Bulletin for the week beginning 11 January 2015 THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST The First Sunday of Epiphany

9.15 am Holy Communion [1662] – said [BCP page 236] Leeds Minster BCP Collect & Readings for the First Sunday after Epiphany [BCP page 67]

10.30 am Choral Matins Leeds Minster Preacher: Canon Ann Nicholl

10.30 am Holy Communion St Mary’s Celebrant: Canon John Swain Preacher: Kay Brown

12.00 noon Baptism Bookings Leeds Minster

6.30 pm Traditional Epiphanytide Carol Service Leeds Minster The Glory of Christ

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10.30 am Choral Matins A separate service booklet is available 6.30 pm Epiphanytide Carol Service A separate service booklet is available

SPECIAL ADVANCE NOTICE – FRIDAY 23 JANUARY: Burns Night Supper & Ceilidh at Holy Trinity 7.00 pm. Tickets £12 from the Minster or St George’s Crypt. Music and Dancing with the Tom Havoc Band including Canon Tony Bundock. THANK YOU, ONE AND ALL: Grateful thanks go to all our welcomers, church hosts, wardens, readers, stewards, vergers, servers, ringers and musicians for their sterling work over Advent and Christmas – as well as those who gave gifts towards the costs of the Christmas Flowers. This was much appreciated and not by any means taken for granted. CONGRATULATIONS go to former LPC/Minster Chorister, Choral Scholar, Organ Scholar and Lay Clerk Toby Ward for his beautifully sung solo contributions to recent broadcasts from King’s College, Cambridge where he is a tenor choral scholar. Weddings Please call the Parish Office on 0113 245 2036 or email: [email protected] [please use only this email address for this purpose] to book an appointment to make arrangements

Baptisms Please call at the Minster on Sundays at 12.00 noon to make arrangements

This Week at a Glance Monday, 12 Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Minster 1.05 pm Lunchtime Organ Music [Thomas Trotter, organist] Leeds Town Hall 5.30 pm Choral Evensong [Boys’ Voices] Leeds Minster

Tuesday, 13 Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher of the Faith, 367 Kentigern [Mungo], Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde and Cumbria, 603 George Fox, Founder of the Society of Friends (the Quakers), 1691 8.50 am Prayers St Peter’s School 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Minster 1.05 pm Holy Communion Holy Trinity 7.00 pm PCC Meeting Leeds Minster

Wednesday, 14 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Minster 10.00 am Coffee Morning at Lincoln Green Centre Lincoln Green 5.30 pm Choral Evensong [Full Choir] Leeds Minster

Thursday, 15 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Minster 1.05 pm Prayer Book Communion Leeds Minster 5.30 pm Compline [Men’s Voices] Leeds Minster

Friday, 16 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Minster 12.00 noon Midday Prayers Leeds Minster 12.30 pm Organ Recital – Organ Music for Fun II Leeds Minster 1.05 pm Holy Communion Holy Trinity 7.00 pm Choral Evensong [Full Choir] Leeds Minster

Saturday, 17 Antony of Egypt, Hermit, Abbot, 356 Charles Gore, Bishop, Founder, Community of the Resurrection, 1932 11.30 Choral Matins [Girls’ Voices] Leeds Minster

Next Sunday, 18 January - The Second Sunday of Epiphany The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 9.15 am Holy Communion [1662] – said [BCP page 236] Leeds Minster BCP Collect & Readings for the Second Sunday after Epiphany [BCP page 69] 10.30 am Choral Eucharist Leeds Minster Preacher: The Revd Professor Simon Robinson 10.30 am Café Church St Mary’s including Drama from St Peter’s School Prayer Group Craft, Discussion and Prayer within an informal All-Age setting 12.00 noon Baptism Bookings Leeds Minster 6.30 pm Choral Evensong Leeds Minster: Preacher: Canon Ann Nicholl

PLEASE PRAY FOR: MEMBERS OF OUR CHURCH COMMUNITY in residential care: Christine Caines, Dorothy Hayes, Ted Marks, Veronica Rutkowska, Sylvia Wilkinson, Susan Williams

THOSE WHO ASK OUR PRAYERS: Albert Andrews, Jean Bannister, Christopher Browne, David Bywater, Sonia Bywater, Eileen Christmas, Jan Clark, Pam Eden, Ivy Frampton, Ted Garrett, Rita Horliss, Frank Hoyle, Marjorie Milner, Joan Pease, Gordon Rees, Louise Relton, The Reverend Canon Jim Richardson (former Vicar of Leeds), Jack Robins, Cathryn Robinson, Althea Shevill, Mavis Simpson, Peter Simpson, Derick Sheldrake, Jack Transport, Patricia Wagstaff, Doris Webb, Mavis Whitehead, Pam Woodhead YEAR’S MIND: Audrey Rowley [12 January 1991], George Simpson [12 January 1999], Florence Rotimi Rebecca Aghedo [12 January 2001], Jenny Stockdale [12 January 2001], Gladys May Wray [13 January 1996], Mavis Thompson [13 January 2013], Russell Wilkinson [14 January 2004], John Gordon McCandlish [16 January 2001], Richard Scurrah Wainwright [16 January 2003]

