NEWSLETTER Parish of St George Hanover Square

March—June 2016: issue 33 Inside this issue The Rector writes 2 Mayfair Organ Concerts 3 Services at St George’s 4 Fr Richard writes 7 Prisons Mission 8 Thomas Roseingrave 10 Grosvenor Chapel services 11 Stained glass at St George’s 12 A devotional icon 14 Film Night 16 Organ recordings 18 An unloved and under-utilised space HPPEC 19 he past six years have ply come in for a moment’s quiet George’s is used in future genera- seen an extraordinary pe- reflection in their busy lives. tions. Our vision is driven by three riod of restoration and aims: to generate sufficient funds to T renewal at St George’s. In In a few years time we expect support our own and others’ work 2010 we undertook the compre- this mix of people coming to St with the homeless; to improve our hensive repair and refurbishment George’s to change still further accessibility to everyone; and to ex- of the interior of the church and as those emerging from the new pand the range of what we do. in 2012 we installed a brand new Elizabeth Line (Crossrail) station organ. Now we have new plans. in Hanover Square and heading Work on converting the space and south walk down St George providing access to it from the As an enduring presence at the Street. It is with this growing, church and street will begin after heart of the Mayfair community, complex and ever-changing social Easter. We expect the bulk of the St George’s tries to be responsive mélange in mind that St George’s work to be completed before Christ- not only to the needs of those that has taken the bold decision to mas with the finishing touches added live or work in the area but also to open up its Undercroft. in the early months of 2017. If all those who simply pass by. Four goes according to plan, by December years ago, in partnership with the This attractive vaulted space un- those coming to the church will at Cabman’s Shelter on the northern der our feet, with a floor area least be able to avail themselves of side of Hanover Square, we em- greater than that of the church greatly improved toilet facilities and, barked on a feeding programme itself, has historically been used wheelchair users will enjoy lift ac- for the homeless in our midst. As for storage. Our ambitious and cess to both Church and Undercroft. a result homeless people no longer exciting plan is to turn an But of course there’s more—much just pass by but come into the unloved and under-utilised space more - details of which will be set church along with worshippers, into a vibrant multi-purpose out in the next edition of this News- cultural tourists, concert givers venue. This will be a mammoth letter! and attenders, and those who sim- endeavour and will shape how St

The Rector writes . . .

word with me if you would like to freshments. Whitsunday on 15th be trained as a server. Also at pre- May is of course another Sunday sent there are 8 times in the year when we extend a similar invita- when a reception is held after tion to celebrate Pentecost. various festive occasions. But the Parochial Church Council would The new icon of the Crucifixion like to increase the number of of our Lord Jesus Christ (see Sundays when those who wish to page 14) will be blessed during can remain after the Sung Eucha- the Sung Eucharist on Sunday rist to catch up with each other 10th April. over a glass of sherry or a cup of coffee. And if we are to do this St George’s Patronal Festival then we need members of the will be kept this year on Sunday church (not the paid staff) to or- 24th April and the Sung Eucharist ganise this and clear up and lock will be followed by a festive re- up afterwards. Your suggestions ception. and offers of help would be most welcome. St George’s-tide Concert on am aware that a big effort is re- Tuesday 26th April at 7.00pm quired from many of our congre- Holy Week Services: Admission Free, but donations/ gation simply to get to St proceeds to support our Chris- I George’s for worship on a Sunday, Sunday 20th March tian Aid Community Partnership. and that there is a limit to what some 11am Palm Sunday Liturgy Details to be confirmed. may be able to offer in terms of vol- unteering and getting involved in the Monday-Thursday The Annual Parochial Church various Church activities and jobs 12.10pm Holy Communion Meeting will be on Wednesday that need to be done. I’m also grate- 27th April in St. George’s at ful for the commitment and support Friday 25th March 6.30pm and is preceded by the of many members of St George’s who Good Friday Annual Vestry Meeting to elect are already dedicated and gifted 10am Liturgy of the Passion Churchwardens. Please join us to helpers and leaders. At the same time 2.30pm Bach’s St Matthew hear reports and plans for the we have in the past years lost good Passion (with sermon) future. and faithful servants of the Church, which means there are gaps that we Sunday 27th March Rogation Sunday is on 1st May need to fill. And so as I put out an- Easter Sunday and after the Sung Eucharist other call for people to offer their 11am Sung Eucharist with there will follow the traditional services it is from a position of need baptism and renewal of vows walk around the boundaries of at St George’s. Encouraging every- followed by a reception. our parish of Mayfair ‘Beating body to ask what God might be call- NB Clocks go forward… the Bounds’ and we hope to join ing them to do next. For some this together some walkers from both will be to carry on faithfully as they Members of the congregation (but St George’s and the Grosvenor are already doing. For others, maybe regretfully not their guests due to Chapel. you would like to read the Epistle…or limited space) who wish to attend help as a Sidesman greeting people the St Matthew Passion should Dates for diaries: and assisting during worship…or offer please inform the Verger, Seamus yourself as a server…or join the Paro- O’Hare by Monday 14th March. Marriage Renewal on Sunday chial Church Council…or help St 10th July George’s Little Dragons as a leader… Mothering Sunday is on Sunday or become a School Governor…or sup- 6th March and all children and Baptism Renewal on Sunday 18th port the Prison’s Mission Project…or families as well as children from September train as a Reader (Readers are Lay our St George’s Hanover Square Ministers help lead worship and who School are warmly invited to join The Royal Society of St George preach from time to time)…or explore us for what are thrice yearly ser- are invited to join us for their a vocation if you think God is calling vices where children are involved Annual Parade Service on Sunday you to be a Priest. in leading worship/reading, and 16th October the sermon geared to families with Most urgent on the list of gaps and children at the Sung Eucharist at There are daily prayers in needs is to encourage new servers to 11am. Followed by customary re- church, Monday – Friday at assist in the Sanctuary. Please have a 12.10pm The Midday Office is 2

Mayfair Organ Music

Tuesdays *Tuesday 29th March at St George’s or St George’s Nicholas Morris Grosvenor Chapel (Birmingham Cathedral) at 1.10pm *Tuesday 5th April Tuesday 1st March Grosvenor Chapel St George’s James Johnstone (Professor, Rufus Frowde Guildhall School of Music) (Chapel Royal, Hampton Ct) Glass, Handel, Roseingrave, Tuesday 12th April Walton St George’s Tim Wakerell *Tuesday 8th March (New College, Oxford)

