ANGLICANNEWS a magazine for the Anglican Community of Canberra & Goulburn Vol. 36 No. 10 November 2019

THIRD ORDER FRANCISCANS JENNI ROBERTS' FAREWELL ON WRITING POETRY CATHEDRAL AHS TOUR The Third Order Farewell to Jenni An interview with The Anglican His- Franciscans recently Roberts after nearly John Foulcher after torical Society visits held their annual twenty years of winning a top poetry the Cathedral on All retreat service award Saints' Day page 2 page 2 page 3 page 4 NEW ASSISTANT BISHOP Himself for the sake of its redemp- debates about any of these issues are tion and rescue. It matters to God always personal and sometimes dif- when bodies are starved, or abused %cult – not because they don’t mat- or tortured or subject to unjust im- ter but because they do. Learning in prisonment or detention. It matters Christ to talk well about our bodies to God how we use our bodies to and live well with our bodies may be serve Him in worship, to love and one of the most powerful testimo- bless our neighbour and to express nies the body of Christ has to o"er a our sexuality. Conversations and watching world. INTRODUCING CAROL dearly and will miss them. Yet the call to serve at diocesan level is one I have responded to, believing God is Photo by Duy Pham on Unsplash in it. I look forward to serving with BODY MATTERS by Bishop Mark Short Bishop Mark and the team, and wel- Bodies matter to us, and to God. of Jesus. come the opportunity to support In 1 Corinthians 12 the Apostle God willing, Carol will be con- the churches and clergy of the wider Paul describes the church as the secrated Bishop at St Saviour’s diocese.’ body of Christ. One aspect of that Cathedral Goulburn on Saturday ‘In his Synod charge, Bishop Mark image is the inter-dependence of February 22 and I hope to see many spoke of providing ‘fresh water- the members of the body as we each of you there. holes’ as we share our faith with the exercise the diverse gi!s of God’s I have been re#ecting further on wider world. $is really resonated. Spirit, including the call to par- our bodies a!er reading the new Ours is a thirsty world and we have ticular ministries of leadership and autobiography Metanoia, by Aus- living water to share. We all pray oversight. tralian actor and playwright Anna that our drought will break in more Since commencing as Bishop of McGahan. $e book’s subtitle – a ways than one!’ the Diocese in April this year it has memoir of a body, born again – gives Before becoming of ‘I look forward to getting to know been my prayerful intention to see a clue to its contents. Unlike many the Coast and of the Parish the Saints in the wider diocese, and our episcopal and senior leadership testimonies which describe Chris- of Bodalla-Narooma Carol has pre- helping to encourage leadership in team renewed, especially as Bishop tian conversion solely in terms of viously served faithfully and fruit- these small and faithful communi- Trevor Edwards moves towards a new beliefs or attitudes McGahan’s fully in a number of parishes in the ties.’ well-earned retirement in January work highlights the bodily impact Diocese since 2000, including Ber- Carol and Jay have three adult next year. of faith. ridale and the Snowy Mountains, boys, one of whom lives on the Sun- I am therefore delighted that at Here is her description of her Taralga and North Goulburn and shine Coast, and two in Canberra. its most recent meeting Bishop-in- baptism – ‘the girl who had been on several Diocesan Boards and Carol enjoys kayaking, playing Council concurred with my inten- struggling for freedom for twenty- Committees. music and artistic pursuits. tion to appoint Archdeacon Carol four years fell into the arms of the She holds an Advanced Diploma Wagner as Assistant Bishop and water in a %nal embrace. $e bond in Ministry from Australian College Vicar General. of self was severed – no longer me of Ministries, Sydney, and a Bach- Archdeacon Carol currently min- but still mine, she become my sis- elor of $eology from Sydney Col- isters as Archdeacon of the Coast ter, my memory. As my limbs were lege of Divinity, through Australian and Rector of the Parish of Bodal- raised to the surface, she remained, College of Ministries and St Mark’s la-Narooma. She has a passion for unwilling to leave the embrace. Her National $eological College. the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ lungs were met with oxygen, her As