TRINITY TIMES Lent/Easter 2016
Parish Church of Holy Trinity Kew Cnr. High Street & Pakington Street, Kew 3101
EASTER SERVICES 20th March: Palm Sunday
8am: Eucharist. 10am: Sung Eucharist. 10.30am Cross cultural service at TGS chapel (The service is in English )
22nd March: Holy Tuesday
6.30pm Eucharist
23rd March: Holy Wednesday
11am: Eucharist
24th March: Maundy Thursday
8pm: Institution of the Eucharist and Foot Washing.
25th March: Good Friday
9am Service of the Day. 10.45am: Ecumenical Service in Petrie Square
26th March : Easter Eve
6.30pm Lighting of Paschal Candle and Renewal of Baptismal vows.
27th March : Easter Day
8am: Eucharist. 10am: Sung Eucharist 10.30am Cross cultural service at TGS chapel (The service is in English )
Penitential Eucharist every Wednesday at 11.00am during Lent Stations of the Cross. every Friday lunchtime 12.30pm during Lent 1
An Interior Life Taken from ‘The Art of Worship Prayers, Paintings and Readings for Meditation’ by the Reverend Nicholas Holtam. St Martinsin-the-Fields. London: National Gallery Company. 2011. ‘Whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door’ Matt.6:8 ‘For Christians, the time of solitude helps to give us “Easter eyes”, able to perceive in death, life; in guilt, forgiveness; in separation, unity; in wounds, glory; in the human, God; – in God the human; and in the I, You.’ Bishop Klaus Hemmerle (1929 – 1994)
The desire to find spiritual direction has led to a growth in the number of people taking time out of their busy lives to make retreats to religious communities or places or prayer and solitude. There are two parts to this process: finding the way, and acting on it. The latter part is generally harder. Eternal light, shine in our hearts; Eternal Goodness, deliver us from evil; Eternal Power be our support. Eternal Wisdom, scatter the darkness of our ignorance; Eternal Pity, have mercy upon us; That with all our heart and mind and soul and strength we may seek your face and be brought by your infinite mercy to your holy presence, through Jesus Christs our Lord Amen. Alcuin (730 AD – 804AD Please think each Sunday and bring a contribution towards the collection for Anglicare.
Irene’s joke A kindergarten teacher gave her class the ‘show and tell’ assignment of bringing something to represent their religion. The first boy got in front of the class and said, "My name is Benjamin and I am Jewish and this is the Star of David." The second boy got in front of the class and said, "My name is Patrick. I am Catholic and this is the Crucifix." The third boy got in front of the class and said, “My name is Tommy and I am Baptist and this is a casserole."
Music making at Holy Trinity by Stephen Kerr, Director of Music Poston, Darke and Stopford were well received. We were thrilled to be joined by former Trinity chorister Nick, as well as our sometime choir members Jeremy and Geoff. The choir continues to make joyful Thank you to everyone involved in sup- sounds and we are always happy to porting the music program throughout welcome new members to the choir! 2015 and especially over the Christmas This year we will endeavour to add season. some additional sung elements during The annual Festival of Nine Lessons the service. Your feedback is welcome and Carols was again a joyous occasion, as we trial various elements. with a large choir celebrating Christmas We continue to explore the best enthusiastically before a full congrega- options for replacing the very old choir tion. The preparations for the carols robes. We currently have enough funds service take up a lot of time for the to purchase an initial quantity but any choristers, but the result is a big confi- contributions towards getting a full set dent sound to herald the arrival of of robes would be gratefully received. Christmastide. Looking forward to the addition of On Christmas Eve, the choral sound some more musical elements during was provided by a keen quartet of 2016 and a great year of music making singers who sang some challenging at HTK! works that really set the scene on that special night. Works by Howells,
Easter traditions The story of Easter makes up a fundamental aspect of Christian theology. While Good Friday marks Jesus's crucifixion, Easter Sunday is a day for Christians to celebrate his resurrection. Following Jesus's arrest and crucifixion, he was buried in a tomb. While the next part of the story varies according to different accounts, most follow the theme of female followers of Jesus going to visit the tomb and finding the stone rolled away from the opening with Jesus's body missing. Jesus went on to appear to his followers several times before his ascension into heaven. The resurrection of Christ is an important part of Christian belief because of its association with salvation. Christians started celebrating the tradition of Easter with a feast soon after the time period of the resurrection. The time of year was chosen because Jesus celebrated the Passover shortly before his crucifixion, so it is believed to be around the actual time. In pagan times Easter was a celebration of fertility, and many cultures associated the celebration with Eostre, the Germanic goddess of fertility. Christians imbued the practice with religious significance. The Easter egg hunt originated in pagan spring festivals celebrating fertility. It features eggs hidden by the mythical Easter bunny, Children go looking for eggs to put in their Easter egg basket. In the days before Easter, many families decorate hard-boiled eggs to hunt. A significant theme for Easter is
