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The youngest and oldest of those who processed with The Blessed Sacrament from All Saints along Oxford Street on the Feast of Corpus Christi, 20 June 2019. (Photos: Andrew Prior) We held the deadline for this edition in order to include photographs and the sermon by our visiting preacher, Bp Stephen Platten (see page 9). for years, having been sold off-plan in Hong VICAR’S LETTER Kong, Russia or the Middle East. Much of the lay leadership of our parishes belongs There is a good deal in this issue about the to the generations which could afford to renewal of ageing Victorian infrastructure. buy houses in London. How will they be Some would suggest that our clergy and replaced? One of my fellow Area Deans people, as well as our buildings, count as in the Two Cities responded to a recent crumbling Victorian infrastructure. The fact comment about clergy in our area staying that churches are having to devote so much a long time; too long, was the thinly veiled time and money to this can be a source suggestion. He pointed out that we were of frustration, but it is also a testimony to often the only people who did stay put. their longevity. I can think of no business This is not to say that fresh faces and ideas or institution in our parish which has been are not needed, but the long ministry of here longer than All Saints. Many have had someone like Prebendary Richard Bewes, much shorter lifespans. I have been here or of Dr John Stott before him, at All Souls, long enough to remember Market Place as it Langham Place, can hardly be seen as a was before it became restaurant land. Trinity cause of terminal decline. Sunday brought the news that Carluccio’s, which I have sometimes thought should Faced with such challenges, there can feed me for free, given the number of All be a temptation to panic and grasp at Saints people who have eaten there over the novelties in the hope that they will be the years, is to close by the end of June. On a key to survival: turning your premises into larger scale, department and fashion stores business hubs or coffee bars are suggestions which have seemed permanent fixtures I have heard recently. If churches have on Oxford Street are fighting for survival. suitable spaces for some of these uses, They claim, with some justification, that that’s fine. We have had some success they are disadvantaged by a taxation system recently at using our premises to generate which favours on-line suppliers with cheap more income. This helps pay the bills but out of town warehouses and low-paid staff. on its own it does not build a Christian community. We should not kid ourselves City centre churches like ours may be that this is likely to draw more people into great survivors, but we cannot ignore the the life of the church; any more than using fact that they also face new challenges churches as concert venues does. from changing economic and social circumstances. The ever-escalating cost Some of the activities in our churches of housing in London is already having which do most good, which provide most an impact on church life. Our diocesan ‘added value’ to communities, are those schools in central London face falling rolls which do not generate much income. Many for the first time anyone can remember. of the community activities which go on at Families simply cannot afford to live here. St Paul’s, Rossmore Road, come into this The conversion of a large office building on category. Theresa and I were guests of Fr the west side of Cavendish Square into 47 Simon Buckley at St Anne’s, Soho, recently. luxury flats and similar projects are unlikely It is another church which functions as a to bring an influx of potential church-goers. centre for community services. Four nights Most of the flats will probably stand empty a week meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous

2 are held there. At weekends Westminster been seeking to involve more people in. City Council operates what, to use Pope Some of our neighbours have much larger Francis’s term, can be described as a ‘field staffs, of both clergy and lay people, than hospital’ for young people who have over- we do. Volunteers and clergy alike can indulged in drink or drugs on a night out and only do so much and any major expansion are so incapable of looking after themselves of work requires investment in people. that they are at risk. At St James’s Piccadilly All Saints at the moment more or less and here at All Saints, we have found pays its way; meeting the costs of clergy ourselves providing a daytime safe space and musicians and buildings, and make a for rough sleepers. contribution to the wider Church through the Diocesan Common Fund. We could Together with other clergy in local not contemplate an expansion of our staff parishes, I am involved in some research without a significant increase in our present which is taking a fresh look at ministry and levels of giving. That can only be achieved mission in and around Oxford Street. I say by two means: a growth in numbers of ‘around’ because the only church building regular worshippers and an increased level which has a doorway on the street is the of giving by those worshippers. Salvation Army’s Regent Hall. The rest of us are set back in parallel streets. While In my sermon at Evensong on Trinity our resident populations are now small, our Sunday I spoke about Evelyn Underhill, parishes have large working populations and who had been commemorated the day even larger numbers of those who come for before. She was one of the Church of shopping and entertainment. Many of those England’s great guides in the spiritual who work around us commute considerable life in the last century and her work still distances. The shopping population changes has much to say to us. In her great book hourly. How do we minister to people who “Worship” she identifies ‘sacrifice’ as being have little time to spare or whose attention at the heart of worship. In our tradition we is focused on shop windows? speak, sometimes rather too easily, of the sacrifice of the Mass. If that sacrifice is In our case, part of that ministry is to be real it must be more than liturgical simply through keeping our church open correctness. It must involve the offering of as a place of prayer and by maintaining ‘ourselves, our souls and bodies as a living within it a worshipping community whose sacrifice’; of our time and resources; in life of prayer is not restricted to 11am on recognition that these are gifts from God a Sunday morning. People, like the two and not possessions. That requires of us architecture students I spoke to a couple of nothing less than a spiritual revolution, a days ago while clearing up after the evening conversion, a transformation, which will Mass, encounter not just an awesome and allow something more than an ‘austerity’ fascinating building but a community of approach to parish finances: What do we faith. need to give and invest in order to grow, One of the strengths of All Saints as rather than what can we cut so that we long as I have known it has been the level can just keep going? Otherwise, the same of voluntary commitment by members number of people will simply be asked to of the congregation; something we have do more in the same amount of time and

