CATHEDRAL MATTERS
CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY NEWS
From the Friends of Coventry
Cathedral
Caring for the Cathedral
Join us tomorrow when our Cathedral
Architect, Michael Clews will be sharing his
experiences of looking after the old and new
buildings, for the last 16 years.
His illustrated presentation will offer a
unique insight into the glories and great
responsibilities of maintaining Britain’s
favourite modern building. Michael Clews
will be speaking in the Under Croft Lecture
Room, on Monday 9th February at 11am.
Tea and Coffee from 10.30am.
This is a rare opportunity to hear Michael
Clews talk about ‘The challenges of caring
for our ancient and iconic buildings’.
Pick up the February Bulletin
Hard copies of the latest e bulletin are
available today, to pick up from the
Community Table, for those without
Internet access.
Andrew Paine, Chairman of the Friends
Volunteers Newsletter
The Volunteers Newsletter is published each
week. If you’re a volunteer and not currently
receiving a copy, please let the team at the
Welcome desk know. Christine Doyle
WHAT’S ON IN FEBRUARY — APRIL 2015
Wednesday 11th February at 11.30am
- Funeral of Penny Lacey.
Friday 13th February - YMCA Sleep Easy
in St Michael’s Avenue.
Monday 16th February - 5pm Launch of
the exhibitions ‘Stations of the Cross’, please
RSVP.
Sunday 1st March - Foodbank Sunday
Monday 2nd March at 2.30pm Volunteers Monday.
Monday 2nd March at 5.45pm Remember Our Child service in the Chapel
of Unity.
Friday 6th March - Women’s World Day
of Prayer.
Saturday 7th March at 7.30pm - Passion;
a contemporary journey to the Cross.
Sunday 8th March 12.15pm-2.15pm
- quiz with Bring and Share Lunch
Thursday 12th March at 12.10pm Prayer Service for the Christian Service
Centre.
Thursday 2nd April at 10.30am Chrism Eucharist
Thursday 2nd April - 7.30pm The Liturgy
of Maundy Thursday
Friday 3rd April - 2pm Stations of the
Cross.
Please send items for inclusion in the next edition of Cathedral Matters
by end of TUESDAY 10th February 2015.
Tel: 02476 521200 or email: [email protected]
Website address: www.coventrycathedral.org.uk
8th February 2015
2 before Lent
THIS WEEK
8.00am
10.30am
4.00pm
6.30pm
Sunday 8th February
Holy Communion
The Cathedral Eucharist
Choral Evensong
Later: Cathedral Praise
8.00am
10.30am
4.00pm
6.30pm
Sunday 15th February
Holy Communion
The Cathedral Eucharist
Choral Evensong
Later: Cathedral Praise
A MESSAGE FROM THE CANON PASTOR
Dear Friends
When I arrived here, one sadness was leaving behind my role as a Training Incumbent for
curates - so I'm delighted that today we welcome back Reverend Sacha Slavic, who will be
completing his curacy here.
Many of you already know him well. A Minister in Secular Employment at Bablake School in
Coventry, Sacha teaches Religious Education and is the school Chaplain. Ordained in 2012,
he trained at The Queen's Foundation in Birmingham and served the first part of his curacy
at St Laurence's in Foleshill Coventry where he lives with Alison his wife, Ellice and Jonah.
Sacha has a long history with the Cathedral Community, starting in 1989 when he came from
France. He and Alison married and the children were baptised here and Sacha served as a
Cathedral Reader until he pursued his calling to ordination. As a Lay Benedictine attached to
Mucknell Abbey, he follows the Rule of St Benedict and its daily pattern of prayer and work
("ora et labora"). His favourite motto is "Listen with the ears of your heart" St Benedict.
Sacha has a passion for peace and reconciliation and his ministry at work has been totally
inspired for the last 20 years and even more since ordained, by the Cross of Nails ethos. His
last school The Westwood Academy became the first secular state school to receive the
ICONS status. His new one, Bablake has been honoured this week by Archbishop Justin's
visit. He also feels that there is a real work of reconciliation, social justice, pastoral care and
education in the city that should have the Cathedral and its Cross of Nails as the focal point,
the heart of mission.
Sacha likes reading, cooking, walking, watching films, music, travelling...and enjoys diversity in
terms of worship, spirituality doctrine and theology. He said: "I am so pleased to come and
minister once more at Coventry Cathedral, it feels like coming back home...can't wait!"
Please pray for Sacha, Alison, Ellice and Jonah and for the Cathedral team as we begin a new
chapter together. Love and blessings, Kathryn
CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY NOTICES
CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY NOTICES
The Diocesan Reader assisting at the
Eucharist today is Donald Parr from St
Lawrence, Ansley.
Stations of the Holocaust – Invitation to
the opening
Monday 16th February at 6pm at
Coventry Cathedral
You are warmly invited to attend the opening
of a new exhibition at the Cathedral titled
‘Stations of the Holocaust’. Jean Lamb, the
artist and priest, has created 14 Stations of
the Cross which illustrate the last few hours
of Jesus’ life alongside the plight of the Jewish
community in the Second World War. Please
RSVP by Monday 9th February to
[email protected] or call
our offices on 024 7652 1200.
