newscathedral april 2017
Prayer Worship Music Arts Education Heritage Welcoming
Dean’s Easter Message Page 2
Artist-in-Residence Pages 8 and 9
New Liturgical Furniture Page 11
www.manchestercathedral.org The church in Pakistan is thriving and growing under challenging circumstances and I was impressed by their joyful worship. The psalms in particular are sung with great devotion.
During my visit, I met with about twenty- five members of the Cathedral community and we agreed to pray regularly for each other and to share news about our respective communities. Canon Falak Sher and I addressed the Diocesan clergy on vision-building and leadership, Dean’s Corner spoke at a retreat for all the catechists in the diocese, addressed other clergy gatherings, and visited a number of churches in Lahore and elsewhere. In this context, the church of Jesus Christ seeks to bear witness to the good news of God’s Kingdom. Our sister Cathedral is a strong and lively community serving the Lord under the leadership of Dean Shahid Mehraj, who I have invited to visit us in Lahore 2017 Manchester. Extra-ordinary Things
I visited Lahore between 18 - 25 Relationships between the Christian February, joining a Diocesan Education and Muslim communities in Lahore are Department teacher training group reasonably good. The Dean and the led by the Canon Maurice Smith. Our Grand Imam of the country’s largest Education Department has an excellent mosque meet regularly to support one Lahore is a beautiful city, full of energy working relationship with that of the another and local Christians work well and life. Extremes of poverty and wealth Diocese of Lahore. together. are evident everywhere. The security threat is a daily problem for all churches, We arrived at Lahore at 3am and I had The educational work of the diocese mosques and schools. Islamic militants three hours of sleep before preaching at is exceptional and I learned that some seek to impose their narrow, conservative two services in Lahore Cathedral, first of the country’s senior leaders have brand of Islam on the nation through The Diocese of Lahore is well led by in English and then, with translation, been educated in church schools. With serious acts of violence and the city is its Bishop Irfan Jamil. Its outreach into Urdu. At the second service the Bishop Irfan, I visited a school for girls under constant surveillance by security through education, community work and Dean and I lit a special candle for peace, high up in the Himalayas named after St officials, police and the army. through a variety of other means is very praying for those who had lost their lives Denys and I presented the school with encouraging and should be a source of in a suicide bomb attack on a local Sufi an icon of St Denys from our Cathedral. inspiration and encouragement to us in shrine. This was reported in the local At a church school in Rawalpindi, I was Manchester and the Church of England. and national press. impressed by their care for young girls from vulnerable backgrounds who were Rogers Govender being prepared for a bright future.
Page 3 Cathedral News “It makes me Greater Manchester dance in my chair.” Chamber of Commerce So Many Beauties—an oratorio written with Simon Cronin, GMCC Member Communications Manager people with dementia
Holly Marland Sessions included singing, poetry-writing, dancing, percussion improvisations and creative The Adages project has given people with conversations supported by Holly Marland on dementia the chance to create a beautiful new the Kora (West African harp) and students from piece of music. Funded by Arts Council and the RNCM and local professionals. Music in Hospitals, creative sessions were delivered in local dementia care settings. So Many Beauties is the resulting musical story (oratorio), premiering at the Cathedral on Thursday 6 April at 7pm. The hour-long Tickets are available at performance will be dementia-friendly and www.adages.eventbrite.co.uk (07935601196) accessible for all. It will be followed by informal networking with dementia agencies.
