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Wifred Owen writes... Poetry Competition The People’s Assembly

Page 5 Pages 8 & 9 Pages 10 & 11 Dean’s Corner Theology is Pastoral Care not like Biology and Growth By The Dean By David Holgate, St Peter called his fellow It is with all this in mind that I recently Canon for Theology and Mission presbyters to be ‘shepherds of proposed to the Chapter that we the flock’ after the example of consider appointing a Canon Pastor. I I wish I’d studied biology at books on metaphysics and tested in Jesus who is the Great Shepherd. am pleased to announce that Chapter have readily agreed to my proposal school. What a privilege to get logical argument with other scholars. A shepherd provides leadership and I hope that an appointment will introduced to the study of all in the local church. A shepherd is be made early in the New Year. living things, from blue whales But if God exists, God is present also called to pastor the people everywhere and accessible to everyone. to micro-organisms. Some living of God and to help each person As part of our preparation for this new We need to hear more about all the things are tiny, but at least we in the community of faith to be ministry the clergy team spent two ways God meets with us: in prayer can see them with a microscope. nurtured in their relationship with days at our annual residential meeting and worship, in daily conversation, But, how can we study God who Jesus. So nurturing, caring for, and reflection on the theme of ‘Developing in art and nature, in the faith, or lack a Pastoral Ministry for a Dispersed is unseen? Theology recognises of faith, of our neighbours, and so growing the individual disciple as Community’. The cathedral has numerous that God is not something we on. Though the initiative lies with well as leading the congregation congregations and many members live can study with a microscope God, we may meet God anywhere. is the ministry of a Christian away from the city centre. Hence, the or telescope, but we can learn shepherd, priest and pastor. way we do our pastoral care needs to from people’s experience of God. How are we to recognise such meetings? suit our congregational demographics. Christians answer this question by saying These experiences, whether they All members of the clergy team offer Jan Berry from Luther King House that the Bible shows us what to look out pastoral care to members of the helped lead these discussions for us. are from today, or recorded by for, because the Bible is a record of God’s cathedral community and members of faith communities over centuries, dealings with the world, God’s entry into the public who seek help. However, I My clergy colleagues and I are really are not so much of knowing the world as a human being and God’s am aware that we have been unable excited by the opportunities that this God as being known by God. presence in the world today. The sacred to provide a consistent pastoral new appointment will offer. We will work People describe the awesome writings of other faiths also have much ministry because of the demanding alongside, and support, the new Canon experience of being known by to teach us, as do the findings of all the responsibilities that each of us has. Pastor simply because the task is so someone or something that is sciences. Each encounter is precious, huge. I believe that this new ministry I have been inspired recently by bigger than all of life, yet gentle, because it develops our relationship will help deepen our discipleship and with God and makes real our worship. the appointment of a Canon Pastor also lead to numerical growth among personal and mysteriously real. at York Minster. His ministry has us. I ask you to pray for God’s wisdom So, please share your experience of God helped the Minster significantly This view of theology is different from for us as we seek to identify a new with others. As you do so, you will find through offering pastoral care to the some traditional definitions. The word colleague, so that, with the help of that you grow in love, for your neighbour, community. This has had the added ‘theology’ might make you think of the Holy Spirit, we may move forward for God, for the world. Love? What’s love benefit of significant numerical growth philosophical speculation about the in faith, confidence and hope. got to do with it? Everything. For the through the creation of new worship nature of a supreme being. Such ‘deep ultimate purpose of theology is that we opportunities and other ministries. With my good wishes and prayers, thought’ is usually imagined as taking might come to know ‘the love that moves place in a scholar’s study, fed by the sun and the other stars’ (Dante).

