St Peter and St Paul
This weekend we celebrate the Feast of the two great Apostles Peter and Paul. It is one of the most ancient celebratory days in the church calendar. We honour these two great saints who were so different in their background and experience yet were the two foundation stones on which the church of Christ was built. Peter, the fisherman who accompanied our Lord in his ministry and who was called to leadership of the church and Paul the former Rabbi who received a vision of Christ and became the great missionary and apostle of the gentiles. Both ended their lives and were martyred in Rome and are honoured jointly – we seek their intercession for the needs of the church in our times.
This coming week John Moores University hold their Graduation ceremonies at Liverpool Cathedral and as a result there will be a greater number of visitors within the University and Hope Street area. The following week Liverpool University Graduations will be held here at our Cathedral all week and then Hope University at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral so we begin a few weeks of Graduation celebrations which is always a colourful time in our quarter of the city.
Scarisbrick Hall will be holding an awards afternoon here on Tuesday afternoon. Then later in the week there are a few musical events. On Thursday from 1.30 – 3pm Professor Ian Tracey will be giving an organ recital.
Ian will be well known to many and is the Organist Titulaire of Liverpool Cathedral and organist for the city of Liverpool. The organ theme will continue on Saturday with an organ day for young people to encourage more aspiring musicians to learn to play the organ as an and taking it up as their principle instrument. Next Sunday afternoon there will be a joint choirs choral concert at 3pm at our Cathedral in place of evening prayer. Later that day at 5pm there will be the Annual Lourdes Departure Mass.
Canon Anthony O’Brien
Cathedral Dean
