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Our parish is a community that seeks God and the fullness of creation by finding ourselves in relation to others. Our giving to the common, to the other, our sharing of ourselves is our commitment to this endeavour. |
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Year BSunday, 9.15am Holy Communion see also Readings LectionaryThe full text of the readings for Sunday are available in our Sunday's Readings section. Other ResourcesTextweek The Text This Week - Revised Common Lectionary, Scripture Study and Worship Links Online Revised Common Lectionary Vanderbilt Divinity Library Earlier Thoughts Year B 0506 Year C 0607 Year A 0708 Sunday, 9.15am Holy Communion LITURGICAL NOTE: From the start of Advent we follow the YEAR C readings in the three-year lectionary cycle. See the inside back cover for more about the liturgical year. Before entering the sanctuary or the vestry… +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Do not be afraid +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Corpus Christi – The Body of Christ our calling and our becoming We are “The Body of Christ”, this is our claim, and in the Sacrament of the Eucharist we receive the Body and blood of Christ, we become ‘partakers in this holy mystery’. Such images are no longer cultural norms – the world of ‘self sufficiency’ and of independent living draws us away from the ‘reality’ of these mysteries. When we stake our claim and consume the sacraments we choose a path – we choose not to be consumers, but rather to be consumed by the very flame of Pentecost +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Come, Holy Spirit, come,
as speech which is heard and understood; +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ . "Christ has no body on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion is to look out to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now." Teresa of Avila +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ God of passionate life, +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Is the life you are living too small for the soul’s desire? James Hollis +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Is there a better way? The department of Immigration has spent $5.6million to March 15 this financial year on private VIP jets to fly asylum seekers between Australia‘s detention centres. The West Australian +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "We hear the words of the readings from the Bible and feel personally addressed. [But] I cannot have such an inflated view of my own importance as to imagine that God inspired the evangelists with me in mind...... That would be absurd. I do not say ‘here I am' to an invisible interlocutor as if my mobile phone had suddenly connected me with God. It is far more radical than that. In the story of God's love affair with humanity I discover who I am. They seem to be addressed to me personally because they touch my deepest sense of personhood. Here in the story of God's relationship with humanity, I find myself." From Why go to Church: the Drama of the Eucharist, Timothy Radcliffe
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The Elm DanceAfter the choir sings the postlude on Sunday morning, those who wish to join in “The Elm Dance” gather in the circle dance area outside the church before going up to coffee in the hall. The Elm Dance ******************** The Divine Gift of Life, Light and Love +++++++++++++++++++
There is nothing in all the Universe so much like God as silence. +++++++++++++++++++ Sacred Space, Liturgy & our Community @ Worship 1. Silence before worship enables us to be ‘gathered’ into the introit sung by the choir +++++++++++++++++++ We meditate on the glory of the Creator; _________________________________________ Peace ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) May creatures all abound in wealth and peace; Giving made easy +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |
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