newscathedral september 2017 Prayer Worship Music Arts Education Heritage Welcoming Think Global – Act Local Page 2 and 3 New Liturgical Furniture Pages 8 and 9 Capture the Cathedral Pages 10 www.manchestercathedral.org Image credit: Belinda Hastie common tradition and continue to consult our Cathedral, in case you didn’t notice! with each other and provide mutual Among us are Anglicans from England, support. This support is often structured Nigeria, India, China, Poland, Pakistan, through the twinning of dioceses. Scotland, Sierra Leone, Ireland, etc. Manchester is twinned with the Dioceses I guess I should mention South Africa! of Namibia (Africa) and Lahore (Pakistan). I am sure I have neglected to mention There are good relationships with both some countries! Dean’s Corner dioceses expressed in reciprocal visits, prayers for each other and the sharing of training and other resources. My point is that we are a global Since the 1930 Lambeth Conference of Cathedral and this is reflective bishops, the Anglican Communion has of our diverse city. We are developed a new sense of identity with brothers and sisters together in a greater universalising of our bonds of Christ. We seek to be faithful to fellowship. Mission is now the duty of all churches in the communion instead the gospel call to love God and ‘Think Global – Act Local’ - of missionaries being sent to far off to serve the needs of others, countries. What began as a national together. This is an amazing Some Reflections on church in England as a product of the Reformation is now a global church. witness to others. This is an Global Anglicanism This global Anglicanism enables amazing community to be a Anglicans from any part of the world part of! We reflect the global to identify with Anglicans anywhere Church which is the Anglican relatively easily. It was great that on Victor Atta-Baffoe wrote in a theological up churches, often separate churches Sunday 6 August one of the Bishops from Communion! I encourage you to journal recently that ‘The Anglican for English folk and for the indigenous Nigeria and his wife were able to join celebrate this rich diversity and Communion has outgrown its people. In Africa it was not uncommon us for morning worship and identified to deepen friendships and bonds Englishness. Today the majority of for people to worship separately and themselves as Anglicans from Nigeria! Anglicans are from the so-called for expatriates to have their own They felt at home among us despite the of love in Christ as we witness ‘’third world’’ countries’. church buildings. liturgy being very English. to the gospel which represents everyone in the world. Anglicanism spread rapidly during the Atta-Bafoe’s point is that despite the At this point I want to refer to the cliché colonial era to other parts of the world, developments in the colonial era, about ‘Think Global – Act Local’. We are a especially Africa and Asia, as chaplains what started out as an English religious small reflection of global Anglicanism at accompanied British forces to provide for movement post-Reformation is now their spiritual needs. English missionaries a global church rooted in different also travelled to the colonies and engaged cultures, languages, races and political in evangelistic activity by seeking conditions. The different provinces within conversions and building hospitals Anglicanism are in communion with each and schools. Hence, missionaries set other, loyal to the Holy Scriptures, and a Page 3 Cathedral News Bishop Wickham Lecture 7pm / FREE Reimagining Dementia: 12 Pre-booking recommended Go sky high for Whose memory counts? 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A WORLD OF FLAVOUR UNDER ONE ROOF Pick from 13 of your favourite restaurants offering delicious food and drink from around the world. cornexchangemanchester.co.uk Page 5 Cathedral News 7811_CornEx_A6_Cathedral_Newsletter_Ad v2.indd 1 11/10/2016 09:56 Volition Update Introducing our new Tony Maunder, Volunteer Programme Coordinator Poet in Residence, Volition is pleased to announce the by showing them how to eat healthily on a Andrew Rudd appointment of two new staff members. budget, using the fresh fruit and vegetables grown on the Printworks rooftop garden. Andy Pierce finished the Volition programme late last year and will be running the We recently had a visit from Sarah Page at David Holgate, Canon for Theology and Mission Cenotaph project in the city centre with Portsmouth Cathedral who is hoping to have our volunteers. Volition up and running by October this year. Rachel Mann is now on sabbatical He has taught poetry and creative Sarah spent a week shadowing the team and and has stepped down as our Poet in writing on the MA course at Manchester We are also joined by Amie Smith who gaining knowledge of how we help volunteers Residence. Her last official engagement Metropolitan University, and also teaches finished the programme last month. with a range of problems and barriers. will be to chair Manchester Cathedral spirituality to Anglican ordinands from Amie will provide admin support and will We had some amazing feedback from her Poetry Competition Prizegiving on across the North West on the All Saints lead cooking sessions with volunteers. The and would like to wish Portsmouth Cathedral Tuesday 10 October. Course. As well as writing workshops cooking sessions will benefit our volunteers luck with the start of Volition. and poetry readings, he often leads I am delighted to announce that our new retreats and quiet days. He has long Poet in Residence will be Andrew Rudd, had a deep interest in poetry and who has already begun working his way spirituality, which led to a PhD on that into this new role. subject in 2011. Andrew’s poem, ‘After the bombing,’ is currently on display in Andrew’s poems have been widely the Cathedral. published in a variety of magazines, including Magma, The North, The SHOp, Other Poetry, and Smith’s Knoll, Andrew brings his rich and varied as well as about a dozen anthologies. experience to this new role. As He has published two collections, well as overseeing the Poetry ‘One Cloud Away from the Sky’ (2007) Competition from 2018, he will and ‘Nowhere Else but Here’ (2012). also take new initiatives to foster In 2006 he was the Poet Laureate the reading, writing and use of of Cheshire. This was an amazing poetry in the Cathedral, including opportunity for bringing poetry into the establishment of a new Poetry public spaces, and introducing poetry to Corner in the Cathedral where he new audiences. That work has continued will display a topical or seasonal – most recently in a commissioned poem poems, written by him and others. for Frodsham, where he lives, which is He will also be a part of our Cultural now part of the Neighbourhood Plan. and Arts Strategy Group, working In 2015 he was selected as one of in partnership with our Artist in the ‘Aldeburgh Eight’ – an intensive Residence, and others to coordinate writing experience at the Aldeburgh our arts, education, music and visitor Poetry Festival. services programmes. Page 7 Cathedral News A New Suite of The furniture, made from European walnut Liturgical Furniture veneer taken from a single tree, is designed Our Special Thanks to: to fit around the new altar as the central focal point. The altar itself was sponsored Sir David Trippier and the Freemasons of by the Duchy of Lancaster and its top is Anthony O’Connor, Director of Fundraising and Development East Lancashire and London made from a single piece of burr Elm, with bronze inlays.