News www.manchestercathedral.org May 2015 Prayer / Worship / Music / Arts / Education / Heritage / Welcoming Melbourne Connections Margaret Beaufort Volition News Page 5 Page 8 Page 10 Archdeacon’s Corner Giants such as these can shape people’s and deciding what kind of a country we attitudes and understanding; the three want Britain to be. Our own Cathedral’s people I have mentioned all do this involvement in the Citizens’ Parliament through enabling people from different Conversations, which attracted coverage It’s election time again backgrounds and cultures to meet and in the national church press, highlighted get to know one another in a safe and the importance of this year’s election. accepting environment. This breaks By Archdeacon Mark Ashcroft down barriers of prejudice and fear and But the Election doesn’t fix everything, or begins to create respect and friendship. cause all our problems. There is no silver bullet election that solves all our nation’s The 2015 General Election is now The issues facing the people living in the While you may be groaning at the thought issues at one stroke. What is needed Holy Land are hugely complex. To take a of more talk about our General Election, here, as elsewhere, is a few giants to upon us. Some of you reading shape our nation and our culture by that sentence will be quickly phrase from the team spying out the land it is nonetheless the great British public’s chance, once every five years, to shape breaking down the walls of suspicion and scanning the rest of in Numbers 13, it seemed as if there are Cathedral “giants in the land”, giants of fear and the way our country is governed. When prejudice, giants who will build bridges for something else to read, News mistrust, insecurity and injustice, poverty the issues being debated are such hot of friendship and peace to enable us having already had far too much and prosperity. These giants sit alongside topics as how we view people from to become a nation in which we love information on all things political complex issues around what it means other countries and cultures, the welfare one another as we love ourselves. to last a long, long time! Before to have a “home”, how you deal with a state, the NHS and the economy, then you switch off, I want to mention complicated and conflicted history, and we are examining afresh our core values The Dean’s Corner will resume in our June issue. elections elsewhere in the world. the influence of other players in the region and in the wider international community. A couple of general elections have caught You can do this in a number of ways: my eye this year already – one in Nigeria As is the case in our own country as well Manchester • Go to www.manchestercathedral.org/survey and one in Israel. In both cases, it seems as in Israel, the nature of the government and answer the questions online; that the issue of national security became is important but it does not determine Cathedral Visitors the decisive issue for voters, for very the kind of community that we become. • Complete the paper copy understandable reasons in their particular On a recent visit to the Holy Land, I and with this issue and post to: What would Grace Timperley, Manchester Cathedral, contexts. The return of Benjamin those I was with met giants of a very Victoria Street, M3 1SX, or hand it to Netanyahu and the Likud party to power different calibre and nature. People you like to see? a Welcomer or Guide on your next visit; surprised some political commentators, like Salim Munayer of the Musalaha and delighted and dismayed others in Trust (which has links particularly with • Or for an email copy contact Have you visited the Cathedral [email protected] equal measure. Mr Netanyahu is well Bolton). Salim Munayer together with recently? If so, we would be other partners has spent years building known for his tough stance on terrorism, grateful for your feedback to • Or ask a Welcomer or Guide for a paper no doubt stemming from the death bridges of understanding between copy and complete it after your visit. of his own brother in the attempt to people of different backgrounds; that is, help us improve the experience rescue kidnapped Israeli hostages at between adherents of the major faiths, of visitors, identify learning Entebbe airport in Uganda in 1976. Jew, Muslim and Christian, and between opportunities, and help visitors to people of different identities, between understand our shared heritage. Part of the controversy over his election Israeli and Palestinian young people. DISCOUNTS campaign was his apparent ruling out We’d like you to tell us what you FOR MANCHESTER enjoyed most and what you feel the creation of a Palestinian