RIVER VIEWS
AND NEWS
The Parish Magazine
for the sister parishes of
St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe
& St James Garlickhythe
in the City of London
ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE BISHOP OF LONDON
“I am delighted to announce the appointment of the Revd
Guy Treweek as the new Priest-in-Charge of St James
Garlickhythe, held in plurality with St Andrew-by-theWardrobe. Guy will, of course, reside in the Rectory in
St Andrew’s Hill. It is expected that in-going works will take
place in the Rectory in June and July, with Fr Guy moving in
in August and being licensed in September.
Guy has served with distinction at St Peter's, Black Lion
Lane in Hammersmith, and has previous experience of
working in the City – an important asset as we plan for
growth. I look forward to his arrival and the continued
strengthening of the ministry in these two important City
Parishes.
I am also most grateful to the lay leadership in both St James
and St Andrew who have, and are, doing so much during in the
interregnum, not just to keep things ‘ticking over’ but actually
to expand ministry in these churches. I thank them and all
the community for our shared partnership in the Gospel.
+Richard”
LICENSING OF THE REVD GUY TREWEEK
AS PRIEST-IN-CHARGE OF ST JAMES GARLICKHYTHE
AND ST ANDREW-BY-THE-WARDROBE
HARVEST 2011
Tuesday 20 September
at 6.00 pm
Evening Prayer at St James Garlickhythe
Procession to St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe
Sermon, 2nd Licensing, Blessing and reception
A MESSAGE FROM ALMA
ST JAMES GARLICKHYTHE
Angola London Mozambique Association – www.almalink.org
Harvest Thanksgiving Service
“The money that came in for the Lent Appeal from St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe
and St James Garlickhythe amounted to £120 (of which £108.70 was Gift
Aided, so it will eventually come to about another £24). Well done. A really
good effort. Thank you so much for all you do to support the work of ALMA.”
Sunday 2 October at 10.30 am
Matins
with Intelligence Corps Ceremony & Sunday School
Please bring gifts for the Harvest Service
especially tinned and dry packaged goods, tea, coffee, sugar,
toiletries and cleaning products
Where possible, please choose Fairtrade products
Our harvest gifts will be given to the Tab Centre,
which serves homeless and vulnerable people
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MAKE A CHANGE! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
Make a change – BUY FAIRTRADE. Make a difference – NOW
Enjoy a glass of wine or a cup of tea AND do your bit to improve the livelihood of the
growers and create a fairer environment for their families and whole communities.
The Lord’s Prayer in Portuguese
(the official language and the lingua franca of Angola and Mozambique)
Pai nosso, que estás no céus, santificado seja o teu Nome;
venha o teu reino; seja feita a tua vontade,
no terra como nos céus.
O pão de cada dia dá-nos hoje.
Perdoa-nós as nossas ofensas,
assim como nós perdoamos aos que nos têm ofendido.
Não nos deixes cair em tentação; e livra-nos do mal.
Porque teu é o reino, o poder e a glória para sempre. Amém.
GROWING IN G.R.A.C.E.
Generosity
Reconciliation
Acceptance
Compassion
Fairhills Fairtrade South African Cabernet Sauvignon Petit Verdot
The Fairhills brand is investing in Fairtrade projects in South Africa
(Stellenbosch), Argentina (Mendoza region) and Chile. 5p from every
bottle sold goes directly back to the wine growers and producers at
the vineyards.
www.fairhills.co.za
www.fairtrade.org.uk
A Fairtrade event at St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe is being planned
in conjunction with Christian Aid for later in the year (date to be confirmed).
There will be a talk, and a chance to sample Fairtrade refreshments, including
wine tasting, and to meet Just Share and Christian Aid representatives.
Encouragement
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A man was driving around the city centre, looking anxiously for a parking space. He
was late for an important meeting.
"Dear God," he said, "if you can make a parking space appear for me now, I promise
I'll change my ways. I'll live a more virtuous, selfless life, give more to charity and
attend church every week without fail. Just do this one thing for me as a sign that
you're listening!"
At that moment, to his delight, a space appeared directly in front of him.
"Never mind," said the man, "I've found one now anyway."
