newscathedral August 2018
Prayer Worship Music Arts Education Heritage Welcoming
Responding to God’s Call Page 3
Capture the Cathedral: Winner announced! Pages 8 & 9
Community Page Page 12
www.manchestercathedral.org Responding to God’s Call
Dean’s Corner
The General Synod of the Church of the England On Saturday 23 June thirteen Deacons The amazing thing is that God calls each of were ordained priests and on 1 July us individually to serve him, whatever our twenty-three ordinands were ordained background, education or experience. The General Synod of the Church of I was particularly impressed by the Deacons. It was wonderful to see them England met from 6 - 10 July at York. Report of the Church Commissioners commit their lives to serve God in God’s All thirty-six people ordained this year The agenda included motions on Climate given by the First Estates Commissioner, church and to hear those present to say, are different, and each one of them brings Change, Nuclear Weapons and a debate Loretta Mingela. The Church loudly and clearly, that it was their wish different gifts to the Church, gifts that enrich on the Cathedrals Working Group Report. Commissioners support the ministry that they should be ordained and that they and display how diverse and beautiful the As one of the elected Deans from the of the Church of England, including would pray, uphold and encourage them body of Christ is. The one thing that all share Northern Province it was my privilege to our Cathedrals, in a very significant in their ministry. is their love for God and God’s people. God attend this session. As always the quality way. Their sound investments and does not ask for your CV before he calls you Every time I attend an ordination service, it to service, but does make use of your unique of debate was very high and members good returns enable Deans and Canons takes me back to my own and I am reminded gifts and experience. had the opportunity to learn incredible to serve in our Cathedrals. I want to of the oaths and promises I made 10 years new insights from folks who are very encourage and express our sincere ago this year, and what a privilege it is to knowledgeable, and those who are thanks to them. serve God in this way. The photograph above The Cathedral clergy team experts in their field of interest. was taken at a recent reunion of those who Rogers Govender were ordained, with me, in 2008. would be delighted to talk to you about what God is calling The journey to ordination involves a lot of prayer, discernment, and training. you to do, either in ordained After ordination, your life and that of your ministry, or lay leadership family changes completely, as life does when you follow God’s call, whatever that and service. calling may be.
Front Cover Image: Capture the Cathedral 2018: Red by Michael Taylor Page 3 Cathedral News Volition update Chetham’s Library
Laura Henshaw, Volition Volunteer Manager Artistic Partnerships
It has been a busy month for the Volition also kindly welcomed us for a team Sue McLoughlin, Chetham’s Library Heritage Manager team. I have just joined as the new meeting and showed us the bee hives Volition Volunteer Manager (I am third which Adrian Rhodes and Amber Sanchez from the right in the picture), one cohort have been co-ordinating. Next door to the Cathedral and at the a trail of discovery around the seventeenth- has just completed their ten-week heart of the beautiful Medieval Quarter, century Library, an utterly magical programme, one group is halfway through, Chetham’s Library is a must-see for experience, especially in the dark and another has just started. We would really like to visitors, who often combine a visit to the autumn twilight. We celebrated the end of one group’s thank the volunteers who Library and Manchester Cathedral, with programme with a visit to Real Junk Food their shared medieval roots and closely We are currently working with artists Manchester, one of our partners, for a tasty have chosen to stay on beyond linked history. Grennan and Sperandio and the artist book meal. Partnerships like this one continue to publisher Book Works on a graphic novel their ten weeks to dedicate With its richly diverse collection and develop. We recently visited the Renaissance about the Victorian illustrator Marie Duval, extraordinary multi-layered history, Hotel for a behind-the-scenes tour of the their time to the Cathedral as exploring issues of gender, pseudonymity the Library has always been a place hospitality industry, we had a fantastic welcomers, gardeners, and and identity. The book will launch in the of fascination for artists and creative cooking session with Hive Hospitality, and autumn with an exhibition running from 12 Cenotaph volunteers. practitioners. In the last twelve months enjoyed an engaging visit from Lloyds to to 18 October and a programme of all-age we have collaborated with musicians, support our group. Salford Cathedral activity in libraries around the city. sculptors, performance artists, film-makers, poets, graphic novelists, and a bio-artist to generate a wonderfully enriching programme of work inspired by and shown within our beautiful buildings.
The benefits of these collaborations are invaluable, helping us to understand and interpret our collections in new and exciting ways, as well as attract and engage with new groups of people who might not otherwise find their way through our gates. We delight in the energy and life these partnerships bring to our spaces, and are at the same time mindful of our responsibility to the heritage and its spirit of place.
