A MAGAZINE FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIANS | FEBRUARY 2015 Good News – God’s radical remembering The Magazine of the ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF Editor’s note The Most Revd AM, Archbishop of Perth

Table of Contents and Editor’s Note 2 Archbishop – Good News – God’s radical remembering 3 A quick Google search of ‘good news’ turns up 1.1 billion ONE of the great refrains of hope in the NASA has just announced that ‘Opportunity’ is suffering The Revd Alison Gilchrist – A leaf from the angels’ book 4 results. Just the thought of sifting through that number history of Israel is the phrase, “And God from amnesia. Describing the two key types of memory Good News Project is food for thought 5 of results is overwhelming. Even the most devoted remembered for good”. NASA explains that there is; Ben Myers – New Camaldoli Hermitage Notebook 6–7 browser would surely need a lifetime to go through from The Revd David Atkinson – Holy Trinity fifty Years On 8 In the Biblical narrative the opposite of remembrance is • non-volatile memory which "remembers" its beginning to end, especially considering that new stories not forgetting but dismembering – the calculated act of Ian Carter AM – Stories of Christmas Generosity 9 information even if it is powered down, and are added daily. Even allowing for those stories which will obliterating the memory, the potential future, the history The Revd Dr David Wood – Lenten longings 10 be strange, it’s a feast! and destiny of an individual, a people, a nation, and a • volatile memory is quicker to access but requires The Revd Dr Elizabeth Smith – community of faith. power, so when the machine turns off, any data Excellent practices of hospitality 11 The February edition of the Messenger has a focus on stored within the volatile memory is lost. The Revd Peter Laurence – ‘Good News’, as the first of the Good News Cafés begin. One way of dismembering was to destroy sacred sites, The Good News of Anglican Schools 12 They have the potential to be a significant feast for all. burn holy texts and place alternative icons and writings in The problem with ‘Opportunity’ is that when the rover Lead with humility 13 Ryan Green’s article Caesarea Philippi: Where is Good place of the former. The most obvious way to dismember tries to use the flash memory it fails. Instead it stores Lifelong school for Christian wisdom 14 News to be found offers a biblical and theological was to occupy the land and place upon the populace telemetry data in its volatile memory, but when the rover The Revd Ryan Green – perspective on Good News, while theologian Ben Myers another language – an alphabet that removed the words goes to sleep and wakes up again, all the data is gone. ‘Caesarea Philippi’: Where is Good News to be found? 15 has given us a deeply personal reflection on the practice and symbols that had given meaning and hope. Another Cathedral 16–17 Some interesting similarities arise; ‘Spirit’ bogged down of retreating and the mysterious presence of Good News method was to force the populace into exile, to make Book review – Born Bad – James Boyce 17 – given observer status; ‘Opportunity’ losing memory; and grace. them slaves in the land of the occupier. How could Allan Ewing – Ashes embraced, life restored 18 captives sing of their God in a strange land? A more ‘Curiosity’ still working but minus ‘Spirit’. Purple Patch 18 As regular writers and others have written stories subtle and highly effective form was to transform the Are these metaphors a sign of the dismembering that News 19 and news from parishes, along with the celebration of symbols and words of faith to represent the values of the has taken place in respect of the Christian story? Can the The Revd William Thomas – To hell and back 20 generosity reported by Ian Carter, CEO of Anglicare, David occupying ideology. memory of faith be recovered? Lyn Wheeler – Wood and Bishop Allan Ewing write of Ash Wednesday Sharing between parishes in Byford and Kwinana 20 and Lent and for those who have not yet decided on Over a few generations the sacred story was In the Passion narrative one of the thieves on the cross St Mark’s Anglican Community School – Lent reading, this month’s book reviews provide some dismembered. appeals to Jesus, “Remember me when you come into Thirty years of blessing 21 possibilities. Have the festivals of Christmas, Easter, Ash Wednesday your kingdom”. Dismembered and his life in tatters with Bishop Peter Brain – Our Rich Liturgical Heritage 26 22 death whispering its final disintegration he calls out to Messenger. and Lent gone through this metamorphosis? The Very Revd Richard Pengelley – Prayer, dialogue, faith 23 This is my final Editor’s Note for the I hope be remembered. The response he receives, “Today you John Proud – Circles of Faith 23 that the articles, stories and news we have brought you The exploration of Mars offers us some striking will be with me in paradise”, is a radical remembering, a Books Reviews 24–25 have been strengthening and sustaining, and that even if metaphors. In 2003 NASA sent two Rovers to Mars refashioning of his life and the life of the whole creation Jocelyn Ross OAM – Nor’West Postcard 26 you have disagreed with the views, ideas and theological named ‘Spirit’ and ‘Opportunity’. In 2009 ‘Spirit’ became in God’s future. Movie Review – The Theory of Everything 27 perspectives within, that each month there has been food stuck in soft soil on Mars and was redeployed as a for thought – and perhaps even for feasting. Anthony Howes – Theatre 28 stationary platform to detect and locate wobbles on the May we enter the Holy Season of Lent transformed by God’s radical remembrance. Crossword – Lenten Raj 29 As I finish this role, my thanks to Chris Davies, Elizabeth planet. Contact with ‘Spirit’ was lost. It was deemed to Where to Worship 30 Smith, David Wood and Melanie Hare for their caring and have ‘died’ and an asteroid No 37452 was named in its And that remembrance is Good News indeed. Notices 31 careful work month by month. Thanks too to Therese and honour. Angie from Insight Communication & Design and Chad at In November 2011 another Rover named ‘Curiosity’ was Messenger Vanguard Press who ensure that the gets to launched, landing on Mars on 6 August 2012. COMMITTEE you on time and in good shape. Acting Editor Bishop E: [email protected] Blessings The Most Revd Roger Herft, AM Archbishop of Perth The Revd Dr David Wood E: [email protected] The Revd Dr Elizabeth Smith E: [email protected] Advertising Mrs Chris Davies T: (08) 9425 7222 M: 0448 209 070 E: [email protected] Copy deadline: 10th of every month prior to publication. 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IN MANY ways 2014 was a tough nothing but free good news and views from around the THE Good News Project is about seeing things in a Project with the hope of drawing in new readers so they year. Looking back we could list world in health, science, arts, environment & technology, new light, refocusing on the Good News happening may engage with the project and build upon its aims. and describes its output as "A positive alternative to innumerable horrific stories that have throughout the diocese. What’s coming up? swept across people’s lives across today's news all in one place." I was thrilled to see that Since starting the project, we are astonished and Next month, our diocese the globe, but it was also a year at number 5 on its list of good news stories for 2014 touched by the number of beneficial stories emerging. will gather at the first was the report of commuters in Perth freeing a fellow All those at Synod saw the long wall brimming with when hope continued to shine through myriad acts of of three Good News passenger whose leg had become trapped between Good News stories and we are hearing more such tales kindness, where there were breakthroughs in human Project Cafés in the the train and platform. People gathered around and by every day of people re-engaging with the church. Large flourishing and prospects of cures for life-threatening three diocesan areas to pushing tipped the train enough to release his trapped numbers are coming for the first time as a result of disease, and positive perspectives and subsequent contribute to and expand limb. community activities and evangelism in many forms. planning began to change situations that would upon the ways in which otherwise have been hopeless. Reviewing my past year, in the posts I hold in the It’s easy to become weighed down by the burdens of an parishes, agencies and Diocese of Perth, I realise just how pervasive the lack increasingly troubled world and by the challenges for our schools can celebrate I have deduced from my experience of life to date that of hearing good news can be as many share gloomy institutions. But the stories emerging through this project and liberate the good news. The dates are below. left to our own devices, on the whole, we humans would forecasts of decline and others struggle to see any light show us that God continues to keep breaking through Over a shared meal, participants will also share in a be a rather pessimistic, down-beat bunch. There are many at the end of their seemingly unending dark tunnels, and the Good News keeps happening. It’s a salient menu of conversation that, literally, will provide food for reasons for my conclusion, not least being that we allow caused by lack of funds or lack of enthusiasm for reminder not to let ourselves get so caught up in the thought encouraging attendees to think broadly about our news programmes to be filled with nothing much missional change. Travelling widely, it's been my privilege world or its institutional concerns that we can’t see the their context and opportunities for partnerships, alliances but bad news. When I was young, the BBC news always to hear and see fellow journeyers in every type of church Good News occurring. and ways of making a difference. ended with "and finally..." This led into a bit of good news environment and to be privy to their stories, many of Over the course of the three workshops, participants will or an amusing tale. That, along with much of the drive which exude joy and light in the face of what to others So what’s work together to develop projects, ways of doing ministry to seek out and report uplifting and encouraging news, are insurmountable odds, and then to do my best to happening on the and other initiatives to liberate the good news in our seems to have been lost and most of us seem inclined to ensure their stories reach the ears of those for whom Project? diocese. allow pessimism to be the status quo. such news has proven to be a shot in the arm, as they At a time when there acknowledge "if they can do it, so can we." is a deficit of trust and February’s speaker will be Allan Tranter, a parishioner A few however, have been "worms that turn," and have at St Philip’s in Cottesloe, who is a skilled and effective determined that, despite the rampant bad news in our encouragement in the Hearing good news also has health benefits, says a world, the Good News leader with vast experience in social planning. Allan world, we do need to have a balance. One example is Harvard psychologist. “Positive information benefits us is down-to-earth with an effective, hands-on approach the Good News Network, which since 2005 has offered Project focuses on the emotionally, physically, and mentally. It can contribute pluses and is a way of that sees him in demand as a speaker, nationally and in a meaningful way to a happier and healthier life." This sharing and celebrating internationally. He and his team are heavily involved in is a position upheld by his colleagues in the research positive steps and achievements while reflecting the urban renewal schemes and he has assisted local and department at Harvard University School