Grosvenor Chapel Tuesday 24th May Tom Winpenny Tuesday 19th April Grosvenor Chapel St George’s (St Albans Cathedral) Tak Chow (RCM) Travis Baker (St Mary’s, Putney) *Tuesday 15th March Tuesday 31st May St George’s Tuesday 26th April Grosvenor Chapel Robin Walker (St George’s) Chris Bragg St George’s Christopher Allsop *Tuesday 22nd March Tuesday 7th June Grosvenor Chapel (Worcester Cathedral) St George’s Grosvenor Chapel Choir David Thomas (RAM) Music for Holy Week Tuesday 3rd May Grosvenor Chapel Adrian Gunning Tuesday 14th June (St John’s, Islington) Grosvenor Chapel Moyra Motagu (oboe) said on most days except when Tuesday 10th May Richard Hobson (organ) the Eucharist is celebrated on St George’s Fridays and Saints Days. Please Iestyn Evans Tuesday 21st June join us if you are in the area. (St James, Spanish Place) St George’s

Edward Picton-Turbevill Requiem for departed loved (Cambridge) ones will be celebrated on Fri- Saturday 14th May th day 27 May at 12.10pm. Please 5.30pm inform the Verger (contact de- Tuesday 28th June tails on the back page) if you Grosvenor Chapel Grosvenor Chapel wish to include the names of Christopher Strange (RCM) Richard Hobson will play a loved ones. th recital to mark the 25 *These five concerts are pre- Holy Cocktail Hour Open House anniversary of the William sented in association with the with drinks on Wednesdays at Drake organ. London Handel Festival the Rectory, 21a Down Street W1J 7AW - entrance in Brick Tuesday 17th May Street opposite the tapas bar on the following dates: 4th May, 1st Grosvenor Chapel & 29th June. Please feel welcome Christopher Strange & to drop in between 6.30-8.00pm Richard Hobson (following the 5.45pm Holy Com- Organ duets by Sam Wesley & munion at St George’s). John Rutter

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Services at St George’s March—June 2016

st Thursday 10th March Monday 21 March 8.40am Morning Calm Monday in Holy Week 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Holy Communion

nd Friday 11th March Tuesday 22 March 8.40am Morning Calm Tuesday in Holy Week 12.10pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Holy Communion

rd Sunday 13th March Wednesday 23 March th Wednesday in Holy Week Tuesday 1st March 5 Sunday in Lent 12.10pm Holy Communion St David, Bishop of Minevia, 8.30am Holy Communion

Patron of Wales, c601 11.00am Sung Eucharist Thursday 24th March 8.40am Morning Calm Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Maundy Thursday 12.10pm Midday Prayer Mass for 5 voices (Byrd) 12.10pm Holy Communion Lent Prose; Christus factus est

Wednesday 2nd March (Bruckner) Friday 25th March St Chad, Bishop of Lichfield, Nachspiel (Bruckner) GOOD FRIDAY Missionary, 672 th 10.00am Good Friday Liturgy 8.40am Morning Calm Monday 14 March 2.30pm Vespers 12.10pm Midday Prayer 8.40am Morning Calm Preacher: The Rector 5.45pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Midday Prayer St Matthew Passion (Bach)

th Admission by ticket only Thursday 3rd March Tuesday 15 March from London Handel Festival box 8.40am Morning Calm 8.40am Morning Calm office: 01460 54660 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer

th Sunday 27th March Friday 4th March Wednesday 16 March EASTER DAY 8.40am Morning Calm 8.40am Morning Calm 8.30am Holy Communion 12.10pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Midday Prayer 11.00am Sung Eucharist 5.45pm Holy Communion Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Sunday 6th March th Coronation Mass (Mozart) 4th Sunday in Lent Thursday 17 March Christus vincit; Haec Dies (Byrd) Mothering Sunday 8.40am Morning Calm Offertoire sur les grands jeux 8.30am Holy Communion 12.10pm Midday Prayer (Couperin) 11.00am Sung Eucharist th Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Friday 18 March Monday 28th March Missa Brevis St Joannis de Deo St Edward, King of the West Monday in Easter Week (Haydn) Saxons, 978 No services Lent Prose; Ave Maria (Parsons) 8.40am Morning Calm

Praeludium in F (Buxtehude) 12.10pm Holy Communion Tuesday 29th March

th Tuesday in Easter Week Monday 7th March Sunday 20 March 12.10pm Midday Prayer St Perpetua, Palm Sunday

Martyr at Carthage, 203 8.30am Holy Communion Wednesday 30th March 8.40am Morning Calm 11.00am Sung Eucharist 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector 5.45pm Holy Communion Missa Brevis (Mathias)

Tuesday 8th March Passion according to St Matthew Thursday 31st March 8.40am Morning Calm (Lassus) 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Hosanna to the Son of David

(Weelkes) Friday 1st April Wednesday 9th March Valet will ich dir geben BWV 736 12.10pm Holy Communion 8.40am Morning Calm (Bach)

12.10pm Midday Prayer

5.45pm Holy Communion

4 Sunday 3rd April Sicut mater consolatur (Schmid) 1st Sunday after Easter Monday 18th April Wednesday 4th May 8.30am Holy Communion 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 11.00am Sung Eucharist 5.45pm Holy Communion Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Tuesday 19th April Missa Iste Confessor (Palestrina) St Alphege, Archbishop of Thursday 5th May Christus vincit; Vinum bonum Canterbury. Martyr 1012 ASCENSION DAY (Lassus) 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Holy Communion Canzon ‘La Capricosa’ (Pellegrini) Wednesday 20th April Friday 6th May Monday 4th April 12.10pm Midday Prayer St John the Evangelist ante The Annunciation of the Blessed 5.45pm Holy Communion portam Latinam Virgin Mary 12.10pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Midday Prayer Thursday 21st April 12.10pm Midday Prayer Sunday 8th May Tuesday 5th April Sunday after Ascension Day 12.10pm Midday Prayer Friday 22nd April 8.30am Holy Communion 12.10pm Holy Communion 11.00am Sung Eucharist Wednesday 6th April Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector 12.10pm Midday Prayer Sunday 24th April Missa Ascendens Christus (Victoria) St George’s Patronal Festival Lift up your heads (Handel) Thursday 7th April 8.30am Holy Communion Concerto for organ: allegro 12.10pm Midday Prayer 11.00am Sung Eucharist (Manzia/Walther) 5.45pm Holy Communion Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Stanford in C Monday 9th May Friday 8th April Christus vincit 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Holy Communion Give us the wings of faith (Bullock) Chorale Prelude on Dudee’ (Parry) Tuesday 10th May Sunday 10th April 12.10pm Midday Prayer 2nd Sunday after Easter Monday 25th April 8.30am Holy Communion St Mark the Evangelist Wednesday 11th May 11.00am Sung Eucharist 12.10pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Midday Prayer With dedication of icon 5.45pm Holy Communion Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Tuesday 26th April Missa Collegium Regale (Howells) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Thursday 12th May Christus vincit 12.10pm Midday Prayer Most glorious Lord of Life Wednesday 27th April (le Fleming) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Friday 13th May Carillon (Mathias) 5.45pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Holy Communion

