The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity

An inclusive Christian community Sunday 19 August 2018 growing in orthodox faith and radical love

Welcome to Southwark Cathedral. Children and young people during the We are a community that seeks to enfold 11.00am Eucharist: all people in the love of God. If you wish to Accompanied under-4s: Crèche with play mats, speak to a after the service, if you wish toys, songs and stories in the Education Centre. to find a corner to pray, if you wish simply to JuniorXpress 1 and 2 and YouthXpress are on find some peace, please feel free and welcome their summer break. to do so.

Communicant members of all denominations Following the Choral Eucharist tea and are welcome to receive Communion at this coffee are served. service; please come forward as directed by the Stewards. If you do not wish to receive Communion but would like a blessing, please bring the service booklet with you.

Participation. If you have been a regular at the Cathedral for six months or more, please ensure that your name is added to the Cathedral Electoral Roll – ask Stewards E Newsletter for details or email cathedral@southwark. Southwark Cathedral would love to keep you anglican.org posted with Cathedral news, services and Giving: Regular worshippers are asked to events as well as contacting you occasionally join the Planned Giving Scheme by setting to participate in audience research to help up a bankers order. This greatly helps the inform our activities. Cathedral with financial planning. A blue form Your details will only be used by Southwark is available from the Stewards. Cathedral and you can unsubscribe at any time. Your personal information will be Visitors are asked to use the yellow envelope properly safeguarded and processed in for their offering towards the work and accordance with the requirements of privacy worship of the Cathedral. If you are a UK and data protection legislation. taxpayer, please complete the details on the envelope to enable us to claim back the tax as Please visit southwarkcathedral.anglican.org Gift Aid. (Cheques to Southwark Cathedral.) to sign up. Listen up! Sermons delivered in the Cathedral are available as text from southwarkcathedral.org.uk/worship- and-music/worship/sermons/, together with a pdf of this weekly sheet. They can also be downloaded from iTunes by searching for Southwark Cathedral Sermons.

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A Safe Church Any issues relating to the safeguarding of children or vulnerable adults should be directed to the Cathedral Safeguarding Officers: Matthew Knight [email protected] 020 7367 6726 Cherry James [email protected] Jill Tilley [email protected] Concerns can be brought to any member of the clergy. Today’s Services

8.30am Morning Prayer – Southwark Cathedral Officiant The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn, Readings Psalm 106. 1–10; Jonah 1; 2 Peter 3. 14–end

9.00am Eucharist – Southwark Cathedral Preacher The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn, Dean Readings Proverbs 9. 1–6; Ephesians 5. 15–20; John 6. 51–58

9.30am Eucharist – St Hugh’s Preacher David Adamson,

11.00am Choral Eucharist – Southwark Cathedral President Wendy Robins Preacher The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn, Dean Setting Missa Quarti toni ∙ Tomás Luis de Victoria

Stand Entrance Hymn NEH 467

Through all the changing scenes of life, In trouble and in joy, The praises of my God shall still My heart and tongue employ.

O magnify the Lord with me, With me exalt his name; When in distress to him I called, He to my rescue came.

The hosts of God encamp around The dwellings of the just; Deliverance he affords to all Who on his succour trust.

3 O make but trial of his love, Experience will decide How blest are they, and only they, Who in his truth confide.

To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, The God whom we adore, Be glory, as it was, is now, And shall be evermore. Amen.

Tate and Brady New Version

Sit First Reading Proverbs 9. 1–6

Read by Caroline Bennett.

A reading from the book of Proverbs

Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn her seven pillars. She has slaughtered her animals, she has mixed her wine, she has also set her table. She has sent out her servant-girls, she calls from the highest places in the town, ‘You that are simple, turn in here!’ To those without sense she says, ‘Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. Lay aside immaturity, and live, and walk in the way of insight.’

This is the word of the Lord All Thanks be to God.

4 Responsorial Psalm Psalm 34. 9–14

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Fear the Lord all you his holy ones, for those who fear him lack nothing. Lions may lack and suffer hunger, but those who seek the Lord lack nothing that is good. R

Come my children and listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Who is there who delights in life and longs for days to enjoy good things? R

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from lying words. Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. R

Second Reading Ephesians 5. 15–20

Read by Guy Rowston.

