Categories: Sermons
Preached by Canon Richard Lindley, using Daniel 7.1-18 and Luke 6.17-31, at Mattins on Sunday 30th October 2011, the forth Sunday before Advent. Yesterday, it hurt, it really hurt. It went right against the grain. Under persuasion, I downgraded a jumper to being a jumper for doing jobs in. The fact that my wife made it for me around [...]
Categories: Sermons
Preached by Canon Roland Riem, using 1 Thessalonians 2.9-13, at Sung Eucharist on Sunday 30th October 2011, the fourth Sunday before Advent. All sort of strange things go on here! Last Wednesday two first year students from the university turned up just before evening prayer. They wanted to do some filming about religious views of the land – with all [...]
Categories: Sermons
Preached by Canon Jill Bentall, using Isaiah 66.20-23, Ephesians 1.11-end and Psalm 43, at Evensong on Sunday 30th October 2011, the fourth Sunday before Advent. A few years ago, when Neil Crawford-Jones was serving at the great Abbey Church in Romsey, I heard him speak at a couple of civic occasions in his capacity as Mayor’s Chaplain. He began, “It [...]
Categories: Sermons
Preached by Canon Roland Riem, using 2 Timothy 2.1-7, at Mattins on Sunday 23rd October 2011, the last Sunday after Trinity. As you will remember if you came to the Community Day, or as you will read in the Cathedral Newsletter in November, the Bishop of Southampton recently spoke to us about three challenges to the Church emerging from recent [...]
Categories: Announcement, Community, News
At the entrances to the Cathedral, and on the Bishop’s throne, there are notices proclaiming that the College of Canons has elected the next Bishop of Winchester. The College of Canons met on Friday 14 October to undertake its ancient responsibility, and elected Canon Tim Dakin ( the only nominated candidate after due process) with [...]
Categories: Media, Press releases
OPERATIONAL NOTE 24th November 2011 The Opening Ceremony for the sixth Winchester Cathedral Christmas Market & Ice Rink will be on Thursday 24th November 2011, from 6pm. The ceremony will again begin with a spectacular Lantern Procession from the Great Hall to the Cathedral Grounds, with candlelit lanterns which have been made at workshops during [...]
Categories: Events, News, Press releases
The Lord Lieutenant’s Carol Concert Friday 16 December, 7.00 Tickets are now on sale for one of Winchester’s Christmas favourites, as popular gardener, TV presenter and novelist, Alan Titchmarsh, joins Winchester Cathedral Choir for a feast of carols and readings – some his own – on Friday 16 December at 7.00. A fun night for [...]
Categories: Announcement, Community, News
Thursday 27th October 2011 The QT team will be visiting the Cathedral this Thursday (27th October 2011) to broadcast their programme. They would welcome applications to be in the audience from our congregation but the nature of the way it works is that this needs to be through their website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/1858613.stm. The Cathedral Office will [...]
Categories: Announcement, Community, Events, Music
Friday 2pm: Commence the Organathon with a hour of mixed repertoire including works by Guilmant, Handel, Bach and others! 3pm: We welcome the first of our guests, Stephen Farr to the organ loft. He will be playing works by Hovland, Schumann, Bach, Mendelssohn and others. 4pm: Andy Lumsden plays music by Whitlock, Bach and Reubke’s [...]
Categories: Sermons
Preached by the Dean, theVery Revd James Atwell, using scripture 2 Corinthians 5: 16-21, at Sung Eucharist on Sunday 16th October 2011, the seventeenth Sunday after Trinity, Community Day. Ambassadors is the theme of our Community Day. St Paul gives us our inspiration: ‘So we are Ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us’ (2 [...]