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THE CATHOLIC VOICE IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SUMMER 2014

Reflections on the trials and tribulations of the prophet Jonah. Page 11

The Church Travellers' Directory The Faith once delivered to the Saints see pages 12 -14 Passing on the Faith in a secular age It goes without saying that a Faith reserved for church families, or schools continue to educate pupils which is not passed on is doomed whether the vicar should chair the from a wide variety of to destruction. Since we believe governing body, but we are aware backgrounds, ethnicities and the Christian Faith to be true, and that the network of church schools indeed religions, and continue to too good to keep to ourselves, we is an important part of what the perform well in their Ofsted have, as Christians down the Church of England has done and inspections. centuries, worked hard at teaching continues to offer in England. it to people. We may be taken Most of our clergy are keen to get But two things might strike us as aback by how little people in to work in the non-church schools we consider this from an Anglo- modern Britain seem to know too, and it is possible, with a little Catholic perspective. One is how about it, but that only means we good will and some gentle work at we provide resources for parishes have to evolve new strategies for the relationships, to offer support in educating young people and educating them. After all, how can in those schools without being adults outside the school context, anyone make a rational choice seen as some kind of threat. and the Church Union is hoping to about whether to follow Christ if work on confirmation materials as Also in they do not know what he is saying Earlier this summer, a number of well as Sunday school resources; to them? ‘How shall they hear Birmingham schools were in the the other is how we respond in this issue... without a preacher?’ as St Paul news because there was concern terms of social action to other ...... once asked. over the behaviour of some needs that we see around us. If Muslim governors. There was an we are to learn anything from our The Bishops This issue of Together takes a look almost inevitable backlash from history, we might learn that we are of the Society at some aspects of Christian certain quarters against the idea at our least effective when we are education. Church schools feature of ‘faith schools’ in general, even in retreat from the parish outside. respond to the highly in the work of many of our though these schools were The spirit of rolling up our sleeves July Synod vote parishes. We may have varying ordinary state schools in areas and getting stuck in where others opinions about what (if any) with high Islamic populations. will not remains a mighty effective Page 8 proportion of the intake should be Nevertheless, Church of England weapon in our spiritual armoury!

Parish Profile: here iam Monks & Nuns... A new initiative aimed at encouraging St Wilfred’s, vocations to ministry in the Church of England the ultimate gamble? Harrogate page 2 page 16 page 7 2 Together Summer 2014 visit our website: www.glastonburypilgrimage.co.uk Monks and Nuns...the ultimate gamble?

A monk?! Don’t be stupid; it is a gamble: what if there complete waste of your life. The is no God after all and parish needs you: I mean, who’s you have given up going to run the youth group?! Be a everything? priest or a lay-worker; that would be much more useful. The Archbishop of Canterbury maintains These are the kind of things that without monks churchgoing folk often say when a and nuns our Church member of the congregation ‘.. would be mentions that he or she is feeling a diminished both in little drawn towards the religious life depth and breadth’. as a monk or a nun. Sadly, a similarly He goes on, ‘Through discouraging response is sometimes (living as monks and given by clergy and Diocesan nuns) people subject Directors of Ordinands, who really themselves above all ought to know better. to prayer. … they are there to encourage Since the very early days of each other in walking Christianity, the Holy Spirit has been more and more calling people to the desert (both deeply into the light England? Let’s do a little ‘spiritual to people who have already placed actual and metaphorical) to live a life that is Christ.’ Significantly he adds health check’; do you recognise any their bets! apart. If the vocation of these men that throughout history, the religious or all of the following symptoms? and women represents more than an communities have been ‘the engine If you are single, male or female, and outbreak of collective weirdness, room of renewal and conversion’ in • Feeling a little restless aged 18+ you are invited to come there must surely be a God-inspired the Church. • Not entirely content with life along to a ‘monk and nun experience purpose behind it; to embrace • Spending more and more time day’ to be held on Saturday 18th poverty, chastity and obedience is a Are you perhaps being called to play a thinking about God October at St Mary’s church, radical way of living and a real part in renewing the Church of • Losing interest in some of the Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. ‘ordinary’ things other people There will be talks, worship, lunch seem obsessed by and the opportunity to chat with some • A nagging feeling that God monks and nuns about what their wants you for something lives are really like. • Generally happy, but with a sense that there is something not quite Now is your chance to begin to explore complete deep inside you and find out what you’ve always wanted to know about monks and These may be symptoms of a nuns but have been too afraid to ask! vocation to the religious life and that the Holy Spirit is gently tapping you on Further information and to register at the shoulder, asking you to stake your no charge, please email life on ‘the ultimate wager’. How will [email protected] you find out? The best way is to talk Br Robert OGS The Society in the Diocese of Sheffield Prayer and penitence on Palm Sunday

The Society in the Diocese of Sheffield has been youth worker at St Mary’s. We then processed to were invited to receive the sacraments of healing getting children from the parishes together for church, stopping at various places en-route to pray and reconciliation, and it was wonderful to see a worship and fun a couple of times each year. They some of the Stations of the Cross. Once in church large number of children putting themselves into have recently appointed Ben Otley as their youth we had a simple penitential liturgy and reflected on the hands of Christ in that way. coordinator, and he has sent news of a recent St Paul’s words in the letter to the Galatians: event, held at St Mary’s Handsworth, just outside although in life we are surrounded by distractions, Then we were back in the hall for hot-dogs and Sheffield itself. and we often think we have much to boast of, we cakes, and the hot cross buns we had made earlier should boast of nothing except the cross of our were ready to eat! We had a good turn-out, with For our Palm Sunday Youth Liturgy, the theme was Lord Jesus Christ. nearly 50 young people plus accompanying adults, ‘following Jesus and the Cross’. We started in the helpers and clergy. We look forward to offering church hall with a welcome from myself and our During the liturgy, we were invited to place a candle many more of these events around the diocese, chairman Fr Jeffrey Stokoe, then we were straight underneath a cross which we had hung in the and so giving our young people a chance to get into some craft activities organised by Alison, the Chancel arch. Following the liturgy, the children together and to develop their faith in an informal way. THE CATHOLIC VOICE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Together Summer 2014 3

