WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

15 February 2015 - Ordinary Sunday 6

8.00 am Eucharist (NZPB404) Rev’d Anne Van Gend

10.00 am Choral Eucharist Rev’d Anne van Gend

5.00 pm Ratapu Whanau Dean Michael Godfrey

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

Ash Wednesday and Lenten services

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Sentence, Collect & Readings

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Readings comments 4

From your Dean 5

Creed comments 6

Clergy & Lay days 6

Training & Study / Retreat / Concerts

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“Mad Dogs and Missionaries”

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Art Deco / Lent study group

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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 Mandalay (Myanmar); and the Rt Rev’d

David Nyi Nyi Naing

Anglican Board of Missions

the Diocese of Polynesia - the youth of the Diocese,

especially the staff and students at St Mary’s Anglican

Primary, and All Saints’ Secondary Schools, Labasa

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)

Havelock North Parish: Rev’d Bryan Carey, Vicar

Edgecumbe-Kawerau Parish local ministry support team

Diocese of Auckland, Bishop Ross Bay, Bishop Jim

White, Dean Jo Kelly-Moore, clergy and lay ministers

Cathedral Parish Wardens: Basil Brooker, Jeanne Ayson,

Vestry members, Cathedral Chapter & Link members

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.

At 5.00 pm this afternoon, Ratapu Whanau, a gathering of families and young people for fellowship, food, and an informal service in the Aotearoa Chapel of the Cathedral. All welcome.

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Lenten Eucharist ServicesLenten Eucharist Services

During the Lenten Season, we’ll have Eucharist services in the Cathedral …

Wednesdays and Fridays: 7.00 am Tuesdays: 10.30am (Resurrection Chapel)

Thursdays: 12.30 pm

And an opportunity to walk/reflect/pray the Stations of the Cross:

5.30pm Fridays

ECUMENICALECUMENICAL

LENTEN SERVICESLENTEN SERVICES

Wednesdays, 7Wednesdays, 7--7.30pm 7.30pm followed by light supperfollowed by light supper

18 February 18 February -- Cathedral Cathedral

25 Feb 25 Feb -- St Paul’s PresbyterianSt Paul’s Presbyterian

4 March 4 March -- Trinity MethodistTrinity Methodist

11 March 11 March -- Knox AhuririKnox Ahuriri

18 March 18 March -- St Patrick’s St Patrick’s

25 March 25 March -- St Thomas MooreSt Thomas Moore

Theme: Theme:

Instruments of peaceInstruments of peace

We remember with love, and give thanks for the lives of …

Ken Scott (resident of Taupo Parish, and father of the Rev’d Christine Scott, formerly of the Waiapu Cathe-dral Choir, currently Vicar of Oto-rohanga Parish, Waikato); Ken died on 4th February in Rotorua Hospital, in his 82nd year; his funeral was held in St Andrew’s Church, Taupo, last Monday.

Fiona Barnett (resident of Peria House, a Waiapu Anglican Care resi-dential village, Opotiki, and mother and mother-in-law of Wendy & the Rev’d Bill Bennett, Napier); Fiona died on Friday 6th February, four days short of her 102nd birthday; her funer-al was held in Hiona St Stephen’s Church, Opotiki, last Tuesday.

Derek Simpson (father and father-in-law of Leanne and Graham Eagles, grand-father to Gemma and Matthew); died in HB Regional Hospital on Wednesday; his funeral is to be held at Dunstall’s tomorrow, at 11.00 am.

May they rest in peace and rise in glory.

ASH WEDNESDAY 18 February Services …

7.00 am - Eucharist and Imposition of Ashes, with Bishop Andrew Hedge,

in the Aotearoa Chapel 10.00 am - Eucharist and Imposition of

Ashes, at Ormond Chapel 7.00 pm - Ecumenical Ash Wednesday

Service and Imposition of Ashes with the Napier Inner City Churches,

in the Cathedral

If you have any palm crosses from last year’s Palm Sunday service,

please return them to the Cathedral so they can be burnt and the ashes used on

Ash Wednesday. Thanks.

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

Sentence:

Sing praises to the Lord, O you his faithful ones; and give thanks to God’s holy name. Psalm 30:4

Collect:

Mighty God, strong, loving and wise, help us depend upon your goodness and to place our trust in your Son. Hear this prayer for your love’s sake. Amen

2 Kings 5: 1-14

1Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favor with his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from lep-rosy. 2Now the Arameans on one of their raids had taken a young girl captive from the land of Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife.

