Dean: The Very Revd John Dobson Cathedral Office: 01765 603462 In Residence: Canon Paul Greenwell Website: www.riponcathedral.org.uk Services and Notices Sunday 14 th February 2016 First Sunday of Lent A very warm welcome to all our visitors today. Please feel free to introduce yourself to one of the clergy after the service. Please let us know if you are new and would like to join our regular congregations or would like to know more about how we can support you in your faith. Please, take this Pew Slip away with you so that you can refer to the notices contained in it. Please, also use it to prompt prayers for this Cathedral and all that we seek to do in God’s service. Large print versions of the Order of Service and this notice sheet are available. Please ask a member of Select Vestry or a Verger if you would like one. An induction loop system is also in operation for hearing aid users. At every Eucharist in the Cathedral gluten free wafers are available for those who need them. Please request one as you receive communion. All hymns covered by the Christian Copyright Licensing have been reproduced under CCL Licence no 97098.
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Dean: The Very Revd John Dobson Cathedral Office: 01765 603462 In Residence: Canon Paul Greenwell Website: www.riponcathedral.org.uk
Services and Notices
Sunday 14th February 2016
First Sunday of Lent
A very warm welcome to all our visitors today. Please feel free to introduce yourself to one of the clergy after the service.
Please let us know if you are new and would like to join our regular congregations or would like to know more about how we can support you in your faith.
Please, take this Pew Slip away with you so that you can refer to the notices contained in it. Please, also use it to prompt prayers for this Cathedral and all that we seek to do in God’s service.
Large print versions of the Order of Service and this notice sheet are available. Please ask a member of Select Vestry or a Verger if you would like one. An induction loop system is also in operation for hearing aid users. At every Eucharist in the Cathedral gluten free wafers are available for those who need them. Please request one as you receive communion. All hymns covered by the Christian Copyright Licensing have been reproduced under CCL Licence no 97098.
A Note from the Dean Welcome to the Cathedral. A special welcome if you are joining us for the first time. Please, complete a Welcome Card if you would like to give us your contact details.
Keeping a Holy Lent The introduction to our services on Ash Wednesday included the following encouragement to keep Lent faithfully: Brothers and sisters in Christ, since early days Christians have observed with great devotion the time of our Lord’s passion and resurrection and prepared for this by a season of penitence and fasting. By carefully keeping these days, Christians take to heart the call to repentance and the assurance of forgiveness proclaimed in the gospel, and so grow in faith and in devotion to our Lord. I invite you therefore, in the name of the Christ, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God’s holy word. So, again today on this First Sunday of Lent, I encourage all who are members of the Cathedral community to observe a holy Lent. For several weeks, we have made available a leaflet explaining the different ways offered by the Cathedral to help each one of us do that. Copies are still available. If you have not yet received one, please, do ask for a copy and do take full advantage of the opportunities available.
Happy Valentine’s Day While today is the First Sunday of Lent, it is also, of course, St. Valentine’s Day. It would be a very sad development if St. Valentine's Day, even in Lent, no longer created a thrill and prompted expressions of love. And, of course, it is enjoyed by the young and the not-so-young; those within long-standing relationships and those in new ones; and not least by those who are just hopeful! But why does St. Valentine's Day encourage the exchanging of cards and gifts, and romantic meals? St. Valentine actually died for his faith in Christ, he was a martyr. (Some believe that there were two men of this name who were martyred, in different years in the third century.) Of course, it is worth remembering that there are more Christian martyrs in our generation than in any other generation of the Church’s life. So, there is some passion in Valentine’s story, dying a martyr’s death – but this is not the romantic type of passion that we might associate with 14 February. This third century saint had been a priest and possibly also a bishop in Terni, in the Italian region of Umbria. He was put to death in 269AD under the orders of the Roman Emperor Claudius. There are at least two suggestions to explain why Valentine became associated with lovers. The first is that the day on which he died was when birds were thought to pair.