state in the Salim was not the only spiritual giant CATHEDRAL VISITORS so-called “two state” solution to the that we met; there were others like we could add or do better - and to seemingly intractable impasse between Archbishop Elias Chacour, seeking tell us a bit more about yourself. On behalf of Crowne Plaza and Holiday Palestinians and Israelis, together with to bring children of different religious Inn Express we are very pleased to offer his commitment to pursuing a policy backgrounds to learn together in the Please take a few moments to answer a special discounted rate for visitors to of settlements in the West Bank. same school, and Dr Sami Awad, working five questions about your visit. The Manchester Cathedral. To take advantage at reconciliation between different faith questions are multiple-choice and of these offers, use the links at: groups from his base in Bethlehem. have space for you to make additional www.manchestercathedral.org comments. Thank you for your help. /a-good-day-out/where-to-stay Page 2 Cathedral News We hope to include some photographs of Philip in Melbourne Melbourne and his results later in the year!! Connections The Cathedral has a historic connection with Melbourne through Bishop Moorhouse, the third Bishop of In March, Philip Galley got Manchester (1886-1903). The cathedra in touch with our Director of (the seat of the bishop) in the quire was Fundraising & Development to produced in 1906 as a memorial to say that he will be running the Moorhouse, by Sir Charles Nicholson. Melbourne Half Marathon in Moorhouse had previously been Bishop October this year, and would like of Melbourne and, in recognition of to raise funds for the Manchester this, there are kangaroos carved into Cathedral Development Project by the design. During the Dig the City festival in 2014, the ‘flora and fauna’ trail sponsorship of his Half Marathon! featured a eucalyptus tree in the quire, inviting visitors to spot the Australian Philip explains why he has chosen connection and learn about Moorhouse. Manchester Cathedral: For Development Project updates, including organ works, see page 10. I had the privilege of living for 8 years in Manchester when my sons Grace Timperley were young. It was and is a beautiful place to raise children. We were very blessed to experience church life, too, in several of its various expressions: Ivy Cottage and Northenden Christian Fellowship; Heathfield Church in Newton Heath and latterly Clayton Christian Fellowship. My boys also had their happiest school years at Elm Grove Church of England School in Didsbury. So I want to be able to ‘give back’ and say ‘thank you’. It strikes me that the Cathedral is ‘the heart’ of Christian worship in Manchester, so what better way than this? My very good friend, Alan Smith, is also a member of the Julian Group and he introduced me to Cathedral News (thank you for the recent piece on the Angelus, and for Canon Peter Green’s prophetic reflections on World War One). I feel that giving to the Cathedral Development fund is a way to ‘pass the blessing’ on to others in the city. Page 5 Cathedral News Honorary chaplains – clergy and lay readers (often retired) – ‘loiter with Honorary intent’ in the Cathedral, to be ever- Watch present ministers to those making a Watch and pray Could you not bee-line for this highly evocative place Welcome Chaplains at of worship, pilgrimage and sanctuary. watch with Come in Look around Manchester Trish says so eloquently what I me one hour? Take off your coat and stay awhile also have found: being a peaceful, Tired prayerful, pastoral presence for any By Trish Lindsay Sad Cathedral and all is an experience at the heart Determined of ministry, which we rarely get in Reader and Honorary Chaplain Excited the hurly burly of ‘the day job’. at Manchester Cathedral Shoppers Trish Lindsay’s gentle, moving Friends poem came in just after I’d been In doing nothing, we are able to be so much. Lovers asked to pen a few words about “I’ve lived here all my life but...” honorary chaplains, having taken Please contact me if you have Watch over co-ordinating the rota from time to join our team. Watch and pray Canon Alma Servant. But her Gently, with the tips of her fingers poem captures the essence so Canon Adrian M. Rhodes, she touches the memorial. well that I’ll leave my stumbling Chaplain, Manchester Cathedral Six children died in infancy prose for another time. [email protected] Ramrod-straight he bows his head Fallen comrades Watch Watch and pray Watch the sun Blaze through stained glass Glorious rebellious colour The colour of life The colour of love Lighting up heads Manchester Cathedral is currently recruiting choristers for September 2015.