GRIMSBY St Augustine , Legsby Avenue Lovely Grade II Church by Sir Charles Nicholson. A Forward in Faith Parish under Bishop of Richborough . Sunday: Parish Mass 9.30am, Solemn Evensong and Benediction 6pm (First Sunday). Weekday Mass: parish directory Mon 7.00pm, Wed 9.30am, Sat 9.30am. Parish Priest: Fr.Martin 07736 711360 BATH Bathwick Parishes , St.Mary’s (bottom of Bathwick Hill), Tues, Thurs and major holy days: 1.05pm Eucharist. Regular St.John's (opposite the fire station) Sunday - 9.00am Sung Mass at recitals and concerts (see website). During Interregnum contact HARTLEPOOL St Oswald’s , Brougham Terrace . A Forward in St.John's, 10.30am at St.Mary's 6.00pm Evening Service - 1st, Roger Metcalfe, Churchwarden on 01275 332851 Faith Parish under the episcopal care of the Bishop of Beverly . 3rd &5th Sunday at St.Mary's and 2nd & 4th at St.John's. www.christchurchcitybristol.org Sunday: Sung Mass 9.30am, Benediction 6pm. Daily Mass, Contact Fr.Peter Edwards 01225 460052 or Offices and Confessions as displayed. Parish Priest: Fr Graeme BROMLEY St George's Church , Bickley Sunday - 8.00am www.bathwickparishes.org.uk Buttery SSC 01429 273201 Low Mass, 10.30am Sung Mass. Daily Mass - Tuesday 9.30am, BEXHILL on SEA St Augustine’s , Cooden Drive, TN39 3AZ Wednesday and Thursday 10am, Friday 9.30am & 6.30pm, HEMPTON Holy Trinity (near Fakenham, Norfolk) . ABC, FiF . Sunday: Mass at 8am, Parish Mass with Junior Church at1 0am. Saturday 9.30am Mass & Rosary. Fr.Richard Norman 0208 295 The Church on the Green. Visit us on the way to Walsingham. Further details: Father Robert Coates SSC on 01424 210 785 6411. Parish website: www.stgeorgebickley.co.uk Mass on Sundays and Wednesdays at 10am. Linked to the BIRMINGHAM St Agatha , Stratford Road, Sparkbrook (B11 CARDIFF near rail, bus, Millennium Stadium, city centre and Bay Shrine of OLW. Parish Priest: Fr Lockett SSC 01328 820030 1QT) “If it is worth believing in, it is worth travelling for” Sunday Mass Daily Mass St Mary , Bute Street Sunday: Solemn Mass 11am; 11am. Secure Parking. Contact 0121 449 2790 Parish Priest Fr.Dean Atkins SSC 029 2048 7777 KINGSTON-upon-THAMES St Luke , Gibbon Road (short www.saintagathas.org.uk walk from Kingston railway station) Sunday: Low Mass (English CHARD The Good Shepherd , Furnham . Resolutions ABC Missal) 8am, Sung Mass (Western Rite) 10.30am, Evensong and BISHOP AUCKLAND St Helen Auckland , Manor Road, Sunday: Sung Mass 9.45am, Solemn Evensong and Benediction Benediction 5pm. 3rd Sunday each month: Teddy Bears Service West Auckland Medieval church, Forward in Faith , ABC . Sunday: (3rd Sunday only) 6pm. Weekday Masses: Tues 10am, Wed for pre-schoolers 9.30am. Wed, 7pm Exposition, 8pm Mass. First Sung Mass 10am, Evensong and Benediction 6pm. Weekday 6.30pm (with Healing and Reconciliation on the 4th Wed of the Sat of the month, 11.15am Mass of Our Lady of Walsingham. Mass: Mon 7pm, Tues, Thur, Fri, Sat 9.30am, Wed 10am, Rosary month). Contact: Fr Jeff Williams 01460 419527 For further information phone Fr Martin Hislop: Parish Office Mon 6.30pm. Parish Priest: Canon Robert McTeer SSC 01388 www.churchofthegoodshepherd-chard.weebly.com 020 8974 8079 www.stlukeskingston.co.uk 604152 www.sthelenschurch.co.uk CHESTERFIELD St Paul , Hasland, Derbyshire Sunday: Sung LEAMINGTON SPA S. John the Baptist Parish under BLACKPOOL St Stephen on the Cliffs , Holmfield Road, Mass 9.45am (Family Mass 1st Sunday), Evening Prayer 3.30pm. the Episcopal care of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet - all resolutions North Shore A SWSH Registered Parish . Vicar: Canon Andrew Masses: Tues 7.15pm (Benediction last Tues of month), Friday 12 passed . Currently in interregnum, Sunday 9.30 a.m. services Sage SSC . Sundays: Said Mass 9am, Solemn Mass (Traditional noon, Sat 8.30am. St James , Temple Normanton, alternate between Mass and Communion from the Reserved Language) 10.30am, Evening Service 6pm; easy access and Chesterfield, Derbyshire Sunday: Parish Mass 11.30am, Thur: Sacrament. Traditional Catholic Worship in a friendly loop. Tel: 01253 351484 www.ststephenblackpool.co.uk Mass 7.15pm. Fr Malcolm Ainscough SSC 01246 232486 atmosphere. Parish Secretary: 07974 973626. www.fifparish.com/stjohnleamington BOSTON LINCOLNSHIRE St Nicholas , Skirbeck CHOPwELL Saint John the Evangelist NE17 7AN Forward Boston’s oldest Parish Church. A Society and Forward in Faith in Faith Parish ABC . Sunday - Sung Mass 10am. Daily Office & LIVERPOOL St Agnes and St Pancras , Toxteth Park (FiF & Parish under the Episcopal care of the Bishop of Richborough. Mass as displayed. Parish Priest: Fr Paul R Murray SSC 01207 ABC) Sunday: Parish Mass 10am; Evensong and Benediction Sunday . Low Mass 8am (1st and 3rd), Sung Mass 9.30am. Daily 561248 [email protected] 6.30pm. Daily Mass. Sunday School. Glorious J L Pearson Church, Mass, offices, benediction and confessions as displayed on CROYDON S Michael & All Angels , Poplar Walk . FiF ABC . with modern catholic worship, good music and friendly notice boards. Rector: Fr Paul Noble SSC 01205 362734 atmosphere. Parish Priest: Canon Christopher Cook SSC 0151 733 www.forwardinfaithlincs.org.uk/stnicholasboston.html Sunday: Low Mass 8.00am, Family Mass 9.30am, High Mass 11.00am, Evensong & Benediction 3.30pm (1st & 3rd Sunday). 1742 www.stagnes.org.uk BOURNEMOUTH St Ambrose , West Cliff Road, BH4 8BE . Daily Mass Mon – Fri 12.30pm, also Wed 7.30am. Sat 11.00am. LONDON E1w St Peter’s , London Docks A Forward in Faith A Forward in Faith Parish, Resolutions ABC in place . Sunday: Fr Ian Brothwood 020 8686 9343 parish in the Fulham Bishopric. A registered parish of the Society 8am Low Mass BCP, 10am Sung Mass Traditional Ceremonial, of S. Wilfred & S. Hilda . Sunday 8am Mass. 10am Solemn Mass 4pm Evensong, 2nd Sunday of the month Choral Evensong with DEVIZES St Peter’s , Bath Road, Devizes, Wiltshire Society of St.Wilfrid and St.Hilda parish under the episcopal care of the Daily Mass and Offices. Father T E Jones SSC 020 7481 2985 Benediction. Parish Priest Fr Adrian Pearce SSC 01202 911569; www.stpeterslondondocks.org.uk Parish office 01202 766772. Email: [email protected] Bishop of Ebbsfleet. All resolutions passed . Sunday: 8am BCP Low Mass; 10am Sung Mass. 3.30pm Family Service. LONDON EC3 St Magnus the Martyr , Lower Thames BOwBURN , Durham Christ the King , A parish of the Wednesdays - 7pm Low Mass. On major festivals & Saints' Days Street (nearest Tube: Monument or Bank) Resolutions ABC . Mass: Society, under the care of the Bishop of Beverley . Sunday: 11am - times vary. Contact Fr. Vincent Perricone 01380 501481 Sunday 11am, refreshments following, Tues, Wed, Thur and Fri Sung Mass and Sunday School; Weekday Mass: Wed 9.30am, Fri 12.30. Visitors very welcome. www.stmagnusmartyr.org.uk Fr 6.30pm; Evening Prayer and Benediction 5.30pm last Saturday DONCASTER St Wilfrid’s , Cantley DN4 6QP A beautiful and historically significant church with much Comper restoration. Philip Warner rector@ stmagnusmartyr.org.uk of month; Parish Priest: Fr John Livesley SSC 01388 814817 Parish under the Episcopal care of the Bishop of Beverley – all resolutions passed. Modern catholic worship with a friendly LONDON N21 Holy Trinity , Winchmore Hill . A Forward BRADFORD St Chad , Toller Lane (B6144, 1 mile from city in Faith, modern catholic parish under the Bishop of Fulham . centre). Sunday services: Low Mass 8.30am, Solemn Mass atmosphere . Sunday: 8am Mass and 10am Parish Mass. Wednesday: 9.30am Mass (followed by coffee morning). Friday: Every Sunday: Said Mass 9.00am and Sung Mass10.30am with 10.45am, Evensong and Benediction 6.30pm. Weekday Masses Junior Church. Weekdays: Tues to Fri 12 noon Angelus and Mass. 8am (except Monday 7pm, Wednesday 7.30pm and Thursday 8pm Mass. Saturday 9.30am Mass. Visitors very welcome. Contact: Fr. Andrew Howard ssc. (01302) 285316. Saturday Mass 10am. For the Sacrament of Reconcilliation and 9.15am). Parish Priest: Canon Ralph Crowe SSC 01274 543957. other enquires contact Fr Richard Bolton at Resolutions ABC . English Missal/BCP www.st.chads. [email protected] [email protected] or phone 0208 364 1583 dial.pipex.com DONCASTER Benefice of Edlington S John the BRENTwOOD St.Thomas of Canterbury , CM14 4DF ABC, Baptist with Hexthorpe S Jude , Sung Mass Sundays LONDON Nw9 Kingsbury St Andrew A Fif Parish under Society. Sunday - 8am Mass, 10am Sung Mass, 6pm Choral 9.00am Edlington and 11.00am Hexthorpe, 7pm on Weekday the Episcopal care of the Bishop of Fulham Sunday: Sung Mass Evensong (with Benediction First Sunday). For times of Daily Solemnities, Confessions Edlington 6.45pm Wed and 10.30am; , Thursday Mass 10am – both followed by Mass and other activities contact Fr.Colin Hewitt on 01 277 Hexthorpe 7.30pm Fri or by appointment. Normal Weekday refreshments. Tube to Wembley Park then 83 Bus (direction Golders 225700 or the Church Centre on 01 277 201094. Masses: Tues Edlington 7pm, Wed Hexthorpe 11.30am, Thurs Green) to Tudor Gardens Contact: Fr.Jason Rendell on 020 8205 Edlington 7pm, Fri Hexthorpe 7pm. Divine Office recited each 7447 or [email protected] BRIDPORT St Swithun Resolutions ABC . Sunday: Low day (7.30am and 6.30pm Edlington) (8am and 5pm www.standrewskingsbury.org Mass 8am; Sung Mass 9.30am, Evensong and Benediction Hexthorpe). Other occasions see noticeboards. usually on second Sunday 6pm. Weekday Masses: Thur 10am. LONDON SE11 4BB St Agnes Kennington Park, St Agnes Contact: Fr Stephen Edmonds SSC - 01709858358 Place - 8 minutes walk from both Kennington and the Oval tube stations Enquiries should be made to the Churchwarden. Tel 01308 [email protected] 425375. (Northern line) Under the Episcopal care of the Bishop of Fulham. EASTBOURNE St Saviour’s A Forward in Faith Parish with Sunday: 10am Solemn Mass. Daily Mass: Mon to Fri 10am - Bible BRIGHTON wAGNER GROUP The Annunciation Resolution ABC . Sunday: Low Mass 8am, Solemn Mass 10.30am. Study after Mass on Wed. saintagneskenningtonpark. co.uk (11am) Fr Michael Wells 01273 681431. St Barthlomew’s Daily Mass and Office. Details and information from Fr Jeffery 020 7820 8050 [email protected] (11am) Fr. David Clues 01273 620491. St Martin’s (10am) Fr Gunn 01323 722317 www.stsaviourseastbourne.org.uk Trevor Buxton 01273 604687. St Michael’s (10.30am) LONDON SE13 St Stephen , Lewisham (opposite Lewisham Fr.Robert Norbury 01 273 727362. St Paul’s (11am) Fr.Robert FOLKESTONE Kent , St Peter on the East Cliff ABC, A Station) A Forward in Faith Parish under the episcopal care of the Norbury 01 273 727362. (Sunday Principal Mass times in Forward in Faith Parish under the episcopal care of the Bishop of Bishop of Fulham . Sunday: Mass 8am, Parish Mass 10am. brackets.) Richborough . Sunday: 8am Low Mass, 10.30am Solemn Mass. Weekdays: Mon 10am, Tues 9am, Wed 12.15pm, Thurs Evensong 6pm. Weekdays - Low Mass: Tues 7pm, Thur 12 noon. 10.15am, Fri 12.15pm, Sat 10am Parish Priest: Fr Philip Corbett - BRISTOL Christ Church , Broad Street, Old City Centre BS1 2EJ 07929 750054 Resolutions ABC . Sunday 11am Choral Eucharist, 6.30pm Choral Contact Father David Adlington or Father David Goodburn SSC - tel: 01303 254472 www.stpeterschurchfolkestone. org.uk Evensong with Anthem and Sermon. Georgian gem, Prayer Continued on page 29 Book services, robed men and boys’ choir, Renatus Harris organ. e-mail: [email protected]

2 ■ new directions ■ April 2016 content regulars Vol 19 No 248 April 2016

11 GHOSTLY COUNSEL 20 Views, reviews & previews 4 LEAD STORY ART : Owen Higgs on 12 FAITH OF OUR FATHERS The Columba Declaration Delacroix and the Rise of BISHOP wILLIAM BEVERIDGE DAVID MUMFORD Modern Art 13 DEVOTIONAL BOOKS: Jeremy Sheehy on John Keble William Temple and on 6 Under the Mercy Concelebration 15 LETTERS PASCHAL wORTON Tom Carpenter on Jean Vanier 7 Sir Peter Maxwell Davies DIRECTORY 2, 29, 30 JAMES DAVY THEATRE : Serenhedd James on e EDITORIAL 18 Book of Mormon BISHOPS OF THE SOCIETY 31 8 Space and Time JONATHAN BAKER 26 Eastertide Diary Festal musings of ‘urifer’ 16 NEwS FROM F iF AND THE 10 This Higher Life SOCIETY R. M. B ENSON 27 Meat: right, and our bounden duty 19 THE wAY wE LIVE NOw 14 A 15th-Century Bestseller ‘A udubon ’ cooks up lamb ALLAN BARTON 23 BOOK OF THE MONTH NIGEL PALMER 17 Brailes on e Romanovs 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore 24 SECULAR LITURGIES TOM SUTCLIFFE on British opera 28 TOUCHING PLACE SIMON COTTON visits Laughton, Lincs

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M burial-art. Each year it sheds and then I C regrows its flamboyant feathers. Our Jesu mercy, Mary pray : We note with sadness the apologies to the Bishop of Willesden. death on 10 March of Fr David Skeoch, who will have been known to many readers of New Directions . Mgr Keith Newton will celebrate the funeral mass at 12 noon on Friday 8 April at St Mary's RC Church, Woodbridge Road, Ipswich IP4 4BD. Articles are published in New Directions because they are thought likely to be of interest to readers. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editor or those of Forward in Faith.

