together THE VOICE OF CATHOLIC ANGLICANS EASTER 2017 Monastic Taster Three Day in York days to change Going for Growth the world Page 4 One of the great joys of getting older, so I have been encouragingly told, is the wisdom of years that you gain, and all those marvellous experiences through which we pass which add to the compendium of our knowledge. While that may be true, I have to admit that one of the downsides of growing older is that aches and pains can also multiply and s God i you trips to the doctor increase! It is just one of calling ? the realities of my own life that I have always thood to Pries CE had a certain amount of trouble with my FEREN NS CON OCATIO RING % V E 85 A SID EN CON eyes, particularly my right eye. And over the FOR M THOOD alling PRIES last year or so it had become obvious that God C my sight was deteriorating dramatically, and I was having increasing trouble, for example, in reading the various books and pieces of rm paper I was presented with at the Altar. oking fo and bo details Further RUG ber VH2[I Septem Q·V+RX day 3rd 6WHSKH r to Sun Continued on page two 6W mbe ng form Septe d booki y 1st etails an Frida urther d F 82 5533 21 3 s.co.uk 01 alcurate addition info@ k hereiam m.org.u here-i-a 2 2 16:47 Page 10 St John’s Guild The Society & Christians Supporting Blind People Forward in Faith Page 7 pages 12-16 page 8 2 Together EASTER 2017 visit our website: www.glastonburypilgrimage.co.uk Three days to change the world Continued from front page Fortunately, a familiarity with the various texts for the to what it is we should be experiencing – perhaps a wonderful Service before you launch into your Eucharist (and larger screen TVs!) made this not too bit like those wretched cataracts that dulled my own parish’s celebration of the Triduum. And if you have great a burden for me, but eventually in November sight. never been, then go! last and in January this year I had to have a couple of operations on my eyes to remove the cataracts that Having had my sight restored these last months, I Though we most often regard the three significant had formed with age. The lenses in the eyes tend to would love all of us to have our spiritual sight restored liturgies of the Triduum as separate events – Last harden with the years, so focussing becomes limited, this Lent and Eastertide, and I venture to suggest that Supper, Calvary, and Empty Tomb – in reality they are and the lenses themselves become opaque, no if we all enter into the great acts of worship of this one great liturgy, drawing us over the three days from longer letting light through in the way they should. season with eyes wide-open then as a community we one location and part of the drama to the next, as These days, of course, with the wonders of modern would find our lives enriched, and we would become with Christ we ‘pass over’ from the death of sin to life science and medicine, the lenses can be replaced like yeast or leaven within the life of the wider Church. eternal. These are wonderful dramas in which we and sight stabilised and restored remarkably easily Is that too much to hope? take our place not as spectators but participants; we and with little risk. are invited to be part of the ‘action’ of the play, not For a bishop the Triduum is prefaced by the annual just those who sit on the side-lines and watch. And as But it is only after such an operation that you realise Chrism Mass at which his priests, gathered in the with Christ we pass from the ancient ritual of the quite how blurred your vision had become and how, presence of God’s Holy People and their bishop, Jewish supper table (where we temper our pride as with surgery, the clarity of the world in which we live renew their promises to be faithful in their ministry in feet are washed, and decide whose side we will take) and work has been restored. imitation of Jesus Christ, the head and shepherd of to mount Calvary’s Altar-Tree, our willingness to bear a the Church, by teaching the Christian Faith without share in the Lord’s death can, God willing, lead us We are entering into one of the holiest seasons of the self-regard, solely for the well-bring of the people they inexorably through the darkness of the stone-cold year, one of the most meaningful, and indeed one of are sent to serve. And then the bishop blesses the tomb to the bright newness of undying life. And we will my favourite seasons – Lent, which leads up to the three Holy Oils which are used in ministry