newsletter o )( &uly '%,- ISSN 1836-511 WEBSITE: www.anglicantogether.org ST PAUL’S BURWOOD WON THIS YEAR’S NATIONAL TRUST HERITAGE AWARD FOR THE 2017 ANNUAL DINNER CATEGORY “CONSERVATION INTERIORS”. FRIDAY 25TH AUGUST - 7 PM The Awards Ceremony, on 28th February 2017 Guest Speaker – was attended by three hundred and thirty people who were there to witness the presentation of the Professor Martyn Percy, Awards in very many dfferent categories. Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford Mrs Pam Brock and Dr Jane Wood, Church Wardens received the Award Certificate. In accepting the Award, Pam Brock thanked the architects, those who gained the grant application, and all “WHY BE AN ANGLICAN?” parishioners who, not only dealt with VENUE: Cello’s Restaurant, the inconveniences of not having a church building, Castlereagh Boutique Hotel but also generously donated monies to bring the 169 Castlereagh Street, Sydney Restoration Project to fruition. The judges unanimously described the Project COST: $70 pp ($65 conc) as one of "sheer joy." Pay on line: www.anglicanstogther.org OR Payment with Response Form - see back page by 14 August 2017 to Anglicans Together, Level 1, St James Hall, 169-171 Phillip St, Sydney Telephone 01 8227 1300 ANGLICANS TOGETHER ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING & DISCUSSION SUNDAY, 24th SEPTEMBER 2017 This prestigious Award recognizes the value of the 2.00 PM work done to restore the beautiful St Paul’s church St James’ Hall, to Blacket's original vision. It stands as a beacon of 169-171 Phillip Street, Sydney heritage in the inner west, and creates an aesthetic that enhances the worship of God. James Collins Rector, St Paul’s Church, Burwood 1 THOMAS CRAN M E R - ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 1489 - 1 5 5 6 Sermon preached by the Reverend Philip Bradford Evensong - St James’ Church, Sydney, 26th March 2017 As I learnt more about the Anglican important Lutheran principles. Church I started to realise the Back home things were moving significance of the man whose life quickly: Henry’s lover, Anne and work we are celebrating this Boleyn was with child so King evening, Thomas Cranmer. Henry abandoned the idea of getting papal approval for his re- A brief biography of Cranmer is marriage and determined to push included in your Order of Service One Sunday evening in the autumn through parliament the Act of this evening. Cranmer came to of 1968, I attended for the first time Supremacy. The purpose of which prominence in England during a in my life a Service of Evensong in was to declare that the King not the very turbulent time in English an Anglican Church. I was 19 Pope was the real head of the History-the reigns of Henry VIII years of age, in my final year of an Church in England. He needed an and Edward VI. Thomas’ parents Arts degree at the University of astute and sympathetic Archbishop were minor gentry, so he was N.S.W. I had grown up in a of Canterbury if this plan was to educated at Jesus College conservative Christian family. With succeed so when Archbishop Cambridge and given a fellowship my parents and brother and sister I William Warham died, Henry sent in 1510 which he promptly lost had always attended Baptist word to Cranmer to return home when he married the daughter of a churches. I made the decision to because he had a new job for him. local inn keeper. But a year after ‘try the Anglicans’ for a number of the marriage, his wife died in Cranmer was a reluctant reasons. I was rather dissatisfied childbirth and his fellowship was Archbishop because he knew that with the Baptist Church we were then restored. He was ordained in this would be a difficult task fraught attending –it was very conservative 1523. He came to the attention of with all kinds of problems. He and generally hostile towards other King Henry when he heard that wrote: “My conscience rebels churches. At University I had met a Cranmer was suggesting that against this call. Wretch that I am! I lot of Anglicans through the theologians in the universities of see nothing but troubles and Evangelical Union. A number of Europe should be consulted in conflicts and insurmountable them attended St.Philip’s order to resolve the king’s great dangers in my path.” His fears Eastwood which was close to matter, namely how to legally were to be fully justified but Henry where I lived, so it was an obvious divorce Queen Catherine. was not a man one could easily choice. What’s more, there was the deny and finally Cranmer was added attraction of meeting more So in January 1532, Cranmer found persuaded. He was consecrated in girls there than in my own church. himself appointed as the resident 1533 and soon after he declared ambassador