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AC C O R D No. 63, June 2018 NEWSLETTER OF THE NATIONAL NETWORK OF PASTORAL MUSICIANS Known Unknowns is published by Wild Goose at £11.50 and can be bought from Love your enemies ionabooks.com or booksource.net sung to familiar tunes. With their usual Stephen Dean incisive eloquence, John Bell and Graham Other Links s mentioned last time on this page, Maule have produced this non-polemical paxchristi.org.uk/news-and-events/ Asome of the most difficult words for text which emphasises good news and first-world-war-peace-plans/ us to honour, even though they pass making amends while not scolding. The 'Honour the dead by ending war' our lips easily, are Love your enemies, suggested tune is The Sussex Carol. Approaches to Remembrance and First and do good to those who hate you World War commemorations: ideas to (Luke 6:27). THE TIME HAS COME help you plan, including We will remember Readers who peruse the RSCM listings I. The time has come when, from the past, them: Services, reflections, prayers which regularly occupy the later pages prophetic words ring true at last; and songs for Remembrance Sunday. of ACCORD will find this time several though earth’s hostilities increase, Produced by Movement for the Abolition of events commemorating the centenary God’s promise is of lasting peace. War. From Pax Christi £3.00 plus 20% p&p on 11 November this year of the end of Hallelujah! Prepare the way. the Great War. We should expect much Hear what God’s chosen prophets say. churchofengland.org Search for First World War. public interest in this date, with views 2. The time has come to make it known expressed over the whole spectrum that every tear and pain and groan from chauvinism to pacifism: from the are registered in heaven above easy acceptance of the rightness of the to be redeemed by holy love. High Leigh news War, to the denunciation of all military Hallelujah! Prepare the way. Jennifer Burridge action. In the context of Brexit, an evident Only Love lifts us from dismay. increase of xenophobia and the 'hostile This year’s conference, with its theme environment' for immigrants the message 3. The time has come to make amends: of forgiveness, seems to have at- 'love your enemies' will be more than earth and its people should be friends. tracted much interest both from NNPM usually difficult to gain a hearing. Erase the policies of death, members and a goodly number of We need words spread hope with every vital breath. people new to the network. By Easter to help us express Hallelujah! Prepare the way. we were about 80% full, and by the t h e d i f f i c u l t God gladly comes to earth to stay. end of April I was asking High Leigh message. A new 4. The time has come to share good news, to give us some more bedrooms. With text comes from to sweep the floor and mend the shoes, our impressive line-up of speakers Known Unknowns, prepare to protest, praise and dance and workshop leaders, and the wide a 2018 collection for God is eager to advance. ranging topics on offer it will be a of 100 hymn texts Hallelujah! Expect a birth: brilliant conference. On a personal from Wild Goose, God’s gracious feet will touch the earth. note I am looking forward to meeting including over 50 John Bell and Graham Maule some new people and welcoming new ones, to be © 2018 Wild Goose Resource Group back some returning friends. The National Network of Pastoral Musicians 2018 Summer Conference: 27-29 July Forgive us, Lord, as we forgive: Reconciliation and the prayer Jesus taught us at High Leigh Conference Centre, Hoddesdon, Herts with John Bell, Marty Haugen, Christopher Walker, Geraldine Latty, Richard Hubbard, Andrew Maries, and others • CONTACT [email protected] Follow us on and - details at www.nnpm.org • A C C O R D No.63 June 2018 (coffee) 11.00am (start). Food is the fuel of relationships. ‘Companion’ is derived from the Latin cum (with) and ROUNDUP panis (bread); food feeds more than the physical body; it ARUNDEL & BRIGHTON also nourishes generosity and friendship. In the eucharist, Area secretary: Marie Wratten (020 8224 0632) the breaking of bread has deeper significance in our lives. For f information and updates, please see The bishops of England and Wales are holding a Na- www.abliturgy.wordpress.com or contact catherine. tional Eucharistic Pilgrimage and Congress, ‘Adoremus’, [email protected] or [email protected] (01293 651164) in Liverpool, during September, to promote an awareness HALLAM & SOUTH YORKSHIRE of the central place of the Eucharist in the life and mission Trish Stafford [email protected], 07534 184982 of the Church. Sessions within the congress will focus on Hallam Youth Ministry: 0114 256 6464 / 0170 986 7383 Rites and Music for