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HOLY TRINITY KEW Anglican Church of Australia

SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT MARCH 1, 2015 - 1st Sunday Family Service 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, What is the best investment you can make with your life? Jesus poses some searching and deep questions to challenge our ideas about what is most profitable and worthwhile in this life of ours. In every choice and decision we are making, we make ourselves a certain kind of identity a certain kind of person. The kind of person we are, our character, determines to a large extent the kind of future we will face and live out. It is quite possible that some can gain all the things they set their heart on, only to wake up to themselves suddenly and discover that they missed the most important things of all. Of what value are material things if they don't help you gain what truly lasts in eternity. Neither money nor possessions can buy heaven, mend a broken heart, or cheer a lonely person. Everything we have is an out-right gift from God. We owe him everything, including our very lives. It's possible to give God our money, but not ourselves, or to give him lip-service, but not our hearts. A disciple gladly gives up all that he has in exchange for an unending life of joy and happiness with God. God gives without measure. The joy he offers no sadness or loss can diminish. What is the cross which Jesus Christ commands me to take up each day? When my will crosses with his will, then his will must be done. Are you ready to lose all for Jesus Christ in order to gain all with Jesus Christ? Yours in Christ, Fr Robert

1. Christian, dost thou see them on the holy ground, how the troops of Midian prowl and prowl around? Christian, up and smite them, counting gain but loss, smite them by the merit of the Holy Cross.

3. Christian, dost thou hear them, how they speak thee fair? "Always fast and vigil? Always watch and prayer?" Christian, answer boldly: "While I breathe I pray!" Peace shall follow battle, night shall end in day.

2. Christian, dost thou feel them, how they work within, striving, tempting, luring, goading into sin? Christian, never tremble; never be downcast; smite them by the virtue, of the Lenten fast.

4. "Well I know thy trouble, O my servant true; thou art very weary, I was weary, too; But that toil shall make thee some day all mine own, and the end of sorrow shall be near my throne."

Invocation:

Blessed be God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Blessed be God's kingdom, now and for ever.

Sentence: If you want to become a disciple of Jesus, deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow him. Mark 8.34

The minister reads aloud the commandments. Hear the commandments which God gave his people Israel. 1

I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of slavery; you shall have no other gods but me. 2 You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them. 3 You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. 4 Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shall you labour and do all you have to do, but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord your God. 5 Honour your father and your mother. 6 You shall do no murder. 7 You shall not commit adultery. 8 You shall not steal. 9 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour. 10 You shall not covet anything that is your neighbourâ€™s. Response: Lord, have mercy on us: and write your law in our hearts by your Holy Spirit.

God of all times and places, in Jesus Christ, who was lifted up on the cross, you opened for us the path to eternal life: grant that we, being born again of water and the Spirit, may joyfully serve you in newness of life and faithfully walk in your holy ways; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

Genesis 17.1-7, 15-16 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the Almighty God. Obey me and always do what is right. 2 I will make my covenant with you and give you many descendants.” 3 Abram bowed down with his face touching the ground, and God said, 4 “I make this covenant with you: I promise that you will be the ancestor of many nations. 5 Your name will no longer be Abram, but Abraham, because I am making you the ancestor of many nations. 6 I will give you many descendants, and some of them will be kings. You will have so many descendants that they will become nations. 7

“I will keep my promise to you and to your descendants in future generations as an everlasting covenant. I will be your God and the God of your descendants. 15

God said to Abraham, “You must no longer call your wife Sarai; from now on her name is Sarah. 16 I will bless her, and I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will become the mother of nations, and there will be kings among her descendants.”

Second Reading: Romans 4.13-25 13

When God promised Abraham and his descendants that the world would belong to him, he did so, not because Abraham obeyed the Law, but because he believed and was accepted as righteous by God. 14 For if what God promises is to be given to those who obey the Law, then faith means nothing and God's promise is worthless. 15 The Law brings down God's anger; but where there is no law, there is no disobeying of the law. 16

And so the promise was based on faith, in order that the promise should be guaranteed as God's free gift to all of Abraham's descendants—not just to those who obey the Law, but also to those who believe as Abraham did. For Abraham is the spiritual father of us all; 17 as the scripture says, “I have made you father of many nations.” So the promise is good in the sight of God, in whom Abraham believed—the God who brings the dead to life and whose command brings into being what did not exist. 18 Abraham believed and hoped, even when there was no reason for hoping, and so became “the father of many nations.” Just as the scripture says, “Your descendants will be as many as the stars.” 19 He was then almost one hundred years old; but his faith did not weaken when he thought of his body, which was already practically dead, or of the fact that Sarah could not have children. 20 His faith did not leave him, and he did not doubt God's promise; his faith filled him with power, and he gave praise to God. 21 He was absolutely sure that God would be able to do what he had promised. 22 That is why Abraham, through faith, “was accepted as righteous by God.” 23 The words “he was accepted as righteous” were not written for him alone. 24 They were written also for us who are to be accepted as righteous, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from death.25 Because of our sins he was given over to die, and he was raised to life in order to put us right with God.

