Newsletter for St Alban’s Church, Diocese in Europe, April - May Copenhagen. www.st-albans.dk 2013 Church Calendar April - May

Sunday 14 April The Third Sunday of Easter 1000 Service at Kastrup Lutheran Church (Kastruplundgade 3, 2770 Kastrup) 1030 Parish Eucharist at St Alban’s

Wednesday 17 April 1030 Holy Communion

Sunday 21 April The Fourth Sunday of Easter 1030 Parish Eucharist

Wednesday 24 April 1030 Morning Prayer

Sunday 28 April St Mark 1030 Parish Eucharist at St Alban’s Followed by Annual Church Meeting

Wednesday 1 May 1 St Philip & St James 030 Morning Prayer

Sunday 5 May The Sixth Sunday of Easter 1030 Family Eucharist NB Visitors’ season starts with Guardians’ Team

Wednesday 8 May Julian of Norwich 1030 Holy Communion

Thursday 9 May Ascension Day 11:00 Eucharist

Sunday 12 May 1030 Parish Eucharist

Wednesday 15 May St Matthias the Apostle 1030 Morning Prayer

2 Sunday 19 May Pentecost 1030 Eucharist

Wednesday 22 May 1030 Morning Prayer

Sunday 26 May Trinity Sunday 1030 Eucharist

Wednesday 29 May Corpus Christi 1030 Holy Communion

You are invited to join us for refreshments after the 10:30 Sunday Service

St Albans’ Church in Jutland (in partnership with the Danish Lutheran Church)

Sunday 28 April at 1400 at Løgetkirke, Løget Center 2, 7100 Vejle: Inter- national Service (in English) led by Deacon Christophe. All welcome. Info from [email protected]

Sunday 12 May at 1900 at Mollevangskirke, Aarhus: Ascension Eucharist (in English) led by Archdeacon Jonathan. All welcome. Info from [email protected]

Concerts at St Alban’s Church

Sunday 21 April at 1200 ‘Wind Trio Amerise’ (free)

Sunday 12 May at 1600 The Roskilde Choir (tickets on door)

Sunday 26 May at 1200 Copenhagen Trombone Quartet (free)

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4 Dear Friends November. We remember fondly his last visit here last summer at the Deanery Synod Eucharist, and the It was lovely to welcome so many fantastic African lunch that followed visitors on Easter Day. the service, and his presenting Maundy Coins to Carole Rasmussen Thank you to our choir and organist, to honour 50 years of being a sidesmen and women, flower team, chorister. verger and churchwardens for all their hard work. The process of finding a new Diocesan Bishop will take about a I am grateful to Bishop John Saxbee year, and Bishop David Hamid will for his moving and challenging lead our diocese during this time of input into our worship over the vacancy. I will keep you briefed on three days of Maundy Thursday, any updates. Good Friday and Easter Day - known as The Triduum. We also look forward to the Spring and Summer, and our St Alban’s As we move into the 50 days of Annual Church Meeting which will Easter, we look to the future of our take place on Sunday 28 April at 1130. Church. We have a new archbishop This will be a time to take stock, to - Justin Welby - now installed at hear reports from the various areas Canterbury. There are many huge of our church life, and look to the issues that need to be resolved in the future with the excitement of the world-wide Church, including gat resurrection of Jesus still ringing in marriage, women bishops, and the our hearts. cultural clashes across the Anglican Communion. He certainly needs Allelulia, Chirst is risen! He is risen our prayers! And we have a new indeed, Alleluia! Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis, who has quickly made an impression May the joy and peace of the risen with a new style of leadership. Lord, be yours this Eastertide.

Our own Diocesan Bishop, Bishop Geoffrey Rowell (who shares his Jonathan Easter message in this edition) has announced that he will retire in

