Newsletter of the Parish Church of St George Hanover Square incorporating The Grosvenor Chapel

Issue 24 March –June 2013

Contents

Lent Discussions Introduced by Rex Davis 2

Services at St George’s 3

Mayfair Organ Concerts 6

London Handel Festival 8

Missionary Musings By Fr Richard Fermer 9

Services at Grosvenor Chapel 10

Hyde Park Place Estate Charity 15

New Electoral Roll 16

Icon of St George, one of a dozen Byzantine & Renaissance icons by Ivan Djidjev exhibited in St George’s, Hanover Square between 27 February & 10 March 2013. See also pp 13, 14 & 15.

1 Lent Discussions introduced by Canon Rex Davis

the jam-packed story of the Exo- CHURCHES dus. AROUND HYDE PARK A fine start to the Lenten pro- St George’s Hanover Square gramme “A New Commandment”. Grosvenor Chapel The next step takes us from the St John’s Hyde Park theological underpinning of the The Rector is away on sabbati- Law, an exploration in which both cal. During his absence, Canon Luther and Calvin were slapped on LENT DISCUSSIONS 2013 Rex Davis is holding the fort. the wrist for misunderstanding Here he writes about the Lent both Moses and Paul, a real double ‘A New Commandment’ jeopardy, and very much a NO Law, Redemption and a Just Society Discussions being held jointly NO!! for Jo Bailey Wells, to some with St John’s, Hyde Park at of the practicalities in our lives. Wednesdays in Lent at the the Grosvenor Chapel at For on Wednesday 27th February Dr Grosvenor Chapel 7.00pm on Wednesdays during Jim Walters, Chaplain at the LSE starting at 7.00pm with a light well bed us down in ‘tax avoidance the penitential season. Details supper of soup & cheese and banker bashing’. The series Discussion begins at 7.30pm of the remaining Discussions ends with Bishop Robert Hardy on with a presentation & time for “Imprisoned by Sin” on 20th March. follow Canon Davis’s remarks. questions Closing: 8.30pm Last year the course focussed on Jo Bailey Wells brilliantly th the Christian’s responsible use of Wednesday 6 March launched the Lent course in the money, and again an interesting ‘Retribution or Rehabilitation’ cosy Garden Rooms at the Grosve- list of panelists spoke of a number Prof Clemens Sedmak FD nor Chapel on Wednesday 20th of issues. Roddy Leece, the Rec- Maurice Professor of Moral & Social February. The team from St tor, Dr Brutus Green and Dr Rich- King’s College, London John’s Hyde Park had provided hot ard Fermer have put their heads soup and an array of cheeses and th together to arrange this year’s Wednesday 13 March fruits for a Lenten supper before speakers, and it promises to be a ‘Crime & Punishment for Christians’ the meeting began. stimulating session judged from its The Revd Justin Gau start with Jo Bailey Wells. Barrister at Pump Court Chamber Curate at St John of Jerusalem, Asking us to imagine being a South Hackney, grumpy and disconsolate bunch of Despite the bitter weather there Chancellor of the Diocese of Bristol wandering Israelites, still dripping was a fair turnout. But, sadly, it Deputy Chancellor of the Dioceses wet from crossing the Red Sea, we struck me that St George’s was of Lincoln & Bath & Wells were led, metaphorically, to the poorly represented. It may be a foot hills of Mount Sinai to gaze at good Lenten discipline to join the Wednesday 20th March the thunder filled black clouds as 5.45 pm congregation at the ‘Imprisoned by Sin?’ Moses went for his interview with Eucharist and then take the brisk Bishop Robert Hardy CBE the Lord to get a grip on the Law. walk by Grosvenor Square to the Former Bishop of Lincoln Dr Wells showed herself a stimu- Chapel, to be rewarded with a pip- Bishop to Her Majesty’s Prisons lating teacher as she unfolded the ing hot bowl of soup, followed by background to the narrative and the challenge of a sharp talk and the text of the Mosaic Law, from Entrance free – interesting discussion. All is over blessings to Abraham to the am- donations welcome biguous “If” of the Covenant. by 9 pm. Not too late. Each question asked by a rapt au- RD For more information contact dience led to even more fascinat- The Revd Brutus Green ing thoughts. And in the discus- 020 7262 1732 sion we began to unpack some of [email protected] the layers of problems hidden in

2 Services at St George’s March—June 2013

Friday 1st March Thursday 14th March St David, Bishop of Minevia, Pa- 12.10pm Midday Prayer tron of Wales, c 601 12.10pm Holy Communion Friday 15th March 12.10pm Holy Communion Sunday 3rd March The Third Sunday in Lent Sunday 17th March 8.30am Holy Communion (said) Passion Sunday 11.00am Sung Eucharist 8.30am Holy Communion Celebrant & Preacher: 11.00am Sung Eucharist

Canon Rex Davis Celebrant & Preacher: The Revd th Mass in G minor Richard Fermer Wednesday 27 March (Vaughan Williams) Mass for 5 voices (Byrd) Wednesday in Holy Week O Lord in thy wrath (Gibbons) Crucifixus (Lotti) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Fantasia II ‘Jesus Christus, unser Prelude in B minor (Bach) 5.45pm Holy Communion