Eucharistic Adoration. It will also be [email protected] . the final Workshop at which Mag Shepherd will feature. Worship 4 Today is a highly successful course which Mag has announced her retirement from the Southwark has been used in Sheffield Diocese since 2007, where it Diocese Music Committee. This will be the central theme runs for one academic year alongside other lay training. for today’s workshop. Booking form from Nicholas Pointer The 2017/18 course, runs from 10 September to 8 July [email protected] 2018, but the website www.sheffield.anglican.org/worship- 4-today will eventually tell you what to expect for next year. SCOTLAND [email protected] or 01709 309147 Nicola Lawrence [email protected] .uk First Monday of every month, 19.30-22.00. Sacred Harp News from RSCM Scotland rscm.com/area/scotland/ Singing in Sheffield (Ecumenical or no religion) Open to 16 – 19 July Summer School 2018 (21st anniversary!): all. Shakespeare's pub,146-148 Gibraltar Street, S3 8UB. Dunblane FK15 0AQ, with Matthew Beetschen, director, Singing from the Sacred Harp (1991 edition). Especially and Kevin Duggan, organ. Services in Dunblane Cathedral suitable for those new to Sacred Harp, a tradition of 4-part on Monday to Wednesday evenings (20.00), with a closing a cappella singing from shape-note books first published in Eucharist on Thursday morning (10.00). All welcome. Come the USA in 1844. The sessions are suitable for everyone - for the whole course, or just for a day! Optional workshops regardless of background or level of experience. open to non-course participants. To book, contact Brian http://sheffieldsacredharp.weebly.com/sing-with-us.html Baker (Summer School administrator): 01786 821294 sum- Whirlow Spirituality Centre, Sheffield. See p.10 [email protected] or online at rscm.scot 15 September. Scottish Voices are singing Choral Even- MENEVIA song at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Palmerston Place, Area sec. Jennifer Burridge 01792 775 598 • [email protected] Edinburgh, EH12 5AW. See www.rscmscottishvoices.org.uk . 4 Otcober. There will be a Taize evening of quiet prayer 6 October. French Organ Mass King's College Chapel, and music at St David’s Priory, Swansea. 7pm. All welcome. University of Aberdeen, AB24 3FX. Taking advantage of our Musical Director’s ongoing study of the Organ Mass music MIDDLESBROUGH of Couperin. See www.rscmscottishvoices.org.uk Area sec. Sue Black 01904 760331, [email protected] 17 November. Choral Evensong at Dunblane Cathedral, Diocesan Choir Practice is on the 2nd Sunday of the FK15 0AQ. See www.rscmscottishvoices.org.uk month, Our Lady’s, Acomb, York, 14.00-16.00. Currently working towards a Music Day with Malcolm Archer, 8 Radio Alba radioalba.org July, 13.30 – 18.00, and an Ordination on 21 July, both in Radio Alba is an ecumenical, internet-based radio which the Cathedral. promotes prayer and news of good things happening in the churches and among people of faith. It is sponsored by To audition for the Schola Cantorum, (men, women) or Glasgow Churches Together, by ACTS, and by the Music Boys’ or Girls’ Choirs contact: [email protected] Committee of the Archdiocese of Glasgow. Since its launch Sung Vespers with Benediction (‘...a lovely experience...’): in 2015 it has maintained a regular diet of Morning, Evening Wednesdays, 18.00, weekly, term-time. St. Mary’s Cathedral, and Night Prayers, and continue to work at short Services Coulby Newham, Middlesbrough TS8 0TW. and Prayers for Peace, for the Sick and for people in other Sung Vespers in the cathedral some Sundays, 16.15 situations where they need the encouragement and support Support for Parishes: contact Deanery representatives: of prayer. And with Noel Donnelly’s Commentaries on the • York: Sue Black • Middlesbrough: Tim Harrison -see above • Hull Deanery: Gabriel Awre: [email protected] psalms we hope we have helped psalmists and cantors to • Coastal: Martin Richardson: [email protected] deepen their understanding of the sacred texts that they sing. Other Cathedral Musical Events: see Diocesan website Our 30 minute morning programme is repeated every 30 http://middlesbrough-diocese.org.uk minutes until noon. We plan to make that morning pro- gramme into a 60 minute one soon to match the evening hour SOUTHWARK which gives Evening Prayer, Magazine and Night Prayer. Mag Shepherd 0208 291 4107 [email protected] We have a particular interest in promoting prayer for the 23 June. Summer Workshop ‘With Whom One Eats young.We also provide a steady flow of news from such as Bread’, Amigo Hall, St. George’s Cathedral, Southwark, the Scottish Catholic Observer, Sciaf, The Catholic Worker, London SE1 6HR, led by Canon Alan McLean.10.30am Justice and Peace Scotland, and many others.