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 NOVEMBER 2015
The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost 7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist & Children’s Ministry Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Setting: Missa sine nomine ( Jewkes) Hymns: 234(ii), 379, 468, 276(ii) 10.30am Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Hymns: 468, 276(ii), 306 Setting: Service in G ( Jackson) Motet: O salutaris hostia (Elgar) Postlude: Prelude in G, BWV 568 (Bach) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Benediction Preacher: Fr Ron Silarsah Hymns: 245, 357, 388(i) Canticles: Service in G-minor (Purcell) Anthem: If we believe (Goss) Postlude: Lento, from Vesper Voluntaries, op.14 (Elgar)
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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 9 NOV
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
TUE 10 NOV
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
Leo of Rome, bishop & teacher (d. 461)
WED 11 NOV Martin, Bishop of Tours (d. c. 387)
Wis 6.1-11; Ps 82; Luke 17.11-19 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 12.15pm Healing Eucharist
THU 12 NOV
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
FRI 13 NOV
Wis 13.1-9; Ps 19.1-6; Luke 17.26-37 Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
SAT 14 NOV
Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)
Sun 15 NOV
1 Sam 1.4-20; Song of Hannah; Heb 10.11-25; Mark 13.1-8
Charles Simeon, priest and evangelist (d. 1836)
The Twenty-fifth 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: Missa Papae Marcelli (Palestrina) Motet: Peccantem qui quotidie (de Morales) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Benediction Preacher: Mr Antony Weiss Canticles: Tone/Faux-bourdon (Viadana) Anthem: Thy word is a lantern (Purcell)
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
Give and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap; for the measure you give will be the measure you get back.
COLLECT
O God, whose blessed Son came into the world that he might destroy the works of evil and make us your children and heirs of eternal life: grant that, having this hope, we may purify ourselves as he is pure; that, when he comes again with power and great glory, we may be made like him in his eternal and glorious kingdom; where he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
FIRST Reading
Ruth 3.1-5; 4.3-17 Naomi, Ruth’s mother-in-law, said to her, ‘My daughter, I need to seek some security for you, so that it may be well with you. Now here is our kinsman Boaz, with whose young women you have been working. See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing-floor. Now wash and anoint yourself, and put on your best clothes and go down to the threshing-floor; but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking. When he lies down, observe the place where he lies; then, go and uncover his feet and lie down; and he will
tell you what to do.’ She said to her, ‘All that you tell me I will do.’ Boaz said to the next-of-kin, ‘Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land that belonged to our kinsman Elimelech. So I thought I would tell you of it, and say: Buy it in the presence of those sitting here, and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not, tell me, so that I may know; for there is no one prior to you to redeem it, and I come after you.’ So he said, ‘I will redeem it.’ Then Boaz said, ‘The day you acquire the field from the hand of Naomi, you are also acquiring Ruth the Moabite, the widow of the dead man, to maintain the dead man’s name on his inheritance.’ At this, the next-of-kin said, ‘I cannot redeem it for myself without damaging my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption yourself, for I cannot redeem it.’ Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging: to confirm a transaction, one party took off a sandal and gave it to the other; this was the manner of attesting in Israel. So when the nextof-kin said to Boaz, ‘Acquire it for yourself ’, he took off his sandal. Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, ‘Today you are witnesses that I have acquired from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and Mahlon. I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to maintain the dead man’s name on his inheritance, in order that the name of the dead may not be cut off from his kindred and from the gate of his native place; today you are witnesses.’ Then all the people who were at the gate, along
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Mass Readings with the elders, said, ‘We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your house like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you produce children in Ephrathah and bestow a name in Bethlehem; and, through the children that the Lord will give you by this young woman, may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.’ So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When they came together, the Lord made her conceive, and she bore a son. Then the women said to Naomi, ‘Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without next-of-kin; and may his name be renowned in Israel! He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age; for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has borne him.’ Then Naomi took the child and laid him in her bosom, and became his nurse. The women of the neighbourhood gave him a name, saying, ‘A son has been born to Naomi.’ They named him Obed; he became the father of Jesse, the father of David. 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 127 1 2 3 4
Unless the Lord builds the house: their labour is but lost that build it. Unless the Lord keeps the city: the watchmen watch in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go so late to rest, eating the bread of toil: for the Lord bestows honour—and on
those whom he loves. 4 Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his gift. 5 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior: are the children of one’s youth. 6 Happy the man who has his quiver full of them: he will not be put to shame when he confronts his enemies at the gate.
