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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… ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Your faith has saved you; go in peace ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. Paul experienced a movement that took him “Beyond the Church”, it is a movement that opens the “I” into a being that is ‘beyond the self’. We naturally grow into an ever-expanding appreciation of the world and of our place in the world; do we attend to the same in our spiritual growth? The God of our childhood experience takes on a different appreciation and becomes more real as we develop an awareness of our calling into oneness and so too into wholeness. In communion and in community we realise ourselves in a way that is different from the self-sufficiency that marks our contemporary Western culture. Like Paul we have an opportunity, and a calling to live in the light of Christ. Imagine a way of living that is more fully ‘In Christ’. You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one [John Lennon] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Go forth on your Journey
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The body is truly the garment of the soul, which has a living voice; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Underneath all the texts, all the sacred psalms and canticles,
these watery varieties of sounds and silences - terrifying, mysterious, whirling and sometimes gestating and gentle - must somehow
be felt in the pulse, ebb, and flow
of the music that sings in me.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Pray for all who seek refuge... “i'm at sea at the moment. dunno when we'll be back cos it’s pretty busy up here at the moment. saw my first (and second) SIEV (suspected illegal entry vessel) today which was pretty interesting. didn't realise how small they are. and it’s not a smooth ride for us so i don't know how they ever cope!” +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ They are small ... our hearts are large, the embrace of the Divine Trinity seeks to hold all. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We Give thanks for the Abundance of your Divine Love “This work of being endlessly delighted is the highest calling of the soul, for it is a source of endless delight to God” [T.Traherne] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. But it is a much more fearful thing to fall out of them.” D.H. Lawrence +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Pray without ceasing, in everything gives thanks Morning and evening prayer in the new chapel (and in many homes) somehow extend the voice of prayer beyond the traditions of our past... Still building on our foundations and echoing the ‘Book of Common Prayer’, we go beyond where we have been and seek to make seen that which is yet unseen. There is already new energy that seems to come from that which we have accomplished and an excitement of where we might be going.
Good News from Just MannaAbout a year ago, Just Manna supported an application for a Special Humanitarian Visa for an Afghani man, Ali Reza, and his wife and family to come to Australia as refugees. After Ali’s first wife Fatima died tragically, while in detention here in 2002, he and the children returned to Afghanistan with her body. But Afghanistan was too dangerous for them and they escaped to a refugee camp in Pakistan (and Ali has married again and had another child). It was Fatima’s dream that her children be given a chance for a new life in Australia, and Just Manna was keen to help with the fulfilment of her dream. Such a visa had never been granted but we still dared to hope. And the visa has now been granted – subject to health checks – so we look forward to welcoming Ali Reza and family to Western Australia and St Paul’s within six months. Ali Reza and family have been granted the Special Humanitarian Visa!!! It is the first time a visa of this kind has ever been approved! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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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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