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All Saints Parish Paper 7, MARGARET STREET, LONDON W1W 8JG May 2020 £1.00 All Saints Parish Paper 7, MARGARET STREET, LONDON W1W 8JG www.allsaintsmargaretstreet.org.uk MAY 2020 £1.00 THE ASSISTANT PRIEST WRITES: Happy unusual Easter! Our present circumstances are presenting all of us with new challenges and opportunities, neither of which we’ve wished for: even two months ago I couldn’t have contemplated that I’d be celebrating not only daily Mass but also the Passion, Death and Resurrection of the Lord almost alone in the room where we usually vest, yet watched by an online congregation far larger than usually gathers in church, many of whom are making a more than usual effort to keep in touch with one another and with me. I hope you have found similar pluses as well as minuses in all this strangeness. Meanwhile we carry on with our ‘new normal’ The Paschal Candle programme, hingeing on daily Photograph: Allie Reddington Mass at Noon. see a photo of it restored to Easter glory It has been a huge help to me, as well on this page. On the Sunday after all this is as being, I hope, of benefit to you, to be over I hope we shall celebrate with a Festal able to continue in the daily offering of High Mass and Procession and a Solemn the Holy Sacrifice for you all, as well as Evensong, Te Deum & Benediction using in the regular rhythm of the Daily Office all the music that was set for Easter Day. which I continue to pray in church on your Meanwhile, thank you to the singers in behalf. We stripped and then re-clothed the our choir for providing weekly Offertory High Altar during the Triduum and you can Motets for our live-streamed Mass. 1 Like everything else in the world at the to his predecessor Laurence Long, who moment this is an unusual issue of the returned to us to help for a few months. Parish Paper in that there have been no We wish them both well and look forward visiting preachers whose sermons I can to seeing them when they visit in future. share and other activities that are usually William has written a little about himself reported have also been significantly and Stephen has also written, among other curtailed. However I am grateful to Fr things, about the unusual (there’s that word Peter Oesterby-Joergensen of Galtrup in again) appointment process under current Jutland, Denmark, for sharing his Easter constraints in his message to us. (See page sermon and some photos with us. Fr Peter 6 for both items.) is a Danish Lutheran Pastor whose priestly No doubt when we re-emerge and meet ministry is very much in our liturgical and again we shall find it as strange to be together theological tradition who visits us regularly in one church building as it has been to be with his wife Anna; they have become excluded from that liturgical fellowship: personal friends to me as well as friends of still, we all look forward to the moment the parish and I hope to visit them later this with urgent enthusiam! Meanwhile, thank year: I will let Fr Peter introduce himself you for many kind Easter wishes and further, see page 10. comments on what we’ve been able to May is Mary’s month, and so (following offer (and I repeat my particular thanks, up on last month’s article on the Hail offered elsewhere, to Huw Pryce and Paul Mary) I have included an edited (i.e. Weston, and to the on-site team, Allie and considerably shortened!) version of a talk Marcus Reddington and Ian Lyon, whose I gave on the Immaculate Conception here enthusiastic and generous efforts have a few years ago when I was still Rector of made it possible; also to Martin Woolley Berkhamsted; Marian devotion could do for answering Mass). with a boost at Margaret Street. Perhaps Have a very happy unusual Eastertide you might consider returning to your rosary and keep well. now that you have more time for prayer! Fr Michael There is a further instalment of the series on Liturgical Life in the Church — BLESSED BE HER HOLY concluding the paragraphs on High Mass AND IMMACULATE and adding some about the Altar and CONCEPTION Reservation. There will be two further instalments in this series, focusing on the Our Lady: doctrine and devotion other six sacraments and some devotional When I used to come here occasionally practices of our tradition. from Berkhamsted for Evensong and In addition to a new Director of Benediction, it struck me that those of Music, Stephen Farr, we look forward to you who are fortunate enough regularly to welcoming a new Organ Scholar, William worship at Benediction in the traditional Forrest, after the summer, as we say an form are probably almost the last people especially grateful farewell to Jordan Wong in Anglophone Christendom, certainly after his two