During the Season of Creation, Christians are called to pray and act as one. Please join us for this special time of song and reflection as we come together for our common home.
We will participate in reflections by:
Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby
Other Christian and environmental leaders
We will also listen to beautiful music written by the Taizé community in France. This unique ecumenical monastic order is home to more than 100 Protestant and Catholic brothers. The order lives in kindness, simplicity, reconciliation, and its songs are well-known.
This event will invite deeper communion within our Christian family and our Earth community. Please join us.
Date: September 19, 2017 Time: 12 Noon Place: Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton NB
Join us for an intergenerational ALPHA which began with an introduction on 27 September 2017 at the Cathedral Memorial Hall, 168 Church Street, 6:00 pm. Dinner is included! If you missed the first session, contact Cheryl Jacobs or (506) 459-5795 or by email cajacobs84 at gmail.com
Do you want to explore the Christian faith more, or do you have family or friends you would like to see do so? Alpha is an 11 week introduction to Christianity where all questions are encouraged. It is being offered this Fall on Wednesday nights starting September 27, from 6:00 – 8:30 pm, in the Cathedral Hall. Supper will be provided as well as simultaneous video and discussion sessions for adults and youth (12-20ish). Please register on a signup sheet at the back, online HERE, by calling (506) 459-5795 or by emailing cajacobs84 at gmail.com. All are welcome!
Some of us remember Enid Strict, the infamous and wildly popular “church lady” played by Dana Carvey on Saturday Night Live. Enid was a caricature of the busybody finger-shaking moralist no one would want to share a pew with.
September 3 2017 – Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BAS)
Missa Secunda – Hassler
Rejoice in the Lord alway – Anon. 16th century Psalm 105: 1-6, 23-26, 45b
645, 327, 431, 49, 330
Sonata No. 1 in F (1st movement) – Mendelssohn
September 10 2017 – Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BCP)
O sacrum convivium – Mudd
Darke in F
Psalm 139: 1-5, 12-18
Rise up, my love, my fair one – Willan
214, 614, 60, 497, 110
Fantasia on Wachet auf – Karg-Elert
September 17 2017 – Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
10.30: Eucharist on the Cathedral Green
SPECIAL ORDER OF SERVICE
September 24 2017 – Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Choral Eucharist (BCP)
A Prayer of King Henry VI – Ley
Missa Brevis III – Willan
Psalm 105:1-6, 37-45
Jesu dulcis memoria – Victoria
380, 259, 515,71,529
Psalm Prelude Set 2 No.3 – Howells
Christ Church Cathedral offered financial support to the mission to Boston in the spring of 2017. These are some of the reflections of the participants.
When Kyle McGraw signed up for a mission trip to Boston in May, he never dreamed it would get so personal.
But on the last day before leaving Boston, he found himself clippering and shaving the heads of five men who had come in off the street for $1 haircuts. Kyle is not a barber, but he saw that the clothing outreach centre where they were volunteering gave haircuts, and he asked if he could help.
“I’d never shaved anyone before but I said I’d give it a shot,” he said. “The whole week was surreal, but that moment was a highlight. We did a lot of hands-on work but this was extremely hands-on. It got personal really fast.”
Seeing the scars on the men’s heads led to personal questions and candid conversations. And doing the job correctly meant cradling their heads to get the angle right.
“I looked over and he had his hands on this guy’s head,” said Colin McDonald, director of youth and intergenerational ministries in the diocese and one of the leaders on the trip. “It reminded me of washing someone’s feet. It was so intimate. “A lot of people don’t like to touch homeless people.”
The Rev. Dan McMullen had a similar response: “Kyle was putting the most love and care into shaving this guy. He was doing it with so much care.”
It was a pivotal moment in the trip that saw 14 young people and leaders from the diocese pitch in amid the poverty, addiction, mental illness and homelessness the city of Boston deals with daily. In fact, the kids saw things they might never see in New Brunswick.
“We’re all small towners,” said Jessica Gowan, another leader on the trip. “We don’t have a lot of experiences. In Boston every second person walks up to you. Some struggled. We all did, but the point of the trip was to face struggles.”
The group spent each day volunteering at agencies that serve the needs of those at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder. And every evening was spent discussing their day.
“Some of my favourite times were when we were debriefing at the end of the day,” said Jessica. “Seeing how the day impacted our young people.”
“What really moved me was seeing the young people serving hurting people they’d never met and would never meet again,” said Dan. “They were treating these people like they were serving Jesus.”
“Lord, show me the real Boston.”
On the first day, during a tour of Boston to get their bearings, the prayer on Colton Scott’s lips was “Lord, show me the real Boston.” That prayer was answered, and it made Colton, 19, angry. When you want to find them, the addicted, poor, sick, homeless and hopeless are hard to miss — and difficult to accept. “I can’t help them,” said Colton.
