Weekly Email – Trinity 12
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Dear friends,
Last week, I wrote letting you know about the fundraising campaign which we have planned for the next twelve months.
From All Saints’ Day 2025 until All Saints’ Day 2026 our parish will be organising the first stage of a major initiative to raise new funds to pay for our music programme and to re-endow and substantially expand the funds held by our parish’s Music and Choir Trust fund.
As part of that announcement, I asked you all to put in your diaries the date of our launch concert which will take place at All Saintstide, on Saturday 1st November at 7.00 pm. You can book tickets here.
I’d like to ask for your help in other ways this week as we seek to ready our parish for this twelve month period of fundraising. We are seeking to reduce the costs of a number of fundraising events through sponsorship, and are asking if you could be in touch with us if you felt able to help by donating in this way.
The principle behind what we are asking for is this. Any fundraising event costs money to organise, such as refreshments, or space hire, or catering. If a parishioner agrees to sponsor the cost of some element of an event, the amount we raise increases as that total is not reduced by the need to pay the expenses it cost to organise the event. In other words, by sponsoring an event, you are increasing the amount we raise!
A number of events planned over the next twelve months have specific costs: travel expenses for speakers; the hire of a harpsichord for a concert; the cost of wine and other refreshments; the hire of a venue for a fundraising dinner; printing and advertising costs. These costs range between £100-£1000. Any contribution would be gratefully received no matter how modest or substantial.
My request is this. If you felt able to help this campaign by contributing to the costs of some of these expenses, we would be hugely grateful. Please be in touch with the parish office or the clergy if you would like to sponsor an item or event and we can let you know more details of the items and events which need sponsoring.
With my thanks and gratitude for you help,
Fr Peter
You can watch the High Mass for Trinity 11 here. The music included Missa secunda by Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612) and Exultate Dei by G. P. da Palestrina, (1525-1594). The preacher was Fr Peter.
Fundraising Launch Concert
The fundraising campaign for our Choir and Music Trust Fund will be launched at a concert given by our choir on the Saturday 1st November at 7.00 pm.
This will be a concert of sacred music including a number of substantial items which the choir often doesn’t have the opportunity to sing because of time or liturgical constraints. The programme will include Bairstow’s Blessed City, Heavenly Salem, Macdowell’s Annunciation, Macmillan’s A special Appeal, Finzi’s Lo the full and final sacrifice, Holst’s Nunc Dimittis, and Parry’s Songs of Farewell.
Tickets are £20 per head and all funds raised will go to our our Choir and Music Trust. You can book your tickets via the Eventbrite link here. It will be a splendid evening and we need as many people present as possible. Please bring your friends.
Drinks before our Young Adults Group annual courtyard supper two weeks ago.
Biddy Baxter RIP
The funeral rites of Biddy Baxter will take place on Thursday 11th September 2025 with a High Mass of Requiem at 2.30 pm at All Saints’ Church. All are welcome to attend.
If you are unable to be present in person, Biddy’s funeral will be live-streamed here.
Benediction presided over by the Bishop of Fulham at our celebrations of the Assumption.
Fidelium: the Oxford Movement
Fidelium, a new network for young adults who worship in parishes across the Fulham jurisdiction, will be organising a teaching mini-series this Autumn on the Oxford Movement.
This mini-series will involve a lecture given by Fr Peter at All Saints’, Margaret Street on Thursday 11th September at 7.00 pm introducing the main ideas and figures of the Oxford movement and Catholic Revival.
There will then be a day trip to Oxford on Saturday 27th September led by Fr Peter to put some of the ideas discussed in the lecture in context. The day trip will involved a visit to Pusey House, a tour of Oriel College, a pub lunch, possible punting party and then Evensong at Christ Church Cathedral.
You can sign up for the trip to Oxford here. A full list of Fidelium’s forthcoming events can be found here.
Parishioners discuss Luke’s Gospel at during our August Bible Study series.
Advent retreat at Walsingham
The Advent Retreat takes place from Friday 5th December to Sunday 7th December 2025 at the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.
