THE E UROP E AN A NGLICAN R E C E IV E TH E S PIRIT O RDINAND S E MPOW E R E D B E LGIAN C E LL G ROUP S P RI S ON M INI S TRY B L ess ING D IOC ese FOR TH E F UTUR E S YNOD P LAN S A H E AD F OCU S ON F RANC E V IV E L A D IFF E R E NC E N O C AU se TO C E L eb RAT E D IGNIFI E D R E M E M B RANC E europe.anglican.org No.59 AUTUMN 2013 2 GOD’S COLOURFUL CHURCH THE E UROP E AN S E IZING O PPORTUNITI es FROM E CUM E NICAL E XPO A NGLICA N Monica Schofield, from Hamburg, tells how their local The Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe church made the most of a The Rt Revd Geoffrey Rowell Bishop’s Lodge, Church Road, biennial bonanza in their city. Worth, Crawley RH10 7RT Tel: +44 (0) 1293 883051 The German Protestant Kirchentag Fax: +44 (0) 1293 884479 Email: is a phenomenon quite like no other. [email protected] Founded in 1949, the same year as the German Federal Republic, as a movement The Suffragan Bishop in Europe The Rt Revd David Hamid of Protestant lay people, it is today a huge Postal address: Diocesan Office manifestation of ecumenism that takes Tel: +44 (0) 207 898 1160 place every two years. This year it was Email: Hamburg’s turn to host 100,000 full- [email protected] time visitors (most of them under 30!) The Diocesan Office and 30,000 active participants at 2,500 14 Tufton Street, London, events between 1-5 May. It is a platform SW1P 3QZ Tel: +44 (0) 207 898 1155 for intensive discussion and a forum for Fax: +44 (0) 207 898 1166 critical debate involving people from Email: church and politics. This year’s theme was [email protected] ‘Soviel du brauchst’ – in English ‘As much as Diocesan Secretary you need’ – inspired by Exodus 16:18. Mr Adrian Mumford Kirchentag provided an opportunity Appointments Secretary for the Anglican Church of St Thomas Miss Catherine Jackson Becket, which last year celebrated its 400th anniversary under the heading English and German at which the Rt Rev Finance Secretary Mr Nick Wraight ‘Extending a Welcome’, to live up to this Nick Baines, Bishop of Bradford and and be very much involved in the wider Co-Chairman of the Meissen Commission, Diocesan Website community in Hamburg. The church was presided and Bishop Prof Dr Friedrich www.europe.anglican.org host to Evensong when a visiting German Weber, the EKD Co-Chairman of the Editor and Diocesan protestant choir and congregation showed Meissen Commission, preached. Communications Officer how they valued the influence of a great St Thomas Becket hosted a good party The Revd. Paul Needle Postal address: Diocesan Office Anglican tradition. Some 400 people afterwards, with helpers still able to get Email: attended the Meissen Service celebrating up in time for the normal parish Sunday [email protected] ecumenical relations between the Church Service with Bishop David Hamid Tel: +44 (0)7712 463806 of England and the Evangelische Kirche presiding, Archdeacon Jonathan LLoyd Friends of the Diocese in Deutschland (EKD) – a service in both present and the Very Revd Dr John Secretary: Rev Canon Arthur Siddall Email: [email protected] Design Adept Design, Norwich Printer Colchester Print Group, Attleborough A F ULL S P E CTRUM OF S PIRITUAL V ITALITY Distribution In the Summer of 1969 an illusion was CoDEStorm plc shattered by television. It was my first glimpse of Wimbledon on the new fangled colour TV sets. The tones and images were not as clear as those we take for Front cover picture: granted today but, having been brought There was double delight in Portugal when up with the image of tennis on the hard Rev Lars Nowen and his wife Claire introduced their twins Samuel and Theodore courts in our local park, I had always to the congregation of Praia Da luz when heard the sounds and imagined the they were just 5 days old. Appropriately Wimbledon action on black and white TV Fr Lars is Canadian and the twins were born on Canada day. with those hard surfaces in mind. CHURCHES IN THE 3 MARKETPLACE S E IZING O PPORTUNITI es FROM E CUM E NICAL E XPO Arnold, Dean Emeritus of Durham, with whom the Anglican Church has find some peace and quiet. The City preaching. been in full communion since 1931 has been alive with people of many The Council of Anglican and under the Bonn Agreement. nationalities and it has been great Episcopal Churches in Germany After his first experience of for us to be able to play our part (CAECG) had a stall at Kirchentag Kirchentag, the Australian born in welcoming them to Hamburg amongst the many in the Hamburg