A reading from the letter of Paul to the Ephesians.

Brothers and sisters, be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil. So do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit, as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts, giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

5 This is the word of the Lord All Thanks be to God.

Stand Gospel Acclamation

Gospel Sentence

The bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.

Gospel John 6. 51–58

Jesus said to the crowd:

‘I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.’

The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ So Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live for ever.’

Sit Sermon The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn, Dean

Chorale Prelude

Sit Intercessions

Led by Sophie Henstridge.

6 Offertory Anthem Jesu dulcis memoria ∙ Tomás Luis de Victoria

Jesu, dulcis memoria, O Jesu, the sweet thought of you dans vera cordi gaudia; gives true joy to the heart, sed super mel et omnia but above that of honey or of any thing ejus dulcis praesentia. is the sweetness of your presence.

Durae premunt angustiae, Cruel straights hem us in, exaudi preces supplicum; hear the prayers of those who entreat you; fluunt amarae lacrymae; our tears flow bitter; exaudi vota pauperum. hear the prayers of the poor.

Stand Offertory Hymn SP 216 (tune NEH 341 Franconia)

Christ bids us break the bread and share the cup he gave, in token of the blood he shed for those he died to save.

It was for us he came, to bear, by human birth, a crown of thorn, a cross of shame, for every child of earth.

The Saviour crucified in glory rose again: we here remember him who died, ascended now to reign.

Our hearts his word obey, in thankfulness and love: we feed on Christ by faith today and feast with him above.

O Christ, once lifted up that we might be forgiven, we take the bread and drink the cup and share the life of heaven.

Timothy Dudley-Smith

7 Stand Eucharistic Prayer Prayer B

Communion Anthem Tantum ergo · Tomás Luis de Victoria

Tantum ergo sacramentum Therefore we, before him bending, veneremur cernui this great sacrament revere: et antiquum documentum types and shadows have their ending, novo cedat ritui, for the newer rite is here; praestet fides supplementum faith, our outward sense befriending, sensuum defectui. makes our inward vision clear.

Genitori genitoque Glory let us give and blessing laus et jubilatio, to the Father and the Son, salus, honor, virtus quoque honour, might, and praise addressing, sit et benedictio; while eternal ages run; procedenti ab utroque ever too his love confessing, compar sit laudatio. Amen. who, from both, with both is one. Amen.

Stand Final Hymn NEH 413

Now thank we all our God, With heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things hath done, In whom his world rejoices; Who from our mother’s arms Hath blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, And still is ours to-day.

O may this bounteous God Through all our life be near us, With ever joyful hearts And blessèd peace to cheer us; And keep us in his grace, And guide us when perplexed, And free us from all ills In this world and the next.

8 All praise and thanks to God The Father now be given, The Son, and him who reigns With them in highest heaven, The One eternal God, Whom earth and heaven adore; For thus it was, is now, Therefore we, before him bending, And shall be evermore. Amen this great sacrament revere: types and shadows have their ending, German, Martin Rinkart for the newer rite is here; Translated by Catherine Winkworth faith, our outward sense befriending, makes our inward vision clear.

Glory let us give and blessing to the Father and the Son, 3.00pm Choral Evensong – Southwark Cathedral Readings Exodus 2. 23 — 3. 10; Hebrews 13. 1–15 honour, might, and praise addressing, Setting Edington service ∙ Grayston Ives while eternal ages run; Responses Kenneth Leighton ever too his love confessing, Psalm 100 who, from both, with both is one. Amen. Anthem View me, Lord ∙ Richard Lloyd Hymns NEH 410; NEH 431 Preacher The Reverend Rachel Young, Succentor

6.00pm Service of Wholeness and Healing – Southwark Cathedral See separate booklet.

9 Prayers

All those for whom prayers have been asked this week:

Dinah Kormi, Angie Brown, Mary Cooper, Ruth Mackenzie, Brian Kendall, Jacqueline Webb, Jay Colwill, Kes Grant, River Williams, Gill Taylor, Naomi Caplin, Gilly Myers, Minal Modi, Art Barron, Jonathan Coore, Beryl Charlton, Lena Renwick, Benjamin Modu, Michael Marr, Sarah Rawlins, Sally Silver, Joan Lawrence, Elisabeth Dunman, Robert Pyne, John Noble, Nathan Clegg, Jennifer Barter, Phyllis Still, Nigel Skayman, Brandon Hawkins, Sally Hollowell, Jean Terrieux, Marion Marples, Frances Goodchild, Alison Morgan, Naomi Shaw, Brooke Gregory, Frances Livesey,Linda Scott Garnet, Gwen and Herbert Peck.