Heiland (Scheidermann) th Monday 18th March Thursday 28 March Monday 4th March St Edward, King of the West Maundy Thursday 12.10pm Midday Prayer Saxons, 978 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion th Tuesday 5 March nd 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tuesday 19th March Friday 22 March 12.10pm Midday Prayer Good Friday Wednesday 6th March 10.00am Good Friday Liturgy 12.10pm Midday Prayer Wednesday 20th March 2.30pm Vespers 5.45pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Midday Prayer St Matthew Passion (J S Bach) 5.45pm Holy Communion (Admission by ticket only Thursday 7th March Box office: 01460 54660) st St Perpetua, Martyr at Thursday 21 March st Carthage, 203 St Benedict, Abbot of Monte Sunday 31 March 12.10pm Midday Prayer Cassino, c 550 EASTER DAY 12.10pm Midday Prayer 8.30am Holy Communion Friday 8th March 11.00am Sung Eucharist 12.10pm Holy Communion Friday 22nd March Celebrant & preacher: 12.10pm Holy Communion Canon Rex Davis Sunday 10th March Coronation Mass (Mozart) The Fourth Sunday in Lent Sunday 24th March Hallelujah (Handel) Mothering Sunday Palm Sunday Final from Symphony No 2 (Widor)

8.30am Holy Communion 8.30am Holy Communion st 11.00am Sung Eucharist 11.00am Sung Eucharist Monday 1 April Celebrant: Canon Rex Davis Celebrant & Preacher: Church closed

Preacher: Kirsty Ross Canon Rex Davis nd Missa Brevis in D minor (Mozart) Missa Sine Nomine (Hassler) Tuesday 2 April Ave Maria (Parsons) St Matthew Passion (Lassus) Tuesday in Easter Week Improvisation (Krippner) Lift up your heads (Handel) 12.10pm Midday Prayer

King’s Ceremonial March (Krippner) rd Monday 11th March Wednesday 3 April 12.10pm Midday Prayer Monday 25th March Wednesday in Easter Week Monday in Holy Week 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tuesday 12th March 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion

St Gregory the Great, Pope, 604 5.45pm Holy Communion th 12.10pm Midday Prayer Thursday 4 April Tuesday 26th March St Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, 397 Wednesday 13th March Tuesday in Holy Week 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion 5.45pm Holy Communion 3 Services at St George’s March—June 2013 (continued)

th Tuesday 16 April Wednesday 1st May 12.10pm Midday Prayer SS Philip & James, Apostle

th 12.10pm Midday Prayer Wednesday 17 April 5.45pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion Thursday 2nd May

th 12.10pm Midday Prayer Thursday 18 April 12.10pm Midday Prayer Friday 3rd May

th The Invention of the Cross Friday 19 April 12.10pm Holy Communion Friday 5th April St Alphege, Archbishop of Friday in Easter Week Canterbury, Martyr 1012 Sunday 5th May 12.10pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Holy Communion Rogation Sunday

st 8.30am Holy Communion Sunday 7th April Sunday 21 April 11.00am Sung Eucharist The First Sunday after Easter St George’s Patronal Festival followed by the Beating of the 8.30am Holy Communion 8.30am Holy Communion Bounds 11.00am Sung Eucharist 11.00am Sung Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Celebrant: Canon Rex Davis Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Missa Ego Flos Campi (Padilla) Preacher: Peter Portal Missa Brevis (Grayston Ives) Beati quorum via (Stanford) Missa Collegium Regale My Soul there is a country (Parry) March on a theme of Handel (Howells) Exsultate (Byan Kelly) (Guilmant)

Surgens Jesus (Philips) nd Finale Vivace (Widor) Monday 22 April Monday 6th May 12.10pm Midday Prayer St John the Evangelist ante th Monday 8 April rd Portam Latinam Annunciation of the Blessed Tuesday 23 April 12.10pm Midday Prayer Virgin Mary St George, Martyr, 12.10 Holy Communion Patron of England c 304 Tuesday 7th May 12.10pm Midday Prayer Rogation Day th Tuesday 9 April th 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Wednesday 24 April 12.10pm Midday Prayer Wednesday 8th May Wednesday 10th April 5.45pm Holy Communion Rogation Day

12.10pm Midday Prayer th 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion Thursday 25 April 5.45pm Holy Communion St Mark the Evangelist Thursday 11th April 12.10pm Midday Prayer Thursday 9th May

12.10pm Midday Prayer th ASCENSION DAY Friday 26 April 12.10pm Holy Communion Friday 12th April 12.10pm Holy Communion th 12.10pm Holy Communion th Friday 10 May Sunday 28 April Rogation Day Sunday 14th April Fourth Sunday after Easter 12.10pm Holy Communion The Second Sunday after 8.30am Holy Communion Easter 11.00am Sung Eucharist Sunday 12th May 8.30am Holy Communion Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Sunday after Ascension 11.00am Sung Eucharist Missa Brevis (Palestrina) 8.30am Holy Communion Celebrant & Preacher: Exsultate Deo (Palestrina) 11.00am Sung Eucharist Canon Rex Davis Fantasia in G (Bach) Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector

Mass in F sharp minor (Widor) th Missa Ascendens Christi (Victoria) Geistliches Lied (Brahms) Monday 29 April Ascendit Deus (Philips) Improvisation (Krippner) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Prelude in D (Bach)

th th Tuesday 30 April Monday 15 April Monday 13th May 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer

4 Services at St George’s March—June 2013 (continued)

th Tuesday 14 May Tuesday 28th May 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer

th Wednesday 15 May Wednesday 29th May 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion 5.45pm Holy Communion

th Thursday 16 May Thursday 30th May 12.10pm Holy Communion Corpus Christi 12.10pm Holy Communion th Friday 17 May Wednesday 12th June st 12.10pm Holy Communion Friday 31 May 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Holy Communion th 5.45pm Holy Communion Sunday 19 May nd Whit Sunday Sunday 2 June Thursday 13th June 8.30am Holy Communion First Sunday after Trinity 12.10pm Holy Communion th 11.00am Sung Eucharist (60 Anniversary of the Coronation) Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector 8.30am Holy Communion Friday 14th June Messe Solennelle (Vierne) 11.00am Sung Eucharist 12.10pm Holy Communion Loquebantur variis linguis (Tallis) Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector st Final from 1 Symphony (Vierne) Stanford in B flat Sunday 16th June Zadok the Priest (Handel) th Third Sunday after Trinity Monday 20 May Imperial March (Elgar) 8.30am Holy Communion Monday in Whitsun Week 11.00am Sung Eucharist rd 12.10pm Midday Prayer Monday 3 June Celebrant & Preacher: 12.10pm Midday Prayer st The Rector Tuesday 21 May Whitlock in G th Tuesday in Witsun Week Tuesday 4 June The Lord hath been mindful of 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer us (S S Wesley) Choral Song & Fugue nd th Wednesday 22 May Wednesday 5 June (S S Wesley) Ember Day St Boniface of Crediton, Martyr 754 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Monday 17th June 5.45pm Holy Communion 5.45pm Holy Communion St Alban, first Martyr of Brit- ain, c 250 rd th Thursday 23 May Thursday 6 June 12.10pm Midday Prayer Ember Day 12.10pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tuesday 18th June Friday 7th June th 12.10pm Midday Prayer Friday 24 May 12.10pm Holy Communion Ember Day Wednesday 19th June th 12.10pm Holy Communion Sunday 9 June 12.10pm Midday Prayer Second Sunday after Trinity th 5.45pm Holy Communion Sunday 26 May 8.30am Holy Communion Trinity Sunday 11.00am Sung Eucharist Thursday 20th June 8.30am Holy Communion Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Translation of St Edward, 11.00am Sung Eucharist Mass in E flat (Rheinberger) King of the West Saxons, 979 Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Ave verum corpus (Elgar) 12.10pm Holy Communion st Spatzen Messe (Mozart) 1 movement from Hymn to the Trinity (Tchaikovsky) Sonata No 2 (Hindemith) Friday 21st June Fugue in E flat (Bach) 12.10pm Holy Communion Monday 10th June th Monday 27 May 12.10pm Midday Prayer The Venerable Bede, th Monk of Jarrow, Tuesday 11 June Scholar, Historian, 735 St Barnabas the Apostle 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Holy Communion 5

Mayfair Organ Concerts A weekly series of lunchtime concerts at The Grosvenor Chapel & St George’s Church Hanover Square Tuesdays 1.10-1.50pm

Tuesday 5th March Tuesday 30th April

rd St George’s St George’s Sunday 23 June Andrew Benson-Wilson The Roden Boys Choir Fourth Sunday after Trinity Music by Scheidermann & Scheidt (Netherlands) 8.30am Holy Communion Rintje te Wies (Director of Music) 11.00am Sung Eucharist & Tuesday 12th March* Sietze de Vries (organ) Renewal of Marriage Vows Grosvenor Chapel Music by Andriessen, Sweelinck, Celebrant & Preacher: James Johnstone Manneke, de Klerk & Sietze de The Rector Music by Bach, Pachelbel & Zachow Vries Missa Brevis in D (Mozart) Ubi caritas (Duruflé) Tuesday 19th March* Tuesday 7th May Toccata from 5th Symphony St George’s Grosvenor Chapel (Widor) Richard Moore (St Paul’s Cathedral) Mario Duella (Portula, Italy)

th Music by Camidge, Grainger, Handel, Monday 24 June Liddle, Purcell & Russell Tuesday 14th May The Nativity of John the St George’s Baptist Tuesday 26th March* Gary Sieling (Bromley Parish 12.10pm Holy Communion Grosvenor Chapel Church)

th Richard Hobson with Tuesday 25 June Katy Cooper & Sarah Dacey (sopranos) Tuesday 21st May 12.10pm Midday Prayer Passiontide music by Bach & Couperin Grosvenor Chapel

th Robin Walker Wednesday 26 June Tuesday 2nd April* Music by Purcell, Boyce, Stanley & 12.10pm Midday Prayer St George’s Russell) 5.45pm Holy Communion Peter Holder (Westminster Abbey)

th Music by Andriessen, Guilmant, Handel Tuesday 28th May Thursday 27 June & Scheidermann St George’s 12.10pm Holy Communion To be announced th st Tuesday 9 April* Friday 28 June Grosvenor Chapel Tuesday 4th June St Peter the Apostle Thomas Allery (Magdalen College, Grosvenor Chapel (transferred) Oxford) Richard Hobson & 12.10pm Holy Communion Music by Bach, Buxtehude, Handel & Moyra Montagu (oboe)

