Sunday 25th September - the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Climate Sunday
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10.30 am Cathedral Eucharist
The preacher is the Provost, with Laura Young. Laura is an environmental scientist and climate activist and was until recently the programme manager for Tearfund’s ‘Let’s Change the Climate’ programme across UK Churches. She is working on a PhD on climate resilience at the Universities of Dundee and Abertay.
Livestreamed here
Liturgy can be downloaded from here
The intercessions workshop has been postponed.
6.30 pm Service of Thanksgiving for the Life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
with the Bishop of Brechin and the Lord Lyon King of Arms; music from the Cathedral Choir
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Monday - Thursday
8.30 am Morning Prayer
Morning Prayer is livestreamed on the Cathedral's Facebook page. You can join live online, or in person in the Cathedral, or catch up online later in the day. The order for Morning Prayer is on the Scottish Episcopal Church website and is updated daily. About twenty minutes: a psalm, a couple of readings, some silence, prayers for the day. Morning Prayer uses the Cathedral Prayer Diary for September.
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Thursday 29th September
1.00 pm Midweek Eucharist
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Sunday 2nd October
10.30 am Cathedral Eucharist: Harvest Festival
followed by a bring-and-share lunch
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CAKE ON CLIMATE SUNDAY
Donations for refreshments this Sunday will go to FareShare Dundee, a local charity nominated by the Eco Group. FareShare collects surplus quality food from local suppliers and retailers. The food, which would otherwise end up in landfill, is 'fit for purpose' but surplus due to packaging errors, over-production or being close to the end of its shelf life. FareShare redistributes the food - including fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and dairy products - free of charge to community organisations providing residential and day services for disadvantaged groups of people in Dundee, Perth & Kinross and Angus. Enjoy the cake, made by Eco Group members, and please give generously!
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Flowers this Sunday have been donated by Elaine, Scott, Ryan and Paul in memory of their late sister and aunt Sandra Brownlee (Smith), whose 70th birthday would have been this month.
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Event for Women of all Faiths, organised by Faith in Community Dundee
Click on the image for a full-size version.
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Taster Evening - Tuesday 27 September
This evening we will get to celebrate our diverse cultures through food! We'll get the chance to have a wee taste of food from 3 different cuisines around the world - Indian, Middle Eastern and Scottish (just a wee taste, not a full meal). We also want to hear stories of women from our cultures who have inspired us, throughout the ages and over the world. Share or listen to a story of women who have impressed us, while the different aromas fill the hall. *NOTE: nuts will be included in some recipes. Book here.
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T. C. SMOUT LECTURE
'Marriage: a moving target in Christian history' - Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford
29 September 5.30pm, University of St Andrews, School V,
with a reception following in Lower College Hall
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DIOCESAN AUTUMN SYNOD
All who wish to are invited to attend. The Synod will be held at St Ninian's Church (DD4 7RW), on Saturday the 1st of October. Synod Eucharist is at 9am, proceedings are expected to finish by 1:30 pm. Tea and Coffee is available from 9am, but there is no lunch provided, so please bring a packed lunch with you. Along with the standard business of approving accounting, there will be a focus on discussion of environmental issues. Full details can be found here
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HARVEST FESTIVAL, SUNDAY 2 OCTOBER
- Harvest gifts will go to FareShare: please bring non-perishable foods
- The Great Cathedral Jam and Chutney Sale will take place after the Cathedral Eucharist (proceeds to FareShare)...
- ... together with a bring-and-share lunch. Can you bring a contribution? (otherwise the lunch may consist entirely of jam and chutney) Can you volunteer to help set up the hall, serve food, or clear away afterwards? Volunteers needed! If you can help, please let the admin office know, on admin@saintpaulscathedral.net.
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Come and see some timely and beautiful artwork from the "Stitches for Survival scarf", previously on display at COP 26. The panels are at the Cathedral until the 2nd of October.
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LUNCHTIME CONCERTS
Good News! Lunchtime concerts at the Cathedral are returning, with a varied programme of performers booked in. The concerts will be fortnightly on Fridays.
The first concert will be on Friday the 7th of October, from 1.00 - 1.45 pm, with pianist David Mowle.
Each concert is followed by tea/coffee and cake, served by the Friends of St Pauls Cathedral. The full schedule of performers, along with admissions prices, can be found here.
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FAITH IN OLDER PEOPLE - MENTAL HEALTH WORKSHOP
Dr Gill Yellowlees is offering a zoom workshop about mental illness in older people, including how people can respond and offer support as individuals and in specific pastoral care settings.
The workshop is online on zoom, on Tuesday 11 October from 13:30-16:30
There is a registration fee of £30, but concessionary places are available, for which you should email info@fiop.org.uk.