Carol said in response to her and for encouraging communities loneliness met with abiding pres- appointment: of faith to serve God’s kingdom in ence. $e body le! at the bottom of ‘It will be a wrench to leave the the power of His Spirit. In her new the pool was at peace. A new body beautiful parish of Narooma and role she will have a particular re- rose out of the water – so so!ly born Bodalla that I have been part of for sponsibility for oversight of lay and this time.’ the last nine years. $e people are clergy ministry development as we $e book reminded me that my wonderful - faithful and generous, strive together to engage our world body matters to God – so much with a heart for sharing their faith of di"erence with the love and truth so that God’s Son took on a body with their community. I love them ANGLICANNEWS November 2019 Annual Retreat for the Third Order Franciscans awareness of Saint Francis and a de- as he and wife Kim prepare to leave sire to be a part of $e $ird Order. us to take up a position as Priest- It was a wonderful time of refresh- in-Charge of East Burwood in Mel- ment and reconnection with those bourne. experiences that we maybe had for- We wish Anthony well as God gotten. leads him on the next phase of his Our %nal worship together was journey in the faith. the Eucharist in the Chapel at which In all it was an excellent retreat at our dear sister Kay Pendlebury was which 16 of us from many diverse Professed as a Tertiary of $e $ird locations (the South Coast, Cooma, Order. It was a wonderful celebra- Carcoar, Goulburn and Canberra) tion as Kay was o&cially welcomed came together and shared together into the great Franciscan family. as one, on our faith journey. $e $ird Order of the Society of We were so fortunate on our %rst Following the Eucharist Anthony by Graeme and Kathy Dunn St Francis, NSW B/ACT Region, evening to have our Provincial Min- Frost was farewelled by the group Area Convenors held its Annual Retreat recently ister Godfrey Fryar and Bronwyn from the 10th to the 12th October with us as we shared a meal together. at $e Gathering Place in Canberra. Godfrey and Bronwyn then shared $e theme of the retreat was ‘Open about their recent trips to the U.S for Farewell to Jenni Roberts to God moment by moment’. the Ministers Provincial Meeting, Sri $e Gathering Place has been a Lanka, South Korea, and Hong Kong Brigidine Convent in the past and with us. We were given a wonderful about 30 years ago it was trans- insight into how $e $ird Order is formed into the Retreat and Chris- growing overseas. tian Conference Centre that it is $e following day was devoted to today. the theme, led by Anthony Frost and Our region has now held its Tim Narraway, allowing us all to Annual Retreat at $e Gathering ponder on and closely examine our Place for the past 15 years. As one encounters with God as we journey walks through the doors of this with Jesus in the company of Saint place there is an intense feeling of Francis on the road of life. We all calm, peace and God’s presence in were re-awakened by those experi- all we do and share in our time there. ences which initially led us to an

Clergy Moves On 3rd November a farewell the homily from the story of #e Reverend Peter Bertram has resigned as Senior Associate Priest West service was held for Reverend Jenni Zaccheus in Luke 19:1-10, remind- Goulburn from 16.10.2019 and been granted an ATO (17.10.2019). Roberts at Berridale. Over 70 people ing those gathered to ‘not be a taker; #e Reverend Ann Burt has been granted an ATO (14.10.2019). from across the Monaro made the be a giver’. #e Reverend Hazel Davies has been licensed as Hon Assistant , journey to Berridale to acknowledge Jenni presided over the Eucharist. Charnwood (01.10.2019). nearly twenty years of ordained Archdeacon Brian Roberts did #e Reverend Morton Johnston has been licensed as Hon Associate ministry for Jenni. a spectacular job of organising Chaplain RSL Lifecare Fred Ward Gardens on 25.10.2019 until 28.02.2020 In the words of Archdeacon Paul the event, leading the service, and continues as an Hon Associate Priest Woden. Cohen who attended: then MC'ing the speeches and #e Right Reverend Ian Lambert has been granted an ATO (14.10.2019). ‘It was a wonderful service of presentation in the hall. Archdeacon #e Reverend Adam Mannion has resigned as Assistant Minister South thanksgiving to our Lord for Jenni Paul also gave a short speech and a Wagga Wagga and Area Dean of Wagga Wagga and the SW e"ective and her ministry, with a full church, letter was read from Kevin from the end of December 2019 to take up a position as a full time Army and with people coming from all Stone. Chaplain with 2nd Cavalry Regiment Townsville. over the Monaro!’ #anks to Archdeacon Paul Cohen #e Reverend Debbie Mazlin has been licensed as Chaplain RSL Lifecare Reverend Edith Mayhew preached for the report and photos. Fred Ward Gardens from 25.10.2019 and Chaplain $e Canberra Hospital & Calvary John James until the end of 2019 and continues as Hon Assistant Priest Woden. #e Reverend Erin Tuineau has resigned as Assistant Chaplain Radford College but will continue to teach religious education classes at Radford from 2020. #e Reverend Jenny Willsher has resigned as Rector of Woden Parish e"ective from 11 December 2019 to be the Chaplain at Canberra Girls Grammar School from 2020. AnglicanNews

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teaches us to distrust ourselves, to with the turning world. It drained distrust dogma. When I sit down to me but inspired and enlivened me write, I have to be a poet %rst and a – another paradox! I miss it, but I’m Christian second. Some Christians grateful for this time to concentrate have di&culty with this, but you’re more deeply on the inner life. not being true to the calling or the You have now retired and are art (or to God) unless everything renovating an old Catholic church is on the line every time you write, to live in, which would be a special and this includes our most deeply project. Can you tell us about the held beliefs. Otherwise, you end up project and what prompted it? writing propaganda and truism. It $e church was an impulse buy. We was signi%cant that Plato wanted no were on our way down to the coast, poets in his ideal republic – he knew saw that it was for sale and dropped that poets were the troublemakers, in to see it and our response was the ones who would always say, immediate – we have to buy it. $at ‘Yes, but ...’. He seemed to prefer a was over ten years ago – while we smoothly functioning society over would have liked to have completed a re#ective one, but perhaps that’s a the project earlier, life got in the way little unfair. and we had to learn patience. Yes, When I sit down to write a poem, we intend to live there, but it will John Foulcher, a retired teacher from Burgmann College, who is married to the poem is always in control, not always be a church: you can’t take Jane, the Deputy Director of St Mark's National #eological Centre, recently me. It will go where it wants to go – I a hundred and %!y years or prayer won the Australian Catholic University Prize for poetry for his poem Revising just tag along for the ride. out of those walls, decommissioned Casuarinas, so we thought we'd !nd out a little more about him and his cra$. What was it you taught at or not. We hope it will be something Can you tell us the story of how Do you have any thoughts on Burgmann Anglican School and bigger than us; we’re hoping to have you began writing poetry? (Was it poetry, art and creativity as a others? readings and recitals there, and for just a natural thing for you to do?) response to being made in the I taught English and Drama, and it to be a place of peace and retreat I started writing poetry at school image of God? ended my teaching life as Deputy not just for us, but for many people. but didn’t show it to anyone – it Yes, I remember someone Principal at Burgmann. I was the We have to wait now to see what will was a kind of catharsis for me then. saying to me when I was about %rst Head of Senior School there. I come of it, we have to wait on God. When I got to university, I took a eighteen that God was the ultimate liked Burgmann a lot – every school Do you have any particular unit called Literary Cra!smanship, artist, having created this little thing has its problems, but I always found writing projects in mind for the which was about the cra! of called the universe, and that God’s Burgmann a kind school, a school future? writing poetry. It was a real eye- spirit of creativity is embedded in where the kids were more important Nothing except the desire to write opener – until then, I thought poems all of us. I’ve come to see the truth than the results they got. more poems. I’ve got a new book came naturally, that a %rst dra! was of