newscathedral February 2020
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www.manchestercathedral.org One day more
The Revd Steven Hilton, Cathedral Curate
At the end of this month, just because But could the Cathedral Curate tempt you the Earth does not orbit the sun in down a different route? On this Leap Day, precisely 365 days, we will all be offered I encourage you to do something really Dean’s Corner the gift of one extra day: Saturday 29 special for no other reason than you can. February – a Leap Day. What will you do If you are a gourmand, then go to your with yours? favourite restaurant or cook your favourite meal. If you like sport, then look up what’s As I write, I am freshly returned from a on and see if you can go. If there is a wonderful and refreshing holiday in South special friend that you don’t see enough Africa where, all too perfectly, we lost of, then arrange to meet up. And if you track of the days. Sunny day turned into don’t get enough time for your family, put sunny day, our iPhone calendars were not your phone down and enjoy spending the required, and work email was a strict no-no. day together. Time is something we can take for granted Abundant love and grace and yet, as I turned 40 last year, I am now a little more aware of the decades before and yet perhaps the same number or fewer This extra day is a gift. Yes, ahead. You see, the days do really matter. it’s a gift offered by human As 2020 takes off and begins to launch I was pleased to co-lead the pilgrimage to What we do with our time really matters us into the busyness of another year, the Holy Land and Jordan in November and, of course, our actions tend to reflect a calendar writers but a gift let me wish you every blessing for the last year. The tensions and struggles in little of our own priorities. nonetheless. Do something New Year! the West Bank were very evident. Let us special. And why not start continue to pray for peace between our So, again I ask you, what will you do with this gift of one day more? We have had a rather sad ending to 2019 Palestinian and Israeli friends. the day with a prayer of as we laid to rest a number of our beloved Last month, in this column, Canon David thanks. Thankfulness keeps members and friends. We give thanks for We now look towards Lent and Easter as Holgate encouraged the vexed Christmas us grounded and humble the lives and service of Barbara Evans, we continue our journey with the Lord. reader to switch off a little each day taking Alan McGuire, John Acaster, Martyn May God in Jesus continue to nourish time to be ‘timeful’. And perhaps this and, for the most part, we Coppin, Margaret Knowles and Michael and sustain you spiritually and fill you might be a good thing to do on this have much to give thanks for. Oglesby. In January we laid to rest at with abundant love and grace. month’s Leap Day. Manchester Crematorium a good friend of the Cathedral, Joanna Vale. I was Every Blessing, also saddened to hear of the death in Rogers Govender January of Fred Booth who manages the Printworks near the Cathedral. Earlier in 2019 we laid Dr Tony Enoch to rest. We pray for each of their families and friends. May the hope we have in Christ fill their hearts and minds at this sad time.
Page 3 Cathedral News How many stones did it take to build the Cathedral?
