 under the care of the Bishop of Fulham . Sunday: Low Mass 8am, the Oracle) . Medieval church. A Forward in Faith Parish. Solemn Mass 9.30am. Daily Mass - Tues 9.30am, Wed 7.30pm LONDON Sw1 St Gabriel , Pimlico Sunday: Mass 8am; Resolutions ABC . Sunday : Solemn Mass 10.30am, Low Mass Thurs 10am, Fri 9.30am, Sat 10am. Confessions by Sung Parish Mass 10:30am. Midweek Mass: Tues 7pm, Wed 6pm. Daily Mass. Parish Priest: Fr David Harris 0118 957 2831 appointment. Contact Fr Peter Harnden on 0208 644 9070, 7pm, Thurs 7:30am, Fri 9:30am, Sat 9:30am. www.st- www.sgilesreading.org.uk Churchwardens: Douglas Boreham 0208 646 4682 and Stanley gabriels.com SALISBURY St Martin – the church with the spire at the Palmer 020 8330 7408 LONDON Sw7 St Stephen , Gloucester Road (entrance in end of St Martin’s Church Street behind Wiltshire College . Main SwINDON Parish of Swindon New Town A Forward in Southwell Gardens) A Fulham Jurisdiction Parish . Modern rite, Sunday services: Sung Eucharist 11am, Evensong 6pm. For any Faith Parish under the episcopal care of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet . traditional ceremonial, gospel preaching and good music. other information call Parish Administration on 01722 503123 Sunday masses: 9.00am S. Saviour's; 10.30am S. Mark's;10.30am Sunday: Masses 9am and 11am (Solemn). Daily Mass: Mon or visit our website www.sarumstmartin.org.uk S. Luke's. Weekday masses as advertised. Contact Fr Dexter 10am, Tues 11am, Wed 7pm, Thur 10am, Fri 1.15pm, Sat 10am. Bracey 01793 538220 [email protected] Rosary - 2nd and 4th Saturday at 10.30am. Parish Priest: Fr Reg Bushau 020 7370 3418 www.saint-stephen.org.uk TIPTON , west Midlands St John the Evangelist , Upper Church Lane, Princes End, DY4 9ND . ABC . Sunday: Parish Mass LONDON Sw11 The Ascension , Lavender Hill . Famous and 9.30am, Sunshine Club 9.25am in the Hall, Evening Prayer 4pm. flourishing ABC Parish, in the Fulham Jurisdiction . Inspiring Weekday Mass: Mon and Thurs 7.30pm, Wed, Fri and Sat liturgy with modern rites, traditional ceremonial, fervent 9.30am. www.fifparish.com/ stjohntipton Parish Priest: Fr preaching and good music. Sunday: High Mass 11am. Weekday Simon Sayer CMP 0121 679 7510 Mass: Wednesday 7.30pm. Rosary: Saturday 11.30am. SOLW Cell organises pilgrimage, social and fundraising activities. TIVIDALE, Oldbury, west Midlands St. Michael Parish Priest: Fr Iain Young 020 7228 5340 the Archangel , Tividale Road and Holy Cross , Ashleigh Road . STOKE-on-TRENT - St Mary and St Chad, Longton FiF, Society . Sunday Worship: Parish Mass 11am (St.Michael's), LONDON Sw20 and Sw19 St Saviour , Grand Drive, Evening Mass 6pm (Holy Cross). Contact Fr.Martin Ennis 01 384 Raynes Park and All Saints , South Wimbledon , F orward in Faith SHREwSBURY All Saints with St Michael , North Street 257888 [email protected] , www.vicaroftividale.co.uk Parishes under the Episcopal Care of the Bishop of Fulham . St (near Shrewsbury railway station) . A Forward in Faith Parish under Saviour Sunday Parish Mass: 9.30am. All Saints Sunday the episcopal care of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet. Resolutions ABC . TORQUAY All Saints , Babbacombe - ABC Parish under the Solemn Mass: 11am. For other Sunday and weekday masses Sunday: Mass 10.30am. For daily Mass times or further care of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet. Sunday 10.30am Sung Parish contact Fr Michael