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Anglican Parish of Caversham Saint Peter, THE ROCK Dunedin, New Zealand December 2014—Christmas Watchnight Services By The Vicar ast year Saint Peters Caversham Year. That will happen again this introduced a new Service into its year at the slightly later start time of Parish Contacts: annual cycle—a Watchnight 10.30 pm. L Service to see in the New (Continued on page 2) VICAR: Father Hugh Bowron, The Vicarage, 57 Baker St., Wedding Fever Caversham, Dunedin, By The Vicar New Zealand 9012. Telephone: (03) 455 3961 he photo at right shows Rosie, George and Bianca Melrose, Email: [email protected] members of our Sunday 10.30am congregation, who came to the Thursday 10am Eucharist on 11 December so Rosie and George could renew their CHURCH WARDENS: marriage vows. Their ninth wedding anniversary had occurred earlier in the week. They Vicar’s Warden: T (Continued on page 2) Tubby Hopkins Telephone: (03) 454-2399 Email: VicarsWarden Parliament Prayer Peril @stpeterscaversham.org.nz eports were published in mid-November that the Speaker of the House, David Carter, had People’s Warden: proposed a new prayer to be read at the opening of the parliamentary day. The new Kate Paterson proposal, unsurprisingly, was written—in part—in uninspiring contemporary New Zealand Telephone: (03) 455-5384 English, excluded references to God and religion and added new elements in Maori, highly R Email: PeoplesWarden (Continued on page 5) @stpeterscaversham.org.nz VESTRY SECRETARY: Ian Condie Merry Christmas Telephone: (03) 454-4316 Email: Vestry @stpeterscaversham.org.nz We wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Content New Year. DIRECTOR OF MUSIC AND PARISH CENTRE MANAGER: To our advertisers, thank you for your support. We David Hoskins hope our readers support you in their turn. Telephone: (03) 455-7537 Email: ParishCentre To our contributors our thanks and admiration. You @stpeterscaversham.org.nz make The Rock what it is. FINANCE: We’ll see you all again in February. Danielle Harrison Telephone: (03) 455-0759 The Editors. Email: Finance @stpeterscaversham.org.nz www.stpeterscaversham.org.nz Page 2 December 2014—Christmas The Rock Letters Watchnight Services The Rock welcomes letters to the Editor. Letters should (Continued from page 1) be no more than 150 words in length and are subject to selection and, if selected, to editing for length and house Such Services have a long lineage. John Wesley originated style. Letters may be : them in 1740 to provide Methodist Christians with a godly Posted to : The Editor of The Rock, alternative to the drunken gatherings common on New Year's c/- The Vicarage, 57 Baker Street, eve. Such Services were sometimes called Covenant Renewal Caversham, Services, and given the exuberant worship style of the first Dunedin, N.Z. 9012 generation of Methodism, often included spontaneous testimonies and extemporary prayers in addition to hymn Emailed to: John Wesley. singing and Bible readings. A somewhat more ordered liturgy [email protected] IMAGE: HTTP:// for this Service can now be found in the United Methodist Book CHRISTIANHERITAGEFELLOWSHIP.COM of Worship. These kinds of Service have an honoured place in African- Ask The Vicar American churches, particularly since slaves all over For answers to questions doctrinal, spiritual and liturgical. America gathered in churches on New Year's eve in 1862 Write to: Ask The Vicar, to hear news of and celebrate President Abraham 57 Baker Street, Lincoln's enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation. Caversham, Victorian New Zealanders were keen on seeing in the new Dunedin, N.Z. 9012 year in these kinds of Services also. The Reverend Or email: Carlyon, ritualist pioneer, driven from the parish of Kaiapoi [email protected] in the 1870s for his Anglo-Catholic ways, first experienced significant trouble and blow back from disgruntled townspeople when his Watchnight Service was disrupted IMAGE: HTTP://WWW.AMERICASLIBRARY.GOV Ask The Vestry by the loud banging of a drum outside St Bartholomew's. Questions about the secular life and fabric of the parish I have drawn the readings and Vigil prayers for the Saint Peters Watchnight Service from may be: the American Episcopal Book of Occasional Services 1991. These are interpolated with Posted to : Ask The Vestry, appropriate and well known hymns. As the Vigil of readings draws to a close we then c/- The Vicarage, 57 Baker Street, continue with the Eucharist, using the Liturgy of St Basil, the International Commission on Caversham, English in the Liturgy's version of a famous Eastern Orthodox liturgy. It is a memorable Dunedin, N.Z. 9012 and inspiring way to see out the old year, and to see in the new. Do join us. Emailed to: Wedding Fever [email protected] (Continued from page 1) were keen to