WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

6 July 2014 - Ordinary Sunday 14

8.00 am Eucharist Rev’d Graeme Pilgrim

10.00 am Parish Eucharist Dean Michael Godfrey Preacher: Rev’d Graeme Pilgrim

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.

EJP meeting 2

Waiapu Bishop-elect 2

Sentence, Collect & Readings

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Gospel Comment 4

Creed Comment 4

From Your Dean 5

AAW & other news 6

AGM & budget 6

HB Regn & Clergy Conferences

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Youth Camp 7

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

Anglican Communion

We pray for the Church of Pakistan (United); the Most

Rev’d Samuel Robert Azariah, Bishop of Raiwind

Anglican Board of Missions

We pray for the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle

East (Egypt, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa); the

Most Rev’d Mouneer Hanna Anis, Primate of J&ME

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

St John’s Theological College - Waiapu student Peter Yi

Jin; theological “distance-learning” students

Te Hui Amorangi ki te Manawa o te Wheke, Bishop

Ngarahu Katene, clergy and lay leaders

Students and staff of Napier Boys and Napier Girls High

Schools; Napier Intermediate, and Napier Central School

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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.

And a warm welcome to the Springhall family, presenting Frederick for Bap-tism this morning.

Thanks to John Shadbolt for conduct-ing the Choristers today; also to the Rev’d Anne van Gend on piano.

EJP meet at 3.00pm this afternoon in the Parish Lounge with Heather Moller from the Anglican Social Services as the guest speaker.

A reminder that the CATHEDRAL LANE CAR-PARK is fully tenanted during the

week and not available for Cathedral vis-itors; however, it is for church use on Sundays. Parishioners and visitors are welcome to park there, using the en-trance off Cathedral Lane, whilst at-tending Cathedral services on Sundays.

NEW BISHOP FOR WAIAPU

The Archbishops have announced that the

Venerable Andrew Hedge, currently Vicar of

Cambridge, and Archdeacon of Piako, has

been elected as the Diocese of Waiapu’s

16th bishop.

Andrew Hedge, who is 41, was born and

raised in Papatoetoe, in South Auckland,

and nurtured in faith at St George’s, Papa-

toetoe. He studied for ordination at St

John’s College, completed his theology de-

gree in 1998, and was ordained to the

priesthood in 1999.

He spent two years as an assistant priest at

All Saint’s Howick, before serving as chap-

lain to King’s School in Auckland for seven

years. He was appointed Vicar of Cambridge

in 2008.

Since his ordination, Andrew Hedge has al-

so shouldered extra responsibilities, in edu-

cation (as President of the national associa-

tion of RE teachers and school chaplains,

for example) and in diocesan and provincial

church governance. He is a member of the

Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki’s standing

committee, and he has served on the Gen-

eral Synod.

He has also thrown himself into volunteer

work within the wider Cambridge communi-

ty, as a St John’s ambulance officer. He

spends one day and one night of every

week attending emergencies – and that

service was recognised recently, when he

was made a Member of the Order of St

John at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Auckland.

He also plans to keep doing the St John’s

work in Waiapu.

Bishop-elect Hedge says he’s delighted at

having been chosen as the next Bishop of

Waiapu. Andrew is married to Raewyn, and

they have three children – Jessica (15),

Ethan (12) and Caitlin (10).

Andrew Hedge will be ordained and in-

stalled as the new Bishop of Waiapu in Wai-

apu Cathedral, Napier, on Saturday 18th Oc-

tober, St Luke’s Day.

ENVIRONMENT JUSTICE PEACE

NETWORK

The EJP Network will gather at 3 pm

this afternoon, in the Parish Lounge (eastern end of the Cathedral) for their

monthly meeting.

The guest speaker will be HEATHER

MOLLER of the Anglican Social Ser-vices who will raise issues around ser-vices within Napier City and our Cathe-dral parish’s involvement.

All welcome. Enquiries to Murray, ph 835-0884.

