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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.
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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. find a way to get back to the future. setting of Manchester Cathedral. that day and it was freezing. However, that did increase my sponsorship donations from 5. Are you taking part this year? Wednesday 28 October, 6pm – 9.45pm my colleagues at the Rethink Group. We got Yes – this year I’m taking part in a bigger to hear from some of the people who use the Monday 26 October, 6.10pm – 8.15pm Red Dwarf: team so we can raise even more money. Booth Centre and how it has changed their Special selection (1988 to present) The company I work for, the Rethink The Fifth Element (1997) life – it was so moving to hear their stories. Two-and-a-half centuries into the future, A collection of episodes from the Group, will be entering a whole team. The Sleepout gave me an understanding of life on Earth is threatened by the arrival of beloved British science-fiction comedy just how big Manchester’s homelessness evil, which brings death and destruction television series Red Dwarf, handpicked crisis is and I also got to experience some of 6. Are you quite involved with the every five thousand years. Only the Fifth from its 20-year run by show creator work of the Booth Centre? How? Doug Naylor. Follow the adventures the perils of sleeping outside – the cold, noise Element (Milla Jovovich) stands in its Absolutely. Andy Lord, our COO, read an (and misadventures) of Lister, Rimmer, from bars and clubs, not being comfortable. way, assisted by cab driver Korben Dallas article last December about how the Booth Cat and Kryten in The End, Quarantine, This event is safe and has volunteers there (Bruce Willis), a former elite commando. Centre could lose council funding and he Back To Reality, Gunmen Of The throughout the night, but the reality for rough visited the centre to see the fantastic work that Apocalypse, Lemons and The Beginning. sleepers is that they also experience loneliness and fear when sleeping alone outside. they do. As I had taken part in the Sleepout, For prices and to book, visit Page 4 Cathedral News www.manchestersciencefestival.com Page 5 Cathedral News ‘Thus says I naturally wanted to be involved. Amy from the Booth Centre came in to talk to our Manchester office about the work they do and the Lord....’ how we could support it. Her visit also meant we could ask any questions about how the In the thirtieth year of the fourth A Poem Centre operates and how the money is spent. month, of the fifth day of the month, the heavens were opened, and the Annunciation The Rethink Group has committed to raising Hebrew prophet Ezekiel, sitting by Elizabeth Burns £5,000 via various fundraising events beside a canal in Nippur, (in today’s after Hammershøi throughout the year. We have a volunteer south-eastern Iraq), heard someone rota and send a team to the Booth Centre 1 Because it could have happened anywhere, speaking in a vision: ‘I am sending why not here in the cold light of a northern winter, day per month which is a fantastic way for Elizabeth Burns’ poem you to them, and you shall say to the quiet interior of a house in Copenhagen, everyone to see the difference our support ‘Annunciation’ won the 2013 makes. We also run donation drives for much them, “Thus says the Lord God...” the twentieth century not yet begun? Here, Cathedral Poetry Prize. It may needed items e.g. coffee, socks, toiletries, etc. among polished tables, tight-sheeted beds, Born into a priestly family, Ezekiel was seem unusual to reprint it in the gleaming black of the great iron stove We are now rolling this out across our entrusted by God to deliver God's Word Cathedral News. However, it is that she sweeps out every morning; here, other UK offices – and everyone at Rethink to the people of his day, and was given offered in tribute to Elizabeth. where in the afternoons, she pours coffee into delicate cups for the mistress and her guests, loves being involved and giving back! a unique title, Ben Adam, meaning After a long struggle with cancer, Elizabeth recently and later sweeps up crumbs, smoothes creases Son of Man. That is, he was to be a from the tablecloth, tidies sheet music. 7. What would you say to other representative of humanity charged died. Her work, most recently people thinking about getting with bringing God’s word to them. in her last collection ‘Held’, is It’s when she’s in the kitchen making bread, involved in this year’s event? luminous, patient and almost walloping the great mound of dough It’s a fantastic way of raising awareness of In modern day terms, one of the ways heartbreakingly beautiful. at the scrubbed board table, that she senses the rising homelessness crisis in Manchester. God's Word is brought to the people Her death is a great loss to something close to her. At first she thinks This event raises a lot of money for the Booth in Manchester today, is through the poetry. Her work will continue it’s just a finger of sunlight touching her neck. Centre. Ultimately, it helps those taking to move and inform readers Then she remembers being a child, an old sheet part to understand what a homeless person ministry of reading the Scriptures at for many years to come. draped round her shoulder, believing she could fly. endures every night. It’s also completely Cathedral worship services. Through And now it’s as if she were lifted, her hands letting go safe as there will, hopefully, be a lot of other this wonderful ministry, and the ministry of the bread, and opening out. The