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WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
21 September 2014 - St Matthew’s Day
8.00 am Eucharist (NZPB456) Dean Michael Godfrey
10.00 am Eucharist with hymns Rev’d Brian Hamilton
Ormond Chapel, Napier Terrace: No service Please ensure all cellphones are switched OFF when in the Cathedral;
if necessary, adjust hearing aids to the “Loop” system.
A place of resurrection, life, and hope
The CATHEDRAL KIDS programme is normally offered at the Cathedral during the 10.00am service on Sundays of the school term; or there are craft/colouring activities available for children on the back table.
Today’s events 2
Free Organ Recital / Chorister service
2
Sentence, Collect & Readings
3
Gospel Comment 4
Creed comment 4
From Your Dean 5
Diocesan news 6
Hospital Chaplaincy week appeal
7
EJP / Angel Tree / Safe-Here training
7
Tonga Youth trip / Faith community
7
Diary Dates & Directory
8
In this issue …
We have low-Gluten wafers (below 20ppm) 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 2004 - use at your own risk!
PRAYER CYCLES
Anglican Communion
We pray for the Church of the Province of Uganda, the
Most Rev’d Stanley Ntagali, Archbishop & Bp of Kampala
Anglican Board of Missions
We pray for the Province of Southern Africa; the Most
Rev’d Dr Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Sthn Africa, and
the bishops, clergy & people of their 28 dioceses
Diocese, Parish and Community
Rev’d Brian Hamilton, Vicar-General; Dean Michael
Godfrey; Regional Deans (BOP, East, HB)
Waiapu bishop-elect, Andrew Hedge and family
East Coast Parish, Rev’d Stephen Donald (Missioner)
Hastings Parish, Rev’d Helen Wilderspin, Vicar
Diocese of Auckland, Bishops Ross Bay & Jim White,
Dean Jo Kelly-Moore; Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland,
celebrating their re-opening as a place of worship today
Local mayors and councilors; Members of Parliament
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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.
Welcome to all members of Waiapu Synod gathering in the Cathedral for Eucharist at 10am this morning; Synod will re-convene at All Saints’ Taradale immediately following the service.
RE-PITCHING THE TENT: CATHEDRAL SEMINAR SERIES
Following the recently-attended seminar led by Richard Giles, the Cathedral is running its own seminar series for parish-ioners based on the book ‘Re-Pitching the Tent’. The broad aim of the study series will be to look at the Cathedral in-terior, its layout and how it works liturgi-cally, and ask ourselves the question whether this is still meeting our needs or in what ways could it be adapted? This series will involve six sessions on a Sun-day held across a period of nine weeks, led by clergy and lay people who attend-ed the seminar.
The dates for the next sessions (in the Baptistery) are:
Sunday 28th
Sept. 11.30am-1.00pm
Sunday 12th
Oct. 11.30am-1.00pm
Any questions to Dean Michael.
Friday Organ recitals
September is celebrated as
New Zealand’s
National Organ month!
The Cathedral Director of Music,
Gary Bowler, will present the
final in this series of free ‘lunch-
time’ recitals, on Friday,
26th September 12.15pm - 1pm,
(Donations appreciated)
Spring Concert at St James’ Church, 1024A Duke St, Mahora, Hastings
21st September, 2 pm
All welcome this afternoon - door sales: $5 adults, $10 for a family. A donation will be given to Cranford Hospice.
Combined Choirs and Orchestra Catholic Cathedral of the
Blessed Sacrament, Christchurch
and
Waiapu Anglican Cathedral
of St John the Evangelist, Napier
Sunday 5th October, 4.00 pm in Waiapu Cathedral, 28 Browning St
Free admission Free admission -- Donations appreciatedDonations appreciated
Conductors:
Don Whelan (Christchurch)
and Gary Bowler (Napier)
Two of NZ’s longest serving
Cathedral Directors of Music!
Programme includes:
Haydn’s St Nicholas Mass
extracts from Handel’s Messiah
Music by Buxtehude, Mozart, Monteverdi,
and more
Choral Evening Worship
with the Cathedral Choristers
Thursday 25th September,
5.30pm
in the Aotearoa Chapel
Sentence:
Go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them, and teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. Matthew 28: 19-20
Collect:
Gracious and eternal God, through your Son Jesus Christ you called Matthew from his place of business to be an apostle and evangelist; free us from all greed and selfish love of money that we may follow in the steps of Jesus Christ our Redeemer. Amen
Proverbs 3: 13-18
13 Happy are those who find wisdom, and those who get understanding, 14 for her income is better than silver, and her revenue better than gold. 15 She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. 16 Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honour. 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. 18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy.
