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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

13 MARCH 2016

The Fifth Sunday in Lent (Passion Sunday)

7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Setting: Missa sine nomine ( Jewkes) Hymns: 341, 474(omit *), 90(omit *), 297 10.30am Litany in Procession & Solemn High Mass with the Ceremony of the Order of Australia Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Hymns: 90, 87, 474 Setting: Missa de Angelis (Gregorian Chant) Motet: Drop, drop slow tears (Gibbons)

Sung by The Cathedral Singers 6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Litany in Procession Preacher: Fr Ron Silarsah Hymns: 79(i), 91, 86 Canticles: Evening Service (Woodside) Anthem: from the Lamentations (di Lasso) Litany: Sullivan Postlude: Chorale Prelude Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund BWV 622 (Bach)

MORNING PEWSHEET

PLEASE TAKE HOME

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 14 MAR

Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)

TUE 15 mar

Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)

WED 16 MAR

THU 17 MAR

Patrick, bishop, missionary to Ireland (d. 461)

Dan 3.14-28; Song of the 3 Wise Men; John 8.31-42 Morning & Evening Prayer (7.30am, 5.30pm) 12.15pm Healing Eucharist Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)

FRI 18 MAR

Jer 20.10-13; Ps 18.1-7; John 10.31-42 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 6.00pm Eucharist 6.30pm The Stations of the Cross

SAT 19 MAR

Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)

Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop and teacher (d. 386)

Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Sun 20 MAR

Palm Sunday

7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist & Procession of Children Preacher: Fr James Walters 10.30am Procession & Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr James Walters Introit: Hosanna filio David (Gregorian Chant) Setting: Missa Brevis (Nickson) Motet: Pueri hebraeorum (Victoria) Motet: Salvator mundi (Tallis) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Litany in Procession Preacher: Fr James Walters Canticles: by T. L. de Victoria Anthem: O vos omnes (Casals) Litany: The Story of the Cross

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.

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.

SENTENCE

Those who go out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, carrying their sheaves.

Verses of the psalm are read alternately by a single reader and the congregation. A pause is observed at the colon for reflection. The psalm is sung at Solemn High Mass.

COLLECT

PSALM 126

O God, the Redeemer of all who trust in you: heed the cry of your people, and deliver us from the bondage of sin, that we may serve you in perfect freedom and rejoice in your unfailing love; through Jesus Christ our Saviour, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

FIRST Reading

Isaiah 43.16–21 Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings out chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. The wild animals will honour me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people, the people whom I formed for myself so that they might declare my praise.

For the word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

1. When the Lord turned again the fortunes of Zion:

then were we like those restored to life.

2. Then was our mouth filled with laughter:

and our tongue with singing.

3. Then said they among the heathen:

‘The Lord has done great things for them.’

4. Truly the Lord has done great things for us:

and therefore we rejoiced.

5. Turn again our fortunes, O Lord:

as the streams return to the dry south.

6. Those who sow in tears:

shall reap with songs of joy.

7. They that go out weeping, bearing the seed:

shall come again in gladness, bringing their sheaves with them.

Second reading

Philippians 3.3–14 For it is we who are the circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh – even though I, too, have reason for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor

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Mass Readings of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on towards the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.

For the word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God. At Solemn High Mass, the Tract is sung as the Gospel procession is made ready.

Tract

1. Many a time from my youth upward have they fought against me:

Now may Israel say, 2. Many a time from my youth upward have they fought against me:

but they have not prevailed.

3 . They have scored my back as with a 4

ploughshare:

they have opened long furrows.

4. But the Lord is righteous:

and he has cut me free from the thongs of the wicked.

5. They shall be confounded and turned backward:

all those who hate Zion.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, King of endless glory.

With all your heart turn to me: for I am tender and compassionate.

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, King of endless glory.

Gospel

John 12.1-8 The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John.

Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said, ‘Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?’ (He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.) Jesus said, ‘Leave her alone. She bought it so that

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Mass Readings she might keep it for the day of my burial.

