Parish Connections June July 2018

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june/july 2018

History, Justice
and Reconciliation

Fr Frank Brennan SJ AO

Last month, the nation farewelled
one of the great public servants,
Barrie Dexter. Barrie’s father
Walter was a decorated Anglican
chaplain at Gallipoli. Barrie and
his four brothers all served in the
Second World War. Barrie then
became a diplomat until Prime
Minister Harold Holt handpicked
him for a domestic role after
the 1967 referendum. At that
referendum, the Australian people
voted overwhelmingly to remove
the two arguably adverse references
to Aborigines in the Constitution.
The political effect of the strong
vote for change was pressure on
the Commonwealth government to
act directly to improve the living
conditions of Aboriginals and
Torres Strait Islanders.

Holt set up a three-member Council
for Aboriginal Affairs consisting
of ‘Nugget’ Coombs who had
been a major contributor to post-
war reconstruction and to the
Reserve Bank; Bill Stanner who
was a leading anthropologist at the
Australian National University; and
Barrie Dexter.

In his delightful self-deprecating
mode, Dexter says that Harold
Holt was looking for someone who

Aboriginal woman and children walking by a billabong (detail) continued overleaf

Courtesy of the State Library of New South Wales

History, Justice and Reconciliation continued

was ‘honest, just, sympathetic esteemed service in the Defence discrimination or inadequacy on
with underdeveloped or deprived forces, in Foreign Affairs and his the part of Governments, then
peoples, knows his way backwards flair for speaking new languages, that is where the resources of
through the public service and all added to his abilities to serve the Department of Aboriginal
[would] not squeal when he was even his most neglected fellow Affairs should be directed.
kicked.’ When asked by Holt to Australians with decency and
join the three-member Council for integrity. He witnessed the most A tribute was also delivered at
Aboriginal Affairs with Coombs depressed of living conditions Dexter’s funeral by Professor Gary
and Stanner, Dexter replied, ‘But and lack of access to services for Foley who, as a young Aboriginal
I don’t know anything about Aboriginal people and worked activist, had been sacked by Dexter
Aboriginals.’ Holt said, ‘That’s why tirelessly to achieve improved when only six weeks into his
I asked you to take on the job. I’m outcomes for us. employment in the Commonwealth
frightened by the people who think public service. Foley told the
they do know something!’ Dexter Barrie Dexter and Charles Perkins congregation that he used to hate
then said, ‘Mr Prime Minister, you had their differences and their Dexter but that later in life he
are asking me to open Pandora’s blow-ups in the public service but grew to love him. It was Foley
box!’ Holt replied, ‘That is precisely they came to respect each other. who organised the publication
what I am asking you to do, Barrie.’ How fitting it was that the formal of Dexter’s book Pandora’s Box,
These ‘three wise men’ or ‘the three eulogy was delivered by Perkins’ recounting the activities of the
white men’, as they were often relative Patricia Turner, one- Council for Aboriginal Affairs. Gary
called, helped navigate the policy time CEO of the Aboriginal and Foley said that reconciliation had to
changes for land rights and self- Torres Strait Islander Commission be founded on truth. Looking back
determination. (ATSIC) and deputy secretary of over the decades, Foley and Dexter
the department of Prime Minister had come to appreciate each other’s
The eulogy at Dexter’s funeral was and Cabinet. Nothing gave Barrie perspectives on difficult times,
delivered by the nation’s most greater pleasure than to see which included the setting up of
distinguished Aboriginal public Aboriginal Australians replacing the Aboriginal tent embassy in front
servant, Patricia Turner. She said: him and taking their rightful of the old Parliament House.
place in the administration of the
The late Mr Barrie Dexter most nation, determining the best use of Thirty years ago, the Australian
certainly paved a promising Pandora’s box. Church leaders were asking our
pathway to right the way for elected politicians to agree on how
Aboriginal people to live a more On his last day as Secretary of the best to recognise Aboriginal and
fulfilled and decent life in this Department of Aboriginal Affairs Torres Strait Islander Australians at
country. When I gave the eulogy in 1977, Barrie had written an the opening of the new Parliament
at the funeral of my late uncle account of his stewardship to his House. On the day of the opening, 9
Charlie Perkins, I recalled that minister Ian Viner. Viner replied, May 1988, Queen Elizabeth was met
he was an ‘unorthodox public thanking Dexter for his insights by 1,000 Aboriginal protesters and
servant’. I know Mr Dexter and assistance, having come to their supporters when she arrived
would have understood that his position “as a ‘new chum’ in at the forecourt. The protesters
very well. Mr Dexter on the Aboriginal Affairs as well as to the were chanting, “What do we
other hand, I would characterise Ministry.” Viner confided:  want?” “Land rights.” “When do we
as an ‘orthodox public servant’ want it?” “Now”.
who was well equipped for It seemed to me that we had
his tasks. He was a career a common approach through Ten days after the opening by
public servant who brought his a simple philosophy and the Queen, the Opposition in
significant experience, intellect fundamental truth – all men parliament announced, “Because
and a fair dinkum sense of, and and women are equal in the of the negative community
commitment to, all people having sight of God and deserve to be response to radical Aboriginal
a fair go, in the many positions accorded the dignity of that protests, the Coalition has decided
he held in the Australian Public status within the Australian not to proceed with initiating
Service and in CARE. His community. Where it has been a parliamentary resolution on
diminished by disadvantage or Aboriginal matters. We do not

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History, Justice and Reconciliation continued

believe that it would be positively for ‘the establishment of a First recognised in the Constitution,
received in the community and Nations Voice enshrined in the that body will need to be set up
hence would fail to promote Constitution’. by legislation which sets out what
reconciliation as we had hoped.” No it’s to do, the way it which it is to
one would say that in Parliament Australians will not vote for a operate, and how representation
today. Some things have changed, constitutional First Nations Voice is to be organised. When ATSIC
and for the better. This was all until they have first heard it and was first established in 1989, the
before Mabo, native title, and the seen it in action. Presumably the number of Australians identifying
apology to the stolen generations. First Nations Voice would replace as Aboriginal and Torres Strait
the existing National Congress of Islander was less than a quarter of
On 9 May 2018, dignitaries once Australia’s First Peoples which a million. At the last census, it was
again gathered in the forecourt of boasts, “As a company the Congress almost 650,000. The aspirations of
the ‘new’ Parliament House—this is owned and controlled by its these self-identifying Indigenous
time to mark the 30th anniversary membership and is independent Australians are very diverse. A
of the opening of the building by of Government. Together we constitutionally recognised body
Queen Elizabeth. Just like 9 May will be leaders and advocates for would have much less flexibility
1988, it was a glorious autumn day recognising our status and rights as than the present Congress.
with clear sunshine and dappled First Nations Peoples in Australia.” There is a need for a lot further
leaves. Thirty years ago, there were When the extensive Aboriginal discussion both within Indigenous
no Aboriginal representatives inside consultations for the setting up of communities and within Australian
the parliament and no Aboriginal the Congress were conducted in society generally about what such
person spoke at the ceremony. 2009, the committee charged with a First Nations Voice might look
Thirty years on, Aboriginal elders proposing the model concluded, like, and what it might do. The
conducted a smoking ceremony of “The new National Representative challenges are great. But great
welcome and cleansing. There was a Body should be a private company Australians like Barrie Dexter,
good feel to the willing participation limited by guarantee rather than Patricia Turner and Gary Foley have
of community leaders in the a statutory authority.” They had shown us the way. There needs to
ceremony, including the Governor- “consistently heard the aspiration be a place at the table for both the
General, the Queen’s representative. of Aboriginal and Torres Strait orthodox and the unorthodox.
And of course, there is now some Islander peoples that the National
very fine Aboriginal representation Representative Body become Fr Frank Brennan SJ AO is CEO of
inside the Parliament—on both self-determining over time”. They Catholic Social Services Australia
sides of the aisle. Thankfully, some said, “This cannot happen if the
things do change for the better over body is a creation of Parliament Editorial
the decades. whose existence is dependent on policy
the goodwill of Parliament and
Fifty-one years on from the 1967 the government of the day.” They We aim to publish a
referendum, we are still wondering thought a company limited by wide range of views and
how to recognise Indigenous guarantee would have the advantage opinions in this magazine.
Australians in our Constitution. of flexibility and enhanced self- Publication should
At the moment, they don’t even determination: “The structures of therefore not be read as
rate a mention in our founding the Body will be able to be flexible, St James’, the Rector,
document. On this, the country with the members able to alter the Parish Council, staff or
is stalled. It will remain stalled Constitution when necessary. If the parishioners necessarily
until there is a more inclusive Body was a statutory authority it endorsing or approving any
respectful dialogue about what would have to rely on Parliament particular view or opinion.
is appropriate and achievable to approve such changes and may
in the Australian Constitution. also have unnecessary or politically
At Uluru a year ago, Aboriginal motivated changes foisted upon it.”
and Torres Strait Islander
representatives from around If the Congress is to be replaced
Australia strongly supported a call by a First Nations Voice which is

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brooke shelley profile: Stan Cowper

Stan, how long have you been a of acting as a lay assistant, and for
parishioner at St James’ and what a time assisted in preparing some
brought you here? young people for confirmation. The
North Shore book group since its
My late wife, Norma, and I first inception has met at my home.
came to St James’ in 1985. We
were visiting a sick relative each What do you enjoy about St James’?
Sunday and the drive across Sydney
brought us past St James’. As I have made valued friendships at
we were regular churchgoers we St James’ and these friends have
thought we could come to church supported me through a difficult
at St James’ and then proceed on for time. I appreciate the contribution
the visit. others make in reading and the
intercessions. I find I am ‘stretched’
Were you born and bred in spiritually and intellectually in the
Sydney? If not, would you like to worship.
say something about your origins?
The re-enactment of Palm Sunday, I read early in my Christian journey
I was born in Annandale and lived Maundy Thursday, the three-hour ‘Don’t take your unbelief too
my early years in Leichhardt. My service of Good Friday and Easter seriously, only belief is to be taken
school days were at Leichhardt Day I find very moving even now seriously’. I carry that with me every
Public School and then at after 30 years. I value the silent day and with it the verse, ‘My grace
Sydney Technical High School at retreats I have attended at St is sufficient for you for my strength
Paddington. Mary’s Towers. Unlikely though it is made perfect in weakness’. And I
seems, I have always enjoyed the value Philippians 4.8:
What do/did you do for a cleaning of the church for Easter
profession? and Christmas. I made good friends Whatsoever things are true,
in those activities. whatsoever things are noble,
I studied Applied Chemistry whatsoever things are just,
part-time at the University of New I must also say how much pleasure whatsoever things are pure,
South Wales and worked in the the music at St James’s has given whatsoever things are lovely,
pharmaceutical industry. I managed me. The unaccompanied singing on whatsoever things are of good
the Quality Control Department Good Friday makes me choke up, report; if there is any virtue, and
and then the Regulatory Affairs particularly the hymn, O sacred head, if there is anything praiseworthy,
Department for an International sore wounded. J.S. Bach has a lot to think on these things.
Pharmaceutical Company. After answer for!
early retirement I consulted in
Regulatory Affairs. Are there any other churches that Do you have any particular (or
you have been a member of over peculiar) interests or hobbies?
Do or did you undertake any the years and have you always
roles at St James’ such as Reader, been an Anglican? I taught myself to cook out of a
Intercessor, Sidesperson, etc? book Mastering the Art of French
I have always been an Anglican, Cooking, and owe a debt to two
I have been on Parish Council for although something of a late starter. American ladies: Julia Child. one
two or three years, have chaired the I first attended St Andrew’s Summer of the authors of that book, and to
Outreach Committee for some time, Hill where I made lifelong friends the wonderful Barbara Tuchman, a
and have served on the St Laurence and where I was given a solid historian whose books have given
House committee. Norma and I were grounding in the faith, then St Paul’s me infinite pleasure.
involved with Ruby Riach and Neil Carlingford, St Matthew’s West
Barker setting up the 7:45am coffee Pymble and St Swithun’s Pymble My formal education was very
group. I routinely attend any study technologically focussed. Poetry
groups run by St James’. I regularly Would you like to say something barely featured. In the last two or
read and lead the intercessions at about your spiritual journey over three years I have tried to fill that
the 7:45am service, had the privilege the years? gap. Reading poetry has brought