nave altogether, into a dingy room national and religious for what might be under-resourced backgrounds. How do we worship The Church teaching, and actively encourage in a distinctively Christian way, but them to disengage by providing keep the children together? them with secular books, food, and Likewise, what can we offer in non- even games consoles? And are we church schools which will help Observer prepared to work with their parents them, and enable us to build up a to try to get the provision right? relationship? After all, it is the relationships which make these And what about other contexts, things work, and if we can work out beyond Sunday mornings, where the right way to build those Children and we might be worshipping with relationships, we will have a children? The Church of England is context for getting to know parents obsessed by ‘fresh expressions of as well as children, and responding worship’, so why shouldn’t we give to their needs as they present Worship: it a go, but make it work in our themselves. And let’s always context? If we’re in the right place, remember to work with the people say near a school, maybe a mums- we’ve got: the staff, the children, and-toddlers service makes sense. the parents. Where are they What’s to be But let’s start by asking the coming from? So if we’ve got as parents what they think might far as an assembly, let’s always try work. And how about school to begin with the children, in their involvement? There’s more on that context, their age, their faith elsewhere in this edition of background, and what they’re afraid of? Together, but what can we offer used to. church and non-church schools by way of worship? Perhaps the trick is to keep It is probably fair to say that some singing, bringing the offertory to offering. And if what we offer first parishes are better at making the altar, reading, praying, and so There clearly is a difference doesn’t fit the bill, let’s offer provision for children’s worship on. Children can take part in any of between how a parish might relate something else. And if the number than others. And many clergy and those things without undermining to its ‘own’ church school (and a of children in church doesn’t involved lay people will roll their the seriousness of eucharistic quarter of primary schools in this quadruple overnight, let’s not eyes and say, ‘if only we had some worship and the prayerful country are Church of England panic. We can only offer. And if we young people to provide for!’ But atmosphere we seek to inculcate. schools), but that is not the end of get the number up from four to before we start beating ourselves Children are not generally afraid of the story. Many of our church five, well, we’ve gone above the up, let’s remember that the silence: in fact, in an age when schools are serving the local national average. average Church of England parish they are surrounded by noise and community in a context of mixed church only has about four children busy-ness, they often seem to on an ordinary Sunday. Siren appreciate quiet in church. voices will advise us to marginalise Perhaps we should trust our own the mass one Sunday each month tradition a little more. and turn the church into a fun fair. But if we want our worship to And what about other Sunday continue to appeal to adult provision? What about Sunday members of our congregation, that Schools? Once upon a time, could be a risky strategy. Sunday School took place after mass, not during it, and may even It is, after all, perfectly possible for have been called ‘catechism’. children simply to come to mass. Nowadays we assume that parents Go to mass in France and look will be pleased to have their around: there are families, and the charges taken away during mass children are there, worshipping and brought back in time for some with their parents. So what ‘stuff’ show-and-tell at the end. Maybe might we supply to help parents we have the resources in the worship with their children? What parish to run a Children’s Church books are available, and what soft on a Sunday morning, but if we play toys? When did we last look don’t, any of us can provide at a selection of children’s mass something to enable the children books? What might help the to participate in the day’s scriptural children be active worshippers theme while the priest continues rather than passive attenders at his erudite series of sermons on mass? the Letter to the Hebrews.

Children value structure: we can So here’s a slightly provocative offer that, but we might need to let question: if worship is about them know how it works. Are we enabling the individual to offering materials that will help our encounter God, why do we create children focus on the liturgy, or are situations where we consciously we just parking them while the remove the child from doing the adults are at mass? After all, we very thing that worship is meant to worship in a way which uses colour, do? Does it really work to set up a music, smell, movement, and a raft children's area in the corner of ways in which children might be furthest away from the liturgical involved: welcoming, serving, action, or to take them out of the 4 Together Summer 2014 visit our website: www.churchunion.co.uk

CORPUS CHRISTI Bishop Roger Jupp, Superior-General Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament

One of the most copied art works in hard were these words to bear. only fed them for a while and, to increase love and reverence for the world is Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Similarly, when Jesus predicts his indeed, they died. But Jesus says the Lord’s presence in the Blessed Supper. It is a mural painting on the betrayal in the upper room, as this bread he gives is one that will Sacrament. It is always a joy to wall of the refectory of the convent of depicted by Leonardo, there is satisfy, so much so that it will give admid new members to CBS. Our Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan uproar and disbelief, and even John, life for ever, eternal life. This remedy prayer for them as they join our which had been commissioned to be the beloved disciple who leaned is one that heals our souls and number is that they will always produced around 1495. The effects close to Jesus during the meal, unites us with God in and through promote, in word and action, the of time, constant human interest, appears to turn away with sadness Jesus and his sacrifice on the cross. honour due to Christ’s Body and the environment, as well as the and resignation. So we must approach this food with Blood in the most holy sacrament of ravages of war, let alone the loving faith, seeing beneath its veil the altar, and remain firm in the faith unstable medium which Leonardo The giving of the Eucharist is no the risen and glorified life of Jesus, and unity of God’s Church. Like us, used, means that today little of what empty action by Jesus. What he the promise of that fullness of life they are to fulfil in their lives what we Leonardo originally painted remains. gives and what he says about the gift which Jesus himself said he came to profess It has been restored a number of makes demands upon us. We are give us. It is a gift which makes with our lips. times, the last and most called upon to say “Amen” when we demands on us: we cannot casually “ controversial being in 1999. receive Holy Communion; to say, In a time of uncertainty in the life of perhaps like Martha, the sister of our Church, the feast of Corpus Leonardo’s work was designed to Lazarus, when Jesus announced May the receiving of Christi, the Body and Blood of Christ, capture that moment during the Last himself to her as the Resurrection gives us the proper focus, asking us Supper, recounted in John’s Gospel, and the Life - an equally stupendous your Body and to pledge ourselves anew to the when, to the consternation of the claim - “Yes, Lord, I believe that you Blood, Lord Jesus demands which the Lord makes on gathered disciples, Jesus announced are the Christ.” And when we Christ, not bring me us as he feeds us with the Bread of that one of them would betray him. receive the gift of his Body and Life. We ask for the gift of The artist portrays various degrees Blood, we know also that we are to judgement and perseverance so that we might of shock and anger. With his eyes always unworthy to receive the condemnation, but remain firm in the faith and unity of cast down, Jesus’ left hand indicates Lord’s gift because we know the Church – the apostolic faith, the the bread still on the table. The ourselves too well and we know how through your loving faith and tradition of the apostles to disciples, however, appear to often we betray him and the sacrifice mercy be for me whom the Lord entrusted the disregard the bread, and accuse and of which the Eucharist is the stewardship of these holy things. point to one another. There is, of enduring sign and symbol. As the protection in mind The freshness and vibrancy of the course, the air of sacrifice and priest prepares to invite the people and body and a colours in Leonardo da Vinci’s betrayal permeating the scene. to Holy Communion, no wonder one painting of the Last Supper have Jesus is the Passover Lamb that will of the prayers the liturgy asks him “to healing remedy. faded over the centuries. The traffic be sacrificed but, as always, it will be repeat is this: “May the receiving of of humans and the vagaries of a human hand that brings it about. your Body and Blood, Lord Jesus approach it or carelessly receive it atmosphere and climate have played St John, in his Gospel account of the Christ, not bring me to judgement for in it we must seek to discern the their part in obscuring what Last Supper, does not have the and condemnation, but through your Saviour of the world, the Lamb of Leonardo first portrayed. Our faith institution of the Eucharist; rather, in loving mercy be for me protection in God who takes away the sin of the and perseverance must not be like the washing of the disciples’ feet, he mind and body and a healing world. this! Our lives as much as our words concentrates on the commandment remedy.” must remain eloquent in proclaiming to love and the need for service of The Confraternity of the Blessed our faith in Jesus and the integrity of one another in humility, as well as The Eucharist is indeed a healing Sacrament has, since its foundation the faith once delivered to the this prediction of the betrayal. And remedy. It is the gift of God to those in 1862, sought to help faithful saints. Our lives must speak of that the reason for this is that Jesus has who look to his Son Jesus Christ, a Anglicans to do just this. Founded in communion with the body of Christ already given the Bread of Life and remedy for the sin of the world and an age of persecution when priests about which St Paul reminded the expounded on its meaning in our share in that sin, our betrayal and people were vilified for returning Corinthians who were his disciples. chapter 6 of his Gospel at the and our lack of recognition of his to the catholic faith and practice May the Lord, who gives us the true feeding of the 5000. But Jesus’ love at work amongst us. Jesus says which had become obscured in the bread from heaven, strengthen us to words and actions on both occasions to us as he did to the Jews who centuries following the English live by his life and so rise in glory on cause controversy. Having heard argued amongst themselves about Reformation, it was designed to be a the last day where we will all rejoice what Jesus said about being the how he could give them his flesh to prayerful fraternity which supported in his unveiled presence. living bread which has come down eat, “whoever eats me will draw life and encouraged those whose faith from heaven, we later learn that a from me.” The manna given to the was under fire. Those who joined it number of his disciples left him, too Hebrews wandering in the desert sought sanctification as they worked THE CATHOLIC VOICE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Together Summer 2014 5 Finding the Common Ground How can church and school contribute to building community? Mary Thorne reflects on her experience as Head Teacher of an inner London Church of England primary school.