th Walther Sunday 30 June Tuesday 11th June Fifth Sunday after Trinity Tuesday 16th April* St George’s 8.30am Holy Communion St George’s To be announced 11.00am Sung Eucharist Robert Wooley (Royal College of Music) Celebrant & Preacher: Toccatas, Variations and Fantasias by Tuesday 18th June The Rector Jan Pieterszoon Sweelkinck Grosvenor Chapel Missa Aeterna Christi Munera Andrew Smith (St Peter Eaton (Palestrina) Tuesday 23rd April Square) O sacrum convivium (Tallis) Grosvenor Chapel Carillon (Mathias) Joe Sentance (St Stephen, Walbrook) Tuesday 25th June St George’s * Adrian Gunning (St John, Islington) Concerts presented in association with the London Handel Festival

6 To mark the forthcoming 36th Annual London Handel Festival and the long association St. George’s Church has had with the Festival, a screening of the ac- claimed film of Handel’s life THE GREAT Mr. HANDEL in association with The British Film Institute to benefit St. George’s Organ Fund

Sunday, 3rd March, 2013 at 6.00pm Doors open 5pm Admission Free (Retiring collection with a suggested minimum £5 donation) Popcorn and refreshments will be available. The screening will be preceded at 5.30pm by an organ medley played by Mr. Ronny Krippner (Assistant Director of Music at St George’s) of tunes and popu- lar music from the 1940s, with a Handelian flavour on the new Richards Fowkes organ.

Organ Improvisation Recital at St George’s Thursday 14th March at 6.30pm Organ students from Birmingham Conservatoire and Trinity Laban Conservatoire London will combine their prodigious talents and improvise in concert, showcasing the new Richards Fowkes organ at St George’s. All students are currently studying improvisation with Ronny Krippner, Assistant Director of Music at St George’s, and the one-hour concert will include ad hoc music in various styles and on given themes: Baroque Preludes and Fugues, Passacaglias, Hymn Partitas as well as Variations on Gregorian Chants. Admission: £5.00.

ST GEORGE’S CONCERT Thursday 25th April 2013

Hosted by Martyn Lewis, this is a concert of wonderful music brought to you by the choir of St George’s Church with support from The Royal British Legion’s own Central Band as well as prose and poetry given by our celebrity guest readers including Sophie Thompson, Nichola McAuliffe and Tim Pigott-Smith. Followed by a champagne and canapés reception at the Lans- downe Club in Berkeley Square Tickets are £35 for the concert only or £75 for the concert and reception. Contact Rebecca Pride on 020 3207 2272 or [email protected] for booking details.

7 2013 LONDON HANDEL FESTIVAL ST GEORGE’S HANOVER SQUARE & THE GROSVENOR CHAPEL

Tuesday 19th March Thursday 4th April 6.00pm St George’s St George’s Lunchtime Recital 7.00pm 1.00-2.00pm Monday 11th March Handel Singing Competition 2013 Lucy Hall (soprano) St George’s Semi-final Handel arias & cantatas Lunchtime Recital 1.00-2.00pm Wednesday 20th March Thursday 4th April Alexander Sprague (tenor) St George’s Grosvenor Chapel Music by Telemann, Purcell & 7.00pm 7.00pm Handel Handel Singing Competition 2012 Il Bacio & Syrinx Finalists’ Showcase Music by Purcell, Draghi, Finger, Tuesday 12th March Geminiani, Paisible & Handel Grosvenor Chapel Thursday 21st March Mayfair Organ Concerts St George’s Friday 5th April 1.10-1.50pm Lunchtime Concert St George’s James Johnstone (organ) 1.00-2.00pm Lunchtime Recital Trinity Laban Baroque Orchestra 1.00-2.00pm Thursday 14th March Music by Handel, Biber, Vivaldi & Anna Gorbachyova (soprano) St George’s Bach Music by Handel Lunchtime Recital 1.00-2.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm Students from the Guildhall La Nuova Musica London Handel Players School of Music & Drama Handel Il Triofo del tempo e del & Francis Colpron (recorder/flute) Music by Handel disinganno Music by Telemann & Bach

Friday 15th March Friday 22nd March Saturday 6th April St George’s St George’s Grosvenor Chapel Lunchtime Recital Lunchtime Concert 4.00-9.00pm 1.00-2.00pm 1.00-2.00pm Ensemble Serse Rebecca Ockenden (soprano) Students of the RCM Hasse Lucio Papiro Dittatore & Sofie vanden Eynde (lute) Music by Handel, Corelli, Vivaldi & Music by Dowland & Ferrabosco Geminiani Monday 8th April St George’s Saturday 16th March Tuesday 26th March Lunchtime Recital Grosvenor Chapel Grosvenor Chapel 1.00-2.00pm 11.00am-5.30pm Mayfair Organ Concerts Raphaela Papadakis (soprano) Little Baroque Company 1.10-1.50pm Music by Handel Sing Coronation Anthems Music for Passiontide Tuesday 9th April Monday 18th March Friday 29th March Grosvenor Chapel St George’s St George’s Mayfair Organ Concerts 7.00pm 2.30pm 1.10-1.50pm Classical Opera Bach St Matthew Passion Thomas Allery (organ) Telemann Orpheus Tuesday 2nd April Wednesday 10th April Tuesday 19th March St George’s St George’s St George’s Mayfair Organ Concerts Lunchtime Recital Mayfair Organ Concerts 1.10-1.50pm 1.00-2.00pm 1.10-1.50pm Peter Holder (organ) Anna Starushkevych (mezzo-soprano) Richard Moore (organ) Music by Handel, Bernasconi, Pergolesi & Vivaldi

Continued on page 14 8 MISSIONARY MUSINGS by the Revd Dr Richard M. Fermer Priest-in-charge, Grosvenor Chapel

t is not an easy time to be part the place of Christianity in the shap- of an institutional church to- ing of our culture and institutions in day. We all face our chal- history. I lenges, and although bricks and mortar, or how to pay for ma- The problem, however, is not just a jestic organs, may loom large, they changing world, it is also lies with our are not all from that source alone. own perspective as church members. It is a reality for both churches in The missiologist and practitioner Alan this parish, St George's and the Hirsch writes: “It is high time for us Chapel, that more people now to dethrone Constantine; as far as come to our buildings for a wed- matters of church go, it seems he is God's mission has a church, has ding, a memorial service or a con- still the emperor of our imagina- an agent and this is our calling. cert than for regular Sunday wor- tions.” What Hirsch is trying to say is Mission then becomes, alongside ship. We are faced with the frag- that although we may live in a “post- worship and prayer, something mentation and frenzy of modern Christendom” land, our own thinking, which is essential to the nature life, the rise of secularism/ as Christians is still decisively shaped of what it is to be a follower of consumerism and the decline of by that paradigm. It is still the goal of Christ. institutional religion. It leaves us most of our efforts. As Hirsch de- with a quite large gap or discon- scribes it: In conclusion, both a proper un- nect, between the committed “In the Christendom era the church derstanding of the nature of mis- church life of the core and what perceived itself as central to society sion and a facing up to our own we can expect from those occa- and hence operated in the attrac- social context and challenges sionally entering our churches. tional mode. In this, people come to should lead us to reflect more Over a third of the UK population church to hear the gospel, to be deeply on God's mission as it re- no longer has any significant ex- taught in the faith, and to partake of lates to the calling of our two perience of the church; it is no the sacraments.” The problem is they churches here in Mayfair. A re- longer an explicit part of their cul- are no longer coming, or more fairly, sponse to the challenges that tural baggage, despite the history. fewer and fewer are coming, despite face us would seem to come from That means we cannot assume that the upbeat statistics of the Diocese of an intensification of the Christian people will just come to us or even London. life and not its dumbing down. If if they do, that they will have any we are ever to address the chal- idea about what they are coming A common error of Christians from lenges, we need to be more au- to or what is going on. So we find institutional churches is to assume thentically Christian, ever more ourselves in this rather strange, that mission is merely something un- people of the Bible, of deep uncomfortable space, a space that ruly evangelicals do or is just another prayer, of knowledge of the tra- our churches have never before function or activity of the Church, dition, of social engagement, and faced. coming somewhere on the bottom of not less so. At the same time, we

our list. This manifests theological need to become more flexible, to Some sociologists refer to this phe- ignorance. Mission is first of all God's imagine Christian life outside the nomenon as “Post-Christendom”. mission and is related to His very na- confines of what we have learnt Since Constantine, Christianity ture. Missio,which in Latin refers to to expect from our habitual Sun- grew to hold a central place in “sending”, has to do not merely with day service and pattern. We need western society, exercising, as it the sending of the Son and the Spirit to be prepared to step outside did, considerable power. Now it is by the Father, but also to God's inner and plant the Christian message, increasingly gravitating to the mar- being, that in Himself God is a com- which we are to embody in our gins, a place from which it munion bound in love. God's dynamic lives, in unexpected places and emerged in the Early Church. The inner life flows out into creation and to make the connections between rector of St George's, for example, the redemption of the world. We, those places – the workplace, the can no longer expect to be granted then, participate in God's mission, school, social groups and organi- an audience with leaders of local which is essentially the same thing as sations – with our church. I look business, when just forty years ago saying that we participate in His life. forward to working alongside you this would have been taken for We have managed to get things back to help articulate our mission to granted. By the way, the thesis to front. Mission is not an instrument Mayfair. does not constitute a challenge to of the Church, rather the mission,

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Services at the Grosvenor Chapel March-June 2013

