Tēnā koutou katoa ~ We Welcome You.
Dean Jamie Allen writes :
Nau mai - haere mai - welcome.
How ever you have come to this website - warmest greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We hope that you will find here food for your journey... for, alleluia, Christ is Risen!
This week, we will gather in awe and wonder on Ascension Day - Thursday 17th May. At our sunrise outdoor service (at 7.30am), we will cast our gaze symbolically upwards, and outwards to the city and region that we love and seek to serve - New Plymouth and Taranaki. We would love you to join us.
Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour,
first-begotten from the dead.
Thou alone, our strong defender,
liftest up thy people's head.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Jesus, true and living bread!
Lovingly, Jamie
For World Vision, this month I'm spending 40 hours in a wheelchair. I'd be very grateful for your sponsorship - please do visit : http://www.famine.org.nz/jamieallen
Thank you!
A message from our bishops :
It is with deep sadness that we must inform you that the Reverend Graeme Clark died peacefully at home on Monday 14th May. Graeme and Judy have been the longest serving deacons in this Diocese having been ordained in 1990 by Bishop Roger Herft. Graeme’s life and work has been inspirational. His gentle but straight talking, clear thinking manner endeared him to us all.
A funeral service for Graeme will be held in the Taranaki Cathedral Church of St Mary at 1 pm on this coming Wednesday, May 16, This service will be followed by private cremation.
Our love and our prayers go out to Judy and their family. May Graeme Rest in Peace and Rise in Glory
++David Moxon
+Philip Richardson
Thought For The Month
Four Degrees of Love.
"Bernard of Clairvaux, the great spiritual master of the Cistercian tradition, in his basic teaching on love tells us there are four 'degrees' of love. First, there is the love of self. It can be good or bad, ordered or disordered. But a good self-love is an essential foundation. For how else can we love our neighbour as ourselves and how can we love God?"
Events
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31May
Easter Season
Tena Koutou, Malo Elelei, Namaste, Talofa Lava, Ni Sa Bula Vinaka. Warm Greetings to you all. Grace and peace to you from God. The message of Easter is a story of the victory of God in Christ over the power of...
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Diary
- 19May
8:30am Morning Prayer
9am Wedding Rehearsal : Ginny & Colin - 20May
8am Holy Communion
10am Choral Eucharist
5pm Choral Evening Worship
7pm Informal Service
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Latest News
- 05Apr
Prayer Points and Information Snippets # 6
Jerusalem and the Middle East Donations to the Jerusalem and the Middle East Lenten Project for 2012 will be split...
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Prayer Points & Information Snippets #5
Jerusalem and the Middle East Donations to the Jerusalem and the Middle East Lenten Project for 2012 will be split...
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Prayer Points & Informations Snippets #4
Jerusalem and the Middle East Donations to the Jerusalem and the Middle East Lenten Project for 2012 will be split...
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Cathedral Stories
A Message from Your Dean
Light & Learning : Everybody Welcome
Christchurch - gathering in prayer
Snow-struck Summer wedding at St Mary's
Lunch cooks needed for monthly meal
Spiritual Growth Ministries
A Message from Your Dean
Letter from the Dean - The Very Revd Jamie Allen TĒNĀ KOUTOU KATOA ~ Warmest greetings to you. This lent-tide magazine comes to you with the joyful realisation and anticipation of many blessings - even as we hold back our alleluias for this season. At our family service on the first Sunday of Lent, our alleluias were packed away in a box - and remain in front of the altar. Also packed away were the Gloria (not our deacon, Gloria, thankfully! But the song...), the colour of celebration (white), and the flowers. The ancient practice of refraining from these...
Light & Learning : Everybody Welcome
Being welcomed and included into a church family is considerably easier for some people than it for others. If one brings personal gifts, valued contributions, status, standing within the community, financial wealth, past achievement(s), potential for future achievement, articulate verbal skills, pleasant personal appearance, physical ability, social skills, ‘acceptable levels’ of personal hygiene and the like, one is more than likely to greeted at the door and welcomed, connected and included (at least over time) into the fabric of the church family. But what if you do not have any or all of the above attributes?...
Christchurch - gathering in prayer
It was deeply moving to see the community widely represented at our service of prayer and memorial on 22nd February at 12.30pm -- remembering the time when that terribly destructive earthquake struck in Christchurch last year. The people came pouring in. Many of our local schools took part - and students led prayers and readings. Emergency services; the NP District Council; many professional organisations were represented. During the service, The Madrigal Companie, directed by Paul Cooke, sang their Elegy to end the time of silence, in memory of those who had died - and the bell tolled...
Snow-struck Summer wedding at St Mary's
A French Canadian-Kiwi couple who recently married at the Cathedral might have wished for snow in the middle of summer. But the pair were happy with Taranaki alternatives - snowflake ribbons and a snowboard guard of honour.Bruno Moise Cretney and Charlotte Trundle tied the knot on January 7 in a ceremony officiated by Dean Jamie Allen. The couple live in Wanaka but Charlotte’s father is English-born Stuart Trundle, Venture Taranaki’s chief executive, while her mother Liz comes from New Plymouth and has family connections to St Mary’s.Bruno grew up in Canada although his father is a New Zealander...
Lunch cooks needed for monthly meal
The Saturday Lunch Group needs more helpers. This year, the recruiting of hostesses has been difficult because of the age of group members. Only five helpers are able to continue in 2012 – usually 12 are required. The group began many years ago with the aim of preparing a two-course meal for a gathering on the first Saturday of the month from March to December. The current format has two teams of six hostesses (working alternate months) who prepare a meal with ‘afters’ to go with tea or coffee. Those attending are elderly parishioners (men and...
Spiritual Growth Ministries
The Taranaki Cathedral is hosting a series of retreat days under the banner of Spiritual Growth Ministries. This is a national ecumenical network of people who value the Christian contemplative tradition. For more information see www.sgm.org.nz. Sarah Foy asks Sue Pickering about the background to the contemplative prayer times. Who might want to attend the spiritual growth days?People who want more from their faith, who suspect there is more to God than meets the eye; tired Christians and people who are exhausted. People who are searching, people who are questioning and people who carry heavy burdens. Jesus said ‘come...