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WHAT’S ON AT ST PAULS ELCOME TO ST PAUL’S. We are Monday 17th June at 7.30pm – Meditation glad that you have come to worship God with us today. If Tuesday 18th June at 1.15pm W - Lunchtime Recital - you are a visitor from another parish, or Conservatorium students worshipping with us for the first time, Tuesday 18th June at 7.30pm please introduce yourself to our parish - Study Group in the Rectory priest, Fr James Collins, or to anyone Friday 21 June at 7.30pm in wearing a name badge, over a cup of tea the church - A Cantata for Refugee week By Glenn or coffee in the parish hall after the service. McKenzie You’ll find the hall behind the church. Sunday 23rd June - Artisans’ Market 圣公会圣保罗堂欢迎你前来参加我们的英语传 Tuesday 25th June at 1.15pm 统圣樂圣餐崇拜。 - Lunchtime Recital - HSC Performance students SUNDAY 16th June 2019 from MLC - FREE CONCERT Trinity SUNDAY - The Feast of the Most Glorious And Tuesday 2nd July at 1.15pm Undivided Trinity Lunchtime Recital - Brian Kim Welcome to worship... - Flautist 8.00 am – Sung Eucharist Tuesday 23rd July at 1.15pm - Lunchtime Recital -Joshua 9.30 am – Procession and Solemn Eucharist & Ryan, Assistant Organist, Holy Baptism St Mary’s Cathedral Sydney Tuesday 20th August at 1.15pm - Lunchtime Recital - Included in this issue … Conservatorium Students Congratulations to the newly baptised P.3 Tuesday 10th September at 1.15pm - Lunchtime Recital - Fruit wanted p.6 Sydney Clarinet Choir - Deborah de Graaff Bread Roster p.10 Saturday 21st of September at 1pm - Blue Illusion Fundraiser And Much More… 1 Things you may need to know Getting inside First Aid People needing wheelchair access can enter St Paul’s most conveniently by the First aid kits are located on the wall of door at the base of the belltower. the kitchen in the Large Hall behind the church and in the choir vestry. Switch it to silent ! I am who I Name badges Please turn your mobile phone off or on to silent before the service starts. It’ll Name badges help make St Paul’s an save you much embarrassment later on. inclusive community. If you need a new name badge, fill in the form inside the pew sheet, send it to the parish office, and one will be made and left in church Children are for you. welcome at St Paul’s Toilets Children are welcome in church at any service. There is a selection of children’s books and toys at the back of Toilets are available at the entrance to the church near the font and there are the parish hall, which is located behind also kids’ activity sheets and pencils the church. available at the back of the church where the pew sheets and prayer books ? ? Still got ques- are. Children’s Church runs during Term Ask a member of the clergy or anyone Time. Meet at the back of the church at who’s wearing a name badge. We’re the beginning of the 9.30am Eucharist. here to help. Please feel free to bring your children to the altar rail to receive a blessing, or to In case we receive Communion if they have been need to evacuate admitted to the sacrament. As you take your place in your pew, Photos please make yourself aware of the route to the nearest emergency exit. Should Please do not take photos there be a fire, leave quickly, turn right, inside the church or during the services and assemble by the roundabout on of worship without permission. Burwood Road. 2 News from around St Paul’s Welcome! We are glad that lives through the ministries of St. you have found us! Paul’s Anglican Church, Burwood. We affirm that through God’s re- To that end, St. Paul’s Anglican deeming love for all, we are one in Church commits to the welcome Christ. We respect the inherent and and inclusion of all persons as valuable contributions each children of God and declares itself member makes to the Body of to be a welcoming community of Christ. We celebrate our diversity faith. and recognize the sacred worth and Congratulations dignity of all persons of any age, to the Newly gender, gender identity, gender Baptised! expression, race, ethnic origin, eco- Today, we welcome nomic reality, family statu, sexual into the family of orientation, diverse ability, or social God, the Church, status. We believe that through through the sacra- Christ we are being included and ment of Holy Baptism, Marquez welcomed by God and one another. Joseph Gunawan, Lachlan Bruce As we journey towards inclusion, O’Brien & Imogen June Ann Harvey. we proclaim this welcome to all Please pray for Marquez, Lachlan God’s people, especially to those and Imogen, their parents and who have known the pain of Godparents that they may know exclusion and discrimination within God’s presence in their lives and the church, affirming that no one is be enfolded with God’s love. excluded or condemned. We invite all persons to journey with us as we discover the call of God on our Bible Readings Year C Bible Readings at today’s Eucharist for next Sunday Proverbs 8.1-4,22-31 The First Reading Isaiah 49.1-6 Ps 8 The Psalm Ps 139.1-11 Romans 5.1-5 The Epistle Acts 13.