3She said to her mistress, “If only my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.” 4So Naaman went in and told his lord just what the girl from the land of Israel had said. 5And the king of Aram said, “Go then, and I will send along a letter to the king of Israel.” He went, taking with him ten talents of sil-ver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of garments. 6He brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, “When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you my servant Naaman, that you may cure him of his leprosy.” 7When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to give death or life, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Just look and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me.” 8But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king, “Why have you

torn your clothes? Let him come to me, that he may learn that there is a prophet in Isra-el.” 9So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and halted at the entrance of Elisha’s house. 10Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go, wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored and you shall be clean.” 11But Naaman became angry and went away, saying, “I thought that for me he would surely come out, and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, and would wave his hand over the spot, and cure the leprosy! 12Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them, and be clean?” He turned and went away in a rage. 13But his servants ap-proached and said to him, “Father, if the prophet had commanded you to do some-thing difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” 14So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy, and he was clean.

Psalm 30 (ANZPB)

I will extol you O Lord for you have lifted me up: you have not let my enemies triumph over me. O Lord my God I cried to you for help: and you have restored my health. Lord you have brought me back from the dead: you have saved my life from among those going down to the Abyss. Let all your servants sing praises to you O Lord: and give thanks to your holy name. For your anger is but for a moment, and in your kindness is life:

tears may linger at nightfall, but joy comes with the dawn. In my prosperity I said, `I shall never be shaken:

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your favour O Lord has made me as firm as any strong mountain.' You turned your face away from me: and I was greatly dismayed. I called to you O God: to the Lord I made my appeal. `What profit is there in my death: in my going down to the grave? `Will the dust give you praise: or will it proclaim your faithfulness? `Hear O Lord, and be gracious to me: O Lord be my helper.’ You have turned my mourning into dancing: you have stripped off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, so that my heart shall sing your praise without ceasing: O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you for ever.

1 Corinthians 9: 24-27

24Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win it. 25Ath-letes exercise self-control in all things; they do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable one. 26So I do not run aim-lessly, nor do I box as though beating the air;

27but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.

Mark 1: 40-45

40A leper came to him begging him, and kneeling he said to him, “If you choose, you can make me clean.” 41Moved with pity, Je-sus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, “I do choose. Be made clean!” 42Immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. 43After sternly warn-ing him he sent him away at once, 44saying to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded,

as a testimony to them.” 45But he went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the word, so that Jesus could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter.

Readings Comments …

2 Kings 5:1-14: A powerful non-Jew suffer-ing from a debilitating skin disease (probably psoriasis rather than “leprosy”) is healed but not in the way he expects. There is humour, pathos, irony, justice—the lot—in this story but ultimately the message is that God’s touch is not limited to human boundaries.

Psalm 30: This is one of the great Hebrew

songs of thanksgiving for deliverance. It is not

suggesting that if you pray long or hard

enough that you can coerce God (despite Luke

18:1-8!) but that in the midst of human

suffering God still dwells with us.

1 Corinthians 9:24-27: Paul expects the Chris-

tian life not to be a doddle. The Corinthians

expect a cruise to “heaven.” At this point he

simply sets the gauntlet down: if the “prize” is

worth winning then it’s worth apply some dis-

cipline to get there.

Mark 1: 40-45: Leprosy again! Jesus echoes

Elisha’s behavior, to a point. But there are

some greater points here: Jesus’ word is ac-

tion, integrity. That is an attribute of the Crea-

tor (God said … and it was …) now applied to

the Nazarene. The outsider is made insider.

We are challenged to make insiders of outsid-

ers, and to make our manaaki, our radical

hospitable love, so warm that strangers come

… and stay, and tell …

From Your Dean …

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I rarely take a political line in my role as Dean (or any ecclesiastical role). I spent too many years in Melbourne where I saw the damage, all but irreparable, that was done when the Roman Catholic Arch-bishop Daniel Mannix took a stand against Communism in 1954, splitting the Labor (sic) Party and condemning the Left of politics to the wilderness for thirty years. As a side-effect of his action he raised much public ire against the Roman Catho-lic Church, so that it, too, was marginal-ised in many social circles. Clergy for Rowling was small bacon compared to Mannix’s venture into politics (though just three years ago I was asked to take the fu-neral of a man who had never revisited a church since Clergy for Rowling).

This is not to say I will not speak out on issues of political significance, whether they be the politics of left or right. I have long muttered about the rights of West Papua to independence (a cause vigorous-ly ignored by govern-ments of Left and Right), about homosexual law reform and its successor marriage law reform, about ecological and economic issues and about others matters of social justice.

