Monteith Hobson Adams

Hello Forum members,

I've just been on the Leics Cathedral website & found 3 names to watch. I didn't check when exactly they begin their deliberations about the re-interment but we can check on them......
First up the new Dean, the Very Revd David Monteith, "planning events for the re-interment of the King perhaps his highest priority".........
then Acting Canon Missioner Pete Hobson who has "masses of project experience" & will concentrate on Richard III & Cathedral Gardens as well as helping with the liturgical & preaching load".......
followed by Alison Adams, Diocese & Cathedral Social Responsibility Enabler (oof) "primarily working with Pete on matters relating to Richard III.....working with the City & Council on Richard III will enable her to establish lots of networks for her longer term work in Social Responsibility".......
Now, do we think they need a reading list & what shall we recommend in the social responsibility area? There is evidence that the King wanted an educated clergy to minister to their flocks.
There is a link to the new Dean's sermon which is a helpful indicator of the many concerns he has to address. I feel sympathetic towards him, at least for the moment.

Jan.

Methinks we will be heading for a multicural burial or at least for some multicultural input. They cannot after all ignore the majority of Leicester's population, and the Mayor will be mindful of that, hence the involvement of the Social Responsibility Enabler. I would rather welcome that - and as a forward thinker in matters of relgion and music I bet Richard would too.



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From: "janmulrenan@..." <janmulrenan@...>
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Sent: Thursday, 23 May 2013, 21:00
Subject: Monteith Hobson Adams


 

Hello Forum members,

I've just been on the Leics Cathedral website & found 3 names to watch. I didn't check when exactly they begin their deliberations about the re-interment but we can check on them......
First up the new Dean, the Very Revd David Monteith, "planning events for the re-interment of the King perhaps his highest priority".........
then Acting Canon Missioner Pete Hobson who has "masses of project experience" & will concentrate on Richard III & Cathedral Gardens as well as helping with the liturgical & preaching load".......
followed by Alison Adams, Diocese & Cathedral Social Responsibility Enabler (oof) "primarily working with Pete on matters relating to Richard III.....working with the City & Council on Richard III will enable her to establish lots of networks for her longer term work in Social Responsibility".......
Now, do we think they need a reading list & what shall we recommend in the social responsibility area? There is evidence that the King wanted an educated clergy to minister to their flocks.
There is a link to the new Dean's sermon which is a helpful indicator of the many concerns he has to address. I feel sympathetic towards him, at least for the moment.

Jan.

From: Hilary Jones
To:
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: Monteith Hobson Adams


> Methinks we will be heading for a multicural burial or at least for some
> multicultural input. They cannot after all ignore the majority of
> Leicester's population, and the Mayor will be mindful of that, hence the
> involvement of the Social Responsibility Enabler. I would rather welcome
> that - and as a forward thinker in matters of relgion and music I bet
> Richard would too.

Yes, I think you're right. So long as he gets the necessary Christian bits
of the burial service I think he'd be pleased to also include whatever the
local people believe, and probably find it flattering.

All the same I hope the choir gets the music right. Go to YouTube & try Deo Gratias by Ockeghem. How does that strike you? And there should be a De Profundis Psalm 130 in the service as well.
Jan.

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On 24 May 2013, at 11:32, "Claire M Jordan" <whitehound@...> wrote:

> From: Hilary Jones
> To:
> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 10:28 AM
> Subject: Re: Monteith Hobson Adams
>
> > Methinks we will be heading for a multicural burial or at least for some
> > multicultural input. They cannot after all ignore the majority of
> > Leicester's population, and the Mayor will be mindful of that, hence the
> > involvement of the Social Responsibility Enabler. I would rather welcome
> > that - and as a forward thinker in matters of relgion and music I bet
> > Richard would too.
>
> Yes, I think you're right. So long as he gets the necessary Christian bits
> of the burial service I think he'd be pleased to also include whatever the
> local people believe, and probably find it flattering.
>
>

Claire wrote:
> Yes, I think you're right. So long as he gets the necessary Christian bits of the burial service I think he'd be pleased to also include whatever the local people believe, and probably find it flattering.
>
Carol responds:

I'm not so sure. Music and liturgy in English, sure. He was foreward thinking in those respects. And I don't think he would mind combining Anglican and Catholic elements. I think he would be frankly puzzled to see what he would consider foreign elements from, say, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Wicca--if that's what you have in mind. Multiculturalism is a very recent concept. Richard--and all the monarchs of England and Great Britain for centuries after him--was "old school" in the sense that he favored Christianity and Western Civilization. I think we should respect what we know were his religious and cultural beliefs rather than trying to remold him into a politically correct modern Englishman, which he assuredly wasn't.

Carol