Welcome Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday 16 September 2018

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1 Welcome Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday 16 September 2018 LECTIO DIVINA takes place today at 8.45am in the Library. An informal opportunity to reflect on scripture together in a contemplative way. SUNDAY SCHOOL for children in primary school takes place in the Library during the Cathedral Eucharist. There is a DIY crèche in the Exhibition Room (next to the Library) for under 3s. HYMN BOOKS For services in the Nave, hymn books and Books of Common Prayer can be found behind the kneeler on the seat in front of you. COFFEE AND FELLOWSHIP Coffee and tea and other refreshments available at the back of Seasons. No need to queue. GIVING Regular worshippers are asked to join the Planned Giving Scheme. For more information please ask a Steward. Visitors and UK taxpayers are asked to use the Gift Aid envelope for their offering towards the work and worship of the Cathedral. Please complete the details on the envelope to enable us to claim back the tax as Gift Aid. COMMUNITY If you have been worshipping here for a little while, and are beginning to feel at home and would like to know more about playing your part in the life of this community, please get in touch via welcome@guildfordcathedral.org. If you have been a regular at the Cathedral for six months or more, please ensure that your name is added to the Cathedral Community Roll forms available from the Stewards. NEWS SHEETS The last six editions can be viewed from the website reception@guildford-cathedral.org

2 TODAY S SERVICES 8am Holy Communion PRESIDENT The Reverend Neil Vigers READINGS Isaiah a; Mark 8.27-end 9.45 am The Cathedral Eucharist PRESIDENT Canon Julie Gittoes SETTING Missa brevis in G (K 140), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( ) HYMN 469 COLLECT O Lord, we beseech you mercifully to hear the prayers of your people who call upon you; and grant that they may both perceive and know what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil them; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen OLD TESTAMENT READING Isaiah a read by Tim Clifford-Hill The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught. The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I did not turn backwards. I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I did not hide my face from insult and spitting. The Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame; he who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who are my adversaries? Let them confront me. It is the Lord God who helps me; who will declare me guilty?

3 PSALM I love the Lord for he has heard the voice of my supplication : because he inclined his ear to me on the day I called to him. The snares of death encompassed me; the pains of hell took hold of me : by grief and sorrow was I held. Then I called upon the name of the Lord : O Lord I beg you deliver my soul. Gracious is the Lord and righteous : our God is full of compassion. Response The Lord watches over the simple : I was brought very low and he saved me. Turn again to your rest O my soul : for the Lord has been gracious to you. For you have delivered my soul from death : my eyes from tears and my feet from falling. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. Response NEW TESTAMENT READING James read by Elaine Brown Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is perfect, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle. If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we guide their whole bodies. Or look at ships: though they are so large that it takes strong winds to drive them, yet they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. For every species of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by the human species, but no one can tame the tongue - a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and brackish water? Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.

4 GOSPEL READING Mark 8.27-end Choir All Alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia. Choir Jesus said: I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one can come to the Father except through me. All Alleluia, alleluia. Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark. Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, Who do people say that I am? And they answered him, John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets. He asked them, But who do you say that I am? Peter answered him, You are the Messiah. And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him. Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things. He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. This is the Gospel of the Lord. All Alleluia, alleluia.

5 SERMON Canon Mavis Wilson INTERCESSIONS led by James Luckey HYMN 133 (lune 413) MOTET Tantum ergo Maurice Duruflé ( ) Tantum ergo sacramentum Veneremur cernui, Et antiquum documentum Novo cedat ritui Praestet fides supplementum Sensuum defectui. Genitori genitoque Laus et jubilatio, Salus honor virtus quoque Sit et benedictio. Procedenti abutroque Compar sit laudatio. Amen. Therefore we, before him bending, this great Sacrament revere; types and shadows have their ending, for the newer rite is here; faith, our outward sense befriending, makes our inward vision clear. Glory let us give, and blessing to the Father and the Son, honour, might and praise addressing, while eternal ages run; ever too his love confessing who from Both with Both is One. Amen. POST COMMUNION PRAYER Almighty God, you have taught us through your Son that love is the fulfilling of the law: grant that we may love you with our whole heart and our neighbours as ourselves; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen text: Thomas Aquinas ( ) HYMN 81 ORGAN Prelude and Fugue in G (BWV 541) Johann Sebastian Bach ( ) 11.30am Choral Mattins HYMNS 385, 448 PSALM RESPONSES Humphrey Clucas (b. 1941) JUBILATE in D George Dyson ( ) READINGS Isaiah ; Revelation

