St George's Cathedral, Cape Town

PROGRAMME FOR LENT, HOLY WEEK AND EASTER 2006:
 
Holy Fasting and Self-Denial
Festivity and Hope

Ash Wednesday - 1 March

07h00	Holy Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes Presider: The Very Reverend Rowan Q. Smith, Dean Preacher: The Reverend Walter B. Brownridge, Canon Pastor
10h00	Holy Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes Presider: The Reverend Bruce W. B. Jenneker, Canon Precentor Preacher: The Reverend Terry Lester, Sub-Dean
13h05	Holy Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes Presider and Preacher: The Most Reverend Njongonkulu W. H. Ndungane, Archbishop of Cape Town
17h30	Holy Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes Presider: The Reverend Terry Lester, Sub-Dean Preacher: The Very Reverend Rowan Q. Smith, Dean

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Sundays in Lent

A Said Eucharist is celebrated at 07h00 and 08h00
The Cathedral Eucharist with Choir is celebrated at 09h15

5 March	First Sunday in Lent
Presider: The Reverend Walter B. Brownridge, Canon Pastor Preacher: The Very Reverend Rowan Q. Smith, Dean
12 March	Second Sunday in Lent
Presider: The Very Reverend Rowan Q. Smith, Dean Preacher: The Reverend Bruce W. B. Jenneker, Canon Precentor
19 March	Third Sunday in Lent
Presider: The Reverend Terry Lester, Sub-Dean Preacher: The Reverend Michael Twum-Darko, Assistant
26 March	Fourth Sunday in Lent
Presider: The Reverend Bruce W. B. Jenneker, Canon Precentor Preacher: The Reverend Walter B. Brownridge, Canon Pastor
2 April	Fifth Sunday in Lent
Presider: The Reverend Michael Twum-Darko, Assistant Preacher: The Reverend Terry Lester, Sub-Dean

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Musings:
The Clergy Ponder Lenten Themes

Join the Clergy for a discussion of Lenten Themes in the Minor Hall from 11h15 to 12h00

5 March	The Reverend Terry Lester, Sub-Dean
12 March	The Reverend Walter B. Brownridge, Canon Pastor
19 March	The Reverend Bruce W. B. Jenneker, Canon Precentor
26 March	The Reverend Michael Twum-Darko, Assistant
2 April	The Very Reverend Rowan Q. Smith, Dean

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Lenten Sunday Evensong Sermon Series:
A Spirituality for a World at Risk

5 March

Reverend Carel Anthonissen Centre for Christian Spirituality

A Spirituality for a World at Risk
Exploring the spiritual resources which can help us cope with the challenges of disintegration, insecurity and instability that confront us.

12 March

Ms Margaret Legum Anglican Laywoman, observer of the economy

Resources at Risk
Confronting a changing world economy and the impact of those changes on us – locally, globally; individually, communally.

19 March

Ms Pat September Office on the Status of Women, Dept of the Premier

Families and Communities at Risk
Addressing the challenges that face our families, in all their different shapes, sizes and configurations, and those that face our communities, as norms and mores change, pressures on belonging increase and commitment becomes difficult and rare.

26 March

Bishop Geoff Davies Retired Bishop of Umzimvubu

Environment at Risk
Understanding the responsibilities for our environment which we continue to avoid at our peril and exploring resources for a spirituality that enables and empowers us to live creatively, safely and responsibly in our world that is so perilously at risk.

2 April

Commissioner Gertrude Fester Commission on Gender Equality

Identity and Relationships at Risk
Examining the challenges that threaten and undermine our personhood as well as our primary and other relationships, in the context of the collapse of social cohesion, the loss of confidence in progress, and the insecurity of life in a world at risk.

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Wednesday Evenings in Lent

Come apart for quiet reflection and meditation. A contemplative liturgy of prayer and song in the style of Taizé with readings from The Inner Voice of Love by Henri Nouwen

St John's Chapel at 18h00 with a Labyrinth Walk at 18h50

8 March	'Let love transform you'
15 March	'Acknowledge your powerlessness'
22 March	'Remain attentive to your best intuitions'
29 March	'Stay with your pain'
5 April	'Accept your identity as a child of God'

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PALM SUNDAY AND HOLY WEEK

PALM SUNDAY – The Sunday of the Passion
9 April

07h00	Said Eucharist with Blessing of Palms Presider and Preacher: The Reverend Terry Lester, Sub-Dean
08h00	Holy Eucharist with Blessing of Palms Presider and Preacher: The Revd Walter Brownridge, Canon Pastor
09h15	Sung Eucharist with the Blessing of Palms and Procession Begins in the Company's Garden at 08h45 Presider: The Very Reverend Rowan Q. Smith, Dean
19h00	Solemn Vespers of Palm Sunday with Music and Readings Presider: The Reverend Bruce W. B. Jenneker, Canon Precentor

MONDAY IN HOLY WEEK
10 April

07h15 and 13h15

Said Eucharist in St John's Chapel

Liturgy of Solidarity with the Suffering Christ
At 18h00 in St John's Chapel

TUESDAY IN HOLY WEEK
11 April

07h15 and 13h15

Said Eucharist in St John's Chapel

Liturgy of Reconciliation
At 18h00 in St John's Chapel

WEDNESDAY IN HOLY WEEK
12 April

07h15 and 13h15

Said Eucharist in St John's Chapel

Stations of the City, St Mark's Church at 18h00

A pilgrimage in the spirit of the Stations of the Cross, beginning at St Mark's Church and stopping for prayer at several sites important in the history of the struggle for justice, freedom and dignity for all South Africans.

