All Saints Margaret Street.

Dear all,

What a wonderful Corpus Christi we enjoyed on Thursday. Other than the particular circumstances of Good Friday, when Holy Communion is distributed from the reserve consecrated the night before, there is no day of the year when Mass is not said at least once at All Saints’, Margaret Street. Corpus Christi is a wonderful way of reminding ourselves of how lucky we are to have this extraordinary yet quotidien gift from – indeed – of – Our Lord. To give thanks, to rejoice in, and to witness to our God in the streets around us – and beyond. A heartfelt thanks to all those who were involved in so many ways in making last night a success – not least to Fr Grant Naylor, our preacher.

All this fine weather has turned my mind toward August – traditionally a month during which things ease up a little ecclesiastically. Not so for us at All Saints’ – with the great feast of the Assumption in the middle, and a welcome host of visitors each Sunday last year. We look forward to welcoming more this summer.

I was especially encouraged by the size and consistency of numbers at the Bible studies that took place after Holy Hour and the evening Mass on Wednesdays in August last year. We had four sessions on the Gospel of St Mark, with around 30 participants each night. There was a good deal of discussion, and though St Mark is the most concise of the Evangelists, there was more to cover than we managed!

With such a level of interest, I considered it important that we have a similar opportunity to look at Scripture together this year. Alongside the Sunday Gospel readings, we will be looking at the Gospel according to St Luke. Having done some thinking about what might work best, these evenings will look a little bit different.

First, there will be a rough limit of 25 per session, and sign-up (free, of course) will be by Eventbrite, so that we fit comfortably into the Parish Room. There will be tea and coffee available. You can sign up for all the sessions, or just those you are able to make, here.

There will be just three sessions – Wednesdays 13th, 20th and 27th of August, and we won’t plough through St Luke’s Gospel in quite the same way as we attempted last year. Rather each session will begin with a short introductory talk on an aspect of St Luke, followed by time for discussion based on the reading we have done at home.  Preparation for Wednesday 13th will be chapters 1-8, 20th 9-16, and 27th 17-24.

I very much look forward to these evenings!

with my love,

Fr Alan

Corpus Christi – huge thanks!

A huge thank you goes to everyone who contributed to making last night’s celebration of Corpus Christi so wonderful. It was an amazing celebration of our faith in Jesus Christ and a witness to the world of his love made known in the gift of the Eucharist.

Thank you to our servers, choir, musicians and Director of Music, as well as to our band of stewards who all contributed so much to the procession going off safely and joyously. The High Mass was a wonderful feast of music and our preacher Fr Grant Naylor had a powerful word for us all in his sermon.

The party after the liturgy was excellent and such good fun. We are all so grateful to everyone who helped with refreshments and with welcome. It was quite a task providing drinks for so many people, but we rose to the challenge – it was quite an evening! Many thanks so all contributed in any way to the evening.

Walsingham – only 2 weeks left to book!

Our parish weekend pilgrimage to Walsingham will take place from Friday 25th July to Sunday 29th July 2024. You need to book your place soon so we can send a final list of pilgrims to the Shrine

The cost is £190 Friday pm to Sunday evening, including full board plus mini-coach from Kings Lynn. Pilgrims need to book their own train ticket to Kings Lynn.

This weekend pilgrimage away includes: Pilgrimage Mass at the Shrine Church; evening processions; sacraments of healing; sprinkling at the holy well and finishing with procession of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction.

There is also an option for pilgrims who wish to stay on until the Monday and return on 22nd July – this costs £280.

You can book a place on the pilgrimage via this Eventbrite link. Our parish office will then be in touch in a couple of weeks to settle the balance.

Sick List

Our parish list of the sick, who are prayed for every day at the 12 noon Mass is being renewed this week. When this happens, all names are removed, and if you would like a loved one or friend to be included in the new list, you should email the parish office (office@asms.uk). A name will normally be left on the sick list for three weeks and will then be removed unless you specifically renew it by contacting the parish office.

