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
3 JANUARY 2016
The Second Sunday after Christmas
7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Setting: Missa sine nomine ( Jewkes) Hymns: 39, 42, 34, 21 10.30am Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Hymns: 34 (Desc Willcocks), 31, 21 Setting: Missa O magnum mysterium (Victoria) Motet: New Year (Rutter) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Benediction Preacher: Mr Antony Weiss Hymns: 20(t. 46 ii), 23, 24 Canticles: Service in G (Stanford) Anthem: There’s a song in the air (Hearne) Postlude: Chorale Prelude: In dir ist freude BWV 615 (Bach)
Left: The Lectern, northern side of the Chancel, 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 4 JAN
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
TUE 5 JAN
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
WED 6 JAN The Epiphany of our Lord
THU 7 JAN
Isa 60.1-6; Ps 72.1-7, 10-14; Eph 3.1-12; Matt 2.1-12 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 12.15pm Healing Eucharist 6.00pm Procession & Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Setting: Missa Eliensis (Wills) Motet: The Three Kings (Willan) Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
FRI 8 JAN
1 John 4.7-10; Ps 72.1-7; Mark 6.47-56 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 6.00pm Eucharist
SAT 9 JAN
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
Sun 10 JAN
The Baptism of our Lord
Isaiah 43.1-7; Ps 29; Acts 8.14-17; Luke 3.15-22 7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: Fr Ron Silarsah 10.30am Procession & Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr Ron Silarsah Setting: Missa Eliensis (Wills) Motet: Tribus Miraculis (Marenzio) 6.30pm A Service of Lessons and Carols
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
God has destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
COLLECT
Almighty God, you have filled us with the light of the Word, who became flesh and lived among us: let the light of faith shine in all that we do; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
FIRST Reading
Jeremiah 31.7-14 Thus says the Lord: Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, ‘Save, O Lord, your people, the remnant of Israel.’ See, I am going to bring them from the land of the north, and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, those with child and those in labour, together; a great company, they shall return here. With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back, I will let them walk by brooks of water in a straight path in which they shall not stumble; for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. Hear the word of the Lord, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, ‘He
who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd a flock.’ For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him. They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion, and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the Lord, over the grain, the wine, and the oil, and over the young of the flock and the herd; their life shall become like a watered garden, and they shall never languish again. Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy, I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow. I will give the priests their fill of fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my bounty, says the Lord. 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 147
12. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: sing praises to your God, O Zion. 13. For he has strengthened the bars of your gates: and blessed your children within you. 14. He makes peace within your borders: and satisfies you with the finest wheat. 15. He sends his command to the earth: and his word runs very swiftly.
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Mass Readings 16. He gives snow like wool: and scatters the hoar frost like ashes. 17. He sprinkles his ice like morsels of bread: and the waters harden at his frost. 18. He sends out his word and melts them: he blows with his wind and the waters flow. 19. He made his word known to Jacob: his statutes and judgements to Israel. 20. He has not dealt so with any other nation: nor have they knowledge of his laws. Praise the Lord.
Second reading
Ephesians 1.3-14 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. God destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of God’s will, to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of his grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and insight he has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in Christ, things in heaven and things on earth. In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of God who accomplishes all things according to 4
his counsel and will, so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, might live for the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit; this is the pledge of our inheritance towards redemption as God’s own people to the praise of his glory. For the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Alleluia. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Alleluia.
Gospel
John 1.1-18 The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John. Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light.
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Mass Readings The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth. ( John testified to him and cried out, ‘This was he of whom I said, “He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.”) From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and
truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known. This is the gospel of the Lord, Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
OFFERTORY SENTENCE
Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: so that your youth is renewed like an eagle’s.
COMMUNioN SENTENCE
The Word of God became man: and lived among us. Of his riches we have all 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. CHRIST CHURCH ST LAURENCE Railway Square, Sydney
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SUNDAY NOTICES Welcome & Congratulations On Saturday 2 January, Harriet Louise Ellis was be baptised in the Mittagong Congregation. We offer our prayerful congratulations and Harriet and her family, and welcome her as a member of Christ’s body, the church.
Retiring Collection There will be a retiring collection at all services today in support of the Newton Theological College in Papua New Guinea.
Meditation Group The CCSL Meditation Group will The Epiphany be in recess throughout January. All This Wednesday, we celebrate the parishioners are warmly invited to join Epiphany of Our Lord. Daily services the group at its first meeting for 2016 on will be held at 7.30am (Morning Prayer), Monday 1st February. 8.00am (Eucharist), 12.15pm (Lunchtime Eucharist with Healing Ministry), and At Belltower Books 5.30pm (Evening Prayer). At 6.00pm, we Nola Lawrence’s memoir of the founding will celebrate the Feast with a Procession of St Laurence House, published by SLP as & Solemn High Mass. This coming a companion work to Fr Eric Hampson’s Sunday (10 January) at 6.30pm we will account of the St Laurence Op Shop, is hold our annual Epiphany Lessons and now available from the bookshop for $5. Carols Service. Please consider inviting This project has taken many hours and a friends and family to this service which great deal of research and we congratulate is always a wonderful conclusion to the Nola on a wonderful achievement. festive season. Accommodation Request Welcome A PhD student (aged 45) & her 3-legged At Solemn Evensong this evening, we dog are in urgent need of a home. Both welcome Hamish Wagstaff, the current are well house trained and are looking Organ Scholar at St John’s, Dee Why. to board with an older person, or Hamish will play the postlude at Solemn housemates. If you are able to assist, please Evensong this evening. speak directly with Fr John Sanderson. Clergy Leave Fr John Sanderson is currently on leave and will return on Sunday 10 January. Please direct all inquiries to the Parish Office during this time.
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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 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 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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The Anglican Parish of
CHRIST CHURCH ST LAURENCE Railway Suare, Sydney Consecraed 1845
THE EPIPHANY WEDNESDAY 6 JANUARY 2016 6.00pm
SUNDAY 10 JANUARY 2016 6.30pm
PROCESSION & SOLEMN HIGH MASS
A SERVICE OF LESSONS & CAROLS