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All Saints Parish Paper
7, MARGARET STREET, LONDON W1W 8JG
www.allsaintsmargaretstreet.co.uk
APRIL 2018 £1.00
VICAR’S LETTER
Easter Day this year is the first day of April; a date more
usually associated with practical jokes than celebration.
Easter sermons are by tradition meant to include some
humour, to reflect the joyful mood of the “Queen of feasts”
after the rigours of Lent; but it ought not to be fun at the
expense of others.
The name Easter seems to come from the Old English
east, the direction of sunrise. This name is limited to the
Germanic languages and English. In others, it is called
“Pascha,” from the Greek for Passover; hence the term
“paschal”.
The Easter Season lasts for fifty days, culminating with
the feast of Pentecost (Whit Sunday, to give its old English
name). The Sundays in it are now called Sundays of Easter
rather than the after Easter of the Prayer Book, to emphasize
that it is a continuing celebration of the Resurrection and all
that flows from it.
Easter Week is known in the Eastern churches by the
lovely name Bright Week, which is certainly more cheerful
than the popular Western name for the Second Sunday of
Easter: Low Sunday. Contrary to the widely held view that
this name reflects a low spirit, or reduced attendance after
the climax of Easter Day, scholars tell us that it probably
comes from the opening word of the Latin Sequence hymn
for the day, Laudes Salvatori.
The readings during Easter Week and the two following
Sundays present us with the various appearances of the
risen Lord. On the Second Sunday, the Gospel is always the
story from John’s Gospel of the appearance to Thomas. In
All Saints’ reredos the Roman Catholic Church, since Pope John Paul II, this
March 2018 Sunday has come to be known as Divine Mercy Sunday.
(Photo: Andrew Prior) This springs from the visions and writings of St Faustina,
1a 20th century Polish nun. While I have no celebrated according to Luke’s chronology
quarrel with celebrating the mercy of God, I forty days after Easter Day. Ascension Day
think we are right to stick with Thomas; and did more than mark the taking up of Jesus
not just because the Divine Mercy devotion into heaven. It celebrated the exaltation of
has produced one of the most kitsch icons Christ as Lord of heaven and earth and his
to have emerged in recent years. coronation as King of the universe. It also
speaks of the promise that where Christ is,
The Fourth Sunday of Easter does have
his followers will be also.
another name: Good Shepherd Sunday,
but this derives from the reading as the At All Saints, this is one of the feasts
Gospel over three years of the discourse we keep on its proper day, rather than
on the Good Shepherd from John Chapter transferring it to the nearest Sunday.
10. This has become a day of prayer for
It used to be the custom to dramatize
vocations to the pastoral ministry of the
the ascension by extinguishing the Paschal
Church. One of the Church of England’s
Candle at the end of the Gospel on
priorities is an increase in the number of
Ascension Day, but now to mark the fifty
candidates for ordination.
days of Easter, it remains alight until after
With the Fifth Sunday of Easter, the Evensong on Pentecost.
attention of the Church begins to shift to
the Ascension and the deeper communion Ascension Day also prepares us for the
between Christ and his people after the end coming of the Holy Spirit and it is not
of his resurrection appearances. The Sixth completed until Pentecost. The Church,
Sunday of Easter (in May this year, I know, one with Mary and the Apostles, during
but I’ve started so I’ll finish), looks ahead the nine days between the Ascension and
to the coming of the Holy Spirit. This Pentecost, waits for the outpouring of
Sunday is also called Rogation Sunday as it the Spirit. This is the origin of novenas
is followed by three Rogation Days. These or nine days of prayer. The Archbishops
take their name from the Latin word to ask. of Canterbury and York have breathed
They began as days of fasting, processions new life into this practice by encouraging
and litanies after earthquakes and failed Anglicans and other Christians to join in
harvests in 6th century France. The practice prayer for the mission of the church during
spread and they became days of prayer for this time under the title “Your Kingdom
a fruitful harvest. This has expanded over Come”.
the years to include the harvest of the sea, Our keeping of Ascension Day on the
industry and commerce and the care of the 40th day, rather than transferring it to the
environment. Some country parishes still following Sunday, means that the Seventh
beat the bounds of the parish with their Sunday after Easter is not dropped. With its
Rogation procession. Gospel readings from the 17th chapter of
The Ascension of our Lord was originally John, often called the high priestly prayer,
celebrated on Easter Day, following the or the prayer of consecration, this Sunday
chronology of John’s Gospel, in which the focuses on Christ the eternal High Priest
Resurrection, Ascension and the sending of and Intercessor on our behalf, praying to
the Holy Spirit are a single event. By the the Father for the welfare and unity of the
late 4th century, the Ascension began to be Church.
2Pentecost, the culmination of our Easter some of you know, the second reading at
celebration, takes its name from the Evening Prayer is usually taken from one of
Greek for fifty days. Its alternative name the Fathers of the Church or another suitable
of Whitsunday probably comes from the non-scriptural text. One of the options in the
white robes worn by those newly baptized collection we use is part of a sermon by
on that day. In northern Europe, baptisms Austin Farrer (Caroline’s father) which was
were often postponed from Easter because preached in the chapel of All Souls College
of the climate. An alternative explanation on All Souls Day. Caroline would beam at
comes from the Anglo-Saxon word wit this and applaud silently. Canon Groves’
meaning wisdom, since the Spirit, the sermon is published in this issue (see page
Counsellor, teaches the Church and leads 14).
into all truth.
Happy Easter to you all.
YVONNE CRAIG
Alan Moses After falling and breaking her hip last
year,Yvonne has been absent from her
CAROLINE FARRER RIP usual place at Meditation, Morning
Prayer and the early Mass for some time.
Caroline was a familiar figure at All Saints However, we are delighted that she is once
on special occasions like the Festival and more back with us after some restorative
had been a member of the Friends of All Florida sunshine. Yvonne writes:
Saints for many years. After living with the
All Saints Sisters in Oxford, and working SANCTUARIES — the island bird
in their embroidery team (she had been sanctuary adjacent to my daughter’s
trained by the Sisters of St Margaret at East new retirement home near Florida’s
Grinstead) she was cared for in St John’s Everglades reminded me of our church
Home. during my convalescence there. As I rested
Her funeral Mass was celebrated at her on the lawn, ibis, herons, ducks and geese
Oxford church, St Mary Magdalene’s. The gathered while the black-coated cormorants
Vicar, Cedric Stephens and Jean Castledine presided like the clergy, from their perches
were able to be there, in spite of the snowy on the island’s trees. Despite the family of
weather. The Mass was celebrated, at iguanas who visited, and the alligators in
Caroline’s request, by Sr Margaret Anne. nearby pools, the birds were peaceful in
The epistle was read by Canon Professor their nesting season, and the flocks of egrets
Sarah Foot of Christ Church (where which flew off at dawn returned safely at
Caroline had also deployed her needlework dusk to their sanctuary home. There was
skills), the sermon was preached by the intermittent squawking and fly feathers, of
Vicar of St Mary Magdalene’s Canon Peter course, but the sanctuary was a place for
Groves and the intercessions were led by diverse species living together amicably.
