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Advent Sunday 2009
A united parish mass at St. Andrew’s Church, Grimsby was attended by the congregation of St. Augustine’s in the same town. Both parishes support A.C.S. As seen in the photograph, the age range of the servers is vast: the youngest being 10 years of age and the oldest is at least 80! More than 80 communicants swelled the pews at St. Andrew’s on this occasion. Frs. Terry Atkinson (second right) and Stephen Jones (right) were very pleased with the serving team.

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New Bishop of Whitby Announced

The Reverend Canon Martin Clive Warner MA, Canon Treasurer of St Paul’s Cathedral, has been appointed by the Queen as the Suffragan Bishop of Whitby, in succession to the Rt Revd Robert Ladds. The announcement was made at Middlesbrough College at 11.00am on Monday 2nd November 2009.

Canon Warner said, “I am excited and awed at the prospect of moving to Teesside to be the Bishop of Whitby. I look forward to being part of the Archbishop’s team in the Diocese of York, and to working with men and women of this Archdeaconry.

“It was as a student in Durham 30 years ago that I first discovered this to be one of the most varied and beautiful parts of Britain. It has everything - stunning countryside, a spectacular coastline and the potential and challenge of a stimulating conurbation on Teesside.”

“It is good to be in Middlesbrough College for the announcement of this appointment. I hope it makes a clear statement about the priority I would want the Church to attach to young people. They deserve our respect and attention at a time when planning a future life is fraught with uncertainty.”

“In the end our message is profound but simple: “it’s all about God”. Faith in God is, we believe, the key to human dignity, respect for creation, and the reality of the resurrection.”

The Archbishop of York, the Most Revd Dr John Sentamu said, “I am delighted that Canon Warner has been appointed the new Bishop of Whitby. He is a man of great faith and integrity who has a real heart for serving the community. I am sure that his passion for helping others will shine through during his time on Teeside. He will be joining a team committed together to make Christ visible.”

 


The Reverend Canon Warner (aged 50) was Assistant Curate at St Peter’s, Plymouth from 1984 to 1988. From 1988 to 1993 he was Team Vicar of the Parish of the Resurrection, Leicester. Canon Warner was the Administrator of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham from 1993 to 2002, and also Priest in Charge of Hempton with Pudding Norton from 1998 to 2000. In 2000 he was made an Honorary Canon of Norwich Cathedral. From 2000 to 2003 we was Associate Vicar at St Andrew’s, Holborn, and was appointed as a Residential Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral in 2003.

Canon Warner has wide cultural interests, including architecture, medieval, renaissance, and contemporary art, and the cinema. He enjoys travel and had led pilgrimages in Europe and the Holy Land. His Consecration will be held at 11 am on 26 January 2010, the Feast of St Timothy and St Titus, at York Minster.

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Macon, Paray-le-Monial and Ars
Sunday 18th – Thursday 22nd July 2010
Led by Fr Darren Smith

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Price £569
This trip includes:
Return scheduled flights:
London Stansted - Lyon - London Stansted
UK and France airport taxes.
20kg luggage allowance plus 10kg hand luggage per person.
4-nights accommodation in the Hotel de Bourgogne (or similar) in Macon, shared twin or double-bedded rooms with private facilities.
Continental breakfast, 2 lunches and 4 dinners.
Local guides and entrances where appropriate to the itinerary.
All touring and transfers by airconditioned coach as per the itinerary.
Religious services.
ATOL and AITO 100% financial protection.

Extras:
Travel insurance at £23, unless insured
elsewhere.
Single room supplement at £80, for the
4 nights (Limited number of single
rooms available).
Meals apart from those in the itinerary,
drinks and souvenirs.
UK transfers.