We hope that our churches and our schools will fall at the first hurdle: the school is made up of could offer them? Is there a regular line of be places of learning and spiritual growth. And children who will never be part of our ‘flock’, so communication between school and church? if both church and school are in the business we won’t bother! But children from all faiths Is there a project that both places could have of building community, then it is absolutely and no faith are part of the flock, because they an active role in developing? Does each place right that they should work in partnership. Yet live in the parish. So I would always suggest know what it could offer the other for the what a difficult task we are setting ourselves: starting with the things that are part of our own common good of all? two institutions trying to achieve a similar goal, tradition and which we deeply treasure. and yet the two worlds often standing in I will never forget a priest saying very clearly to isolation from each other, with no-one daring to An example of this is to begin with the building me that at the heart of Anglo-Catholic life is the cross the road and enter that other world. How itself. The modern world is so fast-moving, Mass, so it was our job as Priest and Head do we as leaders begin to build bridges that places of beauty are sometimes scarce, and Teacher to work out together how we were will enable others to pass freely from one to finding silence in our daily lives can be going to enable a multi-faith community to the other? How do we enable school practically impossible. What a place of worship participate in the Mass and be enriched by it, communities to recognise that the church has can do is offer all those things in one go: not switched off by it. It was not my job as the something to offer them, and how do we get beauty, silence and an opportunity to stop and Head to change what was so fundamental to our Sunday congregations to recognise that our be still. Are our church buildings open, and are the life of the church, but rather to see it as an schools are a wonderful resource and example they welcoming places, so that our children opportunity. Likewise, I believe it was of community living in action? can develop a sense of ownership of them? I appropriate for the priest to listen to me and to was quite struck recently when taking a group work with me, so that what we created was It seems to me that if church and school are of children into church for a choir rehearsal on something that enabled our children and staff going to have an impact on the growth of their a day when they encountered adults waiting to to experience something of God at the deepest community, the starting point has to be rehearse for a concert. One child asked me, and most profound level possible for them. building an effective working relationship ‘What are they doing in our church?’ Whilst I between Head Teacher and Parish Priest. had to explain that ‘our church’ was not just If we really are about developing God’s Priests and Heads need to understand each ours but belonged to all people, inside I was kingdom here on earth, if we really are about other’s contexts, be willing to enter into each touched that our children felt that the church developing communities, then there is no other’s worlds, and work out a shared vision for was part of their school, the place belonged to better place to start than with a community of effectively developing the communities of them. children. It is very often listening to the child’s which they are both part. voice that moves us into action and enables us Do children feel that the building is theirs? Are to aspire to greater things. When both So how can a church and its priest have a they regular visitors to it? Is their work communities seek out the common ground, meaningful role in the life of a school? displayed in it? Is the building used to support treasure it, develop it and trust it, then it will Because of the diverse and often multi-faith the RE curriculum? Are links made between yield a fruitful harvest. contexts in which many of our schools are Sunday worship and school life? Does the found, it would be easy for the Parish Priest to school recognise and know what their church 6 Together Summer 2014 visit our website: www.sswsh.com Faith in Action

Fr Tim Pike shares his experience set up tables and cook a big dinner this happens. There are other I would thoroughly commend of being part of a north London in time to welcome guests, who positive outcomes as well. Our schemes like this. They bring faith churches project to help the arrive at 8.00 pm. The guests parishioners love putting their to life. One morning after the Night homeless. check in and then we all eat Christian faith to such evidently Shelter I was celebrating Mass. together. Another, smaller, team of good application, and they enjoy Mindful of Christ’s identification Five years ago I received an email volunteers arrives later. They stay in telling their friends about what they with the poor and the suffering and asking our parish to participate in church overnight. As our parish do at church; at any rate, lots of his call to followers to serve him in something called the Haringey does not have a hall, guests sleep parishioners bring friends along them, I was just about to receive Churches Winter Night Shelter. in the church, which has a with them to volunteer. Other Holy Communion. As I looked at the Responding to that request was wonderful feeling of sanctuary and people support the Night Shelter Host, I suddenly realised that one of the best decisions that our safety. A third team arrives at 6.00 financially. Even local schools send thanks to the Night Shelter, I had parish ever made. am to make breakfast for the their children to church to learn started to get to know the Lord a guests and clear up when they about homelessness and help whole lot better. The Night Shelter scheme mobilises leave at 8 o’clock. make the beds to do something local churches to help people who good for their neighbour. are homeless. Each winter, seven The only professional member of churches offer hospitality to up to the team is the co-ordinator. Her 12 homeless guests on a particular work includes accepting referrals night of the week. The guests are and helping the guests to find referred by the local authority and permanent housing. This can often other agencies. In the grotesque take some weeks, but during that jargon that surrounds provision for time our guests get to know the homeless people, our guests are churches and volunteers, so that designated as ‘low-needs’ (as if any Christian communities begin to of us fall into that category!). This offer what local social services are means that people with not equipped to give: friendship, complicated issues like addiction or compassion and, wonderfully, challenging behaviour are not mutual support. I have lost track of referred, because our scheme is the evenings when I have turned up delivered by church volunteers who to the Night Shelter, tired after a might not have the skills to meet busy day, and guests have been those needs. kind and encouraging to me, instead of the other way round! What churches do have is people and buildings. We deploy our Nearly all of our guests find new people like this: first, an early accommodation during their time evening team comes to make beds, with us and it is wonderful when The Common Good

Fr Martin Hislop has been asked by the Bishop social responsibility that once underpinned and seek to conform faith to a civic construct that of Fulham to take responsibility for encouraging characterised the Anglo-Catholic tradition within denies God’s ordinance and frustrates our theological reflection and study across the the Church of England. response to our Lord’s Commission. Fulham bishopric. Here, he shares some preliminary thoughts on the matter of our social It is understandable that, since 1992, the Setting public policy is one of government's most engagement. attention and energy of so many Catholic important responsibilities. But government is a Anglicans has been preoccupied and sapped by creation of civil society; it is not government In Faith in the Public Square, his last book as other matters. But for those of us who believe which creates civil society. It’s role is to foster Archbishop, Rowan Williams calls the Church a we can still minister and witness with integrity key values which are essential to the flourishing ‘political seminar: God transforms society and within the Church of England, this is the day to of civil society and the common good. not just human individuals’. This theme heed the words of Romans 13:12 and ‘cast off characterised his decade in office: ‘it’s not a the works of darkness and put on the armour of Across our constituency, many parishes and matter of the Church binding its vision to the light’. Let us now renew our expression of the people are actively involved in areas of social agenda of this or that party, not a matter of the social gospel so that we may go out into welfare and social justice. Within our ranks are Church creating a political party to embody its marketplace of public engagement with renewed local councillors, community leaders and vision and its priorities. Much more, it’s a matter missionary zeal and confidence. individuals who try to work out their daily lives in of the Christian gospel motivating a grass-roots It is interesting to note that my diocese, in the context of their faith. One initiative that politics and activism of generosity and common with most others, once had a Board of could help to re-focus our thoughts and mutuality.’ Social Responsibility with members elected from endeavours would be for a conference to be each deanery. This was abolished in favour of an called that would allow clergy and laity to come Bishops and think-tankers continue to enter the appointed body which has recently reported to together to reflect prayerfully upon issues of polemic of public policy debate, and recently the diocesan synod that its primary focus has been social justice and the Gospel, to consider the Prime Minister has signalled that, nowadays, on the growth of Food Banks, the need for more important work being undertaken through government can ‘do God’. The Archbishop of Credit Unions, and issues of Environmental bodies such as the Dignitatis Humanae Institute, Canterbury has made early forays into public Policy. But the zealotry with which the secularist and then to draw up options for further dialogue policy; Pope Francis has been relentless in his lobby seeks to drive religion into the narrow and action by parishes and the wider proclamation of Catholic social teaching and its confines of private practice requires us to constituency. Who’s interested? principles. What we lack, however, is the understand the true nature of social articulate expression of commitment to issues of responsibility and tackle head-on those who THE CATHOLIC VOICE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Together Summer 2014 7

