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1 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER 1 May Seventh Sunday of Easter 8.00 am Eucharist (NZPB46) Rev d Dr Anne Van Gend am Parish Eucharist Rev d Dr Anne Van Gend A place of resurrection, life, and hope Ormond Chapel, Napier Terrace: No services Please ensure all cellphones are switched OFF when in the Cathedral; if necessary, adjust hearing aids to the Loop system. The CATHEDRAL KIDS programme is normally offered at the Cathedral during the 10.00am service on Sundays of the school term, for children up to 12 years of age. In this issue Today s events 2 Wardens intro s; Feed-back options Sentence, Collect & Readings 2 3 Readings comments 4 From your Dean 5 Hymn comments; Deanly Delvings 6 Taize service 6 Organ Congress Concerts Writers for Justice & Peace Hui info PRAYER CYCLES - WE PRAY FOR... Anglican Communion The Diocese of North Eastern Caribbean & Aruba (West Indies); the Rt Rev d Leroy Brooks Anglican Board of Missions NZ and our Partners - NZ Church Missionary Society, Rev d Steve Maina, the National Director of CMS Diocese, Parish and Community Waiapu Bishop Andrew Hedge and family Waiapu Vicar-General, Rev d Brian Hamilton; Waiapu Dean Michael Godfrey; Regional Deans (BOP, East, HB) Hui Amorangi ki Te Manawa o te Wheke: Murupara, Ohinemutu, Ruatoki/Whakatane, Tauranga, Te Kaha, Te Puke, Te Ngae, Taupo Rohe; Pihopa Ngarahu Katene Archbishops Brown Turei, Philip Richardson, Winston Halapua; General Synod Office, Rev d Michael Hughes Cathedral parishioners in rest home & hospital care Local community welfare agencies National Council of Women dinner Diary Dates & Directory 8 NOTE: Bell Tower and entrance are earthquake prone as assessed under the Building Act use at your own risk! We have low-gluten wafers (below 20ppm) available - please advise the Presider, or one of the Welcoming team, if this is your dietary requirement.

2 TODAY Welcome to all who are worshipping with us especially if you are visiting Napier or at the Cathedral for the first time you are invited to join us for morning tea (or coffee!) served at the back of the cathedral following the 10am service. A Message from Martin Williams Just a quick note to introduce myself as the newly appointed Dean s Warden (at the last AGM). My mother and father (Jon and Helen Williams) are longstanding parishioners at St John s Cathedral. My wife Nicola and I moved to Napier in 2008, where I have set up practice as a barrister specialising in resource management law. My son and daughter Charlie and Mamie Williams have been active in the Ratapu Whanau group, and with the choristers. I was elected to Vestry in 2012 so am reasonably new to that job as well! I just wanted to let you know that if you have any issues about the Cathedral or Parish life and affairs that you wish to raise with me (and you cannot track me down on a given Sunday) please feel free to call me at home on or on my mobile And from Jeanne Ayson Hi, I'm Jeanne, the People's Warden. I'm married to Magnus. I have been attending the Cathedral since our daughter Emma began singing in the choristers in Emma was followed by Seb. My employment background is Family Law but I am now studying OSH through Massey. This is my second year on Vestry. If you need to have a chat with me about Cathedral issues feel free to speak with me after Sunday services or phone me during the day on The Coffee Club invites you to A MIDM ID-YEAR CHRISTMAS LUNCH at Breakers Restaurant (corner Tennyson St & Milton Rd) on Thursday 21 st May, 12.15pm. Family and/or friends welcome. To reserve a place, please RSVP to Sandy by Monday 18 th May with numbers attending faultytowersh@orcon.net.nz Phone: Christian Faith Seminar This planned series of conversations with the Rev d Dr Howard Pilgrim, Waiapu Diocesan Theologian, has been CANCELLED due to lack of numbers. Please contact Howard, (phone or ) as he would welcome calls to discuss possible study options in the future. RE-PITCHING THE TENT Feedback would be appreciated on any of the changes you have noticed in the Cathedral over the past few weeks What do you like? What do you not like? Please or leave a written message in the Parish Office, or speak to any member of the Re-Pitching team: Dean Michael, Graeme Pilgrim, Dorothy Brooker, Jon Williams, Howard Pilgrim, Peter Meyer, Susan John or Sue Dick by 18 th May. Vestry will discuss the matter further at their next meeting, and review a full report of the feedback gathered.