5 Members of the Lent Study Group with the book ‘Abiding’

Lent study group against this he explores the habit concludes of patience, the willingness to learn and be changed, the readiness to be A small group of women and someone else’s guest and dependent, men have met over the Sundays not being in sole control of our lives. of Lent to explore our Christian It is a book about learning to inhabit faith in the context of the our own bodies and our history, Archbishop of Canterbury’s and it is also about inhabiting recommended book for Lent 2013. mindfully the discipline of prayer and the reading of Scripture. The book is written by Ben Quash, Professor of Christianity and the Ben Quash places these qualities Arts at King’s College, . within the tradition of the Anglican The title of the book is Abiding Ethos, suggesting the rarely used and, as the Archbishop writes in concept of Abiding as the key to his introduction, is a reflection on the exploration of the depth and where we find our centre of gravity. hidden treasurers of our faith. It is a remarkable small book and Ben Quash looks at the different has been a blessing and challenge for ways in which we can misunderstand the group of us who have met over our need for continuity and security Lent to deepen our understanding – by resorting to inflexible habits or of faith by working through it. expectations in a world where things naturally change - and Ulla Monberg

6 St Alban’s member takes on Copenhagen Marathon

This year, member of St Alban’s Owen Prewett will be running the Copen- hagen Marthon for charity again, on this occasion for UNICEF. On the past two attempts, the congregation of St. Alban’s have been particularly generous in their support, helping to raise over 10.000 kroner for Red- den in 2011, and in excess of 6.000 kroner for Save the Children last year.

If you want to offer your support and encouragement this year, you can donate to UNICEF either by going direct to his Just Giving web page at:

http://www.justgiving.com/Owen-Prewett2

or by giving your cash donation to him after which it will be transferred to his Just Giving account with a message to say where the money has come from.

Owen knows that these are difficult times, and knows that you have given countless times – and that some of you have supported his efforts before – but asks you to please consider giving again. Any amount will help spur him on and make sure that children across the world get the help they so desperately need.

Last chance to join the new St Alban’s Electoral Roll

If you haven’t yet joined the new Electoral Roll (check the list on the no- tice board in the Narthex), there may still be time. The absolute deadline is April 14th if you want to be able to take part in and vote at the ACM on April 28th. The applications forms are also on the notice board and there is a box on the window sill for the filled in forms.

Also, when you change your address, email or telephone number, do re- member to inform the Electoral Roll Officer: [email protected].

7 Lunchtime concert Thanking them, the Chaplain said he felt as though he was on his way to programme delights heaven with the angels. As the music floated gently and harmoniously growing audiences into the heights, we all agreed. The collective noun simply must be “a The new programme of monthly heavenliness of harps”. Helen has lunch-time concerts is proving delighted us on several occasions a great success. Audiences have alone, but few had heard an entire doubled and so has the revenue group before, led so ably by her, and spontaneously collected. We began her two guests. in February with an astonishing concert of piano accordionists In Queen Elizabeth I’s day harpists who played a wide range of music had high status and played at the from baroque to blues. Those who tables of royalty and nobility. As attended were surprised at the musical tradition changed, the variety of tone and rhythm and style role of the harper diminished the performers exhibited. but fortunately the music played centuries ago still exists and today On 24 March 10 Irish harps were one has a sense of a faraway, delicate wheeled into the church and a jollity in some of the tunes. The concert, arranged by Helen Davis gentle repetitiveness of the melody was held. The performers – called and the choruses is meditative and “harpers” not “harpists” we learnt as the rhythm changes one can - had just completed a weekend picture how new groups of dancers workshop held by two very famous and revelers would take the floor. Irish harpers, Kathleen Lougkane from Galway and Aibhlin McCram We hope that Dorthe Nielsen, from Dublin. Both women played Margrethe Livholm, Karin von Daler, solos and explained in detail the Elsebeth Isen, Anne Lisbeth Willerup, history of Irish harp music and the and Heller Schmidt-Pedersen will way it developed. join Helen again calm and lift our spirits with their heavenly music.

Elizabeth Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Lehn & Claire Clausen

