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Cathedral in Touch A Newsletter for our Community 30 May 2021 | Trinity Sunday

Gaia Choir Chaperones LCR Luke Jerram's art installation A call for volunteers now A surprising discovery in comes to the our choirs are back! the North Porch LCR We’ve reached the epoch of the Christian Year with Whit or Trinity Sunday still marked in society through the remnant of the second May Bank Holiday. We now enter what call ‘Ordinary Time’. The most obvious sign of this is that the vestments change to green for the growing season. It interests me that growth is especially associated less with the Feasts and more with the ordinary. This year, Ordinary Time from now through to the late autumn will probably be particularly memorable; less because of Covid but hopefully more related to the Welcome Welcome transformation of our cathedral from tranquil idyl to dusty building site as Cathedral Revealed hopefully starts in earnest. We have identified Messenger Construction, based in Standford, as our builders. They are not only fairly local but they have a great list of sucessful projects including repairing the Turret Gateway Magazine in the city, the resotration of Beverley Minster and the building of Neville Holt Opera House. They are primed and ready to come onto site in July, pending Cathedral Chapter being able to sign the contract. We await two successful grant applications and raising £500k (which includes money to support cathedral running costs while the building work requires us to be closed). The top of the mountain is nearly reached but one final push is now needed to take us ‘home’. So assuming we raise that final amount of money to enable us to go on site in July, the builders will first dismantle the Old Song School. Then they will excavate a deep pit that eventually will contain the new double height basement for our new building. As this site was originally part of the medieval burial grounds, archaeologists will do this work by hand. We have planned for a worst case scenario of discovering up to 400 sets of human remains but it will be deep enough to encounter Saxon and indeed Roman strata. If this were elsewhere I’d be praying for lots of exciting finds but I’m hoping we don’t find anything too glorious! During this time (approx 6 months) the main cathedral will remain open but we will have to operate differently without a ‘back stage’, WC’s, spaces for volunteers, and plenty of dirt and dust outside with about two-thirds of Cathedral Gardens fenced off as part of the builders’ compound. This will also mean we can’t use the South Porch as our main entrance but we’ll modify elsewhere to make things as accessible as possible. Advent and Christmas 2021 will then take us to the 2022 New Year with work then also beginning inside the cathedral. It will then be mostly out of use for about 18 months bar St Katharines Chapel, the Ambulatory and Tomb of Richard III, and the Chapel of Christ the King. We’ll hopefully be able to allow small numbers of visitors with bespoke tours to visit but entrance will have to be via a small door on the North side that opens out onto Guildhall Lane (it is narrow, low with uneven steps so it will not be accessible to everyone), which is the best we can manage. We will worship on Sunday mornings in the Grand Hall of St Martins House. On Sunday afternoons we plan to be out and about in the Diocese sharing ministry and music with parishes and communities. This project will be exciting and will require huge amounts of planning, chaperoning and delivery. We very much hope that the community will ‘put the shoulder to the plough’ and join in. During the week daily prayer (including Evensong), lunchtime Eucharists and special midweek services will take place at St Nicholas, building on our exisiting relationships. Information on the hoardings along with an active social media presence will try to share the project with the wider community as it develops. This will include sharing stories about the builders, their crafts and significant steps in the development as well as photographs and films. We recognise that some people will catch the excitement we have for the future whilst others will be feeling the loss of the familiar and others will be unsure. We are describing our preparations for leaving and our time out of the building as an Exodus which in time will bring a homecoming into a new situation – perhaps not a land flowing with milk and honey but certainly a place of worship, welcome and witness set up for the next century of service to our Diocese with its City and County. The Very Revd of Leicester

