Weekly Email – Easter 5
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Dear friends,
This Sunday Bishop Jonathan will be with us this Sunday to celebrate the sacraments of initiation at the 11.00 am High Mass. It will be a wonderful celebration and I urge as many of you as possible to make sure you are present for this important occasion in the life of our parish.
We have six candidates in total. I ask you to pray for Emelia, Hugo, Sarah, Tom, Martin and Susie as they prepare for this important day. Sarah and Tom will be baptized and confirmed; Emelia, Hugo, and Martin and will be confirmed; and Susie will publicly reaffirm her baptismal faith.
The diversity in age, background, and experience present in our group of candidates reveals a lot about the many paths by which people find their way to faith in Christ in our modern world.
One of the most important things we can do as a parish community is to focus on being a place where newcomers feel welcomed, and where their questions, perspectives, and needs are taken seriously as they grow in faith. I rejoice that so much time, energy and effort is put into ensuring we offer high quality programmes of teaching and formation to prepare those who feel God is calling them to come to him in faith to receive the sacraments of initiation.
All the candidates have spoken to me in one way or another about the way in which they have found All Saints’ a welcoming and nurturing place. I want to thank you all for way in which you have contributed to the welcome these candidates have received. It is clear that the many friends and fellow parishioners present each week to encourage and support them have played an important role in their journey of faith
The Mass on Sunday will be a splendid celebration. Bishop Jonathan will preside and preach. The music will include Michael Haller’s Ecce Sacerdos Magnus; Grayston Ives’ Missa Brevis; and Prevent us, O Lord, by William Byrd. The Voluntary will be Grand Jeu from Livre d’Orgue, by Pierre du Mage.
After the confirmation, there will be a bring-and-share parish lunch in our beautiful courtyard. Do make sure you have time to stay and enjoy lunch together. We still need a few more dishes to ensure we have enough food for everyone. If you would like to offer something, please be in touch with Kate Hodgetts. We would be hugely grateful.
I look forward to witnessing a fresh outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit in the lives of these candidates on Sunday, and to celebrating with you all as God continues to add to our number those who are being saved.
Fr Peter
APCM
Our Annual Parochial Church Meeting and Annual Meeting of Parishioners will take place after the High Mass on Sunday 25th May 2025. This is the occasion when annual reports on our parish’s life are formally presented, churchwardens are elected for the coming year, and members of our PCC are chosen.
Coffee in our courtyard after the High Mass last Sunday.
Trip to the National Gallery
A parish outing to the National Gallery will take place on Friday 6th June to see its highly praised current exhibition focussed on Sienese painting in the 13th Century. There are 20 tickets which will be apportioned on a “first come, first served” basis. There will also be an option for dinner together after the exhibition in Chinatown, which will cost £35 per head.
You can sign up and pay via Eventbrite here.
Fulham Festival
The Bishop of Fulham invites everyone to a day festival which will take place at Southwark Cathedral on Saturday 31st May to celebrate the life of his parishes. There will be a Solemn Mass at 11.00 am, followed by the opportunity to have a picnic lunch with activities in the afternoon. The day finishes with Cathedral Evensong at 4.00 pm.
Parish Walks
Our parish rambling group will be going on two day trip walks over the coming months: Saturday 7th June; and Saturday 5th July. All are welcome to join the group! Precise details will follow, but for now the dates are published so you can make a note in your diaries. If you have questions or suggestions about future walks, please be in touch with Fr Alan.
Our guest preacher at the High mass last week was Fr Steve Rice, Rector of St Timothy’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. You can watch his excellent homily again here.
Walsingham National Pilgrimage
A double decker coach will depart from All Saints’, Margaret Street, on Monday 24th May 2025 at 7.30 am sharp, to take pilgrims to the National Pilgrimage at Walsingham. The coach will return to the West End by the evening of the same day.
The cost is £30 per person, and you sign up and pay online via the Eventbrite link here.
Coffee in our courtyard after the High Mass last Sunday.
