All Saints Margaret Street.

Dear friends,

As we rejoice together in the Resurrection, I look back on our keeping of Holy Week with profound gratitude and joy. It has been a wonderful few days in which we have journeyed together with the Lord, experiencing afresh the power of Christ’s Paschal Mystery to renew our faith, give hope to our world, and strengthen our confidence and compassion.

I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who contributed in any way to the great liturgies of the past week: our servers; choir; sidesmen; flower arrangers; all those who have contributed to welcome and hospitality in any way in our courtyard and bar; our photographers and those who have worked on our social media presence and live-streaming.

I also want to express our gratitude to all those who sponsored the cost of flowers and music, and those who have contributed refreshments. Your generosity has made a huge difference.

Many people have already spoken to me about how wonderful the Triduum has been: the music was outstanding; the serving, recollected, calm, and prayerful; the welcome people have received, warm and heartfelt.

I want to say a particular word of thanks to Fr Julian for preaching so magnificently for us. His homilies have been a wonderful journey of theological discovery and profound spiritual reflection. I am grateful to him for undertaking this significant task of preaching every day. We have all hung on his every word!

All of this effort and generosity has contributed to very encouraging levels of attendance. Every day of the Triduum had higher attendance than the year before and echoes the trends of growth and renewal that we have been seeing more widely in so many other areas of our parish life. Thanks be to God that he called so many people to worship with us and to experience in our midst Christ dying and rising for us.

I look forward to celebrating with you the octave day of the Resurrection on Sunday. Let our joy be unbounded, our hope be overflowing, and our confidence in the Gospel be undiminished.  Let our love for each other be renewed by Christ the Risen One who commissions us in our Gospel reading this Sunday to be his representatives in the world: “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.”

Fr Peter

Farewell Jeremiah & Happy Birthday John!

We will make a presentation this Sunday to Jeremiah Stephenson, our Associate Director of Music, to bid him farewell and mark his appointment as Associate Director of Music at St Thomas’ Fifth Avenue, New York City.  There will be an opportunity to thank him for his service to our parish at the end of the High Mass (though his actual last Sunday with us will be Sunday 19th April).

This Sunday also marks John Ford celebrating a significant birthday, and we are very grateful to him for providing champagne after the High Mass in our courtyard to celebrate. We wish him many happy returns of the day and thank him for all that he does for our parish so heroically and sacrificially – we would be lost without him!

Sunday will be a lovely opportunity to celebrate the contribution of these two important individuals who have contributed so much, in very different ways, to All Saints’.

Congratulations Tilly!

We offer our warmest congratulations to our organ scholar Matilda Johnson upon her appointment as organ scholar at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. She will begin at the Chapel of the Chelsea Pensioners in the new academic year this autumn. There will be an opportunity later on in the summer to thank her more formally for her outstanding contribution to our parish.

Electoral Roll

The electoral roll is being updated in preparation for the Annual Parochial Church Meeting which takes place on Sunday 17th May.

If you added yourself to the electoral roll this time last year, don’t worry – you don’t need to do anything, as your name will remain on it.

If, however, you are not on the electoral roll, please make sure you fill in a copy of the electoral roll form which will be available in church on Sundays, and is also enclosed with this email.

It is important that all regular worshippers are on our electoral roll so it forms an accurate picture of our congregation’s make-up.

To join the electoral roll you need to have worshipped at All Saints’ in person regularly for at least 6 months, be baptized, over 16 years of age, and consider yourself a member of the Church of England, (or of a church in communion with the Church of England, or of another Church that believes in the doctrine of the Holy Trinity).

Please ensure all filled-in forms are returned to Daniel Fielden, our electoral roll officer, by Saturday 25th April.

St George’s Day Mass & drinks

Fidelium, a group for young adults drawn from parishes within the Fulham family, will be meeting for “Mass and Pub” on St George’s Day at All Saints’ on Thursday 23rd April at 6.30 pm. The Low Mass for St George’s Day at 6.30 pm will be followed by drinks afterwards in our parish bar.

More information is available from Charlotte Choley-Kovacevic. She is always eager to hear from new people who might want to join Fidelium events.

Walsingham Pilgrimages

You can now book your place on any of the three pilgrimages which will be taking place this year to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham:

National Pilgrimage: Monday 25th May 2026
£45 per head. Setting off 7.30 am from Margaret Street, returning to central London in the late evening. Sign up and pay here.

Weekend Pilgrimage: Friday 18th – Sunday 21st September 2026
Set off early afternoon on Friday 18th September; return late evening Sunday 21st February. The cost is £240 Friday and includes full board plus mini-coach from Kings Lynn Station. 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.

Advent Retreat: Friday 4th – Sunday 6th December 2026
This year’s retreat leader will be Bishop Peter Eagles. The cost of the retreat is £274.  We will set off around midday on Friday 4th December and travel by train to Kings Lynn, returning to Kings Cross on Sunday evening around 7.00 pm. Please note that pilgrims need to book their own train ticket. Please book your place and pay via Eventbrite here.

Triduum Attendance

For your prayers

The Friends and Music Patrons of All Saints’ Margaret Street

13th – Dr Martin Faulkner, Adrian Feller, Daniel Fielden, Janice Fielden, Julia Fielden, Nigel Fisher

14th – Mark Fleming, Stuart Fletcher, Christopher Forman, Daniel Formston, Derrick French, Jason Frost, Carol and Christopher Gabriel

15th – Cecilia and Derek Gatherer, Dr Rebecca Gibbs and Sam Wildy, Pamela Goddard, Paul Golding, John Goldsmith, Genevieve Gomi, Fr Michael Gudgeon, Sheelagh Gudgeon

16th – Monica Joan Hall, Paul Hannah, Jillian Hargreaves, Julie Harland, Christopher Harlow-Jennings, Patrick Harley and Rebecca Hirst, Fr Jeremy Haselock, Sandra Hill, Martin Hime

17th – Fr David Hobden, Edwin Holmes, Rosy Holt, Elizabeth Hunter, Fr David Hutt, Andrew Jervis, Powell Johann

18th – Stephen Jury, Stanislav Kudryashov, Christopher Laws, Katherine Lee, Margaret Leggett, Cornelius Logue, Nigel Lynn, Henry Macey

The sick

Jean Castledine, David Craig, Asuncion Gines, Fr Harry Hodgetts, Helen Hughes, Canon David Hutt, Daniel Oliver, Ingrid Slaughter, Shirley Thompson, Juliet Windham

Recently departed

Dame Averil Cameron, Melanie Holdsworth, David McClellan, Carol Simmons

Anniversaries of death

Services this week