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rebirth, which flowers can emulate and symbolise. Easter Lilies are believed to have grown in the Garden of Gethsemane, the site of Jesus's arrest. Red tulips, symbolise Jesus's shed blood. Italy holds reenactments of the Easter story in public squares. Cyprus holds bonfires in the yards of schools and churches. In Germany, eggs are hidden in trees. In the United Kingdom some participate in rolling eggs downhill and others perform the Pace Egg play. A big part of Jamaican celebration is to eat a spiced bun that contains raisins and cheese. In Scandinavian countries celebrators ski and relax at cabins in the mountains. Some areas may features children in costumes going door to door for candy or flowers. Many Nordic countries include salmon or other fish in a feast. In Australia, the Easter bilby delivers eggs rather than the Easter Bunny, as rabbits are an agricultural pest. Easter is an important holiday in Greece, where on the island of Corfu, residents toss pots of water out of windows, following the Venetian tradition, and bake cakes in the shape of doves. The Easter Bunny is a result of folkloric tradition. Their association with the holiday comes from their ability to procreate, making them symbols of fertility. German settlers brought the Easter Bunny tradition to America in the 1700s.
The Vicar’s Letter ‘I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because he judged me faithful and appointed me to his service, even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the foremost. But for that very reason I received mercy, so that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience, making me an example to those who would come to believe in him for eternal life. To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory forever and ever Amen.’ I Timothy 1:12-17 Dear Parishioners, We usually don’t spend too much time thinking about our own sinfulness. On occasion, of course, our feelings of guilt overwhelm us. We can’t stop thinking about our sinfulness. If we are in that situation, we may need to talk that out with someone. Apart from times like that, we don’t think much about our own sinfulness. We have ways of getting around that. We don’t think about our sins because we are too appalled at the sins of others. The news media throws in our faces the outrageous sins of other people. We overdose on the spectacular murders, war crimes, cruelty, child abuse, and depravity of others. We see such things and become too complacent about our own sins. As long as we are not as bad as some people, we must be doing okay. Our emotional needs keep us from thinking about our sins. Most of the time we need all of our emotional energy just to get by. Life seems to throw everything at us that it can. We don’t have time or energy left to think about our sins. We come to church to gain the emotional strength to survive the coming week, not to hear someone pound the pulpit about what sinners we are. What is front and centre for us are not our sins, but the ways others have sinned against us. We carry the memory of grudges big and small around inside of us. The sins against us that hurt the most are the ones that someone got away with or that no one ever noticed. How dare anyone bring up our sinfulness when we have been so sinned against! No matter how much we don’t want to hear about our sinfulness, we need to hear about it. We fool ourselves. We let ourselves off the hook. We buy our own excuses. There’s a danger to that. As we enter Lent, a time of reflection, repentance, fasting and good works, 1 Timothy gives us an honest reflection on sinfulness. As the passage reminds us, Paul never hid from his sinfulness. In Romans 7, he speaks for people of all ages who have grappled with temptation: ‘For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.’ Romans 7:18-19. The book of Acts depicts barbaric things Paul did. He persecuted members of the early church. He held everybody’s jackets when they stoned Stephen. He hauled off men and women to prison. In Acts, Paul was an angry control freak. This passage uses three terms to describe Paul: blasphemer, persecutor, man of violence. These three terms reveal the comprehensive nature of Paul’s sinfulness and teach us something about our own. If we examine these three terms carefully, we see what our sin does to us. Blasphemy is an insult to God. Persecution is cruelty to someone else. Violence is an attempt to control, arising out of the anger and hate within us. Many things cause this isolation and estrangement. Part of it, but not all of it, is our own rebellion against God. In our pride, we reject God’s offer of grace and healing. We stubbornly refuse to submit ourselves to God’s will. That rebellion is not the whole story, however. We live in an imperfect world, a creation that is not what God intends. As Paul himself says, the creation is subjected to futility and in bondage to decay (Romans 8:20-21). The sin that holds the creation in bondage holds us in bondage as well. We are influenced by social, economic, and spiritual forces beyond our control. We cannot just excuse our bad behaviour, but we are part of a larger problem. Alienation is part of the human experience. Scripture gives numerous examples of people who experienced God as far away. It is true that sometimes we separate ourselves from God, but it is also true that sometimes God seems far away and we don’t know why. We feel like the psalmist who cried out, ‘How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?’ (Psalm 13:1). Our sinfulness is something we do, we cause, and also something that is part of the whole creation, something we are trapped in. I Timothy calls us to be honest about our part in our sinfulness, to own it, to face it, to admit it. If we feel blocked from God, what is our part in that? If we are cut off from other people, how much of that is our fault? If we are not at peace within ourselves, how are we to blame? If we deny our part, we can never feel the cleansing, the release, or the joy of being forgiven. We can never move past where we are. We can never feel reconnected to God. We can never sop up the bitterness of our broken relationships. If we do not confess our sins, if we continue to deny them, we may dupe ourselves into thinking we have got away with them. Eventually, though, our sins leak out. Our wellguarded secret is put on display for the world to see. In my experience truth sooner or later wills out. The author of this passage, reflecting on Paul’s life, called Paul a “man of violence.” We have said that violence is a sign of unresolved anger within us. That anger can come out against other people, or we can turn inward against ourselves. Anecdotal scientific evidence has pointed over the years to how unresolved anger may have played a part in the growth of an individual’s cancer. This scripture calls us to confront our sin. Perhaps we can do that with soul-searching. Perhaps we need the guidance of another person. Perhaps we need to quit hiding from ourselves. As much as I Timothy pushes us to be honest about our sins, it is even more confident about God’s grace and forgiveness. The author of this passage reflected on Paul’s guilt, but only to show the depth of God’s forgiveness. As angry and mean as Paul was, God never gave up on him. This passage shows that God understands the reasons behind our sins: our ignorance, our hurts, and our fear. God heals as well as forgives. We as Christians have to marvel at what God did with Paul. Paul was angry, mean, remorseless, and the control freak of all control freaks. God turned him into the man who could write the tender, beautiful words of 1 Corinthians 13. In the words of the passage, ‘in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience’ (v. 16). Where are we with our sinfulness today? Are we denying it, bottling it up? Are we only too aware of some sin and the guilt won’t let us go? God is patient with us. God can give us the courage to face what is inside of us. God is stronger than our sin and the causes behind it. God can release us, cleanse us, strengthen us, and enable us to move forward. God can get us over the hump if we are held back by our sins. Let us accept God’s mercy; let us celebrate God’s patience. Wishing you a thoughtful Lent and a joyous Easter, Yours In Christ, Fr Robert
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Stations of the Cross by the Vicar, the Reverend Robert Newton for churches within and outside Germany. He continued painting long into his retirement, decorating the St. James Pilgrim House in Hohenberg with a series of remarkable external murals and setting up eleven stations on the Franconian-Swabian Camino route to Santiago de Compostela.
said: “I hope I can preach with each painting, not just make pictures. I want people to look at the pictures, of course, but if the message of my deepest motivation for painting comes across, then I hope that the message of the Gospel comes with it as well”.