The second is that his martyrdom was on the Ides of (middle of) February, when the pagan Lupercalia festival was held. This (possibly) pre-Roman festival was thought to release health and fertility. Well, whatever the reason for its modern observance, we would probably need to invent St. Valentine's Day if it didn't already exist. It is for us, in part, a reminder that we have an all-loving God who blesses those who love one another, as Jesus told his disciples they should do. It is a day the world does well to celebrate!
Ripon Cathedral Revealed Ripon Cathedral Revealed is the forthcoming festival of flowers, music, spirituality, food and drink taking place at the Cathedral 28 April to 2 May 2016. This is a celebration of the life of the Cathedral and a way of showcasing many of the dimensions of its life that people don’t often know about. We will also be launching our far-reaching vision for the future. To make this festival as enjoyable as possible for the large number of visitors who are expected, we need a very long list of volunteers prepared to give two hours of their time, and other people who are prepared to get involved in undemanding (but important) ways. Please, do help us to make Ripon Cathedral Revealed a wonderful festival for everyone. This morning, you are receiving with this Pew Slip a copy of the Festival publicity and a leaflet explaining how you can get involved. There is also information on the Cathedral Website. I would like to encourage all members of the Cathedral community to support this initiative and to help make this Festival the great event that it promises to be.
With my very best wishes Dean John
Today’s Services
8.00 am Holy Eucharist (1662 Book of Common Prayer)
President: Canon Paul Preacher: Mrs Nina Harrison, Cathedral Reader
9.30 am Mattins Psalm 50
10.30 am Children’s Church takes place during the10.30am Eucharist. All welcome
Activity Bags are also available for younger children – please ask if you would like one.
10.30am Sung Eucharist
President: Canon Ruth Hymns: 393, 67, 420, 64 Preacher: Canon Elizabeth Psalm: 91 [1-11] Setting; Missa ‘Simile est regnum caelorum’ Guerrero Motet: Emendemus in melius Morales Voluntary: Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist BWV 671 J. S. Bach Lessons read by Joan Wilkinson & David Edwards Intercessions led by Michelle Dearlove
Collect
Almighty God, whose Son Jesus Christ fasted forty days in the wilderness, and was tempted as we are, yet without sin: give us grace to discipline ourselves in obedience to your Spirit; and, as you know our weakness, so may we know your power to save; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
First Reading A reading from the book of Deuteronomy
Moses spoke to the people, saying: When you have come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, and you possess it, and settle in it, you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place that the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his name. You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time, and say to him, ‘Today I declare to the LORD your God that I have come into the land that the LORD swore to our ancestors to give us.’ When the priest takes the basket from your hand and sets it down before the altar of the LORD your God, you shall make this response before the LORD your
God: ‘A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous. When the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, by imposing hard labour on us, we cried to the LORD, the God of our ancestors; the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. The LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with a terrifying display of power, and with signs and wonders; and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. So now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground that you, O LORD, have given me.’ You shall set it down before the LORD your God and bow down before the LORD your God. Then you, together with the Levites and the aliens who reside among you, shall celebrate with all the bounty that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house.
[26. 1-11]
This is the word of the Lord All Thanks be to God Psalm 91 [1-11]
WHOSO dwelleth under the defence of the most High : shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say unto the Lord, Thou art my hope, and my strong hold : my God, in him will I trust. For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunter : and from the noisome pestilence. He shall defend thee under his wings, and thou shalt be safe under his feathers : his faithfulness and truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for any terror by night : nor for the arrow that flieth by day; For the pestilence that walketh in darkness : nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noon-day. A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy right hand : but it shall not come nigh thee. Yea, with thine eyes shalt thou behold : and see the reward of the ungodly. For thou, Lord, art my hope : thou hast set thine house of defence very high. There shall no evil happen unto thee : neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee : to keep thee in all thy ways. Second Reading A reading from the letter of Paul to the Romans
What does scripture say? ‘The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart’ (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved. The scripture says, ‘No one who believes in him will be put to shame.’ For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and is generous to all who call on him. For, ‘Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’
[10. 8b-13]
This is the word of the Lord All Thanks be to God
Gospel Reading Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. The devil said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become a loaf of bread.’ Jesus answered him, ‘It is written, “One does not live by bread alone.”’ Then the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And the devil said to him, ‘To you I will give their glory and all this authority; for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I please. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.’ 8Jesus answered him, ‘It is written, “Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.”’ Then the devil took him to Jerusalem, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, saying to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, for it is written, “He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you”, and “On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.”’ Jesus answered him, ‘It is said, “Do not put the Lord your God to the test.”’ When the devil had finished every test, he departed from him until an opportune time.
