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
25 OCTOBER 2015
The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost 7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist & Holy Baptism Preacher: Fr Ian Crooks Setting: Missa sine nomine ( Jewkes) Hymns: 415(t. 346), 304, 378, 312 10.30am Solemn High Mass & the Blessing of a new Altar Frontal Preacher: Fr Ian Crooks Hymns: 378, 312, 415(t. 346) Setting: Missa super Je suis Déshéritée (Di Lasso) Motet: The secret of Christ (Shephard) Postlude: Psalm Prelude, Set 1 No.1 (see Ps 34 v.6) (Howells) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Benediction Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Hymns: 248(ii), 334, 355 Canticles: Tone/Fauxbourdon (Victoria ed. McEwan) Anthem: Hear my prayer (Mendelssohn) Postlude: Andante, from Sonata No. 1 (Harwood)
EVENING 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 26 OCT
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
TUE 27 OCT
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
WED 28 OCT Simon & Jude, apostles & martyrs
Deut 32.1-4; Ps 19.1-6; Jude 1-3, 17-25; Luke 6.12-16 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 12.15pm Healing Eucharist
THU 29 OCT
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
FRI 30 OCT
Romans 9.1-5; Ps 147.12-20; Luke 14.1-6 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
SAT 31 OCT
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
Sun 1 NOV
Isaiah 25.6-9; Psalm 24; Revelation 21.1-6a; John 11.32-44
Martin Luther (d.1546) and other Continental Reformers All Saints
7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: Fr Peter Kurti 10.30am Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr Peter Kurti Setting: Mass in A flat (Harwood) Motet: O King most glorious (Willan) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Benediction Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Canticles: Service in E (Murrilll) Anthem: O quam gloriosum (Vaet)
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.
COLLECT
SENTENCE
The redeemed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads. (Isaiah 51.11)
BLESSING OF AN ALTAR FROTAL
At Solemn High Mass a new altar frontal is blessed. The frontal is the gift of Peter Crawshaw and Robert Hannan, and is given in loving memory of CCSL parishioner, Louis William Lodge (obiit 22 March 2007). The people remain standing.
O God, you give light to the blind and comfort to the sorrowing, and in your Son you have given us a High Priest who has offered the true sacrifice for us and yet can sympathise with us in our weakness: hear the cry of your people and lead us home to our true country, where with your Son and the Holy Spirit, you live and reign, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.
FIRST Reading
Our Help is in the name of the Lord. Who has made heaven and earth. The Lord be with you. And also with you. The Rector continues – Let us pray. Almighty God, who taught Moses your servant, during forty days, to make ornaments and linen hangings for the service of the ministry, and of the Tabernacle of Witness: be pleased to +bless, +hallow and +consecrate this cloth made for the adornment and enfolding of the altar of your most glorious Son, Jesus Christ Our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Solemn High Mass continues with The Asperges.
Job 42.1-6, 10-17 Job answered the Lord: ‘I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. “Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?” Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. “Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me.” I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.’ And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends; and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a gold ring. The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning;
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Mass Readings and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys. He also had seven sons and three daughters. He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. In all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters; and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers. After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children, and his children’s children, four generations. And Job died, old and full of days. 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 34
1. I will bless the Lord continually: his praise shall be always in my mouth. 2. Let my soul boast of the Lord: the humble shall hear it and rejoice. 3. O praise the Lord with me: let us exalt his name together. 4. For I sought the Lord’s help and he answered: and he freed me from all my fears. 5. Look towards him and be bright with joy: your faces shall not be ashamed. 6. Here is a wretch who cried, and the Lord heard me: and saved me from all my troubles. 7. The angel of the Lord encamps round those who fear him: and delivers them in their need. 8. O taste and see that the Lord is good: happy are they that hide in him!
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Second reading
Hebrews 7.21-28 This one became a priest with an oath, because of the one who said to him, ‘The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest for ever”’— accordingly Jesus has also become the guarantee of a better covenant. Furthermore, the former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office; but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues for ever. Consequently he is able for all time to save those who approach God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. Unlike the other high priests, he has no need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for those of the people; this he did once for all when he offered himself. For the law appoints as high priests those who are subject to weakness, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect for ever. For the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Alleluia. Our Saviour Jesus Christ has done away with death, and brought us life through his gospel. Alleluia.
Gospel
Mark 10.46-52 The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark. Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
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Mass Readings As Jesus and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout out and say, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!’ Many sternly ordered him to be quiet, but he cried out even more loudly, ‘Son of David, have mercy on me!’ Jesus stood still and said, ‘Call him here.’ And they called the blind man, saying to him, ‘Take heart; get up, he is calling you.’ So throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus. Then Jesus said to him, ‘What do you want me to do for you?’ The blind man said to him, ‘My teacher, let me see again.’ Jesus
said to him, ‘Go; your faith has made you well.’ Immediately he regained his sight and followed him on the way. This is the gospel of the Lord, Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
OFFERTORY SENTENCE
Lord, give me life according to your word: that I may know your commands.
COMMUNioN SENTENCE
We will rejoice in the victory of God and make our boast in his great name.