3 with no more resources. It is a short step of Pentecost Sunday at a tent in the square from that to blaming them, rather than wearing his purple stole. ourselves, for the church’s failure to grow. In this issue I report on the rededication CELL OF OUR LADY of St Mary Magdalene’s, Paddington, a OF WALSINGHAM church which began life in the 19th century Saturday 13 July – 11.30am Rosary as a church plant from All Saints. A group and Walsingham Devotions of people took the risky decision to move 12 noon Low Mass of Our Lady from a place they loved and embark on an of Walsingham. adventure of faith. In the language of today’s Following on from the success of the church, they planted new worshipping annual NATIONAL PILGRIMAGE to communities and All Saints acted as a WALSINGHAM on the late May Bank ‘resource church’. Could we contemplate Holiday (congratulations go once again doing that now? The wider Church assumes to Ross Buchanan for making all the that the answer to that question is ‘No’. We arrangements and breaking even), members all say we want our church to grow, but of the Parish make their ANNUAL CELL are we willing to take the risks involved in PILGRIMAGE TO WALSINGHAM that actually happening? Or are we content from Friday 19 to Monday 22 July. At this to maintain our Victorian infrastructure point in time, all places are likely to be taken without that entrepreneurial energy and for 2019, but contact Ross if you want to spirit which was as much a characteristic of make an early commitment for 2020. the Church of that era as it was of society Telephone: 020 7221 1312 or at large? Email: [email protected]. Yours in Christ, SERVING AT THE ALTAR Alan Moses In conversation with Dr Bill Jacob and Colin Kerr at St Mary Magdalene’s, both PREBENDARY RICHARD BEWES commented on how worship at All Saints 1934 – 2019 was conducted by clergy and servers The Vicar attended the Funeral Service for unobtrusively and without fuss. Prebendary Bewes, held on 7 June at All Souls, Langham Place, where he had been Some people have received the Rector from 1983 to 2004, when he retired. impression that unless you can be available every Sunday and feast day, it is not possible THY KINGDOM COME to be a server. This is not the case. While we do expect a level of regular commitment Our participation in this novena of prayer we also recognize that patterns of life and between Ascension and Pentecost took work mean that being on duty every Sunday two forms. We had daily hours of prayer is not possible for everyone. This should not before the Blessed Sacrament in which dissuade people from volunteering. small groups took part. In addition to this, the organizers contacted the Vicar asking A recent article by Theresa Moses in the if we could provide someone to be at the April 2019 edition of the Parish Paper gave beacon event in Trafalgar Square to hear readers an insight into what is involved in confessions, so Fr Alan spent the afternoon serving at the altar at All Saints; including

4 what goes on behind the scenes, as well as we undertake the planned improvements ‘on stage’. of the kitchens and toilet facilities in the basement of the Church and rearrange our If you think this is something you would own internal drainage accordingly. Hearty like to try, please speak to Cedric Stephens thanks to the cheery team of engineers who or one of the clergy. Serving is open to both enjoyed their time at All Saints, tidying the women and men. site neatly for the wedding of Soomin and CRUMBLING VICTORIAN Michael in mid May and who kept us so INFRASTRUCTURE well informed about progress throughout a complex repair project and shared with our Visitors to All Saints have noticed a very large hole in the road outside the gates. Parish Administrator and Churchwarden, One Wednesday early in May, water began John Forde, their drain camera footage of rising up through a manhole cover to a the gleaming new drains on 7 June. Finally drain in the basement, prompting an urgent all the digging equipment, the skip for the call to Thames Water, who — fortuitously spoil and the portaloo were gone by 12 June for us — decided the problem was located in good time to allow our Corpus Christi under the street, and so their responsibility. procession to pass smoothly over what After a few days of piping out water from had so recently been the site of the deep the blocked drain, returning to drain it twice excavation. a day to cope with the downpours of early May, the various teams of contractors began ABOVE GROUND to dig by hand and machine, eventually Our electricians have been at work renewing to a depth of 20 feet! It was a painstaking the lighting cabling in the courtyard. This has exercise to negotiate the web of services, been failing for some time. The new works, gas, electricity, water and internet under the when finished, include a sensor which will roadway immediately outside the Church turn the lights on if anyone tries to climb the gateway and the whole business took twice gates at night to sleep in the courtyard. This as long as originally anticipated. The initial has been something of a recurring problem excavation to a depth of about 9 feet located and a source of some anxiety to residents. a pile of rubble where the sewer to carry the drainpipe from the Church building should RENEWING MORE CRUMBLING have been. The rubble might or might not VICTORIAN INFRASTRUCTURE have been the remnants of the original sewer The Vicar has taken part in two services at — possibly there never had been one since churches with which we have connections the Church was built on the site of the old who have been marking the completion of Margaret Chapel before Joseph Bazalgette’s significant restorations in the past month. mighty sewer engineering feats of the 1860’s had even been proposed. In any case, First, on 28 May he was at St Paul’s, a new connection has now been established Rossmore Road, which has completed between the Church and the main drain in the replacement of its roof, including the middle of the road on Margaret Street, the installation of solar panels. The new some 160 years after All Saints was built. installation was blessed, from ground level, We will therefore be preserved from any by the Archdeacon of London. St Paul’s recurrence of the problem, especially as functions as a community church, housing a

