WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

24 May 2015 - Day of Pentecost

8.00 am Eucharist (NZPB476) Dean Michael Godfrey

10.00 am Choral Eucharist Dean Michael Godfrey

Ormond Chapel, Napier Terrace: 11.00 am Eucharist Rev’d Dorothy Brooker

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; Ratapu Whanau

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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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NZ & Diocesan news 7

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 Northern Luzon (Philippines); the Rt Rev’d

Renato Mag-Gay Abibico

Anglican Board of Missions

Anglican Indigenous Network (AIN) - for its work in devel-

opment, training, and resource sharing with members in

USA, Canada, Australia, Torres Strait, and NZ

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 Tairawhiti: Pihopa Brown Turei and

Rohe o Ngati Porou, Turanga/Whangara, Kahungunu ki

te Wairoa, Te Matau-a-Maui, Tamaki-Tamatea

St John’s Theological College - staff and students

Cathedral children, young people & families

Community Youth welfare & activities organisations

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.

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ROSTERS for services in June, July, and

August, have been emailed - printed copies available from the Office.

If you are not available for a rostered duty, please arrange a swap and advise

Margaret in the Office.

Vestry meeting on Wednesday evening, 24th May, 7.00pm at the Deanery

(6 Madeira Road, Napier). Feedback/comments regarding furniture

re-arrangements required before Wednesday as Vestry will be discussing

this at their meeting. Also to be discussed is the Cathedral’s

finances/budget leading up to the annual ‘Stewardship’ Sunday on

14th June. Next week, a letter from the Dean and Wardens will be emailed or posted to

everyone on our Parish roll encouraging prayerful consideration of your ‘giving’ commitment to the Cathedral Parish (both financial and time/talents). Additional printed copies of the “In Thanksgiving” page will be

available next week on the back table in the Cathedral, and at Ormond Chapel.

Sentence:

‘A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you,’ says the Lord; ‘I will put my spirit within you and you shall live.’ Ezekiel 3: 26; 37: 14

Collect:

Almighty God, at the feast of Pentecost you sent your Holy Spirit to the disciples, filling them with joy and boldness to preach the gospel; send us out in the power of the same Spirit to witness to your redeeming love and draw all people to you and the Holy Spirit, one God now and for ever. Amen.

Ezekiel 37: 1-14

1The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. 3He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?” I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” 4Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

5Thus says the Lord God to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. 6I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.” 7So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them. 9Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath: Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath,and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.” 10I prophesied as he com-manded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on their feet, a vast multi-tude. 11Then he said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off

completely.’ 12Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people. 14I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken and will act, says the Lord.‘

Psalm 104: 25-35

25 O Lord how manifold are your works: in wisdom you have made them all, the earth is full of your creatures. 26 There is the great and mighty sea: which teems with living things both great and small. 27 Upon it sail the ships: and there is Leviathan, the monster you made to sport in it. 28 All these look to you: to give them their food in due season. 29 What you give them they gather up: when you open your hand, they are filled with good things. 30 But when you hide your face they are dismayed: when you take away their breath they die, and return to the dust they came from. 31 When you send out your spirit they are created: and you renew the face of the earth. 32 May your glory O Lord endure for ever: may you rejoice O Lord in your works. 33 When you look at the earth it trembles: when you touch the mountains they smoke. 34 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live: I will praise my God while I have my being. 35 May my meditation please the Lord: as I show my joy in God.

Acts 2: 1-21

1When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a vio-lent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3Divided tongues, as of fire, ap-

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

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peared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. 4All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other lan-guages, as the Spirit gave them ability. 5Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. 6And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. 7Amazed and aston-ished, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 8And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? 9Parthi-ans, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopo-tamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 11Cretans and Arabs—in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.” 12All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” 13But others sneered and said, “They are filled with new wine.” 14But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them, “Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. 15Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. 16No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:

17‘In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. 18Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. 19And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist. 20The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day. 21Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’

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

26“When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who

comes from the Father, he will testify on my be-half. 27You also are to testify because you have been with me from the beginning.