at the court of the Holy I had little knowledge of Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Roman Emperor, Charles V. As the Anglicanism in those early days and Aragon annulled, leaving the path Emperor travelled throughout his didn’t know High Church from Low clear for Henry to marry Anne realm, Cranmer had to follow him Church, although I had heard that Boleyn in a private ceremony. to his residence in Ratisbon. High Church was bad. However in Anne was a major promoter of the Passing through the Lutheran city the sixties, St. Philip’s a low evangelical cause and imported of Nuremberg he had the church, had a robed choir, robed evangelical literature into the opportunity of observing at first clergy, the Psalms were chanted and country. With the full support of hand the effects of the Reformation many of the responses sung. How Thomas Cromwell, Cranmer was on the life of both the church and things have changed in 40 or so able to bring about some moderate the city. On a later visit he became years! I was a very easy convert to doctrinal reform in the church, friends with the leading architect of the Anglican Church. I thought the notably in the Ten Articles and the the Nuremberg reforms, Andreas service was wonderful - I had Bishops’ Book. He also wrote the Osiander. He also became very discovered Anglican liturgy and I preface to the first official English good friends with Andreas’ niece, never looked back. And yes, as translation of the Bible, a copy of Margarete, and married her. At well as falling in love with the which was placed in every church this point Cranmer would not have liturgy, I later fell in love with one and chained to the lectern. Such a called himself a Lutheran but he of those young Anglican women, radical move was only possible was clearly identifying with some who eventually became my wife. because it had the King’s approval. 2 Henry believed that the translation Service Books such as the Sarum publicly renounced his was largely the work of Miles use, but also borrowed material recantations and declared that as Coverdale but in fact Coverdale from the Continental reformers like his right hand had offended by relied heavily on the translation Bucer, Melancthon and Osiander. signing them this would be produced by the recently martyred, offered to the fire first. In December 1548, the First William Tyndale. Prayer Book was brought before Cranmer was a man of his time, Cranmer’s position in the court was the Commons and passed into law often torn between loyalty to his precarious because he was closely in January 1549. The Act monarch and loyalty to his God. aligned with Thomas Cromwell enforcing the use of this book was We can scarcely imagine the who had plenty of enemies. When the first of the four Acts of challenges and conflicts he had to Cromwell fell out of favour and was deal with in his role as Archbishop executed, Cranmer’s enemies Cranmer’s first in such an explosive period of plotted against him but fortunately Prayer Book history. We honour his courage. for Cranmer, King Henry trusted But his greatest legacy is his him and liked him. Cranmer struggled to gain contribution to our liturgy in the survived but the conservative widespread usage. Book of Common Prayer. The Catholic faction in Court worked Service of Evensong we are sharing hard to undermine him and undo the Uniformity in English history. The this evening was an important part religious reforms already new Book struggled to gain of that book. It was compiled by undertaken. widespread usage in the three years of its existence as the authorised marrying materials from the ancient However, in the final years of liturgy, but none the less it formed services of Vespers and Compline. Henry’s reign the influence of the the basis for the subsequent Cranmer was responsible for many conservatives waned and Cranmer revisions including of course the of the collects used in both this was able to begin the task of 1662 Book of Common Prayer. service and in Morning Prayer. Let liturgical reform. In 1543 the me quote the Historian Diarmaid Archbishop told Convocation that it In 1550 Cranmer published his MacCulloch: was the King’s will ‘that all mass- famous Defence of the True and “The unity of the book and the books and antiphoners in the Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament subtle ways in which it draws on Church of England should be newly of the Body and Blood of our and transforms an astonishing examined, reformed and castigated Saviour Christ and began work on variety of earlier texts in Latin, from all manner of mention of the Articles to refute the decisions of German and English, indicate that Bishop of Rome’s name, from all the Council of Trent.