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Cathedral News Feb 16.Pub February 2016 Cathedral News 2 FROM THE DEAN For the last year I have been making very As you may have heard already we encouraging noises about raising the have not been able to appoint a £70,000 that we needed in order to Canon Precentor yet. This role complete the payment of the State oversees every aspect of our worship Gate repair. In the first week of January at the Cathedral and as this is a daily we received some new gifts that enabled occurrence it has to be covered by us to complete the appeal. It is a someone. I am hugely grateful to staff fantastic effort! A very big thank you to and volunteers who have been so everyone who has contributed. By the understanding. Particularly, I would beginning of February it will have re- like to thank Sue McWhinney and opened but there will be an official re- Jonathan Eyre (for their attention to dedication, by the Lord Lieutenant of detail and producing the service West Yorkshire on Tuesday 12 April at sheets) and Lindsey Bradshaw (for 4.00pm … more details to follow. doing all the photocopying). It has As I write this the new Archdeacon of been a great team effort. Bradford, the Venerable Dr Andy Jolley Two events have caught my eye and his wife, Ricky - a GP - are moving recently; a day for the Cathedral into No 3. This is a temporary Welcomers and an afternoon when arrangement until their housing is sorted over a dozen volunteers, including out by the Diocese but we give them a Canon Mandy, started to stitch the very warm welcome. It will be great to first of the four new large kneelers get to know them and offer support and that will complete the Ta p e s t r y encouragement as they begin this Project. In themselves they were ministry in a new part of the country. really good ‘moments’ but to me they There will be a Welcome Service for underlined the way forward for us as a Andy on Saturday 20 February at Cathedral. If we are going to achieve 2.30pm in the Cathedral. Do please our Vision and Strategy it will be a come along to give them a real Bradford dynamic partnership between welcome! clergy, paid staff and volunteers. The new Archdeacons of Richmond & We need to think in terms of a ‘total Craven, Bev Mason and Bradford, Andy Jolley ministry’, where as many as possible can play a part in the future of this Cathedral. This year Lent arrives very early. A full programme of Lent & Holy Week services and events will be available very soon but they include: Lent Wednesday breakfasts; Shrove Tuesday lunch; and a Fairtrade Big Breakfast on 6 March: a sermon series based on the Creed; a Lent Course based on the Rule of St Benedict; and 3 FROM THE DEAN an opportunity for you to study at home with a book based on the Diocesan vision and the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent book. In Holy Week we are also increasing our offering improving our offering. This year the Revd Canon Dr Robin Greenwood, author of ‘Sharing God's Blessing: How to renew the local church’ will be leading us at the Good Friday Three Hours Vigil and leading a Planting for a better future reflection/discussion at 7.00pm prior to Did you know the Cathedral uses our 8.00pm Night Prayers on Monday, approximately ten trees worth of paper Tuesday and Wednesday evening. But per year? we shall also be offering a daytime The Forest of Bradford is offering us the discussion option as well. opportunity to support the planting of This is the most important week in the new trees in the Bradford area, both Christian Year and I would like to through financial sponsorship and the encourage you to be part of our actual planting. A tree costs £5, but pilgrimage. I cannot underline too contributions of any amount are strongly how life changing and welcome. Please use a yellow gift aid spiritually uplifting this week can be. envelope and mark it "Trees". Please consider treating it very When the location and planting dates differently to any other week in the are confirmed, we will be invited to join year and choose to walk with Jesus in in and there will be the opportunity to Holy Week 2016. visit the area in the future. We do not The Dean want to just offset the paper we use, but create a community space that can be used for generations, a green place in the city to be used by people of all ages. Canon Precentor As the process for appointing a new Canon Precentor continues, we ask for your prayers for guidance and discernment. Father, you have promised to guide us when we are truly humble and dependent upon you. You have promised to give wisdom generously to those who feel their lack of it. We come to you as your children asking for a Father’s wise prompting as we discern the person to appoint as Residentiary Canon. Lead us in the right path, so that the life of the Cathedral may bring glory and honour to you. Through Jesus Christ our Lord: Amen 4 MISSION Prayer for Persecuted Christians You may remember that in 2015 our Cathedral Mission Giving supported The Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East (Canon Andrew White's organisation). You may be interested in this recent update we have received from them. Canon Andrew White has been forced to leave Baghdad due to the ongoing security concerns there, and is now living in Amman, Jordan, where he is ministering to many Iraqi Christian refugees who cannot return home. He voucher programme, free health clinic says, "Given the mass exodus this year of and school, as well as partnering with Iraqi Christians from their ancestral another organisation which is supporting home, it is not an exaggeration to say Syrian refugees in the north of Jordan. that we are witnessing the decline of Canon Andrew continues his work of Christianity in Iraq, possibly even its reconciliation, and has set up the extinction." He is sadly not impressed Jerusalem International School of by the failure of the international Reconciliation, "with the aim of community (with the exception of introducing a new generation to the Canada and Australia) to take seriously power and methods of reconciliation". the plight of Iraqi, and other middle Please continue to pray for the work of eastern, Christian refugees. FRRME, and for the safety of Canon On a happier note, the Foundation has Andrew and his staff, particularly those been able to provide considerable who continue to work in Iraq. If you support to refugees in Jordan as well as would like to find out more about those internally displaced in Iraq. In FRRME, or to donate towards it, you can Amman they are running a weekly food do so via their website www.frrme.org. Extended Membership Please remember in your prayers the following members of the Cathedral fellowship who, through illness or incapacity, cannot attend in person: Pat Baly Margaret & David Barker Dorothy Dean Barbara Foulds Hazel Naylor Bill Pirie Joan Simpson Dorothy Walsh Heather Wright If anyone you know would appreciate being added to this list, please speak to one of the clergy or churchwardens, Alex McLelland or Maggie Peel. 5 MISSION Crackers at the Cathedral! financially supported by the Cathedral. On the Saturday before Christmas about The committee regularly reports to forty of us sat down to a delicious Chapter, the governing body of the Christmas lunch in the Nave. The tables Cathedral. were festively decorated and the Please pray for the work that this seasonal food was delicious. committee does on behalf of the Conversation flowed as we chatted to congregation and Chapter and if you would friends or made new ones, and like to find out more please don't afterwards we were entertained in true hesitate to ask, they really are very Yorkshire style by Eveline Hudson and a friendly. flat-capped Sir James Hill, amongst Social Events at the Cathedral others. Particular thanks to Sally and Paul Brodie for the food and for doing The Community Committee has planned all the washing up, and to the vergers a series of social events of different for expert setting up. It were such a types to run through the year. Here is a grand do that we've already fixed the list of them for 2016 so you can put date for next year and we'd love more them in your diary. of you to join us! Tuesday 9 February Shrove Tuesday Pancake Lunch. The Community Committee Community Committee is drawn from enthusiastic members of the congregation with a deep commitment to enabling the Christian community here at the Cathedral to flourish as disciples of Christ. They have a heart for mission and hospitality and work closely with the Cathedral staff and congregation to enable these key ministries to flourish. They hold responsibility for parts of the Cathedral Pancake Lunch 2015 vision statement. Representatives from Saturday 21 May the Eco-group, Hospitality team, A Mission Fair where we can meet the Volunteers, Deanery Synod, Healing people and organisations to whom the Prayer group, Pastoral Communication, Cathedral gives. Children's Space are all represented and 16 -17 July report to Community Committee. Parish Weekend at Parcevall Hall. Other areas of work held by the If there is available space, congregation are Community Committee include running welcome to join the Committee at this event.
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