Fr Alan (representing her connection with All Saints has always provided a
Margaret Street). sanctuary for the lonely, the seekers, and
One of our clergy’s delightful memories recently for the homeless and dispossessed;
of Caroline is of her sitting in the front row even though our sleepers may snore rather
at Evening Prayer on All Souls Day. As than squawk.
3However, Lent encourages us to be Bishop Allen has kindly agreed to preach
grateful for the divine sanctuary within at High Mass on Sunday 13 May. We will
the heart of Jesus, where we can find rest be a bit short-handed that Sunday as Fr
and restoration amidst the suffering of the Michael and Fr Gerald will be in Italy with
world, blest by renewal through the risen the Pilgrimage to Assisi and Fr Pip Bevan
Christ at Easter. Perhaps also we may will be in Ely with the Parish Retreat.
learn to open our own inner sanctuaries of
spiritual space to share prayerfulness and Other Korean Guests
loving kindness with others, like so many As well as its Welsh-speaking congregation,
who have generously helped to heal me. the Welsh Baptist Chapel in Eastcastle Street
is also home to a Korean congregation.
Thank you, Yvonne
The latest part of the Chapel’s restoration
programme is the rebuilding of the organ.
PARISH NOTES This has meant that there have been three
Lent Late Opening for Prayer Sundays recently when the Koreans have
not been able to have their afternoon service
and Compline
in the chapel; so we have provided them
On Thursdays during Lent we have been
with a temporary home. Their style of music
keeping the church open after evening Mass
is rather different and very loud: no Sunday
with exposition of the Blessed Sacrament.
afternoon siesta for the Vicar on those
The evening has ended with the singing of
Sundays.
Compline at 8.30pm. We have had fourteen
singers on average, not always the same Visiting Group
people each week and confidence and A party of 28 people from the Stevenage
competence in plainsong has grown under and Knebworth Arts Group came for a visit
the direction of Tim Byram-Wigfield. to All Saints. After a talk from the Vicar,
they had time for a good look round before
Stations of the Cross enjoying tea in the Parish Room served by
Our Friday night Lenten devotion has again Chris Self and with home-made savoury
been the Way of the Cross. We are grateful scones baked by Kate Hodgetts.
to Quentin Williams for accompanying
us on the organ, to Cedric Stephens and Someone else happened to turn up at the
other servers who have been responsible same time, sat at the back of church and
for putting the stations out and taking them wrote as follows in the Visitor Book:
back down again. It was good to have Fr Dear Alan (if I may)
Gerald Beauchamp leading our meditations My wife and I visited yesterday afternoon
in the third week of Lent, as he was the and very much enjoyed your talk — piggy
guiding force behind the commissioning of backing from the back! Just to say thank
the pictures. you, it is the most magnificent building
and well done for the support you give the
Bishop Allen Shin homeless. Honestly, we were rather shocked
Bishop Allen (and Clara) will be with us in to find the position as it was, but thankful
May, to represent the Diocese of New York you are able to help.
(one of our diocesan companion links) at the With very best wishes,
Installation of the new Bishop of London. Arthur Byng Nelson
4replacement work will be carried out on all
BUILDING WORKS three, rather than have one fail after another
at greater uncertainty and expense overall.
There is hardly a week goes by without
Fortunately, we can do this work before
something on the estate needing to be
Easter.
mended or renewed at All Saints. As I write
our redoubtable builder/plumbing team are
with us once more to clear a drain and fix a ALL SAINTS
tap that sprang a leak after the recent snow. PARISH RETREAT 2018
Last week they were in thawing out the ELY RETREAT HOUSE
water pipes that supply Fr Michael Bowie’s
house at 6 Margaret Street and which Fr Philip Bevan will conduct this year’s
prevented him having water to his kitchen retreat and he writes about it as follows:
taps and bathroom shower. In our Parish Retreat this year we will
explore the meaning of spirituality, and look
The South Choir Aisle at how we can mature in our spiritual life.
One small area of the church which
remained to be restored, after the installation In mediæval England there was a great
of new lighting and wiring, was in the south devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus. We
choir aisle. The removal of the old lighting will take some time thinking about where
panel and fuse boxes revealed an unsightly this came from, and how this devotion can
scene of devastation with tiles removed or change the way we live.
broken. New tiles were made and installed, St Paul encourages us to “pray
damaged stonework has been replaced and continually”, and we will look at how this
Butterfield’s decorative paintwork restored. can happen by studying and praying “The
As this is being written the restorers from Jesus Prayer”.
DBR are putting the final touches to the
work so that all will be complete in time for We will also take a look at “time”, and
Easter. how the Church sanctifies it, and what this
could mean for us in our own lives.
The Courtyard Gates
As your Retreat Conductor for this year I
The recent spell of snow caused by the icy
thought that it might be nice for you to know
Siberian winds which the media dubbed the
a bit of my history, and therefore what I am
Beast from the East, seems to have resulted
bringing to this Retreat.
in further deterioration in the fixing of the
hinges of the gates. We are taking action to My name is Fr Philip Bevan, I was born
achieve at least a temporary repair before a in Coventry in the blitz of 1941. I served
fuller restoration can be undertaken. an apprenticeship and HNC in Electrical
Engineering, and then when I was 22 years
Organ Blowers
of age went to Brasted Place College, and
One of the three blowers, whose function is
Chichester Theological College. Deaconed
described by their name, which are down in
and Priested for the Diocese of Liverpool,
the church undercroft, has started making
I served my curacy for three years in St
peculiar noises due to the failure of some
Mary’s, Walton, Liverpool.
