DAILY SERVICES AT GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL SUNDAY NEWS 7.40am Morning Prayer (said) 8.00am Holy Communion 10.15am Sung Eucharist with Children’s Church 3.00pm Choral Evensong SEPTEMBER 2016 MONDAY - SATURDAY 8.00am Holy Communion 8.30am Morning Prayer (said) 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. A Gift Aid scheme operates at the Cathedral, which allows the Chapter to claim back 25p per £1 for donations. 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 Monday 12th September at 10.30am. Dean: The Very Reverend Stephen Lake Canons: Lay Canons: Nikki Arthy John Coates "We are happy to receive articles, handwritten or typed. We regret that, due to the limited space available, and to enable us to Dr Andrew Braddock Paul Mason continue to produce a lively, varied and informative magazine, we Jackie Searle Dame Janet Trotter can normally only accept articles of 400 words or less. Articles over Celia Thomson 400 words will only be accepted at the Editor’s discretion. The Editor reserves the right to alter articles as necessary, without losing the general sense. Chief Operations Officer: Emily Shepherd - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Contributions can be emailed to: [email protected] The Cathedral Office, 12 College Green, Gloucester GL1 2LX Telephone: 01452 528095 or you can leave them at the Cathedral Office at the address given Email: [email protected] at the front of this booklet. 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. *PLEASE NOTE MY NEW EMAIL ADDRESS Gloucester Cathedral News Subscriptions A year’s postal subscription for 10 copies of Gloucester Cathedral Disclaimer: We try very hard to make sure details are correct before News may be obtained by cash or cheque for £12 made payable to going to print, but things can change! Please check with the ‘The Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral’ and sent to the Cathedral Cathedral Office and the notice board. Please note that articles do Office at the above address. not represent the opinions of the Chapter, the Church of England or the editor - only the writer! www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk The Editor for October is Maureen Smith. Cover picture: Detail from the Henry III Coronation Window The deadline is the 5th September The Nave - Gloucester Cathedral Photograph by: Richard Cann See article about the window on page 6. 2 31 Sat 8 11am, 12noon, 2pm and 3pm Cathedral Library Tours. CONTENTS Wed 12 7.30pm Cathedral Conversations - Dame Janet Trotter - The Church in Contemporary Society. (See page Page Thu 13 12.30pm Organ Recital performed by Molly Patrick Buttars (Oundle Award Winner). Peace be with you David Runcorn 4 Admission free with retiring collection in aid of Cathedral Music. Henry III Coronation Window Richard Cann 6 Fri 14 5.30pm Eucharist for Holy Cross Day. Three Choirs Festival Eucharist Sermon Bishop Rachel 8 Sat 15 11.00am Coffee Concert - Claire Deniz, Cello. Tickets £6, to include refreshments, available on the door. All ‘...One of Those Beastly Fruits proceeds go towards the work of the Cathedral of the System’! Maureen Smith 12 Choir. Sat 22 7,30pm An Evening with Jane Austen. Bishop’s Chaplain David Gardiner 8 Sat 22 - Sun 23 Greek Literature weekend. The Eleven ‘Lost’ Days Maureen Smith 10 Mon 25 - Sat 29 Coronation Crafts - Free Half-Term Family Fun. Around the Community 12 Wed 26 and Thu 27 6.15, 7pm and 7.45pm Pottering Around the Cathedral. Cathedral Book Club 13 Fri 28 7.00pm Henry III talk by Professor Richard Rastall. Sat 29 7.30pm St Cecilia Singers Concert - ‘Crowning Glories’. King’s School Chaplaincy – Some of the Highlights of the Year John M. Webster 14 Celebrating the 800th Anniversary of the Boy King's Coronation at Gloucester Cathedral 16 - 17 Gloucestershire Industry series: The Founding of the Dowty Group George Marchant 18 Jottings from the West End Humph ’n Harry 20 Diary of special services and events Please consider a voluntary donation of £1 to help cover the cost of this magazine 30 3 September special services and events: Thu 1 - Mon 5 Tower lit gold for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Thu 1 10.00am Study Day - The Benedictines - How They Lived, Worked and Worshipped. Sat 