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Be kinder than necessary
because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
ST ANDREW-BY-THE-WARDROBE
CHORAL EUCHARIST FOR THE NATIVITY OF
THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
THURSDAY 8 SEPTEMBER AT 6.30 PM
WITH THE LONDON GALLUS CONSORT
CONCERTS BY THE ENGLISH CHAMBER CHOIR
Thursday 13 October at 7.30 pm – Handel’s “Dominus dixit”
Thursday 17 November at 7.30 pm –
Tchaikovsky’s “Liturgy of St John Chrysostom”
AT ST ANDREW-BY-THE-WARDROBE
The 1961 order of service for the reconsecration
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
A highly enjoyable evening was had by all who attended the service on 14 July
to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the re-hallowing of St Andrew-by-theWardrobe following the restoration after war damage.
The church was full, with a large congregation downstairs and two choirs in the
gallery – the English Chamber Choir and the St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe Girls’
Choir. Many thanks to the organist Colin Stuart, to the choir members for
singing so beautifully, and to the choir Directors Guy Protheroe and Ben Saul.
The Mass setting was Haydn’s “Nelson Mass”; readings, prayers and the
Processional Hymn were taken from the original service on 14 July 1961. The
Offertory Hymn was the “London Challenge” hymn Praise the Lord in this
great city!, with the words by Carolyn Gower set to the tune “Abbot’s Leigh”.
And the Recessional Hymn Crown His head with endless blessing was written
in 1811 by a previous Rector of this church, the Revd William Goode; one of
his descendants, Michelle Fitzgerald of Canberra, Australia, kindly provided
us with the words.
The Choral Eucharist was followed by a reception and a small exhibition in the
Parish Room. Many thanks once again to Ann Manly for providing such a
wide choice of delicious canapés. The exhibits from our archives included a
photo of the interior of the church as it was in 1940 just before it was
bombed; various photos of the war-damaged church and the surrounding area;
surveys from 1955 showing the extent of the damage; and blueprints dated
1956 and 1957 of the restoration plans. The most special exhibit was the only
known copy of the original order of service from 14 July 1961.
The words of the reconsecration in the 1961 order of service
A NEW RING OF EIGHT BELLS FOR ST JAMES GARLICKHYTHE AND
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND JUBILEE RIVER PAGEANT
Exhibition of old pictures, blueprints
and the 1961 order of service
In April Buckingham Palace released the exciting news that The Queen’s
Diamond Jubilee River Pageant of one thousand vessels will proceed down the
Thames on Sunday 3 June 2012 from Putney Bridge to Tower Bridge. I quote:
The flotilla ‘will be made up of five sections each separated by a “herald
barge”, the first of which will be a floating belfry of eight new bells cast by the
Whitechapel Bell Foundry in east London and commissioned by the 17th
century City church of St James Garlickhythe.’
Fundraising is now well underway and I invite you to consider joining in the
fun! You are asked to consider donating a bell (priced from £13,000 for the
Treble Bell to £20,000 for the largest) or to make a general contribution to the
overall project. Expressions of interest are welcome from companies and
individuals alike who may wish to commemorate a special event in their lives
(and take advantage of ‘Gift Aid’).
Following the flotilla, which will be televised worldwide, we hope to see the
bells in the Lord Mayor’s Show on 10 November 2012. They will then be on
display in St James Garlickhythe before being ceremoniously raised into the
tower to be rung by experts, members of the Ancient Society of College Youths.
The 50th Anniversary service
Donors of complete bells will be invited to add their crest or motto to rest in
perpetuity alongside the Royal Arms on each bell. On 3 June 2012 we plan to
hold a celebratory lunch for donors and friends of St James at a restaurant
overlooking the river. We shall have a bird’s eye view of a very, very rare
event – the Diamond Jubilee of a much loved monarch.