April 2016 ■ new directions ■ 3 The Columba Declaration Lead Story David Mumford on problems of jurisdiction and doctrine

he Columba Declaration, a joint agreement between ordained, and the SEC proclaims its commitment to apostolic the Church of England and the Presbyterian Church order on the signs outside each of its churches. T of Scotland, was approved by the General Synod in Part of the Columba Declaration states that the Church of February by 243 votes to 50 with 49 abstentions. Many England and the Church of Scotland wish to welcome one members of the Scottish Episcopal another’s members to each other’s Church (SEC) – including the Primus – The Church of England’s worship as guests; and to receive one had expressed serious reservations about Anglican Communion partner another’s members into the the declaration, and had hoped that the congregational life of each other’s General Synod would defer giving its in Scotland is the SEC churches, where that is their desire. endorsement to the document until People will of course make their own there had been further discussion with the Scottish Episcopal choices. But the fact that such a statement is made at all Church. The declaration raises major issues both of suggests that the Church of England will respond warmly to jurisdiction and of doctrine. the idea that its members will worship in Church of Scotland Churches when in Scotland. Yet the Church of England’s Background Anglican Communion partner in Scotland is the Scottish The Reformation in Scotland had nothing to do with Henry Episcopal Church and I would hope that Anglican churches VIII. In the 1550s and 1560s it had more to do with the would encourage their members going to different provinces preaching of John Knox (who was offered but declined an to worship in an Anglican church. English bishopric), and strong pressure for reform from some of the Scottish bishops. For the next 90 years ecclesiastical Sacraments and Priesthood governance of the Church of Scotland wavered between The second provision is that the partners will ‘enable ordained Episcopalians and Presbyterians. There was then a ministers from one of our churches to exercise ministry in the Cromwellian interlude, after which Episcopal governance was other church, in accordance with the discipline of each church.’ re-established under Charles II. In 1689 James II and VII fled, This is in the context of an earlier acknowledgement that the to be replaced by William and Mary. partners ‘look forward to a time when growth in communion The Scottish bishops had sworn oaths of allegiance to can be expressed in fuller unity that makes possible the James and – like the Non-Jurors in England – they considered interchangeability of ministers.’ themselves bound by them. William decided to support the The declaration states that ‘We acknowledge that in both Presbyterians, and over the next 15 years Episcopalians were our churches the word of God is truly preached, and the slowly expelled. The fact that many Episcopalians chose to sacraments of Baptism and the Holy Communion are rightly support the losing side in the 1715 and 1745 rebellions led to administered.’ If Episcopal ordination is not needed for the anti-Episcopalian penal laws, and it was only after the death right administration of the Eucharist, then how does that of Charles Edward Stuart that square with the Lambeth Quadrilateral Episcopalians were willing to pray for the At the end of the service and with Canon B12 of the Church of Hanoverian monarchs. the leftover bread was England? The Church of England in its The penal laws were eventually relations with the Roman Catholic relaxed, and those Anglicans in Scotland thrown away Church and the Old Catholic Churches who worshipped in ‘qualified chapels’ – has been clear that it stands within the communities who had not embraced the Jacobite cause and historic episcopate. It would also be interesting to know how whose clergy had been ordained in England or Ireland – the Church of Scotland will square the Westminster sought to come under the authority of the Scottish bishops. Confession’s view that there is no sacrificial element in the The SEC is now an autonomous province of the Anglican Holy Communion with the statement in the document that Communion. in the Eucharist Christ unites us with himself in a full and sufficient sacrifice. Where to worship? One of my eye-opening experiences was the first Church The Columba Declaration blurs the very real differences of Scotland communion service that I attended. At the end of between the SEC and the Church of Scotland. The Church of the service what was left over of the wine that had been used Scotland is the national church and has parishes. In my was poured back into the bottle to be re-used at the next ministry in Scotland I regularly had to explain to Anglicans communion service, and the leftover bread was thrown away. who had moved from England that the parish church was At that point I recognised that what I believed about the Presbyterian, and that it was the SEC that was part of the Eucharist and what my Church of Scotland colleague believed worldwide Anglican Communion. SEC clergy are episcopally were clearly not compatible. I am not arguing that the grace

4 ■ new directions ■ April 2016 A Scottish Sacrament Henry John Dobson (1858-1928) of God is bounded by the sacraments, and I would willingly Problems over jurisdiction are one of the main issues that look for the presence of the Holy Spirit in a Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion is dealing with presently. Scotland communion service – but it lacks the sacramental It is contradictory for the Church of England on the one hand assurance of a Eucharist celebrated by an episcopally ordained to wish to uphold its own jurisdiction, and on the other hand priest conscious of the Real Presence and the need reverently to move towards recognising the orders of Church of Scotland to dispose of unused consecrated elements. ministers in a different province. There is a serious lack of clarity in the document about There is a real risk that the actions of the CofE bishops and episcopacy, priesthood, and the sacraments. General Synod will be seen as typifying a colonial mindset that is wilfully blind to the existence of the Scottish Episcopal Jurisdiction Church, and which ignores the SEC’s commitment to apostolic The question here is not whether the development of order and evangelical truth. ND ecumenical relationships is desirable – of course it is. Rather, the question is about whether that development can take place The Very Revd David Mumford is a former Dean of Brechin. respectfully and in good order. The SEC now seems to be faced with the possibility that Church of England clergy will minister in Scotland under the authorisation of the Church of All Saints,’ Northampton Scotland, and without reference to the SEC. But the Church We send our best wishes to of England and the SEC are partner members of the Anglican Fr Oliver Coss SSC on his Communion, and the Anglican Communion in Scotland is appointment as Rector of expressed in the life of the Scottish Episcopal Church. All Saints,’ Northampton. Scotland is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion and the Church of England has no jurisdiction Please keep in your prayers in Scotland. How would members of the CofE feel if the SEC those whose task it will be opened talks with the United Reformed Church and resolved to appoint his successor at that, although its ministers were not episcopally ordained, they All Saints,’ Small Heath, could with full sacramental assurance celebrate the Eucharist Birmingham. – and without the oversight of the relevant diocesan bishop?

April 2016 ■ new directions ■ 5 Under the Mercy Paschal Worton on an undeserved gift of God

enis was not the easiest friar to look after. Bedridden with arthritis, this previously dynamic priest used to D shout for me at all times of the day or night with his still-powerful voice – ‘Brother! Brother!’ – and I would come running. He would need help out of bed, into the shower and into his wheelchair, with eating, and with many other things. The Superior thought that his shouting down the corridor was not very edifying, and he had a brain-wave: ‘I know, I’ll give Fr Denis a whistle!’ From then on I was summoned into the presence like Fido the dog. As a young man I was rather frightened by Denis’s gruffness and razor-sharp responses. Whenever he wrote me a little note, however, in his felt-pen scrawl he would always sign it ‘Under the Mercy, Denis SSF.’ Stuck in his daily reality of restriction, diminished by his lack of independence, and only occasionally able to say mass from his wheelchair, this formidable Anglo-Catholic ex-missioner’s three little words both puzzled and moved me. However, I came to understand that this man, in his physical – and at times emotional – brokenness, understood that there was a reality stronger than he was; that there was a truth deeper than his constant pain; and that there was a healing power more life-giving than his medication. That was God’s Mercy, and so under it he lived each day of his life. I wonder when Denis first experienced mercy. Was it from his study of the Old Testament Scriptures, where the Hebrew chesedh – occurs 150 , ֶחֶסד – word for the active mercy of God times? Was it from Psalm 136, about the mercy of God enduring for ever? Or was it from the New Testament: perhaps from Jesus’ Beatitude ‘Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy’; or from St Paul’s sense that the The Return of the Prodigal Son Gospel for the Gentiles was a wonderful gift of mercy from Pompeo Batoni (1708-87) God; or from the Lord Himself on the Cross, when the Penitent Thief got much, much more than he hoped for – excusing causes have been skilfully argued. Mercy is the free ‘today you will be with me in Paradise’? response of the giver. Mercy does not suggest that the guilty I don’t know the answer; but I do know that at some stage are not guilty, but nor does it demand satisfaction for the in his life Denis got it really wrong with the Franciscan Order wrong. In Brighton Rock Graham Greene talks about ‘the awful and needed time apart to deal with strangeness of God’s mercy,’ and all that – but then returned and indeed it is not logical at all – just became a full part of the community Mercy is not logical at all freely given. again. He knew, despite his later – just freely given The point about Mercy is that physical suffering, that to live under nobody deserves it. That’s what we the Mercy of God is to be touched rediscover each Good Friday as we by another world – a place where human anxiety and fears stand at the foot of the cross. We don`t get what we deserve. give way to trust. It is to have some understanding of what the We get what God wants to give us: forgiveness, hope, and new St John calls ‘remaining in God’s Love.’ May this be the same creation – and we can’t quite believe it. ND for us – for mercy will only remain a word or a theory unless we have felt it, been smitten by it, been lifted up by it, and lived To be continued next month . under it ourselves. Everyone deserves true justice in life; but mercy, on the The Revd Paschal Worton is Team Vicar of St Mary’s, Somers other hand, is pure gift. Mercy is more than the removal of a Town, London. This is an edited version of an address given at the penalty or the relaxation of an enforced demand. It does not Bishop of Fulham’s stational mass at St Mary’s, Rotherhithe, on 12 come about because a sparkling defence has been found, or March.

6 ■ new directions ■ April 2016 Sir Peter Maxwell Davies CH CBE James Davy on the former Master of the Queen's Music to perform. In fact, at least one writer suspected his Ave Maria of being a hoax when it was published as a supplement to The Musical Times . The Church of England has often been slow to accept complex contemporary music, leaving it to Collegiate foundations and more adventurous cathedrals and churches, where time and talent permit the large amount of rehearsal required to wrangle such demanding music into a state whereby the performance is a heartfelt part of the liturgy, rather than a concertized add-on. That said, not all of Maxwell Davies’s music is so complex, and some has a straightforward charm and directness – particularly those pieces written during his time as Master of the Queen’s Music. His reputation for complexity and the lack of the easy appeal that guarantees repeated hearings may have prevented more frequent or wider performance of easier pieces such as the Missa parvula for unison trebles and organ, composed for Westminster Cathedral, and a Mass for two organs and choir based on Pentecost plainchant melodies. ir Peter Maxwell Davies died on 14 March, aged 81. He Away from the Church, Maxwell Davies went a stage was one of the truly outstanding voices of twentieth- further in the use of older musical material, using it to S and twenty-first-century music. Standing in the construct secular works including the Missa super L’Homme European avant-garde tradition, he could also work less Armé and the overture Antechrist . His opera Taverner deals complex musical material into successful and satisfying forms, with the turbulence of the English Reformation (and perceived guaranteeing a slightly higher degree of acceptance in popular dangers in the power of religious organisations) and is built on circles than many of his contemporaries. A vocal opponent of a melodic device from a mass setting by John Taverner, a organised religion, he nonetheless produced a good deal of popular starting point for composers in the sixteenth century, music with religious themes or content for liturgical or concert as well as in the twentieth. performance. Maxwell Davies had many concerns, including war, the As a composer sitting apart from religious tradition, environment, musical outreach and education, and wrote Maxwell Davies – he was often known simply as ‘Max’ – much music for young people. The Hogboon , a children’s opera, brought into the Church music with a breath of the air outside. is shortly to receive its première. He received a police caution Not a composer to be lumped either with the ‘holy in 2005 for being in possession of a dead swan – a protected minimalists’ or with the modern nostalgics, his choral music species. He admitted the unwitting offence, having turned a is lucid and translucent and lyrical, similar to the medieval and previous find into ‘a delicious terrine,’ which he offered to the renaissance models from which he drew inspiration. His investigating officers. He also noted with wry disappointment harmonic language is not easily assimilated, but the resultant that ‘they also took a pair of swan wings they found in a shed. music is of real quality, neither sentimental nor cerebral (or I was going to give them to the Sunday School for their frankly rebarbative) as was much written for choirs in the Nativity Play. Those they have already got are looking a bit same years. That so few have been able (or willing) to inhale dusty, and these would have been ideal for the angel Gabriel.’ this fresh air has surely contributed to his music’s lack of ND widespread performance in the liturgy, as does its complexity James Davy is Director of Music at Chelmsford Cathedral.

April 2016 ■ new directions ■ 7 Space and Time The Bishop of Fulham’s homily on Edward King Day at St Stephen’s House

The object of theological colleges is to secure ministerial efficient cause of a statue is the sculptor who sculpts it; the efficiency. efficient cause of a shrubbery is the gardener who has planted I chose these words as my text not only because I knew that and tended it; the efficient cause of a child, even, are the they would appeal to the Principal’s methods and convictions; parents whose offspring it is. but because they are words originally spoken by our saintly ‘The object of theological colleges is to secure ministerial founder Bishop Edward King, whose memory we celebrate efficiency.’ Bishop King is saying that theological colleges exist tonight. He spoke them as part of a sermon given at another in order to fulfil, in order to accomplish, the bringing into theological college – that in the cathedral city of his diocese of existence of ministers, Christian ministers, ministers of the Lincoln – on 27 November 1888. The whole sermon repays Gospel: deacons and priests. They, the colleges, are to be the careful reading and is full of wisdom. King’s own text was carpenters, the sculptors, the gardeners, the parents even, of taken from the 49 th verse of the second chapter of the Gospel those whom God is calling to be set aside in a particular sense according to St Luke: ‘Wist ye not that I must be about my to be about their heavenly Father’s business. Father’s business?’ These are the first words to be recorded in Here is something obvious, but which needs saying, the Gospels as having been uttered by Our Lord, and are especially in the context and culture of the Church of England spoken in his adolescence when he was re-united with Our today. To be any of these things – a carpenter, a sculptor, a Lady and St Joseph after he had been disputing with the gardener, a parent – and to be them successfully and efficiently doctors of the law in the temple at Jerusalem. King, addressing requires time and attention. You cannot rush carving a table clergy returning to their place of formation for its first annual or sculpting a statue, and expect it to be any good. Parenting festival, draws out the significance of his text for those reaching is about the bringing the child in stages to maturity – it is not the point of ordination: in the conferring of the Sacrament of a dash for growth. Time and attention are needed: time in the Holy Orders, they too have been configured for a more workshop; time in the studio; time with the bulbs and the deliberate and intense occupation with their heavenly Father’s seedlings; time with the child. business. Interestingly, King also applies the text to a certain Now as with every analogy touching on some aspect of the kind of Christian pilgrimage from one ecclesial community to life of the Church, that of the college as carpenter, sculptor, another, when he writes of how those words from Luke must gardener, or parent is useful but imperfect and incomplete. For land with ‘a terrible reality of surprise and disappointment in it is not only that the institution needs time and attention to families of our pious nonconformist brethren, when the Holy make and grow ministers, but also that those whom the Lord Spirit opens the hearts of their children to hear the voice of is calling to this particular vocation need an environment the Father calling them back into the fullest communion of which is expansive in the dimensions of time and space so that the Church.’ We don’t hear much of that sort of thing in the they, God’s ministers in formation, can meet the Lord who is House of Bishops or in the Council for Christian Unity these calling them and come to know Him more deeply. The college days. is the place to meet Jesus in the library and in the lecture room; Let me return for a moment to my text, to Bishop King’s in the refectory and the common room; and, of course, in the words. ‘The object of theological colleges is to secure chapel – in the disciplined, structured experience of the ministerial efficiency.’ I don’t think that our founder was using incursion of the supernatural into daily living which is the life ‘efficiency’ in its most popular modern sense, that is of carrying of prayer and worship, that marking the hours which is at the something out to a military timetable heart of living Christianly. As Bishop and with no waste, however admirable It is not a dash for growth. King said in his sermon: ‘We must know both of those qualities might be. I don’t Time and attention are what prayer and worship mean ourselves think he meant that theological colleges before we can hope to direct and lead the exist in order to ensure that the PCC’s needed worship of the people. We must say to annual returns are submitted by the them, and own it when we say it, “O deadline and that the Vicar understands that the parish hall come, let us fall down, and kneel before the Lord our maker.”’ must be fitted with environmentally friendly lightbulbs. No, I The Church of England is experiencing one of its periodic think Bishop King was using the word ‘efficiency’ in the sense spasms of nervousness and introspection about theological that has to do with the fitness or power to accomplish, or education. Much of the current debate, as others from across success in accomplishing, something; with bringing about the the different theological and spiritual traditions have noted, is purpose intended. And that in turn takes us back to Aristotle not really about renewing ministerial education, but about and Aquinas and efficient causation. The efficient cause of tinkering with the way in which ministerial education is paid something is that which, by its action, produces an effect for. The sermon is not the place in which to address the detail, substantially distinct from itself. I am no philosopher so I can though I cannot help noticing that – Yes-Minister like – when best understand this by way of example. The efficient cause of the Church puts transparency and simplicity into the a table is the carpenter who builds it in his workshop; the headlines, keep a close eye on your wallet. What we lack is the

