Estonia Is Calling You! Photo Competition
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ochester Link 1 Holy Week at Canterbury Cathedral Holy Week plans page 12 MARCH 2013 Estonia is calling you! by the Rev Canon David Kitley, Bishop’s Advisor for Overseas Links The Diocese of Rochester has 4. Overseas Links Celebration 2014, to take place in our Diocese to celebrate a friendship link with the our links with Estonia. Service to Evangelical Lutheran Church of take place on October 5: date to be Estonia, which is very keen to confirmed. develop this relationship with 5. 2015, early July – a ‘Sacred Hymn parish churches in Rochester. Festival’ in Tartu. You are very warmly invited to all the 6. 2017, May 31. 500th Anniversary events outlined below. There is a church of the Lutheran Reformation and hostel in the centre of the historic part of 100th Anniversary of the Evangelical Tallinn, where we are able to stay during Lutheran Church in Estonia. our visits. 7. 2018, February 24. Centenary of the The following is a list of events both in founding of the Republic of Estonia. Estonia and Rochester: 8. 2018, December 12, 100th 1. 2013 October 8-13, visit to Rochester Anniversary of British Naval victory Diocese of Professor Randar Tasmuth, over Russians to liberate the who teaches at the Theological Estonian nation. Ideal for a Chatham Institute in Tallinn and is an authority of parish, with the Naval history and the Gospel of John. connections! The Estonians are deeply grateful to the Royal Navy. 2. 2014, January 21-22 Estonian clergy This is evidenced by a memorial to conference at their ‘Centre Park’, them in Tallinn. beside the frozen Baltic sea. Church leaders from Rochester Diocese I do hope that some of you will take up this warmly invited! wonderful opportunity to link up with our brothers and sisters in Christ in Estonia, to 3. 2014, early July. The ‘Song Festival’. be enriched by their worship and singing, Following a tradition that dates back as well as to share in the pain they still feel to 1869, about 150,000 people will from the years of Soviet occupation. gather in Tallinn for 3-4 days. This is a national event! It is too late for any For further information please contact me choirs from England to register for on 01732 452112 or e-mail at this, but we are invited! [email protected] Photo by Steve Barber Photo competition The Diocese of Rochester is delighted For details of competition rules and prizes, please visit www.rochester.anglican.org to launch its 2013 photography How do I enter? competition. Entries must be submitted in a high resolution There are three categories and entrants may format via email or CD to Lindy Mackenzie. enter each one or only one. However, no CDs must be clearly marked with the name entrant may submit more than three images in and address of the entrant and details of the total. The categories are: categories entered. 1. Times of faith We regret that hard copy entries will not be 2. Symbols of faith considered and entries will not be returned 3. People of faith to entrants. The photographer must own the There will be one winner from each category copyright of the image. Winners will be notified plus one runner up and one overall winner by the beginning of September 2013. from the competition. Top submissions will be Email entries to: lindy.mackenzie@rochester. exhibited in Rochester Cathedral. anglican.org CD Entries to: Lindy Mackenzie, The judges’ decisions will be final and no Communications, Diocese of Rochester, St alternative prizes will be offered. Entrants must Nicholas Church, Boley Hill, Rochester, Kent, be over 16 years old. Closing date for entries is ME11SL. Please do not submit hard copy 17 May 2013. entries. These will not be eligible and cannot The frozen Baltic Sea Photo by the Rev Canon David Kitley be returned. PLEASE NOTE: Copy deadline for the April issue of The Link is Friday 15 March at 4pm 2 ochester Link Bishop Brian’s Diary - March 2 March 8.00 Men’s Breakfast, The George Pub, Ightham 3 March 10.00 United Deanery Service, St George, Wrotham What’s on 4 March 10.30 Visit Ightham Mote March 2013 GRAVESEND Indoor Boot Fair, St Aidan’s Church and 5 March 8.00 SE Church Leaders’ Breakfast Friday 1 Community Hall, St Gregory’s Crescent, Gravesend 11.00 Coffee morning, St George, Wrotham GRAVESEND Women’s World Day of Prayer service at between 10am and 1pm. Admission 50p. For further detail Visit Grange Park School, Wrotham St Aidan’s Church, St Gregory’s Crescent, Gravesend at please ring 01474 352253. Visit Wrotham Primary School 10am. The speaker will be the Rev Carolyn Foreman from RUSTHALL A Musical Meditation for Lent will take place 6.30 Visit Bromley Night Shelter, Bromley Baptist St John, Meopham. at St.Paul’s Church Centre, 23 Rusthall Road, Rusthall, Church Saturday 2 Tunbridge Wells on Saturday, 16 March, 2013, at 7.30 7 March 12.30 Friends of Bossey (WCC) meeting, London pm. in aid of Canon Andrew White’s work at St George’s 8 March 11.00 Mission Theology Advisory Group Meeting, London SEVENOAKS Stabat Mater, a concert of choral and instrumental items by Temenos Chamber Choir with Church, Baghdad, and the Iraqi Christian Refugees. All are 12 March 11.00 Civic Service, All Saints, Maidstone welcome. Details from 01892 539549. 