Transformative
Transformative study sessions
The listings for the Transformative study sessions have been updated with names of the Chairs and information about the venues.
Transformative begins with these study sessions this Autumn and continues through to Holy Week and Easter in 2010.
More information on Transformative:
Transformative timetable:
- Autumn 2009: Intensive study sessions
- 22-23 January 2010: The Festival of St Paul Weekend
- Lent 2010: Diocesan Lent course
- Holy Week and Easter 2010: Chrism Eucharist, Easter Vigil and Confirmation
Transformative Co-ordinating Committee
Canon Martin Warner (Chair), the Revd Andrew Hammond, the Revd Jennie Hogan, Dr Douglas Knight, the Revd Preb Nick Mercer, the Revd Ian Mobsby, the Revd Professor Ben Quash,The Revd Jason Rendell, The Revd Miles Toulmin.
Posted: 23 October 2009 under Information, Transformative.
Transformative: Mission – Teaching – Eucharist
A message from the Bishop of London:
For the last year or so I have encouraged a group of priests and theologians in the diocese to pursue their vision for what has come to be called Transformative. It is about how the people of God learn and live the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the Eucharist. It celebrates our Diocesan life in London as one body in the one bread. It aims to fire up our zeal for growth and the transformation of hopes and lives.
Following a distinct trajectory, Transformative will begin with a sequence of five Study Sessions in Autumn 2009, drawing on the expertise of speakers from within London and from further afield. This should appeal to everyone, both clergy and laity. As well as being noteworthy and valuable events in themselves, they will generate material for a Lent Course which the College of Bishops will commend to all parishes for 2010. This will be launched at a Festival of St Paul Weekend, in January 2010, the next stage in the Festival.
The St Paul Weekend, centred on the Cathedral, the Bishop’s Chair, a focus of unity for the Diocese, will include a Symposium (with speakers of international renown), an all-night Youth Vigil and a Diocesan Eucharist at which I shall preside and preach. This will be an occasion of great vigour and imagination, drawing together the best of what the various traditions bring to celebration of the Eucharist.
The next stage will be the Lent Course itself. It will be designed to allow individual parishes to choose options that suit their own needs and tradition. The course will be available primarily in web-based form, as part of our commitment to a green agenda, reinforcing a Eucharistic understanding of the fruits of creation. It will also seek to tie in with the Diocesan Lent Appeal for ALMA.
The climax of the festival will be in the great liturgies of Holy Week and Easter – celebrated with much diversity across the Diocese, and concentrating our focus on the paschal mystery which is at the heart of the Eucharist. At St Paul’s Cathedral itself this will of course include the Chrism Eucharist on Maundy Thursday and the Easter Vigil, at which I shall have the joy of baptizing and confirming (April 3rd).
This liturgical re-visiting of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus is to be the goal and experience that is truly transformative, truly the action of the Holy Spirit, truly empowerment for future mission. This is ‘liturgy’ as ‘work’ – the celebration of sins forgiven, lives transformed, the earth renewed, the kingdom revealed, creation restored, and all humanity gathered at the banquet of life in heaven.
As the content of Transformative develops it will be available on the Diocesan website (www.london.anglican.org/transformative). I commend it to you and the whole people of God so that all our Mission and Ministry might be grounded in a deep understanding of our Holy Communion.
With thanks for our partnership in the Gospel
+Richard
The Rt Revd & Rt Hon Richard Chartres KCVO DD FSA
Posted: 1 September 2009 under Information, Transformative.