The Chamber Carol Concert at At the heart of the area of greatest economic Manchester Cathedral has become a intensity outside London and the South East, the Chamber is the primary body for business A WORLD OF FLAVOUR popular Christmas event in the business calendar. Last year, five hundred people support, policy, representation and networking. UNDER ONE ROOF from across Greater Manchester attended The Chamber is an independent, not-for-profit the concert. The concert featured private company and its aim is to support Pick from 13 of your favourite restaurants offering performances from the Chamber’s very businesses and help create the best climate delicious food and drink from around the world. own Staff Choir, Chetham’s Brass Quintet for the region to prosper. This is achieved by and Chetham’s Lower School Choir. ensuring that those taking decisions on key issues such as transport, taxation and business We invited Simon Cronin, GMCC regulation hear the voice of our members. The Member Communications Manager to tell representation of our members’ views is central us more about the work of the Greater to the work of the policy team at the Chamber; Manchester Chamber of Commerce. these views are gathered in a range of ways including our local councils, policy committees, GMCC is the largest Chamber of Commerce sector councils, the main Chamber council, in the UK, providing business support to focus groups, meetings with politicians and approximately 4,500 members who collectively consultations. employ 350,000 people, around one-third of Greater Manchester’s workforce. The Chamber also offers a range of networking forums across Greater Manchester, free as part Recognised as a leader in its field, of membership, plus a variety of other events Greater Manchester Chamber’s reputation in and services. government circles has grown locally and nationally. www.gmchamber.co.uk
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7811_CornEx_A6_Cathedral_Newsletter_Ad v2.indd 1 11/10/2016 09:56 Manchester Children’s Choir Poem
Geoffrey Woollatt, Sub Organist Rachel Mann
Manchester Children’s Choir sang their first performance on Christmas Eve 2016, as part of the Crib Service. It was quite an experience for them to be one of the choirs at the service, and they did themselves proud, singing a few Christmas carols whilst the congregation moved from the Nave to the Quire. The Pilgrims at Luke Copse
They will be taking part in the first “I was a dreamer ever…” – Ivor Gurney performance of an oratorio called So Many Beauties at the Cathedral on Thursday 6 Azure electric, an unbroken sky above Serre, April. The work is part of the Adages project though a hint of cumulus, a curd summit and was set up to create and perform a new, extended piece of music for voices and for the church’s spire. We’ve come to measure instruments through working with different the distance between here and there, past and now, groups of older people with dementia and from wood to village, time as study in geography – their carers. See page 4 for more information. days measured in inches, months in yards gained,
a decade in how long it took to plot the remains, the ploughman surveys the field’s annual harvest of chalk and bone. They buried them where they fell,
Natya Aerobics in aid of the guidebook says, gravestones bring other news: Lest we and Greater Love, Nobly and Willingly, Diabetes Awareness 29 To the Memory, To the Glory and Pace, Pace, Pace FREE APRIL Prajyoti Madhusudan ADMISSION while Portland white bleeds green, the windward edge enough to take bearings, discern the direction There are more than 3 million people She wants to engage people from all walks of of winter and storm, the yet to come. in UK diagnosed with diabetes and life regardless of age, abilities, religion, race or approximately 850,000 people with cultural background. Till then, sleepers, dream ever. It might be England, undiagnosed type 2 diabetes. Dance a cornfield at Ampney Crucis as May turns gold, teacher Prajyoti Madhusudan is doing a On International Dance Day, Saturday 29 the green shoot quickens to the swallows’ dance. project to raise awareness of the benefits April 2017, starting at 10am, she will be of diet and exercise for preventing and holding a celebration workshop in Manchester managing diabetes by holding interactive Cathedral. Participants will try out a few dance and educational workshops in ten routines from the Natya Aerobics Dance and The above poem can be found in Rachel Mann’s acclaimed new book, Fierce locations across UK, in association with Fitness Workout series and also receive expert Imaginings: The Great War, Ritual, Memory and God (DLT, 2017), which was launched in Manchester Cathedral last month. Diabetes UK. advice on prevention and management of diabetes through diet. Through this project, she aims to promote Do put this date in your diary and come health and wellbeing by involving as many and experience this exciting and energetic people as possible including schools, local workshop in the Cathedral. community groups, gyms and the wider public in this project. The workshop starts at 10am and ends at 2pm. Admission is free. Page 7 Cathedral News For ten years until recently, Stephen was For many years Stephen has worked with Introducing Stephen Raw – a member on the Royal Mint Committee the Poet Laureate, Dame Carol Ann Duffy, that decides on the design of all the coins on poetic ‘collaborations’ and in 2015, at they make. His role was as the lettering the half-way stage of her tenure, Stephen Artist-in-Residence expert and he has occasionally produced exhibited major works of her poetry in the some of the calligraphy for various coins. Queen’s Gallery, Holyroodhouse Palace in The 800th anniversary of Magna Carta is Edinburgh. an example; the words being written in his Chorlton studio – not Runnymede! For his For his Artist-in-Residence project, after large-scale paintings he has another studio he has gathered in the ‘language material’, in Old Trafford, which is underneath St he will see how that can best ‘be made John the Evangelist’s church. visible’. ‘I’m very excited about the unknown outcome in all this,’ Stephen Stephen says insists, ‘to have everything sorted out right from the off is not how true art is meant to happen.’