Sentence:

‘Come to me, all that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest,’ says the Lord. ‘Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart.’ Matthew 11: 28-29

Collect:

Holy and eternal God, give us such trust in your sure purpose, that we measure our lives not by what we have done or failed to do, but by our faithfulness to you; hear this prayer for your love’s sake. Amen

Zechariah 9: 9-12

9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 10 He will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall command peace to the nations; his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. 11 As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. 12 Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.

Psalm 145: 8-14

8 The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. 9 The LORD is good to all, and his compassion is over all that he has made. 10 All your works shall give thanks to you, O LORD, and all your faithful shall bless you. 11 They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom, and tell of your power, 12 to make known to all people your mighty deeds, and the glorious splendour of your kingdom.

13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations. The LORD is faithful in all his words, and gracious in all his deeds. 14 The LORD upholds all who are falling, and raises up all who are bowed down.

Romans 7:15-25a

15 I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. 17 But in fact it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells with- in me. 21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self, 23 but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25a Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!

Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

16 "But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another, 17 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.' 18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon';

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

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19 the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look, a glutton and a drunk- ard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds." 25 At that time Jesus said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; 26 yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. 27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. 28 "Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

Gospel Comment …

Sometimes unromantically called the “Parable of the Spoiled Children” the first two verses of the reading are well re-moved from their original reference points, points that might tell us where the children were when they would neither dance nor mourn. From our point of view they speak of a culture (not just outside the worshipping community) that does not enter into the whole range of Jesus-experience, but dictates terms on which it wishes to follow or reject the Saviour.

To this is added another saying (verses 20-24 are here omitted) about Christ as place of rest. In the maelstrom of contemporary life we could do worse than to emphasize this: Jesus as the beckoner who simply says “come, be still, rest.”

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The Creed and Crossed Fingers … WHO FOR US, AND FOR OUR SALVATION CAME …

There were many ancient myths about descending and ascending gods and demigods. Maui, for example, if I read my Māori history more or less correctly, was popping up and down all over the place! In many ways much of the lan-guage of the creed was attempting to separate the Jesus-story, the Incarna-tion of Christ, from myths to which it seemed superficially similar. This is not a god masquerading as a human, but a fully divine being, equal with the Crea-tor, emptying himself of divinity and becoming utterly, utterly human. Yet in doing so, immersed in his divinity, in-separable from his divinity, this incar-nate God takes our state and trans-forms it (with a future dimension) into

what it should be.

The Maui mythology speaks also of a descent into death, but one oh-so-different. Maui dies, too, in the at-tempt (in somewhat bizarre circum-stances!). But there is no resurrection morning in Maui’s story. In the story of the Christ of Bethlehem and of Jerusa-lem there was and is. The followers of Jesus, experiencing lives transformed by his invasion, have been prepared to die for that belief. For that reason the Church Fathers were able from the very first to speak of “for us … and for our salvation.” Their lives were trans-formed by the one who comes, invades, redeems, breathes light into human

darkness. He came … for us!

He still comes in the person of his Spirit – but that belongs in the third paragraph of the Creed, still many paragraphs or

interpretation away.

From Your Dean …

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A friend of mine, Fr John Davis, was for a

little over a decade the vicar of one of the

two key smells and bells parishes of Mel-

bourne, the iconic St Peter’s Eastern Hill.

I doubt if it’s a surprise to you if I reveal

that when I am Joe Public I tend to gravi-

tate towards “smells and bells” churches,

primarily St Barnabas, Roseneath in Wel-

lington, St Peter’s Eastern Hill aforemen-

tioned, and the slightly more moderate St

James’, King St in Sydney. I won’t be steer-

ing you down that track, though!).

I stayed with Fr John soon after he be-

came Vicar of Eastern Hill, and he shared

something of his vision for the place.

Amongst other schema, one of his priori-

ties for his ministry was to “de-

respectable-ize” the church. Founded in

1847 and always immersed in anglo-

catholic tradition, and with a magnificent

choral and organ tradition, St Peter’s is

part of the fabric both of Melbourne and

of Australian Anglicanism. As a church on

the edge of Melbourne’s CBD it was well-

positioned for compassionate ministry to

the homeless and downtrodden. It has al-

so always been host to the Bentley and

Range-Rover set who were a conspicuous

and generous element of the faith com-

munity. The combination of the two

“catchments” has deep roots in anglo-

catholicsm, particularly that of the Dio-

cese of London, where liturgy and justice

have danced together for well over a cen-

tury. (The vicar of “The Hill” now, inci-

dentally, is a former kiwi priest, Fr Hugh

Kemspter).

Over the decade Fr John was there I

watched a marvellous transformation. It

was best represented at the After Mass

Function, at which the well-healed and

ultra-respectable Anglicans learned to mix

with the broken of the earth, the street

people and eccentrics who learned to find

in both liturgy (very high liturgy!) and

what we might call kai a wonderful touch

of God.

While I would never attempt to recreate

that kind of liturgical culture in a diocesan

cathedral (or probably anywhere else) I

have never forgotten Fr. John’s mission of

de-respectable-ization, whatever we

might call it. I am not great at the critical-

ly important social programmes of justice

(and personally thank God for the EJP tra-

dition of this parish, the membership of

which do so much more than I do) but

take very seriously the commission of

Christ to feed, clothe, and love the poor.

I am not yet sure how we can best serve

Christ in the face of the poor at St John’s

Cathedral, but it begins by ensuring that

the eccentric and discomforting and

wretched are to the nth degree welcome

at our table of faith, under the warmth of

our heaters, and around the hospitality of

our kai. Please help me to find ways to

make the special friends of Jesus wel-

come here.

FROM DEANLY DELVINGS One should study in order to do.

E.P. Sanders, Paul and Palestinian Judaism (1977) 219

ST AUGUSTINE’S NEWS …

Chat'n'Chai, Tuesdays and Thursdays

St Augustine's Parish takes much pleasure in announcing a new two mornings a week drop-in for a hot drink venture. Open Tuesdays and Thursdays in the hall between 9:30am and 12noon (coinciding with their Op Shop hours), Chat'n'Chai offers a free coffee or tea and fellow-ship. An opportunity to catch up, enjoy some company - or even share those trickier questions in life with experi-enced mental health worker, Denise, al-ways on hand.

Mid-Winter Three Course Meal, 13 July

A yummy winter meal to fundraise for the fresh new interactive signpost. Please phone 843-7823 or email st_augustines_napier@hotmail.com to pre-book your meal ticket before Wednesday 9th July. Meal commences at 1.00pm in St Augustine's Hall, Napier.

Variety Concert, 20 July

"Celebrating our Performers" Chase away those winter blues by at-tending St Augustine’s showcase of church talents! Concert begins at 2.30pm at St Augustine's, corner River-bend Road and Latham Street, Napier.

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The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Parish was held last Sunday - there are still some copies of the Dean’s Re-

port, and other Reports, available.

Thanks were expressed to those retiring:

Vestry member, Paul Anderson, Treasur-er, Christina Morgan, and People’s War-

den, Marie Knight.

Welcome to new People’s Warden, Jeanne Ayson, Treasurer, Geoff Yates,

and Vestry member, Kendall Julian.

Rome Pilgrimage If you would like to visit Archbishop Da-vid Moxon and the Anglican Centre in Rome then the opportunity exists. In May 2015 there will be a pilgrimage to Israel, Rome, Assisi and Subiaco. ++ Da-vid will host the Rome section. The Isra-el section is hosted by St Georges Col-lege in Jerusalem. It will be a unique experience. Already most places on the pilgrimage have been booked, but several places are still available. For more information contact us on either 06 3587824 or horn-blow@ihug.co.nz. And, if this date does not suit, there will a second pilgrimage in May 2016.

Association of Anglican Women Evening Fellowship

Monday 14th July, 5.30 pm in St Paul’s Presbyterian Church Lounge,

Tennyson St, Napier. (please note earlier meeting time) Jennifer Whyman will teach us how to

make a piece of simple beaded jewellery. Please bring $5.00 for the beads if you

wish to make the jewellery; an alternative activity will be offered.

Contacts for more information: Isobel, ph 844-8252, or Judy, ph 835-0884.

