York Minster invites everyone to discover God s love through our welcome, worship, learning and work. Sunday 8 February 2015 The Second Sunday before Lent Sexagesima IN RESIDENCE THIS WEEK: The Revd Canon Michael Smith, Pastor To contact the Canon in Residence please call Church House: 01904 557200 Large print versions of the Order of Service and this notice sheet are available. Please ask a steward or a verger if you would like one. An induction loop system is also in operation for hearing aid users.
8.00 HOLY COMMUNION (Book of Common Prayer) President The Revd Canon Robert Rogers, Succentor Canonicorum The Order of Service may be found on page 294 of the Book of Common Prayer. The Collect and readings are those given for Sexagesima on page 122. Collect O Lord God, who seest that we put not our trust in any thing that we do; Mercifully grant that by thy power we may be defended against all adversity; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O MINSTER SUNDAY SCHOOL Welcome to the Minster Sunday School and Crèche who meet during the 10.00 service. Children and helpers, and any parents who wish to do so, may follow the cross during the Gradual hymn, and return just before Communion. The Sunday School and Crèche are available to visitors as well as to regular members of the congregation. If, however, you prefer to keep your children with you throughout the service, that is fine. 10.00 SUNG EUCHARIST (Common Worship, Order One) President The Very Revd Dr Vivienne Faull, Dean Preacher The Revd Daniel Jones, Chaplain St Peter s School and Minor Canon Setting Missa brevis Leighton Introit Hymn 377 Immortal, invisible, God only wise Collect Almighty God, you have created the heavens and the earth and made us in your own image: teach us to discern your hand in all your works and your likeness in all your children; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit reigns supreme over all things, now and for ever. Amen. New Testament Reading Colossians 1.15 20 Gradual Hymn 1 In our darkness light has shone, Alleluia, still today the light shines on, Alleluia; Word made flesh in human birth, Alleluia, Light and Life of all the earth, Alleluia! SP 27 (t NEH 130i In our darkness light has shone) 3 All who now in him believe, Alleluia, everlasting life receive, Alleluia; born of God and in his care, Alleluia, we his name and nature share, Alleluia! 2 Christ the Son incarnate see, Alleluia, by whom all things came to be, Alleluia; through the world his splendours shine, Alleluia, full of grace and truth divine, Alleluia! 4 Christ a child on earth appears, Alleluia, crown of all creation s years, Alleluia; God s eternal Word has come, Alleluia, he shall lead his people home, Alleluia! Words Timothy Dudley-Smith 1926 Tune LLANFAIR, melody by Robert Williams 1781 1821
Gospel Reading John 1.1 14 Offertory Hymn 265 Lord of beauty, thine the splendour Motet O sacrum convivium in quo Christus sumitur, recolitur memoria passionis eius, mens impletur gratia, et futurae gloriae nobis pignus datur. O sacred banquet in which Christ is received, the memory of his Passion is renewed, the mind filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us. Words Magnificat antiphon, Second Vespers of Corpus Christi Music Thomas Tallis c. 1505 85 Post Communion God our creator, by your gift the tree of life was set at the heart of the earthly paradise, and the bread of life at the heart of your Church: may we who have been nourished at your table on earth be transformed by the glory of the Saviour's cross and enjoy the delights of eternity; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Final Hymn 466 Thou whose almighty word Receiving Holy Communion. If you normally receive communion in your own church you are welcome to receive communion here. If you don t want to take communion but would like a blessing, please bring your service booklet with you to let the minister know. The normal practice in York Minster is to receive the wafer into the hand. If you prefer not to drink from the common cup, please take the wafer only. Gluten-free communion wafers are available at the communion station nearest the pulpit at the front left of the Nave. If you require a gluten-free communion wafer, please inform a Steward and make your way to the front of the Nave. When the time comes to receive communion, please ask the priest for a gluten-free wafer. If you need to receive communion in your seat please tell a Steward and this will be arranged. The congregation is warmly invited to gather for a cup of coffee or tea in the Chapter House following the 10.00 service. 11.30 MATINS The service begins on page 40 of the Book of Common Prayer. Responses Shephard Psalm 67 Canticles Ireland in F Readings Deuteronomy 8.1 10 Matthew 6.25 end Anthem Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum: ita desiderat anima mea ad te Deus. Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks, so longeth my soul after thee, O God. Words Psalm 42.1 Music Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 94 Sermon Hymn The Revd Canon Michael Smith, Pastor 397 Let us, with a gladsome mind The collection is taken during this hymn UK tax payers are encouraged to use the Gift Aid envelopes.
