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ST MICHAEL’S, AND ALL SAINTS, HIGHGATE
May/June 2013
PARISH MAGAZINE
From the vicar and priest-in-charge
JAMES
O n Saturday 29th June at 3pm James Yeates will be ordained as deacon in St Paul’s Cathedral, to serve his title at St Michael’s and at All
Saints. Please do remember James and Susie and the family in your prayers as he prepares for his ordination and his future ministry amongst us. It would be very encouraging if a good crowd of us were there with him; please get there ahead of time to make sure of a good seat. We plan to celebrate afterwards, in the Vicarage gar-den (10 The Grove) if the weather allows, in St Mi-chael’s church hall if not, say from 5.30pm or so on-wards. More details will be available nearer the time. I will to my best to ensure there is enough to drink, but if others could bring nibbles and finger food that would be excellent. DR WILLEM STEYN At the end of April Willem Steyn, our Assistant Organ-ist at St Michael’s, will be leaving us after almost four years’ service here. We have all benefited from his excellence both as an organist and from all that he has done alongside Paul in rehearsing and training the choirs. His patience and unfailing good humour have been very much in evidence—he has been an unalloyed pleasure to work with. Our thanks and good wishes go with him, and we very much hope that we shall see him back with us on occasion. I am delighted to report that we have recruited Ms Toril Briese in Willem’s place. Toril is from Sweden, and she is currently a Masters student at the Royal Col-lege of Music. She will have much to offer. Please make her welcome amongst us.
THOUGHTS FROM A PREBENDAL STALL Not the least of the privileges of being a Preben-dary at St Paul’s is the right of being present, occu-pying my own place in the Cathedral, at some very important national occasions. So far, I have to ad-mit, I have only managed to do this three times. I attended the service held to mark the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of Britain; I had the hon-our of attending the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee ser-vice last year; and in April this year I attended the funeral of Baroness Thatcher. In different ways, all these occasions sprang from the fact that the Church of England remains the established church of the land, which gives us enor-mous opportunities at the same time as imposing major duties on us. Whatever position one may take about the legacy of the Thatcher years, the way that the funeral in particular was conducted, showed that the ability of the C of E to respond to these national duties in no way compromises its commitment to proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ. But it is on the wider question of the es-tablished status of our church that my thoughts have been running.
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MAY 2013
SUNDAY 6th EASTER 6 8.00am Holy Communion Acts 16.9-15;
John 14.23-29 9.45am Holy Communion Acts 16.9-15;
John 14.23-29 11.15am Morning Prayer Acts 16.9-15; John
14.23-29 6.30pm Holy Communion (BCP) Zepha-
niah 3.14-20; Matthew 28.1-10,16-20
Thursday 9th ASCENSION DAY 11.00am Holy Communion (BCP) 7.30pm Holy Communion at All Saints SUNDAY 12th 7 OF EASTER (Ascension 1) 8.00am Holy Communion (BCP) 9.45am Morning Prayer Acts 16.16-34;
John 17.20-26 11.15am Holy Communion Acts 16.16-34;
John 17.20-26 6.30pm Service of the Word Isaiah 44.1-8;
Ephesians 4.7-16 SUNDAY 19th PENTECOST 8.00am Holy Communion (BCP) 9.45am Holy Communion Acts 2.1-21; John 14.8-17 11.15am Morning Worship Acts 2.1-21; John 14.8-17 6.30pm Choral Evensong (BCP) Exodus 33.7-20 ; 2 Corinthians 3.4- 18 SUNDAY 26th TRINITY SUNDAY 8.00am Holy Communion (BCP) 9.45am Morning Worship with Baptism Romans 5.1-5; John 16.12-15 11.15am Holy Communion with Baptism Romans 5.1-5; John 16.12-15 6.30pm Evening Prayer (BCP) Exodus 3.1- 15 ; John 3.1-17
SERVICES AT ST MICHAEL’S Services are modern language (Common Worship) except where indicated
as BCP (Book of Common Prayer).