5 range of groups during the week. Weekday were present. Unfortunately, the organ has services are conducted in a separate chapel not yet been restored and leaks air so noisily and on Sunday and special occasions the that, sitting opposite it, they were unable main space becomes the church again. to hear much of the Bishop of Fulham’s Our congratulations to the Revd Clare sermon. Dowding and her people on a magnificent Our congratulations to Fr Henry Everett achievement. and all involved in this project and our Another piece of crumbling Victorian prayers for the renewal of the parish’s life infrastructure which the Diocese has and mission. been trying to restore for years is St Mary Magdalene’s, Paddington. This church RENEWING THE COURTYARD began life as a church plant from All Saints, GARDEN at ALL SAINTS established by Fr Frederick West, one of Countless people have reason to be thankful the , Richard Redhead, the organist, for David Hutt’s inspired decision to and a group from the congregation. A transform the courtyard of All Saints from a magnificent Gothic church was designed car park (!) into a garden. Members of the by George Edmund Street, also a member local community use the garden on a daily of All Saints. As Dr Bill Jacob (former basis including local residents and workers Archdeacon) told us in a lecture here in the area. It is a sanctuary for local last year, all went well for a good length shoppers to escape the hustle and bustle of time with large congregations and of nearby Oxford Street. Members of the a bustling parish life. However, recent congregation, of course, also use the garden decades have seen great changes in the local before and after services. population and shrinking congregations. We are grateful to so many in our Church Like all buildings of its age, it needed a community over the years for contributions huge investment of capital and energy, of plants, pots, fountains and memorial which for a long time were both in short benches; for the work of introducing new supply. However, recent years have seen a soil, planting, courtyard sweeping and for determined effort to restore the building in financial support. Shawn Welby-Cooke and co-operation with Westminster City Council Craig Williams have recently carried on and and the Paddington Development Trust. taken forward the work of the generations Alongside the restoration of the church of keen gardeners and willing helpers who — which will extend its performance preceded them. Earlier this year Shawn and artistic use — there is now a Living successfully sought a grant from the Heritage Centre which houses educational Metropolitan Public Garden Association resources for local schools and community (founded 1882) — who have been supportive groups and a canal-side cafe and bar. Colin in the past — being awarded £385 to join Kerr, who masterminded the restoration of £250 from the All Saints Club and £250 from All Saints, has played a similar rôle at St congregational donations. The grant was Mary Magdalene’s. awarded for a plan to refresh the pot garden The rededication of the church took place where, a number of years ago, the layout on Thursday 13 June and both Dr Jacob, may all have made sense. In more recent who had chaired the project, and Fr Alan years, in spite of much volunteer time given