Köder’s work shows the artistic influence of Chagall and is distinctive for its strong colours and robust, chunky figures. They express a distinctively earthy theological and spiritual interpretation of biblical and abstract themes, and a warm, inclusive ecclesiology, very much in line with that of Pope Francis. There is challenge, anger, humour and deep tenderness in his depictions of biblical scenes, and always an eye for the human response to God’s communication. Köder’s painting is the visual expression of a lifetime of preaching and We have recently prepared to install 18 sacramental and pastoral ministry. He framed Stations of the Cross by the artist shows the cost of discipleship in the Sieger Köder at Holy Trinity. They have prophets and judges of the Old Testabeen used previously unframed since ment, and in those who met Jesus in the 2008 for Lenten devotions in the parish. gospels; but he also shows the full range of personal responses to Jesus in the These fine prints are now available for devotion during Lent and at other times, features and body language of minor figures in the crowd. being permanently framed. The postresurrection pictures are already Most famously he painted a fresco of the displayed in the Memorial Chapel, Last Supper for the German College in whilst the other fourteen pictures of the Rome, which trains future priests for his Passion are to be displayed in the nave home country. The scene includes, of the church in readiness for Lent. sitting at the table of the Eucharist, a These Stations of the Cross will formally Jew, a beggar, a prostitute and a woundbe blessed and dedicated at the Ash ed African ‘guest worker’ in the striped Wednesday Service on February 10th at pyjamas of the Nazi Holocaust. 6.30pm at Holy Trinity. One of the most distinctive motifs in Sieger Köder (who died in February Köder’s biblical paintings is the reflec2015, shortly after his 90th birthday ) tion of the face of Christ. His depictions painted the Stations of the Cross of of the Washing of the Feet, the Samariwhich we have fine prints. These were tan Woman and the Last Supper show recently framed with generous donations Christ’s face reflected in the bowl of from parishioners and from the family of water, the well and the cup of wine, the Reverend Norman Curry, onetime respectively. The picture of Veronica associate priest at Holy Trinity. has the imprint of Christ’s face on a cloth held above two starving black arms The following excerpt is from the obituary by Gemma Simmonds CJ who with a begging bowl, and Simon of Cyrene’s face is a mirror image of that is the author of two books on Fr Sieger of the suffering Christ, with whom he is Köder: The Closeness of God and shown arm in arm. Glimpses of the Divine. Another leitmotiv of Köder’s is the harlequin or clown. Christ or his disciples are sometimes depicted as clowns, but the recurring motif is also an indication of the freedom from rules, rationality and rigidity and At the age of 41 he went to study theolo- the unruliness of the inner gy in Tübingen and was ordained a life, of human instinctivepriest in 1971. He combined his vocaness and the longing for tion as a parish priest with his work as artistic expression. an artist, producing numerous paintings, In a 2009 interview, he altarpieces and stained glass windows ‘Born in Wasseralfingen in Swabia, southern Germany, Köder was a prisoner of war during World War II and also participated in the Catholic Neudeutschland movement. He trained as a silversmith and painter and worked for some years as a secondary school art teacher.
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Köder’s wartime experiences profoundly influenced his depictions of the Passion of Christ and human suffering and evil. This can be seen particularly in his Stations of the Cross and his Misereor Hunger Cloth. In later life Köder’s work became world famous and he won many awards, including, in 1985, the honorary title of Monsignor and the Order of Merit from Pope John Paul II. He was a deeply modest man and found those who came to see ‘the great artist’ a trial. In a newspaper interview he once remarked, “People come to Ellwangen asking to see the painter. If they’re that interested in the painter, then they haven’t understood the paintings”. His works have inspired countless reproductions, books of meditations and posters and a fully illustrated Bible.’
From the Registers
Benefactors by the Reverend Robert Newton
Baptisms Wesley George Higgs Ann Xiao Lila Audrey Dimitriou
Would you consider becoming a Benefactor at Holy Trinity Kew if you are not already?
