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April 2017 Cathedral News 2 FROM THE DEAN Many years ago I spent Holy Week at let us never forget that we do this with our Hilfield Friary near Dorchester. I was brothers and sisters all over the world. invited to help in the construction of the In Holy Week the Bishop of Ripon will be bonfire, to be lit in the hillside cemetery guiding us through the Gospel of Matthew soon after 4.00am on Easter Sunday. It was as we journey with Jesus. This is the most still very dark but clear and as we lit the important week in the Christian year and a bonfire and proclaimed 'Christ is risen' we wonderful opportunity to grow in faith could see other bonfires appearing from together. Please take a programme and join miles around. We then moved into the full the pilgrimage. This year I am particularly five hour liturgy, had our breakfast and delighted that on Easter Eve, in solidarity went for a lie down! It was a powerful with Christians all over the world, we shall reminder, not only of the God who see baptisms, confirmations and, for the first surprises and brings his piercing, healing, time at the Cathedral, the admission of risen life into the darkest of situations but children to communion before also of the community of the risen Christ confirmation. It will be quite a moment for that pops up everywhere. many families. Please do pray for the In April we shall be visited by two candidates and come along to support them representatives of that Christian family. On and remake your commitment to Christ. Sunday 2 April, Bishop Mark Bourlakas from Our vocation is to be the community of the the Diocese of West Virginia will be with us risen Christ. In Holy Week and Easter we at 10.15am and the following week learn what that means again. May you find Archbishop Ezekiel of Sudan will share in Christ's companionship and joy during our Palm Sunday morning service. these days. As we journey into Holy Week and Easter Dean Jerry Our Purpose To serve Jesus Christ as a vibrant community of worship and mission enriching the City, the Diocese and further afield. Our Values Hospitality Faithfulness Wholeness If you are new to the Cathedral … Welcome Please make yourself known to one of the Churchwardens, Alex McLelland and Maggie Peel, who would love to meet you. If you would like to join a Fellowship Group, find out more about the congregational life of the Cathedral, including social events, or if we can help in any way, please ask one of the stewards at the door, who will find us for you. We look forward to meeting you. 3 NEWS Heritage Lottery Fund Chapter has given approval for the Cathedral to apply to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a grant for the repair and restoration of the Cathedral bells and the installation of an electronic chiming mechanism. The Rt Revd Bishop James Bell leads our Holy Week devotions this year … for full details of all the Holy Week services and events please pick up a flyer, available from Wednesday 29 March. A small working group has been formed to take this forward. The HLF stipulate that an Toddler Group organisation must show that there is a need The Action for Children Toddler group for their project to go ahead and they ask meets every Friday in the Parish Room. that consultation takes place on the matter. Starting at 9.30am and running through In order to meet their requirements the until 11.00am it is full of fantastic toys, working group is planning to have a period games and crafts whilst at the same of consultation during the weeks time always ensuring that parents and commencing 3 and 10 April. The carers get a break with a hot drink and consultation is likely to take the format of a biscuits. It is open to everyone from the short survey which will be available on line local community, so please do encourage and in paper format. Your participation in anyone to come along for whom it the survey would be much appreciated. would be a blessing. Further details will be given as they become available. For more details please speak to Gill Davis. 4 MISSION disheartened and often bewildered. The courts chaplains, and the volunteers who work with them, are there to talk to these people. To help them understand why they’ve been asked to fill in a form; to explain to them what’s going to happen after they are called into court. Sometimes I’ve just finished what may be my last it’s as simple as telling someone how you session in the Courts Chaplaincy. address the judge. Other times it’s about It has been an utter privilege to serve in assessing someone’s needs and finding a this way, standing alongside everyone who referral service that can help them. You get comes through the courts system – the a sixth sense for when someone’s putting definitely guilty, the definitely innocent, the on a confident face but inside they’re ‘yes buts’, the not quite sure, the ‘going to terrified; for when someone says they don’t play it by ear and see what the Magistrate’s want to talk but really they absolutely do. like’. The older woman who went at 35 in a The people who work in the courts system 30 zone once too often and is about to are amazing: ushers, solicitors, magistrates, lose her licence; the young man who thinks security guards, probation officers – all it’s funny that he was doing 100 on the working so hard to ensure justice is done, motorway – until his name is called and his but with a human face, and with a level of fear kicks in. The ones who’ve been here so gentleness that you might not have often before, that it’s just a way of life for expected to see. Understanding that very them. The ones who knew what they were few people’s stories are as simple as they doing was wrong; the ones who were might be painted by a tabloid newspaper. tricked by someone they trusted, or And they really appreciate the work that scammed by someone they didn’t know; the the chaplains and volunteers do: magistrates ones who honestly thought they were ok. sometimes even ask chaplains to get The young drug abuser whose children involved on behalf of a defendant. have been taken away and who’s desperate As a learning experience, it has been to see them; the suicidal man with mental brilliant. From finding the courage to walk health problems who knows he needs help up to someone you don’t know and say, ‘are but is falling through the gaps in the system. you ok, can I help you?’, to sitting down to If you ask a group of children what they listen to someone you never thought you’d want to be when they grow up, none of meet in your life. Being non-judgemental them will say, I want to be caught up in the about those whose life path has gone in a courts system, waiting all morning on a very different direction to yours; providing draughty concourse for my name to be support, a listening ear, the signpost of help called, holding a plastic bag with my night that might make all the difference in the things and toothbrush in case I get sent world to them. Developing invaluable down. No one who drives without pastoral skills, helping clients navigate insurance expects to get caught and tried through a place they probably never for it. No one who can’t pay their council thought they would be. tax looks forward to going to court and Being a chaplaincy volunteer is incredibly being sent to prison. Many of the people in rewarding and I would recommend it to this place are surprised to be here, anyone. The Revd Cat Thatcher 5 MISSION Bradford Courts Chaplaincy - Café Project Volunteer Appeal BCCS has been asked by Her Majesty’s hours per session. (Morning 9:30 – 12:00: Courts and Tribunal Service to provide Afternoon 1:30 – 3:30) refreshments on two court sites; the In the long term, we wish to serve more Magistrates’ Court and the Combined ambitious foods (freshly prepared hot and Courts Centre. At present, no cold food) and, importantly, to create refreshments of any kind are available to opportunities for training and work staff, court users or the public. experience for those on the margins, who Court proceedings are often stressful for all would otherwise not have access to such, concerned, so there is much concern that e.g. those with learning difficulties, low risk individuals who are waiting to go into court, individuals (as assessed by the Community in a variety of capacities (witnesses, Payback Team) on Court Orders or ex- defendants, supporters, lawyers, jurors), offenders. have no access to refreshments of any kind We believe that the rota would be much on the premises. Both courts have kitchens more manageable if individual churches, and café seating areas, which are well worshipping communities or charitable equipped and we hope to have access to organisations would agree to take those areas. responsibility for staffing a particular A small team has now begun the process of session, on a weekly or fortnightly basis. setting up a Social Enterprise to provide Full training will be provided for volunteers, this service and we believe we have the so that required food hygiene standards can organisational structure to support this.