ALL SAINTS MARGARET STREET
Diary Dates
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WEEKLY PARISH EMAIL
We recently launched a weekly Parish Email. This contains information on the coming Sunday, The Gospel, Music and upcoming events at All Saints. It also has a section encouraging you to remember those who have asked for prayer and of course, the Souls of the Faithful Departed.
We need to update our records, so please, if you are on email, email the Parish Office AStsMgtSt@aol.com signifying that you wish to receive the weekly Parish Email (please include your Christian Name and Surname in the email). Then we will keep you up to date via email with what's going on at All Saints.
BIBLE STUDY
Last year we ran a series of Bible Studies on St Matthew's Gospel. This year we will be studying St Mark which is the Gospel the Church is reading at the Sunday Eucharist this year.
The group will meet in the Vicarage for a simple supper at 7pm, after the 6.30pm Mass, and aim to finish by 8.30pm.
The future dates are: - February 16th, March 14th, April 18th, May 16th and June 20th
Wednesday 15 February
Cell of OLW/All Saints 6.30pm Low Mass with hymns
7pm "Lady of Walsingham's Incubation at Berkhamsted" by Fr John Pritchard, Assistant Priest and Cell Superior. Followed by light refreshments. All are welcome.
ASH WEDNESDAY, 22 February
6.30pm High Mass and Imposition of Ashes Preacher: The Vicar
Low Masses with ashing at 8am and 1.10pm
Friday 24 February, and every Friday in Lent
7.05pm Stations of the Cross This devotion will be held on Friday's after the 6.30pm Mass. We will alternate using the fourteen traditional stations and the sequence of biblically based ones from Common Worship.
A HOLY LENT
In the introduction to the liturgy of Ash Wednesday we are invited , "in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance, by prayer; fasting and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God's holy word".
At 6pm Sunday Evensong on the first four Sunday's in Lent, the parish clergy will preach a series of sermons on these Lenten practices:
26 February Self-examination and Penitence Fr John Pritchard
4 March Prayer Fr Gerald Beauchamp
11 March Fasting and Self-Denial Fr Alan Moses
18 March Reading and Meditating on God's Holy Word Fr Julian Browning
Wednesday 29 February and every Wednesday in Lent until 28 March
11am Lent Study Group at Yvonne Craig's. We will be reading through the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book: "Love Unknown". This is by Ruth Burrows, a Carmelite nun and author of a number of best-selling books on the spiritual life. Please ask one of our clergy for any further information.
With the National Gallery, we are organising a 90-minute tour at The National Gallery looking at paintings of Our Lady. We hope to run two identical sessions. &pm on Friday 23rd March or/and 3pm on Saturday 24th March. The fee per person is £14. The groups are limited to 25. If you are interested in attending, please specify preferred date as first or second choice. Perhaps you could let Fr John Pritchard know by February 14th. If there are less than 25 people in a group, the fee will be increased to cover the charge made by the National Gallery. johnapritchard@hotmail.co.uk
Sunday 25 March
12.45pm ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETING after 11am High Mass
6pm A Sequence of readings and music for Passiontide, with the Choir of All Saints, followed by Benediction
HOLY WEEK AND EASTER 2012
PALM SUNDAY, 1 April
10.45am Liturgy of Palms, in nearby Market Place, Procession to Church and High Mass Preacher: The Revd Dr Gregory Seach, Dean of Clare College, Cambridge (our preacher throughout Holy Week this year)
6pm Solemn Evensong and Solemn Benediction Preacher: Fr Gregory Seach
Monday - Wednesday in Holy Week, 2, 3, 4 April
6.30pm Low Mass with homily by Fr Gregory Seach Low Masses at 8am and 1.10pm
Wednesday 4 April
7.30pm Tenebrae for Maundy Thursday sung by the Choir of All Saints
Maundy Thursday, 5 April
6.30pm Concelebrated High Mass of the Lord's Supper Preacher: Fr Gregory Seach
Good Friday, 6 April
12 noon The Preaching of the Passion Preacher: Fr Gregory Seach
1pm The Solemn Liturgy Preacher: Fr Gregory Seach
6.30pm Stations of the Cross
Holy Saturday, 7 April
12 noon Liturgy of the day
9pm High Mass of the Easter Vigil Preacher: Fr Gregory Seach
Easter Day, Sunday 8 April
11am Procession, Blessing of the Easter Garden, Baptism and High Mass Preacher: The Vicar, Prebendary Alan Moses
6pm Solemn Evensong, Te Deum and Solemn Benediction Preacher: Fr John Pritchard
Sunday 24 June 7.45pm The Choir of All Saints "CORONATION MUSIC FOR FIVE CENTURIES" Further details to follow but please note the date now.