Marriages Carlos Roberto Scudeller Junior and Melissa Iduna Abalo Adam Robert Hanczuk and Vanessa Atana Sovski Funerals Jean Lesley Story Sheila Kozka Patricia Mary Rosenhain John Uxbridge Best Margaret Wilson Evelyn Canny Melvie Jane Holliday Interment of Ashes Murray Chipper Neil Carstens Holliday Melvie Jane Holliday Margaret Wilson
We know this is a delicate topic! A bequest is an instruction within your Will that reserves part of your estate (such as possessions, shares, bonds, or money) for a particular beneficiary. It is a subject that HTK has not addressed directly, at least in the recent past. But Bequests are an important source of funding for entities like us, and everyone in the Parish should consider whether they might make a
provision in their Will to the benefit of Holy Trinity. Leaving a bequest is one of the most personal ways you can support the Parish. It is an opportunity to make a gift that you may not otherwise be able to make during your lifetime. Such gifts will be of special importance to the Parish regardless of the value involved. No one is going to approach you and ask if you will become a Benefactor! Rather, should you wish to have a confidential discussion, please call Vicar’s Warden Alan Wilson on 0414 470 460.
Holy Trinity Kew is host church for the Kew area for WORLD DAY OF PRAYER from Cuba 10.30am on Friday 4th March.
Multi-Faith service conducted at Government House By Leonie Bird On Monday 1 February 2016 a MultiFaith service was conducted at Government House at the invitation of Her Excellency The Honourable Linda Dessau AM, the Governor of Victoria. In accordance with tradition the Victorian legal profession and members of the Victorian Parliament mark the commencement of the legal year with a variety of religious services and secular events. Attendees included the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Attorney General of Victoria, the Victorian Legal Services Commissioner, members of the judiciary, solicitors and barristers. The service address was delivered by Ms Helen Kapalos Chairperson of the
Victorian Multicultural Commission. This was a remarkable ceremony in many respects and in particular the joint participation of leaders from all faith communities including the Buddhists, the Christian Orthodox church, Assistant Bishop Genieve Blackwell, Bishop Kay Goldsworthy, Bishop Paul White, Dr Andreas Lowe Dean of St Pauls Cathedral, and leaders from the Salvation Army, the Victorian Council of Churches, the Welsh Church of Melbourne and the Uniting Church of Australia. Leaders from the Hindu, Islamic and Jewish communities also attended and participated in the service consisting of prayers and readings,
derived from the traditions of Judaic, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, and Buddhist faiths. Although this service was held in Government House, a secular state location, its content and activity was centred on a multiplicity of faiths coming together to express a unity of purpose and good will. It was a wonderful demonstration of the diversity and strength of the Victorian community and the commitment of the legal profession to acknowledge our multi-faith heritage in the context of each faith community. It represented all that is good in each of the represented faiths. A large cross section of the legal profession was also present.
Update on Parish Centre Development and Master Plan by Alan Wilson Since the last article on the Parish Centre in the July 2015 edition of Trinity Times, we achieved a very pleasing result from the August auction of the Peel Street Car Park. The sale was successfully settled on 21st December, and our share of the proceeds (Diocese took a cut!) is now on deposit with Anglican Funds.
Parish Centre. Since then our architects Atelier Wagner have engaged with the other consultants we’ll need for the project, and we are now entering the detailed design and quantity survey phase. Once this is complete and we have a Building Permit from Council, Diocese will run a tendering and selection process to choose a builder. This should occur in the third quarter of this Based on current estimates, the Parish year, and hopefully we will see builders will still need to borrow to meet its share on site very late in this year or early in of the building costs, but the amount will the next. be substantially less than previously budgeted. With the focus on the Parish Centre Another major step forward occurred at development, it is easy to forget that we have other buildings on site to care for. the end of October when Boroondara Council issued a Planning Permit for the Work on the Church has been relatively
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minor over the recent past, and at some stage we will have to address major items such as repairs to the tower and roof. Both the existing Halls are in poor repair, as is the Vicarage. Now that the Parish Centre is through Council, a strategy for the Vicarage and Halls will be developed within the Master Plan. In the absence of a major benefactor to pay for renovations to the Vicarage, the most likely scenario is that we will need to borrow to fund a refurbishment and repurposing for commercial leasing.
