THE ANGLICAN PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH RUNSWICK THE SUNDAY OF THE ASCENSION S M 10.00 16 M 2021 Christ Church — Enter the Mystery WELCOME TO CHRIST CHURCH This booklet is all you will need to follow the service. You are invited to join in say- ing or singing the parts of the service written in bold type. Indications about pos- ture (sitting, standing, or kneeling) are given in small, italic type. Where it is cus- tomary 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 mini- mum 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. C&?&@#( A P#&'%&# — Father Chris Mostert P#$% D$#&'()# Website www.christchurchbrunswick.org Parish Office (03) 9388 0623 [email protected] 4icar Bishop Lindsay Urwin OGS (03) 9380 1064 0407 097 870 [email protected] Assistant Curate The Revd Prof Russell Goulbourne 0466 794 708 [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 0400 797 357 [email protected] Hall ookings Ms Margaret Bright [email protected] Op Shop Mrs Donna Davis 0411 652 677 Co -Ordinator [email protected] We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people as the traditional custodians of the land upon which this parish church stands. 2 GATHERING IN GOD’S NAME Organ Preludes — Vater unser im Himmelreich J S Bach (1685 -1750) Nettleton Paul Manz (1919 -2009) At 10 am the church bell will ring and as we prepare for worship the cantor will sing: Today I awake and God is before me. At night, as I dreamt, God summoned the day; For God never sleeps but patterns the morning with slithers of gold or glory in grey. Today I arise and Christ is beside me. He walked through the dark to scatter new light. Yes, Christ is alive, and beckons his people to hope and to heal, restore and invite. I(#)$( H 1. Hail the day that sees him rise Alleluya! Glorious to his native skies; Alleluya! Christ, awhile to mortals given, Alleluya! Enters now the highest heaven! Alleluya! 2. There the glorious triumph waits; Alleluya! Lift your head, eternal gates! Alleluya! Christ hath vanquished death and sin; Alleluya! Take the King of Glory in! Alleluya! 3. See! the heaven its Lord receives, Alleluya! Yet he loves the earth he leaves: Alleluya! Though returning to his throne, Alleluya! Still he calls mankind his own. Alleluya! 4. See! he lifts his hands above; Alleluya! See! he shows the prints of love: Alleluya! Hark! his gracious lips bestow Alleluya! Blessings on his Church below. Alleluya! 5. Still for us he intercedes; Alleluya! His prevailing death he pleads; Alleluya! Near himself prepares our place, Alleluya! Harbinger of human race. Alleluya! Charles Wesley 1707 -88 & Thomas Cotterill 1779 -1823 NEH 130 In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen Christ is risen. Alleluia, Alleluia! He is risen indeed. Alleluia, AlleluiaE P&$(&($? R$(& The celebrant introduces the service and invites the people to confess their sins: My brothers and sisters, as we wait for the Lord to speak to us through his Word and feed us with the gift of himself in the Holy Communion, let us call to mind our sins. Merciful God, our maker and our Fudge, we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, and in what we have failed to do: we have not loved you with our whole heartI we have not loved our neighbours as ourselvesI we repent, and are sorry for all our sins. 3 Father, forgive us. Strengthen us to love and obey you in newness of lifeI through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen G?)#$ $ EK'&?$ Thorne 4 Remain standing C)??&'( Grant we pray, almighty God, that as we believe your only begotten Son our Lord Jesus Christ to have ascended into the heavens, so we in heart in mind may also ascend and with him continually dwell; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen Lambs will be gathered by the shepherds and led to the vestry for their own Ministry of the Word. MINISTRY OF THE WORD A R&A$ L#) (%& L&((&# )L P? () (%& EM%&$ 1: 15 -23 Read by Alice de Jonge I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, and for this reason I do not cease to give thanks for you as I remember you in my pray- ers. I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him, so that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance among the saints, and what is the im- measurable greatness of his power for us who believe, according to the working of his great power. God put this power to work in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the age to come. And he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. For the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. 5 G#A? H 1. The head that once was crowned with 3. The joy of all who dwell above, thorns The joy of all below, Is crowned with glory now: To whom he manifests his love, A royal diadem adorns And grants his name to know. The mighty Victor’s brow. 4. To them the cross, with all its shame. 2. The highest place that heaven affords With all its grace, is given: Is his, is his by right, Their name an everlasting name, The King of kings and Lord of lords, Their joy the joy of heaven. And heaven’s eternal light; 5. They suffer with the Lord below, They reign with him above, Their profit and their joy to know The mystery of his love. G)M&? A''?($) The Lord said: I will not leave you orphans. I will come back to you, and your hearts will rejoice. T%& H)? G)M&? The Lord be with you. And also with you. The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to Mark Glory to you Lord Jesus Christ. 16: 15 -20 Jesus said to the disciples, “Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation. The one who believes and is baptised will be saved; but the one who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recov- er.” So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and proclaimed the good news everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that accompanied it. The Gospel of the Lord Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. 6. The cross he bore is life and health, Though shame and death to him; His people’s hope, his people’s wealth, Their everlasting theme. Thomas Kelly 1769 -1854 NEH 134 6 S&#) Fr Chris After the sermon there is a short time for reflection. P#)L&$) )L F$(% 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 FatherI 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 PilateI he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the ScripturesI he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to Fudge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets.