DAILY SERVICES AT GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL SUNDAY NEWS 7.40am Morning Prayer 8.00am Holy Communion 10.15am Sung Eucharist with Children’s Church 3.00pm Choral Evensong NOVEMBER 2015 MONDAY - SATURDAY 8.00am Holy Communion 8.30am Matins 12.30pm Holy Communion 5.30pm Choral Evensong (said Evening Prayer on Mondays) (4.30pm on Saturdays) See our website for details of services and any changes or closures. C Chad Frideswide Hugh Oswald ‘FOR ALL THE SAINTS…’ A Gift Aid scheme operates at the Cathedral, which allows the Chapter to claim back 25p per £1 for donations. Agatha The Virgin and St. Anne Alban Patrick Many of you do so already, and we are grateful, but if you are a visitor who pays Income Tax in the UK, you could make your donation go further by doing this. There is a Donorpoint at the West end of the Cathedral where you can use your credit card to give a donation, and this can be gift- aided as well Printed by Perpetua Press, 20 Culver Street, Newent, Glos. GL18 1DA Tel: 01531 820816 32 Gloucester Cathedral News The Editorial Team consists of: Richard Cann, Sandie Conway, Pat Foster, Barrie Glover, Mission Statement: Stephen Lake, Christopher and Maureen Smith. ‘We aim to produce a Christian magazine which is widely accessible and which informs, involves and inspires its readers.’ Editor: Maureen Smith Cathedral Chapter The next Editorial meeting is on Wednesday 11th November 2015. Dean: The Very Reverend Stephen Lake "We are happy to receive articles, handwritten or typed. We regret Canons: Lay Canons: that, due to the limited space available, and to enable us to Nikki Arthy Dr Andrew Braddock continue to produce a lively, varied and informative magazine, we John Coates Paul Mason can normally only accept articles of 400 words or less. Articles over Jackie Searle Dame Janet Trotter 400 words will only be accepted at the Editor’s discretion. Celia Thomson The Editor reserves the right to alter articles as necessary, without Chief Operations Officer: Emily Shepherd losing the general sense. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Contributions can be emailed to: [email protected] The Cathedral Office, 12 College Green, Gloucester GL1 2LX or you can leave them at the Cathedral Office at the address given Telephone: 01452 528095 at the front of this booklet. Email: [email protected] You may also email Maureen Smith direct: The Clergy may be contacted through the Cathedral Office at the [email protected] above address and telephone number. Disclaimer: We try very hard to make sure details are correct before Gloucester Cathedral News Subscriptions going to print, but things can change! Please check with the A year’s postal subscription for 10 copies of Gloucester Cathedral Cathedral Office and the notice board. Please note that articles do News may be obtained by cash or cheque for £12 made payable to not represent the opinions of the Chapter, the Church of England or ‘The Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral’ and sent to the Cathedral Of- the editor - only the writer! fice at the above address. The Editor for December/January is Maureen Smith. www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk The deadline is the 5th November Cover picture: ‘A Miscellany of Saints’ Taken from the Christopher Whall windows in the Lady Chapel, Gloucester Cathedral. Photographs and cover design by Richard Cann. 2 31 December looking ahead…... CONTENTS Page Wed 3 * Spirit of Christmas - Concert in aid of Muscular Dystrophy. Remember, remember… John Paul Hoskins 4 Sat 5 11.00am Coffee Concert. 2.00pm Caring Chorus Informal Concert. All Saints and All Souls Richard Cann 6 7.00pm Gloucester Choral Society Concert - Handel’s Messiah. The Origin of All Souls Day Maureen Smith 7 Wed 9 5.30pm Evensong - BBC Live Broadcast. Iconography (attributes) of saints etc. Richard Cann 9 Thu 10 * Concert in Aid of ‘Meningitis Now’. Sat12 11.00am Carols on the Hour sung by Choirs of the Cathedral Lock Up Your Brooms or Loose Them! Maureen Smith 10 4.00pm & Christmas Market in the Cloisters. Listening Post Concert. ‘The Father of English Hymnody’ Maureen Smith 11 Thu 17 7.30pm Ecclesiastical Carol Concert. Around the Community 12 Fri 18 * Police Carol Concert. Sat 19 11.00am-4.00pm Carols on the Hour sung by Adult Choirs. Our Cathedral in Local Art John Melhuish 14 Sun 20 4.15pm Britten’s ‘Ceremony of Carols’ Sung by the Three Choirs Festival: Cathedral Choristers Gloucester 2016 Peter Cottingham 16 6.00pm Messiaen’s ‘La Nativité du Seigneur’ - performed by Jonathan Hope Comemorating the Centenary of WWI series: Wed 23 3.00pm Family Crib Service The Glos Rgt at Gallipoli Barrie Glover 18 6.00pm Christmas Carol Service A Soldier’s Cemetery John William Streets 20 Thu 24 CHRISTMAS EVE 3.00pm Family Crib Service Pin Making in Gloucester George Marchant 