3 Sentence: Jesus prayed, Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. John 1: 11 Collect: Today s Readings from the New Revised Standard Version Bible Almighty God, your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ ever lives to make intercession for us; have pity on our weakness, and in your mercy give us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, except through his merits, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen Acts 1: 15-1, In those days Peter stood up among the believers (together the crowd numbered about one hundred and twenty persons) and said, 16 Friends, the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit through David foretold concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus 1 for he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this ministry. 21 So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, 22 beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us - one of these must become a witness with us to his resurrection. 23 So they proposed two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also known as Justus, and Matthias. 24 Then they prayed and said, Lord, you know everyone s heart. Show us which one of these two you have chosen 25 to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place. 26 And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles. 3 Psalm Blessèd are those who do not follow the counsel of the wicked: or linger in the way of sinners, or sit down among those who mock. But their delight is in the law of the Lord: and on that law they meditate day and night. They are like trees planted beside a water course: which yield their fruit in due season. Their leaves also do not wither: and look, whatever they do it shall prosper. As for the wicked, it is not so with them: but they are like the chaff, which is driven away by the wind. Therefore the wicked shall not be able to stand when judgment comes: nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous: but the way of the wicked is doomed. 1 John 5: If we receive human testimony, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified to his Son. 10 Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony in their hearts. Those who do not believe in God have made him a liar by not believing in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son. 11 And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

4 John 1: I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; 8 for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. 9 I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. 10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. 11 And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 15 I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. 16 They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 1 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth. Readings Comments Acts 1: 15-1, 21-26: I ve always been faintly amused by the fact that the first apostle to be appointed after Judas blew it was chosen by a holy liturgical lottery. In our often po-faced approach to scripture we may miss the humour here: basically God, if God is a God of the future, was always nudging Matthias, not the fortunate loser Justus/Barsabbas, and our elaborate fabricated human machinations are no more nor less than a journey into the purposeful will of the Creator. Psalm 1: Who do we hang with? I m not talking about the Struggle Street encounters I ve written about elsewhere. Or perhaps I am: because our job according to Psalm 1 is to self-check. Do we hang with the vitriolic blogosphere opinion twisters or with the hurting and broken who are the real icons of God? 1 John 5: 9-13: Another Johannine (the adjective that means of John ) litmus test. Where is our heart-focus? Despite the Post -Enlightenment obsession with quantifiable reality, we are challenged to glimpse the eternities, to glimpse the perspectives of a judging-but-loving Creator God outside the confines of time and space, and yet revealed in the life of Man of the Cross. John 1: 6-19: Do we take seriously our sending into God s world? The Roman Catholics rightly emphasis this with the word Mass, from sending. Do we take seriously our challenge to take sparks of Christ-light and Christ-truth out to the often cruel coal face of the world in which we are called to live? 4

5 From Your Dean Perhaps the most cutting edge mainstream media across the Ditch is multicultural TV channel SBS. Over the last few weeks it showed a short three part dokko entitled Struggle Street, exploring the lives of the urban underclass. Dismissed by some as poverty porn, and certainly risking the criticism of being voyeuristic, Struggle Street took the risk of taking the audience (by and large tertiary educated left-wing professionals, once dismissed by an Australian Prime Minister as the latte set ) into the quite unsalutary home context of those at the bottom of the heap. The sort of homes Jesus would visit. Obviously I can t watch the programme this side of the Ditch but the gist is clear. SBS shows the lives of those who have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, turned their lived around, become wonderful examples of how hardship can be transcended. The response in the blogosphere was a collective outpouring of sympathy, of ooohs and ahhs of sympathy for those in Struggle Street until the final instalment. Then, when a clearly sub-functional family was shown wrestling with drug addiction, pregnancy, police-attention and all the ugly signs of life-gone-wrong, the rampant blogosphere, twittersphere, instantopinionspheres turned toxic. What sort of home would Jesus visit? Because poverty is so romantic while it is all big picture, distanced, nuanced. When the reality of a bong-smoking nine month pregnant teen-age mother becomes a reality, sympathy, empathy and compassion collectively expire. Big picture compassion is tidy, sanitised and uplifting. Public statements, letters to politicians, hand and hankywringing public or private meetings sometimes achieve a little, occasionally achieve much, often achieve nothing. Significantly, if we can extrapolate from another culture and another time, Jesus was not overly known for attending strategic gabfests. Jesus visited homes. Weeping, grieving homes, about to be stoned victims homes, lepers homes, tax-collectors wealthy but hated homes. I doubt Jesus blogged spewings of hatred directed at a bong-smoking nine month pregnant teen-age mother. I suspect he held her hand. Or would have, had he been there. But, given that he has called us to be his hands and his feet, his body and his blood in down-town Napier, from Maraenui to Poraiti 1 it maybe that he wasn t. Few of us are comfortable when we are confronted with the image of God in a bong-smoking nine month pregnant teen-age mother. I include myself. I have a feeling most of us fall short of the glory of God when faced with the realities, rather than the romance, of poverty. Struggle Street is ugly. 1 Locales chosen strictly on the basis of statistical income retrurns for the City of Napier,

