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Gloucester Cathedral News The Editorial Team consists of: Richard Cann, Sandie Conway, Pat Foster, Barrie Glover, Mission Statement: Stephen Lake, Christopher and Maureen Smith. ‘We aim to produce a Christian magazine which is widely accessible and which informs, involves and inspires its readers.’ Editor: Maureen Smith

Cathedral Chapter The next Editorial meeting is on Wednesday 12th August at 10.30am at 35 Colin Road for the October Edition. Dean: The Very Reverend Stephen Lake

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Front cover picture: Canon Neil Heavisides relaxing with a book.

Hopefully, the shape of your life to come, Neil!!

Photograph by: Chris Smith.

2 31 Sat 29 Library Tours: 11am, 12noon, 2pm and 3pm. (See page 23). CONTENTS Page Mon 30 1.00pm Organ Recital by Andrew Bryden.

September looking ahead….. Sustaining and Letting Go. Neil Heavisides. 4

Thu 3 10.00am Benedictine Study Day. (See page 23). St Margaret of Antioch. Richard Cann. 8

Sat 5 - 9th Oct Exploring Art through Ageing Exhibition in South Transept. St Swithun’s Day. Maureen Smith. 9

Sat 5th - 19th Historic Festival Week. The Diocesan Pilgrimage to the Holy Land...A Personal Reflection. Cedric Pickin. 10 Sat 5th 9.00am FEIG Brunch and Bounce.

Sun 6 10.15am Eucharist with admission of Lay Clerks, Organ Centenary of WWI series: Scholar and Choral Scholars. Gloucester Cathedral Services. Barrie Glover. 12

Gloucestershire’s Very Own Thu 10 - Sun 13 Heritage Open Days. Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams. Barrie Glover. 13

Sat 19 11.00am Coffee Concert by Mary Pope and Jonathan Hope. Cathedral Challenge 2015. Annabel Hayter. 15

Wed 23 7.30am Organ Recital by Adrian Partington. The History of Holidays. Maureen Smith.. 16 Sat 26 Library Tours: 11am, 12noon, 2pm and 3pm. (See page 23). Around the Community 18 Sat 26 10.00am Readers’ Day. 4.30pm Eucharist for Admission and Licensing of Readers. News from the Flower Guild Celia Thomson 18

Dark Churchyard. John Melhuish 23

There is Nothing Like A ‘M’ Dame. Norman Habgood 24

Jottings from the West End: Humph 'n Harry 26

Diary of special services and events. 29

Please consider a voluntary donation of £1 to help cover the cost of this magazine 30 3 Sustaining and July/August special services and events:

Letting Go Tue 1 6.00pm Junior Voices Project Concert in Chapter House.

Thu 2 6.15pm Volunteers’ Party. Sitting in the study which I have known since Alan Sat 4 10.00am Study Day — Tales of the Tombs - The History of Dunstan was the Precentor English Church Monuments. (See page 23).

here from 1978 to 1993, I Tue 7 8.30pm Cheltenham Festivals Concert - Eric Whiteacre realise it will be very hard to Singers. leave the place and the Sat 11 11..00am Cathedral Choirs Day. A spectacular day of music. people that I have had the (See page 17). great privilege to serve for nearly 22 years. Three Mon 13 1.00pm Informal Concert - Pete King singers - African Bishops, three Deans and Spiritual to Russian Orthodox.

several Chaplains and Canons Wed 22 7.30pm Organ Recital by Josef Laming - Organ Scholar, later, I could not have wished Gloucester Cathedral for a more enriching or sustaining place in which to Thu 23 1.00pm Informal Lunchtime Concert in Cloister Garth by Fiona Driver and Graham Simpson, violin and minister. But as every priest guitar. knows, we are always more conscious of what we have failed to do than anything we have been Sat 25 Library Tours: 11am, 12noon, 2pm and 3pm. (See page 23). able to give. So please forgive me where I have not managed to be the priest I was ordained to be. Thu 30 12.30pm Lunchtime Organ Recital by James Kealey - Senior Organ Scholar, Royal Holloway, University of When I was serving in the Diocese of Durham, we were fortunate to London. have as Dean of the Cathedral, Peter Baelz, who was very conscious that before he came to Durham he was always saying that: “The August: Church is people, not building. We must travel lightly as Christians August - November Rugby World Cup 2015 City wide events. into the 21st century. Then God, with the wicked sense of humour, Wed 5 5.30pm Eucharist on the Eve of the Transfiguration. which God undoubtedly has, put me in charge of one of the most solidly-built Christian churches in the country. I now preach that Thu 13 10.00am Stained Glass Study Day. (See page 23). Church is building, though I do not add ‘Church is not people’!” Mon 17 - Thur 27 Cathedral Labyrinth down Peter Baelz was right. The building is not simply a container where people do things or gather in to do things they could equally well do Mon 17 – Fri 21 - 11am and 1pm - Performances by the Rambert Ballet. (See in tents. Rather, it is a way of expressing the Gospel. A way of life page 23). which is open to all and for all, the way of Jesus Christ. This is how it hit one Muslim visitor recently, who has since been baptised and Wed 26 7.00pm Organ Recital. confirmed. Sat 29 - Sun 30 Gloucester Historic and Retro Festival.

4 29 It is sometimes too easy, as a distinguished colleague from another

cathedral once put it, to suggest that “most people who visit LANGUAGE COURSES 2015 cathedrals remain untouched by a spiritual message”. How can we at tell? All of us can work here, visit here, even worship here, and be Gloucester Cathedral. untouched. None of us can stand up and make our own response properly to the majesty and graciousness and beauty and other-ness Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th August. of this great space. How puny is our daily acknowledgement of the GREEK LITERATURE WEEKEND IN GLOUCESTER reality of God. We need this place to remind us of that. And we www.ancientgreekinbristol.com need it to be open to all.

Project Pilgrim LATIN QVARTER - ONE DAY-COURSES. Saturday 22nd August. The whole thrust of Project Pilgrim is to enable our Cathedral to Reading Horace's Odes. realise its full potential for everyone, now and in the future. Naturally, perhaps my only regret about retiring is that I will not be able to be part of the next phase. But letting go is very much what Sunday 23rd August it is to be alive, letting go in order to let be. As we look forward to Latin for beginners. the installation of Bishop Rachel, we are determined to make our More details: www.lingua.co.uk/latin Cathedral as accessible as possible. Again, it was Dean Peter of Durham, often quoted since, who long ago wrote: “It is the pastoral task of a cathedral to turn tourists into visitors, visitors into guests, guests into pilgrims, and pilgrims into worshippers.” He was criticised at the time by some of his colleagues, who said that they would react most strongly to any attempt to turn them into Religion and Art in Northern Italy – 11 to 20 anything, were they visiting a cathedral, and that they believed that June 2016 the importance of these buildings is that each visitor will make of led by Rev’d Geoff Crago of Highnam them what he or she wishes. And of course, most of us don’t like people setting out to turn us into anything either! But, as Dean

From da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ and Milan Cathedral to the Peter went on to say, those words were not referring to the ministry wonders of Venice, via Bologna, Ravenna, Ferrara and Padua. of people in the Cathedral, but to the Cathedral itself. A cathedral, A chance to visit some of the finest Churches whether we like it or not, is and always has been a parable of and places of interest in Northern Italy. Christian faith.

Wasted Space? You will spend 2 nights in Milan, 3 in Ravenna, and 4 in Venice. Flights are from Bristol to Milan, and returning from Venice to Surely the only justification for what we could describe as “the Bristol. waste of space” in our Cathedral or any cathedral is that this space allows us to soar and to fly. The architecture of a great cathedral For full details and to download a brochure pack, go to: echoes or resonates with the architecture of the human spirit. All www.crago.co.uk our longings and hopes and failings, our beginnings again, are or telephone Geoff on 01452 750575 somehow here. The future Pope Paul VI, when visiting England in

28 5 1934, pondered on this truth: “Cathedrals are veritable ships of the Humph is still having an ongoing rumble about pilgrimage - “abroad - spirit, where matter has not only a use but a meaning.” Their riches journeys - what about the weeding?” etc. He was not amused by the of creativity point us always, and silently, often unknowingly, to the gift of a pilgrim’s hat and he gave poor r. H. a book, found at the creator. We cannot judge their “great work”. Their public work, Book Sale - “Wish we weren’t here - a survival guide to abroad”. Mr. their liturgy, begins before we move within them. God is. H. is now thinking about the Classic and Retro Festival. There are two “historic vehicles” in College Green and he might be given a And yet, and yet… I still remember, before I was ordained, visiting ride in a Rolls? Coventry Cathedral, and wondering whether this building and its treasures “should have been sold and the money given to the Incidentally, Humph has found his cricketing hat or, rather, Mr. H. poor”… We cannot but feel this tension. Nevertheless, we need to did, while excavating in the deep freeze for some catnip sorbet. remember that this building is a sign of the generous, unbelievably Defrosted, it has been returned to the head of Julius Caesar. Humph prodigal and shockingly wasteful love that God lavishes upon us. will attend the Cheltenham Festival in his right mind (?) and wearing God is not fair. God gives more then either we desire or deserve. his beloved old hat, but why did it end up in the freezer? We must not resent generosity when we see it. Let us not denigrate it to hide our own meanness and greed. Let us learn to give as we We are delighted to see Seb Field as our new mayor, a great honour have been forgiven, learn to give, not force or be forced to give. for him and for Vicky and for Gloucester Cathedral in general. Many That giving of ourselves must be at the heart of our life here. congratulations!

