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October 2014 Prayer / Worship / Music / Arts / Education / Heritage / Welcoming

Cecil Wray & Manchester Organ The Sock Tree! Literature Festival Project

Page 2 Page 9 Page 11 Sub-Dean’s Corner In Hallowed Footsteps Our current Sub-Dean looks back to a benevolent predecessor… Wray was certainly an eccentric, turning where ‘God’s glory’ dwells. Cecil Wray up at the Cathedral in a ‘carriage and was committed to that throughout his four’ with liveried footmen. Getting ministry. To make it a living reality in 2014 down from his carriage he would bow we must retain this vision of our Cathedral In August we were delighted, to the Dean, shake his fellow Canons as a place of prayer and worship, before by the hand, then proceed to shake the anything else. Our prayers throughout once again, to be involved in the hands of the Minor Canons with two each day and our daily celebration of Manchester Dig the City festival. fingers – or a single finger for . the Holy Eucharist are the framework We were surrounded by great around which the rest of our life as a exhibits in all shapes and sizes. On the occasion of his 88th birthday, vibrant Cathedral in a vibrant city is built. Amongst other things at the he set up a fund for the provision of Cathedral there was a ‘sock tree’, socks for the poor on his birthday each For Cecil Wray, being a place of prayer which stood elegantly by the tomb year, 21 January. There were to be two meant engaging with the people who of Canon Cecil Wray. It reminded pairs of ‘good Worsted stockings’ given came through the door, and trying to me that I walk past that tomb to eight men and eight women in need. meet their needs. Caring for the needs The charity fund was, at Wray’s request, of anyone who steps through those daily to go into the Dean’s Door called ‘Canon Wray’s Birthday Gift’. Our same doors in 2014 is still a huge part without really thinking about the quirky sock tree brought back the story of of what we do, and underpins the remarkable and wildly eccentric this eccentric benefactor, now long gone. amazing work of the Cathedral Volunteer who is buried there. Programme and the newly re-housed If you look at his tomb you will Booth Centre Charity, amongst many Cecil Daniel Wray was a very popular see verses from Psalm 26: other things. This November, the priest at the Cathedral, serving for an Cathedral will again host the Booth Centre astonishing 56 years. He started off O LORD, I love the habitation of thy house, Sleepout, which sees hundreds giving as a Chaplain, a contemporary of the and the place where thine honor dwelleth. up their beds for a night in the cold to famous Joshua Brookes and one who raise funds for the charity. Somehow could rival the latter’s claim to be the As we reflect on his life, we also reflect I think Cecil Wray would approve! most prolific conductor of marriages on our own ministry in what is now a and baptisms in history. Later he was very different city, nearly 130 years later. Perhaps the time has come for a elected to a Fellowship; and when the Those words around his tomb tell us new annual ‘sock day’, around 21 Collegiate Church became a Cathedral that this house of God in which we serve January… Watch this space! in 1847 Wray was one of the Canons, and minister is truly amazing, not just eventually becoming Sub-Dean. because of its history or its beauty, but By Canon Philip Barratt I clearly follow in hallowed footsteps! first and foremost because it is the place

Cover image: Detail from the historical archives, on display Page 2 Cathedral News for Heritage Open Day in September – see page 8. Page 3 Cathedral News

Page 5 Cathedral News Demeter I had not dreamt the world could scale and flake, fall inward like a face stripped of teeth, my breath foul as a dog’s The 2014 I had not meant the pomegranates to decay on the tree, seeds withering, children rotting in the womb

But we are all dust or hide or bone born to be buried under soil, like her, the one who’d loosened my tongue, Friday 7th November who’d moistened my lips with song Earth crushes us, makes fossils of your flesh and mine, squeezes till we are slick, black as night, fuel for myths, nature’s spoil.

Rachel Mann

For one night only we’re sleeping out to highlight some of the hardships that homeless people have to face every single night. We’re inviting you to join us and raise vital funds for the Booth Centre, a charity that provides activities, advice and support to homeless people in Manchester. Are you up to the challenge? #McrSleepout

The Booth Centre 0161 835 2499 Edward Holt House [email protected] Pimblett Street @BoothCentre To find out more and register, Manchester M3 1FU /boothcentre visit boothcentre.org.uk

