[Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] to make this the hearts [Music] with our [Music] see [Music] [Applause] it's australia day and we give thanks for that wonderful land of such diversity of all kinds of cultures the most ancient cultures in the world and also the most modern as this special day dawns and we here in canterbury give thanks it's a special day for three particular countries today it's an historic day for india and we've got beside me the australian flag here and then over here the flag of india on republic day and already i've been watching very early what's going on there with the parades for republic day in india as they celebrate uh as a nation and also it's a um historic day in the history of hong kong and this foundation day as it's always been called a very informal piece but we brought the flag of hong kong in here to remember also because this is a day when we're going to be talking about the diversity of our anglican communion the anglican episcopal strand of the church of christ throughout the world and as we think of that we're focusing on three particular places and then we'll come back to the sense of australia day the three places will be saint peter's adelaide you've already heard the bells of saint peter beautiful cathedral church in adelaide which was uh built by the architect butterfield who built buildings here very near us there's one looking over the garden wall in in the in the deanery but we remember the life of saint peter's cathedral in adelaide and st john's cathedral in hong kong and saint thomas's cathedral in mumbai those are taken simply as signs of all that is going on in those three nations and also of the diversity of four cathedrals the cathedral church of christ here as i've said saint peter's adelaide st john's hong kong and saint thomas in mumbai and we'll come to the music and part of the story of each one of those as we go through but we're going to begin our prayers and i'm surrounded of course by creatures of australian culture uh and um enjoying their company we've come into the old pump room of the deanery right at the end of the house where we can have a garden in here and where birds which need a warmer climate uh say we've got the sound of of buttery girls here because they're here remember last year we went out into the garden where mimosa wattle was in full flower beautiful yellow flower in the sunshine no nothing like that this year this year is cold we have some water inside here behind the the bright yellow of the water here behind me but outside it's it's going to be some weeks yet before the wattle blooms here in the deanery garden outside but around are the sound of the budgies there are two emerald doves in here which actually could be found in any of those places that i've mentioned in in india in uh um hong kong and also in australia and so we're surrounded by those sort of noises actually there's some also fletcher's sound effects for the billabong in now in in in southwestern australia uh and uh so you will hear water falling and and that kind of thing but there is actually water actually falling behind me into the great pond which the birds are able to drink from so let's begin our prayers uh on this day of diversity and many many different themes and i'll explain how we're going to use them on the way through with the music of those themes today is the day in our calendar when we remember timothy and titus the companions of saint paul and that also will help our thinking about the diversity of christian vocation especially at the time of the early church so let's begin our prayers then on this day of timothy and titus and the memory and and consciousness and prayers for three particular nations as they are signs of all that uh we represent in diversity as a communion across the world o lord open our lips and our mouth shall proclaim your praise your faithful servants bless you they make known the glory of your kingdom blessed are you sovereign god ruler and judge of all to you be praise and glory forever in the darkness of this age that is passing away may the light of your presence which the saints enjoy surround our steps as we journey on may we reflect your glory this day and so be made ready to see your face in the heavenly city where night shall be no more 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 our regular psalm on this day is a section of psalm 119 and uh i'm beginning to read at verse 105. so here we are just the eight verses from 105 to 112 of psalm 119 your word is a lantern to my feet and a light upon my path i have sworn and will fulfill it to keep your righteous judgments i am troubled above measure give me life o lord according to your word accept the free will offering of my mouth so lord and teach me your judgments my soul is ever in my hand yet i do not forget your law the wicked have laid a snare for me but i have not strayed from your commandments your testimonies have i claimed as my heritage forever for they are the very joy of my heart i have applied my heart to fulfill your statutes always even to the end now that's the morning sound but we're going to do something a little bit different now because a great friend of ours who is the director of music and organist in the cathedral church of st thomas it's in thomas of canterbury uh in mumbai is ravi who has sent us not only a greetings picture for today but also since some of the music and amongst that is ravi himself as the cantor in psalm 121 and also some beautiful harp music so we'll have a musical interlude which in this interlude will take us to india to mumbai [Music] r [Music] is the lord himself is thy keeper the lord is thy defense upon thy right hand so that the sun shall [Music] [Music] the lord shall preserve by going out and i coming [Music] glory be to the father [Music] is without him [Music] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] you've been looking during that music in one of the budgies and badges come from australia so it's an australian voice but also a yellow budgie with a green background gives us the color of australia and we continue to remember this being australia day as i turn to a special lesson for today it's a lesson for timothy and titus day and i'm going to read from the second letter of sin paul to timothy and i'm starting in chapter four verse six remember paul is writing to timothy but he mentions many more friends in his letter he is in prison himself for i am already being poured out