Cathedral News July 2008
From Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
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From the Dean
- A new ministry
Welcome to the Reverend Jenny Wilkens who joins the Cathedral staff this month. Over the next few months the clergy will spend time looking carefully at how best to use the varied talents and skills each brings to the team. I am excited about the possibilities Jenny’s appointment brings, and humbled by the step of faith taken at our annual meeting in agreeing to fund this appointment. While the Cathedral is blessed with ordained people, it is equally blessed with many lay people ready and willing to exercise their various ministries.
- Cathedral Choir Tour
After many months of hard work fund-raising and rehearsing, the time has come for the Choir to depart for England and Paris. We are immensely proud of our Cathedral Choir, and wish them well over the next few weeks. A detailed itinerary appears overleaf. While the initial fund-raising target has been met it is not too late to give money towards the considerable amount each choir member has to find to cover costs not immediately covered by group travel bookings and the like. Thank you to all who have supported the choir over these past months of fund-raising. I hope many of you will be able to come to one or both of the two choral services on Sunday 20 July, to pray for the Choir and wish them well. Cathedral Choristers too go away in July ~ not so far ~ to Masterton for the RSCM Winter School.
- Dean's Travels
In June I had the opportunity to travel (for the first time) to New York and Toronto. As a guest of James Cooper (rector of Trinity Wall St) I had six wonderful days of discovering New York on foot. Among the lasting impressions was St Paul’s Chapel which had a remarkable ministry first to the rescuers and then the demolition workers at Ground Zero following 9/11. The ‘peace bell’ pictured rings out daily reminding people of the need to pray for peace, and to care for the hurting. (Ground Zero is behind the trees.) Time spent at St James Cathedral, Toronto with colleagues from capital cities and financial centres in other parts of the world suggests an Anglican Church far different from that portrayed by the media. Across the world people continue to take seriously the Gospel imperative to preach Christ and to be Christ to all people. Our contexts are often vastly different, but the call to follow our Lord is being heard and responded to.
- Praying for Lambeth
We will be hearing much about the Lambeth Conference over the next few weeks, mostly, I suspect, about splits (real or imagined) in the Anglican Communion, and differing perspectives on marriage and gay relationships. What we are not likely to hear about is the very real way in which our bishops will be able to have time out from responsibility, pray and study together, and make lasting friendships to support them in their often lonely ministries. [17th July to 3rd August]. The Chapel without Walls will carry a regularly updated prayer topic throughout the weeks of Lambeth, and you are invited to spend time, either in the Cathedral or elsewhere, in praying for this once a decade gathering. Pray for Bishop Tom and Dwyllis.
- An Anglican Tennis story of hope
As Wimbledon lovers stay glued to their screens, have a look at this story about Andrea Jager. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/jun/29/wimbledon.tennis
In faith, hope and love we pray.
Lambeth 2008
- Canterbury Cathedral
- Seat of an Archbishop.
- A beacon to pilgrims for hundreds of years.
- Shrine to Thomas à Becket, a “turbulent priest”.
Canterbury resonates with the history of Anglicanism; a colourful blend of vision and faithfulness starting well before Henry VIII. No longer only English, Anglicans are now of diverse cultures and experiences, seeking to find common ground. Pessimists predict disaster but the faithful pray with hope; this year is no exception. Pray for our church; for the strands of commonality that bind us together; for faith, hope and love.
- 2008 Year of Pilgrimage for the Diocese of Wellington
- Archdeaconry colours weaving our sesquicentennial cross.
- Journeys by car, on foot, carried, pushed in wheelchair or buggy.
- Around the Diocese we are telling faith stories, hearing each others’ hopeful dreams, loving our differences.
One hundred and fifty years to remember; another hundred and fifty years to plan for. Pessimists might claim that the Church is dying but the faithful pray, and hope, and plan. Pray for our Diocese; for vision to take us into the future, to hold us and weave us; for faith, hope and love.
- Lambeth Conference 2008
- A year of pilgrimage.
- A year of brittle confidence and apprehension.
- Anglican history meets Anglican future.
Anglican bishops and archbishops from around the world gather in Canterbury for the Lambeth Conference to meet, pray, reflect and study. Bishop Tom and Dwyllis will be there. They go with our love, our stories of faith and our hope, sustained by our prayers. Pray for Bishop Tom at Lambeth.
And now faith, hope and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Parish Retreat
- Venue and Dates
Home of Compassion, Island Bay, 26th to 28th September 2008, lead by Dr Raymond Pelly
- Vision and Insight
Does vision of God generate insight into real life? With the help of artists ‘ancient & modern’ we shall explore the interface between painterly vision of the sacred and the kind of choices & decisions we have to make in our actual lives
- Capacity:
- 15 persons, single/residential
- 10 persons, day participants [25 in all max]
- Cost:
- $135 each residential = own room + meals
- $65 each non-residential = daytime facilities + meals
Cathedral bookings from Sunday 3rd August. First come first served. From 1st September, remaining places open to Diocese.