6 to garden maintenance, plants had become pathway to the Church, because it is quite overgrown and straggly, some had come to shaded, we have planted a new, young Tree the end of their natural life and some had Fern with a Hosta to join other ferns we died due to lack of sufficient fresh compost. already had. Most of the wooden tubs had rotted away “To the right of the Church door is our and other pots cracked or broken and there ‘English Garden’ area. The new Viburnum was almost no colour other than green. The has joined the Hydrangea and Fuchsia and whole garden needed a rethink and renewal. we have added a pair of Holly Standards Shawn continues: “We started by carefully beside the central bench below the Church researching what plants we had that could buttress. still be used, what type of soil they preferred More ‘English Garden’plants with a more and which aspect they grew best in, and if sunny loving nature, have been planted they needed full sun, partial sun/shade, or below the office window. These include a were shade loving. Our courtyard has every Pink Rose Standard, two pots of Pinks and aspect, so we moved the plants to areas they two Californian Lilac Standards to join our would grow best in, realising we could create fabulous Sacred Bamboo and Eucalyptus. three distinct areas (Mediterranean, English and Oriental) alongside other planting. We “The ‘Mediterranean Garden’ area in have developed this approach to make the the Courtyard is centred on the fountain. garden more attractive and interesting, Having already rescued an abandoned wishing to emphasise colour and fragrance large Olive Tree from a restaurant in Market — attracting bees and butterflies — for the Square, acquired a Bottlebrush, multi stem enjoyment of all who visit us. Fan Palm, Giant Catmint, Russian Sage and flowering Rosemary, we have added “We aim to have colour and interest lavender under the Olive Tree, a box cone, through all four seasons. With new pots, red Geraniums, multi coloured Dwarf compost; bulbs and new plants for the different areas — including geraniums, Lillies and Dwarf Lupins. There were also climbing fuchsia, jasmine, lavender, small pots where daffodils and tulips gave Eucalyptus, hydrangea, box, hosta, us Spring colour. vibernum, lilies and begonias, amongst “The ‘Oriental Garden’ already had a others, we have a great variety of forms and striking Fatsia Japonica and we have added colours with visible growth and change to to that a spring flowering Rhododendron delight visitors from week to week. and winter flowering Daphne Odora. “We have created more formal planting “The latest development in a plan which areas beside the benches next to the has taken some months to implement courtyard wall and either side of the has been to introduce a composter in the gate, with pairs of Dwarf Korean Lilac rear Church courtyard. This is beneficial Standards, under planted with seasonal because it helps to divert garden and church flowers and two new Bay Standards to join flower waste and some uncooked fruit the climbing plants, Pink Hydrangea and and vegetable waste (and coffee grounds) autumn flowering Rudbeckia Goldstrum. from disposal, reducing greenhouse gas “Below the windows to the Parish Room, emissions and provides our gardeners with where we have to keep a largely clear a self-made supply of compost/soil improver

7 to maintain and improve the fertility of the pot garden. A PILGRIMAGE JOURNEY “In the autumn, once the summer THROUGH ARMENIA flowering plants have finished their with Father Gerald Beauchamp displays, we will be looking to plant autumn, 12 – 21 May 2020 winter and spring flowering bedding plants, STILL SOME PLACES AVAILABLE! so if anyone would like to make a financial contribution, to help us achieve our aims Some of you may recall hearing that — of seasonal interest and colour, we would following a very successful pilgrimage greatly appreciate it.” to Italy in 2018, another one was being arranged. Fr Gerald Beauchamp is leading Please contact Dee, in the office, or speak a group of up to 25 people on a 9 night to Shawn or Craig after services. tour of Armenia — so far approximately Shawn Welby-Cooke, 07988 287663, 20 people have indicated an interest, but www.welby-cooke.uk there are places still available. If you want more information/to book contact vicar. ENCOURAGING YOUNG [email protected]. ORGANISTS Fr Gerald writes: Acting Director of Music Jeremiah Highlights of our tour will include Stephenson hosted a special afternoon Echmiadzin, the spiritual centre of the recital for young organists at All Saints on nation, Sevan, one of the world’s largest Saturday 15 June. These were his pupils fresh-water mountain lakes, and the participating on a special youth organ capital Yerevan. We shall visit monuments programme from St John the Divine, from the earliest days of Christianity, Kennington. Five teenage organists were together with jewels from the Middle Ages. joined by 35 parents, friends, members In addition to seeing many living churches of their regular congregation (including and inhabited monasteries, we will enjoy the Rector, Fr Mark Williams, Lionel the wonderful and varied landscapes, flora Bourne, Director of Music and Scholarship and fauna of the country — especially programme coordinator, Churchwarden the bird life, for which Armenia is justly and Parish Administrator) for a short famous. recital concluding with Jeremiah playing TOUR INFORMATION Iain Farrington’s stirring contribution The cost is £1,675 per person. to the Bach Orgelbüchlein Project. It We stay at three locally graded three star was a delightful occasion with visitors hotels all with pools and rooms with en- renewing their acquaintance with All suite bathrooms. Saints and the young performers having a chance to play a rather finer (and larger!) Flights are with Ukrainian Airlines instrument than they usually do. Everyone via Kiev to Yerevan. We travel through enjoyed the performances and stayed Armenia by air-conditioned coach, on for refreshments in the Parish Room accompanied by a local guide. All meals afterwards. It is hoped to arrange other are included as well as entrance fees, tips similar events in future. to guide, driver and hotel staff.

