WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

17 May 2015 - Seventh Sunday of Easter

8.00 am Eucharist (NZPB476) Rev’d Dr Anne Van Gend

10.00 am Parish Eucharist Rev’d Dr Anne Van Gend

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.

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, for children up to 12 years of age.

Today’s events 2

Wardens intro’s; Feed-back options

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Sentence, Collect & Readings

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Readings comments 4

From your Dean 5

Hymn comments; Deanly Delvings

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Taize service 6

Organ Congress Concerts

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Writers for Justice & Peace Hui info

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National Council of Women dinner

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Diary Dates & Directory

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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 - 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

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.

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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 longstand-

ing parishioners at St John’s Cathe-

dral. My wife Nicola and I moved to Na-

pier 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 Ves-

try 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 Ca-

thedral 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 835 0666

or on my mobile 0274 490 676.

And from Jeanne Ayson …

Hi, I'm Jeanne, the People's Warden.

I'm married to Magnus. I have been at-

tending the Cathedral since our daughter

Emma began singing in the choristers in

2005. Emma was followed by Seb. My

employment background is Family Law

but I am now studying OSH through Mas-

sey. 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 8351920.

Christian Faith Seminar

This planned series of conversations with the Rev’d Dr Howard Pilgrim, Waiapu Diocesan Theologian,

has been CCCANCELLEDANCELLEDANCELLED due to lack

of numbers. Please contact Howard,

(phone 835-0822 or 027-272-4321) 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 email 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, How-

ard Pilgrim, Peter Meyer, Susan John or Sue

Dick by 18th May.

Vestry will discuss the matter further at their

next meeting, and review a full report of the

feedback gathered.

The Coffee Club invites you to

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CCCHRISTMASHRISTMASHRISTMAS LLLUNCHUNCHUNCH

at Breakers Restaurant

(corner Tennyson St & Milton Rd)

on

Thursday 21st May, 12.15pm.

Family and/or friends welcome.

To reserve a place, please RSVP

to Sandy by Monday 18th May

with numbers attending …

email: faultytowersh@orcon.net.nz

Phone: 835-6772.

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 17: 11

Collect:

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: 15-17, 21-26

15In those days Peter stood up among the be-lievers (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— 17for he was num-bered among us and was allotted his share in this ministry.”

21So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, 22beginning 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.” 23So they proposed two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also known as Justus, and Matthias.

24Then they prayed and said, “Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which one of these two you have chosen 25to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Ju-das turned aside to go to his own place.”

26And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles.

Psalm 1

1 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.

2 But their delight is in the law of the Lord: and on that law they meditate day and night.

3 They are like trees planted beside a water course: which yield their fruit in due season.

4 Their leaves also do not wither: and look, whatever they do it shall prosper.

5 As for the wicked, it is not so with them: but they are like the chaff, which is driven away by the wind.

6 Therefore the wicked shall not be able to stand when judgment comes: nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

7 For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous: but the way of the wicked is doomed.

1 John 5: 9-13

9If we receive human testimony, the testimo-ny of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified to his Son. 10Those who believe in the Son of God have the testi-mony in their hearts. Those who do not be-lieve in God have made him a liar by not be-lieving in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son. 11And this is the testimo-ny: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12Whoever has the Son has life; who-ever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

13I 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.

Today’s Readings … from the New Revised Standard Version Bible

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John 17: 6-19

6“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. 7Now they know

that everything you have given me is from

you; 8for 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. 9I am

asking on their behalf; I am not asking on be-

half of the world, but on behalf of those

whom you gave me, because they are yours.

10All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I

have been glorified in them. 11And 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 giv-

en me, so that they may be one, as we are

one. 12While 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. 13But 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. 14I have given them

your word, and the world has hated them be-

cause they do not belong to the world, just as

I do not belong to the world. 15I am not asking

you to take them out of the world, but I ask

you to protect them from the evil one. 16They

do not belong to the world, just as I do not

belong to the world. 17Sanctify them in the

truth; your word is truth. 18As you have sent

me into the world, so I have sent them into

the world. 19And for their sakes I sanctify my-

self, so that they also may be sanctified in

truth.

Readings Comments …

Acts 1: 15-17, 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 al-ways nudging Matthias, not the fortunate loser Justus/Barsabbas, and our elaborate fabricated human machinations are no more nor less than a journey into the pur-poseful will of the Creator.

Psalm 1: Who do we hang with? I’m not talking about the Struggle Street encoun-ters I’ve written about elsewhere. Or per-haps 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 ad-jective that means “of John”) litmus test. Where is our heart-focus? Despite the Post-Enlightenment obsession with quantifia-ble reality, we are challenged to glimpse the eternities, to glimpse the perspectives of a judging-but-loving Creator God out-side the confines of time and space, and yet revealed in the life of Man of the Cross.

John 17: 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 of-ten cruel coal face of the world in which we are called to live?

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From Your Dean …

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 hanky-wringing 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 Ma-raenui to Poraiti1 it maybe that he was-n’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 glo-ry 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, 2013.

