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Sunday, 9.15am Holy Communion see also Readings
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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…
Please allow the Choir to complete the ‘postlude’ and any additional songs that are part of our offering in worship – Our holding the sacred space is part of our common union - our being together in communion
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Fourth Sunday of Lent 14 March 2010
You are always with me; all that is mine is yours
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Today we welcome Bishop Kay Goldsworthy - the visit of our bishop is an opportunity (and a symbol) to see ourselves as part of the wider Anglican community – and to be seen as a part of the same.....
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A good question comes out of today’s readings:
“have you been circumcised?”
It is a question that requires a little translation.....
“Have you been marked by your encounter with the Divine?” and what are the scars that show you as “marked as Christ’s own forever.”
Paul says “From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view”. There is a very different way of seeing the world that results from our encounter with God....... and it results from our being different.
As we share in our Lenten journey we have an opportunity to witness changes in our lives and in our perspective of the world..... We might also glimpse a movement away from the old..... toward the East.. a movement ‘beyond the Church’.......
So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!
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O Brother Jesus
who wept at the death of a friend
and overturned tables in anger at wrong
let me not be frightened by the depths of passion.
Rather let me learn the love and anger
and wild expanses of soul within me
that are true expressions of your grace and wisdom.
And assure me again that in becoming more like you
I come closer to my true self
made in the image of outpouring Love
born of the free eternal Wind.
J. Philip Newell – Celtic Benediction
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Silence is God's first language; everything else is a poor translation. In order to hear that language, we must learn to be still and to rest in God.
Thomas Keating
Be still and know that I am God
Lord, take me where you want me to go;
Let me meet who you want me to meet.
Tell me what you want me to say,
And keep me out of your way.
Fr Mychal Judge FDNY (d. Sept 11 2001)
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Abundance
15 weddings, 4 baptisms are currently “booked in” for St Paul’s – Ronny and Peter can see our ministry growing as we continue to open ourselves to the wider community. As we move toward Easter and to the New Life that we will symbolically claim as we re-enter the Church on Easter day.... please consider what it will mean for all of us to continue extending our ministry and ourselves......
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Refreshment Sunday or Mothering Sunday is a Christian festival celebrated throughout Europe. A religious festival celebrating motherhood has existed in Europe since approximately 250 BC when the Romans honoured the mother goddess Cybele during mid-March. As the Roman Empire and Europe converted to Christianity, Mothering Sunday celebrations became part of the liturgical calendar as Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent to honour the Virgin Mary and the "mother church".
During the sixteenth century, people returned to their mother church for a service to be held on Laetare Sunday. This was either a large local church, or more often the nearest Cathedral. Anyone who did this was commonly said to have gone "a-mothering", although whether this preceded the term Mothering Sunday is unclear. It was often the only time that whole families could gather together, if prevented by conflicting working hours.
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