THANKSGIVING … AND BUDGET Last Sunday was an opportunity to return your “Thanksgiving Offertory Commit-ment” slip - but it’s not too late! Please pop them in the offertory bag at any ser-vice, or return them to the Parish Office, as soon as possible. An indication of in-tending offertory giving assists the Fi-nance Committee with Budget planning. The Budget presented at last week’s AGM shows an annual annual annual deficitdeficitdeficit of approx. of approx. of approx. $38,500$38,500$38,500 if giving received from all sources is maintained at current levels!

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HAWKE’S BAY REGIONAL CONFERENCE 12TH JULY - WAIPUKURAU

This year’s HB Regional Conference of the Diocese of Waiapu will be held on Saturday 12th July at St Mary’s Hall, Waipukurau, 9.30am - 3.00pm.

The morning session will include a Eu-charist and a panel reflecting on diverse expressions of priesthood today “The call of the few for the call of the many?”

The afternoon’s AGM will receive reports from all parishes (on “Since the 2013 Conference, what has our parish done with neighbouring parishes and what are we planning together to do?”); plus re-ports from other groups, any motions for the Diocesan Synod, and elections.

WINTER CAMP LT4 YOUTH 14-16 JULY

A Diocesan Youth Camp will happen in the July holidays at the Guthrie Smith Education Centre, Lake Tutira - aimed at Intermediate and Year 9+ aged youth. $40 per person. At camp small groups of individuals will team up with LT4 (Leadership Training for Youth)youth leaders to help build relationships while exploring their faith together. The philosophy is to: “Raise confident young people committed to faith, ser-vice and leadership”. For more information, please contact the HB Youth Facilitator, Sandi Hall , ph 021814822.

WAIAPU ANNUAL CLERGY CONFERENCE TUESDAY 29 JULY - FRIDAY 1 AUGUST

This year’s conference will be held at the Copthorne Hotel, Rotorua, with the keynote speaker being Canon Dr Paula Gooder. Paula lives in Birmingham, with her husband and two daughters. She is the Theologian in Residence for the Brit-ish Bible Society and a writer and lectur-er in New Testament Studies with a par-ticular focus on the writings of Paul and 2 Corinthians in particular.

Paula says: In these talks we will be ex-ploring the concept of the Soul (but also Body, Mind and Spirit) in the writings of Paul the Apostle and asking what we might learn from his writings about who we are as people in relationship with God and with others. We will also need to talk a little about Paul's views of life af-ter death and what impact they might have on the way we view the world.

The conference promises to be reflec-tive, thought provoking, challenging and of course, fun.

Lay people are warmly invited to at-tend on Wednesday the 30th July from 9am to 5pm - including lunch the cost for the day will be $20.

Please direct any queries to the Rev’d Oenone Woodhams, Diocesan Ministry Educator Oenone@waiapu.com ; or if you wish to register for the lay day please contact Belinda Barnhill, the Bishop’s PA belinda@waiapu.com.

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

Sunday 6 July 3.00 pm - EJP meeting in lounge

Wednesday 9 July 7am-5pm - annual Cathedral gutter clean (weather permitting)

Thursday 10 July No Chorister practices during holidays

Friday 11 July 8.00 pm - Gretchen Anderson’s solo violin recital at Ormond Chapel “Bitter Suite”

Saturday 12 July 9.30am-3pm - HB Regional Conference at St Mary’s Church Hall, Waipukurau - theme: “The call of the few for the call of the many”.

Thursday 17 July 10am - 3pm - HB Clergy day at St Luke’s, Havelock North

Saturday 19 July 7.30pm - University of Michigan (USA) Chamber Choir concert

NEXT SUNDAY - 13 July 2014 Ordinary Sunday 15

Readings: Isaiah 55: 10-13 Psalm 65: (1-8) 9-13 Romans 8: 1-11 Matthew 13: 1-9, 18-23

Cathedral: 8.00 am Eucharist 10.00 am Choral Eucharist with the Cathedral Choir

Guest preacher at the Cathedral: the Rev’d Steven Hayes, Taradale Parish

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.