Next Zoom Theology
Our next online Zoom Theology seminar will take place on Tuesday 8th July at 7.00 pm. It will focus on a recently published book by biblical scholar Candida Moss entitled, God’s Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible.
This seminar, led by Fr Peter Anthony, will seek to delve deeper into the question of who wrote the New Testament.
We are used to thinking of the great names of the apostolic band as the authors of the gospels and epistles, but who actually put pen to paper, and in what sense can we say they “wrote” those texts?
This ground-breaking new work by Candida Moss explores the contribution of a range of enslaved secretaries, amanuenses and writers. It seeks to reveal the forgotten voices, and marginalised contributors without whose work the New Testament corpus would not exist.
It will be important for all participants to have read Candida Moss’s book in preparation for the seminar.
Coffee in our courtyard after the High Mass last Sunday.
Attendance last Sunday
Coffee in our courtyard after the High Mass last Sunday.
Weekly services
Saturday 17th May – Easter Feria of Our Lady
12pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Confessions
6.30 pm Vigil Mass of Sunday
Sunday 18th May – FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
8.30 am Low Mass
11 am High Mass
5.15 pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Evensong and Benediction
Monday 19th May – Easter Feria
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm High Mass
Tuesday 20th May – Easter Feria
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass
Wednesday 21st May – Easter Feria
12 noon Low Mass
5.30 Holy Hour
6.30 pm Low Mass
Thursday 22nd May – Easter Feria
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass
Friday 23rd May – Easter Feria
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass
Saturday 24th May – Easter Feria of Our Lady
12pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Confessions
6.30 pm Vigil Mass of Sunday
Sunday 25th May – SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
8.30 am Low Mass
11 am High Mass
5.15 pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Evensong and Benediction
For your prayers
The Friends of All Saints’ Margaret Street
18th – Stuart Fletcher, Christopher Forman, Matthew Foster, Antony Fox, Dr Ralph Donald Fram, Dr Jason Frost, Derrick French, Charlotte Gauthier, Dr Rebecca Gibbs, Margaret Goddard, Paul Golding, John Goldsmith
19th – Genevieve Gomi, Canon Michael Gudgeon, Sheelagh Gudgeon, Ginger and Del Hall, Monica Joan Hall
20th – Paul Hannah, Jillian Hargreaves, Christopher Harlow-Jennings, Patrick Hartley, The Rev’d Canon Jeremy Haselock
21st – Eoghan Healy, Rebecca Hirst, Fr David Hobden, James and Gwendoline Holdcroft, The Rev’d Canon Graham Holcombe, Edwin Holmes, Rosy Holt, Bishop David Hope
22nd – Richard Hoskinson, Marissa Howard-McNatt, Fr David Hutt, Alfred Imhoff, David James, Andrew Jervis, Stephen Jury, Malcolm Kemp
23rd – Alan Kimbrough, Brenda Koupis, Stanislav Kudryashov, Christopher Laws, Margaret Leggett
24th – Cornelius Logue, Frau Dr Christiane Loidl-Rainey, Nigel Lynn, Henry Macey, Bishop Michael Marshall, David Mason, Robert Mason, Graham Mather
The sick
Graeme Butler, Dame Averil Cameron, David Craig, Fr Michael Gudgeon, Tony Hawkins, Margaret Hill, Fr Harry Hodgetts, Elizabeth Lyon, Philip Payne, James Rodger, Ingrid Slaughter
The recently departed
John Gayford Pr, Melanie Tucker, Barbara Jones, Vernon Groves, Ronald Corp CBE
Anniversaries of death
18th – Michael White-Cooper Pr, William Crane, Thomas O’Neil Pr, Flora Clutterham, Charles Oram
19th – Frank Biggart, Mary Cottell, Betty Johnson
20th – Eliza Pountney, Eric Arnold
21st – Alan James, Wendy Johnson;
23rd – Basil Kiernander, Charles Cruse
24th – Francis Irving, Rita Hodgetts, Mary Woodward, Nora Nettey