Answers to the picture puzzle When was the picture taken? - 1st July 1969. Where was the picture taken? - Redlaver Street, Grangetown, Cardiff, Wales. What was the occasion? - a celebration of the Investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales. Who is the boy in the football outfit, 3rd from left? Robert Newton, our Vicar. A clue was the woman dressed in Welsh national costume. The winner of the nearest correct answer received was Sue Emery. Sue, please collect your prize bottles of wine (donated by the Vicar) from the church office.
Historical relics to go on show in Canterbury by Irene Shorthouse from sources on the web idea of the loan came from the procurator-general of the Missionary Society of St Columban, Fr Robert McCulloch. He said this week: “This venerable object places these talks in their historical context. And I hope that it assists the Anglican Primates to view the issues and questions of the present from the perspective of the common origin of our Christian faith.”
at Canterbury during the Primates’ conference,” he said. Later this year the ancient relics of the murdered Archbishop Thomas Becket ,which include his bloodstained vestments, will also go on display in Canterbury.
Once the Prior of San Gregorio had agreed to release the crozier-head, the associate director of the Anglican Centre in Rome, the Rev'd Marcus Walker, had to obtain permission from the Pontifical Council for Culture, the Italian Ministry of the Interior, the Italian Ministry of the Arts, and the [British] Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (needed because The ivory carved crozier of St Gregory an object made of ivory was being When the Anglican Primates gathered in imported). All the permissions were collected in five days before Christmas, Canterbury [25th January] for their week-long crisis talks about the future of partly with the assistance of the British the Communion, they were joined by a Embassy to the Holy See. The Ministry of Culture, Media and Sport in Britain is 12-centimetre-high piece of carved St Thomas Becket 1118-1170 indemnifying the object, because it will ivory. be on public display. The crozier was This is the head of the crozier that is flown from Italy under very tight Becket was murdered at Canterbury believed to have belonged to St Gregory security provisions. Cathedral in 1170 by followers of King the Great, the pope who began the The President of the Pontifical Council Henry II for standing up to the king’s mission to the Angles by sending his for Culture, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, demands on the Church. emissary, St Augustine, then the prior of a monastery in Rome, in 595. It was St wrote: ‘Allow me...to congratulate you He was canonised by Pope Alexander III on the highly symbolic value of the loan Gregory’s vision of the conversion of soon after his death. England that caused Augustine to found of this relic, dear to the Church of England, which venerates Pope St Gregory The relics are housed in Hungary and the community at Canterbury.. the Great, the promoter of the evangelis- are venerated at Esztergom Basilica on The crozier is normally housed in a safe ing mission to the Anglo-Saxon people, December 29 every year. in the San Gregorio Monastery, in and is therefore a mark of the bond that According to tradition, the saint’s relics Rome, but for the duration of the gather- spiritually unites the Catholic and were taken to Hungary following ing it will be placed in the crypt of Can- Anglican Churches’. Becket’s death by his friend Cardinal terbury Cathedral, where the Primates The Dean of Canterbury, the Very Lukács Bánffy. will meet to pray each day. It will also be on display to the public before being Rev’d Robert Willis, described the loan The visit of the relics is being arranged of the crozier-head as “exciting”. “We flown back to Rome. by Hungary’s embassy in London as are delighted to play our part in the The loan of the crozier-head is an indi- reception and care of such a significant well as by the Church of England and cation of the seriousness with which symbol of the ministry of Pope St Greg- the Catholic Church in England and these talks are being regarded, and not ory and of the authority which first sent Wales. just in the Anglican Communion. The Augustine to England being present here
