St John’s Cathedral
Community News
Issue 61
Foolish God, shaming the strong
through the weakness of love;
turning upside down the
wisdom of the world:
may your blessing dwell
with the poor and hungry,
the grieving and abused;
may your peaceful revolution
be our joy and our reward
through Jesus Christ,
the power of God. Amen
Prayers for an Inclusive Church
Inside this issue:
Annual Reports
2
Labyrinth Walk
Wasting Time with God
Meditative Eucharist
Ash Wednesday
3
Nocturnes
Cathedral Retreats
Quiet Morning in Lent
Cathedral Planning Day
4
Message from the Dean
5
Red Letter Day
New Cathedral Coins
February 2015
Hear and Say Queensland
Opening up worlds for deaf children
Hear and Say are helping children in Queensland to hear for the first time. Every
year, about 130 children are born with hearing loss in Queensland. The good
news is that - with our help - many have the potential to hear, listen and speak.
Hear and Say
Queensland is a
not-for-profit
organisation
which helps deaf children to hear, listen
and speak so they can attend a regular
school, have a broader range of career
choices, and more fully participate in the
hearing community. The organisation
provides services and programs to children,
young adults and families in metropolitan,
rural and remote areas. They must raise
more than $10,000 each year for up to five
years, in order to be able to teach ONE
child with hearing loss to listen and speak.
For a baby to be diagnosed with significant
hearing loss is devastating to the family.
Yet, hearing loss is the most common
disability in newborns globally, and as the
population ages, those affected by hearing
loss doubles from one in eight to one in
four Australians. Hear and Say's paediatric
audiology program supports all hearing
implant technologies including cochlear
implants, auditory brainstem implants and
middle ear implants.
"Welcome to a listening and speaking
world. Forty-one children graduated from
the 2013 Early Intervention Listening and
Spoken Language Program. All of these
children left the program to attend their
local school, the same school as their
siblings and friends” (Hear and Say, Annual
Report 2014).
From 2015, after years of fund-raising,
Hear and Say moves into a new centre in
Ashgrove, purpose-built to provide the best
facilities for training children with hearing
loss to listen, and speak. Our goal is to support the specialist fit out of the soundproof
rooms which are needed for best practice
assistance for children with hearing loss.
By supporting this program, we can help
ensure that more children can learn to
listen and speak, and attend the same
school as their friends and siblings.
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Stop the Traffik
Cake and Plant Stall
7
Pace e bene International
Network
Cathedral Bus Trip
Twilight International
Organ Recitals
Free Cathedral Concerts
Volunteers Need
8
Can we give $1,000 to help Hear and Say with a specialist fit-out of the soundproof rooms at their new Hear and Say centre in Brisbane? Cathedral Outreach
envelopes for February are available at the outreach poster in the Narthex.
Donations of $2 or more are tax-deductible. To obtain a receipt, please write your
name and address on the back of your outreach envelope. Hear and Say will provide
the receipt in coming months. Thank you.
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ANNUAL REPORTS FROM CATHEDRAL GROUPS
The secretaries and chairs of all cathedral organisations are asked to prepare their Annual
Reports for 2014 and to send them to Lisa Clarke ([email protected]), by no
later than Friday 6 February 2015. Please send to Lisa in electronic form if at all possible.
The 2015 Annual Meeting of the Cathedral Congregation resumes on Sunday 22 February
and we want to have the reports available from Sunday 15 February to enable members of
the congregation to read them before the meeting. Thank you.
Labyrinth Walk
In the midst of our busy lives the labyrinth offers a time for reflection and renewal, a time to pray, or just “to be”. Walk it with an open mind and an open
heart. Make the journey in to the centre and return to the world refreshed.
St John’s labyrinth is a 7 circuit modified Chartres pattern, a canvas labyrinth
created by Cedar Prest of Adelaide, and contains at its centre the symbol of
St John, the eagle.
In Lent and during the year we offer 'group' walks where you can join with others in a themed walk
with prayer/meditation cards.
Sunday 1st February after 9.30am service (approx 11am)
Friday March 6th – 7.30pm with candles illuminating the darkness and prior to Nocturnes
For more information contact The Reverend Canon Dr Nigel Leaves (details below).
Wasting Time with God
Spirituality and Peace Making
with Karalyn Shaw
Wednesday 4th February 2015: 9.30am-11.30am
We have always lived in a violent world. Our
generation seems no different from previous ones.
Wars, conflicts, violence, bloodshed and acts of
inhumanity – the lists of atrocities is endless. How
might we overcome evil for good? How can
we respond with love and peace? Come and listen
to Karalyn Shaw tell her remarkable story of the
Peace Crane Project and her hope that her children
can build a better and more peaceful world.