The St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe Girls’
Choir singing the Introit
Please contact Andrew Parmley for further information:
aparmley@btinternet.com – 07812 021787
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SPECIAL SERVICES AT ST JAMES GARLICKHYTHE
The English Chamber Choir and
the Girls’ Choir in the west gallery
Management Consultants Service – Thursday 22 September at 5.45 pm
Gardeners Harvest Festival – Tuesday 27 September at 5.45 pm
Educators Annual Service – Friday 30 September at 4.00 pm
St James Garlickhythe Harvest Festival – Sunday 2 October at 10.30 am
Needlemakers Annual Service – Thursday 6 October at 6.00 pm
Memorial Service – Monday 10 October at 11.30 am
Chartered Accountants Service – Tuesday 11 October at 6.00 pm
Dyers Service – Wednesday 12 October at 12 noon
Parish Clerks Service – Wednesday 12 October at 6.00 pm
Wedding of George Brind & Elisabeth Dobson – Friday 14 October (time tbc)
Painter-Stainers St Luke’s Festival – Monday 17 October at 5.00 pm
THE SNETZLER CHAMBER ORGAN FROM TEDDESLEY HALL, 1910
CIRDAN SAILING TRUST FUNDRAISING CONCERT
BY THE LINWOOD CONSORT
THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER AT 6.30 PM
AT ST JAMES GARLICKHYTHE
a series of songs, madrigals, recitals and instrumentals of a nautical flavour
Email message from Paul Harris: “. . . My father remembers seeing it [the
Snetzler Chamber organ] at Teddesley when he was a child. . . . My father
doesn't come to London much these days, but he will be delighted to hear that
the organ is still in use. It was his uncle the 5th Baron Hatherton who sold
Teddesley in the 1950s, and it was a matter of great sadness to the family
when the new owner demolished the central house, leaving only the service
wings to be used for storing agricultural machinery and the like.
I attach a picture of Teddesley which clearly shows the
octagonal hall which housed the organ. My father recalls that
there were also several flamingos in the water garden!
The first Lord Hatherton, who succeeded to the property in
1812 was known for his efforts towards improving the state of
his land. After implementing a program of draining and
irrigation over nearly 40 years he was able to farm 1,700
acres of wheat and barley fields. He also had a 200 strong
herd of cattle and 2,000 sheep. Lord Hatherton founded a
free agricultural school on the estate in 1850, where around 300 boys aged
10-14 were taught. They learnt about practical agricultural by working on the
farm, but also spent time learning other essential subjects. Lord Hatherton was
also one of the men who formed the Cannock Agricultural Association for
Tenant Farmers in 1845.
The Hall was knocked down in 1954, but the servants’ quarters were saved.
In May 2003 planning permission had recently been granted to Ken Lee's
developments to re-build the Hall in its original form and to renovate the
servants’ quarters.”
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ETERNAL RULER OF THE CEASELESS ROUND
. . . of circling planets singing on their way,
RETIRING COLLECTION FOR
“Lap of Honour around Britain for the 2012 Olympiad”
The Trust is planning a 2,000 mile ‘Lap of Honour’ for 60 disadvantaged children from every
region of the UK, as well as rehabilitating soldiers returning from Afghanistan.
The Trust’s 3 sailing boats will join the Royal Flotilla for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
before leaving on a lap of honour around the United kingdom,
arriving at Weymouth for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Sailing Events, and
continuing round to the Thames Estuary for the closing ceremony of the Olympics.
www.cirdansailing.com
AWARENESS SUNDAY
11 SEPTEMBER 2011 – WESTMINSTER ABBEY
Awareness Sunday marks the tenth
anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks
in the USA and calls for an end to
violence in the name of religion.
Awareness Sunday is an initiative of the
Awareness Foundation that seeks to
turn the evil carried out in the name of
religion by a handful of people on 9/11
into a force for good in the world.
Special service of remembrance and reconciliation
at Westminster Abbey on Sunday 11 September at 6.30 pm
Guide to the nations from the night profound into the glory of the perfect day:
Rule in our hearts, that we may ever be guided and strengthened and upheld by thee.
ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND
www.awarenesssunday.com
ST ANDREW-BY-THE-WARDROBE
WHAT PRICE OUR FAITH?
Just before the schools broke up in August I asked my Sikh neighbour if he would be taking a
holiday and he replied that for the first two weeks of the school holidays his two sons had to
attend classes at the local Gurdwara or Sikh temple. It is the custom for Sikh children aged 10 to
15 years to attend the Gurdwara from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm from Monday to Friday for two weeks
each summer. Holidays could come later. Though not compulsory, Sikh parents were expected
to have their children instructed in the Sikh faith. Not only were those boys born in England but
their father, my neighbour, was born and educated in England and yet his faith meant so much
to him that his sons were not allowed to play cricket or football with their friends in the local
park but take religious instruction instead. Oh, if only we had a similar system!
