At the 10.30am service on Sunday 5 August, we will mark the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima with a special Peace Day commemoration.
The service will be attended by Representatives from the Japanese Consulate and the Melbourne Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) Chapter who will provide beautiful floral arrangements to commemorate the occasion.
Members of the Japanese community in Melbourne, and all who are committed to working for peace, are warmly invited to attend.
On 5 June 2018, the Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral formally adopted the 2017 Annual Report. The report gives insights into the many events, activities, initiatives and ministries conducted by the Cathedral. Colleagues, ministries, and volunteers of the Cathedral have each contributed reflections on the past year. It is available to read online. Copies of the audited accounts can be obtained from the Cathedral Administrator on request.
A copy of the Annual Report can be downloaded as a .pdf here. Hard copies will be available from the Cathedral from 1 July 2018.
Sunday 1st July, 2018
We will again celebrate our Patronal Festival with a combined Festive Choral Eucharist at 10.00am (only service that morning) to which all are invited. Our Annual General Meeting will follow the service and commence at 11.15am, followed by the Patronal Festival Lunch will 12.30pm in the Barbara Darling Room.
Bookings have now closed for the Lunch. Please contact events@stpaulscathedral.org.au or phone 9653 4210 if you missed out and would like to come.
A Provincial Festive Choral Evensong will be held at 6.00pm. Archdeacon Philip Muston from the Gippsland Diocese will be the preacher.
Ever struggle to understand what you are reading in the Bible?
Ever wonder about how to interpret and apply God’s word?
Beginning Sunday 27th May at 12.00pm ‘How to Read the Bible’ provides, over 3 sessions, an opportunity to consider these questions and more. These sessions will be led by the Canon Precentor, The Revd Canon Heather Patacca.
Contact events@stpaulscathedral.org.au to register.
St Paul’s Cathedral Melbourne with Kaiela Arts Shepparton presents –
YAKAMA YAPANEYEPUK (COME TOGETHER)
Works by Aboriginal artists from Kaiela Arts
Artists from Kaiela Arts Shepparton have collaborated with St Paul’s Cathedral Artist-in-Residence Sean Whittaker. This exhibition features the outcome of the collaboration and responds to the concept of ‘Coming Together’
Exhibition: Open Daily 26 May – 22 June (Free Admission)
Location: The Transept Gallery – St Paul’s Cathedral
Cnr Flinders St and Swanston St, Melbourne VIC
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Image Acknowledgement:
Amanda Ormiston: Sand Painting
Tammy-Lee Atkinson: Totems
St Paul’s Cathedral stained glass door detail
Please note that next Sunday 13 May, there will be a number of road closures for those approaching the Cathedral from the South West of the CBD, due to the Mother’s Day Classic fun run. Fortunately, access to the Cathedral will not be directly impacted, but if you are concerned that your route may be affected, do check this summary of road closures.
Date: Friday 4 and Saturday 5 May
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: St Paul’s Cathedral, Cnr of Swanston Street and Flinders Street, Melbourne
Cost: $30 Full / $15 Concession
Booking: Online via Eventbrite
An all-sensory experience of historic architectural beauty, modern visual spectacle, choral and orchestral music, and the timeless genius of Vivaldi, presented by the students of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, the University of Melbourne.
Featuring the Early Voices and Baroque Ensemble, Stephen Grant (musical director), Erin Helyard (musical director), Jane Davidson (creative director).
Gloria and Beatus vir are two of Vivaldi’s most beautiful and moving choral works. Set within the magnificent St Paul’s Cathedral, and using magical visual imagery, these spellbinding performances offer unique experiences of uplifting emotion.
St Paul’s Cathedral is strongly committed to safeguarding the children and vulnerable people who participate in our services and other activities.
As such, we are delighted that a new Child Safe Policy and Code of Conduct for the Diocese of Melbourne have recently been approved by Archbishop in Council. These documents will standardise the safeguarding policies of individual churches, making child protection consistent across the Diocese.
The Cathedral was heavily involved in the creation of these documents; the Code was drafted by a working group led by Canon Chancellor Michael Shand, and including Dean Andreas, a former member of Chapter, a Choir member and Choir parent, along with representatives from Kooyoora (Diocesan Professional Standards) and the St Hilary’s Network, which has a substantial ministry to children and young people. As one of the most ‘volunteer-rich’ churches in the Diocese, the Cathedral also acted as a testing ground for new compliance requirements, with all our volunteers obtaining Working with Children check and Police Checks, and undertaking Professional Standards training. We have appointed a Compliance officer, to ensure that all clearances are up to date and any anomalies can be swiftly dealt with.
We commend the Diocese of Melbourne for taking this important step, and pray that it will herald a safer and more transparent future.
On this page you can find details of the final of the Dean of Melbourne’s Lent Addresses 2018, The Passion according to St John: Crucified for us. You can find the first Lent Address here, the second address here, the third here, and the fourth here, and the fifth here.
For Christians, Lent is a period of renewal and growth.
In this address, the Dean of Melbourne, the Very Revd Dr Andreas Loewe, reflects on Jesus’s death on the cross as told in the Passion of St John, and on the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach’s invitation, in a chorale, to become ourselves bearers of that cross by placing it in our hearts.
You can read the reading Dean Andreas reflects on in his talk, and you can watch his talk.
When you have done so, you may wish to use the questions for group reflection our congregations are using for their Lent discussion.
You first may wish to read the Bible reading on which this talk is based John 19.16-30.
Reflecting on Dean Andreas’s sermon and our readings today:
In the week ahead I invite you to open your hearts to Christ: receive him as your consolation in times of adversity and your delight in times of joy, Receive him as your brother, who seeks to number all people among his family. Receive him as your judge, who for us ‘so charitable, has bled himself to death’. Make place in your hearts for his cross as a sign of your confidence, knowing that he who hands over his life to the Father has conquered death, and that he who takes up his life again, gifts all those who receive him a share in the life that is forever.
Lord Jesus Christ,
you humbled yourself in taking the form of a servant,
and in obedience died on the cross for our salvation:
give us the mind to follow you
and to proclaim you as Lord and King,
to the glory of God the Father. Amen.
© The Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral Melbourne, 2018
On this page you can find details of the fifth of the Dean of Melbourne’s Lent Addresses 2018, The Passion according to St John: Tried for his kingdom. You can find the first Lent Address here, the second address here, the third here, and the fourth here.
For Christians, Lent is a period of renewal and growth.
In this address, the Dean of Melbourne, the Very Revd Dr Andreas Loewe, reflects on Jesus’s death sentence before Pilate as told in the Passion of St John, and on the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach’s reflection in a moving chorale that although we may not recognise in the broken man of sorrows the King of all kings, we know that Jesus’ suffering for us in time is an aspect of his eternal sovereignty.
You can read the readings Dean Andreas reflects on in his talk, and you can watch his talk.
When you have done so, you may wish to use the questions for group reflection our congregations are using for their Lent discussion.
You first may wish to read the Bible reading on which this talk is based John 18.38-19.16.
Reflecting on Dean Andreas’s sermon and our readings today:
In the week ahead I encourage you to reflect on Christ’s gift of love for you. I invite you give thanks for the gift of Christ’s mercy, and to pray that we might be given strength to show forth this mercy and love in our own interactions with others this week – in the way we love, and serve others: at home, at work, and in the places in which we worship.
Lord God, your Son our Saviour
gave his back to the smiters
and did not hide his face from shame:
give us grace to endure the sufferings of this present time
with sure confidence in the glory that shall be revealed;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
© The Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral Melbourne, 2018
