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THE ANGLICAN PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH BRUNSWICK The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Mass with Spiritual Communion 10am 29 August 2021 Christ Church — Enter the Mystery Welcome to Christ Church Brunswick This booklet is all you need to follow the service. You are invited to join in saying or singing the parts of the service written in bold type. Indications about posture (sitting, standing, or kneeling) are given in small, italic type. Where it is customary to make the sign of the Cross, you will see this symbol: \ You are invited to visit the Icon of the Annunciation in our Lady Chapel (on the left at the front of the church), where you can light a candle and write down a request for prayer. We pray for those requests every evening during the week for a minimum of seven days. If you are new and would like to stay in touch, please fill out the welcome card in your pew and hand it to one of the clergy or welcomers at the back of the church. CELEBRANT AND PREACHER — Bishop Lindsay OGS PARISH DIRECTORY Website www.christchurchbrunswick.org Parish office (03) 9388 0623 [email protected] Vicar Bishop Lindsay Urwin OGS 0407 097 870 [email protected] (03) 9380 1064 Assistant Curates The Revd Prof. Russell Goulbourne 0466 794 708 [email protected] The Revd Jack Lindsay 0468 904 334 [email protected] Associate Clergy The Revd Prof. Chris Mostert The Revd Jenny Nelson Churchwardens Ms Gillian Thyer [email protected] Ms Cecilia Fairlie [email protected] Mr John Vincent [email protected] Organist Mr Stephen Baldwin [email protected] 0400 797 357 Hall bookings Ms Margaret Bright [email protected] 0423 468 191 Op shop convenor Ms Donna Davis [email protected] 0411 652 677 Appropriate copyright licences are in place for the material printed in this pew sheet We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people as the traditional custodians of the land upon which this parish church stands. 2 GATHERING IN GOD’S NAME At 10 am the church bell is rung and as we still ourselves in preparation for worship, the cantor sings: O Holy Spirit, Lord of grace, eternal source of love, inflame we pray or inmost hearts with fire from heaven above. As thou dost join with holiest bonds the Father and the Son, so fill us all with mutual love and knit our hearts in one. Words: Charles Coffin (1676–1749) Music: Christopher Tye (c.1505 –1572) INTROIT HYMN : SING TO GOD NEW SONGS OF WORSHIP (MICHAEL BAUGHEN ) 1. Sing to God new songs of worship — 2. Sing to God new songs of worship — all his deeds are marvellous; earth has seen his victory; he has brought salvation to us let the lands of earth be joyful with his hand and holy arm: praising him with thankfulness: he has shown to all the nations sound upon the harp his praises, righteousness and saving power; play to him with melody; he recalled his truth and mercy let the trumpets sound his triumph, to his people Israel. show your joy to God the king! 3. Sing to God new songs of worship — let the sea now make a noise; all on earth and in the waters, sound your praises to the Lord! Let the hills rejoice together, let the rivers clap their hands, for with righteousness and justice he will come to judge the earth. \ In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen Peace be with you. And also with you The celebrant welcomes the congregation, introduces the theme of the Eucharist and invites the congregation to call to mind their sins: PENITENTIAL RITE 3 May Almighty God have mercy on us, \\\ forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen 4 Collect Lord of all power and might, the author and giver of all good things: graft in our hearts the love of your name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness and of your great mercy keep us in the same: through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen MINISTRY OF THE WORD A READING FROM THE LETTER OF JAMES 1:17–27 Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. In fulfilment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures. You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger; for your anger does not produce God’s righteousness. Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves. For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror; for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like. But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing. If any think they are religious, and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. For the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. GRADUAL HYMN : GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS (THOMAS O CHISHOLM ) 1. Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father; there is no shadow of turning with thee; thou changest not, thy compassions, they fail not; as thou hast been thou forever will be. 5 Refrain Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see; all I have needed thy hand hath provided; great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me! 2. Summer and winter and springtime and harvest, sun, moon and stars in their courses above join with all nature in manifold witness to thy great faithfulness, mercy and love. Refrain GOSPEL ACCLAMATION The Father gave us birth by his message of truth, That we might be as the first fruits of his creation. THE HOLY GOSPEL The Lord be with you. And also with you. The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to Mark \ Glory to you Lord Jesus Christ. 7: 1–8, 14–23 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.) So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, ‘Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?’ He said to them, ‘Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, “This people honours me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; in vain do they worship me, 6 teaching human precepts as doctrines.” You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.’ Then he called the crowd again and said to them, ‘Listen to me, all of you, and understand: there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.’ When he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable. He said to them, ‘Then do you also fail to understand? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile, since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?’ (Thus he declared all foods clean.) And he said, ‘It is what comes out of a person that defiles. For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.’ This is the gospel of the Lord, Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ After the Gospel: 3. Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth thy own dear presence to cheer and to guide; strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow, blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside! Refrain SERMON: BISHOP LINDSAY Profession of Faith We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one being with the Father; through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary And became truly human. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the 7 Father.