important small parts. As all three blowers
are some 68 years old, the necessary I spent the next seven years serving as a
5parish priest, and chaplain to the psychiatric Sergius, and ten years ago studied for two
hospital and the prison in Nassau, Bahamas. years at the Institute for Orthodox Christian
I had felt the need to explore a possible Studies in Cambridge, where my main tutor
vocation to the contemplative life, and so I was Metropolitan Kallistos of the Diocese
became a novice at the Monastery of Mount of Diokleia, who is also a recipient of the
St Bernard, where I remained in Simple The Lambeth Cross for Ecumenism from the
Vows until just before Solemn Profession. I Archbishop of Canterbury.
had learned a tremendous amount about the
In retirement, I pray the daily round of
life of prayer. In the end I felt that God was
Offices and Mass. After receiving a Licence
calling me to the contemplative life, but not
from the Diocese of London helping out at
necessarily calling me to an enclosed life.
the daily Masses at ASMS when needed, and
I left the Monastery and began work in continuing as a Chaplain to the Community
London, endeavouring to bring what I of the Sisters of the Church.
had learned in the contemplative life into
This year the Parish Retreat will be
my daily living. First running therapeutic
from 11 – 13 May at Bishop Woodford
communities for the Richmond Fellowship,
House in Ely. If you want to come, or
for the recovering mentally ill, I studied
would like further information, please
Gestalt Therapy, Group Dynamics, and
contact Martin Woolley on 07976 275383
Mental Health for my work. I moved then
or at m.g.woolley@btinternet.com.
into work with homeless people with a
range of complex needs, working as a
coordinator for Patchwork Community
LENT APPEAL 2018
Housing Association. I went to work with All donations to us by the end of
street homeless people in the centre of April 2018, please!
London, with St Mungo’s for seven years,
managing their Resettlement Team. Finally, The proceeds of our Lenten Collections will
I moved to Homeless Link to write the be shared equally between our three regular
“Resettlement Handbook” and to be the Mission Projects (the Marylebone Project,
national coordinator for homeless people the Soup Kitchen at the American
who have Multiple and Complex Needs. Church, Tottenham Court Road and USPG
– UMOJA – HIV Project) and the Bishop’s
I held the Bishop of Southwark’s Diocesan Lent Appeal Tackling Homelessness
Licence to Officiate as a Priest. I served the Together (for a dozen small grass–roots
Parish of Richmond and the Diocese as church homeless projects).
much as I could, whilst continuing to work
full-time with the homeless. Then I became The collections gathered at the services
Chaplain to the Royal Star and Garter Home of Tenebrae and Good Friday along with
on Richmond Hill for disabled ex services the contents of individual Lent boxes (now
men and women, and latterly Chaplain to available in the Baptistery) will be shared
the Convent of The Sisters of the Church. equally between the four charities.
The theology of the Orthodox Church, in If you can’t get to All Saints but would
all its many forms, has from an early age like to contribute to these very worthy
been a special interest to me. In my teens causes, please donate by BACS to All Saints
I joined the Society of St Alban and St Nat West Account: 04559452, Sort Code
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NEW DATA PROTECTION Saints.
REGULATIONS and KEEPING When we write to you, we will be
IN TOUCH WITH ALL SAINTS sending you a link to a Privacy Notice
on our website which explains in a lot
after 1 May 2018 of detail more about how we use your
At the end of May, new Data Protection personal data. If you have any questions
Regulations (General Data Protection about this process, please contact Dee
Regulations or GDPR 2018) will come Prior, Parish Administrator — telephone
into force and All Saints, like all UK 020 7 636 1788 or astsmgtst@aol.com.
organisations, will have to comply with this
new legislation. The new rules will give
ONCE MORE INTO THE
individuals more rights and protection in ANTIPODES
how personal data is used compared with
Fr Michael Bowie writes about this year’s
the current Data Protection Act (1998).
travels:
Fundamentally it will require you to give
us consent to communicate with you As long-suffering readers know, I
using various means of communication habitually flee the winter on or about
e.g. letter, emails, phone calls, text New Year. Beginning the year, as is my
message. Your privacy is important to custom, by sleeping through the whimsical
us but we would also like to continue numerical change to the calendar, I said our
to communicate with you about the New Year’s Day Mass and applied myself
Church and its activities. So that we can to Packing. I was determined to Forget
do that within the law, by April we will Nothing. A List was written and items were
be sending what is called a personal data Ticked Off. So I was well-prepared when
consent form to anyone who has visited, the driver arrived, at 5.45am on the feast of
donated, received our e-newsletters or Ss Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen.
otherwise shown an interest in All Saints
As I reported last year, driving to
in the past and for whom we hold personal
Heathrow at this hour is positively dreamy.
data on our databases.
After a mere thirty minutes I was decanted
So that you can continue to hear from into Heathrow Terminal 4, with about 60
7kilos of luggage; so swift was the journey was proferred. Virtuously accepting only
that the life-affirming amenities of the sparkling water, I settled in for the first
Lounge were not yet open. A quick survey seven hours of sitting down. A volume of the
of the various boutiques on the other side inimitable PGW, some iPlayer downloads
of Security (such a comforting concept), (Wolf Hall) and the entertainment system
led to the inevitable conclusion that I of the ’plane invited my attention. In their
already had sufficient luggage. The Lounge company, after Second Breakfast and many
now graciously admitted me and breakfast further food-opportunities, we came to
— the first breakfast — beckoned. Messrs Abu Dhabi.
Etihad do like their clients fattened up; the
I know little about AD except that it
goose who gives its all for foie gras has
is the domicile of Messrs Etihad. It is
nothing on an Etihad Lounge Lizard.
apparently also the Capital of Somewhere.
For once I succeeded in moderating My interest in the city had been piqued by
my conviction that I must eat everything reports of a new and extraordinary outpost
offered to me. This is the result, I maintain, of the Louvre that has just opened there. On
of a psychologically-scarring encounter another trip I hope to visit it. But for now
between my four-year-old self and my the principal attraction of AD was duty free
Scary Grandmother, Catherine Bowie. cigars and whisky. Since the latter turned
After I had foolishly refused some now- out to be more expensive than in my local
forgotten vegetable she fixed me with a Waitrose, I confined myself to the three
piercing grand-maternal look and spoke cigars that Australia’s draconian customs
the only words I can remember her saying regulations allow, reacquainted myself
to me: ‘your cousin Cath always eats with the AD Lounge, and, while resisting
everything that is put in front of her’ (I Third Breakfast, weakened sufficiently
frequently remind my elder cousin of this to accept a very large Campari Soda.
irritating goody-two-shoes reputation, the When I order this in the ASMS Bar they
first thing I ever knew about her). But I look at me pityingly; it is apparently not
am wandering more than usually from the a Sophisticated Anglo-Catholic Drink. But
point. Was there a point? Ah yes: in the for me nothing says summer (to which, you
matter of international travel my mantra understand, I was enthusiastically heading)
is not so much ‘beware the Ides of March’ like a CS. It conjures Italian summer,
as ‘beware the Second Breakfast’. Soon which can never be a bad thing.
after becoming airborne one is urged to
Now followed the thirteen-hour stretch.
eat a meal, often called ‘breakfast’ if it
I am a poor sleeper (I may have mentioned
happens before noon: it could be anything
this before) so while others around me
at all, given that everyone in the ’plane is
were eagerly and peacefully embracing
somewhere on a spectrum of time-zone
Lethe in the darkened cabin, I alternated
denial.
