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Welcome to Christ Church Cathedral Children are welcome at our services. There are toys in the quiet room which is the
room at the front of the Cathedral on the left hand side.
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO TAKE THIS PUBLICATION AWAY WITH YOU. Dear Cathedralites I am so thrilled that my friend Angele from Bethlehem is coming to stay a few nights with us here in Nelson at the end of the month. Can you believe that the authorities tried to prevent her from leaving Bethlehem because they thought she might plan to leave her city of birth for ever. Nothing could be further than the truth. Angele Giacaman and her family have got a dynasty in Bethlehem. They make Christian icons. Bethlehem is in their blood. I found it offensive that the authorities would think that eighty odd year old Angela would be wanting to escape the city she loves. Angele is a Palestinian Christian and her local Church incredibly is in Manger Square, the Church of the Nativity where Jesus was reputed to have been born. I can’t wait to see her and hear her latest stories. When I get more detail I’ll plan a barbeque at the Deanery to welcome her here and to enable her to tell her story to us. It was for great for Patsy and I to spend some days in Christchurch with James, our grandson and our daughters. We also had to do some work on our old house. We continue to hear stories of families 7 years after the earthquake still pondering their future, living with daily uncertainties. Today I finish off the mini-series on Nathanael, that amazing character who had the gall to say ‘Can anything good come out of Nazareth?’ In the end Nathanael jumped in boots and all to become a Jesus follower. His conversion is an inspiration, it’s a reminder that you don’t have to throw away your brains to become a Christian. In fact Nathanael was one of the brightest students of the bunch and he followed the call to follow the One who changed the world.
Christ Church Cathedral Nelson
Sunday Bulletin Sunday 21st January 2018
3rd Sunday of Epiphany
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In this modern age of political correctness, it’s not seen as correct to go and rescue people. I’ve always had trouble with this theory as Jesus constantly rescued people. While timing is important sometimes you cannot be sit around for too long to watch people either disintegrate or to degenerate into something really tough. To this end it was great to see a mate of mine Gerald be rehabilitated and to receive much love and attention. Gerald has rescued people all his life. He was the National Field officer for the Ops Boy’s Brigade. He ate, slept and lived BB 24/7: remarkable commitment. He fell on tough times but continued to rescue people, with young folk trashing his house constantly. Now he is in a safe environment in a much better shape. It was a couple of others in Christchurch who could stand around and watch no longer, who triggered the call to interfere and to get thing done, to rescue a man from a situation that demanded attention. Tricky one because we can often interfere and it can go all wrong and we are then seen as the perpetrators. However when your intent is right, if your intent is to help the person, not yourself, then if it is a mistake then it’s a very much forgivable one. It’s all part of loving our neighbour as yourself. Have a great week. In His service Mike
Sentence: With awesome deeds you answer our prayers for deliverance, O God our Saviour; you that are the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the far off seas. Psalm 65:5,6 Collect: Jesus, our Redeemer, Give us your power to reveal and proclaim the good news, so that wherever we may go the sick may be healed, lepers embraced, and the dead and dying given new life.
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8.00am Holy Communion (Yellow book) Celebrant The Reverend Allen Michel Preacher The Reverend Allen Michel Readings Jonah 3:1-5; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31; John 1:47-51 10.00am Family Eucharist (Booklet)
Celebrant The Reverend Nigel Whinney Preacher Dean Mike Hawke Organist Paul Johnstone 5.30pm Choral Evensong Officiant Dean Mike Hawke Preacher The Reverend Murray Campbell Organist Jane Mitchell Introduction Opening hymn 585 The Church’s one foundation Old Testament Reading Jeremiah 3:21-4:2 New Testament Reading Titus 2:1-8, 11-14 Magnificat 362 Tell out my soul Nunc Dimittis Apostles’ Creed Hymn 10 Abide with me Sermon The Reverend Murray Campbell Anthem Prayers Notices Offertory Hymn 474 Immortal Invisible Blessing Sung Amen Organ Voluntary 3
Please pray for Tory Snape who recently lost his sister, Val Smith.
Sincere condolences from all at Nelson Cathedral.
ACCOMODATION REQUIRED IN MAPUA
Nikki is a beautiful, vibrant young lady who, unfortunately, has become acutely unwell. She is needing accommodation in Mapua, preferably
somewhere quiet within 10 mins of the medical centre. If you, or someone you know can help, please contact Ali Hobson on
021 1330 768 or [email protected]
For our prayers
Church - *Pray for our mission partners in Australia *Parish of Stoke - Pastoral Ministry and the Pastoral Care Team
World * Nick & Tessa Laing – Medicine & Social Justice Support, Uganda *Pray for peace in Jerusalem
Community *Pray for visitors to our region *Pray for safety on the roads
* Sick Shirley Miles, Barbara Pownall, John, James, Andrew, Jean Crockett, Lachlan, Tim Hurd, Elizabeth, Catriona, Roger Williams, Marianne.
