V1 26.07.19 #WishYouWereHere Enjoying the Summer at Bradford Cathedral Keeping in Touch • August 2019 Keeping in Touch 1 2 Keeping in Touch Keeping in Touch Contents Bradford Cathedral Dean Jerry: Telling the Story 04 1 Stott Hill, Mission 06 Bradford, Prayer 08 West Yorkshire, Schools Leavers’ Service 09 BD1 4EH Hosting A Safari Evensong 12 (01274) 77 77 20 Join the Refill Revolution 14 [email protected] Toilet Twinning 16 Visiting Choirs 17 Social Media Community Guidelines 18 Find us online: Make a Big Difference to a Patients’ Day 20 bradfordcathedral.org/ Inn Churches 22 StPeterBradford Acorn Summer School 24 @BfdCathedral Photo Gallery 26 Do not be afraid, for I am with you 28 @BfdCathedral In the Media 33 mixcloud.com/ Refugee Action 34 BfdCathedral Introducing Graham Thorpe 36 bradfordcathedral. Polly Meynell 39 eventbrite.com What’s On 45 Who’s Who 50 Front page photo: Philip Lickley Please submit content for the next edition to [email protected] before 28th August 2019 It was great to reflect on the Cathedral's dedication to St Peter at the recent Patronal Keeping in Touch 3 Festival, here with the Very Reverend Dr David Ison from St. Paul’s Cathedral Dean Jerry: Telling the story, Welcome hospitality and responsiveness We are now seven months into our Second, the congregation has been Centenary year. There is no doubt brilliant in the serving / hospitality that the cathedral has felt re- ministry. As has been said many energised by the experience and our times, cathedral congregations have a key value of hospitality has been very unique ministry to the wider well employed! Most of all, visitors, community in the welcome and volunteers, congregation and staff hospitality that is offered. It is core to seem to be enjoying it. But what are our being. I am aware that much is the lessons that being demanded and we are learning? we are always “ As has been said many looking for more First, we have times, cathedral benefited from a help but I am so strong social congregations have a unique grateful for your support. media presence. ministry to the wider You cannot do community in the welcome Third, the number of cathedral and hospitality that is different events and without it these offered. services has put an days because it It is core to our being. added burden on the not only Vergers department, reminds people particularly in the about events and services but it tells constant movement” of the chairs. the story about an openhearted One way that we can make that community engaging with the world easier for them is to go for high outside the church. In many ways we quality stacking chairs. This is normal are not doing new things but we are for cathedrals these days. So, in the telling the story and it is being coming weeks we shall be trying noticed. some out. 4 Keeping in Touch Welcome Telling the story, hospitality and God’s vitality. In a desert it can be responsiveness – all good signs of totally transformative. I remember an healthy faith. Australian lake, dried up for many years, coming alive with wild flowers Finally, I have been struck by the text after sudden rain. Let us pray that the in Psalm 126 recently – Restore our ‘aliveness’ we have felt this year, that fortunes, O Lord, like the sense of joy, energy and purpose that watercourses in the Negeb and the Centenary has given us, might have been using it as a prayer focus. also draw us more into the vitality of Water in the desert place – a sign of the Generous God. Keeping in Touch 5 Worship at the Cathedral Mission The Cathedral provides a variety of precisely your opportunities for people to gather comments and suggestions together for worship each week. which inform the choices that are made in developing our shared These times of worship are always worshipping life together. evolving and, over time, changing to best meet the needs of those attending. Please speak to me or telephone or email me. Thank you. Please speak to me if you have any comments or suggestions as it is Canon Paul Our Purpose Our Values To serve Jesus Christ as a vibrant Hospitality community of worship and mission Faithfulness enriching the City, the Diocese and Wholeness further afield. Useful Links Diocese of Leeds - leeds.anglican.org/ A Church Near You - achurchnearyou.com/church/5746/ 6 Keeping in Touch Mission Cathedral Services Sundays Thursdays 8am - Holy Communion 8.30am - Morning Prayer (Lady Chapel) (Lady Chapel) 10.15am - Choral Eucharist (Nave) 5.45pm - Choral Evensong (Chancel) inc. Children’s Space. Prayer Ministry Fridays takes place on the 3rd Sunday of the 8.30am - Morning Prayer month. (Lady Chapel) 4pm - Choral Evensong (Nave) 5.30pm - Evening Prayer Mondays (Lady Chapel) 8.30am - Morning Prayer Saturdays (Lady Chapel) 8.30am - Morning Prayer 5.45pm - Choral Evensong (Chancel) (Lady Chapel) Tuesdays 5.30pm - Evening Prayer 8.30am - Morning Prayer (Lady Chapel) (Lady Chapel) Choral Evensong only takes place during 5.45pm - Choral Evensong (Chancel) term-time, and may be cancelled if other Wednesdays events are occurring at the Cathedral. 