FOCUS ON …….. CAROLS AROUND THE YEAR: For generations, the singing of popular Carols during December has enhanced worship services and musical events. This comparatively recent phenomenon was certainly given much impetus by the production of the first popular carol book in 1871 – Christmas Carols New and Old – under the redoubtable editorship of Henry Ramsden Bramley and Sir John Stainer. This tome was followed by many successors in the field, influentially in 1901/1902 by the Cowley Carol Book of G R Woodward and Charles Wood and, perhaps principally, by The Oxford Book of Carols of 1928 issued under the aegis of Percy Dearmer, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Yorkshire-born Martin Shaw. Carols for Choirs volumes that have emerged since 1961 have contributed still further to our heritage. And yet, many of what are sung as Carols at this time of the year are rather more in the nature of Christmas Hymns – such as the 18th century Catholic processional Adeste, fideles and the version of Charles Wesley's Hark how all the welkin rings now known universally as Hark! the herald angels sing as well as Mrs Alexander’s Once in royal David’s city.

Historically, as well as internationally, many carols emerged from traditional dances; by no means all were garbed in sacred language. Just as the secular is never very far removed from the sacred, so are seasons other than the celebration of the Nativity well to the fore in historic terms. Significantly, many carols are sung today in truncated versions of what were originally much more extensive in terms of the number of stanzas and verses utilised. Some Carols began with the Annunciation by Gabriel and extended through Candlemas and Ash Wednesday to Good Friday, Easter and Ascension - Tomorrow shall be my dancing day is a typical such instance, along with the Cherry Tree Carol and Twas on Christmas Day, and all in the morning. Here at Leeds Minster we may claim an important development over half a century ago when one of our Clergy Staff devised with the legendary Dr Donald Hunt what was described as a ‘Summer Carol Service’; the most significant product of this endeavour is still with us in Dr Donald Webster’s original, and gloriously effective, setting of Hilariter – ‘The whole bright world rejoices now’ – a setting written specifically for that prototype event. Speaking for myself, involvement with two of John Rutter’s original carols – Jesus Child and Donkey Carol – composed whilst I was serving at St Albans has been a particular and ongoing pleasure.

Since the days of Canon Foley, Vicar of Leeds, 1971-1982, there have been, increasingly, carol services used here at times other than Christmas. Today our normal tally is five – the Festival of Nine Lessons of course, pre-eminent still, but now partnered by traditional liturgies for use during Advent, Epiphany and Easter recounting the principal elements of each of these seasonal observances. The Eastertide order was devised by the Reverend Richard Tatlock of the BBC and is very widely used. Our Advent and Epiphanytide Services owe much to the Reverend Stephen Jones, once Precentor here, while a precursor of his, the Reverend Frank Baker, is believed to have been the originator of the Summer Carol Service.

Probably everyone has his or her particular favourites, textually as well as musically. I remember well as a small boy a particularly colourful verse in God rest you merry, gentlemen that mentioned the devil: Fear not, then, said the Angel, let nothing you affright, To us is born a Saviour of virtue, power and might, So frequently to vanquish all the friends of Satan quite…… It was always a source of interest to me who the ‘friends of Satan’ might have been….

Many of our carol texts are of Victorian and Edwardian origin, especially evocative being those of the Reverend Dr G R Woodward, consummate musician as well as worthy wordsmith; he left us Ding, dong! merrily on high and This joyful Eastertide among many others. His life, tinged with personal tragedy by the early death of his wife, was mostly devoted to hymnody and sacred music generally and the Archbishop of Canterbury awarded him a doctorate in music. All will have their own personal favourite carol. High up my own list come two short Carols by Benjamin Britten – Corpus Christi Carol and New Year Carol – along with almost anything by Peter Warlock and John Rutter. Many carol arrangements are of historical longevity – Vincent Novello’s quasi- operatic Adeste, fideles and, particularly, Pearsall’s unaccompanied version of In dulci iubilo. Of more contemporary date is the arresting setting by Holst of Personent hodie and, especially, Haldane Campbell Stewart’s On this day earth shall ring (interestingly, an English version of the same text). H C Stewart was a noted Kent County Cricketer as well as a leading musician and Organist of Magdalen College, Oxford. ] Today and this month we’ll be hearing once again the traditional staples of Epiphanytide – O’er the hill and o’er the vale, Kings of Orient, Cornelius’s The Three Kings, and Martin Shaw’s exquisitely simple Kings in Glory to the words of Selwyn Image; each of these feature in our service this Sunday evening along with many of your favourite Epiphany hymns.

Simon Lindley