HOLY TRINITY KEW Anglican Church of Australia
3RD SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY JANUARY 25, 2015 Holy Communion 8am 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
Dear Parishioners, When Jesus preached the Gospel he called others to follow as his disciples and he gave them a mission - “Follow me and I will make you fish for people.” What kind of disciples did he choose? Smelly fishermen! In the choice of the first apostles we see a distinctive feature of Jesus' work: he chose very ordinary people. Jesus wanted ordinary people who could take on a task and do it extraordinarily well. He chose these individuals, not for what they were, but for what they would be capable of becoming under his direction and authority. When the Lord calls us to serve, we must not think we have nothing to offer. The Lord takes what ordinary people, like us, can offer and uses it for greatness in his kingdom. Do you believe that God wants to work in and through you today for his glory? Jesus speaks exactly the same message to us today: we will "catch people" for the kingdom of God if we allow the light of Jesus Christ to shine through us. God wants others to see the light of Christ in us in the way we live, speak, and witness the joy of the gospel. “Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and give glory to your father who is in heaven?” (Mtt 5:16) Do you witness to those around you the joy of the Gospel and do you pray for your neighbours, coworkers, and relatives that they may come to know the Lord Jesus Christ and grow in the knowledge of his love? Yours in Christ, Fr Robert
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Invocation:
Blessed be God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Blessed be God's kingdom, now and for ever.
The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the gospel. Mark 1.15
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The Gloria Glory to God in the highest, and peace to God’s people on earth. Lord God, heavenly King, almighty God and Father, we worship you, we give you thanks, we praise you for your glory. Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father, Lord God, Lamb of God, you take away the sin of the world: have mercy on us; you are seated at the right hand of the Father: receive our prayer. For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the Most High Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
Bountiful God, through your Son you have called us to repent of our sin, to believe the good news, and to celebrate the coming of your kingdom: teach us, like Christ’s first apostles, to hear the call to discipleship, and, forsaking old ways, to proclaim the gospel of new life to a broken world; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
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Jonah 3.1-10 1
The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying, 2 ‘Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.’ 3 So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord . Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three days’ walk across. 4 Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s walk. And he cried out, ‘Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!’ 5 And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth. 6 When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 Then he had a proclamation made in Nineveh: ‘By the decree of the king and his nobles: No human being or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything. They shall not feed, nor shall they drink water. 8 Human beings and animals shall be covered with sackcloth, and they shall cry mightily to God. All shall turn from their evil ways and from the violence that is in their hands. 9 Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.’ 10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it.
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Psalm: 62.5-12 5
Nevertheless, my soul, wait in silence for God: for from him comes my hope. 6 He only is my rock and my salvation: my strong tower, so that I shall not be moved. 7 In God is my deliverance and my glory: God is my strong rock and my shelter. 8 Trust in him at all times, O my people: pour out your hearts before him, for God is our refuge. 9 The children of Adam are but breath, the children of earth are a lie: place them in the scales and they fly upward, they are as light as air. 10 Put no trust in extortion, do not grow worthless by robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. 11 God has spoken once, twice have I heard him say: that power belongs to God, 12 That to the Lord belongs a constant goodness: for you reward each one of us according to our works.
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 7.29-31 29
I mean, brothers and sisters, the appointed time has grown short; from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none, 30 and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no possessions, 31 and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.
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Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, 15 and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.’ 16 As Jesus passed along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake—for they were fishermen. 17 And Jesus said to them, ‘Follow me and I will make you fish for people.’ 18 And immediately they left their nets and followed him. 19 As he went a little farther, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John, who were in their boat mending the nets. 20 Immediately he called them; and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men, and followed him.
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We remember before God with thanksgiving the lives of Peter Marshall (2001) and May Tickle (1997) as we come to the anniversary of their entry into your nearer presence.
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The Rev’d Robert Newton
The Rev'd Dr H. Granowski
David Harkin & Barbara Thomson David Harkin Leonie Bird Diana Cerini Carol Fraser
Diana Cerini & Barbara Thomson
The Rev’d Robert Newton The Rev’d Robert Newton Marilyn Frood and Nancy Sturgess
The Rev’d Robert Newton The Rev’d Robert Newton Alan & Nell Eddy
BCP Irene Shorthouse Dinesh Warnakulasuriya
Elaine Hutchinson, & Liz Cook Carol Fraser & Bruce Chisholm Nick Leicester & Children Julie-Ann Barnes Jane Sullivan Children Elaine Hutchinson Mark Lucas Jane Sullivan Jane Sullivan The Rev’d Robert Newton The Rev’d Robert Newton The Rev’d Robert Newton The Rev’d Robert Newton Rosemary Nairn Bruce Chisholm Tim & Rosemary Sewell Elaine Hutchinson & Barbara Thomson Robert and Marilyn Frood Rosemary Nairn & Carol Fraser
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