Eternal Exploration Summer is icum. We wish you all joy and jollity and we’ll be up

Project Pilgrim begins where people are, and with the concerns they there watching and waving, so cheers all round from us to you. have. If they want architecture or history, we talk to them about the beginnings of perpendicular or the social reformers Salutations! commemorated here. If they are interested in history, we show Humph ’n Harry. them the long list of Deans and Bishops! If they want the loos, then ************************************************************************ we tell them where the loos are. If they have lost their children, Apologies! The following are some jokes then we help them to find them. Underlying all our encounters and sent in by Humph 'n Harry. conversations is the conviction that these immediate and surface interests and concerns are part of our common humanity, and it is in Q. Why didn’t they play cards on the Ark? this common humanity that God becomes enfleshed. These concerns A. Because Noah was standing on the deck. may become stepping stones to deeper and more connected concerns. We ourselves may call these deeper concerns worship, or ******************** prayer, or exploration. But we believe that deep down, these too Best of Clerical corkers: are our visitors’ concerns, whether they recognise them or not. Listen to Dean Peter again: “In our desire to share with them  So what if I can’t spell Armageddon - it isn’t the end of the something of the glory that has, God knows how, grasped us, and to world. receive from them something of the other glory that has grasped  What kind of man was Boaz before he got married? Ruthless. them, we can enter into a conversation that will lead us God knows where. And if God knows where, and if our times are in God’s hands,  How do we know Moses wore a wig? Sometimes he was seen with Aaron and sometimes he wasn’t. perhaps we may leave to God the outcome of this particular but fundamental ministry of our cathedral church”. Source: Christian Resources Exhibition. 6 27 It will be hard to leave such a glorious place, such life-enhancing Jottings from the West End: colleagues and friends, but as the poet Cecil Day-Lewis long ago wrote: “Love is proved in the letting go”: Greetings from us Corbels: Humph ’n Harry. It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day – A sunny day with leaves just turning, The touch-lines new-ruled – since I watched you play July and August mean VISITORS, so it’s all systems go from here to Your first game of football, then, like a satellite September and you should see our diary - very little chance fo R Wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away and R! Summer for Humph means cricket and a nice glass (or two?) of Pimms. Mr. H. thinks strawberries and lashings of cream, but Behind a scatter of boys. I can see when are we going to have a chance to “enjoy”? You walking away from me towards the school With the pathos of a half-fledged thing set free We had a good celebration for Magna Carta. Mr. H. stood for the Into a wilderness, the gait of one “Cathedral Assembly” and was returned with an amazing manifesto. Who finds no path where the path should be. “Atlas Corbel, Henry Caractus, Independent Corbel Unionist - regular awaydays, designated pilgrimage and an increase of outings, That hesitant figure, eddying away thermal underwear for Night Watch, free bedsocks and double the Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem, usual ration of crisps”. Atlas Corbel, Hemphrey Serlo Benedictus Has something I never quite grasp to convey remain in office as Prime Corbel and gave a magnificent dinner in About nature’s give-and-take – the small, the scorching honour of Waterlooo. We wore all our medals on Armed Forces Day Ordeals which fire one’s irresolute clay. and went to the Friends’ Tea clanking ovr the scones - Yum x Yum! I have had worse partings, but none that so Humph is becoming excited about the Cathedral Choirs’ Day and is Gnaws at my mind still. Perhaps it is roughly hoping that the Corbolian Chorus might appear. He is fed up with Saying what God alone could perfectly show – their rehearsals and his need for earplugs! Mr. H. says that he How selfhood begins with a walking away, should be prepared asap for the Proms and for the Bishop’s And love is proved in the letting go. Enthronement, as the Triangle Band will be making a significant contribution to both and there is T.C.F. Gloucester 2016 to be Neil Heavisides thought of as well. Humph is planning a rapid retreat to the allotment for a little gin and birdsong!

