HOLY TRINITY KEW Anglican Church of Australia
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER MAY 10, 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, Jesus calls his followers his friends. Jesus not only showed his disciples that he cared for them and sought their welfare, he also enjoyed their company and wanted to be with them. He ate with them, shared everything he had with them - even his innermost heart and mind. To know Jesus personally is to know God and the love and friendship he offers to each one of us. One of the special signs of favour shown in the Bible is to be called the friend of God. Abraham is called the friend of God (Isaiah 41:8). God spoke with Moses as a man speaks with his friend (Exodus 33:11). Jesus, the Lord and Master, calls the disciples his friends rather than his servants. What does it mean to be a friend of God? Friendship with God certainly entails a loving relationship which goes beyond duty and obedience. Jesus' discourse on friendship and fraternal love reflects the words of Proverbs: A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity (Proverbs 17:17). The distinctive feature of Jesus' relationship with his disciples was his personal love for them. He loved his own to the end (John 13:1). His love was unconditional and sacrificial wholly directed to the good of others. He gave his very life for those he loved in order to secure for them everlasting life with the Father. Your in Christ, Fr Robert
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Hymn: Jesus lives! Your terrors now TiS 372
1. Jesus lives! your terrors now can, O death, no more appal us; Jesus lives! by this we know now the grave cannot enthral us. Hallelujah!
4. Jesus lives! henceforth is death not for us a gloomy portal when we take our final breath, but the gate to life immortal. Hallelujah!
2. Jesus lives! for us he died; then may we, for Jesus living, pure in heart, in him abide, glory to our Saviour giving. Hallelujah!
5. Jesus lives! to him the throne over all the world is given; may we go where he is gone, rest and reign with him in heaven. Hallelujah! Christian Fürchtegott Gellert 1715–69 tr. Frances Elizabeth Cox 1812–97 and others
3. Jesus lives! our hearts know well naught from us his love shall sever: fame, or hurt, or powers of hell tear us from his keeping never. Hallelujah! Invocation:
Blessed be God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Blessed be God's kingdom, now and for ever.
Sentence: Jesus said, ‘You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit.’ John 15.16 4
Kyrie eleison
(Dudman)
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Gloria
[Dudman]
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Loving God, your Son has chosen us and called us to be his friends: give us grace to keep his commandments, to love one another, and to bear fruit which will abide; through him who is the true vine, the source of all our life, Jesus Christ our Lord.
First Reading: Acts 10.44-48 44
While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word. 45 The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles, 46 for they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter said, 47 ‘Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?’ 48 So he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they invited him to stay for several days.
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98 – Congregation to sing with choir
1 O SING unto the LORD a | new | song: for he hath | done | marvellous | things. 2 With his own right hand and with his | holy | arm: hath he | gotten him|self the | victory. 3 The LORD declared | his sal|vation: his righteousness hath he openly | showed in the | sight of the | heathen. 4 He hath remembered his mercy and truth toward the | house of | Israel: and all the ends of the world have seen the sal|vation of | our | God. 5 Show yourselves joyful unto the LORD, | all ye | lands: sing, re|joice, and | give | thanks. 6 Praise the LORD up|on the | harp: sing to the | harp with a | psalm of | thanksgiving. 7 With trumpets | also and | shawms: O show yourselves joyful be|fore the | LORD the | King. 8 Let the sea make a noise, and all that | therein | is: the round world and | they that | dwell there|in. 9 Let the floods clap their hands, and let the hills be joyful together be|fore the |LORD: for he is | come to | judge the | earth. 10 With righteousness shall he | judge the | world: and the | people | with | equity.
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Second Reading: 1 John 5.1-12 1
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 3 For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome, 4 for whatever is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith. 5 Who is it that conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? 6 This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one that testifies, for the Spirit is the truth. 7 There are three that testify: 8 the Spirit and the water and the blood, and these three agree. 9 If we receive human testimony, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified to his Son. 10 Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony in their hearts. Those who do not believe in God have made him a liar by not believing in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son. 11 And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
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Gradual Hymn: How sweet the name of Jesus sounds TiS 223 (Tune 485)
1. How sweet the name of Jesus sounds in a believer’s ear! It soothes our sorrows, heals our wounds, and drives away our fear. 2. It makes the wounded spirit whole and calms the troubled breast, is manna to the hungry soul and to the weary rest. 3. Dear name! the rock on which I build, my shield and hiding-place, my never-failing treasury, filled with boundless stores of grace: 4. Jesus, my shepherd, brother, friend, my prophet, priest and king, my Lord, my life, my way, my end, accept the praise I bring. 5. Weak is the effort of my heart, and cold my warmest thought; but when I see you as you are I’ll praise you as I ought. John Newton 1725–1807 alt. Music by permission Oxford University Press
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As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11 I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. 12 ‘This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. 16 You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. 17 I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.
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We give thanks for the life of Stephen Sheffield as we uphold him to your loving mercy, and we pray for all who mourn his death. We pray for those who have gone before us marked with the sign of faith and whose year’s mind occurs around this time, including: Leslie Coulston (1987). Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord: and let light perpetual shine upon them.
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1. Ye watchers and ye holy ones, bright seraphs, cherubim and thrones, raise the glad strain: alleluia! Cry out, dominions, princedoms, powers, virtues, archangels, angels’ choirs: alleluia! 2. O higher than the cherubim, more glorious than the seraphim, lead their praises: alleluia! Thou bearer of the Eternal Word, most gracious, magnify the Lord, alleluia!
3. Respond, ye souls in endless rest, ye patriarchs and prophets blest: alleluia, alleluia! Ye holy twelve, ye martyrs strong, all saints triumphant, raise the song, alleluia! 4. O friends, in gladness let us sing, supernal anthems echoing: alleluia, alleluia! To God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit, Three in One, alleluia! John Athelstan Laurie Riley 1858–1945 Words and music from the English Hymnal by permission Oxford University Press
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Priest:
... Forever praising you and singing:
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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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Final Hymn: Man more than man TiS 355
1. Man more than man, completely fulfilled, unique in his love and yet he was killed. Hung on the cross of envy and pride, and scorned by the crowds so lonely he died. 2. Even today we crucify still, and drive in the nails of apathy’s will. But he arose, he shattered the dark, and brilliantly lights the depths of our hearts. 3. Living with us, he penetrates pain, our death he defeats and rises again. Celebrate now the one who is risen, and joyfully sing the hope we are given. Valerie M. Dunn 1932– alt.
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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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Birthday: Sasha Calder (Thursday), John Hutchinson (Saturday)
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Rev. Dr. Helen Granowski
The Rev’d Robert Holland
Robert & Marilyn Frood Nigel Creese David Harkin Dinesh Warnakulasuriya
Charles & David Harkin David Harkin BCP Irene Shorthouse Dinesh Warnakulasuriya
Rev’d. Robert Newton Rev’d. Robert Newton Diana Cerini & Joan West
The Rev’d Robert Newton The Rev’d Robert Newton Diana Cerini and Joan West
Lorraine Bent & Yvonne Panagacos Dileeni & Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Rosemary Nairn
Nick Leicester & Kathryn Watt Chris Flavelle-Smith & Andrea Sherko
Julie Burke & Janine Lancaster Jane Sullivan, & Andrea Sherko
Rev’d. Robert Newton Rev’d. Robert Newton Dorothy Hadwen Rosemary Nairn
The Rev’d Robert Newton The Rev’d Robert Newton Elizabeth Cook Beth Bailey & Nip Thomson Charles Harkin and Robert Frood
Madeleine Jenkins & Andrea Sherko
Rosemary Nairn & Ian Lees
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