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St John's Cathedral

Anglican Diocese of Brisbane

St John's Cathedral

Anglican Diocese of Brisbane

St John's Cathedral

Anglican Diocese of Brisbane

St John's Cathedral

Anglican Diocese of Brisbane

St John's Cathedral

Anglican Diocese of Brisbane

HOLY WEEK, GOOD FRIDAY
and
EASTER


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EPISODE 100
Sue, Dom and Peter reflect on 7 years of Podcast making.

Nocturnes for Lent
Fridays
9pm

Live Stream for Weddings, Funerals and Worship
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WELCOME TO ST JOHN’S ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL, BRISBANE
St John’s Cathedral is home to a community which seeks to bring the best of Anglican tradition into dialogue with the issues and needs of our day.

We strive for open-minded conversation, seek to practice inclusion, and reflect on how we might see our beliefs put into action. We want this to be a place where people are encouraged to seek God and progress their own spiritual journeys.

The Cathedral itself, a renowned Brisbane landmark, serves as a magnet, where diverse people gather to worship, celebrate, seek solace, converse and learn.

Peace,
Peter Catt +
Dean of Brisbane

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STREAMING OF SERVICES and SERVICE NOTES

SERVICE NOTES
Here you will find quick links to two weeks of Service Notes for each of our four Sunday services.

These will be updated each Thursday –
“THIS WEEK” covers the coming Sunday;
“LAST WEEK” the preceding Sunday.

Click the title bar or ‘+’ button to toggle open your chosen week and select the service time.

7.30am Holy Eucharist – Sundays
Click here for Live Stream on The Cathedral YouTube Channel
The stream will appear on our channel at approximately 7.15am Sunday
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9.30am Choral Eucharist – Sundays
Click here for Live Stream on The Cathedral YouTube Channel
The stream will appear on our channel at approximately 9.15am Sunday
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6.00pm Choral Evensong – Sundays

Live Stream Sundays at 6pm
The stream will appear on our channel at approximately 5.45pm Sunday

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Morning Prayer 
Monday to Friday
8.30am

Details on Services Page

To access an electronic copy of the Prayer Book, please email: cathedral@stjohnscathedral.com.au

GENERAL NEWS

Welcome to St John’s Cathedral. The news items below highlight topics of general interest.
For details of special events and concerts at the Cathedral please see the WHAT’S ON page.
You may find information about our regular worship times on the SERVICES page.

OUR PLACE IN HISTORY:
THE CATHEDRAL and DEANERY HERITAGE APPEALS
The National Trust of Australia (Queensland) has listed The Cathedral and The Deanery (Adelaide House) because of their significance to the heritage of Queensland and Australia more broadly. Adelaide House was the first Government House when Queensland was created on 10th December 1859. The balcony on which Sir George Bowen read the proclamation that day has been the subject of a great deal of work to restore it to a stable and safe condition. The cathedral is the only stone-vaulted church in the Southern hemisphere and is highly regarded as a sublime example of neo-gothic architecture. Donations to the Cathedral fund are used to enhance and presence the fabric of the magnificent building.

Donations to the National Trust of Australia (Queensland) for these appeals are allowable as deductions for tax purposes.

Find out more on our DEANERY APPEAL page.

Episode 100 

Peter, Sue and Dom sit down to share how these many conversations across 7 years with wise and thoughtful people from around the world and closer to home have shaped their thinking and their lives. What shifts have happened in the world and the church across this time and how did the conversations reflect such change? How does sharing our wonderings, both amongst friends and in the public square, help us navigate cultural and global change as we seek to be people “on the way”? 

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CATHEDRAL OFFERINGS
NEW: ONLINE DONATIONS PAGE!

Our Cathedral has adopted the simple, convenient online payment channel of Tithe.ly — designed by and for churches — and currently used by more than 12,000 churches and ministries in over 50 countries.

Scan or click on the QR code above, to visit our GIVE page on this website: you may make an offering to our Cathedral and its work – either as a one-off or recurring gift –
using a credit card by clicking on the
green GIVE NOW button or the
GENERAL DONATIONS image block, which will open a simple, pop-up Tithe.ly form without you having to leave this site.