precious house people taking part, all wanting to make sure of preaching, people are given a way falling away, so it’s she who is fragile and cupped, we raise even more money than last year. to enter an inner world of spiritual who is, for a moment, held. Her weightlessness understanding. This is not a secret world, but one which is accessible to all among the silver knives and cooper pots; who long to live in the light of God. For this presence in the room she cannot touch. The word angels is what comes to her, these readings from the Bible are not but not like the ones in painting, more as if she – idle anecdotes or tales of long ago, but it sounds odd to say it – were becoming one; the Word of the Lord, alive with spirit that sense on her back of wings, making her and vitality, beauty and truth, and they lightsome as she folds the loaves into their tins, unfold the way to the Kingdom in Christ. glazes them with milk and sets them by the stove to rise. A slab of butter in a dish, pale yellow If you would like to join the rota of like the winter sun. The bell rings, and she goes, Photos of the event by Andreas Andrews Photography Scripture readers in the Cathedral, radiant, to her mistress, who would never believe – bringing the Word of the Lord to the people, the person to speak to is Graham Curtis, or email: [email protected]
‘I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them “Thus says the Lord God...” (Ezekiel 2: 4)
Page 6 Cathedral News by Raylia Chadwick, Cathedral Reader Emeritus Page 7 Cathedral News Looking more widely, an early prophecy ‘And now, weak, short of breath, my of Amos (Amos 8) warns us from making once-firm muscles melted away by Consulting all of life into business. On the Sabbath cancer, I find my thoughts, increasingly, we are to be freed from constant multi- not on the supernatural or spiritual, Local Leaders tasking. A later prophecy of Isaiah (Isaiah but on what is meant by living the 56) extends the blessing of rest for God’s good and worthwhile life—achieving people to foreigners and outsiders. a sense of peace within oneself. I find on Sunday my thoughts drifting to the Sabbath, Overall the teaching of the Jewish Torah the day of rest, the seventh day of Trading and on our use of time is that one seventh the week, and perhaps the seventh of our lives is to be used for rest, giving day of one’s life as well, when one us regular times to remember that life is can feel that one’s work is done, and Wellbeing also for worship, rest and play, and not one may, in good conscience, rest.’ just work. We are to take this ‘sabbath’ time daily, weekly, annually and even By David Holgate, ‘sabbatically’, every seven years. An Canon for Theology and Mission In August, the government I began with Saint Augustine’s praise early story from the Exodus (Exodus launched a short consultation of God’s Sabbath rest at the end of 16), shows that God supports us in on devolving Sunday trading his Confessions (Bk 13, 35-36), ‘O this: the manna collected on the 6th rules. They propose that local Lord God, grant us peace, thou hast day remained fresh on the day of rest. granted us all things, the peace of regions should consider allowing repose, the peace of thy Sabbath, the A lively discussion followed, in which large stores to open on Sundays peace that has no evening. … The all the leaders present agreed that the for longer than six hours. They voice of your book tells us that we workplace should to take account of argue that the internet has made also, after our works … will rest in you the human need for time devoted to the Sunday Trading Act of 1994 in the Sabbath of life everlasting.’ well-being. This needs to be applied outdated, and that extending flexibily, because different local regions shopping times for bigger stores We reflected together on the purpose contribute to well-being in different could bring economic benefits of the Sabbath, which is to balance ways. E.g. open shops and restaurants for consumers, workers and time for trade and work with time for in the city and closed shops in smaller rest and refreshment. All agreed that the economy as a whole. towns and villages can meet the same in our 24/7 economy we run the risk of needs for time to relax and do the missing the overall purpose of life. things that make us happy. We agreed Because the government is asking for that I would send a short response to feedback on these proposals, the Dean Echoing the title of a recent book on the government along these lines. and I discussed them with ten local the Sabbath by Walter Brueggeman, I leaders at a recent business lunch hosted invited us to consider the Sabbath as a I closed my reflection on the Sabbath by the Cathedral. At the Dean’s invitation, gift from Judaism that helps people resist with a quote from the distinguished I opened the discussion by looking at the culture of ‘now’. For example, he neuroscientist Oliver Sacks, written the pros and cons of the government’s shows that in the Ten Commandments, shortly before he died. In a piece in proposals from a political and economic the commandments that come after the New York Times (16 August 2015) point of view, and considering these the one on the Sabbath (in Ex 20) are he looked back on his life and wished particularly in the light of the Bible’s there to protect us from the anxiety of he had enjoyed more Sabbath time: teaching on the purpose of the Sabbath. ‘losing out’. A later restatement of the ‘the peace of a stopped world, a Sabbath commandment in Deut 5 offers time outside time’. He concluded, the whole community protection from being forced to work without rest.