The missioners at St. Francis House day shelter in Boston. Back row, from left: Emma Ray Coulton, Jesse Galbraith, Colton Scott, Katrina Zinck, Nat Fetter, Dan McMullen, Dylan Nicoll, Gabe Gionet. Front row, from left: Kyle McGraw, Joe Duplisea, Jessie Gowan, Dimitra Bountalas, Kara Gallant and Colin McDonald.
“A sister, a nun who runs the Common Art Program (for people off the street to express their creativity), said ‘let that anger fuel you. You’re right to be angry.’ That stuck with me. It drives me to do more.” Colton came back home with a new-found skill he’s likely to use, since his summer job is in uptown Saint John. “I learned how easy it is to approach people,” he said. “They’re just people. I learned a lot more about myself than I did about Boston.”
During the previous six months, Colin worked with the young people to prepare them spiritually, using Lectio Divina, the ancient practice of reading small passages of scripture repeatedly while asking the Holy Spirit to reveal their meaning. He chose the book of Isaiah, “To answer the question, ‘why do we serve?’ If we are people who claim to follow Christ, we have to act in a similar fashion to him. Jesus quoted Isaiah a lot — feed the hungry, clothe the naked.”
So how did it go? “We knew these words and we saw them played out during the week,” said Colin. “We saw young people step up, be leaders, be engaged in their faith.” Each day, they cleaned, did yard work, pitched in at places that care for the all-but-forgotten of the city, and listened to the stories of despair, and in some cases, redemption — all of which had a profound impact on the kids.
“It was very emotional for them to leave a site, knowing these same people we spent the day with were probably on the streets sleeping, maybe getting arrested that night.” “The next step,” he said, “is to harness the lessons and emotions of the week and put them to work at home.”
“What does it mean here? How do we find opportunities?” he asked.
“There’s a challenge here for the church. We have this talented group of young people coming up and we have to make room for them. “They will find a way to serve God, and we have to make a place for them to do that.”
Giselle McKnight
Diocesan Officer of Communication
When entering the living spaces of Cathedral faces Sandra and Harry Palmer, its impossible not to immediately notice the beautiful and well-kept gardens surrounding their home. Clearly, gardening is a passion. They have many.
They are a couple who have discerned a call to keep us on track with volunteering for readings and serving in various ways in worship at the Cathedral.
Sandra and Harry came to the Cathedral in 2005, and say they found it a very welcoming place, and have remained. Prior to that, they lived and worked for many years in Perth-Andover NB. Harry was a principal of several schools, and Sandra a laboratory technologist in charge of the lab at the hospital there.
Flowers at the Palmer’s
Harry grew up mainly in Fredericton Junction, living with his Grandmother. His Father had died when he was only ten. His Mother worked full-time. He has many fond memories of the place and the people there. He went to Teachers’ College in Fredericton, and immediately upon graduation, was appointed principal of Perth-Andover Elementary School. Since that time he gradually took courses at the University of New Brunswick, and St. Thomas University. He holds a degree of master of education from the University of Maine. They moved about, Harry working in various positions and eventually retired from the same school where he began teaching. After retirement, Sandra and Harry moved to Fredericton.
Sandra was born in Quebec, growing up mainly in Saint John, NB. She graduated from Saint John High School, and then from the School of Medical Technology.
Sandra and Harry in the 2017 Photo Directory
Sandra and Harry met on a blind date, and were married 50 years go this September, by Canon Walter Bockus in St. George’s Anglican Church in west Saint John. They have three children – Andrew and Kara are twins, are both married and living in Nova Scotia, and Quispamsis, NB, respectively. Their youngest is Katherine, married to Andy Rogers, and also members of the congregation at the Cathedral. Three grandchildren in their family are all girls!
A candid shot
Harry has delved into his family history and has amusing stories to tell about his British ancestry and how they came to settle in Maugerville NB, after living abroad in India, with the military.
Their interests are many having participated in Alpha twice, and minister in several ways from the Cathedral. Harry recently became part of the Bishop and Chapter Christian Formation Committee and still teaches a course at UNB when asked. The garden stands out as evidence of a care and attention to what God has made.
When asked if they had any “Words of Wisdom,” they both chuckled. However, in their experience, they feel strongly that it is important to tell anyone who has had a strong influence on one’s life or career, to tell that person how they have affected them. It just might make their day (or be the encouragement needed to keep making a difference).
Hope Bear joined the Anglican Foundation of Canada in 2011 as a tangible reminder that the Anglican Church cares for kids in Canada by establishing a Kids Helping Kids Fund. With a $20 donation, you can have your own AFC Hope Bear – a great gift for a special celebration – with all funds going to support:
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Hollingworth Tully Kingdon was Bishop Coadjutor (1881-1892) and Second Bishop of Fredericton (1892 – 1907).