this. For me, writing is a way of I loved teaching, I loved the coming out next year called Dancing good enough, but this course (led being fully human as it’s my outlet way constant contact with young, with Stephen Hawking. Beyond that, by a really %ne poet named John for this God-given creative impulse. enquiring minds kept me in touch well, who knows? Couper) showed me you had to But some people think artists and work at it and that you’d fail a lot writers are more creative than other more than you’d succeed. people, more in tune with that Bible Study Are there any poets who have aspect of God’s character. I don’t particularly in!uenced you, in think that’s true. My wife Jane and I being a poet or in style of poetry? are renovating an old church at the I sit outside in the cold and listen to the wind I was originally drawn to poetry moment, and it’s been such a joy to ri'ing the hair of the trees. Further out, by Auden and Eliot, whose use watch the builder at work with this through the forest, it’s like a storm of language seemed so vivid and strange old building. His creative approaching, though there is only contemporary. A!er a short period approach to the problems he comes a thin gauze of cloud, and percolating light. of admiration for more #orid poets across – well, I don’t see a di"erence I run my %ngers along the black cover, like Dylan $omas and Gerard in what he’s doing and what I’m the gold lettering, thinking about time Manley Hopkins, I came to like doing when I’m writing a poem, and so on. poets who used more colloquial, except that he’s a lot more useful ordinary language, like Philip Larkin than me! or Robert Lowell. $ey remain the Studies show that both sides of In these pages, there is shadow greatest in#uences on my writing, the brain are involved in writing and dust. Echoes and incense, a fusty cold, along with the wonderful American poetry and can be a"ected by it, worn stone, worn aisles, footsteps and whispering. poet, Elizabeth Bishop. When I %rst and poems deal in metaphor and Someone confessing to a priest who hunches started publishing, I was fortunate subtlety and depth. Are there like a weightli!er, as he crosses himself to be mentored by two of Australia’s particular things you believe and compels a casual penance greatest poets – Les Murray and poetry has to say to or teach us, or that will make things new, that will erase Robert Gray. I once asked Les what that you see as its value, today? all hurt. $e wind is getting stronger now, I needed to write really good poetry. Poetry teaches us that nothing the grass is a restless shu'e. A bleached sky. Winter. ‘$at’s easy,’ he replied, ‘you’ll need is what it seems and everything is a really big wastepaper basket exactly as it seems. It’s about helping because, like all of us, you’ll write an us to live with paradoxes and the ~ from A Casual Penance (Pitt Street Poetry 2017) awful lot of rubbish before you write subtleties of truth. In a world something of note, and you have to where we seem to be increasingly be smart enough to recognise it!’ forced into ‘camps’ or tribes, poetry

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A Day to be Inspired Changing of the Chaplains at Fred Ward Gardens

On 25th October, the Reverend Morton will continue in an Morton Johnston was farewelled Honorary chaplaincy role till in a service at Fred Ward Gardens, February 2020. a!er 14 years as Chaplain, and Both Morton and Debbie will the Reverend Debbie Mazlin was continue to be Honorary Associate On All Saints’ Day St Saviour's AHS) and Dean Phillip hope similar commissioned as the new Chaplain. Priests at St Alban’s Woden. Cathedral welcomed the Anglican events will be held at the Cathedral Historical Society (AHS). Members in the future. and friends from across the Dio- by Reverend Canon Anne Wentzel, cese experienced a Choral Eucha- Sub-Dean St Saviour's Cathedral & rist followed by two tours led by Tours O"cer AHS Dean Phillip and Cathedral Resto- ration Architect Michael Fox. $e day was enjoyed by over 60 people Pictures show and closed with a beautiful Choral Michael Fox, Evensong. Restoration Architect, and $ose who attended went away as- Dean Phillip tounded by the many historical facts discussing and stories as well as the wonderful features of the vision for the building’s future. Cathedral. Canon Kevin Stone (President

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