Keeping in Touch | January 2020 Touch in Keeping Start the Year of Cathedrals in Bradford Begin 2020 with new events and services Epiphany Sunday Choral Eucharist Sunday 5th January | 10:15am The main Cathedral weekly worship using Common Worship. We gather to hear God's word through two Scripture readings and a sermon; to sing God's praise, usually led by the Cathedral choir and to receive the Sacrament of Holy Communion. Free refreshments are served afterwards. All are warmly welcomed. Keeping in Touch Contents A Welcome from Canon Paul 04 Bradford Cathedral Cathedral Services 05 1 Stott Hill, Mission 06 Bradford, News 07 West Yorkshire, Canon Mandy’s Sabbatical 10 15-minutes with James Gaughan 12 BD1 4EH Photo Gallery 15 Organ Recitals 27 (01274) 77 77 20 Diocese of Leeds news 28 [email protected] Take A Seat 29 2020: Year of Cathedrals / Pilgrimage 30 15-minutes with Lilian Black 31 Find us online: More Christmas Event Highlights 34 bradfordcathedral.org What’s On: January 2020 35 Regular Events This Month 36 StPeterBradford Who’s Who 38 Choral Evensong 40 BfdCathedral Mixcloud mixcloud.com/ BfdCathedral Erlang bradfordcathedral. eventbrite.com Front page photo: Anrich Potgieter instagram.com/anrichp Deadline for the February issue: Wed 29th Jan 2020. Send your content to Online: @Millside_Centre [email protected] A week ago today our Centre Manager was invited to Bradford Cathedral to present a short presentation on View an online copy at how the concept of gratitude is a central premise of her work in the community. Well done to the organisers and issuu.com/bfdcathedral participants, amazing stories of gratitude & hope. See more photos from page 15 A Welcome from Canon Paul The Cathedral has been a busy place during this past Centenary year and no more so than in these last weeks in Advent as we’ve welcomed many hundred’s of people to services and events. On each of these occasions, Back in September we all experienced Cathedral staff and revised and experimental seating volunteers have worked together to arrangements on Sunday morning. provide a memorable experience for A Welcome from Canon Paul Welcome A Thank you very much to all of you all who have come. And so it has been who took the time to express your a joy to see the hard work of so many thoughts and feelings through the transformed into joyful and smiling questionnaire. A wide range of views faces as people have left the building were expressed and we are very at the end of the evening. Much grateful for the gracious way in which gratitude has been expressed the you expressed your opinions. All ripples of which, we pray, will continue the returned questionnaires will be to bear fruit in the lives of individuals, considered in detail and, in a future families and the city. Keeping In Touch, the collated findings will be shared. Thank you very much to each person who has played their part In the season of Advent, which is and contributed to the Cathedral just coming to an end, the global Team welcome and hospitality and church invited us to “start over” and the offering of a unique and poignant “begin again”; to pause; to breathe encounter with God through the and to carry on. Advent has been many events of these past weeks. an invitation to wait expectantly, to prepare joyfully and to live with the So, the Christ has come. Jesus is born. hopeful anticipation of the coming God has made himself known and fills fullness of God’s kingdom reign on our service with his Spirit. May God’s earth as it is in heaven. Such is the in- presence and peace fill our hearts built rhythm of the church that we are and homes this Christmas and lead us constantly consoled and comforted forward into 2020. by familiarity and challenge. And so we now move to the Celebrations of The Revd Canon Paul Maybury Christmas and the start of a New Year. Precentor, Bradford Cathedral 4 Cathedral Services Cathedral Services Sundays 10.15am - Holy Communion 8am - Holy Communion (St Aidan’s Chapel) (Lady Chapel) 5.30pm - Evening Prayer 10.15am - Choral Eucharist (Lady Chapel) (Nave) inc. Children’s Space. Prayer Ministry takes place on the 3rd Thursdays Sunday of the month. 8.30am - Morning Prayer 4pm - Choral Evensong (Nave) (Lady Chapel) 5.45pm - Choral Evensong Mondays (Chancel) 8.30am - Morning Prayer Fridays (Lady Chapel) 8.30am - Morning Prayer 5.45pm - Choral Evensong (Lady Chapel) (Chancel) 5.30pm - Evening Prayer (Lady Chapel) Tuesdays 8.30am - Morning Prayer Saturdays (Lady Chapel) 8.30am - Morning Prayer 5.45pm - Choral Evensong (Lady Chapel) (Chancel) 5.30pm - Evening Prayer (Lady Chapel) Wednesdays Choral Evensong takes place 7.30am - Holy Communion during term-time. Other services (St Aidan’s Chapel) subject to change.​​​ Please check the website calendar for any 8.30am - Morning Prayer (Lady Chapel) changes to this schedule. 