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Cathedral News Survey If You Like) Into the Image of Christ News www.manchestercathedral.org October 2015 Prayer / Worship / Music / Arts / Education / Heritage / Welcoming Manchester Manchester Sleepout Sunday Trading Science Festival and Wellbeing Page 4 Page 5 Page 8 & 9 A Cistercian Dean’s Corner being no longer recognizable (Is.53:2). reflection on He died. But the Father raised him from the dead, seated him at his right hand, what it means to and made him Lord (Phil.2:9). … You Long May know the story! In this way we have been be ‘converted’ shown the ‘way of return’ to being in the image of God. Having been deformed By Philip Barratt, Precentor by sin, we must reform ourselves so as She Reign to be gradually transformed by God’s grace into the image of that risen Jesus. By The Dean Create in me a Clean heart O For those like me, who live by vows, God and renew a right spirit this transformation—what my vows within me (PS 31: 100) call conversion of life—is at the heart On Wednesday 9 September, I was fortunate to meet Her Majesty here of who we are. This is not something Her Majesty the Queen became in 2007 when Manchester Cathedral Are you converted? Have you that can be taught, but is more of a the longest reigning monarch hosted the annual Royal Maundy Service. been asked that question? Or gradual and constant transformation, in the history of the United Her participation in this service, a modern have you asked it of others? I am never fully finished, through which we version of the Lord washing the feet of Kingdom. She has now reigned always fascinated by those for allow the Holy Spirit to restore within his disciples before he was arrested, is whom conversion is just a ‘one off’ us the disfigured and lost image. for longer than her great great itself is a sign of her humble service to moment in their lives. For me life grandmother, Queen Victoria. others. I found her to be gentle and soft Surely this is at the heart of who we all spoken and, as is the case with all her is not that ‘black and white,’; I live are, both as individual Christians and as Her example of outstanding service to engagements, very well-informed about my faith in many shades of grey! a Christian community? How do we do the country and the Commonwealth is what she was to encounter amongst us. it? Humanity has a model, a prototype: I was recently invited to speak to a group informed by her deep personal faith in the Word, who is the perfect image about the spirituality of Cistercian prayer. I God. With great humility, she has put As our Queen continues to serve us of the Father, and whom St Bernard reflected that, Cistercian or otherwise, we duty to God and the nation before all beyond the 9 September milestone, my called the sacramentum salutis, literally are created in the image and likeness of else. In this she has been wonderfully prayer is that her example will inspire ‘the sacrament of our salvation’. God. But we are also wounded by a whole supported by her husband Prince Philip. us in our faith, and encourage us in our series of circumstances, not least our sins, His dry sense of humour sometimes own service of others. May the Lord It is therefore as a community, (be and we need this image to be restored ruffles feathers, but he himself has bless her and her family in abundance it Cistercian or Cathedral) in love, within us. It lies at the very heart of the also given long and devoted service and, indeed, long may she reign! in friendship and in charity that our to the nation as the longest serving Cistercian charism but it is also surely pilgrimage together offers a means the ultimate goal of the Christian life? consort of a reigning British monarch. With my love in Christ, by which we allow ourselves to be Together they have made a significant formed? St Bernard & St Aelred, Rogers The Son of God, who was in the likeness contribution to peace and stability in this amongst many other Cistercians, tell of God, humbled himself (Phil.2:6-7), nation, and indeed around the world. us more about this. It is in living the making himself one of us and like us in pilgrim life that we become more and every respect, except sin (Heb.4:15). more Christian and gradually allow He consented to lose his likeness, his ourselves to be transformed (‘converted,’ beauty. He was disfigured to the point of Cathedral News Survey if you like) into the image of Christ. The Cathedral News has been one of the main forms of Your friend and fellow pilgrim Philip communication for Manchester Cathedral for many years. We are currently re-evaluating the purpose of Cathedral News and to do this Canon Philip Barratt, OCist, Sub Dean we would like to have a better understanding of our audience. To help and Precentor of the Cathedral, is a us to do this, we would be grateful if you complete our online survey: professed member of the Order of Anglican Cistercians, a fully acknowledged Religious www.manchestercathedral.org/cathedral-news-survey Community within the Church of England. Page 2 Cathedral News Page 3 Cathedral News The Manchester Sleepout Interview with Sam Wilkinson of the Rethink Group Thursday 22 October – Sunday 1 November 3. Did it change any of your The annual Manchester Monday 26 October, 8.30pm – 11pm original perceptions of what Science Festival, produced The Matrix (1999) it’s like to be homeless? by the Museum of Science Thomas A Anderson (Keanu Reeves) lives It sounds silly but I don’t think I realised just how cold it is during winter – when you’re and Industry, is in its ninth a dual life: by day a computer programmer and by night a hacker named Neo. He is trying to sleep but you can’t even feel your year. Manchester has been contacted by legendary hacker Morpheus, feet. I can’t imagine doing that for more than 1 announced as the European who reveals that the world is actually night a year. What I did realise is that there are City of Science 2016 and these a ravaged wasteland run by a race of places such as the Booth Centre who provide celebrations will lead up to machines; and people live within their own amazing support to those who are homeless. They don’t want to be out on the street getting Manchester Science Festival’s minds in an artificial reality known as The Matrix. A battle for humanity begins. drunk in the day or begging. A lot of them love 10th birthday next October. Photo of Sam with her colleagues volunteering at the Booth Centre the classes that the Booth Centre runs and Tuesday 27 October, 6.15pm – 8.15pm it gives them the opportunity to make new 1. What made you want to get friends and to realise that they aren’t alone. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) involved in The Manchester Sci-Fi Film An alien becomes separated from his Sleepout last year? family during a landing on Earth and is 4. What do you think about how I’d noticed the ever-increasing amount of the money raised goes to support Screenings in found by Elliot, a troubled 10-year-old boy. rough sleepers in Manchester city centre The two begin to communicate and enjoy and wanted to do something a bit different people who visit the Booth Centre? the Cathedral adventures together, but their friendship is from the usual type of charity fundraising I think it’s a far greater way to support people threatened by society’s fear of the unknown. to raise awareness. I’d heard of a similar long-term. It’s very tempting to want to give Aliens, time travel, artificial reality Can Elliot help E.T. get home safely? type of event in Leeds through Twitter and money when you see a homeless person on and humanised robots represent I wanted to find a Sleepout event to take the street but it’s better to give to a charity such as the Booth Centre as you know just a few of the exhilarating and Tuesday 27 October, 8.30pm – 10.30pm part in. I came across the Booth Centre’s where the money is going, e.g. providing thought-provoking ways that Back to the Future (1985) event on the internet and it sounded like a hot meals and clothes, and assisting with Skateboarding high-school teenager well-organised event – although I was slightly scientific ideas have been explored the running costs of the Centre, including Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) is transported nervous of sleeping outside in November in film and television. But when the classes in IT, music and drama. was the last time you watched back to 1955 in a time-travelling car, due to the likelihood of torrential rain! created by his eccentric scientist friend them in a cathedral? As part of the The Booth Centre also helps people find Doc Brown. Stuck in his hometown in an 2015 Festival, we will be showing a 2. How did you find the accommodation and assists with obtaining earlier era, it’s up to Marty to make sure selection of classic sci-fi films and experience of sleeping out? any missing forms of identification that would his parents’ love story stays on track and TV episodes right here in the historic I think it rained from 6am up until about 6pm otherwise prevent them from getting a job.
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