Hilary Mantel, Bertie Wooster and series
So (yes, that was the point) a restrained 2 of Victoria: a certain symmetry here, as
Eggs Benedict and a mediocre espresso I had watched the first series of V on my
prepared me for boarding. Champagne, return to London last year. Having read
always difficult to refuse but nonetheless the Queen Empress’ diaries when still a
unwise at 8.30am before a tedious journey, child (why? I hear you cry; sadly, I can’t
8remember) I had a lingering affection for efficiency of the customs staff. While
her, which has sadly now been irreparably we waited by the Sisyphean deferral
dented by Jenna Coleman’s improbably of happiness that is an airport luggage
rounded vowels and Tom Hughes’ endless carousel, a loudly cheerful female customs
smouldering looks as the long-suffering officer moved among us, inspecting our
Prince Consort. Exhausted by all this declarations, to ‘save time’ before we ran
relentless entertainment I eventually joyously through the gates admitting us to
snatched an hour or two’s sleep and Antipodean Paradise. When she reached me
stumbled into the Sydney Sunset, and I explained my dilemma and indicated my
about 30 degrees. intention of extracting the offending items
and throwing them away before entering
One of the unique joys of landing in
Sydney is the Last Chance Duty Free. I the hallowed portals. ‘Why would you do
don’t know another airport where there that?’ she said, rather more loudly than I
is a well-stocked duty free shop just might have liked. I explained a second
before you get to passport control (and time that I had forgotten the strictness of
are therefore still Abroad): it presumably the limit and that there were more cigars
says something about my compatriots’ in my luggage than the rules allowed. By
priorities. In the LCDF I snatched up now a small group of bored local fellow
a competitively priced litre of Talisker. luggage-awaiters was listening to this
Passing through passport control and conversation with obvious enjoyment.
heading purposefully for baggage reclaim, ‘Well how many of these “cigars” would
I realised I had in fact Over-Packed in one there be in your luggage?’ she asked,
significant detail. Completing the Landing with audible inverted commas. ‘Six or
Card, as officious a piece of text as only seven’, I opined. ‘Oh well,’ she enunciated
an Australian Bureaucrat could compose, deliberately, ‘that should be all right’. This
I suddenly remembered that not only had wonderfully non-committal turn of phrase
I purchased the permitted three cigars is echt Australien: she had already stamped
in Abu Dhabi, but had also carelessly my landing card; it certainly was going to
packed a travelling humidor with six or be ‘all right’, but we had to acknowledge
seven cigars inside it in one of my bags. a comradely generosity in the transaction.
The Landing Card resembled a Passionist Giving thanks to the patron saint of duty-
Missioner in the severity of its warnings free travel, I pushed my small Everest of
about such attempts at tobacco smuggling. luggage into the Elysium that is Arrivals.
Metaphorically waving its finger at me,
At first it seemed that I had been
it promised that duty would be applied
abandoned there, but then there appeared
not only to the excess cigars but also to
a man with my name on his iPad screen
the ones I’d just bought. Since the latter
(Max, from Thailand, who’d notched up 24
were of a superior quality to those in the
years in Sydney and seemed delighted with
carelessly-stocked humidor I resolved to
this exchange of humid climates). He was
record ‘nothing to declare’ and eject the
interlopers from my luggage before going covering for my allotted driver, Lee, who’d
through customs. been caught out by the early arrival of my
flight and luggage. Max loaded my luggage
I had failed to reckon with the friendly into his car and then, after a brief and
9incomprehensible ’phone call, unloaded it conversation darkened: he began a rant,
again. Lee, it seemed, was ‘a minute’ away, with no apparent sense of irony, about there
‘in a much nicer car’. After 24 hours’ travel being too many immigrants in Australia. I
the ‘niceness’ of a car pales somewhat: my forbore to comment again and turned the
only requirement of a car at this moment conversation to where I was staying, hoping
is that it be present; I may have expressed it would soon appear. It did. Dragging my
some impatience after the first 5 minutes. Cheops’ Pyramid of luggage up the steps
Still, after only 10 minutes, Lee did arrive of the Union Club I found the wonderful
in the ‘nicer’ car, an enormous Audi, and Nasr at the porter’s desk and embarked
we set off. on my second successful negotiation of
the evening. Having requested a ‘View’
Lee had settled in Sydney almost by
in my initial booking email, I had been
accident 25 years ago. Having worked in
allocated a room which looked out at the
Saudi Arabia for a couple of years in his
wall of a hotel next door. This is, I suppose,
twenties he’d gone home to Manchester. a ‘view’, but not what I consider a ‘View’.
The mistake he made was doing this in However, A Suite With A View on the
January. Three days spent shivering in front sixth floor had been allocated to a guest
of a gas fire decided him to take a cheap arriving the next day. Nasr opined that
and immediate flight to Brisbane. Near since I was there first he would swap our
the end of his journey, flying into Sydney rooms, as long as I would back him up if
on a sunny summer morning, the flight anyone complained. Pointing out that I had
path taking him over the harbour, he told made my request 6 months previously and
me that ‘he never knew there were such that I was a staying a week, whereas the
beautiful places in the world’, and decided interloper was only there for the night, I
not to bother with Brisbane. Clearly a sane triumphed and was rewarded with the same
individual. Six months later he met and hoped-for magnificent eastern outlook over
married a local girl, Kelly. He intimated the Mitchell Library on Macquarrie St that
that he’d made and lost ‘a million’ on a I had previously enjoyed.
