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1 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER 3 December Advent am Eucharist (Aotearoa Chapel) Dean Ian Render am Choral Eucharist Dean Ian Render 3.00 pm Celebrating 40 th Anniversary Ordination of Women in NZ 8.00 pm Advent Music & Readings Dean Ian Render Ormond Chapel, Napier Terrace: No service Please ensure all cellphones are switched OFF when in the Cathedral; and, if necessary, adjust hearing aids to the Loop system. To contact Dean Ian Render... Telephone Direct Dial Free-call: Text or call the Parish Mobile: dean@napier cathedral. org.nz Prayer Cycles - We pray for Anglican Communion The Diocese of West Buganda (Uganda); the Rt Rev d Henry Katumba-Tamale, Bishop of West Buganda Anglican Board of Missions The Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea; Theological Education in PNG, the staff & students at Newton and Kerina Colleges Diocese, Parish and Community Waiapu Bishop Andrew Hedge and family; Waiapu Dean, the Very Rev d Ian Render Waiapu Regional Deans (Rev ds David van Oeveren, Adrienne Bruce and Stephen Donald); Waiapu Ministry Educator, Rev d Deborah Broome Diocesan Theologian Rev d Dr Howard Pilgrim Diocese of Wellington, Bishop Justin Duckworth Southern Hawke s Bay Parish, Rev d Jo Crosse, Vicar Central Hawke s Bay Parish, Rev d Alister Hendery, Vicar; Rev d Joan Edmundson, Vicar-elect Te Hui Amorangi ki te Tairawhiti, Bishop Don Tamihere, clergy and lay leaders Te Aute College, Hukarere School - staff and students Low-Gluten wafers (below 20ppm) are now available - please advise the Presider, or one of the Welcoming team, if this is your dietary requirement. NOTE: Bell Tower and entrance are earthquake prone as assessed under the Building Act use at your own risk!

2 TODAY A very warm 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. At 11.30am this morning, the Destination Napier Downtown Festival commences in Hastings Street, with the Cathedral Choir singing at 11.45am At 3.00pm this afternoon, the Cathedral will host a Eucharist service for the Diocesan celebration of the 40 th Anniversary of the Ordination of Women - two Waiapu women, the late Rev d Cherie Baker, and the Rev d Rosemary Russell were amongst the first ordained 40 years ago. At 8.00pm this evening, A Service of Advent Music and Readings with the Cathedral Choir. Advent is the season of preparation for Christmas, and this service aims to help us with our preparing and waiting with expectant hope. A Festival of Nine Lessons and Christmas Carols with the Waiapu Cathedral Choir Sunday 17 December pm All welcome. 2 CWS Christmas Gift Appeal 2017 The weeks leading up to Christmas can be busy and noisy - parties and family gatherings make for lots of noise and words - sometimes happy, sometimes not. This Advent-Christmas season, CWS invite us to make space for the voices of people who we might otherwise miss. Week by week, we ll focus on the one of the CWS partners providing programmes to tackle the causes of poverty every day. Our donations through the CWS Christmas Gift Appeal help provide resources for change and give people hope now, and may help people out of poverty forever. The world is a small place - we need to make sure we hear the voices of the people crying out for food, water and justice, and respond in ways that give life and hope. In this way, we can do our bit to help bring peace to the world. Please give generously to the 2017 CWS Christmas Gift Appeal - let s make hope our story! Appeal envelopes are available on the back table in the Cathedral, please send direct to CWS, P O Box , Christchurch; or donate on-line at: christmasappeal.org.nz/donate/ Advent 1 - HOPE - The memory of Typhoon Haiyan drives 74 year old Clarita who lives near the coast of Aklan province in the Philippines. In 2013, her house and crops were badly damaged. She wants to have a cushion against future calamities and make her community stronger. Together they have planted fruit trees and root crops, and started their very own farmers market. In the face of climate change, they are preparing with hope for an uncertain future. CWS partner Developers Foundation has worked to rebuild homes and livelihoods.

3 Today s Order of Service This morning s service follows the Eucharistic Liturgy Thanksgiving of the People of God commencing on page 404 in the red New Zealand Anglican Prayer Book; the tunes for the hymns may be found in Common Praise, the blue hymn book in the pews; Presider & Preacher: Dean Ian Render Assisting Priest: Rev d Margaret Thompson Choir Director/Organist: Anthony Tattersall Choral setting: Introit: Processional: Mass of the Quiet Hour - Oldroyd E en so the Lord - Manz Come, now, where we least expect you 1 Come now where we least expect you, Christ our hope and longing, come. Show us where we still reject you in the world you made your home. Look around! Christ is found far beyond our sacred ground. 2 Come where we have tried to own you locked within the distant past, where your church has scarcely known you, where the least remain the last. Enter still where you will, come to challenge and fulfill. 3 Christ-child, come in loving kindness; come, great Judge whom angels praise! heal us of our pride and blindness, purge our hearts and change our ways. God's own Word, love outpoured, come to us, O Christ our Lord. Carol our Christmas #15 Words & Music: Marnie Barrell Alt.Tune: Michael [CP368] Welcome: Dean Ian Render We hear a Partner Story from the CWS Christmas Gift Appeal, and light the first candle in our Advent Wreath - the candle of Hope 3

