All Saints Margaret Street.

Dear friends,

I am pleased to announce our Zoom Theology programme for the coming year. Details can be found below. I am very grateful indeed to Fr Alan for all the work he has put into preparing what promises to be an exciting series of opportunities for theological formation, spiritual learning, and intellectual discovery.

These online seminars take place by Zoom on a Tuesday night about once every couple of months and last for no longer than an hour each. There is usually a guest speaker with time for teaching, but also questions and discussion.

I am so pleased that once again, one of these sessions will take place jointly with our sister parish is New York City, St Mary the Virgin, Times Square. This session on the Sacred Heart will take place on a Saturday in the evening (and not a Tuesday) so that New Yorkers can participate mid-afternoon.

I commend these seminars to you as an excellent way of deepening our faith in Jesus Christ together.

Fr Peter

Zoom Theology Programme 2026-7

The kids are alright: How Gen Z found the Church of England

Tuesday 27th October 2026, 7.30pm
Esmé Partridge

There has been much talk in recent years of a renewed interest in Christianity amongst younger people. But what does that actually look like? Why do some young adults turn towards faith, and what expressions of the Church of England are attracting them most? Esmé Partridge’s research explores the experiences, relationships and questions along the journeys by which young adults are coming to faith. In this session, she will introduce the findings of her recent report for the think-tank Theos, “Understanding Young Adult Journeys to Faith in the Church of England,” and invite us to consider what they might mean for the future of the Church, and the experience of our parish. Participants are encouraged to read the document before the session.

Speaker: Esmé Partridge is Senior Researcher at Civitas, and Fellow of Civic Future. Her work focuses on young adults, faith and the contemporary Church of England.

According to Mark: Meeting Jesus in the First Gospel

Tuesday 24th November 2026, 7.30pm
Professor Helen Bond

As Advent approaches and we prepare to begin another year in the Church’s lectionary, we turn to the earliest of the four canonical Gospels. Professor Bond will introduce us to the distinctive world of St Mark’s Gospel, drawing on her book “The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark’s Gospel” to explore its portrait of Jesus, its characters and its urgent, and sometimes unsettling, narrative. Participants are invited to read Professor Bond’s book beforehand, so that the session might lead into a conversation about how we hear and read Mark as Christians today.

Speaker: Helen Bond is Professor of Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh and a leading scholar of the historical Jesus and early Christianity. She is the author of numerous books on the New Testament, and also the co-host of the popular Biblical Time Machine podcast.

Love without measure: The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

Saturday 6th March 2027, 7.30pm
The Rev’d Dr Matt Jacobson

Depending on how we first meet it culturally, few Christian devotions are so familiar, or so exotic as those to the Sacred Heart. What does it mean to contemplate the heart of Christ, and how did this devotion develop? Following a series of talks on the Sacred Heart at our sister parish, St Mary the Virgin, Times Square, Fr Matt Jacobson will explore for us the history, theology and practice of this rich tradition, from its biblical foundations to its place in the life of the Church today.

Speaker: Fr Matt Jacobson is a priest of the Episcopal Church and serves at St Mary the Virgin, Times Square, our sister parish in New York City. He has a particular interest in the Catholic devotional tradition and its place in Anglican Christianity.

Dissolving the Veil: Discovering Byzantium

Tuesday 16th March 2027, 7.30pm
Professor Charlotte Roueché

What do we mean when we speak of “Byzantium”? Too often, an entire civilisation of extraordinary intellectual, artistic and Christian achievement is hidden behind a word that can make it seem remote, exotic, or somehow less familiar either than the classical world that preceded it, or the Western medieval world that followed. Charlotte Roueché invites us to look again. The V&A will be mounting a large exhibition called “Constantinople to Istanbul,” examining the history of that great city.  Following a parish trip to the exhibition, she will explore with us the empire’s culture, religion and imagination and their influence on, and memory within, Christendom. As Professor Roueché herself put it, she is “always grateful for a chance to dissolve the veil wilfully drawn over Byzantium.”