Camp to Nowhere
Wellington Cathedral is hosting a mission camp for youth within our diocese overnight on the 26th July. This is a chance to explore mission by our church within the city, meet other young people and welcome them to our sacred space. Cost is $10. See Canon Ellie for details and registrations. [Real tents in the Loaves and Fishes!]
Cathedral Choir Tour Itinerary
- 20 July
Farewell service in Wellington Cathedral (5pm)
- 23 July
Depart Wellington
- 25 - 27 July
St George's Chapel, Windsor; Choral Evensongs Fri 25, Sat 26, Sun 27; Choral Mattins and Eucharist Sun 27
- 28 July - 3 August
Westminster Abbey; Daily Choral Services (excl Wed 30)
- 4 - 5 August
St John’s College, Cambridge; Choral Evensong
- 5 August
Ely Cathedral; Lunchtime concert
- 6 - 7 August
Lichfield Cathedral; Choral Evensong
- 9 August
St Eustache, Paris; Evening Mass
- 10 August
Notre-Dame Cathedral; Morning Mass
Choirs
While the Cathedral Choir is away choral services will continue as normal on Sundays with our own and visiting choirs singing services (see back page for details). Weekday Choral Evensong will be sung by the Choristers on Thursdays only, following the start of Term 3. We look forward to welcoming Peter Averi as organist; Stephen Rowley will look after the choristers, Nicola Sutherland St Paul’s Chorale and Richard Prothero the Cathedral Voices. Other choirs are from Waikanae Anglican churches, St Peter’s Willis Street and All Saints Palmerston North.
A Short Pilgrimage: Mulgrave to Molsworth
As part of the Diocesan Sesquicentenary pilgrimage programme Wellington Cathedral’s Dean led choir and congregation to Old St Paul’s for the start of Evensong on 26th May.
More than one tear was shed as people sat in old family pews, David Luke read from a much-loved lectern, and familiar hymns were sung. But times have changed and the church is on the move – dramatically shown as the congregation dashed through the rain, called by the Cathedral bells, to enter the Cathedral as the Choir sang Parry’s arrangement of Psalm 122; I was glad when they said unto me, we will go into the house of the Lord.
Making Sense of Scripture today
- Response and Responsibility in Biblical Interpretation
A one day seminar with Dr Chris Marshall (Victoria University)
Saturday 16th August 9.30am – 3.30pm
Loaves and Fishes Hall; Wellington Cathedral - being Saturday there is plenty of free parking.
Suggested Koha - $20.00 ($10.00 unwaged)
Morning and Afternoon Tea and Light Lunch included
An opportunity to engage as a Diocese in the principals of biblical interpretation, as asked for by Synod 2007.
It is suggested that each ministry unit aim to send at least 3 people (clergy and lay, including synod representatives).
Pre-registration by 8th August desired: admin@wellingtoncathedral.org.nz or Tel472 0286 (Irene or Susan)
This Seminar is arranged jointly by the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, WIT and Ministry Council.
- Biographical note: Dr Chris Marshall, a lay person, is Associate Professor in the Religious Studies Department of Victoria University. Chris's specialities include the study of New Testament theology and ethics, peace theology and practice, and restorative justice. He was one of the speakers at last year’s national Hermeneutics Hui for the Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia presented at Wellington Cathedral.
Quiet Evening
- Seeing is believing: The Gospel in pictures.
Sunday 17th August 5.00 pm evening service with Taizé music lead by the Choir of All Saints, Palmerston North. A quiet evening follows on conducted by Raymond Pelly.
From the Registers
- Funerals
- Evelyn Napier
- William Shire
- Stephen Fitzgerald
Services at the Cathedral - July 2008
- Sunday 6 July
- 8.00 am Eucharist
- 10.00 am Choral Eucharist (Eleanor Sanderson)
- 5.00 pm Choral Evensong (Frank Nelson)
- Sunday 13 July
- 8.00 am Eucharist
- 10.00 am Choral Eucharist (Frank Nelson)
- 5.00 pm Choral Evensong (Jenny Wilkens)
- Sunday 20 July
- 8.00 am Eucharist
- 10.00 am Choral Eucharist (Jenny Wilkens)
- 5.00 pm Choral Evensong (Frank Nelson)
- Sunday 27 July
- 8.00 am Eucharist
- 10.00 am Choral Eucharist (Frank Nelson)
- 5.00 pm Choral Evensong (Ellie Sanderson)
Weekday Choral Evensong
- Tuesday 5.00 pm No services in July
- Thursday 5.30 pm No services till 24th July
Weekday Services in the Lady Chapel
- Monday - Friday 12.15 pm Eucharist
- Wednesday 7.30 am Eucharist
- 1st Saturday of the month 10.30 am Eucharist
- 3rd Saturday of the month 9.30am Family Eucharist
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