The Rugby World Cup Trophy is coming to Gloucester Cathedral and we are taking our selfie sticks. Mr. H. is planning a tremendous twirl with the Cathedral Dance Research Project and will keep an ******************************************* observant and interested eye on the Pilgrim Quest and on the Labyrinth. He has acquired a fine pilgrim’s hat, which actually fits God never said that the journey would be easy, but him and accommodates his ears, always a problem with hats! he did say that the arrival would be worthwhile. Max Lucado

26 7 St Margaret of Antioch Friends of Gloucester Cathedral According to the version of the story in Golden Legend, she was a native of Antioch, and she Outing to Salisbury Cathedral. was the daughter of a pagan priest named Tuesday 15th September 2015. Aedesius. Her mother having died soon after her birth, Margaret was nursed by a pious Pickups in Gloucester and Cirencester woman who lived near Antioch. Magna Carta was originally created in June 1215 Having embraced Christianity and consecrated and although it has undergone many revisions over the course of her virginity to God, she was disowned by her time one of the original 1215 copies will be on display in the father, adopted by her nurse and lived in the Chapter House of Salisbury Cathedral. In addition we will be there country keeping sheep with her foster mother on the opening day of their Flower Festival, Magna Flora. (in what is now Turkey). Olybrius, Governor of the Roman Diocese of the East, asked to marry The pick-up point is in Westgate Street, Gloucester, at the bus stop her but with the price of just below St. Nicholas’ Church. We will leave Gloucester at 9am. her renunciation of Christianity. Upon her and drive to Cirencester to pick up at the Beeches Car Park bus refusal she was cruelly tortured, during which stop (just after the Burford Road roundabout) at 9.30am. There various miraculous incidents occurred. One of will be a coffee stop in Marlborough and we should arrive in these involved being swallowed by Satan in Salisbury around mid-day. Admission to the Cathedral is by timed the shape of a dragon, from which she entry and we are booked for 2.30pm. escaped alive when the cross she carried irritated the dragon's innards. Lunch has not been booked in Salisbury but the Cathedral is close to the town centre. The National Trust property Mompesson House is in The Golden Legend, in an atypical passage of scepticism, describes The Close and will be open on the day of our visit. They have a tea- this last incident as "apocryphal and not to be taken seriously". She room serving light lunches. was put to death by beheading in A.D. 304. We will leave Salisbury at 5pm and should be back in Cirencester This image is from the Great East Window – the second row of around 7p.m. and Gloucester at 7.30pm. figures – the fifth from the left. The face is not the original, but has been soldered on at a later date. COST - £23.00 which includes coach fare and entrance to the Cathedral. Richard Cann. If you would like to come with us please phone the Friends Office (01452 522419) on a Tuesday or Thursday morning or email [email protected]

BOOKING CLOSES ON 31st AUGUST 2015. Catherine Girdler (Publicity Officer)

8 25 There is Nothing Like a St Swithun’s Day

‘M’ Dame! St Swithun’s day if thou dost rain For forty days it will remain A strange title for the subject of this St Swithun’s day if thou be fair article, you may think. For forty days ‘twill rain nae mare

The song ‘There is Nothing Like a Dame’ is So says the well known poem. But is there any truth in it? from South Pacific. The ‘M’ is from the St Swithun (or Swithin) was an Anglo-Saxon bishop of Winchester who James Bond film, ‘The Connection’, in died around AD862. He asked for his remains to be interred among the which Dame Judi Dench played ‘M’. common people outside the church. However, in 971, after he had been

made patron saint of Winchester Cathedral, his body was exhumed and It is hard to believe that Judi Dench and I have been close and moved to a new indoor shrine. Apparently this caused sufficient personal friends for over forty years. displeasure in the heavens for a terrible downpour to strike the church

and continue unabated for 40 days. Unfortunately, early accounts of the I met her first in 1969 when she was playing Viola in ‘Twelfth Night’ reburial fail to mention even the slightest drop of rain! in Stratford. I didn’t know then that it was the start of a long term friendship. Indeed, according to the Royal Meteorological Society, ‘there has been not one instance, at any time of the year, of 40 consecutive days of When Judi lived in Hampstead in London, I went to her home on rainfall’, but they add that, ‘That said, there is the tiniest glimmer of several occasions for coffee, lunch and tea. On one occasion, I met sense to the rhyme. The middle of July tends to be around the time that Annette Crosby and Timothy West who were there to go through a the jet stream settles into a relatively consistent pattern. If the jet programme of readings and poetry they were to perform in stream lies north of the UK throughout the summer, continental high Shrewsbury the following day. pressure is able to move in, bringing warmth and sunshine. If it sticks further south, Arctic air and Atlantic weather systems are likely to When I went to see Judi playing Mistress Quickly in the musical predominate, bringing colder, wetter weather. The rhyme just needs a version of the ‘Merry Wives of Windsor’, I was introduced to Simon little re-rendering: Callow who was playing Falstaff. He too became a personal friend of mine. St Swithun's day if thou dost rain For forty days, relatively unsettled Many of you reading this will know that I unfortunately had to there's a fair chance it will remain. undergo major heart surgery, now fourteen years ago, at the John St Swithun's day if thou be fair Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Judi rang the hospital on several For forty days, a northerly jet stream might result occasions to check on my progress. in some fairly decent spells But then again it might not.’ It’s true, there is nothing like a Dame! Norman Habgood. St Swithun's Day falls on 15th July. Maureen Smith. Source: Royal Meteorological Society. www.rmets.org/weather-and-climate’.

