Author: Jo Dawes

Sunday 18th March is the deadline for your contributions for the 50th (Golden?) Edition of Becket News! Please don't keep the editor in suspense, though. Please get the articles in early. There is an awful lot to report, so may even be competition for space!

Hard on the heels of the last walk, the Wanderers are off again: Ohlstedt
to Ahrensburg West this coming Saturday, 10 March.

Meet at the exit from Ohlstedt U1 Bahnhof at 11.00 am . The 10.13 train leaving from the U1 platform at Jungfernstieg arrives at Ohlstedt at 10.53.

The length of the walk is approx. 9kms.

As usual, please bring a picnic lunch. We shall have an opportunity for Kaffee und Kuchen at the end of the walk.

Please let Cicely know by Friday, 9 March if you are planning to come and also how you intend to travel to Ohlstedt.

On the Saturday before Palm Sunday 31 March 2012 John Stainer's Passion oratorium “The Crucifixion“ composed in 1887 will be performed at STB.

Anyone with some experience of choir singing is welcome to
join the special choir rehearsals for this to be held 24 and 25 March as well as a dress rehearsal the evening prior to the concert.

This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to sing a great piece of popular Victorian Anglican music together with soloists Pit Zorn (Tenor) and Lukas Dittmann (Bass) with STB's organist Jochim Trede under the direction of Choir Director Yotin Tiewtrakul.

Please contact Choir director Yotin Tiewtrakul (cantor (at) ansverus-haus.de) if you are interested in joining.

The concert is free, though a donation to the STB400 fund would be welcome.

There will be a ecumenical service following a Malayan liturgy to be held 18:00 on Friday 2 March in the St. Petri Kirche.

There has been a very promising response with many people signing up for the Lent course – now do make sure you show up!

For those who consider themselves of more mature years, the group will meet at the Chaplain's flat 19:30 Wednesday 29 February. For those still young, the group will meet 19:30 on Friday 2 March. If you are unsure as to your age category, please contact the Chaplain. About 30 books have been ordered!

Well here we are celebrating 400 years of and Anglican church presence in Hamburg, while the lady behind the altar claims another 100 years!

Raphaels iconic Sistine Madonna, a copy of which is behind the altar in St Thomas Becket Church, is 500 years old. To celebrate this, a major anniversary exhibition is being held in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Semper Building at the Zwinger
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. The exhibition runs from 26. 5. – 26. 8. 2012 Tues – Sun 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.. Further information can be found
here

(scroll down for a link to PDF in English).

Finally it happened: two former Oxford professors got together to discuss a few differences of opinion, but also perhaps counter to expectations, many views in common.

Richard Dawkins and Rowan Williams discussed “The nature of human beings and the question of their ultimate origin” in a dialogue chaired by Sir Anthony Kenny at Oxford University 23 February. A rather donnish affair, that begins with Richard Dawkins admitting to singing a hymn in the shower….

Highly recommended though lengthy viewing
here.

After all the excitement of the past weeks, it is now time to shift gear and concentrate on the season of Lent.

To help focus your thoughts during this special season there are not only the usual Sunday services, but a special Evensong performance of John Stainer's Crucifixion.

Details of all services can be found on the Services page of the website and on this

flyer.

It is now Lent folks. So time for that spiritual spring cleaning.
Bishop David's Blog has some good advice.

To see what is coming up at the end take a look at the Services page for details of services in Holy Week!

Wishing all readers a blessed Lent

A thanks to all who joined us from near and far for the Thanksgiving Service on Saturday. Please refer to the STB400 website for texts and videos of the service.

Bishop Geoffrey's Sermon at the Eucharist with Norbert's confirmation, 19 February 2012 can be accessed

here