But when I find Prime Minister John Key suggesting that he might use taxpayer money to bail out SkyCity’s $140+ million shortfall in building a convention centre I am almost – almost – at a loss for words. Mr Key, if media are to believed, has indi-cated that Sky City’s calculation has left them with two alternatives:

Option one would be to say to Sky

City, 'Build the convention centre exactly at the price that we all agreed, on the conditions of the deal that we agreed', but it would be smaller I think than we had hoped and less attractive.

"Or the second option is to see if there's any way of filling that hole and to identify how big that hole is, and that's the process we're going through.”

I suggest a third option: SkyCity are an ep-iphytic (parasitic) organization who con-tribute to the destruction of the lives of those who cannot control their gambling. If out of the sheer monstrosity of their profits SkyCity can’t find a paltry $140 million then leave the tax-payer alone. It’s time SkyCity made a useful contribution to society, redress for lives sucked dry. They should pull out of the project and hand the vacant or under-developed block of prestige inner-city land to the Government. They in turn should be duty-bound to give it back to the people: as a park. Green it over. Put a water feature in. Invite some birds to sing. Fly a kite, like Mary Poppins. Perhaps discretely place a budgeting / financial counselling centre there, but otherwise turn it to a park. Build space, build peace, build room for meaning and for the ingredients of truth so lamentably absent in public discourse.

There let human beings find peace and space amidst the chaos of commerce gone mad. At the taxpayers’ expense. I’d buy that.

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The Creed and Crossed Fingers

WE LOOK FOR THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD AND THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME

Here the rubber of belief hits the road one final time. Paul (as ever!) put it well: “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile” (1 Cor. 15.17a). If Christ is not raised, then death has defeated Christ. If Jesu s is just a misguid-ed fool, and his resurrection a paltry drama dreamed up by grieving goofs, then, says Paul, “we are of all people most to be pitied.”

Dismantle resurrection-hope, and we should go home. I have better things to do on a Sun-day than worship a god smaller than Death. I have other things I could do with my life, more fun than wearing a collar back-to-front and rabbitting on for hours each week about a misguided Palestinian from long, long ago. Come to think about it, I reckon there’s many Christians who have made far greater sacri-fice than I could dream of in their service of the gospel. Silly Peter. Silly Paul. Fancy dying for nothing: misguided twits who should have known better.

Except … the hope of God won’t let me go. Personally I can testify to the good the inva-sion of God’s grace has worked in my own life. I hear it, too, from those who share my faith. And in the bulk of lives that are lived in stubborn disacknowledgement of the possi-bilities of God I am unconvinced I see any-thing better: Bob Dylan put it well:

You can laugh at salvation, you can play Olympic games You think that when you rest at last you'll go back from where you came? But you're picked up quite a story and you've changed since the womb What happened to the real you, you've been captured but by whom?

(Bob Dylan, “Property of Jesus”, from the 1980 album Shot of Love)

‘Energising Lay Ministry’‘Energising Lay Ministry’

The Rev’ds Stephen and Jane Skinner are An-glican priests in the Diocese of Salisbury, Eng-land, working in a large multi-parish Benefice of 13 churches in West Dorset and East Dev-on, with a pilot project “Energising Lay Min-istry” - the objective is “to pioneer ways to motivate and support lay people to take on greater leadership and ministry with parishes where the clergy are frequently not physically present.”

Stephen and Jane are currently in NZ to meet and talk with parishioners, particularly those in Local Shared Ministry Units; they are inter-ested to discover how NZ churches function especially in rural and small provincial towns … this is a great time to swap ideas and learn from each other.

An opportunity for Napier-Hastings parishes to gather … Friday 20Friday 20thth February, 5.30pm at February, 5.30pm at St Andrew’s Church, WestshoreSt Andrew’s Church, Westshore (in the small hall behind the church) - bring something to share for a pot luck tea.

More information from Rev’d Bill Bennett, email: bwbennett@nowmail.co.nz or phone 835-9924.

World Day of Prayer, Friday 6th March 10.00am at Trinity Methodist Church

HB Clergy Training Day - “Funerals” Tuesday 3rd March, at St James’ Mahora with Paul Dunstall, Rev’d Alister Hendery

and Rev’d Leo Te Kira.

Bishop Andrew invites Lay Ministers licenced to conduct funerals to also attend this day. Commencing with morning tea at 9.30am,

Eucharist at 10am.