Second reading
Hebrews 9.19-28 For when every commandment had been told to all the people by Moses in accordance with the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people, saying, ‘This is the blood of the covenant that God has ordained for you.’ And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. Thus it was necessary for the sketches of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves need better sacrifices than these. For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Holy Place year after year with blood that is not his own; for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to remove sin by the sacrifice of himself. And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once, and after that the judgement, so
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Mass Readings Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. For the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Alleluia. Happy are the poor in spirit: the kingdom of heaven is theirs. Alleluia.
Gospel
Mark 12.38-44 The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark. Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus was teaching in the temple, and a large crowd was listening to him. He said, ‘Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honour at
banquets! They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.’ He sat down opposite the treasury, and watched the crowd putting money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums. A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which are worth a penny. Then he called his disciples and said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the treasury. For all of them have contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.’ This is the gospel of the Lord, Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
OFFERTORY SENTENCE
Order my steps according to your word: that no evil get mastery over me.
COMMUNioN SENTENCE
The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want. In green pastures he gives me rest, he leads me beside the waters of peace.
COMMUNION MOTET O salutaris hostia (Sir Edward Elgar, 1857–1934) O salutaris hostia, quæ cæli pandis ostium: bella premunt hostilia, da robur fer auxilium.
O Sacrifice of salvation, opening the gate of Heaven: the assaults of our enemies press upon us; give aid, bring help.
Uni trinoque Domino sit sempiterna gloria, qui vitam sine termino nobis donet in patria. Amen.
To you O Lord, the Three and One, be eternal glory. Grant us life without end in our native land. Amen.
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
Synod Report Limited hard copies of the report on the 2015 Synod are available at the back of the church. The report can also be read online at our website, www.ccsl.org.au/synod.
St Laurence House AGM Parishioners and supporters of St Laurence House are invited to the 2015 SLH Annual General Meeting at Christ Church St Laurence Hall on Wednesday evening, 18 November (enter via Pitt Street). Please join us for refreshments from 6pm with the meeting to start at 6.30pm.
Ringing for Bishop Forsyth Christ Church St Laurence Bellringers will be ringing following the 10.30am Consecration of our service this Sunday, 8 November, to wish Bishop Designate Bishop Forsyth well in his forthcoming The Diocese of Sydney invites all retirement. parishioners to the Consecration of the Bishop designate of South Sydney, the Farewell to Bishop Robert Rev’d Dr Michael Stead. The service will The Feast of Christ the King, Sunday take place in St Andrew’s Cathedral, 22 November, will be the last occasion Sydney on Saturday 5 December 2015 at on which Bishop Robert Forsyth visits 10.30am. Light refreshments will follow. CCSL in his capacity as Bishop of the To register your place at this service, South Sydney Region. All are invited to please RSVP by 13 November to a farewell luncheon for Bishop Robert consecration@sydney.anglican.asn.au or and Margie after High Mass on that day. by telephone. (02) 9265 1511. The cost is $10 per person. BYO drinks; tea and coffee will be provided. Seating Tea and Coffee Roster is limited; if you wish to reserve a place We are in need of more volunteers to please give your name and money to Lyn join the coffee roster following services. Bannerman (0478 622 833) today. If you This involves preparing the tea, coffee would like to contribute to a presentation and snacks and cleaning up afterwards. to the Forsyths, please place your donation Being able to offer our visitors and firstin one of the envelopes provided at the time worshippers hospitality in the hall back of the church and place it in the is an important ministry and means of welcoming people to our church. If you collection plate or the donations box. would like to contribute to the roster, please speak to Dale Berry (either by Organ Recital 22 November telephone, 9810 5606, or by email, The next recital in our series will be dale.berry55@gmail.com). given at 2pm after our farewell luncheon for Bishop Robert Forsyth, on Sunday Fr John Sanderson November 22, by Shin-Young Lee, Paris. Fr John is on study leave in the UK and will return to the parish on Thursday. 6
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