Monday 11th April Thursday 28th April Sunday 15th May 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer WHIT SUNDAY 8.30am Holy Communion Tuesday 12th April Friday 29th April 11.00am Sung Eucharist 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Holy Communion Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Mass in F sharp minor (Widor) Wednesday 13th April Sunday 1st May Cantique de Jean Racine (Fauré) 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5th Sunday after Easter Symphony No 2 – Final (Widor) 5.45pm Holy Communion Rogation Sunday/ Beating the Bounds Monday 16th May Thursday 14th April 8.30am Holy Communion Monday in Whitsun Week 12.10pm Midday Prayer 11.00am Sung Eucharist 12.10pm Midday Prayer Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Friday 15th April Missa Brevis (Lennox Berkeley) Tuesday 17th May 12.10pm Holy Communion Vidi aquam (Gabriel Jackson) Tuesday in Whitsun Week Grand Jeu (Rogg) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Sunday 17th April 3rd Sunday after Easter Monday 2nd May Wednesday 18th May 8.30am Holy Communion May Day Public Holiday Ember Day 11.00am Sung Eucharist No services 12.10pm Midday Prayer Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector 5.45pm Holy Communion Missa Che fà hoggi il mio sole Tuesday 3rd May (Allegri) The Invention of the Cross Christus vincit 12.10pm Midday Prayer Christe, adoramus te (Monteverdi) 5 Thursday 19th May Sunday 5th June Monday 20th June Ember Day 2nd Sunday after Trinity 12.10pm Midday Prayer St Dunstan, Archbishop of 8.30am Holy Communion Tuesday 21st June Canterbury, Restorer of 11.00am Sung Eucharist 12.10pm Midday Prayer Monastic Life, 988 Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector 12.10pm Midday Prayer Darke in F Wednesday 22nd June Panis angelicus (Dering) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Friday 20th May Prelude & Fugue in F (Lübeck) 5.45pm Holy Communion Ember Day 12.10pm Holy Communion Monday 6th June Thursday 23rd June 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Sunday 22nd May TRINITY SUNDAY Tuesday 7th June Friday 24th June 8.30am Holy Communion 12.10pm Midday Prayer The Birth of John the Baptist 11.00am Sung Eucharist 12.10pm Holy Communion Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Wednesday 8th June Mass in G (Schubert) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Sunday 26th June Hymn to the Trinity (Tchaikovsky) 5.45pm Holy Communion 5th Sunday after Trinity Gloria tibi Trinitas (Bull) 8.30am Holy Communion Thursday 9th June 11.00am Sung Eucharist Monday 23rd May 12.10pm Midday Prayer Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector 12.10pm Midday Prayer Missa Brevis (MacMillan) Friday 10th June Arise, shine (Roseingrave) Tuesday 24th May St Barnabas, the Apostle (trans) Double Fugue (Roseingrave) 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Monday 27th June Wednesday 25th May Sunday 12th June 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 3rd Sunday after Trinity 5.45pm Holy Communion 8.30am Holy Communion Tuesday 28th June 11.00am Sung Eucharist 12.10pm Midday Prayer Thursday 26th May Marking the 90th birthday of 12.10pm Midday Prayer HM the Queen Wednesday 29th June Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector St Peter the Apostle Friday 27th May Missa sine nomine (Hassler) 12.10pm Midday Prayer The Venerable Bede, Monk at Kings’ daughters (Handel) 5.45pm Holy Communion Jarrow, Scholar, 735 Toccata 2-toni (Froberger) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Thursday 30th June Monday 13th June 12.10pm Midday Prayer Sunday 29th May 12.10pm Midday Prayer 1st Sunday after Trinity 8.30am Holy Communion Tuesday 14th June St George’s 11.00am Sung Eucharist 12.10pm Midday Prayer Weekly Bulletin Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector

Missa New Norcia (Leece) Wednesday 15th June Each Friday the Parish Admin- Ave verum corpus (Elgar) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Trio in A minor (Krebs) 5.45pm Holy Communion sistrator sends out electroni- cally a Weekly Bulletin remind- Monday 30th May Thursday 16th June ing recipients of services and 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer other events scheduled to take place the following week. The Tuesday 31st May Friday 17th June Bulletin also provides an op- 12.10pm Midday Prayer St Alban, first Martyr of Britain portunity to give advance no- c 250 st tice of future services and Wednesday 1 June 12.10pm Midday Prayer events. St Nicomede, Priest and martyr at Rome Sunday 19th June 12.10pm Midday Prayer 4th Sunday after Trinity If you would like to be added 5.45pm Holy Communion 8.30am Holy Communion to the list of those already re- 11.00am Sung Eucharist ceiving the Weekly Bulletin Thursday 2nd June Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector please email the Parish Admin- 12.10pm Midday Prayer Spatzenmesse (Mozart) istrator at the address given on Ave verum corpus (Lassus) the back page of this Newslet- rd Friday 3 June Prelude & Fugue in G BWV 541 ter. 12.10pm Midday Prayer (Bach)

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Fr Richard Fermer writes . . .

