Welcome to the Anglican Parish of
The Anglican Parish of CHRIST CHURCH
ST LAURENCE
CHRIST CHURCH ST LAURE Railway Square, Sydney
Railway Square, Sydney Consecrated 1845
1 NOVEMBER 2015
All Saints
7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist & Children’s Ministry Preacher: Fr Peter Kurti Setting: Missa sine nomine ( Jewkes) Hymns: 224(t. 178), 341, 231, 225(i) 10.30am Procession & Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr Peter Kurti Hymns: 197, 229, 225(i), 231 Setting: Service in A-flat (Harwood) Motet: O King all glorious (Willan) Postlude: Hymne d’action de grâce - “Te Deum” (Langlais) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong, Procession & Benediction Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Hymns: 196(t. 19i), 219, 224(t. 178), Disposer Supreme (see p. 7) Canticles: Service in E (Murrill) Anthem: O quam gloriosum (Vaet) Postlude: Tuba Tune (Lang)
Left: Sanctuary lamp, St Laurence Chapel
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welcome to christ church st laurence Christ Church St Laurence is an inner city parish committed to the spread of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. As a congregation and as the Church we are committed to the support of the underprivileged, the persecuted and the socially marginalised. We are an Anglican church in the Anglican Catholic tradition.
THIS WEEK AT CHRIST CHURCH ST LAURENCE MON 2 NOV All Souls Day
TUE 3 NOV
Richard Hooker, priest & teacher (d. 1600)
Job 14.1-14;Ps 29; John 5.19-29 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 6.00pm Solemn Requiem Mass Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Setting: Requiem in D-flat (Vale) Motet: Bring Us, O Lord God (Harris) Motet: In paradisum (Fauré) Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
Rom 13.8-10; Ps 112.1-6; Luke 14.25-33 WED 4 NOV Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) Day for Anglicans & Roman Catholics to pray for one another 12.15pm Healing Eucharist
THU 5 NOV
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
FRI 6 NOV
Rom 15.14-21; Ps 98.1-5; Luke 16.1-8 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
SAT 7 NOV
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 11.00am Mass in the Southern Highlands
Ruth 3.1-5; 4.13-17; Psalm 127; Heb 9.19-28; Mark 12.38-44 Sun 8 NOV The Twenty-fourth Sunday after 7.00am Morning Prayer Pentecost 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist and Holy Baptism Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries 10.30am Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Setting: Missa Papae Marcelli (Palestrina) Motet: O salutaris hostia (Elgar) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Benediction Preacher: Fr Ron Silarsah Canticles: Tone & Fauxbourdon (Viadana) Anthem: If we believe (Goss)
The flowers in the Church this week are given to the Glory of God by Peter Relton, ‘A thank-offering for his parents’.
Mass Readings
Please use these readings in conjunction with the coloured service booklet. Breakfast is served after the 7.30am Eucharist today. Refreshments are served after the 9.00am Sung Eucharist and the 10.30am Solemn High Mass, all in the Parish Hall. All are welcome. If you are a visitor please ask a sidesperson for directions.
THE DEDICATION OF SEATING IN THE ST LAURENCE CHAPEL (10.30am Solemn High Mass) The new seating in the St Laurence Chapel has been given by David Davies to the Glory of God and in loving memory of Ron and Judith Davies. A bell is rung. The people stand. +In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Our Help is in the name of the Lord. Who has made heaven and earth. The Lord be with you. And also with you. The Rector continues – Let us pray. Almighty God, giver of all good things, we thank you for your generous bounty towards us, and it is our greatest joy to return to your service this token of our love and praise. We ask you +bless this furniture which we now dedicate to your service. We give you thanks for this place of prayer and beauty, and for the gift of music which is offered here to your glory. We make these and all our prayers in the name of Jesus Christ Our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. The people remain standing as the Choir sings the Introit Sentence (sung in Latin).
SENTENCE
Let us all rejoice in the Lord and keep a festival in honour of the saints. Let us join with the angels in joyful praise to the Son of God.
COLLECT
We praise you, heavenly Father, that you have knit together your chosen ones in one communion and fellowship in the body of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord: give us grace so to follow your blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living that we may come to those inexpressible joys you have prepared for those who truly love you; through Jesus Christ our Saviour, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.
