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
16 october 2016
The Twenty-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: 238 407 484(t. 167) 358(ii) 10.30am Solemn High Mass and Baptism Preacher: Fr John Sanderson Setting: Missa surge propera (T.L de Victoria 1549-1611) Hymns: 484(t.167) 358(ii) 377 Gustate et videte (Isaac 1450-1514) Motet: Postlude: Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig BWV 768, selected movements (Bach 1685-1750) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong and Benediction Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Hymns: 150(i) 369 331 Canticles: Sixth Service (Weelkes 1576-1623) Anthem: Te lucis ante terminum (Tallis c. 1505-1585) Postlude: Adagio, from Sonata No.1 in F minor (Mendelssohn)
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 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) MON 17 OCTOBER Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and 6.00pm Christian Meditation martyr (d. c. 115)
TUE 18 OCTOBER Luke, evangelist and martyr
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) WED 19 OCTOBER Henry Martyn, missionary and 12.15pm Healing Eucharist Bible translator in India and Persia (d. 1812)
THU 20 OCTOBER FRI 21 OCTOber
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 6.00pm Eucharist
SAT 22 october
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
Sun 23 october
Joel 2. 23-32; Ps 65; 2 Tim 4.6-8, 16-18; Luke 18.9-14 7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Setting: Mass in E (Smith) 10.30am Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Setting: Mass in G minor (Vaughan Williams1872-1958) Motet: O taste and see (Vaughan Williams 1872-1958) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong and Benediction Preacher: Fr Ron Silarsah Canticles: Evening Canticles (di Lasso 1532-1594) Anthem: Evening Hymn (Gardiner 1877-1950)
The Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost
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
Will not God grant justice to those who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them?
COLLECT
Lord, tireless guardian of your people, teach us to rely, day and night, on your care. Drive us to seek your justice and your help, and support our prayer lest we grow weary, for in you alone is our strength. We make our prayer through your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
FIRST Reading
Jeremiah 31.27-34 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals. And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord. In those days they shall no longer say: ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’ But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of everyone who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge. The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt – a covenant that they broke, though I
was their husband, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, ‘Know theLord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more. 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 119
97. Lord, how I love your law: it is my meditation all the day long. 98. Your commandments have made me wiser than my enemies: for they remain with me for ever. 99. I have more understanding than all my teachers: for I study your commands. 100. I am wiser than the aged: because I have kept your precepts. 101. I have held back my feet from every evil path: that I might keep your word; 102. I have not turned aside from your judgements: for you yourself are my teacher.
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Mass Readings 103. How sweet are your words to my tongue: sweeter than honey to my mouth. 104. Through your precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate all lying ways.
Second reading
2 Timothy 3.10-4.5 Now you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions and sufferings and the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. But wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it, and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work. In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly urge you: proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favourable or unfavourable; convince, rebuke, and encourage, with the utmost patience in teaching. For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening 4
to the truth and wander away to myths. As for you, always be sober, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully. For the word of the Lord, Thanks be to God.
Mass readings OFFERTORY SENTENCE
My delight shall be in your commandments, which I have greatly loved. I shall worship you with outstretched hands: and I shall meditate on your statutes.
COMMUNION SENTENCE Communion Motet Gustate et videte
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Heinrich Isaac (1450-1514)
Alleluia. The word of God is living and active; It probes the thoughts and motives of our heart. Alleluia!
Quoniam suavis est Dominus: Beatus vir quitsperate in eo. Taste and see how sweet the Lord is Blessed the man who trusts in him.
