DAILY SERVICES AT GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL SUNDAY NEWS 7.40am Morning Prayer 8.00am Holy Communion 10.15am Sung Eucharist with Children’s Church APRIL 2015 3.00pm Choral Evensong MONDAY - SATURDAY th 8.00am Holy Communion Happy 100 Birthday 8.30am Matins 12.30pm Holy Communion Hilda 5.30pm Choral Evensong (said Evening Prayer on Mondays) (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 Printed by Perpetua Press, 20 Culver Street, Newent, Glos. GL18 1DA Tel: 01531 820816 32 Gloucester Cathedral News The Editorial Team consists of: Richard Cann, Sandie Conway, Pat Foster, Barrie Glover, Mission Statement: Stephen Lake, Juliet Reeve, Christopher Smith and Maureen Smith. ‘We aim to produce a Christian magazine which is widely accessible and which informs, involves and inspires its readers.’ Editor: Maureen Smith Cathedral Chapter The next Editorial meeting is on Wednesday 8th April at 10.30am at 54, Hinton Road, for the June Edition. Dean: The Very Reverend Stephen Lake "We are happy to receive articles, handwritten or typed. We regret Canons: Lay Canons: that, due to the limited space available, and to enable us to Nikki Arthy Bernard Day continue to produce a lively, varied and informative magazine, we Dr Andrew Braddock John Coates can normally only accept articles of 300 words or less. Articles over Neil Heavisides Paul Mason 300 words will only be accepted at the Editor’s discretion. Jackie Searle Dame Janet Trotter Celia Thomson The Editor reserves the right to alter articles as necessary, without losing the general sense. Acting Chapter Steward: Judith Knight Contributions can be emailed to: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [email protected] The Cathedral Office, 12 College Green, Gloucester GL1 2LX or you can leave them at the Cathedral Office at the address given Telephone: 01452 528095 at the front of this booklet. Email: [email protected] You may also email Maureen Smith direct: [email protected] The Clergy may be contacted through the Cathedral Office at the above address and telephone number. Disclaimer: We try very hard to make sure details are correct before going to print, but things can change! Please check with the Gloucester Cathedral News Subscriptions Cathedral Office and the notice board. Please note that articles do A year’s postal subscription for 10 copies of Gloucester Cathedral not represent the opinions of the Chapter, the Church of England or News may be obtained by cash or cheque for £12 made payable to the editor - only the writer! ‘The Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral’ and sent to the Cathedral Office at the above address. The Editor for May is Maureen Smith www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk th The deadline is the 5 April. Cover picture: Hilda Lockwood. 100th Birthday Tribute. (See article on page 15). Photo by: Chris Smith. 2 31 Sat 9 11.00am Coffee Concert by the Choral Scholars of CONTENTS Gloucester Cathedral. 4.30pm Evensong with World Premier of the Parry manuscript music. Page 7.00pm Concert - Michael Christian Durant, Classical Guitar. What is Easter? Stephen Lake. 4 Tue 12 1.00pm Informal Concert by Ohio University Choral The ‘Sacred Palm’. Maureen Smith. 6 Scholars. ‘Peter’ Lynne Chitty 7 Thu 14 7.00am Ascension Day Eucharist. Cathedral choir will sing the motet “Ascendo ad Patrem meum, Schlick” ‘When Mary Thro’ the Garden Went’ Mary E. Coleridge. 8 from the top of the tower. ALL WELCOME! Stray Eggs John Holroyd. 9 Sun 17 1.30pm Informal Concert, Ladies Choir - Peterborough Tribute to John Holroyd The Rt Revd Graham James. 10 sings. Wed 20 7.30pm Organ Recital by Jonathan Hope, Gloucester John Holroyd - An Appreciation Stephen Lake. 14 Cathedral, with the launch of Jonathan Hope’s Hilda Lockwood - A Birthday Tribute Barbara Merrick. 15 organ CD., “The Gloucester Experience” Holy Week and Easter at Gloucester Cathedral 16 - 17 Fri 22 1.00pm Informal Concert by Rutgers University Men’s Chorus. Around the Community 18 8.00pm Shanty Festival of Songs. The Family Haven - New Playground Brian Riches 19 Sat 23 9.00am FEIG Brunch and Bounce in Chapter House. 10.00am - Book Sale in Aid of the Breakfast Club in the Centenary of World War I series: 4.00pm. Cloisters. Settling in for the Long Haul. Barrie Glover 22 7.00pm Gloucester Choral Society concert. ‘A Tapestry of In Memorium - Easter 1915. Edward Thomas 23 English Choral Music. (See details on page 27). Jottings from the West End: Humph n Harry 24 Sun 24 PENTECOST 7.40am Morning Prayer. Friends’ Visit to Sandham Memorial Chapel - May 2015. 