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
19 JUNE 2016
The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: Fr Ron Silarsah Setting: Mass in E (Smith) Hymns: 243(ii), 70(i), 373(t. 376), 385 10.30am Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr Ron Silarsah Hymns: 373(t. 367), 385, 70(i) Setting: Messe cum jubilo (Duruflé) Motet: Thy mercy, Jehovah (Marcello) Postlude: Processional March in A, Op. 41. No. 5 (Guilmant) 6.00pm
A Silent Vigil of Prayer For an end to acts of hatred and violence
6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Benediction Preacher: Fr John Sanderson Hymns: 241(i), 323, 378 Canticles: Third Service (Byrd) Anthem: O Thou, the central orb (Wood) Postlude: Intrada from Miniature Suite for Organ (Ireland) MORNING PEWSHEET
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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 20 JUNE
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 6.00pm Christian Meditation
TUE 21 JUNE WED 22 JUNE St Alban, first British martyr (d.c.209)
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 2 Kings 22.8-13,23.1-3; Ps 119.33-40; Matt 7.15-20 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 12.15pm Healing Eucharist
THU 23 JUNE
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
FRI 24 JUNE
Is 49.1-6; Ps 139.1-11; Acts 13.16-26; Luke 1.57-66,80 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 6.00pm Eucharist
SAT 25 JUNE
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
Sun 26 JUNE
1 Kings 2.1-2,6-14; Ps 77.1-2,11-20; Gal 5.1,13-25 Luke 9.51-62 Morning Prayer Eucharist Sung Eucharist Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Setting: Mass in E (Smith) Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Setting: Missa Papae Marcelli (Palestrina) Motet: O salutaris hostia (Tallis) Solemn Evensong & Benediction Preacher: Fr John Sanderson Canticles: Service in E (Murrill) Anthem: Peccantem me quotidie (de Morales)
The Birth of John the Baptist
The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
7.00am 7.30am 9.00am 10.30am
6.30pm
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. my ancestors.’ Then he lay down under the SENTENCE God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an Holy Spirit and with power; and he went angel touched him and said to him, ‘Get up about doing good and healing all who were and eat.’ He looked, and there at his head oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down (Acts 10.38) again. The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, ‘Get up and COLLECT eat, otherwise the journey will be too much Pour out upon us, O God, for you.’ He got up, and ate and drank; then The power and wisdom of your Spirit, he went in the strength of that food for So that we, who have been baptized into Christ forty days and forty nights to Horeb the and made your children through faith, mount of God. At that place he came to a may know your Son’s power to heal, cave, and spent the night there. and, being made one in him, Then the word of the Lord came to him, may overcome all barriers that divide us; saying, ‘What are you doing here, Elijah?’ through our Lord Jesus Christ, He answered, ‘I have been very zealous for who lives and reigns with you in the unity the Lord, the God of hosts; for the Israelites of the Holy Spirit, have forsaken your covenant, thrown down one God, for ever and ever. Amen. your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are FIRST Reading seeking my life, to take it away.’ 1 Kings 19.1-15a He said, ‘Go out and stand on the Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, mountain before the Lord, for the Lord and how he had killed all the prophets with is about to pass by.’ Now there was a the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger great wind, so strong that it was splitting to Elijah, saying, ‘So may the gods do to mountains and breaking rocks in pieces me, and more also, if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by this time before the Lord, but the Lord was not in tomorrow.’ Then he was afraid; he got the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, up and fled for his life, and came to Beer- but the Lord was not in the earthquake; sheba, which belongs to Judah; he left his and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound servant there. But he himself went a day’s journey into of sheer silence. When Elijah heard it, he the wilderness, and came and sat down wrapped his face in his mantle and went out under a solitary broom tree. He asked that and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then he might die: ‘It is enough; now, O Lord, there came a voice to him that said, ‘What take away my life, for I am no better than are you doing here, Elijah?’ He answered, CHRIST CHURCH ST LAURENCE Railway Square, Sydney
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Mass Readings
‘I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.’ Then the Lord said to him, ‘Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus; when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael as king over Aram. For the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
1 As a deer longs for flowing streams: so my soul longs for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: When shall I come and behold the face of God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night: while people say to me continually, ‘Where is your God?’ 4 These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng, and led them in procession to the house of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival. 5 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me?: Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God. 6 My soul is cast down within me: 4
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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 42
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therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. Deep calls to deep at the thunder of your cataracts: all your waves and your billows have gone over me. By day the Lord commands his steadfast love: and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. I say to God, my rock, ‘Why have you forgotten me?: Why must I walk about mournfully because the enemy oppresses me?’ As with a deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt me: while they say to me continually, ‘Where is your God?’ Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me?: Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God.
PSALM 43
1 Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people: from those who are deceitful and unjust deliver me! 2 For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you cast me off ?: Why must I walk about mournfully because of the oppression of the enemy? 3 O send out your light and your truth; let them lead me: let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling. 4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy: and I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.
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Mass Readings 5 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me?: Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God.
Second reading
Galatians 3.10-14,23-29 For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the things written in the book of the law.’ Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law; for ‘The one who is righteous will live by faith.’ But the law does not rest on faith; on the contrary, ‘Whoever does the works of the law will live by them.’ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree’— in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed. Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian, for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise. For the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Alleluia. ‘My sheep listen to my voice,’ says the Lord, ‘I know them, and they follow me.’ Alleluia.