of Public Health, broader transitions of the church. State governments in strategically aligning community who found that optimism cuts the chances of developing The project has struck a chord. The wonderful response projects. heart disease, as well as the rate of lung decline as we at Synod last October led to the formation of a Good March’s speakers include leaders in local government, age. News Project Task Force comprising the Archbishop, local businesses and government agencies. We have just celebrated Christmas, when we recalled Assistant , and representatives from clergy, together and proclaimed to all who would hear the schools, other agencies and laypeople. These people will What can we do? angel's words to the shepherds in Luke 2:8. “There were support and guide the project. Something we can all do is to share with each other sheep herders camping in the neighbourhood. They had A dedicated website and blog has also been created for the Good News we see happening and to keep telling set night watchers over their sheep. Suddenly, God’s the project. On it you can find out what’s happening, it. From the pulpit, from the pews, in our bible studies, angel stood among them and God’s glory blazed around get involved and share your good news stories. Have a around the dinner table, we can keep telling it. them. They were terrified. The angel said, “Don’t be browse at www.goodnewsproject.org.au. It is easy to So sign up to come to a Good News Café and let’s break afraid. I’m here to announce a great and joyful event that navigate, with clear links to how you can contribute to the bread together. For more information and to reserve your is meant for everybody, worldwide: A Saviour has just blog. place, please email [email protected] been born in David’s town, a Saviour who is Messiah and January’s blog entry contains Archbishop Roger Herft’s Master. This is what you’re to look for: a baby wrapped in Good News Project Café #1 – Reflect | Recognise | New Year message about “good news ahead” and Celebrate a blanket and lying in a manger.” reflects on why, in the current landscape, it is more Good news of of great joy is so sadly lacking in our world important than ever to get our Good News ‘out there’. North – Thursday, 19 February today and just as Jesus was not born to be king just This is a brief extract: South – Friday, 20 February for day but to reign for all eternity, so we are called to “The thirst for good news seems more today than at East – Thursday, 26 February broadcast it continually, as, when, and how we can, both any other time in the history of our world… The hordes Good News Project Café #2 – Align | Build to encourage each other and to bless a needy world. of those who seek to do evil captures the news cycles... The Good News Project launched at our synod last year North – Thursday, 19 March As we all engage in the GOOD NEWS PROJECT this appears even more daunting and yet, as Blaise Pascal South – Friday, 20 March year, let's take a leaf from the angel's book as we tell of [the 17th century Christian philosopher] reminded us, ‘In East – Thursday, 26 March the joy born into the world and direct those who hear it our ventures it is not a matter of whether or not to set to be like the shepherds, who found him, and saw and Good News Project Café #3 – Partner | Liberate sail – we are already launched…’ May we be God’s ‘Good believed. News Project’ for 2015 and beyond.” North – Thursday, 16 April South – Friday, 17 April Then we have articles such as those in the Messenger, East – Thursday, 23 April reminding everyone of the context of the Good News 4 Messenger FEB 2015 5 Each night after evening prayer we sit on mats around If I were to flee from you, my flight would lead me to the altar. One of the brothers carries consecrated bread you: for you are the door that I would finally reach in New Camaldoli Hermitage notebook and sets it on the altar. Three candles are burning. Then search of refuge. If I were to hate and reject you, even Ben Myers the lights go down and we sit for half an hour in silence. my hate would lead me to you in the end, and I would Some of the monks and visitors adopt the lotus position. find there that the rejected stone had become the WHEN I arrive one of the brothers gives in a circle with their hands stretched out towards the Last night there was a visitor who filled our silence with cornerstone of my life. Everything in my life is pointing me an orientation to the monastery. He centre. I suppose you have to do this kind of thing in the sounds of stifled weeping. When it is over the lights the way to you if only I have eyes to see. My whole being shows me the chapel and which books to use for each California. Anyway it’s reassuring to know that the mass come on and everybody goes away. The icon of the Trinity is speaking your name if only I have ears to hear it. I am service, he shows me my cell with its private garden would still be completed even if a presiding brother were is asking me a question as I touch the font and go out into the place from which you call to me. I am a constant, looking out over the ocean, he explains the fireplace to keel over and die on the spot. the dark. painful reminder to myself of the great Love that has and the bells and the time for meals. He tells me what touched with human hands, seen with human eyes, and to do if a deer should come into my garden (don’t After evening prayer the mountain is wrapped in Sometimes I can hardly tell if I am myself or someone heard with human ears. Love calls to me not only from corner it), and what to do if I see a skunk (ditto), and darkness. I have been instructed to use the torch else. Sometimes everything in my life reminds me of you. beyond my life but also from within it. You have got under what to do if one of the mountain lions strays on to provided in my cell because it will reduce the risk of My eyes look out on the sky and the sea but it all reminds my skin. That’s my problem and my salvation. There is no the monastery (clap hands and sing a psalm while walking straight off the edge of a cliff and never being me of you who looked out on this world with human eyes escaping a human God. maintaining eye contact at all times). I wonder if there seen again. But I prefer to shuffle cautiously in the dark (my eyes) and loved it, every last infuriating bit of it. is anything in the Rule of Benedict about dealing with because the stars, shy nocturnal creatures that they In your eyes, God looked at the world from the inside and The Camaldolese brothers have a special love for the mountain lions. are, come closer when there is no other light. On a high saw that it was good. Not that it was a pretty sight. You Little Rule of St Romuald. It is framed on the wall of cliff I find a bench and lie down and watch the stars, saw Satan too. He fell like lightning under your gaze. St my cell. “Watch your thoughts like a good fisherman Also he tells me: at the right time of the year you can great thickets of them burning out of the silent past. I Thomas said there are five ways to prove the existence watching for fish. The path you must follow is in the sit in this cell and watch a hundred whales go by. I try to remember how I always feared the dark when I was a of God. I don’t know anything about that, but when I see Psalms; never leave it.” keep my composure, but in my heart I bless the Lord. child, ever since we lived in that place with the outdoor my own five fingers they remind me of your hands. My toilet (haunted by Australian spiders) that could only feet, tired from walking, remind me of all the roads you A saying of St Antony: “Life and death depend on our The cells are similar in design to the ancient monastic be approached by following a winding path under the travelled on feet like mine. You have cut your paths in me. neighbour. For if we win over our brother, we win over cells that have been excavated in the Nitrian desert. A menacing trees while nightmares rustled in the dead Everything in me leads back to you. If I desire anything God.” main sitting room branching off into a small bedroom, leaves on every side. Even as a teenager I was forever at all, my longing becomes a path to you: for all desire Ben Myers is a lecturer in Systematic Theology at United chapel, bathroom, and kitchen, all opening on to an glancing behind me when I was alone and in darkness. bends invisibly to you and all love whispers your name. If I Theological College. He discusses theology, books, and enclosed garden. The desert fathers each had a well in And I remember how nineteen years ago, the night you were to lose you, my loss would become your way to me: culture on his theology blog, Faith and Theology. the garden too, though many of them also had slaves to came down and took possession of me, the first thing for you take special pleasure in finding whatever is lost. www.faith-theology.com draw the water. Taps with running water are one of those that happened was I stopped being afraid. From that small but significant improvements in the monastic life. It night to this I have always found great consolation in is not true that the earliest is always the best. darkness. I lie here on the bench beneath the moving Soon after arriving I hurry to the chapel for evening stars and think: this is your gift to me, this darkness. prayer. The first words that we sing are one of my On my morning bike ride I saw a snake on the road. It favourite verses from the Psalms: I love the Lord, for he was a baby, less than a foot long, black with an orange heard my cry. belly and a single orange ring around its neck, and it was I have not spoken today but I have not been silent either. trying to cross the road. I stopped a while to monitor its All day long the voices in my mind chatter away like progress and, if necessary, to help it get safely across. school children on their lunch break. Judging from its rather phlegmatic style of slithering, I am not sure it was fully apprised of the precariousness Coming out from morning prayer I stood outside of the situation. But when I gave it an encouraging nudge the chapel and looked over the sea and saw a whale it only rose its little head as if to strike, so I rode off and spouting, then another. For a second I forgot to breathe, resolved to let nature take its course. Coming back later I as one always does when one sees whales. Then with saw the little thing broken on the road. A car had got him. all haste I got in the car and drove down the mountain I hoped his mother would never find out. Sometimes it is to get a closer look. On the winding road down from the better not to know. Let her go on supposing that he has monastery I saw them spout again. But when I had got to hitched a ride to San Francisco and that he is fulfilling all the bottom and stood on the cliff above the sea, I found his dreams in the city. Let her go on hoping. There are that the whales were out of sight. I had failed to reckon people who say that knowing is always best, but if this on the fact that you can see so much further from higher vale of tears has taught me anything it’s that sometimes up. There are times when the closer you get to a thing, a little ignorance can go a long way. the more it recedes from view. My fifth Thanksgiving dinner in America. Twice with At mass each day the brothers form a circle around the families, once with students, once with the homeless, altar and all the guests and visitors make a wider circle. and now with monks. Evaluation: families have the best When the presider raises his hands for the epiclesis, all cooking, students have the best music, the homeless the monks who are also raise their hands towards have the best conversation, and the monks have the best the altar. I like the theology behind this gesture, even if it wine. feels a bit hocus pocus to see so many priests arranged