Monday 11th March Sunday 24th March 12.30pm Daily Prayer Palm Sunday 10.45am Blessing of Palms, Tuesday 12th March Procession & Sung Eucharist 12.30pm Daily Prayer Celebrant: The Revd Dr Richard Fermer Wednesday 13th March Preacher: The Revd Alan Piggot 12.30pm Daily Prayer Hosanna to the Son of David Friday 1st March (Weelkes) th St David, Bishop of Menevia, Thursday 14 March St Matthew Passion (Victoria) Patron of Wales, c 601 8.00am Holy Communion Missa Brevis (Walton) 12.30pm Daily Prayer 12.30pm Daily Prayer Christus factus est (Bruckner)

th th Sunday 3rd March Friday 15 March Monday 25 March Third Sunday of Lent 12.30pm Daily Prayer Monday of Holy Week 11.00am Sung Eucharist 12.30pm Daily Prayer th Celebrant & Preacher: Sunday 17 March 7.00pm Meditation for Holy Week The Revd Dr Richard Fermer Fifth Sunday of Lent th Mass for Five Voices (Byrd) 11.00am Sung Eucharist Tuesday 26 March Civitas sancti tui (Byrd) Celebrant & Preacher: Tuesday of Holy Week The Revd Canon Alistair Macdonald- 12.30pm Daily Prayer Monday 4th March Radcliffe 7.00pm Meditation for Holy Week 12.30pm Daily Prayer Missa ave maris stella (Victoria) th Improperium (Lassus) Wednesday 27 March Tuesday 5th March Wednesday of Holy Week th 12.30pm Daily Prayer Monday 18 March 12.30pm Daily Prayer 12.30pm Daily Prayer 7.00pm Meditation for Holy Week Wednesday 6th March th th 12.30pm Daily Prayer Tuesday 19 March Thursday 28 March St Joseph of Nazareth Maundy Thursday Thursday 7th March 12.30pm Daily Prayer 8.00am Holy Communion SS Perpetua & Felicity and 12.30pm Daily Prayer th their Companions, Wednesday 20 March 7.00pm Sung Eucharist Martyrs at Carthage, 203 St Cuthbert, Bp of Lindisfarne, Celebrant: 8.00am Holy Communion Missionary 687 The Revd Dr Richard Fermer 12.30pm Daily Prayer 12.30pm Daily Prayer Preacher: The Revd Dr Alan Piggot Missa Quarti Toni (Victoria) st Friday 8th March Thursday 21 March, 1556 Gloria in C (Stanford) Edward King, Bp of Lincoln, Thomas Cranmer, Ubi Caritas (Duruflé) 1910 , Love bade me welcome (Vaughan 12.30pm Daily Prayer Reformation Martyr Williams) 8.00am Holy Communion Ave verum corpus (Lassus) Sunday 10th March 12.30pm Daily Prayer The Lamentation of Jeremiah Fourth Sunday of Lent (Tallis) nd Mothering (Rose) Sunday Friday 22 March th 11.00am Sung Eucharist 12.30pm Daily Prayer Friday 29 March Celebrant & Preacher: 7.00pm Pesach Meal with Good Friday The Revd Dr Richard Fermer the community of St Thomas’ 1.00pm Liturgy of the Lord’s passion Messe Basse (Fauré) Clapton Common St John Passion (Plainsong) As truly as God is our Father Led by The Revd Dr Richard Fermer & Crux Fidelis (John of Portugal) (Mathias) The Revd William Campbell-Tayler The Reproaches (Sanders) Jesus Christus, unser Heiland Steal away (Tippett) (Bach) O vos omnes (Gesualdo)

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Services at the Grosvenor Chapel March-June 2013 (continued)

Sunday 31st March Sunday 14th April EASTER DAY Third Sunday of Easter 6.00am Dawn Mass of the 11.00am Sung Eucharist Resurrection Celebrant & Preacher: 11.00am Sung Eucharist The Revd Dr Richard Fermer & Renewal of Baptismal Vows Missa Paschalis (Lassus) (with orchestra) Victimae paschal laudes (Byrd) Celebrant & Preacher: Christ ist erstanden BWV627 (Bach) The Revd Dr Richard Fermer Sunday 28th April O sons & daughters (Walford Davies) Monday 15th April Fifth Sunday of Easter Coronation Mass K317 (Mozart) 12.30pm Daily Prayer 11.00am Sung Eucharist Regina coeli K276 (Mozart) Visiting Celebrant & Preacher: Tuesday 16th April TBA Tuesday 2nd April 12.30pm Daily Prayer Spatzenmesse K220 (Mozart) Tuesday of Easter Week Cantate Domino (Mpnteverdi) 12.30pm Daily Prayer Wednesday 17th April Canzon post il commune 12.30pm Daily Prayer (Frescobsaldi) Wednesday 3rd April

Wednesday of Easter Week Thursday 18th April Monday 29th April 12.30pm Daily Prayer 8.00am Holy Communion Catherine of Siena, 12.30pm Daily Prayer Teacher 1380 Thursday 4th April 12.30pm Daily Prayer Thursday of Easter Week Friday 19th April

8.00am Holy Communion Alphege, Archbp of Canterbury, Tuesday 30th April 12.30pm Daily Prayer Martyr 1012 12.30pm Daily Prayer 12.30pm Daily Prayer

Friday 5th April Wednesday 1st May Friday of Easter Week Sunday 21st April Ss Philip & James, Apostles 12.30pm Daily Prayer Fourth Sunday of Easter 12.30pm Daily Prayer 11.00am Sung Eucharist

Sunday 7th April Celebrant & Preacher: Thursday 2nd May Second Sunday of Easter The Revd Dr Richard Fermer St Athanasius, Bp of Alexandria, 11.00am Sung Eucharist Missa Brevis (Grayston Ives) Teacher 373 Celebrant & Preacher: Surrexit pastor bonus (Lassus) 8.00am Holy Communion The Revd Dr Richard Fermer Fanfare (Leighton) 12.30pm Daily Prayer With hymns & organ music

