Weekly Email – Pentecost
Documents
Dear friends,
The feast of Corpus Christi is just around the corner. We celebrate it on Thursday 19th June with a High Mass at 6.30 pm followed by a Procession of the Blessed Sacrament down Oxford Street and Benediction.
I am very pleased that Fr Grant Naylor has agreed to come to be the preacher at the High Mass this year. He is the parish priest of St Matthew’s, Carver Street, Sheffield. This is a well-known Anglo-Catholic parish with a long and prestigious history of defending the Catholic Faith.
Fr Grant has led a significant rejuvenation and renewal of that parish. It has seen considerable congregational growth and makes a significant impact in the life of the heart of the city of Sheffield witnessing to the Gospel. We look forward to hearing what Fr Naylor has to say to us.
The music for Corpus Christi will be wonderful. The Mass setting will be Haydn’s Missa Brevis in C. Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus and O sacrum convivium by Croce will be anthems. Lauda Sion from Cathedral Windows by Sigfrid Karg-Elert will be played as the voluntary.
As we prepare for Corpus Christi, there are several areas where we need help from parishioners.
First, please help with our efforts on social media to raise awareness of our celebration of the feast. We have been publishing material advertising the procession on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you are able to “like” and “share” these posts over the coming couple of weeks, that would be hugely helpful.
Second, we will be beginning our usual efforts to cover the cost of hosts and altar wine for the next year, which we have undertaken as an offering around the feast of Corpus Christi for a year or two now. We are appealing for people to sponsor the cost of bottles of altar wine and packets of hosts. If we cover the annual costs of our sacristy supplies, it makes a big difference to our annual budget.
A bottle of altar wine costs £9, a packet of people’s hosts costs £5, and a packet of priests’ hosts costs £9. You can sponsor these in person on Sundays over the next couple of weeks. Alternatively, if you wish to make a contribution online, please make a payment through the “one off” option via CAF here. If you do this, it would be helpful if you could send the parish office a brief email so we know your donation is intended for sacristy supplies.
Thirdly, we need volunteers to steward the Corpus Christi procession. This involves wearing a hi-vis vest and making sure the procession takes place safely and in an orderly way. A full briefing is give to all those who are undertaking this important role. Without a good team of volunteers the procession cannot take place. To volunteer to be a steward, please email the parish office (office@asms.uk).
I look forward to our celebration of this wonderful feast in which we give thanks for the gift of Christ’s own self to us in the Mass. I pray that our procession draws us and those who see it closer to Christ, and that it might be a sign of Christ’s love for the world, and of our witness to him. I commend our preparations of the feast to your prayers and ask you to help if you are able in letting others know about our celebrations.
Fr Peter
Thank you Keith and Rosa!
We are very grateful to Rosa and Keith Postance for providing such a lovely drinks party last Sunday after the High Mass to celebrate their Diamond Wedding Anniversary. It was a lovely occasion, and we offer our heartfelt best wishes to them as they mark this important mile stone in their life. We are grateful for all they contribute to the life of our parish.
Many congratulations to Keith and Rosa on the occasion of their Diamond Wedding Anniversary.
Trip to the National Gallery
There is ONE TICKET left for our parish outing to the National Gallery, which will take place TONIGHT (Friday 6th June) to see its highly praised exhibition focussed on Sienese painting in the 13th Century. This will be followed by an optional dinner in Chinatown. There is still time to book yourself on to the trip at the last minute before tonight.
You can sign up and pay via Eventbrite here. We are meeting directly at the exhibition at 6.15 – don’t wait outside the Gallery!
A toast is made to Keith and Rosa last Sunday during drinks in the courtyard after the High Mass.
Parish Walks
Some shifts in the Parish timetable mean that neither proposed date for the next walks are now possible. Apologies to those who have had these dates in your diaries! The next walk will be a nine mile walk from Amberley to Arundel on Saturday July 12th. We’ll get the 10.05 train from Victoria Station. Amberley is the stop before Arundel, so a return ticket will work. We will aim for the 17.14 train back at the latest, and so will be back in London before 7pm. Please email Fr Alan to sign up or for more details.
