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DAILY SERVICES AT GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL SUNDAY NEWS 7.40am Morning Prayer (said) 8.00am Holy Communion 10.15am Sung Eucharist with Children’s Church OCTOBER 2016 3.00pm Choral Evensong MONDAY - SATURDAY 8.00am Holy Communion 8.30am Morning Prayer (said) 12.30pm Holy Communion 5.30pm Choral Evensong (said Evening Prayer on Mondays) (4.30pm on Saturdays) See our website for details of services and any changes or closures. A Gift Aid scheme operates at the Cathedral, which allows the Chapter to claim back 25p per £1 for donations. Many of you do so already, and we are grateful, but if you are a visitor who pays Income Tax in the UK, you could make your donation go further by doing this. There is a Donorpoint at the West end of the Cathedral where you can use your credit card to give a donation, and this can be gift- aided as well Printed by Perpetua Press, 20 Culver Street, Newent, Glos. GL18 1DA Tel: 01531 820816 32 Gloucester Cathedral News The Editorial Team consists of: Richard Cann, Sandie Conway, Pat Foster, Barrie Glover, Mission Statement: Stephen Lake, Christopher and Maureen Smith. ‘We aim to produce a Christian magazine which is widely accessible Editor: Maureen Smith and which informs, involves and inspires its readers.’ The next Editorial meeting is on Monday 10th October 2016. Cathedral Chapter "We are happy to receive articles, handwritten or typed. We regret Dean: The Very Reverend Stephen Lake that, due to the limited space available, and to enable us to continue to produce a lively, varied and informative magazine, we Canons: Lay Canons: can normally only accept articles of 400 words or less. Articles over Nikki Arthy John Coates 400 words will only be accepted at the Editor’s discretion. Dr Andrew Braddock Paul Mason Richard Mitchell Dame Janet Trotter The Editor reserves the right to alter articles as necessary, without Jackie Searle losing the general sense. Celia Thomson Contributions can be emailed to: Chief Operations Officer: Emily Shepherd [email protected] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - or you can leave them at the Cathedral Office at the address given The Cathedral Office, 12 College Green, Gloucester GL1 2LX at the front of this booklet. Telephone: 01452 528095 You may also email Maureen Smith direct: Email: [email protected] [email protected] The Clergy may be contacted through the Cathedral Office at the Disclaimer: We try very hard to make sure details are correct before above address and telephone number. going to print, but things can change! Please check with the Cathedral Office and the notice board. Please note that articles do Gloucester Cathedral News Subscriptions not represent the opinions of the Chapter, the Church of England or A year’s postal subscription for 10 copies of Gloucester Cathedral the editor - only the writer! News may be obtained by cash or cheque for £12 made payable to ‘The Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral’ and sent to the Cathedral The Editor for September is Maureen Smith. Office at the above address. The deadline is the 5th September www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk Front cover: The 800th Anniversary of Henry III’s Coronation at Gloucester Cathedral - Re-enactment 10th September 2016. (See more photographs on pages 8 and 9) Photo by: Chris Smith 2 31 Sat 5 9.00am Pudsey Teddy Bear Parachuting. Bring your teddy CONTENTS bears to parachute along a zip wire high in the Nave and raise lots of money for Children in Need. (See page 28). Page 10.00am Weekend Latin Course - Women in the Aeneid. “Give me a glint” Canon Dr. Sandra Millar 4 3.00pm Gloucester Music Society Concert - Fidelio Trio. Mon 7 5.30pm Inaugural Evensong and Making Up Service for The Eight Hundredth Anniversary the Girl Choristers of Gloucester Cathedral. of Henry III’s Coronation George Marchant 6 Thu 10 9.00am - 4.30pm Jigsaw Fest. Henry III’s Coronation Re-enactment in photographs 8-9 Sat 12 - Sun 13 New Testament Greek Weekend. Alfred Lord Tennyson Maureen Smith 10 Sun 13 3.00pm Annual Service of Remembrance. Gloucestershire gathers to remember those who made The Eucharist 165AD Fannie Storr 11 the ultimate sacrifice. To Autumn William Blake 12 Mon 14 - Fri 18 Tower lit purple for Pancreatic Cancer awareness. Mon 14 - Sun 20 Big Heart Art Exhibition. ‘Speak to us of Children’ Kahil Gibran 14 Sat 19 11.00am Coffee Concert - Ruscombe Duo - Geoffrey Poole, ‘Thank You’ - from Josh Saunders and Alex Stefanyszyn 15 Violin and Ben Dry, Piano. Saving Daylight Maureen Smith 16 7.00pm Gloucester Choral Society - Missa Solemnis. Sun 20 3.00pm Evensong for Road Peace. Around the Community 17 5.00pm