good morning and welcome to the dinery garden on this saturday the 12th of june as we come to say our morning prayers we're here in the front of the house but we've got a special shot here which looks very much like a wedding bouquet and uh the dogwood flowers actually are showing something that actually is going to happen here today because today is a wedding day for our receiver generals who's the administrator the cathedrals pa daisy and she and terence are getting married in the cathedral so the the crypt is full of flowers which her own mother has arranged there but the flowers you're looking at and it's a lovely day for for daisy and terence here today and some of you may remember daisy if you uh had contact with the friends office of canterbury cathedral because she was for a while the assistant to caroline in the friend's office so we wish daisy and terence well on this day but what we are actually looking at is uh a wonderful array of dogwood in the deanery front garden and we're here with clemie and little piguets but for the moment let's think about these dogwoods because we are going around the nations as we think about them the nearest to the camera is actually a variegated english version with very self-effacing flowers but then the big one that you've been seeing is from china and that's cornus kusa and then as i come along here there's another china one and then after that american dogwoods from florida florida now we're used to seeing dogwoods in enormous profusion and love doing so either in the united states or in china there there is as much profusion as horsehorn is in england but it's not often in england you see dogwoods so we planted some here in this space i think i've said before trees were planted to remind us of areas of the world that we're fond of and here we have china and the united states in dogwood with our own much more self-effacing english one that is uh variegated leaf so decorative in leaf but the the wonderful flowers in the sunshine are just at their best of the dogwoods that have been planted so thank you cornus kusa and all the other cornice varieties that are along this particular head in the uh field in front of the scenery with the trees from across the world let's begin our prayers on this saturday morning oh lord open our lips and our mouth shall proclaim your praise may christ the day star dawn in our hearts and triumph over the shades of night blessed are you sovereign god creator of all do you be glory and praise forever you founded the earth in the beginning and the heavens are the work of your hands in the fullness of time you made us in your image and in these last days you have spoken to us in your son jesus christ the word made flesh as we rejoice in the gift of your presence among us let the light of your love always shine in our hearts your spirit ever renew our lives and your praises ever be on our lips blessed be god father son and holy spirit blessed be god forever [Music] the night has passed and the day lies open before us let us pray with one heart and mind and as we rejoice in the gift of this new day so may the light of your presence o god set our hearts on fire with love for you now and forever amen our morning psalm on this 12th of the month is psalm 62 on god alone my soul in stillness waits from him comes my salvation he alone is my rock and my salvation my stronghold said that i shall never be shaken how long will all of you assail me to destroy me as you would a tottering wall or a leaning fence they plot only to thrust me down from my place of honour lies are their chief delight they bless with their mouth but in their heart they curse wait on god alone in stillness o my soul for in him is my hope he alone is my rock and my salvation my stronghold so that i shall not be shaken in god is my strength and my glory god is my strong rock in him is my refuge put your trust in him always my people pour out your hearts before him for god is our refuge the peoples are but a breath the whole human race a deceit on the scales they are all together lighter than air so put no trust in oppression in robbery take no empty pride though wealth increase set not your heart upon it god spoke once and twice have i heard the same that power belongs to god steadfast love belongs to you o lord for you repay everyone according to their deeds they were returning after our adventure elsewhere on sin barnabas day to the gospel of saint matthew and i'm beginning to read where we left off and jesus having had the experience of healing the daughter of the canaanite or cyril phoenician woman is going on from there in matthew's gospel chapter 15 verse 29 jesus went on from there and walked beside the sea of galilee and he went up on the mountain and sat down there and great crowds came to him bringing with them the lame the blind the crippled the mute and many others and they laid them at his feet and he healed them so that the crowd wondered when they saw the mute speaking the crippled healthy the lame walking the blind seeing and they glorified the god of israel then jesus called his disciples to him and said i have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat and i am unwilling to send them away hungry lest they faint on the way and the disciples said to him where are we to get enough bread in such a desolate place to feed so great a crowd and jesus said to them how many loaves do you have and they said seven and a few small fish and directing the crowd to sit down on the ground he took the seven loaves and the fish and having given thanks he broke them and gave them to the disciples and the disciples gave them to the crowds and they all aired and were satisfied and they took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces left over those who act were four thousand men besides women and children and after sending away the crowds he got into the boat and went to the region of magadan and you might find that story a bit familiar because it's not too long ago that in matthew's gospel we read the story of the feeding of the people but in that story if you remember there were five thousand men besides women and children now matthew says four thousand men besides women and children he's taking the story from mark's account but if you remember when we were reflecting on saint mark's gospel i think last year now um we saw the two feedings of the people as being very different kinds of feelings and it takes us back also to the fourth gospel with the feeling of the five thousand there the first feeding instant