4 The candle is lit We remember the voice of the prophets calling us to be bearers of hope in a troubled world. We light the candle for hope. May it light the way for us as we make hope our story. All sing: Light a candle bright and tall for the Hope within our world. Hope that heard the ages call as the stars and planets whirled. Shine within our hearts today Come, O Hope, to us, we pray by David Wood. Tune: Dix [CP83] NZPB page: 404 NZPB page: 405 The Gathering of the Community Gloria NZPB page: Confession / Forgiveness / Absolution Sentence: Collect: Heaven and earth will pass away, says the Lord, but my words will not pass away. Mark 13: 31 Holy God, throughout the generations the prophets fore-told the coming of the Messiah; prepare us to receive him, turn us from darkness to the glorious light that is your Son, who is alive and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen Reading: Isaiah 64: 1-9 Murray Mills Psalm 80: 1-7, Choir Reading: 1 Corinthians 1: 3-9 Christine Kerr Gradual Hymn: We heard Christ s Word Tune: Dominus Regit Me 1 We heard Christ's word, and looking back recalled the road behind us; at every turning of the track he came to seek and find us. 4 2 We searched our hearts and looked within and cried to God to cleanse us; we found the One who bore our sin now lives, and still befriends us.

5 3 We raised our eyes to look above and praised the mighty Giver for every blessing of his love, and words that last for ever. 4 So now in hope we look ahead where earth's new dawn is breaking; for Christ is coming, as he said, and heaven is in the making. Christopher Idle Christopher Idle/Jubilate Hymns Ltd Gospel Reading: Mark 13: Rev d Margaret Thompson The Sermon: Dean Ian Render NZPB page: 410 Affirmation of Faith - Nicene Creed NZPB page: The Prayers of the People Michael Morgan NZPB page: 419 The Peace Dean Ian Render We greet the people near us, saying Peace be with you / Kia tau te rangimarie. During the next hymn the bread and wine, symbols of Christ s life, are brought to the altar; our offerings of money that support the mission and ministry of the Cathedral are collected and brought forward also. Offertory Hymn: View the present through the promise View the present through the promise, Christ comes again. Trust despite the deepening darkness, Christ comes again. Lift the world above its grieving through your watching and believing in the hope past hope s conceiving: Christ comes again. Probe the present with the promise, Christ comes again. Let your daily actions witness, Christ comes again. Let your loving and your giving and your justice and forgiving be a sign to all the living: Christ comes again. Match the present to the promise, Christ comes again. Make this hope your guiding premise, Christ comes again. Pattern all your calculating and the world you are creating to the advent you are waiting: Christ comes again. NZPB page: 420 The Preparation of the Gifts NZPB page: The Great Thanksgiving 5 Thomas Troeger Tune: AR HYD Y NOS [CP15]

6 NZPB page: 424 NZPB page: 427 The Lord s Prayer The Invitation All are welcome to share the bread and wine of Christ s life, or to receive a blessing - please come to the altar rails via the centre aisle and return to your seats via the side aisles (or use the ramp if necessary and take a place at the rear altar rails); Please advise an usher if you need to have communion served in your seat. Personal Prayer is available in the Resurrection Chapel with a member of the ministry team - 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. During communion, the Choir will sing: Come my way - Cooper NZPB page: 429 Prayer after communion The Blessing: We share notices and news Dean Ian Render Recessional Hymn: Long ago, prophets knew 1 Long ago, prophets knew Christ would come, born a Jew, come to make all things new; bear his people's burden, freely love and pardon. Ring, bells, ring, ring, ring! People, sing, sing, sing! When he comes, when he comes, who will make him welcome? 2 God in time, God on earth, thus is God's human birth: Jesus comes, as a man, born himself of woman, God divinely human: Ring, bells, ring... Tune: Personent Hodie [CP58] F Pratt Green 1971 adapted 3 Mary hail! Though afraid, she believed, she obeyed. In her womb, God is laid: till the time expected, nurtured and protected, Ring, bells, ring... 4 Journey ends! Where afar Beth lem shines, like a star, stable door stands ajar. unborn Son of Mary, Saviour, do not tarry! Ring, bells, ring, ring, ring! People, sing, sing, sing! Jesus comes! Jesus comes! We will make him welcome! The Dismissal: Go now to love and serve the Lord. Go in peace. Amen. We go in the name of Christ. 6

