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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 suare, sydney Consecrated 1845

7 August 2016

The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost

7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Setting: Mass in E (Smith) Hymns: 238, 9, 16, 309 (ii) 10.30am Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Hymns: 16, 309 (ii), 9 (desc. Howe) Setting: Communion Service in G ( Jackson) Motet: O sacrum convivium (Croce) Postlude: Menuetto from Miniature Suite for Organ (Ireland)

6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Benediction Preacher: Fr Ron Silarsah Hymns: 150 (i), 387, 477 (desc. Forster) Canticles: Short Service (Byrd) Anthem: Blessed be the God and Father (Wesley) Postlude: Romance sans paroles (Bonnet)

Left: Earle Backen, Our Lady of Walsingham (detail), Christ Church St Laurence

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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 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) MON 8 AUGUST Dominic, priest and friar (d. 1221) 6.00pm Christian Meditation

TUE 9 AUGUST Mary Summer, founder of the Mothers’ Union (d.1921)

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

WED 10 AUGUST Laurence, Deacon and Martyr

Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 12.15pm Healing Eucharist 6:00pm Procession & Solemn High Mass

THU 11 AUGUST

Clare of Assisi (d. 1252), John Heny Newman, cardinal and theologian (d. 1890)

FRI 12 AUGUST SAT 13 AUGUST Jeremy Taylor, bishop and spiritual writer (d. 1667) Sun 14 AUGUST

Octave of St Laurence

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

Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 6.00pm Eucharist Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)

Isa 5:1-7; Ps 80:1-2, 8-19; Heb 11:29-12:2; Luke 12.49-56 7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: The Rev’d John Deane Setting: Mass in E (Smith) 10.30am Solemn High Mass Preacher: The Rev’d John Deane Setting: Missa octo vocum (Hassler) Motet: Confessio et pulchritudo (Palestrina) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Procession and Solemn Benediction Preacher: Fr John Sanderson Canticles: Service in A (Stanford) Anthem: Ave Maria (Bruckner)

The flowers in the church this week are given to the Glory of God and in loving memory of John Legg 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

Watch and be ready, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. (Matthew 24.42, 44)

COLLECT

Kindle in our hearts, Father, the same faith that impelled Abraham to set out from his home and to live as a pilgrim in a foreign land.

As we, like him, look for the city that none but you can design and build, keep us watchful for your Son’s coming, that we may be found faithful stewards of all that you have entrusted to us.

We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

FIRST Reading

Isaiah 1.1, 10-20 The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burntofferings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats. When you come to appear before me, who asked this from your hand? Trample my courts no more; bringing offerings is futile; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and sabbath and calling of convocation – I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity. Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates;

they have become a burden to me, I am weary of bearing them. When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow. Come now, let us argue it out, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

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. At Solemn High Mass, the choir sings the psalm.

PSALM 50

1. The Lord our God, the Mighty One, has spoken:

and summoned the earth, from the rising of the sun to its setting in the west.

2. From Zion, perfect in beauty: God has shone out in glory.

3. Our God is coming, he will not keep silent:

before him is devouring fire, and tempest whirls about him.

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Mass Readings 4. He calls to the heavens above:

and to the earth, so he may judge his people.

5. ‘Gather to me my faithful ones:

those who by sacrifice made a covenant with me.’

6. The heavens shall proclaim his righteousness:

for God himself is judge.

7. ‘Listen my people, and I will speak:

O Israel, I am God your God, and I will give my testimony.

8. ‘It is not for your sacrifices that I reprove you:

for your burnt offerings are always before me.

23. ‘O consider this, you who forget God:

lest I tear you in pieces, and there be no one to save you.

24. ‘He honours me who brings sacrifice of thanksgiving:

and to him who keeps to my way I will show the salvation of God.

Second reading

Hebrews 11. 1-3, 8-16 Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Indeed, by faith our ancestors received approval. By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance; and he set out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he stayed for a time in the land he had been promised, as in a foreign land, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he looked forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and 4

builder is God. By faith he received power of procreation, even though he was too old – and Sarah herself was barren – because he considered him faithful who had promised.

Therefore from one person, and this one as good as dead, descendants were born, ‘as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.’

All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth, for people who speak in this way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of the land that they had left behind, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; indeed, he has prepared a city for them.

By faith Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac. He who had received the promises was ready to offer up his only son, of whom he had been told. “It is through Isaac that descendants shall be named for you.” He considered the fact that God is able even to raise someone from the dead – and figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.

By faith Isaac invoked blessings for the future on Jacob and Esau. By faith Jacob, when dying; blessed each of the sons of Joseph, “bowing in worship over the top of his staff.”

