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All Saints Parish Paper 7, MARGARET STREET, LONDON W1W 8JG MAY 2019 £1.00 All Saints Parish Paper 7, MARGARET STREET, LONDON W1W 8JG www.allsaintsmargaretstreet.org.uk MAY 2019 £1.00 Palm Sunday procession from Market Place to All Saints, 14 April 2019 Photo: Andrew Prior VICAR’S LETTER west towers. I thought this must have been something like the destruction of the old St Holy Week in 2019 will, I suspect, now Paul’s during the Great Fire of London; only always be remembered as the week when then the whole city burned and there was no Notre Dame burned. Along with millions possibility of halting the flames until there of others, we watched the terrible scene was nothing left to burn. unfold on our television screen: the spire crumble and fall, consumed by the flames Last summer, Theresa and I went to Mass which destroyed the roof; hoped almost at Notre Dame on our wedding anniversary; against hope, with the people standing so an occasion of happy memories. The in silent horror at the scene, prayed with Archbishop of Paris had just launched an those who prayed and sang hymns, that the appeal for the restoration of the cathedral; firefighters would be able to save the great one of the glories of Gothic architecture. It 1 now seems possible that the fire may have deal of money on replacing antiquated and been caused by that restoration work; as potentially dangerous wiring. We have also happened at Windsor Castle. I had feared installed a fire detection system. This is not at first that it might have been the result of cheap, nor is it a one-off cost; such systems arson; there has been a plague of attacks on have to be checked and maintained and this churches in France in recent months. costs money. The trustees of the All Saints Foundation, which assists the parish in the Notre Dame is, of course, the heart of a care of our listed buildings, has recognized city and a nation, an international cultural this as something in which it can assist treasure visited by millions each year. Built the PCC. It would be a tragedy if all the as an expression of faith, it has survived results of all that skill and generosity was many perils: the Wars of Religion in the destroyed by fire in the space of a few hours; 16th century; the French Revolution when simply because we did not take proper Robespierre turned it briefly into a “Temple precautions to protect it. When we hear of Reason”; siege in the Franco-Prussian people complaining about regulation and War; draconian anti-clerical legislation red tape, it is worth remembering that much separating church and state, suppressing of it is there to protect not just property religious orders and confiscating church but lives from the consequences of human buildings; occupation by the Nazis (Hitler’s carelessness, folly or even wickedness. order that it be razed along with the rest of the city was fortunately ignored by the The prayers and hymns of those who garrison commander). watched their beloved cathedral burn remind us that whatever its significance as a Years ago in Edinburgh, my assistant national symbol or cultural artefact, it is first priest and I opened Old St Paul’s church and foremost a church; built and adorned to one Monday for Morning Prayer to find it the glory of God. In that, it is just like All filled with smoke — and not that of incense Saints and any other house of God. lingering after the previous day’s Evensong. We called the fire brigade and the source Many of those who watched stood was found to be a foam backed carpet in silence and television commentators someone had carelessly placed on top of struggled for words. I wonder if the a brick heating flue in the undercroft. The destruction of a building which symbolizes firefighters dealt with it quickly and kindly a nation’s history of faith, seen by many in a put one of the pumps they use to fill blazing self-consciously secular society as a relic of basements with foam into reverse to suck the past, might cause some to reconsider the the foul-smelling smoke from the church. significance of a faith which could inspire That was the nearest I have ever been to something so beautiful. losing a church to fire; but it was too close In this issue we publish a letter from two for comfort. visitors to All Saints. Appreciative of the Here at All Saints, we have spent a beauty of the place, it also acknowledges its huge amount of money, effort and time in rôle as a church. If that rôle is to continue, recent years, on the restoration of our rather those of us whom God has called to serve smaller scale treasure of Gothic Revival and worship here have a responsibility architecture. We have also spent a good not just to maintain it as a building, which 2 calls for financial generosity, but, more The President of France has now promised importantly, as a house of prayer and that Notre Dame will be rebuilt in five years; worship, which calls for generosity with our so, God willing, we may get to give thanks time; time spent on our knees. If buildings there on another wedding anniversary after like Notre Dame and All Saints are to have all. a converting effect, people need to see them being used for their proper purpose. LETTER FROM CELIA KING IN NOTTINGHAM Notre Dame took 200 years to build, longer than All Saints has existed, and we “My husband and I visit London regularly, can only guess how long it will take to for exhibitions and enjoying London rebuild it. I hope that I will see it done in my architecture. A few weeks ago we visited lifetime and perhaps be able to mark another All Saints for the first time, it having been wedding anniversary there. mentioned in an early book by P.D. James Paris is not short of large churches, so I am that we had just read. sure the Archbishop will find a temporary “It is one of the most beautiful churches ‘pro-cathedral’ until Notre Dame rises from we have ever been in, we stayed for some the ashes. If such a tragedy was to occur, it time, in contemplation of the surrounding was perhaps best that it should happen just beauty, and it was very touching to hear before we celebrate the resurrection of Our only some soft breathing and the occasional Lord. There is life after death. faint snore. Presumably you have a well- Alan Moses ordered system for the ‘sleepers’. How good it would be if our vast empty church P.S. After I had written this, it became of St Mary’s in Nottingham could have the clear that while the damage to the same. cathedral was terrible, the main structure, along with many of its treasures, thanks We look forward to visiting again. to the courage and skill of the firefighters, had been saved. On my way home from HOLY WEEK PREPARATIONS visiting our Churchwarden Chris Self, who was alas spending his Holy Week in St Our thanks to Canon Michael Gudgeon for Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, I picked up leading a study of the Passion according to a copy of the Evening Standard with the St Luke as part of our preparations for Holy headline “Miracle of Notre Dame” and a Week. At the time of writing, the Triduum photograph of the sun shining on the great is about to get underway and so much of golden cross behind the high altar. Words the additional work of our volunteers has from the Passiontide office hymn, written yet to be done as we welcome the extra long ago by a French bishop, came to mind: numbers who join us for Maundy Thursday, “The cross shines forth in mystic glow”. Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Day It even shone forth from the front page of — we wish them all well in their labours the next day’s Guardian! To get those two and devotions and thank them in advance publications singing from the same hymn for their care for the Church, the special sheet might be considered a minor miracle demands of the liturgy at this time and our in itself! expanded congregations. 3 BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL: Softness, and peace, and joy and love and bliss Gillian Dare reflects on the Parish Retreat his son’s selfish and thoughtless actions, at Bishop Woodford House, Ely, March he did not remonstrate with him when he 2019 demanded his inheritance, but gave him his Sixteen members of All Saints participated share generously and waited patiently and in the annual retreat in Ely led by Fr Bill in hope for his son’s return. When he came Scott. Timed to take place in the first half back, he greeted him tenderly regardless of Lent, it offered a valuable opportunity of what he had done, forgiving rather than for quiet reflection; time to review the way condemning him and celebrating his return. we live our lives and to commit to making That is what God expects of those who walk some changes or new directions under in the Spirit. Like the son, we all want to be the Spirit. Lent is the time to gain greater independent and strong, but before God, we understanding of ourselves and of those are all children and vulnerable, and need His around us, and above all, of the love and forgiveness and love.
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