The Departed Rob O’Connell, Isobel Hankin, Eileen Payne, Chuck Blakenship, Christopher Timms, Charles Powell, George Polek.

Mission allocation partners for August Link Age Southwark: A request from a trustee and personal befriender for this local support group for the elderly. Hospice Africa Uganda: Hospice Africa works to relieve physical, psychological, If you are ill or in hospital emotional and spiritual suffering of those Please do let us know so that the with cancer and patients with HIV. Cathedral community can pray for you and we can be in touch. Please contact More information: southwarkcathedral. the Sub Dean, michael.rawson@ org.uk/community/Mission-allocation southwark.anglican.org

10 Today This Week’s Services

Welcome to Vox Cantab Monday to Friday who are singing today’s Choral Eucharist 8.00am Morning Prayer and Evensong. 8.15am Eucharist 12.30pm Midday Prayer Contactless Donation 12.45pm Eucharist We are now able to receive your offering 4.00pm Evening Prayer using a debit or credit card, Apple or Android Pay. If you would like to use this please see Saturday 25 August 9am Morning Prayer a Cathedral Warden, Matthew or Daniel, 9.15am Eucharist near the doors to the link after the 4.00pm Choral Evensong service. They have a sign saying ‘Contactless Offering’. Sunday 26 August 12.30pm The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity Mothers’ Union – Extraordinary Meeting 8.30am Morning Prayer followed by a choir practice and full 9.00am Eucharist rehearsal of the forthcoming Wave of Preacher: Canon Mandy Ford, Chancellor Prayer Service. Please would all members 9.30am Eucharist at St Hugh’s of the Mothers’ Union who are present in Church today come to the Queen Elizabeth 11.00am Choral Eucharist Room with your coffee to hear about an Preacher: Canon Mandy Ford, Chancellor urgent update on the approaching Cake Sale 3pm Choral Evensong – and to learn to sing the hymns and chant Preacher: The Very Reverend we will be singing on 31 August in part and Andrew Nunn, Dean in unison as led by Iris Mqotsi. There will also be a chance to practice your readings 6.00pm Compline and for that same service including any extra Eucharistic Devotions words we have added. Looking forward to seeing you there – thank you.

Summer Offices at Southwark Cathedral Please note that for the summer months all weekday evening offices take place at 4.00pm until Friday 31 August inclusive.

11 Things to do this week

Exhibitions

Fire 1212 – Ceramics by Alison Cooke Archetypes and Archives: A vision of Lancelot’s Link Britain as seen through the lens of Information Office The Great Fire of Southwark burned for Churchyard ten days in July 1212. Many people died on London Bridge as the inferno crossed the Features images drawn from a collection River Thames to the , having of around 9000 B&W photographic razed the Priory of St. Mary Overie on the negatives from Church of England Record present day site of Southwark Cathedral. Centre collections uncovered in 2013 Two days after the fire was extinguished, Taken between 1960 and 1967 by W.R. the first Mayor of the City of London, Hawes, the Church of England’s Information Henry Fitz Ailwin, decreed that all Office’s official photographer, it was thatched roofs of London must be envisaged that these images of relevant, plastered or pulled down and new often symbolic, views of everyday life would builds use non-flammable clay tiles. be used to create a picture library representing the Church’s activities, These ceramic artworks by artist actions and teachings. Alison Cooke commemorate Southwark’s forgotten disaster. The pieces are made Sometimes funny, often thought of London clay dug from the same provoking and always of interest, the images Thames-side seam that was excavated for as a whole provide a snapshot of life in the new roof tiles demanded by Mayor Britain during the 1960s, a time of major Ailwin in 1212. change and upheaval. Like the London of that year, the clay Southwark Cathedral is delighted that has been burned in a fire fuelled by wood ‘Archetypes and Archives’ will be on display and straw. in the Cathedral Churchyard between 1 July and 1 September 2018.