MORE INFO: please visit our GIVE page

OUTREACH – MARCH 2024


ABM Lent & Good Friday Appeal:
Giving the gift of improved health care, education and livelihoods 

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In March each year, our Outreach Project is the ABM Lent Appeal. The Anglican Board of Mission (ABM) bases its work on doing as Christ did – caring for bodies as well as souls. The ABM Church to Church Program focuses on spirituality (souls) and the Development Program relates to the material side (or bodies). As human beings are both body and spirit, one impacts upon the other.

In 2024, ABM have chosen to place before us the needs of deprivation and vulnerability, which in many parts of the world are not optional but a daily reality.

Even before the current conflict, almost two-thirds of households in the Gaza Strip experienced food insecurity. Providing even basic food requirements was challenging, resulting in malnutrition and stunting in children.

Before the conflict in Gaza, the (Anglican) Al Ahli Hospital ran a longstanding Child Nutrition Program to help address malnutrition. A partner program, saw trained local women  visiting mothers to provide essential training in nutrition, self-esteem, communication skills and gender.

One young mother who benefited from this program, Rayan, lives  in Gaza’s impoverished Mawassi district. Until October last year, Rayan’s son, Mazen, was enrolled in the Child Nutrition Program, and Rayan received personal mentoring support. Rayan speaks of  the positive impact that these programs had, until October, when an explosion near the entrance of the hospital killed at least 200 people and compromised most aid programs:

“My son suffered from malnutrition and stunted growth. Mazen was selected to benefit from the program after being examined by the hospital’s medical team. …I was very happy to see the positive improvements in his condition.

The community mobilizer … gave me wonderful advice that had an excellent impact on my life. After I participated in the Ahli Arab Hospital program, I became stronger and able to face the bad treatment I received from my husband and his family.

With the conflict in Gaza still ongoing, these programs run by the Al Ahli Hospital remain on hold. It is expected that, once the conflict ceases, the needs will be even more significant. Our support now will ensure that these vital health care services are immediately available to the vulnerable women and children in the Palestinian Territories, when services are able to resume.

Meanwhile, other ABM-AID support to the vulnerable continues. The Diocese of Colombo in Sri Lanka provides educational and nutritional aid for children, and health care and social connection throughout communities in the north of the country.

In Kenya, the ABM partner, Anglicans Development Services Eastern (ADSE), supported the construction of a sump well next to the Kikuu River, to pump water to the nearby marketplace. This project benefited Kikuu women by reducing a 10km walk to collect clean water to less than 1km.

On Good Friday we are invited to support ABM by providing hearing aids for refugee children in Jordan through the Holy Land Institute for the Deaf. This project focuses particularly on girls – as girls with disabilities are the most disadvantaged in the camps. With improved hearing comes significantly improved communication, education, and self-esteem.

ABM-AID aim to raise $98,000 through the Lent & Good Friday Appeal. Can we help by raising at least $1,000 of that figure before Good Friday? 

For your reflection. We invite you to reflect on this project and your response to it by completing the sentences: 

  • This project is meaningful for me because …;  and 
  • I/We can increase awareness of this need by … . 

Donations are tax deductible. ABM envelopes are available at the Outreach Board in the Narthex. Please place your donation in one of these (or your own clearly marked envelope) and give it with your offering, place it in the Donations Box, give it to a cathedral warden, or to the Cathedral Office Monday-Friday. If you wish to receive a receipt, please write your name and address clearly on the reverse of the envelope.

Using electronic banking, make a bank transfer to BSB 034 003 Account No:385378;  please narrate your deposit “Outreach 03” and also email outreach@stjohnscathedral.com.au to inform us of your deposit (include the amount), and to provide your postal details for the receipt. For other forms of payment, please phone the cathedral office [(07) 3835 2222] during normal business hours Monday-Friday. Cheques should be made payable to “ABM Lenten Appeal”. The ABM will provide receipts in April/May.

Thank you.

 

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