All those who gather for the retreat go into silence on Friday evening after supper. Silence is then kept in the Shrine grounds through the whole of Saturday until after the Solemn Mass on Sunday morning which takes place at St Mary’s parish church.
The retreat this year will consist of four addresses spread over the time retreatants spend together. This year’s retreat conductor is Fr Chris Irvine. His talks will focus on three works of art featuring John the Baptist. It will be entitled, ‘Pointing the Way: John the Baptist and the priestly task.’
The cost of the retreat is £260. This covers the cost of a room with full board for two nights and a transfer from Kings Lynn to Walsingham. We will follow our usual routine of asking retreatants to buy their own train tickets. We will set off around midday on Friday 5th December and travel by train to Kings Lynn, returning to Kings Cross on Sunday evening around 7.00 pm.
You can sign up via the eventbrite link here. Nearer the time, our parish office will then be in touch with you asking you to settle the balance of what you owe.
At our recent celebrations of the Assumption, we were honoured to have three Guardians of the Holy House of Our Lady of Walsingham present: Aiden Hargreaves-Smith, the Bishop of Fulham; and Bishop Lindsay Urwin.
Attendance last Sunday
We are so grateful to all those who each week offer refreshments in our courtyard after the High Mass.
For your prayers
The Friends of All Saints Margaret Street
7th – Sandra Wheen, Matthew Whittaker, Tim Widdowfield, David Wilcox, T. Bradford Willis, Ian A. Wilson, Fr Michael Witcombe
8th – Martin Woods, The Rev’d John Wylam, William Yale, Michael Young
9th – Mark Allan, Martin Amherst-Lock, Robert Austen, Richard Ayling, James Babington Smith, Ruth Baker
10th – Stephen Baldwin, Stephen Barber, Nigel Beanland, Jonathan Beck, Dr William Benefield, William Bonnell, Charlotte Black, John Blackburn
11th – John Bristow, Paul Brough, Michael Brown, David Blunden, Fr Michael Bowie, Dr Graham Burns
12th – Derek Bussey, Katherine Butler, Maureen Cambrey, David Caplowe, Adrian Carlton-Oatley, Timothy Cassady, Norman and Zulette Catir, Kate Charles, Stuart Chillingworth, Sir Robert Chote, Sandy Christian
13th – Roger Clark, Catharine Clarke, David and Mavis Cleggett, Graham Colville
The sick
Cherry Burroughs, Jean Castledine, David Craig, Fr Michael Gudgeon, Catherine Hobden, Fr Harry Hodgetts, Carol Lyman-Price, Amanda Oldman, James Rodger, Ingrid Slaughter, Juliet Windham
The recently departed
Biddy Baxter, Martyn Evans, Joan Hindle Obl. SLG, David Lodge
Anniversaries of death
7th – Edith Senior, Maud Burling, Nell Titley
9th – Annie Harrison; 10th – Marion Richards
Elizabeth Barker; Winifred Harland, Anne Peduin, Jean Harmsworth
11th – Allan Yates, John Monk, Maurice Keen, Robert Halligan
12th – James Shaw, Marion Pidgeon, David Robbins
13th – Dom Bernard Clements Pr (Sixth Vicar of All Saints), Reginald Bickerton
Services this week
Saturday 6 September – Our Lady on Saturday
12pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Confessions
6.30 pm Vigil Mass of Sunday
Sunday 7 September – TRINITY XII
8.30 am Low Mass
11 am High Mass
5.15 pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Solemn Evensong and Benediction
Monday 8 September – Nativity of the BVM
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass
Tuesday 9 September – Feria
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass
Wednesday 10 September – Feria
12 noon Low Mass
5.30 Holy Hour
6.30 pm Low Mass
Thursday 11 September – Feria
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass
Friday 12 September – Feria
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass
Saturday 13 September – St John Chrysostom
12pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Confessions
6.30 pm Vigil Mass of Sunday
Sunday 14 September – EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS
8.30 am Low Mass
11 am High Mass
5.15 pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Solemn Evensong and Benediction