Monday 22nd April Friday 3rd May Monday 8th April 12.30pm Daily Prayer 12.30pm Daily Prayer The Annunciation (transferred)

12.30pm Daily Prayer Tuesday 23rd April Sunday 5th May St George, Martyr, Sixth Sunday of Easter Tuesday 9th April Patron of England 11.00am Sung Eucharist 12.30pm Daily Prayer 12.30pm Daily Prayer Celebrant & Preacher:

The Revd Dr Richard Fermer Wednesday 10th April Wednesday 24th April Communion Service in F (Darke) William Law, priest, spiritual 12.30pm Daily Prayer Greater Love (Ireland) writer, 1761 Festal Flourish (Jacob) 12.30pm Daily Prayer Thursday 25th April

St Mark the Evangelist Monday 6th May Thursday 11th April 8.00am Holy Communion 12.30pm Daily Prayer 8.00am Holy Communion 12.30pm Daily Prayer

12.30pm Daily Prayer Tuesday 7th May Friday 26th April 12.30pm Daily Prayer Friday 12th April 12.30pm Daily Prayer

12.30pm Daily Prayer

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Services at the Grosvenor Chapel March-June 2013 (continued)

Sunday 19th May Sunday 2nd June Day of Pentecost First Sunday after Trinity 11.00am Sung Eucharist 11.00am Sung Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: Celebrant & Preacher: The Revd Dr Richard Fermer The Revd Dr Richard Fermer Missa Euge bone (Tye) Mass in E major (Rheinberger) Loquebantur variis linguiis (Tallis) O sacrum convivium (Messiaen) Komm, Heiliger Geist BWV651 Praeludium in D (Buxtehude) (Bach) Wednesday 8th May Monday 3rd June Julian of Norwich Monday 20th May 12.30pm Daily Prayer 12.30pm Daily Prayer Alcuin of York, , Abbot of Tours 804 Tuesday 4th June Thursday 9th May 12.30pm Daily Prayer 12.30pm Daily Prayer Ascension Day 8.00am Holy Communion Tuesday 21st May Wednesday 5th June 12.30pm Prayer during the day 12.30pm Daily Prayer St Boniface of Crediton, 7.00pm Sung Eucharist Apostle of Germany, Martyr 754 Celebrant & Preacher: Wednesday 22nd May 12.30pm Daily Prayer The Revd Dr Richard Fermer 12.30pm Daily Prayer Missa O Rex gloriae Thursday 6th June O God the King of glory (Purcell) Thursday 23rd May 8.00am Holy Communion Voluntary X in G minor (Russell) 8.00am Holy Communion 12.30pm Daily Prayer 12.30pm Daily Prayer Friday 10th May Friday 7th June 12.30pm Daily Prayer Friday 24th May The Visitation John & Charles Wesley 12.30pm Daily Prayer Sunday 12th May 12.30pm Daily Prayer Sunday after Ascension Sunday 9th June Formation Sunday Sunday 26th May Second Sunday after Trinity 11.00am Sung Eucharist Trinity Sunday 11.00am Sung Eucharist Celebrant: 11.00am Sung Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: The Revd Dr Richard Fermer Celebrant & Preacher: The Revd Dr Richard Fermer Preacher: The Revd Dr Paul Avis The Revd Dr Richard Fermer Mass for five voices (Scarlatti) Missa O Rex Gloria (Marenzio) Missa Sanctae Nicolae (Haydn) Tibi laus, tibi Gloria (Phillips) O God, the King of glory (Purcell) Hymn to the Cherubim Diologue sur les Grands Jeux (de Voluntary X in G minor (Russell) (Rachmaninov) Grigny) Monday 13th May Fugue in E flat (Bach) 12.30pm Daily Prayer Monday 10th June Monday 27th May 12.30pm Daily Prayer Tuesday 14th May 12.30pm Daily Prayer St Matthias the Apostle Tuesday 11th June 12.30pm Daily Prayer Tuesday 28th May St Barnabas the Apostle 12.30pm Daily Prayer 12.30pm Daily Prayer Wednesday 15th May 12.30pm Daily Prayer Wednesday 29thMay Wednesday 12th June 12.30pm Daily Prayer St Boniface the Apostle Thursday 16th May 2.30pm Daily Prayer 8.00am Holy Communion Thursday 30th May 12.30pm Daily Prayer Corpus Christi Thursday 13th June 8.00am Holy Communion 8.00am Holy Communion Friday 17th May 12.30pm Daily Prayer 12.30pm Daily Prayer 12.30pm Daily Prayer Friday 31st May Friday 14th June The Visitation 12.30pm Daily Prayer 12.30pm Daily Prayer

12 Sunday 16th June Third Sunday after Trinity 11.00am Sung Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: The Revd Dr Richard Fermer Missa Vidi seciosam (Victoria) O God, thou art my God (Purcell) Voluntary on the Old 100th (Purcell)

Monday 17th June 12.30pm Daily Prayer

Tuesday 18th June 12.30pm Daily Prayer

Wednesday 19th June 12.30pm Daily Prayer

Thursday 20th June 8.00am Holy Communion 12.30pm Daily Prayer

Friday 21stJune 12.30pm Daily Prayer

Sunday 23rd June Fourth Sunday after Trinity 11.00am Sung Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: The Revd Dr Richard Fermer Missa Capella Regalis (Cesar) Hear, O my Lord (Whitlock) Carillon de Longpont (Vierne)

