SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity

An inclusive Christian community Sunday 12 August 2018 growing in orthodox faith and radical love

Welcome to Southwark Cathedral. Children and young people during the We are a community that seeks to enfold 11.00am Eucharist: all people in the love of God. If you wish to Accompanied under-4s: Crèche with play mats, speak to a priest after the service, if you wish toys, songs and stories in the Education Centre. to find a corner to pray, if you wish simply to JuniorXpress 1 and 2 and YouthXpress are on find some peace, please feel free and welcome their summer break. to do so.

Communicant members of all denominations Following the Choral Eucharist tea and are welcome to receive Communion at this coffee are served. service; please come forward as directed by the Stewards. If you do not wish to receive Communion but would like a blessing, please bring the service booklet with you.

Participation. If you have been a regular at the Cathedral for six months or more, please ensure that your name is added to the Cathedral Electoral Roll – ask Stewards E Newsletter for details or email cathedral@southwark. Southwark Cathedral would love to keep you anglican.org posted with Cathedral news, services and Giving: Regular worshippers are asked to events as well as contacting you occasionally join the Planned Giving Scheme by setting to participate in audience research to help up a bankers order. This greatly helps the inform our activities. Cathedral with financial planning. A blue form Your details will only be used by Southwark is available from the Stewards. Cathedral and you can unsubscribe at any time. Your personal information will be Visitors are asked to use the yellow envelope properly safeguarded and processed in for their offering towards the work and accordance with the requirements of privacy worship of the Cathedral. If you are a UK and data protection legislation. taxpayer, please complete the details on the envelope to enable us to claim back the tax as Please visit southwarkcathedral.anglican.org Gift Aid. (Cheques to Southwark Cathedral.) to sign up. Listen up! Sermons delivered in the Cathedral are available as text from southwarkcathedral.org.uk/worship- and-music/worship/sermons/, together with a pdf of this weekly sheet. They can also be downloaded from iTunes by searching for Southwark Cathedral Sermons.

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A Safe Church Any issues relating to the safeguarding of children or vulnerable adults should be directed to the Cathedral Safeguarding Officers: Matthew Knight [email protected] 020 7367 6726 Cherry James [email protected] Jill Tilley [email protected] Concerns can be brought to any member of the clergy. Today’s Services

8.30am Morning Prayer – Southwark Cathedral Officiant The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn, Dean Readings Psalm 90; Song of Solomon 8. 5–7; 2 Peter 3. 8–13

9.00am Eucharist – Southwark Cathedral Preacher The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn, Dean Readings 1 Kings 19. 4–8; Ephesians 4. 25 – 5. 2; John 6. 35, 41–51

9.30am Eucharist – St Hugh’s Preacher Iris Tomlins, Reader

11.00am Choral Eucharist – Southwark Cathedral President The Reverend Rachel Young, Succentor Preacher The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn, Dean Setting in F ∙ Herbert Sumsion

Stand Entrance Hymn NEH 238

New every morning is the love Our wakening and uprising prove; Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life, and power, and thought.

New mercies, each returning day, Hover around us while we pray; New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven.

If on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice.

3 The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask, Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us daily nearer God.

Only, O Lord, in thy dear love Fit us for perfect rest above; And help us this and every day To live more nearly as we pray.

John Keble

Sit First Reading 1 Kings 19. 4–8

Read by Kabby Streater.

A reading from the first book of Kings

Elijah went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: ‘It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.’ Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, ‘Get up and eat.’ He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again. The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, ‘Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.’ He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food for forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.

This is the word of the Lord All Thanks be to God.

4 Responsorial Psalm Psalm 34. 1–8

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I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall ever be in my mouth. My soul shall glory in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad. R

O magnify the Lord with me; let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. R

Look upon him and be radiant and your faces shall not be ashamed. This poor soul cried and the Lord heard me and saved me from all my troubles. R

The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him and delivers them. O taste and see that the Lord is gracious; blessed is the one who trusts in him. R

5 Second Reading Ephesians 4. 25 – 5. 2

Read by Lorna Holder.

A reading from the letter of Paul to the Ephesians.

Putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbours, for we are members of one another. Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not make room for the devil. Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labour and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

This is the word of the Lord All Thanks be to God.

