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Bicentennial Journey BICENTENNIAL A CATHEDRAL JOURNEY JOURNEY 1914 CROZIER - TE TAKE KI OIHI TWEETING OIHI - PLACE OF BEGINNINGS CHRISTMAS Advent 2014 1 BISHOP’S MESSAGE Find the Bishops on Facebook: Bishop Ross Bay / Bishop Jim White his year’s meeting of the Synod was a very special number of other places where there are Anglican communities occasion with many people able to make their pilgrimage and ministry. The purpose of the visit was to strengthen Tto Oihi and Marsden Cross for the first time. Our part the relationship between Auckland and Melanesia that has in God’s mission was a significant theme woven through the existed since the time that Selwyn and Patteson established Synod. Being present in the “cradle of Christianity” in Aotearoa the Melanesian Mission. We hope for ongoing contact and a brought a fresh focus to this call on our lives as Christian deepening of our relationship in the years ahead. Peter and disciples. Very soon we will celebrate the bicentenary of those Kahu Bargh have recently returned from a semester teaching at beginnings with the powhiri and opening of Rangihoua Heritage Bishop Patteson Theological College. Next year marks the 40th Park and culminating in this year’s Christmas Day’s service at anniversary of the Church in Melanesia becoming a Province Marsden Cross. within the Anglican Communion. Part of our build up to that was the joint service with Tai I wish you every blessing for Advent and Christmas in this Tokerau at Holy Sepulchre Church on Aotearoa Sunday. Gospel bicentenary year in Aotearoa. Following the powhiri, we gifted the centenary crozier to Bishop Kito. This crozier was the gift of Māori from the Diocese to Bishop Averill on Christmas Day 1914. As we come to the bicentenary, it seemed an appropriate gift to now hand on to the Bishop of Tai Tokerau. Continuing the idea of mission Bishop Jim and I made a visit to the Church of Melanesia at the beginning of October. We visited Honiara, Kohimarama and Tabalea as well as a IN THIS ISSUE: 2 OUR BISHOPS VISIT MELANESIA A glimpse through photos of a week spent in Melanesia THE ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND 4 A SYMBOL OF HOPE www.auckanglican.org.nz Church taonga gifted back to Māori Address: PO Box 37242, Parnell, Auckland 1151 Phone: 09 302 7201 6 A SPECIAL PLACE STORY IDEAS & ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES People tell us how Oihi Bay and Marsden Cross are Elizabeth Witton significant to them Editor Email: [email protected] 7 IN THE MISSIONAL FOOTSTEPS Phone: 09 480 9296 We talk to Samuel Marsden’s great-great-great Mob: 027 437 3498 grandson DESIGN AND PRODUCTION 8 SOCIAL MEDIA & Two Sparrows Design CHRISTMAS GREETING Email: [email protected] Ways to make social media work for us this advent The Anglican is printed three times a year. 10 A CATHEDRAL JOURNEY A look at how the Cathedral has changed over the DISCLAIMER years The information contained in this publication is given in good faith and has been derived from sources believed to be reliable and accurate. 12 LSM CONFERENCE However, neither The Anglican Diocese of Auckland, its Bishops, Local Shared Ministry Conference review clergy, staff or anyone involved in the production of this publication accept any form of liability whatsoever for its contents including advertisements, editorials, opinions, advice or information or for any 13 THE DAY MADIBA CAME consequences from its use. The Anglican is published on behalf of The Remembering Nelson Mandela Anglican Diocese of Auckland. Join us online: 14 DIO NEWS BITES www.auckanglican.org.nz Anglican Diocese of Auckland News from around the Diocese 2 RELATIONSHIPS OUR BISHOPS VISIT MELANESIA Clockwise from top right: Novice house at the TNK Community of Sisters of the Church; With students at Selwyn College; Welcome from Sisters of Melanesia and novices; A visit to the Bishop Patteson Theological College; The Melanesian Brothers’ Chapel, Tabalea; Sister Doreen at the Christian Care Centre; A visit to the Franciscan Brothers at Laverna; At Selwyn College with the college boat; A presentation to the Principal of Bishop Patteson Theological College of stoles from the Diocese of Auckland 3 BICENTENARY A SYMBOL OF HOPE FOR A CENTENARY AND A BICENTENARY On Christmas Day 1914 Northern Māori clergy and laity gave a crozier to the Bishop of Auckland. Now 100 years on it continues to be life giving and a sign of hope. WORDS: THE REV’D JAYSON RHODES AND ELIZABETH WITTON he crozier had been made as a memorial of the centenary of Samuel Marsden’s first service at Oihi Bay. 100 years later, on Christmas Day at Oihi, Bishop Kito Pikaahu will hold this symbol of the bicultural Trelationship that has existed