St. Barnabas Prayer| Lord Jesus, we bring to You the hundreds of thousands of Christians in Saudi Ara-bia, migrant workers far from their homes and families, unable to show publicly any-thing of their Christian faith, and taking a risk even to meet together in a home to worship You. We ask that You will bless them with Your own dear presence to cheer and to guide. We pray too for Saudi believers, coverts from Islam, whose very lives are at risk every moment of every day because of their decision to follow You. Keep them in Your perfect peace and protect them from harm. Amen
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Pray for music and musicians
Eternal Lord God, source of all beauty and harmony, we praise you for the gift of music: for the inspiration given to those who compose it, for the skill and devotion of those who perform it, for the faculties and powers which enable us to enjoy it; and we pray that as by this gift our lives are enriched and renewed, so we may glorify
you in a fuller dedication of ourselves. Guide the team charged to lead the music in our Cathedral giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen.
HERE TO HELP
If you know of someone who is in need of prayer, a visit, home communion, or other support, please let Steve know, and the pastoral committee will respond as best it can. This includes telling us of recent bereavements of parishioners, congregants or families. Don't assume we know, please tell us! We would rather have had ten notifications than none. Help us to help our friends and families!
Steve Jordan [email protected]
What’s happening this Week
Total attendance for Sunday 14 January 2018
8am = 24
10am = 122 5.30pm = 25
Total for Sunday = 171
Week 14 Jan – 18 Jan = 24
House of Prayer and Healing in the Chapel
Monday, Tuesday, Friday Mornings: 8-9am Wednesday & Thursdays: 9am-12pm
Feel free to contact Tapita on 021 255 3013 for prayer requests or for further details.
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CAN YOU HELP WITH TAKING THE CHRISTMAS TREES DOWN? The Christmas Tree Festival has been a successful event again this year and at the end of the month it has to be taken down and the Cathedral set back to normal. One of the problems we have is that the group set to do this are getting a little bit older and so we are asking for some younger volunteers to help on the day to get the Cathedral reset. It will involve some lifting, so if you are able to help please contact the office at 548 1008 or [email protected]
Time: 10am-12pm on Saturday 27th January Thank you, Jim Wiseman
Meditation on Tuesday evening takes a break until February 2018. People are welcome to visit the Chapel for a quiet time of meditation anytime in January 2018. There will not be a walking group during the month of January 2018. There will be no flax group or Exercises for health during December and January. Services Next Sunday 28th January 2018 8.00am Holy Communion 10.00am Family Eucharist 12.30-3.30pm Whakatu Maori Mission Community Service 5.30pm Evensong
Dean Mike preaching at 8am & 10 am services and Rev Nigel Whinney preaching at 5.30pm
Word and Worship starts again on 4th February
Flowers for this year
If you would like to donate towards flowers for 2018
please fill in the folder at the main entrance.
Cost: $45.00
CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL Welcomers needed from
Boxing Day to end January
Please contact Patsy Hawke at [email protected] or
021 269 0455 / 548 1443 if you have a couple of hours to spare, and are able to fill a slot on the
Welcomers’ Roster.
SOMETHING FOR THE CHILDREN TO DO
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Jonah 3:1-5
The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time, saying, ‘Get up, go to Nine-veh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.’ So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three days’ walk across. Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s walk. And he cried out, ‘Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!’ And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth.
1 Corinthians 7:29-31
I mean, brothers and sisters, the appointed time has grown short; from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none, and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no possessions, and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.
John 1:47-51
When Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards him, he said of him, ‘Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!’ Nathanael asked him, ‘Where did you come to know me?’ Jesus answered, ‘I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called you.’ Nathanael replied, ‘Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!’ Jesus answered, ‘Do you believe because I told you that I saw you un-der the fig tree? You will see greater things than these.’ And he said to him, ‘Very truly, I tell you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascend-ing and descending upon the Son of Man.’
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Jeremiah 3:21-4:2
A voice on the bare height is heard, the plaintive weeping of Israel’s children, because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the LORD their God: Return, O faithless children, I will heal your faithlessness. ‘Here we come to you; for you are the LORD our God. Truly the hills are a delusion, the orgies on the mountains. Truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. ‘But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our ancestors had laboured, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonour cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our ancestors, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.’ If you return, O Israel, says the LORD, if you return to me, if you remove your abominations from my presence, and do not waver, and if you swear, ‘As the LORD lives!’ in truth, in justice, and in uprightness, then nations shall be blessed by him, and by him they shall boast.
Titus 2:11-14
But as for you, teach what is consistent with sound doctrine. Tell the older men to be temperate, serious, prudent, and sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.