FIRST Reading
Isaiah 25: 6-9 On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear. And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations; he will swallow up death forever. Then the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken. It will be said on that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, so that he might save us. This is the Lord for whom we have waited; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation. For the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
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Mass Readings Verses of the psalm are read alternately by a single reader and the congregation. A pause is observed at the colon for reflection. At Solemn High Mass, the choir sings the Psalm.
PSALM 24
1. The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it: the compass of the world and those who dwell therein. 2. For he has founded it upon the seas: and established it upon the waters. 3. Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord: or who shall stand in his holy place? 4. Those who have clean hands and a pure heart: who have not set their soul upon idols, nor sworn their oath to a lie. 5. They shall receive blessing from the Lord: and recompense from the God of their salvation. 6. Of such a kind as this are those who seek him: those who seek your face, O God of Jacob. 7. Lift up your heads, O you gates, and be lifted up, you everlasting doors: and the King of glory shall come in. 8. Who is the King of glory?: the Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. 9. Lift up your heads, O you gates, and be lifted up, you everlasting doors: and the King of glory shall come in. 10. Who is the King of glory?: the Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory.
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Second reading
Revelation 21.1-6a Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them as their God; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away.” And the one who was seated on the throne said, “See, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true.” Then he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.” For the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Alleluia. ‘Come to me, all you that labour and are burdened and I will give you rest,’ says the Lord.
Gospel
John 11.32-44 The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John. Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ. When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, ‘Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.’ When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. He said, ‘Where have you laid him?’
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Mass Readings They said to him, ‘Lord, come and see.’ Jesus began to weep. So the Jews said, ‘See how he loved him!’ But some of them said, ‘Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?’ Then Jesus, greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. Jesus said, ‘Take away the stone.’ Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, ‘Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four days.’ Jesus said to her, ‘Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?’ So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and
said, ‘Father, I thank you for having heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me.’ When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come out!’ The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, ‘Unbind him, and let him go.’ This is the gospel of the Lord, Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
OFFERTORY SENTENCE
Lord receive our gifts in honour of the holy men and women who live with you in glory. May we always be aware of their concern to help and save us.
COMMUNioN SENTENCE
Happy are the pure of heart, for they shall see God. Happy are the peacemakers, they shall be called sons of God. Happy are they who suffer persecution for justice’s sake. The kingdom of heaven is theirs.
COMMUNION MOTET O King all glorious (Healy Willan 1880-1968) O King all glorious, amid thy saintly company, who ever shall be praised, who overpasseth utterance. Thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy holy Name. Leave us not, O our God, that in the day of judgement it may please thee to place us in the number of thy Saints and blessed ones, O King most blessed.
Compline Anthem, Sarum gradual
RETIRING COLLECTION There will be a Retiring Collection at the back of the church today in support of the Newton Theological College, Papua New Guinea. Readings: The Revised Common Lectionary in NRSV (1997), Mowbray, London. Introit, Collect and Psalm: A Prayer Book for Australia (1995), Broughton Books, Sydney. Propers: The Roman Missal (1969 & 1983), E.J.Dwyer (Aust.). Reproduced with permission. CHRIST CHURCH ST LAURENCE Railway Square, Sydney
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SUNDAY NOTICES Fr John Sanderson Farewell to Bishop Robert Fr John is on study leave in the UK and will The Feast of Christ the King, Sunday 22 return to the parish mid-next week. November, will be the last occasion on which Bishop Robert Forsyth visits CCSL in his capacity as Bishop of the South All Souls Day Tomorrow, Monday 2 November, we Sydney Region. All are invited to a farewell will observe All Souls Day with a Solemn luncheon for Bishop Robert and Margie Requiem Mass at 6pm. A copy of the after High Mass on that day. The cost is $10 Chantry Book is available at the back per person. BYO drinks; tea and coffee will of the church. Today will be the last be provided. Seating is limited; if you wish opportunity to add the names of the to reserve a place please give your name departed you wish to include in the service and money to Lyn Bannerman (0478 622 if they are not already in the Chantry 833) on Sunday 8 November. If you would Book. Christ Church St Laurence like to contribute to a presentation to the Bellringers will ring Half-Muffled prior Forsyths, please place your donation in to the All Souls Day Service on Monday 2 one of the envelopes provided at the back November. It will be a good opportunity of the church and place it in the collection to hear this solemn variation of our bells. plate or the donations box. Organ Recital 22 November The next recital in our series will be given at 2pm after our farewell luncheon for Bishop Robert Forsyth, September 22, by Shin-Young Lee, Paris. Consecration of our Bishop Designate The Diocese of Sydney invites all parishioners to the Consecration of the Bishop designate of South Sydney, the Rev’d Dr Michael Stead. The service will take place in St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney on Saturday 5 December 2015 at 10.30am. Light refreshments will follow. To register your place at this service, please RSVP by 13 November to consecration@sydney.anglican.asn.au or by telephone. (02) 9265 1511. 6
Study Groups Study groups will soon commence in preparation for the season of Advent. The groups will be held in the Parish Hall on Tuesdays at 6pm and Wednesdays at 11am, commencing on 10th/11th November. We will use the book “In God’s Hands” by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, which is available from the Bookshop for $23. Please read the study book and bring it with you to either of the first sessions. St Martin’s, Killara, 150th Anniversary This anniversary will be celebrated by Choral Evensong, sung by the King’s School Senior Choir, on Sun 8 Nov at 3.30 pm. The address will be given by the Rt Rev’d Dr Peter Jensen.
