As we move into Autumn for us at the Cathedral we are moving into a season where we focus on our global connections and our need to remember the past in order, we hope to reshape, reimagine and remake the future. We have a new installation coming ‘From Rubble Reborn’, which captures, in the form of a sculpture of a new born baby, something of that aspiration. We are also hosting Canon David Porter in a conversation where he will bring his experience of international reconciliation to bear as we re:imagine how we might recreate a world where human flourishing is central.
We have welcomed a new international member to our clergy team. Henriette Howarth joined us at the end of September as Canon for Congregational Life. She will help us to reshape how we offer pastoral support to our community. She is originally from The Netherlands and comes with a great depth of experience in spirituality and pastoral care. We look forward to her serving and weaving those gifts into our community.
It is the season of remembering. We gather to bring to mind those who we have loved and who have died both personally and in our civic gatherings for Remembrance. These are always poignant and with the world still such a fragile place, they are more important than ever. Why not come and be present with us in one of those gatherings.
We also say farewell to Bishop Nick and Linda this month, after more than a decade serving the Diocese of Leeds. We pray for them that as they move into a new season of life, that God will be with them in the transition and in the reimagining they will do as they retire from their particular ministries.
May they, and all of us know the presence of the God who is with us through His Holy Spirit in the in between times, in borderlands and during moments of change, struggle and transition.
That we might all know what it is to be reborn in Him.
The Very Revd Andy Bowerman, Dean of Bradford.