BULLETIN for the week beginning 18 November 2012 THE SECOND SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT Pray for: The Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain (E-P to the Archbishop of Canterbury) Bishop: Carlos Lopez-Lozano Diocese: Pray for Sri Lanka and that a real working together between different faiths there may encourage community development. For those being confirmed at Ainderby Steeple.
9.15 am HOLY COMMUNION Leeds Minster 10.30 am CHORAL EUCHARIST Leeds Minster Preacher: The Rector of Leeds 10.30 am CAFÉ EUCHARIST St Mary’s at including drama St Peter’s School from St Peter’s School Prayer Group Cromwell Street LS9 7SG and a choice of contemplative prayer, craft or discussion 3.00 pm OAKLEAF SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE Leeds Minster 6.30 pm CHORAL EVENSONG [Men’s Voices] Leeds Minster Preacher: Canon Ann Nicholl
Church of England – Diocese of Ripon and Leeds – Parish of Leeds City Rector of Leeds: The Reverend Canon Tony Bundock [0113] 278 6237 [home] Precentor: The Reverend Sue Wallace [0113] 278 9339 [home] Pioneer Ministry Curate: The Reverend Hannah Smith [0113] 414 2178 [home] Lay Minister: Canon Ann Nicholl [0113] 245 2036 [office], [0113] 269 4045 [home]
Leeds Minster (St Peter at Leeds), Kirkgate, LS2 7DJ Parish Office: [0113] 245 2036
Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, LS1 5HW Church Office: [0113] 245 4268 ~ Café at Holy Trinity: [0113] 246 8196
St Mary’s Church, Lincoln Green, LS9 7SG ~ Church Office: [0113] 240 7349
St Peter’s Church of England (Aided) Primary School, Cromwell Street, LS9 7SG Headteacher: Mrs. Elizabeth Holliday [0113] 293 4411 Chaplain: Canon Ann Nicholl [see above]
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Monday, 19 Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Mechtild, Béguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, 1280 • Kaduna (Nigeria) – Bishop: Josiah Idowu-Fearon • Kafanchan (Abuja, Nigeria) – Bishop: William Diya • Chaplain for Readers (Wensley): Jonathan Oldfield 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Minster 1.05 pm Lunchtime Organ Music – Simon Lindley Leeds Town Hall 5.30 pm Choral Evensong [Boys’ Voices] Leeds Minster
Tuesday, 20 Edmund, King of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876 • Kajiado (Kenya) – Bishop: Jeremiah Taama • Diocesan Rural Officer: Andy Ryland 8.50 am Prayers St Peter’s School 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Minster 10.00 am Coffee Morning Lincoln Green Centre 1.05 pm Holy Communion Holy Trinity
Wednesday, 21 • Kansas (VII, The Episcopal Church) – Bishop: Dean Wolfe • All Chaplains to the Police 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Minster 5.30 pm Choral Evensong [Full Choir] Leeds Minster 6.00 pm Vestry Hour Leeds Minster
Thursday, 22 Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 • Kanyakumari (South India) – Bishop: Gnanasigamony Devakadasham • Director of Mission Resourcing: Adrian Alker 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Minster 1.05 pm Holy Communion [BCP] Leeds Minster 7.00 pm Choral Concert – Leeds College of Music The Venue Edward German – Merrie England – a rare concert performance with David Houlder at the piano and soloists from St Peter’s Singers &c
Friday, 23 Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100 • Kano (Kaduna, Nigeria) – Bishop: Zakka Nyam • Mission Resourcing Team 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Minster 12.00 noon Midday Prayers Leeds Minster 12.30 pm Lunchtime Organ Music – Alexander Binns Leeds Minster 1.05 pm Holy Communion Holy Trinity 7.00 pm Choral Evensong [Full Choir] Leeds Minster Saturday, 24 • Karachi (Pakistan) – Bishop: Siddiq Daniel • Assistant Bishops: David Jenkins, Clive Handford, Colin Buchanan 11.00 am Pre Christmas Fair Leeds Minster 11.45 am Morning Worship [Girls’ Voices] Leeds Minster 7.00 pm Bach: Christmas Oratorio Halifax Minster
The Souvenir Booklets giving all details of this month’s Lunchtime Organ Music programmes are now available from the Minster. Next Sunday, 25 November – CHRIST THE KING 9.15 am Holy Communion Leeds Minster 10.30 am Choral Eucharist [Full Choir] Leeds Minster Preacher: Canon Ann Nicholl 10.30 am Morning Worship St Mary’s Preacher: Kay Brown 6.30 pm Choral Evensong [Men’s Voices] Leeds Minster Preacher: The Reverend Sue Wallace, Precentor
WORSHIP AND PUBLICITY SURVEY: Consequent to our discussions with Why Digital Media concerning promoting the work of Leeds Minster, worshippers at our 9.15 service are being asked to complete a short survey form on worship and publicity. Forms will be available on the three Sundays commencing today, Sunday 18 November, and we ask for them to be completed and returned by mid-December, using the box provided. FROM COPTIC TO CELTIC: Copies of the Rector’s study leave booklet From Coptic to Celtic: Celtic Spirituality and the Desert Heart are available for a donation of £5 to cover the cost of printing.