8 Not included — Travel insurance: our recommended policy is £59 per person CORPUS CHRISTI 2019 aged up to 75 years at the time of travel 160 people joined us for our annual and £103 per person aged 76 – 90. A celebration of this great Feast. Once again special feature of this policy is that you a great deal of planning and preparation do not need to declare medical conditions. had gone into the occasion, with many new We require all travellers to have adequate volunteers stepping up to act as Stewards cover for the trip and you may have annual for the Oxford Street procession; as canopy or another suitable insurance. and other forms of bearer in the procession; to help with the all-important catering and There is no single supplement. bar service for refreshments served in the Any special requirements such as diets courtyard afterwards (and the big clear should be advised at the time of booking. up!) alongside the Sidespeople and Servers A deposit is payable now with the balance offering their usual sterling service. This due eight weeks prior to departure. was the 16th rain free year of the procession Your final travel documents will be sent (although there was the lightest sprinkle of to you two weeks before departure and rain as the outdoor tables were being set will contain final flight and hotel contact up). We encountered an altogether different details. and noisier type of musical event as we To reserve your place on this tour came along by H&M on Oxford Street, but turning back to Market Street managed please send a deposit of £200 plus the fairly quickly to leave that behind with our insurance premium to the tour leader. own singing, accompanied by brass and Please make cheques payable to ‘McCabe drum, impressing those eating and drinking Pilgrimages’. outside the restaurants and cafés there. Father Gerald Beauchamp Once again there were many enquiries 4 Wyndham Place about what we were doing and just a few London W1H 2PS of the striking images taken are on the front Telephone: 020 7258 0031 cover. Others can be seen on Facebook and Email: vicar.annunciationmarblearch our website. Bp Stephen’s sermon for the @gmail.com occasion appears below. “Let’s Get the Bread Right” SERMON for CORPUS CHRISTI 2019 at ALL SAINTS, PREACHED by THE RT REVD DR STEPHEN PLATTEN Readings: Genesis 14: 18 – 20; 1 Corinthians 11: 23 – 26; Luke 9: 11 – 17

A number of years ago now, Roy bread for breakfast. The woman in front Williamson, sometime Bishop of Bradford of him remonstrated with the baker: ‘This and then of Southwark, was recounting to bread is stale; it’s yesterday’s bread’. a group of us a recent visit to his homeland ‘That’s all we’ve got,’ replied the baker. outside Belfast — he’s a good Ulsterman. ‘If you want today’s bread, then you’d He’d dropped into the local baker to buy better come tomorrow.’

9 It’s a great Irish tale, but it does have a our very food, the bread of heaven. Let slightly deeper significance. It indicates us come to our Gospel in a few minutes, just how sensitive we are to our staple diet. but first let me touch on quite a different Those of you who have travelled regularly reflection on bread. to France will remember how, early in the David Scott*, an outstanding religious morning, there are queues outside the best poet from our own day writes thus: local bakeries. When we were in Nice for ‘We have come so far from bread a week, earlier this year, for example, the Rarely do we hear the clatter of the favourite bakery of the previous year had mill wheel, been spurned by many; it had changed see the flour in every cranny, hands and was but a shadow of its former the shaking down of the sack, the self. All its leaven, so to speak, had failed chalk on the door, to rise! the rats, the race, the pool, As a child I can remember my mother baking day, and the old loaves: assessing the quality of loaves from cob, cottage, plaited, brick.’ Ebbens, Freemans and Ellisons, the three In these days of plenty and of choice, we best bakers in Enfield Town. Indeed, every have, of course, returned to all these — but European country takes great pride in its now almost as ‘designer bread’. own bread, from pumpernickel to ciabatta, from baguette to sandwich tins. Scott continues: So, it’s no surprise that bread is a vein ‘Terrifying is the breach between wheat running through so much of our cultural and table, history. Our three readings capture this wheat and bread, bread and what goes in a fascinating manner. First, there is for bread. Melchizedek, who brings forth bread Loaves come now in regiments, so loaf and wine. Melchizedek is a mysterious is not the word. figure; his name simply means ‘King of Hlaf is one of the oldest words we righteousness’. He is linked with Salem, have.’ that is Jerusalem. He may either be a figure The poet’s reflections are indeed reaching back behind even the Canaanites, profound. For bread was one, if not the Israel’s precursors in Judaea; or he may most significant link, between God’s be a mythical figure prefiguring Israel’s creation and our continuing daily life. theocratic roots — both king and . Kingsmill, Warburtons and even Hovis So, in the mists of pre-history, bread extra-toasty, come pre-packed, pre-sliced, and priesthood are held together. Then, pre-baked — our dependence on God’s of course, we heard the Pauline words grace in Creation for our very existence is of institution from his First letter to the masked, veiled, hidden. It’s concealed by Corinthians. In this case, bread, the staff of the process, the mechanics, the mediation life, is brought together with the passion of to us all of all that we eat — and thus all Jesus — the staff of life and human blood, that we are. the most powerful symbol of life come So to our Gospel. The feeding of the together to make the sacrament which is multitude, both four and five thousand,

