We pray for refugees and all who desperately seek safety and security in
Europe, and for all those whose decisions determine their lives.
ST Mary Abbots with Christ Church and St Philip ∙ Kensington
ST MARY ABBOTS PARISH CHURCH
We pray for all victims of acts of disaster, violence, war and terrorism
throughout the world.
NEWSLETTER
for the week beginning
We pray for all those preparing for Baptism at this time, and especially
JACK PETER BOWNES
NOAH NJONJO
And also AXEL DE LA TOUR to be welcomed into our church fellowship
We pray for The Right Revd GRAHAM TOMLIN,
our new Bishop of Kensington, and his family,
as he takes up his work with and for us.
11th October 2015
Sunday 11th
Common Worship Proper 23, Year B
8.00am
9.30am
SUNG EUCHARIST
First Reading:
Gospel:
Preacher
Amos 5. 6-7, 10-15
Mark 10. 17-27
The Vicar, The Rev’d Gillean Craig
11.15am CHORAL MATINS AND EUCHARIST
Old Testament: Joshua 6. 15-20
New Testament: Matthew 11. 20-30
Preacher:
The Vicar, The Rev’d Gillean Craig
6.30pm SUNG EVENSONG
Old Testament: Isaiah 50. 4-10
New Testament: Luke 13. 22-30
Preacher:
The Venerable Stephan Welsh,
Archdeacon of Middlesex
followed by HOLY COMMUNION
Monday 12th
Pray for those who mourn,
and especially Antonia’s husband and children
8.30am
1.05am
Pray for the repose of the souls of those whose year’s mind falls at this time
5.30pm
St MARY ABBOTS CHURCH AND PARISH CONTACTS
Church Website: www.stmaryabbotschurch.org
Karen Bryant
Ephesians 4. 17-end
Matthew 9. 1-8
with Children on Sundays Groups
Pray for those who have died recently, and especially
ANTONIA RAISSI
Head of Fundraising:
HOLY EUCHARIST
Epistle
Gospel:
Please pray for the sick and those in distress, especially
ANNE AUSTIN
BRYAN AUSTIN
REBECCA CABLE-NUNN
WENDELL CADOGAN
BABY DAVIES
WILLIAM EDGILL
JOHN ESCOTT
JAMIE MARSDEN
JULIA NORTEN
CHARLOTTE REEVE
ULRIKE SONDI
ALLAN WILLIAMS
WENDY ASHER WORTH
ROXANNA ZADVORNY
Vicar of the Parish
The Rev'd Gillean Craig
gillean.craig@stmaryabbotschurch.org
Vicar’s PA
Sophie Gaselee
sophie.gaselee@stmaryabbotschurch.org
Associate Vicar
The Revd Jenny Welsh
jenny.welsh@stmaryabbotschurch.org
Associate Vicar with Special Responsibility for St Philip
The Rev’d David Walsh
vicar@specr.org
Associate Vicar with Special Responsibility for Christ Church
The Rev’d Mark O’Donoghue
mark@christchurchkensington.com
Honorary Priest
The Rev’d Peter Stubbs
peter.stubbsuk@stmaryabbotschurch.org
Parochial Church Wardens
Jamie Dunford-Wood
jdunfordwood@gmail.com
Adrian Weale
adrianweale@mac.com
Deputy Churchwardens for ST Mary Abbots Church:
Jamie Dunford-Wood
jdunfordwood@gmail.com
Hannah Stewart
hannahvstewart@yahoo.com
Parish Office:
Susan Russell
susan.russell@stmaryabbotshurch.org
ST Mary Abbots Vestry:
Virger: George MacAllan george.macallan@stmaryabbotschurch.org
Assistant Virger: Nick Benn
Safeguarding Officer
Samantha Giles
safeguardingofficer@stmaryabbotschurch.org
Children on Sundays Co-ordinator & Children’s Champion:
Alexandra Swann
alexandraswann@yahoo.com
ST Mary Abbots Centre:
Adam Norton
adam.norton@stmaryabbotschurch.org
Stewardship Secretary:
Emma Porteous
stewardship@stmaryabbotschurch.org
Electoral Roll Officer:
Sally Bessada
er@stmaryabbotschurch.org
Bellringers:
David Holdridge Secretary
david.holdridge@ntlworld.com
Editor of Kensington Parish News
Fiona Braddock
kpneditor@stmaryabbotschurch.org
Friday Playgroup:
playgroup@stmaryabbotschurch.org
Friends of ST Mary Abbots:
friends@stmaryabbotschurch.org
St Mary Abbots Appeal:
appeal@stmaryabbotschurch.org
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Tuesday 13th
8.30am
11.30am
5.30pm
7.10am
7.30am
1.05pm
5.30pm
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Morning Prayer
HOLY EUCHARIST
Meditation Group
Evening Prayer
Thursday 15th
7.10am
9.30am
5.30pm
7.10am
7.30am
1.05pm
5.30pm
Commemoration of
Nicholas Ridley & Hugh Latimer
Morning Prayer
HOLY EUCHARIST
Recital by Royal College of Music Students
Evening Prayer
Saturday 17th
9.40am
10.00am
5.30pm
St Teresa of Avila
Morning Prayer
St MARY ABBOTS SCHOOL EUCHARIST - all warmly welcome
Evening Prayer
Friday 16th
St Ignatius
Morning Prayer
HOLY EUCHARIST
Evening Prayer
Sunday 18th
St LUKE
8.00am HOLY EUCHARIST
First Lesson:
Gospel:
9.30am
11.15am
2 Timothy 4. 5-15
