27 October
2013
PENTECOST
XXiII
8.00am HOLY COMMUNION
Presiding Priest & Preacher: Revd Lynda Patterson, Dean-designate
Reader:
Hilary King
Sidesperson:
Evelyn Terris
10.00am CHORAL EUCHARIST
Presiding Priest:
Preacher:
Liturgical Assistant:
Verger:
Music:
Director of Music:
Cathedral Asst Organist:
Revd Canon Rosalie Hoddinott
Revd Lynda Patterson, Dean-designate
Taidhg Fraser
Peter Dawe
The Cathedral Choir
Brian Law
Nick Sutcliffe
5.00pm CHORAL Evensong FIRST EVENSONG OF SS SIMON & JUDE
Officiant:
Verger:
Music:
Director of Music:
Cathedral Asst Organist:
Revd Lynda Patterson, Dean-designate
Julie Andrews
The Cathedral Choir
No cellphones or
Brian Law
cameras please
Nick Sutcliffe
WHAT’S HAPPENING
Welcome to the Transitional Cathedral. We are glad you have chosen to worship at
the Cathedral today. If you’re a long way from home, we hope you are enjoying your
time with us in Canterbury. The children’s programme is running, for children aged
5-12 during the 10.00am service.
Lynda Patterson is preaching the fourth in our series “The History of Christianity in Ten
Objects” Her object is a photo of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
Next Sunday we keep the Feast of All Saints. We welcome the Bishop-elect of
Waiapu, Revd Dr Helen-Ann Hartley. At Evensong next week, we welcome the Parish
of Opawa St Martins; their Vicar Lawrence Kimberley will preach.
Lynda Patterson will be installed as Dean of Christchurch at 7.00pm on Sunday
15 December. Note the changed date from last week. All Cathedral Regulars are
invited to attend.
You may have noticed that we are no longer placing church notices in The Press. This
is because the advertising budget has now been spent.
Dare we mention Christmas? However, a date to be noted is the Cathedral Regulars
and Volunteers Christmas Party on Monday 16 December from 5.30pm in the
Cathedral Foyer. And the Hospitality Team will be holding its Christmas stall on
Sunday 8 December. Contributions, preferably edible, are requested. Contact Julie
Andrews for details, 374.6003. Mark both dates now!
DIOCESAN CYCLE OF PRAYER: Please remember in your prayers today the parishes
of PUKAKI (Interim Ministry Enabler, Ian Hyslop), RAKAIA (Vicar, Heather Stewart;
RANGIORA (Vicar, Andrew Allan-Johns) and The Diocese of Waiapu
We have turned down the heating by 2 degrees in preparation for warmer weather
ahead! However, if we have a cold snap, please wear your goatskin long johns to
services.
PARKING Parking is on the old Blackwell Motors site just behind the Cathedral on the
north side of Cashel street. Please don’t park in the section next to the memorial chairs.
St Paul’s Church uses that space on Sundays. Thanks for being careful where you park.
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THIS WEEK AT THE TRANSITIONAL CATHEDRAL: 28 OCTOBER ~ 3 NOVEMBER
Monday
Labour Day ~ no services today
Tuesday
12.05pm: Holy Communion with prayers for healing
5.30pm Choral Evensong, sung by the Cathedral Choir
Wednesday
12.05pm: Holy Communion in the Celtic Tradition
5.30pm Choral Evensong, sung by the Cathedral Choir
Thursday
12.05pm: Holy Communion in te reo Maori
5.30pm Choral Evensong, sung by the men of the Cathedral Choir
Friday
12.05pm: Holy Communion
4.30pm Choral Evensong, sung by the choristers of the Cathedral Choir
Sunday 3 november ~ all saints
8.00am Holy Communion
10.00am Choral Eucharist & Baptism
Sermon: Revd Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, Bishop-elect of Waiapu
Music: The Cathedral Choir
5.00pm Choral Evensong
Preacher: Revd Lawrence Kimberley
Music: The Cathedral Choir
WORSHIP IN THE TRANSITIONAL CATHEDRAL
SUNDAYS
8.00am Holy Communion
10.00am Choral Eucharist
5.00pm Choral Evensong
WEEKDAY SERVICES
Holy Communion at 12.05pm
Monday (NZPB), Tuesday (NZPB, with prayers for healing), Wednesday (Celtic
tradition), Thursday (in te reo Maori) Friday (NZPB)
Choral Evensong at 5.30pm (during school terms)
Tuesday & Wednesday (with the full Choir); Thursday (with the gentlemen of the Choir)
Friday at 4.30pm (with the Cathedral choristers)
POSTSCRIPT
“Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests, snug as a gun.” I have always loved those words from the late Seamus Heaney, because with a few
strokes of a pen they conjour the world of rural Ireland and the time I grew up in, with
an unmatched spareness and economy. I hear in them the dark introverted rhythms of
small agricultural towns where the same feuds have brewed in the same families for
generations, where an ability with words - whether to spin a yarn or simply tell things
persuasively, as they are - is valued above all else.
Today we live in a culture that habitually sees reason and imagination like a pair
of old goats butting heads. There’s not much room for poetry, and any writing with
metaphors is somehow less than the truth. Yet literature allows us to know truth in a
different but complementary way to propositional, rational argument. Think of a poem
like George Herbert’s The Collar, in which the writer carefully and angrily builds up a
case for God to answer, heaping evidence upon evidence until everything falls apart in
the last few lines: “But as I rav’d and grew more fierce and wilde At every word, Me thought I heard one calling, Childe: And I reply’d, My Lord.”
Great literature is often riddled with religious themes. Oscar Hijuelos’s Mr. Ives’
Christmas is a paradigmatic account of a faithful Christian and good man’s response to
devastating personal tragedy. John Updike’s In the Beauty of the Lilies is a wrenching
examination of acedia, the spiritual sloth and indifference that robs life of meaning. At the heart of our faith is scripture which we not only believe is the Word of God, but
is filled with compelling stories and poetry, like the Psalms and the Book of Job. It is a
reassuring reminder that literature and poetry, as much as tradition and liturgy, have the
power to convert, shape and baptise our imaginations.
Revd Lynda Patterson
Requests for Prayer
If you have prayer requests
for people or situations
known to you, please contact
Rev Rosalie Hoddinott ph.
3322516 or rg.hoddy@xtra.
co.nz Prayer requests are
written down and placed on
the altar during the Tuesday
midday Healing Service
and included in the prayer
time. Names and situations
are not spoken aloud.
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