8 9 Bishop’s Easter life with this sacramental sign - and telling his disciples to go on doing Message this in remembrance of him to share in his life,. We remember that this At the very heart of our Christian gift of communion is given in the lives, at the very heart of the life context of betrayal - the denial of of the Church, is what we call ‘the that very communion. We move Paschal Mystery’, The word ‘paschal’ to Gethsemane - the ‘place of the comes from the Greek word pascha, pressing out of the olives’ (for that is referring to the Jewish Passover what the name Gethsemane means), which celebrated God’s deliverance where the Messiah, the Christ, the of his chosen people from slavery Anointed One, is ‘pressed out in in Egypt and their exodus journey agony in the costliness of love and to the Promised Land. Passover sacrifice. Judas, one of the close was therefore a feast of liberation circle of the disciples, gives a kiss by God, and a recalling of God’s not of friendship but of betrayal; the faithfulness to his promises to his disciples flee; and the Lord is handed people. The Christian Passover over, bound, led to trials, savagely which we celebrate every Holy Week scourged, mocked, condemned, and and Easter is a celebration of an even in the end led out to the appalling greater liberation and faithfulness. torture of crucifixion. Nailed to This is not just a celebration the rough wood of the cross in of deliverance from slavery in excruciating pain, hands spread wide Egypt, but of deliverance from the in what is the human embrace of enslaving power of sin and death. It love, Jesus hangs a scarecrow figure, is a victory won by the God who in beneath a mocking inscription, ‘Jesus Jesus freely chooses to know from of Nazareth, the King of the Jews’, the inside our human condition, to a crown of sharp and spiky thorns bear the crushing burden of human rammed hard down on his bleeding sin, to enter into our dying. brows. There is darkness over the land, over the whole world, as the As in Holy Week we follow again Light of the world is blotted out. the events of our Lord’s Passion, we And from the heart of that darkness remember on Maundy Thursday comes a cry of dereliction - ‘My God, Jesus washing the feet of his my God, why have you forsaken disciples, taking the role of a servant; me?’ And then with a great cry Jesus his taking of bread and wine at the dies. The centurion at the foot of the Last Supper, breaking the bread and cross utters words of amazing faith - sharing the wine, identifying his ‘Truly this was the Son of God!’ 10 He is dead. Wrapped in a shroud, open human history, blows open laid in a tomb. Holy Saturday, Easter human life, to the life of a new Eve, is a day of desolation, a day on order. Jesus, the Risen One, appears which the living God embraces the the same, yet different, transformed, annihilation and nothingness of our transfigured, his physical being taken human dying. up into this new order. His disciples and Mary Magdalene recognise him But if that was the end, the full - and yet not immediately - as the stop, so to speak, of the story, there two disciples on the road to Emmaus. would be no story for Christians to St Paul, trying to explain to the remember, to enter into, to celebrate. Corinthian Christians what this It would simply be one more story means, uses the analogy of the seed among many of another martyrdom, sown in the ground and the plant another terrible example of torture that springs up from it - the same and the triumph of evil and injustice. but different. This is Paul says, a There would be no church, no ‘spiritual body’, by which he means Christianity, and Jesus would be but a body ‘animated by the Holy Spirit’. another deluded prophet broken on For this is the life of God’s new the crushing wheel of human sin. creation. It is because this is the case that we can sing at Easter, Jesus lives! Yet this is not the end. The horizon Henceforth is death, but the gate of is not the death of Jesus, but new life immortal! It is because of this life, new creation, a life born out that we can speak triumphantly in of death. All four Gospels end with the Creed that we look for (literally accounts of that new life - a tomb wait with longing expectation for) found empty, a stone rolled away, the resurrection of the dead and the frightened women who had cone to life of the world to come. perform the last rites for the dead and found themselves face to face Matthew’s Gospel ends with the with a new, overwhelming and Risen Jesus appearing to his disciples unbelievable mystery. Mark, the in Galilee and sending them out earliest of our Gospels, probably to proclaim the good news, Go, ended with the women fleeing from therefore, and make disciples of all the tomb, for fear and astonishment nations, baptising them in the Name had come upon them; and they said of the Father, and of the Son, and nothing to anyone, for they were of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to afraid - they were overcome with observe all that I have commanded awe. That awe and wonder is at the you: and lo, I am with you always heart of Easter. This event blows to the close of the age. That is our 11 life - your life and mine, That is the St Augustine proclaimed long ago, Church’s mission, That is the Easter We are Easter people and “Alleluia¨” message running like wildfire in our (Praise be to God) is our song! May lives and hearts - a new creation God bless you in the singing of that energised by the Holy Spirit, the song and the living of that life. And living breath of God breathed out may you over and over again meet by the Risen Lord on his disciples and know the Risen Lord of life as on the evening of the first Easter Day. did the disciples in the breaking of For Easter is not something shut up bread at the supper at Emmaus. in the past, in a single life, but is your life and mine, for, as + GEOFFREY GIBRALTAR

Sunday School to be held on the 4th Sunday of every month

There have been some temporary changes in Sunday school schedule recently, due to the small number of children attending. To address the matter, the Council has agreed that for the remaining months before the summer holidays Sunday school will be held on the 4th Sunday of each month ONLY.