Stand Gospel Acclamation

Gospel Sentence

Do not work for the food which perishes, but for food that endures for eternal life.

6 Gospel John 6. 35, 41–51

Jesus said to the crowd, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, ‘I am the bread that came down from heaven.’ They were saying, ‘Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, “I have come down from heaven”?’ Jesus answered them, ‘Do not complain among yourselves. No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me; and I will raise that person up on the last day. It is written in the prophets, “And they shall all be taught by God.” Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.’

Sit Sermon The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn, Dean

Chorale Prelude

Sit Intercessions

Led by Sue Feakin.

Offertory Anthem If ye love me ∙ Thomas Tallis

7 Stand Offertory Hymn CP 305 (tune NEH 385 St. Botolph)

I come with joy, a child of God, forgiven, loved, and free, the life of Jesus to recall, in love laid down for me.

I come with Christians far and near to find, as all are fed, the new community of love in Christ’s communion bread.

As Christ breaks bread and bids us share, each proud division ends. The love that made us makes us one, and strangers now are friends.

The spirit of the risen Christ, unseen, but ever near, is in such friendship better known: alive among us here.

Together met, together bound, by all that God has done, we’ll go with joy, to give the world, the love that makes us one.

Brian Wren

Stand Eucharistic Prayer Prayer B

Communion Anthem Listen, sweet dove · Grayston Ives

8 Stand Final Hymn CP 514 (tune NEH 103 Lux Eoi)

Lord, thy church on earth is seeking thy renewal from above; teach us all the art of speaking with the accent of thy love. We would heed thy great commission; ‘Go now into every place – preach, baptize, fulfill my mission, serve with love and share my grace’.

Freedom give to those in bondage, lift the burdens caused by sin. Give new hope, new strength and courage, grant release from fears within. Light for darkness; joy for sorrow; love for hatred; peace for strife: these and countless blessings follow as the Spirit gives new life.

In the streets of every city where the bruised and lonely dwell, let us show the Saviour’s pity, let us of his mercy tell; to all lands and peoples bringing all the richness of thy word, till the world, thy praises singing, hails thee Christ, Redeemer, Lord.

Hugh Sherlock

9 3.00pm Choral Evensong – Southwark Cathedral Readings Job 39. 1 – 40. 4; Hebrews 12. 1–17 Setting in D ∙ George Dyson Responses Philip Radcliffe Psalm 91. 1–12 Anthem Like as the hart ∙ Herbert Howells Hymns CP 466; NEH 225 Preacher Caroline Clifford, Reader

Hymn CP 466

1 How shall I sing that majesty 3 Enlighten with faith’s light my heart, which angels do admire? inflame it with love’s fire; Let dust in dust and silence lie; then shall I sing and bear a part sing, sing, ye heavenly choir. with that celestial choir. Thousands of thousands stand around They sing, because thou art their sun; thy throne, O God most high; Lord, send a beam on me; ten thousand times ten thousand sound for where heaven is but once begun, thy praise; but who am I? there alleluias be.

2 Thy brightness unto them appears, 4 How great a being, Lord, is thine, while I thy footsteps trace; which doth all beings keep! a sound of God comes to my ears, Thy knowledge is the only line but they behold thy face: to sound so vast a deep: I shall, I fear, be dark and cold, thou art a sea without a shore, with all my fire and light; a sun without a sphere; yet when thou dost accept their gold, thy time is now and evermore, Lord, treasure up my mite. thy place is everywhere.

John Mason

6.00pm Service of Light (Taizé Prayer) – Southwark Cathedral See separate booklet.

10 Prayers

All those for whom prayers have been asked this week:

Frances Goodchild, Dinah Kormi, Clergy preaching away Ruth MacKenzie, Brian Kendall, The Sub Dean at Christ Church Jacqueline Webb, Linda Scott Garnet, Blackfriars River Williams, Ruth Maryman, Naomi Caplin, Gilly Myers, Kes Grant, Mission allocation partners for August Minal Modi, Art Barron, Beryl Charlton, 3 Enlighten with faith’s light my heart, Link Age Southwark: A request from Lena Renwick, Benjamin Modu, inflame it with love’s fire; a trustee and personal befriender for this Jonathan Coore, Sarah Rawlins, then shall I sing and bear a part local support group for the elderly. Joan Lawrence, Elisabeth Dunman, with that celestial choir. Robert Pyne, John Noble, Nathan Clegg, Hospice Africa Uganda: Hospice Africa They sing, because thou art their sun; Jennifer Barter, Phyllis Still, Nigel Skayman, works to relieve physical, psychological, Lord, send a beam on me; Brandon Hawkins, Sally Hollowell, emotional and spiritual suffering of those for where heaven is but once begun, Jean Terrieux, Mary Cooper, Jay Colwill, with cancer and patients with HIV. there alleluias be. Angie Brown, Sally Silver, Marion Marples, More information: southwarkcathedral. Alison Morgan, Naomi Shaw, 4 How great a being, Lord, is thine, org.uk/community/Mission-allocation Brooke Gregory, Frances Livesey, which doth all beings keep! Gwen and Herbert Peck. Thy knowledge is the only line to sound so vast a deep: The Departed thou art a sea without a shore, Rob O’Connell, Isobel Hankin, a sun without a sphere; Eileen Payne, Christopher Timms. thy time is now and evermore, thy place is everywhere. It is with great sadness that we heard of the death of Rob O’Connell three weeks ago. Rob was a very talented and much loved and respected lay clerk in our choir and will be greatly missed by everyone in the Cathedral community. It was wonderful to have Rob back with us to sing for the final Sunday of the choir year in July. May he rest in the peace of Christ. Please If you are ill or in hospital remember Rob and Debbi in your thoughts Please do let us know so that the and prayers. Cathedral community can pray for you Rob’s funeral will take place at the and we can be in touch. Please contact Cathedral on 16 August at 2.00pm. the Sub Dean, michael.rawson@ southwark.anglican.org

11 Today This Week’s Services

Welcome to the Choir of Monday to Friday Holy Trinity, Guildford 8.00am Morning Prayer who are singing today’s Choral Eucharist 8.15am Eucharist and Evensong. 12.30pm Midday Prayer 12.45pm Eucharist Contactless Donation 4.00pm Evening Prayer We are now able to receive your offering using a debit or credit card, Apple or Android Pay. Saturday 18 August 9am Morning Prayer If you would like to use this please see 9.15am Eucharist a Cathedral Warden, Matthew or Daniel, 4.00pm Evening Prayer near the doors to the link after the service. They have a sign saying ‘Contactless Offering’. Sunday 19 August The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity 8.30am Morning Prayer 9.00am Eucharist Preacher: The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn, Dean 9.30am Eucharist at St Hugh’s 11.00am Choral Eucharist Preacher: The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn, Dean 3pm Choral Evensong Preacher: The Reverend Rachel Young, Succentor 6.00pm Service of Wholeness and Healing

Summer Offices at Southwark Cathedral Please note that for the summer months all weekday evening offices take place at 4.00pm until Friday 31 August inclusive.

12 Things to do this week

Exhibitions

Fire 1212 – Ceramics by Alison Cooke Archetypes and Archives: A vision of Lancelot’s Link Britain as seen through the lens of Information Office The Great Fire of Southwark burned for Churchyard ten days in July 1212. Many people died on London Bridge as the inferno crossed the Features images drawn from a collection River Thames to the City of London, having of around 9000 B&W photographic razed the Priory of St. Mary Overie on the negatives from Church of England Record present day site of Southwark Cathedral. Centre collections uncovered in 2013 Two days after the fire was extinguished, Taken between 1960 and 1967 by W.R. the first Mayor of the City of London, Hawes, the Church of England’s Information Henry Fitz Ailwin, decreed that all Office’s official photographer, it was thatched roofs of London must be envisaged that these images of relevant, plastered or pulled down and new often symbolic, views of everyday life would builds use non-flammable clay tiles. be used to create a picture library representing the Church’s activities, These ceramic artworks by artist actions and teachings. Alison Cooke commemorate Southwark’s forgotten disaster. The pieces are made Sometimes funny, often thought of London clay dug from the same provoking and always of interest, the images Thames-side seam that was excavated for as a whole provide a snapshot of life in the new roof tiles demanded by Mayor Britain during the 1960s, a time of major Ailwin in 1212. change and upheaval. Like the London of that year, the clay Southwark Cathedral is delighted that has been burned in a fire fuelled by wood ‘Archetypes and Archives’ will be on display and straw. in the Cathedral Churchyard between 1 July and 1 September 2018.

