EDITION 101 MAY 2017 NEWSLETTER A donation of 50p will defray our costs. MAY AT A GLANCE THE DEAN WRITES. Event information is on page 12 unless specified otherwise. 1 PHILIP & JAMES, APOSTLES Friends’ Organ Grind Bank Holiday Organ Recital 2 Lunchtime Concert 3 Special Tour (also 10th, 17th & 31st) 7 Community Day 8 Fruitfulness on the Frontiine (pp.9/12) (also 15th, 18th & 22nd) 12 STOP THE TRAFFIK Gift Box (pp.4/12 When Jesus is asked by his disciples, ‘teach us to pray’ he (to 14th) gives them the prayer that we inherit as The Lord’s 13 ‘Saying Goodbye’ (p.3) Prayer. You can find it in the gospel of Luke, 11: 2 - 4, and Winchester & County Music Festival the longer version, in the gospel of Matthew 6: 9 - 15 15 MATTHIAS THE APOSTLE (where it forms part of the Sermon on the Mount). Tea and Three Christians cherish this prayer and pray it daily. It gives us 16 Organ Recital insight into the mind and prayers of Christ. It connects 17 Friends’ Lecture us across time and space with Jesus and with Christians throughout the world. As we pray this prayer we are 20 Christian Aid ‘Big Brekkie’ (p.11) Royal Choral Society Concert joining ‘one body’ in Christ. 19 Friends’ Coffee & Cake The prayer begins with praising God’s holiness: 21 Mayor’s Sunday ‘Our Father who art in heaven 7.35: M, 8: HC, 9.45: CM, 11.15:SE Hallowed be thy name’. 3.30: CE, 6.00: Taizé Service And then come the words: 23 Organ Recital ‘Thy kingdom come, 25 ASCENSION DAY Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven’. 5.30: SE For me, these simple lines have the most profound 26 WW1 Tour implication: that we are praying for the coming of God’s 29 Bank Holiday Organ Recital kingdom and his will to be done. This means that we are 31 VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN no longer seeking ways of life, ambitions and outcomes MARY TO ELIZABETH that centre on ourselves, but that we are seeking God’s ways of love and his kingdom of justice and peace. In KEY TO SERVICES Jesus the Kingdom of God is inaugurated and when we HC Holy Communion (always said) pray this prayer we align ourselves with the Kingdom and CM Choral Mattins (M = said) look for its signs here on earth. SE Sung Eucharist (always sung) CE Choral Evensong (E = said) THE DEAN CONTINUES. Last year the Archbishop of Canterbury The intention behind ‘Thy Kingdom Come’ is to launched an ongoing initiative of prayer and enable prayer to flourish and grow. As we worship across the nation with ‘beacon events’ draw closer to our Lord, the hope is that we in some of our C of E cathedrals. Called ‘Thy will enable others to know this love too. The Kingdom Come’ its intention is to encourage Archbishop has said that his faith is the core the whole church, old and young, near and far point in his life, the ‘heart and foundation of all and from all traditions, to pray and for this that I am.’ I’m sure that many of us know what prayer to enable us to share God’s love with he means. He goes on: ‘...and that’s why I want family, friends and neighbours. everyone to hear Christ’s voice and learn what it is to find his love, call, direction and purpose’. Perhaps you have friends, family, neighbours, for whom you can pray between Ascension and Pentecost, that Gods Kingdom, his love, joy, peace and hope may grow in us all. The Deanery I’m very glad to say that work on the Deanery has begun. You may have seen the extensive improvement made to the drainage system under the Inner Close and now work on the Deanery itself has started. Meanwhile Robin I’m so pleased to have come to be Dean at one and I are living very comfortably (and cosily) at of the ‘beacon event’ cathedrals. The 7a The Close. We are looking forward to Pentecost weekend beacon event will take moving in to our ‘proper’ new home early next place on the evening of Sunday 4 June. Music year and to lots of opportunities to invite you will be led by a contemporary band. The to come and see the restored and renovated beacon event will enable many hundreds of historic Winchester Deanery (pictured below). people young and old to experience worship in a large gathering – perhaps for the first time – Dean Catherine and to be encouraged by this. The beacon event will be hospitable to the wider ecumenical family as well as our own Church of England family, so as Cathedral and ‘Mother Church’ to the diocese we will be welcoming the wider Christian community in all its diversity. In addition to the Beacon Event there will be a festival-type ‘Tent on the Green’ event in the outer Close, Friday 2 – Sunday 4 June to engage with the wider community; a Novena of Prayer between Ascension and Pentecost and many activities taking place in parishes and deaneries. 