problems. Nonetheless, as Chris- GROSVENOR CHAPEL tians, we should be considering how our choices lead to the PILGRIMAGE 2016 building of bridges, and to a con- sideration of a good beyond any narrowly considered self-interest In the Footsteps of the and to the manifestation of love. Syrian Hermits, That does not resolve the St Benedict of Nursia & St On Building Bridges and choices that confront us. Francis of Assisi in Umbria 6th - 11th October 2016 Not Walls We face now one of the biggest political choices to be made by ope Francis seems to have the British people for several spoken words that encap- generations. But let us not be so sulate the hard decisions naive, as to wish to place our to be faced on both sides faith in a box, never to engage P with political decisions. It might of the Atlantic. He said, referring to Republican contender Donald be useful to remind ourselves Trump: "A person who thinks only that God is the King of the cos- about building walls, and not mos, and although we are not bridges, is not Christian." Strong God, we should be seeking to words, indeed! follow His Son. Our spiritual an- tennae need to be engaged. I am seeking an expression of inter- From a Christian point of view and est in a Chapel Pilgrimage to some setting aside the intricacies of One of Trump's aide's responded of the spiritual sites of Umbria in particular policies or persons, to Pope Francis' aside by noting Italy, for five days from Thursday th th these words must be a pretty good that the Vatican City had many 6 until 11 October 2016. guide to the truth. After all, is not walls. That is as maybe. There the whole purpose of Christianity are walls in all aspects of life. The intention is that the Pilgrimage to move towards "a further union, We need walls, just as we need would have both a retreat compo- a deeper communion" (T.S.Eliot)? stability of identity, and choose nent – the stability of staying in It is a movement towards com- the light and not the darkness. one place, at the stunning Abbey munion, but not union with just The question is whether there of San Pietro in Valle anything. are doors of welcome and hospi- (sanpietroinvalle.com) and having tality through our walls, and quiet time to pray, as well as a From our Baptism onwards, we are even the flexibility and wisdom pilgrimage element, visiting cer- presented with a choice: to follow to deconstruct or rebuild them. tain sacred sites. the path of light or darkness. St Paul talks of donning the armour Perhaps, this also resonates with of faith against the forces of dark- the Lenten struggle in the wil- ness. Yet, as we move towards the derness. What walls do we need celebration of Our Lord's Passion, to invite the Spirit to decon- we may recall that on the Cross, struct in our lives? How open is Christ does not accept or surren- our heart to give and receive der to the darkness, but draws it love? Can we follow Christ as he into Himself. The Paschal Mystery, journeys to the cross, setting the transformation of Easter is aside fear, mistrust, hatred, in- based precisely upon love's em- difference and self-preservation, brace, drawing in the darkness never giving up faith in the vic- and overcoming it with love. tory of Love. There are no neat Our Destination solutions to the choices ahead, Returning to the Pope, Trump and we just have to keep on building The Abbey of San Pietro in Valle Europe, it would be a foolish sim- bridges in the power of the was founded upon a Syrian Hermit- plification to use the "building Spirit! age of the fifth century. The site bridges and not walls" principle as also contains a wonderful church in a way to dismiss debate and a which we would hold our services. proper discernment of specific The Abbey is now a very beautiful

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Churches Together in Westminster Prisons Mission

n February this year there charge from custody, to assist reha- are 85,634 men, women and bilitation and reduce the very high children in prisons in Eng- risks of reoffending. Others have I land and Wales. More than become regular and more experi- any other countries in Western enced visitors, ready and able to Europe. It has doubled in 20 take on a variety of tasks in support years. We have 148 people in of the chaplains. By these means prison per 100,000 of the total the participants are making more population. This compares with useful contribution to the work of GROSVENOR CHAPEL PILGIMAGE only 78 in Germany. Over 4,000 chaplains. continued prison inmates are aged over 60. This is the fastest growing The participants have learned much hotel, which nonetheless has not section of the prison population about the considerable every lost its monastic ambience, posi- and has increased by 130% since day pressures on prison chap- tioned as it is in a secluded, strate- 2002. lains. Reductions in Prison Officer gic and majestic valley pass in the numbers in recent years due to cuts south of Umbria. With such huge numbers in pris- in public funding, have increased the ons, is there anything useful, or time prisoners are locked up in cells From the Abbey we would visit constructive St George's church and reduced access to education, some of the spiritual sites of the can do? Surely the task is just library and other facilities. Inci- surrounding area. The rich spiritual too daunting. We made a small dents of suicides and self-harm have history of Umbria weaves together start in late 2013 by joining doubled in the same time and the the traditions of Syrian hermits (the with two other church members th levels of anxiety and tension among 8 century cave-hermitage of of Churches Together in West- prisoners and their families impact "L'Eremo della Madonna della minster - St James Piccadilly directly on chaplains. It is not sur- Stella."), St Benedict of Nursia (480 and the London Jesuit Centre in prising that prisons are unhappy – 543/7AD) (the Basilica of San Farm Street to launch the new places, full to overcrowding with Benedetto, Norcia) and St Francis Prisons Mission. During the ini- people who do not wish to be there, of Assisi (1181/2 – 1226AD) (Sacro tial pilot project in 2014, mod- who lack the time and personal at- Speco, nr. Narni). We would spend est but encouraging progress tention they need to become useful our final day in Assisi itself. was achieved to support the members of society when they are multi-faith Chaplaincy Team at discharged. Our Companions on the Pilgrimage HMP Wandsworth. where 1550 youths and men are detained, The first objective of the Prisons Fr Thomas Kane, CSP preached at while remanded in custody Mission is to make a small, but use- the Chapel last July. He is Associate awaiting trial, or to serve custo- ful contribution to the work of the Professor of Homiletics and Liturgi- dial sentences. The chaplains multi-faith Prison Chaplaincy cal Practice at the Boston College also serve 300 Prison Officers Team. The second and equally im- and staff and are often called School of Theology. He and Fr Rich- portant objective is for participants on by the families of inmates. to learn about prisons and the penal ard will lead the Pilgrimage, and Fr system and take these messages Thomas will also bring a small Since then, the three founding back to the leadership and congrega- group of around 8 people from the churches have been joined by St tions of their churches. This is why USA to join our Pilgrimage. You can Martin in the Fields and St the Prisons Mission does not merely Columba's Church of Scotland read about Fr Thomas here: recruit a few suitable volunteers and small groups of participants www.paulist.org/bio/father-thomas from each church, but seeks the from each church work with the "engagement" of the church by its -kane-csp Chaplaincy Team of HMP Worm- Priests and managing commit- wood Scrubs. Agreement has tees. By this means, the partici- been reached with Pentonville pants do not only talk about the les- Anyone interested in receiving fur- prison, but a starting date has sons learned with friends in the next ther information or booking a place not yet been fixed. Several par- pew, but submit reports to the Paro- should contact: Fr Richard Fermer ticipants have completed train- chial Church Council, or the Kirk Eld- by email address or phone as de- ing in order to become mentors ers. They also help to ensure that tailed on the back page of this to counsel inmates for several Prisons Week is marked as an occa- Newsletter, weeks before and after dis- sion to inform and interest congrega-

