All Saints Margaret Street.

Dear friends,

I am pleased to announce the schedule of pilgrimages which our parish will be making over the next year to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.

I apologise for the fact that it has taken so long to sort some of these details out. In particular, it is clear that our weekend pilgrimage will now have to take place in September this year rather than in July as a result of a number of factors. I hope this doesn’t cause too much disruption for people who were hoping to travel to Walsingham with us in July.

Three pilgrimages will be available this year, and to book your place, you simply register and pay through the relevant Eventbrite links below:

National Pilgrimage

Monday 25th May 2026

This is a day pilgrimage to Walsingham which takes place on the last Bank Holiday in May each year. We travel together in a coach from Margaret Street, setting off at 7.00am, and return late in the evening of the same day. The pilgrimage includes a large outdoor Mass in the Abbey grounds of Walsingham, with sermon and procession in the afternoon.

The cost of the coach is £45. Please sign up and pay here.

Annual parish weekend pilgrimage

Friday 18th – 21st September 2026

Our weekend pilgrimage to Walsingham involves staying in Shrine accommodation and spending the weekend there. This pilgrimage involves: a Pilgrimage Mass on the Saturday at the Shrine Church; evening processions; sacraments of healing; sprinkling at the holy well and finishing with procession of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction.

The cost is £240 Friday pm to Sunday evening – including full board plus mini-coach from Kings Lynn. Please note that we travel up to Kings Lynn by train and pilgrims need to book their own train ticket.

Please book your place and pay via Eventbrite here.

Walsingham Advent Retreat

Friday 4th – Sunday 6th December 2026

This pilgrimage is more reflective in character and takes the form of a silent retreat. All those who take part go into silence on Friday evening after supper. Silence is then kept in the Shrine grounds through the whole of Saturday until after the Solemn Mass on Sunday morning which takes place at St Mary’s parish church.

The cost of the retreat is £274. This covers the cost of a room with full board for two nights and a transfer from Kings Lynn station to Walsingham. We will follow our usual routine of traveling to King Lynn by train and asking retreatants to buy their own railway tickets.  We will set off around midday on Friday 4th December and return to Kings Cross on Sunday evening around 7.00 pm.

Please book your place and pay via Eventbrite here.

I hope these visits, pilgrimages and retreats offer a range of ways in which over the coming year we can return to the Lord and learn to be better disciples of Jesus Christ in the company of his Blessed Mother.

Fr Peter

Laetare Sunday Drinks

We are very grateful indeed to Simon Rainey KC, and Dr Christiane Loidl-Rainey for providing champagne as a special mid-Lent treat for drinks in the courtyard after Sunday’s High Mass.

Many thanks go to them from our whole parish community for also sponsoring the music at the High Mass. We are very grateful indeed for their generosity and kindness.

We look forward to celebrating with them over a delicious glass of champagne on Sunday!

Confessions

In addition to our usual times for hearing confessions, Fr David Houlding will be available to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation on Friday 27th March at 5.00 pm.

Palm Sunday Evensong

Evensong and Benediction on Palm Sunday will be enriched by a number of extra pieces of music to celebrate the beginning of Holy Week. Do make a special effort to be present as it should be a wonderful evening of sacred music.

The Magnificat will be from James MacMillan’s Short Service and the Nunc Dimittis will be that by Orlando de Lassus,  Primi toni ‘Il magnanimo Pietro’.

The anthem at the office will be Solus ad victimam by Kenneth Leighton, and there will be an extra motet offered in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, Christus factus est by Anton Bruckner.

The Benediction canticles O Salutaris and Tantum Ergo will be those by Thomas Tallis.

Hymnody will include, “Doest thou surely seek renown?” “The Royal Banners”, and “In the Cross of Christ I glory.”

Stations of the Cross

Stations of the Cross will take place next week on Wednesday at 12 noon and on Friday at 7.00 pm.

Please note that in the week after, on Wednesday 25th March, because it is the feast of the Annunciation, there will be no Stations of the Cross or Holy Hour. Stations will, however, take pace on Friday 27th March at 7.00 pm.