3 10am - 5pm Model Funfair Exhibition in the Cloisters. Sat 3 4.30pm Evensong and Installation of Canon Richard Mitchell - Director of Congregational Development and Precentor. Come along and welcome Canon Richard to Gloucester Cathedral. Sat 3 - Sun 4 Latin Course - Ancient Rome a History. Sat 10 Royal Parade and Re-enactment of the Coronation of Henry III. Peace be with you Fri 15 7.00pm Fundraising concert performed by the Gloucester Old Choristers Association, Cathedral Choir and ‘We pray for peace in the world’. Youth Choir. Admission free with retiring collection in aid of Cathedral Music. Is any prayer prayed with more frequency and longing Sunday by Sunday? But in the face of the continued violence and suffering that Sat 16 11.00am Coffee Concert - Kapsetakis Piano Duo. Tickets £6, is the experience of millions on this planet these words quickly feel to include refreshments. empty and powerless to change much. All proceeds go towards the work of the Cathedral Choir. In the bible ‘Shalom’ (peace) is concerned with all levels of human Tue 20 6.30pm and 8pm - Henry III Lecture Series. (See page 16). relating, including relationships within societies and nations. But, when we try and imagine what the peace of God must be like, we Wed 21 5.30pm Evensong on behalf of people with Dementia and tend to start from our best and most personal experiences of earthly their Carers. peace. Surely it must be like that - only much deeper and more 7.30pm Celebratory Organ Recital by Adrian Partington. (See page ). lasting? But that is precisely what Jesus says it is not. He said, ‘My peace I give to you. It is not as the world gives. Do not let your Thu 22 6.30pm and 8pm - Henry III Lecture Series. hearts be troubled’. (Jn 14:27). Fri 30 7.00pm Medieval Banquet. So when we pray for peace what are we asking for and what might it October looking ahead……. ask of us? Sat 1 3.00pm Primrose Piano Quartet - Gloucester Choral Society Not only was Jesus’s peace not like the peace of the world, he was Concert. very often a peace breaker. The peace of Christ is disturbing at Sun 2 3.00pm County Harvest Thanksgiving Service. times. His presence led to furious conflict. He himself said, ‘I have All are welcome to give thanks for the gift of not come to bring peace but the sword’. (Matt 10:34). The Prince of God's creations. Peace must confront and judge all our attempts at living in peace. It This service replaces Choral Evensong. 4 29 seems that the peace of God can only be received after the peace of An Evening with the world has been shattered and exposed as false. So the peace of Jane Austen God is to be found in the midst of trouble not an absence of it. But this is very good news in a world like ours. For if peace is only Saturday 22 October, 7.30pm available where there is no conflict, then only the privileged few who can afford to live there will ever enjoy it. Enjoy a candlelit soiree in the company We must be very careful assuming where God is or is not to be found of some of Jane Austen’s most in this world - whose side he is on and how much he shares my sense memorable characters. Adrian Lukis, of what is important. In a complex world the issues are so easily who played the duplicitous Mr Wickham in the BBC production of • oversimplified. Western attempts at making (or enforcing) peace in Pride and Prejudice, and Caroline Langrishe (Lovejoy and Peak the world in recent history have been disastrous. Our values are Practice) perform a series of duologues from some of Jane uncritically assumed to be ‘good’ for everyone. Our ‘enemies’ are Austen’s most-loved novels, accompanied by live Regency-era all bad and evil. We have been blind to when self-interest has driven music. our actions. Meet the performers at a VIP reception in the Praying for peace requires a willingness to feel the pain of others. ‘Blessed are those who mourn’, said Jesus (Matt 5:4). Tears have an Chapter House at 7.00pm important place in the Christian prayer. They express a participation Tickets: VIP £50, Standard £25 available from 0845 652 1823, and divine discontentment with the way life is for too many. Cathedral Gift Shop or www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk Praying for peace must include careful listening and research.