E-NEWS
6 September 2013
THIS SUNDAY
Trinity XV
8.00 am, Holy Communion,
at St James
9.45 am, Parish Eucharist,
at St James
EVENTS CALENDAR
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Sunday 8 September Youth planning meeting, after Mass at St
Clement; Film Project meeting, 12.45 pm, Parish Office
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Wednesday 11 September Churches Together in Notting Hill
Prayer Lunch, 12.30 pm, St Helen's Church, St Helen's Gardens,
W10
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Saturday 14 September Confirmation Practice, 4.00 pm, St James
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Sunday 15 September Confirmation Eucharist, 9.45 am, St James no Mass at St Clement
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Tuesday 17 September ClementJames Centre Trustees Meeting
5.30 pm, IU boardroom
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Monday 23 September PCC meeting, 6.30 pm, St Clement
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Thursday 26 September Junior Choir Practice for Harvest
Thanksgiving, 6.30-7.30 pm, St James
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Sunday 29 September Michael and All Angels
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Thursday 3 October Junior Choir Practice for Harvest Thanksgiving
6.30-7.30 pm, St James
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Saturday 5 October PCC away morning, 9.00 am - 1.00 pm, Our
Lady of Sion
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Sunday 6 October Harvest Thanksgiving
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Wednesday 9 October Churches Together in Notting Hill Prayer
Lunch, 12.30 pm, Carmelite Monastery, St Charles' Square, W10
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Thursday 17 October Deanery Synod, 7.00 pm
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Monday 4 November All Souls Eucharist, 7.30 pm, St Clement
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Thursday 7 November Choir Practice for Remembrance Sunday,
7.30 pm, St James
~ Carnival – We came first! ~
11.30 am, Parish Mass,
at St Clement
DAILY PRAYER
Wednesday
11 September
10.30 am, Parish Eucharist,
at St James
For updated daily morning and
evening prayer, follow these
links:
http://daily.commonworship.co
m/daily.cgi?today_mp=1
http://daily.commonworship.co
m/daily.cgi?today_ep=1
Too busy to pray?
Download daily prayers to your
MP3 player from www.pray-asyou-go.org.
Many thanks to everyone who provided food and hospitality at
Carnival Mass. More people attended than in 2012 and the
children and young people did a fantastic job.
We are also very pleased to announce that the St Clement & St
James Carnival Band won the first prize in the category of small
carnival bands!
Breaking bread,
sharing God
NEXT SUNDAY
Prayer and Worship
At the Eucharist on Sundays we pray for those who are sick or who have
asked for prayer, together with those who have recently died or whose
year’s mind falls at this time. If you would like a person’s name added to
either list, do please inform the Parish Office.
9.45 am, Parish Eucharist,
at St James
Those who are sick and those who have asked for prayer
Robin Tuck
Laura Radley
Michelle Afriyie
Ayodele Junior
Comfort Okomfo
Anne
Anne Tonge
Lesley Bishop
Joan Varley
Michael Afriyie
Adebunmi
Daniel & family
Confirmation Service
Mary Tandon
Chanel Afriyie
Olubunmi Ayomide
Those who have died and those whose year’s mind falls at this time
Ray Rayment
Notices
The new servers' rota is being put together. If you would like to join the
team, then please speak to Margaret (St James), Priscilla (St Clement) or
Mary or email the office. The new rota will be out next week. Thank you.
The church sitting is going very well; on the first Saturday over a dozen
people visited St James. Please support the team if you can. St James will
be open to visitors from 10.00 - 2.00 pm every Saturday until 28
September.
Confirmation Eucharist 15 September, 9.45 am, St James Please note that
there will be no 8.00 am Holy Communion at St James and no 11.30 Parish
Mass at St Clement. Please come to support the candidates and pray for
them in the meantime. Those to be confirmed next Sunday are: Afriya
Ballard, Jacob Clarke, Daniel Curd, Madeline Gatdula, Sharmaine Gatdula,
Malik Mykoo-McKenzie and Tracey Revill.
St James Choir Regular choir practices resume at St James on Thursday
5 September at 7.30 pm. We would welcome anyone who can hold a top
(soprano) line and, of course, any other voices! Either come along to a
practice (every Thursday) or call Chris Sprague on 07790 691 056.