as a drink offering and the time of my departure has come i have fought the good fight i have finished the race i have kept the faith henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness which the lord the righteous judge will award to me on that day and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing do your best to come to me soon for dimas in love with this present world has deserted me and gone to thessalonica christkins has gone to galatia titus to dalmatia only luke is with me now get mark and bring him with you for he is very useful to me for my ministry tachycas i have sent to ephesus when you come bring the cloak that i left with corpus at troas also the books and above all the parchments alexander the coppersmith did me great harm the lord will repay him according to his deeds beware of him yourself for he strongly opposed our message at my first defense no one came to stand by me but all deserted me may it not be charged against them but the lord stood by me and strengthened me so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the gentiles might hear it so i was rescued from the lion's mouth the lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom to him be the glory forever and ever our men greet prisca and aquila and the household of uniceferous erastus remained at corinth and i left trophemus who was ill at miletus do your best to come before winter eubulus sends greetings to you as do purens and linus and claudia and all the brothers and sisters the lord be with your spirit grace be with you it's really lovely to read something like that because it suggests and gives us evidence of as so many of the concluding paragraphs of saint paul's epistles do evidence of the diversity of people involved in the mission in the world as they then knew it and we are of course taking as our theme today the diversity of the world as we now know it where because of the pandemic so many barriers seem to have broken down and we feel so much more at one as a human race facing in so many ways the same dangers and trying at best to help one another and we think of all the things that saint paul writes to people when he sends letters first of all there's his longing for timothy to come and give him encouragement and comfort and and be there with him in the hearings that are are being laid against him and he is feeling rather lonely but he has luke with him uh and uh only luke is with me now is one of those touching sentences at the same time he's writing to the men and women who have been intensely important to him in different places some of them he knows well because they're of his own churches others when he writes to the um church in rome in the letter to the romans he has not himself been there and is then sending greetings to a church that he longs to go and be part of but there are many people who've been coming and going whom he does know amongst them and there are lovely references to the companionship that he obviously feels and knows and relies on for a multitude of diverse people and we can only imagine them by hearing their names some we know well for other reasons and i would say of course when he mentions luke of course we know luke well as the one who was the scribe of so much of the history of the early church in the acts of the apostles but also we think of someone not named there barnabas who was his companion at the beginning and here's mark appearing again and i hope that's the mark that uh paul at first with barnabas because mark had failed in the first missionary journey john mark uh um when he failed there barnabas said well let's give him a second chance paul said no but i hope now when he says get mark and bring him with you because he is useful in ministry and maybe that's a sign of the forgiveness there with the older paul at the same time there's a the sense of how hostilities can break out and that sense of alexander the copper smith did me great harm it's all very human indeed and this diversity that we'll be thinking of today in the three nations obviously in the past in ways that our own communities and their communities came together and were formed in all our histories there are mistakes and short-sightedness to be sorry for and there is that kind of sorrow to express sometimes for aspects of the past but at the same time there is the joy of feeling a connection and in reconciliation and in forgiveness that connection can go forward and it's the lifeblood of the church because every day the gift of a new day begins with thanksgiving and the penitence and sorrow that goes with it is something that we are assured by our faith can be um shall we say not only atoned for but also begun to be put right in in different generations so that sensitivity to one another becomes vastly important as it was in the early church and that diversity of the different nations in the world as they knew it was something that paul was the shining light for because he felt himself to be called as the apostle not to his own people he gives that crown to peter he is the apostle to the gentiles that is his commission and that means all of those who are not part of his own people that was his ministry but at the beginning of the um letter to the corinthians one of his great letters one corinthians talk about the fact that in all this one person plants and another waters or one person will lay a foundation stone but they have to leave it to another to carry that work on as they move on and here is paul beginning to think that his time has come to an end and he's handing on this work to those whom he's trained who and or all those who who he has trained rather uh he i think that um that timothy obviously is the one that he sees as uh he was a greek remember had a greek father and was a companion of of paul because he was useful to him and in titus in the same way these are leaders but so many other names many many many names forgotten as well but that diversity is a strong strand of what we're doing this morning this is as i said australia day and above all else we wanted to give a flavor of the diversity of culture in australia some belonging to the most ancient uh indigenous cultures in the world and we're thinking today of a composer called peter skelsorp who was born in 1929 in tasmania and died in 2014 aged 84. and peter scarcel was trained as a western musician but his vocation and passion became an impulse to bring together aspects of ancient indigenous australian music with the heritage