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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 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 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. Page 4 Cathedral News Page 5 Cathedral News That we might be something to you - that the fog which masks Dun I*, turns rocks to ghost and falls towards the shore seeking its end in sea, might be a kind of yes That you might dream of us - A Thin at night, conjuring pilgrims in search of the hush and thwack Place of water, the spit of brine leaping from stones, saliva of a god whose By Rachel Mann works are almost lost That this might still be true - that spectres gather in the bay blinded by fire in the dark to listen for rumours of men and women, winds from Labrador, the whisper of the forgetful Word

But who could dare believe?

* Dun I is the tallest ‘mountain’ on the island of Iona.

Page 7 Cathedral News A New ‘Hope’ Window

We are delighted to announce that the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England have given approval for a new stained-glass window at the east end of the Cathedral, where the Humphrey Chetham statue sits. It is a modern design, by Alan Davis, in-keeping with the existing Antony Hollaway, Margaret Traherne and Linda Walton windows.

The east end of the Cathedral has mainly The theme of hope relates to Humphrey been used for processions in the recent Chetham by virtue of his particular past, but since the heating project and interest in education; the depiction of the return of the Humphrey Chetham Chetham in the Cathedral’s statue, and Thomas Fleming statues to this by William Theed – himself a pupil of area it has an increasing significance for sculptor Edward Baily, who produced visitors. It is also home to the beautiful the Fleming statue – shows a young Linda Walton ‘healing’ window, above the student seated at his feet, book in Fleming statue, which recalls the medical hand. Chetham is also at the heart of endeavours and industry of Manchester the early development of Manchester, in addition to its wider spiritual meaning. and so the window will reflect a sense Together with Margaret Traherne’s ‘fire’ of the particularity of Manchester and window, in the east wall of the chapel of its vibrancy as a place where young the Manchester Regiment, these special people can grow and flourish. features make the east end a space that emphasises the Cathedral’s connection The design is rich in symbolism and to the history and people of its city. even includes a Manchester bee! With the Lady Chapel at its centre, See what else you can spot… it is also a place of quiet reflection. Installation dates are subject to programming The new east window is designed to and the generous support of a private donor. enhance and complete the east end, The descriptions here are based on the report submitted to the CFCE, incorporating extracts with respect to the above context and of the Cathedral’s Liturgical Plan. Facing page the liturgical plan. The concept for window design courtesy of Alan Davis. the new east window revolves around the themes of hope and new life. By Grace Timperley

Page 8 Cathedral News Page 9 Cathedral News QUIZ NIGHT WITH SUPPER ‘Help us light up the Cathedral’s future’ Capture A Quiz Night, hosted in the Nave of Manchester Cathedral by members of Manchester Cathedral and Manchester Arndale, in aid of the Cathedral’s Lighting Fund the Cathedral Photography competition There will be a raffle and a cash bar on the night Categories: ‘Be A Part Of It’ / Stained Glass and Architecture / Something Different Wednesday 6 May 2015 - 7pm Manchester Cathedral / The Cathedral at Night Tickets: £8.50

Tickets available from: Cathedral Office: 0161 883 2220 (Card or Cash) The competition will run from 2 March to 8 May 2015. Winning and runner up entries will be exhibited in the Cathedral. The Reverend Robert Whyborn: 07841 423 269 (Cash) More information: www.manchestercathedral.org www.manchestercathedral.org/beapartofit Like us on Facebook - ManchesterCathedral Follow us on Twitter - @ManCathedral Manchester Cathedral, Victoria Street, Manchester M3 1SX www.manchestercathedral.org Devotional

A Saint for The Diary April

Wednesday 1 April 10.00 am Easter Day Eucharist— Saturday 18 April the Month 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves incense will be used (Live BBC 12.30—2.30 pm The Amazing Dr broadcast; ticket-holders only) Dee: An Elizabethan Spy Decoded Thursday 2 April 5.30 pm Festal Evensong (Cathedral & Chetham’s Library; £10 7.30 pm Sung Eucharist —incense will be used pp, inc. coffee & cake) Frederick with Stripping of the Altars, followed 7.30 pm Manchester by The Watch Monday 6 April Camerata Concert 8.30 pm The Watch (until 10.00 pm) 9.00 am Morning Prayer & Holy Denison Maurice Communion (No 1.10 pm Holy Thursday 23 April Friday 3 April—Good Friday Communion) 1.10 pm Chetham’s School of Music 12 noon Way of the Cross 2.00 pm—5.30 pm BBC Songs of Lunchtime Concert 1805-72 (No 1.10 pm Holy Communion) Praise (ticket-holders only) 8.00 pm Bellringing: ‘Ring for England’