Cover photograph taken by Paul Feeley Page 2 Cathedral News Page 3 Cathedral News Wilfred Owen writes…

When did you last live with a by showing us the young men beside poem? Not, when did you last read him in the trenches, like old beggars one before turning the page, but under sacks, marching asleep, blood when did you read and re-read shod, drunk with fatigue. The horror is brought home to us most vividly as we it, perhaps aloud, memorising or look through the fuzzy lens of Owen’s re-memorising some of the lines? own gasmask and see for ourselves the suffering of one man, dying from poison This year, during the season of gas with his blood gargling from his ‘froth remembrance--All Saints, All Souls and corrupted lungs’. Let us honour Owen Remembrance Day-- we have portraits and all those who died with him, by of Wilfred Owen, the Unknown Soldier letting his words inform our living today. and the last journey of RMS Lusitania on display in the Cathedral. Owen’s By David Holgate face peers out at us, young and brave, Canon for Theology and Mission surrounded by scraps of his writings and what others have written about him. The face of the Unknown Soldier is just sign and symbol saying ‘Remember us’. And the portrait of the RMS Lusitania reminds us that not everyone who died between 1914 and 1918, died in the trenches. For The Manchester 1,191 of her passengers, the waters off the southern coast of Ireland became Cathedral Sleepout their graves on the 7th of May 1915. Members of the Cathedral staff and clergy have formed a team and are participating So many people died needlessly News in the Manchester Sleepout on Friday 6 in first ‘world war’ of the twentieth November. We are hoping to raise funds century. How should we remember Survey for the Booth Centre so please give what them, we who weren’t there? you can! This is the third year that the Cathedral team has participated, last year One way of doing this is to attend to Cathedral News has been one of the main we raised over £2,200, it would be great to their witness, preserved in the poems of forms of communication for Manchester beat this target and with your help we will! young men who said that this war was Cathedral for many years. We are Sponsor the Cathedral team online: just meaningless slaughter. It is easy currently re-evaluating its purpose. To to blame the invention of the machine do this we would like to have a better www.justgiving.com/ManchesterCathedral1 gun for the huge loss of life but, in ‘The understanding of those who read it. Parable of the Old Man and the Young,’ To help us with this, please could you Wilfred Owen says it was Pride. complete our simple online survey at www.manchestercathedral.org/ ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ is Owen’s cathedral-news-survey demolition of ‘the old Lie’ that ‘it is noble and fitting to die for one’s country.’ He does this not by political rhetoric, but

Page 4 Cathedral News Page 5 Cathedral News Please help us to make Christmas special for every child in Manchester. Please buy an unwrapped gift for a child aged between 0-18 years and donate it to our Cash Mission Christmas appeal in . Mission Christmas will not change the poverty statistics, but by for Kids supporting our campaign you will be helping to bring the magic of Christmas all children this Christmas Day.

Manchester has the fourth Key103’s Cash for Kids is a local charity highest levels of child poverty that fundraises to help disadvantaged and disabled children across Greater in the UK, with 1 in 3 children Manchester. We stand up proud in our going to bed in the evening local community championing the children without a hot meal, or living and projects that need an extra helping in a house without central hand, especially supporting children in heating. For these families, our city living in difficult circumstances Christmas is a luxury they just and coping with poverty, abuse, neglect cannot afford. That means that and short life expectancy. Every penny 1 in 3 children across Greater that is raised stays locally, dealing with Manchester are not expecting a issues on our doorstep and responding to the needs of our local communities. visit from Santa this year. With your help, Cash for Kids wants By Russell Feingold to do something about this. Charity Manager Cathedral Christmas Card Key 103’s Cash For Kids. The Cathedral Christmas card is now available to order via our new online shop www.manchestercathedralonlineshop.co.uk which can be accessed via a button on the homepage of NOW ON the Cathedral website or via St Denys’ Bookshop. SALE!