restaurant, had some other businesses
and was now driving his own limousine. After minimal unPacking I took a brief
His sons had gone to Kings, the oldest walk in the steamy evening, sedulously
Public School in Australia which rivals avoiding ATMs (see last year) and settled
Eton in the eccentricity of its uniform (in into a blissful rest. Jetlag always produces
this case early-nineteenth-century military unusual hours of waking, but on this
rather than funny collars and top hats), and occasion it was my neighbours, noisily
possibly in other ways. The elder boy had showering at 5am, who woke me. No
just graduated in the top percentile of the matter, I thought: a refreshing walk before
state and was about to read for a Law degree the breakfast hour of 7am would do me
at the Australian National University. The good. ‘Soft refreshing rain’ was the order
younger was not academically inclined of the day; scorning it I made a circuit of
and was struggling with the culture of the the CBD and Hyde Park and approached St
school. I forebore to comment that this did Mary’s Cathedral (the largest neo-Gothic
not surprise me, given what I remembered building in the Southern Hemisphere
of Kings and its old boys. Then the — as we always have to remember to
10say); there I noticed Mass advertised at him to an in-depth analysis of where to get
0645. Inside I found a largely Philippino the best Martini in London (Duke’s Hotel,
congregation and a delightful Italian priest, apparently, should you be interested).
in whose chasuble I recognised the hand They were about to embark on a 27-day
of Signor Barbiconi di Roma, and whose cruise around the continent, including a
3-minute homily was perfectly judged. stop off in Cairns, which they charmingly
Thus fortified, I was ready for breakfast pronounced Cannes. Later that day I saw
and breakfast was ready for me. It proved, their multi-storey mega-liner leaving the
to be honest, indifferent. Moreover the quay and anonymously waved them off.
bar, where B usually happens, was closed They apparently spent most of the year
for some essential work (presaging other relentlessly circling the globe. Good for
disruptions, of which more later) so we them.
were seated at low tables in what was, in I said earlier that my packing had
happier days, the Smoking Room. The been exemplary. But I now discovered a
erstwhile SR still sports a magnificent serious omission: no rosary. This called
Ram’s head snuff box, and the original for a visit to the local iteration of the St
ribbon which was cut (twice) to open Paul Book and Media Centre, run by the
the Harbour Bridge. Fellow Australians Sisters of St Paul, as in Kensington High
will know the story. Jack Lang, the fierce St, (rather than the Brothers/Fathers, as
Labor (sic) Premier of NSW in the early by Westminster Cathedral). I searched the
1930’s was causing a stir by promising to ground floor, the lower ground floor and
nationalise the banks. In response others, the ground floor again. Not only could I
looking longingly at the achievements of see no rosaries, but there was not a statue,
Signor Mussolini in Italy (and possibly icon, poster, holy medal or prayer card to
Sir O. Mosley in England), were forming be found. Briefly wondering whether the
a private army of fascist sympathisers, Puritans of the local Anglican Diocese
the New Guard. One of the latter, Captain had somehow acquired this operation, as
Francis de Groot, infiltrated the cavalry they have so many others, I asked a nun.
presence at the opening ceremony and She explained that they now keep rosaries
pipped Lang to the ribbon, theatrically behind the counter, just like cigars (my
cutting it with a sabre “in the name of the analogy, rather than hers you understand).
decent and respectable people of New Wondering at this unusual sales tactic
South Wales”, before being dragged from (or were they afraid of rosary-lifters?) I
his horse and briefly committed to a mental purchased a suitable item and thought to
facility. The ribbon was spliced together make immediate use of it in St Andrew’s
and Lang cut it again. Both thus achieved Cathedral, where my father was ordained
a celebrity which members of the Union in 1946 and where not many a rosary has
Club can now contemplate over a drink, or penetrated. I found the doors firmly locked
on the 4th of January 2018, Breakfast. and advertising, on this January morning,
The petit dej was graced by a member ‘Christmas services’, including ‘Holy
of the Philadelphia Club and his wife, who Communion with the Archbishop’ at 8am
were determined to Converse. He began on Christmas Day. A theologically dubious
by quizzing me about my provenance and proposition, and unhappily suggestive, I
then asking about London clubs; this led thought, of ‘an audience with Dame Edna’.
11Still, I was glad that ++Glenn considers it the lighter, a glass and my bottle of duty-
important to share the Holy Mysteries with free whisky to the roof terrace, completing
his cathedral flock, while less glad that his the evening rituals in contemplation of the
cathedral was closed against visitors on last sunset-pink clouds and Renzo Piano’s
a busy summer’s day. Perhaps someone startling edifice across the street.
had told him to beware visiting rosary-
My UK body clock woke me again at
guerillas.
2.30am on Friday 5th January. My bathing-
My first engagement at Christ Church obsessed neighbours then kindly woke
S. Laurence would be to preach at the me again with two prolonged showers at
Epiphany High Mass, which they were 4.30am (I was relieved to observe them
celebrating on the Eve, the next evening. staggering out of the club with a pile of
Having wandered downtown to deposit luggage rivalling my own later in the
some priestly clobber in the priests’ vestry, morning). In the city, cafés all open at 6
I began to feel that strange jet-laggy sense or 6.30 and close by 4pm (there being
of dizzy alienation, when the body tells the no siesta in Australia, café owners have
brain that it should be the middle of the evolved a distinctive local timetable). So
night and both should be recumbent. Early Breakfast was possible: Bahista,
231 Elizabeth Street, just past the Great
Tottering back to the club for a restorative
Synagogue and the scaffolded Presbyterian
blast of air conditioning I wandered down
Church of Eastern Australia (improbable
the hill towards the Opera House for my
local Wee Frees), should you be in similar
now-traditional First Evening Dinner at the
need while in Sydney. Perfect coffee,
Sydney Cove Oyster Bar. As always they
something called a ‘Bondi’ juice which
superciliously asked me if I’d booked and
included watermelon and banana, and
raised an eyebrow at my response, which
a wonderful pancake with fruit and ice-
was in the negative: I never bother, because
cream were cheerfully produced.
they always seem, in fact, to have room
for one. A dozen Sydney Rock Oysters On my way back I noticed that the
and some excellent Barramundi magically respectably CofE St James, King St, was
appeared. There’s nothing like an oyster or opening for the day, providing a convenient
two to pep one up, I find. Now ready for a Morning Prayer stop. St James is one of a
cigar on the club roof terrace, the second small number of Georgian church buildings
Packing Deficiency became apparent: no in Australia. It is perfectly inoffensive,
matches. The nearby ‘Convenience’ Store apart from the chapel bolted on the side in
could supply only a Bic lighter, which bicentennial year, 1988, replacing a more
would unacceptably flavour the smoke. conventional chapel in which the aumbry
So I worked my way stealthily through was decently hidden (respectable, you see)
the dining and sitting rooms of the club in from the nave. The walls of this excresence
search of fire. I later realised this must have are in shades of brown glass swirling
given the porter much innocent amusement: about in patterns which doubtless signify
there is extensive CCTV coverage of all something, but that something requires
the public rooms. Fortunately unaware explanation (my definition of poor art).