Speaker: Charlotte Roueché is Professor Emerita of the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds at King’s College, London. Her work has explored the history, inscriptions and culture of Byzantium, with a particular interest in recovering the lives and voices of the people who inhabited it.

The Bayeux Tapestry: History, Memory and the Church

Tuesday 11th May 2027, 7.30pm
Dr Mark Philpott

With its ongoing blockbuster exhibition at the British Museum, The Bayeux Tapestry has renewed its hold on the English imagination. It is one of the most remarkable surviving witnesses to the world of the Norman Conquest. What does it tell us about the people who made it and the world they inhabited? How should we read its depictions of kings, battles, relics and churches? Dr Mark Philpott will use the tapestry as a window onto the religious and political imagination of eleventh-century England and Normandy, exploring how Christians in the Middle Ages thought about history, authority and divine providence.

Speaker: Dr Mark Philpott has taught and researched in Oxford for many years, including at Keble College, Oxford and at St Stephen’s House. Dr Philpott has focused on the medieval Church and how its teachings and law shaped people’s lives. Instances of his research include work on the coronation(s) of William the Conqueror, an exploration of the history of cannibalism, and the cults of bearded women saints.

Thinking Machines: Theology in the Age of AI

Tuesday 8 June 2027, 7.30pm
Dr Euan Grant

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the world around us, but what questions does it raise for Christian theology? What is distinctive about human intelligence, creativity and agency? And how should Christians think about technologies whose possibilities are still unfolding? Dr Euan Grant will lead us in an evening of theological reflection and discussion about what it means to be human in an age of intelligent machines. Participants will be asked to read Pope Leo’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas in preparation for the session.

Speaker: Dr Euan Grant is Senior Tutor at St Stephen’s House, Oxford, an Anglican seminary in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. He previously taught systematic theology and the history of doctrine at Trinity College Dublin, and was a Gifford Fellow and Associate Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. A graduate of Keble College, Oxford, he has returned to Oxford to join the staff of St Stephen’s House.

Homeless Shelter Volunteering

Each winter, we seek to show the love of God for our neighbour by staffing the nearby over-night homeless shelter at the American Church on Tottenham Church Road.

We now have the dates of the shelters which All Saints’ will be running:

11th – 12th November 2026
16th – 17th December 2026
13th – 14th January 2027
17th – 18th February 2027
10th – 11th March 2027

For each evening, we need a team lead to oversee the smooth running of the evening, a kitchen lead to cook, five other helpers, and a male and female overnighter. The following morning, we need a team lead and three further volunteers to run breakfast.

There are lots of different ways of taking part, and you don’t need any particular experience: making beds; preparing food; offering welcome; and helping to create a safe and hospitable space.

If you would like to volunteer, please be in touch with Fr Alan (assistantpriest@asms.uk).

RIP Harry Bramma

Harry Bramma’s Funeral Mass will take place at Southwark Cathedral on Thursday 8th October at 2.00 pm, and will be followed by a reception.

A special Evensong will take place at All Saints’ in Harry’s memory on Sunday 25th October 2026 at 6.00 pm. The service will include music by Harry and will be followed by a drinks reception in his honour.

Gala Fundraising Dinner

A gala dinner will take place at the Savile Club on Thursday 29th October 2026 to raise funds for our Choir and Music Trust. This will be the last great fundraising event of our Music appeal. Tickets are £100 each. Dress is black tie or equivalent for ladies. Book your place here.

The Lloyd Webber Connection

On a Sunday 4th October, we will be celebrating the music of our former Director of Music William Lloyd Webber by having music by him at all the sung liturgies of the day.

We are exceptionally honoured that his son, Andrew Lloyd Webber has agreed to come and make a short address at a drinks reception in church after Evensong to be held in honour of his father.