One of our most successful recent commissions was with the artist collective Brass Art on the extraordinary installation ‘Gestured’, part of the ACE-funded Meeting Point 2 project with Arts and Heritage. Inspired by our collection of Hogarth and the annotated books belonging to the mathematician and alchemist John Dee, this constellation of artworks led visitors on
Page 5 Cathedral News Cathedral Friends Poem Update 30 July Friends' Day Andrew Rudd, luncheon Manchester Cathedral Poet in Residence Pauline Diamond, Hon Secretary
Earlier this year, the Cathedral Friends The final event of their 80th Birthday enjoyed a week-end in Canterbury as one celebrations will be a Friends' Day luncheon Rules for visiting of the celebrations for their 80th Birthday. on Monday 30 July, with Bishop David They had a lovely welcome from the Walker and his wife the Revd Sue Walker as a cathedral Canterbury Friends with tea and cakes. our special guests. It was extra special to stay at the Please remember Cathedral Lodge Hotel where every room The 4th Annual Friends’ Afternoon Tea to leave your anxieties has a view of the Cathedral, which is will be served in the South Aisle of the flood-lit each evening. Cathedral on Saturday 18 August between in the rack provided: 2-4pm. All are welcome. light a candle.
Listen to the organ even if it isn’t playing. Make room for something unexpected to speak. Book Launch to honour Find a seat and sit Canon John Atherton , 1 October, 5.30pm for a while. The people who came before are here beside you. John Atherton, who died in June 2016, All guests are invited to attend Evensong was for many years Canon Theologian at 5.30pm, which will include prayers of If you are very quiet of Manchester Cathedral and honorary thanksgiving for John’s ministry and an lecturer in Christian Social Ethics anthem he was fond of. The service will you might even hear angels at the University of Manchester. An finish by 6.15pm and the launch itself will playing their instruments internationally-recognised scholar in start at 6.30pm. It will include input from up there on the ceiling. his field, John never lost sight of his some of the contributors. This will be Lancashire roots and the importance of followed by refreshments, an opportunity to Let your eyes walk Manchester and Salford as the context meet the editors, buy a copy of the book and through a glass garden - for much of his work. Two former mingle with the many people who knew Manchester colleagues, Professor Chris John and valued his work. all of these colours Baker (Goldsmith’s University, London) are born from one light. and Professor Elaine Graham (University This is a free event, hosted jointly by of Chester) have brought together a series the William Temple Foundation and Taste the silence. Manchester Cathedral. of essays in appreciation of John’s work, Many varieties are available – entitled John Atherton and the Future of Public Theology (SCM Press, 2018) To help the organisers with catering, please take a sip of each one. which will be launched at the Cathedral register your attendance at Eventbrite: Take it with you when you go. (in conjunction with the William Temple www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book- Foundation) on Monday 1 October. launch-in-honour-of-john-atherton- tickets-47947594546
Page 7 Cathedral News Capture the Cathedral: Winner announced!
Joanne Hooper, Cathedral Communications and Marketing Officer
For the past six years, Manchester submitted. Entrants were invited to Cathedral has organised a take photographs in three categories photography competition, Capture and the judges chose a winner in The winners are as the Cathedral. Every year the standard each category and an overall winner. follows: gets better and better as entrants The judging panel for 2018 included Mike seek to impress the judges with Architecture and Stained Glass – Red images of this beautiful historic Shaft (BBC Radio Manchester), Grant Mitchell (Design Director, Glorious Creative), by Michael Taylor building. This year was no different Vincent Cole (Manchester Evening News and almost 200 images were Something Different – photographer) and me. Cathedral Nave Spin by Lamar Francois
We are pleased to We are pleased announce the Capture the to announce the Capture the Cathedral Overall Winner Cathedral Overall for 2018 is Michael Taylor. Winner for 2018 is Michael Taylor
MEN Photographer, Vincent Cole said: photos and a selection of entries will be on display at Manchester Cathedral until “I have been on the judging panels for Thursday 9 August. Capture the Cathedral for three years and this is the first time time I have seen a truly Whilst the exhibition is on display, members creative and well composed photograph of a of the public are invited to vote for their subject that is really hard to photograph. The favourite photo, which will be declared The colours are amazing and the photographer People’s Choice. The photographs can be worked hard to get the right angle”. viewed online on the Cathedral Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ With his cash prize of £100, Michael will ManchesterCathedral) where online receive the title ‘Manchester Cathedral’s voting is available. Official Photographer 2018’. The winning
Page 9 Cathedral News Bee in the City – The Buzz in Manchester Cathedral
The Bee in the City mass participation art Learning Programme. This celebrates the trail has begun and Manchester Cathedral power of creativity to engage children and is delighted to be hosting 20 bees in young people in cross-curricular learning the Cathedral from early July till late through fun, hands-on and inspirational September 2018. arts activities. As well as decorating a Bee sculpture, schools and groups are engaging Presented by Wild in Art and backed by their children and young people in important Manchester City Council, the Bee in the City topics related to the sculpture project, from trail brings 100 super-sized Bee sculptures to citizenship, environmental issues and the the streets of Manchester, each one crafted by natural worlds, to health and wellbeing. a different regional artist and sponsored by a local or national business. When you are next in the city, do take some time to explore the trail and make sure you Alongside the giant Bees, 115 local include our colourful collection. The twenty schools, nurseries and youth groups have smaller bee sculptures will be on display designed and decorated up to 125 smaller in Manchester Cathedral until Sunday 23 Bee sculptures as part of an associated September 2018.