of this probable audience, I purloined a The Sacrament is there, but on this morning
candle from the Red Room, and carried it, the light before it was out and there was
12a profusion of aggressively dead flowers used to be round the corner from CCSL,
here and throughout the building. Brown which may explain this. I’m guessing many
glass walls in this climate will not lengthen RC parishes now buy from here, rather
the lifespan of cut flowers (or congregants, than having to ask a nun to produce a holy
I suspect: it was already oven-like in there). medal wrapped in brown paper from under
Amusingly, at one end of this unfortunate the counter.
space I noted a prieu dieu set up with texts
The Museum of Sydney then enticed
for confession and located directly below a
me with an exhibition of police mugshots.
large fire blanket (and an even larger sign
reading ‘fire blanket’). I fear I may have You may think this an unlikely subject
shared this image on Facebook with the for an exhibition, but there is a local and
legend ‘How long since YOU went to Fire unique development of the genre from
Blanket?’. There ensued a satisfying flurry Sydney’s colourful past. Everywhere else
of fantastical suggestions and competitive in the world the mugshot subjects are
Facebook posts about how many candles strictly posed, but, in a manner typical of
were lit on various Anglo-Catholic altars Sydney’s not-too-grudging admiration
for specified liturgical extravaganzas. The for the corrupt and criminal (possibly a
ghost of Fr Forse (see 2016) was duly heritage from the origins of the city?),
honoured. here the accused were allowed to dress and
pose as they liked. Some tried to look other
Retiring to the nave I said MP and then than themselves, gurning and grimacing
wandered down to George Street, which is at the camera, but a touching percentage
the Oxford Street of Sydney (as opposed
took obvious pleasure and even preening
to Sydney’s Oxford Street, which is more
pride in being so recorded. I was hoping
like High Holborn, if you see what I mean).
to see a picture of the infamous Madam,
George St has been a building site for
Tilly Devine (a colourful import from
two years: Trams are promised, but seem
Camberwell, London), but had to make do
to be running very late. Heading towards
with her famous rival Kate Leigh, whose
Dymocks, the last big commercial bookshop
area of specialism was more in the sly-grog
in the city, I suddenly remembered that in
and razor gang department. Women gained
the same building lies Church Stores, the
an ascendancy in the criminal world of
traditional Anglican emporium weirdly
Sydney between the wars, because the laws
situated in the only Australian diocese
were all framed with male pronouns. I will
which hardly knows vestments or candles;
share more about Tilly and Kate another
I suppose it provides for the needs of all
time, if we are all spared. But it was now
the other, less extraordinary, dioceses in
time to cast aside my dubious interest in
the state of NSW where recogniseable
Sydney’s criminal classes, and head for the
liturgical worship still occurs. One needs to
Epiphany High Mass and a nice hot pulpit.
know CS is there: it is on the second floor in
a quaint range of shops built in the 1920s. We have now all suffered enough, at
I should have gone there the previous day, least for this edition of the Parish Paper.
for it now bizarrely contradicts the Pauline Next month: Liturgy, Lehar and Literature
sisters’ RC minimalism. I have never seen (well, “two out of three ain’t bad”, as the
so many rosaries, statues, holy cards and oddly-named Mr Meat Loaf sings; there
general tat outside Rome or Lourdes. CS will undoubtedly also be Lunch).
13SERMON PREACHED BY CANON PETER GROVES AT
ST MARY MAGDALEN, OXFORD, at the REQUIEM MASS
for CAROLINE FARRER, Wednesday 28 February 2018
“From his fullness we have all received, foundation of every thread and pull of the
grace upon grace” John 1: 16 needle.
In the year 1194, this church was rebuilt, Like St Clare, Caroline was exemplary
and consecrated by the then bishop of in her faith, in her prayer, in her capacity
Lincoln, the man we call St Hugh. In for love and in the extraordinary beauty
the same year across the continent, a of her work. From the age of eighteen
wealthy young woman was born to a she had trained under and lived with the
family of Italian nobility. When she was sisters of the Society of St Margaret, at
of marriageable age, she was captivated East Grinstead, before moving to be with
not by a handsome prince, but by a very the All Saints Sisters, first at London
different local celebrity, known by his
Colney and then in Oxford, where in
nickname, Francesco, Francis of Assisi.
1989 she joined the cathedral embroidery
The young woman heard Francis preach,
centre at Christ Church, contributing to
and never looked back, committing herself
both workshops for very many years. Her
to a life of prayer and poverty in support
output was remarkable, and can be seen
of his remarkable ministry. We now call
in churches all over the country and on
her St Clare. Among the many stories told
clergy who always fail to do it justice —
of her life, perhaps the favourite is the tale
this clergyman among them.
of one Christmas Eve when she was sick
and confined to bed, and hence unable to Caroline and Clare had more than
attend Mass. On uttering the simple prayer, embroidery in common. Both will forever
“See, Lord, I am left alone here with you”, be associated with a man of the Church,
she received a vision on her cell wall of whom others still celebrate. Caroline
the Mass taking place elsewhere. For this was enormously proud of her parents and
reason, in 1958 Pius XII declared her the their writings, and was endlessly patient
patron saint of television. with tiresome clergy like me, who would
More importantly for our purposes, introduce her to awe-struck students as
Clare is also the patron saint of the only child of the greatest Anglican
embroidery, having been celebrated in her theologian of the twentieth century.
own lifetime for the manner in which she Caroline knew, as should we all, that the
channelled prayer and devotion through only true greatness in the Church is the
this decorative art for the benefit of greatness of God in Jesus Christ, and few
others and of the whole Church of Christ. things pleased her more than hearing a
The work of God — the opus dei of the preacher or a scholar mention her father
religious life — was not to be divided as someone who had helped Christian life
into compartments. All that she did was and prayer and understanding. It was the
an offering to her Lord, and the simple truth of God and her faith in the Gospel
beauty of her poverty and prayer was the which mattered.