throughout find ourselves as those who live as people of the wondrous celebration of the Easter Mystery over the Church’s life from womb to tomb, oils used for Risen King inhabiting the light of Easter, rather than those Great Three Days which conclude Holy Week. It strengthening, healing, and the bestowal of the those who still reside in death’s ‘gloomy portal’. can be a most wonderful time of renewal and growth Spirit’s gifts. The oils are sent out from this Liturgy to on our pilgrim journey towards the Kingdom, if we all the parishes as the sign and effectual symbol of +Glyn Beverley have eyes to see and hearts open to what God wants their sharing the bishop’s ministry in imitation of to grant us. But familiarity with the worship of this Christ the Great High Priest. If you possibly can, season, no matter how well done, sometimes dulls us please make every effort to join your bishops at this Bishop Date Time Church Richborough Wednesday 5th April 7.30 pm S Hugh, Eyres Monsell, Leicester Chrism Masses 2017 Richborough Saturday 8th April 11.00 am Winchester Cathedral Bishops of The Society will be celebrating Beverley Sunday 9th April 6.00 pm S Aidan, Grangetown, Sunderland the following Chrism Masses: Wakefield Sunday 9th April 6.00 pm All Saints, Elland Burnley Sunday 9th April 6.00 pm S Stephen on the Cliffs, Blackpool Beverley Monday 10th April 12.00 noon S Helen, Carlin How Richborough Monday 10th April 12.00 noon Chelmsford Cathedral Ebbsfleet Monday 10th April 12.00 noon Bristol Cathedral Beverley Tuesday 11th April 11.30 am Manchester Cathedral Chichester Tuesday 11th April 12.00 noon Chichester Cathedral Ebbsfleet Tuesday 11th April 1.30pm Exeter Cathedral Fulham Tuesday 11th April 11.00 am S Andrew, Holborn Richborough Tuesday 11th April 12.00 noon Canterbury Cathedral Beverley Wednesday 12th April 12.00 noon Ss John & Mary Magdalene, Goldthorpe Ebbsfleet Wednesday 12th April 11.30 am Lichfield Cathedral Richborough Wednesday 12th April 12.00 noon Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham Youthlink Linking children and young people to your church. Very successful in bringing children and young people to the church for over 45 years Full information from ACS Tel: 0121 382 5533 Email: [email protected] or the administrator The Rev. Geoffrey Squire. SSC. Little Cross, Goodleigh, Barnstaple, EX32 7NR. Tel: 01271 344935 Email: [email protected] The Church of the CONGRATULATIONS Annunciation, Chislehurst, Congratulations seeks an organist and choir director to Bishop Philip to play at the main Sunday Mass on his and on major holy days, appointment and to rehearse the small choir. to Sheffield. Be RSCM rates plus fees for assured of the prayer of all of occasional offices. the Together For further information please Readership. contact Fr Paul Farthing at [email protected] or on 020 8467 3606. NEWS FROM NEWCASTLE DIOCESE THE JOY OF THE GOSPEL The Society in the Diocese of Newcastle organized a study day at Newcastle In the afternoon sessions Bishop Norman outlined ways in which we can make a Cathedral to consider “Evangelii Gaudium,” the encyclical of Poe Francis calling all positive proclamation of the Gospel, and Bishop Alison explored what Evangelii Christians to rediscover the joy of proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ. Gaudium means for us, and how we can take its message back to our parishes and live out the Gospel with joy and enthusiasm in our lives. The study day took place on December 5th with the blessing and encouragement of the Bishop of Newcastle (The Rt Rev’d Christine Hardman) and was attended by In a plenary session it was discovered that most people hadn’t read Evangelii seventy people of all sorts and conditions of clergy and lay people from the Diocese. Gaudium, and many had never heard of it. All said that they would now read it. This was in no small part due to the enthusiasm and joy of our keynote speakers. Keynote speakers were Bishop Norman Banks (Bishop of Richborough) and Bishop Alison White (Bishop of Hull). The day was funded by the Church of England Institute, and a bookstall was provided by Pauline Books, based at St Mary’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in Newcastle. Bishop Norman was ordained deacon and priest in Newcastle Cathedral, serving at Shieldfield and Whitley Bay, before moving on to Walsingham then Richborough, while Bishop Alison had been Vicar of Riding Mill in Northumberland before her move to the Diocese of York.