Not only are our Sunday Schools so short staffed and of such short duration but even the
present day Confirmation classes are reduced to crash courses that it is a wonder if our
youngsters know anything at all about the Faith. To illustrate this, in the late 1960s and
early 1970s I was worshipping at St Augustine’s, Queen’s Gate, Kensington, of an evening
as it was near where I worked in those days. Students from the School of Economic
Science (S.E.S.) used the church in which to meditate of an evening and I got to know
some of them. In fact, they were eager that I should join them. One evening one of their
number, a young English lady, told me that the S.E.S. had introduced them to ‘a Psalm of
David’. I asked her which one it was and was told “A Psalm of David.” “Which one?” I
again asked, and she replied, “I told you, a Psalm of David.” There was I in the 20th
century, talking to a young English woman who was nominally Church of England who did
not know and who refused to accept that there were 150 Psalms in the psalter and most of
them are ascribed to King David. “O tempora, o mores!”
On investigation, I discovered that the S.E.S. was founded in pre-World War II years by
one Andrew McLaren, a Scottish back bench Labour MP in competition with the London
School of Economics, which, of course, is one of several colleges of the University of
London. Andrew McLaren propounded the economic theories of Adam Smith, among
others. However, in post-World War II days Andrew’s son Leon McLaren introduced the
Indian Vedic philosophy and brought the S.E.S. under the teachings of a Shankaracharya (it
means a revered teacher) of North India. Students were expected to part with a week’s net
wages as an initiatory fee, which is uheard of in India! But how were they to know? The
S.E.S. was run by ‘control freaks’ and was soon investigated by The Standard newspaper
and a book entitled, “The Secret Cult”, by Peter Hounam and Andrew Hogg, published by
Lion Paperback was written about them. In brief, these are their findings:S.E.S. students’ marriages are broken up, some brought close to breakdown. The S.E.S.
educate children (in what they call St Vedast School) in a philosophy their parents know
nothing about. Political parties and churches are infiltrated by S.E.S. agents hostile to their
fundamental tenets. All this is in the name of what claims to be a wholesome philosophy
with Christian overtones. But in reality this is a strange, eccentric, essentially Eastern cult . . .
Leon McLaren was a failed barrister, and that made him a dangerous animal. While no
successful Queen’s Council would give up a lucrative career at the Bar, the impoverished
barrister who fails to win his or her cases thinks otherwise. Having lost the confidence of
the head of chambers and the respect of the chambers clerk, these failed barristers move on.
However, they do love to hold forth, and missing the drama of the court room some have
been known to swap wig and gown for cassock, surplice and preaching scarf and take to
the Church. Leon McLaren went further. He used the S.E.S. to introduce Hinduism to
many English people who were lapsed Christians. To make his quasi religious, quasi
philosophical teachings acceptable, he skillfully gave them a thin veneer of Christianity. He
even told them that that Shankaracharya was looking after them from faraway India and his
students believed it! Had they forgotten Jesus Christ? Apparently they had! They
abandoned our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, who died for us, rose from the dead and
lives forever with the Father and the Holy Ghost, while Shankaracharyas come and go and
are as mortal as the man next door!
Maurice De Silva
St Andrew’s Hill & Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 5DE
Tel: 020 7329 3632 (Parish Office)
Website: www.standrewbythewardrobe.net
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ST JAMES GARLICKHYTHE
Garlick Hill, London EC4V 2AL
Tel: 020 7236 1719 (Vestry – answerphone only)
Website: www.stjamesg.org.uk
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Hon. Curate (at St James Garlickhythe): The Revd Dr Edward Norman
Readers: Mr Robin Sherlock; Mr Maurice De Silva
Administrator (for St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe & St James Garlickhythe)
and ALMA representative (for St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe):
Miss Jill Holmes (Email: administrator@standrewbythewardrobe.co.uk)
Hon. Verger (at St James Garlickhythe): Mr Ellis Pike
Organist/Choirmaster (at St James Garlickhythe):
Alderman Dr Andrew Parmley (Email: aparmley@btinternet.com)
Director of the St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe Girls’ Choir:
Mr Ben Saul (Email: bensaul@mac.com)
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Sunday services at St James Garlickhythe – 10.30 am
Thursday service at St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe – 6.30 pm
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