22 6.00pm Christmas Carol Service 11.30pm Midnight Mass “Cider with Rosie?” No, I am a Gin and Tonic Man. Norman Habgood 24 Fri 25 CHRISTMAS DAY 10.15am Sung Eucharist Jottings from the West End Hump ’n Harry 25 Sat 26 ST STEPHEN’S DAY (Boxing Day) 3.00pm Carols for All - Gloucester Choral Society. Diary of special services and events 29 . * Times of these events will be published in the December/January edition. Please consider a voluntary donation of £1 to help cover the cost of this magazine 30 3 Remember, November special services and events: Fri 30 Oct – Mon 16 Nov PANCREATIC CANCER AWARENESS MONTH. remember ... The Cathedral tower will be lit purple to help raise awareness ovember is a month for Fri 6 5.30pm REQUIEM EUCHARIST: – Duruflé. Service to N remembering. It is the remember those who have died in the last year time of year about which Paul Verlaine wrote: Les sanglots Sat 7 9.30am FEIG BRUNCH AND BOUNCE. Free Entry - All are Welcome. longs des violons de l’automne 10.00am PUDSEY TEDDY BEAR PARACHUTING . The Golden blessent mon coeur d’une Valley Kite Fliers. Bring along your teddy bears to langueur monotone. Tout suffocant et blême, quand sonne l’heure, parachute along a zip wire high in the Cathedral je me souviens des jours anciens et je pleure … (‘With long sobs the Nave and raise lots of money for Children in Need violin-throbs of autumn wound my heart with languorous and monotonous sound. Choking and pale, when I mind the tale the Sun 8 3.00pm ROYAL BRITISH LEGION SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE. Gloucestershire gathers to recall those who made hours keep, my memory strays down other days and I weep …’) the ultimate sacrifice. No longer simply Keats’ ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’, Sat 14 11.00am COFFEE CONCERT by Students from Birmingham the darkening days of November often find us in more melancholic Conservatoire. Tickets £6 available on the door mood, wistfully recalling things past and apprehensive about what (to include refreshments). All proceeds support lies ahead. the Outreach work of the Cathedral Choir. This mournful act of individual and collective remembering will be 7.00pm GLOUCESTERSHIRE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT particularly appropriate on Remembrance Sunday and on Armistice With Young Musician 2015 winner Rebecca McNaught. Conductor Glyn Oxley. (See page 25). Day itself three days later, when we will continue to remember and give thanks for all who have given their lives in the service of Sun 15 3.00pm EVENSONG FOR ROAD PEACE. Join with us to freedom and of peace. remember victims of road accidents 5.00pm SWITCH ON OF THE CITY’S CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. Slightly earlier in the month, on 5th November, we ‘remember, Wed 17 6.00pm JUNIOR VOICES PROJECT CONCERT. Voices of the remember … gunpowder, treason and plot’. The details of this Cathedral Choir, Cathedral Junior Choir and conspiracy 400 years ago against James 1 are now largely forgotten, choirs from schools around Gloucester. Admission although Guy Fawkes himself lives on in the popular memory. Free. Depending on your point of view, the Gunpowder Plot was either a Sat 21 GLOUCESTER CROSS CHRISTMAS MARKET bid for religious freedom or an act of attempted terrorism. Certainly 7.00pm GLOUCESTER CHORAL SOCIETY CONCERT. Orff, it took place at a time of heightened social division, as well as Bernstein & Brahms. (See page 25). anxiety about both the continued existence and the rightful powers of the state. Perhaps in our own time we should be doing more to Thu 26 12.30pm ORGAN RECITAL by David Pope - Assistant Director of Music, York Minster ensure that it ‘never be forgot’. Sun 29 6.00pm ADVENT CAROL SERVICE BY CANDLELIGHT. A For Christians, the beginning of the month of November sees our dramatic and majestic service to mark the annual remembrance of All Saints and All Souls. On these days we beginning of the new Christian Year. 4 29 recall those in whom the grace of God has been at work before us, both those whose lives are an example to the whole Church and those whom we have known more directly and who have encouraged us more personally in our faith. November ends with another act of remembering. The feast of Presents an evening Christ the King sums up the annual cycle of recalling Jesus’ incarnation, death, resurrection, ascension and sovereignty. It is a with moment of ‘remembering forwards’, looking ahead to the full coming of the Kingdom of God. THE STUART SINGERS Remembrance is at the heart of the Christian faith. Our faith takes Directed by Helen Sims history and time extremely seriously. The Bible tells the story of the on relationship between God and his people: a story of sin and failure, Saturday 14th November 2015 but also a story of God’s constant love despite our failings.