One of the artifacts identified in preparing the inventory of the Cathedral Vault in 2004 was Bishop Kingdon’s “traveling altar.” It could be called “portable” except that it is a significant weight when folded up. Once set up it is intriguing. It would have been used by him or perhaps other traveling clergy in situations in the Diocese where there was no church and was probably used in a private residence or a (church or community) hall. Photo 1 (by Nathan Cutler) shows the entire altar “boxed up” and in its metal case.
Photo 1: Traveling Altar Assembled
There was a metal top to the case and all is held in place by a leather strap. In the photo, is it difficult to read on the side but on the large piece of white paper it has the bishop’s name and simply “Fredericton.” The City of Fredericton at that time was still small enough that even the street address was probably not needed.
Photo 2 shows it all unfolded, although not set up for eucharist. Photo 3 displays the chalice and paten covered (in this case) by the veil and pall.
Photo 2: Altar Components
The box that is formed by the altar itself opens up in a forward direction so that the section seen whereon the chalice and paten are resting is the bottom and the area whereon the red and white veils and palls are sitting would be the front of the box. Notice the altar cross is built into the wood of the back. During this time the priest would have presided in an “eastward celebration” (with his back to the congregation). There are two candlesticks with the original candles in a metal box that also folds into the set as well as two small vases. Original flowers not found! The grey area underneath the red veil and pall is the altar stone.
Photo 3: Altar Set
The many pieces of white linen include purificators, veils and corporals and there is also an actual “fair linen” (table cloth) which would have covered the altar itself as seen on the altars in churches of modern times.
[Hollingworth Tully Kingdon, John Medley’s hand-picked successor, had spent some eleven years standing in the shadow of the aged metropolitan. He was often excluded from the full exercise of his office—largely, in Kingdon’s own view, as a result of the interference of Mrs. Medley, who was so jealous of her husband’s prerogatives that Kingdon was to describe her as “a regular Mrs. Proudie with a vengeance.” During her husband’s declining years, Margaret Medley had denied Kingdon access to diocesan correspondence and, it appears, attempted to administer the diocese with no reference whatever to the coadjutor. For a man described as possessing “marked executive ability” who insisted that “…all the business of the Church must be transacted in legal and business-like methods,” this situation must have seemed intolerable. Reference has already been made to the troubled relationship between the Medleys and Bishop Kingdon. Kingdon had discouraged attempts to force Medley’s resignation, as “…the attempt would only make my position more unbearable, as it would increase the suspicious jealousy which exists.” Consequently, he wrote to his friend Bishop Blyth of Jerusalem, “I am afraid that the Church is not thriving here so well as I hoped, or so well as I could wish—it is terribly uphill work.”] from “Citizens with the Saints,” Lyman N. Harding 1994.
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BCP) Harris in F Psalm 105:1-6, 61-22 Teach me, O Lord - Attwood 8, 620, 533, 52, 564 Prelude & Fugue in G minor BWV 558 - Bach
August 20 2017 - Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
Choral Eucharist (BAS) Addington Service - Shephard Psalm 133 O come, ye servants of the Lord - Tye 5, 341, 520, 74, 383 Prelude in Classic Style - Young
August 27 2017 - Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BCP) Wood in the Phrygian Mode Psalm 124 Ave verum corpus - Byrd 77, 232, 434, 66, 499 Marche aux Flambeaux - Scotson Clark
As you walk out the west door have you ever stopped to look up over the door to notice the military colours hanging above? There is a very old tradition that when a military regiment receives a new colour, the old one, which has been blessed, cannot be destroyed. It is therefore put up in a chapel, church or cathedral to continue to “fly.” With the RCR just down the road many of the colours we have are from them. The photo was taken of the flags and colours which were then in the cathedral during the inventory of 2004. Anyone with a military background is welcome to comment with additional information.
Military colours 2004
In the photo, the flags go from left to right: the RCAF flag (pre-1965 as there is no Maple Leaf on it), followed by an ensign which flew on the HMCS Chaleur which was a mine sweeper dating from the early 1960’s. The third is a colour for the RCR, followed by two very old colours. The next three on the other side are also from the RCR. A few years ago we were requested to return two of them to the RCR museum in London, Ontario. In so doing we rearranged the ones left as they are now.
71st York Regiment Red
The two oldest ones are made of silk, red and blue respectively and due to their age they seemed to have been supported in a type of “sling” of net to keep them from disintegrating on the heads of passers-by. The material is literally rotten in places. They were taken down during the summer of 2004 when the lines on the wall behind them were repainted and have never been put back. Presented to the Cathedral about 1933, they appeared in an article in the “Daily Gleaner” which stated they had last been seen in public during the “South African” i.e. Boer War (1899-1902). The colours were those of the 71st York Regiment (originally the 1st York Regiment until the number “7” was embroidered thereon.) The 1st York battalion was organized in 1787.
71st York Regiment Blue
The royal cypher which appears on the red colour is that of William IV (1830-1837) and it is believed that the blue one is even older. With Canada now having turned 150, it is interesting to see parts of our military past which predate Confederation.