years with us; thanks also among the last Anglicans, who regularly 2 say the words ‘Immaculate Conception’. Anglo-Catholicism’s responsibility in The Divine Praises, which I know by heart leavening the Anglican lump (and how from my own Anglo-Catholic upbringing, lumpen a lump it can be!) that we had to are now pretty hard to come by, even in grow out of aping Roman doctrine and places like the shrine at Walsingham where liturgy and into owning the Anglican Benediction happens frequently. consensus which is represented by first, Even as a teenager piously repeating our renewed synodical polity (hollow those words, it did occur to me to wonder laughter), and, more importantly, our why we were addressing them to Jesus in renewed liturgical resources. No doubt the Blessed Sacrament. Did he not know the Divine Praises have fallen foul of this about his mother? But, in those happy this consensual instinct. My evidence for and uncomplicated English Missal days, thinking that is the bowdlerized version one simply accepted that this was part of of them that you’ll find in Celebrating the richness of Catholic devotion which Common Prayer, where the petitions about must be recovered in our church. Mary have collapsed into one inelegant and mealy-mouthed phrase, ‘Blessed be There is, however, a coda to this God in the Virgin Mary, mother of our reminiscence. When I left that Sydney Lord and God’ (and the final petition, parish as a 26-year-old layman in 1985 ‘Blessed be God in his angels and in His one of the half dozen or so weekday High saints’ has become, ‘Blessed be the Holy Masses every year was celebrated on the and Undivided Trinity’). So far, so C of E. Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 8 December. The English Missal told us I would suggest that, as in many of these that it was a Double of the First Class and allegedly conciliatory and consensual therefore it should be so celebrated. It Anglican moves, something of the real wasn’t the best-attended of our weekday catholic tradition of Anglicanism is lost High Masses, but perhaps a hundred people by abandoning or ignoring this feast, and turned out on a bright and hot summer doctrine. evening in Sydney, no doubt before doing The Immaculate Conception can seem some early Christmas shopping. By the time inextricably bound up with 19th century I returned to that parish as Rector, eleven ultramontanism: the proclamation of the years later, it seemed that hardly anyone dogma, Vatican I, and the definition of Papal even remembered the Solemnity; High Infallibility all seem to sit uncomfortably Mass was certainly no longer celebrated close together on the exclusive Vatican for it. I later learned that it had fallen foul end of the ecclesial sofa; the doctrine of some parish politics. This feast was now may also seem rather closely tied to the said to be old-fashioned, ultra-montane apparitions at Lourdes (where our Lady and irrelevant to the renewed liturgy. said, ungrammatically, to Bernadette, ‘I am th Anyway, the 15 of August was now in the Immaculate Conception’), with all the our new Australian prayer book calendar iconography and devotional material which and should be promoted as the primary follows from that. But if we dig deeper Marian feast. we shall find that this doctrine belongs to One can understand that argument to the whole Church, not just in the panting a point. It has been an important part of heart of Rome. It is much older than 3 our divisions; it was accepted by all the Fathers, like S Ignatius of Antioch and S leaders of the Reformation except Calvin. Polycarp. That is extremely significant: It was never wholly abandoned even by like those early post New Testament the BCP and Archbishop Cranmer took writings this apocryphal Gospel is part of a very long time to disown it (by which a tradition which was as important in the time he was well outside the subsequent early Church as the texts we now call the Anglican settlements of Elizabeth I & New Testament (the New Testament not 1662). In summary it was never completely having been given a fixed and final form expunged from Anglican awareness and as scripture by the Church until much remains to this day in the Calendar of later, in the 4th century). The Gospel of the BCP 1662; in earlier editions it even James describes Mary’s parents, Anne retained some propers. and Joachim, as righteous Jews who were The worship of the Church and its distressed by their childlessness. Anne doctrine are never divorced; indeed the cried out in prayer to God, vowing that any true primary theology, it is sometimes child she bore would be consecrated to the argued, is liturgical theology (Lex orandi, Lord’s service.
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