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Page 11 Cathedral News
The Diary August
Wednesday 1 August 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves Service Times Friday 3 August Midweek Services 5.30 pm Gin & Rum Festival Morning Prayer 9.00am Mon-Fri Saturday 4 August Holy Eucharist 1.10pm Mon-Fri 10.30 am Cathedral Journaling Evensong 5.30pm Tues-Thurs* Evening Prayer 4.30pm Mon & Fri Group 12.00 pm Gin & Rum Festival - Saturday Services Afternoon Session 5.00 pm Gin & Rum Festival Morning Prayer & Holy Eucharist 9.00am - Evening Session Evensong 5.30pm* Sunday Services Tuesday 7 August 10.00 am & 11.30 am Matins 8.45am Terrific Tuesday: Sing the Holy Communion (BCP) 9.00am Cathedral—Under the Sea Sung Eucharist (Choral) 10.30am Evensong 5.30pm*
Saturday 11 August *Please note: during the below school holidays evening services are said. 12.00 pm Manchester Rum All said services are at 4.30 pm (unless stated as being sung by a visiting choir on these pages) Event - Afternoon Session 6.30 pm Manchester Rum 9 July—2 Sept 2018 - Chorister Half Term Event - Evening Session Cathedral Community Page Sunday 12 August Marcia Wall, Canon Precentor 10.30 am Eucharist sung by visiting choir, Cantoris On Sunday 10 June Bishop David ‘In August 2017 my son and I decided we 12.00 pm Cathedral NEW Service Times Community BBQ confirmed ten members of our wanted to affirm our faith in God and attend 5.30 pm Evensong sung by from 3 Sept 2018 congregations. It was a very special regular church services. I was pleased to visiting choir, Cantoris day for all of them and for us too as we discover my local church was Manchester rejoiced in their firm commitment to the Cathedral. During our first service the Tuesday 14 August Midweek Services Christian faith. Mother and son, Donna sun shone brightly through the stained 10.00 am Terrific Morning Prayer 9.00am Mon-Fri and Myles, were amongst those baptized glass windows, casting sunrays across the Tuesday: Blue Planet Holy Eucharist 1.10pm Mon-Fri and confirmed and here is what they say Cathedral at which point my son stated Evensong 5.30pm Mon-Thurs* about their decision: “God is here”. That was such a special Wednesday 15 August Evening Prayer 4.30pm Fri 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves moment. We feel blessed to have been ‘Faith has always been important to me Saturday Services baptised and confirmed together and to be Saturday 18 August because believing in God is right. I like to part of the congregation. We are immensely 2.00 pm Morning Prayer & Holy Eucharist 9.00am talk to God and Jesus. My parents always proud to be Christians and to attend Friends' Afternoon tea event Evening Prayer 4.30pm* said I would grow up to decide what faith I Manchester Cathedral.’ Sunday Services wanted to follow. When I was a small child Donna Rawlins Tuesday 21 August even though I was not a Christian, I still 10.00 am Terrific Matins 8.45am believed in God and his son Jesus. I am very Tuesday: Splash! Holy Communion (BCP) 9.00am Sung Eucharist (Choral) 10.30am happy to have chosen Christianity and to Tuesday 28 August Evensong 5.30pm* have been baptised and confirmed in front 10.00 am Terrific Tuesday: of my family and the friendly congregation.’ All the fun of the fair! *Please note: during the below school holidays evening services are said. Myles Luke Rawlins-Shaw All said services are at 4.30 pm (unless stated as being sung by a visiting choir on these pages) Wednesday 29 August 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves Image from left to right: Myles, Donna, Oscar, Tonye, Mila, Bishop David, Maria, Julie, Gene, Victoria and Harry. Thanks to Charlene Bebbington for permission to use her photograph. Page 13 Cathedral News Looking ahead September Clergy Congregation Saturday 1 September Wednesday 12 September Sunday 23 September Dean of Manchester Reader Emeritus 6.30 pm Manchester 12.45 pm Turning 2.30 pm The Commissioning The Very Revd Rogers Govender Raylia Chadwick Prosecco Festival - of the Leaves of Authorised Lay Ministers [email