55 Worship at the Cathedral The Cathedral provides a your comments and Mission variety of opportunities for suggestions which inform people to gather together for the choices that are made worship each week. in developing our shared These times of worship are worshipping life together. always evolving and, over time, changing to best meet Please speak to me or the needs of those attending. telephone or email me. Thank you. Please speak to me if you have any comments or Canon Paul suggestions as it is precisely Our Purpose Our Values To serve Jesus Christ • Hospitality as a vibrant community • Faithfulness of worship and mission • Wholeness enriching the City, the Diocese and further afield. Useful Links Diocese of Leeds: leeds.anglican.org A Church Near You: achurchnearyou.com/church/5746 Visit Bradford: visitbradford.com “Bradford Cathedral” LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/bradford-cathedral/ Explore Churches: explorechurches.org/church/bradford- cathedral-bradford ChurchSuite Keep up-to-date with all the latest events, and news, by signing up to ChurchSuite. Login at login.churchsuite.com/ or e-mail [email protected] 6 News You can now view and download our January - April events programme at bradfordcathedral.org/whats-on/latest-events-programme, with printed copies available in the New Year. Bradford Cathedral choristers took on solo roles in The Snowman at St George’s Hall in December. Thirteen-year-old Rhianna Peddar and Solomon John (also 13) were the lucky youngsters who were chosen to perform the haunting Walking in the Air solo which lies at the heart of The Snowman. Rhianna was the first to step up, at the 1:30pm performance. Solomon took Two young choristers from Bradford up the role in the evening, at 6:30pm. Cathedral enjoyed the exhilarating experience of singing a solo alongside They both relished the thrill of a live professional orchestra when singing to a packed house: both Carrot Productions made a return performances were already sold out visit to St George’s Hall, Bradford on in the days leading up to the shows. the 18th December with their big screen presentation of The Snowman. 77 Bradford Cathedral re-commits to its Fairtrade Status to mark ten News years of support Bradford Cathedral has become the right to decent wages, to join unions, first cathedral to re-commit as a and work in safe conditions, and Fairtrade place of worship, amongst that farmers and workers, including 7,500 churches, mosques, temples and women, have the opportunity to have synagogues who have pledged to use their voice heard. and promote Fairtrade. Any profit made on the sale of Bradford Cathedral’s commitment to Fairtrade items goes to the cathedral’s Fairtrade began with an award back supplier, the charity Traidcraft, to help in 2009, spearheaded by Canon Andy build a world free of injustice in trade Williams and his wife Jennie. and business. The cathedral continues to focus on Bradford Cathedral also sells locally Fairtrade by ensuring all its tea and produced honey and soap, supporting coffee provisions are Fairtrade as well local businesses and helping to keep as running a stall every Sunday after our carbon footprint low. the morning Eucharist selling a whole range of goods including chocolate, Elaine de Villiers, part of the Bradford cooking oils and biscuits, as well as Cathedral EcoGroup: seasonal items like advent calendars. “We recognise that any purchase we make has a knock-on effect, especially As an outworking of our faith, in the developing world where Bradford Cathedral believes that much of our food, the wood for our developing world producers should be furniture and the cotton for our paid a just, living wage for the goods clothes is grown. Many products are we buy, and that in producing these made in a way which uses a workforce goods, the environment should be who are not paid a just, living wage, or protected. It is one of the simplest does not protect the environment. ways of obeying Jesus’ commandment to ‘love our neighbour’. “When we choose to buy Fairtrade products, we know the environment The Fairtrade mark means that the and the producers and labourers producer group receives a fair and are being protected, respected and guaranteed price to cover average valued. We believe that the display of costs of production alongside a Fairtrade and fairly traded products Fairtrade Premium to invest in their on a Sunday morning, with the option business or a project of their choice. to buy, is a visible reminder to all who It also ensures that workers have the come to worship that we are called to 8 News / Church of England news News challenge injustice wherever we see Angharad Hopkinson, Campaigns it – following the Biblical call to ’act and Policy Officer at the Fairtrade justly’ (Micah 6:8).