mark's gospel has the crowd there in regulated form and men only sitting down in units and you remember how mark is is portraying this uh as the way in which the people in that particular feeding in his gospel are wanting jesus to be their strong leader and they're set out and it's men only at the 5000 in mark they're set out like an army and jesus resists that i don't know if it ever was a temptation but to be a strong leader to throw out the roman army and give the nation back to his own people is that what the messiah the anointed one was for and remember in mark's gospel at the end twelve basketballs of fragments were picked up just as in matthew with the five thousand twelve baskets and the twelve is a sign of the jewish nation and the apostles taking on that that that role of the twelve just as there were the twelve tribes when the manna came down from heaven this is different because matthew doesn't make the same kind of correlation in mark's gospel jesus goes away from that temptation and and resists it in john's gospel in the same way uh it says because he thought that the people were wanting to make him king he went away and hid himself and so that the coming apart to be by themselves becomes not just a rest for the disciples but also are hiding from that particular kind of temptation now matthew is not using it in that way at all notice he adds to the five thousand five thousand men besides women and children and then again for the four thousand four thousand men besides women and children there's not the same distinction but the 12 baskets and the seven baskets and seven is the number of the deacons who were set out to serve the hellenists to begin with and then to feed the world it's the breaking out of that into the world and between comes and mark sequence is the same the story of the syrophoenician woman the canaanite woman because um that too is a significant moment for jesus he's in a foreign land and a foreigner is asking him for help and somehow at that moment a new step in ministry is taken and jesus decides that he is the anointed one for all nations when he is lifted up if we use the fourth gospel language his arms will be outstretched for all nations and when is when the greeks come to him in the temple and say through first philip and then andrew so we'd like to see jesus jesus responds by saying the hour has come and i when i am lifted up will draw all nations to myself and that becomes uh the way in which the ministry develops here we're talking much more about resources and welfare that's how matthew sees it and in the first story in matthew the 5000 you remember the the disciples say send the people away we've done enough work for today with them and jesus says no they need resources and you feed them and there's a teaching moment but there's also the moment when jesus in withdrawing himself and then helping the disciples in the boat later is thinking they're not ready yet and uh that is either a disappointment to him or else something that he himself realizes he has to give more resources to the twelve here are more resources to the people to be nourished and fed and their welfare looked after and noticed that these are people who have followed him around that shoreline of the sea of galilee when they've stepped out of the the boat and and then then the crowds have been with me three days says jesus so matthew is talking about resources and welfare for the crowd in this story of the feeding of the four thousand and the crowd once again a mixture of men and of women and of children as well well let's just think a little bit about this i want to think about the g7 meeting which is happening in cornwall at the moment we talked about the world leaders from the g7 countries together with leaders who are guests from other nations are coming together in cornwall now cornwall is the very western tip of the uh of the united kingdom of of the englands rather down at the the the extreme southwest and if we go from canterbury which is the extreme south east poking out in the sea towards france uh and then go in a journey all the way to cornwall we've actually gone in a on a journey which is as big as going to scotland it's a long long way from east to west or west to east along the south coast and that's where the leaders are at sid austral on that beautiful stretch of cornish coast the roseland heritage protected area but many more along there because it is a beautiful coastline but very near the sea which gives us the same kind of landscape in our particularity as jesus was having with the crowds and the disciples looking after their welfare along the sea of galilee and we hope that the g7 leaders will actually um be looking after the welfare of the whole world during pandemic and also the welfare of our planet now interestingly enough when her majesty the queen and other members of the royal family met them yesterday it was at the location of the eden project near sid hostel in cornwall and the eden project is the most interesting kind of project it was opened i think in 2001 and was the uh brainchild of tim smith but it contains and you can you can google this and and look at it huge domes of biomes as they're called and inside are the climates of uh the the the climates of different areas of the world but it's also a temperate area at an area in itself which can grow various plants now one of the biomes represents and is when you step inside it very clearly uh tropical and in there you can find fruiting banana plants and coffee and rubber and giant bamboo and all kinds of things you are walking in areas that might be rain forest or tropical vegetation in the next one you're in a mediterranean biome and and that uh is where you will find things like olives and vines fruiting and the kind of things you would expect to find around the mediterranean sea and some of the things and plant life that that jesus and his disciples would have been with the crowds they're on the side of the sea of galilee and then finally the temperate zone in cornwall really is temperate and there in that garden most of the time you can grow quite successfully tea and lavender hops and hemp and sunflowers lovely things we once in a in a dean's conference some years ago now were at choro cathedral and went on a little um journey to the eden project and i have a tremendously uh uh precious photograph of all the deans getting off the bus that took us to the eden project and behind them behind the deans of the english cathedrals is a notice saying this way to eden and i i always