‘I’ve always felt encouraged You can see more of his work at by the Revd John Hughes, his www.StephenRaw.com where you can congregation and the staff at the also be kept in touch with his project. St John’s Centre, supporting me as I’ve developed as an artist.’ Other Art Exhibitions Admission to all our exhibitions is free. We are pleased to introduce Stephen Raw as the Cathedral’s first Artist-in-Residence. He was commissioned by the Dean at ‘Sentence’ by artist Alan O’Cain Evensong on 15 March. His work has always been involved with 7 March - 23 April words and how they look when drawn, painted or written. Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce Arts One of Stephen’s ideas will begin by A recent, very close-to-home commission Prize Exhibition 2017 listening to all the language that is being has been his work on the wooden case for 22 May-5 June spoken inside and outside the Cathedral the new Cathedral organ. For this task he precincts. This includes the skate- used the Latin text of words often sung boarders and the road sweepers and the in the services that take place every day conversations visitors have when they come in the Cathedral. ‘Latin is so much more to see one of Manchester’s main attractions. condensed and flexible than English,’ says So watch out, he may be listening out for Stephen, ‘and has the advantage that all what you’re saying to a friend or colleague! our European visitors know exactly what’s being said.’ On both the east and west sides Stephen’s skill as a ‘textural artist’ means he has employed words such as Hosanna, that sometimes he designs special lettering Sanctus, Magnificat and Te Deum that are for book covers, at other times producing also familiar to Cathedral worshippers. large-scale paintings for exhibitions.
Page 9 Cathedral News Volition Cathedral Community Annual General Development Tony Maunder, Meeting and Volunteer Programme Manager Update Volition’s latest success story is Easter Vestry Andrew, who gained employment with NCP while on the programme. Meeting 2017 The Pipe Shades When he joined Volition, Andrew had The AGM and Easter Vestry meeting will been unemployed for six months and was take place on Sunday 7 May at 12.15pm of the Stoller looking for a change in career after being a in the Cathedral Nave. labourer and charge hand for many years. Organ and Andrew has taken every opportunity The Annual Report will be available to offered to him while on the programme, download from the Cathedral website New Liturgical including trying his hand at bee-keeping approximately one week before the with Canon Adrian Rhodes. Andrew will meeting. Printed copies will be available also continue to volunteer at the cenotaph to collect from the Churchwardens at Furniture in St Peter’s Square. His new manager has Sunday services from Sunday 30 April sung Andrew’s praises and has said he and thereafter from the Cathedral office has a bright future at NCP. (Monday to Friday, 8.30am-4.30pm). Anthony O’Connor, Director of Fundraising and Development
The new suite of liturgical furniture will be worship. The lettering is repeated in a arriving in the Cathedral during Holy Week pattern to create a textual design that fills the Experience Easter! and the new altar will be consecrated at the pipe shades: the prayers can be ‘discovered’ Sung Eucharist on Easter Day. without being immediately apparent. A similar Pam Elliott, Education Officer technique is found in the Cathedral’s St Mary The wood for the furniture, European Window by Antony Hollaway, where the ‘act walnut, was chosen to complement the new of re-assembling the letters is intended to As part of our ‘Terrific Tuesdays’ Young families will have the opportunity of organ case. The altar top is Burr Elm. Subtle concentrate the mind on the text’. In the pipe programme for young families, Manchester discovering the Easter story through a special decoration will include gilding to visible shades, the cut-through lettering also has a Cathedral will be offering a special craft and story trail. There will be chocolate edges, echoing the gilded organ pipes, Experience Easter! event on the Monday, practical function, to help release sound. prizes for all who complete activities at each an engraving commemorating the Queen Tuesday and Wednesday of 3-5 April. of the learning stations. Participation is as the longest reigning monarch, and a completely free, though donations towards Our ‘Terrific Tuesdays’ programme, devised Manchester bee, which can also be spotted our educational programmes are always and led by Education Officer Pam Elliott and in the new Hope Window. appreciated. Do plan to come along-and look her