14“From his fullness, we have all received, all with her prayers, prayers in words and
grace upon grace.” Caroline shared song and silence, prayers in fabric and in
with Clare the most important thing in thread. Prayer was for her not something
both lives, the love of Jesus Christ. The out of the ordinary, but the nuts and bolts
simplicity of her faith undergirded a of her life, the spiritual daily bread which
fierce commitment and devotion which sustained her in all that she did.
was itself a gift to others. She would be
the earliest to church on festival days, Caroline’s Christian example, of faith
the first in the confessional queue in and hope and love, is her legacy to each of
Holy Week, the head of the pilgrim line us. Her gifts from God, of love and faith
at Stations of the Cross, the first to sign and artistry and skill, were also her gifts
up for the Walsingham journey. She was to God, the offering of a Christian life in
a legend of Catholic Anglicanism, vital a manner we can only hope to emulate.
to the sisters and to St John’s Home, vital She was and is and will be an inspiration
to All Saints, Margaret Street, vital to to us all, and a beacon of our hope in the
Mary Mags over very many years. She resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
supported everything and everyone, with “From his fullness we have all received,
her presence and her friendship, but above grace upon grace.”
SERMON PREACHED BY FR JULIAN BROWNING
at HIGH MASS on the THIRD SUNDAY of LENT
1 Corinthians 1: 22 We preach Christ resurrection, are the way we have chosen,
crucified. once and for all, to understand our lives,
I would rather freeze than unpack the and to accept the joy and the sorrow, the
mystery of the extra boiler controls in my death and the resurrection which life brings
flat. I would rather starve than discover us. Christianity is not a mystery, it is reality,
how to clean and operate a grill which is it is what we’ve discovered works for us.
inside an oven. And I — and maybe you We preach Christ crucified. This is a
— would rather see Christianity as a great proclamation which only makes sense, as
unknowable mystery, so we can’t get into Paul saw, to those “who are being saved”,
it fully because we don’t understand it. But that is those who are committed as best
it won’t do; we preach Christ crucified. We they can to what the Cross means. In the
preach, we live Christ crucified because Orthodox Church this Sunday, the third
there in that image is the clue to who we are Sunday of Lent, is the Sunday of the
and what we can become. Understanding Veneration of the Cross, or simply Holy
has little to do with it; that would be the Cross, to remind us that our salvation is not
wisdom of the world of which Paul speaks, going to be a result of our Lenten efforts,
the pros and the cons, working it out, but is already the consequence of Christ’s
taking sides, never reaching a conclusion. victory. Lent began on Ash Wednesday
No, we do not understand Christ crucified. with ash on the forehead, a crazy sign in
We preach Christ crucified, we proclaim many ways, but there could be no clearer
Christ crucified, because his life, death and symbol imposed upon each of us, showing
15that what we are about is a matter of life wisdom to explain it, although you and
and death to us. But that ash had a form. I might say that that first chapter of the
It was the form of a cross which touched first letter to the Corinthians is one of the
each forehead. So the ash was more than a greatest sermons ever written.
sign of the reality of death. It was the sign
Where is this Lenten path taking us,
of the crucified and risen Christ. It speaks
or to put it more bluntly what does all
to us of glory and victory. It is also the sign
of the outcast, the one who does not really this Christianity do to us? I think that if
fit in, the one who will not give in to the we stay the course mindfully we begin
compromises demanded by the world, like to see the form of Christ taking shape in
the Jesus who casts out the Temple traders our lives. Just as the ash took the form of
in today’s Gospel. We Christians are not a cross, and as the crucified One took the
superior to those who have no beliefs, we form of God, so you and I find our egoism
just don’t play that game of who’s best at dissolved and replaced by the power of
all, because we know what we’re like, and God’s life, a Christ life within each of us.
that our own attempts to save ourselves We do not imitate Christ, that was not the
never work. So we preach Christ crucified. New Testament message, and it would be
Why Christ crucified, why that offensive impossible anyway. Yet what happened
Cross, why keep coming back to that, why to Christ happens to each of us. Paul was
not the Christ of the Sermon on the Mount, able to claim, “I have been crucified with
Christ the Teacher? I think it is because Christ. I carry the marks of Jesus branded
we recognise in that crucified figure two on my body.” [Galatians 2: 20; 6: 17] How
emotions, two experiences, two facets of can this work for us? As I see it, just as
ourselves we know well: despair and love. God was shown to us in the despair and
love of Christ on the Cross, and in the joy
I choose to talk about this now, because
and new life of Resurrection, so in our own
we are, more or less, half way between two
situations, however desperate, however
crosses; the dust cross of Ash Wednesday
hopeless, however uncomprehending, God
and the wooden cross of Good Friday.
The one was our commitment to the other, enters our world and transforms the space
and I would not like us to lose our way as we inhabit into a place of healing. This can
we walk between the two. It is best to be start in Lent. Lent is not a time for making
prepared, for the second cross is the greater, life hard for ourselves; it is a time for
more dangerous reality. We know that God healing, for forgiveness. A new hope rises
was there, not because we understand it, within us.
but because we are drawn, against our So we can be crushed yet not despair,
better, more worldly judgement, into an we can be struck down yet not destroyed,
experience of despair and love, from which because what we as Christians are called to
we arise liberated at Easter. God’s grace do is to make the life of Jesus visible in the
flows from the heart of darkness. God’s world, in our own way, whatever happens.
weakness is stronger than human strength, There is a purpose to our lives after all, and
writes St Paul, and he insists that the Cross that is God’s gift, and that will be God’s
stands alone in its power to save; he says glory; we can preach Christ crucified.
he is not going to make use of eloquent
16Sunday 22 April 2018, 12.45pm MEETING OF PARISHIONERS
and ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETING
A Meeting of Parishioners will be held Colin Symes (1 year from 2017).
in Church, at which Churchwardens for Of these, all are eligible for re-election
the year 2018 – 2019 will be appointed. except Patrick Hartley who has completed
All persons whose names are entered two consecutive three-year terms.
on the church electoral roll of the parish Candidates for election must be (a) on the
and all persons resident in the parish Electoral Roll, (b) at least 16 years of age,
whose names are entered on a register of and (c) actual communicant members of
local government electors by reason of the Church of England. All nominations
such residence are eligible to attend. Any must be proposed and seconded by
person wishing to be considered for the persons on the Electoral Roll and all
Post of Churchwarden must be (a) 21 years candidates must indicate a willingness to
of age or over, (b) on the Electoral Roll stand. In addition, candidates are asked to
and (c) an actual communicant member of submit a short typed or clearly handwritten
the Church of England. Nominations must statement giving their reasons for standing
be proposed and seconded, and candidates for election. Nomination forms may be
must indicate their willingness to stand. In obtained from the Parish Administrator.
addition, candidates are asked to submit Although nominations may be made
a short typed or clearly written statement at the meeting, it would be helpful if
giving the reasons for their wishing to completed nomination forms, together
stand, and the benefits they could bring with statements, are returned to the Parish
to the post if appointed. Nominations for Administrator at the Parish Office by
the post of Churchwarden MAY NOT be Tuesday 10 April to enable the papers to
made at the meeting. be available one week before the Annual
Prebendary L. A. Moses, Vicar, 06/03/18 Meeting. The Sidesmen and Independent
Auditor for the year 2018 – 2019 will be
The Annual Parochial Church
appointed at the meeting.