Psalm 119: 65-72
65 You have dealt well with your servant, O Lord, according to your word. 66 Teach me good judgement and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments. 67 Before I was humbled I went astray, but now I keep your word. 68 You are good and do good; teach me your statutes. 69 The arrogant smear me with lies, but with my whole heart I keep your precepts. 70 Their hearts are fat and gross,
but I delight in your law. 71 It is good for me that I was humbled, so that I might learn your statutes. 72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
2 Corinthians 4: 1-6
1 Therefore, since it is by God’s mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart. 2 We have renounced the shameful things that one hides; we refuse to practise cunning or to falsify God’s word; but by the open statement of the truth we commend ourselves to the conscience of everyone in the sight of God. 3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 5 For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake. 6 For it is the God who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness’, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Matthew 9: 9-13
9 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he got up and followed him. 10 And as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax-collectors and sinners came and were sitting with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, ‘Why does your teacher eat with tax-collectors and sinners?’ 12 But when he heard this, he said, ‘Those
Today’s Readings … from the New Revised Standard Version Bible
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who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 13 Go and learn what this means, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.’
Gospel Comment … Jesus tends not to use the words “sin” and
“sinner” in the same way as Paul, and here
Jesus is depicting the alienation of those on
the fringes, Dylan’s “the countless confused,
accused, misused, strung-out ones an'
worse.”
As Anglican Christians we have much to learn
about sitting with tax collectors and sinners.
We tend to be a little cultured, rarefied, and
at least in our public persona (not always the
same as our private faith-lives) reluctant to
hang out with the fringe-dwellers. We tend,
in what I have referred to as our gospel ver-
sion of “salvation by good taste,” to discon-
nect from the hurting and unwanted. Go and
learn what this means, “I desire mercy, not
sacrifice.”
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FROM DEANLY DELVINGS
Capitalism introduces a breathtaking dynam-
ics of obsolescence: we are bombarded by
new and newer products which are some-
times obsolete before they come fully into use
- PCs have to be replaced each year if we are
to keep up with the Joneses, LPs were fol-
lowed by CDs, and now by DVDs. The after-
math of this constant innovation is, of course,
the permanent production of piles of discard-
ed waste.
Slavoj Žižek, The Fragile Absolute (2000), 40.
The Creed and Crossed Fingers
WE BELIEVE IN ONE LORD, JESUS CHRIST … WHO SHALL COME TO JUDGE
“Relax, eat and be merry”: Jesus quotes the saying as he tells the story of a rich man who forgets a doctrine of judgement. The rest of the saying, of course, is “for tomorrow you may die.” Even that ending as been turned around into an avoidance of responsibility: “I hope to die before I grow old,” infamously sang The Who in the 1960’s. We live in a soci-ety with minimal interest in ageing, and less still in the answerability of judgement. “I’m here for a good time, not for a long time” is a popular bumper sticker.
Maybe. It’s not really up to us. I may or may not live long. Two of The Who’s number lived long enough to look very decrepit indeed. Like other members of their generation of rockers they have had to rethink the place of aging in human experience. Two members of the band have had their wish, succumbing to drug related deaths before or as they grew old.
A doctrine of judgement adds another dimen-sion - unpopular because unquantifiable - to human life. Yet even a secular and godless doctrine of judgement should provide some warning: do I want my mokopuna to remem-ber me well, or ill? The Christian doctrine adds something else: a God who will evaluate our lives. Do we measure up? The universal Christian answer should be “No.” Hymn writer William Bright expressed it brilliantly:
Look Father, look on His anointed face, And only look on us as found in Him Look not on our misusings of thy grace Our prayer so languid and our faith so dim; For lo! between our sins and their reward We set the passion of thy Son our Lord.
From Your Dean …
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There’s been an awful lot of voting
this weekend. I took the (sort of) new
initiative and cast my civic vote earli-
er in the week, not least because I
am spending Saturday and Sunday
at Synod listening to myriad other
matters and casting votes left right
and centre on matters of ecclesiasti-
cal concern.
Truth be told both national and ec-
clesiastical politics have long since
ceased to be a priority for me. I have
strong opinions (this may surprise
you!) on countless civic issues.
These range from unborn
children (the language
gives my opinion away,
after a fashion) to
transport infrastructure to
the fate of whales, and
on ecclesiastical matters
from inclusive language
to investment portfolios
and a thousand more.
No one-size-fits-all party
or position will ever meet
the micro-management
of my eccentricities. It is as well: were
I in charge of world or church all dol-
phins would have to wear chasubles
and invest in palm oil free food man-
ufacturing.