Our Guides at the Cathedral
How many stones did it take to build the In case you are wondering, here are the Cathedral? What is the history of the answers to above questions. The number radiator in the Jesus Chapel? Why is there of stones remains a mystery, the radiator News of the Cathedral Archives a koala in the medieval ceiling? is decommissioned and whilst there are kangaroos in the Cathedral, the koala, on Canon David Holgate, Sub-Dean These are just some of the more puzzling closer investigation, turned out to be a pig! questions the Cathedral’s team of guides In preparation for our 600th Anniversary After a historical tour of the Cathedral, a visit are asked during their day conducting tours. Celebrations in 2021 (an anniversary to the Muniment Room and a working lunch, The Cathedral has around fifteen dedicated we share with Cheetham’s Library), our Fergus and Jane kindly gave us a tour of the Guides, and a larger team of Welcomers. If you know someone who honorary archivists, Mike Breaks and Library in the afternoon. The picture shows Together the Guides and Welcomers help to Pam Butler, have been looking through Meghan MacGabhann, a Local Studies make visitors feel more comfortable and at would like to know more our archives to select especially important Specialist and Sonia Llewellyn, a Local ease when entering this imposing structure. about the history and fabric documents and records to display Studies Advisor at the Trafford Local Studies during 2021. Centre, with Mike Breaks and Fergus Wilde. Our Guides come from a wide variety of the building contact diary@ Jane was in the Library and I was taking the of backgrounds including librarianship, manchestercathedral.org. In addition to their usual duties of storing picture. Although, Fergus is not able to be teaching, social services and the corporate documents and answering queries from the Honorary Archivist for the Cathedral, world. What unites them all is a vast and Tours cost just £6 per person the public, they have recently assisted as Canon Michael Powell was, we agreed extensive knowledge of the fabric and history and are available for groups of Mrs Marion McClintock with research that the Cathedral and Library will continue that created this ancient building and very two or more. into information about our stained glass to offer one another mutual support often the surrounding area too. Each one windows and previous Cathedral Architects whenever possible. has a passion for their subject and just as for a chapter in the forthcoming History importantly the ability to engage with the of Manchester Cathedral (2021). They Since that visit, the Cathedral has acquired public. The majority of visitors come from and I continue to work together to review a new dehumidifier for the Muniment Europe, especially Spain but they also pop up our archival procedures to ensure that we Room and two up to date reference books from less familiar places such as Uzbekistan continue to take good care of our priceless on archival principles and practices and and Mongolia. What is the registers and documents. document preservation. history of the As Mike is also a volunteer archivist for If anyone is interested in learning more about the Trafford Local Studies Centre in Sale, our archives, please contact Mike Breaks at radiator in the last October he arranged for me and him [email protected]. Please to view their archives and consult their note that the Muniment Room, located above Jesus Chapel? archival staff. In turn, we invited them to the north entrance, is a secure storage area Why is there a view our archives and also to meet the newly and is not open to the public. However, Mike koala in the appointed Librarian and part-time Archivist of and Pam aim to respond to archives-related Cheetham’s Library, Fergus Wilde and Jane queries via email as promptly as possible. medieval ceiling? Muskett in mid-January.
Page 5 Cathedral News Saint of the Month Poetry Competition 2020
10 February Andrew Rudd, Poet in Residence We are delighted to launch the Manchester Full details of how to enter are on Scholastica c. 480-543, Cathedral Poetry Competition for 2020, the web-site: Sister of Benedict and and invite submissions. www.manchestercathedral.org/poetry Although this is a Cathedral competition, it is Entries open on 1 March 202 and Abbess of Plombariola not for ‘Christian verse.’ What we are looking close on 30 June 2020. for, first of all, is good poems: any form, any Albert Radcliffe, Canon Emeritus style. Poems that pay attention, that notice things, that wrestle to put your perceptions into words. Whether you are a member of a First Prize £500 faith tradition, or just someone who questions and the title Manchester what life is all about, we would love to see We live at a time when many Christian Then, three days later, back in his cell he said what you have written – especially poems Cathedral Poet of the women feel that they are still insufficiently that he saw Scholastica's soul ascending that resonate with readers - of any faith or Year, 2020. none. You can read all the winning entries recognised in all areas of church life. It's to heaven as a white dove. He then had her and runners-up from last year in the 2019 appropriate therefore that this month we body brought to his monastery and buried booklet – available for £4.00 post-free from Second Prize £250 are marking the life and ministry of St in the tomb he had prepared for himself. the web-site. Scholastica, traditionally the twin sister of This is why in Christian art Scholastica is Third Prize (£150) St Benedict and the first Benedictine nun. often shown as a nun with a white dove This year we are delighted to welcome flying from her mouth. She is now the patron Rachel Mann as our judge. Rachel is a former She was born in Umbria, to wealthy parents, saint of Benedictine nunneries, as well as Poet in Residence at the Cathedral, and has Profits from the competition support the work who dedicated her to God at an early age, education and convulsive children. She is recently published her first full-length poetry but most of her life is known only through collection, A Kingdom of Love. She is well- of the Booth Centre, a charity working to also invoked against storms and rain. tackle homelessness in Greater Manchester. later Benedictine tradition preserved in the When Benedict died he was buried next known as an author and speaker. Dialogues of St Gregory the Great. She is to his sister. As judge, Rachel will read all of the poems said to have founded a hermitage, a convent submitted and the results will be announced about 5 miles from Monte Cassino. around National Poetry Day. Why not enter a Because St Scholastica can poem or two, and encourage your friends to The story most associated with her name do the same? is that, as she was not allowed to visit her be reckoned as the first nun in brother, once a year he would visit her for the western church, modern worship and spiritual discussion. In 543, nuns trace their inspiration and when Benedict was due to leave she asked him to stay to discuss further. Benedict origins to her. It's a pity that First Prize £500 however had to return to his cell, whereupon we know so little about her, but & the title Scholastica began to pray and a sudden and her life points to the truth for all enormous storm made it impossible for him Manchester Cathedral to leave. When Benedict asked what she had of us that our spiritual legacy is Poet of the Year, 2020. done, she answered, 'I asked you and you worth more than the details of would not listen, so I asked my God and he our biography. did listen.' Benedict stayed.
Page 7 Cathedral News Frayed edges, knots, holes, loose ends and All of the hangings are suspended on copper tension are just some of the elements that frames and can be viewed from different were present in the stories and are literally angles. In places you can look through the present in the woven artworks that represent holes or see through the thin fragile cloth. part or all of each woman’s journey. The language of textiles is used to express Once the stories had been gathered, and difficult and challenging narratives and yet different ideas and ways of expressing them the metaphors used can also be applied through weaving had been discussed, Nicola to our own individual struggles. They are set about designing and creating five woven abstract and, although they refer to very artworks. Colour became very important. specific encounters, there is a strong sense One of the works called ‘Getting Clean’ for of journeying from the base of the warp to example, tells the story of one woman’s the top that visitors can appreciate without journey to overcome her addiction. Heroin additional knowledge. is often referred to as ‘Brown’ and cocaine as ‘White’ while methadone is a very Accompanying the exhibition is a ‘community distinctive green colour. It was therefore weave’ that allows visitors to have a go at very important that these colours were weaving for themselves, three photo books incorporated into this work. giving the stories in more detail and a supporting film where Nicola talks about the project in person. The exhibition will be shown in nine other cathedrals during 2020. Tear and Repair: Healing through Weaving Manchester Cathedral, 15 Feb-13 March 2020
Nicola Moody, Fine Art Textile Artist
‘Tear and Repair’ started in April 2019 During the workshops, participants were when Textile Artist Nicola Moody received offered one-to-one guidance about different funding from Arts Council England. The textile techniques, this allowed the women to project began with a period of research gain an understanding of textiles. and preparation and lead to Nicola running a series of Textile Art workshops It was mainly at this time that the within Azalea. Azalea is a Luton based participants were invited to share part or ‘Christian charity open to everyone; we all of their personal narrative. The question are committed to help all involved in was posed: What do you want other people commercial sexual exploitation.’ to know? Having worked with textiles it was (More details can be found at clear to see how many of the techniques www.azalea.org.uk.) could be used to act as metaphors for different experiences and emotions.