Wednesday 4th March 2015: Please join the
Lenten Study Group – 10am-11am in the Darnell
Room. For more information contact details below.
Meditative Eucharist
Wednesday 11th February,
5.30pm Meditation and
6pm Contemplative Eucharist
Come to experience how silence can deepen
your experience of Eucharist. In silence we
reground our lives in the mystery of God and
community; we have space and time to
become who we are. Come and find God’s
presence in your life. We shall not cease from
exploration, and the end of all our exploring
will be arrive where we started and know the
place for the first time.
For more information see the Cathedral website www.stjohnscathedral.com.au
or contact The Reverend Canon Dr Nigel Leaves Phone: 3835 2219
Email: [email protected]
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Palm Crosses
Ash Wednesday Services
Remember that you are Dust
The ashes used on Ash Wednesday are
prepared each year by collecting and
burning the Palm Crosses which were
distributed in previous years. This is an
important symbol of renewal. Please
bring your palm crosses in soon and
leave them in the bowls which can be
found in the Sanctuary.
Nocturnes
Ash Wednesday Services
18th February 2015
Imposition of
Ashes and Eucharist
7am, 12.30pm and
7pm (Choral)
Cathedral Retreats
In recent years a special part of the Lenten
Journey here at St John’s has been Nocturnes.
Each Friday evening during Lent, at 9pm, the
building calmly resounds with the sound of
thirty minutes of reflected, seasonal choral
music. This is followed by the intimate liturgy
of Compline, where music and words gently
bring the day to a close.
Please join us for Nocturnes this year,
featuring some of Brisbane’s favourite choral
ensembles, and including the Brisbane Choral
Artists, Canticum, the Cathedral Chamber
Choir, Vox Camerata (from Singapore) and
others.
Friday February 20th, 27th
Friday March 6th, 13th , 20th , 27th
CATHEDRAL RETREAT 2015
AUGUST 28th-30th
at Santa Teresa Centre, Ormiston.
REGISTRATION FORMS ARE
NOW AVAILABLE
at the west end of the Cathedral
please book early and avoid disappointment
places are limited.
DAY RETREAT 2015
MAY 2nd
at Santa Teresa Centre
For those going on the annual retreat
or those wondering what retreats are all about.
REGISTRATION FORMS ARE
NOW AVAILABLE
at the west end of the Cathedral
please book early and avoid disappointment
places are limited.
The Reverend Canon Dr Nigel Leaves
Email: [email protected]
Led by The Reverend Canon Dr Nigel Leaves
Saturday 21st February, 2015: 9.30am -12.00pm
Take the opportunity to slow down and reflect upon “who you are and where God is in your
life” during the time of Lent. Where better than in the awesome and awe-inspiring St John’s
Cathedral? There will be a generous amount of space and time for personal reflection;
together with directed spiritual exercises and readings. There will be prayer, devotions and a
concluding Eucharist. “Be still and know that I am God.”
For more information see the Cathedral website www.stjohnscathedral.com.au
or contact The Reverend Canon Dr Nigel Leaves Phone: 3835 2219
Email: [email protected]
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St John's Cathedral's Community
Planning and Visioning Day
The world around St John's shifts and grows, as do we
This brings the opportunity to reflect, explore, and make choices about
how, who and where to minister
You are invited
to Help, Shape and Participate
in the Ministry of St John’s for 2015
How do we dream - of peace, of justice, of joy, of hope?
What does an 'all-in ministry' mean?
How do we connect and interact the people who come through our doors and
the wider community as The Community, The Cathedral Chapter and The
Council?
Please come to this get-together of people who want to make a difference to
the world the Cathedral and its community touches. Through a creative, open
process we will reflect on valued strands of ministry and define new areas of
ministry and interaction.
Join us for this pivotal event
Who:
When:
Where:
Why:
Dean Peter Catt, Chapter, Council, and You
Saturday 14th February 10am to 4pm
Darnell Room, St. Martin's House
To listen to the Holy Spirit and to each other and plan to make
a difference
If possible please RSVP to:
Lisa Clarke, [email protected] to assist with catering.
For more information please contact:
The Dean, Peter Catt, [email protected] or 3835 2239.
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Message from the Dean
WELCOME TO 2015.
I find that the summer break provides a welcome opportunity to
pause and reflect on the direction of life and work. The break in
routine allows me to examine the routine itself and to contemplate adjustments I might make to my life-style and work habit. I
guess it achieves the same thing as making New Year resolutions. A new year, a new start, an opportunity to do things slightly differently. And whilst many pan such resolutions
because
they tend to be too ambitious and so often fall a way once the
demands of life and work take hold once more, I think it a valuable exercise because little-bylittle such a process can and does transform us. We can get better (even if just a little better) at
self-care and so on.