8 ■ new directions ■ April 2016 confident statement of first principles: that, to borrow our I hope the women candidates here tonight will kindly overlook founder’s words once again, to secure ministerial efficiency that. But King’s vision must be as relevant today as it was requires an investment of time and attention which the nearly 130 years ago. King asks that the theological college Church should not begrudge, but should confidently insist to provide for the Church’s ordained ministry be non-negotiable. The aim must be to discover how to enable men strong in the Lord… men who have thought out as far more candidates for ministry to experience the riches of this as they can their own relation to God… men who have walked and sister institutions, not to trim at the edges and promote in the threefold light of their own faculties, of revelation, and alternative forms of ministerial formation which can never of the Church, and have seen how the three agree and lead back accomplish the same task with equal satisfaction. to one... Men who have disciplined their reason by endeavouring This is an unfashionable view, but the stakes are very high. to discern and speak the exact truth, without fear of the reproof Reading recently again Dorothy L. Sayers’ wonderful little of man, and without the desire of his praise . essay, ‘Creed or Chaos,’ written in 1940, I was impressed afresh But alongside those disciplines of the intellect, the mind by her magnificent exposition of the need for the teaching and and head, King looks for the formation of a priestly heart, of transmission of the fundamentals of Christian doctrine, not priestly character: to make a church of quasi-academics – We need men who are rooted and perish the thought – but because it is by a The apologetic task is the grounded in and constrained by love… sound grasp and confident exposition of CofE’s greatest challenge men who will love and not grow cold, but doctrine that the Church can actually who, having loved, like Jesus, will ‘love to speak into the reality of people’s lives and and opportunity the end’; men who know the Church to be communicate meaning and hope. Surely a true Society… men who desire to draw the apologetic task is the Church of England’s greatest all men within the fold of the visible Church of Christ, because challenge and opportunity. We need our pastoral theologians, there they will find their true relation to God and to their who have met Jesus in the library and the chapel and the fellow-men. common room – in this place a common room enriched by That is truly a vision for mission: it is the programme for students and teachers of other disciplines – and who are a mission-shaped Church. The last words, again, belong to equipped to make the necessary connexions. That is the Bishop King: ‘He is about His Father’s business: He is making mission that this House is surely called to equip Christian you a holy priesthood that you may bring the people of ministers for, and we rejoice tonight in the work which is done England back again into His one, holy, catholic and apostolic here under God to prosper that enterprise. Church.’ ND I end with some further words of Bishop Edward King, from the same sermon. Of course, King’s style is of its age; the Bishop Edward King (1829-1910) gender-specific language rather hits one between the eyes, and is commemorated on 8 March.

April 2016 ■ new directions ■ 9 This Higher Life

R. M. Benson on the Resurrection of the Lord

he resurrection of our Lord Jesus As a matter of fact the Church has Christ is a truth of the utmost always believed in a development of the T importance for us to dwell upon. human organism in the future, although It is not merely one of a great series of she maintains that man is in himself a truths which claim our attention by their distinctly fresh starting point in the own dignity. It is the foundation of all the creation of God, and whatever practical teaching of the Christian developments may have produced the Church, for everything that we have to do various races of beasts, of fishes, and of must be done in the power of Christ’s birds, she maintains that the flesh of man resurrection. This is an equivalent phrase is in some manner distinct from them. to the power of the Holy Ghost, for the The earth and the waters brought them Holy Ghost by whom Christ was raised forth. God made man by His own operates upon us through His risen Body. interposition from above, and He made Itself implies the Incarnation and the the first man in order that He, the Lord redemption on Calvary, but they would from Heaven, might become the second be inefficacious without this further man, and raise the nature thus formed to development of the human nature of the throne of eternal glory. Christ. The grain of corn would remain The Body of Christ is not merely a alone if it had not died. Yea, rather if had pattern to which we must be morally not risen again. The communication of conformed. It is an agent of spiritual the Divine life for our sanctification until power by whose operation the conformity we be glorified according to God’s will is is to be attained. Hence our conception of the result of the elevation of Christ the risen Body of Christ will affect all our personally in a Body of glory to which our bodies of moral teaching. Our mode of approaching Him and humiliation must be conformed by our reception of this recognising His presence in the holy Eucharist; our conception glorified substance into ourselves as a renewing principle of of what the Church of Christ should be, and of what is the vitality. importance of Church unity; our regard to one another, and Our conception of our relation to Christ depends our appreciation of Church government; our thoughts therefore upon our having, if not a true conception of His risen respecting the faithful departed and our missionary enterprise, Body, for it may be said that that is impossible, at least a our belief in the spiritual efficacy of sacraments, and in the conception of some of its characteristics and powers, so as to eternal character of the loss which those incur who are cut off be free from those misconceptions which arise from merely from Christ by sin – all these and many other matters of translating earthly thoughts into a new sphere and theological importance depend for their answer upon our perpetuating earthly laws which have ceased to bind. having a right apprehension of ‘Jesus and the Resurrection.’ Let us notice at the outset, although the remark need not One great purpose of our Lord’s tarrying upon earth for forty go for more than it is worth, that the exaltation of our Lord’s days seems to have been just this, that he might give to the Body to a higher mode of action than belonged to Him in his Apostles an experimental acquaintance with His risen life. In state of humiliation, is thoroughly in the very nature of things it was accordance with the modern scientific Our conception of the risen impossible that they could understand notion of development. The previous Body of Christ will affect all what that risen life was. We do not even stages of development by which some understand what life in this world is. suppose that our body attained its our moral teaching We only know some of its phenomena. present form may well (if admitted) be Much less can we understand that life supposed to act as a prelude to this final transformation of of which we have as yet had no personal experience. One who man’s body by the resurrection of Christ as a fresh germinal had never lived out of Lapland could form no idea of what principle of life. The whole system of development gains existence would be amidst the surroundings of a tropical indeed a purpose and a finality if it culminate in the exaltation climate. The child can form no idea of what will be the of Christ to the throne of creation, whereas it is aimless if the interests of matured life. Much less can we in this world form highest result be nothing more than our present human form any idea of what the life of glory shall be hereafter. of life upon the earth. There is no reason why this should have But our Lord gave His Apostles some practical been attained. There is no reason why development should acquaintance with this higher life, and He eliminated from cease at this particular stage. their minds various erroneous conceptions which the course

10 ■ new directions ■ April 2016 of this world would necessarily have engendered within them. of the resurrection which He meant to give. It is to be feared Each of His appearances seems to have been intended to teach that we have sadly cast aside His teaching. The phenomena of some practical truth respecting the coming life, which they by His risen life in His appearances are too often considered as if the Holy Ghost were to communicate from Himself as the they were in themselves miraculous, instead of being Head to all those who should be called by Him from all the acknowledged as proper and natural to the condition which nations of the world to the obedience of faith. His Body had then assumed. […] It is to be feared that in spite of this we are apt to think of It is to be feared that in the present day we dwell our ascended Lord very commonly as if He were in all points disproportionately on the thoughts of our Lord’s suffering, so just what He was upon the earth, only surrounded by that the contemplation of His glory is neglected. The joy of conditions of glory which were wanting here. We must His Humanity and His personal interest in us as His members remember that the glory wherein He dwells is not an are to be cherished by us as earnestly as the sense of the atmosphere into which He was anguish with which He bore our sins translated, but a glory inherent within The joy is proportionate to upon the tree. We must remember that Himself which manifests itself through the suffering and is an the joy is proportionate to the suffering His Humanity, and that His Humanity and is an abundant reward. He did not has undergone such changes as to qualify abundant reward die merely to satisfy an abstract theory if to be the instrument of such of justice, but with the hope of the joy manifestation. We may recur to the illustration which our that was set before Him; and in the great day of His espousals Lord Himself gave, and use it with equal truth for a somewhat at the marriage supper of the Lamb, He shall see the travail of different purpose from that which He cited it. The grain of His soul and be satisfied. corn when it has died does not merely attract round itself the We must use the powers of the risen life in order to give substances which may be capable of assimilation, so that both to Him that satisfaction which He desires. The consciousness itself and they may shine as with a glow-worm light, remaining of living in the risen life to please our risen Lord, will be the otherwise what the seed was when it was put into the ground. true, the noblest, incentive to holiness that we can have. A The true body which that seed contained was a power which knowledge of our Lord’s risen life in itself will be the greatest death has developed and which exists in a quite different form help towards the use of His grace, that we ourselves may live as the blade, the ear, the full corn in the ear. […] as those who are risen from the dead to the glory of His holy Our Lord did not wish to teach what we are not capable Name. ND of understanding, but He did wish to preclude such false From the preface to Volume IV of Benson’s conceptions as would hinder our profitable use of the powers The Final Passover, 1898 .

St Augustine must have loved a good sing. mind, body, and spirit together as a It was he who described Christians as an preparation for more wordless and ‘Easter people’ whose song is ‘Alleluia!’; Ghostly contemplative prayer. The chants and and he encouraged those daunted by songs that have come out of the Taizé their very precarious situation ‘to keep community can be as well used by walking and keep singing’. Singing and Counsel individuals in solitude as by large music is integral to Christian spirituality: gatherings – most are created to enable a it grew out of Jewish worship, which had Songs and silence stilling into silence. a highly developed tradition of singing This generation has an opportunity to the psalms. On Maundy Thursday we hear Andy Hawes is Warden of use music in ways that Christians of that Jesus and his disciples ‘after singing Edenham Regional Retreat House earlier generations could not imagine. we some hymns went to the Mount of Olives’. have access to a wealth of recorded music St Paul, in his spiritual counsel to the our daily prayer – Benedictus , Magnificat , – which we can put in our pocket – to Ephesians, writes that they should ‘be and Nunc Dimittis . There are others, too, provide inspiration and solace anywhere filled with the Spirit, addressing one as found in Philippians 2 and the texts we choose. This does, however, produce another in psalms and hymns and which are now woven into the Eucharistic difficulties if this resource is not managed spiritual songs, singing and making liturgy. carefully. There is a thin distinction melody to the Lord.’ (Eph. 5.19). This is It is singing that helps so much of between being inspired and being echoed in the Letter to the Colossians: ‘Let Christian doctrine penetrate our entertained. Listening to music may aid the word of Christ dwell in you richly, consciousness: as any teacher of young reflection and bring us to a ‘place’ of teaching and admonishing one another in children knows, singing can help us to stillness, but it should not be aural all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns remember. If one reflects on how the wallpaper to our prayer. It is very easy to and spiritual songs with thankfulness in singing of hymns has formed perceptions become dependent on having an ‘eternal your hearts to God.’ (Col. 3.16). Here Paul and understanding of the Faith one sees music feed’. It is an aid to, and not a makes the connection between the word how absolutely essential it is. substitute for, that quiet in which we can of God dwelling in us and heartfelt There is a spontaneous element to hear the ‘small murmuring voice’. we singing. There is in the New Testament a singing hymns and canticles: it might might remember that after the very dynamic ‘confusion’ of word and happen anywhere from, the shower to the triumphant hymns to the Lamb there was song: we need only bring to mind the drive to the supermarket; but there is also silence in heaven for the space of half an canticles that are part of the rhythm of a more deliberate use of singing to gather hour.

April 2016 ■ new directions ■ 11 faith of our fathers Arthur Middleton returns to Bishop William Beveridge

reparation for Holy Communion The Worthy Communicant order to do so our minds must first be is not a high priority in the Bishop William Beveridge was an rightly disposed and prepared for it. P contemporary Church. Michael advocate of more frequent communion. Beveridge then cites what our Church Ramsey expressed his concern about this In his sermon The Worthy Communicant requires of us in her Catechism: in his essay on the Parish Communion in [Works VI , Library of Anglo-Catholic his Durham Essays and Addresses . It was Theology, Oxford (1845) 20], he states [I]t is required of them who come to not so, however, in the Anglican that frequency of Holy Communion the Lord’s Supper to examine devotion of the seventeenth and stemmed from the practice of the themselves about three things: 1. eighteenth centuries, when there Apostles and primitive Christians, and Whether they repent them truly of developed ‘a detailed and sophisticated then from the reason for the Eucharist their former sins steadfastly purposing system of self-examination and prayer and the purpose of its institution. For the to lead a new life? 2. Have a lively faith which must be gone through before the Apostles and the primitive Christians in God’s mercy through Christ, with a Sacrament is received’ [Love’s Redeeming this Sacrament was the chief part of thankful remembrance of His death? Work: The Anglican Quest for Holiness, their public devotions. They looked And 3. ‘Be in charity with all men?’ OUP (2001), 8]. It is mistakenly thought upon themselves as obliged to do this in And accordingly, in the exhortation at that, devotionally, Anglicans were asleep remembrance of Him, as often as they the Communion she calls upon all the during this period and that the Eucharist met together to worship and to serve communicants actually to perform played little part in the devotional life of God. If we consider the purpose of the these great duties. And verily, these the Church of England before the institution of the Eucharist, we will find three things, Repentance, Faith, and Oxford Movement. that we ought to receive this Sacrament Charity, are absolutely necessary to the From the devotional literature of the as often as we possibly can. qualifying us for the worthy receiving of time there emerges a different picture, Beveridge’s concern is the right Christ’s body and blood, in the sense which demonstrates the receiving of understanding of the St Paul’s words ‘He now explained. Holy Communion, prepared for that eateth and drinketh unworthily, There is one duty which I should not beforehand with prayer and penitence. eateth and drinketh damnation to forbear to touch this Sacrament, that The Sacrament was celebrated less himself’ (1 Cor. 11.29). People have is, our gladly embracing any frequently than it is today – in some mistakenly believed that if they are not opportunity of communicating therein; parishes only according to the Prayer worthy to receive the Sacrament and do the doing so being not only a great aid Book requirement of three times a year so then they must be damned. Paul is and instrument of piety; the neglecting – but that did not detract from the high not speaking of the qualifications of the it a grievous sin and productive of great regard in which it was held as a means of person receiving, but the manner of the mischiefs to us… grace in the way of holiness, exhibited in communicant in approaching the the careful preparation before reception, sacrament, having in mind the disorders … The rarer occasions therefore we sometimes lasting a whole day or more and divisions among the Corinthians in now have of performing (the which of prayer, penitence, and fasting. At the their Christian assemblies. Their sin was indeed was always esteemed the same time there was a tension between to eat the Lord’s Supper as if it had been principal office of God’s service), of the encouragement of more frequent common food, without respect or enjoying this benefit,—the being reception of Holy Communion and the reference to Christ’s mystical body and deprived deemed the greatest fear of receiving it unworthily that blood so that they over-ate and over- punishment and infelicity that could caused an infrequent reception among drank. This is ‘eating and drinking arrive to a Christian,—the more ready communicants. Also, one might instance unworthily,’ as if it was not Christ’s Body we should be to embrace them. If we the requirement in the Roman Church and Blood, but common meat and drink, dread God’s displeasure, if we value Our that communicants must always go to ‘expressing no more regard or reverence Lord and His benefits if we tender the Confession before receiving the towards it, than they do to bread or wine life, health, and welfare of our souls, we sacrament, which led to non- at their own tables.’ shall not neglect it. * communicating Masses. So the The worthy reception of this infrequent reception of Holy Sacrament is about the disposition of *From ‘The Eucharist,’ A Brief Exposition Communion was not because of an soul and body when receiving Holy of the Lord’s Prayer and Decalogue; to anti-sacramental prejudice; but came Communion, which must be a manner The Doctrine of the Sacraments, cited in about through reluctance to receive it worthy and suitable to that Body and Paul Elmer More and F. L. Cross, unworthily. Blood which we receive there; and in Anglicanism , SPCK (1951), 504. ND