Drinks 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, 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.
Parishioners enjoying the beautiful weather during last Sunday’s drinks party after the High Mass.
Walsingham Weekend Pilgrimage
Our parish weekend pilgrimage to Walsingham will take place from Friday 25th July to Sunday 29th July 2024.
The cost is £190 Friday pm to Sunday evening, including full board plus mini-coach from Kings Lynn. Pilgrims need to book their own train ticket to Kings Lynn.
This weekend pilgrimage away includes: Pilgrimage Mass at the Shrine Church; evening processions; sacraments of healing; sprinkling at the holy well and finishing with procession of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction.
There is also an option for pilgrims who wish to stay on until the Monday and return on 22nd July – this costs £280.
You can book a place on the pilgrimage via this Eventbrite link.
Drinks in our courtyard after the High Mass last Sunday.
Biography of William Dodsworth
Drinks in our courtyard after the High Mass last Sunday.
Assumptiontide celebrations 2025
Friday 15th August 2025
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm High Mass
Sunday 17th August 2025
6.00 pm Assumptiontide Evensong and Benediction with Procession of Our Lady down Oxford Street.
Preacher: The Revd Philip Corbett, Vicar of St Silas and Holy Trinity, Kentish Town.
We are grateful to everyone who helped provide refreshments and welcome on Sunday morning!
Attendance last Sunday
For your prayers
The Friends of All Saints
8th – Martin Woods, The Rev’d John Wylam, William Yale, Michael Young
9th – Mark Allan, Martin Amherst-Lock, Robert Austen, Richard Ayling, James Babington Smith, Ruth Baker
10th – Stephen Baldwin, Stephen Barber, Nigel Beanland, Jonathan Beck, Dr William Benefield, William Bonnell, Charlotte Black
11th – John Bristow, Paul Brough, Michael Brown, David Blunden, Fr Michael Bowie, Dr Graham Burns
12th – Derek Bussey, Katherine Butler, Maureen Cambrey, David Caplowe, Adrian Carlton-Oatley, Timothy Cassady, Norman and Zulette Catir, Kate Charles, Stuart Chillingworth, Sir Robert Chote, Sandy Christian
13th – Roger Clark, Catharine Clarke, David and Mavis Cleggett, Graham Colville
14th – Karolyn Cooper, William Cooper Bailey, Peter Coulson, Steven Cox, Dr Yvonne Craig, Juliet Cridland
The sick
Biddy Baxter, Graeme Butler, Jean Castledine, David Craig, Fr Michael Gudgeon, Sheelagh Gudgeon, Tony Hawkins, Margaret Hill, Shelia Hirst, Fr Harry Hodgetts, Elizabeth Lyon, John Noury, James Rodger, Rosemarie Sims
The recent departed
Ina Long, Roger Sainsbury, Bp
Anniversaries of death
8th – Tom Sanders
9th – Doreen Davis, Grace Harrison, Pat Hunt, Shelia Luscombe
10th – Gordon Arthur, Aileen Buxton, David Botsford
11th – Mabel Pearce, Laurence Olivier
12th – Wilfred Stansfield, Cyril Ward
13th – Mary Gaskell, Mina Robertson
14th – Sheila Duggan, James Wheen
Services this week
Saturday 7 June – Saturday after Ascension
12pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Confessions
6.30 pm Vigil Mass of Sunday
Sunday 8 June – PENTECOST
8.30 am Low Mass
11 am High Mass
5.15 pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Solemn Evensong and Benediction with Te Deum
Monday 9 June – Mary, Mother of the Church
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass
Tuesday 10 June – Feria
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass
Wednesday 11 June – St Barnabas, Ap
12 noon Low Mass
5.30 Holy Hour
6.30 pm Low Mass
Thursday 12 June – Our Lord Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass
Friday 13 June – Saint Anthony of Padua
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass
Saturday 14 June – Our Lady on Saturday
12pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Confessions
6.30 pm Vigil Mass of Sunday
Sunday 15 June – TRINITY SUNDAY
8.30 am Low Mass
11 am High Mass
5.15 pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Solemn Evensong and Benediction