NEW VOCATIONS INITIATIVE REACHES OUT TO A DIGITAL GENERATION

A new initiative aimed at encouraging vocations to ministry in the Church of England. “I am delighted to see the

Here I Am is the title of the campaign which has the backing of the catholic societies of details of courses, what happens if they “I am delighted to see the the Church of England with the full support want to take it to the next step and what Catholic Societies working of the Additional Curates Society. the work of a priest in the Church of together in order to promote (www.additionalcurates.co.uk) England today involves.” and encourage more vocations to the sacred priesthood under Those responsible have embraced digital A new Twitter account @hereiamvocation this new and exciting banner of media to encourage people to explore a will be launched at the same time. vocation to priesthood alongside other Organisers hope that people will follow the Here I Am”. kinds of ministry in the Church of England initiative and join in a wave of prayer for Archbishop of Canterbury and the Church in Wales. vocations.

A new You Tube channel features specially Bishops and priests representing the Catholic Societies are already working in are called to ministry, what the selection every part of England and Wales and it was process involves as well as examining the felt that material that had served them well kind of people who are called to follow a previously was ready for an upgrade to path to priesthood. be found. Fr Darren Smith, spokesman for Here I Am, said that vocations were emerging across “We are excited and expectant about the the church in a variety of ways: “People future of ministry and mission in anglican looking at the material we have carefully catholic churches and communities,” produced will quickly discover that there is Fr. Smith explained. no single mould, shape or pattern for the here-i-am.org.uk priestly vocation.”

A Vocations Conference Accommodation and full board Booking forms and further details from with special keynote speakers The Additional Curates Society, for men is to be held including The Bishop of Gordon Browning House, Richborough, The Reverend at St Stephens House, Catherine Williams Ministry Birmingham B24 9PB, Oxford from the Division, Father Damien Feeney Vice Principal of St t: 0121 382 5533, 29th-31st August Stephen’s House. www.additionalcurates.co.uk 8 Together Summer 2014 visit our website: www.confraternity.org.uk

A PASTORAL LETTER FROM A selection THE COUNCIL OF BISHOPS

The approval of the Women Bishops legislation brings to an end a decade of of Catholic debate about what provision should be made for those who are unable, for theological reasons, to receive the ministry of women as priests and bishops. Bishop

In the earlier stages of that debate we offered the Church of England a vision of ordinations Fr Misc how provision could be made with full ecclesiological integrity not just for us but also for the Church of England as a whole. It is now clear that the reality will be shaped differently, and will fall short of our ideal. for 2014 None the less, we believe that we can have confidence in our future as catholics who are called to live out our Christian vocation in the Church of England, maintaining a distinctive witness to the quest for the unity of the Church. The House of Bishops’ Declaration embodies a commitment to enabling us to flourish within the Church of England’s life and structures. It does so because our theological convictions about ministry and ordination remain within the spectrum of Anglican teaching and tradition. As Resolution III.2 of the 1998 Lambeth Conference stated, ‘those who dissent from, as well as those who assent to, the ordination of women to the priesthood and episcopate are both loyal Anglicans’.

The Declaration assures us that bishops will continue to be consecrated within the Church of England who can provide episcopal ministry that accords with our theological convictions. It makes provision for parishes to gain access to that episcopal ministry by passing a new resolution, supported by a Resolution of Disputes Procedure established by regulations made under Canon, with an Independent Reviewer. We will be offering advice and resources to parishes to assist with this. The Ordina Oakes at St We note that bishops’ authority to exercise episcopal functions comes from their ordination as bishops, and that that authority is distinct from the legal Saturday 2 authority that they receive by delegation from the diocesan bishop. The debate over the nature of provision for our future life as catholics within the Church of England has helped us to focus on this important point with greater clarity.

The Society will have a crucial role to play in providing a continuing sacramental life in which parishes, clergy and people are in full and uninterrupted communion with the bishop who ministers to them, and with each other. We will Fr Gary Harill @ Lichfield Cathedral 29th June with ensure that parishes receive support in articulating the theological convictions that the Society exists to embody and, where necessary, in participating in the Bishops of Lichfield and Wolverhampton Resolution of Disputes Procedure.

As your bishops, we want to thank you for your faithfulness during this long period of uncertainty. Now that the debate about provision is over and the House of Bishops’ Declaration is in place, we can look forward to a time of greater stability in which, by the grace of almighty God, we can all focus, with renewed energy, on proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord, and on witnessing to him as we serve our local communities and our nation.