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Page 6 Cathedral News Page 7 Cathedral News Alex Toms volunteers at her youngest son’s school and is on the committee of her local poetry night, Poetry Wivenhoe. She was a winner in this year’s Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition, and came second in the George Crabbe Memorial Prize (Suffolk Poetry Competition 2015 Poetry Society). She has a poem in Hallelujah for 50 ft Women (Bloodaxe, 2015). Winners and Highly Commended Lessons for an Apprentice Eel Catcher by Alex Toms

Your day begins before the last stars have faded The three prize-winning poems and and the river still dreams the highly commended poetry will be beneath its blanket of mist. It ends at sunset published in the Manchester Cathedral when you’ve laid your last trap. Poetry Competition 2015 booklet. You will never be idle. When you’re not To order your copy, please send a UK catching or selling, there are traps to weave sterling cheque or postal order, made from willow strips. Blisters will pearl your fingers – the only jewels you’ll ever wear. payable to Manchester Cathedral, for st 1 prize £4.00 (for the booklet and postage) You’ll be out in all weathers: when elvers of rain to: Manchester Cathedral, Victoria trickle down your neck; when the sun beats down, Street, Manchester, M3 1SX. Please £450 & Manchester Cathedral heavy as the hand of God. The elements Poet of the Year, 2015 include your name and address and will burnish your skin, turn you into a living icon. email address or telephone number Alex Toms Like a monk’s, your life will be one of toil Lessons for an Any profits from the Manchester and solitude, but blessed with unexpected glimpses of God: in the dazzle of a dragonfly; Cathedral Poetry Competition will be Apprentice Eel Catcher in the whirling dervish dance of the eels. donated to the Booth Centre charity. This is your inheritance: the watery miles our people have fished since before Highly Commended the cathedral reared like a beast In no particular order in its scaffolding cage. Some gave their lives nd 2 Patrick Cotter so that we might know where weeds weave snares, prize Song of a Maid where the mud drags you down. You’ll learn to respect £200 the fens, understand they’re glad to give Jennifer A. McGowan their slippery gifts, Eve Jackson Margery Kempe Befriending but swift to take too. Sometimes when marsh warblers John Foggin chant their evensong, mist will swing towards you, Milton’s Daughter Goes to Market as though from a giant censer. It will wrap around you – a cloak of icy eels, your prayers freezing in your throat. Andrew Rudd Isla and Baby Jesus Faint, winking lights will appear: your ancestors, holding lanterns – rd Roz Goddard a string of glowing rosary beads prize Monk to guide you on your way. 3 £150 Catherine Ayres Leaving at Day Break RachelIx Chel Davies and the Madonna Jenny King Anonymous Page 9 Cathedral News Both events were very good natured Campaign Corner and the Cathedral received lots of positive feedback from many who attended these events. It was particularly thanked for the warmth of its welcome.

The People’s A small number of people questioned whether it was right for a church to provide a venue for events with Assembly political questions on the agenda. Our reply to these queries was twofold.

Events, First, the Cathedral is a space for all people. Alongside its daily worship the Cathedral hosts a wide variety October 2015 of events. These help to sustain the historic building, inform and entertain visitors, and provide education and In early October we were pleased community events for diverse audiences. Some of these events are planned to welcome the People’s Assembly and promoted by the Cathedral, whilst to Manchester Cathedral for others are commercial bookings. two events intended to foster The People’s Assembly events were debate on ‘austerity’ policies. two such commercial bookings. The first event attracted almost 8000 people, with 1200 inside Second, the Cathedral has long been the Cathedral and many more a place for people to congregate and gathered in Cathedral Gardens exchange ideas, including political ones. and around the building – even In 1787, Thomas Clarkson gave a speech here that led to a campaign in the city watching from the windows of for the abolition of the slave trade, which the Corn Exchange! This event we commemorated with a special event attracted a great deal of media on 28 October this year. That was in the coverage and was streamed live. 18th Century. In the 21st Century, the Cathedral recognises that many people The second event was a smaller one in in our community are suffering economic which leaders and representatives from hardships and we have a gospel mandate different faith communities, including to support the poor, excluded and the represented marginalised in society. While doing by , shared so, the Cathedral remains non party- their concerns about the effects of political and aims at all times to promote austerity policies on the poorest in community wellbeing and social harmony. society. This event included quiet music to encourage reflection and By Anthony O’Connor ended with a candlelight vigil. Director of Fundraising and Development