(16-21) 22-26 John 16.12-15 The Gospel Luke 1.57-66, 80 3 Andrei Rublev’s Icon of the Holy Trinity The Church has many different depictions of the Holy Trinity. But the icon which defines the very essence of Trinity Day is invariably the one which shows the Trinity in the form of three angels. The prototype for this icon was the mysterious appearance of the Holy Trinity in the form of three travelers to Abraham and Sarah under the oak of Mamre. The Church specifically chose this particular icon because it most fully expresses the dogma of the Holy Trinity: the three angels are depicted in equal dignity, symbolizing the trinity and equality of all three Persons. We find the deepest understanding of this dogma in the icon of the Trinity painted by the venerable Andrei Rublev for the Trinity Cathedral of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. This icon is a masterpiece of ancient Russian iconography, and it is not surprising that the Church established it as the model for depicting the Trinity. In Andrei Rublev’s icon, the persons of the Holy Trinity are shown in the order in which they are confessed in the Credo. The first angel is the first person of the Trinity - God the Father; the second, middle angel is God the Son; the third angel is God the Holy Spirit. All three angels are blessing the chalice, in which lies a sacrificed calf, prepared for eating. The sacrifice of the calf signifies the Saviour’s death on the cross, while its preparation as food symbolizes the sacrament of the Eucharist. All three angels have staffs in their hand as a symbol of their divine power. The first angel, shown at left, is vested in a blue undergarment which depicts his divine celestial nature, and a light purple outer garment which attests to the unfathomable nature and the royal dignity of this 4 angel. Behind him and above his head towers a house, the abode of Abraham, and a sacrificial altar in front of the house. This image of the abode has a symbolic meaning: the house signifies God’s master plan for creation, while the fact that the house towers above the first angel shows him to be the head (or Father) of this creation. The same fatherly authority is seen in his entire appearance. His head is not bowed and he is looking at the other two angels. His whole demeanor - the expression on his face, the placement of his hands, the way he is sitting - all speaks of his fatherly dignity. The other two angels have their heads inclined and eyes turned toward the first angel with great attention, as though conversing with him about the salvation of mankind. The second angel is placed in the middle of the icon. This placement is determined by the position held by the second Person within the Trinity Itself. Above his head extend the branches of an oak tree. The vestments of the second angel correspond to those in which the Saviour is usually depicted. The undergarment is a dark crimson color which symbolizes the incarnation, while the blue outer robe signifies the divinity and the celestial nature of this angel. The second angel is inclined towards the first angel, as though deep in conversation. The tree behind him serves as a reminder of the tree of life that was standing in Eden, and of the cross. The angel on the right is the third Person of the Trinity - the Holy Spirit. His light blue undergarment and smoky-green outer garment represent heaven and earth, and signify the life-giving force of the Holy Spirit, which animates everything that exists. “By the Holy Spirit every soul lives and is elevated in purity” - sings the Church. This elevation in purity is represented in the icon by a mountain above the third angel. Thus Andrei Rublev’s icon, while being an unsurpassed work of iconography, is first and foremost a “theology in color,” which instructs us in all that concerns the revelation of the triune God and the three Persons of the Holy Trinity. 5 Fruit wanted If anyone has any kind of fruit tree that is currently in fruit I would be interested in having some.