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July/August 2017 £1.50 Xxxx Dean June's Farewell Peregrine Falcons 'Sharing Memories' Services and Music SALISBURY CATHEDRAL NEWS July/August 2017 1 Contents Contents Foreword 2 – 3 The Dean's Farewell 4 – 5 News and Events 6 Music Scheme I – X In Residence X Music Highlights 11 Art and Outreach 12 – 13 News and Events 14 – 16 Amnesty International 16 Friends’ Update 16 Other 17 Outside View: Dementia Week Contacts Subscriptions Sharing Memories Events Back cover I am writing this in the wake of horrible attacks on perfectly ordinary people on London Bridge and at Borough Market – the third major act of shocking violence in a British city within a few weeks. The purpose of such attacks is to horrify and Front Cover frighten, to stir up distrust, suspicion and hatred, Peregrine ringing 2017. Photo by James Fisher. and so to make it impossible for society to hold together. The underlying ‘theology’ or ‘logic’ appears to be that, by pushing the present form Memory and Identity of society beyond its limits, what will emerge from all the destruction will be a form of society The aim of this year's event theme is to explore of which the perpetrators, by then long dead, and raise questions about memory and identity would approve. as individuals, groups and as a Christian community. As someone who has been fascinated with Islam, its faith and culture for the whole of my For themed events look for this logo: M&I adult life, I find it unsettling that the purveyors 2 @SalisburyCathedral Foreword We have a golden opportunity in July to celebrate the common life of this Cathedral, and to honour the remarkable part that our departing Dean has played in it over the last 22 years. Please make every effort to be at Evensong on her last Sunday here, 9 July, after which we will say our collective thank-yous and make presentations. This little article isn’t the place for an extensive essay about June and her time here, but the thing I want to stress now is that she will go leaving this Cathedral in generally robust health. There is never an excuse for complacency as a Christian, but I hope June will take very considerable satisfaction with her as she reflects on her many years at Salisbury Cathedral. As June goes to a new ministry in south Wales, there will be various practical adjustments to things here, and in due course a new appointment will be made. But our common purpose, to Sharing Memories sustain the worship of God with our lips and in our lives, is timeless. It’s a thread running from beyond the foundation of this Cathedral early in of the psychopathic nonsense inflicted on these the last millennium and it’s shared, in their own victims are usually called ‘Islamists’. This is the ways, by people of quite different faiths and corrupt outer margin of a noble faith, whose traditions from our own. ordinary adherents are damaged and threatened by it at least as much as anyone else, and I wish Thanks be to God for all that he has done, for all some other descriptor was used for this deluded experience of human generosity, compassion, wickedness. and integrity. And may he be known in all that is good. I am disinclined to give those who maim and kill the publicity they crave and so little deserve. Ed Probert Whilst praying for all whom they have caused to caNON CHANcellor AND sub deaN suffer, and for those in the emergency and health services upon whom society relies in extreme The sun that bids us rest is waking times, we must not let such people set the our brethren ‘neath the western sky, agenda for the rest of us. Life goes on, and we and hour by hour fresh lips are making must give time and respect where it is actually Thy wondrous doings heard on high. due, to those who build up rather than to those who destroy. From John Ellerton’s hymn ‘The day Thou gavest’ SALISBURY CATHEDRAL NEWS July/August 2017 3 Xxxx Font Installation, 2008 Dean June's Farewell A number of years ago whilst visiting friends in It’s been a time when the Church of England has New York, Paul and I went to the Metropolitan had to adjust, knowing that familiar loyalties and Opera. There we bumped into an American friend sympathies to the Church no longer work for most who greeted me with the question: “Are you still of the community. In doing that here we’ve been in Salisbury?” I can’t remember what I replied but I fantastically well served by Chapter members, do recall that I was irritated by the implication that staff, volunteers and well-wishers who bring to it was a bad thing to have spent two decades in what we do a practical wisdom, integrating our the same place, especially when that place is as desire for outreach with the ancient meaning and many-dimensional as an English cathedral. rhythms of faith. Their collegiality has