Page 9 Cathedral News Biblical Interpretation for Everyone Manchester Cathedral Lent Course, 2020
David Holgate, Sub-Dean and Canon for Theology and Mission
In March Lent 2020, I will be offering a practical course on how to interpret the Bible, based on the new, revised Each session will take place in edition of the SCM Studyguide to Biblical the Cathedral Library, from Hermeneutics (SCM, 2019), co-written by me and Dr Rachel Starr of the Queen’s 6.30 – 8.00pm. A sandwich Foundation, Birmingham. supper will be provided and
Over the five Monday evenings of March, we there will be the opportunity to Cathedral Community News will learn more about how to interpret the buy your own copy of the book Bible today, drawing on some of the content at a special Lent Course rate. and ‘Try it out’ sections of the book. Rachel, a Methodist and leading feminist theologian, There is no cost for the course, Manchester Cathedral will take part in the first evening. but participants will find it Congregation Festive Lunch The book offers an integrated but non- helpful to have their own copy directive approach to interpreting the Bible, of the book, for use during the and the course will lightly cover the five Basil Fox major chapters: course and afterwards. Our pre-Christmas festive lunch was held meal, which were all efficiently served to us. 2 March: at Debenham’s Restaurant in Manchester, Seasonal desserts were on the menu with Our past experience and present expectations on 4 December 2019, and we were tea and coffee to conclude a truly enjoyable pleased to find our tables set ready for Christmas gathering of fellowship. Everyone 9 March: Places are limited. If you would like us, bedecked with Christmas crackers, said they enjoyed the lunch and we Tools for exegesis (close study) to attend, please email me at: glasses and cutlery. look forward to our next meeting for such [email protected] an occasion. 16 March: Along with the Christmas decorations in the Taking our reality into account restaurant and a friendly reception, a joyful 23 March: seasonal ambiance was created for our eleven Meanwhile all are welcome to Committed readings guests from the cathedral congregation. join us for our regular monthly 30 March: After the grace we made our choices from the community lunch after the Enabling dialogue with the Bible menu which included delicious roast turkey 10.30 Sunday service. with all the trimmings and various other tempting selections, including a vegetarian
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Gin Tasting Festivals The Diary February at the Cathedral Saturday 1 February Friday 21 February Wednesday Jason Lowe 10am-4pm 6:30pm The Gin 26 February Craft and Flea Fair Society Festival 5:30pm Ash On selected Friday evenings and Classic street food and snacks are Wednesday Eucharist Saturdays, the Cathedral hosts gin-tasting available to purchase separately and there festivals organised by The Gin Society. is a Festival Gin Shop. Sunday 2 February Saturday 22 February The Society also provides amazing 7pm Olivier 12noon-4pm The Gin Saturday 29 February live music, fabulous food and even the A voucher system is operated for the Messiaen La Nativité Society Festival 11am Coffee Concert purchase of all drinks at such events; opportunity to amuse by playing giant du Seigneur 6:30pm The Gin Jenga! Also available to try is a range of vouchers are available in multiples of £5 more than 15 premium rums, from the from a voucher station in the Cathedral Nave. Society Festival delectably dark to the specially spiced and Cash and card payments are accepted. Thursday 6 February the fantastically flavoured. Or you can add 1:10pm Chetham’s Tuesday 25 February some sparkle to the experience, with one of their delicious Prosecco Royales! Lunchtime Concert 7:30pm Franz The next Festival is on 21-22 2pm CHF Hate Crime Schubert Winterreise TICKETS are only £12.50 per person (plus February, with sessions on Awareness Event booking fee) which gives you entry to Friday evening from 18.30 to the building, plus a huge range of extras, including a voucher for your first festival 23.00; Saturday afternoon from Tuesday 11 February G&T; a complimentary Copa Glass to take 12.00 to 16.00 and Saturday 12:30pm Julian Prayer Service Times home and a Gin Festival book. The chance Group Meeting to taste more than one hundred different