24 9 The Diocesan Dark Churchyard.

Pilgrimage to the A young chorister arrived at his local church for the Holy Land, usual Wednesday evening rehearsals. He was alarmed that no one arrived with him, as it was winter and the 5th - 14th May 2015. journey from the black lychgate and the church was "black, Bible black"* as he looked, longingly at the A Personal Reflection painfully dim light just outside the church's porch! He closed the lychgate behind him and, with a gulp, began to make, what seemed to him, a marathon walk down the churchyard's path with graves and tombstones to the left and right of him! To adopt a movie analogy, the experience itself was literally of Biblical proportions! Sensational! And in 3D! Looking left to right at the gloomy tombs as he walked, he began to recite the words of the twenty-third psalm: "...though I walk Biblical? – the mountains: Temple Mount, Masada, the Mount of through the valley of the shadow of death..." He suddenly looked Temptation, the Mount of the Beatitudes, and Mount Tabor (in the left, in horror, as a boxlike, eighteenth century tomb lid seemed to order we visited them); and the desert around Masada and towards have moved!! Phew! He remembered that it had been like that Jericho. before as he recalled that, on it, the writing had "s's" written like "f''s!" (At the time, he hadn't heard of the "Danse Macabre", by Sensational? – the life and colour, sights and sounds, of the lanes in Camille Saint-Saens, and the spooky, yet funny concept of skeletons the Old City of Jerusalem: Arab wives and mothers shopping; the knocking their bones together, xylophone-style! It was just as well shopkeepers haranguing us to buy; the constant hooting of cars. as his knees were knocking together in similar fashion! Neither had Touching the Western Wall and praying. Standing in the River he heard then of John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress", when the hero, Jordan, where we renewed our baptismal vows. Tasting the local Christian was making his way to the Celestial City via the Slough of food and drink (we had to photograph the St Peter’s fishes, which Despond, Doubting Castle and the Giant Despair! Perhaps that were served whole for lunch at the Convent of Beatitudes on our would've helped him as he was making his seemingly perilous final day in Galilee). Elsewhere, I smelt the coffee, in espresso-size journey to the church porch's light as it seemed to remind him of cups, which made up in strength (perhaps too strong) and taste for Our Lord as The Light of the World? what it lacked in quantity. He arrived inside the church porch's door safely and accompanied

the other choristers and choirmaster in the hymn singing. The In 3D? – the pilgrimage took us to the places our Lord, his family, his experience outside seemed to help him in singing thanksgiving and disciples and followers inhabited, helped me understand the praises to our God! distances they had to cover (such as the long journey Mary had from Nazareth to the west of Jerusalem to visit Elizabeth, her cousin) and As our Cathedral choristers leave either for "pastures new" or to the backdrops to events like the feeding of the five thousand that return next term, may we in the Cathedral community thank them could have happened at the very place near the Chapel of the all who provide us with such beautiful singing and organ playing?! Loaves and Fishes at Tabgha (which means ‘the place of seven Surely the nearest thing to the heavenly choirs?! springs’) on the northern shore of Lake Galilee, where we John G. Melhuish. celebrated Holy Communion. * from Dylan Thomas' play, "Under Milk Wood".

10 23 Study Days/Lectures and Tours But it was the Bible passage in Matthew and what the angel said to the two Marys when they went to look at Jesus’ tomb after the at Gloucester Cathedral 2015 crucifixion, which this pilgrimage particularly brought home to me – ‘He is not here’ (Matthew 28:6). We came to the land where he had 25th July, 29th August, 26th September lived, and he was not there. In John’s gospel (16:7) it says ‘Unless I at 11.00am, 12.00noon, 2.00pm and 3.00pm go away, the Counsellor (the Holy Spirit) will not come to you’. LIBRARY TOURS th Now, his Spirit is with us. The Holy Spirit is not a substitute. He was A rare chance to visit the beautiful 15 century monastic library. Located in God’s plan to reveal himself and make himself available to high above the main body of the Cathedral (you will need to go up thirty- everyone who believes in Jesus. Now, we worship him in spirit and eight spiral steps!) the library was originally part of the Abbey and holds a wonderful collection of books and manuscripts dating back to the 11th in truth. At Tabgha (and previously at Shepherds’ Fields near century. Volunteers and staff will be on duty to talk about the library and Bethlehem, and St George’s Cathedral) we did just that, meeting answer any questions. him and one another in the bread and wine. Tickets £7.00, Under 16s go free (includes admission to the Tribune and Whispering Gallery) I found it fitting that we returned to England in time for Pentecost