You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.’ This is the gospel of the Lord, Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

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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

www.ccsl.org.au P 02 9211 0560 F 02 9212 2449 M 0417 662 776

SENIOR ASSISTANT PRIEST STUDENT MINISTERS

Fr John Sanderson fr.john@ccsl.org.au Antony Weiss Antony.Weiss@student.moore.edu.au Ryan Austin-Eames ryan.austineames@gmail.com Fr Ron Silarsah fr.ron@ccsl.org.au Fr Michael Giffin Fr Eric Hampson Fr Ian Crooks Simon Polson s.polson@ccsl.org.au Peter Hanson p.hanson@ccsl.org.au Brenda Hunter b.hunter@ccsl.org.au Anthony Miller a.miller@ccsl.org.au Peter Hanson p.hanson@ccsl.org.au Parish Hall, 505 Pitt St choir@ccsl.org.au Neil McEwan AM frscm n.mcewan@ccsl.org.au Peter Jewkes p.jewkes@ccsl.org.au Joshua Ryan j.ryan@ccsl.org.au Helen Hewson office@ccsl.org.au Editors tdt@ccsl.org.au

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Licensed Clergy

ParISH ADMINISTRATOR Wardens: wardens@ccsl.org.au Treasurer Choir office Director of Music Organist organ scholar Belltower Books THE DEACON’S TREASURE

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MEDITATION & SPIRITUAL DIRECTION Ann Bergman a.bergman@ccsl.org.au

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Head Server SacristanS

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Head Sidesperson Belltower Captain Head Verger

Brian Luhr OGS bluhr1@bigpond.com Scott Batey John Wood Peter Hanson peterhanson.1108@gmail.com Dace Vare ringers@ccsl.org.au Darren Churchill vergers@ccsl.org.au

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SUNDAY NOTICES Welcome At Solemn High Mass today, we welcome members of the Order of Australia Association who are in Sydney for their National Conference. We also welcome The Cathedral Singers, who are joining us as guest choir while our own choir prepares for its concert at 3pm today.

Chrism Mass Christ Church St Laurence is hosting this year’s Chrism Eucharist (with the Renewal of Ministerial Commitment) at 11am Wednesday in Holy Week (23 March). Bishop Michael will make his first official visit to CCSL and celebrate this mass on the occasion. We will also welcome clergy and laity from a number of other parishes. Refreshments will follow the service. Please RSVP (for catering purposes) to office@ccsl.org.au.

Holy Week Watch of the Passion & Veneration of the Cross Parishioners are encouraged to put their names on the list at the back of the church if they are able to participate in the Watch of the Passion taking place over the night of Maundy Thursday (a security guard will be in attendance).

Some parishioners have expressed concern about the Veneration of the Cross on Good Friday (12.00noon). All are invited to come forward after the servers and choir to venerate and kiss the cross. While the tradition is to genuflect before the cross, it is perfectly acceptable to bow (particularly if genuflecting is difficult). Altar servers will also be present to provide any assistance required during the veneration.

Parish Quiet Day On Saturday, May 14th, Fr Ian Crooks will lead us in a day of silence and reflection at Golden Grove Conference Centre, Newtown. Golden Grove is set in pleasant gardens within easy reach of CCSL. More details will be available later.

Anglican Board of Mission Mrs Rucinta Vora, who runs ABM’s literacy and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene programs in Vanuatu, will be speaking at the ABM office, (Level 6, 51 Druitt St, Sydney) at 10.30 am on Wednesday 23 March. All are welcome to the talk and a morning tea.

Please RSVP to Fiona Richardson (ABM Christian Meditation Group Receptionist) by Monday 21 March at 4pm, The group will not meet during Holy Week and on a number of days over by email, Programs.Director@abm.asn.au. the Easter period due to Monday High Mass and public holidays. Please note Organ Recital At 2pm next Sunday there will be an there will be no Meditation on the 21, organ recital in the church, given by 28 March and April 4, 25.

David Drury.

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PALM SUNDAY

The Triumphal Entry of Christ into Jerusalem

SUNDAY 20 MARCH 7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am EucharistMAUNDY THURSDA 9.00am Sung Eucharist & Children’s Procession 10.30am Procession & Solemn High Mass 6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Litany

HOLY WEEK at Christ Church St Laurence Maundy Thursday THURSdAY 24 MARCH 6.00pm Solemn High Mass

Holy Saturday SATURdAY 26 MARCH 10.30pm The Easter Vigil

Good Friday FRIdAY 25 MARCH 9.00am Mattins 10.00am The Stations of the Cross 12noon The Good Friday Liturgy

Easter Day SUNdAY 27 MARCH 7.00am Morning Prayer 7..30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist 10.30am Solemn High Mass 6.30pm Solemn Evensong

with the Washing of the Feet followed by the all-night Vigil

with the Blessing of the New Fire