The Booth Centre, Registered Charity No. 1062674 Summer Coming Up…

Highlights Thursday 9 October, 8.00 pm Manchester Camerata We had a brilliant summer at the Cathedral Asia Triennial this year, trying an array of new guided tours, & Bill Ryder-Jones ‘MLF and Manchester Camerata running workshops and trails for the Dig the Manchester 2014 are proud to present the first live City, hosting the Cristina Rodrigues and Monica The Asia Triennial is now in full swing, performance of Bill Ryder-Jones’s Thornton art exhibitions, and staging the first and the Cathedral will be hosting the two of the Cathedral’s rebooted history plays: ‘Harmonious Society’ art installations landmark solo album, If…, composed

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Page 8 Cathedral News Page 9 Cathedral News John Gillibrand Campaign Corner ‘Celebration of Theology Event’ – Disabled Church: Be a part of it Disabled Society Tickell Organ Builders. We would like Corn Exchange to take this opportunity to express our Developments deepest sympathies to Ken’s family, on behalf of the Cathedral community. The If you have been to the Cathedral or programme of works for Manchester around Exchange Square recently you Cathedral’s new organ has remained will have seen that work on the Corn unchanged despite this sad event, and Exchange redevelopment has begun. it is thanks to both Ken’s hard work The Cathedral has been working closely and the dedication of his family and with Interserve and Queensberry, who are closest colleagues, Tom Jansky and managing the project, to ensure that the Simon Brown, who will continue to redevelopments complement Cathedral lead the project to its completion – the activity and fabric development plans. last and biggest that Ken worked on. The Corn Exchange is set to re-open in Easter 2015. Organ Project Update We can now confirm the key dates for the organ project works, which will begin with the refurbishment of the Jesus Chapel pipes in January and February 2015 and end with the voicing of the new instrument, hopefully in September/ November 2016. Most of the building work will take place off-site, so any major disruptions inside the Cathedral building will be roughly limited to July-September 2015 during the dismantling of the old organ and May-September 2016 for the installation of the new. There will be a temporary instrument for music in the intervening period. We have a number of education and community projects planned to run alongside the dismantling The new organ is designed to support and installation, both of which are both the choir and the congregation momentous occasions in the Cathedral’s for a very long time. To be a part of Tuesday 18 November 2014 history. We look forward to confirming the life of the instrument you can still these in due course. Keep up-to-date 7.00 pm at Manchester Cathedral ‘sponsor a pipe’! To download the by our website and social media. in the Nave leaflet and sponsorship form go to: www.manchestercathedral.org/ Finally, it is with great sadness that development-project/new-organ Manchester Theological Society we report the death of Ken Tickell, of Tel 0151 833 2220 for more details

Page 11 Cathedral News Devotional The Diary October

Wednesday 1 October Thursday 9 October Friday 17 October All day Cathedrals Plus 12 noon Mothers’ Union 7.30 pm SAMM Service A Saint for Conference 2014 Thursday Prayer 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves 1.10 pm Chetham’s School Saturday 18 October of Music Lunchtime Concert 11.00 am Coffee Concert Thursday 2 October 8.00 pm Manchester 7.30 pm Manchester the Month All day Cathedrals Plus Literature Festival: If—music Chamber Choir Conference 2014 by Bill Ryder Jones 9 October Tuesday 21 October Robert Grosseteste, c. 1175-1253 Friday 3 October Sunday 12 October 7.30 pm Chetham’s School of 7.00 pm Jessie Ware 10.30 am Judges’ Service Music Ensemble Concert Bishop of Lincoln, philosopher, scientist

Tuesday 14 October Thursday 23 October Saturday 4 October 12.30 pm Julian Prayer Group 7.30 pm DBE Govenors Service 2.15 pm—5.00 pm 7.30 pm Out at the Be a Chorister for a Day Cathedral Service (LGF) Saturday 25 October Robert Grosseteste was lucky Much of what the Reformer John Wycliffe 5.00 pm Be a Chorister for 10.00 am Apostolic Pastoral (c. 1320-1384) later campaigned for a Day Act of Worship to be born when and where Wednesday 15 October Association Joint Service he was. In those days, sons of had been anticipated by Grosseteste: 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves of Celebration, especially his criticism of the Papacy, Sunday 5 October – St Denys 2.30 pm Manchester Cathedral and Licensing peasants could only ‘make good’ 10.30 am Sung Eucharist— his sympathy for the Greek Orthodox Poetry Prize with Manchester through the Church; and this incense used Literature Festival Wednesday 29 October Church and the importance of 5.30 pm Choral Evensong 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves was a time when the Church preaching and pastoral work. Thursday 16 October 7.00 pm 65Daysofstatic, was central to European society, Tuesday 7 October 7.30 pm Manchester Literature ‘The Fall of Math’ 7.00 pm Manchester Literature Festival & Manchester Theological when its founding of the first In today’s scientific world, Grosseteste Festival: Simon Armitage in Society: The Manchester Sermon Thursday 30 October conversation with Rachel Cooke with Audrey Niffenegger 7.00 pm Nick Mulvey universities was re-invigorating is remembered together with his its intellectual and spiritual life. student, Roger Bacon (1214-1294) as one of the pioneers of the experimental It’s likely that, as a Suffolk boy, method, especially in his study of light. Grosseteste studied at Paris and Oxford, Looking ahead November before going on to lecture at Oxford in In his studies on light and creation he Sunday 2 November Wednesday 12 November 5.30 pm Evensong with law, theology, medicine, mathematics came up with the idea that the universe 10.30 am Sung Eucharist— 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves welcome to new head teachers and the natural sciences. He was later started as a point beginning in time incense used appointed to be the equivalent that was similar in many ways to the 5.30 pm Festal Evensong and Thursday 13 November Thursday 20 November Procession—incense used 12 noon Mothers’ Union 10.00 am—2.30 pm of our modern University Chancellor. contemporary Big Bang theory. Thursday Prayer Mothers’ Union Quiet Day Monday 3 November 1.10 pm Chetham’s School of In 1235 he became Bishop of Lincoln, As a mathematician he seems also to 3.00 pm Five Lost Churches Music Lunchtime Concert Saturday 22 November Book Launch 9.00 am—5.00 pm Come and Sing the largest diocese in England where have anticipated Georg Cantor (1845- Friday 14 November 5.30 pm Requiem 2.30 pm—4.00 pm Hanging he proved to be an energetic reformer, 1918) by being the first to propose the Eucharist—incense used Monday 24 November Ditch Wine Fair removing clergy who were slack in their paradox that not all infinities are equal. 7.00 pm Sharon Van Etten Tuesday 4 November 6.30 pm—9.30 pm Hanging

pastoral duties – as one might expect 12.30 pm Julian Prayer Group Ditch Wine Fair Tuesday 25 November of someone who was present at the Following his death, attempts were 12.30 pm Julian Prayer Group Friday 7 November Saturday 15 November made to have him canonised, but now, signing of the Magna Carta in 1215. 8.00 pm Manchester Sleepout 11.00 am Coffee Concert Wednesday 26 November On a pilgrimage to Rome, he even took after long neglect, the polymathic for the Booth Centre 2.30 pm Children’s and Youth 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves Work Certificate Presentation on Pope Innocent IV and the Vatican stature of Robert Grosseteste Saturday 8 November 7.00 pm Piano Recital Saturday 29 November for corruptions at the very heart of is again being appreciated. 7.30 pm Concert with 7.30 pm Fodens Brass Papal power. His carefully prepared Manchester Baroque Tuesday 18 November 7.00 pm Celebration of Theology Band Concert

legal case was ignored, however, By Albert Radcliffe Tuesday 11 November Wednesday 19 November and he was reckoned fortunate to 10.45 am Manchester Regiment Monday 30 November 10.00 am—4.00 pm Remembrance Service 5.30 pm Advent Carol Service have escaped excommunication. Growing in Kingdom

Page 12 Cathedral News Page 13 Cathedral News Looking further ahead December Contacts

Monday 1 December Tuesday 9 December Thursday 18 December Manchester Cathedral Cathedral Visitor & Chetham’s 7.00 pm Augustines 11.30 pm Greater Manchester 7.30 pm Royal Manchester Victoria Street Conference Centre Chamber of Commerce Children’s Hospital Charity School of Music Tuesday 2 December & Industry Carol Concert Carol Concert M3 1SX Cateaton Street Long Millgate 7.30 pm MedEquip4Kids 7.30 pm NSPCC Carols Carol Concert Friday 19 December M3 1SQ M3 1SB by Candelight 7.00 pm The Genesis 0161 833 2220 0161 817 4817 0161 834 9644 Wednesday 3 December Christmas Concert 7.00 pm Action for Children Wednesday 10 December Carol Concert 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves Saturday 20 December 7.00 pm Henshaws Carols 12 noon—1.30 pm Cathedral Clergy Staff Thursday 4 December by Candlelight Christmas Sing-Along