12 ■ new directions ■ April 2016 devotional through the finite stirring the passion for the infinite; or by its sadness, suggesting Arthur Middleton the contrast between what it is, and what it might be, and so stirring oetry is essentially for John Keble a host, of golden daffodils.’ This is just tenderness and pity and melancholy. In a relief to the poet – the one of the experiences that awakened either case the feelings are stirred by the P utterance of feelings that Wordsworth’s visionary power. Such sense of higher spiritual truths which struggle for expression, but which are facts of nature stir our wonder, our underlies the visible phenomena. If we too deep to be expressed perfectly in the questioning, our awe; or the tranquil are to have such vision we need to be prose of daily life. Feeling of any kind, he beauty and calm of the natural world among the active elements of the world points out, is always seeking some form soothes our wearied spirits. We walk and love what they do to us, to love to of expression for itself: the infant can along a beach and note the barren rock work and be wrought upon. We need to find it only in cries, in gestures, in an face of the cliff, and then marvel at the be alive to all that is enjoyed and all that expression of the features; an adult finds sight of a flower bursting out of a crevice: is endured. We need to have the it mainly in the power of speech. Keble a seed blown by the wind has found a loneliness and the courage to take in not finds in Psalm 39 the secret of all poetry: congenial resting place in which to die in only the joy but the dismay, the sorrow, ‘My heart was hot within me, and while order that it might live. Does this not stir and fear and pain as modes in which to I was thus musing the fire kindled, and our vision to see and feel something of feel and know that mysterious divine at last I spake with my tongue’ (Ps 39.3). the secret or mystery of creation, to feel presence at the heart of life. We must This is true of all feelings, but most true after that paradox that the Resurrection enjoy this rich tapestry of life through all of the deepest feelings, which are stirred reveals that only through death comes its changing scenes without bolting for either by the sight of external nature or life? comfort or alleviating it by some sort of by the facts of human life and company. In this mode of understanding experience. Human Life we are letting the things that are make It is the same with human life. It appeals their true impact upon us. We are letting New Every Morning to us either by its happiness, suggesting the experiences of the trivial round and a perfection which lies beyond it, common task open our eyes to see God. Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be, ND As more of heaven in each we see; Exciting new opportunity for a Youth Worker for the Some softening gleam of love and prayer Shall dawn on every cross and care. vibrant Sheffield Hickleton Mission Partnership 37 hours If we would see more of heaven in our Salary £19,240 per annum for 37 hours per week friends and scenes of daily life, then a light of love and prayer will shine on life’s The Sheffield Hickleton Mission Partnership covers the Resolution parishes of St crosses and cares. He goes on to say that Mary’s Handsworth, St Matthew’s Carver Street and St Catherine’s Richmond. we do not need a monastic cell in which we are looking for a committed Christian, with experience in youth work who will to experience and know such feelings. It develop and co-ordinate youth work (10-19yr olds) in each of the churches and is in life’s trivial round and common communities. tasks that such stirring of deep feelings Given the nature and context of the work it is an occupational requirement that can emerge. Nature appeals to the the post holder should be a communicant member of the Church of England or a feelings by its mystery, such as the full member of a Church within Churches Together in Britain and Ireland resilience of the daffodil in the face of Contract: 3 years initially wind and snow, or the sky at night in its vastness. I remember walking on Palace Download an application pack from: Green in Durham one November www.sheffield.anglican/other-vacancies evening when the Greek Orthodox Deadline for applications: 16th May priest I was with pointed to the starlit Interviews to be held on: 25th May sky in its vastness and said ‘there is a More information about the churches can be found at reflection of that eternal beauty and www.stmaryshandsworth.org.uk www.stcathsiena.co.uk mystery of our Creator.’ Talking of www.achurchnearyou.com/sheffield-st-matthews-carver-street-sheffield-church daffodils we are reminded of Wordsworth wandering lonely as a For an informal conversation about this post, please contact Revd Keith Johnson on 0114 2693983 or by email [email protected] cloud, when all at once he ‘saw a crowd,

April 2016 ■ new directions ■ 13 A Fifteenth-Century Bestseller Allan Barton on the Golden Legend

illiam Caxton was a London merchant who, in text of the Golden Legend into English. De Worde was his middle age, decided to invest in new entrusted with the typesetting, and to the text he added over W technology and diversify his business. Having a hundred individual woodcuts. This English version of the lived and worked on the Continent in the 1450s and 60s, he Golden Legend was first printed at the Red Pale in 1483, and it had seen first-hand the products that were coming off the was the earliest book produced in Europe to be so profusely newly establishing printing presses. With an entrepreneur’s illustrated. eye, he saw the opportunity that this In the intense religious atmosphere exciting new technology offered. In of late-fifteenth-century England, to print 1476, having returned to England, he a hagiography in English with illustrations established a printing press ‘at the sign was a master stroke. When the book of the Red Pale’ within the precincts of appeared it was an extraordinary success. Westminster Abbey. At first the press Caxton died in 1491, and in 1495 de was run by inexperienced hands, and Worde took over the press at the Red Pale, the earliest products of the Red Pale eventually moving to premises to Fleet lacked flair. They improved after 1481, Street. Both in Westminster and in Fleet when Caxton had the good business Street he continued to re-print the sense to entrust the press to a printer of Golden Legend of 1483, until it reached a greater skill. The man he put in charge ninth impression in 1527. was a Dutchman called Wynkyn de The woodcuts illustrated here are taken Worde. De Worde had a keen artist’s from an edition of the book printed by de eye, and he greatly improved the work Worde at the Red Pale in 1498 – but they of the press, developing the clarity of are the same blocks used in the 1483 the typefaces and the layout of the text. edition. They illustrate the Crucifixion, Equally commercially minded, de Resurrection, and Ascension of Our Lord, Worde took to illustrating the Red and the day of Pentecost. The book is now Pale’s books with woodcuts, many by very scarce and the illustrations here are his own hand. taken from a copy that is owned by the One of the earliest products of University of Wales Trinity St David. It Caxton and de Worde’s collaboration was an edition of the once belonged to Thomas Burgess (1756-1837), Bishop of St Legenda Aurea – the Golden Legend – a text compiled by David’s and Bishop of Salisbury, who presented it to the college Jacobus de Voragine ( c.1230-98), Archbishop of Genoa. It is a he founded in Lampeter. ND collection of hagiographies, and was among the most popular The Revd Dr Allan Barton is Chaplain to the late medieval texts. As well as having a keen business brain, University of Wales Trinity Saint David at Lampeter, Caxton was also a gifted man of letters, and he translated the and Curator of the University Art Collections .

14 ■ new directions ■ April 2016 Letters to the Editor From the Revd Dr Peter Mullen Nothing can be clearer in Holy Scripture than that we are required to believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God in My Lord – doctrine, and therefore on earth of male gender. Any such The Bishop of London writes, ‘Communities are made by denial by word or action is sacrilege, blasphemy, and heresy. stories that translate principles into flesh and blood’ (Letters, March 2016). In Christianity things are exactly the other way PAUL S. W ILLIAMSON about: it is the stories that generate the principles. The gospel Hanworth Park, Middlesex is derived from the Incarnation, and the Incarnation is not a principle but an event. Similarly, we are not to suppose that From the Revd Geoffrey Squire Our Lord first held an abstract principle such as kindness and only secondly invented the parable of the Good Samaritan to My Lord – express the principle – an activity as artificial and futile as A few weeks ago I was speaking to the father of a 13-year-old painting by numbers. boy. The man ran a family accountancy business and he was The Bishop goes on to ask us to ‘weave new strands into already beginning to prepare his son to take over the family the national narrative.’ All well and good, except that the new business. As he said, ‘Maybe it will not be for him and he will strands must want to be woven into our national narrative. He do something quite different; but I wish to give him every may call me ‘xenophobic and terminally nostalgic’ until he’s encouragement.’ blue in the face, but I have noticed that there are strands which A few days later, I was reading an article about a city slum do not wish to be woven into our national narrative; rather priest of the Victorian period. He spoke of two of his boy they despise it. servers – Jonathon (13), and Christopher (14) – and of how PETER MULLEN he cared for them and paid to support their education and buy Eastbourne, East Sussex them shoes. He did this because he cared not only for poor children, but because it was vital that there be many more From the Revd Paul Williamson faithful priests to win over our nation to the Catholic cause and he saw than as possible priests for the future. My Lord – Like the father who hoped that his son will take over the It came as a shock to see the front cover of January’s Franciscan family business, that priest cared so passionately that there be magazine with a female Christ; and a Church Times report in priests to carry out the great mission that he began February of a transgender passion play with a supposedly encouraging the vocations of boys who showed signs of female (transgendered) Christ. Jesus Christ was an historical faithfulness from the time that they were about thirteen. person written of by the Jewish Josephus and the Roman Now there is that great need again – but what do we do if Tacitus, and described as male. We have no power or authority teenage boy shows a possible interest in holy orders? We tell to change the gender of the Saviour. him to go away and come back when he is older. We do not St Paul tells us in Hebrews 13.8 that Christ is historically take it seriously. We seem to imply that any thoughts about ‘the same yesterday, and today, and for ever,’ and the vocation cannot begin until one is an adult. supposition of a female Christ – or the attribution of a Of course just as that father knew that his son may not be transgender identity to the Son of God in 2016 AD, rather interested in the family business, and just as that priest knew than acceptance of the historical reality of an incarnate Son that God might not call those two boys to be priests, so it may in 0-33 AD – is shoddy relativistic thinking. It is be with any boy of today. We may not need to buy them shoes contemptuous treatment of the foundational doctrine of the or pay for their education – but where is that zeal to foster Christian Faith, and therefore sacrilege. vocations from a young age? To show contempt for the Son of God by suggesting that a As one who has exercised a ministry to young people for sex-change is necessary or expedient in 2016 is blasphemy. over 40 years, I suggest that we need a simple booklet to give Our Lord Jesus Christ was, and is, and always will be the Son – free – to teenage boys on the subject of vocation generally of God, and therefore male in His incarnate life, and in the but including Holy Orders and the religious life, and to back doctrine of the Blessed Trinity. The portrayal of Jesus Christ that up with something more substantial to those who show as female is calculated to offend, and the offence is known interest. beforehand, so the act of making such a portrayal could cause Of course great diplomacy is needed when working with a Breach of the Peace. juveniles today, and even gifts of a religious booklet must be The showing of the Saviour Christ on the Cross – or not – done openly, lest kind gestures be misinterpreted. However, as a person who is clearly female is not only sacrilege and that does not mean that one has to do nothing. And yes, blasphemy but is also heresy. Such a portrayal is contrary to Jonathon and Christopher both became fine priests. the explicit description of Jesus Christ in Holy Scripture as male, and as the Son of God. It is a denial of Holy Scripture GEOFFREY SQUIRE and of the doctrine to be found therein. Goodleigh , Barnstaple, Devon

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16 ■ new directions ■ April 2016 railes was no end of a town in the Middle Ages, the third BRAILES largest in Warwickshire, so they built a great church B here; that town is now no more than a village, but the church remains, dominated by its tall Perpendicular tower ( 1) 1 with a large aisled nave and chancel attached ( 2). The Bishop family bought the advowson in 1584 and held it for over a hundred years, several of them being buried up in the chancel. The Bishops, however, were Roman Catholics. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries John Bishop acquired Rectory Farm, once owned by the Augustinian friars of Kenilworth. He proceeded to establish a hidden chapel in the house, where Mass was said throughout the recusant period. Father George Bishop constructed the present chapel in 1726, in the top floor of the malt barn ( 3) attached to what is now the presbytery, over half a century before it was legal for Catholics to build them, and it retains some of its original woodwork ( 4). Ecumenical relations in Brailes were such that in penal times no Catholic, priest or lay, was ever reported to the authorities. There remains a tablet (1809) on the external east wall of the chancel of the parish church ( 5) requesting prayers for the soul of the Revd John Austin, ‘for many years Pastor to the Catholics of Brailes & Neighbourhood.’ That’s not something you see every day. ND

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18 ■ new directions ■ April 2016 the way we live now Christopher Smith wonders whether we might all soon be in Dan Walker’s shoes

How wonderful it is that we have arrived with someone who claims to be the reads the news must distinguish between in Eastertide once more. Now we can resurrection and the life. fact and fiction.’ So: he has a right to ‘his tuck into those cup-cakes that we were That’s ok, isn’t it? We can still do beliefs,’ but only if he doesn’t take a job given at the railway station at Leicester, that in this country, can’t we? Well, yes where he might be imparting and anything else that our Lenten we can – but we might look with some information to others. What does that discipline prohibited. Once again we alarm at the recent brouhaha over the include? Teaching? Advising clients as a proclaim ‘Alleluia’ in the liturgy, and the promotion of a sports journalist to the lawyer? Being a doctor? Pretty much scripture readings at mass speak to us of exalted role of presenter of a TV anything professional, I’d have thought. the confident assertions of the first programme called BBC Breakfast . I only Clearly, he can’t be a journalist, where Christians that the Lord had indeed ever put the telly on first thing in the the difference between fact and fiction risen from the dead. What a relief that morning if England are playing cricket is so jealously guarded! Maybe the writer all that post-war guff about the on the other side of the world; but I of the piece, one Catherine Bennett, Resurrection not really having happened gather BBC Breakfast has very would only be happy if Mr Walker were except in the over-active imaginations of respectable viewing figures, and is a stacking shelves in a supermarket: but the disciples has run its course. chatty, newsy start to the day for many not, of course, responding to enquiries There is a well-known quotation people. from shoppers. There was an equally from C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity to The name of the presenter in sneering piece in The Daily Telegraph , the effect that Jesus was either Son of question is Dan Walker, and the reason and The Mirror has now triumphantly God, or he must have been a lunatic ‘on for the clamour was not over whether he pronounced that Mr Walker ‘looked the level with the man who says he is a is any good as a broadcaster (a matter on uncomfortable’ during a discussion on poached egg,’ or if not a lunatic, then a which I am in no position to comment), his programme about fossils, although devil. Jesus again and again makes claims but on his religious beliefs. He is a the footage attached to the article on the that must have shocked those who heard Baptist, and the son of a minister. When paper’s website does not bear out their them at the time: claims that put him on his appointment was made public in accusation. a level with his Father. The theologian mid-February, The Times ran a story in This matters to the rest of us not A. M. Hunter thought that the greatest which they accused (I use the word merely because Dan Walker seems like of those claims was made at the advisedly) him of being ‘a creationist.’ a nice guy who is, in effect, being institution of the Eucharist: this is the That nugget of information had arrived persecuted for his faith. It matters New Covenant in my Blood. No mere at the newspaper courtesy of a BBC because we are all only one small step mortal, except a lunatic, would make spokesman, but no further information from being on the receiving end of this such a claim. And I wonder whether was given – and it strikes me as highly sort of vitriol. We are rejoicing in the perhaps C. S. Lewis was influenced in his likely that nobody pontificating event that is the logical consequence of comments by the nineteenth-century publically on all this knows the truth the Incarnation: victory over death. We Scottish theologian John Duncan – about Mr Walker’s private are rejoicing because God has not only ‘Rabbi’ Duncan – who wrote that ‘Christ understanding of exactly how God made created us, but also redeemed us. We are either deceived mankind by conscious the world. It is entirely possible that he rejoicing because God Incarnate has fraud, or he was himself deluded, or he has a literalist understanding of the risen from the dead – truly risen, for ‘if was divine. There is no getting out of this creation story in Genesis 1 – many Christ be not risen, our faith hath been trilemma.’ people do – or it may be that he sees it in vain.’ One of these days, we too might It perhaps does us no harm to be as more metaphorical but revealing have to defend that belief against a aware of the scale of what we have taken important truths about God’s action in hostile world. ND on. We have thrown in our lot with creation. someone who made such outrageous But it matters that a number of claims that the authorities had him pundits have seen this half-baked killed as a common criminal. We have ‘revelation’ as an excuse to write articles thrown in our lot with someone whose which matter not only for Mr Walker, followers subsequently claimed had but also for you and me. Take the risen from the dead, and not only risen particularly snide piece in The Guardian : from the dead but returned to heaven ‘It’s tricky to trust a presenter who feels and sent his Spirit to continue his work God got him the job: Dan Walker has a among them. We have thrown in our lot right to his beliefs, but someone who