Perhaps the most cutting edge main-stream media across the Ditch is multi-cultural 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. Dis-missed 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 ter-tiary 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 boot-straps, turned their lived around, be-come wonderful examples of how hard-ship can be transcended. The response in the blogosphere was a collective out-pouring 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, pregnan-cy, police-attention and all the ugly signs of life-gone-wrong, the rampant blogosphere, twittersphere, instant-opinionspheres 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

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From Deanly Delvings The constant temptation of the Church is to idealize Jesus and clothe him with the glori-ous 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), 47

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Why We Sing What We Do Sing

Processional: Written in 1739, 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 con-versing 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 re-searched! This particular hymn was written in 1977 for Bridge’s daughter’s wedding, and is sung today in honour of Michael and Hel-en Blow’s 50th wedding anniversary.

Offertory: The Head that Once was Crowned … Thomas Kelly trained for the Law but underwent a spiritual conversion and be-came 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, res-urrection and ascension.

More Deanly notices …

Ratapu Whanau: Pentecost Bonfire, Sun-day 24th May - children and young fami-lies’ service and activities, 5.00pm at 69 Powdrell Road, Meeanee. Bring marsh-mallows!

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 28th - but with a rehearsal beforehand from 4.30 pm.

The first of the Mulled Faith and Wine evenings are planned for:

June 5th (Friday) June 16th (Tuesday) July 3rd (Friday) July 21st (Tuesday)

Venue - yet to be confirmed - but plan-ning 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 24th at 7.00pm. For more information, phone 8355359 or email stpaulsnapier@gmail.com.

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 7.15pm.

Hui continues on Saturday 23 May at

St Paul’s Presbyterian Church lounge.

Email Registrations to: Erice Fairbrother

ecfairbrother@waiapu.com

ROSTERS are being prepared for services

in June, July, and August - please let Jennifer (ph.845-1108) know your

availability.

NZ ASSOCIATION OF ORGANISTS Annual Congress in Hawke’s Bay

29th May - 1st 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 29th May, 8.00 pm - Quasi Una Fantasia (Three Centuries of Organ Fatasies) by Mark Duley (Ireland)

Saturday 30th May, 8.00 pm - Strings ‘n’ Pipes by Cathy Irons (Violin)

and Barry Brinson (Organ)

Sunday 31st 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:

23rd May, 11.00 am - Ordination Service at the Cathedral - transitional deacon Deb Sutherland, Waipukurau will be

ordained priest.

9th June - Anglican Pension Board rep, Mike Buckley, speaking to clergy (time

and venue to be advised).

18th June, 7.00 pm - Napier-Hastings Parish Wardens meeting with Bishop

Andrew at St James, Mahora.

20th June, 10am-3pm - HB Regional Conference at St Luke’s, Havelock North.

11-14th August - Waiapu Diocesan Clergy & Ministry Conference in Hawke’s Bay

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 28th May, 6.30pm for 7.00pm

at the Havelock North Function Centre,

30 Te Mata Road, Havelock North.

Tickets $40, available until 25th May

from Kath de Lautour, ph 843-9080.

Dr McMahon initially trained as a nurse in

Dunedin, then added midwifery training so

that she could work in the Australian out-

back. She later joined the Red Cross as a

Senior Nurse in a surgical hospital on the

Thai-Kampuchean border on a 21 days on-7

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, Mozam-

bique, Sierra Leone, Liberia and South Su-

dan (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 Admin-

istration, and then a Doctorate in Human

Nutrition. Her community service includes

directorships of companies in Dunedin

alongside her presidency of NZ Red Cross.

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CLERGY:

Dean: Michael Godfrey 835 7862 Parish Mobile: 021 688 227

Assisting Clergy: Dorothy Brooker 843 6779 Erice Fairbrother 021 811 870 Graeme Pilgrim 835 6777 Jon Williams 833 6382 Anne van Gend 835 7862

WARDENS:

Dean’s: Martin Williams 835 0666 People’s: Jeanne Ayson 835 1920

DIRECTOR OF MUSIC: Vacant Acting Choir Director: Basil Brooker 877 8344 Organist: Lester O’Brien 844 8252

LAY ASSISTANTS:

Jennifer Harris 845 1108 Elisabeth Paterson 835 4609

OFFICE:

Tues.-Fri. 9.30am-3.30pm 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 17 May 10.30am - Eucharist

Friday 22 May 7.15 pm - Writers Hui & Book launch, Richard Randerson CNZM

Saturday 23 May 11.00 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.27-Thurs.28 May 9am-4pm - Big Sing competitions 6.00 pm - Big Sing Gala Concerts

Wednesday 27 May 7.00 pm - Vestry meeting at the Deanery

Thursday 28 May 5.30 pm - Choral Evening Prayer with the Cathedral Choristers - at Ormond Chapel, Napier Terrace

NEXT SUNDAY 24 May 2015

Day of Pentecost

Readings: Ezekiel 37: 1-14

Psalm 104: 24-34, 35b

Acts 2: 1-21

John 15: 26-27, 16: 4b-15

Cathedral:

8.00 am Eucharist (Aotearoa Chapel)

10.00 am Choral Eucharist

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

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 Ca-thedral, 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 Chap-el (at the back of the Cathedral) after receiving communion.

Napier Inner City Churches

Annual mid-winter lunch, Napier RSA

Sunday 12th July, $16