4.00 CHORAL EVENSONG Introit I will wash my hands in innocency Bairstow Responses Shephard Psalm 65 Canticles Stanford in A Readings Genesis 2.4b end Luke 8.22 35 Anthem Vast Ocean of light, whose rays surround The Universe, who know st nor ebb, nor shore, Who lend st the Sun his sparkling drop, to store With overflowing beams Heav n, air, ground, Whose depths beneath the Centre none can sound, Whose heights bove Heav n, and thoughts so lofty soar, Whose breadth no feet, no lines, no chaines, no eyes survey, Whose length no thoughts can reach, no worlds can bound, What cloud can mask thy face? where can thy ray Find an Eclipse? What night can hide Eternal Day? Words Phineas Fletcher 1582 1650 Music Jonathan Dove 1959 Sermon Hymn Voluntary The Revd Canon Michael Smith, Pastor 267 The spacious firmament on high The collection is taken during this hymn UK tax payers are encouraged to use the Gift Aid envelopes. Carillon de Westminster Vierne FORTHCOMING SERVICES Sunday 15 February 2015 The Sunday next before Lent Quinquagesima (BCP) 8.00 Holy Communion (BCP) President: The Revd Canon Dr Christopher Collingwood, Chancellor 10.00 Sung Eucharist President: The Revd Canon Peter Moger, Precentor Preacher: The Revd Canon Dr Christopher Collingwood, Chancellor Readings: 2 Corinthians 4.3 9 Mark 9.2 9 11.30 Matins Preacher: The Revd Canon Dr Christopher Collingwood, Chancellor Readings: Exodus 24.12 end 2 Corinthians 3.12 end 16.00 Evensong Preacher: The Revd Canon Peter Moger, Precentor Readings: 1 Kings 19.1 16 2 Peter 1.16 end For details of services during the week, please refer to the Scheme of Services available on the York Minster Website at http://www.yorkminster.org/worship-and-choir/worship.html
NOTICES Tickets for all Minster Community events are available either from the Minster Community Table in the Chapter House Vestibule following the 10.00 Sunday Eucharist, or from the Box Office at Church House: 01904 557208 or concerts@yorkminster.org Security Arrangements: Entrance to the Minster In the light of recent events the Minster team have reviewed security arrangements. Over time the police cabin entrance in the Chapter House yard has become established as a semi-public entrance. This leaves our private, back of house space vulnerable and also compromises the safety and security of our colleagues in the Police team and our control function. Therefore, we intend to revert to using this door as a controlled entrance again. The door is accessed via a fob system. While we appreciate this may cause a change in your usual route or practice, we hope you will understand the reasons for implementing this change and support us in enabling our Police team to do their jobs at this time of heightened threat. Considering Confirmation? I am running a group for adults who would like to explore the basics of our faith, which began to meet last Monday. It is a small and select group but there is room for one or two others to join if they would like to. We meet at my house, 4, Minster Yard, starting at 7.30 and finishing by 9.00. This group is for anyone who would like to consider the possibility of being confirmed (we will have Confirmations at the Minster on Easter Eve, Saturday 4 April) and for anyone who would simply like to revisit some of the basics of our faith. The course runs until Easter and if you would like to join in please drop me an email (michaels@yorkminster.org) or just turn up. Canon Michael Smith Community Event: Being a Hospital Chaplain Joys and Challenges A talk by Revd Martin Doe, at 7.30 in Church House on Wednesday 25 February. Tickets 2.50 from the Community Table (after the 10.00 Eucharist on Sundays) or Church House. Children s Spirituality Conference Saturday 13 June 2015 9.45 4.30 Chapel Allerton Methodist Church Leeds LS7 4NB This day conference will offer fresh insights into children s spirituality through talks and inter active workshops on Godly Play, prayer spaces and Open the Book. The day will be led by Rebecca Nye who is a researcher, consultant and trainer in the field of children's spirituality. The cost is 7 per person, including refreshments. Please bring a packed lunch. Bookings and information: Angela Britton, Circuit Administrator, Circuit Office, Lidgett Park Methodist Church, Lidgett Place, Leeds LS8 1HG 0113 266 3309, circuitoffice@leedsnandemethodist.org.uk. Cheques payable to Leeds North and East Methodist Circuit. Bookings close Monday 8 June. Middlesbrough Food Bank This year as part of our Lenten observance there will be another appeal for food to be donated to the Middlesbrough Food Bank. Food will be collected in the Minster on the first four Sundays in Lent, Sunday 22 February and on Sundays 1, 8 and 15 March and taken to Middlesbrough on the following Tuesday morning in each case. We will be grateful for help both with the packing on the Sunday morning and with taking the donations to Middlesbrough the following Tuesday morning. If you can help in these ways please will contact Mary Smith, 01904 481225, mary@djmhs.force9.co.uk. News of what is happening at the Food Bank will follow shortly.