16 March 9.30 Diocesan Synod Temenos Baroque, at St Nicholas Church, Sevenoaks at 7.30pm, featuring music by Monteverdi, Rigatti, Caldara, Friday 22 17 March 10.30 Licensing, Mission to Sea Farers Chaplain, John Lassus, Corelli and Handel as well as Scarlatti’s “Stabat WEST MALLING Annual Quiet Day of the Rochester Attenborough, St Stephen, Chatham Mater”. Tickets £10 (£5 students) from Sevenoaks Retired Clergy Association. At West Malling Abbey from 19 March 1.30 Canterbury Christ Church University Governing Bookshop, or phone 01959 523765, or at the door 9:30am until 3:30pm. For more information please contact Body meeting www.temenos-chamberchoir.org.uk Paul Plumley at [email protected] or 07925 615601 20 March 9.30 Bishop’s Staff Meeting 21 March Enthronement of the Archbishop of Canterbury, BROMLEY “Towards a Theology of Banking - Saturday 23 Canterbury Cathedral responsibility and opportunities” - a morning to consider TUNBRIDGE WELLS Songs of Hope.The Baroque 22 March 9.15 Present Bishop’s Commendation Award to how we Christians see money, tax and finance today. Our Singers of Tunbridge Wells are giving a concert in St John’s Church in Groombridge at 7.30pm on Saturday Rusthall Primary School speaker will be the Rev Will Morris, SSM at St Martin’s in 23 March, conducted by their Musical Director, Anthony 11.30 Tonbridge & Malling LSP, Hop Farm, Paddock the Fields, chair of the the CBI’s tax committee and the Purnell. There are two works on the programme - Wood director of European tax policy for GE. Lots of time for Palestrina’s sublime but rarely performed mass “Spem in 24 March 9.30 Palm Sunday Celebration, Linton discussion. alium” and, as a contrast, the lively pilgrim songs of the 11.00 Palm Sunday Celebration, Hunton BROMLEY St Mark’s Church, Westmoreland Road, 14th century “Llibre Vermell” from Montserrat in Spain. 26 March 9.30 Crisis Media Response Training, Rochester Bromley, close to Bromley South station. Refreshments This songbook was compiled by the monks to provide 27 March 11.00 Agenda Planning Group - Rochester from 9.30 for a 10 am start and a 12 noon ending. An suitable recreational material to entertain pilgrims spending 28 March 10.30 Chrism Eucharist, Rochester Cathedral open meeting organised by the Bromley Deanery and the Rochester Theological Society. Free admission. Donations the night sheltering in the monastery church while visiting Maundy Thursday Service, Sundridge/Ide Hill the statue of the Black Madonna. The early music group 29 March Good Friday Service, Sundridge/Ide Hill welcome. Notifications to RTS acting secretary on [email protected] Cancionero will accompany these songs on replicas of 31 March Easter Day Service, Sundridge/Ide Hill medieval instruments. A mixture of timeless beauty and Sunday 3 energetic devotion - the perfect preparation for Palm BROMLEY Lent Lunch at St Mary’s Church, College Road, Sunday and Holy Week! Tickets are available online from Bromley at 12 noon, on 3, 10 and 17 March, of soup www.cancionero.ticketsource.co.uk Church Restoration (UK) ltd and fruit for £3. Proceeds go to Mothers’ Union “Make a Mother’s Day” overseas farming projects. Contact BROMLEY – Auction of Talents at St Mary’s Church 020 8464 1239. Bromley, at 4 pm. Fund-raising by doing good deeds for our neighbours. Contact 020 8464 1239. Thursday 7 BECKENHAM Small Stories to Change a Troubled World Sunday 24 ‘a different drum’, one of Riding Lights Theatre Company’s BROMLEY – Palm procession with donkey to St Mary’s most inspirational plays, has been recreated for 2013 and Church Bromley beginning at 10 am. Contact 020 8464 1239. is touring nationally. See it at 19.30hrs, Christ Church, Friday 29 Fairfield Road, Beckenham, BR3 3LE. Box Office: 01904 COBHAM Friends of Cobham Church are presenting their 613000. Please visit www.ridinglights.org/drum for a full annual ‘Instant’ concert at St Mary Magdalene Church. tour schedule, further information and online booking. This is a ‘come and sing’ event, now in its 11th year and Tickets: £10, Groups: buy 10 and get the 11th free. very popular. It attracts local singers and audiences and Saturday 9 all proceeds go towards the Friends of Cobham Church, BEXLEYHEATH Celebration of Fair Trade Fortnight at dedicated to the repair and restoration of the church fabric.