7 Napier Family Centre - Christmas Cheer Appeal This year, we have 50 gift tags available from the Napier Family Centre, and invite parishioners to take a tag, buy a gift and return it UNWRAPPED to the Parish Office by Sunday 10 th December. Tags are available for boys or girls ranging in age from 6 months - 16 years. Please write your name on the sign-up sheet alongside the tag you take! Thanks. Association of Anglican Women Cathedral Fellowship The final AAW gathering for this year will be on Monday 11 th December at 6:30pm for our Christmas dinner at The Boardwalk, Ahuriri. Partners / friends welcome. If you have not already told Helen you are coming please ring her on by Friday 8 th. Our programme next year will start with the usual BBQ at All Saints on Tuesday 13 th February. Come and join us then as we share fun and fellowship with AAW members and other Christian women from around Hawkes Bay. Our last Knit In for the year was on Monday 27 th November and our fingers were busy as we tried to finish the garments for Dean Ian to bless on Sunday 3 rd. Thank you very much for doing this Ian, both for us and for those receiving our wares. We will continue to meet on the last Monday of each month next year but we will be shifting with the library to the MTG. More about this later. Did you know that the library is allowing a 3-month loan period for all items taken out during December. Basically this is to reduce their work load as they prepare to shift and then settle into their new space in the MTG, but good for us customers. Contacts: Helen, ph or Kay, ph Cathedral s Informal Fellowship The last meeting for this year will be on Wednesday 6 th December, meeting at the Napier RSA (corner Vautier & Hastings Sts) at 12 noon for lunch. All welcome. 7 Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Mary Ditchburn who died early last week. In accordance with Mary s wishes, a private funeral was held in the Aotearoa Chapel on Friday morning. May she rest in peace and rise in glory. Advent Word An opportunity to connect with others as we reflect and pray through Advent - the Society of Saint John the Evangelist (an Anglican order of monks), invite us to participate again in a programme called AdventWord, the Anglican Communion s global Advent calendar. The calendar is created by Christians around the world sending in images in response to an Advent meditation. To participate go on-line to AdventWord.org and signup to receive a daily from the Brothers of SSJE. The will contain a daily word and meditation, accompanied by a stunning image. You are invited to respond with an image of your own on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook or you can just watch the calendar grow each day in Advent. When you sign up you will receive easy instructions on how to send in images and view the Advent Calendar. Read more about AdventWord on-line: ; or

8 COMING UP DIARY DATES Mid-Week Services: 9.00am Morning Prayer (Tues-Fri); 10.30am Eucharist (Tues); 12 noon Mid-Day Prayer (Wed) Services next Sunday 10 December Advent 2B... at the Cathedral am - Eucharist (Aotearoa Chapel) am - Choral Eucharist... at Ormond Chapel am - Eucharist Monday 4 December 9.30 am - Te Aute College students visit Tuesday 5 December South Island Organ Company organ tuning am - Eucharist (Resurrection Chapel) Readings: Isaiah 40: 1-11 Psalm 85: 1-2, Peter 3: 8-15a Mark 1: 1-8 Wednesday 6 December 12noon - Informal Fellowship end-of-year lunch at Napier RSA Thursday 7 December 9.00 am - Sacred Heart College end-of-year prize-giving (day); 7.00 pm - Mass Thursday 7 December 7.00 pm - Choir practice Tuesday 12 December (note change of date) 7.00 pm - Vestry meeting Friday 15, 7pm & Sunday 17 December, 2pm Napier Civic Choir present Handel s Messiah in St Paul s Presbyterian Church, Tennyson Street Saturday 16 December, 7.30pm HB Orchestra present music by Beethoven & Mozart, in St Paul s Presbyterian Church Sunday 17 December - Advent pm - Christmas Carols & Readings Tuesday 19 December 5.30 pm - Dermot Horne s piano students recital (Baptistry) Rosters for December-January-February have been ed to those whose addresses we hold, printed copies available from the Parish Office. If you are unavailable for your rostered duty, please arrange a swap and advise Margaret in the Office. CLERGY: Dean: The Very Rev d Ian Render Direct Dial free-call: Parish Mobile: Assisting Clergy: Dorothy Brooker Erice Fairbrother Graeme Pilgrim Jon Williams WARDENS: Dean s: Graeme West People s: Alison Thomson CHOIR DIRECTOR: Anthony Tattersall LAY ASSISTANT: Jennifer Harris \\ For any Health & Safety issues or concerns contact Jeanne Ayson, ph 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