10 is one of the narratives there in all four * The Reverend Canon Dr David Victor Gospels. At the heart of the story is the Scott is a priest, poet, eucharist. Indeed, St John devotes this playwright and spiritual writer. Born in entire chapter, beginning with the feeding Cambridge, England in 1947, he was of the 5,000, to it. Chapter six is effectively educated at Solihull School, then studied his institution narrative. Theology at Durham University and at So back to David Scott: Cuddesdon College. After ordination he ‘I go on about bread spent two years as at Harlow, then because it was to bread was appointed chaplain at Haberdashers’ that Jesus trusted Aske’s School. In 1980 he became vicar of the meaning he had of himself. Torpenhow and Allhallows in Cumbria, It was an honour for bread and in 1991 moved to Winchester to to be the knot in the Lord’s handkerchief become rector of St Lawrence with St reminding him about himself, So, Swithun-upon-Kingsgate. Canon Scott O bread, breakable; retired in September 2010 and now lives O bread, given; in Cumbria. He is an Honorary Canon of O bread, a blessing; Winchester Cathedral. count yourself lucky bread.’ So this day, this feast, lies at the heart 100 YEARS AGO of all life, not just our lives as signed up believers. It is the ultimate sign of human Notes from the Vicar solidarity. For, without bread we die, “It is a matter of great pleasure and pride without bread, human life is doomed: to us that His Majesty the King has created coming together to share food reveals our People’s Warden a Knight Commander almost an essential instinct within our of the Order of St Michael and St George. humanity. Yet... ironically, it has been this We offer our congratulations to Sir Ian food for the soul which has engendered and Lady Malcolm, and we congratulate such disharmony. Rather like Scott’s loaves the Empire on being able to make this coming in regiments, our life together has expression of its gratitude for their great been sliced, fragmented, disintegrated. and varied services which both Sir Ian So, if we are to rekindle unity in and Lady Malcolm have rendered during the hearts of others, this most blessed the War. sacrament must be where we must begin, “A great number of persons assembled where we live together and where we end. to assist at Father Hardy’s first Mass. We have come a long way from bread — Father Garnier was assistant priest and how to remind all people that without God, two of the senior choristers were servers, we are without life — and God’s food is and carried the traditional bouquets, our starting point. I conclude with Scott’s the flowers of which were afterwards final words: distributed to the long stream of people ‘I know that who came up to receive the blessing of “man cannot live on bread alone”. the new Priest. I say let us get the bread right.’ Amen. “The days before the issue of this

11 Paper have been filled by the events been called to Scotland by the death of connected with the consecration of the his brother. Bishop of Nassau. Dr Shedden had made “In the afternoon the Fyvie Hall was his retreat in the previous week at the crowded for two hours and the Bishop Palace at Cuddesdon under the direction met many old friends and made many of Dr Gore, Bishop of Oxford. On the new ones. Then it was back to All Saints. vigil of St John the Baptist, Bishop Hornby celebrated Mass at 8 o’clock for “At 6 o’clock he sang Pontifical the intention of his successor, who acted Evensong at the faldstool. The church as assistant priest for the last time. After was crowded. The Parochial Clergy, the the Mass Bishop Hornby blessed the new Churchwardens, and the Choir received Bishop’s pectoral cross, which is the gift the Bishop at the West door, and conducted to him of his brother at All Saints. him to the high altar. He wore our gold cope and the Precious Mitre, presented “On the Feast of St John the Baptist to him by the Confraternity of All Saints, Masses were said at 6, 6.30, and 8. At 7 which he afterwards exchanged for Fr Garnier sang the Missa Cantata, while the Golden Mitre, the gift of a friend. I I was celebrating for our Sisters in their preached a short sermon after Evensong, chapel. A large number of persons went and then the Bishop was conducted out to Holy Communion in the course of the through the nave, imparting his blessing morning. to the people. When he had unvested he Between 9 and 10 the majority of the came out into the courtyard and continued congregation of All Saints reached St to give his blessing for some time. Paul’s Cathedral by various routes. The “On the morrow of St John the Baptist Duke of Newcastle brought the Bishop- the Bishop said his first Mass after his Elect to the Cathedral in his car. Father consecration. I was his assistant priest, Garnier chose to have a place in the organ and two senior choristers served. gallery, from which he could look down on the ceremony. Father Hardy took the “The Bishop will be with us off and choristers to seats in the choir, where on through July. He will, we hope, spend the Bishop-Elect’s family, a number his last Sunday in England with us. It of the Sisters of our community, and will probably be about the middle of some of his intimate friends also found September. places. Father Heald and I took part in “On July 14th at 6.30 and at 8.30, the the ceremony; he as chaplain to our dear various presentations will be made to Bishop of Willesden, and I as chaplain to the Bishop in the Parish Room. He will my Cuddesdon contemporary, the Bishop meet with the Choristers, the Boys of the of Kensington.” Home, the members of the Confraternity There followed a detailed account of the Holy Family, and the congregation of the service at which three other new at 6.30. At 8.30 he will meet the Guild bishops were also consecrated. The and the Confraternity at the Parish House Bishop of London was chief consecrator and afterwards sing Compline with them as the Archbishop of Canterbury had in the Church.