CANON-IN- RESIDENCE

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Worship – Together to their hearts. Usually it COVID Guidance in Different is the presiding minister’s The Government has Languages voice that leads this confirmed that new prayer in English from the advice published on Last Sunday for Pentecost, altar. It felt very profound we included people from its website in relation to enable someone else to to Leicester and other our Cathedral community lead it from amongst the reading and praying areas was incorrect, and heart of the congregation, people should continue in different languages and to do so in another at various points in to follow existing national language, and we would guidelines as before. the service. This was a like to see if we can reminder of the Holy Spirit continue this as a regular There is no local coming upon the first part of our worshipping lockdown and no followers of Christ and life. restriction on travel in to enabling them to speak or out of Leicester. in different languages If you would like to lead The Lord’s Prayer from Gaia at Leicester so others could hear the Cathedral will continue to good news of Jesus Christ. the congregation in any language as Marian did be open as normal. The service was also last week and as Mirjam We have done everything the beginning of a will do this week, please we can to provide a safe conversation that we speak to Emma and comfortable visit, hope we can continue or email her at Emma. with social distancing about inter-cultural Davies@LeicesterCofE. and COVID guidelines worship – how we in org. in place. If you have any our wonderfully diverse Canon Emma would also further questions please community here in the do get in touch. Cathedral can worship love to hear your thoughts together authentically. and ideas about how we We look forward to can truly worship together welcoming you! Several of us were deeply as Leicester Cathedral, moved when Marian led and is always on the look- us in The Lord’s Prayer out for people who might in Shona language and join our teams of readers everyone else joined in and intercessors! in the language closest Call for Choir Chaperones We are looking for committed and reliable people to recruit as Choir Chaperones on a voluntary basis. The role requires attendance at rehearsals and/or services as an essential safeguarding procedure since the vast majority of our singers are under 18. After many months without singing, we’ve been delighted to welcome our choirs back to the Cathedral for rehearsals and services. We pride ourselves on providing an exceptional musical education here at Leicester Cathedral. To achieve our potential, we require two chaperones per rehearsal to allow small-group and individual tuition to take place at the same time as the main practice. This facilitates repertoire being learnt faster, and more challenging repertoire being tackled. The provision of chaperones therefore enhances the musical education that our singers receive. And the larger the pool of chaperones, the smaller the commitment for each individual. Possible commitments include 4.15–6.30pm on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6.45–9.00pm on Fridays, and 9.15am–12.00pm and 1.45–4.00pm on Sundays. Some chaperones commit to a regular slot each week, others come on a more ad hoc basis, following a rota drawn up each month. Please get in touch with Anna Florence at anna.florence@ leicestercofe.org if this sounds like something you’d be interested in.

Litany of the Holy Spirit Congratulations to our Director of Music Chris Ouvry-Johns, whose composition Litany to the Holy Spirit is being published by the Church Music Association. The text is by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) whose image can be seen in the St Katharine's chapel window memorialising the Herrick/Herryck family. The first verse says 'In the hour of my distress, when temptations me oppress, and when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!'. We are perhaps more familiar with the setting by the organist and composer Peter Hurford OBE (1930–2019). Chris wrote this setting for the installation of the current Dean at Pentecost 2013. It is very good that this will now become available for performance in the wider church and cathedral setting. It will be published by CMS/OUP later this year. Lunchtime Concerts Summer Season 2021

1.00pm | In person and Online Free admission, donations encouraged

10 May – Available online until the end of the season Avalon Summerfield | Soprano Jonathan Jarvis | Piano A programme of 20th-century English Music

14 June – In person and Online Fumi Otsuki | Violin Sarah Kershaw | Piano The Lark Ascending and others

28 June – In person and Online James Upton | Baritone Nigel Simeone | Piano A collection of Baroque, Classical, and Romantic baritone repertoire

12 July – In person and Online Kezia Robson | Soprano Colin Druce | Piano A selection of arias and art songs on the theme of storytelling, by composers including Handel, Debussy, Britten and Ambroise Thomas

www.leicestercathedral.org | facebook.com/LeicesterCathedral Hymns, Pimms... and a tea party!