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me into the company of generous, The congregation(s) meeting ’Behold and see if ever there were any
thoughtful and highly gifted people. together Sunday by Sunday are a sorrow, any tears like mine…..And
I have made the acquaintance of witness to me of the grace of the when God shall come to that
Judith Wright, Kenneth Slessor and Lord. For that ongoing witness last Act in the glorifying of
James McAuley, Judith Beveridge, and for the strength it gives I want Man, when he promises, to wipe
Siegfried Sassoon, George Herbert to thank the 7:45am, 9:00am and all teares from his eyes, what shall
and John Donne. It has been a 11:00am congregations. We are all God have to doe with that eye
pleasant surprise to find Robert pilgrims journeying in the company that never wept?
Louis Stevenson wrote poetry too. of the Lord.
From a Sermon preached by John
Is there anything you’d like to Stan Cowper is a parishioner at St James’. Donne on the verse, ‘Jesus wept’ at
share with Parish Connections readers White-hall in Lent 1622/3.
that hasn’t been covered here? Brooke Shelley is Communications and
Media Manager at St James’.

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liz barton st petersburg in

This is Part 2 of Liz Barton’s The Yusupov Palace was the site The Peter and Paul Cathedral
account of her trip to Russia in of Rasputin’s murder. One of the is located within the Peter and
January. main conspirators was Prince Felix Paul Fortress where all the Tsars,
Yusupov who had recently married Tsarinas and Empresses are buried
The construction of St Petersburg a beautiful young woman. As below floor level in silver coffins.
began in the early 17th century, as Rasputin was fond of the ladies, the During a service the Tsar was the
it was Peter the Great’s desire to Prince invited him one evening to only person who was permitted to
establish a port on the Baltic. The meet his new wife. Rasputin duly sit down on his red velvet armchair,
city is a little like Venice, after arrived where he was greeted by ensconced in a tall red velvet
which it was modelled, and is built the Prince. Piano music was heard canopy. Here we met Capitolina the
on a series of islands. The ground in the background whereupon the cat, strolling across the marble floor.
was marshy and required numerous Prince told him that his wife was It is said to be lucky if she makes
timber poles to be driven in to still entertaining some friends, an appearance. The side chapel is
provide stable foundations, again but while they were waiting they where the remains of the last ruling
like Venice. should go down to the cellar for family of the Romanovs rest. Alexei
a glass of wine. As he had a sweet and Maria’s remains have now been
In St Petersburg we settled into tooth, cakes containing arsenic identified and will soon join their
the Astoria Hotel, built in 1910. It were laid out. The army Doctor parents and siblings.
has hosted many famous persons, assured the conspirators that
including Obama when he was it was sufficient to kill him. As We spent an evening at the
in office, Kissinger, Thatcher, history tells us this was not so. He Mariinsky Theatre where we saw
Madonna, and Gwyneth Paltrow, had to be shot and chased into the ballet Le Corsaire. The theatre,
among others. Prior to Obama’s the frozen Neva. Two days later previously known as the Kirov,
arrival, all of the glass in the hotel’s when his body was pulled out and opened in 1860. The theatre curtain
windows were replaced with examined, water was found in his is said to be designed after the
bullet proof glass. Rasputin even lungs indicating that he had finally skirts of Catherine the Great. It
passed through its portals. In 1916 perished through hypothermia and boasts sumptuous green velvet
he arrived by car at 3:00am for an drowning. He had three children, and gilt chairs, illuminated with
assignation with a Princess, and he one of whom escaped Russia to live glittering chandeliers. The royal
remained there until dawn. He also in America. box can be booked by anyone who
dined in the restaurant. chooses to do so.

The Winter Palace or ‘Hermitage’
was also built by Catherine the
Great. It is one of the oldest and
largest museums in the world. The
Palace is spectacular due to its
sheer size. The frozen River Neva
can be seen through the palace
windows. Our guide, a professor
of Art, provided many interesting
anecdotes and background
information about the priceless
paintings, some of which date
back to the 15th century. There is
a Roman-style floor created with
Roman expertise, but laid by
Russians - just to show that they
could do it. The art collection is
astonishing. Catherine did not just

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January

turned into museums after being
seized from their owners. There
continues to be remarkable
restoration work done by the
government on these palaces.
Russia boasts considerable
expertise in the area of restoration
and the government has spent large
sums on many buildings.

buy individual pieces, she bought Winter Palace The following day we drove out
whole collections. We saw the to Pushkin, formerly known as
famous peacock clock located in Onegin is not often performed in the Tsarkoe Selo (Tsar’s Village), to
the ‘winter garden’. The palace west. It is the story of a young girl see the Catherine Palace where
has been several different colours, who falls in love with the owner of Catherine the Great lived and
including yellow and brick red at a neighbouring estate. He rejects died. Competed in 1756, it is nearly
the time of the last Tsar Nicholas her, saying he would not make one kilometre in circumference,
II. It is now a deep jade colour as her happy. Later, she marries well with elaborate blue and white
it was in the time of Catherine. and takes her place in society. He facades. The interiors of the
The use of these bright colours is happens to be invited to a reception palace are spectacular. The rugs,
a Russian tradition. The throne at her home where he falls in love porcelain, gold leaf and silk wall
looked to be a lonely place. There with her. She rejects his advances, coverings are dazzling. The many
are cats there also, resident in the telling him that she will be faithful porcelain stoves, favoured by
basement, although they did not to her husband. The End! Catherine the Great to remind her
show themselves. Merchandise in of her homeland, were there for
the shop contains items stating ‘I In St Petersburg there are 100 decoration only. The Great Hall
live in the Hermitage’ with cats palaces, most of which have been measures almost 1,000 square
decorating them. metres and occupies the full width
of the palace. The White Dining
Room is equally luxurious. It is set
out with beautiful porcelain sets

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At the Mariinsky Theatre II we
saw an excellent production
of the opera Eugene Onegin. This
theatre and concert hall complex
was completed in 2013 and is
much more spacious than the
old Mariinsky next door. It was
snowing as we arrived and was still
snowing when we left. The crowd
all enter wearing their puffer coats
and hats which are shed at the ever-
present cloak rooms. This involves
lots of queuing and patience. Eugene

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st petersburg in january continued

on the tables showing the truly falling snow, with each troika The history of Russia after the
luxurious lifestyle of the Romanovs. drawn by three horses. Another time of the revolution involved
At Tsarkoe Selo, we also enjoyed dream fulfilled! the demolition of many churches,
a troika ride through the lightly or their reassignment to other
purposes. There have now been
three generations who have not
known religion. Some of the older
generations and a number of young
people, however, do attend church.

The parting comment from our
guide as we neared St Petersburg
airport was ‘Russia is not a
democracy’.

Liz Barton is a Parishioner at St James’
and a member of the Friends of Music
Committee. An account of her trip to
Moscow can be read in the April/May
edition of Parish Connections.

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preacher profile: brooke shelley
The Rev’d Canon Dr colleen o’reilly

You have been Vicar at St George’s from 1855 onwards. I insist that all as a Diocesan Reader, that is my best
Malvern since 2007. Can you the entries must be in fountain pen legacy in my ‘home’ diocese.
describe the spirit of your parish as biro simply will not do. I also
and what keeps you there? make notes in the service register of I was ordained within a year of
events in the wider community and coming to Melbourne in 1995, and
Malvern is an old and well- world. The parish archivist tells me I have loved living and working as a
established part of Melbourne, and will be loved for this by historians in priest – although I do describe the
St George’s has been at the heart of the future! job as ‘trying to juggle confetti’.
the historic precinct on Glenferrie
Road since 1855, when Canon What can you tell the St James’ Where are the young women coming
Handfield would ride out from community about your origins? along behind me? I do hope my
St Peter’s Eastern Hill to conduct generation of ordained women is not
services. The present blue stone I was born and grew up in Sydney, some kind of blip, and I am turning
church building was opened in 1869, in Hurstville Grove. My parents my mind to ways to foster vocations
added to later in 1885 and then in were older people and my mother in young women.
1921, when St Martin’s Chapel was was a widow when she married
built. It is a memorial to all those my father, so I have an older half- We’re looking forward to hearing
who fought in WW1. sister who lives in Scotland and a you preach at our Patronal Festival.
younger sister still in Sydney. As a Is there anything you’d like to
St George’s is an open and liberal- small child I was given a wonderful share with the congregation
minded parish in the Anglo- ecclesiology. We were taught that before you ascend to the pulpit?
catholic tradition. I like to think even if the church at St Aidan’s was
of the worship as ‘international small, the worldwide church was I am looking forward to being with
contemporary Anglican’ – large, and had been in existence you all in July. Over the years, I
sacramental, liturgical with good for a very long time, so there was have worshipped (and preached)
music, an eclectic range of hymns, a every reason to be glad to belong. I at St James’ from time to time, and
variety of preachers and hospitable recall being told that there was no known many of the clergy and
to all. need for a universal bishop, but if people. It was a joy to marry my son
there was, it ought to be the Bishop to the daughter of a parish family
St George’s provides pastoral care of Jerusalem, not Rome, the former in St James’ in 2011. Your parish is a
to Anglican patients at Cabrini being the older diocese! beacon of light in a diocese where it
Hospital, a major teaching hospital is not easy to find the kind of parish
within the parish. We support Would you like to share with ethos you provide. Given the strong
the Brigidine Asylum Seekers our readers your experiences on family link now, I feel part of you in
project with donations of food and the path to ordination, and your your diaspora.
household goods, and also food thoughts on the current climate
pantries in Fitzroy and St Albans. for women in leadership in the Although you were baptised
church? Anglican at six weeks of age, is it
The parish continues to have safe to say your world has been
a significant ministry through I was committed to the ordination consistently Anglican and ‘faith-
weddings, funerals and baptisms, of women in our Church long before strong’?
which is one reason I find it so I knew I was called. A friend and
fulfilling to be here. The clergy are I started a group called Anglican Maybe the priest put something
invited into people’s lives at key Women Concerned in 1975. We in the baptismal water, but I am
times and given the opportunity to were naïve and had to learn over the Anglican to my core.
demonstrate the unconditional love next twenty years how to debate in
of God for people when they are Synod, and how to gather the people I was once asked to consider
joyful or grieving. It is a ‘traditional’ in favour and persuade the wavering ministry in the Uniting Church, but
parish in that sense, in a time when that it was the right thing for the I knew it would not work–for them
fewer have these opportunities. I Church to do. In 1987 I moved the or me. Malvern is the twelfth parish
love writing in the parish registers Women Deacon’s (Adoption) Canon I have belonged to over my lifetime
to record these important events. in Sydney Synod, with Keith Mason in Australia, England and America,
The parish archives hold the records seconding. Apart from my ministry and I have worshipped with

