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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

17 APRIL 2016

The Fourth Sunday of Easter

7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: Fr Ron Silarsah Setting: Missa sine nomine ( Jewkes) Hymns: 443(t. 375), 349, 112, 457(i) 10.30am Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr Ron Silarsah Hymns: 112, 457(i), 349 Setting: Service in A-flat (Harwood) Motet: Flocks in pastures green (Bach, arr. Roper) Postlude: Prelude in C BWV 547i (Bach) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Benediction Preacher: Fr John Sanderson Hymns: 100(i), 363, 105 Canticles: Magnificat Quarti Toni (Cavazzoni) Anthem: Let God arise (Locke) Postlude: Allegro con spirito in B flat (Bridge)

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 MON 18 APR

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

TUE 19 APR

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

WED 20 APR

Acts 12.24-13.5; Ps 67; John 12.44-50 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 12.15pm Healing Eucharist

THU 21 APR

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

FRI 22 APR

Acts 13.26-33; Ps 2.6-11; John 14.1-6 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 6.00pm Eucharist

SAT 23 APR

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

Sun 24 APR

The Fifth Sunday of Easter

Acts 11.1-18; Ps 148; Rev 21.1-6; John 13.31-35 7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: Mr Antony Weiss 10.30am Solemn High Mass Preacher: Mr Antony Weiss Setting: Missa Ave Regina (Victoria) Motet: And I saw a new heaven (Bainton) Sung by the Choir of Christ Church St Laurence 6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Benediction Celebrating the 90th Birthday of Her Majesty the Queen Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Canticles: Service in D (Dyson) Anthem: Greater love hath no man (Ireland)

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

The Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the water of life, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

COLLECT

Gracious God, you sent Jesus, the good shepherd, to gather us together: may we not wander from his flock, but follow wherever he leads us, listening for his voice and staying near him, until we are safely in your fold, to live with you for ever; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

FIRST Reading

Peter put all of them outside, and then he knelt down and prayed. He turned to the body and said, ‘Tabitha, get up.’ Then she opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up. He gave her his hand and helped her up. Then calling the saints and widows, he showed her to be alive. This became known throughout Joppa, and many believed in the Lord. Meanwhile he stayed in Joppa for some time with a certain Simon, a tanner.

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.

The psalm is sung at Solemn High Mass.

PSALM 23

Acts 9.36-43 In Joppa there was a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which in Greek is Dorcas.

She was devoted to good works and acts of charity. At that time she became ill and died.

When they had washed her, they laid her in a room upstairs. Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, who heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him with the request, ‘Please come to us without delay.’ So Peter got up and went with them; and when he arrived, they took him to the room upstairs.

All the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was with them.

1. The Lord is my shepherd:

therefore can I lack nothing.

2. He will make me lie down in green pastures:

and lead me beside still waters.

3. He will refresh my soul:

and guide me in right pathways for his name’s sake.

4. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil:

for you are with me, your rod and your staff comfort me.

5. You spread a table before me in the face of those who trouble me:

you have anointed my head with oil, and my cup shall be full.

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Mass Readings 6. Surely your goodness and loving kindness will follow me all the days of my life:

and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

Second reading

For the word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

Revelation 7.9-17 After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands. They cried out in a loud voice, saying, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!’ And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshipped God, singing, ‘Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen.’

Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, ‘Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?’ I said to him, ‘Sir, you are the one that knows.’ Then he said to me, ‘These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

For this reason they are before the throne of God, and worship him day and night within his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them. They will hunger no more, and thirst no more; the sun will not strike them, nor any scorching heat; for the Lamb at the centre of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them

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to springs of the water of life, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’

Alleluia.

‘I am the good shepherd,’ says the Lord. ‘I know my sheep, and mine know me.’

Alleluia.

Gospel

John 10.22-30 The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John.

Glory to you Lord Jesus Christ.

At that time the festival of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon. So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, ‘How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.’ Jesus answered, ‘I have told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name testify to me; but you do not believe, because you do not belong to my sheep. My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. What my Father has given me is greater than all else, and no one can snatch it out of the Father’s hand. The Father and I are one.’

