News

Can't resist a mystery? Good at photography or making lists? Then the BRIDFAS church recording team would love to hear from you. BRIDFAS is working with us to compile a church record of the Anglican Church of St Thomas Becket, known to many as the Englische Kirche. The project is still in its early stages, but there will soon be plenty of practical help needed, such as compiling records of silver, wall plaques and memorials, and textiles. You don't need to be a BRIDFAS member or part of the church to get involved; everyone's welcome. To find out more, click on the BRIDFAS logo on the right of this page or visit the BRIDFAS website.

The Contemporary Worship Service “Worship@17:00” planned for 20 July will not take place.

The Church of England's General Synod has voted in favour of women bishops. The vote on the measure was carried by the required two-thirds majority in all three houses: Bishops, Clergy and Laity.

You can read how the houses voted, the reactions of Archbishops Justin Welby and John Sentamu and what happens next on the Church of England website.

The General Synod of the Church of England is currently meeting in York. Synod is due to vote today (14 July) on legislation to admit women to the episcopate. A livestream of the Synod meeting can be found on the Church of England website.

The summer edition of Becket News is out, a bumper edition packed with news. Pick up your copy in church or read it here.

Bishop-designate Canon Robert Innes has appointed Ian White, an EU regional funding specialist, and David Fieldsend, an EU representation expert, to join the Bishop’s Office team in Brussels to strengthen links with the European Institutions. You can read more about the appointments on the Diocese in Europe website. Canon Robert will be consecrated on 20 July in Canterbury Cathedral and formally welcomed as the new Diocesan Bishop in Europe on 4 September in the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Gibraltar.

It has become a tradition for the Church Wanderers to share a picnic lunch in the Stadtpark in July, and this year you are invited to come along on Saturday, 12 July to the exit from the U-Bahn station Sierichstrasse at 11.00am. Please come equipped with something on which to sit, food and drink to share and happy smiling faces. Eileen Liebender will be in charge, but there is no need to tell her whether you are coming. Just turn up.

Your Becket News editor writes: We are already into June and it's time again to think of Becket News, as the next issue is due at the end of this month. What's planned for the next quarter? How are activities and groups progressing? Do you want to promote/share/just let people know what goes on?

PLEASE send your articles, event news, reports on activities and information by Saturday June 21 at the latest to becketnews [at] aol.com.

You can e-mail as early as you like, the earlier the better to organise the content and layout. Photos are great, and a few words to go with them even better. In any case, please let the editor know if you will be submitting anything so space can be planned.

Not in church to pick up your copy of European Anglican? You can read it online and download it from the Diocese in Europe website. The current issue features an interview with our new bishop, a focus on church music and lots of news and views from around the diocese.

Stuart Cooke has kindly planned the Church Wanderers' next outing to Ratzeburg this Saturday, 14 June.

Meet outside the Reisezentrum at Hamburg Hbf at 10.15 to catch the 10.27 R20 train towards Rostock. Get off at 10.58 in Büchen and change onto the R21 (direction Lübeck) dep.11.10. Arrival time in Ratzeburg 11.29. From the station, take a bus towards the city centre, alighting at Lüneburger Damm where there is a choice of a longer or shorter walk.

The longer route (10 kms) goes around the Großer Küchen See with a stop for a picnic lunch by the Fachauer Mühle and ends up at the cathedral, where there is a new café, the Bischof's Herberge, for K. u. K.

The shorter walk (with the possibility of a boat trip and/or a stroll through the city centre) follows a lakeside path and also ends up at the cathedral. Please bring a picnic lunch and be prepared for some light rain showers.

Important
The journey is part of the HVV network, so if you have a season ticket, please make a point of finding out whether your particular ticket is valid for the Gesamtbereich at weekends or not and whether you can take another person for free. Please let Cicely know by 6pm on Thursday 12 June if you plan to come, including what ticket you have, if any: cicely-hollingsworth (at) t-online.de, tel: 040/86 07 90, mobile: 0162 635 93 98.