ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL, MELBOURNE NOTES & NEWS www.cathedral.org.au Together transforming our City and Diocese February 2020 FROM THE DEAN Every year, at Evensong on the Feast of the Lent I will be preaching at the 9am and 10:30am Conversion of Paul, the sun lights up the window services. Members of the 8am and 10:30am depicting his conversion. High up in the North congregations will have the opportunity to reflect Transept, the evening sun makes the window come on the addresses in a study group meeting at 9am, alive with colour. The choristers on the Dean’s side members of the 9am congregation will reflect on (and the Dean) probably have the best view of this the addresses at 10:45am, and members of the visual reminder of the central message at the heart Mandarin congregation at 2:30pm. I look forward of our wonderful Cathedral: that God illuminates to reflecting with you, and learning with you, lives and makes us shine when we let his light enter from Paul’s writings. One way in which we engage into our lives to change and transform us. in open leadership here at St Paul’s is through our regular congregational consultations: on 16 In this year’s series of Lent Addresses, Open Doors, February, at 9am there is an opportunity for the Open Hearts, Open Leadership we will have the 8am congregation to meet, and the following opportunity to reflect at greater length on how month, on 15 March at midday the 9am and this work of transformation impacts on individual 10:30am congregations meet. lives. We will be thinking about our own journeys of discipleship and how we can help others to I am delighted that yesterday, the Revd Cleapas follow Jesus Christ. Using Paul’s Second Epistle Zhang was ordained deacon by the Archbishop of to the Corinthians as our study text, each week in Melbourne. Cleopas has been a lay leader of our Mandarin congregation and will continue to serve nothing can separate us from God, who breaks FAREWELL, HANNAH! that congregation under the leadership of Canon down the barriers that divide us. It was a delight to Robert Vun. In the next few months, Cleopas and hear the stories from our combined lunar New Year Open Doors, his wife Priscilla will attend all our Sunday services Service on 2 February. Even as far afield as St Philip’s It is with some sadness that we say farewell to to get to know us better. Among yesterday’s newly Cowes (where I was that morning to celebrate the Open Hearts, Hannah Hornsby, who has been Cathedral Secretary ordained deacons was also Vivianne Dias, whose 150th anniversary of the establishment of their and Assistant to the Dean for the past four years. vocation discernment began here at St Paul’s when parish church by the First Dean of Melbourne, Open Leadership: her husband, the Revd Jerome Dias, served his Hussey Burgh Macartney), I heard glowing reports From taking minutes at committee meetings to curacy here. Congratulations to Cleopas and Viv, on the fellowship and hospitality that day. I am Journeying together baking cakes for staff meetings and birthdays, and blessings on their ministries – here and at St sure that this service will soon become a new St Hannah’s hard work contributed enormously to Mark’s Emerald, where Viv will work alongside her Paul’s institution. Like the stained glass windows on the Way of Discipleship the smooth operation of the Cathedral Office team. husband. that bring to life the story of faith in our Cathedral when the sun shines through them, so we can be In this series of Lent Addresses Dean Andreas She departs the Cathedral to take up a governance In the same way that our architect and stained-glass images of faith in the communities to which we will be reflecting on our own journeys of role at the University of Divinity – an organization makers engaged with the natural environment to belong. I hope that in this season of Epiphany, as discipleship, as people who are called, with a proven track record of poaching Cathedral remind us of Paul’s conversion through sun, glass we travel towards Lent, you may both behold and equipped, nurtured, and sent out by Jesus Secretaries. We wish Hannah all the very best in her and stone, we too are invited to engage with the reflect the light of Christ in your lives.■ Christ. The five weekly reflections will centre new job. world around us. For the past month, we have on Paul’s Second Epistle to the Corinthians, and been working with Byron Bay visual artist Annique Dean Andreas Lowe will be given on Sundays in Lent at 9am and The position will be filled by Joel McFadyen. Joel Goldenberg on a public art project that uses fabrics has been a part of our verger team for the past six and papers donated by Cathedral members and 10:30am. Study groups to listen to and reflect water from the Yarra River, in preparation for an NEW ANGLICAN WEBSITE on the sermons meet at 9am (led by the Revd months, and so you may have had the opportunity Canon Dr Stephen Ames) and 10.45am (led by to meet him already. installation in the Macartney Chapel. Entitled Living A new website for the Anglican Province Water: The Birrarung/Yarra Yarra Speaks, Annique’s the Revd Canon Christopher Carolane). Study of Victoria has been created. The website Joel grew up in Wellington, New Zealand and art will combine our own memories and stories, vicanglican.org.au is a simple landing page that resources are made available each week on: symbolised by the donated fabrics and paper, with gathers links to the five dioceses of Victoria, cathedral.org.au/lent2020 moved to Auckland in 2013 to pursue conjoint the far older memories and stories of the river near alongside a number of useful resources such Arts/Fine Arts degrees at the University of whose banks this Cathedral was built. The previous as Anglican ministries, schools, and prayer Auckland. He began working at Holy Trinity issue of Notes and News introduced the project. resources. Cathedral as part of the sound team after being a Many other artistic events will take place this member of the congregation for a year, and from summer, including our celebration of 170 years of Information on how to support communities IN THIS ISSUE there quickly took on the roles of event assistant, women in leadership in our diocese, Reframing the affected by the current bushfires has been Story, on display in the transept gallery until Easter. added to this page as well. verger for weddings and funerals, and ultimately 1 Letter from the Dean Communications Assistant. In June 2019 he made Our Patron Saint knew that when we are in Christ, www.vicanglican.org.au the move to Melbourne along with his cat, Peridot 3 Farewell, Hannah! (not pictured). 4 Christmas at the Cathedral The Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral performing with Accademia Arcadia (Artistic Director – Jacqueline Ogeil) 6 Reframing the Story Deborah Cheetham, soprano Max Riebl, counter-tenor 7 Living Water: The Yarra Speaks Timothy Reynolds, tenor Christian Smith, bass Directed by Philip Nicholls 8 In the Footsteps of Macartney 9 Gong xi fa cai! Chinese New Year FRIDAY 22 MAY, 7PM 10 #ChangeTheHeart ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL 10 Climate Emergency: Where We Stand cnr Swanston & Flinders Streets 11 Lent and Easter Services TICKETS $40 11 Victorian Bushfires Book Online From Left to Right: trybooking.com/BIGJI or Phone 9653 4333 Dean Andreas Lowe, Hannah Hornsby, Joel Concession $30 • Family $110 (2 adults with children) 12 Service Times and Cathedral Directory McFadyen. 2 3 2. 6. at St Paul’s Cathedral 1. 7. 8. 3. 4. 9. 6. Choir of Boys and Men 7. Lydia Thangadurai reads at the Midnight Mass 8. Dean Andreas at the Christmas Eve Carol Service 9. Canon Heather, Archbishop Philip Freier, and Canon 5. Christopher on Christmas Day 10. Christmas Eve Carol Service Photo Credit, pg 4-5: Ming Zhou 10. 1. Canon Robert Vun and Ruth Vun at the Christmas Eve Carol Service 2. Archbishop Philip Freier at the Christmas Eve Service 3. The Choir sings on Christmas Eve 4. The Procession enters on Christmas Day 5. Canon Christopher Carolane greets members of the congregation 4 5 possible for God’s church and to ask which groups of women REFRAMING THE STORY God’s world.’ are not here. Who is missing, and why? Are there stories and It also matters because visibility contributions that still need to raises awareness, particularly of be told? Why haven’t they been persisting inequalities and the told before? Do we need to make need for change. In Australia, sure that the opportunities for whilst women comprise roughly such stories to happen are in fact 47 per cent of the workforce, equally offered to all women? their weekly income averages $251.20 less than men.1 Only International Women’s Day 30.46% of MPs are women.2 Of is a time when we stop to the 25 chief executives appointed celebrate women’s achievements to lead Australia's top 200 and contributions across our companies in 2019, only two communities. It is also a time were women.3 More than one when we consider where we in six Australian women has need to focus our efforts, and Celebrating 170 years of women leaders in the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne Photo Credit: Southern Cross University experienced physical or sexual call for more action to achieve violence since the age of 15 and gender justice.