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

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Mass Readings OFFERTORY SENTENCE

My God my God, eagerly will I seek you and in your name will I lift my hands on high.

Alleluia.

COMMUNioN SENTENCE

The Good Shepherd is risen! He who laid down his life for his sheep, who died for his flock, he is risen. Alleluia.

COMMUNioN MOTET

Flocks in pastures green (Bach, arr. Roper) Flocks in pastures green abiding, Safely with their Shepherd rest.

Cool’d by waters gently gliding, Flocks in pastures green abiding, Safely with their Shepherd rest.

With the food of life he feeds them, To the fold he gently leads them, There to dwell for ever blest; With the food of life he feeds them, To the fold he gently leads them, There to dwell for ever blest.

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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 s.polson@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

M 0408 130 864

Licensed Clergy

ParISH ADMINISTRATOR 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

P 02 9498 2625

Head Server SacristanS

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Head Sidesperson Belltower Captain Head Verger

Brian Luhr OGS bluhr1@bigpond.com Scott Batey John Wood Peter Hanson peterhanson.1108@gmail.com Dace Vare ringers@ccsl.org.au Darren Churchill vergers@ccsl.org.au

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SUNDAY NOTICES Reserve Vergers Do you find yourself with quite a bit of spare time Monday to Friday? Do you enjoy sitting quietly, welcoming visitors to the church and helping the homeless and others? If so, you might consider offering your service as a volunteer verger. New reserve vergers are always welcome. If you think you might be interested in training as a verger, and are readily contactable by phone and/ or email, please contact Head Verger, Clergy Leave Fr Daniel and his family are currently Darren Churchill, on 0412 196 473 or enjoying being in Tasmania, where (in by email, vergers@ccsl.org.au. addition to other commitments) he will preach at Holy Trinity, Launceston today. Safe Ministry and Child Protection We pray for the safe travel of Fr Daniel, The Diocese has in place a Safe Ministry Peta, Charlotte and Emily, who will Programme for dealing with issues of return to Sydney later this week. child protection and sexual misconduct.

The Parish Council has formally adopted Organ Recital the Diocese’s policy in this area.

At 2pm today, Heather Moen-Boyd will give Under the overall direction of the an organ recital in the church. Entry is by ‘note’ Rector, the parish has a Safe Ministry donation and an afternoon tea will follow. representative, Anthony Miller, charged with ensuring that we comply with Parish Quiet Day the policy, and a Safe Ministry trainer, The Parish Quiet Day will be held at Lucy Clothier, who gives training in the Golden Grove Centre, 5 Forbes St, principles and practices of Safe Ministry Newtown (next to RPA), 9.30am-4.00pm to a range of parishioners who come on Saturday May 14. Fr Ian Crooks will into contact with children or vulnerable lead us in a day of prayer and reflection people. Comprehensive information based on the desert tradition of the early about the programme, and about how Church. Morning and afternoon tea will to report actual or potential abuse, can be provided and you are asked to bring be found at the following web address: your own picnic lunch. A donation of $20 http://safeministry.org.au/about/ will help cover costs. A sign-up sheet is at the rear of the church.

Get Involved with Cana The Cana Community needs women volunteers to assist at Nagle House, a Women’s Shelter in the inner city.

For more information about the kind of activities you could be involved with please check the Cana website at www.cana.org.au. Volunteers are also welcome at the Cana Farm and at de Porres House, a Men’s Shelter.

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The Anglican Parish of

CHRIST CHURCH ST LAURENCE Railway Suare, Sydney Consecraed 1845

A Service of

SOLEMN EVENSONG marking the 90th Birthday of Her Majesty the Queen

SuNday 24 aPRIL at 6.30pm

Christ ChurCh st LaurenCe • raiLway square

Preacher The Rev’d Dr Daniel Dries Setting Service in D (Dyson) Anthem Greater love hath no man (Ireland)

www.ccsl.org.au (02) 9211 0560