Blackman 020 8542 2787 information, contact Fr Michael Fish SSC 01743 244879 Mass. Weekdays: 9.30am Mass (Except Thurs – 6.30pm). Fr. Paul Jones – 07809 767458 Cary Ave, Babbacombe. TQ1 3QT LONDON wC1 Christ the King , Gordon Square The SOUTH BENFLEET , Essex St Mary the Virgin FiF under allsaintsbabbacombe.org.uk Forward in Faith Church . Mon to Fri: Mass at 12.30pm, plus: Thur the pastoral care of The Bishop of Richborough . Sundays 10am at 12 noon: Angelus followed by Exposition of the Blessed Parish Mass, other service highlights: Wed 7.30pm Mass and TORQUAY St Mary the Virgin - The Parish Church of St Sacrament until 12.25pm. Other services: as announced. Exposition; Sat 9am Mass & Rosary, Family Masses as Marychurch. Resolutions ABC . Sunday: 8am Mass, 10am Sung Contact the FiF Office on 020 7388 3588 or email: announced. Friendly Faith and Worship. Parish Priest: Fr Leslie Parish Mass, 6.30pm Solemn Evensong and Benediction. Daily [email protected] Drake SSC Mass and Office. Confessions by appointment. For information contact: Fr Robert Ward 01803 269258 MANCHESTER Failsworth The Church of the Holy SOUTHAMPTON Parishes (under the episcopal care of Family . A Forward in Faith Parish . Sunday Mass : 9.15am. For the Bishop of Richborough) welcome you : St Barnabas , wALSALL St Gabriel’s , Fullbrook, Walstead Road, Walsall, off other Sunday and Weekday Services or further information Lodge Road (off Inner Avenue A33 London Road) Sunday: Solemn Junc.7 or 9 of M6 . Resolutions ABC . Sunday: 8am Mass, 10am please contact the Rector, Fr Tony Mills: 0161 681 3644 Mass 10am, Daily Mass and other service details from Fr Barry Parish Mass, 4pm Evening Prayer, 5pm Evening Mass. Daily Fry SSC 02380 223107; Holy Trinity , Millbrook (Off A33 city centre Mass. Parish Priest: Fr Mark McIntyre 01922 622583 MANCHESTER The Parish of Swinton and road from M271) Sunday: Solemn Mass10am, Midweek Mass and wEDNESBURY, west Bromwich St Francis of Pendlebury: All Saints , Wardley ; Saint Augustine , other service details from Fr William Perry SSC 02380 701896 Pendlebury ; Saint Peter , Swinton . A Forward in Faith Parish . Assisi , Friar Park WS10 0HJ (5 minutes from junc 9 of M6) Sunday: Sunday Masses: 8am and 5.30pm (SP), Sung at 9.30am (AS), SOUTHPORT St. Luke , corner of Hawkshead St and St.Lukes Mass 9.45am. Weekday Mass: Tues and Thur 9.30am, Wed and 10.30am (SP) and 11am (SA). Daily Mass in Parish. Fr Jeremy Rd, about 1/2 mile from town centre . Sundays: Parish Fri 7.30pm, Sat 10am. Lively worship in the Modern Catholic Sheehy, Rector: 0161 794 1578, Parish Office: 0161 727 8175 Mass10.30am, Evensong and Benediction 6.30pm. Weekday Tradition, with accessible preaching, and a stunning gem of a email: paroff[email protected] Mass: Tuesday 7.30pm, Wednesday 9.30am followed by church beautifully restored . Parish Clergy: Fr Ron Farrell: 0121 refreshments, Thursday 11am, Friday 12 noon, Saturday 10am. 556 5823 or Fr.Gary Hartill 0121 505 3954- Visit us at www. saintfrancisfriarpark.com MIDDLESBROUGH The Church of St Columba Sunday: Parish Priest: Fr Paul Hutchins SSC - email: Mass 9.30am. Daily Mass. St John the Evangelist Sunday [email protected] - 01704 213711- www.sluke. wELLINGBOROUGH St Mary the Virgin , Knox Road Mass 11am. For further information contact Fr Stephen Cooper co.uk (near BR station) A Forward in Faith Parish under the episcopal 01642 824779 care of the Bishop of Richborough . Sunday: Mass 10.30am. Daily NORTH YORK MOORS St Leonard , Loftus and St SPENNYMOOR, CO. DURHAM St Andrew , Tudhoe Mass and Office. For further information see our Website: www. Helen , Carlin How , both ABC Parishes situated on the edge of Grange , Forward in Faith, ABC ; Sunday: 9am Sung Mass and stmarywellingborough.org.uk the North York Moors. Sunday Mass: Carlin How 9am and Loftus Sunday School, 6pm Evensong (with Benediction on 1st Sunday Continued on next page