12 Summer in the Courtyard Thursday 23 August We’ve given the Millenium Courtyard a 1.45–3.00pm mini make-over so that you can relax, chat Family Activity – The Dean’s Tour and soak up the sunshine in The Refectory of Southwark Cathedral café while enjoying some al fresco dining Join The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn, this summer. , for this family friendly tour around Southwark Cathedral. Try out our new sensational summer cocktails, smoothies and coolers served Cathedrals are really exciting places – from our latest addition: Violet, our lots of horrible history, lots of real stories, Citroën van bar. lots of things to see and touch that connect us with the history of the building and the Look forward to lunch-time and evening faith in Jesus that has been practised at BBQs with a delicious range of burgers, Southwark for over 1400 years. sausages, glazed meats and delicious, fresh seasonal salads and lots of tasty extras, too. The Dean, Andrew Nunn, loves the building and the area it sits in and wants The Millennium Courtyard is located to share this with you. on the riverside of Southwark Cathedral. This tour is designed for children and any Group bookings: 0797 9744 737 adults they bring with them. The minimum age is 6 and adults will be asked to look Monday 20 August after their own children with a maximum 12.45pm of four children per adult. Marchioness Memorial Those who died in the Marchioness Tickets: Free for children, £5 per adult, disaster in 1989 will be remembered at from southwarkkidstour.eventbrite.co.uk the lunchtime Eucharist. Thursday 23 August Tuesday 21 August 6–9pm 3.15pm Inclusive Drinks Music Recital In August, Inclusive Drinks will have the by Julia Sinani (piano) and pleasure of welcoming Irish peace leader, Anna Ovsyanikova (violin). LGBTQI activist, theologian and poet, Pádraig Ó Tuama, who will be reading some of his poetry before appearing at the Christian Arts Festival, Greenbelt. The event is run by Matthew Hall, and you can reserve tickets using the link inclusivedrinkspoetry.eventbrite.com.

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Tuesday 28 August Tuesday 4 September 3.15pm 3.15pm Music Recital Music Recital by The Buck Brass Trio. by Andrew Harsley, cello student at the Royal College of Music. Wednesday 29 August 7–8.30pm Tuesday 4 September Evening Guided Tour 7–8.30pm of Southwark Cathedral The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia Explore the 900 years of religious life The Reverend Dr John Binns explains the in this one hour tour. history of the Church in Ethiopia. Tickets: £8, from Tickets: Free, from cathedraltour29august.eventbrite.co.uk churchofethiopia.eventbrite.co.uk

Friday 31 August Thursday 6 September 7–8.30pm 7–9.30pm The River Thames – History Showoff Myths and Legends History Showoff is a comedy cabaret Storyteller and musician George Hoyle event all about the past, where a cast of will uncover the myths and legends historians, archaeologists, museum folk and associated with the River Thames. comedians try to make sense of the olden Tickets: £5, from riverthamesmyths. days. And laugh at them a bit. You’ll meet eventbrite.co.uk a cast of informatiive and entertaining experts ready to take you into London’s Saturday 1 September history, bringing weird and wonderful 11.00am–5.00pm tales to life. Firing on the Foreshore Tickets: £7, from historyshowoffsep. As part of the Totally Thames Festival eventbrite.co.uk 2018 Edith Slee will be leading an event on the foreshore by Tate Modern in which Saturday 8 September clay pots will be fired. 11am More information: totallythames.org/ Friends’ Talk: Between the Covers event/firing-on-the-foreshore-2018 Talk by Guy Rowston about the Cathedral’s collection of antique books. Monday 3 September Tickets: £11.50 to include light lunch. 1.10pm Organ Recital by Daniel Cook, Durham Cathedral.