CAROLS FOR A CHORAL FUTURE: Tickets for Carols for a Choral Future are now available from the Minster and from the City Centre Box Office, Carriageworks Theatre – 0113 224 3801. The Minster Choir is eagerly seeking a sponsor for this year’s concert. Do, please, see Dr Lindley if you would like to be involved. We also welcome business and professionals who would take advertising space in the printed programme. Again, Dr Lindley will be happy to provide details. 0113 255 6143 (home); 0113 245 4012 (choir vestry). PRE CHRISTMAS FAIR: in the Minster on Saturday 24 November from 11.00 am to 4.00 pm in support of Minster Funds. Full details from Shirley Parker. Your support will be warmly welcomed at this important fund-raising event. PLEASE PRAY FOR: MEMBERS OF OUR CHURCH COMMUNITY in residential care Christine Caines, Maureen Coles, Ted Marks, Peter Milner, Veronica Rutkowska, Sylvia Wilkinson, Susan Williams
THOSE WHO ASK OUR PRAYERS Albert Andrews, Rose Beck, Christopher Brayne [Organist of Kendal Parish Church] David Bywater, Sonia Bywater, Keith Christmas [CO of Lawnswood Air Training Cadets], John Cooper, Bridget Durkin, John Edmonds, David and Sonia Evans, Francesca Eyre, Logan Firth, Ivy Frampton, John Hardaker, Pauline Holladay, Kathleen Holway, Janet Jackson, Peter Jackson, Joanne Lebor, Karen MacDonald, Anne Matthias, Marjorie Milner, John Oliver [priest], Laverne Paraskos, Gordon Rees, Jack Robins, Cathryn Robinson, Malcolm Roughton, Iris Rutkowska, John Sheldrake, Althea Shevill, Barbara Siggins, Mavis Simpson, Denis Stenning, Erik Thornton, Mavis Thompson, Patricia Wagstaff, Hazel Ward, Ken Ward, [ex City of Leeds School], Geoff Wheat, Mavis Whitehead
YEAR’S MIND Roland Purdy [19 November 2000], Joan Tattersall [20 November 1990], Lucy Cooper [23 November 1974], Mahala Joan Jones [23 November 1993], Sylvia Theede [24 November 1988]
FOCUS ON: SEASONAL MUSIC FOR ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS or “Sleepers, wake” and all that jazz!
Special music for the upcoming seasons of Advent and Christmas takes many forms, chief among them being seasonal song – hymns, psalms and carols – and choir music too from all traditions. The Minster Choir will present a widely diverse group of special choral items to assist the worship of the coming weeks and work is already well underway on the preparation this music, of course.
Some of the earliest “purpose-built” hymns in English feature strongly in Advent – such as Wesley’s Lo! He comes with clouds descending and Come, thou long-expected Jesus along with Philip Doddridge’s stirring stanzas beginning Hark! the glad sound, the Saviour comes . These noble eighteenth-century texts vie for our attention and affection alongside others translated from Latin originals and early office hymns such as Creator of the stars of night. Maybe the most spectacular is the versification of all seven Advent Antiphons (the so-called “Great Os”) by John Mason Neale that encapsulates the essence of Advent so wonderfully – O come, O come, Emmanuel. Christmas hymnody includes other significant texts from the 18th century – O come, all ye faithful and Hark! the herald angels sing chief among them.
Plainchant and Lutheran chorales are among the musical provisions for many texts. Bach’s incorporation of chorales within his Passiontide and Christmas Oratorios is a notable feature of such works. St Peter’s Singers will give two celebrated baroque works within a week at the end of the current month – Bach’s Christmas Oratorio at Halifax Minster on Saturday 24 November and Messiah at Fulneck Church on Friday 30 November. Quite why Messiah is regarded so universally as a “Christmas” work, when the majority of its texts are for Passiontide and Easter, remains a mystery!
The task of musicians is to ensure that what is offered is reflective and uplifting – an adjunct to worship and wonder. The programme of this year’s Town Hall lunchtime concert by the combined choirs of the Minster and Cathedral here in Leeds on Monday 26 November offers Handel (the vesper psalm Nisi Dominus ), Gounod ( Tu Rex Gloriae, Christe) and Górecki ( Totus tuus sum, Maria ) in an appropriately catholic programme. Your support on this occasion, as at the other pre-Christmas services and events, will be a great encouragement to those of us who make music day by day and week by week.
Simon Lindley