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preacher profile: colleen o’reilly continued

Anglicans in so many other countries. A good novel or other book to read The Rev’d Canon Dr Colleen O’Reilly is
I tell people their baptismal is a too infrequent pleasure, and I Vicar at St George’s Malvern and will be
certificate is like a passport to the do enjoy watching a good drama, or preaching at the Patronal Festival.
worldwide church in every place – a house renovation. To be honest
and to use it! taking part in the various councils Brooke Shelley is Communications and
of the Church, as I have over the Media Manager at St James’.
Do you have any particular (even years, is a peculiar thing to enjoy, but
peculiar) interests or hobbies? hardly a hobby!

colin’s corner

Continuing the theme: affecting the Trusts, was held over of the Church, together with a
100 YEARS AGO till the next meeting. scheme for bringing same to a
state of efficiency.
FROM the MONTHLY FROM the MONTHLY
CHURCH MESSENGER, CHURCH MESSENGER, Date of Consecration of
june 1918 july 1918 St. James' Church.  A sub-
committee consisting of the
Parochial Council Parochial Council Rector, Mr Brady and Mr Wright
was appointed to make inquiries
The monthly meeting of the The usual monthly meeting of into the date upon which the
Parochial Council was held on the Council took place on Saturday, Church was consecrated.2
the 17th May. There was a good June 15th, at 3 p.m. The agenda
attendance, and in addition to paper being an unusually long one 1. Church Lighting
routine business, some important tea was provided in the Crypt for
matters were discussed. the members, who resumed their The electric globes in the church have
meeting at 7 p.m. been changed and also raised several
A Welcome.—The Rector feet, with the result of a marked
extended a welcome to Mr In company with Mr improvement in the lighting of the
Fletcher, the new member of the Buckridge, the architect, the Church. This change has been made
Council. members of the Council inspected as a temporary arrangement and it is
the Hall and Church premises. hoped that at a later date a new and
Broughton Chambers.— improved system of lighting may be
All business arising out of the War Memorial.  Mr. installed. (From Parish Notes, The
vacating of Broughton Chambers Buckeridge explained, with the aid Monthly Church Messenger, August 1918)
by our late tenants was of sketch plans, the proposals re
concluded. the War Memorial. Designs are in The cost of this work was £10.
course of preparation. (Parochial Council, same issue.)
St. James' Hall.—An increase
in the rate of payment of the hall Church Messenger.  It was Church Lighting.—Mr. Mullins
caretaker is necessary owing resolved to ask all parishioners reported that the lighting of the
to the introduction of a new who are desirous of receiving the Church could be completed in an
caretakers’ award. Messenger regularly to forward efficient manner at an additional cast
their names together with the (sic) of £26.15s. It was decided that the
Assistant Curate.—It was subscription of 2s 6d, to the Hon. Rector refer the matter to the Trustees.
decided to increase the salary Secretary. (From Parochial Council (report of
of the Rev. P. Byrnes by £20 per the July Meeting), The Monthly Church
annum. St. James' Trusts.—The Church Lighting1.  Mr. Messenger, September 1918)
report of the sub-committee Mullins presented an exhaustive
appointed to interview Mr. report by Messrs. Webb and 2. St James’ Church was consecrated
Adrian Knox, K.C., on matters Burgess, on the present lighting on 11 February 1824. (Old St.
James’, The Monthly Church Messenger,

December 1918.)

Colin Middleton is the Archives
Assistant at St James’.

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Ministry in the Northern Territory The Right Rev’d
Dr Greg Anderson

For the last few years, St James’, produce little fruit in its four years arrived in Central Australia, and
King Street has partnered with the of operation. there were explorers, traders and
Diocese of the Northern Territory, in pastoralists in the Top End before
the ministry of theological education From 1877 the German Lutherans the end of the nineteenth century.
for Aboriginal people in remote at Hermannsburg, west of Alice With an emphasis on residential
areas in the Alice Springs region. Springs, were more successful, mission communities, it is not
Indigenous Theological Education A recent documentary, The surprising that the missionaries
in Central Australia (ITECA) was Songkeepers, celebrates the came to have more influence than
established as an incorporated tradition of Arrernte hymn- other outside forces.
body in 2017 after several years of singing, translated from the
discussion, planning and trialling German, that is now approaching While the initial political context
training through local Territory its sesquicentenary. A lasting in which missions began in
teachers. The corporation is an Anglican presence among the Territory was a policy of
ecumenical enterprise, including the Aboriginal people began in the Top separation of Aboriginal people
Roman Catholic, Anglican, Uniting End in 1908 with the construction from the Western mainstream –
and Lutheran Churches, and the of the Church Missionary Society’s the ‘protection’ era – this changed
Australian Society for Indigenous Roper River Mission. Continuous after the Second World War
Languages. It is in a cooperative Roman Catholic presence began to ‘assimilationism’, and then,
arrangement with Nungalinya with the missions in the Tiwi from the Whitlam years, to self-
College in Darwin, the flagship Islands in 1911, and the Methodists determination. Despite the political
training college for Aboriginal and (now Uniting Church) arrived at changes, a constant that remained
Torres Strait Islander people from Goulburn Island in 1915. were relationships that sprang up
across Australia. Nungalinya is now between missionaries and local
over 45 years old and is doing well. There is no doubt that the arrival Aboriginal people. Perhaps more
But the need for ITECA is part of of the gospel in Western clothes through those relationships than
the story of ministry in the Territory eventually had a very widespread anything else, many Aboriginal
among the Aboriginal churches that effect on Aboriginal populations. But people turned to Christian faith and
have existed for over 100 years. in most cases, the missionaries were reached out in turn through their
not the first points of contact with own social and kinship networks.
Different denominations began the wider world. Macassan traders,
reaching out to Aboriginal harvesting trepagn, had visited the Today it is clear that Aboriginal
Territorians in different places and north coast during each monsoon for church leaders across many
not always with initial success. A centuries. The Overland Telegraph
lone Catholic priest arrived in the was being built before Lutherans continued overleaf
early 1840s at the British garrison at
Port Essington and itinerated with
the Iwaidja people for two years
until his death from malaria. The
garrison was abandoned, and the
mission ended with no apparent
lasting result. The Jesuits set up a
mission at Rapid Creek (in what
is now suburban Darwin) in 1882,
but it lasted less than a decade.
An Anglican mission known as
Kaparlgoo ran near the South
Alligator River in what is now
Kakadu National Park from 1899 to
1903, seeking to inculcate industrial
trade skills in the Aboriginal
population, as well as teaching the
story of Jesus. It also seemed to

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ministry in the northern territory continued

communities are sincere and hard- actions, and there were limited Nungalinya College in addressing
working Christians, many with a opportunities for the Aboriginal specific local ministry issues. These
heritage of parents and grandparents church to determine how it should include theological and pastoral
who were members of the church appropriately contextualise matters such as domestic violence,
in their own time. I think of Rev’d Christian expression in a way money handling, team leadership,
Marjorie Hall in the community different from the Western models marriage, conflict resolution and
of Ngukurr (formerly Roper River it saw. biblical hermeneutics [Scriptural
Mission), who, along with her interpretation].
husband William, is deacon-in- The result is that there is still
charge of the Anglican parish there. a great need for Aboriginal Currently, there are remarkable
Marjorie’s mother is Deaconess Betty Christians, and in particular, Aboriginal church leaders in the
Roberts, now in her 80s, and Betty’s church leaders, to have training remote Anglican parishes. Most
parents, Joshua and Elizabeth, were that will encourage them to think have completed their Certificate III
patriarch and matriarch of the early through the message of the faith in or IV at Nungalinya College. They
Roper mission. their own languages and cultural show great resilience in the face
forms. ITECA seeks to provide of enormous challenges in their
This may sound rosy, but the reality for this need. Students come from communities, including chronic
is more complicated. In many many different languages, including grief, disempowerment, health
missions, there was inadequate Western and Eastern Arrernte, problems, lack of meaningful
emphasis on the local languages as Pitjantjatjara, Pintupi/Luritja, employment and inadequate
the necessary form for important Ngaanyatjara, Alyawarra and resourcing. At the same time, many
communication, and it was not Yankunytjatjara. In small groups, of them face their own health,
until the 1970s in many places that they have the opportunity to economic and social challenges.
official Bible translation programs discuss together the teaching they Crucially, most are in their 60s or
were commenced. To the extent receive, sometimes in their own even older, and there is an urgent
that important information was language, sometimes in English, and need to find or raise up the next
communicated in a language not to think through its implications in generation of leaders to follow in
fully understood by all the people, their own communities. their footsteps.
it is not surprising if it seems
in many parts of the Aboriginal The situation is similar in the Top Local training, such as ITECA is
church that the ‘deposit of faith’ End. In the Anglican Diocese of seeking to provide, is an important
was not transmitted fully. To add the NT, the Ministry Development ingredient in moving forward, but
another layer of complexity, many team conducts Diocesan Training it is not the whole story. Today’s
missionaries did not see the culture- Tours in the Aboriginal parishes Aboriginal church leaders in the
boundedness of their words and that complement the work of Anglican church in the Territory
are asking for outside helpers,
especially people who will live
in their communities, learn their
language and culture, and to
stand alongside them. They want
the capacity (and size!) of their
churches to grow. They particularly
want to see young men in their
communities engaged with
Christian faith and, on the whole,
the leaders feel they have limited
skills to do what is required to
produce this result. The challenges
to flourishing human lives in
remote Territory communities seem
unlikely to diminish any time soon.
The answer will involve finding

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ministry in the northern territory continued

people, finding funding and further
developing models of engagement
between outsiders and locals for
the sake of the church.