2 CANON SUE WRITES. As I write we are basking in the joy of a lovely sunny sang a joint service in the college chapel, and this Easter week, but we are also delighted that the Ascension Day (25th May) is our turn to host the Easter services went so well this year. I would like to joint act of worship led by both choirs which will give a big thank-you to those who put such hard take place at 5.30pm in the nave. Whilst doing this work into making the services look and sound service last year we discovered that Winchester wonderful including our choirs, organists, and those college has half of a set of festal vestments which who worked behind the scenes such as the virgers, once belonged to our Cathedral. At this service we servers, bellringers, flower arrangers, wardrobe team hope to temporarily reunite the two halves of this and sidesmen. I am also very grateful to Longdown vestment set, a picture of which once appeared on Activity Farm for providing us with Max the donkey Trevor Beeson’s book, A Dean’s Diary. Dean who made such an impression in our Palm Sunday Catherine will preside at this service and the procession. intercessions will be led by Father Simon Thorn, the college chaplain. We are looking forward to the return of our Nave choir rehearsals in May and they will be working Ascension day, as Dean Catherine says earlier. also towards a Choral Evensong which will take place on marks the beginning of a Novena of Prayer for the the 17 June. You, too, could join them in singing this nine days leading up to Pentecost as part of Thy service! The rehearsals will take place on the 24 May, Kingdom Come. This is a time when we particularly and 7 & 14 June and all are welcome. Please contact pray those who do not yet know Christ to Richard Moore our assistant organist for further experience his love. This is an ecumenical worldwide details ([email protected]). initiative, instigated by the Archbishop of Canterbury. We will be taking part in this period of We also have a few special services this month. prayer by having special prayers at Evensong, prayer Saying Goodbye is a service, organised by the stations in the Lady chapel and a number of acts of Mariposa Trust for those who have lost babies, worship on the two days before Pentecost, the whether during pregnancy, at birth or in infancy. The Friday and the Saturday. This worship will take place services also welcome anyone grieving the fact that both outside and inside the Cathedral, and will they have been unable to have children. The include our normal offices (such as Morning Prayer Winchester service will take place on 13 May at 10.30 and Evensong) but we will also have services of in the quire. Compline (night prayer) at 9pm in the evenings of the 2 and 3 June. It should be a very memorable and Another high point of May is our joint Ascension joyful weekend indeed. service with Winchester College. In March the college made our choristers very welcome when we Canon Sue ANDREW LUMSDEN ON MUSIC IN MAY Our celebration of Easter continues with several ‘top 50’ anthems including Charles Stanford’s setting of Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (2nd) and SS Wesley’s Blessed be the God and Father (6th), written whilst he was organist of Hereford Cathedral and sung then by the choristers and one bass, the Dean’s butler! Gerald Finzi’s Lo, the full final sacrifice (7th) concludes with possibly the most beautiful Amen of the 20th century. There is a welcome return for Ralph Vaughan Williams’ seminal Mass in G minor (14th) whilst the girls and men tackle two contrasting pieces – Kenneth Leighton’s jaunty Missa brevis (7th) and a rarely heard chorus from Handel’s Israel in Egypt (14th pm). For our Ascension Day Eucharist (25th) we join together with the College’s Chapel Choir for Vierne’s monumental Messe solennelle and RVW’s O clap your hands – a true fanfare for the occasion. 3 OCCASIONS OF GRACE Occasional events can be just as rewarding as regular ones, as I was reminded when we hosted another Big Breakfast for the homeless and vulnerably housed. Our partners from the Salvation Army, Street Pastors, Night Shelter, Trinity Centre and Hope Church ensured that those who needed to know about it were told in advance, and their representatives came down acted as hosts alongside Cathedral and Kudos staff.