[4. 1-13]
This is the Gospel of the Lord All Praise to you, O Christ
Motet
Let us make amends for the sins we have committed in ignorance: lest suddenly at the day of death, we should seek a place of repentance, and not be able to find one. Hearken, Lord, and have pity: because we have sinned against you. Remember, man, that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. Prayer after Communion
Lord God, you have renewed us with the living bread from heaven; by it you nourish our faith, increase our hope, and strengthen our love: teach us always to hunger for him who is the true and living bread, and enable us to live by every word that proceeds from out of your mouth; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
You are warmly invited to stay for coffee or juice after the 10.30am Service and Children’s Church
12.30 pm Holy Eucharist (1662 Book of Common Prayer) President: Canon Wendy Wilby
1.30pm Holy Baptism Lacey & Barry Dyason
Officiant: Canon Ruth
3.30 pm Evensong
Responses Mason Hymns: 59 (tune 238), 63 Setting Clucas in F Sharp Psalms: 119 [73-88] Anthem Hear my prayer, O Lord
Tomkins Preacher Mr John Baldini, Reader in Training Voluntary Fantasia and Fugue in g minor BWV 542 J. S. Bach
Anthem
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my crying come unto thee. Hide not thy face from me, O hide not thy face in the time of my trouble: incline thine ear unto me, O Lord, O hear me and that right soon.
Daily Worship This Week
Morning Prayer: Monday to Saturday at 8.30am Evening Prayer: Monday to Thursday 6.00pm; Saturday 5.30pm Choral Evensong: Friday 6.00pm
Eucharists:
Mon 15th Feb 9 am Canon Elizabeth Tue 16th Feb 9 am Reverend Canon Myra Shackley Wed 17th Feb 9 am Prebendary Jacqueline Fox
12.00 Reverend Martin Bull Thurs 18th Feb 9 am Canon Ruth Fri 19th Feb 9 am Dean John
12.00 Canon Wendy Wilby Sat 20th Feb 9 am Canon Paul
For more details of the services during this week, please take a Music and Services Diary available from the Welcome Desk or visit the website or call the Chapter House 01765 602072
Events This Week
Monday 15th February10.00am The Magdalen Fellowship at St Mary Magdalen Chapel. Contemplative prayer and intercessions. For further information, contact Patricia Whaling 606570 or John Whelan 600668.
Monday 15th February 8-9pm Cathedral Prayer Group held at St Mary Magdalen’s Chapel. All welcome.
Tuesday 16th February 11.15-12.15pm Movement for All in Ripon Cathedral Hall will be hosting a ten week low impact class for all focussing on balance, fall prevention, general body strength, and mobility improvement. The course is provided by Harrogate Borough Council and a pair of anti-slip slippers will be given free to every participant at the end of the course. The course will be held Tuesdays 11.15am
-12.15pm commencing 16th February. If course participants wish to continue after ten weeks the cost will be £3 per session. For further information please contact Roo Bannister 075 8141 3422.
Wednesday 17th February 7.30pm-9.00pm bell ringing practice. Everybody welcome, access via North Transept.
Lent at Ripon Cathedral 2016
A simple lunch consisting of bread, cheese and fruit will be served in the Cathedral from 12.30pm following the Eucharist 12 noon on every Wednesday during Lent from 17th February. We invite a donation of £4. All proceeds to be given to Christian Aid. At 1.15pm there will be short devotional talk based on John Pritchard’s book ‘Living faithfully’. We aim to finish by 1.30pm.
17th Feb Canon Elizabeth Living Gracefully & Knowing God’s Guidance 24th Feb Canon Paul Making Peace and Doing Justice 2nd Mar Dean John Handling Money and Facing Temptation 9th Mar Canon Ruth Being Healthy and Being Political 16th Mar Canon Wendy Building Communion and Loving the Planet
Lent information leaflets available by the PCC Noticeboard – please pick up a copy.