In addition, the ministry team will, on the first Sunday of each month in combination with baptisms, host a “Family service” and parents are encouraged to bring their children regardless of their age to this service.

It is expected that before the start of the 2013-2014 school year and the annual influx of new families from abroad, an outreach and communications strategy will be devised to increase the number of young families and children attending Sunday school.

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St Alban’s Copenhagen has a closed group (secret, actually, so you can’t search for it), called ‘Friends of St Alban’s’ on Facebook just for us, which you are welcome to join, if you are part of our community and you are on Facebook.

It is used for news from our church, from the Diocese, and from our sister churches. It has pictures of events and lots more. If you are inter- ested, please send a “friend request” to Pauleen Bang (easy to find if you searcch for her name).

The more we are who are part of this group, the more interesting and valuable it becomes. Since there are quite a few new people in church and on the new Electoral Roll, we hope there will be lots of new people joining up!

13 Helsinki’s Senate Square, dominated by the city’s Lutheran Cathedral News from the choice. In the end, despite it being a bit chaotic, they managed to steer Deanery through both events! The service was beautifully organised; the There have been many things English Vocal Consort of Helsinki happening in the Helsinki sang Thomas Tallis’ Mass for four Chaplaincy recently. Firstly, the voices and their own Nicholas’ induction of Tuomas Mäkipää, Singers sang - as on most Sundays which took place on the Eve of - the psalm and some music during Christ the King. On the Monday the Eucharist. Approximately 200 after the Synod meeting, Tuomas attended the service including guests was interviewed by the Bishop, the from the Finnish Lutheran Church, Archdeacon, and two Chaplaincy the Roman Catholic Church and representatives, Keith Battarbee and the Finnish Ecumenical Council. Diana Webster. Already that same Immediately after the service the evening he accidentally met with Bazaar was opened by the Bishop, Bishop Geoffrey at Kastrup Airport the British Ambassador Matthew where he was told that they had Lodge and Tuomas, himself. They agreed to appoint him. are very proud of their Christmas Bazaar. It is one of the rare places The Induction service took place on where you can get traditional the same day as their Church Bazaar. English Christmas specialities, This was not planned but since including Christmas Crackers. They Bishop Geoffrey’s diary was already order items from the UK every year full, they really did not have much at the beginning of October and they 14 have to be transported by land, since Midnight mass on Christmas Eve Christmas Cracker are considered took place in one of the oldest to be explosives, so they cannot be church halls in Helsinki. Former carried by air. Katajanokka prison functions as a hotel nowadays but the chapel has The Bazaar serves as an opening for been preserved. It is an interesting their Christmas preparations. The place with high windows which New Church year was opened by have never had bars on them and yet introducing the new mass setting. there is no recorded escape through Tuomas says that they still need the chapel. The Christmas Day much practice but with the help of service was more quiet since many the choir they are already getting decided to take the opportunity to some bits right! visit the Prison Chapel.

On the Fourth Sunday of Advent the Earlier last autumn the Chaplaincy traditional Festival of Nine Lessons had the honour of inviting a group and Carols took place. The service of Lakota Warriors to their Sunday is well known in Helsinki but they Eucharist. The Revd Canon Robert were worried that is was perhaps too Two Bulls, who is the missioner of late this year, since many of their the Department of Indian Work regular members leave Helsinki for and Multicultural Ministries for Christmas. Despite this, more than the Episcopal Church in Minnesota 600 arrived at Helsinki Cathedral to preached at the service. listen the word of God and to sing together. The collection was given to They decided to observe the Queen’s the Jaatinen Foundation to support Diamond Jubilee by arranging lunch the work among families with on Trinity Sunday. For this occasion disabled children. Next Christmas 150 copies of the Jubilee New they plan to work together with the Testament were ordered and given Salvation Army to raise not only to members of the congregation money but Christmas presents for and to those with whom they co- less fortunate families. Fr Heikki operate. Together with the Lutheran Huttunen, an orthodox priest and Archbishop of Turku and Finland the Secretary General of the Finnish they sent a letter of thanks to the Ecumenical Council was their Queen for her witness to Christian faith. ecumenical guest and read how the Angels proclaimed the birth of Jesus My grateful thanks to Tuomas for his to the shepherds. wonderful news from Helsinki. Pauleen Bang 15

Our historic font is restored

Pictured here at work is Susanne Trudsø, Conservator from National Museum of Denmark.