Chaplain of St Thomas Becket together with our sister churches. Exhibition Centre’s ‘Market of Church, Rev Matthew Jones All in all a really moving experience Opportunities’ as did the Anglican- says ‘This has been an amazing that has helped us live our mission Lutheran Society which recruited a experience. Over 1000 people have statement to be A welcoming, active number of new members. In another attended worship services in our and inclusive church, growing in our nice ecumenical touch the CAECG church in the three days, and many relationship with God and the wider shared a stand with the Old Catholics others have come inside to visit and community’. A F ULL S P E CTRUM OF S PIRITUAL V ITALITY It is easy to think of our churches but they each have a beauty. A jazz in monochrome when they are, in music radio station in Britain has You may imagine the shock of fact, colourful examples of God’s work a bizarre slogan “Listen in colour!” discovering that the nets and courts across Europe. In this edition you Rejoice with us as you discover were on green grass! The world looked will find stories of how churches are more about our diverse Diocese and very different when viewed in colour. working together to demonstrate our pray with us as we face an exciting, That experience was underlined with unique contribution to worship and colourful future. the broadcast of the Investiture of the community life. It may be at a vast Prince of Wales in that same year – religious fair in Germany, in a Belgian the first major event to be broadcast prison or in the hope and optimism in R EV P AUL N EEDLE in colour and the images of the heir recent ordinations. E DITOR , apparent kneeling in front of his mother, The colours of Autumn offer different TH E E UROP E AN The Queen, live with me still. hues in the North or South of Europe A NGLICAN 4 ROMAN REJOICING AT ORDINATIONS C ALL E D , E MPOW E R E D AND OMMI ss ION E D C Ordination in Rome... ...in Brussels Ordinations in Brussels and Rome on the last weekend of June saw four new Deacons and two Priests join the ranks of our clergy. In Rome, Honorary Assistant Bishop Edward Holland English-speaking ‘Churches Together in Rome.’ I will ordained Rev Dana English and Rev Dr Mary Styles continue a prison chaplaincy begun with an internship; who are both serving as curates in All Saints’. Both have Mary has strengthened the regular offering of a healing enjoyed a busy year since they were made Deacon a year eucharist at All Saints’. ago in the same church where they assist Ven Jonathan Highly visible as women in ministry, there has been Boardman, who is also Archdeacon of Italy and Malta. intense scrutiny; some criticism, much affirmation. Our Dana writes about the two priests’ experiences; priesting together at All Saints’ Church in June saw “We arrived by two very different paths: Mary had been Bishop Edward Holland presiding with grace and wisdom a doctor in England; I had been a Presbyterian minister as we presented ourselves not only to members of the in the United States. Mary commuted for three years to congregation and our families, from near and far, but the Eastern Region Training Course; I filled in gaps in many Roman Catholic friends. Mother Teodora Tosatti, my Anglican studies by travelling over the past year to of the Old Catholic congregation in Perugia, was one Salisbury. We sometimes laughingly refer to ourselves as of those participating in the service. Archbishop David “the twins,” though not having a physical resemblance, Moxon, the new Director of the Anglican Centre in and only occasionally appearing together on the altar, Rome, read the Gospel. Father Alaric Lewis, a former as Mary from the outset has focussed her energies on Benedictine monk from America and one of the clergy Footsteps, a fresh expression of church, for half of her team of All Saints’, sang the litany over us as we prostrated working time. ourselves on the cool marble floor of the sanctuary. The Our first ordination together, to the diaconate, was laying on of hands, to each in turn, was full of emotion. followed by a year of working closely, side by side, under We felt the Holy Spirit in the pressure of the hands. Jonathan Boardman’s direction to strengthen the life of All Presented with Bibles in Italian, we turned to face the Saints’ Church in distinctly complementary ways: pastoral congregation, with relief and joy, knowing how long the care; confirmation preparation and “Light at Lunchtime,” journey had been.