Our new Chaplain, Revd Canon Dr Leslie Nathaniel, has been formally welcomed at the Pro-Cathedral of Holy Trinity Brussels and installed as Canon in the stall of St Henry of Finland. The full story and a photograph can be found on the Diocese in Europe website.
Author: Jo Dawes
Forest walk + Christmas market
Church Wanderers will be walking in the Sachsenwald on Saturday, 3 December, finishing with a visit to the Christmas Market in Bergedorf. We meet at 12:36 at the S-Bahn Station Aumühle for a circular walk. You can leave the walk at several stages along the way if you have other commitments. For further information and to register for the walk, please contact Nicki Schiller by Thursday, 1 December: 0176 30 393 063, nicki.schiller(at)gmx.de.
Petra on camera
The Diocese in Europe has been talking to Christians from around the diocese about their work within and outside the church. Here Dr Petra Osinski from St Thomas Becket speaks about her work with refugees in Hamburg.
Judy Bailey singing this Sunday
Singer-songwriter Judy Bailey will be singing at St Thomas Becket during our 10.30 Eucharist on Sunday, 6 November. Born in London and raised on Barbados, Judy now lives in Germany, where she has attracted a big following with her appearances at the Evangelischer Kirchentag. Judy describes herself as a a world musician and citizen. Her musical journey has led her to ten solo albums, collaborations with musicians from Graham Kendrick to Eddy Grant, into the charts, and onto the official 2010 FIFA World Cup album.
Once round the Alster
The Church Wanderers will be walking round the Außenalster on Saturday 12 November. We will meet at 11 a.m. in Dammtor station, at street level on the university side. Please let Nicki Schiller know by Thursday 10 November if you plan to come: 0176 30 393 063, nicki.schiller(at)gmx.de.
New mailing list set up
We’re setting up an electronic mailing list for the church, to keep the congregation and friends up to date with news and events. We’ll also distribute our parish magazine, Becket News, to the list.
If you’d like be on the list, please send an e-mail to communication (at) anglican-church-hamburg.de asking us to add your e-mail address to the mailing list. We’ll only use the list for legitimate church business and won’t share it with or sell it to anyone else. You can ask us to remove you from the list at any time if you change your mind.
New edition of Becket News
The October edition of our parish magazine, Becket News, including lots of photos from the licensing of our new chaplain, Fr Leslie, is now available. You can download it here or pick up a copy in church. Back numbers can be found in the Becket News archive.
Bishops ‘paired’ to work on unity
Bishops Robert and David have been nominated by the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Pope Francis to be commissioned among 19 pairs of Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops from across the world to take part in united mission in their local areas. Read more on this story on the Diocese in Europe website or on Bishop David’s blog.
Bishop David’s sermon
Bishop David’s sermon preached at Father Leslie’s licensing on 17 September 2016 is now online. You can view or download it here (127 kB).
Big ecumenical turnout for Hamburg induction
Ecumenical friends from near and far turned out in force for the Licensing on 17 September of Revd Canon Dr Leslie Nathaniel as new Chaplain of the Anglican Church of St Thomas Becket. Also there to welcome him was the British Honorary Consul, Nicholas Teller.
Father Leslie, until recently the Archbishop of Canterbury’s International Ecumenical Secretary and European Secretary of the Council for Christian Unity, has been eagerly awaited in Hamburg, not just by the Hamburg congregation but also by the wider Christian family in the north German city where there is a thriving ecumenical partnership between the churches.
Leslie, who was born and brought up in South India and has worked in both London and Germany, was supported in Hamburg by his wife Revd Julie Lipp-Nathaniel, a non-stipendiary assistant in the Stuttgart chaplaincy. This Indo-Swabian partnership, said Leslie, still has a lot to learn about the north German way of life. After the Licensing, they now have plenty of new ecumenical friends eager to show them the ropes.
Photo: Roland Magunia