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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

29 MAY 2016

The Second Sunday after Pentecost

7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: Fr John Sanderson Setting: Mass in E (Smith) Hymns: 393, 324, 323, 389 10.30am Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr John Sanderson Hymns: 323, 389, 324 Setting: Messe Basse (Fauré) Motet: Ave verum corpus (Fauré) Postlude: Bergamasca, F 12.46 (Frescobaldi) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Benediction Preacher: Fr Ron Silarsah Hymns: 150(i), 392, 336 Canticles: Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense (Leighton) Anthem: Lord, let me know mine end (Greene) Postlude: Voluntary in A minor, Op.6 No.8 (Stanley)

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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 30 MAY

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

TUE 31 MAY

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

WED 1 JUNE

2 Tim 1.1-12; Psalm 123; Mark 12.18-27 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 12.15pm Healing Eucharist

THU 2 JUNE

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

FRI 3 JUNE

2 Tim 3.10-17; Psalm 119.161-168; Mark 12.35-37 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 6.00pm Eucharist

SAT 4 JUNE

Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 11.00am Mass in the Southern Highlands

Sun 5 JUNE

1 Kings 17.8-24; Psalm 146; Gal 1.11-24; Luke 7.11-17 7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: Setting: Mass in E (Smith) 10.30am Solemn High Mass & Holy Baptism Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Setting: Missa Eliensis (Wills) Motet: He watching over Israel (Mendelssohn) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Benediction Preacher: Mr Antony Weiss Canticles: Magnificat primi toni (di Lasso) Anthem: Expectans expecta (Wood)

The Third Sunday after Pentecost

The flowers in the church this week are given to the Glory of God and in loving memory of Michael David Whitehead 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

Thus says the one whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, but I also live with those who are broken and humble in spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, to restore the courage of the broken.”

(Isaiah 57.15)

COLLECT

Almighty God, who alone can bring order to our unruly wills and affections: give us grace to love what you command and desire what you promise, that, in all the changes and chances of this uncertain world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

FIRST Reading

1 Kings 18.20-21,29-39 So Ahab sent to all the Israelites, and assembled the prophets at Mount Carmel.

Elijah then came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.”

The people did not answer him a word.

Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come closer to me”; and all the people came closer to him. First he repaired the altar of the Lord that had been thrown down; Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to

whom the word of the Lord came, saying, “Israel shall be your name”; with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord.

Then he made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two measures of seed. Next he put the wood in order, cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, “Fill four jars with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.” Then he said, “Do it a second time”; and they did it a second time. Again he said, “Do it a third time”; and they did it a third time, so that the water ran all around the altar, and filled the trench also with water.

At the time of the offering of the oblation, the prophet Elijah came near and said, “O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your bidding.

Answer me, O Lord, answer me, so that this people may know that you, O Lord, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back.” Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and even licked up the water that was in the trench. When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The Lord indeed is God; the Lord indeed is God.” For the word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God. Verses of the psalm are read alternately by a single reader and the congregation. A pause is observed at the colon for reflection.

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Mass Readings PSALM 96

1 O sing to the Lord a new song:

sing to the Lord, all the earth.

2 Sing to the Lord and bless his holy name:

proclaim the good news of his salvation from day to day.

3 Declare his glory among the nations:

and his wonders among all peoples.

4 For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised:

he is more to be feared than all gods.

5 As for all the gods of the nations, they are mere idols:

it is the Lord who made the heavens.

6 Majesty and glory are before him:

beauty and power are in his sanctuary.

7 Render to the Lord, you families of the nations:

render to the Lord glory and might.

8 Render to the Lord the honour due to his name:

bring offerings and come into his courts.

9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of his holiness:

let the whole earth stand in awe of him.

10 Say among the nations that the Lord is king:

he has made the world so firm that it can never be moved; and he shall judge the peoples with equity.

11 Let the heavens rejoice and let the earth be glad:

let the sea roar, and all that fills it: 12 Let the fields rejoice, and everything in them:

then shall all the trees of the wood shout with joy before the Lord; 13 For he comes, he comes to judge the earth:

he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with his truth.

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Second reading

Galatians 1.1-12 Paul an apostle—sent neither by human commission nor from human authorities, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— and all the members of God’s family who are with me, To the churches of Galatia: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to set us free from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are confusing you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that one be accursed!

As we have said before, so now I repeat, if anyone proclaims to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let that one be accursed!

Am I now seeking human approval, or God’s approval? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still pleasing people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

For I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel that was proclaimed by me is not of human origin; for I did not receive it from a human source, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

For the word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

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Mass Readings GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

Alleluia.

God loved the world so much he gave his only son, that all who believe in him might have eternal life.

Alleluia.

Gospel

Luke 7.1b-10 The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke.