April 2016 ■ new directions ■ 19 views, reviews and previews art

DELACROIX AND THE RISE OF MODERN ART National Gaery until 22 May

This show is an argument, and is ideal for people who go to art galleries to argue. The argument is that Delacroix – through his subjective use of paint, his choice of clashing colour schemes, and wide open range of subject matter – gave birth to the 150-year-old phenomenon by Delacroix himself or by other artists, contrast Van Gogh has taken and known as Modern Art. but they make it hard to empathise with reworked a corner of the Delacroix with As arguments go, it is historically those the pictures originally influenced. clear, bright colour, and a real sense of persuasive. The nineteenth-century Then there is the matter of colour. drama and suffering. The ‘Pietà’ is Avant-garde did follow on from the Delacroix was a colourist as Rubens had influenced by Delacroix, but it is a much French Romanticism that Delacroix led; been before him, and his early work has better picture than the one that inspired and Delacroix showed in himself how clear, strong colours. Over time these it. artists influence each other. He reacted colours became duller: strong, certainly, It was Van Gogh who said that against the grey, classicising French but slightly unfocussed and less modern subject matter had to differ Academicism; and didn’t learn from the persuasive. Delacroix the colourist from Delacroix’s. We can see how he contemporary Schools but instead from doesn’t look good besides Cézanne or came to this in one of the clearest studying the work of painters like Gauguin. Of course, Delacroix was examples of influence in the show. Van Rubens. In turn, the next wave of artists famous for the way he put his colour to Gogh was drawn to Delacroix by his learnt from Delacroix. His work was emotional or dramatic use. He wasn’t flower painting (of all things) with its bought or copied by Manet, Cézanne, the first to do so. Poussin, an artist much clash of colours, outside location, and Degas, Van Gogh, and Gauguin; and his admired by Delacroix, did as much. But bursting-at-the-seams flowers. In the theories of colour were transmitted by Poussin’s restrained stoic Classicism was exhibition we see side-by-side Delacroix Signac to Matisse. The Avant-garde the antithesis of Delacroix the Romantic flowers, early Van Gogh flowers, and hailed him as one of their own – notably who burst that old restraint with the then a Van Gogh olive grove. We see in Fantin-Latour’s ‘Homage to Delacroix,’ imagined feelings of his characters and how Modern Art makes a decisive break a copy of which is at the entrance to the their setting. from Romanticism in terms of the show. It is Delacroix’s imagination that dates simplicity of colour, the application of Artistic influence is not a tidy concept, him. He liked painting old stories – they paint, and the expression of feeling and however, and is not always easy to gave him the freedom that he needed for trauma. demonstrate. Here the exhibition hits his imagination. But it is difficult for us We also see that Van Gogh is much the trouble. First, the show – with one to be much affected by Ovid amongst finer artist. Those late olive trees that he exception – gives us very few of the the Scythians, or to share Delacroix’s saw as capturing Delacroix’s sense of paintings that influenced the Moderns. love of the history paintings of living antiquity are entirely modern, and Delacroix was a painter in the Grand Bonnington. Even though Delacroix they blaze out from the wall. The picture Manner, and his best works are large: found what he called living antiquity in is odd – the shadows of the trees look ‘Liberty leading the people,’ ‘The Young Northern Africa, too often there is an like little Dalí-esque wine glasses – but Orphan at the cemetery,’ ‘Entry of the underlying worthiness when he tells old the strength of feeling and love of paint Crusaders into Constantinople, 1204,’ stories. Compare, for example, his are gripping. ‘Massacre at Chios,’ and ‘The Death of ‘Crucifixion’ with Van Gogh’s ‘Pietà’ next In terms of pure artistry, this show is Sardanapalus.’ These are very big to it. There are great dramatic at its best with the artists Delacroix paintings, and size matters: the impact Crucifixions, notably by Rubens, and influenced. To find out why they might of colour is greatest when the picture is Delacroix’s swirls and whirls like the best have been influenced by him, you will measured in feet, not inches. Sadly, none of them – but it lacks drama and pathos. have to go to the Louvre. of these are at the National Gallery. The painting is in his dull colour scheme, Some are represented by copies, either and there’s a lot of empty scenery. By Owen Higgs

20 ■ new directions ■ April 2016 prefigured and foreshadowed in many late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century LIFE’S GREAT QUESTIONS books Anglican writers of a Catholic mindset Jean Vanier and stamp. I did find myself wondering SPCK, 172pp, pbk CHRIST IN ALL THINGS whether the generally chronological ISBN 978 0281075959 £10 william Temple and his writings arrangement was the best to use – working through Temple’s career and A video recently resurfaced on the Stephen Spencer (ed.) focusing chapters on a particular work internet that contained two Canterbury Press Norwich, 263pp, pbk or works – and whether an attempt at a documentaries about Fr Quintin ISBN 978 1848257283 £30 thematic arrangement might have been Montgomery Wright, a Lefebvrist priest better. But then I am not sure that who spent the post-war years in Most people would judge William Temple’s writing and thinking would Normandy, ministering in the old way to Temple to have been one of the most lend itself to thematic arrangement. his parish, and appearing on the outstanding Archbishops of Canterbury In his introduction, Stephen Spencer regressive circuit in northern France. It of the last few centuries. Certainly he regrets that he has not been able to find is very entertaining. Montgomery had an impact beyond the Church of a source for Temple’s frequently quoted Wright is filmed making an omelette, England, which has not been usual for saying that the Church is the only shopping for cod, and arriving at an men in that job over the last two society on earth that exists for the aristocratic holiday-home to say mass. hundred years. Growing up in the 1950s benefit of those who are not its members The star of both programmes, however, and 1960s there were not a lot of books (p. ix). Personally, I am rather heartened is not the priest but his sacristan. in our home; but my parents did, I Christian is a man in middle-age, with remember, have a copy of Temple’s what are now called learning difficulties. Christianity and Social Order. He is He lived with Montgomery Wright, clearly distinguishable in a photograph answered his telephone, prepared his that hangs in the choir vestry of one of vestments, and carried the cross when the churches in my current parish, taken the priest took the Sacrament to the when he came to bless the lych-gate that housebound. He was sent from his is a First World War memorial; and it family in Paris to Montgomery Wright seems that the first ordination at which because his parents hoped that work he presided was held here. could be found for him on a farm. It This is a useful and interesting could not; and so Christian remained collection drawn from Temple’s writings. with Montgomery Wright, and shared Inevitably it draws most on several key his life. works, but it draws also on unpublished I saw this video at the same time as I material. The excerpts are, I am glad to was reading this book. The author is the say, often substantial and extended by that, and do not at all mind if Temple founder and, though he would deny it, enough for one to get a sense of his never committed that thought to paper, the hero of L’Arche: a federation of writing and a sense of the way he because it has always struck me as less communities in which people with constructed a discussion and an helpful and illuminating than many learning difficulties live a common life argument. We explore all the fields of think. Spencer says that ‘some of his with their carers. The founder’s original Temple’s particular interests: most famous statements are not within intention had been to make the Church philosophical theology (and how dated these pages,’ and that gave me concern and the Christian life available to two the idealism he learned at Oxford now that my own particular favourite men, at that time shut away in seems); his theological investigations (I quotation from Temple might not be institutions. Very soon after this first found what he says about the atonement there, but there it is, I am glad to say, on community was founded the purpose of – pp.57f – particularly thought- p. 130: Christianity ‘is the most L’Arche changed. Rather than merely provoking); his preaching; his reading of avowedly materialistic of all the great allowing the disabled to receive the gifts St John’s gospel; political and social religions.’ of the Church, through L’Arche the theology; his part in the ecumenical I enjoyed reading this collection and Church would receive the gifts of the movement; and much else besides. I was – especially for those who would find disabled. Jean Vanier has spent half a reminded, reading Temple, of a point access to Temple’s works difficult, with century distributing these gifts to that the late John Macquarrie made most of them long out of print, and with anyone prepared to receive them. His from time to time – that much of the public libraries less attentive to theology appearance at the recent meeting of language nowadays associated with and religious studies – it will facilitate an Primates at Canterbury is just one Catholic continental theology in the encounter and engagement with one of example. 1950s and 1960s about ‘Christ the the great figures of twentieth-century It must be admitted that L’Arche has sacrament’ and ‘the Church as English Christian life. drunk deeply the spirit of a particular sacrament’ can in fact be found JereHy Sheehy interpretation of Vatican II. In my year

April 2016 ■ new directions ■ 21 learn from them is threatened by work has been translated and published prejudice; but also, it must be said, by posthumously, for he died in 1985) abortion. My only criticism of this book moves from the results to a historical, is that more is not made of this threat to theological and canonical examination the dignity of human life. In a country in of the revival of concelebration in the which the vast majority of unborn Eucharist after the Second Vatican children found to have Down’s Council’s decrees. Syndrome are aborted, this ‘reality’ is I would have found it helpful to have being shared by too few of God’s either more bibliographical information children, and the Church and the world in the footnotes or to have had a are learning less of Christ as a result. bibliography before or after the text. As Tom CarpenteI it was, there were some quotations in the text that I could not track down through THE HOLY EUCHARIST – THE the notes, even after spending some time in the effort. And although the WORLD’S SALVATION translation and text are mostly clear Joseph de Sainte-Marie, OCD there are a good number of slips in either as an assistant I never saw mass Gracewing, 557pp, pbk translation or proof-reading – I celebrated on anything other than a ISBN 978 0852443011 £25 wondered from the fact that no single coffee table, by anyone wearing more translator is credited whether the work than an alb and a knitted stole. What Catholic Anglicans fell in love with was in fact done by a team, and whether Montgomery Wright would have made concelebration in the 1970s and 1980s. this could be the reason for the slips. of these liturgies can well be imagined. There are many reasons for this – some I digress for a moment to discuss a Yet he, like Jean Vanier, had the same good, some bad. No doubt it influenced theological detail. The author is vocation: to live with a person with us that some bishops were rather against particularly concerned that the particular needs not as a carer; but as a it – I remember being part of a limitation of ‘the multiplication of friend. ‘Father needs me,’ Christian conversation with Hugh Montefiore, masses’ (p.297) will fetter the economy would say to his family when he was when he was Bishop of Birmingham, of grace. Further, he argues that in a anxious to leave at the end of a holiday about whether the diocesan celebration concelebrated mass there is one with them. for the 150th anniversary of the Oxford Eucharistic celebration, not as many as This book seeks to answer ‘life’s big Movement could be concelebrated. there are celebrants. That was a position questions’ using the experience of the And, of course, organizing conc- contested in the 1950s and 1960s, but it disabled and despised, and the teachings elebration could very easily sort out the now seems to me, at least, of Jesus. The fifth chapter is a good liturgical sheep from the liturgical goats. straightforward. Roman Catholic canon example: It tries to answer the question All of that left us rather hoist with our law accepted that nonetheless each ‘what is reality?’ Vanier tells the story of own petard as we tried to work through concelebrant could licitly receive a mass Brenda, a woman who lives in his the practice of concelebration in the stipend, and I had always understood community. Most of what she says is light of the consequences of the that this ruling was made chiefly for incomprehensible, apart from ‘time is it?’ ordination of women to the priesthood pragmatic and practical reasons. The and ‘when Annik?’ Annik is Brenda’s in 1994, to which all those who can justification the author gives for this is sister, whose visits she longs for from the remember the early Forward in Faith that ‘the value of each Mass being moment the last one ends. Brenda’s National Assemblies can bear witness. infinite (since it is the very sacrifice of phrases, though formulaic, show her This extensive (and, to be honest, at Christ that is immolated and offered), need for dialogue. Once, at prayers in the times rather over-exhaustive) review of there is no opposition to the community, ‘with great composure ... concelebration in the Roman Catholic multiplication of particular intentions focussed on the candle, she said “Thank Church after the Second Vatican for which the Mass is applied’ (p.107). you.”’ It reminded Vanier that she ‘does Council deals with a very different set of But if this is the case and the value is not exist within the cosy structures of issues and problems from a very infinite, then what damage, at the level habitual phrases. She is much more different perspective. The claim is that of the economy of grace, can a limitation complex ... to know Brenda is to be an over-emphasis on concelebration has on the multiplication of masses possibly continually surprised and opened up to damaged priestly spirituality, restricted bring? Of course, there remain the the mystery of her being and therefore lay access to the celebration of the important points that the author makes to our shared reality.’ Eucharist at times and occasions most about restriction of the access of lay The book is full of such insights from convenient to hugely busy lay men and people to the celebration of the people with disabilities, and it shows women, and led to undignified and Eucharist. how much we have to learn from people irreverent liturgy. The accuracy of those This rather specialized and recondite like Brenda about our vocations. The claims I am not competent to assess. But read needs a persevering reader. ‘shared reality’ that is necessary for us to the Carmelite professor and author (this JereHy Sheehy

22 ■ new directions ■ April 2016 Book of the month

THE ROMANOVS 1613-1918 Simon Sebag Montefiore Weidenfeld & Nicolson,745pp, hbk ISBN 978 0297852667 £17

Next year’s centenary of the downfall of the Romanov dynasty international policies of Catherine the Great paved the way will no doubt result in a large number of volumes concerned ultimately to the success of Russian arms under Alexander I with that flawed and tragic house; but it is unlikely that it will against Napoleon, and perhaps the greatest extent of Romanov prompt one better than this magnificent study. Not only does power and influence. By contrast, the assumption by the Simon Sebag Montefiore superbly control the wide ranging vacillating Nicholas II of military command in 1915 – against sweep of his narrative; but the publishers have also done him the advice of most of his family and ministers, but fortified by proud by the magnificent production of the volume – there his wife’s advice to use Rasputin’s comb to arrange his hair are plenty of glossy colour and black-and-white photographs, before difficult meetings with the general staff – meant that including one of a sensual drawing by Alexander II of his the dynasty, already isolated from contact with the people by mistress Katya Dolgorukaya. His love letters to her (with more its fear of assassination attempts, was personally identified than Lawrentian undertones) are here used extensively for the with the failures on the German front – and therefore first time. A wide and fascinating variety of characters adorn ultimately doomed. this history: dwarves; drunkards; This is not by any means just a book maids-of-honour on the make; about the effect of personalities on Turkish slaves; one-eyed boyfriends history. Sebag Montefiore shows how (Potemkin); religious enthusiasts the rule of the Romanovs was (Alexander I and Rasputin – despite repeatedly strengthened by the bond their respective insatiable love-lives); between the aristocracy and the a peasant raised to the imperial crown regime, how that bond was weakened by her unstable husband (Catherine by the liberation of the serfs, and how I); or a minor German princess who the skills-base of Russia – despite the snatched it from hers (Catherine II). success of its late industrial However, because of the intensely revolution and its military and autocratic nature of the regime, and territorial expansion in the late the divinely inspired sense of national nineteenth century – was likewise purpose which the person of the tsar undermined by the years of serfdom embodied, Sebag Montefiore’s and agricultural backwardness. Like dynastic history is also to some extent all good historians Sebag Montefiore the history of Russia itself under the has a superb sense of the ironies of Romanovs, although he modestly history, which keep the course of his disclaims such an ambition in his long narrative flowing. His scene- opening remarks. The identification of setting opening chapter, in which the ruler with national purpose and first Romanov, the boy tsar Michael identity is a unifying and continuing – effectively kept in a convent prison concept to the peoples and diversity of as a victim of regime change – is the Russias, which the dynasty’s offered the crown, in contrast to the Communist and post-Communist ominous narration of the final hours successors (as Sebag Montefiore, as the author of equally of the last tsarevitch, Alexei – also in prison and for the same compelling books on Stalin and his Court, points out) have not reason – is immediately gripping. That sense of irony is also failed to imitate. subtly shown by a wide variety of intriguing Gibbonian As its title indicates, the book is primarily a personal footnotes: who would have guessed that the last of Alexander history of a family; and accordingly it is divided into sections II’s children by his morganatic marriage would die on Hayling preceded (like any good edition of a Tolstoy novel) by a family Island in 1959 – a retired night-club singer supported by a tree, and a list of dramatis personæ, with their nicknames and small pension from Queen Mary? Or that one of Rasputin’s historical epithets. It was the nature of autocratic Romanov chefs at the luxurious Astoria Hotel in Petrograd was one rule that the influence of the personal history of the tsar on Spiridon Putin, the grandfather of the Romanovs’ present the history of the nation he or she ruled inevitably affected the successor? ND success of the regime – thus the strong character and Nigel PalmeI

April 2016 ■ new directions ■ 23 Secular Liturgies Tom Sutcliffe yearns for a greater championing of British opera