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PARISH DIRECTORY Church address Parish office address Parish postal address Rector
812 George St, Sydney L2, 812B George Street, Sydney PO Box 1324, Haymarket NSW 1240 office@ccsl.org.au Fr Daniel Dries fr.daniel@ccsl.org.au
SENIOR ASSISTANT PRIEST STUDENT MINISTER Licensed Clergy
Fr John Sanderson fr.john@ccsl.org.au Mr Antony Weiss Antony.Weiss@student.moore.edu.au Fr Ron Silarsah fr.ron@ccsl.org.au Fr Michael Giffin Fr Eric Hampson Fr Stan Hessey Mr Simon Polson s.polson@ccsl.org.au Dr Colin Bannerman c.bannerman@ccsl.org.au Dr Anthony Miller a.miller@ccsl.org.au Mr Peter Hanson p.hanson@ccsl.org.au Mr Peter Hanson p.hanson@ccsl.org.au Parish Hall, 505 Pitt St choir@ccsl.org.au Dr Neil McEwan AM frscm n.mcewan@ccsl.org.au Mr Peter Jewkes p.jewkes@ccsl.org.au Mr Joshua Ryan j.ryan@ccsl.org.au Dr Helen Hewson office@ccsl.org.au Editors tdt@ccsl.org.au
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All Souls
SOLEMN REQUIEM MASS 6pm MONDAY 2 NOVEMBER Preacher Setting Motets
Fr Daniel Dries Requiem in D-flat (Walter Vale: first Australian performance) Bring us, O Lord (Harris); In paradisum (Fauré) Sung by the Choir of Christ Church St Laurence
About the setting of the Requiem Mass Dr Walter Sydney Vale (1875-1939) was Director of Music at All Saints’ Margaret Street from 1907 to 1939. He composed a number of anthems and hymn tunes and edited a Plainsong Psalter following study at Solesmes Abbey (this Psalter still often being used at CCSL Evensong). His Requiem was written in 1908 but was not published until 1938, though it had been regularly performed in the meantime. It enshrines Vale’s three most notable musical influences: Eastern Orthodox and Gregorian Chant, held in a fine amalgam of English Romanticism. It is set for a “double” chancel choir in eight vocal parts, covering a range of nearly four octaves from the “Russian” bottom D-flat bass notes, to the solo soprano’s top B-flat. Some of the more English aspects of the Mass slightly anticipate the later writing of Sir William Harris (1883-1973) whose exquisite setting of Donne’s famous text Bring Us O Lord God, also in the lush “dark” key of D-flat, is being included as the Communion motet. Vale’s is probably the first English setting of the Requiem Mass since the Reformation, and was undoubtedly not without controversy in 1908 when performance of such works would have been proscribed in most Anglican parishes. It is also presumed to be the first setting of this liturgical text in English (other than the Kyrie Eleison), using BCP and English Missal translations. As well as being almost certainly the first time the work has been performed in Australia, it is possibly its first performance outside London. Thanks for this are due to former CCSL chorister Daniel Mitterdorfer, who returned to an original score in the British Library for this careful new edition by Crescendo Music Publications. Sunday 22 November 2015
Join us as we celebrate the end of the liturgical year & offer our prayerful congratulations to Bishop Robert and Margie Forsyth at a parish luncheon following Solemn High Mass
Join us on the Feast of Christ the King as we celebrate the end of the liturgical year & offer our prayerful congratulations to Bishop Robert and Margie Forsyth at a parish luncheon following Solemn High Mass