THE AND METROPOLITICAL CHURCH OF CHRIST, CANTERBURY

Welcome to our Services on 12th January 2020

The Baptism of Christ The First Sunday after the Epiphany (BCP)

8.00am Holy Communion BCP – High The Service begins in the Book of Common page 237. The readings are on pages 67-68.

If you wish to receive Communion without the need to climb the steps to the High Altar, please take a seat at the bottom of the steps during Communion and the sacrament will be brought to you.

9.30am Matins – The King’s School Preacher: The Reverend Lindsay Collins, Senior Chaplain, The King’s School

11.00am Sung – Quire Preacher: The

3.15pm Epiphany Carol Service – Quire

See service book for full details

6.30pm Sermon and Compline Preacher: The Dean

PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE BAGS UNATTENDED AT ANY TIME INSIDE THE CATHEDRAL OR IN THE PRECINCT. THANK YOU.

REFRESHMENTS: Tea and coffee will be served in the Auditorium following today’s 11.00am Sung Eucharist. All are very welcome.

CATHEDRAL SUNDAY CLUB: Sunday Club continues to meet in the French Church in the , gathering in the north-east before the service. Parents/carers should stay with children who are under school age. Do ask the Stewards for directions. All are welcome.

SACRED SPACE for students & young adults: meetings begin again this Wednesday (15th). For more details contact max.kramer@canterbury- cathedral.org

STUDY GROUPS: The group which has met fortnightly in the Lodge on Thursdays at 4.00 pm through this past term will continue in the New Year. These will be led by the , on Matthew’s on January 23rd, February 6th and 20th. Members new and old are welcome. This will take us up to Lent, and as in past years, a weekly group will meet during Lent – further details coming soon.

THE FRIENDS OF : the Cathedral’s fan club! We are admirers of the building, its history, and its community. Since 1927 we have worked together with to cherish the Cathedral forever and have contributed financially, and directly, to many individual and vital projects. The Friends have a busy programme of events and welcome you to join us. On 20th and 27th January, we have a few places left on our seminar mornings, Copes for Canterbury – a Voyage around the Vestments. Led by the Revd Max Kramer, our Precentor, with colleagues from the Archive and Conservation, you will discover more about vestments old and new. Tickets are £30 including sandwich lunch. If you haven’t yet booked for Piping Up! (21st January), the demonstration of our new grand organ which is currently being completed, we must inform you that all tickets are sold out – as are tickets for our talk Stone on Stone on 6th February. If you would like to find out more about The Friends, do come along to tea and coffee after Sunday Eucharist and speak to other Friends who will be there to greet you. To buy tickets for our seminars or for more information about The Friends, please visit us at the Friends’ Office, 3 The Precincts, 10am-12 noon and 2-4pm (Mon-Fri) or phone 01227 865292. www.canterbury- cathedral.org.friends.

LECTURE: The first event in Canterbury in the Becket 2020 anniversary commemorations will be a lecture on Thursday 23rd January at 7.00pm entitled 'The Translation of Thomas Becket and the Young Henry III', given by Professor David Carpenter, Professor of Medieval History at King’s College London. The lecture is organised by the Historical Association, Canterbury Branch, and will be hosted in the Clagett Auditorium, Canterbury Cathedral Lodge. Free to HA members and students; £3 for others.

RACHMANINOFF All-Night Vigil on 25th January in the Nave. Canterbury Choral Society return to the Cathedral to perform Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil with the acclaimed Epiphoni Consort and their conductor Tim Reader. Rachmaninoff wrote his All-Night Vigil early in 1915 and it remains one of his most inspiring and evocative work. This hour-long masterpiece is hauntingly beautiful throughout, in a far-removed but equally inspired sound world from Rachmaninoff’s orchestral music. It is hard to imagine two such different styles from the same composer. Tickets cost £11.25 and are available from https://www.canterburychoral.co.uk CATHEDRAL LUNCHES: The next cathedral lunch is on the 26th January. The lunch will be a hot self-service buffet in the Kentish Barn with unreserved tables so that people can mingle and make new friends. A number of tickets will also be kept back for visitors who attend the morning service to be invited to the lunch and welcomed by the regulars. Lunch will begin at 1.00 pm so as not to detract from the successful coffee after worship. Tickets are available through the Lodge and all are very welcome.