7.30am - Holy Communion Other services subject to change. (St Aidan's Chapel) 8.30am - Morning Prayer (Lady Chapel) 10.15am - Holy Communion (St Aidan's Chapel) 5.30pm - Evening Prayer (Lady Chapel) Keeping in Touch 7 Prayer Centenary Prayer Eternally present and ever faithful God, by whose grace a people have gathered here for over a thousand years to praise your name, and learn your ways. We bless you for this witness and now we give you thanks for one hundred years of worship and ministry as a Cathedral. Grant to us, whose lives are like the flowers of the field, the spirit of joyful gratitude for the past, generous welcome and witness in the present, and the longing for your creation to be made whole in this City and Diocese. May your future come, through the power of the Spirit of the Risen Christ. 8 Keeping in Touch Amen News Over 400 local children gather at Bradford Cathedral for year six leavers’ services Pupils from twelve local Church of Leavers’ services take place across England schools packed into Bradford the ‘Diocese of Leeds’ with similar Cathedral over two busy sessions to services held this year at Ripon and mark the end of their primary Wakefield Cathedrals, and Leeds and education, celebrating their successes Dewsbury Minsters. and enjoying a mixture of music, presentations and the chance to The services were led by the Revd. reflect on the theme of ‘Looking Canon Mandy Coutts, who talked on Forward?’ during which Canon the theme of ‘Looking Forward?’, and Mandy encouraged the children to how it was both a time of happiness share their hopes about the start of but also anticipation for the future, their secondary education and what and how the children could take what they would like to achieve when they’ve learnt to be inspired to go on they’re older. to do extraordinary things. The Keeping in Touch 9 service also included hymns and Others did News music, which the schools had handprints in a prepared for, including learning some rainbow of colours. of the actions that were The one thing they all had in demonstrated by the Zephaniah common was how they showcased Trust. Several of the schools also the creativity of the children and contributed to the service by writing their optimism for the future. There some of the prayers and performing a was a lot of emphasis on helping the dramatic reading of a Bible passage world, and working towards a better up on the stage, complete with future and society.” props. During the services the adults blew Each school also brought forward an bubbles, which moved upwards and offering, which this year was a outwards into the body of the Rainbow of Promises, based on the Cathedral. This was to symbolise the pupils’ thinking about how they can children’s transition into the next make a difference in the world by stage of their education whilst, like being who they are and what they bubbles, being unique and would like to be remembered for. extraordinary, travelling in different Director of Education and Visitors, directions and possessing an Maggie Myers, said of this: individual beauty, capturing the light in their own way. “Our twelve schools produced really different interpretations of this idea. The service concluded with a hymn For example, one did a banner and on the organ led by Bradford some offered transparent baubles Cathedral Director of Music, Alex with their promises written inside. Berry, before each child was given a One made a pyramid out of which keyring by the Diocesan Education unfolded photos of the children. team as a memento of the day. 10 Keeping in Touch News Maggie Myers: to show the young people how “The service is an important part of valued they are by the Church.” the leaving process for the children in our Church of England schools. It Diane Norton, Schools Adviser for was a really joyful day, and we love Religious Education at the Diocese of having young people in the Cathedral, Leeds, said: particularly as many may not go into a church very often. The idea of them being here and taking part in worship, “These services are clearly valued by both traditional and non-traditional, schools and venues alike and I am showed them how important they sure form part of a memorable last are in the life of the Church. This a few weeks of primary school for the key service in Bradford Cathedral’s children.