Page 8 Cathedral News Page 9 Cathedral News Lighting the Bishop Wickham Library
The Cathedral Library is a very busy space throughout the working week, as it is used for clergy and staff meetings, project With these aims in mind, we are Manchester Cathedral has Jamie was the only Volunteer to currently working with local company meetings, prayer groups, school many amazing features to see complete his volunteer placement FaberLed (UK) to develop a proposal and experience but there is one as a Kitchen Porter with Propertea groups and performing artists. for the Library as part of the Informed in little gem in particular that is though, starting in February this year, Lighting Brief that was presented to the he was recognised very quickly as At other times, particularly at the sometimes overlooked slightly… weekends and during holidays, the room Cathedral community and stakeholders showing potential as a member of for consultation in early 2014. the tea room, Propertea; located staff and was offered a position with has occasionally been used on visitor in the Visitors Centre, is a tours and always proves a popular them after 7 weeks’ of volunteering. The archive image here shows the highlight. There is great potential to host popular place for visitors of the room before the second world war. The smaller and more intimate events in this Cathedral to refresh themselves Propertea is the sister company to Tea original chandelier fittings pictured here space, than those that would be set up after a tour. With their quirky Cup, based in the Northern Quarter and have since been replaced, and the bay in the Cathedral nave. On the Heritage décor, wonderful cakes and a is a small, independent business that window to the left of the fireplace has Open Day in September, the Library was while seeing hundreds of customers sadly been lost, but otherwise the room fabulous range of teas to boast used to exhibit the three original Royal about, they’re also serving up come through its doors each week, and furniture are largely unchanged. doesn’t see a very high turnover of Charters from the Cathedral archives. something else that’s very special. staff. This is very much apparent in that However, the Library’s high windows Our ambition is to introduce new all 4 of the Volunteers that have been Propertea support the Cathedral and dark wooden panelling mean chandelier-style light fittings with a recruited from the Cathedral Volunteer Volunteer Programme in offering our that the lighting can be poor, bespoke design that subtly incorporates Programme are still employed there! Volunteers placements as Kitchen especially in the winter months. the Cathedral badge and the symbol With the key aim of the programme Porters and Baristas and offer excellent of the cross. The fittings would be being to progress people back into work, training to ensure that they can fully The Cathedral Lighting Project, as sympathetic to the space, in keeping with Manchester Cathedral and Volition want develop their customer service, part of the wider Development Project the original aesthetic of the room, but the positions that volunteers go into to communication and teamwork skills in campaign, sets out to respond to the the lights would also be more energy- be sustainable, and while no one can the workplace. This is to ensure that needs of today’s Cathedral communities efficient, with adaptable brightness and really guarantee how long a role with when they progress into employment and a wide range of styles of worship direction, allowing for greater flexibility. any of our partner employers will go on they have recent experience in the and of other events, spiritual and secular. for given the current climate, the proof We look forward to providing updates workplace to talk to future employers A new lighting scheme will enable and really is in the pudding that Propertea on this project in due course. about. Since Propertea opened in complement the wide variety of events fully supports sustainable employment November 2013 with the previous taking place within the Cathedral. ethics, so we want to say a huge thank If you would like to know more about the General Manager, Matthew Ponsford you to all the staff there – new and old, Development Project, and find out how leading the way, they have employed 4 for everything that you have done to help you can support the campaign, please staff through the programme, Charlene our Volunteers that you have hosted, visit www.manchestercathedral.org/ Burton, Natasha, Maria, and most and that you will meet in the future. development-project/aims-and-benefits recently, Jamie. Charlene was offered or contact Director of Fundraising and the role back in 2013, and has now Development, Anthony O’Connor at progressed into the role of Supervisor! By Andrea Swales [email protected]
