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June / July 2019 £2.50 June / July 2019 £2.50 News & Information Follow us on twitter @SouthwMinster from Southwell Minster www.southwellminster.org Contents… At a Glance … At a Glance 2 The full list of services is on the What’s Welcome / Listening to the Leaves 3 On pages at the centre of the magazine. Flourishing in Mission and Gardening ‐ June Dean Nicola Sullivan 4 Wednesday 5 3.30pm Messy Minster Sacrista Prebend Retreat House 5 Friday 7 12.15pm Friday Lunchme at the Cathedral Saturday 8 9.45am‐4.00pm Quiet Day at Sacrista Prebend Bible Verses for Reflecon 5 Pentecost 9.30am Family Eucharist Modern Day Slavery 6/7 Sunday 9 11.15am Queen’s Birthday Service 3.30pm Festal Evensong and Procession From the Registers 7 7.30pm Music in the Great Hall Tuesday 11 5.30pm St Barnabas’ Day Festal Evensong “Hope for Jusce” fights Human Trafficking 8 Saturday 15 9.45am‐4.00pm Quiet Day at Sacrista Prebend Arst in Residence at Lincoln Cathedral 9 4.30pm Evensong with Cathedral Friends Trinity Sunday 10.30am Sung Eucharist The Time is Now — Sunday 16 3.30pm Festal Evensong Climate Change Lobby in Westminster 9 Wednesday 19 7.30pm Minster Community Forum 7.30pm Organ Recital, Andrew Dewar The Golden Cross (l’hommage a Notre Dame) 9 Corpus Chris 5.30pm Festal Evensong Notes from Chapter 10 Thursday 20 7.00pm Sung Eucharist Friday 21 12.15pm Lunchme at the Cathedral Pause for Thought 10 Saturday 22 9.45am‐4.00pm Quiet Day at Sacrista Prebend Bishop to lead Day of Prayer 11 7.30pm Concert, Nongham Philharmonic Sunday 23 3.00pm Civic Service Mothers’ Union 11 Monday 24 5.30pm Festal Evensong, St John the Bapst Parish Spotlight ‐ Benefice of West Trent 12 Friday 28 12.15pm Friday Lunchme at the Cathedral Saturday 29 4.00pm Ordinaon of Priests From elsewhere in the Deanery ‐ Sunday 30 11.00am Ordinaon of Deacons The Riverside Group of Parishes 13 July Ethical Investment and Fairtrade 13 Easter, Science and Flourishing 14 Wednesday 3 3.30pm Messy Minster What’s On 15‐18 5.30pm Festal Evensong for St Thomas 6.30pm Outdoor Theatre SMCA Supporng Choristers for Thirty Years 19 7.30pm Archdeacon of Nongham installed Friday 5 12.15pm Lunchme at the Cathedral Concrete Airstrips ‐ Saturday 6 9.45am‐4.00pm Quiet Day at Sacrista Prebend News from our Overseas Partners 20 Sunday 7 7.30pm Music in the Great Hall Saturday 13 9.30am‐3.30pm ‘Growing in Prayer’, with Alison White Observaons, Comparisons and Admiraon 21 Sunday 14 5.00pm Messy Minster Family Service Educaon Department 23 Wednesday 17 7.30pm Organ Recital, Paul Walton Friday 19 12.15pm Friday Lunchme at the Cathedral Robert Kiddey 24 7.30pm Concert, Choral Extravaganza The Flight into Egypt —a very short art history 25/26 Sunday 21 9.30am Jazz Eucharist 3.30pm Choir Valedicons Listening to the Bees 27 Monday 22 5.30pm Festal Evensong, Mary Magdalene Southwell Music Fesval 2019 28 Thursday 25 7.30pm Theatre, Not all Fish and Chips Friday 26 7.30pm Theatre, Not all fish and Chips Contacts 30/31 Saturday 27 6.30pm Outdoor Theatre, The Tempest Sunday 28 10.30am Sung Eucharist Back Page: August Outdoor theatre this summer at Southwell Minster All Sunday Join us on Facebook ‐ search for southwell‐minster and click ʹlikeʹ to keep up to date with news and information. If you are interested in subming an arcle for consideraon for the next issue, please email your offering to [email protected] by 10th July 2019 . This magazine is produced and printed by Jubilate Communicaons CIC Welcome to the June/July edition of Southwell Leaves his is undoubtedly the Summer edition. By the time the Summer is a time when we experience the natural world in T next one is published, the evenings will be noticeably full abundance, and perhaps reflect upon what we might miss. shorter, the Music Festival will be on the horizon and school The Community Forum on July 19th and prayerful preparation holidays will be coming to an end. Before then we have the for it, are opportunities to consider how a worshipping glorious few months of high summer with picnics, barbeques, community can respond to the imperative. All will be long evenings and warm summer days. A season when the welcome. promise of Spring becomes reality as flowers bloom and fruits ripen. As ever Southwell Leaves includes news and numerous snippets of interest. Fr. Matthew writes about his attachment Dean Nicola draws attention to the many ways in which to Lincoln Cathedral as Artist in Residence and there is Southwell Minster flourishes during this time, acting, as it encouragement to join a delegation travelling to London to does, as a focus of so much collective life. Once again, these express concerns about climate change. Once