Family Style Eucharist The Sixth Sunday of Easter 26 May 2019• 9am 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. Wurundjeri, the language of the Children’s activity packs are available. Kulin nation, the land in which the 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 vulnerable Islanders with us today. people. All our staff and volunteers St Paul’s is home to worshippers complete training and relevant checks. from more than two dozen nations, If you would like to raise any concerns, seat of the Anglican Primate of please contact Kooyoora. Australia, and home church for Tel. 1800 135 246. Anglicans in Melbourne and Communion Baptised Christians of all Victoria. We are delighted that you denominations are welcome to receive are with us today: come and worship Holy Communion. If you’d prefer to with us again. receive a blessing please come forward Whether you are Anglican, from holding this booklet. Gluten free wafers another Christian Church or another are available, please ask the priest. faith tradition, you are warmly Readings in International Languages welcome to take part in the service. Today’s readings can be found in major If you want to find out more about world languages on our website: the Christian faith, please make www.cathedral.org.au/readings yourself known to our clergy. Tea and coffee are served following the service in the Barbara Darling Room. Leading the Service Membership If you have been a regular President: member of the Cathedral for six months The Revd Prof. Mark Lindsay, or more, please ensure that your name Associate Priest is added to the Cathedral Electoral Roll Preacher: – ask a Welcomer for details or contact The Very Revd Dr Andreas Loewe, our office. Dean Tap and Go facilities are available on the offertory plates. 1 Please join in singing the hymns and in saying the words printed in bold type. GATHERING IN GOD’S NAME Please stand for the Entrance Procession. Remain standing for THE GREETING The president welcomes the people and says: The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. And also with you. Christ is risen. Alleluia! He is risen indeed. Alleluia! Please sit or kneel THE CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION Sit or kneel Christ our Passover Lamb has been offered for us, therefore we come to celebrate the festival. Let us confess our sins in penitence and faith, with a sincere and a true heart. 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 HYMN OF PRAISE (GLORIA) Please stand to sing 2 Christ Church Mass, P. Matthias (b.1954) THE COLLECT Great and loving God, your will for us in your Son Jesus is the peace which the world cannot give, your abiding gift, the Advocate he promised. Calm all troubled hearts, dispel every fear, and keep us steadfast in love and faithful to your word. Grant this through Jesus Christ, the firstborn from the dead, who lives with you now and always in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God for ever and ever. Amen. THE MINISTRY OF THE WORD Please sit FIRST READING: Acts 16.9-15 Read by Mrs Eileen Hastie 9During the night Paul had a vision: there stood a man of Macedonia pleading with him and saying, ‘Come over to Macedonia and help us.’10When he had seen the vision, we immediately tried to cross over to Macedonia, being convinced that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them. 11We set sail from Troas and took a straight course to Samothrace, the following day to Neapolis, 12and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district* of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We remained in this city for some days. 13On the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there was a place of prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who had gathered there. 14A certain woman named Lydia, a worshipper of God, was listening to us; she was from the city of Thyatira and a dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart to listen eagerly to what was said by Paul. 15When she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, ‘If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.’ And she prevailed upon us. Hear the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. 3 PSALM 67 Please join in saying the verses in bold. 1 Let God be gracious to us and bless us: and make his face shine upon us, 2 That your ways may be known on earth: your liberating power among all nations. 3 Let the peoples praise you, O God: let all the peoples praise you. 4 Let the nations be glad and sing: for you judge the peoples with integrity, and govern the nations upon earth. 5 Let the peoples praise you, O God: let all the peoples praise you. 6 Then the earth will yield its fruitfulness: and God, our God, will bless us. 7 God shall bless us: and all the ends of the earth will fear him. SECOND READING: Revelation 21.10-24, 21.22-22.5 10And in the spirit he carried me away to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God.11It has the glory of God and a radiance like a very rare jewel, like jasper, clear as crystal. 12It has a great, high wall with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates are inscribed the names of the twelve tribes of the Israelites; 13on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. 14And the wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15The angel who talked to me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls. 16The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width; and he measured the city with his rod, fifteen hundred miles;* its length and width and height are equal. 17He also measured its wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits* by human measurement, which the angel was using. 18The wall is built of jasper, while the city is pure gold, clear as glass. 19The foundations of the wall of the city are adorned with every jewel; the first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, 20the fifth onyx, the sixth cornelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. 21And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, each of the gates is a single pearl, and the street of the city is pure gold, transparent as glass. 22I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. 23And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. 21.22I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. 23And the city has no need of sun or moon 4 to shine on it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. 25Its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.26People will bring into it the glory and the honour of the nations. 27But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practises abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life. 22.1Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life* with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. 3Nothing accursed will be found there any more. But the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him; 4they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.