Service: Evensong Song Feb 24

Sunday, February 24th, 2019 from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Evensong returns for 2019

Blooming Church 2019 Feb 8-10

From Friday, February 8th, 2019 until Sunday, February 10th, 2019

It crops every year, its blooming church, the St David’s Cathedral Community Floral Festival.

This year is Flourishing

Make plans to come along, see the displays, listen to great music and have some fantastic refreshments.

The Festival finishes with a concert on Sunday afternoon.

Christmas 2018: Looking for Stable Leadership

From Monday, December 24th, 2018 until Tuesday, December 25th, 2018

Christmas Eve

5PM KIDS CHRISTMAS
A service for the young and young at heart

7PM NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS
A service of beautiful music, readings and carols. A special annual service.

11PM MIDNIGHT COMMUNION
Starting in darkness for the coming of the light of the world with candles for all. A reflective service.

Christmas Day

8AM TRADITIONAL COMMUNION
Traditional communion to start the day.

10AM FAMILY COMMUNION
A wonderful celebration for all ages.

Stable Leadership

We are looking for stable leadership. Our Country has had 6 different Prime Minsters in just over a decade, with the leaders 4 time being dumped by their own party, and the Federal Government’s majority is on a knife edge. In our State the Government’s agenda appears capable of being hijacked while some of the problems seem intractable with accusations of weak leadership. These are challenging times for leadership.
Worldwide voters seem to show a lack of trust in old governing structures leading to unexpected results. Some world leaders demonstrate unhelpful styles of leadership, showing scant regard for truth, process and growing nationalism, and they can themselves look unstable. Some forms of leadership are challenging.
All this leads us to ask? who is in charge and what should true leadership look like? We are looking for stable leadership but is it possible?
2000 years ago in the midst of leadership that was remote, uncaring, indifferent, corrupt or ineffectual came the remarkable message that God’s leadership was being established and demonstrate through the ministry of a carpenter from Nazareth. In Jesus, God was keeping his promise of establishing his kingdom of justice and peace, the creator God of the Hebrew Scriptures was in charge. Here was a leadership challenge to all other leaders, their claims to authority were undermined and marginalised. It is no surprise that this usurper was killed to get rid of this revolutionary message. But then God raised him from the dead to vindicate him. The resurrection shouldn’t lead us to say “Coo, that was unexpected” rather “It’s a coup, Jesus is king.” In Jesus there is leadership that is truly stable and unchallengable and we look for it to be established among us.
But in Jesus we not only are challenged about who is the leader we are also challenged about what leadership looks like. For here is a leader who is concerned about justice and righteousness yet acts with compassion and grace. This is not about “Israel first”, but God first and the caring for others above self. Not about power but truly about people, acting in humility and fully identifying with those he leads.
There is no better way of capturing this than the nativity stories, where the true king of all the world is born in back room of a rural pub. His birth celebrated by both and attended by shepherds, the high and the low. Power and humility captured in a manger. This is a leadership challenge born in a back room. This is stable leadership.
In Advent we await Jesus coming to fully establish that Kingdom and live out its values. We commit ourselves to the kingdom of stable leadership, to Jesus our king and to follow in his ways. We pray and work for God’s kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven.
“For unto us a child is born, his name shall be the prince of peace … of his government there shall be no end.” Isaiah 9

Concert: Argyle Orchestra Christmas Concert Dec 21

Friday, December 21st, 2018 from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

The Argyle Orchestra and Choir has much pleasure in presenting it’s third Christmas Concert, Directed by Simon Reade again at St Davids Cathedral.
This Christmas we are performing one of Mozarts best loved works his Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola with Soloists Tara Murphy and Finn Cooney.
The second work being The Messe de Minuit de Noel written around 1690 by the French Baroque composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier. This beautiful work combines art music with music of profane origins, using French Christmas folksongs, some of which date back to the Middle ages which puts it in the genre of a “parody mass.” It is scored for string orchestra, organ with 2 Flutes, Choir and 5 fantastic young solo voices being Lana Kains, Sophie Mohler, Rebecca O’Hanlon, Jeremy Boulton and Alexander Young

Bookings here

Concert: Sing Australia on the Cathedral Steps

Tuesday, December 18th, 2018 from 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm

Come listen and join in Christmas songs on the Murray St steps of the Cathedral.

When Sing Australia are on the steps Christmas is getting close!

Concert: The Idea of North: Christmas Ballads By Candlelight Dec 15

Saturday, December 15th, 2018 from 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm

The Idea of North presents ‘Christmas Ballads By Candlelight’ at the beautiful St. David’s Cathedral in Hobart.

Christmas Ballads By Candlelight is a show full of gorgeous music presented in stunning acoustics and surrounded by twinkling candles.

Join us, for an end-of-year event that promises to make you feel all the feels: Fizzy. Squishy. Misty. Classy. Laughy. Singy. Festivy.

Ticket here

Concert: A Boy Is Born (Allegri Ensemble) Dec 14

Friday, December 14th, 2018 from 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm

A BOY WAS BORN

Allegri Ensemble
Christmas concert:
Andrew Bainbridge, director
Joshua Ryan, organ

Allegri Ensemble, directed by Andrew Bainbridge, is pleased to present a colourful Christmas program of favourite carols and festive songs featuring excerpts from Benjamin Britten’s atmospheric youthful masterwork “A Boy Was Born”.

Other works on the program include John Rutter’s “Shepherd’s Pipe carol” and “What Sweeter Music”; Bob Chilcott’s “The Shepherd’s Carol”; John Tavener’s “The Lamb”; Orlando Gibbons’ “This is the record of John” and Thomas Tallis’ wonderful extended motet “Videte miraculum”. We will also present mid-20th century classics by William Mathias, Colin Brumby, Stephen Jackson, Andrew Carter, William Walton, Richard Rodney Bennett, interspersed with Robert Parsons’ sublime “Ave Maria” and Samuel Scheidt’s rousing “Ein Kind’ geborn”.

Audience members will be invited to join in singing “O come all ye faithful” and “The First Nowell” in well‐loved arrangements by Sir David Willcocks and the program will conclude with a rousing rendition of William James’ Australian carol “Merry Christmas”.

Allegri Ensemble is delighted to be joined by Joshua Ryan, one of Australia’s best young organists. Joshua is an Honours student at the University of Sydney Conservatorium and winner of the 2018 Sydney University Medal in Music. He has been organ scholar at Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral, St Stephen’s Church and Christ Church St Laurence, and works as a freelance performer, accompanist and teacher in Sydney and Canberra.

We hope you will join us for a stylish start to Christmas!

Friday 14 December, 8:00 pm St David’s Cathedral
23 Murray St, Hobart

Tickets: $35/$28 from Centertainment ph (03) 6234 5998
www.centertainment.com.au

(NB:Internet Booking Fees apply)
Seating is General Admission
Door sales from 7:30 pm