In September 1873, The Duke of Norfolk led 500 pilgrims on the first Catholic Pilgrimage to leave England since the Reformation. They started their journey from Victoria Station and travelled via Dover and Calais to Paray-Le-Monial in France. Today we are able to recreate this experience but in less than half the time, flying from London to Lyon and onward by road to the charming town of Macon in the Burgundy region of France. During our stay here, two full-day pilgrimages will be made, the first to Ars, the village parish of St. John Vianney, The Curé D’Ars, and the second, to Paray-Le-Monial, where St. Margaret Mary Alacoque received her revelations from Our Lord to promote the devotion to his Sacred Heart.


Sunday 18th July
London - Lyon - Macon
Morning flight from London Stansted to Lyon. Transfer by coach to Macon, where we check into our centrally-located hotel for dinner and a four night stay.

Monday 19th July
Paray-Le-Monial
Today we travel by coach to Paray-Le- Monial (about 60 miles). It was in the convent here between 1673 and 1675 that one of the Visitation nuns, St Mary Alacoque, received her revelations from Our Lord to promote the devotion to His Sacred Heart. St Margaret Mary passed on these revelations to her spiritual director, the young Jesuit, St Claude de la Colombière. He in turn was chaplain in the household of the future English king, James II, so devotion to the Sacred Heart was first preached in England. We attend Holy Mass either in the Superb Romanesque Basilica, or at the tomb of St. Margaret Mary in the apparition Chapel of the Visitation Convent. We also have a tour of the sites associated with St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and St Claude La Colombiere. Lunch is included in a local restaurant and there will be some free time in the town before returning to Macon in the early evening. Dinner will be in our hotel tonight.

Tuesday 20th July
Macon
We spend today at leisure in Macon, a bustling town on the banks of the river Saone, and bordered by vineyards. During the day a visit to the Ursuline museum (Musee Des Ursulines), housed in a seventeenth-century Ursuline convent, is a must, containing some wonderful medieval art. The 19th century Cathedral replaced its medieval predecessor, of which only ruins remain. Opposite the cathedral is the hotel Dieu, originally a charity hospital served by the Sisters of St. Martha. Lunch is at choice today and dinner will be in our hotel.

Wednesday 21st July
Ars
Today we have an excursion to Ars. Ars is the village parish of the famous Curé, St Jean-Marie Vianney, whose own devotion to the Sacred Heart was manifest in the love he showed his people. Here we will have Mass at the tomb of St Jean-Marie Vianney and then a tour of the places associated with the Curé of Ars. Whilst in Ars we will have lunch together in a local restaurant. After lunch we drive to Villefranche-Sur-Saone, the capital of the Beaujolais region. After a stop here we will visit a nearby chateau at Montmelas-St-Sorlin, which is a popular producer of Beaujolais Villages. There will be the opportunity to taste and purchase the local vintage here. This evening dinner is at our hotel in Macon.

Thursday 22nd July
Macon - Lyon - London
Transfer by coach to Lyon, for our return flight to London Stansted.

Terms of Payment:
Deposit of £120 per person on booking (plus the insurance premium if the cover we offer is required). Cheques made payable to PAX TRAVEL. Final payment due two months before the departure date.

The above price is guaranteed until 27th November 2009 when we will require the deposit of £120 per person plus a completed booking form, any bookings received after this date may be subject to a surcharge.

Please contact Fr Darren Smith on 0121 382 5533 or fr.smith@additionalcurates.co.uk for more information or send your deposits to us at: Gordon Browning House, 8 Spitfire Road, Birmingham B24 9PB

Fr James Pullen, Vicar of St Ives in Cambridgeshire 40 years a Priest!

To mark the 40th anniversary of Fr James Pullen’s ordination as Priest a special Sung Eucharist was held on 26th September at All Saints St Ives in Cambridgeshire, followed by a lunch in the Parish Hall. This was a moving celebration of Fr James’ ministry in the beautiful setting of ancient St Ives Parish Church, enriched by the splendour of the Mass and the magnificence of the Bishop’s and Priests’ vestments.

