Choral Eucharist The Third Sunday in Lent 24 March 2019 • 10.30am www.cathedral.org.au • [email protected] • 03 9653 4220 Welcome to St Paul’s Cathedral Children A children’s area is located on Wominjeka means ‘Welcome’ in the right-hand side of the Cathedral. Woiwurrung, the language of the Children’s activity packs are available. Kulin nation, on whose land this Parents are asked to remain with their Cathedral stands. We acknowledge children. and pay our respects to their elders Safeguarding We strongly condemn past, present and emerging and to any forms of abuse and are committed Aboriginal people and Torres Strait to safeguarding children and Islanders with us today. vulnerable people. All our staff and St Paul’s is home to worshippers volunteers complete training and from more than two dozen nations, relevant checks. If you would like to seat of the Anglican Primate of raise any concerns, please contact our Australia, and home church for Professional Standards Body, Anglicans in Melbourne and Kooyoora. Tel. 1800 135 246. Victoria. We are delighted that you Communion Baptised Christians of all are with us today: come and worship denominations are welcome to receive with us again. Holy Communion. If you’d prefer to Whether you are Anglican, from receive a blessing please come forward another Christian Church or another holding this booklet. Gluten free wafers faith tradition, you are warmly are available, please ask the priest. welcome to take part in the service. If Readings in International Languages you want to find out more about the Today’s readings can be found in major Christian faith, please make yourself world languages on our website: known to our clergy. www.cathedral.org.au/readings Leading the Service Tea and coffee are served following the Celebrant: service in the Barbara Darling Room. The Revd Canon Heather Patacca, Membership If you have been a Precentor regular member of the Cathedral for six Preacher: months or more, please ensure that The Very Revd Dr Andreas Loewe, your name is added to the Cathedral Dean Electoral Roll – ask one of the clergy. Tap and Go facilities are available on Sung by the Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral, the offertory plates. directed by Mr Philip Nicholls. Please join in singing the hymns and in saying the words printed in bold type. GATHERING IN GOD’S NAME Please stand 2 3 All our knowledge, sense and sight Glorious Lord, yourself impart, lie in deepest darkness shrouded, light of light from God proceeding; till your Spirit breaks our night open lips and ears and heart, with your beams of truth unclouded; help us by your Spirit’s leading; you alone to God can win us, hear the cry your church now raises; only you work good within us. Lord, accept our prayers and praises. Tobias Clausnitzer (1619–84), trans. Catherine Winkworth (1827–78) alt. Together in Song 437 THE GREETING AND WELCOME The president welcomes the people and says: Bless the Lord who forgives all our sins, whose mercy endures for ever. The Lord be with you. And also with you. Please sit or kneel Almighty God, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hidden: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy name, through Christ our Lord. Amen. THE CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION Choir Lord have mercy upon us, Communion Service in G - Christ have mercy upon us, Francis Jackson (b. 1917) Lord have mercy upon us. 2 Compassion and forgiveness belong to the Lord our God, though we have rebelled and wandered far off. Let us then ask for mercy, confessing our sins in penitence and faith. Merciful God, our maker and our judge, 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 heart; we have not loved our neighbours as ourselves; we repent, and are sorry for all our sins. Father, forgive us. Strengthen us to love and obey you in newness of life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Almighty God, who has promised forgiveness to all who turn to him in faith: pardon you and set you free from all your sins, strengthen you in all goodness and keep you in eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. THE COLLECT O God, the fountain of life, to a humanity parched with thirst you offer the living water that springs from the Rock, our Saviour Jesus Christ: stir up within your people the gift of your Spirit, that we may profess our faith with freshness and announce with joy the wonder of your love. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. THE MINISTRY OF THE WORD Please sit FIRST READING: Isaiah 55.1-9 Read by Prof. Bruce Tonge 1Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. 3 Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. 4 See, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. 5 See, you shall call nations that you do not know, and nations that do not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you. 6 Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; 7 let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous their thoughts; let them return to the LORD, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Hear the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. 3 PSALM 63.1-9 Please sit Please sing the response after the Choir, then as indicated 1 O God, you are my God: eagerly will I seek you. 2 My soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you: as a dry and thirsty land where no water is. Response 3 So it was when I beheld you in the sanctuary: and saw your power and your glory. 4 For your unchanging goodness is better than life: therefore my lips shall praise you. 5 And so I will bless you as long as I live: and in your name will I lift my hands on high. 6 My longing shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness: my mouth shall praise you with exultant lips. Response 7 When I remember you upon my bed: when I meditate upon you in the night watches. 8 How you have been my helper: then I sing for joy in the shadow of your wings. 9 Then my soul clings to you: and your right hand upholds me. Response Antiphon: Geoffrey Cox; Chant: Tone I.8 Reproduced with permission SECOND READING: 1 Corinthians 10.1-13 Read by Canon Neil Sigamoney 1I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness. 6 Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did. 7 Do not become idolaters as some of them did; as it is written, ‘The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.’ 8 We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. 9 We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents. 10 And do not complain as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 11 These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down to instruct us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.12 So if you think 4 you are standing, watch out that you do not fall. 13 No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it. Hear the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. THE GRADUAL HYMN Please stand 2 3 Therefore I wish that peace may still Now for my friends’ and brethren’s sake, within thy walls remain, peace be in thee, I’ll say; and ever may thy palaces and for the house of God our Lord prosperity retain.