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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… ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ My soul thirsts for the living God +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mysterious God, Word beyond words. You hide in the ancient rocks and lie still in a red dust land. You play in the cosmos and dance with the stars. You are one with us to share our lives, in our joys, our sorrows. You step out before us to fulfil our dreams. Pilgrim God, we speak many languages, we share many cultures, we sing many songs; Together we seek to be your church in this place, Companion on the way! Robert Hoskin/adapted +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came....... for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. Paul is talking about a new ‘movement’ of being..... We are all to some extent subject to our past and to the routine of our culture... For us Anglicans we are also shaped by our tradition and the orthodoxy of the Doctrines of our heritage... And yet within the law and discipline of our past we also experience a thirst.... My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. And this thirst draws us into growth beyond the confines of the past… into a new beginning and a new becoming… and into the reality that we are the Body of Christ. It is a movement that we will seek to draw on as we come together for our Annual General Meeting and look to what has brought us to this place and also to where we will go from here. "Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came....... for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. Paul is talking about a new ‘movement’ of being..... We are all to some extent subject to our past and to the routine of our culture... For us Anglicans we are also shaped by our tradition and the orthodoxy of the Doctrines of our heritage... And yet within the law and discipline of our past we also experience a thirst.... My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. And this thirst draws us into growth beyond the confines of the past… into a new beginning and a new becoming… and into the reality that we are the Body of Christ. It is a movement that we will seek to draw on as we come together for our Annual General Meeting and look to what has brought us to this place and also to where we will go from here. "Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ a sound of sheer silenceThis is where Elijah found the Lord ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sheer silence: for those who wish to spend time before the service in silent contemplation, the chapel will be available from 9.00am each Sunday.
“There is nothing so much like God as silence” +++++++++++++++++ “Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you.” We are all too familiar with the call to “Follow Me”, but today we hear in the Old Testament reading an equally important aspect of our call… that is to declare our thanks giving in our homes… The Eucharist (Holy Communion) gives us a very tangible sense of the sacred - it is not to be contained however within the walls and confines of the Church. Rather the glimpse of eternity, of divine love that we receive Sunday by Sunday, we are asked to take with us as we leave, and so to know in every aspect of our lives that “all of you are one in Christ Jesus.” +++++++++++++++++++
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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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