good morning and welcome to the dinner itself on this windy and wet morning outside but we very much wanted to be in here though in fact someone else wants to be here so much uh that we're in danger of turning this into the leo show after his performance on the compost heap yesterday but uh it's good to have him in here good to invite all of you into the drawing room at the dinery because we very much need the piano today to help us in our reflection it's a very musical reflection and we look forward to that as we continue the story of joseph in the book of genesis so wherever you are in the world please feel welcome bring your own concerns and the your own images in need of prayers in your heart and mind to undergird everyone that you know needs help with the prayers of our whole garden congregation across the world this is friday the 1st of october and new months and we're beginning our morning prayers together here at the piano 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 creator of all do you be praise and glory forever as your dawn renews the face of the earth bringing light and life to all creation may we rejoice in this day you have made and as we wake refreshed from the depths of sleep open our eyes to behold your presence and strengthen our hands to do your will that the world may rejoice and give you praise blessed be god father son and holy spirit blessed be god forever the night has passed and the day lies open before us let us pray with one heart and mind does 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 the first day of the month so no guesses to what the morning psalm is it's of course psalm 1. blessed are they who have not walked in the counsel of the wicked nor lingered in the way of sinners nor sat in the assembly of the scornful their delight is in the law of the lord and they meditate on his law day and night like a tree planted by streams of water bearing fruit in due season with leaves that do not wither whatever they do it shall prosper as for the wicked it is not so with them they are like chaff which the wind blows away therefore the wicked shall not be able to stand in the judgment nor the sinner in the congregation of the righteous for the lord knows the way of the righteous but the way of the wicked shall perish we're returning to the book of genesis and we are going to chapter 49 well chapter 49 let's see penultimate chapter of the book of genesis amazing that we've covered the whole book by the time we get to the end of morning prayer tomorrow but chapter 49 is special it's a song it's a poem it's a prophecy it's a dream it's the imagination of an old old man looking forward into the mists of the purposes of god for those who are his children and his children's children and his children's children's children it's a song of jacob and it's been placed here just before the old man dies and i'm reading from chapter 49 and we'll go up to verse 28 then jacob called his sons and said gather yourselves together that i may tell you what shall happen to you in days to come assemble and listen o sons of jacob listen to israel your father rubin you are my firstborn my might and the first fruits of my strengths preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power but unstable as water you shall not have preeminence because you went up to your father's bed and then you defiled it he went up to my couch simeon and levi are brothers weapons of violence are their swords let my soul come not into their counsel oh my glory be not joined to their company for in their anger they killed men and in their willfulness they hamstrung oxen cursed be their anger for it is fierce and their ross for it is cruel i will divide them in jacob and scatter them in israel judah your brothers shall praise you your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies your father's sons shall bow down before you judah is a lion's cub from the prey my son you have gone up he stooped down he crouched as a lion and as a lioness who dares rouse him the scepter shall not depart from judah nor the ruler's staff from between his feet until tribute comes to him and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples binding his foe to the vine and his donkey's cult to the choice vine he has washed his garments in wine and his vesture in the blood of grapes his eyes are darker than wine and his teeth whiter than milk zebulun shall dwell at the shore of the sea he shall become a haven for ships and his border shall be at sidon issachar is a strong donkey crouching between the sheepfolds he saw that a resting place was good and that the land was pleasant so he bowed his shoulder to bear and became a servant had for slaver dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of israel dan shall be a serpent in the way a viper by the past that bites the horse's heels so that his rider falls backwards i wait for your salvation o lord raiders shall raid gad but he shall raid at their heels asher's food shall be rich and he shall yield royal delicacies naftali is a doe let loose that bears beautiful thorns joseph is a fruitful bow a fruitful bow by a spring his branches run over the wall the archers bitterly attacked him shot at him and harassed him severely yet his bow remained unmoved his arms were made agile by the hands of the mighty one of jacob from there is the shepherd the stone of israel by the god of your father who will help you by the almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above blessings of the deep that crouches beneath blessings of the breasts and of the womb the blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents up to the bounties of the everlasting hills may they be on the head of joseph and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers benjamin is a ravenous wolf in the morning devouring the prey and that evening dividing the spoil like all poetry it raises images that one goes back to again and again but one settles especially on judah and joseph for they are the ones with the great blessings attached to them and the kind of imagery used is imagery which the early church and poets and hymn writers have loved to use since of the royal line of david think of the easter hymn equires of new jerusalem now judas lion bests his chains crushing the serpent's head and cries aloud in death's domains to wake the imprisoned dead judah the lion and