Peter Phillips, the musical entrepreneur patronage. Shakespeare – as a partner in proper stagings. Putting on the Ring who created and conducts the Tallis the Lord Chamberlain’s Men (later the destroyed Scottish Opera, leading to the Scholars, says that he cares that opera, ‘a King’s Men) – also had official status loss of its permanent chorus and its form of entertainment that gives some and dutie at Court, which brought orchestra. Politicians are of course people a lot of pleasure,’ should flourish. rewards. In those days of state control unimpressed if a chorus is being paid but I worry, however, that he does not seem and censorship he and Burbage needed doing nothing. Only one of the four Ring to understand the costs of any live official support. Jacobean England was operas needs a chorus, and then of men theatrical performance involving more scarcely capitalism as we know it now. only. Chorus contracts should detail than a choir-size handful. He also seems Opera is challenging for all what work the pay is for. But with an to opine that opera should just be for the concerned, including the audience. opera company not doing many rich who fancy it. His Spectator column Staging opera is like running a military performances, what should ‘full-time’ headed ‘ENO Must Go’ concluded that campaign; albeit less bloody. For the mean? ‘if people want The Mikado , they can pay performers and their auxiliaries many ENO has had a heartening success for it. If they want the Ring, they can pay actions need to coincide: it takes with its new production of Philip Glass’s for that too.’ He cannot have noticed planning and manufacturing skills. Akhnaten . I am not a Glass fan, but the how little live spoken theatre there music – though as lacking in is in urban areas outside London, Opera deserves to be regarded dramatic colour or tension as Carl let alone opera. as a living equivalent to the Orff’s Antigone and Oedipus – has I don’t believe in majority taste. some interest. However, the subject No referendum will endorse opera greatest paintings does not interest me because the as fervently as capital punishment, words (which I had to read because though perhaps public libraries might be Rehearsals are needed not just by the they were inaudible) and situation are so democratically approved. London upper crust of performers. It can be superficial. In 1985, first time round at should only need Covent Garden, he miniaturised and you can ignore ENO, it was more engaging. The trouble feels; and less opera might mean more elements it needs. But it is sad that is that Phelim McDermott’s staging is all comfort for the Tallis Scholars. someone with such a reputation for fine circus and choreography. The American Phillips seemingly assumes that the performances of choral church music as countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo arts in the USA do not get subsidy. In Peter Phillips should attack an art form (Akhnaten) makes his entrance naked – fact, the system of tax kickbacks and as serious as opera. which does not add realism. It is all deductions permitted by the Revenue Byrd and Tallis’s wondrous poly- ritual, unlike last time here. But the over there provides substantial life- phony was to accompany highly punters like spectacular, so it has sold support for opera, theatre, music, dance, theatrical and choreographed represent- well – helping ENO in its present crisis. galleries, and museums – not to mention ations of fundamental Christian truths. At Covent Garden, Richard Jones’s private universities. Labour-intensive Opera is a glorious expansion of the production of Boris Godunov was live performing arts like opera and sermon, powered to feed the five cleaned up and also choreographed – theatre have rarely made serious money thousand with vital ideas, and involving with a mime repeated four times on the even in this age of mechanised contextual tales realised in colourful upper level of the set, showing the true reproduction and digitalised memory. narrative drama in ways that will shock Dmitry as a boy having his throat cut. There is either the German way, where us into rethinking many of our No Polish scenes or grand operatic a portion of public expenditure (€3 assumptions. Opera makes us think and romance. Even the usually primitive inn, billion annually for opera) is channelled feel. Dr Johnson thought it an ‘irrational where the disreputable monk Varlaam via the federal Länder and city mayors; entertainment,’ but its potent marriage sings a rattling aria (splendidly done by or the American way (perhaps more of singing voice and text embodies an John Tomlinson) was just a neat counter. pluralistic but also far more effortful and utterly lifelike dynamic. Maybe some Very designer-ish. But Ben Knight, head expensive) where individuals decide or court masques staged by Inigo Jones choirboy at All Saints, Kingston-upon- are persuaded to give some of what they with texts by Ben Jonson were just Thames, took the role of the Tsarevich would otherwise pay in tax to not-for- entertainment. But opera deserves to be Fyodor brilliantly – much better than profit institutions the Revenue deems regarded as a living equivalent to the the usual little mezzo-soprano. Ain worthy and appropriate. greatest paintings of Velasquez, Titian, Anger as Pimen and Kostas Smoriginas It is often said Shakespeare died rich or Leonardo. as Shchelkalov added the dark bass tones from performance profits. Recusant Opera North is about to present in the opera needs. Maestro Pappano as composers Byrd and Tallis made money Leeds, Nottingham, Gateshead, Salford, usual got good playing and plotted the thanks to music publishing monopolies and London a series of semi-staged course well. Boris’s musically memorable granted by Elizabeth I. They also held concert performances of the Ring coronation had the bonus of a important posts and had Court because it cannot afford to put on actual colourfully dressed chorus. But I found

24 ■ new directions ■ April 2016 the production cold and unfeeling. at the end a dead sheep on a hillside. passable. But the conducting is good, and Neither Bryn Terfel in the title role, nor English Touring Opera drew packed the singing of some roles has merit. ETO John Graham-Hall as the wily Prince audiences at the Hackney Empire, and manages on very little subsidy, but is Shuisky were cast right. Terfel has a are now on the road all over the UK filling a hole successfully. On the other fabulous bass but lacks those earthy with Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride , hand, if this is the new norm for most black tones Boris needs, suggesting fate Donizetti’s Pia de’ Tolomei , and Don opera in Britain, people who want the and angst. He is too eupeptic, and with Giovanni . The movement on stage and full works will have to go abroad for his soft beard and sheepskins resembled the sets and costumes may only be their fix. Ring Dem Bells Serenhedd James goes to see The Book of Mormon y only experience of the Church of Jesus Christ of his copy of the Book of Mormon surgically removed from a Latter-Day Saints is that my very first piano’ particularly awkward place. M exams were taken in one of their buildings. When Meanwhile, Cunningham has somehow become the most I went to boarding school the examiners came to us, and the successful Mormon missionary anyone can remember. This is flimsy association ceased entirely. It was with only a little all very well until the Mission President turns up to knowledge, then, that I went recently to the Prince of Wales congratulate him, and the grateful neophytes decide to present Theatre to see The Book of Mormon . the story of Joseph Smith in dramatic form. It soon becomes The story follows two new graduates of the Church clear that the reason Cunningham’s work has been so fruitful Missionary Training Centre in Utah, Kevin Price and Arnold is that the version of the Book of Mormon he has presented – Cunningham, as they head off on a mission to war-torn it transpires that he has only ever dipped in and out of the Uganda. Elder Price has been the model student; Elder original – has been inspired a little by Joseph Smith, but more Cunningham is everything that Price is not, and an heavily by Tolkien, Star Wars, and his own fertile imagination. imaginative fantasist to boot, but he makes up for his many It all works out in the end, of course – depending on your inadequacies with boundless enthusiasm and misplaced viewpoint – and to divulge anymore would be unfair. optimism. Cunningham is delighted to be going to Africa with South Park used to run a tongue-in-cheek disclaimer at the Price; Price had hoped to be sent Orlando with someone – start of each episode which warned its viewers that ‘due to its anyone – else. content it should not be viewed by anyone,’ and the rumours The misfit pair are robbed at gunpoint the moment they you may have heard are probably true: The Book of Mormon is arrive; and soon meet their colleagues. The missionaries they by turn rude, crude, violent, irreverent, vulgar, puerile, join are earnest, kind, well-meaning, and devout; but they are offensive, and disgusting. I’m sorry to say that I enjoyed it simultaneously hopelessly equipped to deal with the various immensely. problems they face, from the violent situation on the ground to dealing (or not) with issues of their own sexuality: ‘When you start to get confused because of thoughts in your head, Don’t feel those feelings – hold them in instead.’ The war-weary people they are meant to be trying to convert – their success rate stands at nil – are non- receptive. Eventually Price, disillusioned with his experience, runs away; but he returns after being tormented in a number called ‘Mormon Hell Dream’ (a sequence very much in the tradition of South Park , Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s former collaboration) by Satan, Hitler, the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, O. J. Simpson’s defence lawyer Johnnie Cochran, Genghis Khan, and dancing cups of forbidden coffee. With fervent new-found zeal Price goes straight to convert the local war-lord (who has a very rude name); but ends up having to have

April 2016 ■ new directions ■ 25 Eastertide Diary A bridge too far? It was Mrs Bumble, however, who was given the most Life can be a series of ironies. My contribution to the genre is egregious error. In rehearsing the Workhouse children for a that penury has constrained me to live in London – the most recitation of the Lord’s Prayer before the Management expensive city in the country, if not the world – and in one of Committee of the Parish Workhouse, she ferociously corrects the most expensive parts of town. One of the joys of this, them when they say ‘in earth as it is in heaven.’ ‘No, no, no,’ she however, is walking around areas of pitch-perfect domestic screams, ‘on earth, on earth!’ Not according to the Book of architecture. Pimlico, South Kensington, and Bloomsbury – Common Prayer, the only liturgical text that would have been almost wholly colonised by London University – among other available to them at the time. It could have been an elaborate areas, offer much to admire. Even somewhere that you might joke – when the hapless children recited the wrong word, the expect to find little of architectural interest like Kentish Town simpering clergyman present could have corrected them. This can have much to offer if you apply the dictum of the late Sir would have resulted in collapse of (literally) stout party. But John Betjeman and look above the garish and corporate shop no: instead another step on the road to barbarism. fronts. On the most unprepossessing buildings you will often see a neat pediment, decorative touches, wrought ironwork, Hats off to Fr Cartwright something graceful and deft. To turn a corner and find an While I am on the subject: why do the men in the relatively unexpected square or terrace of neat Georgian house raises new BBC series of Father Brown stories never remove their the spirit. hats when indoors, even when in church? Perhaps Fr Brown These are buildings that are humane and on a human scale. could solve that mystery, as well as the one of why his church Others are not. Canary Wharf and much of the development in Kembleford is medieval. However, all was done very of the City of London are soulless, and some of the buildings properly indeed in a recent episode of Happy Valley , a gritty patently absurd. In a recent edition of the Literary Review , and hard-edged police drama. I have to record it, as the Jonathan Meades – in the course of a favourable notice of a dialogue is often so badly spoken that I have to replay sections book by Rowan Moore, Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty- several times before I can understand what has been said. No First Century – offers a coruscating critique There should be a BAFTA such criticism could be made of Fr Paul of the state of public buildings and London’s Cartwright (of this parish), whose conduct architecture. It is ‘laughably boorish, for the most convincing the funeral in the crematorium of the confidently uncouth and flashily arid … portrayal of a priest mother of the main villain was exemplary. [London] is a magnet for a caste of There should be a BAFTA for the most designers who seem hardly to notice that the milieu they convincing portrayal of a priest, with extra marks for the inhabit is chasmically remote from the lives of those affected correct wearing of a biretta. Fr Cartwright has my nomination. and afflicted by their creations.’ He calls Boris Johnson ‘mendacious,’ and National Treasure Joanna Lumley ‘a gurning In or Out? veteran dolly bird’ over the proposed Garden Bridge over the I am old enough to have voted in the last referendum when Thames. A bridge too far, I suspect. Agree with him or not, we were invited to remain in or leave the Common Market. Meades writes whirling and cavalier prose, striking the erring Harold Wilson’s re-negotiated terms then were as thin as Mr Amalakites hip and thigh. I tend to agree with him: three Cameron’s now. The Parliamentary majority to go into the cheers for Jonathan Meades. Market had been provided by Labour rebels, led by Roy Jenkins. Then there seemed a greater split in Labour than the Common wordslip Conservatives. Enoch Powell and Tony Benn (who I enjoyed Dickensian , which was shown on BBC1 between ‘immatured with age,’ as Wilson sharply put it) led the failed Christmas and mid-February. The imagining of Dickens’s ‘Out’ campaign. Now the debate seems to be an internal one characters from different novels as strands in one story was for the Tories. History repeats itself: this time, apparently, as the idea of Tony Jordan. He was the co-creator of EastEnders , farce. I am too old to benefit or suffer much from the result and Dickensian was a nineteenth-century version. It was darkly whichever way it goes, so I asked a younger friend who lives atmospheric, claustrophobic, fogged, and dank. Much was and works here but is not eligible to vote which side he would owed to Debbie Wiseman’s fine, spare, telling score. There choose. He came down, marginally, to stay in. I will act as his were no weak performances from an array of superb actors. proxy. Particularly outstanding were Ned Denneley (Scrooge, from Lent seemed to come and go quickly. A sometime Principal A Christmas Carol , and previously unknown to me); Tom of Pusey House was asked by an undergraduate what he Weston-Jones, the charmingly malicious Meriweather was giving up for Lent. ‘Sex and opera,’ he replied. The student Compeyson from Great Expectations ; and the superb Stephen blanched but gamely pressed on, and asked one of the Priest Rea (Inspector Bucket from Bleak House ), who gave a Librarians what he was foregoing. ‘I believe in taking masterclass of forensic intelligence and humanity. Richard up something extra during Lent,’ came the reply. ‘I am taking Ridings as Mr Bumble ( Oliver Twist ) and Caroline Quentin as up what the Principal is giving up.’ That’s the spirit. Happy Mrs Bumble were my favourites: relentless and inept social Easter. ND climbers, hugely comic, grotesque, yet ultimately touching. ‘Thurifer’

26 ■ new directions ■ April 2016 Meat: right, and our bounden duty Our chef shares his fondness for breast and shoulder

thyme, and a good few twists of pepper. There’s no need for salt – the anchovies have plenty. It’s best to chop all this up on a board, rather than use a food processor; cleaning up is quicker, and you can judge more easily if a little more of this or that is needed. The tying up procedure is slightly more daunting, but as long as you are able to tie knots in string you will get there: it’s the first knot that is the hardest. A sous chef (any human with washed hands will do) to hold the string in place as you tie is helpful but not essential. Season the outside, and after twenty minutes or so in a high oven, turn down the heat and s the joy of the Resurrection is obtained. Breast of lamb has a significant cook slowly. proclaimed in church by the layer of fat, which makes it very Both these dishes may be prepared in A restoration of Alleluia to the flavoursome. But something is needed to advance up to the cooking stage, and Mass and Office, so too is the Paschal cut through and absorb the fat: try busy priests could put them in the oven triumph made known at the table. Meat preparing a stuffing of citrus peel (I’ve before, between, or immediately after is back on the daily menu (though not used lemon, but orange could be worth the Sunday-morning masses, depending on Fridays, of course, with a few festal exploring), breadcrumbs, and chopped on the weight and time of eating. Use exceptions). Those whose job it is to dried fruit – apricots, perhaps – together scales and a favoured cooking-times worry about such things would tell us with some bitter herbs, salt and pepper. table to determine how long any given that that does not necessarily mean we Allow approximately one breast roast will need. It is nigh-on impossible should be eating meat thrice daily – and between two or three, depending on how to give hard and fast rules, as so much certainly not of the processed kind. But depends on the efficiency of individual a moderate quantity of red meat is good It is the telos of many ovens. The best advice is to invest in a for the health as well as for the order of meat thermometer from a catering things; indeed it is the telos of many animals to be eaten supplier: internal temperature is the animals to be eaten. only sure way to know (consult the Lamb is, for obvious scriptural hungry you are. Lay out the stuffing so it internet or a cookbook for reasons, an excellent choice for covers the whole of the inside, roll up temperatures). If you start cooking with Eastertide. But we need not confine and secure with string. It should look the meat at room temperature, you will ourselves to griddled chops and roasted like a Swiss roll. Season the exterior, have an easier time of it. leg: this creature of God’s creation has brown it in a sizzling pan, and cook For quicker cooking, maybe for a many other cuts to offer us. I am not slowly in a medium oven. weeknight supper, what about liver? It advocating a completely biblical Shoulder is often overlooked because has had something of resurgence in approach to ‘nose-to-tail eating,’ of the complexity of the bone recent years, as more television chefs however. Many will find a whole lamb arrangements. If you are fortunate sing the praises of offal. Liver is rather too costly and their neighbours enough to be able to purchase meat from approachable: it doesn’t look too unwilling to make up a syndicate – in an actual butcher, he or she will be happy peculiar and the flavour is not any case, waste disposal regulations to bone a shoulder out for you. If not, challenging. The classic accomp- probably forbid the incineration of meat YouTube is an excellent source for DIY animents of slow-cooked onions and without the appropriate licences. home butchery. A small sharp knife is well-fried bacon are hard to beat. Breast, whilst not universally essential. Like breast, stuffed and rolled Deglaze the pan with white wine to acknowledged to be the best cut of lamb, and slow-cooked is the best way of make a quick sauce, and garnish with certainly has a lot to offer the thrifty approaching this cut. My favoured parsley. Serve with mashed potato or cook. It is quite inexpensive, owing to stuffing is a paste made out of a tin or something similarly absorbent; just be the time and effort needed to prepare two of anchovies with their oil, six fat sure not to overcook the liver or you and cook it. With the right attention, garlic cloves, two or three sprigs of fresh may be tempted from joy to sorrow. however, excellent results can be rosemary (de-stalked), the same of ‘Audubon’