By Grace Timperley
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Thursday 8 October 7.00 pm Manchester Literature 12.00 noon Mothers’ Union Festival Event with Melvyn A Saint for the Month Thursday Prayer Bragg (tickets required) 1st October 1.10 pm Chetham’s School The Diary of Music Lunchtime Concert Tuesday 20 October 7.00 pm Book launch and Lecture 12.30 pm Julian Prayer Group with Canon Andrew Shanks 7.30 pm Chetham’s School October of Music Sinfonia and Remigius [Remi], Saturday 10 October Ensembles Concert
12.00 noon World Mental Health Friday 23 October Bishop of Rheims, Day Service & Conference 5.00 pm Joint Manchester Thursday 1 October Literature Festival & Manchester (c. 437- 533 AD) 1.10 pm Eucharist for Retired Tuesday 13 October Camerata Event Clergy, Widows and Widowers 7.30 pm An Acoustic Evening with Devin Townsend Saturday 24 October Apostle of the Franks Friday 2 October 2.30 pm Doncaster Wheatsheaf 7.30 pm Vivaldi & Bach Wednesday 14 October Singers Concert Concertos by Candlelight 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves Monday 26—Wednesday Saturday 3 October Friday 16 October 28 October Museum of Science and insurance for their future as warriors, 10.30 am Christian Meditation 7.00 pm Manchester Literature Christian nations give special in the Library Festival: Manchester Sermon with Industry Science Festival
it is said that many kept their sword Elif Shafak (tickets required) honour to those who first brought Tuesday 27 October Monday 5 October them the gospel, and France, arm out of the water. There’s a sermon 7.00 pm ‘A Journey Round 7.00 pm Peoples’ Assembly Saturday 17 October illustration in that somewhere! John’ book launch and lecture which is well off for patron saints, Against Austerity 11.00 am Coffee Concert by Dr Wendy E S North (in 2.15 pm Be A Chorister For A Day has St Remi together with St Visitor Centre) This was a time when many people Tuesday 6 October 4.30 pm Evening Prayer Denys, Martin of Tours, Joan of automatically took the religion of their 7.00pm Peoples Assembly (No 5.30 pm Evensong) Wednesday 28 October Arc and Therese of Lisieux. prince, and when a personal faith Against Austerity; Vigil led by 5.00 pm Be A Chorister 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves Bishop David Walker For A Day—Act of Worship might follow in due course. Remi was 7.00 pm Book Launch: Livi Friday 30 October Remi was high-born, saintly and now in a position to build churches Michael (in Visitor Centre) Monday 19 October 7.00 pm COLUMNS Concert immensely able. Though still a layman, and establish dioceses like those at 1.45 pm Manchester he was elected Bishop of Rheims when Wednesday 7 October Literature Festival: Cathedral Tournai and Cambrai, building on 7.00 pm LOW Concert Poetry Competition Prizegiving he was only twenty-two. He was also what he’d begun. Such was his own well-placed for access to the royal court example of Christian faith that a number where the Queen, Clotilde, wife of Clovis, of those he appointed as bishops, king of the Franks, was a Christian. like Vedast of Therouanne, were later themselves canonised as saints. It was Service Times - Midweek Services Remi’s ministry at court and friendship EXHIBITIONS this Vedast, with Remi, who had been Morning Prayer 9.00am Mon-Fri with Clovis bore fruit when, in 496, the involved in the conversion of Clovis. All our exhibitions Holy Communion 1.10pm Mon-Fri king asked to baptised. His motives were are FREE admission Evensong 5.30pm Tues-Thurs* Evening Prayer 4.30pm Mon & Fri probably a mixture of the spiritual and The reputation of Remi was such that in the pragmatic. As a Christian he would England six churches were dedicated Wilfred Owen WW1 - Saturday Services have the support of the papacy and, to him. In Christian art, the symbols The Soldier’s Story Morning Prayer & Holy Communion 9.00am through its vast network of educated of St Remi are a dove, a book and a 25 September - Evensong 5.30pm* clergy, a ready-made civil service. And, lamp. This was because of the story 29 November Sunday Services besides this, he probably attributed that the chrism for Clovis’ baptism was Matins 8.45am his recent victory over the Alamanni, a miraculously provided by a dove. Holy Communion (1662) 9.00am powerful confederation of pagan German Sung Eucharist 10.30am tribes, to God answering the prayers Follow us: Evensong 5.30pm* of Remi. Three thousand Franks were /ManchesterCathedral said to have been baptised with their *Please note: During school holidays evening services are said. By Albert Radcliffe @ManCathedral All said services are at 4.30 pm. Variations to the schedule for king and the royal family, though, as special dates and services will be listed here whenever possible.