4But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you about them.

“I did not say these things to you from the begin-ning, because I was with you. 5But now I am going to him who sent me; yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts.

7Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your ad-vantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong about sin and right-eousness and judgment: 9about sin, because they do not believe in me; 10about righteousness, be-cause I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer; 11about judgment, because the rul-er of this world has been condemned. 12“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatev-er he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 15All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

Readings Comments …

Acts 1: 15-17, 21-26: Luke’s imagery of Pente-cost is a reversal of the Babel story of languages confounded, a reversal of human pride, celebra-tion of surrender and new beginnings that reach out through time and space for ever.

Psalm 104: In this imagery God’s creative Spirit generates and sustains all creation. Laws of ther-modynamics agree that something does!

1 John 5: 9-13, & John 15: for John the Spirit is God’s creative urge, re-creative urge, and the means by which all of the ministry of the Incar-nate Son goes on throughout space and time.

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From Your Dean …

Here is not the place for debate. To me the critical issue is that the face of Christianity is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-contextual face. Sub-tly, unintentionally we tend to recre-ate the face of Christianity and even the face of Jesus in the likeness, more or less, of our own ethnic, economic, linguistic and a myriad other circum-stances. Ashraf, Tamara and Tia come (well just from Wellington now, but in the long term from Bethlehem) from a different context to ours, yet it too is the context in which God’s Spir-it is at work, breathing rumours of resurrection, breathing justice and compassion and love.

We cannot walk in the shoes of Beth-lehem’s Christians, but by rubbing shoulders with those who come from and love and serve God in that place we can in some infinitesimal way strengthen the bonds of the truly in-ternational body that is the Body of Christ.

My thanks then to Ashraf, Tamara and even Tia for joining us today. I urge all of us here to have a look at and preferably purchase some of the olive wood creations they have brought to us. My prayer is that we will leave this day a little more aware of the complexities faced each day by our brothers and sisters in Bethle-hem and the Holy Land.

Today we welcome, quietly, to the ca-thedral Ashraf Qumsieh and Tamara Khair, together with their three year old daughter, Tia. Tamara asked me, out of the blue some weeks ago, if they could come and display items that have been carved from olive wood, and which are sold to support the work of the Christian community in Bethlehem.

I confess my ears pricked up. Since the time when I was a student and parishioner at All Saints’ Palmerston North I have been fascinated by the circumstances experienced by Chris-tians in the Holy Land. There the great Abramic faiths collide, and there the history of inter-faith rela-tions has been fraught. There the Christians, since 1948 have been a tiny minority, roughly one per cent of the population.

There is much controversy regarding the state and rights of Christians in the Holy Land. Obviously our per-spectives are shaped by the sources we read, and in an era in which every opinion can be expressed definitively and without peer review on the pix-els of our computer truth is some what slippery. I choose my sources, have my hunches informed by those sources, and respond and pray as best I can in the light of those sources.

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From Deanly Delvings What is important for the Church is not that something is to be found on the table of the altar, but that by consuming this nourish-ment the Church becomes what she can and ought to be.

Hans Urs von Balthasar The Glory of the Lord (1982) Vol. 1, 574.

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Why We Sing What We Do Sing

Processional: Come Holy Spirit. The tune will need no introduction and is one of hym-nody’s best loved. Hymn-writer Michael For-ster says of his work “Christian faith for me is about entering into God's hopes and dreams for all creation with a particular concern for those who are disempowered and marginal-ised.” The danger of singing rousing hymns such as this is that God may challenge us to do the justice of which we sing.

Gradual: Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost. Charles Wordsworth, biblical theologian and hymn-writer, was the nephew and literary executor of the poet, William Wordsworth. Like his uncle, and like many hymn-writers of the day, Wordsworth tended to celebrate a distant and abstract deity and idealised forms of Christian experience and witness. “Give us love” - hard to argue with that! - but love’s focus remains largely otherworldly (verse 4).

