Weekly Email – Trinity Sunday
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Dear friends,
We celebrate two of the most significant feasts in the Church’s year over the next week: Trinity Sunday; followed by Corpus Christi on Thursday. It is no mistake or coincidence that they follow on so closely from each other.
On Trinity Sunday we celebrate the fact that God has revealed himself to us as a divine community of persons, one in substance, splendour, and purpose. Yet, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit whom we worship are not three gods, but one divine unity. The Spirit is the bond of love who unites the Son to the Father in a constant act of perfect self-offering.
The feast of the Trinity is not just a statement of credal faith, however. It is also a celebration of the ways in which we ourselves participate in God’s divine life. We are made one with Christ as a part of his Body in Baptism. Through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, we are drawn into the Son’s perfect worship of the Father, and participate in him as we make our way through this world to enteral life.
One of the most important places in which we see this Trinitarian dynamic is in our celebration of the Eucharist. This is why the feast of Corpus Christi follows on so closely after Trinity Sunday.
What we proclaim on Trinity Sunday, is displayed, revealed and lived out on Corpus Christi. Christ makes himself present through the power of his Holy Spirit, as bread and wine become his Body and Blood. As we are drawn into Christ’s presence we realise we encounter the one who eternally offers himself to the Father in love, a mystery we ourselves are drawn into. Christ’s sacrifice becomes ours as we offer in an unbloody way the sacrifice of Calvary, our offering of thanks and praise.
As Corpus Christi approaches, please make a special effort to ensure you are able to attend our High Mass and procession on Thursday evening. Let us proclaim to the world in a joyful and convincing way the fact that God abides amongst us and that he journeys with his pilgrim people as they make their way to the City of God.
Fr Peter
Stewards for Corpus Christi
We need volunteers to steward the Corpus Christi procession. This involves wearing a hi-vis vest and making sure the procession takes place safely and in an orderly way. A full briefing is given to all those who are undertaking this important role. To volunteer to be a steward, please email the parish office (office@asms.uk).
Sacristy Supplies
We began last week our usual efforts to cover the cost of hosts and altar wine for the next year, which we have undertaken as an offering around the feast of Corpus Christi for a year or two now.
We are appealing for people to sponsor the cost of bottles of altar wine and packets of hosts. If we cover the annual costs of our sacristy supplies, it makes a big difference to our PCC’s budget.
A bottle of altar wine costs £9, a packet of people’s hosts costs £5, and a packet of priests’ hosts costs £9. You can sponsor these in person on Sundays over the next couple of weeks. Alternatively, if you wish to make a contribution online, please make a payment through the “one off” option via CAF here. If you do this, it would be helpful if you could send the parish office a brief email so we know your donation is intended for sacristy supplies.
A group from All Saints’ enjoyed an evening visit to the National Gallery last Friday to see the exhibition, “Siena: the Rise of Painting.” It presents a stunning collection of C14th religious art.
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.
Members of our All Saints’ group at the National Gallery’s “Siena” exhibition last Friday.
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.
Our Friday evening visit to the National Gallery was followed by a splendid supper in Chinatown at “Jinli” restaurant. Special thanks go to Connor for helping to organise this culinary treat!
Walsingham Weekend Pilgrimage
Our parish weekend pilgrimage to Walsingham will take place from Friday 25th July to Sunday 29th July 2024.
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.
Parishioners of All Saints’ enjoy supper together at “Jinli” in Chinatown on Friday night after their visit to the National Gallery.
Fidelium Summer Garden Party
The new lay-led network for young Anglo-Catholics called “Fidelium” is having a summer garden party at At Alban’s Holborn on Friday 4th July at St Alban’s Holborn. All Saints’ parishioners are warmly invited to attend. Further details below. Please be in touch with Charlotte Choley-Kovacevic if you want to know more.
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.
Last Sunday was the feast of Pentecost. You can watch the High Mass here and Evensong and Benediction with Te Deum here.
Attendance last Sunday
For your prayers
The Friends of All Saints
15th – Dr Ryan Danker, Kirill Dashkovskiy, Christopher Davies, Peter Dennis, Laura Denton, Joshua Dolphin
16th – Linda Edwards, Pamela Edwards, Jane Elliston, Dr Terrence Ellsworth, Richard Everton and Fr Philip Bevan, Carolyn Farrar
17th – Sue Feakin, Adrian Felaar, Elizabeth Ferguson, Daniel Fielden, Janice Fielden, Julia Fielden, Nigel Fisher, Mark Fleming
18th – Stuart Fletcher, Christopher Forman, Matthew Foster, Antony Fox, Dr Ralph Donald Fram, Dr Jason Frost, Derrick French, Charlotte Gauthier, Dr Rebecca Gibbs, Margaret Goddard, Paul Golding, John Goldsmith
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, James and Gwendoline Holdcroft, The Rev’d Canon Graham Holcombe, Edwin Holmes, Rosy Holt, Bishop David Hope
The sick
Ann Brindley, Holly Brindley, Graeme Butler, Jean Castledine, David Craig, Fr Michael Gudgeon, Sheelagh Gudgeon, Tony Hawkins, Margaret Hill, Shelia Hirst, Fr Harry Hodgetts, Elizabeth Lyon, John Noury, James Rodger, Rosemarie Sims, Ingrid Slaughter.
The recent departed
Ina Long, Roger Sainsbury, Bp
Anniversaries of death
14th – Sheila Duggan, James Wheen, Mossman Rouché
15th – Eric Stedman, Roualeyn Cuming-Bruce, Clare Prince
16th – William Upton Richards Pr (First Vicar of All Saints), Ida Jones, Geoffrey Roundtree, Eric Davidson
17th – Gerald Reddington Pr
18th – Susanne Coles, Eric Griffin, Jim Peschek
19th – Gwendolen Coldham, Patricia Cudmore
20th – Dom Michael Warner, Michael Pearson Pr
21st – Hugh Douglas-Hamilton, Beverley Brentnall, Philip Bennett, Roderick Bowie Pr
Services this week
Saturday 14 June – Our Lady on Saturday
12pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Confessions
6.30 pm Vigil Mass of Sunday
Sunday 15 June – TRINITY SUNDAY
8.30 am Low Mass
11 am High Mass
5.15 pm Low Mass
6.00 pm Solemn Evensong and Benediction
Monday 16 June – Feria
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass
Tuesday 17 June – Feria
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass
Wednesday 18 June – Feria
12 noon Low Mass
5.30 Holy Hour
6.30 pm Low Mass
Thursday 19 June – CORPUS CHRISTI
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm High Mass and Procession of the Blessed Sacrament
Friday 20 June – St Alban
12 noon Low Mass
6.30 pm Low Mass
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