On behalf of the Council of Bishops

 TONY PONTEFRACT The Rt Revd Tony Robinson The Commemoration of John Keble Bishop of Pontefract Monday 14 July 2014 Chairman

Heavenly Father, Bless the bishops, clergy and people of The Society. Bind us together in love and faith. the Bish adfield ordained by Renew us in service and witness. r and Fr David H And by your Holy Spirit Fr Alex Baxte Guide our future and make plain your purposes. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Saint Wilfrid, pray for us. Saint Hilda, pray for us. THE CATHOLIC VOICE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Together Summer 2014 9

‘For of such is the kingdom of heaven’

The word ‘suffer’ is used many times in the Authorised Version of the Bible in its archaic sense of ‘allow’: ‘suffer us to go away into the swine’; ‘suffer me first to bury my father’. But m ordaining most familiar is Matthew 19.14: ‘suffer little of Horsha children and forbid them not to come unto me: cha Richards for of such is the kingdom of heaven’. Working with children is harder than it once was because we are more and more aware of the of Beverley Monday 30th tephen Parker by the Bishop need to keep them safe, but Matthew 18.6 has Fr S always been there, so we ought to have known! June @Worksop Priory We have a huge amount to offer by way of children’s work, and we mustn’t throw in the towel when we see success elsewhere, or when the diocesan child protection policy lands with a great thud on the vicarage doormat. As always, we need to be getting on with it in a way which works for us, rather than trying to imitate models which may not be right in our context. Getting on with it

There is a great deal to be said for ‘getting on with it’. Parishes thrive when people get on with it, and are choked when every little detail needs to be chewed over by sub-committees ation of Fr Simon and re-discussed at the PCC. Now, perhaps more than ever, we need a spirit of ‘getting on t Gabriels, Walsall on with it’. General Synod has taken its decision 28th June 2014 on women in the episcopate, and we always knew what it would eventually decide. What we don’t want to do is descend into naval gazing and so lose sight of what we are really for. There was too much of that after November d ling Broadway 1992, and it cost us dearly in terms of priests, urley Ordaine hrist the Saviour Ea people, and emotional energy. The job that Fr Anthony M C the June @ ion by Bishop of Fulham needed doing at the beginning of July still Sunday 6th ordinat needs doing now, and a willingness to get on Deacon e on Cuff athedral by th 2nd June of Fr Sim with it will do us good! Birmingham C 2 f Birmingham Bishop o Peace and mutual up-building

We are reminded elsewhere in this issue of the need to be getting on with our social projects as well. If Boards of Social Responsibility have gone out of fashion, as Fr Hislop suggests, perhaps we need to ask whether we can create something that will fill the gap. He suggests a conference to get the ball rolling, and the Church Union would be prepared to host such a thing if there was appropriate interest. Much of our work in this field is unassuming and unquantifiable: the visiting, the lunches for elderly parishioners, the day-to-day help with hop of Horsham dealing with the local council, and so on. Then

there are the higher-profile projects like the C4WS shelters. All should be celebrated and encouraged, and part of our looking to the future with confidence.

Fr Chris Johnson a nd Fr Richard Brown at York Minster 10 Together Summer 2014 visit our website: www.churchunion.co.uk

Beverley Brother Bishop Glyn Webster comes to lunch.