JUNE 2013 SUNDAY 2nd TRINITY 1 8.00am Holy Communion Galatians 1.1-12; Luke
7.1-10 9.45am Holy Communion Galatians 1.1-12; Luke
7.1-10 11.15am Morning Worship Galatians 1.1-12; Luke 7.1
-10 6.30pm Choral Eucharist (BCP) Genesis 4.1-16; Mark
3.7-19 SUNDAY 9th TRINITY 2 8.00am Holy Communion (BCP) 9.45am Morning Prayer Galatians 1.11-24; Luke
7.11-17 11.15am Holy Communion Galatians 1.11-24; Luke
7.11-17 6.30pm Service of the Word Genesis 8.15 - 9.17;
Mark 4.1-20 SUNDAY 16th TRINITY 3 8.00am Holy Communion (BCP) 9.45am Holy Communion Galatians 2.15-21; Luke 7.36 - 8.3 11.15am Morning Worship Galatians 2.15-21; Luke 7.36 - 8.3 6.30pm Choral Evensong (BCP) Genesis 13; Mark 4.21-41 SUNDAY 23rd TRINITY 4 8.00am Holy Communion (BCP) 9.45am Morning Prayer with Baptism Galatians 3.23 -29; Luke 8.26-39 11.15am Holy Communion with Baptism Galatians 3.23-29; Luke 8.26-39 6.30pm Evening Prayer (BCP) Genesis 24.1-27; Mark 5.21-43 SUNDAY 30th TRINITY 5 8.00am Holy Communion (BCP) 9.45am Holy Communion Galatians 5.1,13-25; Luke 9.51-62 11.15am Morning Worship Galatians 5.1,13-25; Luke 9.51-62 6.30pm Evening Prayer (BCP) Genesis 27.1-40; Mark 6.1-6
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SERVICES AT ALL SAINTS
WEEKLY SERVICES AT ALL SAINTS
Sundays
10.00 am Parish Communion
Wednesdays
7.30 pm Holy Communion
SERVICES AT MARY FEILDING GUILD
1st Thursday of the Month
11.00 am Holy Communion
Sundays
(except the Sunday following the first
Thursday)
11.15 am Extended Communion
Brownies meet on Thursday evenings Guides meet on Monday evenings
ALL SAINTS
PARISH MAGAZINE READERS
Please e-mail to All Saints editor at
[email protected] submissions and correc-
tions to Events, Services and Parish Register
listings, for inclusion in future magazine edi-
tions. Many thanks.
JULY 2013 SUNDAY 7th TRINITY 6 8.00am Holy Communion Galatians 6.1-16; Luke 10.1
-11,16-20 9.45am Holy Communion Galatians 6.1-16; Luke
10.1-11,16-20 11.15am Morning Worship Galatians 6.1-16; Luke 10.1
-11,16-20 6.30pm Choral Eucharist (BCP) Genesis 29.1-20; Mark
6.7-29
All Saints Fellowship, Outreach and
Fundraising Information
Pentecost Bring-and-share Feast on 19 May. Our Parish Communion will begin at 11am on this Sunday and will be
followed by a celebratory bring-and-share lunch. Please join us.
Music for a Summer Evening – On Saturday 8 June, start-ing at 7.30pm, mezzo soprano Marie-Anne Hall will be with us again. Tickets are £7.50 and £5 concessions. Drinks will be on sale during the interval. The program includes music ranging
from Bach, Handel, Mozart, to Cole Porter and Bernstein. For details of the selections please see page 16. Tickets are avail-able in advance and at the door. Please contact Bryce to ar-
range advance purchases.
July Mission Breakfast - On Sunday 7 July we will be offer-ing another Mission Breakfast. This month we will support the work of St Mungo's which provides help for homeless people.
Please go to their website to learn more about this charity (www.mungos.org). Join us anytime between
8.30 and 9.30am.
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Worship
O ur pattern of services:
8am: A quiet said celebration of the Holy Communion, mostly Prayer Book (traditional language)
9.45am: either Morning Prayer or Holy Communion modern language service, usually with the choir, offering full provision for children (our more traditional main morning service)
11.15am: either Holy Communion or Morning Worship: full provision for children; some contemporary music
6.30pm: our evening services are mostly traditional language including monthly Choral Evensong and Sung Eucharist.
See the Calendar for full details of services. There is a celebration of Holy Communion each Thursday at 11am.
Children and Young People
St. Michael’s prides itself on the welcome we offer to children and young people. Sunday School and crèche facilities are provided both at 9.45am (Sunday Discovery) and 11.15am (Sunday Adventures). We offer a range of weekly activities for children and young people. Contact Andy Spanring, our Youth and Family Worker at [email protected] for more details. Children and young people have an opportunity to sing and receive choral training as Choir Probationers (age 6-10 years) or Parish Choristers (age 11-18 years). Contact Paul Dean at [email protected]. The weekly Parent and Toddler Group provides social interaction for the very young (and their parents!) on Tuesday mornings, 9.30am-12noon.
Welcome to st Michael’s
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Fellowship
Growth Groups are our weekly opportunity to meet in groups for Bible study and fellowship. For more details contact Kitty Sage: kittysage1 @gmail.com
St. Michael’s Fellowship meets during the day regularly throughout the year for study, courses with visiting speakers on topics such as prayer, liturgy, religious art or poetry, and theology. Contact Bryce Wandrey at [email protected] or on 020 8351 6083.
Coffee is served every Saturday morning in the Parish Rooms between 10am and 11.30am.
From time to time we organise other groups, such as theological book groups, ‘Agnostics Anonymous,’ etc.
Mission and Outreach
Sharing our faith with others is perhaps the hardest part of our Christian lives. We do this not merely by supporting those agencies who work in this country and overseas, but also within the life of the Parish.
Close links are maintained with St. Michael’s Church of England Primary School, through the clergy and many parents within the congregation.