Luke 10. 1-9
SUNG EUCHARIST & HOLY BAPTISM
Reading:
Gospel:
Preacher:
07866 258 814
07904 954 959
St Edward the Confessor
Morning Prayer
HOLY EUCHARIST – Book of Common Prayer
Evening Prayer
Wednesday 14th
07957 131 862
020 7937 8885
St Wilfrid
Morning Prayer
‘Sunday on Monday’
Informal HOLY EUCHARIST
Evening Prayer
Isaiah 35. 3-6
Luke 10. 1-9
The Rev’d Gillean Craig
CHORAL MATINS
Old Testament: Isaiah 61. 1-6
New Testament: Collosians 4. 7-end
Preacher:
The Rev’d Jenny Welsh
12.30pm HOLY EUCHARIST
6.30pm
CHORAL EVENSONG
Old Testament: Isaiah 55
New Testament: Luke 1. 1-4
followed by HOLY COMMUNION
Today Sunday 11 October
11.15 CHORAL MATINS & EUCHARIST
Our augmented professional choir sings our worship with
a full setting of the Eucharist –
ALBINGER: Missa Brevis in C
SWEELINCK: Cantata Domino
CLERGY NEWS
Our Associate Vicar, JENNY WELSH, is away for a richly-earned week’s
holiday in the Yorkshire Dales. We hope that this time in God’s own country
will refresh her after having to shoulder single-handed the clergy
responsibilities over the last month. The Vicar Fr GILLEAN continues to
make good progress in his recovery following foot surgery. He’s taking up
more and more of his duties but with over a week before the dressings are
removed is still some distance away from being fully recovered. We thank all
those local clergy who have generously helped by taking so many services –
and will continue to do so over the next few weeks.
We are particularly honoured tonight in that the 6.30 Sung Evensong and
following Eucharist will have as Officiant, Preacher and President the
Archdeacon of Middlesex, the Venerable STEPHAN WELSH
The Friday Lunchtime Concert Season now underway!
1.05 ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC RECITALS
These performances cannot be praised too highly. Free admission.
Tea & Coffee served – bring sandwiches if you want!
This week – MOZART, PUTZ, BRITTEN & CHOPIN.
Next Sunday 18th October 6.30pm
CHORAL EVENSONG
The Revd JULIA HEDLEY
We greatly regret that Julia has been forced on account of
ill-health to take, with immediate effect, early retirement
from her ministry to & with us here at St Mary Abbots.
She has lived with depression for a considerable time, and
the condition became more acute earlier this year. We all
hoped that the summer break would give her a time of
recovery. Alas, it did not, and a period of a few weeks’
sick leave persuaded her that she had no choice but to take
early retirement and to move away from London.
We find it hard to express how greatly we will miss her as a colleague,
support and friend, and we know that many individuals in our congregation –
and beyond – and St Mary Abbots as a whole have cause to be grateful for
her outstanding gifts and commitment to our public worship and teaching
ministries, as a spiritual director and pastoral guide.
There will be an opportunity at some date in the future for us to thank her for
all that she has given us, and to wish her Godspeed. If anyone wishes to
send a message to her personally, could they kindly do so via the Vicarage?
We know that you will keep Julia, Piers and their family in your prayers.
Julia writes:
‘It is with deep regret that I have decided to leave St Mary Abbots.
It has been a great pleasure and privilege
to be part of the community here and to serve you in Christ’s name.
Thank you for your prayers and good wishes, both for me and for Piers.
I hope that I will be able to come
to say a proper ‘goodbye’ in the not too distant future.
With my love and my prayers. Julia’
We will once more we offer that particular
glory of the Church of England, the sung
service developed in Cathedrals and College
chapels, Western Christendom’s most
unbroken stream of choral praise and prayer.
Next week’s music will be:
Justorum animae – William Byrd
Evening Service in A flat – Basil Harwood
How beauteous are their feet – C Villiers Stanford
We’re keen to build up our Voluntary Choir which shares these services with
our profession quartet. Voluntary singers can offer various commitments:
singing most Sundays at 9.30, singing the once-a-month 9.30 anthem,
joining in the roughly monthly Choral Evensongs. Do YOU like singing? To
find out more contact Director of Music Mark Uglow.
INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE CRISIS
CHURCHYARD PARKING
The replacement of the roof is progressing well, on schedule
to be completed by the end of November. One additional to
the specification was discovering that the south transept
gable cross was more decayed than thought, and a new one
has been carved, based on Stir George Gilbert Scott’s
original drawings. The extra cost is contained in the
contingency. It seems to us a marvelous example of how the
traditional craft skills still flourish today.
The churchwardens have become more and more concerned by the potential
danger and difficulties caused by the parking of cars in the churchyard
outside the west door and the school. We have little enough space to
gather and talk following the main service, and with little children and buggies
and older people less sure of foot and vision we need to keep this place as
clear as we possibly can. We are considering limiting parking to acute cases
of disability, or when people are delivering awkward and heavy materials to
the church. We will do everything that we can to help find a solution if this
stern rule would life difficult for you. Do discuss this with Wardens or clergy.
WELCOME TO OUR NEW BISHOP
The Rt Revd GRAHAM TOMLIN
has now been installed Bishop of Kensington at St Paul’s
Cathedral, and we pray for him - and his family – as he
takes up his new role. We look forward to welcoming him
here at St Mary Abbots – watch this space!
A forthcoming event arranged by our neighbours in Christ,
fellow members of the Kensington Council of Churches:
SACRED SPACE: Saturday 24th October 10am–4pm
a day conference for lay people, on making space for holiness, and making
holy space, at The Community of the Sisters of the Church, Ham Common.
StMA FAMOUS STEWARDSHIP QUIZ SUPPER
Is fast approaching: it will be held on the evening of Wednesday 22nd
October. This is one of the most enjoyable evenings of the year, a splendid
chance to display your well-stocked mind and expose your pitiful ignorance,
in the company of friends both old and newly-made who of course will strike
out your correct answers and substitute their own hopelessly wrong ones.
A brilliant time will had by all (except those who take it too seriously).
Mug up encyclopaedias, general knowledge & trivia. Table Hosts are
trawling the congregation, to snap you up for their team: if no-one asks you,
sign the list in church. To be a Host: stewardship@stmaryabbotschurch.org
ALL SOULS 2015
6.30pm Sunday 1st November
SOLEMN EUCHARIST: MOZART’S REQUIEM
St LUKE’S GOSPEL STUDY COURSE
Clergy ill-health forced us to cancel the planned October Study Course – but
we’ll offer an exploration of aspects of St Luke’s Gospel on Nov 4, 10 & 18.
We have two immediate local church responses:
Firstly - providing boxes of clothes for mothers and babies
at St Mary Abbots this is being co-ordinated by Marie-Christine Nibagwire saferefuge@hotmail.co.uk
Secondly – a 5k SPONSORED RUN in Hyde Park on November 14
We’re short of details for this just yet: watch out for an email to sign up!
The Diocese of London has set up a
specific organization CAPITAL MASS to
co-ordinate events, information & projects
Check out www.capitalmass.org.uk for all these and much more
NEW SOUTH TRANSEPT CROSS
BONFIRE PARTY · FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER
for young and old alike · sparklers, bonfire, fireworks, hotdogs, drinks
Tickets on sale FROM TODAY: Adults £8; children £4.
We have to limit the tickets TO MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATION NOT all your best chums. We need teams of pyromaniac bonfire builders
& fireworks setters-off, and caterers who cook & serve the refreshments
ST. MARY ABBOTS' BOOK CLUB next meets on NOT as usual Thursday
but Wednesday 11th November at 2.30pm to discuss Marcus Zusak’s
"The Book Thief" , and enjoy a friendly and delicious tea. New members
welcome: please contact Anita Quinn for details: Ann_Q@Hotmail.co.uk
ST MARY ABBOTS APPEAL
KAREN BRYANT, our Head of Fundraising, writes:
Thank you for welcoming me to StMA. I hear that there is
some confusion about whether the Appeal has already
started. The answer is yes! The current roof repairs are
a crucial step on the road, ensuring we are water-tight
before the onset of winter. We have been blessed that
with funding from within the church and the much
appreciated bequest from the Mary Isa Trust, we’ve already raised the
money to cover the extensive roof work and the current repairs to the
Resurrection Chapel. Our next big challenge is to generate the money to
build the new, very discrete, wing to house the much needed toilet and
kitchen facilities; this new addition to the church will be dedicated to Mary
Isa. This work will also involve re-siting our font, to give greater access and
importance to the sacrament of Baptism. I know that these plans have been
in discussion for some years, but I am now tasked with delivering the funding
for you in the next year! I would appreciate any donations, or if you would
like to discuss leaving the church a legacy (and the benefits in relation to
Inheritance Tax) I would be very happy to talk it through with you. Also,
please include me in your prayers as it’s a very big fundraising target! Watch
this space: we’ll be celebrating the scaffolding coming down in November.
appeal@stmaryabbotschurch.org / www.stmaryabbtsappeal.com