6 Messenger FEB 2015 7 Holy Trinity fifty years on Stories of Christmas Generosity The Revd David Atkinson | Priest-in-Charge Holy Trinity East Victoria Park Ian Carter AM | CEO Anglicare WA

ON SUNDAY 7 December, parishioners of East THE week before Christmas, I made Victoria Park-Bentley gathered at Holy Trinity Anglican a detour on the way to work via the Church to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. With Claremont Quarter shopping centre. scarcely a spare seat on the pews, the congregation I was there to collect donations made joined with Archbishop Roger Herft, Priest-in-Charge, as part of Hawaiian’s Gold Box Giving campaign. The Revd David Atkinson and local MP Mr Ben Wyatt Hawaiian – a Western Australian Property Group – with his family for the milestone service, which also had set up huge golden gift boxes in their shopping included the Confirmation and First Communion of centres around Perth and at the Cable Beach Club in several younger members. Broome. They had asked people to donate either food or toys into these boxes to be handed on to Food Bank and Anglicare WA respectively and then given to families in need to brighten their Christmas.

The results were utterly overwhelming. I came away from my first trip with seven trolleys loaded full of gifts, Situated on the corner of Washer and Whittlesford ranging from huge stuffed animals to sporting equipment Streets, East Victoria Park, Holy Trinity was built by the and battery-operated gadgets. The drive to the Anglicare church community. Apart from the bell tower, which was WA office was somewhat of a challenge with the stacks The Christmas spirit is rooted in generosity. On added in 1983, it has changed little over the years. lnside of toys blocking my rear-view mirror. can be found a magnificent array of English stained glass Christmas Day, we give gifts to our family and friends, windows by the renowned church glaziers Gowers and The Gold Box Giving Campaign provided Anglicare and share in meals, laughter and love. Not all families Brown, and the original altar from the earlier St Aidan's WA with over 3,500 toys for families who could not have the means to enjoy such a Christmas, but with Church. necessarily afford gifts at Christmas. Food Bank received the selflessness demonstrated by so many Western over 2,000 kilograms of food, which translates roughly Australians this holiday season, we have been able Holy Trinity is particularly proud of its multi-cultural to 3,600 meals. All up more than 7,000 people had their to bring that little bit more joy into the lives of many Shane Than with his parents and fellow confirmees congregation. Many of its members hail from African and Christmas brightened by the campaign: a truly inspiring families. Asian countries, and there has been a strong Burmese effort. Holy Trinity was dedicated on 12 December 1964, when presence at the church for many years. In addition to the The Revd Leslie Evans realised his dream of building "one usual Sunday morning services, there is a further service Other than Claremont Quarter, the donations came from proper church" to replace the parish's two older and much in Burmese at 5.00pm on the third Sunday of every Carillon City, Melville Plaza, the Park Centre, Hawaiian’s smaller churches, St Aidan's and St John's. The Revd month. Bassendean and Noranda Shopping Villages, the Mezz, Evans, a Welshman, named the new church after the one London House, Parmelia House, and the Cable Beach he attended in his home town of Pwll, South Wales. New members are always welcome at Holy Trinity as the Club in Broome. church looks forward to serving the Anglican community of East Victoria Park and Bentley for another fifty years. This is just one example of the tremendous depth of generosity we have seen over the Christmas period.

Our Christmas Giving Program for 2014 has been very successful as individuals, families, and organisations t from a star low have come together to support their communities. The es $1 ric 3, program uses donated funds to offer families engaged P 99 9 in our programs – families who are often under financial strain – vouchers to use in any way they choose to make their Christmas that bit more special. A number of Anglican parishes got involved, too. The parishes of Greenwood, Kingsley North-Woodvale, Woodlands- Wembley Downs, Bull Creek, Dianella, Morley-Noranda, Mount Pleasant and Como-Manning all gave generously. Local schools also helped out including Beaconsfield Primary, John Wollaston Anglican Community School, St Mary’s Anglican Girls School, and Sir David Brand School. The Anglican Schools Commission, through their E-Card campaign, raised $2000. Our annual Christmas appeal has raised just under $130,000, which will be used to fund services that help homeless young people, women and children escaping domestic violence, families in financial stress, and other vulnerable members of our community. 8 Messenger FEB 2015 9 Lenten longings Excellent practices of hospitality The Revd Dr David Wood The Revd Dr Elizabeth Smith | Mission Development Coordinator

LENT is right around the corner, and Lent is not for But what if Lent is time for un-focus rather than focus, ALL our parish churches would say email addresses and mobile phone numbers as well God. Lent is for us. God will do quite well without time to get lost in order to find our way, time to relax, that we aspire to be “welcoming.” as the name and address. You could design the page Lent, but we will probably not do well. We need Lent to let go and let God? What if the seven weeks leading The people who have successfully so that half of it can be torn off, to give back to the to Easter come as gift rather than burden, a surprising as an annual dose of reality, calling us away from joined our congregations probably say that when newcomer so that they have basic contact information grace we can welcome and enjoy, demanding less of charades, calling us into real life. This is why Lent is they first arrived, they “felt welcomed”. But what for the parish: website, Facebook page, bank details a time of repentance and reconciliation - time to turn us rather than more? What if Lent comes along like an for giving, names and contact phone numbers for key accident in which our glasses a knocked off our nose, triggers the feeling of being welcomed? Feelings around, time to turn back, time to take stock, time parish programmes. All this says “we look forward to interrupting habitual ways of reading the world, spoiling are not produced by other people’s aspirations, but for facing ourselves and each other squarely, time to seeing you again.” proud attempts to direct and control, making us stumble rather by those people’s actions and words. Faces, rediscover God who lives in human flesh, who pitches and fumble in endearingly human ways, so that we must body language, words, signs and systems matter. And DO respond promptly to the information that a tent in our hearts, who tabernacles among us, who reach out to one another and to God in frailty and in newcomers and visitors give you. In the following week, walks with us on broken feet. need? So a congregation that wants to grow needs to have a visit is wonderful, a phone call is excellent, an email is Even saying this much is dangerous, however, because not only high aspirations, but also excellent practices For it is only when we recognise our blindness, when good, and a repeat invitation by any of these methods is it appeals so readily to our restlessness activism. Being of hospitality. What are the systematic, intentional, we realise that we can’t really see, that God can open priceless. the busy creatures we are, we naturally assume Lent is disciplined actions and words of hospitality that will our eyes and show us the way. It is only in poverty, when for trying harder, trying to do better, trying to be more make visitors and newcomers more likely to “feel we feel empty and hungry, that we can welcome the These are just a few of the practices of hospitality lovable, struggling to connect, striving for perfection. All welcomed”? Here are some “do’s” and “don’ts” from that will go a long way towards producing that elusive of us have used Lent this way in the past, seven weeks real riches on offer, for only now do we know our need my experience around the parishes over the past few feeling of welcome in our churches. More tips next to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, and we’re not of what is on offer. Ash Wednesday, like all the days years. month! deterred for a moment by the fact that it doesn’t work. to follow, is about genuineness and humility, which is another way of saying genuineness and humanity. The Not at all. We simply set out to make a better fist of it this DO put your best people on the door. Your best people time! rituals of the day are not to make us more religious, but to make us more human. Piety so easily becomes are the ones who are outgoing enough to smile at a pride, just another way of showing off. Almsgiving, stranger, offer their own name and ask the visitor’s name, yet who are also good-enough listeners to read concrete generosity towards others, can be turned to Anglican Church St Paul’s Beaconsfield self-promotion, scattering coins loudly to show how the newcomer’s face and body language, and to allow 162 Hampton Road Beaconsfield much I care, yet another attempt to impress. Posing and them space to respond to open questions without Professional Standards Committee striving are our enemies, and they will bring us down. swamping them. Your best people are the ones who can Providing a Healing Process for HERETICS ANONYMOUS Being ourselves, being real, trusting our instincts, relaxing put their own socialisation needs on hold, so that they Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Misconduct Hosted by The Reverend Dr John Shepherd enough to stop and look and listen, gives God the chance are not distracted by catching up with their best friends’ Wednesday evenings at 6:00 pm to do something with us. news in the porch, while strangers are passing by barely 4 February: “Is doubt essential to faith?” The Church acknowledges with regret that sexual So the ashes come to stop us in our tracks, dismantling noticed. 11 February: “The Church – does it have a future? abuse and misconduct has occurred in our Worshipping If so, what is it” the facades erected as protection, insisting on our DON’T put your great door people on any other rosters Communities. The Church also recognises the mortality, and part of what the ashes say is that they that day – not bible reading, not the intercessions, not impact it has had on children and adults and accepts These thought-provoking sessions explore the cannot save us. We are going to die. I am. You are. Its responsibility for the past occurrences. assisting with communion, not providing morning tea. fundamental realities and challenges of faith. only a question of when and how, and we will know They need to be completely free to concentrate on the The Professional Standards Committee operates when we are getting somewhere once threat turns to ASH WEDNESDAY people they have met at the door, not distracted by independently and investigates all complaints of sexual relief. It was said in ancient Greece that the immortal abuse and misconduct that have taken place within the 18 February at 6.00pm other duties. The smaller your congregation, the harder EUCHARIST with the IMPOSITION of ASHES gods envied human beings our mortality. They who Church or its associated organisations. would not die could not love with the same intensity as this is to achieve, as pretty much everyone is bound to WEDNESDAYS IN LENT we do. Neither could they see the world charged with have several jobs every Sunday. But excellent practices The Committee offers professional support that aims to bring healing, peace and closure for victims of sexual 6.00pm the same glory as we whose days are numbered. The of hospitality will help the congregation to grow so abuse and misconduct. Dr Shepherd will lead a series of studies on the differences Christian understanding is that God has broken the bonds that there will be more volunteers to carry the Sunday in the Gospel accounts of the Passion of Christ. of immortality. Our Lord comes to die with us. The burnt leadership load. 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10 Messenger FEB 2015 11 The Good News of Anglican Schools 30 Lead with humility YEARS Perth says farewell to Bishop Kay The Revd Peter Laurence | CEO Anglican Schools Commission WA 19 5 85 - 201