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Tuesday 10 November Tuesday 17 November Manchester Cathedral Cathedral Visitor & Chetham’s Library Chetham’s Looking ahead 12.30 pm Julian Prayer Group 6.30 pm Pilgrim at the Cathedral Victoria Street Conference Centre Long Millgate School of Music 6.30 pm Pilgrim at the Cathedral 6.45 pm Talk: ‘What lies beneath? M3 1SX Cateaton Street M3 1SB Long Millgate November Death, Dying and the missing M3 1SQ M3 1SB Wednesday 11 November memorials at Manchester Cathedral’ 0161 833 2220 0161 817 4817 0161 834 7961 0161 834 9644 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves (£12 pp. inc. refreshments)
Sunday 1 November Friday 20 November 5.30 pm Festal Evensong Thursday 12 November Clergy Staff and Procession 12.00 noon Mothers’ 6.30 pm Hanging Ditch Wine Fair Dean of Manchester Cathedral Administrator Union Thursday Prayer The Very Revd Rogers Govender [email protected] Monday 2 November 1.10 pm Chetham’s School Saturday 21 November 11.00 am Coffee Concert 5.30 pm Commemoration of the of Music Lunchtime Concert [email protected] Dean’s PA Faithful Departed Requiem Eucharist 7.30 pm SAMM Service 1.30 pm Children’s and Youth Work (Support After Murder and Certificate Presentation Canon Precentor & Sub-Dean [email protected] Manslaughter) The Revd Canon Philip Barratt Tuesday 3 November Cathedral Office Assistant 6.30 pm Pilgrim at the Cathedral Tuesday 24 November [email protected] Saturday 14 November 6.30 pm Pilgrim at the Cathedral [email protected] 2.15 pm Be A Chorister For A Day Canon for Theology & Mission Wednesday 4 November Office & Conferencing Assistant 7.00 pm ANATHEMA concert 4.30 pm Evening Prayer Wednesday 25 November The Revd Canon Dr David Holgate (No 5.30 pm Evensong) 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves [email protected] [email protected] 5.00 pm Be A Chorister Friday 6 November For A Day—Act of Worship 7.30 pm Manchester Sleepout Thursday 26 November Archdeacon of Manchester Finance Assistant
7.00 pm Taize Service The Venerable Mark Ashcroft [email protected] Sunday 15 November Saturday 7 November 3.00 pm Manchester University [email protected] Logistics Officer 10.30 am Christian Saturday 28 November Chamber Choir - Ad Solem 9.15 am Mothers’ Union Quiet Day [email protected] Meditation session Afternoon Recital Cathedral Curate 11.00 am Christian Aid The Revd Jane Walker Senior Verger event ‘Bake a difference’ [email protected] [email protected] Chapter Lay Canons Vergers Barrie Cheshire, Philip Blinkhorn, [email protected] Addy Lazz-Onyenobi & Jenny Curtis [email protected] Cathedral Chaplains Organist & Master of the Choristers The Revd Canon Adrian Rhodes [email protected] The Revd Peter Bellamy-Knights Sub Organist Cathedral Reader Emeritus [email protected] Raylia Chadwick [email protected] Worship & Music Administrator [email protected] Congregation Education Officer (Pam Elliott ) Churchwardens & Stewards [email protected] [email protected] Cathedral Communications Archives & Marketing Officer [email protected] [email protected] Cathedral High Steward & Chair of Director of Fundraising & Development Manchester Cathedral Development Trust anthony.o’[email protected] Warren Smith JP [email protected] / 0161 834 0490 Visitor Services Manager [email protected] Flowers: Helen Bamping Cathedral Friends: Pauline Dimond Secretary to the Development Project Ringing Master: Malcolm Murphy [email protected] Secretary to Bell-Ringers: Catherine Rhodes Volunteer Programme Co-ordinators [email protected] [email protected]
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