There will be a community lunch after the morning service and a Welsh Hymnfest in the afternoon.
We pray that the day will leave you feeling happier than our Patron Saint is in our East Window.
Service: Ordination & Celebration February 29
A Diocesan Celebration of ministry around Tasmania and ordination. Family friendly with bbq afterward.
Service: Ash Wednesday Feb 26 7.30pm
All welcome to join us for our Ash Wednesday service of imposition of Ashes and Choral Eucharist as we start Lent.
Remember you are dust,
and to dust you shall return.
Turn away from sin,
and be faithful to Christ.
Alpha Course. Starts February 25
Are you new to Christianity? Have you’ve been thinking about Jesus but want to know more before you take the step of trusting him? Are you a new Christian and want to explore more about what that means? Have you been a Christian for a while and want rethink what Jesus means? Or do you know someone who does? Alpha is a great way to explore questions like these with people who are asking similar things. We meet each week over a meal for about an hour and a half to share our thoughts and ideas on who we think Jesus is and what it means to be a Christian.
If that interests you, please come! Alpha sessions will start on Tuesday 25th February at 6:00pm. There is no commitment or payment required, just a willingness to be open minded to how being a follower of Jesus will change your life. If you would like to know more, please talk to either the Dean or Catriona Johnson.
Service: Choral Evensong February 23
Come and join in the beauty of Evensong as we gather in worship and around God’s word and sing his praises.
Catriona Johnson, our student minister, will speaking .
There will be light refreshments afterward in 121 Macquarie St.
If you’d like to join with the choir please come at 4.30 ready to sing.
Concert: Organ & Flute Recital Feb 10, 5pm
Hobart Organ Society present Peter Warren (Organ & Piano) & Belinda Ratnik (Flute).
These concerts are free but a donation can be made at the end. Money supports both the Hobart Organ Society and St. David’s Cathedral
Concert: Blooming Concert. Feb 9, 2pm
A celebration of music to close the Blooming Church festival featuring Belinda Ratnik (Flute), Jo-Anne Kemp (Piano), Rosalie Campbell (Piano), Pete Warren (organ & piano), Xavier Gandy (French horn) and Members of the St. David’s Cathedral Choir
Tickets $15 available from the door.
All proceeds to the Friends of St. Davids.
Blooming Church 2020 Feb 7-9
A time to sow so seeds of creativity will flower.
Blooming Church 2020 heralds the Cathedral’s 52nd floral festival.
Each February, St David’s blooms and fills with the most exquisite fragrances that only flowers can give, as it plays host to an extraordinary array of floral exhibits, botanical art, music and community creativity.
Open to the public from:
- Friday 7 February, 11am – 5pm
- Saturday 8 February, 9am – 5pm
- Sunday 9 February, 11:30am – 2pm.
Entry $3, children free
FRIDAY
Dean’s Tours 12noon, 1:30pm, 3pm
Tea Rooms open 11am — 4:15pm
SATURDAY
Bell Tower tours 10am, 10:45am, 11:30am, 12:15pm
Dean’s Tours 10am, 11:30am, 1pm, 2:30pm, 4pm (afternoon tours include belltower.)
Tea Rooms open 9am — 4:15pm
Floral Art demonstration 2pm by Norma Gordon OAM
SUNDAY
Concert 2pm Tickets $15
A celebration of music to close the festival
Concert: Sunday 9 February, 2pm Tickets $15, available at the door.
Concert: TSO Brass Feb 6 7.30pm
The resonant and inviting acoustic of St David’s Cathedral is perfectly suited to music for brass ensemble – it’s a match made in heaven, you might say. These concerts showcase the Brass of the TSO, a group of players renowned for their vitality, versatility and all-round brilliance.
Tickets here
Service: Opening of the Legal Year 2020
An Ecumenical Service for the Opening of the Legal Year.
Attended by the Judges, Magistrates and Members of the Legal Profession in relation to the administration of justice in Tasmania.
Preacher Prof. Rufus Black
Rufus Black is the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Tasmania. Previously, he was Master of Melbourne University’s Ormond College and an Enterprise Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing and a Principal Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne.
Rufus’ private sector experience includes nine years as a partner at McKinsey and Company, serving clients in Australia and Asia, and as a Director for national law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth. His educational and social sector experience includes being the President of Museums Victoria, the Deputy Chancellor of Victoria University, the founding Chair of the Board of the Teach for Australia Board, a Director of the New York based Teach for All and a Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. He has worked extensively for government at Federal and State levels. He was a Board Member of Innovation Science Australia, conducted the Black Review into the Department of Defence and the Prime Minister’s Independent Review of the Australian Intelligence Community and was the Strategic Advisor to the Secretary of Education in Victoria. Rufus holds degrees in law, politics, economics, ethics and theology from the University of Melbourne and Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
