Pompey Chimes JUNE.qxd 20/5/04 3:17 pm Page 3 news 3 Churches mark 60 year anniversary CHURCHES from our dio- The church will be open service on the green there, St James’s Church, cese will be commemorating from 10am-12noon, 2pm- with a symbolic launching of Yarmouth, from June 4-6. the 60th anniversary of D- 4pm and 6pm-8pm from a boat to lay a wreath of Viewing is from 12noon-4pm Day in a variety of ways. Wednesday to Friday. poppies in the harbour in on Friday and Sunday and Worshippers at St On Saturday, the displays memory of those who died. 10am-4pm on the Saturday. Thomas’s Church in Elson, will be on show from 10am- At Christ Church, The weekend culminates Gosport, will open their 4pm during the annual Portsdown, where armed with a Songs of Praise in the doors for five days from church fete, and on Sunday forces took part in a service church at 6.30pm on the June 9-13 for an exhibition the exhibition can be seen on 4 June 1944 before sailing Sunday. to give people an idea of life during and after services. to Normandy, a D-Day exhi- And St Margaret’s in the parish in 1944. The climax of the week bition will also take place, Church in Eastney, It will feature photos of will come with a Songs of betwen May 30 and June 13. Portsmouth, will hold a bomb damage in the parish, Praise-style service at 4pm in The church will also be social evening at 7.30pm on the building of an embarka- the church followed by a open every Thursday from June 12 to celebrate the tion ramp at Hardway and procession to the embarka- now until September from anniversary. troops embarking. Home life, tion ramp at Hardway led by 10am-12noon. Tickets, priced at £3, are rations and recycling will a pipe major. D-Day will also be the available on 023-9273 5170 also be remembered. There will be a short theme of a flower festival at or 023-9275 1254.

The icon of St Birinus given to the bishop (photo: courtesy Michael Camps) Prestige D-Day Icon recalls our past - and models future THIS is St Birinus - designed on the the man who helped 1225-1250 roundel event for choir bring the Christian window at OUR cathedral choir will head- faith to our diocese. Dorchester Abbey in line an international concert He arrived on the Oxfordshire,” said shores of Fareham in Derick. to mark the 60th anniversary the seventh century “It’s an unusual of D-Day this month. and decided to privilege to be asked Around 40 singers will travel to Caen preach to the pagan to produce an icon to perform a brand new work for royalty, West Saxons. He for which there is no heads of state, D-Day veterans and 2,000 later became Bishop known icon pattern.” others gathered there for the anniversary. of Dorchester. Bishop Kenneth They will join the London Mozart This icon of him said: “I am delighted Players, a French children’s choir and the was made for Bishop with this. It reminds newly-formed Portsmouth Youth Chamber Kenneth by our me of how much we Orchestra to perform Valete in Pacem on diocesan iconograph- owe to Christian June 6. er, the Rev Derick saints and martyrs The music was composed by Harvey Stevenson, from St over the centuries Brough, the man behind the chart act Mary’s Church, and particularly to Harvey and the Wallbangers, and the text Brighstone. He used St Birinus. was written by Lee Hall, who wrote the Isle of Wight lime, “In his day the screenplay for the film Billy Elliott. French gold leaf and church was supreme- The event is part of a weekend of activ- natural pigments ly mission-focused. mixed with egg tem- “It’s that kind of ities in Portsmouth and Caen to mark 60 Harvey Brough (right) takes soloist Oliver Jones through Valete in Pacem years since the successful Normandy land- pura. single-mindedness ings that helped bring an end to the Second never happen again.” dral will host its annual D-Day and It was presented we’re seeking to World War. The cathedral choir will also take part Normandy Fellowship service at 11.30am to our bishop during replicate in our Valete in Pacem follows the journey of in two radio broadcasts during their week- on June 6. the Chrism Service Kairos thinking an 18-year-old soldier experiencing the end in Caen – one to be broadcast live at There will also be special events organ- on Maundy Thur- today as we move events of D-Day, from the hell of battle to 8.30am on June 6 on BBC Radio 4, and a ised by the city council on Southsea sday and now hangs our priority from the calm of the evening. Choral Evensong, which will be recorded Common that afternoon. Valete in Pacem in Bishopsgrove. maintenance to mis- It uses extracts from pieces of monastic and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on June 9. will then be repeated at Portsmouth “The icon was sion.” liturgy such as Vespers and Compline. Meanwhile in Portsmouth, the cathe- Cathedral on June 25. Parts will be sung in English, French and Latin. The concert, at the 12th century Abbaye Hear stories of caring God at summer school aux Hommes, will be a nerve-wracking CHURCHES in the Bishop’s people in Scripture. Reader from St Peter’s, Bishop’s than to immerse oneself in its moment for 18-year-old cathedral chorister Waltham area will host their first It will take place at the study Waltham, said: “Much of the God-given stories?” Oliver Jones, who will sing the solo part. ever summer Bible school this centre, St John the Baptist Bible is story, some would esti- The day will focus particu- “I cannot believe that I am going to be month. Church, Shedfield, from 10am- mate about 50 per cent, both in larly on how stories in the Old singing at such an important occasion,” Anyone who wants to get to 3.45pm. the Old and New Testaments. Testament relate to those in the said Oliver, who was also featured recently grips with the stories in the The study will be led from That would make it God’s New Testament. The role of on the BBC Songs of Praise programme Bible is invited to come to the Brian Powell, a Reader from favourite way style of writing to women will also be highlighted. from our cathedral. “It will certainly be my event on June 26. Fareham, who teaches about the us, which is not surprising. Anyone who would like to biggest musical challenge so far.” The theme is ‘Stories of a Old Testament in the Reader “For at its heart, the Bible is come is encouraged to read the And composer Harvey Brough said: caring God’, reflecting the fact training course and has just been the story of God’s revelation and story of Ruth in advance. “My desire for this piece is that is should that the narrative style seems to appointed director of initial plan of salvation for a fallen and For more details, or to book show the horror of war but also be a prayer be the most popular way for Reader training. needy people. So what better your place on the course, contact for remembrance to those who died and a God to communicate with his Organiser Tony Thorpe, a way of engaging with the Bible Tony Thorpe on 01489-891350. powerful pleas that such an event should