14 Sunday 9 September St Olave’s and the Cathedral Schools, going 11.0 0 am to Lambeth Palace, visiting a homeless Patronal Festival: The Blessed project and a food bank, meeting staff in the Virgin Mary Diocesan Office and doing some sightseeing. Eucharist celebrating the birth It will be an exciting opportunity for them of our patron saint with the Admission and to learn about us and for us to learn more Re-dedication of Stewards. about them. Please pray for them as they prepare for this trip and pray for the Link 6pm Group here in the Cathedral which is Service of Light with Liturgy and organising the visit. Do come and support Songs from the Iona Community the Link on September 9 and bring some A quiet service of words and music to money to donate for the MU cakes as the end the day held in the Retrochoir. money raised will go to the MU in Masvingo. Saturday 8 September We will publish more information about 11–12pm the people and timetable in the next couple Women of Southwark – of weeks and suggest ways in which you can The Untold Story Tour become involved in this important Link for This tour reveals the influence of the Cathedral. women on Southwark Cathedral and More information: Canon Wendy Robins, the surrounding area. [email protected], or Tickets: £8, from womenstory2. any member of the Link Group. eventbrite.co.uk Sunday 9 September Sunday 9 September Mothers’ Union Cake Sale 12.30pm The Mothers’ Union are holding their Masvingo Link Visitors Patronal Festival Cake Sale after the We hope that you already have this Choral Eucharist. It will be held in the Sunday in your diaries as a time to meet South Transept this time, where we will with our visitors Mrs Miriam Vela, also be welcoming our Visitors from Friar Fungayi Nyandoro, and Father Masvingo. Please could any member of Mischeck Mbodza, over coffee and cake, the Congregation consider making a home to find out how things are under the new made cake or some home made biscuits to regime and how best we can continue to donate to us to sell on that day. All funds support them in their work. raised this time will be split: 75% will be Our visitors arrive early on Thursday sent to the Masvingo Mothers’ Union and 7 September and leave in the evening on 25% will go to the Food Bank. Please give the 10 September. They will have a varied generously of your time and talents. If you programme visiting St Saviours’s and can bake for us please let Heather or Ada

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know in advance, and on the day a member 3.15pm of the Mothers’ Union will be available near Music Recital the Tutu room (off the Link), or at the back by Maya Irgalina, piano student at of the Cathedral, to take your baked Guildhall School of Music. goodies from you before the service. You may then come and buy to enjoy Thursday 13 September with your coffee or tea after the service. 7–8.30pm Female Tommies: Frontline Women 1.00–3.00pm of the First World War Nicky Nicholls Book Signing Join Elizabeth Shipton as she looks at Our good friend Nicky Nicholls along the military role of women during the First with co-author Elizabeth Sheppard will be World War. signing copies of her autobiography Tickets: Free, from femaletommies. Not a Proper Child in the Education Centre. eventbrite.co.uk Nicky was horrifically abused throughout her childhood and was homeless for over Friday 15 September 30 years before finding salvation and 10–4.30pm comfort through art, therapy and friendship. Stories of London: The River Thames Nicky has remarkably raised thousands of As part of the Totally Thames Festival pounds for charities over the last few years join us for this day of talks on the River including the Robes Project, so please take Thames. this opportunity to say hello to her, Tickets: £12.50, from thamesstories. purchase a copy of her book and wish her eventbrite.co.uk well on this new adventure as she continues her recovery. 4.00pm Copies of Not a Proper Child will Choral Evensong and 150th be available to purchase from the Anniversary of the Norwegian Cathedral Shop. Church in London Light refreshments will be available The Norwegian Church has been present courtesy of The Friends of Southwark in London since 1868. We are celebrating Cathedral and Robes Project. these 150 years with the Bishop of Bergen, the Bishop of Southwark and the Revd Monday 10 September Torbjørn Holt, Rector and Senior 1.10pm of the Norwegian Church. Organ Recital More information: sjomannskirken.no/ by Peter Wright, Director london of Music, Southwark Cathedral. Tuesday 11 September