The Northern Territory diocesan and in the communities around us. Photos courtesy of www.facebook.com/nungalinya
staff are happy to discuss ministry The Right Rev’d Dr Greg Anderson is the
possibilities for those who would Bishop of the Diocese of the Northern
like to partner with God’s people Territory.
in remote areas. We are in a
uniquely cross-cultural situation,
and because of that, have the
opportunity to demonstrate more
than most people can: that God’s
plan is to bring together a family
around Jesus of people from all
the possible varieties of human
experience. God has already been
doing that, and we want that family
to be strong, exercising a ministry
as light and salt in our own diocese,

PARISH DIRECTORY WHO’S WHO AND HOW TO CONTACT THEM

THE PARISH OFFICE Level 1, 169–171 Phillip Street, Sydney, NSW 2000
PHONE 8227 1300
FAX 9232 4182

WEBSITE www.sjks.org.au
OFFICE E-MAIL [email protected]

RECTOR The Reverend Andrew Sempell 8227 1303 (m 0419 018 225)

associate RECTOR The Reverend John Stewart 8227 1304 (AH 9410 3077)

DIRECTOR of ST JAMES’ INSTITUTE Christopher Waterhouse 8227 1305

HEAD OF MUSIC Warren Trevelyan-Jones 8227 1306

ORGANIST Alistair Nelson 8227 1308

OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR Dianne Ward 8227 1300

ACCOUNTANT Michelle Chan 8227 1302

Communications & MEDIA manager Brooke Shelley 8227 1301

PARISH CONNECTIONS EDITOR Brooke Shelley [email protected]

PUBLICATIONS EDITOR Sue Mackenzie [email protected]

counselling@St james’ Loretta King 8227 1300

Pastoral Care Coordinator Chris Cheetham 0407 017 377

Facilities Manager Tony Papadopoulos 8227 1312

VERGERs Graeme Reid/Max Singer 8227 1312/0412 295 678

JUNE/JULY 2018 ST JAMES’ PARISH CONNECTIONS PAGE 13

SPOTLIGHT ON ST LAURENCE HOUSE

Q&A with Nigel Parker, executive officer, St Laurence House

What is St Laurence House all What kind of traumas? this situation because they are
about? not powerless anymore. In those
It could be episodic, like the death situations, they can repair their
We are a charity that supports of a parent; if there wasn’t enough relationships.
children and young people who support at the time, a child can fix
are either homeless or at risk of at the age of the trauma. It could What kind of support do you
homelessness. We provide a fully also be sustained trauma; if a child provide in the outreach program?
supported 24-hour home for up has lived in a state of neglect or
to four young people aged 13-18, a domestic violence, there are no We provide an intensive three
second home for two young adults milestones expected. They are just months living skills program
in partnership with St George living in chaos, disengaged from for 18 to 24-year olds. We focus
Community Housing, and an school, health, their peer group, on finance, self-care, property
outreach program that supports and don’t have any benchmarks to maintenance, education support
young adults to stay in their strive towards. and employment support to name
tenancies by teaching them much a few. It’s delivered through an
needed living skills. What makes St Laurence House outreach worker on a one-to-one
unique? basis. We meet with the client
Who are the types of people that at least once a week and discuss
you help? How did these kids get We’re the only 24-hour service that issues specific to their situation.
into this situation? offers boys and girls a long-term It’s important the individuals are
supported housing solution. Most invested in the program, so there is
Many are from families that have services offer a three- to six-month some degree of self-identification
struggled financially. Some were model, whereas ours can be up on what they need help with that
carers of parents with a mental to two years. That, in itself, is also needs to happen.
illness; or families and relationships important.
have broken down because of What kind of results do you see
domestic violence. The situation And with kids, their issues can with the outreach program?
becomes quite dire at home and come out at any time. I’ve got to
then the kids find themselves be prepared to listen and respond 80 percent of clients manage to
homeless. whenever they are ready to talk, sustain their tenancies, which is
not at an appointed time. There are great.
St Laurence House has been situations where I’ve been driving
recognised as a leader in trauma- somewhere with one of the kids Do they have similar backgrounds
informed care. Tell us more. and they come out with a horrific to the kids in your long-term
story that’s happened to them and accommodation?
The notion of trauma-informed we talk about it then and there in
care is quite complex. The easiest the car. Yes, they’ve usually been
way to simplify it is that there is through the child protection and
often a gap between chronological Do many go back to their homelessness systems for years,
and development age in children families? and as a result haven’t developed
who have experienced trauma. the necessary skills to live
A child may be chronologically Sometimes it’s not possible. independently.
18, but because of the trauma What is possible is to change the
they’ve experienced they are at the relationship with their families. What do you love most about
developmental level of a 12-year-old. When a child is homeless, they’ve your job?
got no bargaining chips. When
It’s once kids feel settled and safe they’re here, they can come from Working with children and
that all their trauma comes up and a position of strength. So, if you young people. It’s challenging, it’s
can be dealt with. And that’s the go home to visit and you’re told funny, and I can see how quite
beauty of what we provide, because to get out, it’s ok, the kids have simple things can really make a
they are given that time to process. somewhere to go. The kids can difference in a child’s life. Like
mature and become the adult in having Christmas decorations in

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our house and how it brings a sense compared to a 4-bedroom crisis Donations to St
of wonderment to a 17-year-old, refuge is just over half a million Laurence House
because he’s never had that at home. dollars. When the bureaucrats look
at our model, we don’t support as St Laurence House is currently
What kind of network do you many people as a high turnover running its end-of-financial
have to support the kids and crisis refuge, which somehow year appeal. They need to
young people? translates into different funding. raise $30,000 before 30 June
to maintain their services for
We’re fortunate to have been We also appreciate volunteers kids and young adults.
established for 40 years, and in that for different tasks such as
time, we’ve built relationships with house maintenance, gardening, To donate, visit www.
people and experts in our area. administration, and clinical stlaurencehouse.org.au/donate.
supervision. All donations over $2 are tax
When you’re working with deductible.
complex needs children, you need
to have an arsenal of expertise
at your disposal. Some services
struggle with that but for me it’s
about friendships and relationships
I’ve had over the last 15 years. It’s
because of those relationships,
there’s rarely a case we can’t work
with – generally we can find
someone or somewhere that can
support them.

What are some of the
organisations you work with?

We have strong relationships
with Caretakers Cottage, Options
Youth Housing, Prince of Wales
Adolescent Mental Health Unit,
Centre360 Paddington, South
Sydney High School, The Lilian
Howe Project, MyFoundations
Youth Housing, and Taldumunde
Youth Services, among others.

As a director on Yfoundations and
My Foundations Youth Housing,
a peak body representing youth
homelessness in NSW, we’ve got
state-wide connections to services
as well.

What other kinds of support do Shrove Tuesday Fundraiser
you need?
St Laurence House Treasurer Alan Soutar (L) is pictured
Number one is financial. Only with Executive Officer Nigel Parker (R) at Pancakes for the
70 percent of our programs are Kids, a fundraiser held at St James’ Church on Shrove Tuesday.
government funded and the rest Parishioners from St James’ and Christ Church St Laurence
we need to come up with ourselves. attended the dinner and helped raise $3,800 for St Laurence House.
We’re underfunded compared
to other services. The shortfall

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Warren SUPPORTiNG THE CHOIR
Trevelyan-Jones

The Choir has had a hectic schedule unmatched diction for an These Scholarships offer a
in the past few months with trips Australian choir, it was superb. wonderful and unique opportunity
to Gallipoli and South Australia, to develop and train promising
in addition to our performance of As the profile of our Choir continues young singers. I am very keen to
Messiah at City Recital Hall, Angel to grow, I urge you all to consider increase the number so that we
Place, and all our services and the various ways you can support can offer up to eight Scholarships,
concerts at St James’. There has our musicians as they represent the paving the way for a more
been much publicity surrounding Parish. Tax-deductible donations structured training programme for
our travels, including coverage on can be made through the St James’ a team of scholars.
ABC Radio and ABC Breakfast TV. Music Foundation. Here are three
There have been glowing reviews of such areas: The St James’ Organ Scholarship is
our performances in Adelaide, and another invaluable asset to the life
particularly at the Coriole Festival Scholarships – Choral of the Parish, and we are currently
in The Australian: and Organ searching for interested donors. A
Through the St James’ Music quick glance at the careers and
One of the most gorgeous Foundation and with thanks to successes of our former Organ
moments was hearing the generosity of a longstanding St Scholars is enough to show how
Sydney’s Choir of St James’… James’ parishioner, we currently beneficial this opportunity is, not
With exuberant colour and provide two Choral Scholarships. only for young musicians, but also

From our current Choral Scholars

Cronan Yu Lauren White

The choral scholarship Singing with a choir in
offered by the Choir a professional setting
of St James is a has been something
thoroughly wholistic that I have always
and immersive aspired to do, and the
choral experience. Choral Scholarship
Benefitting from has allowed me that
working alongside opportunity. While
some of the best learning to sing in
practitioners in a liturgical setting
music—all hailing with experienced
from diverse musical ensemble singers,
backgrounds—under the direction of one of the under the direction of Warren, I have been able
nation’s most renowned choir trainers, scholars to develop and improve my vocal ability and
have the opportunity to venture deep into music, musicianship. The scholarship has also allowed me
both sacred and secular, which has been pivotal to pursue my passion for choral music; I have been
in shaping culture and western civilisation itself. able to explore and perform an extensive range
The vast repertoire which is performed and the of significant choral repertoire in a professional
rapid turnover rate will undoubtedly help music choir. During my time as a scholar, I have had the
students to develop skills crucial to success in the opportunity to perform Handel’s Messiah in the
music industry. City Recital Hall and travel to Gallipoli twice to
sing with the Choir for Anzac Day, along with
regular concerts in the St James’ Concert Series. It
is a joy singing with the Choir of St James’ and I
feel very privileged to have had this opportunity.

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AND THE MUSIC MINISTRY

for the music ministry of our Parish. wonderful celebration of what we production, post-production,
do and the legacy we wish to create graphic design and the physical
Commissioning new by supplementing this with a new CDs. They are, however, a great
Choral and Organ set of evening Canticles, anthems, investment for the Parish in terms of
works and new organ pieces for our new outreach, marketing and profile.
Here at St James’, we have a proud pipe organ.
history of commissioning new If you are interested in supporting
choral works, with a particular Recordings The Choir of St James’ in these or
emphasis on nurturing our own Many people ask if our Concerts any other activity, please do not
home-grown talent. As we approach and Orchestral Masses are being hesitate to contact me by email:
our Bicentennial celebrations, we recorded. Live recordings can [email protected]
hope to commission a range of new be a wonderful way to capture a
compositions to mark the occasion particular performance, but – in Warren Trevelyan-Jones is Head of Music
from a range of composers, both reality – seldom reach the high at St James’.
local and international. Plans are quality expected of recordings these
already afoot for a new Orchestral days. Recordings therefore cost a Visit http://
Mass setting by an internationally- considerable amount, including stjameskingstreetmusicfoundation.
renowned composer. It would be a costs of the musicians, engineering, com.au/st-james-king-street-music-
foundation/the-music-foundation/
for further information.