*************************************** and Trinity Sunday.

Thursday 13th August, 10am-3.45pm Concluding the movie analogy, there were two intermissions: one a HEAVENLY LIGHT – THE STAINED GLASS OF GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL visit to the Bethlehem Rehabilitation Centre, where we had lunch. Learn about the making of a stained glass window, to understand how to The lady who runs it, but who would be leaving soon, couldn’t help ‘read’ a window and to study some of the expressing her frustration at the encroachment of the Separation finest stained glass in the country. Wall. The other was a visit to the Jeel al Amal Boys Home and Co-ed Tickets £31 (includes refreshments on arrival and lunch in the historic School, where the children treated us to song and dance and Parliament Rooms rarely open to the public) afterwards waved us goodbye from their playground. It was special

*************************************** to know we had been involved in supporting these institutions and Thursday 3rd September, 10am-3.45pm other poor Palestinian and Arab Christian organisations through our THE BENEDICTINES – HOW THEY LIVED, WORKED AND WORSHIPPED holiday company McCabe Pilgrimages. That Arab and Israeli, Jew Discover the way of life of the Benedictine monks of Gloucester, by and Muslim – the Middle East – might one day be united… in Christ exploring the Cathedral and the monastic buildings that surround it, with was my prayer at the Western Wall. their history and purpose brought to life. Tickets £31 (includes refreshments on arrival and lunch in the historic Many thanks are due to our Archdeacon Jackie Searle and husband Parliament Rooms rarely open to the public) Rev. David Runcorn for their work in organising and leading the *************************************** pilgrimage and for the Guide and Worship booklet, which I still find Monday 5th October, 10am-3.45pm helpful in retracing our steps. TALES OF THE TOMBS – THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHURCH MONUMENTS Hear the story of English church monuments, how they developed Cedric Pickin. stylistically over time and what they tell us about the people of the past. Meet some of the most interesting characters immortalised through their tombs in the Cathedral. Tickets £31 (includes refreshments on arrival and lunch in the historic Parliament Rooms rarely open to the public)

22 11 The Centenary of Tuesday 18th – Thursday 27 August THE WALK OF LIFE AT GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL World War 1 series. The Cathedral Labyrinth is a canvas copy of the one in Chartres Cathedral in France. Visitors are invited to remove their shoes and Gloucester Cathedral Services walk the Labyrinth in a reflective way. All children who walk the Labyrinth can also collect a bookmark/ It will be no surprise to readers of this series sticker from the Cathedral shop. that the fortunes of the Gloucestershire

regiments were continually held in prayer in the Tuesday 18th August 7.30pm Cathedral throughout the Great War - as it was generally called until 1939. Of course in those days there was no TAIZÉ SERVICE WITH A CHANCE TO WALK THE LABYRINTH regimental chapel, and no Colours hanging in the south choir aisle - Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th August these came later. But it may be interesting to list some of the 1915 and 1916 acts of worship that marked the events at first in Flanders, ********************************** and then wider afield. CLASSIC & RETRO FESTIVAL Sunday 13th June 1915. A Special Nave Service at 6.30pm with a Travel back in time as Gloucester goes RETRO. The Cathedral car collection for the relief of "Belgium and Belgians". park will be filled with historic vehicles as part of the special city wide event. Friday 18th June. A special service for National Needs. ********************************** Sunday 8th August. A service of a Month of Prayer "to Almighty God on behalf of the Nation and Empire, after one year of war."

Sunday 26th December. The collection was for Soldiers and Sailors CHILDREN AND FAMILY EVENTS blinded in the war. Saturday 18th July – 31st August Saturday 1st January 1916. Memorial service for those who have 10.30am – 3.30pm fallen in the war. ‘PILGRIM QUEST’

Sunday 11th June. A collection for the "widows and orphans of British Summer holiday family fun at Gloucester Cathedral. A free family seamen who have died for their country." friendly trail which will reveal what drew the crowds to this amazing building in the middle-ages. Tuesday 17 October. A reception of the Flag of HMS Gloucester. Collect a trail from a Welcomer.

Friday 29December. "Continuous intercessions for the War" in the Lady  Chapel 8.30 - 4 pm.