Gospel
Luke 8.26-39 The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke. Glory to you Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus and his disciples arrived at the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. As he stepped out on land, a man of the city who had demons met him. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he did not live in a house but in the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he fell down before him and shouted at the top of his voice, ‘What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me’— for Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many times it had seized him; he was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the wilds.) Jesus then asked him, ‘What is your name?’ He said, ‘Legion’; for many demons had entered him. They begged him not to order them to go back into the abyss. Now there on the hillside a large herd of swine was feeding; and the demons begged Jesus to let them enter these. So he gave them permission. Then the demons came out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned. When the swineherds saw what had happened, they ran off and told it in the city
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MASS READINGS and in the country. Then people came out to see what had happened, and when they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid. Those who had seen it told them how the one who had been possessed by demons had been healed. Then all the people of the surrounding country of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them; for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned. The man from whom the demons had gone begged that he might be with him; but Jesus sent him away, saying, ‘Return to your home, and declare
how much God has done for you.’ So he went away, proclaiming throughout the city how much Jesus had done for him. This is the gospel of the Lord, Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
OFFERTORY SENTENCE
Lord, receive our offering, and may this sacrifice of praise purify us in mind and heart and make us always eager to serve you.
COMMUNION SENTENCE
The eyes of all look to you, O Lord, and you give them food in due season.
COMMUNION MOTET Thy mercy, Jehovah
Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739) 1. Thy mercy, Jehovah, is in the heavens: Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. Thy righteousness standeth like as the strong mountains, Thy judgements are a great deep.
2. O Lord, thou preservest both man and beast: How great is thy mercy, O Lord most high. With thee is the fountain, the fountain of life; And in thy light shall we see light.
PARISH DIRECTORY Church address Parish office address Parish postal address Rector
812 George St, Sydney Level 2, 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 ParISH ADMINISTRATOR Director of Music Organist Head Server
Fr John Sanderson fr.john@ccsl.org.au Mr Simon Polson s.polson@ccsl.org.au Dr Neil McEwan AM frscm n.mcewan@ccsl.org.au Mr Peter Jewkes p.jewkes@ccsl.org.au Brian Luhr bluhr1@bigpond.com
M 0408 130 864 P 02 9211 0560 P 02 9212 7776 P 02 9960 2476 P 02 9211 0560
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SUNDAY NOTICES launched the Catholic revival within Anglicanism in the 1830s. At Evensong on 3 July and 10 July, there will be short addresses on Keble’s poetry and sermons by Dr Anthony Miller, in place of the sermon. On 17 July, Oxford Movement Sunday, the preacher at Evensong will be the Silent Vigil of Prayer Following the tragic events of the past Rev’d Dr Gregory Seach, Warden of week, all are invited to gather at a Vigil Wollaston Theological College in the of Silent Prayer for an end to acts of Diocese of Perth. violence and hatred at 6pm tonight,. St Laurence House The Vigil will be followed by a special service of Solemn Evensong at 6.30pm. The Fabulous Jazz Babies play in aid of St Laurence House on Friday 1 July, beginning at 7pm, in the Parish Congratulations We congratulate our Head Server, Brian Hall. Entry is $20. Come and join in Luhr, received the Medal of the Order the singing, live music and fun when of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday The Fabulous Jazz Babies perform on Honours last weekend. We give thanks the theme of The Jazz Singer. Entry is to God for Brian’s many years of humble from 6.30pm and the cost of admission includes nibbles. Drinks available. and faithful service at the altar. St Alban’s, Epping Fr Daniel is preaching at the Patronal Festival of St Alban’s, Epping this morning. Please keep the parishioners of St Alban’s in your prayers as they continue their search for a Rector.
Funeral Customary Organ Recital There will be an organ recital at 2pm From time to time, parishioners make today in the church, given by Dr Namhee appointments with the clergy to make arrangements for funeral services. Han. Entry is by ‘note’ donation. To assist in the process, a Funeral Customary booklet has been produced John Keeble This year is the 150th anniversary of and is available at the back of the church. the death of John Keble (1792-1866). These arrangements can be modified at A noted scholar, a gifted preacher, a any time by discussion with the clergy. devoted pastor, and the most widely read poet of his day, Keble is something of an Anglican saint. He was an influential figure in the Oxford Movement, which CHRIST CHURCH ST LAURENCE Railway Square, Sydney
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from the Archives Civil honours AT CCSL
n receiving an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the Queen’s Birthday honours list for service to the Anglican Church of Australia, our Head Server, Brian Luhr, joins a select group of people who have been honoured for their work at CCSL. Fr John Hope (Rector 1926-1964) was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1956 for service to the community. Canon Austin Day (Rector 1964-1996) received an OAM in 1988 in recognition of service to religion. Dr Neil McEwan (Director of Music since 1980) was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2009 for service to music and to the community as an educator, researcher, musicologist and choral conductor and as Director of Music at CCSL. (Below: the citation for Fr John Hope’s MBE citation, signed by Her Majesty Elizabeth II)