EDITION 97 JANUARY 2017 NEWSLETTER A donation of 50p will defray our costs. JANUARY AT A GLANCE THE ACTING DEAN WRITES. . . Event information is on page 12 unless specified otherwise. A FEW RESOLUTIONS This year we look forward 1 The Second Sunday of to a new chapter in Christmas Cathedral’s 8.00: HC, 8.45: M, remarkable history, with a 10: SE (Congregational), 3.30: E slight pun intended. The 2 THE NAMING OF JESUS (tr) Chapter of the Cathedral itself does indeed look 6 THE EPIPHANY forward to the new steer 5.30: Festal Eucharist from the top. A new leader 16 Pilgrimage in Epiphany inevitably brings about (also 23rd & 30th) change, as well as 18 Confession of Peter representing and deepening Week of Prayer for Christian the values we hold dear. I would therefore like to hold up Unity commences my hand before our new Dean arrives to announce a few changes of my own, for which Dean Catherine should not 22 The Third Sunday of Epiphany be held responsible! 6.30: Christian Unity Service (p. 6)

Lent begins this year on 1 March. It has always been a 25 CONVERSION OF PAUL time when we try out new things in worship and learning. Week of Prayer for Christian Our recent practice of repeating the sermon at Mattins Unity ends and the Eucharist has not been popular with those who Eucharistic Lecture attend both services, so this year Canon Mark Collinson 26 7.15: Space for Peace will be running a sermon series through the five available Sundays, from 5 March to 2 April. 28 Surround Sound Hampshire Music Service Parallel to Mattins over these Sundays I shall be running Concert an experimental group in the Paul Woodhouse Suite 29 The Fourth Sunday of called B&B, short for Breakfast and Bible. B&B is for Epiphany, 6.00: Taizé Service enquirers interested in exploring Christian faith by studying the gospel for the following Eucharist over 31 Open Evening (p. 7) breakfast, which can be purchased from the Refectory. The idea for this came from Liverpool Cathedral which KEY TO SERVICES runs two parallel acts of worship at 10.30am every Sunday HC Holy Communion (always said) morning, a choral Eucharist and Zone 2, an informal all- CM Choral Mattins (M = said) age gathering. While I myself will be sorry to be missing SE Sung Eucharist (always sung) CE Choral Evensong (E = said) THE ACTING DEAN CONTINUES. . .

Mattins for a while, B&B seems an experiment on sale in the Cathedral shop at £19.99. worth trying for the sake of spreading the Word. Space for Peace, on 26 January, which mark Holocaust Memorial Day on Wednesday 27th, Another change I have resolved to make in the is one of the most extraordinary things we do New Year is an hourly ‘walking surgery’. This in the year. It arises from our collaboration means there will be an hour most weeks when I with the University of Winchester and starts wander around the Cathedral, partly to say with a short ceremony at 7.15 p.m. at which hello to our lovely volunteers but also, to lapse representatives of the three Abrahamic faiths into the colloquial, ready to be nobbled. If this light memorial candles as symbols of hope. can reduce the constant flow of emails, which This is followed by a musical vigil for peace, threaten to turn all human conversation into which lasts until 9.00pm, gathering together interminable typed exchanges, then I would be local choral groups and including community delighted. Information about the next surgery choirs, schools, Winchester University and hour will be included in my telephone message, different faith traditions. The event is informal so if you phone 01962 857216 you will find as the groups disperse throughout the either a recorded or an actual Vice-Dean to pin Cathedral and participants are invited to down the time to meet. journey around as they feel moved.

The final resolution is to help the Cathedral do more on ecological issues. Last year we held a Lastly there is good news for those who wish series of three sessions, which included an to attend Dean Catherine’s Insta