Find out more information and sign up here
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Support for Refugees: due to unsteady numbers we have decided to pause our drop in. However there are many ways in which you can offer support to the refugee community who are living in Dundee.
Broughty Ferry Baptist Church are often looking for donations of clothes, foodstuffs and toys to support this community. For a current list of things they need and more information on how to donate have a look at their Facebook page.
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Brechin Bulletin
The newsletter of the Diocese of Brechin: Brechin Bulletin 22nd September 2022
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Inspires Online
The monthly newsletter of the Scottish Episcopal Church: Inspires Online August 2022
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DATES FOR THE DIARY
Saturday 24 September Doors Open Day
Sunday 2 October Harvest Festival
Sunday 9 October Bishop Forbes Evensong
Wednesday 2 November All Souls Day
Sunday 13 November Remembrance Sunday
Sunday 27th November Advent Sunday
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BEGINNING & BECOMING: the Apostles’ Creed
A series of discussions on the Christian faith, based on the book The Apostles' Creed by Ben Myers (2018).
Do you want to find out more about what Christians believe, ask questions, or take a fresh look? Are you thinking about being baptised or confirmed? Come along - all welcome. Sessions are on Wednesday evenings. The next is on the 28th of September, 7.00 - 8.00 pm, at St Paul’s Cathedral and online via Zoom.
More details and dates:
BeginningAndBecoming.eventbrite.co.uk
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ECO GROUP ACTIVITIES
The Eco-group supports the Cathedral community in tackling the challenges of the climate emergency. Recent activities include:
- work towards an Eco-Congregation Scotland Award
- creating a Cathedral Environmental Action Plan
- taking part in litter surveys along the Tay as part of the Upstream Battle Citizen Science project
- support for the Property Committee in working towards Net Zero
- putting together a 'green library' of resources and information
- making cake for Climate Sunday!
Interested in getting involved? Have a look at the Eco Group noticeboard or talk to one of the clergy. And you might like to look at the Scottish Episcopal Church's toolkit for working towards net zero - useful for individuals as well as churches.
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FIRST AIDERS
Are you an up-to-date First Aider? Would you be willing to be on the welcomers' list of First Aiders, as someone who could help in an emergency during a Sunday service? If so, please let the Provost know or email admin@saintpaulscathedral.net.
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CHORAL SCHOLARSHIPS
For this choir year, the Cathedral is once again offering choral scholarships. These are a great opportunity for both children and students, so do share this information far and wide. Application forms can be found here. There are also application forms at the back of the church. Click on the flyers below for larger versions.
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The 50 Club
One way you can support the choral scholarship scheme is by joining the 50 club.
It's a club of 50 people that commit to contributing £5 every month for a period of one year, and each month, one lucky member wins £50, with the rest of the money going to the choral scholarship fund. The amount of money raised can support up to 4 choral scholars for the year, and many of our existing choir members have benefited from the scheme.
If you'd like to get involved, pick up a 50 club booklet from the back desk in the cathedral. It contains all the information you need to get started.
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Readings this Sunday, 25th September, are for the 16th Sunday after Pentecost: Amos 6:1a, 4-7, Luke 16:19-31
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Alas for those who are at ease in Zion,
says the prophet Amos, never one to spare the feelings of the rich:
Alas for those who lie on beds of ivory,
and lounge on their couches...
It's in the first reading this Sunday. They lounge about on ivory beds. They eat the finest meat and drink wine by the bowlful, and they sing idle songs, and in short there is nothing to be said for them at all. They have forgotten their neighbours and they are just looking out for themselves. Down with them, says Amos.
Amos has not just made up the bit about ivory beds. Archaeologists found fragments of ivory quite recently in Jerusalem, shattered to bits, dating from the time Amos is writing about (more here). These are panels of decorated ivory that would have been inlaid on wooden furniture, as in the artist's impression above.
But what really enrages Amos is not the wealth, and not the elephants sacrificed to make furniture. It's the indifference.
They sell the righteous for silver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals -
they trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth,
and push the afflicted out of the way.
And this is why the prophet Amos is like J. B. Priestley's play An Inspector Calls. The Inspector turns up in a wealthy household in the English Midlands to investigate the death of a young woman. The family can't understand it. They had nothing to do with the death. But then connections begin to emerge. They didn't kill her: but over and over they pushed her out of the way, and all those incidents linked up, and led to her death. We are connected.
We are marking Climate Sunday this week. It's a good reminder that we are connected. Pushing the afflicted out of the way is not going to solve any problems: the prophet Amos and the Inspector would agree.
EJT
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