gins evening from 18.30 to 23.00. Midweek Services is offered in a lively party atmosphere, with Morning Prayer 9.00am Mon-Fri (Wed: BCP) advice from friendly and experienced staff, Saturday 15 February Holy Communion 1.10pm Mon-Fri talks by the in-house gin-expert and some 10am-4pm Lou Lou’s Evensong 5.30pm Mon-Thurs* Evening Prayer 4.30pm Fri free samples. Vintage Fair 7pm ‘Love Actually’ Saturday Services Diocesan Youth Morning Prayer & Holy Communion 9.00am Tickets Evening Prayer 4.30pm* Service £12.50 Sunday Services Monday 17 February Matins 8.45am Plus booking fee pp Holy Communion (BCP) 9.00am 12:30pm Organ Recital Sung Eucharist (Choral) 10.30am Evensong 5.30pm*
Tuesday 18 February * Please note: during the below school holidays evening services are said. All said services are at 4.30pm
10:15am Terrific The Cathedral Choir will be on holiday from Sunday 16 until Sunday 23 February Tuesday
Page 13 Cathedral News Looking ahead Clergy Congregation Dean of Manchester Churchwardens & Stewards The Very Revd Rogers Govender [email protected] March [email protected] Reader Emeritus Sub-Dean and Canon for Theology & Mission Raylia Chadwick The Revd Canon Dr David Holgate [email protected] Tuesday 3 March Saturday 21 March [email protected] 12:30pm Julian 11am Coffee Concert, Cathedral High Steward & Chair of Manchester Canon Precentor Cathedral Development Trust Prayer Group Pergolesi Stabat Mater The Revd Canon Marcia Wall Warren Smith JP 1pm Be A Chorister [email protected] [email protected] / 0161 834 0490 Thursday 5 March For A Day Community Archdeacon of Salford Flowers: Helen Bamping 11:30am Ferguson The Venerable David Sharples Cathedral Friends: Pauline Dimond Profile [email protected] Lecture Tuesday 24 March Ringing Master: Andy Ingham Cathedral Curate 12:30 pm Julian Kathryn Critchley, The Revd Steven Hilton Secretary to Bell-Ringers: Catherine Rhodes Saturday 7 March Prayer Group Job Title [email protected] 7:30pm Moonlight 2pm Interfaith Cathedral Chaplains Sonata by Candlelight Safeguarding What is your The Revd Canon Adrian Rhodes favourite film? The Revd Peter Bellamy-Knights Dialogue I have many, but at Christmas Tuesday 10 March it has to be a classic version 5:30pm BBC recording Friday 27 March of ‘A Christmas Carol’. of Choral Evensong 6:30pm Gin & What music do you like? Rum Festival A really wide range, but especially the music of Wednesday 11 March Vaughn Williams. Staff 3:30pm Live BBC Saturday 28 March Cathedral Administrator Worship & Music Administrator What was the last book [email protected] [email protected] broadcast of Choral 11am-3pm you read? Evensong Gin & Rum Festival The Beekeeper of Aleppo by PA to the Dean Chorister Recruitment Officer 6:30pm Christy Lefteri. [email protected] [email protected] Thursday 12 March Gin & Rum Festival Where was the last place Cathedral Office Education Officer 1:10pm Chetham’s you visited/holidayed? [email protected] [email protected] The highlands of Scotland. Lunchtime Concert Sunday 29 March Accounts Enquiries Director of Fundraising and Development 7pm Taizé Service Do you have any hobbies? [email protected] anthony.o’[email protected] I enjoy meeting up with Logistics Officer Visitor Centre Manager Saturday 14 March friends and visiting historical [email protected] [email protected] 10am-4pm Worth sites and researching family the Weight Fair history. I’m a life member Diary Enquiries Volunteer Manager (Volition) of the National Trust for [email protected] [email protected] Scotland. Vergers Volunteer Programme Coordinator (Volition) Do you have any pets? [email protected] [email protected]
No. Organist & Master of the Choristers “Tear and Repair” The woven Cathedral Archivist Exhibitions stories of five remarkable Tell us something [email protected] [email protected] women, by Textile Artist interesting or funny Sub Organist Admission to all our Nicola Moody Cathedral News Editor about yourself. [email protected] [email protected] exhibitions is free. 15 February - 13 March I once ran a marathon.
Page 15 Cathedral News A service for 11-18 year olds Unpacking God’s love story and breaking bread together in the Saturday 15 February 2020 Eucharist. Manchester Cathedral More information at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/love-actually- 7:00pm tickets-90300173249
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