The pilgrimage ends at the Cathedral, with the opportunity to walk the Labyrinth.

(Plan to park at the Cathedral, walk to St Mark's with fellow-parishioners and return to the Cathedral for the Conclusion and Labyrinth Walk.)

MAUNDY THURSDAY
13 April

Confessions
By appointment with the Sub-Dean from 10h00 to 11h00
Call 021 424 7360

Liturgy of the Day at 18h00
Footwashing, Eucharist of the Institution of the Lord's Supper, Stripping of the Altar
Watch of the Passion from 20h00 on Thursday to 09h00 on Friday; walk the Labyrinth during the Watch of the Passion.
Presider: The Reverend Bruce Jenneker, Canon Precentor
Preacher: The Reverend Terry Lester, Sub-Dean

GOOD FRIDAY
14 April

Confessions
By appointment with the Canon Pastor from 10h00 to 11h00
Call 021 424 7360

Liturgy of the Day at 09h00
General Intercessions, the reading of the Passion, the Solemn Adoration of Christ Crucified, Communion from the Reserved Sacrament
Presider: The Very Reverend Rowan Q. Smith, Dean

Three Hours Devotion from 12h00 to 15h00
Preacher: The Most Reverend Njongonkulu W. H. Ndungane, Archbishop of Cape Town

Mozart on Good Friday at 19h30
Requiem, K.626
Ave verum corpus, K.618
Masonic Funeral Music, K.477,
'Munich' Kyrie, K341

This programme begins the Cathedral's Mozart Festival commemorating the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth. The Festival continues on Easter Day, includes a concert on Easter Monday and concludes on the First Sunday of Easter.

HOLY SATURDAY
15 April

Confessions
By appointment with the Dean from 10h00 to 11h00
Call 021 424 7360

Great Vigil of Easter at 22h30
Lighting of the Easter Fire, Liturgy of the Paschal Candle, Vigil of Readings, Renewal of Baptismal Vows, the First Eucharist of Easter
Presider and Preacher: The Most Reverend Njongonkulu W. H. Ndungane, Archbishop of Cape Town

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EASTER DAY
16 April

07h00	Said Eucharist in the Nave Presider and Preacher: The Revd Michael Twum-Darko, Assistant
08h00	Holy Eucharist with Hymns in the Nave Presider and Preacher: The Revd Walter B. Brownridge, Canon Pastor
09h15	Festival Eucharist of the Resurrection of our Lord Presider: The Reverend Bruce Jenneker, Canon Precentor Preacher: The Very Reverend Rowan Q. Smith, Dean
11h00	Solemn Sung Mass – Mozart's Coronation Mass, K.317 Presider: The Reverend Terry Lester, Sub-Dean Preacher: The Very Reverend Rowan Q. Smith, Dean
19h00	Solemn Vespers of Easter Day Vesperae solennes de confessore by W. A. Mozart Precentor: The Reverend Rowan Q. Smith, Dean Preacher: The Reverend Bruce Jenneker, Canon Precentor

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MONDAY IN EASTER WEEK
17 April

Said Eucharist at 07h15 and 13h15

TUESDAY IN EASTER WEEK
18 April

Said Eucharist at 07h15 and 13h15

WEDNESDAY IN EASTER WEEK
19 April

Said Eucharist at 07h15, 10h00 and 13h15

THURSDAY IN EASTER WEEK
20 April

Said Eucharist at 07h15 and 13h15

FRIDAY IN EASTER WEEK
21 April

Said Eucharist at 07h15 and 13h15

FIRST SUNDAY OF EASTER – Feast of St George the Martyr
23 April

07h00	Said Eucharist Presider and Preacher: The Very Reverend Rowan Q. Smith, Dean
08h00	Said Eucharist Preacher and Presider: The Reverend Terry Lester, Sub-Dean
09h15	Festival Eucharist for the Feast of St George Presider: The Rt Reverend Garth Q. Counsell, Suffragan Bishop of Cape Town
11h00	Solemn Sung Mass - Mozart's Missa Brevis in F K192 Presider: The Rt Reverend Garth Q. Counsell, Suffragan Bishop of Cape Town
19h00	Solemn Evensong Precentor: The Reverend Terry Lester, Sub-Dean Preacher: The Reverend Walter Brownridge, Canon Pastor

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