RSVP’s to Rev’d Bill Bennett 835-9924 or email: bwbennett@nowmail.co.nz

by Tuesday 24th February.

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PIPE BAND ART DECO CONCERT The Drones & Sticks Pipe Band

invite you to join them next Saturday 21st February at 2.30pm

at Century Theatre (MTG), Herschell St. Tickets $19 + booking fee from Ticketek

or cash sales at the Door.

It will be the best variety concert this year! Be early for a good seat.

Enquiries: Harry Renfree, ph 8446539

Art Deco Sunday 22 February 2015, 5.00 pm

A Swing and a Prayer with the RNZ Navy Band

in the Cathedral

Jazz Vespers, 7.00 pm,

Trinity Methodist Church, Clive Square, Napier

MAD DOGS AND MISSIONARIES

A PRESENTATION BY BISHOP JOHN BLUCK

Sunday 22 February, 6.00 pm All Saints’, Taradale

commencing with a pot-luck tea

“Mad Dogs and Missionaries” is a new, hour long presentation in word & short film by retired Bishop of Waiapu, John

Bluck, to mark the Anglican bi-centenary. The presentation includes a short film by John’s director daughter Jessica, based on the life and death

story of a young militia trooper Michael Noonan, discovered during Waiapu’s 2006 pilgrimage to Waikaremoana.

More information: Acting HB Regional Dean, Rev’d Bill Bennett, ph 835-9924 or email: bwbennett@nowmail.co.nz

Lenten Study GroupLenten Study Group “Gratitude and Grace”“Gratitude and Grace”

A series of weekly Thursday night group meetings beginning 26 February;

using the Christchurch Diocese’s study book, $7.00 from the Parish Office. Contact: Murray Mills, ph 835 0884

Certificate in Pastoral Care Certificate in Pastoral Care of Ageing Peopleof Ageing People..

Module One facilitated by the Rev’d Anne Russell-Brighty on behalf of the Selwyn Foundation is to be held in

the Lemmon Lounge at All Saints’ Church, Puketapu Road, Taradale,

Friday 13 March, 6-8.30pm Saturday 14 March, 9.30am-3.00pm

Friday 27 March, 6-8.30pm Saturday 28 March, 9.30am-3.00pm

Course fee: $105.00 Registrations close on 1st March

email to: chrisp@selwyncare.org.nz

Association of Anglican Women

Hawke’s Bay Regional Annual General Meeting

Saturday 21st February, from 10.30am at St Augustine’s Church Hall,

Riverbend Road, Napier. Contact: Helen ph 835-4717

Temptation, Sin and Other Temptation, Sin and Other Contemporary UnmentionablesContemporary Unmentionables A Lenten RetreatA Lenten Retreat--inin--DailyDaily--LifeLife

This retreat, led by local clergy, is structured to include times to reflect on things in life

that challenge us but also cause us to reflect on where God is prompting us to grow.

$25.00 per participant, Sunday 1st March, 1.30pm in the Resurrection Chapel; finishes

Saturday 7th March, 11am, Eucharist & lunch. Registrations to Rev’d Erice Fairbrother,

email: ecfairbrother@waiapu.com

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: Basil Brooker 877 8344 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

18 February - ASH WEDNESDAY 7.00 am - Ash Wednesday service 10.00 am - service at Ormond Chapel 7.00 pm - Ecumenical Ash Wednesday service in the Cathedral

Thursday 19 February 12.30 pm - Lenten Eucharist

Friday 20 February 7.00 am - Lenten Eucharist

Sunday 22 February - Art Deco 10.00 am - Jazz Eucharist 5.00 pm - A Swing and a Prayer Service with the RNZ Navy Band

Sunday 22 February 6.00 pm - Mad Dogs & Missionaries at All Saints’ Taradale

Thursday 26 February Lenten study group commences

Sunday 1 March 4.00 pm - Environment-Justice-Peace Network meet in Parish Lounge

Sunday 22 March 11.45 am - Annual General Meeting of the Cathedral Parish (following the 10am Eucharist in the Cathedral)

NEXT SUNDAY 22 February 2015

Lent 1

Readings: Genesis 9: 8-17

Psalm 25: 1-10

1 Peter 3: 18-22

Mark 1: 9-15

Cathedral:

8.00 am Eucharist

10.00 am Jazz Eucharist

5.00 pm Art Deco “A Swing and a

Prayer” Service with the RNZ Navy Band

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.