We support a variety of ‘Mission Partners’ working abroad and in the UK, such as: A Rocha (Christian environmental charity); Barnabas Fund (working to help Christians subject to persecution); The Bible Society; CARIS Haringey (working amongst the homeless in Haringey); Kirima School and College in Uganda; AICMAR (Christian education in East Africa).
Stewardship All things come from you, and of your own have we given you.
(1 Chronicles 29:14)
The Church is often caricatured as always asking for our money, yet Christian stewardship is not just about financial giving. It is our time and our talents that are needed as well, as these are part of the ‘all things’ given to us by God. We respond out of gratitude to him.
In a large church, there are always many ways in which to help practi-cally. There are often appeals for help in the weekly notice sheet and members of staff always have suggestions! The more the merrier!
We operate the Stewardship scheme for tax-effective and committed giving to the church. Gift Aid allows the church to recover the tax from the Inland Revenue and to plan ahead with a secure knowledge of pro-jected income. Contact our Stewardship Recorder, Roger Sainsbury at [email protected].
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Report of St Michael’s PCC held on 7th March 2013 The main items discussed at the meeting were:
Y outh and children’s work: Andy Spanring presented a paper to the PCC covering: events/activities currently run by St Michael’s; where youth and children’s work currently stands; areas for improvement and development. The PCC agreed that they must build on what Andy has
started. Andy finishes in the post in mid-March 2013 but he has kindly agreed to continue to assist where possible until a replacement is found. It was also noted that Willem Steyn had resigned as assistant organist. Finance: The end of year accounts, to which details of the refurbishment fund needed adding, were pre-sented to the meeting. The accounts are required to be verified by an independent examiner. James Yeates had looked into the specifics of which multi-function colour photocopier/printer machine is most appropriate for the parish and whether this should be leased or purchased outright. It was agreed that the standing committee would make a decision after the terms and conditions had been explored. After the meeting a kind and generous person agreed to pay outright for the purchase of the machine Fabric Committee: Following issue of an Enforcement Notice late last year M A Sharman & Associates (recommended by the diocese) has completed a Fire Risk Assessment for the church premises. Following this assessment a Provisional Fire Safety Policy has been adopted by the PCC which has also established a Safety Committee. The assessment also highlighted some essential permanent work that need to be carried out to improve the safety procedures of the church as a whole. These works will cost a significant amount of money and are currently being tendered. Construction work is expected to commence early in the summer and will involve the installation of an fire alarm, detection systems and improvements to the emergency lighting and fabric throughout the church premises. Once these works have been completed a training session will be carried out to take persons most involved with the building through the various new procedures. The following other issues are also currently underway: completion of a Conservation Management Plan; an-other application to the HLF for support to the repair of external stonework; specification, tendering and construction work to improve the church hall facilities and various items of work to be undertaken at Bisham Gardens. Mission Committee: It was reported that the Pancake Party on Shrove Tuesday had been a huge success and the committee felt that it was well worth the investment of money to do such an event 2 to 3 times per year. Proof of an Easter card that the committee wished to produce was circulated and approved by the PCC. For the future the committee wanted to look at how best to maximise use of the inside of the church during the Fair in the Square; the possibility of hosting an event around the Patronal Festival; run-ning and Alpha course; a Vocation Day; being more present in the community in the run up to Christmas.
Mary Embleton
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Establishment affects us at every level. We still have a unique role on great national occasions, and Parliament retains the right to approve (or pre-sumably to disapprove) certain decisions taken by the General Synod. Until the early twentieth cen-tury the position was unambiguous—church legisla-tion was solely by Act of Parliament. At local level a Church of England parish will see itself not simply as a gathered congregation of faithful Chris-tians but as somehow available to and responsible for a community well outside the congregation. And so one of my duties as Director of Ordinands is to explore the implications of this with those testing their vocation to the ministry—do they see them-selves simply serving as chaplains to the congrega-tion or is there an element in their calling of the public person available to the whole community? There are enormous strengths in this part of our inheritance. And yet, at the very least we might think it was on borrowed time, again both at na-tional level and locally. The automatic right of sen-ior bishops to sit in the House of Lords may not survive the next reform of the House. Even the mildest Anglican may begin to resent the right of Parliament (many of whose members are not Chris-tians, let alone Anglicans) to scrutinise Synod’s de-cisions, and the right of a Prime Minister to advise the monarch about senior church appointments. In an increasingly diverse nation it is no longer as-sumed that the default setting in the ‘Religion’ box on hospital admission forms is ‘Christian’, let alone ‘C of E’. We are all as Christians having to come to terms with the gradual ending of a long period of time when Christian values and beliefs were so prevalent in society as to seem almost standard. We have moved over time from a period where Anglicanism was virtually imposed on people, via one where it was assumed as the norm (alongside a certain tendency to patronise our brothers and sis-ters in other churches), to one where there is a lin-gering remnant of Anglican identity in the fabric of the nation. There are plenty of Christians who would welcome the greater clarity and honesty of an admission that the time of universal ‘Christendom’ is passing—perhaps above all here in Western Europe—and who are glad that it is over. Christians are fast be-coming more visible; they are no longer those who
(Continued from page 1) have simply absorbed the prevailing culture, but now that secular values are the new norm they are re-vealed as standing out from those around them, iden-tified by their different values. Many would argue from a reading of the New Testament that it must always be so, as the call of Christ goes so much against the way that human beings naturally live that our faith must always be counter-cultural. This long term process makes the task of our new Archbishop and those who work closely with him all the more complex. How far can we assume that our influence at national level and the good will and ready-made opportunities at the local level will continue? How much are we deluding ourselves when we rely on this aspect of our past? For what it’s worth, my musings on this point remain inconclusive. We should put our energy into an open engagement with the local community in the tradi-tional Anglican style. But at the same time, we must keep our eyes open to the increasingly distinctive fig-ure any Christian congregation must cut in an increas-ingly secular city like ours.