Visiting Confessors

A series of visiting confessors will be available to hear confessions over the coming months at the following times:

Thursday 17th September 5.00 pm – Bishop Lindsay Urwin
Tuesday 24th November 11.00 am – Fr Barry Orford
Saturday 5th December 5.00 pm – Bishop Peter Wheatley
Friday 18th December 5.00 pm – Bishop Peter Wheatley
Saturday 19th December 5.00 pm – Bishop Lindsay Urwin
Tuesday 22nd December 5.00 pm – Bishop Lindsay Urwin
Wednesday 23rd December 5.00 pm – Fr Barry Orford

In addition to these times, the parish clergy hear confessions each Saturday at 6.00 pm and are very happy to hear confessions at other times by appointment.

Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham

On Thursday 24th September, there will be a Low Mass with hymns to celebrate the feast day of Our Lady of Walsingham. This will be followed by refreshments in Fr Alan’s house.

Parish Walk

Our next parish walk will take place on Saturday 24th October 2026. It will be around 8 miles long, mostly flat, between Paddock Wood and Tonbridge, taking in the Marc Chagall windows at All Saints’, Tudeley. Meet at Charing Cross Station for the 10.04 Dover Priory train to Paddock Wood. Be in touch with Fr Alan for further details

Attendance last Sunday

For your prayers

The Friends of All Saints’ Margaret Street

21st – Naomi Slippe, Vaughan Snook, Jonathan Spelman, Louise and Richard Smallwood, Iain Stewart, Robert Stoltz
22nd – Madeleine Storer, Veronica and Ian Summers, Colin Symes, Ann Tacchi, Sebastian Taite-Ellis, Michael Taylor, Kitty Thompson
23rd – Dr James Thomson, Charles Tomson, Jeremy Thorp, Michael Tranor, Fr Roger Turner, Dr Christine Vaughn Lillie, Christopher Walsh
24th – Philip Wayne, Fr Benjamin Weitzmann, Mats Wendt, Michael Westcott, Sandra Wheen, All Departed Friends and Benefactors
25th – Matthew Whittaker, Tim Widdowfield, David Wilcox, T. Bradford Willis, Ian Wilson
26th – Fr Michael Witcombe, Martin Woods, Martin Woolley, William Yale, Michael Young, All Friends and Music Patrons in Need

The sick

Fr George Bush, Jean Castledine, David Craig, Fr Luke Demetri, Terry Gray, Danny Mather, Ingrid Slaughter, Juliet Windham

The recently departed

Harry Bramma, Lucy Georghiou Cummings, Dorothy Cruse, Joseph Cherian.

Anniversaries of death

20th – Guy Fleming Pr, Greville Howard, Anthony Andrews Pr, Susan Gill
21st – James Wright, Mary Baddeley
22nd – Anthony Alsopp, Andrew Braybrooke
23rd – Jean Hobbs, David Shearer, Pamela Herbertson
25th – Eric King, Irene Bevan
26th – Evelyne Steele, Mickaël Charbonneau, Lilian Exten, Lynn Evans
27th – Sister Mary OHP

Services this week

Saturday 19th September – Feria
12 pm Low Mass
6.30 pm Vigil Mass of Sunday

Sunday 20th September – TRINITY XVI
8.30 am Low Mass
11 am High Mass
5.15 pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Solemn Evensong and Benediction

Monday 21st September – St Matthew, Apostle
12 pm Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass

Tuesday 22nd September – Feria
12 pm Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass

Wednesday 23rd September – St Pius of Pietrelcina
12 pm Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass

Thursday 24th September – Our Lady of Walsingham
12 pm Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass

Friday 25th September – Feria
12 pm Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass

Saturday 26th September – Feria
12 pm Low Mass
6.30 pm Vigil Mass of Sunday

Sunday 27th September – TRINITY XVII
8.30 am Low Mass
11 am High Mass
5.15 pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Solemn Evensong and Benediction