Weekly Email – Feast of the Holy Family
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Dear friends,
I wish you all a very happy Christmas! I pray the joy of this holy season will be yours as we continue to celebrate the mystery of the Word becoming flesh over the coming days with all the rich feasts, festivities, and commemorations of the Christmas season.
Please note that this Sunday, as is our long-standing tradition, there will be no public liturgies offered in the evening. There will, therefore, be neither a Low Mass at 5.15 pm nor Evensong and Benediction at 6.00 pm on 28th December.
In addition, between this Sunday and next Sunday 4th January, there will be only one Mass a day, at 12 noon (i.e. there will be no Mass at 6.30 pm). Our usual pattern of two Masses per day will resume on Monday 5th January.
As we continue to keep the full richness of the whole Christmas season, please put our various observances of the Epiphany in your diary. The Epiphany Carol Service will take place on Sunday 4th January at 6.00 pm. The feast of the Epiphany itself will be kept on Tuesday 6th January with a High Mass at 6.30 pm.
At the Epiphany Carol Service, we will recall the Magi’s visit by singing some of the best-loved carols of the season, including: We Three Kings; As with Gladness Men of Old; The First Nowell; and Why Impious Herod. Music sung by our choir will include: Lassus, Omnes de Saba; Leighton, The Christ Child Lay; Mealor, Hodie Caelestis Sponso; Bull, Almighty God; and Sumsion’s Tantum Ergo at Benediction. Do make every effort to be present and bring friends.
With many prayers and every blessing in this season of the Incarnation,
Fr Peter
Thank you, Jeremiah!
Huge thanks go to Jeremiah Stephenson, our Associate Director of Music, for the wonderful Christmas organ concert he played last Friday in aid of our Music Appeal. It was a splendid evening of organ repertoire associated with Christmas, and also improvisation on carol tunes chosen by the audience!
The whole evening raised a total of £1,070 for our Choir and Music Trust Fund. We are very grateful indeed to Jeremiah for his generosity and for the splendid elan, creativity, and musicianship he brought to the evening.
Jeremiah receives rapturous applause at the end of his organ recital last Friday.
Attendance last Sunday
Our Parish Carol Service last Sunday.
For your prayers
The Friends of All Saints, Margaret Street
28th – Fr Peter and Anna Oesterby-Joergensen, Amanda Oldman, Daniel Oliver, Fr Barry Orford, Nicholas Page, Samantha Parker, Malcolm Parr, Bhaven Patel, Philip Payne, Alma Pearson, Gladys Pearson
29th – Pat Philips, Dr Colin Podmore, David Parrott, Nick and Cecilia Powell, Susan Prain, Vasileios Psomas, Michael Readman, Simon Rainey, Heikki Repo
30th – The All Saints Sisters of the Poor
31st – Friends of All Saints’ in need
1st – Carlos Remotti-Breton, Fr Steve Rice, John Rick, Fr Peter Roberts, Hilary Rodger
2nd – Greg Round, Jamie Rundle, Mary Sherred, James Shrimpton
3rd – Ingrid Slaughter, Naomi Slippe, Vaughan Snook, Harvey Solomon-Brady
The sick
Jean Castledine, David Craig, Edward Burns, Asuncion Ginés, Pat Hawkins, Fr Harry Hodgetts, Christopher Frey, Daniel Oliver, Verena Reisinger, James Rodger, Ingrid Slaughter, Juliet Windham
The recently departed
Peter Roberts Pr
Anniversaries of death
28th – Percy Flemine, Richard Williams, Paul Drake, Ernest Gaskell, Gordon Symes, Rosemary Harris
29th – Katherine Mundy Dn, Brian Lee
30th – Elaine Boyton, Mona Crompton, John Freebairn-Smith, Malcolm Melville Pr, Elizabeth Young
1st – Ethel de Rougement, Trevor Burnett-Brown, Nicholas Luff
2nd – Hugh Glaisyer Pr
3rd – Berdmore Compton Pr (Second Vicar of All Saints), Eileen Prior
Our Parish Carol Service last Sunday.
Services this week
Saturday 27 December – St John the Evangelist
12 pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Confessions
6.30 pm Vigil Mass of Sunday
Sunday 28th December – FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY
8.30 am Low Mass
11 am High Mass
Monday 29 December – St Thomas Becket
12 noon Low Mass
Tuesday 30 December – Tuesday in the Octave of Christmas
12 noon Low Mass
Wednesday 31 December – S. Sylvester
12 pm Low Mass
Thursday 1 January – MARY, MOTHER OF GOD
12 pm Low Mass
Friday 2 January – Ss Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen
12 pm Low Mass
Saturday 3 January – The Most Holy Name of Jesus
12 pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Confessions
6.30 pm Vigil Mass of Sunday
Sunday 4 January – CHRISTMAS II
8.30 am Low Mass
11 am High Mass
5.15 pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Epiphany Carol Service