Parish Walks

Our next parish walk will be a nine mile walk from Amberley to Arundel on Saturday July 12th. We’ll get the 10.05 train from Victoria Station. Amberley is the stop before Arundel, so a return ticket will work. We will aim for the 17.14 train back at the latest, and so will be back in London before 7pm. Please email Fr Alan to sign up or for more details.

Next Zoom Theology

Our next online Zoom Theology seminar will take place on Tuesday 8th July at 7.00 pm. It will focus on a recently published book by biblical scholar Candida Moss entitled, “God’s Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible.”

This seminar, led by Fr Peter, will seek to delve deeper into the question of who wrote the New Testament.

We are used to thinking of the great names of the apostolic band as the authors of the gospels and epistles, but who actually put pen to paper, and in what sense can we say they “wrote” those texts?

This ground-breaking new work by Candida Moss explores the contribution of a range of enslaved secretaries, amanuenses and writers. It seeks to reveal the forgotten voices, and marginalised contributors without whose work the New Testament corpus would not exist.

It will be important for all participants to have read Candida Moss’s book in preparation for the seminar.

Assumptiontide celebrations 2025

Friday 15th August 2025
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm High Mass
Preacher: Fr Peter Anthony

Sunday 17th August 2025
6.00 pm Assumptiontide Evensong and Benediction with Procession of Our Lady down Oxford Street.
Preacher: The Revd Philip Corbett, Vicar of St Silas and Holy Trinity, Kentish Town.

Attendance last Sunday

For your prayers

The Friends of All Saints

22nd – Richard Hoskinson, Marissa Howard-McNatt, Fr David Hutt, Alfred Imhoff, David James, Andrew Jervis, Powell Johann, Stephen Jury, Malcolm Kemp

23rd – Alan Kimbrough, Brenda Koupis, Stanislav Kudryashov, Christopher Laws, Margaret Leggett

24th – Cornelius Logue, Frau Dr Christiane Loidl-Rainey, Nigel Lynn, Henry Macey, Bishop Michael Marshall, David Mason, Robert Mason, Graham Mather

25th – Judith Mather, The Ven Fr Stephen McClatchie, John McWhinney, Colin Menzies, Amanda Miller

26th – Thomas Moller, Michael Mortensen, Barry Moore, Deacon Christopher Morash, Grace Morgan, Dr John Morrell, Fr Stephen Morris, Inger Mosbery, Lachlan Moyle, Carol Mundell

27th – Christopher Naylor, Brian Newman, Barry Newsome, Elaine Norman, Richard North, Fr Paul Ockford

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

The sick

Jean Castledine, Sheelagh Gudgeon, Tony Hawkins, Fr Harry Hodgetts, Marie-Claire Lothian, Ingrid Slaughter

Anniversaries of death

22nd – Francis Swanton, Stanley Harland, Percy Mortimer-Smith, Mary Tilley

23rd – Alfred Webb Pr, Henry Ewer, Arthur Golightly Pr, Andrew O’Connor Dn

24th – John Allcock, Jean-Paul Myers, Friedemann Golka

25th – Tony Mason, Tedd McWhinney

26th – Dorothy Jordan, Leslie Moses, Margaret Jervis, Sandra Allan, Hugo Gralka

27th – John Slater Pr, Barbara Thrift

Services this week

Saturday 21 June – St Aloysius Gonzaga
12pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Confessions
6.30 pm Vigil Mass of Sunday

Sunday 22 June – TRINITY I
8.30 am Low Mass
11 am High Mass
5.15 pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Solemn Evensong and Benediction

Monday 23 June – Feria
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass

Tuesday 24 June – NATIVITY OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass

Wednesday 25 June – Feria
12 noon Low Mass
5.30 Holy Hour
6.30 pm Low Mass

Thursday 26 June – Feria
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass

Friday 27 June – MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass

Saturday 28 June – Immaculate Heart BVM
12pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Confessions
6.30 pm Vigil Mass of Sunday

Sunday 29 June – SS PETER AND PAUL
8.30 am Low Mass
11 am High Mass
5.15 pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Solemn Evensong and Benediction