Gradual Hymn: All for Jesus! All for Jesus! NEH 272 (Tune TiS 413)

1. All for Jesus! all for Jesus! this our song shall ever be; for we have no hope, nor Saviour, if we have not hope in thee.

4. All for Jesus! thou hast loved us; all for Jesus! thou hast died; all for Jesus! thou art with us; all for Jesus, glorified!

2. All for Jesus! thou wilt give us strength to serve thee, hour by hour, none can move us from thy presence, while we trust thy love and power.

5. All for Jesus! all for Jesus! this the Church's song shall be; till at last the flock is gathered one in love, and one in thee.

3. All for Jesus! at thine altar thou wilt give us sweet content; there, dear Saviour, we receive thee in thy holy sacrament.

Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.33 But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, ‘Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.’ 34 He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. 36 For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? 37 Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? 38 Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.’

We believe in God the Father who made us and loves us. We believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who saves us and loves us. We believe in the Holy Spirit, who loves us and gives us life.

Reader 1: God our Father, we give thanks for the world which you created and have given to us to enjoy. Help us to care for your world. Lord in your mercy: HEAR OUR PRAYER. Reader 2: We pray for all people of the church, and we pray that we may always try to be kind and helpful. Lord in your mercy: HEAR OUR PRAYER. Reader 1: We give thanks for our family and friends; we pray that we may be good friends to others. Lord in your mercy: HEAR OUR PRAYER. Reader 2: We remember those who are sick or lonely; may your spirit bring them comfort. Lord in your mercy: HEAR OUR PRAYER. Adult: We pray for those in need, and for those who care for them: ………. and those we remember in our own hearts and prayers. Lord in your mercy: HEAR OUR PRAYER.

Reader 1: We remember those we love who have died and now live with you in heaven. Lord in your mercy: HEAR OUR PRAYER. Reader 2:

Almighty God, you have promised to hear our prayers. Grant that what we have asked in faith We may by your grace receive, Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

1. God of grace and God of glory, on your people pour your power; now fulfil your Church’s story, bring the bud to glorious flower. Grant us wisdom, grant us courage, grant us courage, for the facing of this hour, for the facing of this hour.

3. Cure your children’s warring madness; bend our pride to your control; shame our wanton selfish gladness, rich in things and poor in soul. Grant us wisdom, grant us courage, grant us courage, lest we miss your kingdom’s goal, lest we miss your kingdom’s goal.

2. See the hosts of evil round us scorn your Christ, assail his ways. Fears and doubts too long have bound us; free our hearts to work and praise. Grant us wisdom, grant us courage, grant us courage, for the living of these days, for the living of these days.

4. Save us from weak resignation to the evils we deplore; let the gift of your salvation be our glory evermore. Grant us wisdom, grant us courage, grant us courage, serving you whom we adore, serving you whom we adore. Harry Emerson Fosdick 1878–1969 alt.

Priest: ALL:

... Forever praising you and singing:

CHOIR: God of power and God of might. ALL:

CHOIR: Heaven and earth are full, are full of your glory. ALL:

CHOIR: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. ALL:

Priest: â€Ś. do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me

Priest: in songs of never ending praise:

1. ‘Take up your cross,’ the Saviour said, ‘if you would my disciple be; take up your cross with willing heart and humbly follow after me.’

4. Take up your cross, then, in his strength and calmly every danger brave; it guides you to a better home and leads to victory o’er the grave.

2. Take up your cross; let not its weight fill your weak spirit with alarm; his strength shall bear your spirit up and brace your heart and nerve your arm.

5. Take up your cross and follow Christ, nor think till death to lay it down; for only those who bear the cross may hope to wear the glorious crown.

3. Take up your cross, nor heed the shame, and let your foolish pride be still: your Lord refused not even to die upon a cross, on Calvary’s hill.

Charles William Everest 1814–77 alt.

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Birthdays: Nick Leicester (Today), Charlotte Campbell (Tuesday). Anniversary: Billy and Caroline Cockram (Tuesday) High altar flowers in memory of James Sullivan, with love from Jim's family. World Day of Prayer: Friday 6th March 2015, 11am. St Anneâ€™s Catholic Church, 55 Windella Ave, Kew East, will host this yearâ€™s service, prepared by The Bahamas WDP Committee. Followed by refreshments. All Welcome. Mother Prioress and the Carmelite Nuns extend a cordial invitation to attend the Ecumenical Gathering of the Kew Community Festival at the Carmelite Monastery Church 94 Stevenson St Kew on Sunday 22nd March 2.30pm. Afternoon tea will be served by the Nuns in the Monastery Garden. Please RSVP the Vicar for numbers Parish Council has approved the Vicarage and the ground floor in particular to be leased for one year to Fr Robert Holland our Associate Priest whilst we wait for the next stage of the building works for the Development Project. Fr Robert cares for Susan his wife who suffers from Alzheimer's disease and who cannot go upstairs. The Parish has placed a temporary shower in the downstairs toilet area so Susan can be bathed. Whilst we wait for the next stage of the Development Project it is good stewardship to utilise the Vicarage for this purpose, while at the same time assisting Fr Robert and Susan with their living arrangements. This does not detract from the fact that the Vicarage will need a major renovation in the near future, to return the property to an asset status for the Parish. - The Vicar