IN THE last edition of the Messenger, Chaplain’s office, meeting room, teaching space, storage, WHEN Fortune magazine announced its World’s things, correct I reflected on the good news that the toilet facilities and a quiet garden. The Principal, Ms Kerry Greatest Leaders 2014, the top spot went not to a little, cherish Anglican Schools Commission would Robertson, has said that “the Chapel will represent the some politician or captain of industry, but to the the brethren’, have four new schools in three states soul of the school and it is appropriate that it will be already rings by the beginning of 2015. Isn’t that located in the heart of the school”. new Pope who had spent most of his life working in the slums of Buenos Aires. In one year the former true in you, and fantastic news? Approximately 13,500 The construction and opening Cardinal Bergoglio had breathed new life into an can now be given wider scope. girls and boys will be educated in low-fee ASC schools of two large chapels in Anglican this year. Good news indeed. schools in the one year is aging institution, reinvigorating its global base, and A woman of the church. The newest Anglican unprecedented. At a time when refocussing its attention on core values and new ‘Bishop Kay is playful and prayerful.’ As the first woman school in Perth, St James’ churches across the western priorities. to be ordained priest in Australia, and later the first bishop, Anglican School at Alkimos, world are under pressure In a new book, Lead with Humility, published by the you know what it is to wait and to watch, to be invisible and opens this week with with ageing and declining American Management Association, Pope Francis’ twelve voiceless in the Christian community. You also know what over 150 students in its congregations, these two purpose-built worship facilities it takes to be gracious under pressure, and to be gracious foundation cohort. As the School opens, work also has embody Good News of a vibrant church ministering to leadership lessons are used as chapter headings: begun on construction of the Chapel of St James, which is young people in and through our schools. It is cause for 1. Lead with humility. when tables are turned, giving you a particular tenderness and concern for others living on the fringes or in the a joint project with the Diocese of Perth and the Parish of celebration that these two chapels are being constructed 2. Smell like your flock. shadows. Yanchep. Over the next six months, we will see a 250 seat on school campuses in this, the 30th anniversary year of 3. Who am I to judge? Chapel with adjacent side-chapel (the Chapel of St Helen), the founding of the Anglican Schools Commission. 4. Don’t change – reinvent. A generous and faithful friend. hall, kitchen and office facilities constructed on-site. The Beyond the ASC’s 14 schools, there are another 9 great ‘As a friend, Kay is safe, fun and available.’ Your heart and Chapel has been designed by DWA Architects and will be 5. Make inclusion a top priority. Anglican schools in WA faithfully offering quality education 6. Avoid insularity. home and table are open and hospitable. You delight in constructed by Metrocon Pty Ltd, who also built Stage and care, proclaiming the Good News and celebrating One of the school campus. 7. Choose pragmatism over ideology. feeding people, and feeding them with love. Behind the the faith through worship and service to others. All of scenes, planning a menu, in the kitchen, and serving, come The Chapel of St James reflects the growing sense of these schools have been doing so for decades, some for 8. Employ the optics of decision-making. as naturally and effortlessly as presiding over the meal itself, partnership and collaboration between our schools, local a century, and one for well over 150 years. Together, our 9. Run your organisation like a field hospital. parishes and dioceses. schools educate 25,000 students from pre-Kindergarten to 10. Live on the frontier. attentive to the needs of every guest. Construction of a Chapel at Frederick Irwin Anglican Year 12. 11. Confront adversity head-on. Pastor bonus. School in the Diocese of Bunbury will commence next We are privileged that so many families choose Anglican 12. Pay attention to non-customers. ‘With Bishop Kay life is never quiet or dull, she has month. Designed by Chris Oakley, who has been the schools to educate their daughters and sons, providing so The author turns this list to practical effect - remove walls been a wonderful leader and developer, compassionate, School’s architect since 1991, the new building will many opportunities, on a daily basis, to enrich their lives between yourself and your employees; get your executives courageous, creative, encouraging.’ Smell like the sheep, comprise a 350 person Chapel including mezzanine, with the Good News. to join you at the front desk or delivery truck; consider all says the pope, don’t be superior, don’t be foreign, live points of view and make decisions in consultation – not as among them, know them, let them know you. The bishop snap judgements; focus on enhancing people’s strengths, is bishop because the bishop is pastor, not the other way not fixing their weaknesses; break the habit of doing things around. the same old way; communicate with everyone, at every To a very good companion for the journey we say thank you level; surround yourself with truth-tellers, no matter how for all that has been. Go with our love, confident in all that painful it is to hear heartfelt criticism; shake up the status shall be. quo, and get out of your comfort zone. We thank Bishop Kay's colleagues who have contributed to Well, no pressure, Kay, but all this is demanded of you as this article. Bishop of Gippsland! Actually, of course, such expectations should not be overwhelming as most of this is already second nature to you thanks to the journey already travelled. Living in the real world. ‘At least no one can say I don’t live in the real world!’ Amen to that. School chaplains and parish priests do not live in ivory towers, but this is also true of you as bishop. You know the priority of facts over ideals in your own life and for those in your care. You do not shield yourself against the messiness and harshness of reality, just as you enter fully into delights and successes shared. Chaos is a place where you appear to flourish! Not a loner. ‘Bishop Kay is an active companion.’ You do not imagine you have all the answers, or even that you are asking the right questions. You know your limits. You know when you need help. You naturally work collaboratively, you welcome suggestions, ideas, corrections. As you graciously receive, so you graciously give of yourself. St Bernard’s advice to young abbots, ‘Notice everything, turn a blind eye to some 12 Messenger FEB 2015 13 ‘Caesarea Philippi’: Where is Good News to be found? Lifelong school for Christian wisdom The Revd Ryan Green | Rector Church of the Resurrection Swanbourne

THE Revd Dr Gregory Seach, at the University of Cambridge, as well as lecturing and WITH the words “the beginning But it is in chapter 8 where Jesus asks his disciples a the recently arrived Warden of supervising students at undergraduate and graduate of the good news of Jesus Christ, game-changing question: “who do you say I am?” that Wollaston Theological College, will levels, he was also Joint Co-ordinator, University the Son of God,” Mark’s Gospel Peter gives the earth-shattering response: “You are the be commissioned at a service in Vocations’ Group and Assistant Diocesan Director of exploded upon the scene in 1st century Judea, just Messiah.” Samuel Wells alerts us to the significance the Wollaston Chapel on Monday, 2 Ordinands, Diocese of Ely. as it explodes in our world today. Mark’s opening is of the name of the region where this declaration takes February, the Feast of the Presentation place, ‘the villages of Caesarea Philippi.’ Caesar is the As a means of introducing Dr Seach to the people of the a daring proclamation that interweaves three threads of the Christ in the Temple. name of the self-styled Roman saviour, protector and diocese, while also asking for prayers for his ministry, the to generate a good news unlike any other. The Board of the College, which has responsibility for deliverer of his people; and Philip is the name of the following remarks from his Personal Statement provided the oversight of all Theological Education, Formation creation Jewish puppet-king, the one who symbolises the failure when applying for the position are informative and The first thread is that of the narrative in the and Training programs in the diocese, is delighted to and compromise in which the people of God are now encouraging. book of Genesis. There – “in the beginning” – God have appointed as its senior officer such a fine priest - speaks into the darkness and the chaos and a world of living. Mark places the declaration of the good news visionary, well qualified, experienced, imaginative and In his introduction he wrote: “Nicholas Lash recently beauty, blessing and promise emerges. But this ancient of Jesus Christ right in the middle of this dangerous determined. bemoaned ‘a systematic failure of the Christian narrative is not just an abstract theological reflection but political landscape. churches to understand themselves as schools of a political counter-narrative of cosmic proportions in the Dr Seach, an Australian priest, ordained in the Diocese Perhaps Caesar can be seen in our contemporary Christian wisdom: as richly endowed projects of lifelong face of Babylonian ascendancy. Babylon’s own creation of , joins us from the United Kingdom where world in the narratives that dominate and shape our education.’ (Nicholas Lash, Holiness, Speech and myths were full of violence, where the warring gods he completed his PhD “‘Wholly Attending’: Theological lives. Perhaps Caesar can be seen in an economics Silence: Reflections on the Question of God). Early in the symbolised the might of Babylon itself. But the “good Thinking after Dietrich Bonhoeffer and D. H. Lawrence” at of affluence where we are so well-off that even our twenty-first century, I believe it is vital for the church to news” of Genesis is that the world wasn’t conceived the University of Cambridge with Professors David Ford, own pain is not noticed. Perhaps Caesar can be seen rediscover its role as a just such a school for Christian through violent struggle or military might, but rather that Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge, in a politics of oppression in which the cries of the wisdom. Most of my working life and ordained ministry God spoke it forth in peace and blessing. and Ben Quash, Professor of Christianity and the has been attempting to contribute to this ‘lifelong school marginalised are simply not heard, or quickly dismissed Arts, King’s College, London. Subsequently in 2008 of Christian wisdom.’ Central to this vision of the church The second thread is taken from the prophet Isaiah, as the cries of traitors or the crazed. And perhaps Dr Seach was appointed Dean, Fellow and Director of is educated clergy and lay people who can encourage, whose hope-filled poetry and praise coined the term Philippi can be seen in a religion of accessibility where Studies in Theology, at Clare College. During his time equip and inspire other members of the Church to ‘give “good news” in the first place. The people of God are God is so present to us as to be almost useless, an account of the hope that is within’ (c.f. I Peter 3: 15), lost in exile, seemingly cut off from the promises of God domesticated to such a degree that abrasion and while also doing that themselves.” that were meant to have been found in temple, king and challenge can no longer be heard. And even in the sacred city. God has been banished from history as a church itself, perhaps we find ourselves still enthralled Toward the end of his Statement Dr Seach explained: triumphant Babylon rejoices in its own decadence. And by such narratives, either belief in the “good news” of Caesar, where the church is seen as healthy, wealthy “One excitement of the proposed position is to take part, yet the prophet speaks. Even in this barren place where with others, in shaping a sense of theological education all hope seems lost, a new audacious proclamation is and wise, and God is only revealed in its triumphalism, for all God’s people in the Diocese of Perth – encouraging made: “Get you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of easy management and success; or locked in the failed all the baptised to explore in what their vocations may good tidings; lift up your voice with strength… say to the story of Philippi where church has become little more lie. Making contact with parishes, bodies and groups cities of Judah, ‘Here is your God!’ ” (Isaiah 40.9). This than an embarrassment of yesterday and we limp along throughout the diocese – and sending ordinands, is a word of pure good news, as God leads his people in failure, disillusion and despair. home again. theological students, staff of the College, examining It seems that we need another Genesis moment, Chaplains and others into different places once or twice The third thread is the “good news” of imperial Rome another homecoming after exile, another counter- a year on ‘Vocations’ Sunday’, to raise awareness of itself. In the world of Jesus and his first disciples Rome narrative to believe in, the “good news” that only Jesus that baptismal vocation, to encourage all, therefore, to was the new Babylon, rejoicing in its triumph, seemingly can offer us. As demanding as it seems, the good consider to what ministry God is calling them… [all this] unstoppable militarily, culturally, politically. But Mark news is finally to be found in the dying and rising of this is part of the teaching mission of the Church. This means sets up his counter-claim right at the outset of his man; the “magnificent defeat” of the crucified Christ being able – having the tools, training and confidence – to writing, claiming the “good news” for someone other where God’s way is revealed as that of dying in order preach the gospel… Theological education for the whole for another to live; in the crucifixion of all our desires for people of God must give God’s people such ‘means’ – than Caesar. This is dangerously subversive, as Mark success, control, dominance, significance and power; in and that entails the Church rediscovering its vocation as a is telling his readers that it is not Rome that is at the the paradoxical truth that “those who want to save their school for lifelong learning, and the willingness and skills epicentre of meaning and significance in the world, but life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, to impart that.” this figure Jesus who is soon to be broken on the cross, left deserted and alone. But what kind of “good news” and for the sake of the gospel will save it” (Mark 8.35). God has been gracious and generous in bringing The is this? Beyond our frantic need to tell our stories of significance Revd Dr Gregory Seach to lead and encourage us in the and triumph, and beyond our fears of failure and despair, part of God’s vineyard which is the Diocese of Perth. Let Despite the promising beginnings of his Gospel, the good news of Christ comes to us as pure gift, in the us greet him with all the joy, hope and love that comes Mark then plunges us into a narrative of false-starts, one who dies and lives to show us God’s way, the costly with maturity of faith and eagerness for mission and incredulity, suspicion, betrayal and death, where the way of love. ministry. truth of Jesus’ identity is questioned again and again.

