Newsletter of All Saints’ Anglican Church, Via del Babuino 153. May 20 th 2018 Pentecost While it may not be as widely known or celebrated as Christmas and Easter, Pentecost is one of the most significant dates of the Christian calendar. The festival, which falls today, commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples following the death of Jesus Christ. The biblical account describes how the apostles, who were gathered to celebrate the Jewish harvest festival of Shavuot, began to talk in foreign tongues, leading the massed onlookers to assume that they were drunk. However, Saint Peter explained that the disciples were inspired by the Holy Spirit and preached the first Christian sermon, prompting the conversion and baptism of 3,000 people. This first Pentecost marked the beginning of the Christian church as an official, meaningful movement, so the celebration is widely considered the birthday of Christianity. Monday in Whitsun Week (Gueranger 1870) Why is the festival called Pentecost? When is it celebrated? The festival’s name comes from the Greek word ‘Pentekostos’, meaning ’50’. It is celebrated on the seventh Sunday after Easter, marking 50 days since the final Sabbath of Passover, and so falls on a different date each year. Why is it also known as Whitsun? While ‘Pentecost’ is more widely used in the UK, traditionally the church has referred to the celebration as ‘Whitsun’, or ‘Whit Sunday’. It is believed that the name comes from Pentecost being a day for baptisms, when participants would dress in white. ‘Whitsun’ is also thought to derive from the Anglo-Saxon word ‘wit’, meaning ‘understanding’, to celebrate the disciples being filled with the wisdom of the Holy Spirit. (From the Independent) There will be a meeting of the Church Council on Friday May 25 th at 17.30. There was a productive meeting last week with the Archdeacon of Italy and Malta, the Ven. Vickie Sims, to discuss procedures for the appointment of a new Chaplain. Last week we had the pleasure of welcoming as celebrant and preacher the Rev Dr Justin
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Newsletter of All Saints’ Anglican Church, Via del Babuino 153. May 20th 2018
PentecostWhile it may not be as widely known or celebrated as Christmas and Easter, Pentecost is one of the most significant dates of the Christian calendar.The festival, which falls today, com-memorates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples following the death of Jesus Christ.The biblical account describes how the apostles, who were gathered to cele-brate the Jewish harvest festival of Shavuot, began to talk in foreign tongues, leading the massed onlookers to assume that they were drunk. How-ever, Saint Peter explained that the dis-ciples were inspired by the Holy Spirit and preached the first Christian ser-mon, prompting the conversion and baptism of 3,000 people.This first Pentecost marked the begin-ning of the Christian church as an offi-cial, meaningful movement, so the cele-bration is widely considered the birth-day of Christianity.
Monday in Whitsun Week (Gueranger 1870)Why is the festival called Pente-cost? When is it celebrated?The festival’s name comes from the Greek word ‘Pentekostos’, meaning ’50’.It is celebrated on the seventh Sunday after Easter, marking 50 days since the final Sabbath of Passover, and so falls on a different date each year. Why is it also known as Whitsun?
While ‘Pentecost’ is more widely used in the UK, traditionally the church has re-ferred to the celebration as ‘Whitsun’, or ‘Whit Sunday’.It is believed that the name comes from Pentecost being a day for baptisms, when participants would dress in white.‘Whitsun’ is also thought to derive from the Anglo-Saxon word ‘wit’, meaning ‘understanding’, to celebrate the disci-ples being filled with the wisdom of the Holy Spirit. (From the Independent)
There will be a meeting of the Church Council on Friday May 25th at 17.30. There was a pro-ductive meeting last week with the Archdea-con of Italy and Malta, the Ven. Vickie Sims, to discuss procedures for the appointment of a new Chaplain.
Last week we had the pleasure of welcoming as celebrant and preacher the Rev Dr Justin Lewis-Anthony, who had been deputy-direc-tor of the Anglican Centre since February 1st, taking over from the Rev Marcus Walker, who has been appointed Rector of St Bartholomew the Great in the City of London.
From the Anglican Centre web-site: Justin Lewis-Anthony has previously been Precentor and Cathedral Chaplain at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford for five years, Rector of St Stephen’s Church, Hackington in the diocese of Canterbury for ten years, Associate Dean of Students and Director of Anglican Studies at Virginia Theological Seminary in the USA for three years and an Associate Fellow at the Oxford Centre of Ecclesiastical and Practical Theology. His publications include “Circles of Thorns: Hieronymus Bosch and Being Hu-man” and ”If You Meet George Herbert on the Road, Kill Him!” – radically rethinking priestly ministry.
Be warned: on Sunday May 27th the cycle tour of Italy finishes in Rome with ten laps of a cir-cuit that starts and ends in Piazza del Popolo. Although the race doesn’t start until 15.55, you can be sure there will be restrictions all around the area from early morning!
A reminder that Father Jonathan’s last service at All Saints’ is on Sunday June 17th!
The service for Corpus Christi on May 21st at 19.00 will have an enlarged choir and string
ensemble to accompany the service with Haydn’s “Little Organ mass”. It will be fol-lowed by refreshments in the garden.
Rather unusually a number of enquiries were made about the bouncy postlude that Darren played on the organ last Sunday. It was the Sortie in E flat by Louis Lefébure-Wely (1817-1869). He was born in Paris, and was consid-ered something of a child prodigy, giving his first organ recital when he was only 8 years old. A programme note from Hyperion records describes the piece as “a giant fire-cracker”!
This morning we will witness the confirma-tion of
Timothy Mark BachelorChika Rachael Emejuru
by The Most Rev’d Bernard Ntahoturi, Dir-ector of the Anglican Centre and the Repres-entative of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Holy See .
The Ecumenical garden.Rose Wentz writes: Hello friends of the gar-den,
The garden will be open the following Satur-days.May 26, June 9 and 23 10am to 1pm.
If you or a group would like to visit the gar-den on another date please letme know and we will arrange for it to be open. Please share this informationwith others.
The concert next Sunday is rather special be-cause it involves the musical directors of All Saints’ and St Paul’s Within the Walls. The New Chamber Singers are the choir that is based at All Saints’ and the Corale Amerina is directed by our own organist Gabriele Catalucci, who will be playing the organ on this occasion. The concert is part of a short Vivaldi festival at All Saints’ because the day before a local orchestra will be playing his Four Seasons. In spite of the Tour of Italy cy-cle race which is taking place in and around the area we hope many of you will take the opportunity of attending this concert, which is at the very reasonable hour of 18.00!
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