Thinking about how to celebrate a The invitation is from me: it is not a bring significant birthday, there was no and share event. I would just love it if better option than to do so among you would turn up and enjoy! So please the community to which I belong. put the date in your diary. I'll keep you Simultaneously, the Dean and others updated if arrangements have to change. were thinking we should have a joyous Please no pressies but if you feel like get-together post-lockdown. So we've donating to the Cathedral that, of course, combined the two! would be very welcome. Obviously at the time of writing we are Clearly a degree of planning is involved. not sure what, if any, restrictions we shall I'd be really grateful, for reasons of be under at the end of June. But we are catering, if you'd let me know if you hoping that we shall be able not only to intend coming. Just email Alison.Adams@ gather together but also to sing together LeicesterCofE.org. again inside the building. If not, we shall My birthday is actually on St Peter's Day, spill outside to raise our voices. the 29th. Ordination-tide, as it was for So, on 27 June the aim, COVID-willing, me. So doubly special. There is no point is to have at 3.00pm, instead of the full in denying the passage of time, so let's Evensong liturgy, a festive service which celebrate a reconvening of the amazing will include some blockbusting hymns and very precious bonds of our shared to blow the air into our lungs. Then to community. follow this with a gracious afternoon tea, outside if the weather is fine (bring chairs!), fortified by Pimms and lemonade. Canon Alison Quintessentially British! Canon and Sub-Dean Image: Natural Environment Research Council An art installation by Luke Jerram Gaia 17 May to 6 June 2021

Monday–Saturday: 10.00am–5.30pm Bookable slots for viewing Sunday: 12.00–3.00pm Gaia are available via this If you cannot book online, entry can be link here bought on the door via contactless card or cash payment (please note that due to COVID restrictions we are unable to give £3 per person. More info at change). There is no charge for babies/ www.leicestercathedral.org/gaia infants that are carried. World Gaia Continent EVENTS Series

With opportunities to visit and engage, Gaia will draw our attention to the wonder of creation and of our need to address our eco-crisis. There will be a series of events with their inspiration drawn from every continent of the world.

Dean's Discussion with Frida Bengtsson, Antarctic Explorer Online Event | available until 6 June Frida Bengtsson joins the in discussion. Frida is currently pursuing a PhD at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and has been a longstanding advisor to the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC). Frida previously held a leadership role at Greenpeace, leading two ship expeditions to Antarctica tasked with identifying new Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems and which also completed the first recount of Chinstrap penguins on Elephant Island in over 50 years. Tickets for £5 can be purchased here.

One Night on Broadway with Leicester Theatre Group Available now as an online encore until 6 June Leicester Theatre Group has a great track record of producing West End performers with former students in Frozen, Les Miserables and Prince of Egypt. The next generation are looking forward to entertaining you with some of the best musical theatre songs ever written. Tickets for £5 can be purchased here.

An Evening with Lela Burbridge Available now as an online encore until 6 June Join us to hear Lela share her life journey from Uganda to the UK. Lela has so far written three books: Lela: Ashes of Childhood, Dare to Trust God’s Word and children’s book Tendo’s Gift (available to purchase from Christian Resources Leicester). She is also an educator, a speaker and an advocate who cares passionately about literacy, diversity and inclusion. Join us for a special evening as she shares her story. Tickets for £5 can be purchased here. A Classical Piano Concert performed by Ivan Hovorun Available now as an online encore until 6 June Having studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, Ivan Hovorun is now a freelance pianist. He has performed at venues such as Bridgewater Hall, (Manchester), Wigmore Hall (London), BBC Studio 7, and St James Piccadilly (London), and collaborations with various orchestras including Manchester Camerata, Guernsey Camerata, Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, and RNCM chamber and wind orchestras. At Leicester Cathedral, Ivan will perform a virtuosic programme of solo piano repertoire by Liszt and Beethoven; two of Europes best loved classical composers. Tickets for £5 can be purchased here.

Didgeridoo Workshop with Jonathan Cope Tuesday 1 June 2021 | 4.30pm and 6.15pm | In-person Come and learn to play the Didgeridoo with Jonathan Cope, who has been running workshops, teaching and playing the Didgeridoo for over 25 years. Workshops are approximately 45 mins long – due to Covid regulations you will be given your own Didge pipe to learn on, you can then take this home with you and continue practising! Tickets are £8 or a Family Ticket for £25, and can be purchased here.

He Named Me Malala film screening Saturday 5 June 2021 | 7.00pm | In-person Documentary shown on the big screen about young Pakistani female activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai. Tickets for £5 can be purchased here.