of western music and right at the end of all that we're doing this morning and you you may choose as we come to that section of the the um film this morning for morning prayer there will be one or two things which are of a different which might be better to listen to and then have a pause and maybe come back to it the next one later and think what that is saying and then to the the next one last of all and it's the longest his piece it's called earthcry and he wrote that in 1986 and he has said and his sentence i'm quoting now i want to take the oldest culture in the world and blend it with europe's rich musical legacy and he does that by using as the solo instrument with huge effect the didgeridoo and it's played by the supreme player of the didgeridoo an aboriginal australian who is trained in western music but also holds up the highest candle for his own culture of music and this blends both his name is william barton and william barton is an expert player of the didgeridoo we're going to put on also a short film only a couple of minutes long of how a didgeridoo is made and i find it absolutely fascinating of how those who are musicians and can play that in their own culture go into the part of the eucalyptus was that they know and they are tapping the trunks of the trees and as they tap them they'll find one that's hollow because it's been eaten out by termites and they measure the right length for the didgeridoo and they cut the tree and cut the length and light a fire and you'll see all this so i don't want to tell the whole story as to how the simplest of instruments is made to collect the didgeridoos the men go into the forest and observe the eucalyptuses from the hollow sound they know that the termites have completed their work and when they find a trunk of the right length and thickness they cut the piece that will become the didgeridoo oh then in a comfortable place to work they prepare the hollow trunk first they clean it and remove the bark normally it's the musicians themselves that prepare these instruments hey with a metal bar which has been heated in the fire they burn the pieces of wood and excrement that the termites have left and empty it and the didgeridoo is ready later each musician will get an artist to decorate it with designs that are normally related to the dreamtime or totemic animals huh but what is then replicated by a skilled musician and and uh what is almost what you can hear this morning with the sound effects that have been given is the sound of the trees and the birds and the creatures around they are the natural sounds and william barton is able to create that atmosphere of australia in any western music hall by the sense or concert hall by the sense of the didgeridoo giving all of that partly percussive and partly by the musical sounds it's making and we think of him there's a very moving occasion when the centenary of the gallipoli uh landings which was so catastrophic and and so costly of life for so many but particularly the anzacs in 2015 the centenary of that william barton went to anzac cove gallipoli and at the dawn service played the didgeridoo and the sounds of australia the homeland of so many and the the the forests and woods of so many who were there on the beaches of gallipoli were recreated a hundred years later in turkey on the beach there you can take aspects of culture around and some things fill you with joy and some with some sorrow for the past and that's what i mean in terms of looking back and reflecting and these days are important in terms of celebration and they're also important in terms of that kind of reflection the same time and now all of that will come at the end of all we're doing today and as i say you may feel it's better just to sort of pause at that point and come back to it even tomorrow or something that that kind so that you can concentrate on the atmospheres being given and i'll mention one or two other things it will come at the end too but i think that um it's the moment really for another of our cathedrals st john's hong kong and there uh we've uh we we we love st john's hong kong and have prayed for it recently uh but this morning we're able to show the installation of the new dean there with a tdm being sung conducted by our friend the director of music there felix and you'll see him energetically waving his arms around as the tedium is sung in the middle of a eucharist so we're going now to the altar of st john's cathedral in hong kong on this day of reflection for hong kong too [Music] it's our savior crisis conducts we now pray our father in heaven hallowed be your name your kingdom come your will be done on earth as in heaven give us today our daily bread forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for the kingdom the power and the glory are yours now and forever amen we break this bread to share in the body of christ we are one body because we all share in one blood [Music] is [Music] sunday [Music] r [Music] [Music] from so more so the gift of god for the people of god take them in remembrance that christ died for you and fit on him in your heart by faith with thanksgiving so [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh oh [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] the glorious [Music] of the prophets [Music] r [Music] uh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] r [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] the sharpness of death [Music] jesus christ [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] thee [Music] precious [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] sitting here with the the flags of hong kong um and the the flower here shown on the red flag is a bauhinia an orchid tree which is a very beautiful tree um flesh's mother has a one of them in spain they grow there and we have a very little one but we're not going to spend long on hong kong for one very good reason because chinese new year is coming up very soon and we'll return to hong kong and to our kings canterbury school at shenzhen in china on that particular day we are now coming back to australia and so let's bring that flag forward here as we think of all the very special connections between here and australia and we pray for the people of australia today in their their onward life as such a diverse nation now one of the one of the songs which will be played at the end we shall we shall start with uh a wonderful duet actually an extraordinary duet which is played on the organ in his home here in canterbury by our director of music david news home but he has got earphones on and is connected with a friend of his called adrian yuran who is the principal horn in the adelaide symphony orchestra and they are playing together a piece by the australian composer percy granger it's handle in the strand but those two that you will see side by side are right across the world from each other now if you think about saint paul writing his letters and uh hoping that they would get there and longing to have some news of timothy and now think of the way in which we're in contact straight away then think also about how many quick decisions have to be made and how much room for misunderstanding between friends there is when things are done so fast and proper reflection can't take place in it so perhaps in our age there's even more need to look back and and think perhaps we did get that wrong and it's it's time to say sorry and and move on in this but at the same time here across the world a wonderful thing of two musicians playing a piece together and being able to give it to us this morning that will be the very first piece we play followed by a wonderful piece which was written by a songwriter now fletcher discovered this and we didn't know it before and it's a song of australia now and it speaks uh in a really deep and sensitive way about all the aspects of life there which need to be treasured and need all of them to have a sense of mutual benefit from diversity goodness i don't know what that is i'm sure it's very dangerous so i'm sitting here um but at the same time i think you'll enjoy that song when he when he sings it so what we'll do is do david and adrian first and then the song by colin buchanan lee kurnigan and sarah storer i think you will enjoy that and then after that the very moving piece earth cry by sp peter skullthorpe with the didgeridoo played by william barton giving all the sounds of the the deep bush country and woodland of australia at the same time uh but that will come right at the end this morning meanwhile we might all think of our our special connections with australia we've only used the three cathedrals as symbols of diversity but they are signs of so many holy places of worship right throughout the world and all the things that we've said this morning about the diversity of the early church and the diversity of the church now and the need for understanding and sensitivity and different kinds of speeds in how we understand one another and yet the basis of music of different cultures being received with wonder and things which sound very different which one can then feel well that's so much of the nature of that particular culture develops and expands our own life and perception not only of ourselves and our humanity but also our place within this world and within the life of the very diverse response to christ in the churches throughout the world too so i'm thinking of this as a really lovely morning when we're basing ourselves on the companions of sin paul and using four holy places as signs of communities of great diversity our own church here cathedral church of christ in canterbury and then the church of saint peter's adelaide and the the cathedral churches in peters adelaide the cathedral church of sin john in hong kong and the cathedral church of st thomas in mumbai and those we give thanks for as signs of our diversity so i'm going to to turn now to our regular prayers and then during our reflection after the prayers we're going to have the choir of all four members of the choir of the cathedral church in in adelaide in peter's adelaide seeing a try sarge on a sanctus holy holy holy and that will be a very beautiful pause of reflection with music coming from an australian cathedral to us today so we are thinking in the ordinary calendar uh on this 26th of january of the diocese of cagiado in the anglican church of kenya and here as we pray for justin our archbishop for rose bishop of dover and for emma bishop at lambeth we think again of the parishes of sanet and those clergy who with in in retirement or or with time to give uh have permission to officiate and and help in those parishes across that area so let's then say the prayer today which is a a collect for the day of timothy and titus heavenly father who sent your apostle paul to preach the gospel and gave him timothy and titus to be his companions in faith grant that our fellowship in the holy spirit may bear witness to the name of jesus who is alive and reigns with you in the unity of the holy spirit one god now and forever are men so in diversity across the world and each in our own language and in our own way we say 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 now of reflection with the choir of computers adelaide thank you [Applause] oh [Music] my god [Music] hear us [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] me [Music] [Music] so so christ the son of god perfecting you the image of his glory and gladden your hearts with the good news of his kingdom and 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 we're now going to go on with the music and as i said before just just don't be afraid to listen to one piece and then think now i'll come back to the rest later we'll start with uh david and adrian david at his organ in canterbury adrian with his french horn in adelaide playing a seamless duet together percy granger's uh handling the strand and then we shall go on the next uh with the song and this does need uh reflection you may need to listen to it once it tries to hear the lovely words that are there from colin buchanan who who wrote that it's called a song of australia colin buchanan lee kurnigan and sarah storer and then finally earth cry doing exactly what uh peter scarcel wanted taking the oldest culture in the world and blending it with europe's rich musical legacy as william barton plays the didgeridoo in that piece so happy australia day for everyone in australia and australians the world over and uh then foundation day hong kong happy foundation day and for the people of india happy republic day what a diversity but we've enjoyed joining you in all of that this morning [Music] oh [Music] you [Music] please [Music] [Music] i [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] well [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] okay well i'm just a songwriter working my trade i carry a swag full of tunes 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