Protocol for use of the Common Cup at Holy Communion in the Diocese of Melbourne Background A request to the Archbishop of Melbourne in 2014 raised the important question of the transfer of infection with the practice of the common cup according to Anglican rite and practice from the time of the Book of Common Prayer. The Anglican Diocese of Toronto in 2003 commissioned a report on the risks of transmission of infections via the common cup used at services of Holy Communion. On examining the available scientific and medical literature, it concluded that the common cup could be a vehicle of bacteria transmission, in a similar way to our hands, and can be passed from surface to surface during the passing of the peace as well as being airborne. However, the report concludes that sharing the common cup, and a handshake at the peace, along with attending a buffet dinner, or hugging, all present a minimal risk and therefore fall within the parameters of normal risks of daily living. Like all aspects of life however, if an individualâ€™s immune system is compromised or weakened, the risk may be greater. Confronting and responding to risk is a common human experience. We all take precautions to avoid risk. To face risks we need to be informed as well as establish best practice. The central act of worship for Anglicans is the gathering for Holy Communion. In some places, this is daily, weekly or at designated times. Sharing the common cup may entail some risk, but Christians are called to embody risk as part of discipleship. The recent practice of intinction was historically for those ill and was administered by the priest, unlike the present where it is practised because it is seen as less risky. This is not a unanimous viewpoint supported by the available research. In fact the practice of the recipient of the host receiving the bread and then dipping into the wine may be more risky. Given the current perceptions, practices and understandings of the use of the common cup and improved knowledge about infection, the Anglican church needs to ensure that policies relating to the administration of Holy Communion be well known and adopted as best practice. The following protocols and practices ought to be adopted and made available to all clergy, licensed Eucharistic assistants and all parishioners.

Recommended protocol for administration of Holy Communion 1. Worshippers are to be made aware of the possibility of infections due to handshaking, colds and flu and when visiting people with an illness or preparing food. Notices should be displayed in all churches to pass on these details. 2. All who lead worship need to ensure hands are clean and precautions taken which can reduce the possibility of the risk of sharing infections. 3. Before any service of Holy Communion, all vessels are washed in hot soapy water with appropriate levels of disinfectant. They should be left to dry and not wiped clean. Metal is probably the best material to reduce any perceived transmission. 4. Purificators are to be linen and used only once. They are to be laundered in hot water. All linen used should be laundered in hot water. 5. Each person administering the chalice must thoroughly wipe the rim of the chalice with the purificators after each person communicates and then move the purificator so that the same part is not used twice. 6. Use of the lavabo is a reminder to the President of the Eucharist, following the passing of the peace, of the importance of clean hands. It is therefore more than symbolic. It has a practical purpose. 7. Gluten free wafers are to be held on a separate Paten. It is a good practice for the clergy and those who are assisting with the administration of the bread to use one hand for Gluten free and the other for all others. 8. Intinction should be the responsibility of the priest. Dirty finger nails, nail polish etc. are common and to be avoided. [Prepared by an advisory group established by the Archbishop of Melbourne in 2014 and comprising: Dr Graeme L Blackman OAM FTSE FAICD (Member of Archbishop in Council, Convenor) Associate Professor Richard King AM (Medical Director, Medicine, Monash Health) Dr Justin Denholm (Infectious Diseases Physician and Ethicist, Royal Melbourne Hospital) Dr Denise Cooper-Clarke (Medical Ethicist) Revd Dr Ray Cleary AM (Lecturer in Theology, Trinity College Theological School)] 1 November 2014

The Rev'd Dr H. Granowski

Leonie Bird

Rick Nicholson & Barbara Thomson Chris & Merrilyn Beeny BCP Irene Shorthouse Dinesh Warnakulasuriya

Marilyn and Robert Frood

The Rev’d Robert Newton The Rev’d Robert Newton Diana Cerini and Joan West Carol Fraser & Alan Wilson Children

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

Children Mark Lucas Jane Sullivan The Rev’d Robert Newton The Rev’d Robert Newton Bruce Chisholm Elaine Hutchinson & Barbara Thomson Rosemary Nairn & Carol Fraser

Don Watkinson Joy Watkinson The Rev’d Robert Newton The Rev’d Robert Newton Dorothy Hadwen

Irene Shorthouse & Barbara Thomson

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