protected] [email protected] Evening Session (ALM) Service Sub-Dean and Canon for Theology & Mission Churchwardens & Stewards Thursday 13 September The Revd Canon Dr David Holgate [email protected] Tuesday 4 September 6.30 pm The Gin Monday 24 September [email protected] : [email protected] 12.30 pm Julian Society Festival 1.10 pm Chetham's School Archives Prayer Group of Music Lunchtime Concert Canon Precentor Cathedral High Steward & Chair of Manchester The Revd Canon Marcia Wall Friday 14 September Cathedral Development Trust [email protected] Wednesday 5 September 6.30 pm The Gin Tuesday 25 September Warren Smith JP 7.00 pm Cathedral Society Festival 12.45 pm Turning Archdeacon of Salford [email protected] / 0161 834 0490 Quiz Night of the Leaves The Venerable David Sharples Flowers: Helen Bamping [email protected] Saturday 15 September Cathedral Friends: Pauline Dimond Friday 7 September 12.00 pm The Gin Society Wednesday 26 September Chapter Lay Canons 2.00 pm Emergency Festival - Afternoon Session 12.45 pm Turning Philip Blinkhorn & Addy Lazz-Onyenobi Ringing Master: Malcolm Murphy Services Festival of 6.30 pm The Gin Society of the Leaves Cathedral Chaplains Secretary to Bell-Ringers: Catherine Rhodes Thanksgiving Festival - Evening Session The Revd Canon Adrian Rhodes
Exhibitions The Revd Peter Bellamy-Knights Saturday 8 September Monday 17 - 10.30 am Cathedral Thursday 20 September Admission to all our Fellowship Group National Cathedrals exhibitions is free. 11.00 am Coffee Concert - Conference: Sacred Spaces Meraki Duo (Flute & guitar) Capture the Cathedral Saturday 22 September Photography Exhibition Staff 8.00 pm Street Requiem 20 July - 9 August - Concert of Hope Cathedral Administrator Organist & Master of the Choristers Bee in the City sculpture [email protected] [email protected] trail 23 July - 23 Sept Dean’s PA Sub Organist [email protected] [email protected] Cathedral Office Assistant Education Officer (Pam Elliott) Staff member for August [email protected] [email protected] Laura Henshaw, Volition Volunteer Manager Cathedral Office Apprentice Cathedral Communications [email protected] & Marketing Officer What is your favourite film? Amelie [email protected] Finance Assistant What music do you like? [email protected] Director of Fundraising & Development I have a very eclectic musical taste, from rock to show tunes anthony.o’[email protected] Do you have any hobbies? Logistics Officer I enjoy running, yoga, baking, and taking care of my plants [email protected] Volition Volunteer Manager [email protected] What was the last book you enjoyed? Head Verger The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell [email protected] Volunteer Programme Coordinator (Volition) What was the last place you visited/went on holiday? [email protected] Lisbon - and what a beautiful city it is! Vergers Do you have any pets? I have two cats, and hoping to soon [email protected] own a sausage dog [email protected] Tell us something unusual/interesting or funny about yourself? I lived and worked in Thailand for a year as a primary school teacher.
Page 15 Cathedral News ific Tuesd rr nchester Cathe ay e Ma dral s T By@ the Sea! This summer there’s FREE* family fun with a seaside flavour, at Manchester Cathedral every Tuesday
*Sessions are led by our Education Department and resources are provided on a first-come, first-served basis. We welcome donations to help cover the cost of materials. Can’t make it? • 24 July 10am to 12.30pm: Getting shipshape Discover the Cathedral with our FREE Explorer • 31 July 10am to 12.30pm: Ahoy my hearties! Trail, available throughout • 7 August 10am to 11.15am & 11.30am to 12.30pm: the holidays (please ring to check Sing the Cathedral - Under the Sea availability if you are making a special journey). • 14 August 10am to 12.30pm: Blue Planet • 21 August 10am to 12.30pm: Splash! • 28 August 10am to 12.30pm: All the fun of the fair! the City sculptu e in re t d look out for our Be mber 2018 rai An epte l July to S www.manchestercathedral.org
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