RevelationsConcert Series 2018 JOKE SPOT
The Choir of St James’ at St James’ Church
Saturday 28 July, 5:00pm The rural Baptist Church had a small congregation
SAINTS AND REVELATION of mostly very faithful people. ‘Mostly’ because one
Saturday 15 September, 5:00pm brother, Ethan Jones, had quit coming to church.
CEASE ALL TEARS The pastor became concerned about Jones, so he
Saturday 3 November, 5:00pm went out to his farm and asked why he did not
A VOICE FROM HEAVEN come anymore.
Saturday 8 December, 5:00pm
ANGELS AND TRUMPETS: ‘Well, Preacher, I only have these overalls and old
A RENAISSANCE CHRISTMAS boots. I can’t go to the Lord’s House dressed like this.’
with Australian Baroque Brass
‘I can remedy that,’ declared the pastor. ‘I’ve got a
Tickets and prices: www.sjks.org.au spare shirt, sports coat, slacks and shoes that I’ll
www.cityrecitalhall.com give you if you’ll come back to church.’
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The man agreed, and the pastor came back that
afternoon with the clothes.

Next Sunday Ethan Jones did not show up again.
So the pastor went out to the farm and asked, ‘I
gave you all those clothes; why didn’t you come to
church?’

‘Well, Preacher,’ Jones responded, ‘I got up and
showered and shaved, and I put on those neat duds,
and I looked in the mirror. I looked so good that I
went to the Episcopal Church in town.’

From The World’s Greatest Collection of Church Jokes, published by
Barbour Publishing, Inc. Used by permission.

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The Rev’d TWO CENTURIES OF
Robert Willson

It was Oscar Wilde, in one of his plays, who quoted Bishop William Grant Broughton, 1843
an Archdeacon as saying about a parishioner: “Her
deafness is a great privation to her. She cannot even Courtesy of the State Library of New South Wales
hear my sermons now.”
Among the passengers was Sir Maurice O’Connell
Next year, St James’ Church will begin to celebrate and his family and staff. Sir Maurice, a distinguished
two centuries of Anglican worship in the heart soldier, had previously served in the time of Governor
of Sydney. I did a rough calculation recently and Macquarie and now returned to command the military
worked out that, in two hundred years there were forces of the Colony.
more than ten thousand Sundays, with sermons for
each of those days. Counting Holy Days and special The Welcome
commemorations, that makes a lot of sermons, from When the ship docked there was a full ceremonial
brief homilies to discourses lasting more than an hour. welcome and Guard of Honour for the General, with
the flags flying and the band playing in the summer
In June 1836 when Bishop Broughton was enthroned sun. A General Salute thundered out which doubtless
in St James’ as the Bishop of Australia, the service sent the birds flying high around Sydney Harbour.
lasted four hours. It was the Reverend Sydney Smith
who commented that the society hostess, Lady Among the other passengers who watched this
Holland, deserved to be preached to death by wild Imperial spectacle were three Church of England
curates. We do not have record of anyone suffering clergymen, Charles Ferdinand Brigstock, Edmund
that fate in St James’! Ashton Dicken and William Horatio Walsh. Bishop
Broughton was desperately short of clergy and
Most of those tens of thousands of sermons were welcomed the three men. But of the three he knew
soon forgotten, but we have fascinating records of immediately that he had a problem with: Dicken was
some of them in the newspapers of the day. In those drunk on arrival. The Bishop later referred to him as
days whole sermons would appear in print and be “poor hapless Dicken”.
read avidly.
Brigstock had not been to Oxford or Cambridge but
Published Australian Sermons was a steady man, and Broughton assigned him to Yass
Bishop Broughton served as Archdeacon of the Colony on the frontier of settlement, where he performed a
for some years and then returned to Britain to be
consecrated as Bishop of Australia in 1836. In 1848,
after the subdivision of his vast diocese, he became
Bishop of Sydney until his death in England in 1853.
A few years later, a volume of his Australian sermons
was published under the title Sermons on the Church of
England: Its Constitution, Mission and Trials (Edited by
Benjamin Harrison), London 1857. This volume is now
very rare.

In it we find a number of sermons preached in St
James’ Church at various times during Broughton’s
episcopacy. They are lengthy and erudite but
behind some of them are intriguing stories. I have
reconstructed the circumstances that led to one of
these sermons. Broughton entitled it The Apostolical
Commission and a note states that it was preached in
St James’ on September 22, 1839, one hundred and
seventy-eight years ago.

The story behind this sermon goes back to the
previous year, 1838. On 5 December of that year, there
arrived in Sydney Harbour a ship called the Fairlie.

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SERMONS IN ST JAMES’

notable pioneering ministry. He is said to have buried Walsh was also sympathetic to the High Church
seventy-three victims of the great Gundagai Flood in movement and Bishop Broughton warmed to him
the 1850s. immediately. Walsh was a keen student of art and
architecture and gave a popular series of lectures in
The Letter to the Editor St James’, on the impact of the Oxford Movement in
Dicken had a clerical background and was a Britain.
Cambridge graduate. The Bishop placed him ‘under
discipline’, whatever that means, and appointed The Ordination
him to the new Sydney parish now known as Christ Here was a man after the Bishop’s own heart. On 22
Church St Laurence, covering the western end of September, 1839, a large congregation gathered in St
the city. The Parish archivist points out that, at that James’ for the ordination of Walsh to the priesthood.
time, the Parish had no building and was meeting in a It is not surprising that the Bishop chose the theme of
brewery, so the appointment of Dicken was perhaps the Apostolic Succession, a favourite doctrine of the
not the wisest choice! Oxford Movement, as the subject for his sermon.

Dicken lasted only three months in the Parish. On 27 This doctrine refers to the method whereby the
March, 1839 a ‘Letter to the Editor’ of a newspaper ministry of the Christian Church is held to be derived
called The Colonist, founded and owned by that from Christ’s Apostles by a continuous succession
Presbyterian firebrand, Reverend Dr John Dunmore through a series of Bishops, themselves the successors
Lang, gave publicity to an incident in George Street, to the Twelve.
Sydney. A correspondent signing himself ‘Consistency’
(probably Dr Lang himself) stated that ‘a clergyman Many sermons preached in those years were remote
of the Protestant Episcopalian Church was seen from current affairs, but it seems clear that members
very drunk a few nights ago, in George Street, and of the congregation back then would have known
that he exhibited himself to much disadvantage at a the circumstances that led to the ordination of
celebrated tobacconist’s’. Walsh. Some who listened would have been strong
Protestants who would have denied the need for any
The letter went on to refer to the ‘present alarming such ‘Apostolic Succession’. But Roman Catholics,
spread of Papacy’ in the Colony. At that time, large Orthodox and Anglo-Catholics would always stress
numbers of convicts—many of them Irish Catholics— it, as Broughton did. William Horatio Walsh strongly
were arriving in the Colony. Bishop Broughton and supported it and had a notable ministry leading to the
some of his senior clergy were sympathetic to the building of the present Christ Church St Laurence.
Oxford Tractarian, or Puseyite movement, and were
seen as a danger to all good Protestants. “No Popery” Fr Robert Willson completed a post graduate degree at the
was a sectarian battle cry. ANU with a thesis on the sermons preached in the 19th century
Colonial Church.
The Painful Interview
This vicious letter forced the hand of the Bishop. The
Reverend Edmund Dicken was summoned to a painful
interview with Broughton at his Registry in King
Street, opposite St James’, and the Bishop demanded
the resignation of Dicken on 1 April, 1839. Dicken and
his family soon took ship to India.

Meanwhile, the Reverend William Horatio Walsh,
who had arrived in the Colony with Dicken and
Brigstock, was already making a strong impression on
the Sydney church scene. Walsh had arrived in NSW
with the status of a Deacon and was chaplain to the
prison service. He was probably visiting the Hyde
Park barracks, across the road from St James’, where
many convicts were then housed.

JUNE/JULY 2018 ST JAMES’ PARISH CONNECTIONS PAGE 19

Nanette Danks Vale Daphne Bunce

To be asked to write about Daphne
is a great honour, but it gives the
impression that I might know a
great deal more about her than I
actually do. So, it is with humility
that I write ‘something’ about
Daphne and am grateful to many
of her friends who have given me
added insights.

We both began classes in icon
writing about twelve years ago
and from then until last year, when
age finally caught up with her, we
painted together regularly. Whilst
we and the rest of the class wrestled,
and delighted, in our icons, we also
listened to music and talked.

Daphne’s knowledge of music was found in the natural environment of Photo: Cathy Lillico-Thompson
prodigious and her recognition of her home county of Essex in the UK.
performers was remarkable. If one In an article in Parish Connections
of us was unsure about a composer As a faithful member of the Guild in February 2013, Daphne’s
or a piece of music, the next week of St Raphael, finding an icon to life as a midwife in London is
Daphne would have the relevant write depicting the Archangel was described. When she came to
CD (and sometimes a homemade irresistible, and it was fitting that it Sydney she worked in baby health
cheesecake) to enlighten us on also should be at her departing. centres, with the schools’ health
the music she loved, such as the programmes, and for ten years with
Rachmaninov Vespers. The same Together with her husband a paediatrician who remembers her
applied if we were talking of film Michael, and their daughter Charis, as being wonderful with children.
or television; Daphne’s memory for Daphne came to Australia on Her dearly loved Michael died ‘too
who acted in what was astonishing, the Strathnaver in 1953. Here they soon’, but Daphne’s life continued
and she generously loaned us DVDs. stayed. I believe they joined the to be filled with a seemingly infinite
She spoke lovingly of her daughter Parish of St James’ early on, as she number of activities, including
and grandsons, and of sharing time spoke fondly of all our priests back volunteering with Riding for
with them in Bathurst and visiting to at least Fr Frank Cuttriss, and the Disabled, attending recorder
beautiful gardens in the vicinity. I suspect that the congregation classes, visiting hospital patients,
became her extended family. helping with Sr Freda, joining
Two of her icons were placed on U3A, becoming an Associate of
and beside her coffin. One was of the Sisters of the Church, being
St Francis, the other of St Raphael.
They were well selected by her
family.

