All Saints Margaret Street.

Dear friends,

I am looking forward to our next online Zoom Theology seminar  which takes place tomorrow night. It is particularly encouraging to know that this seminar will be run jointly with our sister parish in New York City, St Mary the Virgin Times Square. Our speaker will be St Mary’s Assistant Priest, Fr Matt Jacob, and we look forward to seeing friends online from New York.

The seminar will take place at 7.00 pm tomorrow (which should be 2 pm in New York) and will focus on the fascinating figure of St Catherine of Siena. Fr Matt has been leading a series of in-person sessions in New York on St Catherine and this online teaching session will give us all the opportunity to benefit from his insights and research.

St Catherine is one of the most remarkable women of the 14th Century. She entered the Third Order of the Dominicans, but was instructed by a vision in 1370 to leave her cloistered life and enter into public life for the sake of the Gospel.

She entered into extensive correspondence with popes and kings, acted as an emissary for the Holy See, and brokered peace treaties between Italian city states. She was hugely concerned  to defend the rights and authority of the popes, and encouraged Gregory XI to return the Papacy to Rome from Avignon. She tirelessly worked to renew and reform the religious life and wrote many works of theology. She died on 29th April 1380.

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 and active love.

You can find the online Zoom link here.

Join us online tomorrow at 7.00 pm to learn more about this fascinating saint.

Fr Peter

Pentecost – this Sunday

This Sunday is the feast of Pentecost, a day marked by a number of additions to the liturgy. At the High Mass in the morning, the Pentecost Sequence is sung before the Gospel, and in the evening a Te Deum is offered at Benediction in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. The singing of double alleluias at the dismissal returns as Eastertide comes to an end.

Saturday 23rd May
6.00 pm Confessions
6.30 pm Vigil Low Mass
Sunday 24th May
8.30 am Low Mass
11.00 am High Mass
Preacher: Fr Alan Rimmer
Music: Missa Brevis – Jonathan Dove; Dum complerentur – Tomás Luis de Victoria.
Voluntary: Choral Varié sur le Veni Creator, op. 4 iii – Maurice Duruflé.
5.15 pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Solemn Evensong and Benediction
Music: Magdalen Service – Kenneth Leighton; Loquebantur variis linguis – Thomas Tallis; O salutaris – Edward Elgar; Te Deum – Orlando Gibbons; Tantum ergo – Maurice Duruflé.
Voluntary: Veni Creator Spiritus – Kenneth Leighton.

Walsingham National Pilgrimage – this Monday

There are still 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.

Bank Holiday Mass

Pleas note that as Monday 25th May is a public Bank Holiday, there will, as is our usual custom, be only one Mass, at 12 noon (i.e. there will be no evening Mass).

APCM results

At last Sunday’s Annual Meeting of Parishioners Kate Hodgetts and Huw Pryce were re-elected as our churchwardens.

At the Annual Parochial Church Meeting, the following were elected Representatives of the laity on the Deanery Synod for a term of three years: Daniel Burns; Charlotte Choley; Keir Martland; Stephen Miller; and John Zachariah. The following were elected as Lay members of our PCC for a term of three years: Rosamond Clayton; Daniel Formston; Patrick Hartley; Robert Mason; and Simon Rainey.

We are grateful to all who have stood for election in these roles.

No Mass this Friday evening

Please note that because our Bach Concert will be taking place this Friday, there will be no evening Mass (i.e. there will only be a Mass at 12 noon).

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.

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

The flowers for Pentecost are given by Kate Hodgetts, in memory of her mother, Rita, whose anniversary falls on this day.

If you 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

The Friends and Music Patrons of All Saints’ Margaret Street

25th – Naomi Slippe, Vaughan Snok, Jonathan Spelman, Louise and Richard Stallwood, Ian Stewart, Robert Stoltz

26th – Madeleine Storer, Veronica and Ian Summers, Colin Symes, Ann Tacchi, Sebastian Taite-Ellis, Michael Taylor, Kitty Thompson

27th – Dr James Thomson, Charles Thomson, Jeremy Thorp, Fr Roger Turner, Dr Christine Vaughn Lillie, Christopher Walsh

28th – Philip Wayne, Fr Benjamin Weitzmann, Mats Wendt, Michael Westcott, Sandra Wheen, All Departed Friends and Benefactors

29th – Matthew Whittaker, Tim Widdowfield, David Wilcox, T. Bradford Wilis, Ian Wilson

30th – Fr Michael Witcombe, Martin Woods, Martin Woolley, William Yale, Michael Young, All Friends and Music Patrons in Need

The sick

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

Recently departed

Pauline Buchanan, Judith Craemer, Robert Flanagan, Robert FitzGibbons, Richard Harries Bp, Carol Simmons, Warwick Whelan Pr, Martin Wright

Anniversaries of death

Services this week