DAILY SERVICES AT GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL SUNDAY NEWS 7.40am Morning Prayer (said) 8.00am Holy Communion 10.15am Sung Eucharist with Children’s Church MARCH 2017 3.00pm Choral Evensong MONDAY - SATURDAY 8.00am Holy Communion 8.30am Morning Prayer (said) 12.30pm Holy Communion 5.30pm Choral Evensong (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 ‘Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these’. 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A year’s postal subscription for 10 copies of Gloucester Cathedral News may be obtained by cash or cheque for £12 made payable to You may also email Maureen Smith direct: ‘The Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral’ and sent to the Cathedral [email protected] Office at the above address. Disclaimer: We try very hard to make sure details are correct before www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk going to print, but things can change! Please check with the Cathedral Office and the notice board. Please note that articles do not represent the opinions of the Chapter, the Church of England or Front cover picture: Daffodils on Alney Island (2014) the editor - only the writer! Photograph by: Chris Smith The Editor for April is Maureen Smith. The deadline is the 5th March 2 31 Sun 9 PALM SUNDAY CONTENTS 10.15am The Eucharist with the Blessing of the Palms and the Page Singing of The Passion - starting at St Mary de Lode Church. We begin Holy Week and enter the Mapping the future Richard Mitchell 4 Cathedral just as Jesus entered Jerusalem Thomas Cranmer Maureen Smith 6 3.00pm Choral Evensong. 5.00pm Compline - sung by the Lay Clerks and Choral The Annunciation Theodosia Garrison 7 Scholars. Quiet, reflective, beautiful worship to end the day. Gloucestershire Churches series: Mon 10 1.05pm Meditation for Beginners. (See page 16). St. Mary de Lode Richard Lane 8 7.30pm Compline and Address with Bishop Robert Evens. St Mary de Lode Church. (See page 16). Gloucestershire Churches: A request Editorial Team 10 Tue 11 7.30pm Compline and Address with Bishop Robert Evens. St Mary de Lode Church. (See page 16). Godfrey Goodman - Bishop of Gloucester Maureen Smith 11 Wed 12 7.30pm Compline and Address with Bishop Robert Evens. St Mary de Lode Church. (See page 16). Mon 10 1.05pm Meditation For Everyone. Canon shatters Stained Glass Window George Marchant 12 MAUNDY THURSDAY Cathedral Book Club - March - September 2017 14 Thu 13 11.00am Diocesan Eucharist with Blessing of the Oils. Clergy and Readers from across the diocese come Gloucester Cathedral - Journey through Lent 16-17 to be with our Bishop and to reaffirm our commitment to serve Centenary of World War I series: 5.30pm Evensong – Adult voices The Gloucestershire Regiment 7.30pm The Eucharist of the Last Supper with Vigil until midnight. ‘Do this in remembrance of me’. We 2/5th Battalion 1917/18 Barrie Glover 18 wait with Jesus and follow his command of love. Around the Community 20 Fri 14 GOOD FRIDAY 12 - 3.00pm A service mirroring Jesus’ three hours on the Cross including: Mental Health Education in the 12.00noon The Preaching of The Passion - Bishop Robert Evens. Middle East Susanna Morris 22 1.30pm The Liturgy of Good Friday sung by the Cathedral Choir. 7.00pm The St John Passion, J. S. Bach. Gloucester Cathedral Choir What is Healing? House of Peace 24 and the Corelli Ensemble. (Details on page 11). Jottings from the West End Humph ’n Harry 26 Sat 15 April HOLY SATURDAY 8.30pm The Liturgy of Easter Eve Diary of special services and events 28 On this night, life stirs in the tomb, and light. Please consider a voluntary donation of £1 to help cover the cost of this magazine 30 3 Mapping the Future! Sat 11 9.30am Brunch and Bounce. 4.30pm Evensong and Welcome to the new Archdeacon of Cheltenham, The Revd. Canon Phil Andrew. When I was quite young my parents would quite often take my brothers and I on visits Mon 13 1.05pm Meditation for Beginners. (See page 16). to relatives and friends, sometimes I was Wed 15 6.00pm Junior Voices Project Concert. able to take a favourite atlas with me. I would sit and look at the maps while the Thu 16 7.30pm From Galilee to Jerusalem: Travelling the Journey of Jesus in Lent. Hospitality. (See page 17). grown-ups were engaged in, what seemed like, fairly tedious conversations. Sat 18 7.00pm Rachmaninov - All Night Vigil (Vespers). (See details on page 21). I think the attempt to see how features relate to each other on a Mon 20 1.05pm Meditation for Beginners. (See page 16). map has come into its own more than once, and certainly in arriving at the Cathedral as Director of Congregational Development and Thu 23 7.30pm From Galilee to Jerusalem: Travelling the Journey Canon Precentor. of Jesus in Lent. Hospitality. (See page 17). Fri 24 7.30pm Couperin’s Lecons De Tenebres - Corelli Ensemble. In the past few months I’ve had the task of trying to see how it all (See page 24). fits together, in governance, in operations, in music and liturgy, in Project Pilgrim, in events and among the congregational life. I’m Sat 25 3.00pm Gloucester Music Society Concert - Nick Pritchard not there yet, and may never be – are any of us? Some areas of the (Tenor), Louise Williams (Viola) and Benjamin Frith (Piano). Cathedral map are now clear and familiar, others are still a bit of a venture into the mountains. Sun 26 MOTHERING SUNDAY 10.15am Eucharist for Mothering Sunday with presentation of My role specifically involves ministry amongst the congregations and flowers followed by an informal concert by the in oversight of the provision of worship, music and special services. Cathedral Junior Choir in the Chapter House. 3.00pm Evensong with Installation of Honorary Canons. What has helped hugely in all this has been the welcome and 5.00pm Compline - sung by the Lay Clerks and Choral Scholars. friendliness of so many people who are part of the life of the Cathedral. Thank-you! Mon 27 1.05pm Meditation for Beginners. (See page 16). Some of you may have seen me around before my appointment as Thu 30 7.30pm From Galilee to Jerusalem: Travelling the Journey of Jesus in Lent. Hospitality. (See page 17). I’ve been in Gloucester Diocese since the end of 2003. I was Vicar of the Greenway Benefice, of which the posh hotel, with the same April looking ahead…. name, at Shurdington, was only one small part. The parishes Sun 2 5.00pm Compline in the Quire. Quiet, sung by the Lay featured everyone from the struggling families in the flats in Clerks and Choral Scholars. Shurdington, to the millionaires on the Cotswold escarpment. Reflective, beautiful worship to end the day. I was also Area Dean of the Severn Vale Deanery which stretched Mon 3 1.05pm Meditation for Beginners. (See page 16). from Witcombe to Bromesberrow, from The Leigh to Mitcheldean. Thu 6 7.30pm From Galilee to Jerusalem: Travelling the Journey Unbeknown to me at the time, a good number of you involved at the of Jesus in Lent.