Help with Hospitality – Lent Lunches – Wednesdays in Lent We are aiming to provide a simple lunch of bread, cheese and fruit for all who come, expected to be 30-50 people. We are looking for teams of people to cater for each lunch. This will involve buying the food (money reclaimed from donations at the lunch), prepare, serve and clear away. Tables and chairs will be set up by the Vergers. If you can help, please sign up on the sheet near the PCC noticeboard. Thank You.
Living Faithfully Workshops 7.30pm at Thorpe Prebend House
The test of our faith is what we do, and living faithfully in a complex world is no easy task. This Lent at Ripon Cathedral we will be making connections between faith and life following Bishop John Pritchard’s Book Living Faithfully, which is available for sale at the Cathedral Shop.
We will be joined by Bishop John who will be looking at three contentious areas where the stakes are high, and trying to find paths through the various thickets. In workshop style, but with plenty of input too, we’ll examine how faith engages with science, personal ethics and death.
March 3: Living faithfully in a scientific world: How can science and faith be friends? What can they learn from each other? What are the big issues in the debate? What does the non-scientist need to know?
March 10: Living faithfully with difficult ethical decisions: Same-sex marriage, assisted suicide, genome possibilities – how can Christians make sense of these complex issues in the light of their faith?
March 17: Living faithfully with death: The final frontier - 100% success rate. How can we approach death in a mature Christian way? What can we expect? How can we help the bereaved and those approaching death themselves?
Worship Next Sunday: Second Sunday of Lent
8.00 am Eucharist (1662) Dean John 9.30 am Mattins 10.30 am Sung Eucharist President: Canon Elizabeth Preacher: Canon Paul 12.30 pm Eucharist (1662) Canon Paul 3.30 pm Evensong Reverend Canon Simon Cowling
Rector of Bolton Abbey
Forthcoming Events within the Cathedral Community
Tuesday 23rd February between 10.00 and 12.30pm Coffee, craft and chat morning in the Cathedral Library. Come along to a coffee morning with a difference. The PCC are holding a coffee, craft and chat morning in the Cathedral Library. Come along and bring your current craft project with you or see what we have to offer and let us all share those interesting ideas together. “
Tuesday 23rd February 2.00pm Mothers' Union meeting in Thorpe Prebend House. Speaker: Mr Terry Frazier, on "National Trust in the North East." Visitors welcome.
Saturday 5th March 12 Noon Cathedral Parish Lunch in the Cathedral Hall. All welcome.
Saturday 12th March 10.30am PCC Community Café in the Cathedral including ‘Sights and Sounds of Ripon’. A community event giving access to different sights and sounds around the City. More details to follow.
Sunday 13th March ‘Meet the PCC’ The PCC will be serving sherry following the 10.30am Eucharist.
Monday 21st March 8-9pm Cathedral Prayer Group in the Chapel of Resurrection. All welcome
Monday 18th April 7.30pm Ripon Cathedral APCM at Thorpe Prebend. All welcome.
Forthcoming Events beyond the Cathedral
Tuesday 16th February 11.15-12.15pm Movement for All in Ripon Cathedral Hall will be hosting a ten week low impact class for all focussing on balance, fall prevention, general body strength, and mobility improvement. The course is provided by Harrogate Borough Council and a pair of anti-slip slippers will be given free to every participant at the end of the course. The course will be held Tuesdays 11.15am
-12.15pm commencing 16th February. If course participants wish to continue after ten weeks the cost will be £3 per session. For further information please contact Roo Bannister 075 8141 3422.
Website: [email protected] Cathedral shop are stockists for the monthly publications of the Dalesman magazine, The Countryman and Down your Way.
New Titles now in stock John Pritchard ‘Living Faithfully’
John Pritchard ‘ Living Jesus’
Kathryn Greene-McCreight ‘I Am With You’ (The Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2016 Lent book).