dedicated team of Education Volunteers, out for our next sessions on Tuesday 30 May. Treske have worked with Cathedral offers interactive learning experiences during Architect, John Prichard and FAC Chair school holidays to interest and inspire children Experience Easter! Dates and Times Martyn Coppin, and with Cathedral and carers. We’ve had a fantastic response Artist-in-Residence Stephen Raw, who from families in the past and this pre-Easter Monday 3 April 1.45pm - 3.45pm collaborated with Tickell’s on the design programme is extra special, and runs over of the organ pipe shades. The concept for three days. Tuesday 4 April 10.30am – 12.30pm and 1.45pm – 3:45pm the design is the words of prayers in Latin, the international language of Christian Wednesday 5 April 10.30am – 12.30pm Photographs by David Lake
Page 11 Cathedral News Looking ahead April
Saturday 1 April Tuesday 11 April Sunday 16 April 10.00 am Manchester 11.30 am Bishop of Easter Day Children’s Choir Beverley’s Chrism Mass 10.30 am Sung Eucharist– 10.30 am Christian with the consecration of Meditation session Wednesday 12 April the new nave altar and 12.45 pm Turning blessing of the new nave Sunday 2 April of the Leaves liturgical furniture 11.50 am Lent 5.30 pm Festal Evensong Conversations Session Thursday 13 April & Procession Maundy Thursday Monday 3 April 12.00 noon Mothers’ Union Monday 17 April 9.30 am SelfHelp; Improving Thursday Prayer Easter Monday Mental Health 4.30 pm Evening Prayer 9.00 am Morning Prayer 1.45 pm Experience Easter 7.30 pm Sung Eucharist & Holy Communion (family activities) and Stripping of the (No 1.10 pm Holy Altars & Watch Communion) Tuesday 4 April 4.30 pm Evening Prayer 10.30 am Experience Easter Friday 14 April (family activities) Good Friday Tuesday 18 April Pictured in the photograph, left to right, are: 1.45 pm Experience Easter 9.00 am Morning Prayer & 12.30 pm Julian Prayer Group Ben, Rachel, Youssef, Vicky, Richard, Ryan,Laura and baby Gabriel and Graham. (family activities) Holy Communion 12.00 noon Way of the Cross Thursday 20 April Wednesday 5 April (No 1.10 pm Holy 6.30 pm Key103’s Cash For 10.30 am Experience Communion) Kids Superhero Day Cathedral Community Easter (family activities) 7.30 pm Music & Readings Launch 2017 for Good Friday Thursday 6 April Saturday 22 April Welcome Lunch 7.00 pm Adages presents ‘So Saturday 15 April 10.00 am Manchester Many Beauties’ Oratorio Easter Eve Children’s Choir Marcia Wall, Canon Pastor Performance 4.30 pm Evening Prayer 3.00 pm Be A Chorister 7.30 pm Easter Vigil For A Day (BACFAD) On Sunday 12 February we held a special lunch to welcome new members of our cathedral Saturday 8 April community who have been attending our services on a regular basis for the last six to 10.00 am Cathedral Service Times eight months. Those who came had the opportunity to meet our clergy team, one of our lay Fellowship of Widowed People Midweek Services canons and some long standing members of the congregation. Sunday 9 April Morning Prayer 9.00am Mon-Fri In total there were 19 of us and this is what some of them had to say about the event: Palm Sunday Holy Communion 1.10pm Mon-Fri 10.30 am Procession & Sung Evensong 5.30pm Tues-Thurs* Evening Prayer 4.30pm Mon & Fri Laura and Ryan: ‘Just wanted to thank you Jennifer and Graham Curtis: ‘Márcia could Eucharist for today. It was a lovely lunch and it was name everyone present at the recent lunch for 11.50 am Lent Conversations Saturday Services Session great to meet the other guests and get to know new members. Impressive! We couldn’t then 5.30 pm Music & Readings Morning Prayer & Holy Communion 9.00am them better. We really love coming to the – but we’ve now learnt some of their names for Palm Sunday Evensong 5.30pm* Cathedral, and feel very welcome as a family. and who they are. We enjoyed meeting Sunday Services We look forward to coming to the next service’. them and hope we helped to make them feel Monday 10 April welcome as part of the cathedral family. 9.30 am SelfHelp; Matins 8.45am Canon Richard Hawkins: ‘I was going to Improving Mental Health Holy Communion (1662) 9.00am For any newcomers who couldn’t be there, 10.30 am Sung Sung Eucharist 10.30am drop you an e-mail to thank you for organising remember there is always a welcome with a Eucharist with Blessing Evensong 5.30pm* an excellent get together - it is a great idea cup of tea or coffee every Sunday morning of the Oils and *Please note: during the below school holidays evening services are said. and a good way of meeting new people. It was after the 10.30 service.’ Renewal of Vows All said services are at 4.30 pm (unless stated as being sung by a visiting choir on these pages) an excellent lunch!’ 31 March-8 April 2017 Chorister Easter Holiday, 26 May-4 June 2017 Chorister Half Term