8 tions about prisons, prison staff, prisoners families, the criminal jus- tice system and victims of crime. Thomas Roseingrave (1690/91-1766)

At St George's Church we marked Prisons Week last November more First organist of St George’s effectively than previously and in- formation provided by our Prisons Mission participants encouraged questions from members of the con- n 23rd June 2016 we mark gregation. It is encouraging to note the 250th anniversary of the that the Prime Minister's recent death of the first organist of statements about prisons and the O St George’s, Thomas Rosein- need to consider prisoners as poten- grave. Although largely unknown to tial assets rather than liabilities, most music lovers these days, he was has provoked more conversations in a major figure in the London music church than would have previously scene of the first half of the eight- been the case. Our participants eenth century. have contributed to the develop- ment of a pack of resource material Roseingrave came from a musical which is published by CTiW and dis- family and received his early training tributed to the 80+ member in Dublin from his father. He entered churches in London. By this means, Trinity College, Dublin at the age of our learning is put to use far beyond 16 and then went to study in Italy, the walls of our church. Prisons partly financed by the Dean and Week will be marked from 9th to Chapter of St Patrick’s Cathedral ‘to 16th October this year and work is improve himself in the art of music … under way to improve the resource that hereafter he may be useful and Whilst Roseingrave was estab- material and help more churches to serviceable to the said Cathe- lishing himself in London St find interesting ways to inform con- dral’ (Chapter Acts, 14 December George’s was built and, in gregations about this important, but 1709). An acquaintance of the fa- 1725, advertised for an organ- sensitive subject. mous music historian Charles Burney ist. The vestry, refusing to be (who was also) an organist and com- ‘teased by the solicitations of All those concerned with our Prisons poser, Roseingrave reported to Bur- candidates of mean abilities’, Mission are distressed by the huge ney that he had been invited to per- appointed a panel of advisers, size of the prison population. We form in a concert at a nobleman’s and Handel is said to have pro- believe that this does not serve the house in Venice and that ‘finding vided a theme on which the interests of the wider society. But, myself rather better in courage and candidates had to improvise. we are not daunted. We have finger than usual, I exerted myself … Burney wrote that Rosein- shown that we can make a small but and fancied, by the applause I re- grave’s style, ‘though too significant contribution by personal ceived, that my performance had crude and learned for the gen- service, as well as by understanding made some impression on the com- erality of hearers when left to and communicating the issues to our pany’. At the same concert Rosein- himself, treated the subjects churches. The 85,634 men, women grave heard Domenico Scarlatti per- given with such science and and children in prisons must not be form on the harpsichord, something dexterity, inverting the order "out of sight and out of mind". which made a huge impact on him. of notes, augmenting and di- The two young men became friends, minishing their value, intro- Roseingrave following Scarlatti to ducing counter-subjects, and John Plummer Rome and Naples. turning the themes to so many ingenious purposes that the By 1713 Roseingrave was back in judges were unanimous in de- For more information about our Dublin and then, by June 1717 in claring him the victorious can- Prisons Mission, or to discuss London where he began to take didate’. how you might help, please con- part in concerts, performing his tact John Plummer own music and championing that As well as being influenced by ([email protected]) of Scarlatti. He produced Scar- Scarlatti, Roseingrave had a or at St George’s on Sundays. latti's opera Amor d'un'ombra e deep admiration for the music Gelosia d'un'aura under the ti- of Palestrina, excerpts of tle Narciso at the Haymarket which Burney reported seeing Theatre, adding two arias and two papered to the walls of his duets of his own, and his famous bedroom. Roseingrave estab- edition of 42 sonatas by Scarlatti lished a great reputation as an appeared in 1739. improviser of fugues, composer and teacher, numbering among his students Handel’s amanu-

9 ensis J.C. Smith, together with arose. In his reply Roseingrave del Festival. Henry Carey and John Worgan ‘signified that by Infirmity he (organist at several London was render’d incapable of Sunday 26 June: our choir sings churches and at Vauxhall Gar- playing the organ’; the Vestry the first movement of Rosein- dens). His music was not to eve- then resolved to ‘appoint an grave’s cantata ‘Arise, Shine, for ryone’s taste however, the assistant to the said Mr Rosein- thy light is come’ as the post- eighteenth-century musical his- grave to officiate at the communion anthem. torian Sir John Hawkins describ- church, the allowance for his ing it as ‘harsh and disgusting, trouble out of Mr Roseingrave’s Paul Nicholson, former assistant manifesting great learning, but salary’. On 23 April 1744 John artistic director of the London void of eloquence and variety’. Keeble, also a notable com- Handel Festival has recorded As a performer Burney had poser, was appointed assistant harpsichord and organ music by kinder things to say: ‘[he] had a organist; Roseingrave, ‘on ac- Roseingrave, including a recon- power of seizing the parts and count of his infirmitys’, was struction of a concerto, on the spirits of a score and executing allowed half of the modest Hyperion label. the most difficult music at sight annual salary of £40 for the beyond any musician in Europe’. remainder of his life. In conclusion, at least for the du- ration of 2016, please do not think of Handel as the only composer Alas things started to go wrong, Roseingrave remained in Lon- associated with St George’s: Tho- Roseingrave describing himself don for a while, living in mas Roseingrave played a far as being afflicted by Hampstead and working as a more active part in our music than ‘crepitation’ (a broken heart). music teacher, before retiring Handel ever did. Coxe elaborates: ‘His reputation to Dublin where his brother was … so high that on commenc- Ralph was an organist. Mrs De- ing teaching he might have lany, a close friend of Handel, Simon Williams gained one thousand pounds a wrote in her autobiography on drawing on information to be year, but an unfortunate event 12 January 1753 that ‘Mr Ros- found in Grove Music Online reduced him to extreme dis- ingrave ( … who was sent away tress. Among Roseingrave’s from St George's Church on scholars was a young lady to account of mad fits) is now in whom he was greatly attracted, Ireland, and at times can play and whose affections he had very well on the harpsichord’. gained, but her father, who in- The Dublin Journal announced tended to give her a large for- in February 1753 that the op- Methodist tune, did not approve of her era Phaedra and Hippolitus, marrying a musician, and for- ‘by Mr Roseingrave lately ar- Central Hall bade Roseingrave his house. This rived from London’, was to be Westminster disappointment affected his given a concert performance, brain, and he never entirely re- and that between the acts Ro- covered the shock. He neglected s e i n g r a v e would play Sunday 20th March his scholars and lost his busi- ‘Scarlatti's Lesson on the Harp- ness. He lived upon fifty pounds sicord, with his own Additions, per annum, which his place pro- and to conclude with his cele- 3.00-4.00pm approx duced, and was often in indi- brated ALMAND’. The opera gence. He was perfectly rational was well received but a plan to upon every subject but the one raise a subscription to stage nearest his heart: whenever that the work came to nothing. ROBIN WALKER was mentioned he was quite insane’. (organ) Roseingrave died aged 78 and Meanwhile, at St George’s, the was buried in the churchyard Proramme includes: Vestry at a meeting on 20 Febru- of St Patrick’s Cathedral where ary 1738 rejected a suggestion the inscription on his tomb- stone describes him as ‘a most Handel on the Strand that Roseingrave’s salary be re- Dambuster’s March duced and it was not until an- celebrated musician and ac- other meeting on 22 March complished man’. music by Lloyd Webber, 1744, when a complaint was SS Wesley & made that Rosengrave’s depu- Plans to mark the 250th anniver- Frederick Frahm ties had not ‘behaved in so de- sary of Roseingrave’s death at St (world première) cent a manner as they ought, George’s so far include: with respect to the Airs and Vol- untary's played in the church, Tuesday 15 March, 1.10pm: our which has given offence to sev- assistant director of music, Robin Admission: £5 eral of the Parishioners’ that Walker plays two fugues as part any suggestion of inadequacy of his recital for the London Han-