reaffirm their marriage vows in Church, so I suggested the mid week Service as a suitable time to do this. Perhaps the most moving part of the ceremony was when Rosie and George prayed this prayer together: We thank you, most gracious God, for consecrating our marriage in Christ's Name and presence. Lead us further in Rosie and George Melrose read the marriage covenant prayer, watched by The Vicar, a companionship with each other member of the congregation and Bianca Melrose. and with you. Give us grace to PHOTOS.: SUPPLIED. live together in love and fidelity, with too was a marriage with an international describe Church weddings as being at the care for one another. Strengthen us all dimension as Maureen is Anglo-Fijian in “Cinderella end of the wedding spectrum”. our days, and bring us to that holy origin. Dale's family are St Matthews stalwarts and one of Dale's brothers is a table where, with those we love, we will Dunedin diocese ordinand in training at St Behold, a virgin shall feast for ever in our heavenly home; Johns. Dale and Maureen worship at Elim through Jesus Christ our Lord. Church, yet came to Saint Peters as a more conceive, and bear a son, The next day Maureen Baker and Dale suitable venue for this big occasion in their and shall call his name Immanuel. Roberts were married at Saint Peters. This life—after all wedding photographers ISAIAH 7:14 Saint Peter’s Caversham The Rock December 2014—Christmas Page 3 DOG OVERBOARD By Ian Condie “The ship was in convoy and could not be stopped”. PHOTO.: HTTP://BUSINESS-HUMANRIGHTS.ORG n the Good Old Days, the Suez Canal was run by the British There was nothing that could be done. The ship was in convoy and and the French. Loosely speaking, the pilots were British could not be stopped. The apprentices resigned themselves to no and the shore staff French. Ships, each with a pilot, shore leave for the rest of the voyage, the Captain expressed himself transited in convoys. They either anchored in the Bitter loud and long and demanded of the Pilot LakesI or tied up to the bank to allow convoys to pass going in the what the canal company proposed to do opposite direction. about it. This was before the days of cell phones and computers, when even The pilot, being a sturdy Englishman, VHF radiotelephones were rare, so could only demand, in French, of each there were signal stations every signal station as it was passed that they mile or so on the canal bank which should keep a lookout for a stray dog. were manned by Frenchmen and Avez vous vue un chien was about the those stations communicated by sum of his linguistic ability and the land line with each other and with expression on the faces of the signal flags to the ships. station officers was a joy to see. One could imagine them going to their There was a Corgi dog on one ship telephones and telling colleagues about which was of a nervous the mad English pilot who wanted a dog. “a Corgi dog on one ship“. temperament and was, along with The Suez Pilot. HOTO ADNANTHETRAVELLER COM PHOTO.: JPBPA2.FILES.WORDPRESS.COM/ P .: . / other dogs, kept on a small section If the corgi had swum direct to the East of deck below the bridge that had been secured by barriers and with bank it would, no doubt, have become a takeaway snack for a desert canvas stretched along the side rails and lashed down. The dogs fox, but it chose to land on the West bank where an intelligent pilot in could not see over the screen nor, it was thought, get over or through a car, driving back from Port Said to Suez, saw it and picked it up. In it. Alas, the corgi disproved that belief. There was a shout and calls due course he returned it to the ship where it was securely chained up of “dog overboard”! and it was decreed the event never happened. A Meditation Afternoon With Julian of Norwich By Rosemary Brown n Saturday 15 November a work. meditation afternoon was held in After the thirty minutes as a group we had a Saint Peter’s Church Lounge. further, shorter period of silence in which This being a busy time of the people could spend time in the church, find a Oyear, only twelve people were able to be book from the local CCM library, or walk in the present, these being from different groups, grounds (the sun did shine for a bit, but the churches and backgrounds. A number of wind turned up too). apologies and regrets were sent from those Dame Julian of Norwich. unable to attend. Next came an opportunity for questions or IMAGE: HTTP://LITURGYANDMUSIC.FILES.WORDPRESS.COM comment, which expanded well beyond the We should also like to thank the Christchurch The southern coordinator of the New Zealand time proposed and further discussion group for the gift of a CD, Silence of the Soul Community for Christian Meditation (NZCCM), continued over a cup of tea.

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