14 Messenger FEB 2015 15 Cursillo at the Cathedral Maori in Perth and at Gallipolli

Y POR eso los grandes amores, De muchos colores the Anglican Diocese of Canberra- IN THE Diocese of Perth there are Anglicans from the Anglican Church in [sic] Australia. me gustan a mí: ‘And that is why I love the great loves Goulburn had all embraced it. From every inhabited continent on earth. For some the Removal to leaves of many colours’. This is the chorus of the song of Canberra-Goulburn it began to be move to the Anglican Church of Australia is easy, an enormous cultural void in the praise, ‘De Colores’, which has been adopted by the taken up around Australia. particularly if they have come from a province of the lives of Maori people with no family Cursillo Movement worldwide. Communion where English is the principal language. infrastructure or Marae support. The The Anglican Cursillo Movement provision of a church congregation ‘Cursillo’ is Spanish for ‘little course’, in this case a little It is harder for those who are used to worshipping was introduced to the Diocese of Perth in September goes some way to filling this gap by course in Christianity (‘Cursillo de Cristiandad’). The world- in another language to feel liturgically ‘at home’ in 1992, when a team of nearly forty people from the providing a platform of pastoral care wide movement which goes by this name originated as English. Brisbane Diocese traveled to Perth at their own expense. for the Maori population.” a technique for the training of lay people as pilgrimage During the course of one month, they ran four Cursillos, leaders, in Spain in the 1940s. two men’s and two women’s, at the Wollaston Centre One of the good news stories of our Diocese is the This year is particularly important for for Christian Spirituality at Mount Claremont. There are growing provision of worship in languages other than all New Zealanders, seeing the centenary of the ANZACs’ The form is that of a three-day weekend, with talks by now nearly 2500 people in over 120 parishes in Western English. For many years there has been worship in Dinka, arrival at Gallipoli. 2,779 New Zealanders, about a fifth of lay people or clergy, Christian worship, shared meals, Australia who have attended a Cursillo. Bari, and other Sudanese languages. Arabic. For just over all those who had landed, perished there. Among them and conversation, in which the participant can find space two years there have been formal Anglican services in were men of the Maori ‘Native Contingent’. for personal spiritual growth. The ‘fourth day’ is the time At 5pm on Sunday 22 February those who have attended Maori; though for more than twenty years prior, Maori back ‘in the world’, where the cursillisto’s faith is to be a Cursillo (‘cursillistos’ and ‘cursillistas’) gather at St people have been holding tangihanga (funerals) and other The Native Contingent landed at Anzac Cove on 3 July lived out. A reunion with other cursillistos and cursillistas, George’s Cathedral for a special service giving thanks pastoral services in their own homes. 1915, where they joined the New Zealand Mounted called an ‘ultreya’, is an important part of the ongoing for all that Cursillo has brought them, to pray for the Rifles. But there had been some Maori soldiers there Christian formation engendered in the Cursillo itself. work of Cursillo in the Diocese, and to enjoy an ultreya- The parish of Rockingham is home to a Maori-speaking from April, who had enlisted in regular units. Among them like reunion at the reception following. This is an ideal congregation, where the Reverend Kaua Tuhura, with the was Thomas ‘Hami’ Grace (pictured), son of Lawrence The movement began in the 1940s in Spain and by the opportunity for those seeking to know more about blessing of the Rector, Bishop Peter Brain, and of the Grace and Henerieta Kahui, of Pukawa, Lake Taupo. Hami 1950s had spread to the United States, first only among Cursillo to meet with those who are engaged, and to find Archbishop, ministers liturgically and pastorally. was killed in action on 8 August 1915, aged 25, and is Spanish-speaking people, but later more generally. By out more about what Cursillo experiences are offered buried in Chukuk Bair Cemetery. the 1970s the Episcopal Church of the USA (now The Stuart Hartley, a co-ordinator of events relating to Maori here this year in the Diocese of Perth. Episcopal Church), the Anglican Church in Canada, and culture, says: At 5pm on Sunday 8 February, the Sunday closest to “We aim to provide church services with an emphasis on Waitangi Day, Hami and the other New Zealanders who using the Maori language and cultural idiom – similar to fell at Gallipoli will be remembered at a Commemorative those available in New Zealand – but in association with Service at St George’ s Cathedral. The Valour of the Valleys

WILLIE Williams was the son of John and Kate of Russell's Top, and Williams, of Blaenau Festiniog, near Bangor, in North the Battle of Hill 60. Born Bad: Original Sin and the Making of the Western World by James Boyce Wales. He lies buried in Lala Baba Cemetery on the Four days later a much Gallipoli peninsula. He was 19 years old. His epitaph larger contingent of Welsh troops landed translates ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord’ IN THE 21st Century why would anyone write a book of original sin had worked its at Suvla Bay – the 53rd (Revelation 14:13). about original sin? The only way to answer that way into the human psyche. Division. Among these Philosophers, politicians, were the Royal Welsh question is to read James Boyce's fascinating book In this Gallipoli centenary year, it is fitting that the RSL, economists, psychologists, Fusiliers, in which Born Bad. assisted by State and Federal Governments, is focusing lawyers all used the Willie Williams served, James is a lucid and frequently amusing writer who our attention on those 8,709 Australians who lost their acceptance of the inherent and the 4th and 5th Battalion Welsh Regiment. These follows the influence of this most unchristian of lives at Gallipoli serving in the Australia and New Zealand badness of humankind as saw action at Suvla, at Sari Bair, and at Scimitar Hill. By Christian doctrines from St Augustine to the present Army Corps (ANZAC). The principal commemorations will a basis for shaping their December of that year 53rd Division, with immense day. He examines the debate Augustine began, its be on and near ANZAC Day (25 April – the anniversary of teaching. the ANZACs’ landing on the peninsula). casualties, due to combat, disease, and foul weather consideration by the early church and the way in which conditions, was reduced to 15% of its strength. On it was understood by the leaders of the Reformation. He Looking at more recent But the ANZACs were not the only armed force to suffer 11 December the Welsh were evacuated to Egypt. reviews the spread of Catholicism and Protestantism thinkers, Boyce brings tragic loss of life in that fateful campaign. 34,072 British from Europe to the rest of the world and watches Freud and Spock and At 5pm on St David’s Day, Wales’ national day, Sunday soldiers perished too. As more than 10% of Western the doctrine's impact on the way Europeans chose to geneticist Dawkins under 1 March, a solemn commemoration of the Welsh who Australians are British-born (the British are our largest represent themselves to indigenous peoples and the way his searchlight. Born Bad is perished at Gallipoli is held at St George’s Cathedral, immigrant group) it is fitting that these too are honoured in which they chose to govern both themselves and their a good read! in this centenary year. On St David’s Day, 1 March it is the together with the Welsh Free Church of Perth, and Welsh indigenous conquests. Welsh among them who will be commemorated. Western Australians of no particular religious affiliation. You'll have a chance to listen to Boyce when he visits The Cathedral displays part of WA’s section of the ‘5000 Although the Enlightenment shed doubt on many Perth during the Writers Festival in February 2015. The ANZACs had been fighting since April when, on 5 Poppies’ project (actually 60, 000 knitted or crocheted Christian teachings, Boyce illustrates how the doctrine August 1915, the 8th (Service) Battalion (Welsh Pioneers), poppies nationally), Last Post and Reveille are sounded, Reviewed by Frances Maber formed in Cardiff the previous year, landed at ANZAC and the two minute silence honours the fallen. Cove and was to fight in the Battle of Sari Bair, the Battle 16 Messenger FEB 2015 17 Ashes embraced, life restored February 2015 News