Switch on of the City’s Christmas Lights. Cathedral Newcomers - September 2016 18-19 Wed 23 7.30pm Cathedral Conversations - Canon Andrew Braddock - By Law Established? Historical Perspectives on Obituary - Alan Norton Pascal Mychalysin 20 the Future of the Church. The Head Steward’s Badge Chris Stretton 22 Thu 24 12.30pm Lunchtime Organ Recital by Peter Dyke, Assistant Director of Music, Hereford. Gloucester Cathedral News its Future and Format 23 Sat 26 3.00pm Gloucester Music Society Concert - Bedriska Trio. The White Ensign Richard Cann 24 Sun 27 6.00pm Advent Carol Service by Candlelight. Jottings from the West End Humph ’n Harry 26 Diary of special services and events 29 Please consider a voluntary donation of £1 to help cover the cost of this magazine 30 3 October special services and events: Sat 1 3.00pm Primrose Piano Quartet - Gloucester Music Society Concert. Sun 2 3.00pm County Harvest Thanksgiving Service. All are welcome to give thanks for the gift of God's creations. This service replaces Choral Evensong. Sat 8 11am, 12noon, 2pm and 3pm Cathedral Library Tours. Wed 12 7.30pm Cathedral Conversations - Dame Janet Trotter - The Church in Contemporary Society. (See page 5) “Give me a glint” Thu 13 12.30pm Organ Recital performed by Molly Patrick Buttars There should be a greeting for this time of year really. It is such a time of (Oundle Award Winner). change and new beginnings – holidays are over, Christmas starts to edge Admission free with retiring collection in aid of Cathedral Music. into view, and Autumn glories are everywhere around with colour and fruit and seed. The cycle of death and life continues as the seasons turn Sat 15 11.00am Coffee Concert - Claire Deniz, Cello. Tickets £6, to reminding us that the cycle of life also goes on – we mourn those we love include refreshments, available on the door. All but see no longer, we celebrate new life and we make new commitments proceeds go towards the work of the Cathedral Choir. to each other. 7.00pm Police Orchestra and Military Wives Concert - In aid of the Three Choirs Festival. (See page 7). My work for the national Church of England is all about the cycle of life, those key moments when we mark the transition points of birth, marriage, Sat 22 7,30pm An Evening with Jane Austen. (See page 19). death otherwise known as christenings, weddings and funerals or hatch, Sat 22 - Sun 23 Greek Literature weekend. match and dispatch. These key moments bring around half a million people every week into churches and the people who come bring big feelings and Mon 24 - Sun 13 Nov Tower lit red in support of the 2016 Poppy Appeal. big thoughts. My work is helping to think about how we respond to people Mon 24 - Sat 29 10.30am - 3.30pm - Coronation Crafts - Free Half-Term at these times, whether through answering questions at the door or in the Family Fun. (See page 25). prayer spaces of our Cathedral, so important for memory and reflection. Wed 26 and Thu 27 6.15, 7pm and 7.45pm - Pottering Around the It’s tempting to offer people everything we think they ought to know about Cathedral. (See page 26). church and faith when they make that tentative approach to ask for help in marking one of these key moments. We want to share with them all that Fri 28 7.00pm Henry III talk by Professor Richard Rastall. we have come to appreciate ourselves, whether it is in the way we worship Sat 29 7.00pm St Cecilia Singers Concert - ‘Crowning Glories’. or the things we believe.. November looking ahead… Don’t give me the whole truth, Don’t give the sea for my thirst, Wed 2 5.30pm Requiem Eucharist—Duruflé - Service to remember Don’t give me the sky when I ask for a light, those who have died in the last year. But give me a glint, a dewy wisp, a mote As the birds bear water-drops from their bathing Fri 4 7.30pm Let’s Talk: Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis - Professor And the wind a grain of salt. Nicholas Marston, Vice-Provost, Praelector and Olav Hauge Director of Studies in Music - Kings College, Cambridge. (See page 28). 4 29 I found this poem (in The Splash of Words by Mark Oakley) while I was on Let’s Talk: Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis holiday, a time when I could catch glimpses myself of the mystery and Friday 4 November, 7.30pm wonder of God. There was time to be astonished by creation on the coast and on the moors, to value creativity in local galleries and shops; time to The Parliament Room, Gloucester Cathedral see grace in hospitality, whether in homes or hotels and time to reflect on Professor Nicholas Marston, Vice- Provost, Praelector and Director connectedness with family and in the midst of discovered towns and of Studies in Music – Kings College, Cambridge villages.