FROM THE CLERGY
Parish Directory
ReGULAR WORSHIP
ST MARY ABBOTS
And yet some absences are necessary to allow
new things to happen.
The Church has now entered Ordinary Time.
Now that Ascension and Pentecost have
passed, we move from the story of Jesus to
that of the early Church. This moment in the
story - when Jesus becomes absent - echoes
the absences we experience when there are
changes in the Christian ministry on which
we rely. More profoundly, it echoes the
moments when God Himself appears to be
absent from our lives.
I don’t think it’s any coincidence that the
one Gospel writer (Luke) who focuses on the
moment when Jesus becomes absent is also
the one who tells the story of the early Church
(in the Acts of the Apostles).
Luke understood - perhaps like no one else at
the time - that the remarkable growth in the
early church would not have been possible
without the absence of Jesus, without the
Ascension. The absence of Jesus makes
possible an entirely new way of experiencing
his presence.
None of this changes the reality that absence
is often painful. Many absences are damaging
and hurtful. Some absences are plain wrong.
But sometimes out of them something new
and unexpected can happen. And sometimes
an absence is the only way in which things
can move forward, in which the genuinely
new can find a space to happen.
8 | 2014 Spring
Sundays
8.00 am Holy Eucharist
9.30 am SUNG EUCHARIST
with Creche & Sunday School
11.15 am Choral Matins & Sermon
12.30 pm Holy Eucharist
6.30 pm Evensong with Sermon & Holy Eucharist
1st Sunday of month:
Taize Prayer & Holy Eucharist
Mondays
8.30 am Morning Prayer
1.05 pm Sunday on Monday service
5.30 pm Evening Prayer
Tuesdays
8.30 am Morning Prayer
11.30 am Holy Eucharist
Book of Common Prayer
5.30 pm Evening Prayer
Wednesdays
7.10 am Morning Prayer
7.30 am Holy Eucharist
2.00 pm 3rd Weds in the month: Holy Eucharist
with Laying-on of Hands & Anointing
5.30 pm Evening Prayer
Thursdays
7.10 am Morning Prayer
9.30 am St Mary Abbots School Eucharist
in term time - all welcome
5.30 pm Evening Prayer
Fridays
7.10 am Morning Prayer
7.30 am Holy Communion
5.30 pm Evening Prayer
Saturdays
9.40 am Morning Prayer
10.00 am Holy Eucharist
5.30 pm Evening Prayer
Clergy, wardens, vestry and office
Children’s Safeguarding
Officer:
Electoral Roll Officer:
THE PARISH
Samantha Giles
James Dunford-Wood
Vicar of the Parish
Associate Vicar
Honorary Assistant Priest
Parochial Church Wardens
020 7937 6032
020 7937 2364
020 3686 1513
07732 743 228
020 7937 0765
07702 829859
07732 842894
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Associate
The
Parish Administrator: Vicar Susan Russell Rev’d Jenny Welsh 7937 2419
2364 [email protected]
020 020 7937 [email protected]
ST MARY ABBOTS
The Rev’d Peter Stubbs
Honorary Priest
Honorary Assistant Priest The Rev’d Julia Hedley
Deputy Churchwardens for St Mary Abbots Church:
James Dunford-Wood
Vestry/Virger
St Mary Abbots Centre
Director of Music
Stewardship Secretary
Children on Sunday /
Children’s Champion
Friends of St Mary Abbots
Bellringers
Kensington Parish News
Friday Playgroup
020 8868 8296 [email protected]
020 3686 1513 [email protected]
Carole-Anne Phillips
George MacAllan
Adam Norton (Manager)
Mark Uglow
Emma Porteous
07732 842 894
020 7937 3448
020 7937 5136 [email protected]
020 7937 8885 [email protected][email protected]
07866 258 814 [email protected]
Alexandra Swann
David Banks (Chairman)
David Holdridge (Secretary)
Fiona Braddock (Editor)
Laura Sylvester
[email protected]
07732 743 228 [email protected]
07904 954 959 [email protected][email protected]
07770 920 085 [email protected]
CHRIST CHURCH
On MAJOR FEASTDAYS additional Services
also offered: see the Bulletin & Noticeboard.
CHRIST CHURCH
Sundays
8.30 am Holy Communion
11.00 am 1st and 3rd Sundays in the month
& on major Feasts:
BCP Holy Communion
11.00 am 2nd & 4th Sundays in the month:
BCP morning prayer
6.30 pm Contemporary Evening Service
Associate Vicar with Special Responsibility for Christ Church
The Rev’d Mark O’Donoghue 020 7937 2966
Deputy Wardens:
Adrian Weale
020 7937 0765
Philip Witheridge
020 7937 5184
Administrator
Adele Pye
020 7937 2966
Director of Music
Rupert Perkins
[email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
ST PHILIPS
Associate Vicar with Special Responsibility for St Philip
The Rev’d David Walsh
020 7603 4420 [email protected]
Non-Stipendiary Ministers The Rev’d Lesley Perry
[email protected]
ST PHILIP’S
Sundays
8.30 am Holy Communion
10.30 am SUNG EUCHARIST with Sunday School
3rd Sunday: all age service with Eucharist
Monday to Friday
9.10 am Morning Prayer
The Rev'd Gillean Craig
The Rev’d Jenny Welsh
The Rev’d Julia Hedley
David Banks
Adrian Weale
Deputy Wardens:
Anne Steele
Peter Burney
Licensed Reader
Administrator
Children’s Ministry Leader
Electoral Roll Officer
Director of Music
Rupert Steele
Liz Christie
Erica Roane
Chris Luxton
Rebecca Taylor
[email protected][email protected]
020 8747 1556 [email protected]
020 7938 1367 [email protected][email protected]
020 7937 4159 [email protected][email protected]