13 Things to do this week

Summer in the Courtyard Thursday 18 August We’ve given the Millenium Courtyard a 1–2.30pm mini make-over so that you can relax, chat Dickens In Southwark Walk and soak up the sunshine in The Refectory Explore Charles Dickens’ early history café while enjoying some al fresco dining in Southwark. this summer. Tickets: £10, from Try out our new sensational summer dickens181.eventbrite.co.uk cocktails, smoothies and coolers served from our latest addition: Violet, our Citroën van bar. Look forward to lunch-time and evening BBQs with a delicious range of burgers, sausages, glazed meats and delicious, fresh seasonal salads and lots of tasty extras, too. The Millennium Courtyard is located on the riverside of Southwark Cathedral. Group bookings: 0797 9744 737

Tuesday 14 August 3.15pm Music Recital by Danielle Salamon.

Wednesday 15 August 7–9pm Candlelit Photography Evening Photograph the Cathedral by candlelight. All levels of photographers are welcome. Tickets: £8, from womenstory1.eventbrite.co.uk

14 Future Events and Services

Monday 20 August Thursday 23 August 12.45pm 6–9pm Marchioness Memorial Inclusive Drinks Those who died in the Marchioness In August, Inclusive Drinks will have the disaster in 1989 will be remembered at the pleasure of welcoming Irish peace leader, lunchtime Eucharist. LGBTQI activist, theologian and poet, Pádraig Ó Tuama, who will be reading Tuesday 21 August some of his poetry before appearing at 3.15pm the Christian Arts Festival, Greenbelt. Music Recital The event is run by Matthew Hall, and by Julia Sinani (piano) and you can reserve tickets using the link Anna Ovsyanikova (violin). inclusivedrinkspoetry.eventbrite.com.

Thursday 23 August Tuesday 28 August 1.45–3.00pm 3.15pm Family Activity – The Dean’s Tour Music Recital of Southwark Cathedral by The Buck Brass Trio. Join The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn, Dean of Southwark, for this family friendly Wednesday 29 August tour around Southwark Cathedral. 7–8.30pm Evening Guided Tour Cathedrals are really exciting places – of Southwark Cathedral lots of horrible history, lots of real stories, Explore the 900 years of religious life lots of things to see and touch that connect in this one hour tour. us with the history of the building and the Tickets: £8, from faith in Jesus that has been practised at cathedraltour29august.eventbrite.co.uk Southwark for over 1400 years. The Dean, Andrew Nunn, loves the Friday 31 August building and the area it sits in and wants 7–8.30pm to share this with you. The River Thames – Myths and Legends This tour is designed for children and any Storyteller and musician George Hoyle adults they bring with them. The minimum will uncover the myths and legends age is 6 and adults will be asked to look associated with the River Thames. after their own children with a maximum Tickets: £5, from riverthamesmyths. of four children per adult. eventbrite.co.uk Tickets: Free for children, £5 per adult, from southwarkkidstour.eventbrite.co.uk

15 Future Events and Services

Monday 3 September Sunday 9 September 1.10pm 11.0 0 am Organ Recital Patronal Festival: The Blessed by Daniel Cook, Durham Cathedral. Virgin Mary Eucharist celebrating the birth Tuesday 4 September of our patron saint with the Admission and 3.15pm Re-dedication of Stewards. Music Recital by Andrew Harsley, cello student at the 6pm Royal College of Music. Service of Light with Liturgy and Songs from the Iona Community 7–8.30pm A quiet service of words and music to The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia end the day. The Reverend Dr John Binns explains the history of the Church in Ethiopia. Saturday 8 September Tickets: Free, from 11–12pm churchofethiopia.eventbrite.co.uk Women of Southwark – The Untold Story Tour Thursday 6 September This tour reveals the influence of 7–9.30pm women on Southwark Cathedral and History Showoff the surrounding area. Comedy cabaret event all about the past, Tickets: £8, from womenstory2. where a cast of historians, archaeologists, eventbrite.co.uk museum folk and comedians try to make sense of the olden days. Sunday 9 September Tickets: £7, from historyshowoffsep. 1.00–3.00pm eventbrite.co.uk Nicky Nicholls Book Signing Our good friend Nicky Nicholls along Saturday 8 September with co-author Elizabeth Sheppard will be 11am signing copies of her autobiography Friends’ Talk: Between the Covers Not a Proper Child in the Education Centre. Talk by Guy Rowston about the Nicky was horrifically abused throughout Cathedral’s collection of antique books. her childhood and was homeless for over Tickets: £11.50 to include light lunch. 30 years before finding salvation and comfort through art, therapy and friendship. Nicky has remarkably raised thousands of pounds for charities over the last few years including the Robes Project, so please take