Page 10 Cathedral News Page 11 Cathedral News Thursday 12 November Friday 20 November Devotional 12.00 noon Mothers’ Union 6.30 pm Hanging Ditch Wine Fair The Diary Thursday Prayer 1.10 pm Chetham’s Saturday 21 November November Lunchtime Concert 11.00 am Coffee Concert performed

A Saint for the Month 7.30 pm SAMM Service (Support After by Angela Hicks Murder and Manslaughter) 1.30 pm Children’s and Youth Work November 22nd Sunday 1 November Certificate Presentation 5.30 pm Festal Evensong and Saturday 14 November Procession. Incense will be used. 11.00 am Tour: Manchester Sunday 22 November Cathedral Decoded 2.00 pm Bullets and Daffodils - Tuesday 3 November 2.00 pm Behind the Scenes Tour: From Wilfred Owen Talk by The Wilfred Owen 6.30 pm Pilgrim at the Cathedral Story Museum. £3 pp. Henry V to the Fun Lovin Criminals St Cecilia, Wednesday 4 November 2.15 pm Be A Chorister For A Day Wednesday 25 November 7.00 pm DHP presents ANATHEMA 2.30 pm Book Launch: Lady 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves concert Margaret Beaufort: Queen in 5.30pm Evensong attended Martyr of Rome all but name by Livi Michael. Friday 6 November by New Head Teachers 4.30 pm Evening Prayer 7.30 pm Manchester Booth (No 5.30 pm Evensong) Thursday 26 November Centre Sleepout 5.00 pm Be A Chorister 7.00 pm Taize Service (c.230 CE) Saturday 7 November For A Day—Act of Worship 10.30 am Christian Meditation session Saturday 28 November Sunday 15 November 11.00 am Christian Aid event ‘Bake a 9.15 am Mothers’ Union Quiet Day 3.00 pm Ad Solem presents Music difference’ for All Saints and All Souls Sunday 29 November Monday 8 November 12 noon Presentation to the Tuesday 17 November 2.00 pm Wilfred Owen Exhibition - congregation re: Cathedral projects 6.30 pm Pilgrim at the Cathedral The one thing that most people heat and steam failed to kill her a Meet the Artist, Anthony Brown 2.00 pm Talk: Pyschogeographic know about St Cecilia is that she soldier was ordered to behead her. 7.00 pm What lies beneath? Manchester: Reading the city through Tuesday 10 November The Sextons’ Records and its signs and symbols. £3 pp. is the patron saint of music and 12.30 pm Julian Prayer Group The Missing Memorial (£12 pp. 5.30 pm Advent Procession Cecilia’s supposed body was found in 6.30 pm Pilgrim at the Cathedral including refreshments) (A processional service of readin is often shown playing a viola, an 1599 when the church dedicated to her, Wednesday 11 November Thursday 19 November gs and music for Advent) organ or other musical instrument. 10.45 am Manchester Regiment Santa Cecila in Trastevere, believed to 2.00 pm Cathedrals in Modern Life book Together with King David, Brigid Remembrance Service launch with Bishop David Walker and have been built on the ruins of her house, Judith Muskett (Visitor Centre) of Ireland, Columba of Iona and was rebuilt. Since then her fame has Gregory of Nazianzus, St Cecilia rested on her being the patron saint of is also a patron saint of poets. music. Her connection with music stems from the story in her legend that as the And that’s about all that is known of organs were playing at her wedding feast, her! The rest is 5th century romantic she sang to herself, ‘May my heart be legend, according to which she was unsullied, so that I be not confounded.’ a young Christian of patrician class betrothed to a pagan called Valerian. John Dryden and Alexander Pope However, as she had consecrated her wrote poems for her; Henry Purcell virginity to God, the marriage could not composed his Ode to St Cecilia, and be consummated. Valerian honoured Marc-Antoine Charpentier, George her vow and he and his brother Tibertius Frederic Handel, Charles Gounod and were baptised. Later, they were martyred, Benjamin Britten, who was born on her together with a Roman soldier called feast day in 1913, have also composed Maximus and their martyrdoms are music in her honour. Her connection usually accepted as historical. with music has guaranteed that in an age saturated with music like ours the When, sometimes afterwards, Cecilia unknown Cecilia will never be forgotten. was also arrested she too was said to have refused to offer a pagan sacrifice and was sentenced to be suffocated in the bathroom of her house. As the By Albert Radcliffe

