Weekly Email – Trinity 18
Documents
Dear friends,
You are warmly invited to our celebrations of the feast of All Saints 2025.
This year’s routine will be a little different from usual as we be launching a significant year-long fundraising campaign to re-endow our Choir and Music Trust Fund. There will be a special concert sung by the Choir of All Saints’ followed by a parish drinks party on All Saints’ Eve, Saturday 1st Nov, at 7.00 pm. Please put this in your diary as it will be a terrific event and an important way of raising funds for our music campaign. You can book your tickets here.
For the High Mass of All Saints’ Day on Sunday 2nd November, Fr Luke Miller, the Archdeacon of London, will be our preacher. The setting of the Mass with be Mozart’s Missa Brevis in B♭ K275 and the Offertory Anthem will be Byrd’s Justorum animae.
Solemn Evensong and Benediction in the evening will include our customary Te Deum sung in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. The Music will include: Howells, Gloucester Service; Bullock, Give us the wings of faith; Stanford, Te Deum in B♭; Bortniansky, arr Caplin, O Salutaris; and Harwood, arr Caplin, Tantum Ergo.
The calendar this year bumps All Souls’ Day to Monday 3rd November, which we will keep with a High Mass of Requiem at 6.00 pm. The Mass will be sung to the Requiem by Victoria, and the preacher will be Bishop Lindsay Urwin.
Do also note that Sunday 9th November is Remembrance Sunday and will also be kept with a Solemn High Mass of Requiem at 11.00 am, this time sung to the setting by Fauré. We hope this innovation – the celebration of a Requiem rather than a “green” Mass of a Sunday in Ordinary Time – represents an enrichment of our keeping of Remembrance Sunday.
I look forward to celebrating with you our fellowship with all God’s saints’ and in proclaiming our belief in the communion of saints and the power and efficacy of their prayers.
Fr Peter
Guest Preacher this Sunday
We welcome as our guest preacher at the 11.00 am High Mass Fr Nathan Humphrey, the Rector of St Thomas’ Anglican Church, Huron Street, Toronto, Canada.
Buy your tickets (£25 per head) here.
Parish walk
Our next Parish Walk will take place on St Luke’s Day, Saturday October 18th. We’ll take the 09.54 from Victoria to Lewes, and walk up to 10 miles, with some ascents. All welcome. Be in touch with Fr Alan.
Coffee in our parish courtyard last Sunday after the High Mass.
Music sponsorship
The music at High Mass this morning is sponsored by Paul Golding in memory of his mother, Barbara Golding, whose anniversary of death falls around this time. The music at Evensong is sponsored by Dr Christiane Loidl-Rainey and Simon Rainey KC in memory of Benedict Alois Loidl (1991-2008). We are very grateful indeed to all those who support our parish through generous sponsorship of our music programme.
Coffee in our parish courtyard last Sunday after the High Mass.
Winter homeless shelter
We are looking for volunteers for our parish winter homeless shelter project.
The pattern involves taking the lead in feeding and offering hospitality to some of the homeless of this city at the night shelter hosted at the American Church on the Tottenham Court Road.
We have undertaken to run the shelter on the following nights: Wednesday 26th November 2025; Wednesday 7th January 2026; Wednesday 4th February 2026; and Wednesday 18th March 2026.
If you would like to volunteer, please be in touch with Fr Alan (assistant.priest@asms.uk) and put these dates in your diary.
You can watch last Sunday’s High Mass again here on our parish YouTube channel.
Zoom Theology: The Book of Revelation
Our next Zoom theology seminar takes place on 7pm, Tuesday 18th November, 2025, and is focussed on the theology of the Book of the Apocalypse.
Professor Ian Boxall will be leading this session. He is Senior Fellow in New Testament and Professor of Biblical Studies at the Aquinas Institute of Theology in St Louis, Missouri. He has taught previously at the Catholic University of America, and the University of Oxford, from which he received his Doctorate in the Book of Revelation.
He has since published further on the topic, and is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on this complex and enigmatic book of Scripture. Professor Boxall will introduce us to the history and interpretation of Revelation and its place in the canon.
It would be especially useful to have re-read the text itself in preparation for the evening. A number of Professor Boxall’s books are available affordably.
You can see more details about our full Zoom Theology Programme along with the Zoom link here.
On Monday evening we were very pleased to host Fidelium’s new women’s group. They met for the 6.30 pm Mass, which was followed by drinks and a Bible Study focussed on the readings for the day. Be in touch with Charlotte Choley-Kovacevic if you would like to more about joining the group.
Attendance last Sunday
For your prayers
The Friends of All Saints’ Margaret Street:
19th – Genevieve Gomi, Canon Michael Gudgeon, Sheelagh Gudgeon, Ginger and Del Hall, Monica Joan Hall
20th – Paul Hannah, Jillian Hargreaves, Christopher Harlow-Jennings, Patrick Hartley, The Rev’d Canon Jeremy Haselock
21st – Eoghan Healy, Rebecca Hirst, Fr David Hobden and Catherine Hobden, James and Gwendoline Holdcroft, The Rev’d Canon Graham Holcombe, Edwin Holmes, Rosy Holt, Bishop David Hope
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, Peter Medine, Colin Menzies, Amanda Miller
The sick:
Jean Castledine, Angela Cirillo, Francesco Cirillo, David Craig, Fr Michael Gudgeon, Catherine Hobden, Fr Harry Hodgetts, Carol Lyman-Price, Daniel Oliver, Fr Peter Roberts, James Rodger, Oskar Rodriguez-Lopez, Ingrid Slaughter, Juliet Windham
Recently departed
Cherry Burroughs, Keelan Shorten, James Leigh, priest
Anniversaries of death:
19th – John Hillaby, Colin Wesley
20th – Benedict Alois Loidl
21st – Dora Bull
22nd – Martin Lawrence Pr
23rd – Roy Prince
24th – Eva Dean, Ron Keating, Peter Laister Pr
25th – Reginald Thompson, Barbara Golding
Services this week
Saturday 18 October – St Luke
12pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Confessions
6.30 pm Vigil Mass of Sunday
Sunday 19 October – TRINITY XVIII (Last Sunday after Trinity)
8.30 am Low Mass
11 am High Mass
5.15 pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Solemn Evensong and Benediction
Monday 20 October – Feria
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass
Tuesday 21 October – Feria
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass
Wednesday 22 October – Feria
12 noon Low Mass
5.30 Holy Hour
6.30 pm Low Mass
Thursday 23 October – Feria
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass
Friday 24 October – Feria
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass
Saturday 25 October – Feria
12pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Confessions
6.30 pm Vigil Mass of Sunday
Sunday 26 October – LAST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
8.30 am Low Mass
11 am High Mass
5.15 pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Solemn Evensong and Benediction