Working on St Francis had given
her enormous pleasure whilst she
spent weeks getting the birds
‘just right’. During this period, we
discovered her joy of birds in the
bushland behind her home. She
knew and mimicked the calls and
could describe the birds, all of
which were so different to those

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(1922–2018)

Daphne overlooking the rooftops of assist in caring for Fr Austin Day delivered which reflects the Daphne
London in his latter days; “He was a dear we all knew and loved.
friend,” she quietly confided to me.
an active member of the Mothers’ Daphne went to concerts at the Women have always played
Union for more than 25 years and, Opera House and City Recital Hall a key role in matters of faith.
whenever able, going on retreats. and was devoted to the Choir of St While the official histories of the
James’, Warren and the choristers. church seem to be inordinately
Daphne never lost her home shaped around men, it has
nursing skills and was able to Of course, her beloved Bach was nevertheless been built on the
with us at her funeral. faithful activity of women who
have gone about the business
Together with her fellow ‘iconers’, of being the ongoing presence
I will miss her gentle, welcoming of Christ in the world. In this
smile, her interest in our lives, her respect, we include Daphne as
delight in all things of beauty, one in this cohort.
the twinkle in her eye, her stoic
determination and humour in and
overcoming ‘boring things’ like
knee replacements or problems We therefore affirm that women
with the car and /or public are central to the ongoing
transport. ministry of Christ in the world,
a tradition in which Daphne
Our sincere condolences are shared as part of the body of
extended to Charis and David, and Christ.
their sons, Michael and James.
May Daphne rest in peace and
Fr Andrew conducted Daphne’s rise in glory.
funeral at Northern Suburbs
Crematorium, and I would like Nanette Danks is a Parishioner at St
to quote part of the homily he James’.

milestones

BAPTISMS
Takara Hanna North...........................................................................................................................................21 April 2018
Margaux Isabelle Mayrand................................................................................................................................. 12 May 2018
FUNERALS
Carole Linde Jobling OAM...................................................................................................................................3 May 2018
MEMORIAL SERVICES
Charles (Simon) Camac Sheller AO QC............................................................................................................4 May 2018

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Ross and Libby Seeing Cambodia through
Hindmarsh

Meng teaching us language and cultural information

When you talk of Cambodia or unused bombs on the country, thus raise money for TEAR projects in
tell people you are going to visit, wreaking devastation. Cambodia—we are very thankful to
there is a very mixed reception to our friends who supported us with
the idea. The comments are often In August 2017, we were invited fundraising and prayer. So, having
about Cambodia being a very poor by TEAR Australia to join a jumped through all these hoops and
country, with a history of Pol Pot Deep Tour to visit some of the ensured everything was in order to
and his group inflicting genocide organisations that TEAR supports pay our own way, we left in January
upon their own people. Some in Cambodia. TEAR is a Christian 2018 with ten others and two staff
people have visited Siem Reap and Aid Organisation that strives to members to see three of the five
the magnificent temples of Angkor Transform, Empower, Advocate projects that TEAR supports, and
Wat which, in the 12th Century, and Restore, as it works with to visit two Australian families
was part of the largest city in the local not-for-profit organisations living and working in Cambodia.
world. All this is true, but only such (NGOs) run by Cambodians to
a small part of the long history of benefit people of all religious and We flew out of Sydney to Bangkok,
the nation, with periods of self-rule nonreligious persuasions. missed our connection, eventually
contrasting with times of being arrived in Phnom Penh, and
under French and Vietnamese TEAR performed background were picked up and taken to the
rule. During the Vietnam War, medical and police checks and Green Pastures Inn, not far from
the country was bombed by the sought references about our the Russian Market. It was a
American fighters returning from Christian commitment. We lovely place to stay with a garden
that war and dropping their were required to do online child courtyard in the centre and rooms
protection training, as well as

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the eyes of TEAR Australia – part one

down both sides. We enjoyed mirth amongst our grandchildren work with churches, do interfaith
meeting in one of the lounge areas when we came home, especially the workshops, as well as working
and having meals in the courtyard. Pu (pronounced poo!!). It was so with organisations such as NGOs
interesting to be in a culture where and government agencies.
Jack, from the New Life Fellowship age is respected—we received
Church, owns and runs Green much acclaim for our age from the PBO trains people and
Pastures as one of his enterprises Cambodians. organisations in active non-
that provides work for Cambodians. violent methods for working for
This church does outreach through Having discovered the markets and social justice, democracy and
English classes, and one of their various social enterprise cafes and transparency in Cambodia. An
educators, Meng, came to give shops around the area, and learnt example of this PBO training is
us lessons in Khmer. We were to travel in ‘tut tuts’, we set off to the work done with members of
able to learn some of the language see some of the organisations that Kbai Kia Forest Patrol. Conflict
but, more importantly, we gained TEAR supports. Our first port of resolution training has enabled
cultural information which was call was Peace Bridges Organisation them to work together to better
invaluable as we travelled around. (PBO), which was set up in 2003 protect Prey Lang forest from
The most important information and has partnered with TEAR illegal logging, and to build better
was that Cambodians give proper since 2005. PBO is committed to relationships with the police
respect to others, for example, resolving and managing conflict and local authorities. Women
knowing someone’s age. In Khmer, according to Christian values, have joined the forest patrols
one had to refer to others in ways promoting love, respect and the and are often the most successful
that related to whether they were value of our neighbours, both negotiators, as they seem more able
younger or older than yourself. Christians and those of other faiths. to work in less violent ways when
Very old people were called Ming dealing with confrontation.
(female) and Pu (male), and so we PBO conducts training in conflict
became the Ming and Pu of the resolution, human rights, children’s The issues of dealing with family
group; it caused a great deal of rights and family violence. They violence was of great interest to
Libby, who has been working in
this area with GPs in Australia for
many years. It was an issue that
came up many times as we visited
various communities. This is not
just an issue in Cambodia; more
than one woman per week dies
in Australia as a result of family
violence, and one man a month,
sometimes at his own hands and
also involving his children. We
need more Peace Bridges education
in Australia.

Ross and Libby Hindmarsh are
Parishioners at St James’

In the ‘tut tut’ waiting to go on one of our
trips in Phnom Penh

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lincoln law reflections on

We sit perched by the edge of the
beach, barely a sound from the
waves lapping the pebbles.

Hairs raise along the back of my
neck as the cool sea breeze brushes
past. We’re waiting for our cue.
The music begins to play, we begin
our singing, in darkness.

I’ve come to the Anzac
Commemorative Site to sing at
the Dawn Service in the Gallipoli
Choir; The Choir of St James’ has
been privileged to be asked by the
Department of Veteran Affairs to be
the Gallipoli Choir.

Between rehearsals, we were taken tirelessly and drilled hard work Overlooking the Sphinx and Anzac Cove.
around the war memorials and and study into us. Anzac Day
battle sites. Our guide Özgür has didn’t concern us; it was for those Özgür speaking with the Choir at Lone
been to 18 Dawn Services. Aussies who drank beer and played Pine.
something called 2-up. We weren’t
A generation of young men lost, lying friends with them, but we were friendships with our guide, Özgür,
somewhere in the nearby earth. The always called their mate. and bus driver, Adem.
short epitaphs on their gravestones The Turkish have been extremely
are so simple, so beautiful, so Mateship comes up a lot in welcoming. They are friendly and
profoundly sad. But they are now colloquial speech. It’s a significant very inquisitive. On our ferry rides
also considered sons of the Turkish aspect of the Anzac tradition. It’s crossing the Dardanelles, there
people. There is a great respect and probably what sustained these were bus loads of school children.
affection for the Anzacs. young men through the battles. Part of the school curriculum
We’ve been treated like mates by requires all Turkish school
Growing up in Adelaide, Anzac the Turkish people and struck great children to visit the war sites—
commemorations were never part even if they must travel on a bus
of my upbringing. We moved to for thousands of kilometres. The
Adelaide from Malaysia when I was children are always very interested
2 and a half. My parents worked in our group. They are excited to
interact with us and it makes us
feel welcome and reassured, if not
like minor celebrities.

The Choir of St James’ with Özgür and
Fr Andrew

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gallipoli

The Turks show similar sincerity The Choir of St James’ at Canakkale University.
with their embracing of the Anzac
traditions. We met a lecturer Anzac Day Dawn Service mean to Sometimes it feels modern day
of choral music at Canakkale me? I honour and show respect to Australians forget the privileges we
university. He said a choir coming those men and women who fought have, thanks to the irreconcilable
from the other side of the world in the war, against oppression, to sacrifices that befell in the wars, we
to sing at the Dawn Service is fight for liberty and freedom for take our country for granted.
an incredible thing; that the war following generations.
helped us to learn about peace. We We must remember to continue
all achieved great things, despite Fighting for an Australia that to fight for the freedoms of our
the devastation. There are no losers supports and nurtures us and allows land, to strive for justice and
in this war. Things happened us to achieve our very best. My equality. And to remember we each
for a reason. Each individual parents wouldn’t have come to this contribute.
discovered themselves during the great country had they not believed
war. And we have established great opportunity would be afforded to Dr Lincoln Law is a deputy member of The
friendships and respect for each us and we would be able to achieve Choir of St James’, and is President of the
other, for all peoples. things beyond our imaginations. Friends’ of Music.

We finish our piece of music,
singing in darkness during the
roll of honour. The dawn breaks
gently, bird song echoes through
the trees. The Dawn Service brings
in reverence. It seems in no time
we’ve sung the hymn and the
National Anthems. It’s completed
for another year.

Özgür and the Choir overlooking North PAGE 25
Beach

Whether Australians and New
Zealanders continue their
pilgrimages to Gallipoli remains to
be seen. Rest assured the Turkish
people will continue to honour
those Anzacs fallen in Gallipoli and
ensure they endure in our memories.

So, what then does coming to
Gallipoli and participating in an

Memorial at Anzac Cove by Ataturk.

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stephanie dillon The Choir’s first

Choir of St James’ with the Adelaide Chamber Singers at St Peter’s Cathedral, North Adelaide. Photo: Warren Trevelyan-Jones

Not even a week after returning conductor Carl Crossin OAM. we were billeted by Coriole and
from our expedition to Gallipoli, In the Adelaide Chamber Choir local music supporters.
the jet-setting Choir of St James’ concerts we performed Brahms’ Ein
spent a fantastic May weekend Deutsches Requiem, as well as Bach’s On Saturday we arrived at the
in Adelaide and surrounds. We motet Komm, Jesu, komm, and motets beautiful Coriole Vineyards
had a wonderful time performing by Schütz. We finished the evening for our first performance at the
in the Coriole Music Festival driving to the McLaren Vale where annual Coriole Chamber Music
in the McLaren Vale, and with
the Adelaide Chamber Singers
in Adelaide and Mount Barker.
Four concerts in two days, each in
different locations in the surrounds
of Adelaide—the choir is starting to
rack up the Frequent Flyer points!

We arrived on Friday afternoon, 2
May, and headed to the stunning
St Peter’s Cathedral in North
Adelaide for a quick rehearsal
on our own before meeting the
Adelaide Chamber Singers and

Choir of St James’ at Coriole McLaren JUNE/JULY 2018
Vale

Photo: Simon Turnill

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tour to Adelaide

Festival. As Coriole has been such Requiem. UKARIA’s concert hall, an Australian choir, it was superb.’
a generous supporter of St James’ with its ceiling-high glass window
over the years, it was wonderful behind the stage and sweeping There was, unfortunately, no time
to finally visit the vineyard and views of the hills and vineyards, for another nice three-course
have the opportunity to perform seats only 200 people, providing lunch on Sunday, so we quickly
in the festival, continuing to foster a more intimate experience of the took a few snaps before heading
the special relationship. After our Requiem than one might otherwise back to St Peter’s Cathedral
performance of two Bach motets, have experienced. for our final performance with
we enjoyed an array of superlative the Adelaide Chamber Singers.
chamber music, including a Sunday morning’s concert at Although an exceptionally busy
thrilling rendition of Stravinsky’s Coriole featured Poulenc’s striking weekend, the Choir enjoyed yet
Rite of Spring for four hands on piano. Sept Chansons. With their rhythmic another successful tour, full of
intricacies, idiosyncratic harmonic fine singing, collaborations and
Following the concert, the Choir language and exquisite (French) gorgeous wine country!
was treated to a scrumptious three- poetry, they provided the Choir
course lunch hosted by Coriole with quite the challenge, but by Stephanie Dillon is a member of The Choir
before driving to our next concert no means an insurmountable one. of St James’.
destination, UKARIA Cultural One reviewer wrote of the Choir’s
Centre near Mount Barker, for performance ‘with exuberant Coriole McLaren Vale is a generous
the first performance of Brahms’ colour and unmatched diction for supporter of St James’ music programme
and the St James’ Institute.

