St Peter and St Paul
The Parish Church of Charlton
and Tower Hamlets, Dover
Sunday April 20th 2008
St Alphege – Dedication Festival
Services this week and next
Sunday April 20 – S Alphege
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8am Low Mass Fr Colin
10am Parish Mass Fr Colin – preacher Revd David Ridley
3pm Thanksgiving Service for Fr Jonathan Cooper RIP
Tuesday April 22nd - 9.30am Low Mass Fr Colin
4.30pm Confirmation instruction – Lady Chapel Fr Colin
Saturday April 26th 3pm Thanksgiving Service for Elizabeth Giles RIP
Sunday April 27 – 6 of Easter
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8am Low Mass Fr Colin
10am Parish Mass (shortened, to be followed Fr Colin
by Annual Church meeting in the Hall)
Music for today’s Parish Mass
Mass setting: New Peoples’ Mass – Dom Gregory Murray
Processional Hymn 484 – The Church’s one foundation
Psalm 84, vv 1-4, 10-13 – How amiable are thy dwellings thou Lord of hosts
Gradual Hymn 39 (SHF)* – Bind us together Lord
Offertory Hymn 351 – Come, ye faithful, raise the anthem
Communion Hymn 115 – Now the green blade riseth
Recessional Hymn 559 (SHF) – To God be the glory
WELCOME: A warm welcome today to our Area Dean, the Revd David Ridley, who is our guest
preacher on this our Dedication Festival. This present Church building of SS Peter and Paul, Charlton-in-
Dover, was consecrated on the actual Feast of S Alphege, April 19th 1893, by Dr George Rodney Eden,
Bishop of Dover. Today we give thanks for those who were responsible for building our church and for
those who have cared for it, and who have worked and worshipped here down the years. We also give
thanks for the life and witness of the Martyr Archbishop Alphege.
THANKS!! Fr Colin writes: My sincere thanks to Fr Stewart Carolan-Evans for standing in last
Sunday. I had arranged for Fr Roger Harley to take last Sunday’s Masses, but after I had gone away last
weekend, Fr Roger developed raging toothache and ended up having an emergency appointment in
hospital in Thanet, but not before he contacted David Ridley who arranged for Fr Stewart to take the
Sunday services. Fr Stewart is back with us again in November, when he will be preaching and
concelebrating on All Saints’ Sunday.
ANNUAL CHURCH MEETING: The annual parochial church meeting takes place in the hall
next Sunday immediately after a shortened 10am Parish Mass. At the meeting the churchwardens for the
coming year will be elected, together with the members of the Parochial Church Council for the coming
year. There are nomination forms at the back of church for wardens and PCC members. Please ensure
that anyone you nominate is willing to stand for election!
CONFIRMATION: A reminder that the Deanery confirmation takes place at Buckland on
Wednesday June 11th. Our confirmation classes start on Tuesday at 4.30pm in the Lady Chapel. We have
ten candidates so far – adults and young people. If you wish to confirmed this year, this is positively your
last chance!! Please see Fr Colin immediately after Mass. In confirmation, Christians become full
members of the church and have the joy and delight of being able to receive the Sacrament of the Body and
Blood of Our Blessed Lord in the bread and wine at the altar. If you are a regular worshipper at our
church there is absolutely no reason why you should not be confirmed!!
WALSINGHAM 2008
By popular demand, this year’s parish pilgrimage to Walsingham has been booked
since last year! It will be from September 16th to the 18th and will yet again be a mid-
week pilgrimage. We have booked 20 places. The cost will be just under £90 for full
board for the three days of the pilgrimage. More details from Cynthy Sinclair. If you
are interested, please sign up on the yellow sheet at the back of church.
NORA SMITH R.I.P.
You will sorry to hear that a long-time Charlton worshipper, Nora Smith has died. She was 81 and had
been living at S Mary’s Residential Home in Dover. Up to a year or so ago, Nora was a regular at the 10
o’clock Parish Mass on a Sunday and despite having to use a wheelchair and despite her sight problems,
she was always cheerful. Nora’s funeral takes place at Barham Crematorium at 11.20 tomorrow morning.
THANKSGIVING SERVICES
Today and next Saturday there are thanksgiving services for the lives of two well-loved Charlton figures.
This afternoon we shall be remembering Fr Jonathan Cooper, Curate of Charlton in the 1970s. This
afternoon’s service takes place at three o’clock. And on Saturday, also at three pm, there is a Service of
Thanksgiving for the life of Elizabeth Giles, the wife of our former director of music, Peter.
ASCENSION DAY
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A reminder that Ascension Day is a week next Thursday – that’s May 1 . There will be a Sung Mass at
7.30pm and with the lighter evenings I would hope for a good turnout. Ascension Day is one of the major
feasts of the church, but is all too often neglected because it falls on a weekday. So far I have resisted the
temptation to follow some parts of the Church of England (and the Roman Catholic Church) which
observe Ascension Day on the nearest Sunday. However, if attendance this year doesn’t come up to
expectations, next year there will either be just a morning Said Mass on the actual day, or we shall keep
Ascension on the nearest Sunday.
A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY
MAY 24th is a big day for Charlton. At lunchtime we are hosting the Annual Provincial Festival of the Guild
of Servants of the Sanctuary. There is a Festival Mass to which we welcome the former Bishop of Rochester and
of Durham, the Right Reverend Michael Turnbull. After lunch, the Guild Office will be sung and there will be
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. At 7.30 in the evening we welcome the Pharos Choir for a concert of
sacred and secular music. Tickets, price £5, can be obtained from Penny Brown.
DURING EASTERTIDE THE ANGELUS AT THE END OF MASS IS REPLACED BY THE
REGINA CAELI WHICH IS SUNG TO THE TUNE OF “JESUS CHRIST IS RISEN TODAY.”
Joy to thee, O Queen of heaven alleluia. He whom thou was meet to bear, alleluia.
As he promised hath arisen, alleluia. Pour for us to God thy prayer, alleluia.
Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia. All: For the Lord has risen indeed, alleluia.
Priest: O God, who by the resurrection of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, you have brought joy to the whole
world: grant that by the help of His mother, the Virgin Mary, we may obtain the joys of everlasting life, through
Christ our Lord. Amen
Your prayers are asked for:
Jessica Taylor Wendy English Eric Waple Fr Patrick Jones
Kenneth Gillham Marian Lisle Eddie King Kirsty Manley
Amber Belsey Fr Bill Shergold
For the recently departed: Nora Rosina Smith; Peter Mastin; Ceinwen Weekes
For those whose anniversaries fall this week:
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Apr 20 : Catherine Farrier Apr 25th: Norman Cloke; Rosemary
Apr 21st: Mark Morris; Susan Steele Prior; Frederick Pursey; baby
Apr 23rd: David Armstrong; Stephen Armstrong Charlotte Elvy
May they rest in peace and rise in glory
The flowers by the Book of Remembrance are in loving memory of Edith Groombridge.
SS Peter & Paul, Charlton in Dover: Priest-in-Charge – Father Colin Johnson SSC, 3 Monastery
Avenue, Dover, Kent. CT16 1AB. Phone: 01304 201143, e-mail: frcj@dsl.pipex.com.