Church politics is often a little less
fraught than the civic version. I sur-
vived about forty seconds of the
Prime Minister and Leader of the Op-
position verbally stoushing before I
flicked channels. If that is the best we
can do for national leadership then
we are in a sorry state: off with their
heads!
But that very phrase, attributed to
dictatorial and monarchical tyrants
from the beginning of the modern
era (and before) reminds us why we
put up with this mess. I vote because I
can. I attend synod (and did even
when I was in Melbourne, where it
was optional) because I can. We
have not yet mid-wifed the perfect
world or perfect church, and democ-
racy (contra George W. Bush and
others) is not the Good News, but it’s
not bad, either.
So I have cast my vote
because I can - and will
be doing so at Synod. I will
struggle to see the hand
of God in outcomes I
don’t agree with (why
does God not always
agree with me?) and ap-
plaud the hand of God in
outcomes that I do agree
with (oh look - God does!).
The truth is more complex: I think the
hand of God is generally more busy
opening human hearts to resurrection
hope, and transforming human
hearts to do what is right, to love mer-
cy, and to walk humbly with God to-
wards the coming fullness of creation.
I vote though on all issues because I
can, and because I know there are
several billion people around the
world today who do not enjoy that
tiny privilege.
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DIOCESAN NEWS Farewell Service for the Reverend Dr
Jenny Dawson Thursday 30th October, 5.00 pm
An opportunity to give thanks for Jenny’s ministry as she leaves Waiapu Diocese where she has served as Regional Dean in the Hawke’s Bay Region, and to wish her God’s blessing in her new ministry into the future, based in Wellington. The service in the Cathedral will be fol-lowed by a light tea. For catering pur-poses please RSVP to Belinda Barnhill, email: belinda@waiapu.com.
Appointment of Interim Regional Dean
in Hawke's Bay
The Reverend Bill Bennett has accepted the invitation of the Vicar General, Brian Hamilton to fulfil the role of Interim Re-gional Dean in Hawke’s Bay until a new Regional Dean is appointed. Bill will commence on the 1st November.
PLEASE PRAY FOR …
The Reverend Frank Ngatoro and family for the sudden death of Frank’s father, Henare, on Saturday 13th September at Te Karaka. Please keep Henare’s widow, Hineteao, and the whanau in your pray-ers. Henare’s funeral was held at Takipu Marae last Wednesday.
Cliff Houston, our former Diocesan Reg-istrar, who is home after time in the hos-pice to help balance the pain levels. Cliff knows his time is limited and would value your prayers. Please also remem-ber his wife Judy and family as they con-tinue to battle with him through his can-cer journey.
LIVE BELOW THE LINE 6-10th October
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Live Below the Line is a campaign that's changing the way people think about poverty, and making a huge difference, by challenging everyday people to live on the equivalent of the extreme pov-erty line for 5 days. It's a chance to experience a fraction of what life is like for the 1.2 billion people in extreme poverty (equivalent of NZ$2.25 per day). By being involved in this campaign, we will raise awareness around this issue of extreme poverty, as well as raise funds to support worldwide organisations who are working to eradi-cate this problem (and possibly lose a few kilos in the process!).
Join with many other New Zealanders in Living Below The Line. There will be again for the third year running an Angli-can Network (Anglicans Below The Line). It would be great to surpass the $11K mark from 2012!
For more details check out the web-site: https://www.livebelowtheline.com/nz.
“KETE” - A 3-Day Course in Elementary Maori Pronunciation,
Language and Tradition
6th - 8th October - at St Augustine’s with the Rev’d Leo Te Kira
The three-day course includes:- practice of a 90sec personalised ‘mihi’ Exploration of the finer points of tra-
dition as observed on a marae; Easy-to-use greetings and farewells.
$100 registration fee covers the three days of tuition, workbook, CD, comple-tion luncheon and certificate.
Email registrations to leo@wasstb.com or ph 021 108-4065 by 30th Sept.
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Hospital Chaplaincy Week
21-28 September
Please support the annual Hospital Chaplaincy Week appeal -
donation slips are available on the back table at the Cathedral.
The ICHC annual “Cupcake” fundraising week will be held in the HB Hospital
foyer (Omahu Road, Hastings), Monday 22nd - Friday 26th September.
If you can help with baking, or selling, please contact Margaret Harding, ph 8788-109 ext 2718 or email:
margaret.harding@haweksbaydhb.govt.nz
TONGA YOUTH TRIP 6-13 JULY 2015
Applications are available for those keen to join the Tonga Youth Trip in 2015. In order to secure a group booking we will require applications to be completed by early October. The trip is open to young people aged over 14 years who would enjoy involvement in a cross-cultural ex-perience and has a willingness to be a ‘team-player’ in the ‘Waiapu Tonga Team’. Please contact Jocelyn Czerwonka, Dioc-esan Youth Ministry Facilitator at: joce-lyn.dymf@xtra.co.nz .