Seeing Gaia Gaia Prayer Trail Visiting slots at £3 per person can be booked at Seven Prayer Stations based on and www.eventbrite.co.uk inspired by a 60-minute prayer guide Infants/babies who are carried can enter for free. called Restore our Earth will be spread throughout the Cathedral for visitors to The ticket price is for the art installation, which then engage with. enables us to be able to put on such events, with all profit going towards the Cathedral. For people who Created with the Community of the would like to come in for prayer or to sit quietly, Tree of Life, the prayer trail will provide they can do so via the Chaplains who will escort you with simple prayer prompts while them safely via the Old Song School entrance. you take in the beauty of Gaia. LCR Update A surprising discovery in the North Porch

We have started work on the repair and by Victorian restoration / improvement restoration of the North Porch, which works. will involve replacing the damaged The oak timbers and panels that make lime render pargetted panels on either up this older roof structure are in a good side of the porch and repairing the roof. state of preservation and are being fully Preliminary work on the roof earlier this recorded and assessed by Cathedral week has found the fabric to be dry and Archaeologist, Professor Philip Dixon. in reasonable condition, which is good His view is that they date from the early news. to mid 1400s, with some later repairs, While we were doing this we made perhaps in 1571. The entry for St. a very interesting discovery. Back in Martin’s in John Nichol’s Antiquities of 2016, Cathedral Architect, Ian Salisbury, includes a long transcript conducted an inspection and was able to of churchwardens records up to 1724, look through a wall panel that had been including the following item in 1571: “Paid opened for repair. He surmised that the for mending the North church porch and present roof structure had been built, as the chamber over it, 2s 4d”. part of the extensive Victorian restoration, The repair work is progressing well. When over an earlier and much deteriorated complete, it will be impossible to discern framework, but he was not able to get that, hidden beneath, is an important and a fuller view to validate this. When far older roof which has been successfully we opened up the roof this week we conserved, recorded and protected. found, hidden away, a much older roof structure – almost intact – within the void Simon Bentley below. This is very unusual because older Project Director for architectural features on historic buildings Leicester Cathedral Revealed were commonly destroyed or damaged Cathedral Volunteer and Historian History Now Irene explores the history of Leicester from Irene Turlington Cathedral that can still be seen today

The Creation of the New

Leicester was a Bishopric as early as 680 when it was carved out of the Diocese of Lichfield. Nearly two hundred years later, it became part of Dorchester Diocese and eventually transferred to Lincoln in 1072. Then finally to Peterborough in 1839. Discussions began in 1924 regarding the partition of the Diocese of Peterborough. On 10 October 1924, a dinner was held at the Royal Hotel in Leicester. Lt. Col. Oliver D.L. invited the to meet the Lord of Peterborough. During their discussions, a number of facts were given in support of the creation of a new Bishopric. Peterborough had six hundred Parishes. Therefore it was impossible to visit more than two hundred of them in one year. The Parish of Strixton in Northamptonshire had not been visited by a Bishop in living memory. Peterborough was also forty-two miles away from Leicester by road and two hours away by train. The new diocese would have two hundred and sixty parishes and Leicester was ideally situated in the centre of the county. The campaign for the provision of £65,000 necessary for the creation of the new diocese was planned to commence early in November 1924. Much enthusiasm was displayed by members of the in the Peterborough Diocese in the movement for the division of the Diocese and the creation of the See of Leicester.