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Services at Grosvenor Chapel March—April 2016

Sunday 6th March Sunday 3rd April The Fourth Sunday of Lent The First Sunday of Easter Mothering Sunday 11.00am Sung Eucharist with 11.00am Sung Eucharist hymns and organ music Rheinberger Mass in E Rachmaninov Ave Maria Sunday 10th April Britten Prelude & Fugue on a theme of The Second Sunday of Easter Sunday 24th April Vittoria 11.00am Sung Eucharist The Fourth Sunday of Easter Moore Missa in Tempore Paschalis 11.00am Sung Eucharist Sunday 13th March Wesley MacMillan Missa Brevis The Fifth Sunday of Lent Blessed be the God and Father Britten O be joyful in the Lord 11.00am Sung Eucharist Howells Saraband for the Morning Hindemith Sonata II Morales Missa Quem dicunt homines of Easter (first movement) Morales Peccantem me quotidie

Sunday 17th April

Sunday 20th March The Third Sunday of Easter Details of services in May & Palm Sunday 11.00am Sung Eucharist 10.45 am Blessing & exchange of palms Lassus Missa Paschalis June may be found on in Mount Street Gardens, Philips Surgens Jesus www.grosvenorchapel.org.uk followed by Procession & Bach Christ ist erstanden BWV 627 Sung Eucharist Weelkes Hosanna to the Son of David Handl Missa Unidique flammatis Handl Adoramus te, Jesu Christe Victoria St Matthew Passion

Thursday 24th March Maundy Thursday 7.00pm Solemn Mass of the Last Supper & Watch Victoria Missa Quarti Toni Vaughan Williams Love bade me welcome Anerio Christus factus est Duruflé Ubi caritas Tallis The Lamentation of Jeremiah

Friday 25th March Good Friday 12.00 Liturgy of Our Lord’s Passion Plainsong The St John Passion John of Portugal Crux Fidelis Victoria The Reproaches Lotti Crucifixus etiam pro nobis

Sunday 27th March Easter Day 11.00am Sung Eucharist (with orchestra) Mozart Coronation Mass K317 Mozart Regina coeli laetare K276 Rutter Variations on an Easter Theme

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Stained glass at St George’s

involved in creating and modify- don in 1949, Jean Lafond focus- ing it over some three hundred sed on the mysterious plaques of years. white lettering on ruby glass almost hidden in the decoration Caroline Swash writes by way of of the amazingly complicated a brief introduction: throne on which Jesse reclines with Prophets Aaron and Esias St George’s Church is an excep- on one side and Moses and Elias tionally pleasant space to be in on the other. with a welcoming atmosphere for visitor and worshipper alike. Looking carefully at the texts set Take time to look carefully at the decoratively within the painted amazing stained glass filling all architecture of the throne, La- the windows at the east end. fond discovered ‘Virtuti Omnia These deserve attention being one of the few surviving exam- ples of a highly regarded artist known to us as Arnold of Ni- jmegen (1470-1340)

The man who shed light on the background to the window was Jean Lafond (d 2009)a French amateur historian and newspaper publisher from Rouen. He greatly admired the stained glass win- dows in his local Church of St-­- Ouen as well as those in nearby St Goddard signed by Arnold of Nijmagen.

It took some time for Lafond to find out about Arnold’s career, eventually discovering his pres- ence in Tournai (Belgium) as Drawing by Jean Lafond of the figures an artist before his move to in Arnold’s stained glass in their origi- the prosperous town of Rouen nal position in the Church of the Car- where he stayed until 1512, melite Nuns in Antwerp moving again to Anvers in 1513 © Prof Françoise Perrot where he enrolled as a mem- Parent’, known to be Abbot Bo- ber of the prestigious ‘Guild of hier’s family motto, ‘Le fet lout he East window at St St Luke’. Albert Durer made a Louvre’ which he roughly trans- George’s is perhaps the note of visiting him there in lated as ‘The end justifies the single most striking fea- 1521. means’ and ‘J’Espere Mieuxs?’ (I T ture of its interior deco- hope the very best). ration. In many senses it should- During his time in Rouen, Ar- n’t be there at all and yet there nold worked for the powerful Lafond came to the conclusion it is in all its polychrome glory Abbot Antoine Bohier creating that the St George’s window was greeting all who care to open the a ‘Tree of Jesse’ for him in definitely by Arnold of Nijmagen. church door. Now Caroline 1507. After leaving his service That it had been made for the Swash has written a new book, in 1512, Arnold made a second Carmelite Nuns a few years after The 100 Best Stained Glass ‘Tree’ for the Carmelite Nuns leaving Abbot Bohier’s service Sites in London, which places at Antwerp. This is the window and noted that better pigments this window in the context of in St George’s Church. had been used in the St George’s much other fine glass in London window. and shedding a fascinating new In attempting to identify the St light on where ‘our’ remarkable George’s window as the work It was indeed one of Arnold’s window came from and who was of Arnold during a visit to Lon- ‘very best’. By this time the