been a blessing I will never forget. And not just any English cathedral. I’ve been fond of saying that being Dean here is the best job in For it’s the relationships which have meant most the Church of England. No other building rivals of all and for which I will continue to thank God in Salisbury for its majesty and beauty, and to have years to come. It’s who we are as a community, landed in this ‘pleasant and fair ground’ for most pursuing integrity, generosity and compassion, of the duration of its ambitious repair programme, that makes the difference. On behalf of Paul, as both Treasurer and Dean, has been a fantastic Meg and Tom, let me say that we have deeply privilege. Beyond our Close walls there’s also the appreciated the blessed gift of love we have uniqueness of the Diocese. known here and which we will continue to cherish. I have so loved my connection with all our Now it is time to go to what I suspect will be the parishes of Wiltshire and Dorset, from the Lyme best job in the Church in Wales and to a different Bay Deanery where I once did a weekly Lent Spire. Pray for me as I will go on praying for you. Course to Calne where I was once ‘Prebend’. I have enjoyed enormously that association. June Osborne deaN of salisbury 4 @SalisburyCathedral Dean June's Memories Installation, 1 May 2004 Media life, 2005 Archbishop Tutu, June and Bishop David, 2008 HM Queen's visit, 2012 Font Installation, 2008 Little Paradise opening, 2012 Magna Carta Exhibition Opening, 2015 Current team, 2015 Volunteers' party, 2016 SALISBURY CATHEDRAL NEWS July/August 2017 5 News Magna Carta in Action M&I Wednesday 12 July, 19:00 We often take our human rights – embedded in Magna Carta – for granted, yet our 45-year-long partnership with the Church in Sudan and South Sudan shows us how the people there suffer because their basic human rights are denied. John Cavell passes at 100 Canon Ian Woodward, who will have recently returned from a visit to South Sudan, will speak Bishop Nicholas has paid tribute to the Rt Revd on our efforts to support the poorest and newest John Cavell, who died on 19 May aged 100: country in the world and how the £75,000 from our Lent Appeal is being spent (see article below). “John Cavell was special, and not just because of his longevity, though he lived to see his century Sudan Update and was a bishop for 45 years. In retirement he continued to exercise an enormous ministry here Clinical Officers are being supported by in Salisbury, even in his later years. He enjoyed the Sudan Medical Link and trained in basic people, especially young people, whom he techniques of wound management and simple encouraged in life and faith. He was a perceptive procedures which can save lives and stabilise companion. He prayed for me as a new bishop sick patients. and he challenged me. With very many others I am deeply grateful to God for him.” The Sudan Medical Link will continue to support the training of these officers, who often work John was Bishop of Southampton from 1972 to in challenging front-line roles unsupported by 1984 and spent much of that period also serving doctors and administrators. as the Church of England’s bishop for prisons. John lived in Salisbury in retirement and was until M&I his last years an almost daily worshipper at the Summer Sermons Cathedral. To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and as part of our theme for Chorister Cantors 2017, our Summer Sermon series is ‘What Did the Reformation Ever Do for Us?’ The Precentor and his deputies are the regular Cantors at Choral Evensong but on two occasions Sunday 13 August, 10:30 Robert Titley in the Trinity Term, the deputy head choristers of 'Reformation and Salvation by Faith' our choirs are given the chance to take on this Sunday 20 August, 10:30 Tom Clammer important role. 'Reformation and Predestination' Sunday 27 August Edward Probert The Cantor for Choral Evensong at 17:30 on 'Reformation and the Eucharist' Tuesday 11 July will be Tom Carter, and on Sunday 3 September, 10:30 Ian Woodward Wednesday 12 July it will be Imogen Moorsom. 'By Scripture Alone' 6 @SalisburyCathedral July Services and Music Cathedral Services and Music Saturday 1 07:30 Morning Worship with Holy Communion 13:00 Wedding of Chole Jagger and Tom Wright Quire 16:30 Ordination of Priests Darke in E Byrd Ave verum corpus 65 Sunday 2 The Third Sunday after Trinity 08:00 Holy Communion CW Order Two, Trinity Chapel President Canon Robert Titley, Treasurer 09:15 Morning Prayer said, Trinity Chapel Psalm 52 10:30 Ordination of Deacons President The Bishop Preacher The Revd Canon Peter Kerr Ireland in C Byrd Sacerdotes domini 85 Hymns on order of service 16:30 Choral Evensong Tomkins Responses • Psalm 50: 1–15 • Office Hymn 225 (tune ii) Statham in E minor • Howells Like as the hart 175 Hymn