The Right Revd Allan Ewing | Bishop of Bunbury Appointments/Commissionings The Reverend Dr Gregory Seach Warden, Wollaston Theological College Commissioning Monday, 2 February 2015 at 6.30pm THE rituals which mark the beginning The ashes are the witness to this, for they come from 5 Wollaston Road, Mt Claremont of Lent are deeply moving. There the Palm Crosses of Palm Sunday. The branches waved The Reverend Canon Richard Pengelley Dean, St George’s Cathedral is, for me, a profound sense of for joy and excitement at the arrival Jesus in Jerusalem Installation Wednesday 4 February 2015 at 7.00pm St George’s Cathedral, Perth Good News as the grit of ash is traced with a gentle have become the dried-out fuel for ashes, repentance The Reverend Debora Spencer -in-Charge, Wembley roughness into my forehead. This smudged sign of and renewed life. The branches themselves embody something of human frailty. They were a sign of welcome Commissioning Thursday 5 February 2015 at 7.00pm the Cross, an expression of faith fleetingly visible, St Edmund’s, 54 Pangbourne Street, Wembley and have now been gathered from a drawer perhaps, or signifies far more than marked-off attendance at an The Reverend John Clapton Priest-in-Charge, Balcatta-Hamersley the back of a cupboard, brittle and redundant, the hopes act of worship. Commissioning Saturday 7 February 2015 at 4.30pm of welcome dried out by the journeyings of the past year. Holy Cross, Cnr Glendale Avenue and For the few hours I wear this outward sign of faith, Aintree Street, Hamersley indistinct and unintelligible to many who see it, my very When we make this reminder of past promise and falling The Reverend Dr David Wood Rector, Fremantle short a sign of recommitment, these failures can be being bears witness to my inner commitment to once Commissioning Sunday 8 February 2015 at 6.00pm again turn to Christ. put behind us. The experience of Lent is always to be a St John’s, Kings Square, Adelaide Street, Fremantle renewed journey towards the light of Christ, full of hope The very messiness of it reflects the messiness of life; The Reverend Katrina Holgate Priest-in-Charge, Guildford and promise. The Good News of Jesus Christ calls us to Commissioning Monday 9 February 2015 at 6.30pm most of us do not live neatened lives without regret go to the Cross-and to resurrection, to denial, betrayal and St Matthew’s, Stirling Square, Guildford or error. Misjudgements and mistakes colour our lives death, and then to be raised from our own failings into Bishop Kay Goldsworthy Farewell Evensong Sunday 15 February 2015 at 5.00pm and our relationships, for we are not perfect. Every restored relationship with God. St George’s Cathedral, Perth relationship is touched: with God, of course, but with Locum Tenens neighbour, spouse, partner, parent and child as well. This is the Good News of darkness then light, falling then The Reverend Bill Hawley Hollywood Private Hospital 28.12.14 – 04.01.15 restoration; and this is the Good News that I wear on Ash There is not one relationship where we always say the The Reverend Paul Monash Lakelands 09.01.15 - 30.06.15 Wednesday. A mark there for a season, only visible for a right word, knowing exactly when to speak and when to The Reverend Peter Llewellyn Northam, York and Quairading 11.01.15 – 10.01.16 remain silent, when to reach out and when to hold back. few hours, a mark that proclaims that in the ashes of my The Reverend Ron Ross Canning 01.02.15 – 30.10.15 own failings is a sign my turning to Christ and to the Good The Reverend Michael Mateljan Joondalup 10.02.15 – 30.04.15 News of life restored. PTO The Reverend Eira Clapton 01.12.14 The Reverend Kaye Mould 10.12.14 The Reverend Chris Albany 18.12.14 The Reverend Judy Clay 01.01.15 February 2015 Purple Patch The Reverend Paul Monash 05.01.15 The Reverend Karen Arnold 15.01.15 01 Archbishop St George’s Cathedral The Reverend Sally Buckley 18.01.15 Bishop Kay North Perth The Reverend David Goch 09.02.15 Resignations Bishop Jeremy Gingin-Chittering The Reverend Judy Clay Associate Priest, Northam 31.12.14 and Toodyay-Goomalling Archbishop Quinns-Butler 08 The Reverend Katrina Holgate Assistant Priest, Highgate 31.12.14 Bishop Tom Claremont The Reverend Ryan Green Rector, Swanbourne 28.02.15 Bishop Kay Lynwood-Langford-Ferndale The Right Reverend Kay Goldsworthy Assistant Bishop of Perth 15.03.15 The Reverend Dr David Skirving Assistant Priest, Dalkeith 31.03.15 Bishop Jeremy Mundaring The Venerable Peter Bourne Rector, Northam and 27.04.15 Toodyay-Goomalling, Archdeacon of Avon 15 Archbishop Scarborough The Reverend Ross Kilpatrick Area Dean, Gnangara Deanery Bishop Tom City Beach RIP Bishop Kay Mt Pleasant The Reverend Roger Blakeway 30.11.14 Bishop Jeremy Beverley-Brookton The Reverend Anna Cullen 14.12.14 The Reverend John McDonald 02.01.15 22 Archbishop Willagee-Kardinya Bishop Tom Environment Network About Terry Ranson Conference, Capetown Bishop Kay St Gregory’s Chinese MANY readers will remember The Revd Terry been put on a website which has been created in his Congregation Chinese New Year Ranson who was Senior Chaplain of the Missions to memory. To view the website, go to: Thanksgiving Dinner Seafarers and State Secretary of the Society from https://sites.google.com/site/revdterryranson/. It is Bishop Jeremy West Perth, Chinese New Year 1979 to 1991. Terry died early in 2014 and left behind a intended to continue adding further sermons to the site. large collection of sermons. Some of these have now

18 Messenger FEB 2015 19 To hell and back Thirty years of blessing The Revd William Thomas | St Bart’s Chaplain Cameron Herbert | Principal St Mark’s Anglican Community School

RECENTLY I mentioned to a resident After an extended stay on the psychiatric ward she was that I was writing a good news story able to secure accommodation at one of St Bart’s CSRUs for the Messenger. As we chatted she (Community Supported Residential Units). With the help of St Bart’s staff she was able to live independently for said she was a good news candidate the first time in years. Slowly she is getting her life back and went on to tell her story. together. She shares a unit with another woman and she Earlier in her life, she had had it all. Well, “all” in the is able to set her own routine. She has control of her secular sense. She had a good job, a house, a loving medication, knows what she needs to take and when. ST MARK’S Anglican Community School was The St Mark’s Timeline family and good health. She loved the life she was living. She also is able to discuss with her doctor any effects the She was a loving mother and looked forward to being a medication is having on her. established in 1986 on a spacious 11 hectare site 1986 – The School opens on 4 February with an initial in the coastal suburb of Hillarys. St Mark’s was the grandmother. She is still unable to walk unaided, but the unit she has enrolment of 240 students in Pre-Primary, Years 1, 2 and Then she became unwell. I am not sure of her is set out to meet her needs. The staff at the CSRU take first of the Anglican Schools Commission schools, 3 and Year 8, under the guidance of Foundation Principal, medical condition, but as her physical health started to her and other residents shopping and on outings in the St created to meet the demand for an affordable, quality Mrs Barbara Godwin. deteriorate, so did her life. Slowly she lost her job as she Bart's bus. She can also travel off-site using the specialist education with a strong Christian emphasis. 1989 – The School’s first Library and the Administration was unable to work. With long periods in hospital, her taxis. St Mark’s has grown significantly since those early days, block opens. relationship broke down, ending in divorce. The loss of During the conversation she said she had been to hell her marriage meant the loss of her house and, as she and is now home to 1,580 students from Kindergarten to 1990 – The School Hall opens. In 2014, the Hall is named and back but now she likes her life. She had lost so much, Year 12. was still unwell, she lost guardianship of her children. In a suffered so much, but had come through life's trials for the School’s first employee, Bursar, Mr Ken Fairfield. few short years she lost all that was precious to her. stronger, knowing more of her own abilities. St Mark’s has been blessed with strong leadership from 1990 – The first group of students complete Year 12. The loss and the grief brought on mental health issues the outset, with the School thriving under the guidance There are many others with similar stories at St Bart’s, 1991 – The Old Scholars’ Association is established. which required her to be admitted to a psychiatric people who have been through struggles most of us of Foundation Principal, Mrs Barbara Godwin, and her hospital. Her physical illness had left her incapable of would never understand. One of the old guys said that his successor, Mr Anthony Stopher. The School continues to 1993 – St Mark’s students achieve the School’s first walking unaided and her mental health had left her unable life had gone from chocolate to boiled lollies and back to flourish, largely owing to the outstanding people we find General Exhibition prizes to find suitable accommodation. She saw herself as chocolate. While he had certainly had struggles in his life, in our parent group, our student body and our staff. 1993 – The Barbara Godwin Performing Arts Complex trapped, not being able to take control of her life. This is he was now able to enjoy the good things in life. As an where life began to change for her. organisation St Bartholomew’s House Inc. is a very Good It is significant that the school’s new five year Strategic opens. News Story of the Anglican Church. Plan was launched at the start of a milestone year for the 1999 – The Chapel of St Mark and St Luke opens. school. 2002 – Primary School expansion as The Early Learning The current educational landscape is incredibly exciting Centre opens. and dynamic, so it is vital that schools plan with care FreshSharing look between for St Peter’sparishes in Byford and Kwinana and vision. The cornerstone of teaching and learning at 2002 – Mr Anthony Stopher is commissioned as the St Mark’s has always been to provide our students with School’s second Principal. AlanLyn Wheeler Gray & The Revd Georgie Hawley opportunities to grow in in character and to develop a set 2006 – The Len King Sports Pavilion opens. of values and skills that will help guide them through life, 2009 – Middle Schooling (Year 7 to 9) commences with based on sound Christian principles. THE parishes of Kwinana and Sepentine-Jarrahdale members of the craft group, enjoyed a couple of hours Year 7 students transitioning to Secondary School in had much fun, goodwill and shared faith assisting making cards and gift bags for the December Christmas Recognising the growing maturity of St Mark’s purpose built facility. each other in community and fund raising activities Fete at Kwinana. catchment area, the three key priority areas in the 2010 – The new Primary School buildings open. during the latter part of 2014. school’s new Strategic Plan (2015-2019) are: (1) increasing A week or so before the craft afternoon, a party of A small party of 2013 – Mr Cameron Herbert is commissioned as the parishioners from Serpentine-Jarrahdale had joined us the academic ethos of St Mark’s; (2) reducing class sizes parishioners from School’s third Principal. at All Saints for the annual Melbourne Cup luncheon. (but increasing the number of classes) in the Primary All Saints, Kwinana A priest who shall be nameless wore an outrageously School; and (3) increasing our emphasis on the arts, 2013 – The refurbishment of the Barbara Godwin including auctioneer wonderful hat. The hat judge, St Aidan’s Revd Lorna, creativity and innovation. Performing Arts Complex and the Early Learning Centre is extraordinaire, decided with no clergy bias that one of the awards should Pauline Hardidge, St Mark’s has already undertaken a number of key steps completed. going to her unnamed colleague for such flamboyance! travelled to St to implement the plan, and we are looking forward to 2013 – The new Tony Stopher Library and Information Aidan's in Byford in In December, the Christmas Fete at All Saints’ was a watching it begin to unfold during the course of our Centre is opened. October to assist great success and we were grateful for the wealth of thirtieth year. 2015 – The School celebrates its 30th year. with their first parish donated goods, auction. The Revd money and produce Lorna Green and from all parishioners Linda Naris from the and community Parish of Serpentine-Jarrahdale, together with a very hard members. working team, collected, sorted and set up a vast array of excellent wares for auction. Pauline, in her inimitable Fund raising is a style, helped raise a goodly amount for Serpentine- fact of life for most Jarrahdale parish and community funds with much fun parishes. Sharing and laughter to boot. between parishes our talents, gifts In November, Julia Craigs, Craft Coordinator at St and good humour Aidan's, returned the favour, bringing to All Saints’ a has helped us all to understand how valuable shared wealth of knowledge and a fine selection of Christmas resources are and, more importantly how faith underpins card materials. Nineteen women (we couldn't entice the all our activities. fellas!) from Kwinana parish and community, including 20 Messenger FEB 2015 21 Our Rich Liturgical Heritage 26 Prayer, dialogue, faith Bishop Peter Brain The Very Revd Richard Pengelley | Dean of Perth