Page 12 Cathedral News Sunday 13 December Wednesday 23 December Looking ahead 3.00 pm St John Ambulance 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves Contacts Carol Service 4.30 pm Evening Prayer Thursday 24 December Manchester Cathedral December Monday 14 December Cathedral Visitor & Chetham’s Library Chetham’s 12.00 noon Blessing of the Crib Victoria Street Conference Centre Long Millgate School of Music 7.30 pm Royal Manchester and Children’s Nativity Tuesday 1 December Children’s Hospital Carol Concert. 4.30 pm Evening Prayer M3 1SX Cateaton Street M3 1SB Long Millgate 12.30 pm Julian Prayer Group Tuesday 15 December 11.30 pm First Communion of Christmas M3 1SQ M3 1SB 7.30 pm MedEquip4Kids Annual 0161 833 2220 0161 817 4817 0161 834 7961 0161 834 9644 Christmas Sing-a-long 11.30 am Greater Manchester Chamber Friday 25 December of Commerce Concert 10.30 am Christmas Day Eucharist Wednesday 2 December 12.00 noon Evening Prayer 7.30 pm Action for Children Wednesday 16 December Clergy Staff 7.30 pm Trinity High School (No 1.10pm Holy Communion) Carol Concert Cathedral Administrator Carol Service Saturday 26 December Thursday 3 December The Very Revd Rogers Govender [email protected] 11.00 am Morning Prayer 1.10 pm Chetham’s Thursday 17 December & Holy Communion [email protected] Lunchtime Concert 12.00 noon Joint Staff Dean’s PA Christmas Eucharist 4.30 pm Evening Prayer 7.30 pm Children’s Society’s Canon Precentor & Sub-Dean [email protected] Sing for Christmas Saturday 19 December Sunday 27 December The Revd Canon Philip Barratt 12.00 noon Cathedral Christmas Sing 4.30 pm Evening Prayer Cathedral Office Assistant Saturday 5 December [email protected] 10.30 am Christian along Monday 28-Thursday 31 December [email protected] Meditation session 7.30 pm Family Carols with the Cathedral 9.00 am Morning Prayer Canon for Theology & Mission Voluntary Choir & Holy Communion (No 1.10pm Office & Conferencing Assistant Sunday 6 December The Revd Canon Dr David Holgate Holy Communion) 1.00 pm, 2.30 pm & 4.00 pm Tuesday 22 December [email protected] [email protected] 4.30 pm Evening Prayer St Ann’s Hospice Services 12.30 pm Julian Prayer Group 4.30 pm Evening Prayer Archdeacon of Manchester Finance Assistant Tuesday 8 December 7.30 pm A Festival of Nine The Venerable [email protected] 7.00 pm The Christie Charity Lessons and Carols Christmas Concert [email protected] Logistics Officer [email protected] Wednesday 9 December Cathedral Curate 12.45 pm Turning of the Leaves The Revd Jane Walker Senior Verger [email protected] Thursday 10 December - Christmas Concerts Tickets - [email protected] 7.00 pm Henshaws Carols by Candlelight Chapter Lay Canons Vergers Family Carols Concert tickets are £10 (adults) and £8 (concession). Friday 11 December Barrie Cheshire, Philip Blinkhorn, [email protected] 7.00 pm Genesis Christmas Concert The ticket price includes a glass of wine or soft drink and a mince pie. Addy Lazz-Onyenobi & Jenny Curtis [email protected] Saturday 12 December Tickets can be purchased from http://family-carols.eventbrite.co.uk 8.00pm A Very English Christmas A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols tickets (free) Cathedral Chaplains Organist & Master of the Choristers

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