HOLY TRINITY KEW Anglican Church of Australia
THE BAPTISM OF OUR LORD JANUARY 11, 2015
Crèche Area: is in the transept near the pulpit. Parents and children are welcome to enter by the church aisle or by the side door.
SERVICES AT HOLY TRINITY WEDNESDAY 11.00am – Holy Communion SATURDAY 6.00pm – Holy Communion SUNDAY 8.00am – Holy Communion 10.00am – Choral Eucharist Family ministry: Sunday 10.00am in hall (in church on 1st Sunday) Healing Service: 11.30am, 4th Sunday
At Trinity Grammar School Chapel: Sunday 週日中英文10.30am – English Service
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Dear Parishioners, Why did Jesus yield himself to John's baptism? John preached a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. In this humble and obedient act we see a revelation of his bloody death upon the cross. Jesus' baptism is the agreement and the commencement of his mission as God's suffering Servant (Isaiah 53). He allowed himself to be counted among sinners. Jesus yielded himself entirely to his Father's will. Out of love he agreed to this baptism of death for the remission of our sins. The Father announced his delight in his Son and spoke clearly for all to hear. At his baptism the heavens were opened and the waters were sanctified by the descent of Jesus and the Holy Spirit, signifying the beginning of a new creation. Do you want to see your life changed by the love and power of Jesus Christ? Observe Jesus' humility and ask the Holy Spirit to create this same attitude in your heart. As you do, heaven will open for you as well. The Lord Jesus is ever ready to renew us in his Holy Spirit and to anoint us for mission. We are called to be "light" and "salt" to those around us. The Lord wants his love and truth to shine through us that others may see the goodness and truth of God's message of salvation. Yours in Christ, Fr Robert
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1. On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry announces that the Lord is nigh; come then and hearken, for he brings glad tidings from the King of kings. 2. Then cleansed be every heart from sin; make straight the way for God within; prepare we in our hearts a home where such a mighty guest may come. 3. For you are our salvation, Lord, our refuge and our great reward; without your grace we waste away like flowers that wither and decay. 4. To heal the sick stretch out your hand, and bid the fallen sinner stand; shine forth, and let your light restore earth’s own true loveliness once more. 5. To him who left the throne of heaven to free us all, let praise be given; and praise be to the Father done, and Holy Spirit, Three in One. Charles Coffin 1676–1749 tr. John Chandler 1806–76 alt.
Invocation:
Blessed be God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Blessed be God's kingdom, now and for ever.
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God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; and he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. Acts 10.38
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Gloria
[Dudman]
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Eternal God, at the baptism of Jesus in the river Jordan you proclaimed him your beloved Son, and anointed him with the Holy Spirit: grant that all who are baptised into his name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Saviour; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting.
Genesis 1.1-5 In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, 2 the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. 3 Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. 1
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Psalm 29 1 Ascribe to the Lord, you powers of heaven: ascribe to the Lord glory and might. 2 Ascribe to the Lord the honour due to his name: O worship the Lord in the beauty of his holiness. 3 The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thunders, the Lord upon the great waters. 4 The voice of the Lord is mighty in operation: the voice of the Lord is a glorious voice. 5 The voice of the Lord breaks the cedar-trees: the Lord breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. 6 He makes them skip like a calf: Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox. 7 The voice of the Lord divides the lightning-flash: the voice of the Lord whirls the sands of the desert, the Lord whirls the desert of Kadesh. 8 The voice of the Lord rends the terebinth trees, and strips bare the forests: in his temple all cry ‘Glory.’ 9 The Lord sits enthroned above the water-flood: the Lord sits enthroned as a king for ever. 10 The Lord will give strength to his people: the Lord will give to his people the blessing of peace.
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Second Reading: Acts 19.1-7 1
While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul passed through the inland regions and came to Ephesus, where he found some disciples. 2 He said to them, ‘Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?’ They replied, ‘No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.’3 Then he said, ‘Into what then were you baptized?’ They answered, ‘Into John’s baptism.’ 4 Paul said, ‘John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus.’ 5 On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied— 7 altogether there were about twelve of them.
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Gradual Hymn: God, who stretched the spangled heavens TiS 163
1. God, who stretched the spangled heavens, infinite in time and place, flung the suns in burning radiance through the silent fields of space, we your children, in your likeness, share inventive powers with you: great Creator, still creating, show us all we yet may do.
3. We have ventured worlds undreamed of since the childhood of our race; known the ecstasy of winging through untravelled realms of space; probed the secrets of the atom, yielding unimagined power, facing us with life’s destruction or our most triumphant hour.