6 ANTHEM Factum est silentium Patrick Hawes (b.1958) Factum est silentium in caelo Silence befell heaven, dum draco committeret bellum for a serpent was waging war; et Michael pugnavit and Michael fought with him cum eo et fecit victoriam. and emerged victorious. Audita est vox Thousands upon thousands of voices Millia millium dicentium were heard proclaiming Salus honor virtus et gloria health, honour, virtue and glory omnipotenti Deo. to Almighty God. Text: Benedicus antiphon at Lauds on Michaelmas Day ORGAN Allegro moderato e serioso (Sonata No 1) Felix Mendelssohn ( ) 6pm Choral Evensong HYMNS 379, 258 (tune 502), 20 PSALM RESPONSES William Byrd ( ) CANTICLES Evening Service on plainsong tones Arthur Wills (b. 1926) READINGS Exodus ; Matthew ANTHEM Greater Love John Ireland ( ) Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. Love is strong as death. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Who his own self bare our sins in his own Body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness. Ye are washed, ye are sanctified, ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus. Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. text: Song of Solomon 8.7,6; John 15.13; 1 Peter 2.24; 1 Corinthias 6.11; 1 Peter 2.9; Romans 12.1 SERMON Canon Paul Smith ORGAN Fugue sur le nom d Alain (Op. 7) Maurice Duruflé ( )

7 THIS WEEK S SERVICES MONDAY 17 Hildegard, abbess, visionary, Morning Prayer (said) Lady Chapel 8.30 Holy Communion (said) Lady Chapel Choral Evensong TUESDAY Morning Prayer (said) Lady Chapel 8.30 Holy Communion (said) Lady Chapel Choral Evensong WEDNESDAY 19 Theodore, archbishop, Morning Prayer (said) Lady Chapel 8.30 Holy Communion (said) Lady Chapel Evening Prayer (said) Lady Chapel THURSDAY 20 John Coleridge Patteson & companions, bishop and martyrs, Morning Prayer (said) Lady Chapel 8.30 Holy Communion (said) Lady Chapel Choral Evensong (First Evensong of Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist) FRIDAY 21 MATTHEW, APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST 8.00 Morning Prayer (said) Lady Chapel 8.30 Holy Communion (said) Lady Chapel Choral Eucharist SATURDAY Morning Prayer (said) Lady Chapel 9.00 Holy Communion (said) Lady Chapel Be a Chorister for the day! Choral Evensong, with the participants of the Be a Chorister for the Day! PRAYER MATTERS Those for whom prayers have been asked: Karen Beaumont, Gillian Doherty, Ben Edwards, Elizabeth, Josephine, Margaret, Shannon, Mark Wardell; pupils and students returning to school and college Those who have recently died: Brenda Pritchard, Joy Todd Year s Mind: George Clarkson, Helen Combes, Denys (Denise) Law, Nancy Newman, Sylvia Somner

8 NEXT SUNDAY 23 SEPTEMBER Seventeenth Sunday After Trinity 8.00 Holy Communion Lady Chapel PRESIDENT Canon Julie Gittoes READINGS Jeremiah ; Mark Cathedral Eucharist PRESIDENT Canon Paul Smith READINGS Jeremiah ; James ,7-8a; Mark PREACHER The Very Reverend Dianna Gwilliams Choral Mattins READINGS Isaiah ; Revelation Choral Evensong Celebrating the 25 th Anniversary of Happy Child International PREACHER The Reverend James Levasier, Vicar of Burpham Church READINGS Exodus end; Matthew 8.23-end THIS WEEK S MEETINGS AND EVENTS TODAY 8.45 Lectio Divina (Library) THURSDAY Coffee Concert coffee served from all welcome! FRIDAY Association of Learning Providers in Surrey Awards Ceremony SATURDAY Be a Chorister for the Day! Tower Tour Tower Tour NOTICEBOARD Flowers in the Cathedral Thank you to Rosemary Wells and also Ash Floral Club for the beautiful flowers in the Cathedral this week. Our musicians It is wonderful to have the Cathedral Choir back after the summer break. We have welcomed Findlay and Corin as new Head and Deputy Head Boy Choristers and this morning we welcome Ella and Alannah as Head and Deputy Head Girl Choristers. We also are delighted to welcome Martina Smyth as our Organ