Jonathan Trigg
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In the last edition we read texts from the church magazine in the years of the Second World War – items painting a picture, via peripheral issues, of the wartime experience at St Mi-chael’s. Now we come to the serious damage suffered by the building.
N ovember 1940 VICAR’S LETTER (October 14th) …. And it is certainly very remarkable that
so many of the bombs or land mines or aerial torpedoes have fallen in open spaces. For example, the huge weapon of destruction which fell in the garden of the Old Hall one night in the latter part of September, just after midnight, might so easily have fallen on to the house or on to the church or on to a large block of flats near by. Although the crater caused by the explosion measures 55 feet across, yet no one was hurt. Of course the damage to property was considerable, and the Church suffered not a little. A great number of the windows was blown out or in, the spire has been so seriously cracked that it will have to be lopped, and there are some fissures in the mullions of the windows. The broken windows have now all been boarded up - fortunately the glass of the east window is intact and so are the Chapel windows. This, of course, makes the interior of the Church very dark, and seems to diminish its size by bringing the walls in. We have lost several stained glass windows in the cataclysm, but not the best ones. The damage to the spire is the most considerable matter; the architect has advised us that the steeple must be taken down, and I hope that by the time this letter appears in print the work will be well on towards completion. In case it should be thought that the whole spire is being dismantled, I had better add that it is only the top third – about 15 to 20 feet – that has to be removed. We shall keep the pieces and hope in happier days to restore this famous landmark to its original height. But that cannot be until all danger from high explosives and similar horrors is past and we
have returned to the way of peace. I have been very much encouraged by those who have so kindly sent me contributions to the Church Repairs Fund ….. The size of the crater signals that this was a land mine. These were very heavy devices which came down by parachute. As the blast was from the north, it was the windows in the north and south walls of the church that suffered. At this point the full scale of the damage had not been appreciated, as subse-quent magazines reveal.
December 1940
VICAR’S LETTER … As usually happens, we have discovered more dam-age than was at first visible. The organ has been well filled with plaster from the cracked and broken ceil-ings, and we have had to face the extra expense of hav-ing the pipes cleaned and emptied and the stops mended.
September 1944 VICAR’S LETTER Because of the strict censorship I am not allowed to say why or wherefore, but I must express my gratitude to the Governors and the Headmaster of Highgate School for their kindness in once again affording us the hospi-tality of the School Chapel for our Services. Their readiness to help was exceedingly encouraging and comforting, and I am more than grateful for their great kindness to the homeless and exiled. I should also wish to express my cordial thanks to the friends who have written to me and who have sent donations for the work that must be put in hand immediately. …… To meet the need of those who cannot manage to come to the School Chapel, I propose to have the Thursday
We continue our series of extracts from past issues of St Michael’s parish magazine, brought to us by the author ‘Bygone.’
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Celebration at 11o’clock in the Lady Chapel of the Church. I have taken several weddings there since the disaster, and it seems quite safe, if not weather-tight as yet. But I am hoping that by the time this appears in print, that defect will have been put right and possibly we shall be once again at home? Any who think it is hard work keeping the church going in pre-sent times should contemplate this account and successive reports of the scale of damage and the years of worshipping in a wrecked church. The event of which censorship forbade mention was the fall of a V1 flying bomb (doodlebug) in Waterlow Park. The combination of this blast and the earlier land mine did huge damage, as subsequent magazine articles will detail. It was to be nearly ten years before all was made good – as we shall see in the next edition.
Bygone
All retired members of our congregations are invited to
a Spring Tea Party
Thursday 16th May 2013
from
3 pm to 5 pm at
The Upper Hall, St Michael’s Church, South Grove, Highgate
So we know numbers for catering, if you are able to come, please contact:
Mrs Mary Embleton (Tea Party co-ordinator)
Tel. 020 8340 5923 [email protected]
(N.B. transport can be arranged if required)
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News from Our Mission Partner, the Bible Society
T he Bible Society was founded thanks to a small group of individuals who believed that the Bible should be shared by the world. Two hundred years later, their legacy lives on – millions of lives transformed by the Bible message.