COMMUNION MOTET The Secret of Christ (Richard Shephard, b. 1949) For a long time I have held my peace, but now will I speak. I will lead the blind in a way they know not, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn their darkness into light, and I will not forsake them. And he showed me a pure river of the water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God; and on either side of the river was there a tree of life, and the leaves of the trees were for the healing of the nations. Help us, Lord, to persevere in prayer with minds awake and thankful hearts, that we may share the secret of Christ with those we meet on our earthly pilgrimage, following in the steps of Jesus, our master and our friend. Amen.
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SUNDAY NOTICES All Saints and All Souls Next Sunday we celebrate the Feast of All Saints. At our 9am and 10.30am services we welcome Fr Peter Kurti as guest preacher. On Monday 2 November we will observe All Souls Day with a Solemn Requiem Mass at 6pm. A copy of the Chantry Book is available at the back of the church. Please add the names of the departed you wish to include in the service if they are not already in the Chantry Book. Farewell to Bishop Robert The Feast of Christ the King, Sunday 22 November, will be the last occasion on which Bishop Robert Forsyth visits CCSL in his capacity as Bishop of the South Sydney Region. The parish will farewell Bishop Robert and Margie at an informal luncheon after High Mass on that day. All parishioners and friends are invited. The cost is $10 per person, payable at the door. BYO drinks; tea and coffee will be provided. As always, seating is limited; if you wish to reserve a place please give your name and money to Lyn Bannerman (0478 622 833) on Sunday 8 November. At the lunch we will present a gift to the Forsyths in appreciation of their generous and faithful support to the parish during the past fifteen years. If you would like to contribute to that
presentation, please place your donation in one of the envelopes provided at the back of the church and place it in the collection plate or the donations box. A farewell will also take place on December 13 (at St John’s, Ashfield) to which all priests and parishioners from the wider diocese are invited. Please save the date in your diary; more information will follow. Consecration of our Bishop Designate The Diocese of Sydney invites all parishioners to the Consecration of the Bishop designate of South Sydney, the Reverend Doctor Michael Rennie Stead. The service will take place in St Andrews, Sydney on Saturday 5 December 2015 at 10.30am. Light refreshments will follow. To register your place at this service, please RSVP by 13 November 2015 to consecration@sydney.anglican.asn.au or by telephone. (02) 9265 1511. Stained Glass Restoration The Clergy and Wardens wish to thank all those who have so far contributed to our Stained Glass Restoration Fund. From our goal of $45,500, we have received generous donations totalling $34,000. If you would like to contribute to the appeal, donations of over $2 are tax deductible and any amount-large or small-is gratefully received.
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. 6
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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
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SENIOR ASSISTANT PRIEST STUDENT MINISTER Licensed Clergy
Fr John Sanderson fr.john@ccsl.org.au Mr Antony Weiss Antony.Weiss@student.moore.edu.au Fr Ron Silarsah fr.ron@ccsl.org.au Fr Michael Giffin Fr Eric Hampson Fr Stan Hessey Mr Simon Polson s.polson@ccsl.org.au Dr Colin Bannerman c.bannerman@ccsl.org.au Dr Anthony Miller a.miller@ccsl.org.au Mr Peter Hanson p.hanson@ccsl.org.au Mr Peter Hanson p.hanson@ccsl.org.au Parish Hall, 505 Pitt St choir@ccsl.org.au Dr Neil McEwan AM frscm n.mcewan@ccsl.org.au Mr Peter Jewkes p.jewkes@ccsl.org.au Mr Joshua Ryan j.ryan@ccsl.org.au Dr Helen Hewson office@ccsl.org.au Editors tdt@ccsl.org.au
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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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All Souls
SOLEMN REQUIEM MASS 6pm MONDAY 2 NOVEMBER Preacher Setting Motets
Fr Daniel Dries Requiem in D-flat (Walter Vale: first Australian performance) Bring us, O Lord (Harris); In paradisum (Fauré) Sung by the Choir of Christ Church St Laurence
About the setting of the Requiem Mass Dr Walter Sydney Vale (1875-1939) was Director of Music at All Saints’ Margaret Street from 1907 to 1939. He composed a number of anthems and hymn tunes and edited a Plainsong Psalter following study at Solesmes Abbey (this Psalter still often being used at CCSL Evensong). His Requiem was written in 1908 but was not published until 1938, though it had been regularly performed in the meantime. It enshrines Vale’s three most notable musical influences: Eastern Orthodox and Gregorian Chant, held in a fine amalgam of English Romanticism. It is set for a “double” chancel choir in eight vocal parts, covering a range of nearly four octaves from the “Russian” bottom D-flat bass notes, to the solo soprano’s top B-flat. Some of the more English aspects of the Mass slightly anticipate the later writing of Sir William Harris (1883-1973) whose exquisite setting of Donne’s famous text Bring Us O Lord God, also in the lush “dark” key of D-flat, is being included as the Communion motet. Vale’s is probably the first English setting of the Requiem Mass since the Reformation, and was undoubtedly not without controversy in 1908 when performance of such works would have been proscribed in most Anglican parishes. It is also presumed to be the first setting of this liturgical text in English (other than the Kyrie Eleison), using BCP and English Missal translations. As well as being almost certainly the first time the work has been performed in Australia, it is possibly its first performance outside London. Thanks for this are due to former CCSL chorister Daniel Mitterdorfer, who returned to an original score in the British Library for this careful new edition by Crescendo Music Publications. - pdgj