think that rather amusing that we were going to find the the place which is most beautiful there it's a place to learn about biodiversity and the care of the planet and the queen and royal family met the leaders just there and you will have seen clips of first of all a very formal photograph at the reception for the leaders themselves and it was there that her majesty looked round at the faces of the leaders as they posed for their photographs and said are you supposed to be looking as if you're enjoying yourself which raised a laugh which was good for the photograph but again after that the queen together with the duchess of cambridge and the duchess of cornwall went to the the big lunch which this year is that was able to happen outside and in a distance way which the eden project throws for friends and neighbors and her majesty was able to talk about the situation as she's founded in lockdown and and there is a conversation there also where she is talking to one of the health workers and you can find this easily online and the health worker spoke about it afterwards because this health worker frontline health worker had contracted kovid and also went home but her husband also contracted that and he died and now the health worker has recovered and she's back at work and at that point um her majesty's says so how are you coping and the health worker then turned the the situation around to her and said well as you are ma'am because you've had the same experience of losing your husband and we we carry on for the good of the work we're doing um but the nicest point and it's it's so so like the queen um who is followed by the lord lieutenant of any country in formal uniform with a dressed sword she was asked to cut the cake which was the symbol of the big lunch and the most important part of the big lunch was that she could mingle physically with people she talked about how limiting zoom conversations are though she's engaged in them a lot but she was talking physically to the people and uh she was asked to cut the cake and she turned to um edward bellaire the lord lieutenant of of cornwall and said give me your ceremonial sword and she took it out and uh someone standing by said there is a knife there ma'am for cutting the cake and she said yes but this is much more unusual and was very aware of the moment to to make formalities suddenly an implement and domestic utensils before she went on well we give thanks for that big lunch but we give thanks even more that the leaders of the g7s are there with the capacity to help the welfare of this planet both in pandemic and the the nation suffering most from that with resources for health and welfare but also its biodiversity and the care of the life of our planet and all its creatures and plants we remember that on this day when jesus in a sense had his own big supper on the side of the sea of galilee and matthew points to the giving of welfare nourishment health and healing to the crowds i wanted just to name one person who on this day died in 1962 and that's the composer john ireland was born in 1879 and was uh well known for his piano concerto and made famous by his second violin sonata but he is best known by all of us probably for his hymn tune to the hymn my song is love unknown my savior's love to me love to the loveless shown that they might lovely be and that hymn tune is one that is much beloved but at the same time he wrote an ansem which is sung often and it's sung at its memorial services of those who've laid down their life for others but it begins many waters cannot quench love neither can the floods drown it i'm sure you'll know it his music is sung often uh in cathedral repertoires and in parish church repertoires i think on tuesday uh last tuesday our cathedral choir sang the setting by ireland in f and i will remember in paris churches the communion service ireland in sea being sung and the attraction of the lovely anus day in that but another thing which he wrote which gives me enormous pleasure is for troubled voices only and he's given us a latin title x or a innocentium out of the mouths of the innocent of babes and sucklings you have brought forth perfect praise and those aren't the words the words are of the treble line singing it is a thing most wonderful and that hymn it is a thing most wonderful which tells of god's love sending his only son to die to save and the words of that him a child like me well we're all children of god and uh so that hymn which ireland has set so beautifully in an anthem is one that is precious he was a church organist himself in 1904 he became church organist of st luke's chelsea and was that 1926 and composed so many songs from english poets houseman and christina rosetti thomas hardy sea fever which we read recently by john maysfield and rupert brooke as well so i give thanks as we all do for john ireland and the way he's brought those words my song is love unknown my savior's love to me love to the loveless shown that this is a pronoun we might lovely be on this morning as we remember him with thanksgiving let us say our prayers now and we are praying this morning in the anglican communion for the diocese of castrol fans and ossary in the church of ireland the dublin province of the church of ireland where praying in our diocese this is what we call a listening and discerning on the way day meaning that everyone is thinking how is this situation affecting us and giving us time to reflect on how we respond to that love of god which ireland says god showed us in the coming of his son so um that we remember as we remember justin our archbishop rose bishop of dover and tim bishop at lambeth and all the parishes of our diocese so at this point we will save the colic for today let's remember these g7 leaders but all those that they have the capacity to help and need that help so i'm using the collect here for the first sunday after trinity for the last time bring your own intentions and prayers oh god the strength of all those who put their trust in you mercifully accept our prayers and because through the weakness of our mortal nature we can do no good thing without you grant us the help of your grace that in keeping of your commandments we may please you both in will and deed through jesus christ our lord amen so each in our own language now we say the prayer our savior taught us and then we'll keep silence for our own prayers on this saturday morning our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom the 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