16 this opportunity to say hello to her, Saturday 15 September purchase a copy of her book and wish her 4.00pm well on this new adventure as she continues Choral Evensong and 150th her recovery. Anniversary of the Norwegian Copies of Not a Proper Child will Church in London be available to purchase from the First started as a seafaring chaplaincy Cathedral Shop. based in Rotherhithe, the Norwegian Light refreshments will be available Church has been present in London since courtesy of The Friends of Southwark 1868. We are celebrating these 150 years Cathedral and Robes Project. with the Bishop of Bergen, the Bishop of Southwark and the Revd Torbjørn Holt, Monday 10 September Rector and Senior Chaplain of the 1.10pm Norwegian Church. Organ Recital More information: sjomannskirken.no/ by Peter Wright, Director london of Music, Southwark Cathedral. Sunday 9 September Thursday 13 September 12.30pm 7–8.30pm Masvingo Link Visitors Female Tommies: Frontline Women We hope that you already have this of the First World War Sunday in your diaries as a time to meet Join Elizabeth Shipton as she looks at the with our visitors Mrs Miriam Vela, military role of women during the First Friar Fungayi Nyandoro, and Father world War. Mischeck Mbodza, over coffee and cake, Tickets: Free, from femaletommies. to find out how things are under the new eventbrite.co.uk regime and how best we can continue to support them in their work. Friday 15 September Our visitors arrive early on Thursday 10–4.30pm 7 September and leave in the evening on Stories of London: The River Thames the 10 September. They will have a varied As part of the Totally Thames Festival programme visiting St Saviours’s and join us for this day of talks on the River St Olave’s and the Cathedral Schools, going Thames. to Lambeth Palace, visiting a homeless Tickets: £12.50, from thamesstories. project and a food bank, meeting staff in the eventbrite.co.uk Diocesan Office and doing some sightseeing. It will be an exciting opportunity for them to learn about us and for us to learn more about them. Please pray for them as they

17 prepare for this trip and pray for the Link Thursday 27 September Group here in the Cathedral which is 11.00am, to be seated by 10.45am organising the visit. Do come and support The Consecration of the Venerable the Link on September 9 and bring some as money to donate for the MU cakes as the by the Archbishop of York money raised will go to the MU in Masvingo. Following the appointment of the Right We will publish more information about Reverend Sarah Mullally as Bishop of the people and timetable in the next couple London, who had previously been Bishop of weeks and suggest ways in which you can of Crediton, the Venerable Jackie Searle, become involved in this important Link for currently , will the Cathedral. be consecrated a bishop in Southwark More information: Canon Wendy Robins, Cathedral. This will be the first ordination [email protected], or of a woman as bishop to take place in any member of the Link Group. Southwark and tickets are available so that you can join in that historic occasion. Jackie Tuesday 11 September will be presented by both the Bishop of 3.15pm Gloucester, the Right Reverend Music Recital Rachel Trweek and the Bishop of Exeter, by Maya Irgalina, piano student at the Right Reverend Robert Atwell. Guildhall School of Music. Tickets: Free, from searleconsecration. eventbrite.co.uk Monday 17 September 1.10pm 2–5 May 2019 Organ Recital Visit to Assisi by Daniel Phillips, KCS, Wimbledon. The Friends will be taking a trip to Assisi in May next year. If you would like to receive information about the trip please email Kate on kate.dean@southwark. anglican.org Canon Michael Rawson will be accompanying us on the trip.