26 8.00am Holy Communion. 10.15am Eucharist. Diary of special services and events. 28 3.00pm Evensong. 7.00pm Organ Recital. Sun 31 TRINITY SUNDAY 7.40am Morning Prayer. 8.00am Holy Communion. 10.15am Eucharist. 3.00pm Evensong. Please consider a voluntary donation of £1 to help cover the cost of this magazine 30 3 Sat 4 EASTER EVE 8.30pm The Liturgy of Easter Eve with Holy Baptism and Confirmation. (See page 17). Sun 5 EASTER DAY 7.40 Matins. 8.00 Holy Communion. 10.15 Festal Eucharist. 3.00 Festal Evensong with Procession to Cloister Garth. Mon 6 April to Tue 30 June - ‘ASSEMBLY’. Installation commemorating casualties of the First World War. (See page 23). Mon 6 1.00pm Bank Holiday Organ Recital by Benjamin Nicholas, Merton College, Oxford. Sat 11 7.00pm Royal Marines Association Band with Innsworth Military Wives Choir. (See details on page 21). Wed 15, Thu 16 and Fri 17 ‘SOFTENING THE STONES 2’ - Performed by The ‘Good Shepherd’ windows. Gloucester Cathedral. final year performing arts students at the University of Gloucestershire. Photo by: Chris Smith. (See details on page 21). Sat 18 11.00am Coffee Concert by James D’Angelo. What is Easter? Wed 22 7.30pm Organ Recital by Benjamin Sheen, St Thomas, 5th Avenue, New York City. Is Easter the arrival of Spring dressed up in religious clothes? Is this Thu 23 7.30pm Royal Society of St George Service. now all about the Easter bunny, of the northern hemisphere? Is it about chocolate and bonnets and Alleluia’s and a bank holiday? It is Wed 29 7.30pm General Election Hustings. Come and engage with easy to think so, because the true meaning of Easter is always lost candidates standing for election for the Gloucester on those who have not taken notice of Good Friday and the journey constituency. (See details on page 21). through Lent that it takes to get to Easter. May looking ahead... There is something supremely powerful in considering those who 1st - 31st May - Christian Aid Exhibition ‘I Witness’ in South Transept. have suffered the most, and yet who seem to be able to appreciate Sat 2 1.00pm Salvation Army youth informal concert. the power of Easter more fully. Through Lent, I have been reading 4.30pm Diocesan Confirmation Service. the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. If you haven’t read it yet, please do, it is not simply a Lenten Mon 4 1.00pm Organ Recital by Stephen Disley, Southwark Cathedral. spiritual exercise. The way in which Tutu describes our faith is rich in reality and yet rooted in the divine. His view of God in our world Wed 6 5.30pm Evensong with Christian Aid followed by launch of is shaped by suffering and the potential of creation. Faced with the ‘I Witness’ Exhibition. horrors of the world – Syria, the Ukraine, Southern Sudan and many other places, he notes how easy it would be to despair. But then he is asked what is Easter? He says; 4 29 Coming to Gloucester Cathedral - 2015 ‘A God who is prepared to leave 99 sheep to go and look for one is a God who refuses to give up, and God says "I'm not going to undo 18th -19th April what I did. They are human beings, they are moral agents and I gave New Testament Greek for beginners them the freedom to be able to choose. I am not going to nullify Learn the Greek alphabet and discover that English has already provided that gift, and the only way we can reverse what is happening is by you with an extensive Greek vocabulary. Make a start on Greek grammar getting as many as possible to emulate this Son of mine who lived a and read sentences from the New Testament and the Septuagint. human life, and was hungry, who was afraid, who knew despair; who knew the whole gamut of being human and was able to be obedient 22nd August even unto death ". Horace's Odes The Odes are short lyrical poems on themes of life, death, love and There have been those who have walked that path - those we know, friendship, carefully crafted from Greek models. The chirpy seize-the- like St Francis, and the many we don't know. God refuses to give up, day motif ('carpe diem') can obscure a curious outsider, who won a place and we who are enlisted to be fellow workers with God know that among the literary set in Augustan Rome. In some ways Horace is the least predictable of Latin poets.