16 Monday 17 September Canterbury to Jerusalem, he spent the next 1.10pm ten months following medieval pilgrim paths across 5,500 km. He began the journey Organ Recital by Daniel Phillips, KCS, Wimbledon. after suffering several years of mental illness, hoping the ritual would heal him. Travelling Thursday 20 September alone and without support, he had to rely 7–8.30pm each night on the charity of strangers. Death on the Brighton Road – The Crossway is an account of Stagg’s A talk by Jon Newman extraordinary journey. It describes the Historian and Archivist Jon Newman dangers he faced on the road, captures the uncovers the nine mile old coach road people he met and the landscapes he between Kennington and South Croydon. experienced, offers a unique insight into Tickets: Free, from brightonroad. contemporary faith, and – most movingly eventbrite.co.uk – lays bare his struggle to escape the past and walk towards recovery. Sunday 23 September This talk will be followed by a Q&A Lancelot Andrewes Festival hosted by the Dean and copies of The Crossway will be available to purchase. 9am Holy Communion Monday 24 September Preacher: The Very Reverend 1.10pm Cynthia Kittredge Organ Recital by Alexander Binns, Assistant Organist, 11am St Edmundsbury Cathedral. Choral Eucharist Preacher: The Very Reverend Monday 24 September Cynthia Kittredge 7–8.30pm Living with the Gods: 40,000 years 3pm of Peoples, Objects and Beliefs – Choral Evensong and Procession A Talk by Dr Neil MacGregor to Lancelot Andrewes’ Tomb Dr Neil MacGregor talks about his new publication which was an exhibition at the 12.45pm British Museum and successful BBC Radio 4 The Crossway – A Talk by Guy Stagg documentary. Back by popular demand, Guy Stagg will Tickets: £13, from join us in the Library to talk about his livingwiththegods.eventbrite.co.uk recent publication The Crossway. When Guy Stagg decided to walk from

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Tuesday 25 September Thursday 27 September 7pm 3pm Thomas Cromwell – A Talk by Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs Diarmaid McCulloch A mixed choir of 130 singers from all Shakespeare’s Globe in partnership with parts of The Netherlands will sing Southwark Cathedral host the launch well-known psalms, hymns and spiritual of Diarmaid MacCulloch’s new book songs in both Dutch and English, conducted Thomas Cromwell – A Life. by Peter Burger. Hugo van der Meij will play This talk will take place at the Nancy the organ and piano. Knowles Lecture Theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe. 2–5 May 2019 Tickets: £12.50, from Visit to Assisi shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on-2018/ The Friends will be taking a trip to Assisi thomas-cromwell-conversation in May next year. If you would like to receive information about the trip please Thursday 27 September email Kate on kate.dean@southwark. 11.00am, to be seated by 10.45am anglican.org Canon Michael Rawson will The Consecration of the Venerable be accompanying us on the trip. Jackie Searle as Bishop of Crediton by the Archbishop of York Following the appointment of the Right Reverend Sarah Mullally as Bishop of London, who had previously been Bishop of Crediton, the Venerable Jackie Searle, currently Archdeacon of Gloucester, will be consecrated a bishop in Southwark Cathedral. This will be the first of a woman as bishop to take place in Southwark and tickets are available so that you can join in that historic occasion. Jackie will be presented by both the Bishop of Gloucester, the Right Reverend Rachel Trweek and the Bishop of Exeter, the Right Reverend Robert Atwell. Tickets: Free, from searleconsecration. eventbrite.co.uk

18 General Notices

Doorkins Magnificat Growing in Faith and Life Doorkins has been put on a special diet The Bishop’s Certificate in recommended by her vet which will help Discipleship with her health and wellbeing as she gets Beginning in September 2018 and based older. A lot of you have been kind enough around the Diocese, including at Trinity to donate food and treats to Doorkins over House on Borough High Street, this one the years which is really appreciated but year’s course is an excellent way of learning unfortunately she is now not allowed to eat. more about the Christian faith and journey. The good news is that we would love you Peter Graystone, Assistant Director of to continue to bring in cat food as this will Discipleship and Ministry says: ‘The ten be donated to a Greenwich based cat month course helps people learn about the rescue and rehoming sanctuary called Bible, doctrine and mission. And later on it CatCuddles. CatCuddles are desperate becomes practical in nurturing people’s for any donations to help with their work spirituality and life of prayer. It’s the ideal rescuing and rehoming cats in SE London first step for people who are considering and NW Kent. a call to be a Reader or SPA, or on a Please bring your donations to the vocational journey that might result in Cathedral Shop or give them to a Verger ordination. But I’d recommend it to any and these will be passed onto the sanctuary. Christian who wants to understand why If you do wish to continue to donate food they believe what they believe.‘ or money to Doorkins please speak to one More about the course can be found in of the Vergers who will advise. the leaflets at the back of the cathedral.