the royal line of david also very much in the sense of it passing through judah to perez and on and on through david and on until in the streets of jericho and in the streets of jerusalem with hosannas son of david is given as one of the great titles of jesus born into the tribe of judah but joseph is praised for the very special vocation a vocation not without suffering but a vocation of prophecy and dreams in egypt going before his brothers to prepare their way and the fruitful boughs and the way in which all those vines and hills and sheep fills are mentioned cause us to know that this is poetry this is jacob prophesying and speaking to his sons and they're probably thinking when this was originally given though it's set now in a very stylistic way as chapter 49 of of genesis but probably the things which jacob said to them seemed rambling to many of them but joseph knew that his father's blessing was on him and that he had a particular task and tomorrow we shall see that that task continues in the care of his brothers and in the going forward of the children of israel which of course was the name that jacob was given when he wrestled with god well this is a particular day and when we think of those particular diverse vocations of jacob looking forward we want to think about diversity but also as he did it almost in a musical way like a psalm we think also of music now i'm helped today by three dates which arise today today the first of october is the 60th anniversary of the first televising of the television program songs of praise and it's the longest running religious television series it was first broadcast on this day in the tabernacle baptist chapel in cardiff and jeffrey wheeler in those days was the presenter now on this weekend i think we're getting a special edition of that with many of the old presenters coming back pam rhodes took it for a long time as you probably well know uh those of you who watch songs of praise on the bbc from time to time but of course the one that that is is uh most used these days is aled jones himself once thinks of that earliest broadcast from wales ali jones himself welsh and how many times have i said that hymns help us help us in a special way to remember images from scripture remember words which can become prayers but also set a season i'm going to do a little um piano test at this point i'm simply playing a tune in notes but what happens when we hear it [Music] for me it's christmas morning whether we sing it in english or in any language that we know or we sing it in the old latin words of the adeste for dailies but we can hear that the moment the notes start now for many of you if i play a different melody here's one [Music] we are instantly in passion tide there is a green hill far away without a city wall where the dear lord was crucified who died to save us all how does one remember those words we cannot know we cannot tell all of that is the tune it's there in our hearts just as with while shepherds watch their flocks by night if i played that it would take us straight back to christmas but the words would be neat they're in rhyme form from sin luke chapter two and if i do this [Music] we're on easter day instantly no words but when the organ and the brass strike out on easter morning with a cathedral packed to the gunnels with every transept filled and the doors open to receive the archbishop of canterbury and the brass sounds after the words alleluia christ is risen he is risen indeed alleluia then those chords [Music] and the trumpets sound music for resurrection not just easter but everything that easter means to people for it this time of the year then maybe i could use [Music] raise the song of harvest home written in this house by my predecessor dean alford come me thankful people come raise the song of harvest home i turn the page and i get [Music] we apply the fuels and scatter the good seed on the land sometimes used for harvest sometimes used for regulation tide but i'm showing you how hymns are able to set an atmosphere they're diverse they're ecumenical it's not in the least bit strange to go and lead worship in a baptist church and find yourself singing words by cardinal newman praise to the holiest in the height and in the depths be praised in all his words most wonderfulness sure in all his ways or lead kindly light amid the encircling gloom lead thou me on the night is dark and i am far from home lead thou me on not at all strange no one thinks when they're looking at him like the holy angels bright what was the ecclesial tradition of richard baxter it doesn't enter one's mind suddenly the prayer is ours the music is ours and we're crossing all kinds of boundaries in ecclesial tradition in faith communities and different communions within the church itself we even cross other boundaries of faith in using tunes from other dimensions but hymns reach right back into the worship of the church often with the earliest plane song at their base or take tunes from other lands so it's not at all strange for us to be singing a german chorale we don't need to know the language for music is an international language and songs of praise has always celebrated all of that in this long running series it's no wonder to me that this is a popular way of people tuning in to a kind of spirituality which which feeds them the diversity of musical styles also as the years change 1960 when the first songs of praise was broadcast had a very different kind of modern musical style than nowadays with the orchestral accompaniments that are often given to old tunes in songs of praise sometimes sung by sailors sometimes sung by quartets sometimes simply played on a violin or perhaps or by a string quartet or played on a flute with a a singer interspersing the words all of those things in terms of diversity and we give thanks for him nady on this day prompted by congratulating the television constant series over all those 60 years a diamond jubilee for songs of praise at the same time today is the um birthday the 86th birthday of someone who is very well known to most of us as a musical person i'm going to play some notes and this is a very well used score because guests here very often sing from it we to sing from it very often just because the songs are easy to sing but listen to this [Music] [Music] got it it's julie andrews of course she's 86 today and we wish