Saturday 30 th December. Memorial Service for those who have Fallen in 25th, 26th & 27th August the War. Borrow a costume, dress up as a Medieval Pilgrim, Barrie Glover. collect a certificate and take part in craft activities With acknowledgments to Mr Christopher Jeens, the Cathedral Archivist. £1 per child

12 21 Events at Gloucester Cathedral Gloucestershire’s Very Own July - August 2015 Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

Wednesday 22July 7.30pm born 12th October 1872– died August1958. EVENING RECITAL

Josef Laming - Organ Scholar, Gloucester Cathedral Born in the village of Down Ampney, Ralph was

the son of the Revd Arthur Vaughan Williams

who was the Vicar of the parish. The family Thursday 30 July 12.30pm name is of Welsh origin, and is not hyphenated. LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL His father died when he was only three, and his mother, Margaret, James Kealey - Senior Organ Scholar, Royal Holloway, took him to live with her family in Surrey. They were descended University of London from the Wedgwoods and related to the Darwins. Nevertheless, his

middle-class background did not inhibit Ralph’s life-long democratic

and egalitarian ideals. Monday 31 August 1.00pm BANK HOLIDAY LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL His musical talent was evident from early childhood when he began Andrew Bryden - Director of Music, Ripon Cathedral piano and composition lessons, and started to play the violin. From age 14 in 1887 he attended the Charterhouse School which encouraged his natural gift, and then the Royal College of Music Admission to Organ Concerts/Recitals is free with under Charles Stanford, before reading history and music at a retiring collection in aid of Cathedral Music Cambridge. At the RCM he met Gustav Holst and each of them spent time reading and commenting on one another’s work.

********************************** In 1896 Ralph married Adeline Fisher, who died in 1951, and he remarried the poet Ursula Wood in 1953. His first published piece was the song “Linden Lea” when he was 30, and was spending his Monday 17 – Friday 21 August time in a mixture of composition, lecturing, and other musical 11.00am and 1pm contacts, including Henry Purcell, and (in Paris) Maurice Ravel. RAMBERT BALLET Perhaps, though, we have him to thank for the survival of so many The Cathedral Dance Research Project perform - English folk songs, which were at risk of being lost in the Edwardian The Blessing, The Peace Maker & Atonement. period. Stunning performances in the unique setting of the Cathedral nave. When World War 1 began, Ralph enlisted as a private in the Royal Admission free Army Medical Corps, and after working as a stretcher bearer on the Western Front and also in Greece, he was commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery. Sustained exposure to gunfire took its toll (he once continued to direct his battery while lying on the ground ill). This led to deafness in later years - a sore trial for any composer.

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No5 in D, and an arrangement of the hymn tune Old Hundredth for ‘The Holy City’ - by James ’Angelo the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. His composition Lark Ascending was written immediately before WWI began. A newly released CD, entitled The Holy City, containing the Barrie Glover. sacred music of composer James D'Angelo (a member of the With acknowledgements to Wikipedia. Cathedral community) is now on sale at the Cathedral shop. All

profits from the sales will be donated to the Cathedral Choir.

The recording, produced by Gothic Records (USA), a primary

label for sacred choral music, is in two parts: a Mass sequence and Tenebrae with an organ prelude and interludes and an Evensong sequence including the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis and two anthems: The Holy City (Book of Revelation) and The

Hymn of St. Patrick. The music is sung by members of the

Praise the Lord! Washington (DC) National Cathedral choir.

Praise God in his sanctuary; James's music has been performed at the Cathedral, most praise him in his mighty notably his Festival Fanfare for the opening of the 2013 Three Choirs Festival. Extracts of the recording can be heard on firmament! James's website www.jamesdangelomusic.com Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his surpassing greatness! Saturday 11th July.

Praise him with trumpet sound; CATHEDRAL CHOIRS DAY.

praise him with lute and harp! Join us for a spectacular day of music. Praise him with tambourine and dance; 11.00am Coffee Concert Cathedral Junior Choir and Youth Choir. praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with clanging cymbals; 1.00pm Caring Chorus Concert.

praise him with loud clashing cymbals! 2.15pm John Sanders Competition Winner Presentation. Let everything that breathes 3.00pm Gloucester Cathedral Choir Concert. praise the Lord! 7.30pm St Cecilia Singers Concert. Praise the Lord!

For more details & ticket information visit Psalm 150. (NRSV) www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk - www.cheltenhamfestivals.com

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Around the Cathedral

Community Challenge 2015

Archie, Amelia and Aggie arriving back at Gloucester Cathedral after their amazing charity walk. Congratulations to Sebastian Field who has recently been appointed Photograph by Chris Smith. Mayor of Gloucester. Sebastian has kindly agreed to write articles for GCN during the coming year about his experiences as Mayor. Job done and what a huge success it has been. Amelia, Archie and Aggie were complete stars. Not once in six days did they complain ********************************** on the walk as up and down almost vertical wolds they went, particularly on Tuesday when there was one after the other between News from the Flower Guild Dursley and Edge. This day gave them their longest walk 15+ miles.

