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
28 FEBRUARY 2016
The Third Sunday in Lent
7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: Fr Martin Davies Setting: Missa sine nomine ( Jewkes) Hymns: 66(t.63), 94, 73(i), 414 10.30am Litany in Procession & Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr Martin Davies Hymns: 73(i), 414, 94 Setting: Missa Sanctae Catherine (Spontone) Motet: Emendemus in melius (Byrd) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Litany in Procession Preacher: Br Christopher John SSF (Minister Provincial, Society of St Francis, Province of the Divine Compassion) Hymns: 59(i), 70(i), 74 Canticles: Fourth Service (Batten) Anthem: Lord, how long wilt thou be angry (Purcell) Litany: Litany of Penitence Postlude: Allegretto from Sonata no. 4 in B-flat (Mendelssohn)
Left: The crucifixion, East Window (stained glass), Christ Church St Laurence
MORNING PEWSHEET
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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 29 FEB
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
TUE 1 mar
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
David, bishop of Menevia, Wales (d. 601)
WED 2 MAR Chad, bishop of Lichfield, missionary (d. 672) THU 3 MAR
Deut 4.1, 4-9; Ps 147.12-20; Matt 5.17-19 Morning & Evening Prayer (7.30am, 5.30pm) 8.00am Sung Eucharist 12.15pm Healing Eucharist Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
FRI 4 MAR
Hos 14.2-10; Ps 81.6-10; Mark 12.28-34 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 6.00pm Eucharist 6.30pm The Stations of the Cross
SAT 5 MAR
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
Sun 6 MAR
The Fourth Sunday in Lent (Mothering Sunday)
Josh 5.2-12; Ps 32; 2 Cor 5.16-21; Luke 2.33-35 7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: Fr Ian Crooks 10.30am Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr Ian Crooks Setting: Collegium Regale (Howells) Motet: Ave Maria (Josquin des Prez) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Benediction Preacher: Fr John Sanderson Canticles: Mag & Nunc on Plainsong Tones (Wills) Anthem: Alma redeptoris mater (Ockeghem)
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
‘As the heavens are higher then the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts,’ says the Lord.
COLLECT
O God, the fountain of life, to a humanity parched with thirst you offer the living water that springs from the Rock, our Saviour Jesus Christ: stir up within your people the gift of your Spirit, that we may profess our faith with freshness and announce with joy the wonder of your love. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
FIRST Reading
Isaiah 55.1-9 The Lord says this: Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an
everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. See, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. See, you shall call nations that you do not know, and nations that do not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you. Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous their thoughts; let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. 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 63
1 O God, you are my God: eagerly will I seek you. 2 My soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you: as a dry and thirsty land where no water is. 3 So it was when I beheld you in the sanctuary: and saw your power and your glory.
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Mass Readings 4 For your unchanging goodness is better than life: therefore my lips shall praise you. 5 And so I will bless you as long as I live: and in your name will I lift my hands on high. 6 My longing shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness: my mouth shall praise you with exultant lips. 7 When I remember you upon my bed: when I meditate upon you in the night watches, 8 How you have been my helper: then I sing for joy in the shadow of your wings, 9 Then my soul clings to you: and your right hand upholds me.
Second reading
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1 Corinthians 10.1-13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness. Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did. Do not become idolaters as some of them did; as it is written, ‘The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.’ We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. We must not put Christ to the test, as
some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents. And do not complain as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer. These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down to instruct us, on whom the ends of the ages have come. So if you think you are standing, watch out that you do not fall. No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it. For the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. At Solemn High Mass, the Tract is sung as the Gospel procession is made ready.
Tract 1 2 3 4 5
Those who put their trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion: which cannot be shaken, but endures for ever. As the mountains stand about Jerusalem, so stands the Lord about his people: from this time for-ward, for ever more. For the sceptre of wickedness shall have no sway over the land apportioned to the righteous: lest the righteous set their hands to do evil. Do good, O Lord, to those who are good: to those that are up-right in heart. As for those who turn aside to crooked ways, let the Lord lead them away with the evil-doers: and in Israel let there be peace.
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Mass Readings GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Glory to you, Word of God, Lord Jesus Christ! ‘Repent,’ says the Lord. ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Glory to you, Word of God, Lord Jesus Christ!
