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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

27 SEPTEMBER 2015

The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: Fr Martin Davies Setting: Missa sine nomine ( Jewkes) Hymns: 366, 493, 339, 287 10.30am Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr Martin Davies Hymns: 339, 287, 366 Setting: Service in E (Darke) Motet: Ego sum panis vivus (Byrd) Postlude: Festal March (Scotson-Clark) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Benediction Preacher: Fr Ron Henderson Hymns: 247, 324, 477 (desc. Forster) Canticles: Dorian Service (Tallis) Anthem: Richte mich Gott (Mendelssohn) Postlude: Vorspiel (Bruckner)

Left: The Sanctuary, by Reg Boonzaier

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 28 SEP TUE 29 SEP

St Michael and all Angels

Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 6:00pm Solemn High Mass

Nehemiah 2.1-8; Psalm 137; Luke 9.57-62 WED 30 SEP Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) Jerome, priest and biblical scholar (d.420) 12.15pm Healing Eucharist

THU 1 OCT

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

FRI 2 OCT

Baruch 1.15-22; Psalm 79.9-13; Luke 10.13-16 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)

SAT 3 OCT

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

Sun 4 OCT

Job 1.1; 2.1-10; Ps 26; Hebrews 1.1-4; 2.5-12; Mark 10.2-16

The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: Fr John Sanderson 10.30am Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr John Sanderson Setting: Messe du Jubile (Daniel-Lesur) Motet: O sacrum convivium (Messiaen) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Benediction Preacher: Fr Ron Silarsah Canticles: Service in G (Sumsion) Anthem: Te lucis ante terminum (Tallis)

The flowers in the Church this week are given to the Glory of God, and in loving memory of John Clothier

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

Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can it be seasoned? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another. (Mark 9.50)

COLLECT

O God, your Son has taught us that those who give a cup of water in his name will not lose their reward: open our eyes to see those who are in need, and teach us to set no store by riches and earthly rewords, so that, in surrendering ourselves to serve you in your children, we may labour for the treasure that endures; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

FIRST Reading

Esther 7.1-6, 9-10; 9.20-22 The king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. On the second day, as they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther, ‘What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.’ Then Queen Esther answered, ‘If I have won your favour, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me – that is my petition – and the lives of my people – that is my request. For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated.

If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace; but

no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king.’ Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, ‘Who is he, and where is he, who presumed to do this?’ Esther said, ‘A foe and enemy, this wicked Haman!’ Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen. Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, ‘Look, the very gallows that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, stands at Haman’s house, fifty cubits high.’

And the king said, ‘Hang him on that.’ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.

Mordecai recorded these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, enjoining them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fi fteenth day of the same month, year by year, as the days on which the Jews gained relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and presents to the poor.

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.

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Mass Readings PSALM 124

1. If the Lord had not been on our side, now may Israel say:

if the Lord had not been on our side,

when our enemies rose against us, 2. Then they would have swallowed us alive:

when their anger was kindled against us.

3. Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, and the torrent gone over us: the raging waters would have gone clean over us.

4. But praised be the Lord: who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

5. We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler:

the snare is broken, and we have gone free.

6. Our help is in the name of the Lord:

who has made heaven and earth.

Second reading

James 5.12-20 Above all, my beloved, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your ‘Yes’ be yes and your ‘No’ be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.

Are any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing songs of praise. Are any among you sick?

They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord. The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise them up; and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed.

The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective. Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed 4

again, and the heaven gave rain and the earth yielded its harvest. My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and is brought back by another, you should know that whoever brings back a sinner from wandering will save the sinner’s soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

For the word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

Alleluia.

Your word O Lord, is truth. Make us holy in the truth.

Alleluia.

Gospel

Mark 9.38-50 The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark.

Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

After Jesus had finished teaching the disciples, John said to him, ‘Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.’ But Jesus said, ‘Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterwards to speak evil of me. Whoever is not against us is for us. For truly I tell you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ will by no means lose the reward. If any of you put a stumbling-block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea. If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two

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Mass Readings hands and to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and to be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell, where their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched. For everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.’

OFFERTORY SENTENCE

The precepts of the Lord are right and rejoice the heart: sweeter also than honey that drips from the comb; moreover by them is your servant taught.

COMMUNioN SENTENCE

O Lord remember the words you spoke to me your servant, which made me live in hope and consoled me when I was downcast.

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

COMMUNION MOTET Ego sum panis vivus William Byrd (1540-1623)

Ego sum panis vivus, qui de coelo descendi.

Si quis manducaverit ex hoc pane, vivet in aeternum.

Alleluia.

I am the living bread, who came down from heaven.

Whoever eats this bread will live for ever.

Alleluia.

St John 6: 51; Lauds of Corpus Christi

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 Organ Recital Today At 2pm today, Jonathan Dimmock, Organist of the San Francisco Symphony, will give a the monthly recital in our series. Entry to the recital is by ‘note’ donation and an afternoon tea will follow. Anyone who is able to assist in the preparation of the afternoon tea is asked to speak with Hilary Griffith after the services today.

website is an excellent place to introduce them to the colour and diversity of our church.

Anglicans Together Anglicans Together will host an Annual General Meeting and Synod Briefing today, at 2.30pm, at St James’ Hall, (Level 1, 169-171 Phillip Street). The agenda includes the Reception of the President’s report and the Financial Statements and the election of Office bearers. The meeting will be followed by afternoon tea and a briefing on the Sydney Diocesan Synod to be held in October.

Bon Voyage We wish those joining the pilgramige From Rome to Canterbury safe and inspiring travels as they depart in the coming days. The tour will be led by Fr Daniel, and will visit churches, cathedrals and monasteries Rome, Blessing of the Animals London and Canterbury.

The Mittagong congregation invites you to our annual Blessing of the animals St Michael and All Angels at our October Eucharist on Saturday We will celebrate the feast of St Michael 3 October. Father John will bless the and All Angels with a Procession & pets at the end of the service. We will Solemn High Mass at 6pm, this coming have a shared lunch afterwards at our Tuesday 29 September. usual venue for the service, the Uniting Church, 4 Albert Street, Mittagong New Website where there is plenty of space to park We are pleased to announce the Parish and to walk your pets. Any enquiries has a new website at the same address are welcome to be addressed to Chris (www.ccsl.org.au) which will better Styles by telephone, 0412 507 547 or by enable us to keep in touch with the emailing cstyles@ozemail.com.au. many visitors who walk into our church during the week, and who live some Our Lady of Walsingham Day distance from the parish. If you have The feast of Our Lady of Walsingham friends or family who are interested will be observed on Saturday 24 to know more about our parish, the October with a Sung Mass at 10 a.m.

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SUNDAY NOTICES After mass there will be a buffet brunch in the hall, followed by a Marian lecture

by Sister M. Isabell Naumann, a noted scholar in the field of Marian studies.

Her lecture is titled Mary, a model for the contemporary church. It will include discussion of current trends in Marian doctrine and devotion, with a focus on her exemplary discipleship.

Study Groups There will be two additional study groups prior to Advent. On a similar

basis to our Lenten Study Groups, these will be led by the clergy of the parish and will be held in the parish hall on Tuesdays at 6pm and Wednesdays at 11am, through the 4 weeks of November. We will use the book “In God’s Hands” by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, published as the Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2015 Lent Book; this is now available from the Bookshop for $23.

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PARISH DIRECTORY Church address Parish office address Parish postal address Rector (ON LEAVE)

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

ACTING RECTOR 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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MEDITATION & SPIRITUAL DIRECTION Mrs Ann Bergman a.bergman@ccsl.org.au

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Head Server SacristanS

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Head Sidesperson Belltower Captain Head Verger

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

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