her well a happy birthday to her for all the pleasure that she's given to us in a lifetime of music and a lifetime also of films she started singing as a little girl in a musical family and was used to public performances but there are two films which really consolidated her as someone who helped people to sing the first of them in 1964 was mary poppins and the second of them was of course the sound of music and the words of that that i just played you my day in the hills has come to an end i know a star has come out to tell me it's time to go but deep in the dark green shadows are voices that urge me to stay so i pause and i wait and i listen for one more sound for one more lovely thing that the hills might say for the hills are alive with the sound of music with songs they have sung for a thousand years the hills fill my heart with the sound of music my heart wants to sing every song it hears not too far remember move from the words of a psalmist not too far removed from jacob's dream but also prompting us to sort of tap our feet and sing and this one also will do the same [Music] deromy let's start at the very beginning it's a musical lesson but one tends to know the words and when people are singing it there are actions they do as well and all their bodies move it's a rare gift to be able to create songs of that sort we've in the score here we could do this for a very long time but songs like how do you solve a problem like maria or on the other hand uh songs like and let's do this one because this is fun um songs based on the austrian dance of the lendler and you'll remember how in the sound of music if you know it uh julie andrews as the the governess to the children is teaching them at the party the very smart party inside which is going on with the austrian aristocracy and everyone around for captain one trap and they ask what is that tune they watch the people dancing in a stately way and she says it's the lendler let me show you how it stands here's the lendler [Music] a beautiful austrian dance but at the same time it's changed in the musical score to something that we like to sing it's the same tune though it's disguised and it goes [Music] they'll only go to it and all of those things the way in which the music is done whether it be the the the song edelweiss which captain montreal him sings himself sings or it's it's something like climb every mountain forward every stream which is sung too many songs to think about this morning but massive gratitude to julie andrews but there's one other combination that i wanted to think of and that's the fact of at the great wedding scene the nuns sing first of all a gaodaiamus which is the music of the church [Music] and then start some massive organ processional march [Music] you've left the plane song and you've left the gowdy armors domino and you've gone into a massive orchestral and or the archbishop of of salzburg or whoever is standing waiting at the altar and what's the tune that weaves through that huge march it's how do you solve a problem like maria and unwittingly we're seeing the maria problem of where her life is going solved at that moment with the von trapp family all around her but there's more to come there's exile but carrying the music with them well i give thanks that such a score is this which has been almost worn out with many another score after dinner in the evening if lots of guests are staying you can get people to sing and so many know the tunes there are many many other musicals that do exactly the same thing but it's worthwhile having a stack of scores on here because someone will say oh i know this from phantom of the opera i know this from les miserables let's sing that and it gets people singing but at the same time the singing very often is full of imagery which connects back to sarmadi and him singing there's one final tune that i wanted to bring up and because this is the date on um the 1st of october 1865 that paul dukas the composer was born and you might say i've no idea who paul dukas is but if i do [Music] you'll instantly be in the middle of the sorcerer's apprentice and we best know that not at all from a fine composer duca 1865 to 1935 he lived but at the same time much of his music was not not worldwide known until suddenly walt disney created the film fantasia in 1940 and of all people mickey mouse became the sorcerer's apprentice and acted out in a wonderful fantasy that whole story and the floods of water because the gift of the sorcerer to his apprentice had not yet been learned to be used it was too powerful a gift for him to use and everything was going completely wrong because mickey chose to be lazy and use the power of the gift wrongly and caused the broom to do his work while he slept and woke to find everything in chaos and flood until the sorcerer comes back it's the most wonderful fantasy it lifted dukan's name into the world where everyone knew that name but at the same time a lesson with the music say that when one hears [Music] you know that you're in that particular parable where to use a gift means to use it properly as with all gifts that the heavenly father gives us in creation and to use it for one's own shall we say in mickey's term lazy benefit means that the gift very often is not a gift but a temptation which goes really badly wrong how many things to think about and be grateful for on this particular morning but time actually gones us out and we're going to say our prayers on this particular day the first of the months and we give thanks for it as the rain outside is pouring down so i'm giving thanks also as leo is here for being inside in the drawing room we're praying today in the anglican communion for the where are we the diocese of freetown in the church of the province of west africa and here in this particular diocese of canterbury we're praying for justin our archbishop and rose bishop of dover and now tim no longer bishop of lambeth tim thornton and his wife sean have retired yesterday but as it happens tim is here today because the archbishop's lambeth senior staff are here with us and when i celebrated communion just now um they were all with me in the gabriel chapel and our um gratitude to tim and sean sean fletcher and and me i'm speaking about our gratitude to them as friends as well as the bishop at lambeth is is unbounded we shall miss them terribly tim is