All Saints Margaret Street.

Dear friends,

Our Annual Parochial Church Meeting takes place this Sunday after the High Mass. Although there are a number of important bureaucratic and administrative pieces of business to transact, I hope this also offers us a broader opportunity to give thanks for all that God has brought to pass in our midst, and to commit the next twelve months of our mission and ministry to his protection.

This Sunday’s meetings are the occasion when reports are received outlining our PCC’s financial state and all the activities our parish has undertaken; it is also the occasion when we elect PCC members and churchwardens. You will find all the paperwork for the meeting appended to this email so you can read it beforehand.

I want to publicly thank all those who have contributed in any way to our PCC’s life over the past year – especially our churchwardens Kate Hodgetts and Huw Pryce, our treasurer Patrick Hartley, and our PCC Secretary John Forde. They put enormous amounts of time energy and effort into the life of our parish and I am very grateful. Without them we would be in a pickle!

I also want to thank all those who have served on our PCC or as representatives on the Deanery Synod. Their insights, presence, and support have been a huge help in ensuring our parish has achieved so much.

As I look back over the past twelve months I am so impressed by what we have achieved with God’s grace. A constantly securing thought in my mind is how humbled I so often feel by the generosity so many of our parishioners and friends have shown over the past year. Our Music fundraising campaign has got off to a wonderful start and will make a significant difference to our budget in the years ahead.

I see signs of growth, life, and renewed confidence in so many areas of our life together: well-attended theology teaching sessions; a thirst for prayer and daily encounter with the Lord in the Eucharist; catechumens preparing to receive the sacraments of initiation; international relationship deepening and growing; social functions and trips enjoyed by a wide range of people; homeless shelters staffed by All Saints’ people. All these things show God is at work in our midst. Our primary task is to open our hearts to him and allow his love to grow within us.

I look forward to this Sunday’s APCM and the opportunity it gives us to express our gratitude to God for all he has helped us to do, and to commit ourselves afresh to his service here in the parish he has entrusted to us.

Fr Peter

Zoom Theology:  St Catherine of Siena

The Revd Dr Matt Jacobson, Associate Priest at our sister parish in New York, St Mary the Virgin Times Square, will offer us an insight into the theology and spirituality of Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) next Saturday at 7.00 pm. We are so grateful for Fr Matt’s input and look forward to sharing this opportunity for formation with our friends from St Mary the Virgin.

We will look at Catherine’s writings as well as the historical context of life in fourteenth-century Italy. The primary interest in studying Catherine of Siena will be to see how this mystic and Doctor of the Church can help us to reflect upon and develop a theological understanding of service.

This session will draw on Fr Matt’s own research, and on the and on the experience of his leadership of a series of in-person classes on the subject in New York earlier in the month.

You can find the online Zoom link here.

Parish walks

Fr Alan will be leading a number of walks over the coming months, each around 10 miles and involving some climbs. Bring lunch. There will be a short pub stop on each, and the option of an early supper together at the end of the walk. Be in touch with Fr Alan to sign up or ask for details.

Saturday 13th June 2026
Chiltern Hills. 10.27 Marylebone Station. Aylesbury Vale Parkway train to Wendover.

Saturday 25th July 2026
Surrey Hills. 10.23 Waterloo Station. Dorking train to Box Hill & Westhumble.

Saturday 22nd August 2026
Kent Downs. 10.34 Charing Cross Station. Ramsgate train to Wye.

Flowers

A drinks party was held last Saturday in the Vicarage before the joint dinner with St Timothy’s Winston-Salem. We were so pleased to welcome our American guests.

Confirmation: Sunday 28th June

Please note that Bishop Jonathan will visit All Saints’ on Sunday 28th June to baptize and confirm our catechumens. There will be a parish lunch after the liturgy. Please be in touch with Kate Hodgetts if you are able to provide a dish of some sort.

Guests from Winston-Salem in our courtyard with Fr Julian after the High Mass.

Walsingham National Pilgrimage

There are plenty of seats available on the luxury double decker coach All Saints’ is organising for the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham again this year. We leave from Margaret Street at 7.30 am on Monday 25th May and return to central London by the late evening. The cost is £45 per head. To book your place, simply register and pay via Eventbrite here.

Attendance last Sunday

Dinner at Le Beaujolais restaurant on Saturday night with our American guests from St Timothy’s Winston-Salem.

For your prayers

The Friends and Music Patrons of All Saints’ Margaret Street

18th – Fr Michael Maine, Fr David Mason, Thomas McBryer, Fr Stephen McClatchie, John McWhinney, Peter Medine, Colin Menzies OBE, Jane Elliston

19th – Stephen Miller, Thomas Moller, Barry Moore, Grace Morgan, Dr John Morrell, Fr Stephen Morris, Michael Mortensen, Inger Mosbery

20th – Carol Mundell, Brian Newman, Sasha Nixon, Elaine Norman, Fr Paul Oakford, Anna and Fr Peter Oesterby-Joergensen, Amanda Oldman, Daniel Oliver

21st – Fr Barry Orford, Nicholas Page, Malcolm Parr, David Parrott, Bhaven Patel, Alma Pearson, Pat Philips, Dr Colin Podmore

22nd – 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

23rd – Hilary Rodger, Charlotte Roueche, Greg Round, Jamie Rundle, Mary Sherred, James Shrimpton, The All Saints’ Sisters of the Poor, Ingrid Slaughter

The sick

Kay Benefield, Jean Castledine, David Craig, Valerie Mary Foss, Asuncion Gines, Fr Harry Hodgetts, Danny Mather, Daniel Oliver, Ingrid Slaughter, Nanello, Shirley Thompson, Juliet Windham

Recently departed

Pauline Buchanan, Anthony Clarke, Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, Judith Craemer, Robert Flanagan, Robert FitzGibbons, Richard Harries Bp, Melanie Holdsworth, Carol Simmons, Warwick Whelan Pr, Martin Wright

Anniversaries of death

Services this week