12 “On Sunday evening, July the 27th, EVENSONG & BENEDICTION the Bishop of Nassau will administer the at 6pm Sacrament of Confirmation in All Saints, Psalms: 65, 70 by permission of his Lordship the Bishop. Lessons: Genesis 29: 1 – 20 He will confirm three of the choristers Mark 6: 7 – 29 who have been under him as Precentor, Office Hymn: 150 (S) O blest Creator of and also some the boys of the home, the light whose Chaplain he has been. I arranged Canticles: Setting in B minor — Noble that this would take place after Evensong, Anthem: In exitu Israel — S. Wesley because I felt sure the congregation would Preacher: Fr Julian Browning like to be present.” Hymn: 227 (T 184) How bright these glorious spirits shine! SUNDAYS & O Salutaris: Vale Hymn: 416 (ii) O God of Bethel, SOLEMNITIES by whose hand MUSIC & READINGS Tantum ergo: Vale Voluntary: Folk Tune — Whitlock X SUNDAY 7 JULY X 3rd SUNDAY AFTER SUNDAY 14 JULY TRINITY 4th SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY HIGH MASS at 11am HIGH MASS at 11am Entrance Hymn: 447 Sing praise to God Entrance Hymn: 351 Come, ye faithful, who reigns above raise the anthem Entrance Chant: Suscepimus, Deus Entrance Chant: Ego autem cum iustitia Setting: Mass in E minor — Bruckner Setting: Missa Brevis in F, K 192 Psalm: 66: 1 – 8 — Mozart Readings: Isaiah 66: 10 – 14 Psalm: 25: 1 – 10 Galatians 6: 7 – 16 Readings: Deuteronomy 30: 9 – 14 Gradual Hymn: 137 Come down, Colossians 1: 1 – 14 O Love divine Gradual Hymn: 367 (ii) Gracious Spirit, Gospel: Luke 10: 1 – 11, 16 – 20 Holy Ghost Preacher: Fr Michael Bowie Gospel: Luke 10: 25 – 37 Creed: Bruckner Preacher: The Vicar, Fr Alan Moses Offertory Motet: O taste and see Creed: Mozart — Vaughan Williams Offertory Motet: Ave verum corpus Hymns: 379 In the Cross of Christ — Elgar I glory Hymns: 378 Immortal love for ever full 481 (T 462) Jesus, Lord, 318 My God, accept my heart we look to thee this day 420 O Jesus, I have promised 449 Soldiers of Christ, arise Voluntary: Toccata in D minor Voluntary: Introduction and Passacaglia — Stanford in D minor — Reger

13 EVENSONG & BENEDICTION 424 O Love divine, how sweet at 6pm thou art! Psalm: 77 Voluntary: Prelude in C — Bairstow Lessons: Genesis 32: 9 – 30 Mark 7: 1 – 23 FIRST EVENSONG Office Hymn: 150 (R) O blest Creator of of St Mary Magdalene the light & BENEDICTION at 6pm Canticles: Binchois Psalm: 139 Anthem: Tout puissant; Seigneur, je Lessons: Isaiah 25: 1 – 9 vous en prie — Poulenc 2 Corinthians 1: 3 – 7 Preacher: Fr Michael Bowie Office Hymn: 174 Mary, weep not, Hymn: 350 (T 309 i) Come, O thou weep no longer Traveller unknown Canticles: Magdalen Service — Leighton O Salutaris: Saint-Saens Anthem: When Jesus sat at meat Hymn: 308 Thee we adore, O hidden — R. Nicholson Saviour, thee Preacher: Fr Peter McGeary Tantum ergo: Franck Hymn: 111 Jesus Christ is risen Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in B major O Salutaris: Stainer, arr Brough — Saint-Saens Hymn: 115 Now the green blade riseth from the buried grain Tantum ergo: Beethoven, arr Stainer/ X SUNDAY 21 JULY Brough 5th SUNDAY AFTER Voluntary: Adagio from Symphonie TRINITY No 6 — Widor