Gospel
Ps 33.9
Luke 18.1-8 The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke Glory to you Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus told his disciples a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, ‘In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, “Grant me justice against my opponent.” For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, “Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.”’ And the Lord said, ‘Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?’ 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 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 SacristanS
Fr John Sanderson fr.john@ccsl.org.au Rebecca Mychael r.mychael@ccsl.org.au Neil McEwan AM frscm n.mcewan@ccsl.org.au Peter Jewkes p.jewkes@ccsl.org.au Brian Luhr ogs oam bluhr1@bigpond.com Mr Scott Batey Mr John Wood
M 0408 130 864 P 02 9211 0560 P 02 9212 7776 P 02 9960 2476 P 0400 193 626 P 02 8399 2549 P 02 9699 9309
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SUNDAY NOTICES
SUNDAY NOTICES
Our Lady of Walsingham & Marian Lecture 22 October
Erasmus and his Greek New Testament Solemn Evensong & Te Deum 30 October
The feast of Our Lady of Walsingham will be observed on Saturday 22 October. Sung Mass with the Gregorian Schola will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Mass will be followed by a buffet brunch in the hall, and a Marian Lecture.
Desiderius Erasmus (Rotterdam 1466 – Basel 1536) was the most respected scholar of his age, who combined his learning with wit and urbanity.
This year’s lecture will be given by the Very Rev’d Dr Doru Costache, a protopresbyter of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and senior lecturer in patristic studies at St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College, Redfern. Following is information about the lecture. The Entry of the Theotokos in the Temple: Interiorising an Orthodox Festival In the Orthodox Church, the festival of the Entry of the Theotokos (Mother of God) in the Temple is celebrated on 21 November. It is the equivalent of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated on the same date in Western tradition. The festival is based on the apocryphal Gospel of James, which presents Mary as being welcomed, and living, at the Temple. Based on the hymns and New Testament readings in the Orthodox liturgy for the festival, Dr Costache will propose that it has an interiorised meaning. It is not so much that the Theotokos entered into the Temple; rather she has entered the state of—she has herself become—the Temple of the Incarnation. He will also address a further level of interiorisation by introducing a theme from St Symeon the New Theologian (949–1022), according to whom all Christians are called to become theotokoi (bearers of God).
The icon of the Entry of the Theotokos, with the Blessed Virgin being introduced by her parents Anna and Joachim and received by the high priest Zacharias 6
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Erasmus was a moderate reformer from within Catholicism, whose voice was drowned as more extreme versions of reform and counter-reform clashed in the later part of his life. His edition of the New Testament appeared the year before Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses, and eleven years before Henry VIII first sought annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. The project began as a new edition of the Latin New Testament of St Jerome (the Vulgate), aiming to polish its late Latin into a more classical style. As Erasmus explained, ‘It is only fair that Paul should address the Romans in somewhat better Latin.’ Erasmus added a Greek version so that his readers could assess the accuracy of his Latin, but he was also catering to a demand to return to the original sources of Christian teaching. Meanwhile a team of scholars outside Madrid had been working since 1502 on the Complutensian Polyglot Bible, an elaborate edition in Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and Latin. Its New Testament had been completed and printed by 1514, but publication was not authorized until 1520. The first page of Erasmus’s Greek New Testament. From a copy in the Erasmus House, Anderlecht, Belgium. Photo by Anthony Miller. CHRIST CHURCH ST LAURENCE Railway Square, Sydney
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SUNDAY NOTICES Youth Ministry Leader As we give thanks to God for our Sunday School and ministry with children, the Parish Council has resolved to establish a new part-time position focusing on youth ministry. It is hoped that a suitable person can join our ministry team to oversee the continued development of our Sunday School and a broader range of activities involving young people in the parish. Please contact the parish office if you would like more information. Applications for this position close at the end of October.
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Belltower Books New and secondhand books have been reduced at the West Door bookshop and fine art cards are available from $1.00. Copies of Keith Mascord’s books are in stock and Rowan Williams’ Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life, 2016. Organ Recital This months organ recital will be today at 2pm. It will be given by Thomas Wilson, the Director of Music at St Mary’s Cathedral. Previously he was Assistant Organist at Westminster Cathedral and In 2013 Thomas was elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. Entry is by note donation.
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