They were all, including Louise, Mark and their dog Twiglet, stoical, From mid-July you may notice that there will be slightly fewer determined, sheer perseverance and guts. I don't think I know any flower arrangements around the Cathedral. This is due to the other children aged 10, 9 and 7 who would take on such a exciting development of the King’s School Old School Room, within challenge. I am incredibly proud of them all and totally in awe of which is contained our flower room, green room and chorister the children. They climbed the towers of Bristol Cathedral, Bath toilets. The refurbished Old School Room will be used for music, Abbey and finally Gloucester Cathedral. They had blessings at Bristol dance and drama. Our present green room will become a space with and Bath which were lovely and they explained that they were on a inbuilt storage for the Flower Guild and Monument Guild, but can pilgrimage, so they became known as Pop Pop's Pilgrims. also be used by other volunteers if they so wish, and of course continue to be used as a concert “green room” with new toilets. The As I write this, they have raised just over £16,000 which is an utterly building work is due to begin in mid-July and finish in January 2016. amazing total. It is only in years to come they will begin to realise In the meantime, the Flower Guild will be operating under adverse exactly what they achieved in May 2015. For those of you who circumstances but the members will continue to create, on a welcomed them home and those of you who gave so generously to simplified scale, their lovely arrangements which enhance our the charities all I can say is thank you from the bottom of my heart. worship. Blessings on you all. Annabel Hayter (Ga).

Thank you in advance not only to members of the Flower Guild but PS: It’s still not too late to donate on all other displaced users of the green room space too in this period www.justgiving.com/teams/cathedralchallenge2015 of disruption. or send a cheque made out to the charity of your choice, Cancer Research Celia Thomson. UK or The British Heart foundation, to Annabel Hayter The Old Vicarage, Maisemore. Gloucester GL2 8HU 18 15 The History of By the 1730s there were regular bathing sessions in the sea at Scarborough and at Brighton. By the middle of the eighteen Holidays hundreds, seaside resorts were overtaking spas in popularity as they were more suited to family holidays. Spas had been for adults only. Records show that, as early as 1803, children were playing on the Before the fifteen beach at Scarborough. hundreds, holidays away from home were Surprisingly it is against the often dark image of the Industrial non-existent. Indeed, Revolution that the popularity of holidays really soared. Working only those on a class people could now use public transport to go out on day trips. pilgrimage travelled Eventually employers came round to the idea that people needed for reasons other than time off from work to give of their best. Organised holidays were work. We know, from also preferable to the widespread practice amongst workers of Chaucer’s Canterbury skipping work on Mondays, or even the whole week, following pay Tales, that pilgrims often enjoyed a certain holiday atmosphere on day! By 1936 the Annual Holiday Bill had made an annual paid their journey and that limited accommodation was provided for holiday a statutory right. them en-route. Until about the middle of the last century, holidays tended to retain Generally however, there were no places for visitors to go, so no the original communal atmosphere of spa resorts. Holiday camps, one travelled; and because no one travelled there were no places such as Butlins, thrived. for visitors to go. If tourism was to develop, major changes were needed. These changes came with the belief, originating in Roman According to InfoBritain, ‘Communal holidays continue to be times, that mineral water had healing properties. popular, in the form of cruising holidays, 18-30 holidays and adventure treks, but generally speaking the individual holiday has The spa towns of Bath and Buxton were subsequently mentioned in become more important. Of the nine Butlins holiday camps built, the Poor Law Act of 1572 as places popular with the sick. Slowly, only three remain under the Butlins name’. entertainment and games were laid on for the amusement of the patients. Spas soon developed into pleasure resorts, popular not just InfoBritain also goes on to state that todays’ major tourist trade with the sick but with healthy people as well. tends towards ‘visiting heritage sites’ rather than seaside resorts. Very good news for Gloucester Cathedral! Spa, towns, (Gloucester and Cheltenham included!), reached their peak in the seventeen hundreds under the influence of Richard Maureen Smith. "Beau" Nash who turned Bath into a first class tourist resort. He Source: InfoBritain. improved facilities, installed street lights, upgraded roads and organised top quality entertainments. Other spas soon followed his ************************************************** example. Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them The spa of Scarborough in Yorkshire was close to the sea, and it was and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. here that the next stage in the development of holidays took place. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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