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News www.manchestercathedral.org April 2015 Prayer / Worship / Music / Arts / Education / Heritage / Welcoming The Amazing Dr Dee A New Window A Saint for the Month Page 5 Pages 8-9 Page 12 Sub Dean’s Corner By Canon Philip Barratt Awesome habits The Joys and Fears of and liking the story being the Easter People By Canon Philip Barratt I remember years ago, in a previous life, We, too, have walked with Jesus through Four years ago, I became a professed everything fitted into place. “But isn’t it all getting my first contract to do some work the forty days of Lent and holy week, member of an Anglican Cistercian such a waste?” she asked. Wasted? Not for the television. The emotions were into the great celebration of Easter with Community. The Bishop of Manchester, at all. Every experience valued and now great excitement coupled with outright all its vibrant imagery of bursting forth, the Rt Revd David Walker was the guest used in God’s service. She was really fear! I remember the occasion well. There captured throughout Cathedral life in preacher and a special part of that touched, for she revealed what is so true were similar emotions when the Diocesan such an exciting way. We now come to occasion was to be “clothed” in the for many who are searching: life can be Director of Ordinands phoned to say terms with those two emotions as we distinctive black and white Cistercian awesome, but not necessarily complete! that I had successfully been accepted settle into Eastertide. robes which have not really changed I prayed with her, and for her, and she for training for the priesthood. Again in since 1098, when the Cistercians came went. As so often happens in Cathedral an instant, excitement beyond belief and Those two emotions were with us as we into being. As a dispersed community life, I may never see her again. fear beyond words! prepared for our own TV appearance on we tend not to wear our habits all the BBC One for Easter Sunday. So many time, but occasionally and for a variety of Think of all the stories that make I often reflect on those two emotions as people have done so much to make it reasons mine does make an appearance Manchester Cathedral such an amazing I try to place myself alongside the first happen and we want to say a huge ‘thank in the Cathedral. place. Our stories are awesome indeed, witnesses to the resurrection of Jesus. you’. Every contribution was so valued all different and all amazing, but it is Especially those who loved him and had and special, and if we have given up some One Saturday, a voice engaged this when we allow God to take our stories walked alongside him. He is risen (an of our own comforts I hope you will feel it rather black-and-white looking Canon! and transform them with His grace, that exclamation mark! Or a question mark?) is for an amazing experience – sharing our “Awesome gear! — what’s the story?” things start to drop into place. - can it really be so? Joy and yet fear all faith with the life of the country. Charles Wesley put it like this as brought together. Now religious habits and the word Your priest and fellow pilgrim, Philip “awesome” don’t usually appear in the he reflected on his own story in the The Dean is away on annual leave. same sentence, to be honest. “What’s 18th century – the story?” was her question. We sat in Finish then Thy new creation the nave and shared stories. She told Pure and spotless let us be; me hers but struggled with mine; in her Let us see Thy great salvation, Songs of Praise is coming words, “liking the story but not getting Perfectly restored in Thee: it!” She couldn’t understand why, when Changed from glory into glory, to Manchester Cathedral! I had my life mapped out, I suddenly Till in heaven we take our place, changed and became a priest and then Till we cast our crowns before thee, a “religious” getting up at funny times lost in wonder love and praise. Manchester Cathedral is hosting two special programmes this Easter. The first is a live to pray? If I am honest, it took me many broadcast on BBC One of the Eucharist for Easter Sunday on 5 April; the second is a years to accept the truth that lies behind (Love Divine, all loves excelling) recording for the ever-popular programme, Songs of Praise on Easter Monday, 6 April. the answer to that question. I had what I Unfortunately there will be limited access to the Cathedral for visitors during the wanted, but the problem was that it was May God bless you as you offer BBC set-up and filming, with periods of no access. Access for some services will not