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
30 october 2016
The Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost
7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist & Children’s Ministry Preacher: Fr Ron Silarsah Setting: Mass in E (Smith) Hymns: 234 486 410 313 10.30am Solemn High Mass & the Blessing of Stoles Preacher: Fr Ron Silarsah Setting: Service in F (Sumsion) Hymns: 410 313 486 Ave verum corpus (W. A. Mozart) Motet: Postlude: Offertoire sur les grands jeux from Messe à l’usage des Couvents (Couperin) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Te Deum Preacher: The Rt Rev’d Dr Michael Stead Hymns: 249 114 466 Canticles: Service in D Minor (Walmisley) Anthem: Chorus: Ein feste Burg (J. S. Bach) Postlude: Prelude in D Major BWV 532 (Bach)
Left: The Gospel book is lifted following the proclamation of the Gospel.
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
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.
the Blessing of stoles
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) MON 31 OCTOBER Martin Luther (d.1546) and 6.00pm Christian Meditation other Continental reformers
Solemn High Mass commences with the Blessing of Eucharistic Stoles. These Stoles have been given in loving memory of Addy Lam, the gift of his daughter, Vivian Lam.
TUE 1 November All Saints
SENTENCE
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 6.00pm Procession and Solemn High Mass
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) WED 2 NOVEMBER All Souls 12.15pm Healing Eucharist 6.00pm Solemn Reqieum Mass
THU 3 NOVEMBER Richard Hooker, priest and teacher (d. 1600)
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) FRI 4 NOVEMBER Day for Anglicans and Roman 6.00pm Eucharist Catholics to pray for one another
SAT 5 NOVEMBER Sun 6 NOVEMBER The Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
7.00am 7.30am 9.00am 10.30am
6.30pm
Hag 1.15b-2.9; Ps 145.1-5, 17-21; 2 Thess 2.1-5, 13-17; Luke 20.27-38 Morning Prayer Eucharist Sung Eucharist Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Setting: Mass in E (Smith) Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Setting: Service in F (Darke) Motet: O salutaris hostia (Tallis) Solemn Evensong and Benediction Preacher: Fr John Sanderson Canticles: Service in C (Stanford) Anthem: Set me as a seal (Walton)
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.
Today salvation has come to this house, for the Son of Man came to seek out and save the lost.
COLLECT
Merciful God, righteous Judge of all, who sent Jesus among us to seek and to save those who are lost: grant that we may eagerly seek the Saviour, and joyfully welcome him into our homes and lives. We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
FIRST Reading
Habakkuk 1.1-4, 2.1-4 The oracle that the prophet Habakkuk saw. O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not listen? Or cry to you ‘Violence!’ and you will not save? Why do you make me see wrongdoing and look at trouble? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise. So the law becomes slack and justice never prevails. The wicked surround the righteous – therefore judgement comes forth perverted. I will stand at my watchpost, and station myself on the rampart; I will keep watch to see what he will say to me, and what he will answer concerning my complaint. Then
the Lord answered me and said: Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so that a runner may read it. For there is still a vision for the appointed time; it speaks of the end, and does not lie. If it seems to tarry, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay. Look at the proud! Their spirit is not right in them, but the righteous live by their faith. 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 119 137. 138. 139. 140. 141. 142. 143. 144.
Righteous are you, Lord God: and just are your judgements; The commands that you have commanded: are exceedingly righteous and true. Zeal and indignation have choked my mouth: because my enemies have forgotten your words. Your word has been tried in the fire: and therefore your servant loves it. I am small and of no account: but I have not forgotten your precepts. Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness: and your law is the truth. Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: but your commandments are my delight. The righteousness of your commands is everlasting: O give me understanding, and I shall live.
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Mass Readings Second reading
Gospel
2 Thessalonians 1.1-4, 11-12 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of everyone of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith during all your persecutions and the afflictions that you are enduring. To this end we always pray for you, asking that our God will make you worthy of his call and will fulfil by his power every good resolve and work of faith, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. For the word of the Lord, Thanks be to God.
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!
Luke 19.1-10 The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke Glory to you Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus, because he was going to pass that way. When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, ‘Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today.’ So he hurried down and was happy to welcome Jesus. All who saw it began to grumble and said, ‘He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner.’ Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, ‘Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.’ Then Jesus said to him, ‘Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.’ This is the Gospel of the Lord, Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.
OFFERTORY SENTENCE
Praise the Lord, O my soul, forget not all his benefits: so that your youth is renewed like an eagle’s.