again there is months will see numerous visitors exploring, with varying news from our overseas partners and alongside that the degrees of confidence, what can be found there. We hope experiences of a local teacher confronted by the reality of a that they will find peace, refreshment and inspiration. poorly resourced African school. We are provided with reminders of Robert Kiddey’s work and we are taken into a We feature two articles concerning Modern Day Slavery. Of brief art history of the Holy Family’s flight to Egypt. There is late, this has been a particular focus and concern for the news of concerts and other events, and early information Justice Action Group. We are fortunate to have an about this year’s Southwell Music Festival. There are four authoritative piece from Derek Jackson, who has worked in quiet days at Sacrista Prebend during these months and the this field for some years, and another about the work of Hope gardens behind the house are a surprise to anyone not for Justice. already familiar with them. We hear from Deanery parishes, from our own Education Department and we are reminded Immediately below, your attention is drawn, once again, to that we can learn as much by listening to bees as we might, by ‘Listening to The Leaves’. Environmental concerns are listening to leaves. becoming more and more pressing as the scale of what has happened to the natural world becomes more evident. Hugh Middleton Listening to the Leaves he April/May edition ofSouthwell Leaves included extensive coverage of the event T on March 2. This day of study, reflection and worship served to bring together local groups and individuals, the Minster’s worshipping community and interest in our renowned natural stone carvings. Attendees had an opportunity to affirm a variety of concerns for, and activities in support of the natural environment. The process of prayer and discernment continues. The Community Forum to be held on June 19 will be an opportunity to consider how Southwell Minster can celebrate its heritage and traditions of worship in ways that resonate with growing environmental concerns. Congregations and visitors have been offered a leaflet outlining a number of ways in which the community might rise to the challenges these present, and how they might pray for guidance as they do. To help prepare for the Community Forum on June 19, there will be short prayers in the Chapter House between the two Sunday morning services on Sunday June 2 and possibly Sunday June 9. Thought is being given to Southwell Minster registering with the Eco Church movement; a speaker from A Rocha has agreed to join us for this year's Harvest Festival on October 13. See their website www.ecochurch.arocha.org.uk, Gracious God, source of life, we praise you for the wonder and diversity of the natural world, and we thank you for the genius of the craftsmen who carved the Chapter House leaves that speak to us still. Open our hearts and minds to your guiding Spirit, that we may discern together how best to cherish this good earth and safeguard its resources. As we listen to the leaves, show us how to share in creation's song and rediscover our harmony in you; through Jesus Christ our Lord. 3 Southwel Leaves June & July 2019 Flourishing in mission and gardening he months of June and July are always very busy in the think now as to who you will T Minster’s year. We host several large services for the invite. diocese and county - ordinations, the Queen’s Birthday Service, the County Royal British Legion and the County In a different but no less Council’s rededication service to mention only a few. In effective style, we are addition, this year we will be installing a new Archdeacon of excited to be participating in Nottingham, Canon Phil Williams, on 3rd July and holding a The Choral Evensong Project on Saturday 6 July (at the usual special commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D Day evensong time of 5.30pm). Evensong is growing in popularity during Evensong on 14th June. You will understand why we are in many cathedrals and churches, appealing to people of all all looking forward to the arrival of the new Canon Precentor ages, some with faith and others unsure or even atheists. Its in September! By the way, do make a note for Sunday 8th sublime music, drawn from the last 500 years to the present September at 3.30pm for Dr Richard Frith’s installation. day, the rhythm and spaciousness of words and voices that soon grow to be familiar as well as the sense of timelessness is For the last three years we have also participated in the now somehow touching in our noisy, over-busy and urgent culture.
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