Offertory: Shine, Jesus, Shine (often just “SJS”!) became something of an anthem of renewal in the 1980s and 1990s, and as such is either loved or loathed. It tends somewhat to the “Jesus and me” approach to faith, and the “this land” often becomes narrowly na-tionalistic in singers’ understanding. Yet there will always be to some extent a per-sonal dimension to the encounter with God’s Spirit, and it does no harm to be reminded of the ecstasy and joy of Spirit-encounter that liberated many Christians in the Renewal movement.

Recessional: If SJS was a hymn of Charis-matic Renewal, Wesley’s And can it be? is one of Evangelical Revival, in the 1700s and since. Despite being written in the 1700s its popularity peaked massively in the mid- 1980s. The hymn follows the path of the In-carnation, from “departing heaven”, to death, to impact on the believer, to the glori-ous liberation of and “in” eternity.

More Deanly notices …

Ratapu Whanau: Pentecost Bonfire,

Sunday 24th May - children and young families’ service and activities, 5.00pm at 69 Powdrell Road, Meeanee. Bring marshmallows!

Choristers’ Evensong: Next week, the

Cathedral will be fully occupied by local schools participating in “The Big Sing” … as many of our Choristers will also be

involved, we’ve decided to CANCEL the

Evensong service which was scheduled for Thursday evening at Ormond Chapel.

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

June 5th (Friday); 16th (Tuesday) July 3rd (Friday); 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.

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.

Next Sunday, 31st May, as part of the

NZ Association of Organists Congress, we will acknowledge the work of

organists when we have guest organists (including Roy Tankersley) playing for our

10.00 am service in the Cathedral.

NZ & Waiapu Diocesan Calendar

Events and News:

Hereworth School Chaplain, Rosie Hayes,

finishes her role at the end of May. The

school will hold a farewell service for her on

Tuesday 26th May.

Tuesday 9th June, 1.30 pm - The Anglican

Pension Board’s General Manager, Mark

Wilcox, and Funds Administrator, Mike

Buckley, speaking to clergy at St James’,

Duke St, Mahora.

Sunday 14th June, 11,00 am - Workshop for

Church Musicians with Gary Bowler, at St

Peter’s Church, Kenilworth Road, Waipawa;

organists, pianists, other instrumentalists,

choir members, and those responsible for

parish music, are invited to a workshop with

the recently retired Cathedral Director of

Music. Gary will be playing the organ for

the 10am service, then at 11.00 am will

commence an hour’s workshop session.

Thursday 18th June, 7.00 pm - Napier-

Hastings Parish Wardens meeting with

Bishop Andrew at St James’, Mahora.

Saturday 20th June, 10am-3pm - HB Region-

al Conference at St Luke’s, Havelock North.

Theological Hui of the Anglican Church in

Aotearoa, NZ and Polynesia - Thurs. 16 July,

5-7pm, Sat. 18 July, 1-3pm - with an

emphasis n young people as participants -

at St Peter’s School, Cambridge.

For more information & registration details:

email: jocelyn.dymf@xtra.co.nz

11-14th August - Waiapu Diocesan Clergy &

Ministry Conference in Hawke’s Bay.

Anglican Missions Common Life Mission

Conference 6-9 October 2015

at King’s College, Auckland

(see the latest Mission Action magazine for

full programme & registration details)

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.

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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

Sunday 24 May - Pentecost 5.00 pm - Ratapu Whanau & Pentecost Bonfire at 69 Powdrell Road, Meeanee

Tuesday 26 May 10.30am - Eucharist

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 - CANCELLED

Fri.29 May - Mon.1 June NZ Assn of Organists Annual Congress Concert details on page 7

Wednesday 3 June 2.00 pm - AAW Afternoon Fellowship

Sunday 7 June 3.00 pm - EJP meeting in lounge

NEXT SUNDAY 31 May 2015

Trinity Sunday

Readings: Isaiah 6: 1-8

Psalm 29

Romans 8: 12-17

John 3: 1-17

Cathedral:

8.00 am Eucharist (Aotearoa Chapel)

10.00 am Eucharist with hymns

Ormond Chapel, Napier Terrace:

No service

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