Saturday 21st January
10.30 am Server Training
Come along to find out about being part of the serving team.
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Sunday 22nd January - The Third Sunday of Epiphany
10.30 am Cathedral Eucharist
The preacher is the Priest for Outreach.
Livestreamed here
Liturgy can be downloaded from here
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Morning Prayer is live-streamed on the Cathedral's Facebook page at 8.30 am Monday - Thursday. You can find the order for Morning Prayer on the Scottish Episcopal Church website, updated daily.
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Thursday 26th January
1.00 pm Midweek Eucharist
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Friday 27th January
10.00 am - 12.00 noon Feel-Good Friday and Tapestry Stitchers
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Sunday 29th January
10.30 am Cathedral Eucharist for Candlemas - the Presentation of the Lord
5.00 pm To Be A Light: Words and Music for Candlemas
Choral Evensong, sung by the Cathedral Choir
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Temporary diversion
Some work needs to be done to the plasterwork of the Cathedral roof at the west end. So when you come in you'll find there's a diversion round that area. Scaffolding will go up shortly and the work is likely to take about a month altogether.
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2023 Lent Challenges - ideas!
Do you have an idea for something that could be one of the Cathedral's seven Lent Challenges for 2023? It could be to do with being better stewards of creation, or challenging injustice, promoting peace or paying it forward. Small simple steps to encourage us all to live Lent afresh this year.
Send your ideas to Roxanne (roxanne@saintpaulscathedral.net).
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Feel-Good Fridays
Feel Good Fridays are back: 10.00 am to 12 noon every week. Bring your craft activity or board game of choice and join in - tea, coffee & cake and lighthearted chat in a cosy space. And you can see how the Tapestry Stitchers are getting on with the Dundee Tapestry panel, and maybe put in a stitch or two yourself. All welcome!
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Visiting Priest from Nablus
Fr Jamil Maher Khader is the Anglican priest in Nablus. Nablus, a Palestinian city on the West Bank, is twinned with Dundee, and there is a twinning arrangement between St Philip's Nablus and St Luke's Dundee. Fr Jamil is making a short visit to Dundee in February. He will be speaking at the 1.00 pm midweek Eucharist in the Cathedral on Thursday 9th February, and after the service there will be a chance to talk to him and his wife Loma.
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Memorial Services for Ann Loades
There will be a Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Ann Loades on Sunday 23rd April (in the afternoon) in St Salvator's Chapel, St Andrews; and in Durham Cathedral on Friday 9th June at 5.30 pm, during Evensong.
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Brechin Bulletin
The newsletter of the Diocese of Brechin: Brechin Bulletin 19th January 2023
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Inspires Online
The monthly newsletter of the Scottish Episcopal Church: Inspires Online December 2022
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DATES FOR THE DIARY
4 February: Refresh Lent & Easter - workshop for children's and youth leaders, St Ninian's, Dundee. Details in the Brechin Bulletin
8 February: 12.30 pm Lunchtime concert in St Mary Magdalene, Dundee
10 February: 1.00 pm Lunchtime concert in the Cathedral
11 February: 3.00 pm Concert: Sheena Wellington & Friends
22 February: Ash Wednesday
24 February: 1.00 pm Lunchtime Concert in the Cathedral
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Solas Festival - midsummer in Errol - music, arts and ideas
If you'd be interested in coming to Solas with the Cathedral this summer, for a day or the whole weekend, please click here to register interest. At the moment we're gathering expressions of interest so we have an idea of numbers.
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Solas Festival - Scotland’s midsummer festival - has been running since 2009. The all-age, weekend-long celebration of music and the arts is designed to entertain, inspire and challenge. The programme makes space for challenging debate with activists, writers and thinkers from across the political, cultural and religious spectrum. The festival offers a broad, inclusive, creative and entertaining programme for festival-goers of all ages in a safe environment; everyone is welcome. Find out more.
The Cathedral will be taking a group to Solas this summer. You can come along for the whole weekend or just for a day. Adult weekend tickets are £99, day tickets are £45, and there are discounts for groups. Have a look at the festival website and check your diary.
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LOST PROPERTY
1 Black pair of leather gloves found at back of cathedral. Please contact the verger if you'd like to collect them (verger@saintpaulscathedral.net)
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Readings this Sunday: The Third Sunday after Epiphany
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Readings this Sunday, 22nd January, are for the Third Sunday after Epiphany: Isaiah 9:1-4, 1 Corinthians 1:10-18, Matthew 4:12-23
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"Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven has come near"
I caught a bit of a podcast this week where one of the presenters was speaking about an online support group they were a part of for those who were struggling with addiction. In the group chat one woman would pop up just about every other day, posting the words "Day one again", meaning that she'd relapsed and was beginning her recovery again. This went on for quite some time - the post would pop up "Day one again", she'd disappear for a few days, and reappear "Day one again"...
The presenter reflected that when they'd been part of such groups before and similar situations they'd seen people who failed or relapsed quickly give up because others in the group would quickly get frustrated with them and judgement and shaming would quickly begin.
But the difference with this group was that where other groups might have judged and shamed, they responded differently. Each time the 'Day one again' post popped up, the group surrounded this woman with love and support, encouraging her to give it another go. So she kept showing up, kept trying again. And eventually, rooted in this loving, supportive community, the woman was able to make the changes she wanted. And not only did she do that, but she eventually began her own, successful, project to support others to find the same freedom she had.
Listening to this story put me in mind of the biblical call to repentance. Repentance is translated from the Greek word Metanoia which is less about changes of particular behaviours, and is in fact about a total transformation of heart, a turning around, a change of perspective. It is a call rooted in the unconditional love of God, who knows that we get it wrong but loves us just the same and calls us each day to try again, to shift our perspective
For us, as we respond to that call to Metanoia, every day is 'Day one again'. And if we didn't get it right yesterday then we have the opportunity to try to do it differently today.
RC
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Readings next Sunday, 29th January, are for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord: Malachi 3:1-4 Hebrews 2:14-18 Luke 2:22-40
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