I BEGIN my ministry as the Dean of with what Monica Furlong calls, “the problem of prayer.” Perth with mixed feelings. On the one Our first and consistent response as Christians must be hand I am very excited. I have just had prayer. In our worship, private lives and conversations, my faith in humanity enriched by a prayer opens up connections and possibilities beyond the two week service trip to Cambodia in December with ordinary. It names, holds, intercedes to God and often year 11 and 12 students from Christ Church Grammar heals that which is hurting or broken. School and St Mary’s Anglican Girls’ School. It is a Our other responses as Anglican communities and wonderful thing to see young people from rather individuals might include dialogue with those whose privileged backgrounds give up some of their holidays beliefs are different to our own; speaking out against and a lot of themselves to help children who live in prejudice and injustice; offering to “ride” with those abject poverty. The exchange of educational skills, who suffer (like the lovely #I’ll RideWithYou social media cultural understanding, laughter and love is a joy to campaign in support of Muslims after the Lindt café behold. siege); and working actively to address the causes of the Unfortunately while we were there, the awful situation rise of terrorism in ours and every culture. in the Lindt café in Sydney unfolded, the eight children FATHER, we offer ourselves to you as a living you hungry and feed you?” they revealed their habitual But above all, I believe we are called have faith – faith in in Cairns were murdered (seven perhaps by their own sacrifice through Jesus Christ our Lord. Send us out pattern of sacrificial living. David Livingstone expressed God, faith in humanity, faith in ourselves and faith in the mother), the cricketer Phillip Hughes died and soon after this paradox when he said “I never made a sacrifice. We future. Marcus Borg, in his book The Heart of Christianity: in the power of your Spirit to live and work to your we returned, another plane fell from the sky and the ought not to talk of ‘sacrifice’ when we remember the Rediscovering a Life of Faith, defines faith in a number of praise and glory. atrocities in Paris, Peshawar and Nigeria were committed. great sacrifice which he made who left his throne on high ways one of which is fiducia or complete trust. He likens These now familiar words from the end of our What are we to make of these events? What does our to give himself for us”. it to falling back into the ocean on a hot day, confident Communion services are reminiscent of the BCP post- Anglican Christian faith say to them? What meaning of being held, refreshed and floating in the trust of the communion prayer, “here we offer and present to you, O West Coast Eagles Brownlow medallist, Matt Priddis, can we make, what actions might we take, and how do Divine. Lord, ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, when asked about the sacrifices he had made as a we reassure people, especially our vulnerable young, in holy and living sacrifice.” They reflect Romans 12:1-2 and the wake of the fear, grief, bewilderment and sadness So, yes, my feelings are mixed as I begin this exciting footballer remarked simply, “I’ve always thought of it as a new adventure, but I set out with confidence in the encapsulate the only proper response we ought to make that emerge? These are heavy thoughts as I look to the life choice not a sacrifice.” cathedral community, the wider Anglican communion to God for his mercy showered upon us through Christ. ministries that the cathedral might have to offer. and the love of God to bring healing and hope in these We Christians, who have been called and chosen to play Clearly we are a place of prayer; for the faithful, the The notion of sacrifice is an almost foreign concept troubled times. [Matthew 11:28-30] in a team of infinitely more importance than any local or lost, those of no or little faith and those truly wrestling amongst us western Christians and we are privileged national team, to represent the Lord of lords and King to be reminded that this is in fact our calling if we are of kings must learn from this attitude if we are going to to in any fashion emulate Christ. Our Reformers, in our make any difference to our world drowning under the Communion services, were very wise in separating our excesses of its own self-indulgence. This is why our Lord Circles of faith Lord’s unique, once and for all sacrifice of himself on does not call us to be Christians but disciples who daily John Proud the cross from our responsive sacrifice. Nothing we can take up our cross. Former English cricket captain and ever do can either save us merit, grace or improve our wealthy Cambridge graduate, CT Studd, famously said THERE was a certain circularity about the centenary standing before God. Articles of Religion 10 to 14 make and then proved in practice: “if Jesus Christ be God and celebrations for St Peter’s Church, Jennapullin. The this very plain. We are saved by the grace of God in Christ died for me, no sacrifice can be too great for me to make church’s foundation stone was laid on 16 December and new birth from the Holy Spirit. However, the grace for him”. which saves us is for the purpose of works which reflect 1914 and the completed building was consecrated on our Father’s likeness and our joyful involvement in the Sacrifice is to be the way of every Christian. The words 23 June 1915. family business of building up God’s kingdom. following our remembrance of Christ’s unique sacrifice Archbishop presided on both occasions. for us and our receiving from him at the Table are timely After his consecration sermon, the hymn ‘The Church’s The apostle Paul makes this link clear in his marvellous reminders to go out into the world and invest ourselves in One Foundation’ was sung. statement: “therefore I urge you brothers and sisters, sacrificial service. In God’s economy dividends and riches in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living This was the opening hymn on are gained only when we give ourselves to imitating and Saturday, 13 December 2014 at a sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God-this is your proper gloryifying Christ. service to celebrate the church’s worship as rational beings. Do not conform any longer centenary. Assistant Bishop of Perth to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the The words of Archbishop John Sentamu of York are full presided. Bishop of challenge to us on this score. He says: “the scandal The 150-plus crowd outside St Peter’s Jennapullin after the centenary renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test Jeremy was ordained at St John’s in eucharist on 13 December (photo credit: Angie Roe Photography) and approve what God’s will is - his good, pleasing and of the church is that the Christ event is no longer life Northam by then Archbishop Peter perfect will.” (Rom. 12:1-2) changing, it has become life enhancing. We’ve become Carnley, and his first appointment was St Peter’s stands on a prominence some 16 kilometres consumers of religion and not disciples of Christ.” as curate in the parish. from Northam, just off the Goomalling Road. It was built There is to be a joy about sacrifice since it is not anything of stone by local contractor Jesse Moore at a cost of 750 we do either out of fear of God or in order to curry his Smorgasbord discipleship is sadly alive and well in our (L-R) Mabel Smith, The Northam Courier reported on pounds. Farmers brought the stone to the site. favour. It is the joy of responding with all that we have western churches. We choose what we will do and with Lorna Beard and 18 December 1914 that in 40.5°C heat Mrs Morrell, from a well-known local family, donated the to the One who gave his all for us. It is like a PS that whom we will do it. This is not the way of Christ who Colin Smith cut well over 150 people attended the laying land on which the church stands. the centenary simply says “thank you.” This unassuming joy is seen calls us to much nobler things. Sacrifice marks him out of the foundation stone by Mr George cake watched by Martin, one of the oldest members of St Peter’s parishioner Trevor Smith has offered to buy in the response of the “sheep” in our Lord’s parable of and continues to be the way he so clearly works sin out Bishop Jeremy the church and superintendent of the the church and maintain it as a place of worship. Parish of us, delivers to us deep joy and makes his ways known James (photo the judgement. When they exclaimed “when did we see Sunday school. On 13 December 2014, Council has supported the offer and has forwarded it to the world he has recruited us to serve. credit: Angie Roe to the Diocese of Perth, so it seems St Peter’s church Photography) more than 150 people attended to building will have a future. 22 Messenger celebrate and enjoy country hospitality. FEB 2015 23 BOOKS REVIEWS | SHIRLEY CLAUGHTON

THE JOURNEY: JOURNEYING WITH MARK: The book is full of imaginative insights based on THE LENT FACTOR: FORTY WITH JESUS TO JERUSALEM LECTIONARY YEAR B scholarship and historical knowledge. These help us COMPANIONS FOR THE AND THE CROSS BRINGING THE GOSPEL validate the relevance, truth and challenge of well-known FORTY DAYS stories in relation to our own lives. We therefore become By John Pritchard - SPCK LENT ALIVE FOR GROUPS AND Graeme James $25.95 mentally as well as spiritually involved as we read. BOOK 2015, $19.95 INDIVIDUALS Mowbray Lent Book for 2015 The authors say that they sought to “offer a mixture by James Woodward, Paula Human character is best Don’t we love a good TV of information, interpretation and reflection on life Gooder, Mark Pryce $24.95 described by telling stories Series, or a successful movie experience in the light of faith.” I believe that they have (acknowledging original review about people. The Lent Factor franchise! 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James Woodward’s reflection world's media, and the long and agonising struggle for meaning than at first appear. that Last Week; this is a different approach, using Luke’s on Easter Day recalls when he was part of a gathering truth and reconciliation in South Africa, into the childlike chronology and a “John’s eye view.” With a wealth of in the darkness in a convent chapel. “In a few brief simplicity which Jesus tells us characterises the Kingdom All books are available from St meaningful discussion questions, this inspirational new seconds something remarkable happened for me. As of God. Archbishop Tutu has produced a meditation on the Johns Books, Highgate Court, book will work well for a group or for individual creative the priest lifted the communion vessels I became aware infinite love of God and the infinite value of the human Fremantle (08) 9335 1982. that the darkness had given way to morning. The sun reading for Lent. individual. 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MAY God bless you with his love, joy and peace this 2015! I pray that January was a time of blessing and living life at a slower pace after the build-up to Christmas and the end of the year.