April 2015 ■ new directions ■ 29 wEST KIRBY St Andrew , Meols Drive, Wirral, CH48 5DQ . Camp Hill , St Mary’s Abbey Church ; Shilton St Andrew . For further 6.30pm Low Mass; Sevenoaks St John , 8am Low Mass, 10am Sunday 8am Low Mass; 10:30 am Sung Mass; Evensong 6pm details contact Fr Kit Dunkley 02476 688604 Sung Mass; Tunbridge Wells St Barnabas , 8am Low Mass, 10am first Sunday. Daily Mass. Traditional ceremonial with a warm Sung Mass, 6.30pm Benediction; all contact details from Fr Jones welcome. Safe harbour in Wirral and Cheshire West, visitors FiF, DIOCESE OF DERBY Derby : St Anne , Churchwarden 020 8311 6307 welcome. Resolutions ABC. Parish Priest: Fr Walsh 0151 632 Alison Haslam 01 332 362392; St Luke , Churchwarden Frank 4728 www.standrewswestkirby.co.uk Stephens 01 332 512673; St Bartholomew , Churchwarden Ian FiF, DIOCESE OF ST ALBANS ABC Parishes : Bedford St Dew 01 332 760195; Hasland St Paul and Temple Normanton St Martin , vacant; Bushey Heath St Peter , Fr Burton 020 8950 1424; wESTON super MARE All Saints with St Saviour , All James Fr Malcolm Ainscough 01246 232486; Ilkeston Holy Trinity , Luton : Holy Cross , Marsh Farm , Fr Beresford 01923 236174; Holy Saints Road, BS23 2NL . A Forward in Faith Parish under the Bp Roger Jupp 0115 973 5168; Long Eaton St Laurence, Bp Roger Trinity , Biscot , Fr Singh 01582 579410; St Mary, Sundon & St episcopal care of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet - All are welcome. Jupp 0115 973 5168; Staveley St John Baptist with Inkersall St Saviour , Fr Smejkal 01582 583076; Watford St John , Fr Stevenson Sundays: 9am Mass, 10.30am Parish Mass. Weekdays: 10am Columba and Barrow Hill St Andrew : Fr.Stephen Jones, 01 246 01 923 236174. Other ‘safe’ parishes : Letchworth St Michael & St Mass (Wed, Thur and Sat). Priest-in-Charge: Fr Andrew Hughes 498603 Mary , Fr Bennett 01462 684822; Potters Bar St Mary & All Saints , SSC 01934 204217 [email protected] - Parish Office 01934 Fr Bevan 01707 644539 (please contact clergy for details of 415379 [email protected] Visit our website FiF, DIOCESE OF GUILDFORD Aldershot St Augustine , services) www.allsaintswsm.org Fr Keith Hodges 01252 320840, Hawley Holy Trinity and All Saints , Fr Martyn Neale 01276 35287 - Please contact clergy for FiF, DIOCESE OF ST EDMUNDSBURY and IPSwICH wEYMOUTH St Paul , Abbotsbury Road Modern catholic details of services or visit www.forwardinfaith.info/guildford Heveningham Benefice Fr Tony Norton 01502 723709; Ipswich St under the episcopal care of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet . Sunday Mary at the Elms , interregnum (contact 01 473 423750) (usually): Parish Mass 9.30am (creche and Sunday school); FiF, DIOCESE OF LEICESTER Blackfordby and Woodville Fr T Mendlesham St Mary , Fr Philip Gray 01449 766359; Eye SS Peter Informal Eucharist 11.15am; EP and Benediction 5pm (1st Vale 01283 211310; Leicester St Aidan , New Parks , Fr S