Glory to you Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus entered Capernaum. A centurion there had a slave whom he valued highly, and who was ill and close to death. When he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave. When they came to Jesus, they appealed to him earnestly, saying, ‘He is worthy of having you do this for him, for he loves our people, and it is he who built our synagogue for us.’ And Jesus went with them, but when he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to say to him, ‘Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; therefore I did not presume to come

to you. But only speak the word, and let my servant be healed. For I also am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, “Go”, and he goes, and to another, “Come”, and he comes, and to my slave, “Do this”, and the slave does it.’ When Jesus heard this he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd that followed him, he said, ‘I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith.’ When those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the slave in good health.

This is the gospel of the Lord, Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

OFFERTORY SENTENCE

Lord, as we gather to offer our gifts confident in your love, make us holy by sharing your life with us, and by this eucharist forgive our sins.

COMMUNION SENTENCE

‘I tell you solemnly, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe you have received, and it will be yours,’ says the Lord.

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COMMUNION MOTET Ave verum corpus Gabriel FaurĂŠ (1845-1924) Ave verum corpus, natum de Maria Virgine, vere passum, immolatum in cruce pro homine cuius latus perforatum fluxit aqua et sanguine: esto nobis praegustatum in mortis examine.

O Iesu dulcis, O Iesu pie, O Iesu, fili Mariae.

Miserere mei. Amen.

Hail, true Body, born of the Virgin Mary, having truly suffered, sacrificed on the cross for mankind, from whose pierced side water and blood flowed: Be for us a foretaste in the trial of death!

O sweet Jesus, O holy Jesus, O Jesus, son of Mary, have mercy on me. Amen.

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SUNDAY NOTICES Tour of Gallipoli Mosque The CCSL Young Adults group would like to invite all interested parishioners to join them on a tour of the Gallipoli Mosque at Auburn at 3.30pm on Saturday, 25 June. The cost will be $5 per person, plus the cost of a meal somewhere near the mosque either before or after the tour (optional).

Science, Faith & The Quest for God Please register your interest with The Rev’d Dr Andrew Ford, bioethicist Michelle Imison, by emailing and director of Pastoral Care and meimison@yahoo.com.au.

Mission at Anglicare, will give a talk on St Laurence Music Inc “Science, Faith & The Quest for God” As the end of the financial year at St Andrew’s Cathedral School (level approaches, please consider making a 5) at 6.30pm on Tuesday 31 May. tax deductible donation in support of music. Recent initiatives of St Laurence Food Bank The Asylum Seekers Centre in Newtown Music include the payment of five needs food for its food bank. Items are choral scholarships which are made distributed free of charge to asylum available to the choir, financial backing seekers and refugees, most of whom have of the Lenten Concert, a regular no access to Centrelink payments and series of organ recitals, and funding who may be unable (or not permitted) the position of organ scholar. Tax to work. A list of appropriate items will Deductible donations over $2.00 can be kept on the bookcase at the back of be made by electronic funds transfer the church. Donations can be placed in to St Laurence Music Inc Donations the carton near the vergers’ cupboard on Fund, BSB 032-005 473639 (please include your name) or by writing a Sundays. cheque. Enquiries can be made to the Public Officer Craig Johnston, PO Box At Belltower Books Have a browse of the range of second- K686, Haymarket, 1240. hand books currently available at Belltower Books (most are priced at $1.00), as well as Art cards (also priced at $1). There is a range of new books, also at heavily reduced prices.

St Laurence Tract Launch On Sunday 12 June, the Rev’d Dr John Moses will be the guest preacher at Solemn Evensong. Dr Moses is the author of St Laurence Tract No. 9, which focusses on Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Solemn Evensong on this occasion will be followed by a launch, which will include supper.

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from the Archives William Grant Broughton

Bishop of Australia 1836-1847; Bishop of Sydney 1847-1853

William Grant Broughton (1788-1853) was born at Westminster, London. After education at Cambridge and ordination and service in the Diocese of Winchester, he came to Sydney as Archdeacon of NSW in 1829.

He travelled to England in 1834 to promote the interests of the Church in NSW. His proposals for the Church’s government led to his consecration in Lambeth Palace on 14 February 1836 as the first and only Bishop of Australia. On his return to Sydney, he was enthroned at St James’ King Street by Rev Samuel Marsden on 5 June 1836, 180 years ago next month. A high churchman, Broughton was a frequent visitor to CCSL and a staunch friend of CCSL’s first rector, William Horatio Walsh (Rector, 18391867) who had arrived in Sydney with recommendations from Broughton’s High Church supporters in England. The Diocese of Australia was divided in 1847 and Broughton became the first Bishop of Sydney. He died in England and became the first post-Reformation bishop to be buried in Canterbury Cathedral.