Paul Woolley, BS Executive Director of Charity, tells us more about their work to increase the ‘use and circulation’ of the scriptures. ‘I’m excited by our vision for the Bible and society. It is not a new vision. William Wilberforce and the other founders of
Bible Society understood the link between the Scriptures and the transformation of culture. We’re working to get the Scriptures circulating around the world and through the culture- poli-tics, education, the arts and the media- just like air conditioning circulates air through a building. Our work is extraordinarily wide-ranging and the great thing is we’re not working alone. We’re part of a global movement of 146 national Bible Societies working to resource the world’s need. We’re involved in translation, production, distribution, literacy, engagement and advocacy. In some parts of the world, people are still waiting for a translation in a language they can under-stand. In our own culture, the challenge is rather different. It’s not that people can’t access the Bible; it’s that they choose not to. So we are on a mission to demonstrate that the Bible is credible and part of the answer to the world’s issues…. The Bible, the written word, bears witness to God’s revelation in Jesus Christ, the living Word. This must be the principal motivation underpin-ning all of our work…. In 1800, North Wales had among the lowest levels of literacy in Europe. In the following decades, they were amongst the highest. Scholars put such significant change down to the influence of the Bible on Welsh culture. In Cambodia today there’s a high rate of illiteracy. We’re running hundreds of classes to teach basic reading and writing skills- using the Bible as key text. In our own society, if we are serious about what the Bible is, we should be concerned about levels of Bible illiteracy and apathy not only in the culture but in the church. As John Stott said, ‘You can’t blame meat for going rot-ten. That’s what meat does. You blame the salt for not being there to preserve it.’ We want to see the Scriptures shape every aspect of culture. So, for example, in the Palace of Westminster, our parliamentary officer, advocates for the Bible to parliamentarians, officials and staff, encourag-ing them to engage with the Scriptures in their work.’
Cambodia eye witness report A group of staff and volunteers went to Cambodia in February to see the inspirational work of the Bible Society there. Jenny Collins, a local representative from Cornwall wrote: ’Visiting Mechrey was a humbling experience. The “poorest of the poor” live here in floating villages usually trying to earn a living from subsistence fishing and, before the rains come, from small vegetable plots alongside the river banks. Pastor Lim, in his floating church in Mechrey, is so busy that services in other floating villages wouldn’t necessarily be on a Sunday. He needed five more pastors he told us! Amidst great diffi-culties individual pastors are making such a difference as they share God’s word.’ [See notice board for more information and photographs.] Please pray:
for funds for Bible literacy classes and translations in Cambodia.
that the new Christians have a strong faith in God, and that they will be blessed.
that their physical needs will be balanced against their spiritual needs For further information on how to support the Bible Society, please contact Sarah Wrightson, Mission Partner representa-tive: [email protected].
Open Garden to
benefit the Bible
Society, see page
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Paul Dean at St Paul’s Cathedral
T his year, Notre Dame Cathedral celebrates its 850th anniversary. As part of this celebration a World Or-gan Day is being staged over the 24hour period 5th-
6th May featuring 850 organ recitals worldwide. Paul Dean will be taking part in this by performing works by some of the organists of Notre Dame at St Paul’s Cathedral on Sunday 5th May at 4.45pm. The concert is free to attend and will last about 30 minutes. The Parish Choir at The Fair in the Square Once again the Parish Choir will be giving a half hour recital of popular classical music on stage outside church starting at 3pm. Not to be missed! The St Michael’s Singers The St Michael’s Singers is a name that has been cropping up more and more recently. This ad-hoc group is a separate entity to the Parish Choir and grew out of a desire to in-clude local singers not already in the Parish Choir in our worship once a month at Choral Evensong. This group of 12 or so singers has now started to branch out and from time to time may cover the services when the Parish Choir is on holiday. The SMS are also trying their hand at external events. A few weeks ago we were fortunate to be invited to cover the weekend services at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle whilst their choir was on holiday. This involved singing for Evensong on the Saturday and Matins, Eucharist and Even-song on the Sunday. A very successful weekend and hope-fully not the last! A friend of Mary Embleton’s wrote: ‘So glad you told me that the St Michael's Singers from your church were the guest choir this weekend on one of my steward duty days at St George's Chapel. They were splendid, so vibrant and harmonious, firmly leading the con-gregation through the service, then delighting with their soaring harmonies in the anthem. It was a joy and a privilege to be in the congregation at Evensong yesterday and to hear a fine choir perform in the awesome surround-ings of St George's Chapel to the mutual enhancement of both. The almost unique "royal peculiar" Chapel (the other is Westminster Abbey) and the sheer quality of the St Mi-chael's Singers' music complemented each other per-fectly. Please pass on my thanks for a joyous Evensong.’