between Māori and Pākehā since the missionaries arrived at Oihi in 1814, for the bicentennial celebrations. To mark the bicentenary Bishop Ross Bay, in discussion with others, decided it should be given back to those who gifted it as a symbol of the strong relationship between the Diocese of Auckland and Te Tai Tokerau. At a joint service in Holy Sepulchre Church on Aotearoa Sunday Bishop Ross and Bishop Jim handed the crozier to Bishop Kito, it was then passed down a line of descendants of those who had made the original gift. It was very evident as they passed the crozier from one to another with great care that this is a Taonga of the Anglican Church, it is part of a wider story with its own spirit and story. Since discovering the crozier in the strong room at the Diocesan offices early this year Bishop Ross has used it. He was pleased to return it to those who originally gifted it to Bishop Averill. During the service Bishop Kito commented on the shape of the crozier with its carved spiral top rather than the traditional crook shape. “The shape of the crozier tells of the wellspring of life and it symbolises the continuity of a strong relationship between the Diocese of Auckland and the Diocese of Te Tai Tokerau.” Bishop Kito also noted that the crozier was made from four different woods. The woods showed the identity of each tribe but also their unity in being put together to make the crozier. Towards the end of the service Bishop Kito was inspired to name the crozier – Te Take ki Oihi. It means - what connects us is what happened at Oihi. It signifies the past as well as the present and future relationship that we share. To mark the bicentenary the Diocese of Auckland also made a koha of $50,000 to the Hui Amorangi. 4 A SYMBOL OF HOPE FOR A CENTENARY HISTORY OF THE CROZIER n Christmas Day 1914 the crozier was presented to the then Bishop of AND A BICENTENARY Auckland, the Right Rev’d Alfred Averill at the centennial celebrations of OSamuel Marsden’s first service at Oihi Bay. The staff was made from four different types of wood, each representing the donors, the tribes Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi, Rarawa and Aupōuri. The woods, in the same order are maire tuao, puriri, mottled kauri and kahikatea (referred to as oriwa in a news item in the Northern Advocate on December 28 1914). The presentation was made by Chief Rawiri Te Ruru, on behalf of the Ngāti Whātua and Ngāpuhi tribes; by Chieftain Airi Tenana on behalf of the Rarawa tribe; and the Rev’d M. Taurere, on behalf of the Aupōuri tribe. The staff bears two inscriptions: “Presented by the Māoris of the Diocese of the Bishop of Auckland, Marsden Centenary, Christmas Day 1914”, and “Hei hepara koe ki te kahui a te karaiti” (“Be thou our faithful shepherd of the sheep”).* Arriving at the Cross, an interesting ceremony took place. The representatives of the Northern Māori tribes presented a pastoral staff to the Bishop, each tribe presenting one piece, and each piece being composed of different kinds of New Zealand wood-the crook being embellished with Māori carving. The staff was designed by the late Archdeacon Walsh, who also designed the Marsden Cross. The presentation was made with a suitable address by the leading Māori chief, and the Bishop acknowledged the gift on behalf of himself and succeeding Bishops of Auckland, and thanked the Māoris for their handsome gift.’ In December 1915 in a Supplement to the Gazette Bishop Averill wrote: ‘The Pastoral Staff, presented to the Bishop of Auckland by the four Northern Māori tribes will be cherished in the Diocese as a memento of an interesting and historic occasion.” *From Bishop of Auckland Rt. Rev’d A W Averill in the ‘Church Gazette’ February 1 1915 5 Diocesan Synod members at PILGRIMAGE Marsden Cross September 2014 A SPECIAL PLACE Oihi Bay – described by the Right Rev’d Richard Randerson as the ‘cradle of the nation’, was the setting of the first Christian service in New Zealand. The significance of this event is memorialised by the Marsden Cross, which stands as a lone beacon on an area of flat ground above and overlooking the beach. ver the years many groups have made pilgrimages to the which the Buckle family also kindly agreed to. With inspiration Marsden Cross as the site of our spiritual roots. As the from Christian musician friends Tony and Liz Eyles a recording 200th anniversary of the service led by Samuel Marsden was made of the song and sound effects added to give the O atmosphere of Oihi Bay.” draws near we asked some people to describe the significance of Oihi Bay and the Marsden Cross to them. THE REV’D JONATHAN GALE BISHOP ROSS BAY “My first visit to the Marsden Cross was in 2007.
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