12 paint work and some of the col- The 100 Best Stained Glass Sites in London our had already faded from his first version in France. Caroline Swash

The stained glass at St George’s is therefore one of this remarkable artist’s best preserved works de- spite being removed from the Convent in the 1800s, stored in

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To launch the book there’s a special price of £27.50 for members of crates until 1840 and then re- the congregation, family and friends. This includes packing and arranged in differently shaped postage in the UK and Ei re. Please send your order (cheque only) windows by Queen Victoria’s Art- to Malvern Arts Press to:-• ist in Stained Glass -­- Thomas Willement (1812-­-65). -Caroline Swash at 106 Willoughby House, Barbican EC2Y 8BL ([email protected]) Willement included as much of the stained glass as possible. However it can easily be seen that neither Name...... Jesse, Aaron, Esias, Moses nor Elias have legs and feet. Nor was Address ...... there space at the top of the win- dow for ‘God the Father’ now in the …...... Church of St Mary and St Nicholas, Wilton near Salisbury -­- renamed St Email...... Nicholas. London’s 100 Best Stained Glass Sites have been discovered, re- Caroline Swash ATD FMGP searched and recorded so that all may enjoy this architectural art. Nothing can replace the pleasure of seeing stained glass windows Author of ‘The 100 Best Stained Glass Sites in London brought to life by the magic of light.

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rant and several streets.

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A devotional icon at St George’s

ity to an icon ends. However my very difficult task indeed from the small photograph I was interpretation would have more shown. I decided to try a ma- features used in iconography quette beginning with the basic particularly in the face and the shape of the crucifix and in- accentuation of highlights. creasing the size of the original

photo by a multiple of 3.3 cm. This became a crucifix 61 cm The measurements of the cross wide across the arms and 90cm were sent to my friend Dylan long, the size required to fit one Hartley a church furniture maker of the pillars. who now prepares all my icon Work in progress boards and he produced a mag- I attempted a pencil drawing nificent cross made out of one trying to keep the figure to hundred year old French oak from an old church pew. He finished n the previous edition of this scale. It was a time consuming Newsletter, the Rector wrote: process but also a deeply mov- the surface with gesso many lay- ing experience. The image of ers thick. I ‘One of a number of ideas to Christ on the cross gradually emerge recently from the process appeared. Whilst I tried to of revising our Mission Action Plan maintain the essentials of the My next task was to sand the sur- is the possibility of installing a Giotto figure I was also aware face down with different grades pricket stand so people coming more and more of the enormity of sandpaper and wet and dry into the church during the week of what I was trying to do in paper from 240 down to 1200 and can light a candle as they fre- copying such a masterpiece. I then to polish the surface with quently ask to do. Our weekday also became acutely aware 000 wire wool. The surface was mission is necessarily rather dif- then brushed with a soft brush to ferent to that exercised on a Sun- more than ever before of what an awful torture this was for any remove all the powder and pol- day morning and I feel it is incum- ished with a soft velvet cloth. bent upon us to be as responsive man to have to bear. The draw- as we can be to the spiritual needs ing turned out to be reasonably of the wide diversity of people acceptable but lacked any The back of the icon and the sides who come through our doors every sense of an inner spirituality were varnished at this stage. day. Lighting a candle is a prayer- which made me consider ful act even to people who would whether I had any right to con- have difficulty articulating such an tinue. However after spending The next process after prayerful understanding of prayer and many time in prayer and studying preparation was the transference find it helpful to have a focus for other paintings of the crucifix- of the drawing from my sketch such an act. I have therefore asked ion and reading the Bible texts pad which was done with great the iconographer Dr Derek Bird to I realised that it was neces- care. The main outlines then had write an icon of the figure of sary to move away from trying to be etched out with a fine Christ on the cross in the style of to copy the Giotto accurately point so that the paint would not Giotto which he is hoping to have and to use it as a reference. In run thus losing the outline of the finished after Easter.’ drawing. This of course removed the end whilst being like the original it would have to be my the pencil lines and it was neces- Well, the icon is finished and will sary to 'find' the sketch again by be dedicated at the Sung Eucharist interpretation. painting over the etched lines on Sunday 10th April. It was time to proceed with using a brush and red ochre Derek Bird writes about his icon making the board. In actual paint. and the processes material and fact the original Giotto is not spiritual involved in its creation: an icon. It was painted after The areas of the crucifix which the schism between the West- needed gilding were now identi- When I was originally approached ern and Eastern Orthodox fied and many layers of red bole to write an icon of the crucifixion churches. Although many of were applied over them. Bole is for St George's, Hanover Square, the features are similar to an a type of clay which is mixed London it became clear that what icon it is really an Italian medi- was wanted was a painting based with gelatine into a cream like aeval painting, The painting is on the Crucifixion painted by consistency and then sieved on a wooden panel and in egg Giotto my initial reaction was how through muslin to remove any could this be done? It seemed a tempura but there the similar- particles. Once the layers of bole 14 2 hours or so without stopping. After that the eyes become strained and there is also a physi- cal exhaustion too which sets in due to intense concentration. If fine work is needed for example on the face, hands and feet. I need to wear some magnifying goggles and a bright spot light.