Many Northwest clergy and their families take January off, away from the heat, as do many parish families. Port Hedland Senior Minister, Philip Knight completed long service leave. He and Elke with Bella and Lily finshed an almost around-Australia trip, leaving Mittagong and heading to Mildura, then through Cooper Pedy where they hoped to see BCA RATING: M Jane: So, I take it you’ve never been to church? workers Revd Geoff and Tracy Piggott, who were DISTRIBUTOR: UPI Stephen: Once upon a time. Geraldton’s new Dean, Peter Grice, with wife Victoria and their family on leave. They went on to Alice Springs, Darwin, RELEASE DATE: December 4, 2014 Jane: Tempted to convert? then Kununurra to visit BCA minister Gary and Nikki This month, recently ordained former Diocesan The Theory of Everything is a sincere film that offers Stephen: I have a slight problem with the celestial Alexander, Thomas and Tobias. They got home in mid- dictatorship premise. Registrar Wayne Sutton and his wife Gladys are going everything – academic drama, tortured love, the triumph January, the same day as the assistant minister, Eion of the human spirit – and the accolades have not been to Paraburdoo to enable David to visit Sydney to be Film Stephen’s manifest intellect gives borrowed and Claire Simmons with their family, arrived back via short in coming. But one thing it won’t be collecting is a credibility to his atheism, even though Real Stephen with Priya for three weeks. Paraburdoo. The Simmons had called to see David trophy for its atheistic definition of love. would agree that science can have nothing to say about Morgan, our minister there on his own for a time as The diocese has farewelled The Revd Tim Mildenhall Based on the memoir Travelling to Infinity, this is the unobservable forces. The fact that it reinforces our own ability to choose makes it all the more palatable. But what his wife Priya is back in Sydney, expecting their first and Kathy, Anna, Christopher, Jonathan, and Isabel story of Jane Wilde and her marriage to world-renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. Eddie Redmayne does Hawking’s life have to say about the effectiveness of baby, and needing to be close to medical assistance. from Broome Parish to Sydney, The Revd Philip Knife stars as the young Stephen and Felicity Jones the young this philosophy? and Kathy from Shark Bay Parish, and former Dean Jane, who meet in Cambridge while working on their Despite its heady, self-realising scientific realism,The of Geraldton, The Revd Jeremy Rice and Virginia. doctorates. Their relationship flowers in the fair weather Theory of Everything is not prepared to surrender life to Thankfully, Philip and Kathy are retiring to Dongara, of 1963 but darker days are ahead. Stephen’s muscles the emptiness atheism suggests. Instead of a moral black just south of Geraldton, and Jeremy and Virginia begin to betray him and a doctor informs him that he has hole at the centre of its story, the film suggests that love stay in Geraldton as Jeremy continues in a voluntary a condition that will eventually imprison him in his own links people together in a way that mere atoms can’t. body. position as Chaplain at the Regional Hospital and in a Jane and Stephen may no longer be married, but that doesn’t mean can’t express wonder together as they look new chaplaincy with Baptist Care. Stephen becomes a recluse, desperate to achieve something before he dies. But Jane refuses to let him on their children: “Look what we made.” But what sort of Holy Cross Cathedral in Geraldton welcomed a retreat into himself. She tells Stephen she loves him and love is this? new Dean, The Very Revd Peter Grice and his wife they begin to build a life together. With Jane’s support Without God to anchor it in self-sacrifice and service, they start a family and Stephen is able to bring his Virginia, with Matt, Tom, Freya, Mim and Eddy. We love in The Theory of Everything becomes little more revolutionary theories on time and space to the world. than appreciation. So, why shouldn’t Jane leave Stephen thank them for making the move Nor’West, travelling Yet his condition is a black hole sucking away his ability for their friend Jonathan when his affection is more We have caring and overland from Inverell, NSW, and we look forward to to interact. Eventually their marriage collapses. But by comforting than her husband’s condition? Likewise, why understanding professionals their ministry among us in the West. We welcome the end of the film Jane and Stephen will still be able to shouldn’t Stephen leave Jane for his nurse Elaine when available every day to help in The Revd Cliff Parish (and Nola) as locum tenens teach us there is a greater force than gravity binding them she offers such understanding of his predicament? God your time of need in Shark Bay Parish, and The Revd Bill France (and together. would certainly be a ‘celestial dictator’ to deny such Jackie), once again locuming in Broome. Stephen Hawking’s personal story is immensely inspiring obvious relief and happiness. AT CHRISTIAN FUNERALS and Redmayne’s performance pitch perfect. However, Unless… Paul and Melinda Spackman, McAuley, Gabrielle like Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking has become we are dedicated to providing the Christian What if such self-serving love were actually more synonymous with a certain way of viewing the world. His community in Perth with the highest quality of and Anneka after attending the Jurien Bay Scripture destructive than any black hole Hawking might theorise? devotion to only what can be examined by the scientific service with practical and affordable solutions Union Beach Mission early in January, then flew to The accommodation Jane and Stephen come to works method has led him to conclude: Sydney to be present at the celebrations for Melinda’s for the big screen, but the children of The Theory of Pre-paid and pre-arranged funerals always available parents’ 60th wedding anniversary. “It is my view that the simplest explanation is there Everything are conveniently silent. Furthermore the film is no God. No one created the universe and no one neglects to mention that Hawking’s second marriage met I leave you with words of a lovely hymn: “Living for directs our fate.” the same fate as his first. In reality self-serving love – love 302 Whatley Cres. Maylands that will not sacrifice – destroys more than it creates. Not Jesus a life that is true, striving to please him in all - and The Theory of Everything is not afraid of combining 9370 5315 (24 hours/ 7days) so God’s idea of love. Far from being a dictator, God is the that I do….” I pray that for all the readers for 2015. this atheistic viewpoint with its sympathetic hero: servant at the centre of the universe, and his theory of www.christianfunerals.com.au love the force that holds every relationship together. 26 Messenger FEB 2015 27

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(2) as we look to Ash Wednesday, there could not be for the squeamish. It Aint Vot You Do it’s Ze Vay Zat You (early centuries). (4) make tail-piece. (4) straight line! (6) a better piece of theatre on which to ponder where 25. Hinglish – Indian Do It is by singer-comedian Robert Hoffman in another 7. Express sorrow in 3. India’s Electoral 29. Gnu right off to Great English that is. (2) this Lent may lead our thinking. I quote the words of of his original and hilarious cabarets. The Darling Buds taking sleep from the Commission. (2) Southern town. (2) international theatre critic Benedict Nightingale: of May Fever: The Music of Peggy Lee runs from Benny pirates in G & S. (7) 27. Energy drawn from 4. Indian vice-roy to spin Goodman days to Disney’s ‘Lady and the Tramp’. Check 30. See 12 down. confused Seders at Yes, you will marvel at the size, the scope, the throbbing 8. See 1 across. a bob an instance. (5) the Fringe brochure for dates and venues. Passover for lady’s energy. Yes, you’ll catch the excitement of its applauding 32. Rajneesh began on 10. Be out of the banal; 5. Wane irregularly over gown. (5) audiences. But in the wonderment, anguish, moral Radio National? (2) Just before Christmas, two of Western Australia’s see into it that it flow again. (4) 28. Quadrupled determination, gentle humanity and spiritual strength arts leaders died; accolades followed in the media. through it. (5) 33. Dares falteringly and 6. Twenty krona Talmud genuflections across transmitted by (the character) Valjean, you should also Recognition of their contribution to the Church in our city interprets. (5) hear something more inward, something deeper. This is a 11. Wager in between. (3) comes across a birth. the altar step. (5) and state also needs recording. 34, Initiates of the Spiritual (5) musical with that rare thing: soul. 13. A worn twisted 31. Could the task be Support Group. (3) David Blenkinsop was director of the Festival of Perth sacred ash for the 7. Communion and upturned into a cane The production, which stars Simon Gleeson as Valjean for many years and, most importantly, he and his wife previous Archbishop of 36. Questioned a Liberation inaugurated. container? (6) and features no fewer than 16 WAAPA trained performers Canterbury! (5) thousand left off the (2) Lyn made Perth their home. Whatever the virtues of 35, and 44 across. (out of a total cast of 33!) is a triumph. Apart from masked. (5) allocating a four-year contract to Festival directors, as is 16. Make a dash with the 9 down. See 1 down. Institute for the study outstanding individual and collective performances, now done, for David, ‘shopping at the local deli’ gave him 14th letter. (2) 39. Look out! See! of modern Hebrew: 12, and 30 across. Great there is a wonderful ‘seamlessness’ in every aspect. i.e. not Pauline real understanding of ordinary Perth folk and not just the 18. We are out of the priest-poet goes head- I especially found the transitions from scene to scene 41, and 42 across. Tory interweaved. (5) artistic fraternity. His presence at the Cathedral, reading upturned brew and over-heels to greet quite breathtaking. Orchestra, lighting, stage design confused about Indian lessons, supporting concerts or supplying artists for its woven in. (3) peasant. (4) berg hero. (6,7) 36. We are out of one (with wonderful projections of Victor Hugo’s paintings) programme, allowed him memories of his own days as a tangled year – and 19. Laughing a lot in 44. The Arabic aluminium. 13. Five taken from the were ‘as one’ and allowed your thoughts, as an audience cathedral chorister in the UK. voting in favour! (3) member, to move from intense mental action to glossolalia! (3) (2) untidy reserve by one who views again. (6) 37. Department of sensitive meditation and perhaps back again, without Coralie Condon reached the grand age of 99. She was an 21. Me to be on ABC 45. Nearest point Transport has a point. a disconcerting jolt. It is a beautiful, brutal, comic and morning radio? 14. Twisted drains have actress, director, ‘first lady’ of WA Television and theatre obscured at (3) Candlemas. (12) reached the bottom. uplifting time in the theatre. For me, too, this production producer. A practising Roman Catholic, Coralie supported 22. Ossia re-pitched for (6) 38. See 43 down. has highlighted the Christian imagery within the text, our Cathedral’s drama work from the 1960’s when, at my wilderness watering with dignity and power. As the Producer, Sir Cameron request, Dean James Payne appointed her Principal of the hole. (5) 15. The yarn Ms spun in 40. Alternatively French Mackintosh, says – To love another person is to see the Cathedral’s drama school. She supervised the teaching Polycarp’s diocese! (6) gold. (2) 24. Edify out of turn to face of God is one of the most beautiful thoughts any play programme and small staff of three professional actor- rank of God. (5) 17. Nana turned out Indian 41. Short course in could end on and it does somehow sum up the emotional lecturers, and the productions staged by pupils. Both bread. (4) Religious Studies. (2) impact that you feel when you see ‘Les Miserables’. In an Coralie and David were unstinting in their support and ever uncertain world, we need to depend on each other contributions to the artistic health of our Church. I salute 18. Desire in newish 43, and 38 down. Plough object. (4) up to the time. (4) even more. Bookings are with Ticketek. them both. 20. Loaned for a season. 44. See 35 across. Left: Darling Buds of May (photo credit: Jan De Parel Spiegeltent). (4) Middle: Les Miserables (with permission Lynne Burford Publicity). 28 Messenger Right: Coralie Condon. 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