HIGH MASS at 11am X SUNDAY 28 JULY Entrance Hymn: 265 Lord of beauty, thine 6th SUNDAY AFTER the splendour Entrance Chant: Ecce Deus adiuvat me TRINITY Setting: Missa Brevis — Berkeley HIGH MASS at 11am Psalm: 15 Entrance Hymn: 338 At the name of Jesus Readings: Genesis 18: 1 – 10a Entrance Chant: Deus in loco sancto suo Colossians 1: 15 – 28 Setting: Missa Brevis — Palestrina Gradual Hymn: 456 Teach me, my God Psalm: 138 and King Readings: Genesis 18: 20 – 32 Gospel: Luke 10: 38 – end Colossians 2: 6 – 15 Preacher: Fr Michael Bowie Gradual Hymn: 406 Lord, teach us how Creed: Credo III to pray aright Offertory Motet: Glorious and powerful Gospel: Luke 11: 1 – 13 God — Stanford Preacher: Fr Michael Bowie Hymns: 341 Blest are the pure in heart Creed: Merbecke 328 God be in my head, and Offertory Motet: Our Father —Shepherd in my understanding

14 Hymns: 442 (T 257) Prayer is soul’s Office Hymn: 150 (S) O blest Creator of sincere desire the light 300 O Food of men wayfaring Canticles: Setting in D minor 499 The kingdom come, — Walmisley O God Anthem: Faire is the Heaven — Harris Voluntary: Fugue, from Fantasia and Preacher: Fr Neil Bunker Fugue in G minor, BWV 542ii Hymn: 417 O God, our help in — J.S. Bach ages past O Salutaris: Bortniansky, arr Caplin EVENSONG & BENEDICTION Hymn: 292 Jesu, thou joy of loving at 6pm hearts Psalm: 88 Tantum ergo: Harwood, arr Caplin Lessons: Genesis 45: 1 – 25 Voluntary: Harmonies du Soir Op 72, 1 Corinthians 10: 1 – 24 No 1 — Karg-Elert Information correct at the time of going to press

Keeping in Touch As well as the monthly Parish Paper, you can keep in touch with life at All Saints through: The All Saints Website www.allsaintsmargaretstreet.org.uk The Weekly Parish E-mail includes news of events, people to pray for, and a short letter from the Vicar or Assistant Priest. You can subscribe by sending the Parish Administrator an e-mail titled News and Events/Weekly Newsletter to: [email protected]. Vicar: Prebendary Alan Moses 020 7636 1788, Mobile: 07973 878040 Email: [email protected] Assistant Priest: The Revd Dr Michael Bowie 07581 180963 Email: [email protected] Parish Administrator: Dee Prior 020 7636 1788 Email: [email protected]

Service Times Sundays: Low Mass at 6.30pm (Sat) 8am and 5.15pm High Mass and Sermon at 11am Choral Evensong, Sermon and Benediction at 6pm. Monday to Friday: Low Mass at 8am, 1.10pm and 6.30pm (Except bank holidays — 12 noon Mass only) Saturdays: Low Mass at 12 noon and 6.30pm (First Mass of Sunday) On major weekday feasts, High Mass is sung at 6.30pm

15 CALENDAR AND INTENTIONS FOR JULY 2019

1 Henry, John and Henry Venn, evangelical divines The mission of the Church 2 Refugees 3 Thomas the Apostle Faith in the risen Christ 4 Unity 5 Those in need 6 Thomas More and John Fisher, martyrs, 1535 The General Synod 7 X TRINITY 3 Our parish and people 8 Local businesses and workers 9 Those with dementia 10 Friends of All Saints 11 Benedict, abbot, 550 Monastic Communities 12 Those in need 13 Of Our Lady 14 X TRINITY 4 Our parish and people 15 Swithun, bishop, 862 For favourable weather 16 Osmund, bishop 1099 The Marylebone Project 17 Diocesan Synod 18 Elizabeth Ferrard, deaconess, 1833 Unity 19 Gregory, bishop, 394 and Macrina, 379, teachers of the faith Those in need 20 Margaret of Antioch, martyr, 1566, Bartolome de las Casas, apostle to the Indies, 1566 21 X TRINITY 5 Our parish and people 22 Mary Magdalene Witness to the Resurrection 23 Bridget Abbess, 1373 Swedish Church in London 24 The homeless 25 James the Apostle Pilgrims 26 Anne and Joachim, parents of the BVM Those in need 27 Brooke Foss Westcott, bishop, teacher of the faith Biblical scholars 28 X TRINITY 5 Our parish and people 29 Mary, Martha and Lazarus, companions of Our Lord. Growth in discipleship 30 William Wilberforce, 1833 social reformer, Olaudah Equiano 1797 and Thomas Clarkson 1846, anti-slavery campaigners Campaign against modern slavery 31 Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus Farm Street Church

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