The National Assembly of the Church and the Peterborough Diocesan Conference unanimously agreed upon the scheme and the campaign for raising the £65,000 required planned to begin at a great meeting at De Montfort Hall in Leicester. The , (the newest of the English Dioceses), the Mayor of Leicester, and Colonel Martin CMG (Chairman of the Peterborough Diocese Board of Finance) were the principle speakers. Follow up mass meetings were held in Northampton, Loughborough, Kettering, Wellingborough, Hinckley, Coalville, Market Harborough and Melton Mowbray. There was also a series of Lantern Lectures for the Parishes. The Bishop was asked to appoint a Committee Blessings, On thy Children gathered here, May for the purpose of organising an appeal to raise they all Thy name confessing, and Be to Thee for the necessary funds for the endowment of the ever dear. new See. Mr. T. Fielding Johnson had given Another one thousand children from the County the most munificent gift of Brookfield as the were invited to The Bishop’s Garden Party the future ’s residence. This most following week to have tea and to meet their generous gift enabled the appeal to be fixed at Bishop. £15,000 less. Some other interesting subscriptions included: By January 1926, the fund had reached the sum of £55,000. An appeal was made to business • A servant girl who gave the only men, particularly business men of Leicester. golden half sovereign she had ever had. Many companies and individual generous • Two old ladies of very modest means gave donations were gratefully received, such as £20 for the blessings they had received. £1,000 from Messrs. Freeman, Hardy and • Children in a Leicester Village contributed Willis. 1000 pennies they had collected. It was decided to use the idea of using the Sir Charles Nicholson Bart was appointed to ‘power of the penny’ as a means of fund raising. conduct a survey at St. Martin’s with a view In previous years the Leicester Royal Infirmary to recommend what should be done for its had received very handsome sums annually adaptation as a Cathedral. from weekly collections made in factories. The date for the inauguration of the Cathedral Therefore the £65,000 fund for the Creation and the New Diocese of Leicester was of the New Diocese of Leicester was similarly provisionally made for Monday 21 February helped. Very many children in the city and the 1927, and it was hoped that the Archbishop of county of Leicester contributed a penny a week Canterbury would preach. The Enthronement towards the cost. It was remarkable how the of the first Bishop of Leicester since the Danes total mounted up as the flow steadily continued. invaded Mercia in c.869 was provisionally The Bishop of the Diocese was very anxious fixed for 28 February 1927. that the children of Leicester should feel that their part in collecting money for the Parochial Contributions to the Bishopric of Leicester Fund was highly appreciated. A Bishop’s Garden Party for the Church Children was planned to be held at ‘Brookfield’ Leicester, so that a large number of children would be able to meet their Bishop, to see his house and gardens. The children were invited to bring with them what so-ever money they had not handed to their Parochial Treasurer and also a certificate stating the amount collected. The Bishop’s Garden Party for around one thousand children from the City was held on 10 July 1926. The following hymns were sang: Come sing with Holy gladness, High Alleluias Sing, Uplift your loud Hosannas, To Jesus Lord and King, and Heavenly Father send thy

A newspaper report dated 17 July 1926 Reflection Come and join the dance! A reflection for Trinity Sunday, from my days as Vicar of Beaumont Leys

Under the Home Office dispersal arrangements, Leicester City Council was due to receive a number of asylum seekers, to be housed prior to the hearing of their cases. From within the Multi-Agency Forum which I had set up and was running, I set up a smaller group, consisting of all the service providers, voluntary and statutory, who would be working with these people. I wanted us to get to know each other and trust each other before any of the ‘clients’ arrived, so that personal cooperation would have been established as we sought to respond. Eighteen months in, we organised a Fun Day in the parish church of Christ the King… bringing together among others, Kurds, Iranians, Congolese, Somalis. Each group was given some money and asked to bring some food to share with others… and more importantly, some music! Towards the end of what had been a super day, bringing together a whole range of asylum seekers with our agencies working with them, we gathered in church so we could make use of the sound system. The Kurds put on some dance music and formed a great circle and launched into an elaborate country dance. This was emotionally very charged, as this was music and a dance from home… but their joy was so apparent. We were all sitting round, laughing and clapping to the beat. Then an amazing thing happened… the circle seemed spontaneously to open up, and before we knew it, hands were reaching out to us and we were drawn into the fellowship of the dance. There was laughter… none of us knew the steps, but once we had got over our Anglo-Saxon reticence, we were in!! I hadn’t laughed so much for ages: my clumsy attempts to dance were being applauded by the experts... they gave so much to me that day. The 4th century Cappadocian Fathers’ description of the Holy Trinity as a dance... perichoresis… is a wonderfully rich image, speaking of the dynamic of self-giving love within the life of God, energetically celebrating the distinctness of each Person, Father, Son and Holy Spirit but delighting in each other and glorying in their oneness. Such a picture is a wonderful antidote to the often cerebral and desperately abstract models which can so dominate particularly Western Trinitarian thinking… what I experienced from those Turkish Kurds was a love and a joy and acceptance which reached out to invite others to share in their dance. That is how God in His love invites us into the dance of the Divine Life: to enter into the joy of the life of the Trinity. The Revd Canon Chris Oxley Chaplaincy Enabler