By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions about his burial. By faith Moses was hidden by his parents for three months after his birth, because they saw that the child was beautiful; and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called a son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

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Mass Readings choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered abuse suffered for the Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to the reward. By faith he left Egypt, unafraid of the king’s anger; for he persevered as though he saw him who is invisible. By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.

For the word of the Lord, Thanks be to God.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

Alleluia.

Be watchful and ready you know not when the Son of Man is coming. (Matthew 24.42, 44) Alleluia!

Gospel

Luke 12.32-40 The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke.

Glory to you Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure

in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks. Blessed are those slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them. If he comes during the middle of the night, or near dawn, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves.

But know this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.’

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

OFFERTORY SENTENCE

God of power, giver of the gifts we bring, accept the offering of your Church and make it the sacrament of our salvation.

COMMUNION SENTENCE

Praise the Lord, Jerusalem; for the life of the world, says the Lord.

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SUNDAY NOTICES Farewell Today we farewell Simon Polson, our much-loved Parish Administrator, as he leaves Sydney to take up PhD studies in America. We thank Simon for the energy, creativity and dedication he has brought to the role of Parish Administrator, and we pray God’s blessing for him in his travel and in his work. Simon was farewelled at an informal Parish Dinner on Friday Evening, and will be farewelled more formally at the 10.30am Solemn High Mass today. Simon will be greatly missed.

Confirmation and Reception On Sunday 21 August we will welcome our regional Bishop, The Right Rev’d Dr Michael Stead. This will be our new bishop’s first official Sunday visit to CCSL. Bishop Michael will preach at the 9.00am and 10.30am Masses, and will confer the sacrament of Confirmation at Solemn High Mass on that day. If you would like to be a candidate for Confirmation or Reception into the Anglican Church, please contact the parish office by email, office@ccsl.org. au, or speak directly with a member of the clergy.

of $35 per person. Places are limited.

To reserve your seat, please give your donation to Lyn Bannerman at any of the services today (or you can pay at the door if places are still available.) Lyn can be contacted on 02 6295 7028 or 0478 622833. Children and full-time students accompanied by a parent are free, but their names must be recorded to reserve a seat for them. BYO bottled wine. Fruit juice, tea and coffee will be provided. If you have any dietary restrictions, please contact Colin Bannerman 0409 123694 no later than today. This year, proceeds of the lunch will go to support the work of ABM.

Anglicans Together Annual Dinner This year’s Anglicans Together Dinner is to be held on Friday 2 September from 7:00pm at the City Tattersall’s Club, 194 - 204 Pitt Street, Sydney. The Guest speaker will be Professor Marion Maddox of Macquarie University, who is a leading authority on the intersection of religion and politics in Australia.

Her topic will be ‘The Past, Pleasures and Prospects of Liberal Christianity’.

Cost: $65 pp ($60 conc). Payments (with response form) should be sent by 26 August to: Anglicans Together, Level 1 St James’ Hall, 169-171 Phillip Street, Sydney, 2000. Further details St Laurence Day Parish Lunch The annual parish lunch to celebrate the and response forms can be found at: Feast of St Laurence will be held in the www.anglicanstogether.org parish hall on Sunday 14 August 2016 after High Mass. Entry is by donation

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SUNDAY NOTICES

Movement for the Ordination of Women The Sydney Movement for the Ordination of Women is holding their Annual General Meeting on Saturday 17 September St Alban’s Parish Hall, 3 Pembroke Street, Epping. The guest speakers for the meeting are Robyn and David Claydon and afternoon tea will be provided. For any enquiries please contact Carol Russel on 9949 4561 or Elaine Peterson on 9747 3276.

Safe Ministry and Child Protection With a new Sunday School term under way, a reminder that the Diocese has in place a Safe Ministry program for dealing with issues of child protection and sexual misconduct. The Parish Council has formally adopted the Diocese’s policy in this area. Under the overall direction of the Rector, the parish has a Safe Ministry representative, Anthony Miller, charged with ensuring

that we comply with the policy, and a Safe Ministry trainer, Lucy Clothier, who gives training in the principles and practices of Safe Ministry to a range of parishioners who come into contact with children or vulnerable people.

Comprehensive information about the program, and about how to report actual or potential abuse, can be found at the following web address: http://safeministry.org.au/about/ Asylum Seekers Centre We have received a note of thanks from the Asylum Seekers Centre for the donations that have been received from parishioners from CCSL. They greatly appreciate these contributions for the positive impact it enables them to make for over 250 asylum seekers every week.

The list of appropriate items to donate is available at the West Door of the church, if you would like to donate as you are able.

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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 office@ccsl.org.au Rebecca Mychael r.mychael@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 ADMINISTRATORs 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

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