Choir of St James’ with the Adelaide Chamber Singers at UKARIA. Photo: Warren Trevelyan-Jones

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Donation form for:
The St James’ Foundation Limited

The St. James’ Building and Property Foundation
& The St. James’ Music Foundation

Directors Chairman
CEO
Bishop Richard Hurford OAM
Graham Smith
Christine Bishop LLB (Syd) FAICD
Daniel Ferguson JP
Robert Cameron JP
Gregory West CA

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Phone

Mobile

Address

Postcode

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from Bishop Richard Hurford, OAM (Chairman) Please accept my donation to the
Capital Fund of the Music Foundation
In 1999, as the Chairman of the Australian Council of the International Guild
of Church Musicians, I was part of a small group of church music supporters $
which shared the vision of establishing the St James Foundation. I then
served as the Foundation’s first Chairman. Please accept my donation to the
Current Activities Fund of the Music
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for St James by way of donation or bequest.
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The St James Foundation Ltd is a company limited by guarantee and is the Organ Replacement & Restoration Fund of
trustee of two charitable trusts, the St James Music Foundation and the St the Music Foundation
James Church Building and Property Foundation.
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performance ofsacred andsecularmusic with a particularfocuson choral Music Foundation and forward to:
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capitalfund,which isinvested toprovideannualdistributions totheParish. Direct Bank Transfer
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The two Foundations have provided well over two million dollars, in
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st James’ institute update christopher waterhouse

If you turn to the back of A Prayer ŪŪ Wednesdays from 7:00pm increase. Against this background
Book for Australia or the Book of to 8:30pm in St James’ Hall and developments in the United
Common Prayer you will find the (after Choral Evensong) with Nations Human Rights Council,
lengthy and complex Athanasian Christopher Waterhouse Michael Kirby will review the
Creed (otherwise known as the prospects of improvement in this
Creed of St Athanasius) – the Creed ŪŪ Thursdays from 6:00pm to area. He will refer to the role played
which expresses the doctrine of the 8:00pm in Pyrmont with Libby by faith communities in resisting
Trinity. Traditionally, it would be and Ross Hindmarsh change and even in increasing
read on Trinity Sunday, declaring hostility, and what can be done to
that we worship, “one God in ŪŪ Thursdays from 7:00pm to improve the present situation of
Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; 8:30pm in Homebush with inequality, discrimination, danger
Neither confounding the Persons: Kumar Rasiah and injustice. Tickets for this
nor dividing the Substance. For seminar are $40 for adults and $30
there is on Person of the Father, Please register for the group that concession (free for SJI subscribers)
another of the Son: and another suits you best in terms of meeting and available through the usual
of the Holy Ghost.” The Creeds, day and location. You can register booking channels (listed below).
statements of the faith, is the by phoning (02) 8227 1305 or
topic of our mid-year study series, emailing [email protected] Image courtesy of CTVC London
which runs throughout the month
of June. Drawing on materials from On Wednesday 20 June from The actor David Suchet (famed
the Pilgrim Course, our series will 4:30pm to 6:00pm the Hon Michael for his portrayal of Poirot in the
look in some detail at why the Kirby AC CMG returns to the St long running British TV series)
Creeds were developed and what James’ Institute to present The converted to Christianity in 1986
role they play in Christian life and Rainbow in Asia: Homosexual after reading St Paul’s Letter to
faith. We will consider primarily Law Reform in Asia and the the Romans in a hotel Bible. He
the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Pacific. Most of Australia’s said once in an interview with
Creed, and what they have to say neighbours in the countries of Strand magazine, “I am a Christian
about the Trinity; about the nature Asia and the Pacific retain the by faith. I like to think it sees me
of Christ; what is meant by his criminal laws introduced during through a great deal of my life.”
death and resurrection; what it British colonial days against In 2012 he set out on a personal
means to receive the Holy Spirit; LGBTIQ people (homosexuals and journey around the Mediterranean
and what we mean when we say transgender). The recent meeting to uncover the story of Saint
we believe in ‘one holy catholic and of the Commonwealth Heads Paul, which was made into a most
apostolic Church.’ of Government in London made excellent documentary called In
absolutely no progress on this the Footsteps of St Paul which we
Groups will be meeting throughout subject. Indeed, it was not even will be screening on Thursday 28
Sydney for four weeks commencing mentioned in the final communiqué. June (the Eve of Saints Peter and
the week of 4 June. The sessions are Some countries of Asia have even Paul) from 6:30pm to 9:00pm in the
free to attend and open to all. Copies gone backwards in their treatment St James’ Hall. Paul did more than
of the course booklet ‘The Creeds’ of gay people: notably Borneo any other individual to transform
are available for $10 from the Parish where the death sentence has been the fledgling Jesus Movement from
Office or from the group leaders. The reintroduced and Bangladesh and
groups will be meeting on: Indonesia where violence is on the continued overleaf

ŪŪ Mondays from 10:00am to The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG
12noon at Clergy House,
Chatswood with Sue Mackenzie Photo: Sasha Hadden
(not meeting on 11 June because of the
Public Holiday)

ŪŪ Tuesdays from 1:00pm to 2:00pm
in St James’ Hall in the city with
Christopher Waterhouse

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st james’ institute update continued

an obscure Jewish sect into a new Nicholas Mynheer (left) and Christopher Waterhouse
global religion. But what drove him
to embark on his extraordinary introduce some of that thinking, upcoming events, can be found on
missionary journeys around the and attempt to chart a way to some our website at sjks.org.au/institute.
pagan world? David Suchet retraces coherent, theological thinking Bookings can be made online, by
Paul’s footsteps in search of the about desire. Tickets are $30 for phone to (02) 8227 1305, by email
real, and highly controversial man adults and $25 concession (free for to [email protected] or
hidden within the pages of the SJI subscribers). during office hours in person at
New Testament. On the way he Level 1, 169-171 Phillip Street.
visits ancient and modern locations, In July we look forward to taking
interviews expert witnesses and part in the annual NAIDOC week On a recent visit to the UK I was
deciphers new evidence from the programme. The theme of NAIDOC fortunate to be able to meet up
latest archaeological research. Both week in 2018 is ‘Because of her, we with the artist Nicholas Mynheer,
episodes of the documentary will can’ – celebrating the invaluable who I referred to in the April/May
be screened, with a short break contributions of Aboriginal and edition of Parish Connections in my
between. Each episode lasts for Torres Strait Islander women to article ‘Ways of Seeing’ and in my
1 hour. Tickets for this screening communities, families, and to recent seminar about theology and
are $20 (free for SJI subscribers) the nation. In a special NAIDOC art. I have been asked to consider
and must be booked in advance. week event on Wednesday 11 repeating this seminar for those
Refreshments will be provided. We July from 4:30pm to 6:00pm we who were unable to attend in May,
are most grateful to the makers of will be exploring the role that and so we have scheduled this for
the documentary, CTVC London, Indigenous women have played Sunday 15 July from 2pm-4pm in
for granting us special permission in the translation of the Bible into the St James’ Hall. Tickets are $30
to screen this documentary at the St Aboriginal languages. A special for adults and $25 concession, free
James’ Institute. service of Choral Evensong for for St James’ Institute subscribers.
NAIDOC week will follow in St
On Saturday 30 June we look James’ Church at 6:15pm. All are Christopher Waterhouse is Director of the
forward to welcoming the Rev’d welcome to attend, and admission St James’ Institute.
Dr Gregory Seach, Warden of to this event is free.
Wollaston Theological College in
Perth, Western Australia to present
My Song is Love Unknown:
Towards a Theology of Desire.
Speaking to the confusion and
questions around human sexuality
and desire, Dr Seach will discuss
some of the thinking around a
theology of desire, an idea that
theologians have considered
for millennia. This seminar will

Further details on these, and other

The Rev’d Dr Gregory Seach JUNE/JULY 2018

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music notes ALISTAIR NELSON

The Choir of St James’ with soloists from Opera Australia performing Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle. Photo: Chris Shain

It seems like almost every time I be. Actually, all the singers in this performance for the Rossini Petite
sit down to report on Music@St group are on our ‘dep list’; that is, Messe Solennelle. This was quite a
James’, I find myself writing about the pool of singers who replace lot of fun, and meant dealing with
their jet-setting ways. The past our regular members when they different sorts of coordination from
two months were no different: are absent. It’s wonderful that we what I need to play the pipe organ.
The Choir of St James’ twice flew have a depth of talent available to Firstly, instead of my feet playing
from Sydney to perform. You will us in Music@St James’, giving us in a bass line on a pedal keyboard, I
read elsewhere in this issue about effect the possibility of fielding two had to ‘pump’ the two pedals to
their experiences on these trips professional groups at once, if need give the air for the sound. This was
to Gallipoli and Adelaide. While be. On 6 May, while the Choir was challenging because this ‘pumping’
the Choir was away, they were in Adelaide, the St James’ Singers is a rhythmic motion, but it bears
replaced on two Sundays by The St sang at the Choral Eucharist, no relation to the rhythm of the
James’ Consort, and I found myself presenting a fine performance of the music, and it changes in speed
frequently questioned about who congregational favourite Harris in F. according to how loud the music
this mysterious new group might The Singers have been performing is (that is: more notes need more
well, attracting new members. air and therefore more vigorous
Bach Cantata Series However, there are currently still pumping). Secondly, one of my
places available in most voice parts, methods of controlling volume was
Each service begins at 4:00pm so if you’re interested in joining to push a wooden lever sideways
this group, please contact me on with my knee (at the same time as
Sunday 10 June – Also hat Gott die [email protected] or 8227 1308. pumping with my feet). This is very
Welt geliebt BWV 68 different from the organ, where
From my perspective, as Organist of some of the volume is controlled
Sunday 12 August – Mein Herze St James’, the weekend of Pentecost via a foot pedal. So, there was a lot
schwimmt in Blut BWV 199 was an interesting one. I spent most of concentration going on! All in
of the weekend at two keyboard all, though, it was a most enjoyable
Sunday 14 October – Ach! ich instruments which weren’t experience, with Rossini’s
sehe, itzt, da ich zue Hochzeit gehe organs: harmonium and piano. wonderful music in often a very ‘un-
BWV 162, and Ich geh’ und suche mit Saturday afternoon was spent on churchy’ style.
Verlangen BWV 49 the harmonium, in rehearsal and
continued overleaf