4.30 pm Evening Prayer 4.30 pm Evening Prayer Sunday 26 April 7.30 pm Music & Readings (Chapter House—access via 10.30 am Sung Eucharist—incense Teacher of the Faith for Good Friday Cathedral offices only) will be used

2.30 pm Service to commemorate 1 April Saturday 4 April Thursday 9 April the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 All day Cathedral closed to visitors 12 noon Mothers’ Union for BBC filming Thursday Prayer Sunday 27 April 9.00 am Morning Prayer & Holy F. D. Maurice was one of the most Although he held them to be orthodox, 6.00 pm The Manchester Radical Communion (Chapter House— Saturday 11 April Tradition: From Peterloo to The interesting and controversial Anglicans the originality of many of his views left access via Cathedral offices only) 11.00 am Coffee Concert Great War (FREE event) of the 19th century, an age in which Maurice open to criticism. He could not, 7.30 pm Easter Vigil Service with 6.15 pm ‘Pipe Down’ Organ Recital Baptism and Confirmation Wednesday 29 April the Christian faith was tested for example, believe in hell as everlasting Tuesday 14 April 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves intellectually as never before. torture. He also argued that ‘eternity’ did Sunday 5 April—Easter Day 12.30 pm Julian Prayer Group All day Cathedral closed to visitors Thursday 30 April Wednesday 15 April not mean time without end. Some of his for BBC filming 6.30 pm Explore (Refectory) 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves (No 8.45 am Matins & Holy Maurice was the son of a strongly anti- views lost him his professorships, though Unitarian minister who other posts soon became available. Communion) wanted him to follow in his footsteps; and although he could not obtain a degree Maurice’s pastoral and intellectual energy as a non-Anglican, in 1823 Maurice was astounding. After Europe was entered Trinity College, Cambridge convulsed by the revolutions of 1848 to study law. In 1827 he moved to he helped launch the Christian Socialist Service Times Exhibitions London to earn his living as a writer. Movement and in 1854 began a Working Men’s College in London. He was also Midweek Services The Good Thief Having grown up in a religiously at the fore in women’s education, helping Morning Prayer 9.00am Mon-Fri Until 19 April (FREE) argumentative family Maurice’s own found a college for governesses (1848) and Holy Communion 1.10pm Mon-Fri Evensong 5.30pm Tues-Thurs* faith was understandably subject to a a Working Women’s College (1874). The Evening Prayer 4.30pm Mon & Fri Lady Margaret Beaufort: great deal of self-scrutiny. As a result mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis From Pawn to Player he began to change his views so that Carroll) travelled from Oxford each Sunday Saturday Services 4-31 May (FREE) by 1830 he had reasoned his way to just to hear him preach. Julius Hare Morning Prayer & Holy Communion 9.00am belief in the Holy Trinity and was able to thought him ‘the greatest mind since Plato.’ Evensong 5.30pm* enter Exeter College, Oxford to study Sunday Services classics. He was ordained in 1835. Good theology is seldom without controversy. It’s right that we remember Matins 8.45am Maurice never ceased wrestling with the F. D. Maurice as a Christian thinker Holy Communion (1662) 9.00am Sung Eucharist 10.30am Follow us demands of his faith and as a writer he who helped the Church survive the Evensong 5.30pm* always attempted to meet the intellectual upheavals of the 19th century. /ManchesterCathedral needs of the thinking Christian. In *Please note: During school holidays evening 1840, he was appointed professor of services are said. All said services are at 4.30pm. Variations to the schedule for special dates and @ManCathedral English History and Literature at Kings services will be listed here whenever possible. College, London, to which in 1846 was added the role of Chair of Divinity. By Albert Radcliffe