The Bishop of Beverley arrives Bishop Glyn speaks with passion a bad winter can make for some genuineness and openness that will looking tired, but feeling better than about parish life, and describes his treacherous journeys. Perhaps that always put people at their ease. he has been recently. He has been new ministry as being that of ‘a recently-proposed HS3 rail link will That must, of course, be a poorly, but has just hot-footed it from parish priest writ large’. He clearly make a difference – if it ever comes tremendous asset when dealing with an ordination in Worksop. He has loves the opportunities he gets to into being. ‘our’ priests and people, but also been a bishop for a year and a half enter fully into parish occasions, and when looking to build up now, having previously been a you won’t suddenly notice that he’s But there are more interesting things relationships with those who do not residentiary canon at York Minster disappeared half an hour after the to talk about than the travel. Bishop always see eye-to-eye with us. He for some fourteen years, and he has confirmation mass has ended, even Glyn is thrilled to have been clearly sees the value of building served his whole priestly ministry in though he may have a considerable ordaining for the first time this year. bridges rather than barriers. Those that diocese. He was vicar of St distance to travel to get home. And He has ordained two deacons to the in the northern province have much Luke’s York throughout the eighties, he has evidently been working priesthood in York Minster, and two to be thankful for, and we all hope and then an NHS chaplain. He felt quickly at getting to know his more in their parish churches. and pray that he will continue to rooted in York, and was worried, as parishes from the inside. He picks Another (conditional) priesting is enrich Catholic life in the Church of January last year came round, about as an example the incarnational planned for the autumn, in the England for many years to come. taking a step into the unknown ministry of Fr Ian Brooks at Croxteth evangelical parish of Rock Ferry, in Bishop David Hope, something of a territory of episcopal ministry, and in Liverpool diocese, and is able to the diocese of Chester, and good hero for Bishop Glyn, spoke at his being given the oversight of parishes describe in detail the extent to which relations have been built with a consecration of his ‘sheer basic and of his brother clergy. No doubt the life of the local community there number of conservative evangelical common sense’. Well, David Hope being consecrated on the feast of is centred on the life of the local parishes. always did place a high value on that the Conversion of St Paul must have church. quality, and so should we all. It will added to his anxiety, inviting as it Perhaps bishops feel most like be much needed as we go forward must a comparison with the fearless He talks through a number of bishops when they are ordaining, but into the future in prayerful hope and preacher of the New Testament. parishes in the North-West, which they also place a high value on the expectation. Bishop David Hope preached, which leads naturally to a conversation Chrism Mass. Of practical necessity, must have been a bit like hearing about the travel. It marks, of course, the PEVs have made provision for the voice of God. a real practical difference between several in each of the three areas, College of Readers the ministry of most bishops and and Bishop Glyn presided at four this But he needn’t have worried, and he that of the ‘flying bishops’. But even year. He was pleased with the Patron. The Rt. Revd Norman Banks begins to look less tired as he with the Isle of Mann in his patch, attendance, and values the Bishop of Richborough recounts the warmth of the welcome Bishop Glyn is more likely to be on opportunity to address the priests Co-patron. The Rt. Revd Martyn Jarret he has received, which he has found the road than in the air: 31,000 who look to him, whether or not they distinctly humbling. It may be road-miles and counting, to say are in ‘petitioning’ parishes with Membership of the daunting to become a bishop, he nothing of the train travel. He says resolution C. He is very aware of the College of Readers is for you says, but it is also a great privilege. he sometimes feels like the Bishop importance of a ministry of It’s tricky to work out exactly how of the M62, which is the motorway encouragement at the Chrism If you are a Licensed Reader looking for study many parishes he has, but there are which crosses the Pennines, joining Masses, and indeed of the opportunities, support and spiritual development. about eighty incumbents listed on Liverpool and Manchester with opportunity to express some his website, and inevitably, there are Leeds and Hull, as well as providing episcopal gratitude for all that the If you accept the traditional understanding of the more priests and parishes looking to access to the M6 and the M1. Its clergy do, much of it unseen and apostolic ministry of bishops, priests and deacons. him as their Father in God than just unpredictability and occasional unsung, in the course of their If the answer to the questions is Yes those who have all the resolutions in bouts of gridlock mean that Bishop ministry. then your next step is to: place. And he is keen to point out Glyn often has to leave York hours that he is building on firm before a visit, so as not to be late at There is something rather humbling Visit our website www.college-of-readers.org.uk foundations laid for the modern See the other end. The result is that he about a conversation with Bishop Or contact Mrs M E Snape of Beverley by his predecessors is often early, but with the M62 Glyn, because there is a quality to Registrar/Treasurer of the College of Readers, Bishops John Gaisford and Martyn being the highest motorway in the his humility which is profoundly [email protected] Jarrett. country as it traverses the Pennines, impressive, coupled as it is with a Annual membership fee £15.00 THE CATHOLIC VOICE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Together Summer 2014 11 Devotional

Reflections on the trials and tribulations of the prophet Jonah.