Musical Notes
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Mrs Dorothy Child (‘Dot’ to colleagues, pictured below with husband Ernest) soprano chorister at All Saints Church Highgate from 1983 until the late 1980’s. Dot tragically lost her fight against cancer in April.
Val Macmillan Choir Mistress, All Saints Highgate
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JERUSALEM
We had a magical time in Jerusalem. We arrived via Tel Aviv Airport on Friday 8 February 2013 where we were welcomed by the charming American Colony Hotel in East Jerusalem. It is run by Swiss management and the board is still representative of the original American and Swedish colonists who set up a community modelled on the early Christians in the late 19th Century. We felt very at home there during our stay. On Saturday after reading the papers and breakfasting on the best scram-bled egg I have ever tasted plus deli-cious real orange juice and coffee, we set off down the Nablus Road from our hotel heading for Damascus Gate. On the way we visited St George’s Anglican Cathedral and the Palestin-ian Pottery run by Armenians, and then we came to the Garden Tomb which General Gordon believed was Joseph of Arimathea’s garden next to Golgotha. It was quiet and beautiful and no-one was there apart from a group from London and some Israeli tourists. We walked the garden and entered the tomb in the rock by a door which stated ‘He Is Risen.’ We chatted with the English and Scandi-navian attendants and in the charming shop – which unlike the rest of Jeru-salem showed its prices clearly - I bought some cards, some holy oil and some simple olive wood crosses. One attendant from Bath told us that the Nablus Road was the road to Damascus where St Paul first saw Jesus. We continued through the Damascus Gate and the souk to the beginning of the Via Dolorosa (photo above), marked by the Franciscan Basilica and a little museum. After wandering around the museum and the two churches all of a sudden we found ourselves following the Stations of the Cross along the Via Dolorosa in the midst of singing Russian pilgrims (who we met everywhere). We dropped off at the Fifth Station where Simon of Cyrene took the Cross and had lunch at a well known Arab restaurant on the way. We continued along the stone steps via a shop where I bought a Jerusalem cross from an Arme-nian vendor and reached the German Lutheran church but did not get to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre that day. Instead we exited the Jaffa Gate and took a cab home. In all the excitement I had forgotten dear John’s birthday and felt terrible. But we booked a Valentines evening at the restaurant at the hotel. After a rest we wandered off to find a local restaurant we had looked up. We took a wrong turn and found ourselves lost. But an angelic looking young blonde American aid worker appeared as if by magic and walked patiently with us to our restaurant. The restaurant was a real oasis in the midst of a fairly beat up area – it was frequented by NGO and UN workers and a merry time was had by all every time we visited – it became our Stammlokal and provided us with marvelous rocket salads and meat or pizza. On Sunday we went to the service at St George’s Anglican Cathedral where I was asked to read the lesson. Then we took the new light railway to City Hall and walked to Jaffa Gate and this time found the Church of the Holy Sepulchre – within which we found Golgotha and Jesus's tomb and full of singing Armenian monks, Franciscan monks, Greek Orthodox monks and devout pilgrims. On Monday we went with Faisal, one of the Palestinian hotel drivers, to visit Bethlehem and the Church of the Nativity which encloses the cave/stable where Jesus was born, and a marvellous Greek Orthodox guide took us round to see the cave – I had never realized the stable was a cave – and then St Jerome’s areas.
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On Tuesday we took the light rail to Mount Herzl, shopped in the Mamilla Mall for a swimsuit and then returned via the Jaffa Gate to see Mount Zion, David's tomb and the room where the Last Supper took place and the Holy Spirit descended at Pentecost, and finally walked to the Wailing Wall. Then we went to evensong at St George’s Cathedral which was a lovely occasion. On Wednesday we were once again with our nice hotel driver Faisal who took us to Bethlehem. This time we spent the day visiting Masada (right), seeing the museum and travelling up by cable car to the top to see Herod’s palaces. Afterwards we visited the beach at Ein Gedi on the Dead Sea where John bathed. Then we returned to Jerusalem past the strange citadel-like Jewish settlements on the West Bank and via the Mount of Olives and the Garden of Gethsemane (full of ancient olive trees, see photo below, with a sweet gardener) and the Basilica of the Agony with the rock Jesus prayed at (patrolled by a Franciscan monk - the Franciscans are in charge of the Latin church in Jerusalem). We were a bit tired so did not go to Ash Wednesday evensong. On Thursday it was Valentine’s Day and we had a lovely day sitting in the garden in the morning and then taking a strange bus trip around Jerusalem in the afternoon. In the evening we paid a last visit to the Garden Tomb where John bought olive wood crosses for our Church friends and ended with an exquisite Valentine’s Day dinner at the hotel restaurant. And so we returned home on Friday after a truly magical time.