During this break I have read a few times the following poem by R S Thomas that reminds
me why I do what I do. It has provided me with a vision of what might be and reminds me
why we continue to advocate for things like a better youth justice system, for better care of
the environment and for the compassionate treatment of refugees, even though the current
political climate seems more than hostile to the achievement of any of these. I hope you will
find some encouragement in it as well.
It’s a long way off but inside it
There are quite different things going on:
Festivals at which the poor man
Is king and the consumptive is
Healed; mirrors in which the blind look
At themselves and love looks at them
Back; and industry is for mending
The bent bones and the minds fractured
By life. It’s a long way off, but to get
There takes no time and admission
Is free, if you purge yourself
Of desire, and present yourself with
Your need only and the simple offering
Of your faith, green as a leaf.
The Kingdom by R. S. Thomas
Peace, Peter+
Celebration
Come along and join us on
Thursday, February 26th
as we celebrate Mathias, Apostle & Martyr
at the Choral Eucharist ~ 6pm.
Storm damage update.
Next week the people repairing storm damage will return to the Precinct. The Precinct
team will endeavour to give notice of any disruptions. Please let them know if you have
any concerns. Thank you in advance for your patience.
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New to the Cathedral Coin Collection
BROMHOLM PILGRIM’S AMPULLA
This lead ampulla has become coated with lead oxide. It was
made at Bromholm Priory in Norfolk in the 15th century and it
contained Holy Water. There is a floral design on one side
and ‘I’ on a shield on the other. ‘I’ is the first letter in the
Greek word ‘Jesus’, and it refers to the cross made from pieces
of the True Cross, which Bromholm Priory claimed to
possess. The priory was founded in 1113, but in 1206 a priest
who had served in Constantinople returned to England with
the cross. He tried to sell it to rich monasteries such as
St Albans but they were sceptical and would not buy it.
Eventually he gave it to the poor friars at Bromholm on
condition that he and his sons be admitted. Soon miracles
began to occur and pilgrims flocked there. Even kings made
the pilgrimage. In 1536 Henry VIII suppressed the priory, and
the cross was probably sold because it disappeared from
history.
RUINS OF THE CHAPTER HOUSE
Nowadays holy relics are regarded with disdain, but medieval
people believed in their power. The faith of the pilgrim, who
had probably made a long and dangerous journey, might have
boosted his chances of recovery from illness. For three centuries pilgrims from all over England and Europe travelled to see
the Holy Rood of Bromholm. The pilgrim who bought this
ampulla would have seen it and marvelled.
THE HOLY ROOD OF BROMHOLM WAS SET UP IN THE PRIORY CHURCH, OF WHICH ONLY
THE NORTHERN TRANSEPT STILL STANDS. THE ONLY OTHER REMAINS ARE THE GATEHOUSE AND THE CHAPTER HOUSE.
Come along and see the wonderful display of coins in the Cathedral!
The Easter Eggs you choose to buy could help prevent child trafficking in the Côte d’Ivoire, West
Africa. Children as young as ten are taken and forced to harvest cocoa in order to supply supermarkets
with the chocolate we buy and love. This Easter STOP THE TRAFFIK is asking supermarkets to play
their part by ensuring they stock enough products.
Join other activists to learn more and be motivated and resourced to STOP THE TRAFFIK this
Easter:
Tuesday 24 February 7:30-9:00pm, BRISBANE event http://brisbaneeaster.eventbrite.com.au (Salvation Army offices in Spring Hill)
Friday 27 February 7:30-9:00pm ONLINE event (Eastern Daylight Savings time) for those who
can’t make the other events http://online-easter.eventbrite.com.au
The Anglican Church of Southern Queensland is a member of the STOP THE TRAFFIK
Australian coalition.
Together we can STOP THE TRAFFIK
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Changing Feature: Coin 111
REMEMBER THE DARDANELLES
The Dardanelles was the strait between the peninsula of Gallipoli in
Europe and the mainland of Asia Minor. In World War I it was the site
of the Gallipoli Campaign, in which the British and allied forces attempted to capture the peninsula in order to allow their naval forces to push
through the strait to Istanbul. The Australian and New Zealand Army
Corps (ANZAC) landed on the peninsula on 25th April 1915 at a cove
subsequently called Anzac Cove. The Turks were prepared for the
landing and the Anzacs suffered heavy losses. The allied forces were
completely withdrawn from the peninsula on 9th Jan. 1916.
Despite the failure of the campaign, the bravery of the Anzacs and the
mateship that occurred amongst them made it a special occasion for the
fledgling nations, and for Australians and New Zealanders the 25th April
every year is Anzac Day, when they remember the Dardanelles and the
soldiers who fought in all the wars. This medal was issued by the
Queensland Patriotic Fund in 1915 to
raise money to help serving and former
military personnel.