York Chamber Music Festival 13 15 February 2015 Former chorister Tim Lowe (now leader of the English Chamber Orchestra and teaching professor at GSMD) is organizing the second annual festival which brings to the city some of the country's outstanding chamber musicians (Jack Liebeck, Carole Presland, Sarah-Jane Bradley). Tim will also play a recital. Other events centre on lunchtime recitals followed by masterclasses between the performers and young musicians from York schools and a competition. The patron of the festival is the internationally renowned cellist Steven Isserlis. Tim says he will donate half his playing fee to the Minster Fund. See the website www.yorkchambermusicfestival.co.uk for programme and ticketing. Home-Start Fund Raising Concert in York Minster On Wednesday 11 February 2015 at 7.00, Ian Macmillan will be featuring in a concert of more than 500 voices from York and area school choirs. Junior choirs are performing Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo; senior choirs: Vivaldi s Gloria and the massed choirs: Richard Shephard s The Spacious Firmament. There are three ticket prices: 16.50 (front nave) 12.50 (back nave) 6.00 (side aisles). Tickets can be bought online at https://www.yorkminster.org/whats-on, booked by telephone from the box office (Monday Friday 9.00 4.30) 01904 557208, or purchased at the tills in the Minster. York Pilgrimage Group 15 20 June 2015 The Cathedral of the Isles, Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland Ikons of Light Led by Canon Edward Newlyn and Canon Michael Smith. A flyer giving all the details of the above event and all other 2015 events are available on the Community Table after the 10.00 service this morning. Time Out for Parents Whether you are having a smooth or a bumpy ride being a parent, Time Out for Parents will give you an opportunity to take time to think about your relationship with your child(ren) and how to bring out the best in them. The Minster is delighted to be able to offer this five-session course in conjunction with Family Matters, York on Tuesday evenings 24 February 17 March and Monday 23 March in the Old Palace, Dean s Park. Topics covered will include: meeting emotional needs, raising your child s self-esteem, managing difficult behaviour, keeping children safe, your own issues. The material for this course is produced by Care for the Family which has a Christian foundation but there is no religious aspect to this course and it is suitable for people of all faiths and none. This course is particularly for parents of children in the primary school age group i.e. 4 11 years; the cost is 50 per person. Places are limited so do book early to avoid disappointment. For further information or to book a place, please contact Helen Atkinson on 01904 789214 or helenatkinson@fmy.org.uk. Julie McLeish William Temple Association The next meeting of the William Temple Association is today, Sunday 8 Feb at 7.30. This term we have as our theme Novel Issues: Exploring theological questions raised in three modern novels. Our speaker will be the Revd Canon Dr Christopher Collingwood (York Minster) and his second lecture will consider the novel by Chaim Potok entitled My Name is Asher Lev. Lecture Three will be on Sunday 22 February. The annual William Temple Lecture will this year be on Sunday 1 March and our speaker will be Dr Paula Gooder. Meetings take place at York St John University in room SK O37; we finish with Compline at around 9.00. ALL ARE WELCOME
CELEBRATING GOD S GENEROSITY We are very pleased to announce the outcome of our recent focus on Celebrating God s Generosity. The response has led to an increase in giving through Standing Order of an extra 16%. This well exceeds the aspiration of 10% that was set out in the Dean s letter. The total number of responses was 84 which includes 40 who have agreed to begin to give through Standing Order. We are extremely grateful to everyone who responded. This uplift means that we now have more financial resources to fund our mission as we invite the thousands of people who visit York Minster to discover God s love. We give glory to God for this sign of his grace at work among us at the Minster.
YORK MINSTER DIARY FEBRUARY Monday 9 12.30 Holy Communion (CW) (St John s Chapel) 17.15 Evening Prayer said with a hymn (Quire) Tuesday 10 12.30 Holy Communion (CW) (St John s Chapel) 17.15 Evensong boys voices (Quire) Wednesday 11 12.30 Holy Communion (BCP) (St John s Chapel) 17.15 Evensong (Quire) 19.00 Homestart Concert with the Minster Choristers and local school choirs Thursday 12 12.30 Holy Communion with prayers for healing and peace (St John s Chapel) 17.15 Evensong (Quire) Friday 13 07.45 Holy Communion (Zouche Chapel) 12.30 Holy Communion (St John s Chapel) 17.15 Evensong (Quire) Saturday 14 12.00 Holy Communion (CW) (St John s Chapel) 17.15 Evensong (Quire)