continuing with a role of of of an advisor and consultant for the lambeth conference but in regular terms also there this morning was emma the new bishop at lambeth and she said to me i now know that this is my cathedral church of course it is because lambeth palace is in the diocese of canterbury there is in london and so stepping through the gates of lambert's palace i find myself still dean of canterbury in the middle of london there and it's a a piece of our own diocese of which this is the cathedral church not just because it's the church of the primate of all england and nor of the the mother church of the anglican communion but because it's the diocesan cathedral of the diocese of canterbury and emma the new bishop at nambus is living in that little patch of canterbury at lambeth palace and working there so we pray for her from now on and we're praying for the ashford area deanery the parishes around ashford and the the mission agencies of of ignite there under dawn evans and dawn stamper the enablers uh so let's say our prayers on this first day of the month says the rain falls here and we across the world bring our own intentions to the colic for the day almighty god you have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you pour your love into our hearts and draw us to yourself and so bring us at last to your heavenly city where we shall see you face to face through jesus christ our lord amen so we pray each in our own language the prayer our savior taught us 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 power and the glory forever and ever amen moment of silence now as you say your own prayers and make your own intentions so [Music] a device which has become in that particular film a song of exile for the von trapp family at that time fleeing from the nazis and um also we remember today all those who've had to flee from their own homes across the world and hold them in our prayers so many different reasons people needing to flee from their homes or missing their homes so that's a song of our hearts wanting to be at home the peace of god which passes all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of god and of his son jesus christ our lord the blessing of god almighty the father the son and the holy spirit be upon you upon those whom you love and those whom you would pray for today and always are men so on this day as the rain pours down over the cathedral we thought that the one thing to leave you with some cheer on from this musical score is a song which is intended to cheer the children up and uh in terms of thinking of lovely things the song that we are about to play my favorite things is an attempt to say well whatever the weather is like let's just grab hold of it and go on [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] it's been a musical morning that i wanted before leaving you to remind you that tonight in our time at half past seven in the evening a recital will be given on the newly restored and uh enlarged grand organ of canterbury cathedral it's a famous and historic henry willis organ which has been restored totally by harrison and harrison with the contribution of many generous donors and tonight the leading organist internationally famous nathan is coming to give a recital here the first guest recital in a programme of music which will stretch through the year so tonight you can actually join in with that with those here online it's being being put online and you can look at that either then live or later on uh in the recorded version by finding that on our website nathan has done us the most enormous favor a as i say he is an internationally renowned organist and he's known well in major concert venues and festivals across the world but he reorganized his program because we were going to have thomas trotter who sadly was was injured and we're hoping for his full recovery but tonight nathan has reorganized his program to be in england and stepped in for this it's been really lovely having him here rehearsing and practicing and tonight we shall enjoy very much the recital he's he's giving you can not only watch live but you can also contribute to our music program it's not only a program about the organist it's the organ itself but it's also of support to our singers in their different groups and the outreach which we intend them to have you will have seen by being at services either live or online that our back row now includes four choral scholars as well as the lay clarks and those choral scholars helen vincent david walsh harry swanson and joel heritage are a wonderful addition to our background in fact helen is the first woman also to be singing in canterbury cathedral and that's over the years so uh it's been a long time but helen is a wonderful addition and the four choral scholars are here not only to sing for us but to help music in our vicinity in schools because as many of you will know it's very difficult these days to find and finance uh musicians skilled musicians and and singing and the playing of instruments is is threatened because of that and so we in canterbury are wanting to help the schools in our vicinity by sending out our choral scholars who are trained musicians to encourage singing and perhaps then to gather people together not for worship necessarily but just to sing in groups here in the cathedral so that people realize what joy music can be in their lives and perhaps start on a music career instruments and singing and all kinds of musical gifts are latently there but of course the parish churches need organists to play for them too and so the learning of the organ uh is inspired by people like nathan lauber coming and showing what immense gifts can be used on an organ like the restored organ here if you want to contribute to that and i very much hope you will from across the world then go on to the uh just giving link on the website and click that and make sure you put you can put if you like garden congregation but the word music is the one that has to come on to it and then that restricts your giving to that particular dimension of our ministry and i know that nathan will really do the instrument proud and we shall all those of us who are there and those of you joining in online either live or in the days to come will have a wonderful celebration of the grand organ with music that is going to inspire us in a great way