Monday 24th June 12.30pm Daily Prayer

Tuesday 25th June 12.30pm Daily Prayer

Wednesday 26th June 12.30pm Daily Prayer

Thursday 27th June 8.00am Holy Communion 12.30pm Daily Prayer

Friday 28th June 12.30pm Daily Prayer Icon of the Three Holy Hierachs (Ss Basil the Great, Gregory the

Sunday 30th June Theologian & John Chrysostom), one of a dozen Byzantine & Fifth Sunday after Trinity Renaissance icons by Ivan Djidjev exhibited in St George’s, 11.00am Sung Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: Hanover Square between 27 February & 10 March 2013. The Revd Dr Richard Fermer For further information: www.ivandjidjev.com Missa O soberana lux (Magalhãis) Siderum rector (Byrd) Sunday Concerts at St George’s Tiento de 4° tono lleno (Cabanilles) Sunday 10th March 12.30—1.10pm Richard Hobson (organ) Music by Bruhns, Bach, Franck & John Cook

13 2013 LONDON HANDEL FESTIVAL ST GEORGE’S & GROSVENOR CHAPEL

Thursday 11th April St George’s 7.00pm Handel Singing Competition 2013 Final

Friday 12th April St George’s 7.00pm Southbank Sinfonia Baroque Music by Handel, Rameau, Zelenka & Corelli

Tuesday 16th April St George’s Mayfair Organ Concerts 1.10-1.50pm Robert Wooley (organ) Christ Enthroned, one of a dozen Byzantine &

7.00pm Renaissance icons by Ivan Djidjev exhibited in St George’s, London Handel Orchestra & Hanover Square between 27 February & 10 March 2013. Singers Handel L’Allegro, Il Pensiero ed For further information: www.ivandjidjev.com Il Moderato

For further information about Lon- don Handel Festival concerts please phone 01460 54660 or see www.london-handel-festival.com.

Saturday April 20th 3.30pm at Grosvenor Chapel Organ Concert by Margaret Phillips Music by Bach, Dowland, Walond, Russell, Hindemith, Smart & Frederic Sixten. Admission £8 (£5). Full programme on the Grosvenor Chapel website: www.grosvenorchapel.org.uk This concert concludes the British Institute of Organ Studies Conference and AGM Full details on the BIOS website: www.bios.org.uk

14 Hyde Park Place Estate Charity

HYDE PARK PLACE ESTATE CHARITY CIVIL TRUSTEES

The Hyde Park Place Estate Charity provides financial support for residents of Westminster who are vulnerable and needy and are referred by a variety of agencies. It also helps fund need based social action in the community.

At their meeting on Wednesday 5th December 2012, the Civil Trustees of the Hyde Park Place Estate Charity awarded grants totalling £29,040 to the following organisations:

Depaul UK Back to Work Blind in Business Central & Cecil Housing Trust Westminster Befriend a Family FareShare Friends of the Elderly Listening Books Age Concern Westminster Crisis UK St George’s School St George’s Hanover Square - Refreshment Coupon Scheme

Since this meeting, 32 further grants totalling £4,675 have been made under the small grants scheme.

The next meeting of the Civil Trustees will be held on Wednesday 5th June , and applications will need to be received by Friday 24th May in order to be considered. A further meeting will be held in September.

Shirley Vaughan Clerk to the Trustees Hyde Park Place Estate Charity 2A Mill Street London W1S 1FX St Stephen, one of a dozen Byzantine & Ren- aissance icons by Ivan Djidjev exhibited in St George’s, Hanover Square between 27 February & 10 March 2013.

15 NEW ELECTORAL ROLL

Every six years parishes are obliged to prepare a new Electoral Roll. It is six years since this was last done so a new roll has now to be prepared in time for the Annual Parochial Church Meeting on 30th April.

The process is governed by the Church Representation Rules. Accordingly all those wishing to have their names entered on the new Roll, whether they are on the present Roll or not, are asked to apply for en- rolment by completing the enrolment forms available from St George’s Vestry or the Grosvenor Chapel Office and returning them to one or other of the addresses given below not later than Thursday 4th April. The new Roll will be published and come into force the following day ie on Friday 5th April. Be- tween that date and the date of the Annual Parochial Church Meeting on Tuesday 30th April 2013 no new names may be added! The list will be open again after the close of the APCM. Forms will also be sent out by post to everyone on the present roll.

Enrolment forms are available from and should be returned to:- either The Electoral Roll Officer, St George’s Vestry, 2 A Mill Street, London W1S 1FX or The Electoral Roll Officer, Grosvenor Chapel, 24 South Audley Street, London W1K 2PA

St George’s Church, The Vestry, 2A Mill Street, London W1S 1FX Tel: 020 7629 0874 Email: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Website: www.stgeorgeshanoversquare.org

St George’s Hanover Square Foundation Email: [email protected]

Hyde Park Place Estate Charity Email: [email protected]

Grosvenor Chapel, 24 South Audley Street, London W1K 2PA Tel: 020 7499 1684 Email: [email protected] Website: www.grosvenorchapel.org.uk

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