U.S. Friends of All Saints’ – just one week away!

There will be a drinks party held on Friday 20th March 2026 at the House of the Redeemer, New York City, at 6.30 pm to celebrate the contribution to our parish’s life made by the American Friends of All Saints’, Margaret Street.

This drinks party will be proceeded by a Mass celebrated by Fr Peter in the Chapel of the House of the Redeemer at 6.00 pm, giving thanks for the life of All Saints’, for any who wish to attend.

You can book a free ticket for the event via Eventbrite here.

Parish Office

Fr Alan Rimmer is away from Friday 13th March until 24th March in the United States. Fr Peter Anthony is also away from 18th March until 26th March organising fundraising events in New York.

The Parish Office will be open as usual between 10am-1.45pm Monday to Friday. Our schedule of daily Masses, Confessions, and Stations of the Cross is unchanged and will happen as normal.

Lent Giving

We are asked to consider two focusses for our Lent giving this year.

The first is to encourage those of you who have not yet done so to join the new scheme for supporting our Music Trust with regular giving which we launched in November. To join the Music Patrons of All Saints’, simply set up a regular gift of at least £10 a month to our Choir and Music Trust via this link.

A second recommendation is our annual Lent Appeal, which focusses our outward giving on the homelessness charity C4WS.  We no longer be accept cheques or cash for our Lent Appeal. Instead, you are invited to make a donation to C4WS through the following link here.

Flowers

The flowers for Mothering Sunday have been given by Aiden and Ashley Hargreaves-Smith, in loving and ever-grateful memory of their mother, Valerie (whose birthday would have fallen today) and thankfulness for all mothers, especially those parted from their children.

If anyone would like to make a donation for flowers or the Courtyard Garden, please contact Shawn directly or via the office.

Attendance last Sunday

For your prayers

Friends and Music Patrons of All Saints, Margaret Street

16th – Fr Michael Maine, Fr David Mason, Thomas McBryer, Dr Stephen McClatchie, John McWhinney, Peter Medine, Colin Menzies OBE, Jane Elliston

17th – Stephen Miller, Thomas Moller, Barry Moore, Grace Morgan, Dr John Morrell, Fr Stephen Morris, Michael Mortensen, Inger Mosbery

18th – Carol Mundell, Brian Newman, Sasha Nixon, Elaine Norman, Fr Paul Oakford, Anna and Fr Peter Østerby-Jørgensen, Amanda Oldman, Daniel Oliver,

19th – Fr Barry Orford, Nicholas Page, Malcolm Parr, David Parrott, Bhaven Patel, Alma Pearson, Pat Philips, Dr Colin Podmore

20th – Cecilia and Nicholas Powell, Susan Prain, Vasileios Psomas, Frau Dr Christiane Loidl-Rainey and Simon Rainey KC, Michael Readman, Hekki Repo, Fr Steve Rice, Fr Peter Roberts

21st – Miss Cynthia Rodger, Charlotte Roueche, Greg Round, Jamie Rundle, Mary Sherred, James Shrimpton, The All Saints’ Sisters of the Poor, Ingrid Slaughter

The sick

Jean Castledine, David Craig, Asuncion Gines, Fr Harry Hodgetts, Helen Hughes, Canon David Hutt, Daniel Oliver, Carol Simmons, Ingrid Slaughter, Sebastian Taite-Ellis, Shirley Thompson, Juliet Windham

Recently departed

Elizabeth Lyon, Berty Rice

Anniversaries of death

15th – Sydney Heales, Vera Martin, Peggy Shepherd, Joan Miller, James Robertson Pr

16th – Donald Faithfull, Hester Russell 

17th – Edward Aubert, Frank Coomber 

18th – Jessie Thwaites, Edward Mann, Evangeline De Fonseka, Joy Wright, Stewart Lyon

19th – Joan MacKintosh, Millie Cathcart

20th – Christine Tagoe

21st – Mary Steward, Hugh Wiley, Emily Pattisson, Margaret Baker

Services this week