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Reports from around the world February 2016 compiled by Irene Shorthouse Dr Freier in key role Website of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia 18 January 2016 Melbourne Archbishop Philip Freier, Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia, has been elected to the worldwide Communion’s Primates’ Standing Committee, part of the global Anglican Church’s top consultative group, the Anglican Consultative Council. He was one of five Primates voted on to the committee, by regions, at last week’s meeting of the world’s 38 Anglican Primates at Canterbury, England, called by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. Dr Freier represents the Asia Pacific region of the global church, which claims 85 million members in 165 countries, the world’s third largest Christian group after the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches. Almost two-thirds of those running England's Anglican cathedrals are concerned about their finances BBC 31 January 2016 Of the 38 cathedrals who responded fully [to a BBC survey], 26 said they were "worried" or "very worried" about the future. Last year, the Church of England gave £8.3m to the historic buildings but the cash does not cover all of their needs. Some cathedrals are now looking to new ways of fundraising including hiring the buildings out as venues. Of the 42 Anglican cathedrals in England, 38 are Grade I listed and expensive to maintain - with some absorbing daily running costs of £4,000. The challenge lies in maintaining a balance between needing to raise large sums of money and keeping the building as a spiritual space. Unexpected blessing Anglicans online 28 January 2016 Catholic Culture reported on the recent Vespers service that marked the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. At the end of the ecumenical service, Pope Francis asked an Orthodox and Anglican prelate to join him in conferring the final blessing. Priest, 71, rescued after being lost in -43 C storm on snowmobile trip National Post (Canada) 29 January 2016 A 71-year-old priest who lost his way on a gruelling snowmobile journey to Ontario’s most northern community was found alive after running out of fuel in a -43 C winter storm while returning from a pastoral visit. Moses Kakekaspan, the priest at St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Fort Severn, a remote First Nation’s commu-
nity of 335 on Hudson’s Bay, became lost in a nighttime storm when the headlight on his snowmobile burned out, his satellite phone broke and he eventually ran out of gas. He suffered only mild hypothermia. Dignity for all, says US Primate Church Times 2 February 2016 THE Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, Dr Katharine Jefferts Schori, preached on Sunday at St Paul’s Cathedral, where she urged the congregation to take action against injustice in the world. Dr Jefferts Schori, who was in London to attend a meeting of the Anglican Communion Standing Committee, called on church people to be “ready, willing, and able” to help those who are suffering injustice or indignity. Prophetic work, she said, was “about more abundant life for the whole world, and it is about a home everywhere, a home for all. Prophetic work is about challenging human systems that ignore or deny the innate dignity of all of God’s creation. We lose our dignity when we tolerate indignity for some. The work of the cross is the most life-giving journey we know.” There was a tendency “to insist that some are not worthy of respect, that dignity doesn’t apply to the poor, or to immigrants, or to women, or Muslims, or gay and lesbian people”. The Archbishop of Canterbury is working with other Christian churches to agree on a fixed date for Easter BBC News 15 January
Justin Welby made the announcement after a meeting of primates from the Anglican Communion in Canterbury. In the UK, an act of Parliament passed in 1928 allowed for Easter Sunday to be fixed on the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April. However, this has never been activated and Easter has remained variable, determined by the moon's cycle. Easter is the most important Christian festival, as it celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ following his death by crucifixion on Good Friday. The archbishop said he was in talks with Pope Francis, Coptic leader Pope Tawadros, and the leader of the Orthodox church Patriarch Bartholomew. Mr Welby said he hoped the change would happen "in between five and 10 years time". "I would love to see it before I retired", he said, although he warned the first attempt to make such a change was in the 10th Century. An Anglican source told the BBC “there had been 15 attempts to agree a common date since then”.