Likewise, tell the older women to be reverent in behaviour, not to be slanderers or slaves to drink; they are to teach what is good, so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be self-con-trolled, chaste, good managers of the household, kind, being submissive to their husbands, so that the word of God may not be discredited. Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. Show yourself in all respects a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, gravity, and sound speech that cannot be censured; then any opponent will be put to shame, having noth-ing evil to say of us.
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly, while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.
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Service information
Those receiving Holy Communion are invited to do so EITHER by intinction, i.e. retaining the wafer when it is given to you and then dipping it in the cup of wine before consuming it OR by consuming the wafer when it is given to you and then drinking from the common cup.
• Grape juice is available at communion. • Gluten free wafers are available. • Hearing Aid Loop available - please turn to the T position on your hearing aid.
ALSO • Three individual speakers on the Pulpit side in rows 4 and 5. • Ramp for access to the Sanctuary (on the right side) • Special chairs are available from the Pulpit side for those with disabilities or back
problems. Note that the leg height can be adjusted to suit.
Newcomers
We warmly welcome you to the Cathedral today. We are delighted to have families with children worship with us. During term time we have a children’s ministry during the service. We have clipboards with activity sheets available for children during the month of January 2018. Toilets can be found outside down the path to the left or if it is raining there are toilets off the Teaching Room.
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To all parishioners Over the past few years there has been considerable debate within the wider Anglican commu-nity and particularly the General Synod, over the issue of whether or not marriages between peo-ple of the same gender should be blessed by Anglican clergy. Unsurprisingly, there are various strongly held views ranging from for to against.. The strength of the extreme opposing views has threatened the unity of the whole Anglican community. The General Synod deferred final consideration of the matter until its meeting later this year. It also established a working group, under the leadership of our Bishop, to attempt to find a way forward that preserves the unity of the wider church while accommodating the differing approaches to the issue. The working group has prepared a report which recommends that the General Synod does not enact a prescriptive canon on the matter but allows each diocese to determine its own approach to the blessing of same gender marriages. It would remove penal action against clergy who, with the approval of the diocesan bishop, conduct or bless such marriages and would also remove penal action against clergy who decline to conduct or bless those marriages. The parish synod representatives, Graham Allan and Cecil Hood, will be attending a special synod of the Nelson Diocese in March where the diocesan view will be decided for transmission to the General Synod. Both Graham and Cecil need to hear the views of parishioners and will be available after the 10.00am service on Sunday 11 February and Sunday 18 February to hear from and discuss with parishioners the recommendation of the working group. The working group report and other information may be obtained from either Graham or Cecil. The working Group report can be seen via this internet link: http://www.nelsonanglican.org.nz/sites/default/files/Way%20Forward%20Report.pdf
INTERESTED IN DEEPENING YOUR FAITH IN 2018? NOW IS THE TIME TO ENROL FOR SEMESTER 1 AT BISHOPDALE COLLEGE
Study options range from non-formal, to professional development, to pursuing a qualification either part time or full time. In semester 1, classes include: Ethics Theology: Christ and Revelation Introduction to Theology Mission, Church and Community Romans Biblical Interpretation Christianity and World Religions Ministry with Children and Families The Story of Christianity (church history) If you are interested or want to simply find out more about what we offer, contact Kate on 027 544 2208, 548 8785, or email [email protected].
Dean The Very Reverend Michael Hawke 548 1443 / Mobile: 021711726 Email: [email protected] Special Services & The Reverend Steve Jordan Pastoral Care Co-ordinator Mobile 021 294 6105 Email: [email protected] Organists Jane Mitchell – Mark Patterson
Children’s Ministry Worker John Laing - Mobile: 0272 959 261 Email: [email protected] Parish Nurse & Pastoral Care Coordinator vacant Dean’s Warden Bruce Astridge 5452244 Peoples Warden Jenny Dickie – 548 7705 Mobile: 021 342 227 Email: [email protected] Office Administrator Teresa Coombs - 548 1008 /Email: [email protected] Web: www.nelsoncathedral.org Facebook: Christ Church Cathedral PO Box 657 Nelson
Office Hours: Week days 9.30am – 1.30pm
SERVICES NEXT SUNDAY Sunday 28th January 2018
8.00am Holy Communion (Dean Mike Hawke)
10.00am Family Eucharist (Dean Mike Hawke) 12.30 Whakatu Maori Mission Community Service (12.30-3.30pm) 5.30pm Evensong (Reverend Nigel Whinney)
SERVICES THIS WEEK
Monday 22nd January 12.15pm Tuesday 23rd January 12.15pm Wednesday 24th January 10.00am Thursday 25thJanuary 12.15pm Friday 26th January 12.15pm Saturday 27th January 8.00am
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