The Trinity: a statue at St. Beuno’s Jesuit Retreat Centre, N. Wales Prayer Thoughts from our Pastoral Assistant Hello everyone, I hope this finds you I were left with the feeling of how well. small our country was, seen in this Richard and I decided that Pentecost context. How much smaller Leicester Diana Belton Sunday would be a good day to was in this context, a speck of dust. If Pastoral come back to Sunday Worship live Leicester was as a speck of dust, how Assistant as opposed to virtual. To me it felt minute and insignificant was I and my quite strange and it was much harder space. than I had anticipated. We did come The service began. We heard how to a Christmas carol service but apart God’s Spirit, the Holy Spirit came from that I hadn’t been into Leicester upon His people, all His people, for well over 12 months. you and me, to enable us to testify to the whole world of God’s saving I felt totally safe and had a wonderful love, in the language that all could sense of return, of being home. I have understand. Our service was to admit I also had a sense of ‘this is multilingual. The intercessions were different’. Everyone wearing masks led by different people young and made it harder to communicate, not so young in their own language. I relate to friends I had not seen face to couldn’t have translated these prayers Please note that face for so long, and yes the seating word for word but that didn’t matter, the reflections I was very different. It had to be. It I could somehow feel the meaning, have shared with was also a very long time since I had I felt one with them, some tangible you today are been with so many people in one thread united us. I looked at the world my own personal place at the same time. This I found thoughts on again and how I wished we were hard. It wasn’t that I felt unsafe, just one, all hearing of God’s love for us the message I hemmed in. I needed to redefine believe God and being there for our brothers and wants to share my personal space. I had expected sisters. That was the prayer I added to with you. some of these feelings but not to the those offered all ready. intensity that I was experiencing. There was something about the slow The Lord bless We sat in the south aisle. This was a movement of the earth never still, you and keep good place to observe Gaia, the ever moving. As I felt myself being you, keep you earth artwork by Luke Jerram. There mesmerised by this movement and safe. in front of us was the earth suspended challenged to accept the universal The Lord make from the roof gently rotating. As I sat language of love for the whole of His face to shine trying to calm my nerves, watching God’s creation my eye caught sight upon you, and all you hold dear. the earth slowly turning on its axis of the art instillation of Hands of The Lord give I noticed how much blue there was Freedom at the top of the south you His peace, and how little brown. It was hard to isle. This shows two hands hovering, today and in get a view of England from where hesitating, teetering on the brink of the days ahead. Amen. we were sitting but both Richard and touch. There was a palatable tension. We have all felt that tension I am sure over the last year. Perhaps that tension was part of the anxiety I was feeling early. I was back with my Church family and there was a feeling of joy but I am a touching person, there was a tension. How did we greet each other? The people I had not seen for so long. Give them a big hug? Maybe, maybe not. There was something else going on. How willing was I to reach out and touch a hurting soul? Was I hesitant to accept a person in need? To let them come close, to touch me, to touch PRAYER FOCUS me deep down within and risk never being The Diocesan prayer diary asks us to the same again. The universal language of pray this week for: love, compassion, vulnerability, pain, how willing am I to let God dwell with me, in me • Those churches dedicated to insignificant me, to touch, embrace someone in Wistan, especially within the pain. Diocese at Wistow and Wigston. How willing are you to learn a new language, • For their planning of a festival and pilgrimage in 2022. a language of Love and compassion and generosity? Of fair trade and renewable • To give thanks for the wonderful resources? A language that with God’s spirit Christian heritage of our nation. in you will change lives forever including your Please also pray for all those who have own? visited our Cathedral in the last few Take time this week to consider these vast weeks. Ask that they may have been challenged by what they have seen and difficult questions. If everyone made one and read and that they will respond to small change to the way they live what a huge that challenge. difference that would make to our world. Take time to pray for yourself that Enjoy this amazing world God has gifted to your eyes may be opened to see the us, stay safe and consider your actions to keep challenges we face and that God will others safe too. be with you as we all move forward. Diana | [email protected] Thank you. WORSHIP

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