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NZ Bishops add voice to euthanasia opposition Anglican Communion News Service 2 February 2016
Nine New Zealand bishops have made a submission to the country’s Parliament urging no change to the law where the “right to die” is concerned. In their written submission the bishops say they believe “that legalising medically-assisted dying will open the gateway to many foreseen and unforeseen consequences which will be damaging to individuals and the social fabric.” The bishops, who include seven serving and two retired members, say they recognise “the great distress of patients, families and friends in the case of some intractable and prolonged terminal illnesses”. They ‘recommend that resources to enhance palliative care and counselling support for both patients and their whanau [family] be increased’. One hour to get out: France bulldozes Calais ‘Jungle’ mosque, church & school RT Question more 1 February 2016
Bulldozers moved in to the ‘jungle’ refugee camp in Calais this morning to demolish the mosque, St Michael's Church and other nearby structures. St Michael's, a small makeshift chapel serving mainly Orthodox Ethiopian Christians among the migrants, was among several parts of the camp that were bulldozed. It became briefly controversial last year when the BBC filmed part of its religious flagship Songs of Praise programme from the camp. Sad to report that the Church has now been demolished despite the Prefecture promises to not touch places of worship. There was just time for a last minute prayer before the machinery tore in. One of the church members stood by in dignified silence, clutching the remaining cross from the Church roof, the charity reported. And despite promises to the contrary, at around 9am the Calais Prefecture also bulldozed the mosque which was in the newly created "buffer zone". Previously they had agreed the mosque, church and school would not be affected during operations to clear a safe space between the camp and the public roads. Hundreds die at St James Anglican Church on Christmas Day Anglicansonline 26 December 2015
The headline in the Orillia Packet and Times actually said that for about two hours before someone noticed the error and revised it to 'Hundreds dine', referring to the Christmas Dinner at St James in Orillia, Diocese of Toronto. We're very happy to learn that it was a small typo and not a large disaster.
Holy Trinity Anglican Church Cnr High & Pakington Streets, Kew P.O. Box 37, Kew, Vic 3101 www.holytrinitykew.org.au email: office@holytrinitykew.org.au
Vicar The Reverend Robert Newton Ph: 9855 063 0408 012 165 email vicar@holytrinitykew.org.au
Associate Clergy The Reverend Rick Cheung The Reverend Helen Granowski The Reverend Robert Holland
Parish Chaplain Pam Hughes Ph: 0418 328 313
Theological Student Leonie Bird
Church Office Mrs Brenda Forman P.O. Box 37, Kew, 3101 Telephone: 9853 7158 Monday & Friday 9—12
Churchwardens David Harkin Ph: 0433 446 183 Barbara Thomson Ph: 9817 7184 Alan Wilson 0414 470 460
Treasurer Marcus Pandy Director of Music & Organist Stephen Kerr Authorised Lay Ministers Leonie Bird Jane Sullivan Andrea Sherko Michael Wong
All the above persons can be contacted through the Parish Office.
If undeliverable, return to: Holy Trinity Anglican Church Cnr. High & Pakington Streets, Kew, 3101
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Services at Holy Trinity WEDNESDAY 11.00am—Eucharist SATURDAY 6.00pm—Eucharist SUNDAY 8.00am—Eucharist SUNDAY 10.00am—Sung Eucharist 10.00am—Family Ministry In the hall, in church on 1st Sunday The Noon Hour: 12noon to 1.00pm Tuesday to Thursday. Healing Service: 11.30am fourth Sunday At Trinity Grammar School Chapel: SUNDAY 10.30am Bilingual Service
EDITOR: Irene Shorthouse Ph: 9882 1692 Email: ireneshorthouse @iprimus.com.au
get it done in time!
We continue to try to find ways of reducing postage costs on Trinity Times so in future, where we know the addressee attends This edition has been put together in haste as church, we will not post out that copy. It will be left at the back of the church for I made a mistake when setting the closing collection. date and managed to take a week off the time I had to prepare it, and I didn’t realise Once again a big thank you to all those who until late in the picture. The Lent/Easter assist in getting TT ready for distribution. edition goes into church on the first Sunday The same group has been doing it for of Lent so that we can have it there for two years—Rosemary Nairn, Anne Loughlin, weeks for collection, then a week bundled Val Batson and Dorothy Soley. Carol Fraser for volunteers to take and deliver, and still is a new, but willing helper. Cynthia Hogg, have time to post out the remaining copies in who was in charge of distribution for many time for people to find out the service times years, is coming to our next session and it for Easter week. will be great to catch-up. My sincere apologies to those people I had Thanks once again to proof-reader Nancy to hassle for input because of my scheduling Sturgess. mistake! I bet you didn’t know that in order to keep My thanks to Blake for going to New postage to the letter rate we now have to Zealand and leaving me to work without flatten those copies being posted out with interruption all the hours I possibly could, to rolling pins!
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