Lumby and Paul - The Rev.Dr.Guy Sumpter 01 798 1986. Sunday). For times of daily and Holyday mass ring Parish Priest: 0116 287 2342; St Mary de Castro , Fr D Maudlin 01572 820181; Fr Richard Harper SSC 01305 778821 St Chad , Fr M Court 0116 241 3205; St Hugh , Eyres Monsall, FiF, DIOCESE OF ST HELENA VICAR OF ST MARK’S An vacant; Narborough Fr A Hawker 0116 275 1470; Scraptoft Fr M important and challenging parish on the Island of St Helena in the wINCHESTER Holy Trinity . A Forward in Faith Church Court 0116 241 3205; Wistow Benefice Fr P O’Reilly 0116 240 South Atlantic. In the first instance, go to under the Episcopal care of the Bishop of Richborough. ABC 2215 sthelenadiocese.weebly.com Resolutions . Sunday: Sung Mass 10.30am. Weekday Masses: Tues 10.30am, Thur 12 noon. Contact: Fr Malcolm Jones SSC FiF, DIOCESE OF LINCOLN ABC Parishes : Binbrook Group FiF, DIOCESE OF SHEFFIELD Bolton-on-Dearne St Andrew , 01962 869707 (Parish Office) or Churchwardens: Barbara Smith (Louth) Fr Walker 01472 398227; Edenham ( Bourne) Fr Hawes vacant; Cantley St Wilfrid , Fr Andrew Howard 01302 285 316; 01264 720887 or John Purver 01 962 732351 - email: enquiry@ 01778 591358; Grimsby St Augustine Fr Martin 07736 711360; Doncaster Holy Trinity , Fr Stokoe 01302 371256; Edlington St John holytrinitywinchester.co.uk - website: Skirbeck St Nicholas (Boston) Fr Noble 01205 362734; Wainfleet the Baptist , Fr Edmonds 01709 858358; Goldthorpe SS John and www.holytrinitywinchester.co.uk Group (Skegness) Fr.Morgan 01 754 880029; AB Parishes : Mary Magdalene , Fr Schaefer 01709 898426; Hexthorpe St Jude , Burgh-le- Marsh (Skegness) Fr Steele 01754 810216; Fosdyke Fr Edmonds 01709 858358; Hickleton St Wilfrid , Fr Schaefer 01709 YORK All Saints , North Street (near Park Inn Hotel) A Forward in All Saints (Kirton) vacant (Mr.Tofts 01 205 260672). Non- 898426; Hoyland St Peter , Fr Parker 01226 749231; Thurnscoe St Faith church with traditional rite. Resolutions A,B &C passed . petitioning parishes : Lincoln City Mrs Ticehurst 01522 850728 ; Hilda , vacant; Mexborough St John the Baptist , Fr Wise 01709 Sunday: Low Mass 10.30 am, Sung or High Mass 5.30pm, N.E. Lincs Fr Martin 07736 711360 ; S. Lincs Fr Noble 01205 582321; Moorends St Wilfrith , Fr Pay 01302 784858; New Bentley Thursday Low Mass 12.45 pm. Visitors to this beautiful medieval 362734 Ss Philip and James , Fr Dickinson 01302 875266; New Cantley St church are always welcome; the church is normally open during Hugh , Fr Stokoe 01302 371256; New Rossington St Luke , vacant; daylight hours. - website: www. allsaints-northstreet.org.uk LEEDS FiF, wITHIN THE DIOCESE OF wEST YORKSHIRE Ryecroft : St Nicholas , Fr.Andrew Lee 01 709 921257; Dalton : Holy and the DALES Belle Isle St John and St Barnabas , Parish Trinity , Fr.Andrew Lee 01 709 921257; Doncaster Ss Leonard & YORKSHIRE near Skipton on the road to Colne and Priest, Fr Chris Buckley CMP 01132 717821; Cross Green St Hilda , Jude (with St Luke) Fr Pay 01302 784858; Sheffield : St Bernard , Clitheroe . Three rural churches which make up the only vacant (Churchwarden S F Greenfield) 0113 2842706; Harehills Southey Green and St Cecilia , Parson Cross , Fr Ryder-West 0114 Resolutions ABC Parish in the Yorkshire Dales . Sundays: St Wilfrid , Fr John Hilton 01132 497724; Hunslet St Mary , vacant 2493916; St Catherine , Richmond Road , vacant; St Matthew , THORNTON St Mary Sung Mass, modern rite 9.15am. (Churchwarden S Wildridge) 0113 2522827; Armley and New Carver Street , vacant; St Mary , Handsworth , Fr Johnson 01142 MARTON St Peter Prayer Book Holy Communion 10.45am. Wortley St Bartholomew , Fr Ian Wright SSC 0113 289 0824. 