April 2016 ■ new directions ■ 27 touching place ALL SAINTS, LAUGHTON, LINCS

aughton looks to be a typical North Lincolnshire village. The church looks typical as well – west tower, clerestoried and aisled nave, and chancel – at least until you cross the threshold. You realise that its L th medieval rebuilding was gradual, as the C13 south arcade is balanced by a rather fine late C12 th one on the north side. Then you spot a striking screen and rood; looking up at the elaborately painted roofs, it becomes clear that this was no ordinary Victorian restoration. The person behind it was no ordinary patron, either. Sister of the 2 nd Viscount Halifax, Emily Charlotte Wood married the rich Hugo Francis Meynell-Ingram, whose property included Laughton, Hoar Cross (Staffs), and Temple Newsam (Yorks). Following his early death, she called on Bodley and Garner to build Hoar Cross church in his memory. It is a stunning Anglo-Catholic shrine (ND June 2007), for she shared her brother’s religion. Nearly 20 years on from Hoar Cross, she asked Bodley and Garner, again, to restore the nave of Laughton and to provide a new chancel. In the north aisle she placed a white marble effigy of her husband, a copy of the one at Hoar Cross. The high and spacious chancel was furnished in impeccable taste, with a stately triptych reredos, and the glazing was completed after its benefactress’s death by Burlison and Grylls, the glaziers of Hoar Cross. Laughton church is one of the unheralded wonders of Lincolnshire. ‘A very special church, not to be missed,’ wrote Henry Thorold, who knew and cared about such things. Map reference SK849973 Simon Cotton

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Solemn Mass 9.30am. Daily Mass - Tues 9.30am, Wed 7.30pm Sunday: Masses 9am and 11am (Solemn). Daily Mass: Mon With the spire at the end of St. Martin’s Church Street behind Thurs 10am, Fri 9.30am, Sat 10am. Confessions by 10am, Tues 11am, Wed 7pm, Thur 10am, Fri 1.15pm, Sat 10am. Wiltshire College. A Forward in Faith Parish. Resolutions ABC appointment. Contact Fr Peter Harnden on 0208 644 9070, Rosary - 2nd and 4th Saturday at 10.30am. Parish Priest: Fr Reg under the episcopal care of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet . Sunday: Churchwardens: Douglas Boreham 0208 646 4682 and Stanley Bushau 020 7370 3418 www.saint-stephen.org.uk Parish Eucharist, 11.00am (also 8.00pm 2nd and 4th Sundays) Palmer 020 8330 7408 LONDON Sw11 The Ascension , Lavender Hill . Famous and Daily Office and Eucharist. For further information contact: Parish Administration on 01722 503123 or SwINDON Parish of Swindon New Town A Forward in flourishing ABC Parish, in the Fulham Jurisdiction . Inspiring Faith Parish under the episcopal care of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet . liturgy with modern rites, traditional ceremonial, fervent www.sarumstmartin.org.uk Parish Priest: Fr. David Fisher. 01722 500896 Sunday masses: 9.00am S. Saviour's; 10.30am S. Mark's;10.30am preaching and good music. Sunday: High Mass 11am. Weekday S. Luke's. Weekday masses as advertised. Contact Fr Dexter Mass: Wednesday 7.30pm. Rosary: Saturday 11.30am. SOLW SCARBOROUGH St Saviour with All Saints , A FiF Parish Bracey 01793 538220 [email protected] Cell organises pilgrimage, social and fundraising activities. affiliated to the Society of Ss Wilfrid and Hilda and under the Parish Priest: Fr Iain Young 020 7228 5340 Episopal Care of the Bishop of Beverley . Sunday Mass 10am with TIPTON , west Midlands St John the Evangelist , refreshments to follow. Evening Prayer 4.30pm. Evening Prayer Upper Church Lane, DY4 9ND . ABC . Sunday Parish Mass with LONDON Sw19 All Saints , South Wimbledon . Society and Benediction on the last Sunday of the month. Weekday Sunshine Club for Children 9.30am; Evening Prayer 4pm. Daily Parish Under the Episcopal Care of the Bishop of Fulham . masses: Monday 2pm Thursday 10.15am Saturday 9.30am. Mass: Monday & Thursday 7.30pm. Wednesday 9.30am. Friday Sunday Solemn Mass 11am. For other masses and services Major Festivals times vary. Fr David Dixon 01723 363828 & Saturday 10am. www.fifparish.com/ stjohntipton Parish contact Fr Christopher Noke 020 8948 7986, the church office [email protected] stsaviour-scarborough.org.uk Priest: Fr Simon Sayer CMP 0121 679 7510 020 8542 5514 or see www.allsaintswimbledon.org.uk/ SHREwSBURY All Saints with St Michael , North Street TIVIDALE, Oldbury, west Midlands St. Michael LONDON wC1 Christ the King , Gordon Square The (near Shrewsbury railway station) . A Forward in Faith Parish under the Archangel , Tividale Road and Holy Cross , Ashleigh Road . Forward in Faith Church . Mon to Fri: Mass at 12.30pm, plus: Thur the episcopal care of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet. Resolutions ABC . Society Parish . Sunday Worship: Parish Mass 11am at 12 noon: Angelus followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sunday: Mass 10.30am. For daily Mass times or further (St.Michael's), Evening Mass 6pm (Holy Cross). Contact Sacrament until 12.25pm. Other services: as announced. information, contact Mike Youens, Churchwarden 01 743 Fr.Martin Ennis 01 384 257888 [email protected] , Contact the FiF Office on 020 7388 3588 or email: 236649. www.vicaroftividale.co.uk [email protected] SOUTH BENFLEET , Essex St Mary the Virgin FiF under TORQUAY All Saints , Babbacombe - ABC Parish under the LOUND Suffolk St John the Baptist . Sung Parish Mass. the pastoral care of The Bishop of Richborough . Sundays 10am care of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet. Sunday 10.30am Sung Parish Sunday Mass 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sunday's 9.30am Further details Parish Mass, other service highlights: Wed 7.30pm Mass and Mass. Weekdays: 9.30am Mass (Except Thurs – 6.30pm). Fr. from Fr David Boddy SSC 01 502 733374 Exposition; Sat 9am Mass & Rosary, Family Masses as Paul Jones – 07809 767458 Cary Ave, Babbacombe. TQ1 3QT allsaintsbabbacombe.org.uk MANCHESTER Failsworth The Church of the Holy announced. Friendly Faith and Worship. Parish Priest: Fr Leslie Family . A Forward in Faith Parish . Sunday Mass : 9.15am. For Drake SSC wALSALL St Gabriel’s , Fullbrook, Walstead Road, Walsall, off other Sunday and Weekday Services or further information SOUTHPORT St. Luke , corner of Hawkshead St and St.Lukes Junc.7 or 9 of M6 . Resolutions ABC . Sunday: 8am Mass, 10am please contact the Rector, Fr Tony Mills: 0161 681 3644 Rd, about 1/2 mile from town centre . Sundays: Parish Parish Mass, 4pm Evening Prayer, 5pm Evening Mass. Daily Mass10.30am, Evensong and Benediction 6.30pm. Weekday Mass. Parish Priest: Fr Mark McIntyre 01922 622583 MANCHESTER The Parish of Swinton and Mass: Tuesday 7.30pm, Wednesday 9.30am followed by Pendlebury: All Saints , Wardley ; Saint Augustine , wALSINGHAM St Mary & All Saints , Church Street . A refreshments, Thursday 11am, Friday 11.30am Adoration, 12 Society and Forward in Faith Parish under the Episcopal care of Pendlebury ; Saint Peter , Swinton . A Forward in Faith Parish . noon Mass, Saturday 9.30am Confessions, 10am Mass. Parish Sunday Masses: 8am and 5.30pm (SP), Sung at 9.30am (AS), the Bishop of Richborough . Sunday: Solemn Mass, 11.00 Priest: Fr Paul Hutchins SSC - email: 10.30am (SP) and 11am (SA). Daily Mass in Parish. Clergy am Weekdays: please see www.walsinghamparishes.org.uk [email protected] - 01704 213711- www.sluke. Contact: Fr Andrew Mitcham SSC, 01328 821316 Fr.Jeremy Sheehy 0161 794 1578 and Fr.Michael Fish 0161 794 co.uk 4298., Parish Office: 0161 727 8175 wEDNESBURY, west Bromwich St Francis of email: paroff[email protected] SPENNYMOOR, CO. DURHAM St Andrew , Tudhoe Assisi , Friar Park WS10 0HJ (5 minutes from junc 9 of M6) Sunday: Grange , A parish of the Society, under the care of the Bishop of Mass 9.45am. Weekday Mass: Tues and Thur 9.30am, Wed and MIDDLESBROUGH The Church of St Columba Sunday: Beverley ; Sunday: 9am Sung Mass and Sunday School, 6pm Fri 7.30pm, Sat 10am. Lively worship in the Modern Catholic Mass 9.30am. Daily Mass. St John the Evangelist Sunday Evensong (with Benediction on 1st Sunday of month); Weekday Tradition, with accessible preaching, and a stunning gem of a Mass 11am. For further information contact Fr Stephen Cooper Masses: Tues 7pm, Thurs 9.30am.Parish Priest: Fr John Livesley church beautifully restored . Parish Clergy: Fr Ron Farrell: 0121 01642 824779 SSC - 01388 814817 556 5823 or Fr.Gary Hartill 0121 505 3954- Visit us at www. NORTH YORK MOORS St Leonard , Loftus and St STAFFORD , St.Peter ,Rickerscote . A Forward in Faith Parish saintfrancisfriarpark.com Helen , Carlin How , both ABC Parishes situated on the edge of under the Episcopal Care of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet . Res.AB&C. wELLINGBOROUGH St Mary the Virgin , Knox Road the North York Moors. Sunday Mass: Carlin How 9am and Loftus Sunday - Parish Mass 10.15am. For further information contact (near BR station) A Forward in Faith Parish under the episcopal 10.30am. Mass every day except Thurs and Fri. Parish Priest: Fr Fr.David Baker SSC 01 785 259656 care of the Bishop of Richborough . Sunday: Mass 10.30am. Daily Adam Gaunt 01287 644047 Mass and Office. For further information see our Website: www. STOKE-ON-TRENT, LONGTON SS Mary and Chad . A stmarywellingborough.org.uk OXFORD St John the Evangelist , New Hinksey (1 mile from Forward in Faith Parish . Sunday: Parish Mass 10am. Weekdays: the city centre; Vicarage Road, OX1 4RE) Resolutions ABC . Sunday: Mon 10am, Tues 6.30pm, Wed 10am, Thur 11.30am, Fri 6.30pm. Continued on next page