9 Scholar for the year. Many thanks to Katherine and Richard and guest organists for the splendid series of Organ Recitals during the summer and to Richard for organizing the visiting choirs which enabled choral worship to be offered so beautifully. Coffee Concert Thursday 20 September, 10.30am We are delighted to be welcoming Emily Bolton and the Motivation by Music Gospel Choir who will perform a varied programme and all are welcome. Free coffee and tea are available from 10.30am and the concert begins at 11.15am. If you would like to be part of the Hospitality Team or for more information contact Emma Law on or deanspa@guildford-cathedral.org Be a Chorister for a Day! - Saturday 22 September 2 to 6pm Register your son (aged 6 8) or daughter (aged 8 11) for an afternoon of singing, with fun and games, alongside the choristers of Guildford Cathedral. Applications forms are available on the leaflet stand outside the Cathedral Shop or contact Carolyn Howard-Jones, liturgymusic@guildford-cathedral.org; World s Biggest Coffee Morning Friday 28 September, 10.30am We re delighted to be taking part in the Macmillan World s Biggest Coffee Morning again this year. Our Organ Scholar, Martina Smyth, will be providing musical accompaniment during the morning. All are welcome to attend the coffee morning, which will run from 10.30am-12.00noon. If you are able to make cakes for the event, please reception@guildford-cathedral.org or call on so that we can keep a list of the lovely cakes that will be available for guests to buy. Cathedral Tots Harvest Special Wednesday 3 October 10 to 11am As part of our Harvest celebrations we will be holding an informal new service for young children and their grandparents, parents and carers. Tell your friends and join us for music, craft activities, story time and free play in the Nave; plus the opportunity to chat over refreshments. All are welcome, including babes in arms. Offers of help to provide refreshments or assist with crafts appreciated. Enquiries to Canon Paul or louise@guildford-cathedral.org Harvest Songs of Celebration Sunday 7 October 6pm Our celebration of Harvest will take the form of a Songs of Praise with hymns chosen by members of the teams of volunteers at the Cathedral. This year we are celebrating not only the harvest of creation but also the harvest of human gifts and talents. Please do come and join us to sing some of your favourite harvest hymns. Following the service there is an opportunity to share a Harvest Supper with other members of the Cathedral community in Seasons. Tickets are for two courses or for three courses and can be purchased from:

10 Congregational Visit to the Tower Sunday 14 October Members of the congregations are invited to visit the Cathedral tower after the Cathedral Eucharist. The Cathedral bell ringers will be your guides and will show you the bells and explain a little about ringing. Then you will go up to the top of the tower for the best view in Surrey. Meet at am on the south side of the crossing. To help with numbers please register your interest on or reception@guildford-cathedral.org Visit the Cabinet War Rooms 31 October The next day trip for the Friends of Guildford Cathedral is to Churchill s Cabinet War Rooms in London. The ticket includes a tour of the War Rooms, the services of a Blue Badge Guide, coach travel and coffee on arrival at Whitehall. For more information please pick up a leaflet from the information stand outside the Cathedral Shop or from our Secretary Lisa Hatherall, friends@guildfordcathedral.org Congratulations to Canon Julie Canon Julie has been appointed as Acting Chaplain to the University of Surrey for the academic year This is in addition to her role at the Cathedral so we don t have to say farewell! Obviously there will be adjustments to her timetable but her very valued contribution to the core work of the Cathedral will continue. Please pray for Julie and the Chaplaincy Team at the University as they prepare to welcome the students and staff. Cathedral Sound System There are no reported defects at present but the performance of the Crossing speakers and the loop in the Chancel area is being investigated with the contractor. Please continue to give feedback to Ken Cornwell, Sue Howland, Janet Matthews and Donald Thompson. Gifts in Wills We give thanks for those who have left generous gifts in their wills over the past twenty months. Since the beginning of 2017 over 400,000 has been left to us by members of the congregation and wider family of the Cathedral. This is an extraordinary sum, and we re grateful to all who have made an impact on our mission and ministry in this way. If you wish to consider doing the same, you can find our Gift in Wills leaflets in the Cathedral or on our website. For further information please contact our Head of Fundraising, Susan Barry, on or susan@guildford-cathedral.org God for Grown-ups - An 8 week course covering the main areas of Christian faith and practice Would you like an opportunity to discuss issues of Christian faith and discipleship as they relate to contemporary 21st century life, or ask those tricky questions

11 about Christian faith that you have wanted to ask for a long time? Would you like to know about Christian faith so that you can guide your children on their journey of faith or be interested in preparing for confirmation as an adult? Then God for Grown-ups is for you. Canon Paul will be running a Christian enquirers course designed to think through Christian faith for 21st century thinking adults. It will take place at his home with an informal atmosphere over tea and cake. If you are interested, please speak to him or Paul.Smith@guildford-cathedral.org WWI Centenary Events at Guildford Cathedral The Cathedral is delighted to be working with Guildford Diocese, Surrey County Council, The Surrey Lieutenancy, Guildford Borough Council and The Royal British Legion on many of these events. Please take away with you the flyers about Poppy Fields on 5 and 6 October and about the many events taking place on Remembrance Weekend 10 and 11 November. Further details are on the Cathedral website. CONTACTS The Cathedral Office is usually open for callers from 10am to 2pm Monday to Friday reception@guildford-cathedral.org Office Manager and the Dean s PA (including contact details for the clergy) deanspa@guildford-cathedral.org To contact a priest in an emergency please phone Emma Law (Monday to Friday) or Virgers (Saturday, Sunday and holidays) or Cathedral Clergy The Very Reverend Dianna Gwilliams (o) (h) The Venerable Stuart Beake (h) The Reverend Canon Dr Julie Gittoes (o) (m) The Reverend Canon Dr Paul Smith (o) (h) The Reverend Canon Mavis Wilson (h) (m) Sermon blog Canon Julie s sermons can be found at

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