Conservation work has started “I had to keep the whole affair dark on the historic font at St Alban’s from my father. Indeed, I went to Church. The conservation work has School of Art of a night for been generously sponsored by The months before he knew anything Mærsk Foundation, and will include about it. He used to ask my mother the pulpit, reredos and memorial to where I was, but happily for me Princess Alexandra. she always refused to gratify his curiosity.” The matching font, pulpit and reredos are very special. They were Before he sold any work he made the gifts of Doulton of Lambeth, money by mending cart wheels. He and for the first time they were also worked in a fireworks factory made in terra cotta with salt-glazed earning half a crown per week. details. The designer was George In 1864 he went on to the Royal Tinworth, the English ceramic artist Academy Schools, and began work who worked for Doulton at Lambeth with Doulton in 1867. At first he from 1867 until his death. made cases for water filters, but soon moved on to making the new range George Tinworth was born in 1843 at of salt-glazed stoneware that became Walworth Common, South London. simply known as ‘Doulton Ware’. The son of a greengrocer turned wheelwright, he and the family About thirty examples of his work suffered extreme poverty. Aged 19 were shown at the 1867 Paris he pawned his overcoat to pay for Exhibition. His father died the same evening classes at the local Lambeth year, and he was left as the main School of Art in supporter of his mother and family. Road. In Chums Boys Annual of 1896 Tinworth explained: 16 Many of Tinworth’s pieces were the start and the daily continuation shown at the Royal Academy where of our journey of Christian faith. they were admired by , among others. Tinworth’s work can be seen in the Museum of Garden History (next to Lambeth Palace), St Bede’s College Manchester, the Baptist Chapel in , Truro Cathedral, St Mark’s Church Hanley, and St Mary’s Church in Burton, Wiltshire.

The Cuming Museum has Tinworth’s major independent art project in Although poor in quality, this is believed storage. This is a four foot high to be one of the few surviving photo- model of a project for an elaborate graphs of ceramic artist George Tinworth, memorial to ’s connection 1843 - 1913. with Shakespeare, made in 1904. Sadly, not enough money was raised to realise it. Newsletter editor required

George Tinworth died on 13 As we prepare to say goodbye to our September 1913 and was buried at temporary newsletter editor Scott West Norwood Cemetery. His name McAusland - who has edited the last is commemorated in Tinworth Street, two issues of the newsletter following Lambeth. the departure of longstanding editor Charles Robson - we are looking for We are fortunate indeed to have, as a an editor for the St Alban’s newsletter. gift, such a special and priceless work of art in our midst. If you have six to eight hours to spare each month, and preferably The font is a central part of our some desk top publishing experience, church, the place of baptism, then please contact Claire Clausen at welcome and new life in Christ. It [email protected]. is used on the first Sunday of every month. And as we walk past it when we enter the church, we are reminded that baptism into Christ is

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Wedding

2 March 2013 Niels Christian Hollington and Maria Frydenlund Christensen

Baptism

3 March 2013 Reza Alexander Bayat Parents: Ardavan Bayat and Tina Elisabeth Holbech Bayat

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Churchillparken 11, 1263 Copenhagen K Under the Patronage of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II

Weekly Eucharists Sundays and Wednesdays at 10:30 All are welcome – Sunday School for children every 4th Sunday of the month.

Open Vestry Morning is on Wednesdays 09:00–10:30 Please call in if you are seeking baptism, confirmation, marriage or have any other pastoral or prayer request. Church Office is open on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings Verger Jane Passant 33 11 85 18 [email protected] 51 28 12 42

Your Ministry Team Chaplain Archdeacon Jonathan LLoyd 39 62 77 36 [email protected] Diocesan Director of Training Canon Ulla Monberg 35 26 06 60 [email protected] Deacons Deacon Christophe Ndikuriyo 71 41 21 14 [email protected] Deacon Linda Brondsted [email protected] Licensed Reader Mr Graeme Lloyd-Roberts 50 84 55 19 [email protected] Churchwardens Claire Clausen 28 12 01 28 Christopher Parker 32 11 73 90 [email protected]

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