April 2016 ■ new directions ■ 29 wEST KIRBY St Andrew , Meols Drive, Wirral, CH48 5DQ . FiF, DIOCESE OF DERBY Derby : St Anne , Churchwarden 8868; Swinton and Pendlebury ABC, FiF , Fr Jeremy Sheehy 0160 Sunday 8am Low Mass; 10:30 am Sung Mass; Evensong 6pm Alison Haslam 01 332 362392; St Luke , Fr.Leonard Young 01 332 794 1578; Tonge Moor, Bolton St Augustine , ABC, FiF , Fr Tony first Sunday. Daily Mass. Traditional ceremonial with a warm 342806; St Bartholomew , Fr.Leonard Young 01 332 342806; Davies 01204 523899; Winton St Mary Magdalene , ABC, FiF , Fr welcome. Safe harbour in Wirral and Cheshire West, visitors Hasland St Paul and Temple Normanton St James Fr Malcolm Ian Hall 0161 788 8991; Withington St Crispin , ABC, FiF , Fr welcome. Resolutions ABC. Parish Priest: Fr Walsh 0151 632 Ainscough 01246 232486; Ilkeston Holy Trinity , Bp Roger Jupp Patrick Davies 0161 224 3452 4728 www.standrewswestkirby.co.uk 0115 973 5168; Long Eaton St Laurence, Bp Roger Jupp 0115 973 5168; Staveley St John Baptist with Inkersall St Columba and FiF, DIOCESE OF PORTSMOUTH Fareham SS Peter and wESTON super MARE All Saints with St Saviour , All Barrow Hill St Andrew : Fr.Stephen Jones, 01 246 498603 Paul , Fareham Fr.Roger Jackson 01 329 281521; IOW : All Saints , Saints Road, BS23 2NL . A Member of the Society under the Godshill , and St Alban , Ventnor Fr John Ryder 01983 840895; episcopal care of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet - All are welcome. DIOCESE OF EXETER FiF Recommended Parishes : Good Shepherd , Lake , and St Saviour on the Cliff , Shanklin , Fr John Sundays: 9am Mass, 10.30am Parish Mass. Weekdays: 10am Abbotsham St Helen , vacant - Churchwarden 01 237 420338; Davies 01983 401121; Portsmouth : St James , Milton , Fr Paul Mass (Wed, Thur and Sat). Priest-in-Charge: Fr Andrew Hughes Babbacombe All Saints , Fr P.Jones 01803 323002; Barnstaple St Armstead 023 9273 2786; St Michael , Paulsgrove , Fr Ian Newton SSC 01934 204217 [email protected] - Parish Office 01934 Peter , Fr D Fletcher 01271 373837; Bovey Tracey St John , Fr G 02392 378194; The Ascension , North End , Vacant (Churchwarden 415379 [email protected] Visit our website Stanton 07925 051905; Exeter St Michael & All Angels , 02392 660123); Southsea Holy Spirit , Fr Philip Amey 023 9311 www.allsaintswsm.org Heavitree ; St Lawrence , Lower Hill Barton Rd ; St Paul , 7159; Stamshaw St Saviour , vacant Churchwarden 023 92643857 Burnthouse Lane ; St Mary Steps , West Street , Fr R Eastoe 01392 wEYMOUTH St Paul , Abbotsbury Road Modern catholic 677150; Exwick St Andrew , Station Road , Fr J Bird 01392 FiF, DIOCESE OF ROCHESTER Beckenham St Michael , 11am under the episcopal care of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet . Sunday 255500; Great Torrington St Michael , Little Torrington St Giles , Mass; Belvedere St Augustine , 10am Sung Mass; Swanley St Mary , (usually): Parish Mass 9.30am (creche and Sunday school); Frithelstock St Mary & St Gregory , Taddiport St Mary 10am Sung Mass; Bickley St George , 8am Low Mass, 10.30am Informal Eucharist 11.15am; EP and Benediction 5pm (1st Magdalene , Fr.P.Bevan - 01805 622166; Holsworthy St Peter & Sung Mass; Chislehurst The Annunciation , 8am Low Mass, 10am Sunday). For times of daily and Holyday mass ring Parish Priest: St Paul , Fr.C.Penn - 01 409 253435; Ilfracombe Team , Fr R Harris Sung Mass; Elmers End St James , 9.15am Mass, 10am Sung Mass; Fr Richard Harper SSC 01305 778821 01271 863467; Lewtrenchard St Peter , vacant 01566 784008; Gillingham St Luke , Parish Mass 10.30am; Higham St John , Newton Abbot St Luke , Milber , Vacant - Churchwarden 01 626 9.30am Sung Mass; Sevenoaks St John , 8am Low Mass, 10am wINCHESTER Holy Trinity . A Forward in Faith Church 212339; Paignton St John the Baptist with St Andrew & St Sung Mass; Tunbridge Wells St Barnabas , 10am Sung Mass; all under the Episcopal care of the Bishop of Richborough. ABC Boniface Fr R Carlton 01803 351866; Plymouth St contact details from Fr Jones 020 8311 6307 Resolutions . Sunday: Sung Mass 10.30am. Weekday Masses: Peter and the Holy Apostles Fr.D.Way - 01 752 222007; Tues 10.30am, Thur 12 noon. Contact: Canon Malcolm Jones SSC Plymouth Mission Community of Our Lady of Glastonbury St FiF, DIOCESE OF ST ALBANS ABC Parishes : Bedford St 01962 869707 (Parish Office) or Churchwardens: Barbara Smith Francis , Honicknowle , St Chad , Whitleigh , St Aidan , Ernesettle , Martin , vacant; Bushey Heath St Peter , Fr Burton 020 8950 1424; 01264 720887 or John Purver 01 962 732351 - email: enquiry@ Fr D Bailey 01752 773874; Plymouth Sacred Heart Mission Luton : Holy Cross , Marsh Farm , Fr Beresford 01923 236174; Holy holytrinitywinchester.co.uk - website: Community Parishes St John the Evangelist ; Sutton-on-Plym St Trinity , Biscot , Fr Singh 01582 579410; St Mary, Sundon & St www.holytrinitywinchester.co.uk Gabriel the Archangel , Peverell Park ; St Mary the Virgin , Laira , Fr Saviour , Fr Smejkal 01582 583076; Watford St John , Fr Stevenson K Haydon 01752 220644; Plymouth St Bartholomew , Devonport 01 923 236174. Other ‘safe’ parishes : Letchworth St Michael & St YORK All Saints , North Street (near Park Inn Hotel) A Forward in & St Mark , Ford , Fr. R. Silk – 01752 562623; Torquay St Mary , Fr Bennett 01462 684822; Potters Bar St Mary & All Saints , Faith church with traditional rite. Resolutions A,B &C passed . Marychurch Fr R Ward 01803 269258; Torquay St Martin , Fr G Fr Bevan 01707 644539 (please contact clergy for details of Sunday: Low Mass 10.30 am, Sung or High Mass 5.30pm, Chapman 01803 327223; Torre All Saints , Chelston St Matthew services) Thursday Low Mass 12.45 pm. Visitors to this beautiful medieval Vacant 01 803 607429; Winkleigh All Saints , Fr P Norman 01837 FiF, DIOCESE OF ST EDMUNDSBURY and IPSwICH church are always welcome; the church is normally open during 83719 daylight hours. - website: www. allsaints-northstreet.org.uk Heveningham Benefice Fr Tony Norton 01 986 875374; Ipswich St FiF, DIOCESE OF GUILDFORD Aldershot St Augustine , Mary at the Elms , Fr.John Thackray 07780 613754. Sunday Mass YORKSHIRE near Skipton on the road to Colne and Fr Keith Hodges 01252 320840, Hawley Holy Trinity and All 10.45am Mendlesham St Mary , Fr Philip Gray 01449 766359; Eye Clitheroe . Three rural churches which make up the only Saints , Fr Martyn Neale 01276 35287 - Please contact clergy for SS Peter and Paul - The Rev.Dr.Guy Sumpter 01 379 871986. Resolutions ABC Parish in the Yorkshire Dales . Sundays: details of services or visit www.forwardinfaith.info/guildford THORNTON St Mary Sung Mass, modern rite 9.15am. FiF, DIOCESE OF SHEFFIELD Bolton-on-Dearne St Andrew , MARTON St Peter Prayer Book Holy Communion 10.45am. FiF, DIOCESE OF LEICESTER Blackford and Woodville Fr T vacant; Cantley St Wilfrid , Fr Andrew Howard 01302 285 316; BROUGHTON All Saints Evensong 7pm. For further Vale 01283 211310; Leicester St Aidan , New Parks , Fr S Lumby Doncaster Holy Trinity , Fr Stokoe 01302 371256; Edlington St John information please contact Canon Nicholas Turner SSC 01282 0116 287 2342; St Mary de Castro , Fr D Maudlin 01572 820181; the Baptist , Fr Edmonds 01709 858358; Goldthorpe SS John and 842332 St Chad , Fr M Court 0116 241 3205; St Hugh , Eyres Monsall, Fr.Ian Mary Magdalene , Fr Schaefer 01709 898426; Hexthorpe St Jude , Wright 0116 277 7455; Narborough Fr A Hawker 0116 275 1470; Fr Edmonds 01709 858358; Hickleton St Wilfrid , Fr Schaefer 01709 Scraptoft Fr M Court 0116 241 3205; Wistow Benefice Fr P 898426; Hoyland St Peter , Fr Parker 01226 749231; Thurnscoe St O’Reilly 0116 240 2215 Hilda , vacant; Mexborough St John the Baptist , Fr Wise 01709 Diocesan 582321; Moorends St Wilfrith , Fr Pay 01302 784858; New Bentley FiF, DIOCESE OF LINCOLN ABC Parishes : Binbrook Group Ss Philip and James , Fr Dickinson 01302 875266; New Cantley St (Louth) Fr Walker 01472 398227; Edenham ( Bourne) Fr Hawes Hugh , Fr Stokoe 01302 371256; New Rossington St Luke , vacant; Directory 01778 591358; Grimsby St Augustine Fr Martin 07736 711360; Ryecroft : St Nicholas , Fr.Andrew Lee 01 709 921257; Dalton : Holy FiF, DIOCESE OF BIRMINGHAM Kingstanding St Luke * Skirbeck St Nicholas (Boston) Fr Noble 01205 362734; Wainfleet Trinity , Fr.Andrew Lee 01 709 921257; Doncaster Ss Leonard & 0121 354 3281, Kingstanding St Mark 0121 360 7288, Small Group (Skegness) Fr.Morgan 01 754 880029; AB Parishes : Jude (with St Luke) Fr Pay 01302 784858; Sheffield : St Bernard , Heath All Saints * 0121 772 0621, Sparkbrook St Agatha * 0121 Burgh-le- Marsh (Skegness) Fr Steele 01754 810216; Fosdyke Southey Green and St Cecilia , Parson Cross , Fr Ryder-West 0114 449 2790, Washwood Heath St Mark , Saltley St Saviour * 0121 All Saints (Kirton) vacant (Mr.Tofts 01 205 260672). Non- 2493916; St Catherine , Richmond Road , vacant; St Matthew , 328 9855, (*Forward in Faith Registered Parishes) petitioning parishes : Lincoln City Mrs Ticehurst 01522 850728 ; Carver Street , Fr.Grant Naylor 01 142 665681; St Mary , N.E. Lincs Fr Martin 07736 711360 ; S. Lincs Fr Noble 01205 Handsworth , Fr Johnson 01142 692403 (contact clergy for Mass FiF, DIOCESE OF CANTERBURY Ashford South St Francis 362734 times, etc) with Christ Church 01233 620600, Borden *SS Peter and Paul LEEDS FiF, wITHIN THE DIOCESE OF wEST YORKSHIRE 01795 472986, Deal *St Andrew 01 304 381131, Eastchurch *All FiF SOUTHAMPTON Parishes (under the episcopal care and the DALES Belle Isle St John and St Barnabas , Priest in of the Bishop of Richborough) welcome you : St Barnabas , Saints 01795 880205, Folkestone *St Peter 01303 254472, Guston Charge, Fr Chris Buckley CMP 01132 717821, also priest with *St Martin , 01304 204878, Harbledown *St Michael 01227 Lodge Road (off Inner Avenue A33 London Road) Sunday: Solemn pastoral responsibility for the Parishes of Hunslet St Mary , Cross Mass 10am, Daily Mass and other service details from Fr Barry 464117, Maidstone *St Michael 01622 752710, Preston St Green St Hilda , Richmond Hill St.Saviour ;Harehills St Wilfrid , Fr Catherine 01795 536801, Ramsgate *St George, Holy Trinity Fry SSC 02380 223107; Holy Trinity , Millbrook (Off A33 city centre Terry Buckingham SSC : 01943 876066; Please ring for details of road from M271) Sunday: Solemn Mass10am, Midweek Mass and 01843 593593, Temple Ewell SS Peter and Paul 01304 822865, (* services resolutions in place) other service details from Fr William Perry SSC 02380 701896 FiF, DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER Blackley Holy Trinity , ABC, FiF, DIOCESE OF CHESTER Chester St Oswald and St Thomas FiF, SOUTHwELL and NOTTINGHAM DIOCESE - ABC FiF, Fr Philip Stamp 0161 205 2879; Lower Broughton The churches : Nottingham : St Cyprian c/o Fr Hailes 0115 9873314; St of Canterbury , ABC, Fr Robert Clack 01 244 399990; Congleton St Ascension , ABC, FiF , Canon David Wyatt 0161 736 8868; James the Great , ABC , Fr Colin Sanderson 01260 408203; Crewe St George and also St Stephen , Fr Rushforth 0115 952 3378; Chadderton St Mark , ABC, FiF Churchwarden - Janet Rogers St.George the Martyr , Netherfield, vacant, contact Churchwarden Barnabas , ABC , Fr Ralph Powell 01270 212418; Crewe St Michael, 0161 627 4986; Failsworth Holy Family , ABC, FiF , Fr Tony Mills Coppenhall , ABC , Fr Charles Razzall 01270 215151; Dukinfield St Mrs.L.Barnett 0115 9526478. Worksop : St Paul , vacant ; contact 0161 681 3644; Glodwick St Mark , ABC , Fr Graham Hollowood Churchwarden Mrs M Winks 01909 568857; Priory Church of Our Luke , ABC , vacant; Knutsford St John the Baptist, ABC , Rev Nigel 0161 624 4964; Hollinwood St Margaret , ABC, FiF , Fr David Atkinson 01565 632834/755160; Liscard St Thomas the Apostle , Lady and St Cuthbert , Fr Spicer 01909 472180, who is also the Hawthorn 0161 681 4541; Lightbowne St Luke , ABC, FiF , Fr John contact for SSWSH in the diocese ABC , Fr Robert Nelson 0151 630 2830, Stockport St Peter, ABC , Fr O’Connor 0161 465 0089; Middleton Junction St Gabriel , ABC, Kenneth Kenrick 0161 483 2483; West Kirby St Andrew , ABC , Fr FiF Churchwarden - George Yates 0161 258 4940; Moss Side Peter Walsh 0151 632 4728 DIOCESE of TRURO - FIF Recommended Parishes Christ Church , ABC, FiF , Canon Simon Killwick 0161 226 2476; FALMOUTH : St. Michael & All Angels ,Penwerris, Fr. M. Mesley – FiF, DIOCESE OF COVENTRY Ansty St James ; Coventry St Oldham St James with St Ambrose , ABC FiF , Fr Paul Plumpton 01326 218947; PENRYN :St. Gluvius ,Fr.S.Wales – 01326 378638; Luke , Holbrooks ; St Nicholas , Radford ; St Oswald , Tile Hill ; 0161 633 4441; Peel Green St Michael , ABC , Fr.Ian Hall - 0161 ST. DAY :Holy Trinity ,(AB) Fr.Simon Bone - 01 209 822862; TRURO : Leamington St John the Baptist ; Nuneaton St Mary and St John , 788 8991; Prestwich St Hilda , ABC, FiF , Fr Ronald Croft 0161 773 St. George ,Fr. C. Epps – 01827 272630 Camp Hill , St Mary’s Abbey Church ; Shilton St Andrew . For further 1642; Royton St Paul , ABC, FiF , Canon Peter McEvitt - 01 706 details contact Fr Kit Dunkley 02476 688604 843485; Salford St Paul , ABC , Canon David Wyatt 0161 736

30 ■ new directions ■ April 2016 Bishops of THE SOCIETY IN the Society The Bishop of Beverley PROVINCE OF YORK (EXCEPT BLACKBURN AND LEEDS) The Right Revd Glyn Webster THE DIOCESES Holy Trinity Rectory, Micklegate, York YO1 6LE 01904 628155 offi[email protected] www.seeofbeverley.org.uk The Bishop of Burnley Diocese Bishop Representative BLACKBURN Bath & Wells Ebbsfleet Revd Julian Laurence SSC The Right Revd Philip North CMP Dean House, 449 Padiham Road, Burnley BB12 6TE Birmingham Ebbsfleet Revd Oliver Coss SSC 01282 479300 [email protected] Blackburn Burnley Revd Paul Benfield SSC The Bishop of Chichester Bristol Ebbsfleet Revd Dexter Bracey CHICHESTER Canterbury Richborough Revd Keith Fazzani SSC The Right Revd Dr Martin Warner SSC The Palace, Chichester PO19 1PY 01243 782161 Carlisle Beverley Revd Paul Benfield SSC [email protected] Chelmsford Richborough Revd Martin Howse SSC The Bishop of Ebbsfleet Chester Beverley Canon Ralph Powell SSC PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY (WEST) Chichester Chichester Canon Mark Gilbert SSC The Right Revd Jonathan Goodall SSC Hill House, The Mount, Caversham, Coventry Ebbsfleet Revd Mark Liddell SSC Reading RG4 7RE 0118 948 1038 Derby Ebbsfleet Bishop Roger Jupp SSC [email protected] www.ebbsfleet.org.uk Durham Beverley Revd Kevin Smith SSC The Bishop of Fulham LONDON & SOUTHWARK Ely Richborough Revd Adrian Ling CMP The Right Revd Jonathan Baker Europe Richborough The Bishop of Richborough The Vicarage, 5 St Andrew St, London EC4A 3AF Exeter Ebbsfleet Revd Will Hazlewood SSC 020 7932 1130 [email protected] www.bishopoffulham.org.uk Revd Robin Eastoe SSC The Bishop of Richborough Gloucester Ebbsfleet The Bishop of Ebbsfleet PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY: EAST (EXCEPT CHICHESTER, Guildford Richborough Canon Martyn Neale SSC LONDON & SOUTHWARK); EUROPE The Right Revd Norman Banks SSC Hereford Ebbsfleet The Bishop of Ebbsfleet Parkside House, Abbey Mill Lane, St Albans AL3 4HE Leicester Richborough Canon Philip O’Reilly SSC 01727 836358 [email protected] www.richborough.org.uk Lichfield Ebbsfleet Prebendary Mark McIntyre CMP SSC The Bishop of Wakefield Revd Derek Lloyd CMP SSC LEEDS The Right Revd Tony Robinson SSC Lincoln Richborough Revd Paul Noble SSC Pontefract Ho, 181A Manygates Lane, Wakefield WF2 7DR Revd Edward Martin SSC 01924 250781 [email protected] Liverpool Beverley Revd Ray Bridson The Right Revd Roger Jupp SSC London Fulham Prebendary David Houlding SSC (SUPERIOR-GENERAL , CONFRATERNITY OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT ) St Laurence’s Vicarage, Regent Street, Long Eaton, Revd Christopher Smith SSC Nottingham NG10 1JX Manchester Beverley Canon Peter McEvitt 0115 973 5168 [email protected] Newcastle Beverley Revd Richard Pringle SSC Norwich Richborough Revd Adrian Ling CMP The Right Revd John Gaisford SSC Oxford Ebbsfleet Revd David Harris (formerly Bishop of Beverley) Peterborough Richborough Revd Robert Farmer SSC The Right Revd John Goddard SSC Portsmouth Richborough Revd Roger Jackson SSC (formerly Bishop of Burnley) Rochester Richborough Revd Clive Jones SSC The Right Revd Dr John Hind St Albans Richborough Revd Paul Bennett SSC (formerly Bishop of Chichester) St Eds & Ipswich Richborough Revd Adrian Ling CMP The Right Revd Martyn Jarrett SSC Salisbury Ebbsfleet Revd Richard Harper SSC (formerly Bishop of Beverley) Sheffield Beverley Revd Jeffrey Stokoe The Right Revd Robert Ladds SSC Sodor & Man Beverley Revd Robert Boyle SSC (formerly Bishop of Whitby) Southwark Fulham Canon Mark Nicholls SSC The Right Revd Michael Langrish Southwell & Nott Beverley Revd Nicolas Spicer SSC (formerly Bishop of Exeter) Truro Ebbsfleet Prebendary Sam Philpott MBE SSC The Right Revd Peter Ramsden (formerly Bishop of Port Moresby) West Yorks & Dales Pontefract Revd Paul Cartwright SSC (Leeds) The Right Revd Nicholas Reade (formerly Bishop of Blackburn) Winchester Richborough Canon Malcolm Jones SSC Worcester Ebbsfleet Revd Michael Bartlett SSC The Right Revd Dr Geoffrey Rowell (formerly Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe York Beverley Revd Adam Gaunt SSC The Right Revd John Salt OGS (formerly Bishop of St Helena) The contact details for the Bishops’ Representatives may be found on the The Right Revd Lindsay Urwin OGS (formerly Bishop of Horsham) appropriate page on the Society website (www.sswsh.com/dioceses.php), The Right Revd Peter Wheatley by clicking on the name of the diocese. (formerly Bishop of Edmonton)

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