Dean John
The Women’s World Day of Prayer
The City Centre Churches have arranged a
service at the Methodist Central Hall on
Friday 6th March at 11am uniting people all
round the globe in a service written by the
women of the Bahamas. Please put the date
in your diaries - all men and women are
welcome - details nearer the time. Mavis
Weitzel
Passion - A contemporary journey to
the Cross
Coventry – Saturday 7th March at
7.30pm
Passion - a contemporary journey to the Cross is
a unique performance created and directed
by accomplished dance artist and theologian
Claire Henderson Davis, which fuses dance,
poetry and music into a moving and
compelling work.
Using poet Malcolm Guite’s sonnets on the
Stations of the Cross as the basis for a
contemporary re-telling of Jesus’s last hours,
An hour of prayer for the Christian
this fascinating piece will bring multiService Centre (CSC)
disciplinary performance into sacred spaces,
Thursday 12th February 12.10pm - 1pm confirming and reclaiming cathedrals as
This prayer time will be led by Keith Parr,
performance sites, one of their ancient
QRBC, in the Cathedral Chapel of Christ the functions. But there will be no cross or first
Servant following the noon Litany of
century dress.
Reconciliation. This is a regular hour of
prayer held on the second Thursday of the
This is a thoroughly modern re-imagining in
month. On March 12th it will be led by Helen which the bodies of the dancers tell the
Spicer, Mosaic Church; on April 9th by John story, become the cross, play each character
Witcombe or Kathryn Fleming, Cathedral.
in the narrative, and in which the feminine
and sexual love become symbols of the
All are welcome to join us in seeking God for divine. The audience move around the
Bardsley Work Club, the first initiative of the Cathedral with the action, becoming the
CSC, and for future projects, through which crowd in this promenade performance.
the Cathedral, Queens Road Baptist Church,
Methodist Central Hall, Warwick Road URC, The piece was developed with the support of
Urban Hope and Mosaic church seek to work Ely Cathedral and performed there on the
together to provide a Christian service for
evening of Palm Sunday 2014. The response
the people of Coventry according to need as was so overwhelming that it will be
a sign of God's love in their midst.
performed there again on the evening of
John Witcombe, Keith Parr, Adam Sanders,
Good Friday 2015, and will go on tour to
Yvonne Stone, Greg Bartlem, Helen Spicer, Gavin other Cathedrals in Britain during Lent 2015,
Kibble, Kathryn Fleming, Jean Fargher, Margaret and to St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh for the
Lloyd.
Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2015.
Tickets are free and available from the Nave
News, Views & Booze
reception and Gift Shop. There will be a
Under 30s edition
retiring collection.
Tomorrow Monday 9th Feb 6.30pm at
Whitefriars. Canon Kathryn
For more details, visit www.passiontour.org
Angie Jones
Cathedral Walkers
Wednesday 11th February
My apologies to the Lacey family for the clash
with Penny's funeral, but it proved impossible
to change the date previously agreed for
February's walk. Details are on the
Community Table; please let me know if you
are coming to walk, for lunch, or for both.
Dave Goodall, [email protected], 024
7646 1946
Sleep Easy supporting the YMCA
Sleep Easy takes place on February 13th just
outside the old cathedral. It is an
annual fundraising event organised by the
YMCA with help from Bardsley Youth Project
to help raise awareness of the youth
homelessness problem in Coventry and to
raise money to help with the problem. If
anyone want more info contact;
[email protected] or visit;
http://www.coventryandwarwickshireymca.org.uk.
Canon Kathryn
News, Views & Booze
All comers Monday 23rd 6.30pm at Flying
Standard. Come and debate science and faith
with Godfrey Armitage. Canon Kathryn
Sunday 8th March 12.15pm-2.15pm
A fun quiz with Bring and Share Lunch
in the Lecture Hall.
The first of a new series of social events for
members of the Cathedral Community, their
family and friends. Sign up on the Community
Table from 15th February. Details from Ann
Finlayson (7667 8083) or Tim and Gill Brooke
(7667 9126).
Would you like to be a delegate at our
Sunday Eucharist?
Perhaps read the Lesson or the Prayers. Or,
if you feel this is not for you, carry up the
Bread and Wine. Have a word with Gill
Shorthose or another of the Churchwardens.
Thanks, Gill Shorthose.
Welcoming back an old friend Archbishop Justin
Archbishop Justin Welby, visited two ICON
(International Cross of Nails) Schools during
his trip to Coventry on 3rd February. After
Morning Prayer at the Bishop’s Study Day, he
visited Blue Coat School. That same
afternoon he visited Bablake School where he
also attended a reception with many other
local faith leaders from around the city of
Coventry (picture below).
Archbishop Justin was also honoured by the
City Council at a special award ceremony
where he was presented with the prestigious
Order of Merit.