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY: On Monday 27th January, Holocaust Memorial Day 2020, the Cathedral will hold a Choral Evensong of Remembrance and Prayer at 5.30 pm to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. Earlier in the day there will be an opportunity to learn more with a walking tour of Jewish Canterbury at 3pm and a talk and viewing of historic Jewish Documents in the Archives at 4.15pm. Email [email protected] 01227 865330 to attend.

JOINT EVENSONG WITH ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL: On 1st February the Girls of Canterbury Cathedral will be joined by the Girls and Men of Rochester Cathedral Choir to sing at Evensong. All are welcome to join this special service.

FILM CLUB: Sunday 2nd February 2020 ’Miss Saigon’ Please note the change of date. Extraordinary 25th anniversary performance recorded live in London’s West End. This epic love story tells the tragic tale of young bar girl, Kim, orphaned by war, who falls in love with American GI Chris - but their lives are torn apart by the fall of Saigon. Running time 142 mins. Suitable for 15 years and over, contains strong sex. Meet in the Cathedral Lodge A/V room at 4.15pm for tea and cake. Film starts at 4.30pm. All welcome. Annual membership £10, available when the club meets. Visitors welcome - £2 contribution for tea.

If you are drawn to SILENT PRAYER, do come and join our new Julian Meeting, which is usually held on the first Tuesday of each month from 6.30pm in the crypt. The next meeting will be on Tuesday 4th February. Meetings gather at the south door of the cathedral after Evensong and then we go into the crypt, a sentence or meditation is read followed by half an hour’s silent prayer. For further information please see the leaflet or contact Emma on [email protected].

LUNCHTIME ENTERTAINMENT: The Friends of Canterbury Cathedral invite you to be entertained by the musicians and drama students of Canterbury Christ Church University, the daughter institution of the Cathedral, on 12th February from 1.00pm to 2.30pm in the Clagett Auditorium. With a distinguished tradition of musical study, composition, and performance, the university boasts ensembles of all musical styles. The lunchtime entertainment will also offer a snap shot of the best current and developing undergraduate music and performing arts talent at the university. Expect a wide variety of music and drama pieces to move and amuse you – and a few lighter items to help your lunch go down! Includes a sandwich lunch. Tickets cost £12 and are available through the Friends.

CANTERBURY FOOD BANK: Many, many thanks to everyone who has responded to our Christmas Appeal for food and toiletries to go to the Food Bank Depot. It has been wonderful to see how much was put into the yellow bins in the Cathedral, as well as the bin in Cathedral House, before Christmas. Many of you will have seen from articles in the local press that, sadly, the need in Canterbury is as great as ever, so please do continue to contribute as much as you can, week by week.

VOICING OF THE NEW GRAND ORGAN The new Canterbury Cathedral Organ is now fully installed, with new pipes fitted on either side of the Quire set in the North and South spaces. The £4.2 million funding came from The Organ Project and donations from The Friends of Canterbury Cathedral. Some of the oldest and most cherished pipes have been reused in the new organ. Those made by Samuel Green in the early 17th Century formed one of the main sounds in the centre of the original instrument and had done since they were first installed. Although some of the Samuel Green pipes were too fragile to be reused, these too have returned to the Cathedral and are on display at the entrance to the organ. The much missed 32 foot pipes, which give the organ a deeper, rumbling sound, have also returned. During this month the organ will be voiced ready for playing!

SUNDAY NOTICE SHEET ONLINE: Go to the home page of www.canterbury-cathedral.org. Select ‘Worship & Music’, then ‘Music list & Notice Sheet’ and follow ‘For detailed information on the week’s Sunday service, as well as Cathedral congregational activities and events, see the weekly Notice Sheet’

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THE COLLECTION: We encourage UK tax payers to use the Cathedral’s Gift Aid envelope, ensuring that you complete all the sections. The Cathedral will reclaim an extra 25p for every £1 placed in the envelope. Gift Aid envelopes can be obtained from the stewards. If you would like to give regularly to the Cathedral we can provide you with a personalised envelope to save you completing an envelope each week. Alternatively you can pay by standing order. Please contact the Cathedral’s Accounts Department if you would like further information. [email protected] or telephone 01227 862763. Cheques should be made payable to ‘Canterbury Cathedral’. Thank you for your generosity.

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