Meeting (APCM) will follow John McWhinney,
immediately. Honorary PCC Secretary, 06/03/18
Only persons whose names are entered
on the church electoral roll are eligible to
100 YEARS AGO
attend.
At the meeting FIVE members of NOTES FROM THE VICAR
the laity will be elected to serve on the “I am hoping that Summer Time may
Parochial Church Council for the years restore the Sunday Evening congregation.
2018 – 2021. I understand and sympathise with the
Retiring members of the Council are: difficulty of coming out to church in the
Patrick Hartley, evenings of the six winter months. The
Elaine Norman (2 years from 2016), dark streets, the fear of the enemy, the
Huw Pryce, Christopher Swift and absence of conveyances, more than excuse
17the emptiness of the nave. But it needs an will wear the roses of England. As usual,
effort to resume a good practice which has the best places will be kept for the men
been dropt, and now that all excuse for who have been wounded in the service of
absence from Evensong disappears I am the Empire. This year Gounod’s Messe
hoping for something like a return to the Solennelle (St Cecilia) will be sing with
former and better state of things. orchestral accompaniment, and we shall
hear once more, the great roll of the drums
“Year after year we resolve that in
in the hymn ‘For all the Saints’. After the
Paschaltide we will keep up the level of
Mass the National Anthem will be sung.
Lent, and many of us have felt depressed
The Marches will be those of English
when we have surveyed the great Fifty Days
composers. The sermon will be preached
at Whitsuntide. It has been very difficult —
by the Revd Arthur Mountford, Vicar of the
the country visit in the springtime, the rush
Church of the Ascension, Lavender Hill,
of engagements, the abandonment of the
and the alms will be given to the Naval
Lent rule, the cessation of the Lent preaching
Ports Fund which helps towards providing
— all these things have conspired to make
means for the ministration of the Church in
it difficult to keep up the level of prayer. I
our Naval Ports.”
wonder how we shall get on this year; there
will be no rush of engagements, no light-
hearted holiday and no return to unrestricted
CELL of OUR LADY of
fare. On the contrary, a curfew is to send us WALSINGHAM EVENTS
all to bed rather hungry at 10.20. It ought Monday 9 April
to be easier to keep up the level of prayer
Annunciation of Our Lord
this year, indeed it ought to be possible to
6.30pm Low Mass with Hymns
make Paschaltide an improvement on the
Lent which is over. I hope that more may be Saturday 14 April
moved to join themselves to the devout and 11.30am Rosary and Walsingham
faithful company at the daily Eucharist; that Devotions
more may be found to join in the continuous 12 noon Low Mass of Our Lady
intercession before the Lady Altar, and that of Walsingham
great numbers will resolve to resume the
practice of Sunday Evensong and hear the Saturday 12 May
whole of Fr Heald’s course of Paschaltide 11.30am Rosary and Walsingham
sermons. Devotions
12 noon Low Mass of Our Lady
“I suggest that each one of us in the
of Walsingham
Act of Easter Communion makes this
resolution: ‘I enrol myself, with God’s help, Monday 28 May
in the Paschal Perseverance.’ THE NATIONAL PILGRIMAGE
“We have learnt to look forward with A day excursion by coach from All Saints
happy anticipation to the Feast of St to Walsingham for the National Pilgrimage.
George, Patron of England. On the 23rd of Please contact Ross Buchanan (Telephone
April I hope that the church may be full to 020 7221 1312) if you would like to know
overflowing, and that as many as possible more or to reserve a place on the coach.
18Office Hymn: 101 The Lamb’s high
SUNDAYS & banquet we await
Canticles: Magnificat — St John’s
SOLEMNITIES Service — Tippett
MUSIC & READINGS Anthem:
Nunc Dimittis — Tone V
Dum transisset sabbatum
— Taverner
X SUNDAY 1 APRIL Preacher: Fr Julian Browning
EASTER DAY Hymn: 117 The day of Resurrection!
O Salutaris: Henschel
PROCESSION AND HIGH MASS Te Deum: Setting in G — Sumsion
Tantum ergo: Henschel
at 11am
Voluntary: Victimæ Paschali
Entrance Hymn: Hail! Festal Day!
— Tournemire
Entrance Chant: Resurrexi
Setting: Krönungsmesse, K 317
— Mozart X SUNDAY 8 APRIL
Psalm: 118: 1 – 2, 14 – 24 THE 2nd SUNDAY
Readings: Acts 10: 34 – 43
1 Corinthians 15: 1 – 11
OF EASTER
Gradual Hymn: 110 Jesus Christ is risen
today. Alleluya! (v3 Descant HIGH MASS at 11am
— Benson) Entrance Hymn: 103 Alleluya! Alleluya!
Gospel: John 20: 1 – 18 (Caplin descant)
Preacher: Canon Hugh Wybrew Entrance Chant: Quasimodo geniti infantes
Renewal of Baptismal Vows: Litany of the Setting: Communion Service in F
Resurrection (arr John Kitchen) and B flat — Stanford
Offertory Motet: Easter Hymn Psalm: 133
— Mascagni Readings: Acts 4: 32 – 35
Hymns: 115 Now the green blade riseth 1 John 1: 1 – 2: 2
from the buried grain Gradual Hymn:125 (omit *) Ye sons and
123 Walking in a garden daughters of the King
120 Thine be the glory, risen, Gospel: John 20: 19 – end
conquering Son Preacher: Fr Michael Bowie
Voluntary: Dankpsalm, Op 145, No 2 Creed: Credo III
— Reger Offertory Motet: This have I done for my
true love — Holst
Hymns: 113 Love’s redeeming work
EVENSONG, TE DEUM & is done
BENEDICTION at 6pm 481 (T 462) Jesus, Lord,
Psalms: 114, 117 we look to thee
Lessons: Ezekiel 37: 1 – 14 173 (T 265) Blessed Thomas,
Luke 24: 13 – 35 doubt no longer
Voluntary: Pæan — Howells
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