It is at this stage that I moved away from the original medieval painting of Giotto's Crucifixion and allowed the inspiration from prayer to take over. I decided to apply the canons of iconog- raphy in the painting process. In iconography every colour has a meaning. The rules of icon paint- ing are very strict but, strangely, within the discipline there comes a sense of spiritual freedom and as one paints one enters into meditation. The basic canons that are used are as follows: eyes do not reflect the light which passes through them into the kingdom of God; noses are long because they breathe in the Holy Spirit; mouths are closed and ears are rudimen- tary listening to the word of God; fingers are long, pointing the way to Jesus. The colours all have meaning. Red signifies the blood of humanity or the fire of the spirit; brown is the colour of the The completed icon to be dedicated on Sunday 10th April 2016 earth from which all things grow; green is new birth; orange repre- sents revolution; blue is divinity; were thick enough to be opaque brush over it! This works well black is death; white is purity so that the white gesso did not and then the gold is gently and gold is everlasting life. The show through, it was left to dry placed near to the surface of law of perspective as we under- and then gently sanded down the bole. The surface tension stand it is reversed, for all lines with various grades of wet and dry of the gelatine solution does meet not at infinity but in the eye paper before it was polished with the rest and the gold is pulled of the beholder and spread out- 000 wire wool. The crucifix was off the brush onto the icon. wards into the kingdom of now ready to be gilded using 22 When the whole area has the heaven. carat gold leaf. In order to do been covered it is left to dry this a mixture of three table and, if necessary, burnished. I spoons of gelatine dissolved in wanted the gilding to be of a I began by applying the deep distilled water to a dilution of 1 in very good quality and decided blue/black background of the 23 was then added to a glass of to apply a second coat, an ex- cross. Lapis lazuli and black are boiled water together with pensive business but very mixed with a medium of egg yolk, three tablespoons of vodka. This worthwhile. white wine vinegar and distilled was painted over the bole. Gild- water. This colour in iconogra- ing is a tense nerve-wracking phy represents the Kingdom of process. The gold leaf has to be Now the painting could begin God and the Dark Cloud of Un- picked up using a gilders brush. after more prayer and medita- knowing. A number of layers of The easy way to do this is to use tion; I often find it hard to be- paint were needed to give the static electricity by brushing the gin painting because of the depth of colour I wanted. The hairs against your beard or the enormity of the challenge and base colour for Jesus' body was hair on you head! Since I do not I have to force myself to be- then mixed. Yellow ochre, burnt have a beard and not much hair I gin. Once I have started, how- sienna, a touch of light red and have to rub a little almond oil on ever, I can only work for up to burnt umber were gently mixed my wrist and stroke the gilder's with the egg mixture until I

15 judged the colour acceptable because the weight of the and I painted it over the whole body would have torn them out body. For the shaded areas and it is now known that they, Film Night terra vert was added in. The fa- would have been hammered cial features such as the eye- through the wrist and ankle brows and the dark areas of the bones causing even greater at hair colour were applied using pain and suffering. I decided stronger pigments such as caput however, to follow the usual St George’s mortem, burnt umber and a lit- iconographic image. tle black. The skin tones are a The ornamental panels on ei- mixture of yellow ochre, light ther side of the cross caused red, burnt sienna and a touch of some difficulty because I could white. These areas are applied not find a satisfactory pattern. by cross hatching with a fine However in the end I decided pointed brush and merged with that using small crucifixes in the underlying darker colour red and blue representing the with a damp brush. This is a time empty cross after Christ's resur- consuming process but a spiritu- ally moving one as the face and rection would be suitable body begin to appear upon the dark ground. As more white is Eventually when I became added the skin colouring be- aware that I could do no more comes more luminous and alive work the painting was left to and the continuous movement dry. However it was inevitable of the brush strokes becomes that over following weeks I like a mantra allowing the mind saw areas of the painting with to become 'still in the presence which I was not satisfied. It is of the Lord'. Occasionally a always difficult to try to make transparent glaze was washed corrections and it is a nerve over the surface to bring every- wracking process because it is thing together. This might be very always possible that in at- diluted yellow ochre, burnt si- tempts to improve the paint- enna or a combination of the ing one can make it worse. two. There are often moments However, at the end of the of deep emotion as the face of process I found it difficult to Pasolini’s Jesus begins to look back at you. divorce myself from the work I usually play some appropriate and to see it as a whole. After The Gospel music and in this case Pergo- some time I began, finally, to lesi's Stabat Mater, Haydn's Four be able to view the finished according to Last Words from the Cross and painting without any personal CDs of Orthodox music and involvement and allow it to St Matthew Bach's Cantatas were used to take on a life of its own. I hope promote a peaceful atmosphere. and pray that people who see As a Christian the Crucifixion is the crucifix will find the love of frequently talked about and the th Jesus. Biblical story read so often that Friday 4 March one can become almost too fa- Derek Bird 6.30pm miliar with the event but in this work I was more aware than ever before of the horror and unbe- lievable sadistic side of humanity Internationally hailed by and the overwhelming love that critics as his masterpiece, Jesus showed to submit to the Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The torture and make it possible for us to enter into the wondrous Gospel according to St Mat- love of God in spite of our own thew is a visually stunning, inadequacies. He could have emotionally stirring inter- turned away from his entry into pretation of the life of

Jerusalem and the fate that he Christ, based on the narra- must have known was likely to befall him there. In icons and tive in the first Gospel. early religious paintings the nails are usually painted entering the Admission: free hands and feet of Christ. This, however, cannot have been so (retiring collection)

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Recordings of St George’s organ

Recital in Handel’s Church Kimberly Mashall (organ) performs music by Handel, J S Bach & Guilmant. Available as a digital download from Amazon, iTunes etc

Parthenia Nova Simon Thomas Jacobs (organ) performs music by Bach, Weckman, Böhm, Sweelinck and Philips plus the first recordings of works by Joel Martinson, David Sanger and Philip Moore. Fugue State Records, FSRCD009

Available from www.fuguestatefilms.co.uk/shop at £14.50 or from St George’s Vestry at a specially negotiated price of £10.00

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Hyde Park Place Estate Charity

At their meeting on Wednesday 25th November 2015, the Civil Trustees of the Hyde Park Place Estate Charity awarded grants totalling £41,220 to the following organisations working in the City of Westminster:

The Marylebone Project Contact the Elderly Church Housing Trust Marie Curie Wigmore Hall - Music for Life Depaul UK Mousetrap Theatre Projects Central London Samaritans Friends of the Elderly Crisis UK St George’s School St George’s Hanover Square - Refreshment Coupons for the Homeless

The following meeting of the Civil Trustees was held on Wednesday 24th February 2016, grant details of which will appear in the next newsletter. A further meeting will be held on Wednesday 18th May 2016 (application deadline: Tuesday 3rd May).

ECCLESIASTICAL TRUSTEES

A total of £64,750 was awarded in grants at the Ecclesiastical Trustees’ meeting held on Sunday 29th No- vember 2015, for the benefit of the churches and clergy based in the original historic parish of St George’s Hanover Square. The next meeting will be held on Sunday 22nd May 2016 (application dead- line: Monday 9th May)

Shirley Vaughan Clerk to the Trustees

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

Website: www.stgeorgeshanoversquare.org

St George’s Hanover Square Foundation Charity No 1120505 Email: [email protected]

Hyde Park Place Estate Charity Charity No 212439 Email: [email protected]

Grosvenor Chapel 24 South Audley Street, London W1K 2PA Tel: 020 7499 1684 Email: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Website: www.grosvenorchapel.org.uk

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