18 General Notices

Growing in Faith and Life Waterloo Foodbank: We support the The Bishop’s Certificate in Foodbank by running a session on Monday Discipleship morning 9.30 to 11.30 at St George the Beginning in September 2018 and based Martyr and collect food donations in the around the Diocese, including at Trinity cathedral shop. Cash donations are also House on Borough High Street, this one useful to allow us to buy more supplies. year’s course is an excellent way of learning A few more volunteers will be needed in more about the Christian faith and journey. September. Peter Graystone, Assistant Director of The Foodbank currently has very low Discipleship and Ministry says: ‘The ten stocks and is asking especially for tinned month course helps people learn about the meat, tinned fruit, cereal, fruit juice, biscuits Bible, doctrine and mission. And later on it and coffee. becomes practical in nurturing people’s You can donate via the Cathedral Shop, spirituality and life of prayer. It’s the ideal at St George the Martyr on Monday first step for people who are considering 9.30–11.30 and Thursday 2–4pm, or the a call to be a Reader or SPA, or on a Oasis Centre, SE1 7QP, Mon–Fri, vocational journey that might result in 8am–6pm. Cash donations also welcome. ordination. But I’d recommend it to any Thank you. Christian who wants to understand why they believe what they believe.‘ Syrian Refugee Initiative: Oasis church has More about the course can be found in pioneered a scheme to buy a house and the leaflets at the back of the cathedral. refurbish it to provide a home for a vulnerable family being rehoused by the Data Protection Home Office. The next need is for Arabic For details about how we look after and speakers and people able to support the use your personal data please visit family as they learn about a new life in cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/cookies- Lambeth, with schools, GPs etc. and-general-privacy-notice/ or contact the Data Controller, Matthew Knight, on Eco Church: Southwark cathedral is [email protected] joining many other local churches in the or telephone 020 7367 6726. Eco Church project to care for God’s creation through the way we live and work South Bank Churches together. We are working towards a silver The cathedral belongs to this award at present. mission focussed ecumenical group of local churches. More Details: See southbankchurches.org or contact [email protected]

19 The Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie Southwark

In 606 a Convent was established on the south bank of the River Thames at the place from which the ferry used to cross over to the City of London. In 1106 an Augustinian Priory was established. From here they ministered to pilgrims and travellers, and to the sick and the needy of the area and the Word of God was faithfully preached and the sacraments celebrated. As part of their ministry, the Hospital of St Thomas was established (now located opposite the Houses of Parliament).

Following the Reformation, the Priory Church became a Parish Church. In many ways the building was sadly neglected but the gospel continued to be faithfully preached and the people of the parish cared for and taught. A parish school – now Cathedral School – was opened in 1704 following in the work already established in schools founded from the parish under a charter from Queen Elizabeth I.

The life, diversity and character of the area are revealed in the tombs and monuments within the church. Among them is that of John Gower (c. 1330-1408), poet and friend of Chaucer, whose Canterbury Tales begin in Southwark. Across the nave is a memorial to William Shakespeare, who spent much of his life in Southwark, and above it, a stained glass window depicting scenes from his plays. Edmund Shakespeare, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger are all buried in the Cathedral. Lancelot Andrewes, who translated the first five books of the Bible into English, is buried by the High Altar. He is a founding father of the Church of England. In the grounds is buried Mahomet, Chief of the Mohegan Tribe from New England and a memorial to him can be found in the churchyard.

Today in old and new buildings, this Cathedral continues to serve the people of its parish and the people of the diocese, to be a centre of teaching, of worship, prayer and pilgrimage; a place of inclusive welcome for all people. This continues to be a place of major regeneration and change as Bankside has once again become a residential area, a playground for London and a place where the arts are celebrated, as well as a growing centre for political, financial and legal decision making. Southwark Cathedral is the constant factor in an ever changing and exciting community in which we continue to proclaim a gospel of radical engagement with God and the world.

We therefore welcome you to this holy place which is both ancient and modern. Together we continue to serve the people of this area - those who are passing through, crossing the river, making a new home, coming to work or simply here to enjoy themselves – and the people who live here, in much the same way as our forebears did and with all those who have gone before us we do it all from a place of praise and worship of Almighty God.

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