692403 (contact clergy for Mass times, etc) BROUGHTON All Saints Evensong 7pm. For further Please ring for details of services information please contact Canon Nicholas Turner SSC 01282 FiF, SOUTHwELL and NOTTINGHAM DIOCESE - ABC 842332 FiF, DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER Blackley Holy Trinity , ABC, churches : Nottingham : St Cyprian Fr Waude 0115 940 2868; St FiF, Fr Philip Stamp 0161 205 2879; Lower Broughton The George and also St Stephen , Fr Rushforth 0115 952 3378; Ascension , ABC, FiF , Canon David Wyatt 0161 736 8868; St.George the Martyr , Netherfield, vacant, contact Churchwarden Chadderton St Mark , ABC, FiF , Fr Alan Cooke 0161 624 2005; Mrs.L.Barnett 0115 9526478. Worksop : St Paul , vacant ; contact Diocesan Failsworth Holy Family , ABC, FiF , Fr Tony Mills 0161 681 3644; Churchwarden Mrs M Winks 01909 568857; Priory Church of Our Glodwick St Mark , ABC , Fr Graham Hollowood 0161 624 4964; Lady and St Cuthbert , Fr Spicer 01909 472180, who is also the Hollinwood St Margaret , ABC, FiF , Fr David Hawthorn 0161 681 contact for SSWSH in the diocese Directory 4541; Lightbowne St Luke , ABC, FiF , Fr John O’Connor 0161 681 1308; Middleton Junction St Gabriel , ABC, FiF , Fr Adrian Arnold FiF TAMAR REGION FiF Recommended Parishes : DIOCESE FiF, DIOCESE OF BIRMINGHAM Kingstanding St Luke * SSC 0161 643 5064; Moss Side Christ Church , ABC, FiF , Canon OF EXETER Abbotsham St Helen , Fr F Otto 01237 473445; 0121 354 3281, Kingstanding St Mark 0121 360 7288, Small Simon Killwick 0161 226 2476; Oldham St James with St Babbacombe All Saints , Fr P.Jones 01803 323002; Barnstaple St Heath All Saints * 0121 772 0621, Sparkbrook St Agatha * vacant, Ambrose , ABC FiF , Fr Paul Plumpton 0161 633 4441; Peel Green Peter , Fr D Fletcher 01271 373837; Bovey Tracey St John , Fr G Washwood Heath St Mark , Saltley St Saviour * 0121 328 9855, St Michael , ABC , Fr.Ian Hall - 0161 788 8991; Prestwich St Hilda , Stanton 07925 051905; Exeter St Michael & All Angels , (*Forward in Faith Registered Parishes) ABC, FiF , Fr Ronald Croft 0161 773 1642; United Benefice of Heavitree ; St Lawrence , Lower Hill Barton Rd ; St Paul , Royton St Paul , and Shaw Holy Trinity , ABC, FiF , Canon Peter Burnthouse Lane ; St Mary Steps , West Street , Fr R Eastoe 01392 FiF, DIOCESE OF CANTERBURY Ashford South St Francis McEvitt 01 706 843485; Salford St Paul , ABC , Canon David Wyatt 677150; Exwick St Andrew , Station Road , Fr J Bird 01392 with Christ Church 01233 620600, Borden *SS Peter and Paul 0161 736 8868; Swinton and Pendlebury ABC, FiF , Fr Jeremy 255500; Great Torrington St Michael , Little Torrington St Giles , 01795 472986, Deal *St Andrew 01 304 381131, Eastchurch *All Sheehy 0160 794 1578; Tonge Moor, Bolton St Augustine , ABC, Frithelstock St Mary & St Gregory , Taddiport St Mary Saints 01795 880205, Folkestone *St Peter 01303 254472, Guston FiF , Fr Tony Davies 01204 523899; Winton St Mary Magdalene , Magdalene , Vacant - 01805 622166; Holsworthy St Peter & St *St Martin , 01304 204878, Harbledown *St Michael 01227 ABC, FiF , Fr Ian Hall 0161 788 8991; Withington St Crispin , ABC, Paul , vacant 01409 253435; Ilfracombe