6 Why We Sing What We Do Sing Processional: Written in 139, Hail the Day that sees him Rise is one of about 9,000 hymns by Charles Wesley. One suggestion we may explore one day is to sing this hymn antiphonally, two sides of the church conversing across the aisles about the mysteries of the reign of the saviour, joining with one voice in the celebrator alleluia! Gradual: Jesus, Lord we Pray appeared in the 1980s, one of several hymns written by United Reformed Church minister Basil Bridge. Bridge served in a handful of churches in Britain, and his highly Christ and Resurrection-centred hymns appear in a handful of hymnals. He has so far proved the most elusive hymn-writer that I have researched! This particular hymn was written in 19 for Bridge s daughter s wedding, and is sung today in honour of Michael and Helen Blow s 50th wedding anniversary. Offertory: The Head that Once was Crowned Thomas Kelly trained for the Law but underwent a spiritual conversion and became an evangelical Protestant pastor (after a brief career as an evangelical Anglican priest) in Dublin. He tended to experiment with metre and rhythm not used by other writers, and was all but obnoxiously fervent in championship of key protestant doctrines! He was a biblical scholar in his own right, but best-known for his role as the Irish Wesley, though he only wrote 10% of the number of hymns Wesley wrote! Recessional: We Have a Gospel to Proclaim. Edward Burns has the misfortune of sharing a name with a famous 19th Century conman. The hymn-writer though was a Lancashire Anglican, who wrote this famous hymn for a 1968 diocesan mission. The diocese met by deanery, focussing on the four main themes of the Gospels: Incarnation, redemption, resurrection and ascension. More Deanly notices Ratapu Whanau: Pentecost Bonfire, Sunday 24 th May - children and young families service and activities, 5.00pm at 69 Powdrell Road, Meeanee. Bring marshmallows! Choristers Evensong: because of the Big Sing in the Cathedral, the Chorister Evensong will take place in the Ormond Chapel, Napier Terrace, at 5.30 pm on Thursday May 28 th - but with a rehearsal beforehand from 4.30 pm. The first of the Mulled Faith and Wine evenings are planned for: June 5 th (Friday) June 16 th (Tuesday) July 3 rd (Friday) July 21 st (Tuesday) Venue - yet to be confirmed - but planning to be at the Brazenhead (next-door to the Cathedral on Hastings Street) thoughts, children, questions, insights and appetites all welcome. Taize Vespers: a gentle rhythm of prayers, short songs and silence to restore the soul at the end of the day and prepare for the start of the new week. Services are at St Paul s Presbyterian Church, Tennyson St, Napier, on the fourth Sunday of the month beginning on May 24 th at.00pm. For more information, phone or stpaulsnapier@gmail.com. From Deanly Delvings The constant temptation of the Church is to idealize Jesus and clothe him with the glorious robes of divine majesty so as to obscure his authentic humanity altogether. (Archbishop) Peter Carnley, The Last Temptation of the Church, in The Yellow Wallpaper and other sermons (2001), 4 6