Jane Havergal 23 March 2013
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St Michael’s Fellowship
Summer 2013 to Winter 2014
Selected Teachings of Paul
1. Tuesday 18 June – The Purpose and Role of The Law
2. Tuesday 25 June – Christology
3. Tuesday 2 July – Christians and the Governing Authorities
The Reformations: When, Where, What and Where to Now?
Autumn 2013
1. Tuesday 5 November – “The State of the Church before the Reformations” by Dr Clive Burgess
2. Tuesday 12 November – “The German Reformations” by The Revd Dr Jonathan Trigg
3. Tuesday 19 November – “The Swiss Reformations” by The Revd Julian Templeton
4. Tuesday 26 November– “The English Reformations” by Dr David Crankshaw A lunch (£5) will be available after this meeting from 12.15pm. If you wish to join in this meal, please contact Mrs Veronica Sanderson at 020 8883 6031 or [email protected] by 19 November 5. Monday 2 December– Quiet Day at 130 Highgate Hill, 10am – 4pm. Cost: £15, including lunch. Our leader is TBD. Winter 2014 1. Tuesday 11 February – “The Counter Reformation” by The Revd Patrick Henderson 2. Tuesday 18 February – “Who are the heirs of the Reformations?” by Dr Gareth Atkins 3. Tuesday 25 February – “The Ecumenical Situation” by The Revd Dr Dominic Robinson SJ 4. Ash Wednesday 5 March: 11 am Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes in church; Charity Speaker: 12 noon, ---in the Upper Hall; 1pm Lunch and Charity Collection for the TBD. All meetings will be held at 10.45am for 11.00am in St Michael’s Church, South Grove, N6 Everyone is most welcome at any or all of these events. Please contact me if you need transport. Those needing to leave early are free to do so.
Bryce Wandrey: 020 8351 6083 St Michael’s Church Reg. Charity No 113091
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Theological Explorers: Exploring Theology Together
Autumn and Winter 2013 and Spring 2014
A "novel" approach to theology
1. Tuesday 10 September we discuss James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain 2. Tuesday 5 November we discuss Hermann Hesse's Glass Bead Game 3. Tuesday 10 December we discuss Franz Kafka's The Trial 4. Tuesday 21 January 2014 we discuss John Milton's Paradise Lost 5. Tuesday 25 February 2014 we discuss Albert Camus' The Plague 6. Tuesday 1 April 2014 we discuss Shusaku Endo's Silence 7. Tuesday 13 May 2014 we discuss Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot 8. Tuesday 10 June 2014 we discuss Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter 9. Tuesday 15 July 2014 we discuss Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory
All meetings are for 8pm at All Saints Vicarage. Please contact Bryce (8351 6083) if you have any questions. Please feel free to join us for as many of the meetings as you can. There is no obligation to attend all of them.
A big
To the St Michael’s congregation from five of your Mission Partners: I am writing to thank you for your generous £1330 donation, i.e. £266.00 donation to each of KIRIMA Ltd, A RO-CHA uk, BIBLE SOCIETY, BARNABAS FUND and AICMAR at the Easter 2013 collection. The money is much needed by the children and adults helped by the charities and will be soon used. You can see updates re the charities on their websites or do ask the Mission Partner leads at church. With many thanks, Karen Sennett on behalf of the Mission Partners
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All Saints Church
Music on a Summer Evening
7.30pm Saturday June 8th 2013
Tickets £7.50 £5 concessions
Marie-Anne Hall (Soprano) Dr John Turner (Organist)
Arias
1. Dove, Giustizia, Amor 2. Voi che sapete 3. The Linnet 4. The Owl 5. Take, o take those lips away 6. Crabbed age and youth 7. The fatal hour 8. An Evening Hymn 9. Two Chorale preludes 10. Du bist die Ruh’ 11. Morgen 12. Zueignung
From Ariodante From Marriage of Figaro
English Songs
Organ
Lieder
GF Handel (1685-1759) WA Mozart (1756-91)
RR Bennett (1936-2012) RR Bennett
M Dring (1923-77) M Dring
H Purcell (1659-95) H Purcell
JS Bach (1685-1750)
F Schubert (1797-1828)
R Strauss (1864-1949) R Strauss
1. O my love is like a red, red rose 2. My dearest dear 3. O Waly Waly 4. Toccata 5. I dreamt I dwelt in marble
halls 6. Every time we say goodbye 7. Smoke gets in your eyes 8. Surabaya Johnny 9. Somewhere 10. We’ll gather lilacs
Folk songs
Organ
Popular Songs From The Bohemian Girl
L Boëllmann (1862-1967)
MW Balfe (1808-70)
C Porter (1891-1964)
J Kern (1885-1945) K Weill (1900-50)
L Bernstein (1918-90) I Novello (1893-1951)
Interval — in the garden if fine
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Open Garden
Saturday 1ST JUNE 2013 2.30 – 5.30pm
85 Highgate West Hill
In aid of the BIBLE SOCIETY
Paul Crowther invites you to see his lovely hillside garden with ponds and streams overlooking south
London. There will be plants and jams for sale and afternoon teas. Live music from
the Doghouse Band.