2. Proudly rise our modern cities, stately buildings, row on row; yet their windows, blank, unfeeling, stare on canyoned streets below, where the lonely drift unnoticed in the city’s ebb and flow, lost to purpose and to meaning, scarcely caring where they go.
4. As each far horizon beckons, may it challenge us anew, children of creative purpose, serving others, honouring you. May our dreams prove rich with promise, each endeavour, well begun: great Creator, give us guidance till our goals and yours are one. Catherine Cameron 1927– Words: Catherine Cameron Words © 1967 by Hope Publishing Co., Carol Stream, IL 60188. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Music from Hymns and Congregational Songs by permission Stainer & Bell Ltd, London.
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John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 5 And people from the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him, and were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. 6 Now John was clothed with camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.7 He proclaimed, ‘The one who is more powerful than I is coming after me; I am not worthy to stoop down and untie the thong of his sandals. 8 I have baptized you with water; but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.’ 9 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 10 And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him. 11 And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.’
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We remember before God with thanksgiving the lives of Daphne Graham (2001), Elizabeth Read, Gerald Riley (2014), and Julian Ashley-Brown (1988), as we come to the anniversary of their entry into your nearer presence.
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1. Crown him with many crowns, the Lamb upon the throne; hark! how the heavenly anthem drowns all music but its own: awake, my soul, and sing of him who died for me, and hail him as your chosen king through all eternity.
4. Crown him the Lord of life, who triumphed o’er the grave, and rose victorious in the strife for those he came to save: his glories now we sing who died, and rose on high; who died eternal life to bring, and lives that death may die.
2. Crown him the Son of God before the worlds began: and we who tread where he has trod crown him the Son of Man, who every grief has known that wrings the human breast, and takes and bears them for his own, that all in him may rest.
5. Crown him the Lord of peace, whose power a sceptre sways from pole to pole, that wars may cease, absorbed in prayer and praise: his reign shall know no end, and round his piercèd feet fair flowers of paradise extend their fragrance ever sweet.
3. Crown him the Lord of love; behold his hands and side, those wounds yet visible above in beauty glorified: no angel there on high can fully bear that sight, but downwards bends a burning eye at mysteries so bright.
6. Crown him the Lord of years, the Potentate of time, Creator of the rolling spheres, majestic and sublime: all hail, Redeemer, hail! for you have died for me; your praise shall never, never fail throughout eternity. 15
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Priest: ‌. do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.
Priest: ‌ in songs of never ending praise:
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Christ, when for us you were baptized TiS 250
1. Christ, when for us you were baptized, God’s Spirit on you came, as peaceful as a dove, and yet as urgent as a flame.
3. Straightway and steadfast until death you then obeyed his call, freely as Son of Man to serve and give your life for all.
4. Baptize us with your Spirit, Lord, 2. God called you his belovèd Son, your cross on us be signed, called you his servant true: that likewise in God’s service we sent you his kingdom to proclaim, may perfect freedom find. his holy will to do.
Francis Bland Tucker 1895–1984
Words by permission Church Pension Fund, Group Administration, Church Publishing Inc. USA
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'Copyright Š 1995, The Anglican Church of Australia Trust Corporation. From the text of A Prayer Book for Australia, published under the imprint of Broughton Books. Reproduced with permission. - Recorded music played under PPCA licence 339096 Hymns copied under one of the following licences: - 'Copyright Š 1999, The Australian Hymn Book Company. From the text of Together in Song. Reproduced with permission. - Church Copyright Licence #325734 - Copyright Agency Limited licence 2907
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Leonie Bird
The Rev’d Robert Holland
Nigel Creese Leonie Bird Carol Fraser Barbara Thomson Leonie Bird The Rev’d Robert Newton The Rev’d Robert Newton Rick Nicholson and Yvonne Stannard Lorraine Bent & Yvonne Panagacos Dileeni & Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Charles & Jan Harkin Barbara Thomson BCP Leonie Bird Dinesh Warnakulasuriya The Rev’d Robert Newton The Rev’d Robert Newton Diana Cerini and Joan West Nip Thomson & Nola Scott Elizabeth Cook & Madeleine Jenkins Joan Brooking David Harkin Jane Sullivan
Joan Brooking
The Rev’d Robert Newton The Rev’d Robert Newton Dorothy Hadwen Viv & Peter Harkness Irene Shorthouse & Barbara Thomson
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The Rev’d Robert Newton The Rev’d Robert Newton Elizabeth Cook Beth Bailey & Bev Cooper Charles & Jan Harkin
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