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music notes continued

The next day, Pentecost Sunday, I two weeks of concerts, workshops unbuttoned expressions of melodic
took my seat at the piano for the and other events. The Choir will be joy and high spirits’. The Cantata
Jazz Missa Brevis by Will Todd. This presenting a workshop and concert will be accompanied by organ with
was a St James’ (and probably called Metamorphosis, including cello solo and continuo.
Australian) premiere. Previously at music from the CD of the same
our Jazz Eucharists for Pentecost name. They will also be performing At the end of July, the Patronal
we have performed A Little Jazz in a concert at All Saints Church, Festival will be celebrated in fine
Mass by Bob Chilcott and Mass in South Hobart with a variety of style by Music@St James’. The
Blue by Will Todd. In describing music based on plainsong. They Feast of St James will fall on a
the Jazz Missa Brevis, Will Todd will also be singing Choral Wednesday this year, meaning
explained that he created the Eucharist and Evensong at All our weekly Evensong will be
movements by improvising at the Saints. No rest for the wicked! replaced by a festive Choral
piano. Gradually he formed the Eucharist. The mass setting will be
improvisations into the movements There will be plenty of chances to Palestrina’s best known mass Missa
of the mass. It was interesting hear the Choir of St James’ here in Papae Marcelli. On the following
to hear the jazz singers in our Sydney, too. In addition to regular Saturday, the Choir will present
choir discussing the music. As I Sunday mornings and Evensong, their next concert in their 2018
understand it, though it might have the next Bach Cantata will be series Revelations, entitled Saints
been created from an improvisation, performed on Sunday 10 June. The and Revelation. The major work in
the fact that the choir and pianist planned cantata will be replaced this programme will be Revelation
are performing from a score rather by Cantata 68, Also hat Gott die Welt by Patrick Hawes. Described by
than improvising, means that it’s geliebt. This is a cantata composed Gramophone magazine as ‘creative
not really jazz, just something that for the Monday after Pentecost, a and compelling’, this work sets
sounds like jazz. Nonetheless, it day which is not usually observed texts from the last book of the bible
was engaging music which suited in the Anglican Church, but it is a in nine movements. Also on the
the occasion well. public holiday in many European programme is a wonderful marriage
Countries, including Germany of poet and composer - The twelve
Looking ahead, the Choir will be where it is a Holy Day of Obligation by William Walton on a text by W.
travelling once again. Firstly, on for Roman Catholics. In Bach’s H. Auden – and works by William
the afternoon of Sunday 3 June, time, Pentecost Tuesday was Byrd. On the Sunday of the Patronal
for a trip to Bowral for our annual also observed, and he composed Festival, the St James’ Singers
Evensong and concert at St Jude’s cantatas for all three days of will join the Choir in Mozart’s
Church. Then in July, the Choir will Pentecost. Bach’s Cantata BWV Coronation Mass in the morning, and
have a very busy trip to Hobart to 68 reuses musical material from in the afternoon will be music by St
participate in the Festival of Voices. his ‘Hunting Cantata’ (BWV 208). James’ composers to commemorate
This very popular annual two-week It includes well-known aria Mein the unveiling of the Eora Plaque.
event began in 2004 as a sing-along gläubiges Herze which is described
around a bonfire, and now sees by John Eliot Gardiner as ‘surely Alistair Nelson is Organist at St James’.
audiences of around 30,000 for the one of Bach’s most refreshing and

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The Rainbow in Asia:

Homosexual Law Reform in
Asia and the Pacific

Presented by the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG
Wednesday 20 June 2018
4:30pm-6:00pm
St James’ Hall

Tickets $40/$30 | Free for St James’ Institute Subscribers
bookings: sjks.org.au/institute or 8227 1305

Michael Kirby discusses the development of law reform in relation
to the rights and treatment of LGBTIQ people in Asia and the

Pacific and what can be done to improve the present situation of
inequality, discrimination, danger and injustice in the region.

Documentary Screening

In the Footsteps of St Paul

The Eve of Saints Peter and Paul, Thursday 28 June 2018
6:30pm-9:00pm
St James’ Hall

Tickets $20 | Free for St James’ Institute Subscribers
bookings: sjks.org.au/institute or 8227 1305

The St James’ Institute has been given special permission by
CTVC London to screen David Suchet’s outstanding documentary

on the life and ministry of St Paul.
Tickets for this screening are strictly limited and you must

register in advance.

My Song Is Love Unknown:

Towards a Theology of Desire

The Rev’d Dr Gregory Seach
Saturday 30 June, 2:00pm-4:00pm

St James’ Hall
$30/$25 | bookings: sjks.org.au/institute or 8227 1305

Australians have decided for whom the State can authorise marriages.
The Church(es) remain somewhat confused. One way to begin
to emerge from such confusion might be to think theologically
about the notion (and feeling) of ‘desire’. This afternoon will
introduce some of that thinking, and attempt to chart a way
to some more coherent, theological, thinking about desire.

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music@st james’ in june/july

choral music

The Choir of St James’ continues to offer inspiring choral music of the highest standards. Here is its music list for
the next two months.

SUNDAY 3 JUNE WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE

11:00am – CHORAL EUCHARIST 6:15pm – CHORAL EVENSONG
Mass setting: Vaughan Williams – Mass in G minor Responses: Leighton
Motet: Byrd – Sing joyfully Canticles: Wood in D
Anthem: Pärt – Da Pacem Domine
WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE
SUNDAY 1 JULY
6:15pm – CHORAL EVENSONG
Responses: Byrd 11:00am – CHORAL EUCHARIST
Canticles: Byrd – Second Service Mass setting: Shelley – Messe sans regretz
Anthem: Byrd – Sing joyfully Motet: Taverner - Quemadmodum

SUNDAY 10 JUNE WEDNESDAY 4 JULY

11:00am – CHORAL EUCHARIST 6:15pm – CHORAL EVENSONG
Mass setting: Jackson in G Responses: Clucas
Motet: Biebl – Ave Maria Canticles: Wood in E flat
Anthem: Harris – Holy is the true light
4:00pm – CANTATA SERVICE
Cantata: Bach – Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt (BWV 68) SUNDAY 8 JULY

WEDNESDAY 13 JUNE 11:00am – CHORAL EUCHARIST

6:15pm – CHORAL EVENSONG (Upper Voices) Sung by The St James’ Singers
Responses: Plainsong
Canticles: Sumsion in G Mass setting: Rheinberger – Missa Misericordias Domini
Anthem: Duruflé – Tota pulchra es Motet: Stanford – O for a closer walk with God

SUNDAY 17 JUNE WEDNESDAY 11 JULY

11:00am – CHORAL EUCHARIST 6:15pm – CHORAL EVENSONG
Mass setting: Victoria – Missa Vidi Speciosam Sung by The St James’ Singers
Motet: Olsson – Ave Maris Stella Responses: Sanders
Canticles: Ireland in F
WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE Anthem: Stanford – O for a closer walk with God

6:15pm – CHORAL EVENSONG (Lower Voices) SUNDAY 15 JULY
Responses: Leighton Jones
Canticles: Wood in E 11:00am – CHORAL EUCHARIST
Anthem: Poulenc – Seignuer, je vous en prie Mass settings: Stanford in B flat / Stanford in C
Motet: Franck – Panis Angelicus
SUNDAY 24 JUNE
WEDNESDAY 18 JULY
11:00am – CHORAL EUCHARIST
Mass setting: De Kerle – Missa Da Pacem Domine 6:15pm – CHORAL EVENSONG
Motet: Gibbons – This is the record of John Responses: Rose
Canticles: Wood in F (‘Collegium Regale’)
4:00pm – CHORAL EVENSONG Anthem: Brahms – Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen
Introit: Duruflé – Tu es Petrus
Responses: Leighton SUNDAY 22 JULY
Canticles: Wood in F (‘Collegium Regale’)
Anthem: de Wert – Saule, Saule 10:00am – CHORAL EUCHARIST
Mass setting: Caesar – Missa Brevis Capella Regalis
Motet: Duruflé – Ubi caritas

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WEDNESDAY 25 JULY 4:00pm – CHORAL EVENSONG
Responses: Tomkins
6:30pm – CHORAL EUCHARIST for ST JAMES’ DAY Canticles: Elsley – St James’ Service
Setting: Palestrina – Missa Papae Marcelli Anthem: Twist – How shall we sing?
Motet: Bairstow – Let all mortal flesh keep silence

SUNDAY 29 JULY – PATRONAL FESTIVAL

10:00am – CHORAL EUCHARIST

The Choir of St James’ and The St James’ Singers

Introit: Victoria – O lux et decus
Mass setting: Mozart – Coronation Mass
Motet: Bullock – Give us the wings of faith

LUNCHTIME CONCERTS

Experience the peaceful atmosphere of Sydney’s oldest church as it is filled with music every Wednesday lunchtime
between 1:15pm and 1:45pm. A suggested donation of $5 helps us cover the cost of putting on the concerts.

6 June 4 July
Titus Grenyer – Organ Sydney Symphony Fellows

13 June 11 July
Rafael Font Viera – Baroque Violin Sydney Camerata

20 June 18 July
Trio Pollastri Alistair Nelson – Organ

27 June 25 July
NSW Police Band SSO Chamber Players

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Donate to the St James’ Organ
Replacement & Restoration Appeal

before 30 June

Become a part of the history of St James’ and help create a significant
music resource for Sydney and future generations

Ways to donate to the Appeal:

● Be a Rank Benefactor

A limited number of ranks are available for $30,000 each. A rank is a set of sounds, consisting of more than 60
pipes. For example, you could donate the set of pipes that produce the sound of the Oboe, the Basset Horn or
the Chimney Flute, to name just a few. A description of the rank donated and the name given it by the donor
will be recorded on a plaque and attached to the organ.The donor will receive a framed photograph of the rank
and its details, and will be recorded as a Benefactor of St James’.

● Be a Pipe Sponsor

A number of pipes are available to donate at $2,000 each. Pipe sponsors will receive a certificate and a pipe
from the old organ, and their names will be recorded in a bound book of major donors.

● Be a General Donor

All donations of any amount are welcome.

● Make a Bequest

Please contact us or advise a member of the Committee of your consideration to leave a lasting legacy and the
St James’ Music Foundation will contact you.

Donations can be made over three financial years and are tax deductible
through the St James’ Music Foundation

Further details can be found at www.stjamesfoundationorganappeal.com.au
Brochures with donation forms are available in the Baptistry and in the Parish Office

The St James’ Organ Replacement and Restoration Fund Committee:
Robert Marriott (Chair), Christine Bishop, David Buxbaum, Alistair Nelson, Holly Raiche, Rev’d Andrew
Sempell, Brooke Shelley, Graham Smith, Marilyn Smith,Warren Trevelyan-Jones, ChristopherWaterhouse

2702/5 York Street The St James’ Music Foundation BSB: 032 007 Account: 181 314
Sydney NSW 2000 ABN: 81 868 929 941 [email protected]