Gospel
Luke 13.1-9 The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke. Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ. There were some present who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He asked them ‘Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did. Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them – do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish just as they did.’ Then he told this parable: ‘A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. So he said to the gardener, “See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?” He replied, “Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it. If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.”’
OFFERTORY SENTENCE
Lord, by the grace of this sacrifice may we who ask forgiveness be ready to forgive one another.
COMMUNioN SENTENCE
The sparrow even finds a home, the swallow finds a nest wherein to place his young, near to the altars, Lord of hosts, my king and my God: How happy are they who dwell in your house! For ever they are praising you.
COMMUNION MOTET Emendemus in melius (William Byrd 1539/40-1623)
Emendemus in melius quae ignoranter peccavimus, ne subito praeoccupati die mortis quaeramus spatium poenitentiae et invenire non possumus. Attende, Domine, et miserere, quia peccavimus tibi. Adiuva nos, Deus, salutaris noster, et propter honorem nominis tui libera nos. Let us amend our sinful lives, spent heedlessly lest suddenly the day of our departure coming, we seek for time to repent us of our deeds, and we are not able to find it. Hear us, O Lord, and be merciful, for we have sinned against thee. Help us, God, our salvation, and for the honour of thy name, spare us.
This is the gospel of the Lord, Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. CHRIST CHURCH ST LAURENCE Railway Square, Sydney
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SUNDAY NOTICES Annual General Meeting The Annual General Meeting of the parish of Christ Church St Laurence will be held in the parish hall at 12.30 pm today. Elections will be held for positions of Warden, Parish Councillor and Parish Representative (nominator). At the conclusion of the AGM there will be a light luncheon. All parishioners attending the meeting are asked to bring a plate of ready-to-eat finger food to share. Tea and coffee will be provided. Pastoral Care Group The provision of pastoral care is a long standing tradition of ministry here at Christ Church St Laurence. We are pleased to announce the formation of a pastoral care group, which under the leadership of Fr John will seek to broaden the number of the people visited and increase the frequency of visits. The existence of this group will not reduce the pastoral visiting by our clergy. Sonya Gillies has kindly accepted an invitation to coordinate our group and she is currently coordinating the initial visits of the group. The team of pastoral cares will continue to grow. Please speak to Fr John if you would like more information. 2016 Holy Week Preacher We are delighted to announce that The Revd Dr James Walters will be this year’s Holy Week Preacher. Fr James is Chaplain to the London School of Economics, where he is a senior lecturer and a member of the advisory board to the LSE Programme for the Study of Religion and Non-Religion. Before taking up his post at the LSE, Fr James was a parish priest 6
in North London and prior to ordination he worked for a Member of Parliament. He has a doctorate from Cambridge University in systematic theology and philosophy of religion and he is the author of Baudrillard and Theology (Continuum 2012). Fr James writes and teaches in the areas of theology, philosophy, politics and economics. Fr James is visiting Australia in 2016 as the Murdoch University International Theologian. Growing with Grace Fr John will lead a seminar at St Paul’s, Burwood, on Thursday 3 March, at 11.15am (a Eucharist will be celebrated at 10.30am). Please RSVP to St Paul’s, 9747 4327 or office@stpaulsburwood.anglican.asn.au. Lenten Quiet Day Members of the parish are invited to a day of prayer, Shadows of Glory, at St John’s Church, Balmain, hosted by The Oratory of the Good Shepherd on Saturday March 5. There is no charge for the day. The day will be led by Bishop Lindsay Urwin OGS, Vicar of Christ Church Brunswick (Melbourne), formerly Guardian of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham UK and Missioner and Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Chichester. Bishop Lindsay’s theme for the day is ‘Shadows of Glory: exploring the ways Jesus keeps our company’. The day begins at 9.30am. (Silence begins with Morning Prayer at 9.45 am.) We have a silent lunch together in the hall. Please bring your own sandwiches, etc. Tea and coffee will be available throughout the day.
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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 Mr Antony Weiss Antony.Weiss@student.moore.edu.au Mr Ryan Austin-Eames ryan.austineames@gmail.com Fr Ron Silarsah fr.ron@ccsl.org.au Fr Michael Giffin Fr Eric Hampson Fr Ian Crooks 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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