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Parish Paper for March 2017 All Saints Parish Paper 7, MARGARET STREET, LONDON W1W 8JG www.allsaintsmargaretstreet.co.uk MARCH 2017 £1.00 VICAR’S LETTER On Ash Wednesday the Gospel we will hear at Mass is taken from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew’s Gospel. In fact it is a collection of the sayings of Jesus carefully arranged by the evangelist rather than a verbatim report of a sermon given on a Galilean hillside. If this sounds rather “liberal” to some, they can The altar during Passiontide 2016 be reassured that no less a (Photo: Andrew Prior) person than John Calvin held that the evangelist’s intention was the law — he is the one who has authority of “gathering into one single passage the over it as its divine source. chief headings of Christ’s teaching, that had regard to the rule of godly and holy Matthew is the most Jewish of the four living”. Gospels. His arrangement of the material in the Sermon on the Mount echoes a In Lent the Church calls us to pay famous rabbinic saying: “By three things attention to the “rule of godly and holy the world is sustained; by the law, by the living”. The Sermon on the Mount, which Temple service, and by deeds of loving we have been hearing on recent Sundays kindness.” this year can be our guide in that. The Sermon on the Mount deals with the In a deliberate echo of Moses on Mount law, with worship and religious practice, Sinai, Jesus goes up the mountain and then and with trusting and serving God in sits down to teach his disciples. But, we social relationships and action. The Jesus will see that there is a significant differencewho comes “not to abolish the law but between even as great a figure as Mosesto fulfil it,” radicalises its demands so that and Jesus, let alone any other teacher of it deals not just with our external acts but the law of God. Jesus will repeatedly say, with our inner motives. “You have heard it said… but I say to you”. He is not just another interpreter of It calls us not just to a more disciplined 1 and rigorous practice of our religion, but to a hobby, a leisure activity. We are here to a more radical one. In that passage we hear pray faithfully, day by day, for our city on Ash Wednesday we are told “Beware and our world. of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them, for then The words we hear and say and sing you have no reward from your Father in church, or in that private prayer which in heaven”. Religious practice which is the Sermon on the Mount commends so distorted for show, to polish up our image strongly, are to be translated into “deeds and reputation among others, or even to of loving kindness,” those acts of ourselves, is roundly condemned. Note compassion and generosity on which the that it is not the religious practices, prayer, parable of the last judgement in Matthew’s fasting, almsgiving that are denounced but Gospel tells us we will be judged, because their abuse. we did or did not do them to Christ. Some of those will be things we do among our As disciples of Jesus we are called families and friends, our neighbours and not just to a spiritual self-improvement colleagues. Others, like our response as a programme for our own benefit; althoughparish to the Lent Appeal will be things it is about “treasure in heaven”. We are we do together. called to share in the life of Jesus Christ offered for the life of the world which God Lent is a penitential season, a time of loves. Lives of ever-deeper obedience to self-examination and repentance. We are to Christ’s law of radical love, should speak search our consciences, as the confession to leaders and peoples tempted to abandon we say at Sunday Evensong [Evening the rule of law in favour of quick fixes Prayer?] bids us, for the ways in which to our self-inflicted problems; or to find we have “followed too much the devices others to blame for them. We know from and desires of our own hearts…” and history and more recent experience that “offended against [God’s] holy laws”; in there lies the path to barbarism. which “we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we We are called to a deeper commitment have done those things which we ought to prayer and worship not because we find not to have done”. comfort or joy in a particular style, though All this is not to depress and make us no doubt we do, but as members of the feel miserable, except in the old-fashioned priestly people whose responsibility is to sense of needing mercy. Repentance means offer worship to God and pray unceasingly a radical reorientation of our life towards in union with Christ for the world. That is Christ. It does involve a turning away from what the daily worship of a church like All sin but so that we turn towards Christ. It Saints embodies. We need more bodies to is not to imprison us in a hopeless sense share in it; to see it not just as something of guilt but to set us free to “live a godly, which meets our needs but which is for righteous and sober life” in which we are the common good. St Benedict speaks of liberated to “love and serve the Lord”. the prayer of a monastic community as the Opus Dei — “the Work of God”. It is the Yours in Christ, work, too, of a parish community. It is not Alan Moses 2 him to write it down. Here it is: “SUMMONED BY BELL” ‘If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at Southwark Cathedral has recently had its the church door, you will not find him in bells rehung and some newly-cast ones the chalice.’ St John Chrysostom “baptised”. An enthusiastic campanologist “I never cease to be amazed at the way told me some time ago that we should have in which the architecture of All Saints is so 8 bells in our tower. I replied that such a clear about what it wants the visitor to do. project was not very high up my list of Entering the building, one’s eyes are forced priorities. I’m not sure how the residents eastward to the sanctuary, the locus of of No 8 and the Vicarage would take to divine worship. That is where the architect hours of bell-ringing practice at such close wants us to direct our attention. quarters. “And one’s gaze is drawn upwards, from Our modest complement of two bells the sanctuary where the sacrifice of the Mass which are rung daily to mark our service is offered, to the tabernacle where the Lord times, has been reduced temporarily to is sacramentally present, behind which is one; the other having parted company withthe image of His nativity, leading upwards its clapper. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry, to His crucifixion, culminating in the risen founded during the reign of Elizabeth I Lord in the glory of Heaven. The interior of (which the Guinness Book of Records All Saints is a sermon in brick and stone and lists as Britain’s oldest manufacturing paint — but also in human flesh and blood. business at 446 years of operation and alas For the movement upwards from earth to soon to close on its historic East End site heaven (worship) and downwards from of the last 250 years) is on the case and we heaven to earth (divine grace) is incomplete hope to be summoned to prayer again soon without human beings. by bells not bell. “It is many years since I was the curate VISITING PRIESTS here, but it still moves me when preparing for a weekday Mass to contemplate the We are very grateful to those priests who east wall of the church. Nowadays I have have been helping us maintain our daily an audible addition to my prayers: the worship while Fr Michael has been on light breathing (and occasional snoring!) holiday. Among them, special thanks are due of the homeless, finding a degree of rest to Fr Peter McGeary from St Mary’s, Cable and warmth in God’s house. There is a Street, (and a former All Saints’ curate) who strangely wonderful continuum here: has been a stalwart. One evening he arrived Christ in majesty, Christ on the cross, the as our parish administrator Dee Prior and newborn Christ in the arms of His Mother, I were carrying out our daily routine of the tabernacle containing his sacramental waking our sleeping guests and enlisting presence, the space where worship is their help in putting the back of church in offered by God’s people and a space is order before they leave and we begin our made for the most needy, in whom we are evening worship. Fr Peter said something in bidden to find Him anew… response to this which struck me as worth Peter McGeary sharing with a wider audience, so I asked 3 OTHER THOUGHTS and Fr Alan attended her Funeral in Oxford FROM VISITORS on 24 February. Two visitors from Guildford on 8 February FR RICHARD BUCK came to All Saints gave the Church Watcher Geoffrey as an assistant priest in 1968, after training Woodcock a donation, saying they had for the priesthood at King’s College and been so impressed on a previous visit by serving his title at John Keble Church, Mill our allowing rough sleepers in church that Hill.
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