Community News
Diocesan Events
For training and other activities
happening in the area and around the
diocese, go to
http://gabriel.london.anglican.org/ope
n/Area/Kensington/
USEFUL LINKS
Church and Parish Office
www.stclementjames.org.uk
ClementJames Centre
www.clementjames.co.uk/centre
St Clement & St James School
http://webfronter.com/rbkc/scsj
Church of England
www.churchofengland.org
Diocese of London
www.london.anglican.org
IntoUniversity (Head Office)
www.intouniversity.org
Royal Borough of Kensington &
Chelsea
www.rbkc.gov.uk
Sisters of our Lady of Sion
www.sistersofsion.org
The World Community for
Christian Meditation
www.wccm.org
The Taizé Community
www.taize.fr
Iona
www.iona.org.uk
i-church
www.i-church.org
If you happen to pass the
Parish Office, please pop in to
say hello.
We would be delighted to see
you.
Breaking bread,
sharing God
Special Feature – Pope Gregory I
Pope Gregory I (c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the
Great, was the head of the Catholic Church from 3 September 590 to his death
in 604. Gregory is well known for his writings, which were more prolific than
those of any of his predecessors as pope. Throughout the Middle Ages he was
known as “the Father of Christian Worship” because of his exceptional efforts in
revising the Roman worship of his day. He was the first of the popes to come
from a monastic background. Gregory is a Doctor of the Church and one of the
Latin Fathers. He is considered a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern
Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, and some Lutheran churches. The
mainstream form of Western plainchant, standardized in the late 8th century,
was attributed to Pope Gregory I and so took the name of Gregorian chant.
When Gregory was a child, Italy was retaken from the Goths by Justinian I,
emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire ruling from Constantinople. The war was
over by 552. The Western Roman Empire had long since vanished in favour of
the Gothic kings of Italy. Gregory had been born into a wealthy noble Roman
family with close connections to the church. He later renounced the world and
became one of the seven deacons of Rome. Emperor Justin the Younger
appointed him, in 574, Chief Magistrate of Rome, though he was only thirty-four
years of age. After the death of his father, he built six monasteries in Sicily and
founded a seventh in his own house in Rome, which became the Benedictine
Monastery of St. Andrew. Here, he himself assumed the monastic habit in 575,
at the age of thirty-five. After the death of Pelagius, St. Gregory was chosen
Pope by the unanimous consent of priests and people. Now began those
labours which merited for him the title of Great. His zeal extended over the
entire known world, he was in contact with all the Churches of Christendom and,
in spite of his bodily sufferings, and innumerable labours, he found time to
compose a great number of works. He is known above all for his magnificent
contributions to the Liturgy of the Mass and Office. In the modern era, Gregory
is often depicted as a man at the border, poised between the Roman and
Germanic worlds, between East and West, and above all, perhaps, between the
ancient and medieval epochs.
“Non Angli, sed angeli.”
The Gregorian mission (or Augustinian mission) was sent by Pope Gregory the
Great in 596 AD to convert Britain's Anglo-Saxons. Headed by Augustine of
Canterbury, by the death of the last missionary in 635 the mission had
established Christianity in southern Britain. Along with the Irish and Frankish
missions it converted other parts of Britain as well and influenced the HibernoScottish missions to Continental Europe. Most historians take the view that
Gregory initiated the mission, although exactly why remains unclear. A famous
story recorded by Bede, an 8th-century monk who wrote a history of the British
Church, relates that Gregory saw fair-haired Anglo-Saxon slaves from Britain in
the Roman slave market and was inspired to try to convert their people.
Supposedly Gregory inquired about the identity of the slaves, and was told that
they were Angles from the island of Great Britain. Gregory replied that they were
not Angles, but Angels. The earliest version of this story is from an anonymous
Life of Gregory written at Whitby Abbey about 705. Bede, as well as the Whitby
Life of Gregory, records that Gregory himself had attempted to go on a
missionary journey to Britain before becoming pope.
Source: Wikipedia.org
CONTACT DETAILS
CLERGY
The Revd Dr Alan Everett (Vicar)
[email protected]
The Revd Mary Clarke
(Associate Priest)
 020 7229 6359
[email protected]
PARISH OFFICE
Silke Mehrgott
Jack Jeffery
 020 7221 3548
[email protected]
CLEMENTJAMES CENTRE
[Communicate, IntoWork, and
IntoUniversity North Kensington]
Clare Richards
[email protected]
Alex Hanratty
[email protected]
 020 7221 8810
PARISH SCHOOL
Sue Hussey (Head Teacher)
 020 7603 9225
[email protected]
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Breaking bread,
sharing God