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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

8 MAY 2016

The Sunday after Ascension-Day

7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: Fr John Sanderson Setting: Mass in E (Smith) Hymns: 134, 443, And can it be, 295 10.30am Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr John Sanderson Hymns: And can it be, 295, 443 Setting: Missa Bell ‘Amfitrit’ Altera (Lassus) Motet: O Lord give Thy Holy Spirit (Tallis) Postlude: Fugue on BACH S.260 (Liszt) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong, Proccesion

& Solemn Benediction Preacher: Mr Antony Weiss Hymns: 128(ii), 133, 135(t. 170),

Hail Thee, Festival Day(see. p8), 421 Canticles: Service in D (Brewer) Anthem: Sing ye to the Lord (Bairstow) Benediction: O salutaris hostia (de la Rue) Tantum ergo (Duruflé) Postlude: Chorale Prelude Heut’ triumphieret

Gottes Sohn, BWV 630 (Bach) Left: The Lectern, northern side of the Chancel, 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 9 MAY

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

TUE 10 MAY

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

WED 11 MAY

Acts 20.28-38; Ps 68.28-35; John 17.11-19 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 12.15pm Healing Eucharist

THU 12 MAY

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

FRI 13 MAY

Acts 25.13-21; Ps 103.15-22; John 21.15-19 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 6.00pm Eucharist

SAT 14 MAY

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

Sun 15 MAY

Acts 2.1-21; Ps 104.26-36; Rom 8.14-17; John 14.8-17 7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: The Rt Rev’d Dr Stephen Pickard Setting: Mass in E (Smith) 10.30am Solemn High Mass Preacher: The Rt Rev’d Dr Stephen Pickard Setting: Missa omnes sancti (Archer) Motet: Loquebantur variis linguis (Tallis) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong, Procession & Solemn Benediction Preacher: The Rev’d Elaine Farmer Canticles: Service in B-flat (Stanford) Anthem: Holy Spirit, truth divine (Carter) Te Deum: Service in G (Vaughan Williams)

Day of Pentecost

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

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.

COLLECT

Almighty God, whose blessed Son before his passion prayed for his disciples that they might be one, as you and he are one: grant that your Church, being bound together in love and obedience to you, may be united in one body by the one Spirit, that the world may believe in him whom you have sent, your Son 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

Acts 16.16-34 One day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling. While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, ‘These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you a way of salvation.’ She kept doing this for many days. But Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, ‘I order you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.’ And it came out that very hour.

But when her owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market-

place before the authorities. When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, ‘These men are disturbing our city; they are Jews and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us as Romans to adopt or observe.’ The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates had them stripped of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods. After they had given them a severe flogging, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to keep them securely. Following these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was an earthquake, so violent that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened.

When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, since he supposed that the prisoners had escaped. But Paul shouted in a loud voice, ‘Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.’ The jailer called for lights, and rushing in, he fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. Then he brought them outside and said, ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?’ They answered, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.’ They spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. At the same hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and his entire family were baptized without delay.

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Mass Readings He brought them up into the house and set food before them; and he and his entire household rejoiced that he had become a believer in God.

11. Light dawns for the righteous:

and joy for the true of heart.

12. Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous:

and give thanks to his holy name.

For the word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

Second reading

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 97

1. The Lord is king; let the earth rejoice:

let the multitude of islands be glad.

2. Clouds and darkness are round about him:

righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

3. Fire goes before him:

and burns up his enemies on every side.

4. His lightnings light the world:

the earth sees it and quakes.

5. The mountains melt like wax before his face:

from before the face of the Lord of all the earth.

6. The heavens have proclaimed his righteousness:

and all peoples have seen his glory.

7. They are ashamed, all those who serve idols and glory in mere nothings:

all gods bow down before him.

8. Zion heard and was glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoiced:

because of your judgements, O God. 9. For you, Lord, are most high over all the earth:

you are exalted far above all gods.

10. The Lord loves those that hate evil:

the Lord guards the life of the faithful, and delivers them from the hand of the ungodly.

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Revelation 22.12-21 ‘See, I am coming soon; my reward is with me, to repay according to everyone’s work. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.’

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates. Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practises falsehood.

‘It is I, Jesus, who sent my angel to you with this testimony for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.’ The Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come.’ And let everyone who hears say, ‘Come.’ And let everyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who wishes take the water of life as a gift.

I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this book; if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away that person’s share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

The one who testifies to these things says, ‘Surely I am coming soon.’

Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen.

For the word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

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Mass Readings GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

Alleluia.

The Lord said, ‘I will not leave you orphans.

I will come back to you, and your hearts will rejoice.’

Alleluia.

Gospel

John 17.20-26 The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John.

Glory to you Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus looked up to heaven and prayed: ‘Holy Father, I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them

even as you have loved me. Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you; and these know that you have sent me. I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.’

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

OFFERTORY SENTENCE

Praise the Lord O my soul, while I live will I praise the Lord: as long as I have any being I will sing praises to my God. Alleluia.

COMMUNioN SENTENCE

This is the prayer of Jesus: that his believers may become one as he is one with the Father.

Alleluia.

COMMUNioN MOTET

O Lord give Thy Holy Spirit (Thomas Tallis, 1505-85) O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit into our hearts, and lighten our understanding, that we may dwell in the fear of thy holy Name, all the days of our life: That we may know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

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AND CAN IT BE THAT I SHOULD GAIN? 1. And can it be that I should gain an interest in the Savior’s blood?

Died He for me, who caused His pain— for me, who Him to death pursued?

Amazing love! How can it be That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

Amazing love! How can it be That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

2. ’Tis mystery all: the immortal dies: Who can explore His strange design?

In vain the firstborn seraph tries To sound the depths of love divine. ’Tis mercy all! Let earth adore, Let angel minds inquire no more. ’Tis mercy all! Let earth adore; Let angel minds inquire no more.

4. Long my imprisoned spirit lay, Fast bound in sin and nature’s night; Thine eye diffused a quickening ray— I woke, the dungeon flamed with light; My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.

My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.

3. He left His Father’s throne above So free, so infinite His grace— Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam’s helpless race: ’Tis mercy all, immense and free, For O my God, it found out me! ’Tis mercy all, immense and free, For O my God, it found out me!

5. No condemnation now I dread; Jesus, and all in Him, is mine; Alive in Him, my living Head, And clothed in righteousness divine, Bold I approach th’eternal throne, And claim the crown, through Christ my own.

Bold I approach th’eternal throne, And claim the crown, through Christ my own.

Charles Wesley (1738) Tune: SAGINA

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 ParISH ADMINISTRATOR Director of Music Organist Head Server

Fr John Sanderson fr.john@ccsl.org.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 P 02 9211 0560 P 02 9212 7776 P 02 9960 2476 P 02 9211 0560

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SUNDAY NOTICES Recitals and Concerts Next Sunday Next Sunday, there will be two musical offerings in the church. At 2pm Professor Emeritus Michael Brimer will give the May recital in our Recital Series. Entry is by ‘note’ donation. At 3pm, the Sydney-based choir Bel A Cappella will present a program of sacred choral music, including works

by Pärt, Poulenc, MacMillan, Taverner and Langlais, with organist David Sunday School Presentation The children of CCSL will be Drury and conductor Anthony Pasquill. presenting a hymn at the 9 o’clock Tickets are available online, visit service for Pentecost next Sunday. If http://www.belacappella.org.au. your children or grandchildren would like to participate, please have them Safe Ministry and Child Protection join us for Sunday School at 9am in the The Diocese has in place a Safe Ministry Parish Hall next Sunday morning. All Programme for dealing with issues of child protection and sexual misconduct. are welcome!

The Parish Council has formally adopted the Diocese’s policy in this Mass Setting The scores for this morning’s mass by area. Under the overall direction of the Orlando Lassus were generously given Rector, the parish has a Safe Ministry representative, Anthony Miller, charged by a Friend of the Choir, Noel Hunter. with ensuring that we comply with the policy, and a Safe Ministry trainer, CCSL Young Adults Group The CCSL Young Adults Group will Lucy Clothier, who gives training in the meet for an informal meal this Friday, principles and practices of Safe Ministry 13 May, following the 6.00pm Eucharist to a range of parishioners who come in the church. Either join us at the into contact with children or vulnerable Eucharist, or meet outside the church at people. Comprehensive information 6.30pm. For further information, please about the programme, and about how contact Sarah Nosworthy via email, to report actual or potential abuse, can be found at the following web address: sarah.nosworthy@gmail.com. http://safeministry.org.au/about/ Parish Administrator As previously advised, the position of Parish Administrator will become vacant in August 2016. The Wardens now invite any suitably qualified person to express their interest in the position via email (to wardens@ccsl.org.au) or by mail. Information about the position is available from any of the Wardens by request.

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