Page 13 Cathedral News Clergy Congregation Looking ahead April / May Dean of Manchester Cathedral Reader Emeritus The Very Revd Rogers Govender Raylia Chadwick Sunday 23 April Tuesday 9 May Monday 29 May [email protected] [email protected] St George’s Day 12.30 pm Julian Prayer Group Bank Holiday Canon Precentor & Sub-Dean Churchwardens & Stewards 10.30 am Said Eucharist, 10.00 am Whit Walk The Revd Canon Philip Barratt [email protected] Congregational setting Wednesday 10 May Procession to Town Hall [email protected] 4.30 pm Said Evening Prayer 12.45 pm Turning (No 1.10 pm Holy Communion) Archives: [email protected] of the Leaves 4.30 pm Evening Prayer Canon for Theology & Mission Cathedral High Steward & Chair of Manchester Monday 24 April The Revd Canon Dr David Holgate Cathedral Development Trust 9.30 am SelfHelp; Thursday 11 May Tuesday 30 May [email protected] Warren Smith JP Improving Mental Health 12.00 noon Mothers’ Union 10.00 am & 2.00 pm Terrific [email protected] / 0161 834 0490 Thursday Prayer Tuesday (family activities) Canon Pastor Wednesday 26 April 7.00 pm Manchester 12.30 pm Julian Prayer Group The Revd Canon Marcia Wall Flowers: Helen Bamping 12.45 pm Turning Cathedral Quiz Night [email protected] Cathedral Friends: Pauline Dimond of the Leaves Cathedral Curate Saturday 13 May The Revd Jane Walker Ringing Master: Malcolm Murphy Thursday 27 April 10.00 am Manchester [email protected] Secretary to Bell-Ringers: Catherine Rhodes 1.10 pm Chetham’s School of Children’s Choir Music Lunchtime Concert Chapter Lay Canons Sunday 14 May Barrie Cheshire, Philip Blinkhorn, Saturday 29 April 5.30 pm Evensong with the Addy Lazz-Onyenobi & Jenny Curtis 10.00 am Manchester Collation of the new Children’s Choir Archdeacon of Manchester Cathedral Chaplains 10.00 am Pushpanjali The Revd Canon Adrian Rhodes Dance & Diabetes Event Monday 15 May The Revd Peter Bellamy-Knights 5.00 pm Broughton House Sunday 30 April Centenary Service 10.30 am Sung Eucharist (by invitation only) Staff Member with Installation of The for April Staff Venerable David Sharples Saturday 20 May as Residentiary Canon 10.00 am Manchester Alison Rowland, Cathedral Administrator Worship & Music Administrator Children’s Choir The Dean’s PA [email protected] [email protected] Monday 1 May 11.00 am Coffee Concert Bank Holiday What is your favourite film? Dean’s PA Education Officer (Pam Elliott) Raiders of the Lost Ark/ Grease 9.00 am Morning Prayer & Monday 22 May [email protected] [email protected] Holy Communion 9.30 am SelfHelp; What music do you like? Rock and pop - David Bowie, Cathedral Office Assistant Cathedral Communications (No 1.10 pm Holy Improving Mental Health [email protected] & Marketing Officer Communion) Sting/ Police, Rod Stewart, Blondie and Lady Gaga [email protected] 4.30 pm Evening Prayer Finance Assistant Do you have any hobbies? Wednesday 24 May [email protected] Photography, art Director of Fundraising & Development Tuesday 2 May 12.45 pm Turning anthony.o’[email protected] 7.30 pm Manchester of the Leaves What was the last book you enjoyed? Logistics Officer Camerata concert Black Dog by Stephen Booth [email protected] Visitor Services Manager Thursday 25 May Do you play an instrument? [email protected] Saturday 6 May Ascension Day I played the recorder at junior school Head Verger 10.00 am Manchester 1.10 pm Chetham’s School of but gave it up. My qualifications include [email protected] Volunteer Programme Coordinators (Volition) O Level Music. [email protected] Children’s Choir Music Lunchtime Concert Verger 10.30 am Christian 4.30 pm Evening Prayer What was the last place you visited/ [email protected] [email protected] Meditation session 5.30 pm Sung Eucharist went on holiday? Caribbean cruise (P&O Britannia) Organist & Master of the Choristers Sunday 7 May Friday 26 May Do you have any pets? [email protected] 12.15 pm Cathedral Annual 7.00 pm DHP presents Two cats General Meeting and The Afghan Whigs Which area do you live in? Sub Organist Easter Vestry Meeting Peak District [email protected] Saturday 27 May Tell us something unusual/interesting Monday 8 May 2.00 pm Can We Blossom? or funny about yourself: 9.30 am SelfHelp; 5.30 pm Evensong sung I used to edit a column in a Improving Mental Health by Laudes visiting choir national weekly newspaper ‘Trials and Motocross News’ Page 15 Cathedral News Manchester Cathedral Victoria Street / M3 1SX / 0161 833 2220 Cathedral Visitor & Conference Centre / Cateaton Street / M3 1SQ / 0161 817 4817
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