really what God wanted for me! him your story. be via the office door only. We are grateful to our congregation and visitors for their It was only when I gave in to God that generosity and patience in helping us to accommodate these special events. Please see pages 13-14 and http://www.manchestercathedral.org/events for full details. Page 2 Cathedral News Page 3 Cathedral News Special Events in April Saturday 18 April New Worship & Whit Walks – The Amazing Dr 12.30 – 2.30 pm Music Administrator save the date! Dee: An Elizabethan Admission £10 includes coffee Spy Decoded and cake We are delighted This year’s Whit Walks will take place Manchester 1595. One of the greatest at Chetham’s to welcome our on Monday 25 May between 10.00 minds of the 16th century, Dr John Dee, medieval library new Worship & am and 12.30 pm. Further details fell out of favour with the Elizabethan and a chance to Administrator, will be available in the next issue, court and arrived in Manchester to take hear his daughter’s up the role of Warden at the College of side of the story in Kerry Garner, and on the Cathedral website. Christ Church (now the Cathedral). the Voices from the past to the Cathedral production, ‘The Alchemist’s Daughter’. team. Kerry started Find out more about the man who inspired There will also be an opportunity to at the beginning of Christopher Marlowe’s Dr Faustus, Ian examine some fascinating historic March, and introduces herself here. Dispatches from Fleming’s 007, and Damon Albarn’s opera. material in the library’s collection relating ‘My most recent job has been at the The event will include an introduction to the wonderful character of Dr Dee. Museum of Science and Industry the Home Front to Dr Dee at Manchester Cathedral where I worked on the Operations with Honorary Archivist Michael Powell, Book in advance at: team as the Administrator. a visit to Dee’s old rooms next door www.drdee.eventbrite.co.uk Bishop Frank’s Dispatches from I had joined MOSI in May 2013, as a the Home Front, published by the part-time Visitor Experience Assistant The Manchester Radical Tradition: Anglo Catholic History Society with a Monday 27 April while I was completing an MA foreword by the Dean of Manchester, From Peterloo to in Art History. Before this I was a 6.00 pm is now available to purchase FREE event volunteer at various events such from St Denys Bookshop or from the Great War as ‘The Mini Maker Faire’ and ‘A [email protected], at £5. The first ‘shock’ city of the industrial age, as part of the rich Day Out With Thomas’. Other past Dispatches documents Manchester Manchester is often regarded as the capital and overlapping roles have included working as a Cathedral residentiary canon Peter of nineteenth century radicalism. Ranging political culture of Learning Mentor to A-Level students, Green’s Artifex columns in the across a wide variety of movements and Manchester from and as a Study Support Assistant. Manchester Guardian during World political positions, this lecture traces the the 1840s onwards. I currently live in Bolton with my War One. Short extracts are serialised origins of popular politics in Manchester and analyses the mythology surrounding Antony Taylor is Professor of Modern family, commuting to Manchester in Cathedral News 2014-2019. daily. I am thrilled to have been Manchester’s radical past. Covering the British History at Sheffield Hallam given the opportunity to work in years from the Peterloo massacre in 1819 University. He has written widely in the to the foundation of the Labour Party, it fields of nineteenth and early-twentieth such a beautiful, landmark building, considers the reasons for the emergence century political culture. He has particular and to better myself through a of political militancy in the city, and expertise in the field of radical politics in challenging new role. I also can’t assesses platform radicalism’s relationship large urban centres. His most recent book wait to meet lots of new faces!’ to the established Conservative and is ‘London’s Burning’: Pulp Fiction, the Liberal parties. In the middle years of the Politics of Terrorism and the Destruction nineteenth-century, Manchester was also of the Capital in British Popular Culture, home to strong traditions of Liberalism and 1840-2005 (Bloomsbury, 2012). Conservatism that are considered here Images: Rachel Mann as Katherine Dee in the See the Spring events brochure for events 2014 production of The Alchemist’s Daughter and services throughout the season. directed by Daisy Black; the Margaret Traherne ‘fire’ window in the Cathedral’s Regiment Chapel.