COMMUNION SENTENCE
Lord, you will show me the path of life and fill me with joy in your presence. 4
COmmunion Motet
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Ave verum corpus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) Ave verum corpus natum de Maria Virgine, vere passum immolatum in cruce pro homine. Cujus latus perforatum unda fluxit et sanguine. Esto nobis praegustatum in mortis examine. Hail, true Body, born of the Virgin Mary, who truly suffered upon the cross for mankind: from whose pierced side there came forth water and blood; give us now, and at the time of our death, yourself to be our food. Latin, 14th century
SUNDAY NOTICES All Saints and All Souls In the week ahead, we will observe the Festival of All Saints and the Commemoration of All Souls. A copy of the Memorial lists to be presented at the All Souls’ Solemn Requiem is available at the back of the church. Please add the names of the departed you wish to include in the service, checking first that they are not already included in the Memorial Lists. Please note that the names of those whose funerals have been held here will appear in the Chantry Book, which will also be presented at the All Souls’ Requiem Mass.
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.
New Parishioners If you are a new parishioner to CCSL, please take the time to fill in a parishioner registration form (to be found at the West Door of the church). Once completed, please leave with a sidesperson. If any other parishioners’ details have changed recently, please also take the time to Youth Ministry Leader As we give thanks to God for our fill out a parishioner registration form Sunday School and ministry with so we can update your details. All this children, the Parish Council has information is treated confidentially. resolved to establish a new part-time position focusing on youth ministry. It is hoped that a suitable person can CHRIST CHURCH ST LAURENCE Railway Square, Sydney
SUNDAY NOTICES
SUNDAY NOTICES
Name Badges Cana Volunteers Please leave your name on the sheet at As the Cana 2017 roster is being the West Door if you require a new or prepared, some natural attrition in our replacement name badge. volunteer ranks needs to be addressed. We could use a little more help. If you Asylum Seekers Centre Food or someone you know who might be Bank Donations interested (you know, those friends or Thank you for your continued generous acquaintances who like what they hear response to the Food Bank appeal. about Cana and say “maybe I could Last financial year the Food Bank gave be doing something like that but….”) away 17,700 bags of groceries, so all please note that Cana is ecumenical donations of food and other grocery and, in fact, it doesn’t require a purely items are much appreciated. However, if you are finding it difficult to bring Christian or any religious commitment heavier or bulky items, especially at all, so any non-Christian or nonif travelling to CCSL by public religious friends or acquaintances are transport, the ASC is happy to receive most welcome. Even if someone is too supermarket gift cards. These are used busy or can’t be sure about an ongoing to buy high demand items such as milk, commitment, they can be placed on rice, oil, tinned fish and nappies. If you a reserve list which is a good way of would prefer to donate this way, please making a very useful contribution. place gift card in an envelope marked This could be a very worthwhile ASC Food Bank and place it in the pre-emptive new year’s resolution! If possible, every attempt will be made to collection plate. schedule family and friends together St Laurence House Annual when arranging the roster. General Meeting The volunteers serve in three main Parishioners and supporters of St groups: Laurence House are invited to its 1. The early volunteers who set up the 2016 Annual General Meeting in shelter beds, prepare and serve the Christ Church St Laurence Hall on meal and clean up the kitchen. The Thursday 17 November (enter via Pitt early shift starts about 6.30pm and Street). Please join us for refreshments finishes at 9.30pm. from 6pm with the meeting to start at 2. The overnight teams (men only), 6.30pm. who start at about 7.30 pm, let the men in at 8.00pm and finish up at Belltower Books Beautiful fine art Christmas cards, about 7.45-8.00am the next morning including the Art of Earle Backen in a 3. The laundry volunteers, who take up twelve card pack for $16, are available, and launder a portion of bed linen. as are signed copies of Keith Mascord’s Please contact Roger Bayley (0408 books A Restful Faith and Faith 660 575 rbayley@bigpond.net.au), Without Fear. Christmas cakes are also the Parish office or clergy if you have now available for $25, with all proceeds any queries. going to Cana.
Erasmus and his Greek Testament Solemn Evensong & Te Deum 30 October
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Desiderius Erasmus (Rotterdam 1466 – Basel 1536) was the most respected scholar of his age and combined his learning with wit and urbanity. 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 authorised until 1520. The first page of Erasmus’s Greek New Testament. From a copy in the Erasmus House, Anderlecht, Belgium. Photo by Anthony Miller.
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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
Fr John Sanderson fr.john@ccsl.org.au Rebecca Mychael r.mychael@ccsl.org.au Neil McEwan AM frscm n.mcewan@ccsl.org.au
M 0408 130 864 P 02 9211 0560 P 02 9212 7776
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