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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

22 NOVEMBER 2015

Christ the King

7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist & Children’s Ministry Preacher: Bishop Robert Forsyth Setting: Missa sine nomine ( Jewkes) Hymns: 391, 443, 352, 270 10.30am Procession & Solemn High Mass Preacher: Bishop Robert Forsyth Hymns: 338, 352, 270, 443 Setting: Missa Sancti Joannis de Deo (Haydn) Motet: King of glory (Bach arr. Harris) Postlude: Postlude in D minor, Op.105 No.6 (Stanford) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong, Procession

& Solemn Benediction Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Hymns: 128(ii), 134, 446, Christ Triumphant, 305 Canticles: St Paul’s Service (Howells) Anthem: Above all praise (Mendelssohn) Te Deum: Sumsion Postlude: Marche Triomphale (Lemmens)

Left: The crucifixion, East Window (stained glass), Christ Church St Laurence

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 23 NOV Clement of Rome, bishop and martyr (d.c. 100)

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

TUE 24 NOV

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

WED 25 NOV James Noble, pioneer Aboriginal deacon (d. 1941) THU 26 NOV

Daniel 5.1-6, 13-17, 23-28; Song of Creation 1-4; Luke 21.12-19 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 12.15pm Healing Eucharist Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)

FRI 27 NOV

Daniel 7.2-14; Song of Creation 8-10; Luke 21.29-33 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 6.00pm Eucharist

SAT 28 NOV

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

Sun 29 NOV

Jer 33.14-16; Ps 25.1-10; 1 Thess 3.9-13; Luke 21.25-38

The First Sunday of Advent

7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries 10.30am Litany in Procession & Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Setting: Missa Kyrie salve (Gregorian chant) Motet: Christ whose glory fills the sky (Knight) 6.30pm A Service of Lessons & Carols Officiant: Fr Daniel Dries

The flowers in the Church this week are given to the Glory of God, and in loving memory of Ronald Nichols and Eulie & Jack Wile

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

Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honour and glory and blessing.

At Solemn High Mass, the following may be sung in Latin: Christ conquers, Christ reigns, Christ rules.

Listen, Christ, to the holy church of God, uniting souls across the divisions of nations: perpetual peace!

King of kings, our king, our hope, our glory.

COLLECT

Everlasting God, whose will is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, our Lord and King: grant that the people of earth, now divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his gentle and loving rule; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

FIRST Reading

2 Samuel 23.1-7 These are the last words of David: The oracle of David, son of Jesse, the oracle of the man whom God exalted, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the favourite of the Strong One of Israel: The spirit of the LORD speaks through me, his word is upon my tongue.

The God of Israel has spoken, the Rock of

Israel has said to me: One who rules over people justly, ruling in the fear of God, is like the light of morning, like the sun rising on a cloudless morning, gleaming from the rain on the grassy land.

Is not my house like this with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. Will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?

But the godless are all like thorns that are thrown away; for they cannot be picked up with the hand; to touch them one uses an iron bar or the shaft of a spear. And they are entirely consumed in fire on the spot.

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 132

1 Lord, remember David and all his trouble:

how he swore an oath to the Lord and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob; 2 ‘I will not enter the shelter of my house:

nor climb into the comfort of my bed; 3 ‘I will not give sleep to my eyes:

or slumber to my eyelids, 4 ‘Till I find out a place for the ark of the Lord:

a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.’

5 Lo, we heard of it at Ephrathah:

we found it in the fields of Jaar.

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Let us go to the place of his dwelling: let us fall upon our knees before his footstool.

7 Arise, O Lord, into your resting place:

you, and the ark of your might.

8 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness:

and let your faithful ones shout for joy.

9 For the sake of David your servant:

do not turn away the face of your anointed.

10 The Lord has sworn to David:

an oath which he will not break; 11 ‘One who is the fruit of your body:

I will set upon your throne.

12 ‘If your children will keep my covenant and the commands which I teach them:

their children also shall sit upon your throne for ever.’

13 For the Lord has chosen Zion for himself:

he has desired it for his habitation.

14 ‘This shall be my resting place for ever:

here will I dwell, for my delight is in her.

15 ‘I will bless her provisions with abundance:

I will satisfy her poor with bread.

16 ‘I will clothe her priests with salvation:

and her faithful ones shall shout for joy.

17 ‘There will I make a horn to sprout for the family of David:

I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.

18 ‘As for his enemies, I will cover them with shame:

but upon his head shall his crown be bright.’

Second reading

Revelation 1.4b-8 Grace to you and peace from God who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.

To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood, and made us to be a kingdom, priests serving his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Look! He is coming with the clouds; every eye will see him even those who pierced him; and on his account all the tribes of the earth will wail. So it is to be. Amen.

‘I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

For the word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

Alleluia.

Blessed is he who inherits the kingdom of David our Father; Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Alleluia.

Gospel

John 18.33-37 The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John.

Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

Pilate asked Jesus, ‘Are you the King of the Jews?’ Jesus answered, ‘Do you ask this on your own, or did others tell you about

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Mass Readings me?’ Pilate replied, ‘I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?’ Jesus answered, ‘My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my followers would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here.’ Pilate asked him, ‘So you are a king?’

Jesus answered, ‘You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.’

OFFERTORY SENTENCE

Lord we offer you sacrifice by which your Son reconciles mankind. May it bring unity and peace to the world.

COMMUNioN SENTENCE

The Lord will reign for ever and will give his people the gift of peace.

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

COMMUNION MOTET King of glory ( J.S. Bach, arr. W.H. Harris 1883-1973) King of glory, King of peace, I will love thee, and, that love may never cease, I will move thee.

Thou hast granted my request; thou hast heard me; thou didst note my working breast; thou hast spared me.

Wherefore with my utmost art, I will sing thee, and the cream of all my heart I will bring thee.

Though my sins against me cried, thou didst clear me, and alone, when they replied, thou didst hear me.

Seven whole days, not one in seven, I will praise thee; in my heart, though not in heaven, I can raise thee.

Small it is, in this poor sort to enrol thee: e’en eternity’s too short to extol thee.

George Herbert (1593-1632)

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.

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SUNDAY NOTICES Farewell to Bishop Robert After High Mass today, the parish will farewell Bishop Robert and Margie Forsyth at an informal luncheon in the hall. All parishioners and friends are invited. The cost is $10 per person, the best value lunch in town! BYO drinks; tea and coffee will be provided. Parishioners from the 9.00am congregation are asked to help with the preparations during High Mass.

Parishioners from the other congregations are asked to help with cleaning up afterwards.

NSW Government has confirmed funding for St Laurence House until June 2020.

While this is wonderful news, parishioners are encouraged to continue to offer prayers and financial support for this vital ministry.

Organ Recitals There will be an organ recital given at 2pm after our farewell luncheon for Bishop Robert Forsyth today, by Shin-Young Lee, Paris. Edwin Taylor, a former Organ Scholar of CCSL, will give a recital this Tuesday at St Paul’s Burwood at 1.15pm.

Organ Recital At 1.10pm on Thursday 26 November, the Rector will be giving an organ recital at St Andrew’s Cathedral, George St, Sydney.

The program will include works by Bach, Mendelssohn and Gigout. Entry is by note donation.

Reading Workshop For those who read scripture and intercessions in the liturgy, there will be an important reading workshop on Saturday 5 December, between 2.30-4pm. All those who are on the reading rosters are strongly encouraged to attend.

St Laurence House Stained Glass Restoration At this week’s AGM of St Laurence House, Our appeal for the stained-glass protection it was announced that on 16 November the and restoration project has received

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 STUDENT MINISTER ParISH ADMINISTRATOR Director of Music Organist Head Server

Fr John Sanderson fr.john@ccsl.org.au Mr Antony Weiss Antony.Weiss@student.moore.edu.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

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P 02 9211 0560 P 02 9212 7776 P 02 9960 2476 P 02 9211 0560 6

SUNDAY NOTICES remarkable support, for which we are most grateful. This support has encouraged us to expand the project to include cleaning the windows. Cleaning was part of the project as originally planned, but the Heritage Grant we received did not cover this and we reluctantly dropped it.

Cleaning will both enhance the windows visually and protect against deterioration.

The cost of expert non-invasive cleaning, exterior and interior, together with additional scaffolding, will be $20,000.

A gift of $2000 will fund the cleaning of a full double-lancet window. We look

forward to your support in rounding out the project in this important way.

Feast of Nicholas Ferrar You are invited by the Sydney College of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd to attend their patronal festival, for the feast of Nicholas Ferrar at CCSL at 6pm, on Friday 4 December 2015. Refreshments will follow the service in the hall. Dr Neil McEwan will give a talk after the Eucharist, The Anglican Parish of The Transition: Renaissance to the Baroque CHRIST CHURCH ST LAURENCE Railway Suare, Sydney in England, describing the music of the church in England in Ferrar’s lifetime.

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A VIGIL of

LESSONS& CAROLS for prisoners & those who sit in darkness

6.30pm SUNDAY 29 NOVEMBER (The First Sunday of Advent)

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from the Archives ASSISTANT BISHOPS AT CCSL Despite an increasing number of parishes and a succession of Archbishops with indifferent health, it was not until 1926 that an assistant bishop (then called a “coadjutor bishop”) was consecrated for the Diocese of Sydney. Gerard D’arcy-Irvine (1862-1932) was the first and his first visit to CCSL was as a special guest at the afternoon tea following the first dedication festival procession of witness in September 1927. However, it was not until the 1960s that episcopal functions were delegated by geographic region. Jack Dain (1912-2003) was the first assistant bishop with geographic responsibility for CCSL from 1965 as assistant for the eastern and southern areas. He was followed by John Reid in 1975-1993 (Bishop Reid became the first to hold the title “Bishop of South Sydney”, in 1983); Peter Watson in 1993-2000, and Robert Forsyth in 2000-2015. According to the service registers Bishop Forsyth has attended no fewer than 76 services at CCSL - a record number for any Assistant Bishop and for all Sydney Bishops except for Bishop Broughton in the early years of the parish.

Main image: Bishop Robert leads the prayers outside CCSL before the Induction of Fr Daniel Dries.

Below: Bishop Robert at Solemn Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, 2003.