In stock now Mothering Sunday cards
Easter cards in packs and singles
Notices
Year’s Mind List I am revising the Year’s mind list. This list contains the dates of people’s funerals to enable us to remember them and pray for their family. This takes place at the daily Eucharist. The names of those who have had their funeral at the Cathedral will go on the list automatically. Anyone else may be added to the list by a request from their family. Please contact me if you wish to add names of close family. Canon Ruth. Dessert Island Discs Many thanks to all who attended this enjoyable evening. Whilst our aim was primarily fellowship almost £500 was raised. Special thanks to the Dean. Ripon Cathedral PCC. Weekly E-Newsletter If you have requested the Weekly E-Newsletter but are not receiving it, please email the Cathedral Office – [email protected]. Please do check your Spam mail.
Lost Property Lost Property accumulated over the past year will be put out in the Chapter House for reclaiming by Friday 26 February. Anything not claimed by then will be taken to one of the local charity shops.
The Salvation Army Food Bank A reminder that the cold weather continues and The Salvation Army Food Bank urgently needs supplies of ‘winter warming’ foods. Items such as tinned meat stews, coffee/tea, easy cook rice, instant mash, beans, etc that can make up a good hot dinner for a family would be especially useful. Also, tinned puddings, tinned fruit, custard. If possible,could you bring your donations in a plastic shopping bag? As we are all using fewer plastic bags, our supplies are running low. The plastic bags make collecting and delivering items much easier for the Salvation Army.
Giving by Gift Aid
Our financial support of the Cathedral’s mission is an expression of our gratitude to God for all that we receive from him. It does strengthen the mission, however, if the Cathedral can reclaim any tax that has been paid on our offerings. If you are a UK taxpayer, please consider Gift-Aiding your donation. For every £1 you give, we will receive £1.25. Gift Aid envelopes are available in the pews or from the Sidespeople. Please use the envelope and sign it—there is no extra cost to you.
If you would prefer to give by electronic banking the details are as follows:
If you are a regular worshipper at the Cathedral and would like to know more about our planned giving scheme, please contact Liz Thomas, Planned Giving Officer (Tel: 01765 606118) or have a word with one of the clergy.
We are very grateful for your financial support. Without it the worship and ministry of this Cathedral Church simply could not happen.
Do you wish to know more about the Christian Faith? Do you wish to take the next step on your journey of faith? Dean John is running a course that will take place at Minster House on mid-week evenings. It is for those who wish to know more about the faith without any commitment, who would like to take advantage of a refresher course, or who would like to prepare for confirmation.
A separate Confirmation Preparation is also available for young people from year 6 upwards.
Information and application forms are now available by the PCC noticeboard or speak to a member of clergy.
FORTHCOMING SERVICES AND EVENTS IN THE CATHEDRAL Lent Lunches – 17th February to 16th March Every Wednesday during Lent -12.30pm Simple lunch followed by short devotional talk – Donations to Christian Aid
Thursday 3rd March, 10th March & 17th March – 7.30pm Lent Lectures – led by John Pritchard Thorpe Prebend House
Sunday 6th March – 10.30am Mothering Sunday Sung Eucharist
Palm Sunday – 20th March 10.10am – Blessing of Palms in the Market Square followed by Procession 10.30am – Sung Eucharist at the Cathedral 3.30pm – Stainer: The Crucifixion performed by the Cathedral Choir as a devotion for Palm Sunday
Maundy Thursday – 24th March 11.00am – Chrism Eucharist for the Diocese 7.30pm – Sung Eucharist – with Foot washing, Stripping of the Altars and Watch of the Passion
Good Friday – 25th March 10.30 am – Good Friday Service for all ages followed by hot cross buns 12noon – 1.30pm – Guided Meditation by the Cross 1.30pm – 3.00pm – Solemn Liturgy of Good Friday with Veneration of the Cross
Holy Saturday- 26th March 7.30pm – Great Easter Vigil and Sung First Eucharist of Easter
Easter Sunday – 27th March 10.30am – Festal Eucharist, Procession and Blessing of the Easter Garden 3.30pm – Evensong and Admission of Choristers with Procession to the Easter Garden