Team , Fr R Harris 01271 464117, Maidstone *St Michael 01622 752710, Preston St FiF , Fr Patrick Davies 0161 224 3452 863467; Lewtrenchard St Peter , vacant 01566 784008; Newton Catherine 01795 536801, Ramsgate *St George, Holy Trinity Abbot St Luke , Milber , Fr J Potter 01626 365837; Paignton St 01843 593593, Temple Ewell SS Peter and Paul 01304 822865, (* FiF, DIOCESE OF PORTSMOUTH Fareham SS Peter and John the Baptist with St Andrew & St Boniface Fr R Carlton resolutions in place) Paul , Fareham Fr.Roger Jackson 01 329 281521; IOW : All Saints , 01803 351866; Plymouth St Bartholomew , Devonport and St Godshill , and St Alban , Ventnor Fr John Ryder 01983 840895; Mark, Ford Fr R Silk 01752 562623; Plymouth St FiF, DIOCESE OF CHESTER Chester St Oswald and St Thomas Good Shepherd , Lake , and St Saviour on the Cliff , Shanklin , Fr John Peter and the Holy Apostles Vacant - Churchwarden 01752 of Canterbury , B, Fr Hugh Linn 01244 571942; Congleton St James Davies 01983 401121; Portsmouth : St James , Milton , Fr Paul 258787; Plymouth Mission Community of Our Lady of the Great , ABC , Fr Colin Sanderson 01260 408203; Crewe St Armstead 023 9273 2786; St Michael , Paulsgrove , Fr Ian Newton Glastonbury St Francis , Honicknowle , St Chad , Whitleigh , St Barnabas , ABC , Fr Ralph Powell 01270 212418; Crewe St Michael, 02392 378194; The Ascension , North End , Vacant (Churchwarden Aidan , Ernesettle , Fr D Bailey 01752 773874; Plymouth Sacred Coppenhall , ABC , Fr Charles Razzall 01270 215151; Dukinfield St 02392 660123); Southsea Holy Spirit , Fr Philip Amey 023 9311 Heart Mission Community Parishes St John the Evangelist ; Luke , ABC , vacant; Knutsford St John the Baptist, ABC , Rev Nigel 7159; Stamshaw St Saviour , Fr Roger Calder 02392 663664 Sutton-on-Plym St Gabriel the Archangel , Peverell Park ; St Atkinson 01565 632834/755160; Liscard St Thomas the Apostle , Mary the Virgin , Laira , Fr K Haydon 01752 220644; Torquay St ABC , Fr Robert Nelson 0151 630 2830, Stockport St Peter, ABC , Fr FiF, DIOCESE OF ROCHESTER Beckenham St Michael , Marychurch Fr R Ward 01803 269258; Torquay Martin , Fr G Kenneth Kenrick 0161 483 2483; West Kirby St Andrew , ABC , Fr 8.30am Low Mass, 10.30am Sung Mass; Belvedere St Augustine , Chapman 01803 327223; Torre All Saints , Chelston St Matthew Peter Walsh 0151 632 4728 10am Sung Mass; Swanley St Mary , 10am Sung Mass; Bickley St vacant 01803 607429; Winkleigh All Saints , Fr P Norman 01837 George , 8am Low Mass, 10.30am Sung Mass; Chislehurst The 83719; DIOCESE OF TRURO Falmouth St Michael & All FiF, DIOCESE OF COVENTRY Ansty St James ; Coventry St Annunciation , 8am Low Mass, 10am Sung Mass; Elmers End St Angels , Penwerris , Fr M Mesley 01326 218947; Penryn St Luke , Holbrooks ; St Nicholas , Radford ; St Oswald , Tile Hill ; James , 8am Low Mass, 10am Sung Mass; Gillingham St Luke , Gluvius Fr S Wales 01326 378638; St Day (AB) ; Truro St George Fr Leamington St John the Baptist ; Nuneaton St Mary and St John , Parish Mass 10.30am; Higham St John , 9.30am Sung Mass, C Epps 01872 272630