SAFE-HERE TRAINING WORKSHOPS
For anyone involved in any childrens or youth ministry in Waiapu Diocese this training is for you. Safe-Here are offer-ing training for leaders/helpers/volunteers, at team member level and team leader level. If you have complet-ed one already, come along and com-plete the other levels. This training is vital for anyone working with children and/or youth and is a great place for dis-cussion and to learn. Save this date now! - Saturday, 15th No-vember, 9am - 4pm at St Peters, Wai-pawa, CHB. Contact Sandie Speeden, Waiapu Safe-Here Coordinator safe-here@waiapu.com or ph 0272930042.
MULTI-NATIONAL FAITH COMMUNITY OF YOUNG ADULTS
The Archbishop of Canterbury is setting up a new monastic community at Lam-beth Palace for young people taking a ‘gap’ year - a great opportunity for young people (aged 20-30 years) to join a faith community with others from all from all around the world!
http://www.anglicantaonga.org.nz/News/The-Communion/Fancy-a-monastic-gap-year-at-Lambeth
Prison Fellowship of NZ Angel Tree
This is a programme that provides Christ-mas presents to children who miss out on
a gift from their imprisoned parent.
Jennifer Whyman is the HB Regional Co-ordinator and is asking for assistance from churches, and from individuals, to
become involved with … Purchasing / wrapping / delivering gifts
Making a donation
Please email Jennifer for more infor-mation: jenniferwhyman@xtra.co.nz or phone 833-6963.
ENVIRONMENT-JUSTICE-PEACE NETWORK
next meeting
Sunday 5 October, 4.00 pm in the Cathedral Meeting room
(through from the Parish lounge) please use entrance at eastern (fountain)
end of Cathedral due to a concert starting in the Cathedral at the same time!
CLERGY:
Dean: Michael Godfrey 835 7862 Parish Mobile: 021 688 227
Assisting Clergy: Dorothy Brooker 843 6779 Graeme Pilgrim 835 6777 Jon Williams 833 6382 Anne van Gend 835 7862
WARDENS:
Dean’s Basil Brooker 877 8344 People’s Jeanne Ayson 835 1920
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC:
Gary Bowler 835 8523
LAY ASSISTANTS:
Elisabeth Paterson 835 4609 Jennifer Harris 845 1108
OFFICE:
Tuesday-Friday 9.30 am - 3.30 pm 835 8824 Priest-Administrator: Margaret Thompson
Waiapu Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, 28 Browning Street, Napier, NZ Phone 835-8824 ~ PO Box 495, Napier ~ email: office@napiercathedral.org.nz
www.napiercathedral.org.nz
Tuesday 23 September 3pm - Finance Committee meet
Wednesday 24 September 7.30 pm - Vestry meeting
Thursday 25 September 4.30 pm - Chorister practice 5.30pm - Choral Evening Worship with the Waiapu Cathedral Choristers 7.30 pm - Choir practice
Friday 26 September 12.15 pm - free Cathedral Organ recital
Sunday 28 September 11.30 am - “Re-pitching the Tent” study in the Baptistery area of the Cathedral
Thursday 2 October 12.30 pm - Te Hakari Tapu
Friday 3 October 9.15 am - Pastoral Companions meet
Friday 3 October 10am - 3om - HB Clergy Training Day at St Augustine’s Parish
Sunday 5 October 4pm - EJP meet in Parish lounge 4pm - concert with combined Cathedral
choirs of Blessed Sacrament, Christ- church and Waiapu
NEXT SUNDAY - 28 September 2014
Ordinary Sunday 26
Readings: Ezekiel 18: 1-4, 25-32 Psalm 25: 1-9 Philippians 2: 1-13 Matthew 21: 23-32
Cathedral: 8.00 am Eucharist 10.00 am Choral Eucharist with the Cathedral Choir; & Baptism
Ormond Chapel, Napier Terrace: 11.00 am Eucharist
COMING UP THIS WEEK … & OTHER DIARY DATES -
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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
5.15pm - End of Week Prayers - Fridays
PRAYER DURING COMMUNION
A member of the ministry team is available in the Resurrection Chapel during Commun-ion at the 10.00am Choral Eucharist service in the Cathedral, for anyone who wishes personal prayer, or prayer for a specific pur-pose, 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 Resurrec-tion Chapel (at the back of the Cathedral) after receiving communion.
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