7 Writers for Justice and Peace An Ecumenical National Hui including the HB book launch in the Cathedral of Richard Randerson s new book Slipping the Moorings on Friday 22 May.15pm. Hui continues on Saturday 23 May at St Paul s Presbyterian Church lounge. Registrations to: Erice Fairbrother ecfairbrother@waiapu.com National Council of Women - HB Branch Annual Dinner with guest speaker Dr Jenny McMahon, President of the NZ Red Cross Achievements and Adventures over 100 years of Red Cross in New Zealand Thursday 28 th May, 6.30pm for.00pm at the Havelock North Function Centre, 30 Te Mata Road, Havelock North. Tickets $40, available until 25 th May from Kath de Lautour, ph Dr McMahon initially trained as a nurse in Dunedin, then added midwifery training so that she could work in the Australian outback. She later joined the Red Cross as a Senior Nurse in a surgical hospital on the Thai-Kampuchean border on a 21 days on- days off, 11 hour day shifts processing up to 1,000 admissions per day. Over a period of 16 years with the International Red Cross, Dr McMahon served in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Liberia and South Sudan (where she was held hostage for nine days). Back in NZ, Dr McMahon continued to study adding Masters degrees in Consumer and Applied Science, and in Business Administration, and then a Doctorate in Human Nutrition. Her community service includes directorships of companies in Dunedin alongside her presidency of NZ Red Cross. NZ ASSOCIATION OF ORGANISTS Annual Congress in Hawke s Bay 29 th May - 1 st June 2015 An exciting weekend is planned, with participation open to non-members, and public events and concerts incorporated into the programme, including (at the Cathedral) Friday 29 th May, 8.00 pm - Quasi Una Fantasia (Three Centuries of Organ Fatasies) by Mark Duley (Ireland) Saturday 30 th May, 8.00 pm - Strings n Pipes by Cathy Irons (Violin) and Barry Brinson (Organ) Sunday 31 st May, 4.00 pm - A Celebrity Organ Recital: A March in May! William McVicker (London) Brochures with full programme available on the back table in the Cathedral. Diocesan Calendar Events: 23 rd May, am - Ordination Service at the Cathedral - transitional deacon Deb Sutherland, Waipukurau will be ordained priest. 9 th June - Anglican Pension Board rep, Mike Buckley, speaking to clergy (time and venue to be advised). 18 th June,.00 pm - Napier-Hastings Parish Wardens meeting with Bishop Andrew at St James, Mahora. 20 th June, 10am-3pm - HB Regional Conference at St Luke s, Havelock North th August - Waiapu Diocesan Clergy & Ministry Conference in Hawke s Bay ROSTERS are being prepared for services in June, July, and August - please let Jennifer (ph ) know your availability.

8 COMING UP THIS WEEK & OTHER DIARY DATES - Tuesday 1 May 10.30am - Eucharist Friday 22 May.15 pm - Writers Hui & Book launch, Richard Randerson CNZM Saturday 23 May am - Ordination Service Sunday 24 May - Pentecost 5.00 pm - Ratapu Whanau & Pentecost Bonfire at 69 Powdrell Road, Meeanee Mon.25-Tues.26 May 9.30am-4pm - Big Sing rehearsals Wed.2-Thurs.28 May 9am-4pm - Big Sing competitions 6.00 pm - Big Sing Gala Concerts Wednesday 2 May.00 pm - Vestry meeting at the Deanery Thursday 28 May 5.30 pm - Choral Evening Prayer with the Cathedral Choristers - at Ormond Chapel, Napier Terrace Napier Inner City Churches Annual mid-winter lunch, Napier RSA Sunday 12 th July, $16 NEXT SUNDAY 24 May 2015 Day of Pentecost Readings: Ezekiel 3: 1-14 Psalm 104: 24-34, 35b Acts 2: 1-21 John 15: 26-2, 16: 4b-15 Cathedral: 8.00 am Eucharist (Aotearoa Chapel) am Choral Eucharist Ormond Chapel, Napier Terrace: am Eucharist Prayer during Communion A member of the ministry team is available in the Resurrection Chapel during Communion at the 10.00am Choral Eucharist service in the Cathedral, for anyone who wishes personal prayer, or prayer for a specific purpose, and/or anointing with oil for healing (if required). If you wish to have someone pray with and for you, please go directly to the Resurrection Chapel (at the back of the Cathedral) after receiving communion. Mid-Week Services (in the Resurrection Chapel) 9.00am - Morning Prayer - Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays 10.30am - Eucharist - Tuesdays 12.30pm - Mid-day Prayer - Wednesdays CLERGY: Dean: Michael Godfrey Parish Mobile: Assisting Clergy: Dorothy Brooker Erice Fairbrother Graeme Pilgrim Jon Williams Anne van Gend WARDENS: Dean s: Martin Williams People s: Jeanne Ayson DIRECTOR OF MUSIC: Vacant Acting Choir Director: Basil Brooker Organist: Lester O Brien LAY ASSISTANTS: Jennifer Harris Elisabeth Paterson OFFICE: Tues.-Fri. 9.30am-3.30pm Priest-Administrator: Margaret Thompson Waiapu Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, 28 Browning Street, Napier, NZ Phone ~ PO Box 495, Napier ~ office@napiercathedral.org.nz 8