Entry fee: £2.50, children free
Not suitable for wheelchairs.
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Organ Recital
Christian Praestholm
(Denmark)
Featuring works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Dupré, Hartmann, Bentzon, Ligeti and Praestholm
Saturday 11th May 2013
Song Recital
Henry Moss (Tenor) & Michael Haslam (Piano)
Music by Schubert and Britten
Saturday 8th June 2013
Singing in London Summer Concert—in Memory of Christopher Higgs
Saturday 20th July 2013 8pm Highgate United Reformed Church
Pond Square Chapel South Grove, Highgate
Join us for an audience participation event to celebrate Chris’s life in songs from the musicals. We unite as Many in Body, One in Mind In Aid of Marie Curie Tickets £10.00/£8.00 Concessions/Children under 16 free Doors open at 7.30pm Box office 07904 884485 or email [email protected]. Singing in London is the club for every person who is passionate about singing. www.singinginlondon.com
Two recitals in the Series ‘Saturdays at Six’
Admission is free Concerts last one hour
Don’t Miss!
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Priest-in-charge The Revd Preb Dr Jonathan Trigg [email protected] 8347 5124
Assistant Curate The Revd Bryce P Wandrey [email protected] 8351 6083
Self-Supporting Minister The Revd Howard Rogers [email protected] 7419 0951
Reader Pam Lighthill [email protected] 8444 0387
Churchwardens John Havergal Michael Hurst
[email protected] [email protected]
8341 0442 7485 2591
PCC Secretary Margaret Preddy [email protected] 8348 3263
Treasurer David Bulgin [email protected] 8349 2397
Electoral Roll Jane Havergal [email protected] 8374 5543
Church Hall Jean Johnson 8347 8020
Choir Mistress Valerie McMillan 8346 0438
Children’s Advocate Demi Adebanjo [email protected] 8340 2128
Brownies Marie Edwards [email protected] 8340 5726
Guides Elizabeth Bulgin 8349 2397
Bible-study Pam Lighthill [email protected] 8444 0387
Bible Reading Fellowship Marie Edwards [email protected] 8340 5726
Magazine (ASC) John Havergal [email protected] 8341 0442
PARISH DIRECTORY — ALL SAINTS http://allsaintshighgate.wordpress.com
PARISH REGISTER
St Michael’s
Holy Baptism: Charlotte Joy Elizabeth Broadway
Hugo Alexander Evans Alexander Stuart Gray
Wedding: Edwin David George Fenn and Katie Laura Sainsbury
Funeral: Thomas Dormandy
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PARISH DIRECTORY — ST MICHAEL’S
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Vicar The Revd Preb Dr Jonathan Trigg [email protected] 8347 5124
Associate Vicar The Revd Bryce Wandrey [email protected] 8351 6083
Self-Supporting Minister The Revd Howard Rogers [email protected] 7419 0951
Pastoral Assistant James Yeates 8144 3056
Youth Worker Andy Spanring [email protected]
Church Wardens Mark Dailey [email protected] 7561 0750
Gill Taylor 8340 8419
Readers Robert Pfeiffer [email protected] 8348 9140
Nicholas Sanderson [email protected]
7264 4373
8883 6031
Gill Taylor 8340 8419
John Taylor [email protected] 8340 9019
Patrice Ware-White 8348 3257
Director of Music Paul Dean [email protected] 07740 282 744
Assistant Organist Toril Briese [email protected]
Musician Michael Haslam 07730 556 595
Parish Office and Bookings Kay Langley-May [email protected] 8340 7279
PCC Secretary Mary Embleton [email protected] 8340 5923
PCC Treasurer Jo Iwasaki 07941 990 969
Safeguarding Officer Veronica Sanderson [email protected] 07961 165 029
Bible Reading Fellowship Elaine Wright 7485 7903
Christian Aid Judith Matheson [email protected] 7263 1090
Fairtrade Gilly Wesley [email protected] 8341 3927
Head Teacher— St Michael’s School
Geraldine Gallagher 8340 7441
Kneelers Projects Charlotte Elworthy 8340 4656
Magazine Susan McFadden [email protected] 8348 9691
St Michael’s Fellowship The Revd Bryce Wandrey [email protected] 8351 6083
St Michael’s Guild Elaine Wright 7485 7903
Stewardship Recorder Roger Sainsbury [email protected] 8883 4927
Volunteer Guide Co-ordinator (Church Visits)
Julia Rigby [email protected] 8340 8300
MISSION PARTNER REPRESENTATIVES
Chair, and Kirima Karen Sennett [email protected] 8340 3739
A Rocha Judith Roberts 07914 799 750
AICMAR Gilly Wesley [email protected] 8341 3927
Barnabas Fund Peter Hill-King [email protected] 07977 535936
Bible Society Sarah Wrightson 8348 3654
CARIS (Haringey) Mary Holtby 8245 5490