30 ■ new directions ■ April 2015 Bishops of the Society The Bishop of Beverley PROVINCE OF YORK (EXCEPT BLACKBURN AND LEEDS) The Right Revd Glyn Webster Holy Trinity Rectory, Micklegate, York YO1 6LE 01904 628155 offi[email protected] www.seeofbeverley.org.uk The Bishop of Burnley BLACKBURN The Right Revd Philip North CMP Dean House, 449 Padiham Road, Burnley BB12 6TE 01282 479300 [email protected] The Bishop of Chichester CHICHESTER The Right Revd Dr Martin Warner SSC The Palace, Chichester PO19 1PY 01243 782161 [email protected] The Bishop of Ebbsfleet PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY (WEST) The Right Revd Jonathan Goodall SSC Hill House, The Mount, Caversham, Reading RG4 7RE 0118 948 1038 Bishops’ Representatives [email protected] www.ebbsfleet.org.uk The Bishop of Fulham In each diocese the Bishop of The Society has a Bishop’s Representative. LONDON, ROCHESTER & SOUTHWARK The Right Revd Jonathan Baker For their names and contact details, see the Dioceses pages on the Society website: The Old Deanery, Dean’s Court, London EC4V 5AA 020 7932 1130 [email protected] www.sswsh.com/dioceses.php www.bishopoffulham.org.uk The Bishop of Horsham ‘e Most Immaculate and Blessed Virgin’ CHICHESTER The Right Revd Mark Sowerby continued from page 10 Bishop’s House, 21 Guildford Road, Horsham RH12 1LU 01403 211139 [email protected] Heber was a middle-of-the-road Anglican who if anything inclined towards The Bishop of Richborough PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY : EAST (EXCEPT CHICHESTER, evangelicalism, so his hymn tells us something about mainstream Anglican aitudes LONDON, ROCHESTER & SOUTHWARK ) to Our Lady at the beginning of the nineteenth century. e hymn is very cleverly The Right Revd Norman Banks SSC Parkside House, Abbey Mill Lane, St Albans AL3 4HE wrien: it is addressed to Christ, but its subject is Mary and its first word is ‘Virgin’; 01727 836358 [email protected] www.richborough.org.uk in sixteen lines the word ‘blessed’ or ‘blest’ occurs ten times. No one reading it could The Bishop of Wakefield doubt that before the Oxford Movement Anglicans honoured the Blessed Virgin. LEEDS The Right Revd Tony Robinson SSC Pontefract Ho, 181A Manygates Lane, Wakefield WF2 7DR is is an extract from ‘Blessed Virgin: Mary and the Anglican Tradition,’ the 01924 250781 [email protected] Assumptiontide Lecture given at St Mary and A Saints, Lile Walsingham, in 2014. e The Right Revd Lindsay Urwin OGS (ADMINISTRATOR , SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM ) fu text is available as a booklet from St Mary’s and online at The College, Knight Street, Walsingham NR22 6EF www.forwardinfaith.com/Articles.php 01328 824204 [email protected] The Right Revd Roger Jupp SSC (SUPERIOR-GENERAL , CONFRATERNITY OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT ) St Laurence’s Vicarage, Regent Street, Long Eaton, Nottingham NG10 1JX 0115 973 5168 [email protected]
The Right Revd David Farrer (formerly Bishop of Wangaratta) The Right Revd John Gaisford SSC (formerly Bishop of Beverley) The Right Revd John Goddard SSC (formerly Bishop of Burnley) The Right Revd Dr John Hind (formerly Bishop of Chichester) The Right Revd Martyn Jarrett SSC (formerly Bishop of Beverley) The Right Revd Robert Ladds SSC (formerly Bishop of Whitby) The Right Revd Michael Langrish (formerly Bishop of Exeter) The Right Revd Peter Ramsden (formerly Bishop of Port Moresby) The Right Revd Nicholas Reade (formerly Bishop of Blackburn) The Right Revd Dr Geoffrey Rowell (formerly Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe The Right Revd John Salt OGS (formerly Bishop of St Helena) The Right Revd Peter Wheatley (formerly Bishop of Edmonton)
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