1.10 pm Chetham’s School of Music (FREE event, drop in at any time) Dean of Manchester Cathedral Administrator Thursday 11 December Lunchtime Concert 7.30 pm Cathedral Family 12 noon Mothers’ Union The Very Revd Rogers Govender [email protected] 7.30 pm Children’s Carols Concert Society Carol Service Thursday Prayer [email protected] Monday 22 December Dean’s PA Friday 5 December Saturday 13 December 7.30 pm Festival of Nine Canon for Theology & Mission [email protected] 7.30 pm North West Air 7.00 pm Messiah Concert Lessons and Carols Ambulance Charity Concert Vacancy Sunday 14 December Wednesday 24 December Cathedral Administrative Secretary Saturday 6 December 3.00 pm St John Ambulance 12 noon Blessing of the Crib & Archdeacon of Manchester [email protected] 11.30 am Star for Christmas (Age UK) County Carol Service Children’s Nativity The Venerable Mark Ashcroft 2.15 pm—5.00 pm 11.30 pm First Communion [email protected] Cathedral Office Assistant Be a Chorister for a Day Monday 15 December of Christmas [email protected] 5.00 pm Be a Chorister: 6.30 pm ‘Merry Alexmas’ (Alex Act of Worship Hulme Foundation Charity Concert) Thursday 25 December Canon Precentor 10.30 am Christmas Day Eucharist— Canon Philip Barratt Finance Assistant Sunday 7 December Tuesday 16 December incense used [email protected] [email protected] 1.00 pm, 2.30 pm & 4.00 pm 12 noon Evening Prayer Light up a Life (St Ann’s 12.30 pm Julian Prayer Group

Hospice) - by invitation Friday 26 December Logistics Officer Wednesday 17 December Cathedral 11.00 am Morning Prayer [email protected] 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves Jane Walker Monday 8 December & Holy Communion 3.30 pm BBC Choral Evensong [email protected] 11.00 am & 2.15 pm Manchester 4.30 pm Evening Prayer Senior Verger Evening News Concert [email protected] Chapter Lay Canons David Howe, Barrie Cheshire Vergers EXHIBITIONS Asia Triennial 27 September - 23 November, Main Cathedral [email protected] Cathedral Chaplains Canon Adrian Rhodes [email protected] Christmas Concerts - Tickets Service Times Revd Peter Bellamy-Knights For all charity concerts, please contact the charity directly Organist & Master of the Choristers for tickets. Details of the ballot for Manchester Evening Midweek Services Cathedral Pastor [email protected] News tickets will appear in the paper. Tickets for the Morning Prayer 9.00am Mon-Fri Canon Alma Servant Cathedral’s Messiah and Family Carols concerts will go on Sub Organist Holy Communion 1.10pm Mon-Fri [email protected] sale soon. Please check www.manchestercathedral.org [email protected] Evensong 5.30pm Tues-Thurs* Evening Prayer 4.30pm Mon & Fri Cathedral Reader Emeritus Worship & Music Administrator Be the first to get the news! Saturday Services Raylia Chadwick [email protected] By signing up to receive Cathedral News by [email protected] email, as a PDF file, you will help us reduce Morning Prayer & 9.00am Education Officer our postage bill and paper consumption. Holy Communion Congregation [email protected] To register, simply send an email to: Evensong 5.30pm* [email protected] Churchwardens & Stewards Director of Fundraising & Development Sunday Services [email protected] Back copies are available to view on our website, under anthony.o’[email protected] ‘Publications’. Go to: www.manchestercathedral.org Matins 8.45am Holy Communion (1662) 9.00am Archives Secretary to the Development Project You can also subscribe online to the E-News, and Sung Eucharist 10.30am [email protected] [email protected] updates for Development, Music and Events for Schools. Evensong 5.30pm* Flowers: Helen Bamping The Cathedral Diary is accurate at the time of going Volunteer Programme Manager *Please note Pauline Dimond to print. Keep up to date via social media, website or Friends of Manchester Cathedral: [email protected] During school holidays evening services Malcom Murphy telephone: 0161 833 2220 Ringing Master: are said. All said services are at 4.30 pm. Secretary to Bell Ringers: Catherine Rhodes Visitor Services Manager Follow us on Facebook & Twitter: Variations to the schedule for special dates and [email protected] services will be listed here whenever possible. Warren Smith, JP, Cathedral High Steward /ManchesterCathedral @ManCathedral Chair of Manchester Cathedral Development Trust 0161 834 0490 [email protected] Page 14 Cathedral News Page 15 Cathedral News