Data Protection South Bank Churches For details about how we look after and The cathedral belongs to this use your personal data please visit mission focussed ecumenical group cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/cookies- of local churches. and-general-privacy-notice/ or contact the Data Controller, Matthew Knight, on Waterloo Foodbank: We support the [email protected] Foodbank by running a session on Monday or telephone 020 7367 6726. morning 9.30 to 11.30 at St George the Martyr and collect food donations in the cathedral shop. Cash donations are also useful to allow us to buy more supplies. A few more volunteers will be needed in September. The Foodbank currently has very low stocks and is asking especially for tinned

19 General Notices meat, tinned fruit, cereal, fruit juice, biscuits and coffee. You can donate via the Cathedral Shop, at St George the Martyr on Monday 9.30–11.30 and Thursday 2–4pm, or the Oasis Centre, SE1 7QP, Mon–Fri, 8am–6pm. Cash donations also welcome. Thank you.

Syrian Refugee Initiative: Oasis church has pioneered a scheme to buy a house and refurbish it to provide a home for a vulnerable family being rehoused by the Home Office. The next need is for Arabic speakers and people able to support the family as they learn about a new life in Lambeth, with schools, GPs etc.

Eco Church: Southwark cathedral is joining many other local churches in the Eco Church project to care for God’s creation through the way we live and work together. We are working towards a silver award at present. Our August focus is on developing an environmentally responsible lifestyle: we offer you Five Top Tips on the opposite page.

More Details: See southbankchurches.org or contact [email protected]

20 Top five environmental tips!

1. Walk one street further away Air quality in this area is worse than the national average. One way to reduce the impact of this is to walk slightly further away from the main road - walking through quieter side streets can reduce the impact of poor air quality by up to 50%, which is particularly important for children.

2. Reuseable cups Londoners buy over two million cups of takeaway coffee every day. Switching to a reuseable cup would be a huge help to reduce the amount of waste - and in many coffee shops you’ll get a discount!

3. Turn off your engine Engines left running while waiting produce more emissions than cars which are in motion.If you’re waiting for someone, turn off your engine!

4. Paper not plastic If you really have to use single-use cutlery, crockery or cups, go for recyclable paper instead of plastic!

5. Switch off not standby Not only does this save the environment, but it’ll save you money - the average household wastes £50 per year by having their TV on standby instead of switching it off!

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The Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie Southwark

In 606 a Convent was established on the south bank of the River Thames at the place from which the ferry used to cross over to the City of London. In 1106 an Augustinian Priory was established. From here they ministered to pilgrims and travellers, and to the sick and the needy of the area and the Word of God was faithfully preached and the sacraments celebrated. As part of their ministry, the Hospital of St Thomas was established (now located opposite the Houses of Parliament).

Following the Reformation, the Priory Church became a Parish Church. In many ways the building was sadly neglected but the gospel continued to be faithfully preached and the people of the parish cared for and taught. A parish school – now Cathedral School – was opened in 1704 following in the work already established in schools founded from the parish under a charter from Queen Elizabeth I.

The life, diversity and character of the area are revealed in the tombs and monuments within the church. Among them is that of John Gower (c. 1330-1408), poet and friend of Chaucer, whose Canterbury Tales begin in Southwark. Across the nave is a memorial to William Shakespeare, who spent much of his life in Southwark, and above it, a stained glass window depicting scenes from his plays. Edmund Shakespeare, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger are all buried in the Cathedral. Lancelot Andrewes, who translated the first five books of the Bible into English, is buried by the High Altar. He is a founding father of the Church of England. In the grounds is buried Mahomet, Chief of the Mohegan Tribe from New England and a memorial to him can be found in the churchyard.

Today in old and new buildings, this Cathedral continues to serve the people of its parish and the people of the diocese, to be a centre of teaching, of worship, prayer and pilgrimage; a place of inclusive welcome for all people. This continues to be a place of major regeneration and change as Bankside has once again become a residential area, a playground for London and a place where the arts are celebrated, as well as a growing centre for political, financial and legal decision making. Southwark Cathedral is the constant factor in an ever changing and exciting community in which we continue to proclaim a gospel of radical engagement with God and the world.

We therefore welcome you to this holy place which is both ancient and modern. Together we continue to serve the people of this area - those who are passing through, crossing the river, making a new home, coming to work or simply here to enjoy themselves – and the people who live here, in much the same way as our forebears did and with all those who have gone before us we do it all from a place of praise and worship of Almighty God.

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