I’m very fond of the story of Ninevites renounce their evil Jonah, something which is himself, and even on the animals. Jonah, tucked as he is between ways, and repent in sackcloth and bringing the people of Israel And we are not so far away from Obadiah and Micah, but at the ashes. And rather than being significantly closer to what we the great revelation in Jesus tail end of everybody’s delighted about this, Jonah might call a ‘New Testament’ Christ that ‘God is love’. commentary! becomes indignant, and sulks. understanding of the nature of And God causes the castor oil God. God is certainly indulgent of What we have here is a call to For this is the story of a plant to grow up overnight to give his prophet here, but he is also repentance, an act of disobedient prophet, who does him shade, and then causes it to merciful towards Israel’s hated repentance, and God’s more than merely try to talk God wither the next day, and he sends enemy. That is why Jonah is so forgiveness. It’s beautifully out of sending him, as Amos a scorching east wind so that cross: the capital city of that straightforward, and it is the does, but who actually runs away Jonah petulantly asks for death. horribly efficient war-like Assyrian constant call of the Gospel. We from his mission, and has to be empire, conquerors of the must get to grips with that simple put back on track by the most ‘God said to Jonah, “Are you right northern kingdom of Israel who message, which results from a extraordinary expedient. And to be angry about the castor-oil also had reduced the southern profound insight into the nature Jonah manages, even when his plant?” He replied, “I have every kingdom of Judah to a vassal of God. He is a God who wants to mission has been successful, to right to be angry, mortally angry!” state, now has the gall to repent - forgive, and all we have to do is complain to God about that very And the Lord replied, “You are and be forgiven by God! unlock that forgiveness by our success! He is a highly unlikely concerned for the castor-oil plant repentance. The mercy that flows hero. which has not cost you any effort, And what does God say in is free and unmerited, and and which you did not grow, which response to Jonah, who would offered to Israelite and Ninevite The point of the book of Jonah is came up in a night and has presumably quite happily have alike, to each and every one of to instruct, but also to amuse, perished in a night. So why seen Nineveh destroyed with us. The Ninevites seemed to and indeed when it comes up in should I not be concerned for every man, woman and child Jonah to be quite unworthy of the weekday lectionary, I Nineveh, that great city, in which going up in smoke along with the God’s mercy - but they received it sometimes remind people that there are more than a hundred cattle? ‘Why should I not be nonetheless, because they they are allowed to laugh! and twenty thousand people who concerned for Nineveh, that great repented. Jonah’s attempt to flee the scene cannot tell their right hand from city, in which there are more than by boat, the storm that brews up, their left [in other words, they a hundred and twenty thousand It will not have escaped the notice the casting of lots in an attempt can’t tell right from wrong], to say people who cannot tell their right of many readers that Nineveh is to discover who has angered God, nothing of all the animals?”’ hand from their left?’ in the news now, under its the rescue of Jonah by the great modern name of Mosul. The fish (the whale), the growing up of And there the book ends, with the So the book of Jonah is in a chances of anything of ancient the castor oil plant overnight and phrase rendered in the sense a parable, telling us Nineveh surviving the current Jonah’s indignation at its Authorised Version as ‘and also something of the true nature of destructive invasion are slim, and withering are all designed to much cattle’, on which brief text I God. We really are on the the cost in human terms will be make us smile as we take the once heard a priest construct an threshold of the New Testament immense. By the time you read point. entire sermon! Indeed, the here: God is not merely the God this, I wonder how many lives will animals are the last of a series of of the Jewish people, he is the have been lost, and how many As you will remember, having sympathetic characters in the God of all people, for there is only churches will still be standing. been vomited by the fish onto dry story - the foreign sailors, the king one God, and he has compassion Let us pray for our Christian land, God tells Jonah for a second and the people of Nineveh. Only on all those whom he has made brothers and sisters there, and let time that he must go to Nineveh, the prophet himself is difficult to in his own image. Indeed, we us pray not only for reconciliation, the great Assyrian city on the river like. 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Harrogate has a habit of surprising visitors. While distinctly ‘Yorkshire’ in feel and temperament, it combines that down to earth quality that pervades God’s own County with a distinctly cosmopolitan feel. And around each corner lies something new to be discovered. Hidden away, ten minutes walk to the and space is greater than that of North-West of the town centre, lies some English Cathedrals. the Parish Church of St Wilfrid. Designed by the renowned architect Perhaps because it is a bit off the Temple Lushington Moore and beaten track, it's a building many consecrated in 1914, we are never know exists until they stumble celebrating its centenary this year. St upon it. The reality is, though, that it Wilfrid’s is, perhaps surprisingly, the is what it was designed to be: a only Grade 1 listed building in the working parish church, built for town, and it could hardly be Catholic worship within the church of described as a small building! Its size England, and so it continues to this day. Each week, at least a thousand This year, we’re launching a major people cross the threshold, from the development campaign. Grade 1 regular congregation to those looking buildings certainly aren’t cheap to for peace and a place for reflection. run – and as those who’ve visited The local community increasingly may have discovered, not always uses the adjoining hall, which itself warm to sit in or easy to hear in. Yet has over 750 ‘regular’ users. the reality at the heart of our life and witness is that we don’t worship a And at the heart of the life of the God who is cheap. We here, as in community is nothing more than the every church, seek to offer the very call to faithfulness and the gentle best that we can, within that glorious rhythm of prayer and worship. This is tradition we have been given. a church with a growing body of younger people and children: St So the next time you might pass by, Wilfrid’s refuses to conform to a why not cut short your tea at Betty’s? crusty stereotype. Our witness and This hidden gem, next to the famous worship seeks to meet the needs of Ladies College, might just surprise an ever-changing world and locality, you. It’s a place of quite breath-taking not by a culture of religious beauty. That shouldn’t really be a entertainment, but by seeking to surprise, for as we say here, ‘It’s draw all into the presence of God grand up North!’ through the beauty of the liturgy. Hymns as Homilies no 1: Fr Gavin Cooper takes a closer look at an old favourite: Onward Christian Soldiers. In 1864, the new curate of the village of the use of this theme reveals much about Finally, we are reminded by this hymn that Horbury Bridge near Wakefield was putting the sort of church being depicted. the battle is not one we face alone: Like a together the annual Whit-Monday procession, Firstly, the hymn gives us the idea of an ever- mighty army, moves the church of God. When and was despairing at the lack of hymns that moving church, a church which does not sit we are made members of Christ’s church in could be marched to by the local children. He still and settle itself into a comfortable baptism, we become part of a great army. We found one which suited, with a tune by existence. It is a church which directs us may be part of small squadrons in our local Haydn, but he did not care for the words. So forward to new life and new conquests. The church, but we are also joined to all those, Sabine Baring-Gould set to work in writing idea of an ‘onward’ church is much more living and departed who have confessed the new words to the tune, and what resulted detailed than a church which simply moves. name of Christ crucified. As part of that, we was the hymn Onward Christian Soldiers. It Onward suggests purpose and drive, are also called, as the hymn suggests, to was published by the Church Times, and destination and direction. The very idea of recruit others to our cause. Onward then, ye became very popular. Sir Arthur Sullivan the church ‘in procession’ is important. We people, join our happy throng. This is particularly liked it and so set it to a new are not simply moving about, we are being evangelism at its most basic: the call to life tune, St Gertrude, and the combination was led by Christ. This is why I like to sing it at the with Christ. There is no conscription in the complete. end of mass rather than the beginning: a Church of God: only those who willingly final anthem which follows the command to volunteer themselves. It is nowadays regarded as rather a divisive ‘go’ when the mass is ended, our ‘marching hymn because of its military language. orders’ to go and be disciples in the world. Onward Christian Soldiers might seem Several attempts have been made (rather archaic and terribly Victorian, but its simple unsuccessfully) to tone it down a bit, The hymn also suggests the idea of battle. purpose of firing children’s imagination to including the rather fluffy Onward Christian We are a church that is at war. We are to face the wonder and reward of serving the Lord Pilgrims. But changing the words is sin and temptation head on. St Paul tells us could and should speak to us now. It is a problematic, as its military metaphors to ‘put on the full armour of God so as to be hymn which we need to pay attention to more contain some very important aspects of able to resist the devil’s tactics’. Whilst than ever as we seek to make new disciples Christian truth. To get to these truths, we do essentially a spiritual battle, it is still a real and build up God’s church. not have to dig too deep: after all, this piece battle we face, and we are jollied on our way was penned for use by children. It has at its by Baring-Gould: On then, Christian soldiers, core the ‘Church militant here on earth’, and On to victory.