Detail from The Charge of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at the
Nek, 7 August 1915, by G. Lembert.
Come along and see the wonderful display of coins in the
Cathedral!
Don’t Miss Out!
CAKE STALL
The next cake stall is
Sunday 1st February;
gluten-free and dairy-free
options will be available.
Come along after the 7.30am
and 9.30am services.
Pace e Bene is an international network of
people committed to building a more just and
peaceful world. 'Engage' is a very interactive
small-group programme that introduces a
vision and tools for non-violent living.
Starting on February 18, it will run through
until late May, at 69 Thomas St, West End.
Enquiries welcome to Alex on
[email protected] or 0405-617-930
St John’s Cathedral Bus Trip: Nambour Wednesday 27th May 2015
8.30am leaves St Augustine's, Hamilton / 9am leaves St John’s Cathedral
Morning Tea included arrive Montville and time to walk around shops
Visit, Shipards Herb Farm, purchase plants, seeds, fruit and vegetable and foodie books,
(catalogues available from John Cameron to pre-order and take on the day 27th May)
Provided hot lunch at Anglican Church St John the Baptist, Nambour - buy from their stalls
Afternoon at historic Ettamogah Pub view the 1927 Chevy on the roof
Air-con bus includes all above. Cost $40 each
5pm return to St John’s. All proceeds to St John’s Cathedral. RSVP 17th May
Phone: John Cameron 0423 834 717 / Maria St Augustine's 3268 3935
St Martins House
Mon to Fri 9am - 5pm
Phone: 3835 2222
Fax: 3832 3173
Web Address:
www.stjohnscathedral.com.au
Contact Details:
The Dean
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Twilight International Organ Recital
Saturday 28 February, 6pm
Andrej Kouznetsov (Organist, St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane)
The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt
Off: 3835 2239
(M) 0404 052 494
Come and hear arguably the most brilliant marriage of
Cathedral acoustic and organ in Australia!
[email protected]
See the Organist on the big screen
FREE parking in the Cathedral grounds
Enjoy complimentary drinks in the Cathedral narthex
afterwards to meet the recitalist
Associate Priest
The Rev’d Canon Dr Nigel Leaves
Off: 3835 2219
[email protected]
Honorary Deacon
The Rev’d Dr Ann Solari
(M) 0424 423 972
[email protected]
Director of Music
Graeme Morton
Tickets: $25 Adults $20 Concession
Students (University/School): free
Enquiries: [email protected] ph: 07 3835 2222
Twilight International Organ Series 2015
[email protected]
Upcoming Recitals:
Cathedral Organist
Saturday 21 March, 6pm
Oliver Brett
(Assistant Director of Music, St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney)
Andrej Kouznetsov
[email protected]
Honorary Associate
Organist
John Gallimore
[email protected]
Cathedral Precinct and
Events Manager
Gerard Finn
Off: 3835 2231 (M) 0429 552 182
[email protected]
Saturday 18 April, 6pm
David Drury
(Director of Music, St Paul’s College, University of Sydney)
Saturday 9 May, 6pm
Ross Cobb
(Director of Music, St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney)
Cathedral Wardens
Saturday 23 May, 6pm
Joseph Nolan
Helen Lancaster, Janet Lawrence
John Postle
(Organist and Master of the Choristers, St George’s Cathedral, Perth)
[email protected]
Please refer to the Cathedral website for more details: www.stjohnscathedral.com.au
Worship Times
Date Claimer: St John’s Cathedral
Free Morning Concerts
Sunday Services
7.30am Holy Communion
with hymns
9.30am Choral Eucharist
Cathedral Choir
5.00pm Holy Communion
Southern Chapel
6.00pm Choral Evensong
Cathedral Choir or
Cathedral Singers
Regular Services
Monday to Saturday
7.00am Holy Communion
Monday to Friday
8.30am Morning Prayer
12.30pm Holy Communion
4.00pm Evening Prayer
March 5, 11am—Brisbane City Opera
The fabulous singers of Brisbane City Opera, all Conservatorium
students and alumni, will present a program of solo
and ensemble works from opera.
GUIDE AND SHOP VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Do you love the Cathedral? / Do you like meeting people?
Are you looking for something different to do?
If you answered yes to any of these questions then here’s an idea for you – become
a Guide or Shop Volunteer. St John’s Cathedral is looking for enthusiastic people
to share the wonderful experience of our Cathedral with the thousands of people
who visit us each month. It is a requirement that all volunteers are eligible to
apply for a Blue Card. If you would like to join the team, please contact Jacki or
Jan on 3835 2222 or email [email protected]