Portsmouth Cathedral Notices Sunday 1st March 2020
Painted meditations on the Passion of Christ
The astonishing series of thirteen paintings by Nicholas Mynheer called The Sarum Cycle is now on display around the ambulatory starting from the South doors. As painted meditations on the Passion of Christ, they are well worth spending time with and perhaps revisiting over the coming weeks. They will be on display for the whole of Lent, as we journey together on our pilgrimage with Jesus on the way that led him to the Cross. And they will stay at least into the beginning of Eastertide, because the Cycle ends with the women discovering the Empty Tomb and finally the risen Jesus appearing by the sea to his fishermen disciples.
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Portsmouth Cathedral Notices Sunday 23rd February 2020
‘Thanks for posing,’ is not a remark I hear every day, but Neil Pugmire (Diocesan Communications Adviser) did say this to me last Thursday! He had been taking some photographs to be posted on-line during Lent to illustrate actions in support of the Bishop’s Lenten Appeal 2020: ‘Care for God’s Creation’. Earlier Neil and I had agreed that he would only photograph actions that were authentic, in the sense that they reflect what I will actually be doing during Lent in response to the ‘An Action a Day’ activities identified on the diocesan website. So yes, amongst other things I will be supporting ‘Meat Free Mondays’, and using my bike rather than the car.
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Cathedral Notices Sunday 16th February
Ash Wednesday is upon us very soon. During Lent and Holy Week this year we are all invited on a pilgrimage with Jesus. From his time of trial in the wilderness, we journey with Christ, joining in his triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, going through the desolation of Golgotha on Good Friday and then on into the eternal joy of Easter. Artist Nicholas Mynheer’s work The Passion of Christ from his Sarum Cycle will form a focal point in the Cathedral for prayer and reflection throughout Lent and it will be installed in the Cathedral next week.
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Portsmouth Cathedral Notices Sunday 9th February 2020
‘You are the salt of the earth’ says Jesus to his disciples in our Gospel reading today, ‘but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled underfoot’. For his modern-day disciples, Jesus’s words are still laden with the qualities which salt brings to our lives. It is distinctive, and yet it also brings out the best in whatever is salted. It is astringent, an uncomfortable but effective cleanser. It is necessary, for our health and our life. And in water, it lowers the freezing point and raises the boiling point, widening the range over which it stays liquid.
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