Page 12 Cathedral News Page 13 Cathedral News Looking ahead May Contacts Manchester Cathedral Cathedral Visitor & Chetham’s Library Chetham’s Saturday 2 May Tuesday 12 May 7.00 pm Django Django Concert Victoria Street Long Millgate 7.00 pm Columns Concert 11.00 am A stroll around the Conference Centre School of Music Cathedral Quarter (Cathedral Sunday 24 May—Pentecost M3 1SX Cateaton Street M3 1SB Long Millgate Monday 4 May & Chetham’s; £7 pp) 11.00 am Civic Service M3 1SQ M3 1SB 12.15 pm Said Eucharist—incense (No 1.10 pm Holy Communion) 0161 833 2220 0161 817 4817 0161 834 7961 0161 834 9644 Wednesday 13 May will be used Tuesday 5 May 11.00 am ‘I’ve lived here all my life, 5.30 pm Festal Evensong & 12.30 pm Julian Prayer Group but…’ Tour (FREE) Procession - incense will be used Clergy Staff 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves Wednesday 6 May 7.00 pm Mothers’ Union Monday 25 May Dean of Manchester Cathedral Administrator 7.00 pm Cathedral Quiz Night Diocesan Festival 10.00 am Whit Walks [email protected] (No 1.10 pm Holy Communion) The Very Revd Rogers Govender Thursday 7 May Thursday 14 May—Ascension Day incense will be used [email protected] 10.00—2.30 pm Mothers’ Union 12 noon Mothers’ Union Thursday Dean’s PA Quiet Day Prayer Tuesday 26 May Canon Precentor & Sub-Dean [email protected] 2.30 pm Psychogeographic 1.10 pm Chetham’s School of Music 12.30 pm Julian Prayer Group Canon Philip Barratt Manchester Talk (£3 pp) Lunchtime Concert Wednesday 27 May [email protected] Cathedral Office Assistant 6.30 pm Explore (Refectory) 4.30 pm Evening Prayer 11.00 am ‘I’ve lived here all my life, [email protected] 5.30 pm Sung Eucharist—incense but…’ Tour (FREE) Friday 8 May will be used Canon for Theology & Mission 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves Canon David Holgate Office & Conferencing Assistant 2.00 pm Manchester Cathedral’s 6.30 pm Explore (Refectory) Movers and Shakers Talk (£3 pp) Thursday 28 May [email protected] [email protected] Friday 15 May 6.30 pm Explore (Refectory) Saturday 9 May 7.30 pm Vivaldi Concert: The 11.00 am Manchester Cathedral Four Seasons by Candlelight Archdeacon of Manchester Finance Assistant Saturday 30 May The Venerable Mark Ashcroft [email protected] Decoded Tour (FREE) 6.15 pm ‘Pipe Down’ Organ Recital 12 noon ‘From Pawn to Player’ Talk Saturday 16 May [email protected] by Livi Michael (FREE event) 11.00 am Coffee Concert Sunday 31 May—Trinity Sunday Logistics Officer 2.00 pm From Henry V to the Fun Lovin’ 6.15 pm ‘Pipe Down’ Organ Recital 10.30 am Eucharist (Congregation Cathedral [email protected] Criminals—a backstage tour (FREE) Setting) with Baptism —incense will Thursday 21 May Jane Walker 6.15 pm ‘Pipe Down’ Organ Recital be used 6.30 pm Explore (Refectory) Senior Verger 5.30 pm Festal Evensong & [email protected] [email protected] Monday 11 May Saturday 23 May Procession - incense will be used 7.00 pm Manchester Archdeaconry 11.00 am Manchester Cathedral Chapter Lay Canons Visitation Services David Howe, Barrie Cheshire, Vergers Decoded Tour (FREE) [email protected] Philip Blinkhorn & Addy Lazz-Onyenobi [email protected] Cathedral Chaplains Canon Adrian Rhodes Organist & Master of the Choristers Revd Peter Bellamy-Knights [email protected]

Cathedral Reader Emeritus Sub Organist Raylia Chadwick [email protected] [email protected] Worship & Music Administrator [email protected] Congregation Education Officer (Petra Wilcockson) Churchwardens & Stewards [email protected] [email protected] Cathedral Communications Archives & Marketing Officer [email protected] [email protected] Cathedral High Steward & Chair of Manchester Cathedral Development Trust Director of Fundraising & Development Warren Smith JP anthony.o’[email protected] [email protected] / 0161 834 0490 Secretary to the Development Project Flowers: Helen Bamping [email protected] Cathedral Friends: Pauline Dimond Malcom Murphy Volunteer Programme Co-ordinators Ringing Master: [email protected] Catherine Rhodes Secretary to Bell-Ringers: [email protected]

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