The congregation of All Saints welcomed Bishop Edwin Barnes and four con-celebrating Priests, as well as members of Fr James’s family, friends from former parishes where he had worked, pupils and colleagues from his previous work, together with friends from St Ives and from churches in St Ives and parishes of St Ives Deanery.

In his sermon on the theme of “Following God’s Call” Bishop Edwin spoke of Fr James’ calling and service as a parish priest in both the early and now later years of his fruitful ministry.

Fr James read Mathematics at London University and after a period of teaching read Theology at Oxford University where he trained for the Priesthood at St Stephen’s House theological college. He was ordained Priest in Manchester Cathedral and served in the Parishes of Chorlton, Manchester and then in Scawthorpe, Doncaster. From 1973-75 Fr James was Chaplain of St Olave’s Grammar School in Orpington. In 1975 he became Chaplain of Haileybury College in Hertfordshire where he also held the posts successively of Head of Mathematics, a Housemaster and then Second Master.

In 2001 Fr James came to St Ives with his wife Norma. His parishioners and all in St Ives who have come to know them hold them in the warmest admiration and affection.


In the picture, from left to right are:
Fr David Maudlin, Fr Nicholas Setterfield, Fr Tony Reader-Moore, Bishop Edwin Barnes, Fr Dennis Clark, Fr James Pullen

St Ives in Cambridgeshire 40 years a Priest!
2009-2010

ACS - The year of the Priest

ACS - The year of the Priest

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WHAT DO THEY DO?
The Additional Curates Society
By Laurence Dopson

The Additional Curates Society is about more than curates. Since 1837 it has been working to ensure more clergy, full stop. Particularly in poorer parishes. ‘Passionate about priesthood’ is its strap line. A banker who left the city of London but not because of a financial crisis founded it. Ironically 170 years later the current financial downturn has triggered a sharp rise in requests for help from the ACS from parishes in England and Wales.

“There’s a genuine need out there – an indication of the financial state of the church and nation”, says ACS Secretary, Father Darren Smith.

Joshua Watson, founded the ACS, gave up his successful banking career because he wanted to devote himself to service to the church. He is one of the forgotten heroes of the 19th century English church. A leader of the Hackney Phalanx, forerunner of the Oxford Movement for liturgical reform (his brother was vicar of Hackney for 40 years), Joshua took a major part in founding King’s Cqollege in the University of London, to offset the ‘Godless’ University College.

It was a period of population explosion and the industrial revolution, with a ferment in the church, as the church tried to catch up. The objective of the ACS was to provide clergy in ‘poor and populous parishes’ in the rapidly expanding towns in the inner cities. Before new parishes were created, these depended particularly on curates. From one parish as many as 30 new ones might be created. Curates had to provide all the care until new incumbents were appointed.

 






Then the church in the inner cities was expanding. Now under pressures it is retreating. Next year, to help relieve these pressures, the ACS may go back to paying stipends for whole or half-time posts. At present it makes grants to parishes to support team vicars and priests-in-charge, as well as curates, but not an incumbent holding a living (there still are many of these in this priest-in-charge age). It helps with housing and other expenses.

Coming from where it did, ACS is institutionally high church Anglican and most of its support comes from Anglo-Catholic churches. “But in making grants we are concerned with need, rather than any theological stance”, says Father Smith. “We help many evangelical churches and evangelical churches support us.’

Making grants is not the only thing the ACS does. Each Petertide – the Sunday nearest St Peter’s Day (June 29) – it produces Petertide Packs for parishes, giving sermon outlines, prayer cards, Sunday school material, magazine articles and service outlines.

The ACS has a range of rosary meditation cards and lines in the ACS shop which include new black and mother-of-pearl rosaries and a new crucifix.

And the ACS keeps in personal touch. Since is appointment as its Secretary in March, Fr Smith has travelled over 10,000 miles visiting parishes. “I see myself as something of an itinerant preacher”, he says.

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