Year B
Sunday, 9.15am Holy Communion see also Readings
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Lectionary
The full text of the readings for Sunday are available in our Sunday's Readings section.
Other Resources
Textweek 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…
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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Third Sunday of Lent 7 Mar 2010
My ways are higher than your ways
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My soul thirst for you, for in your Love I find Life
In the wilderness of Lent we may become aware of our thirst.... In the ‘absence’ of Lent – in the place beyond our comfort - we might glimpse the deeper desire of ‘Life’........ a desire that will not be quenched by the many wines that life has to offer....... For our soul’s desire is revealed through Christ as the activity of giving.
The “I thirst” we will experience and echo on Good Friday is satisfied only with the self-giving on the cross.
The torture and testing of crucifixion reveals the difficulty in approaching and accessing our deepest desire, our Lenten journey is the first steps... the wilderness provides the stillness from distraction..... and our thirst impels us toward the water of Life......
God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength
In our Australian landscape we know the times of drought., and we know also the smell of the first rain..... Now we seek to know the same in our eternal landscape.....
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From the fragmented world of our everyday lives
we gather together in search of wholeness.
By many cares and preoccupations
by diverse and separate aims
are we separated from one another
and divided within ourselves
Yet we know that no branch is utterly severed
from the Tree of Life that sustains us all.
Prayers of the St Hilda Community
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Be like a flowing river,
silent in the night.
Be not afraid of the dark.
If there are stars in the sky, reflect them back.
If there are clouds in the sky,
remember, clouds, like the river, are water,
So gladly reflect them back too
in your own tranquil depths.
Manuel Bandeira
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Water: voice of grief,
cry of love
in the flowing tear.
Water: vehicle and idiom
of all the inner voyaging
that keeps us alive.
Blessed be water,
our first mother.
John O'Donohue
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