St Paul s Anglican Church

St Paul s Anglican Church A caring community of Christ worshipping God, engaging the community and building connections between people of all ages and cultures. 2 Margaret Street, P.O. Box 352, Canterbury Vic 3126 Tel: 9830 0729 Website: www.stpaulscanterbury.org.au Church Office: office@stpaulscanterbury.org.au 2 nd of April, 2017 Fifth Sunday in Lent Prayer of the Day: Life-giving God, your Son came into the world to free us all from sin and death: breathe upon us with the power of your Spirit, that we may be raised to new life in Christ, and serve you in holiness and righteousness all our days; through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Prayer: A Prayer Book for Australia. Image: http://www.abcgallery.com/r/rembrandt/rembrandt109.html Hymns: 405 (Instrumental) 409 351 Psalm: 130 (responsorial) Anthem: In Monte Oliveti by C.B. Martini Postlude: Fantasia in G major BWV 1 571 1st. movt. Allegro by J.S. Bach

Notices of the Day Welcome to worship and to our St Paul s Faith Community. Prayer Corner: Great Spirit, we remember the land and its First People with respect and dignity. May we live in harmony with all those who share this sacred earth and be thankful. Amen. We pray for the World: For those who mourn loved ones, for the injured and distressed, and for all those committed to the work of peace; and For the communities affected by Cyclone Debbie in QLD, NSW and overseas. We pray for the worldwide Church: Diocese of Mityana; The Diocese of Bunbury; Hume Anglican Grammar School; St Thomas Winchelsea with Holy Trinity Barrabool and St Paul's Deans Marsh; St John s Highton Confirmation Service; St Aidan s, Strathmore Leading your Church into Growth Service; Parish of Mount Dandenong Pastoral Visit; Interfaith Event Hindu Council of Australia in Victoria; and Canterbury Baptist Rev d Gordon Wild. We pray for ourselves & Community: Ever-present God, take care of all who travel by land, water or air; surround them with your loving care; protect them from every danger; and bring them safely back home. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. A Parish Prayer for St Paul s: Renew in us, O God, the zeal of your love. Let our parish come alive with the power of your Spirit. Where we have failed, forgive us. Where we have persevered, encourage us. When we are in doubt, direct us. Help us to see new opportunities for witness and service. For the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Parish Council Members for 2017: Please keep our parish councillors in your prayers: Andrew Flint (warden), Jeremy Bishop (warden), Liz Olie (warden), Todd Reichmann (treasurer), Caroline Cox, Rose O Shea, Rosemary Miller, Alex Murray, John De Araugo and Nick Scott. We pray for those in need: Joan Harrington-Johnson; Anne Shaw (Helen s mum); Bob Thompson; Margaret Clausen; Annabel; Iris Mather; Cecelia Irvine-So; Tricia Cain; +John and Anne Bayton; Gwen Towart; Hilary Chapman (Sue Chapman s daughter); We give thanks for the lives of: Iddin; Mervyn Irvine 2 April 1993 Ken Roberts (Deb Riley s dad); Harry Sadler 2 April 2015 Trish (friend of Jan H); Diana Barclay; Ruby Louise Dodds 5 April 1997 Patricia Anderson; Kenneth Clarence Raymer 8 April 1987 David Bishop (Jeremy s dad); Julia s family (Helen Gray s daughter); Pat Watson (Susanne s mum); Lana and her mum; Shirley Lowthian (Lexie and Rose s great-grandma and Lee s nanny); and Georgie Paulson. Notice Gluten free wafers are available upon request. 2

Parish Events for the Week This Sunday 8.00am 10.00am 2.00-5.00pm 3.00-5.00pm 2 nd of April: Fifth Sunday in Lent Eucharist Sung Eucharist; followed by morning tea in the Parish Centre Private booking, Parish Centre Musical Society of Victoria, Church Monday 3 rd Susanne s Sabbath; Richard of Chichester, bishop 9.30 10.30am Yoga, Parish Centre Tuesday 4 th 8.45-9.15am Morning Ecumenical Prayer Canterbury Baptist 10.30am-12.00pmTuesday Circle, Women s Group, Parish Centre 7.30-10.00pm Parish Council Meeting, Parish Centre 7.00-9.00pm Men s Spirituality Group, Parish Centre Upper Room Wednesday 5 th 10.00-10.30am 5.00-6.00pm 6.00-7.00pm 7.00-8.30pm Wednesday Eucharist, Church Meditation, Church Yoga, Parish Centre Tae Kwon Do, Hall Thursday 6 th Frederi Barker, bishop of Sydney and pioneer of theological education and the General Synod 10.00am-12.00pmOrgan Recital, Church 7.30-9.30pm Choir practice, Church Friday 7 th 8.45-11.00am Saturday 8 th Next Sunday 8.00am 10.00am Tiny Tutus, Hall Georgiana Molloy, pioneer church leader and botanist from Western Australia 9 th of April: Palm Sunday Eucharist* Sung Eucharist*; followed by morning tea in the Parish Centre *Please note that we start the service outside, by the Cross 3

Readings & Psalm Ezekiel 37.1-14 1 The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me all round them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. 3 He said to me, Mortal, can these bones live? I answered, O Lord God, you know. 4 Then he said to me, Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. 6 I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord. 7 So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8 I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them. 9 Then he said to me, Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath: Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. 10 I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on their feet, a vast multitude. 11 Then he said to me, Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely. 12 Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people. 14 I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken and will act, says the Lord. Responsorial Psalm: Insert Romans 8.6-11 6 To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God s law indeed it cannot, 8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you. John 11.1-45 1 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. 3 So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, Lord, he whom you love is ill. 4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it. 5 Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, 6 after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. 4

7 Then after this he said to the disciples, Let us go to Judea again. 8 The disciples said to him, Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and are you going there again? 9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk during the day do not stumble, because they see the light of this world. 10 But those who walk at night stumble, because the light is not in them. 11 After saying this, he told them, Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to awaken him. 12 The disciples said to him, Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be all right. 13 Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was referring merely to sleep. 14 Then Jesus told them plainly, Lazarus is dead. 15 For your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him. 16 Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow-disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him. 17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, 19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. 20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home. 21 Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him. 23 Jesus said to her, Your brother will rise again. 24 Martha said to him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day. 25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this? 27 She said to him, Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world. 28 When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, and told her privately, The Teacher is here and is calling for you. 29 And when she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him. 30 Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. 31 The Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly and go out. They followed her because they thought that she was going to the tomb to weep there. 32 When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. 34 He said, Where have you laid him? They said to him, Lord, come and see. 35 Jesus began to weep. 36 So the Jews said, See how he loved him! 37 But some of them said, Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying? 38 Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. 39 Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead for four days. 40 Jesus said to her, Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God? 41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upwards and said, Father, I thank you for having heard me. 42 I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me. 43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come out! 44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, Unbind him, and let him go. 45 Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him. Next Week s Readings: Palm Sunday Isaiah 50.4-9a Psalm 31.9-18 Philippians 2.5-11 Matthew 26.14-27.66 5

Notices and Parish News: Coming up: April: 4 th Parish Council meeting (one week early) 9 th Palm Sunday 8am Eucharist 10am Procession of the Cross & Eucharist 12 th Wednesday 7.30pm Tenebrae Service 13 th Maundy Thursday 7.30pm Eucharist, Foot Washing & Vigil 14 th Good Friday 10am Good Friday Liturgy 12pm Ecumenical Service in Highfield Park 16 th Easter Sunday 6.30am 10.00am Dawn Eucharist with Lighting of the New Fire and Renewal of Baptismal Vows Sung Eucharist with Renewal of Baptismal Vows and Easter Egg Hunt for Children The new TMA is now available in the Narthex. Confirmation with Bishop Paul Barker at Patronal Festival If you are interested in being confirmed, baptised as an adult or received into the Anglican Church this year, please see Susanne. Classes will begin in the first week of May. Tuesday Circle Tuesdays, April 4 and 18 The Women s Group, Tuesday Circle, will be meeting in the Parish Centre on Tuesday, April 4 and 18. We look forward to seeing you all there! Lay Participation Roster April 9 Would those on the Lay Participation Roster please let Ruth Hudnott know of any unavailability from April 23 to June 25, inclusive, by Sunday April 9. Reminder! If you are the last to leave the parish centre or office, don t forget to lock up! Parking: Please be considerate of our neighbours when parking. Remember to leave enough space for them to get into their driveways. Child Safe: We take children s safety seriously at St Paul s. If you have any concerns as to the safety of a child in the parish please see Susanne or one of the wardens; Andrew Flint, Jeremy Bishop and Liz Olie. Offertory Envelopes: Now available in the narthex. St Paul s Direct Debit: St Paul s Anglican Church Canterbury - BSB 633 000 A/C 1191 99941. 6

Car Boot Sale/ Parish Open Day: Diary Date: Lock it In! May 6 On Saturday 6 May we are holding our Car Boot Sale-Parish Open Day. This year s intention is to have a lower key event but still provide an opportunity for people to visit our lovely church and help our finances. Are you interested in Raising Funds for St Pauls while helping to Educate young Pharmacy Students? May 25, 9.30am Monash University is seeking 25 parishioners to help teach pharmacy students what it s like to deal with real people! In exchange for a half an hour discussion about your attitudes to medicine, pharmacist or the healthcare industry (with a group of 5 students) Monash will supply a scrumptious morning tea and tidy donation to the parish. When: May 25, 9:30am Where: the Monash Parkville campus (381 Royal Parade) Contact (ASAP): Laura Kaspen (Dean) Mobile: 0417 344566 Parish Financials Overall in the first 5 months of the financial year we are in line with budget, however total giving and fundraising are more than $10,000 below budget and below previous year. Please consider your giving and ensure any direct debit arrangements are still up to date. If you would like to confirm any details related to your giving please send an email to treasurer.stpaulscanterbury@gmail.com Actual YTD Budget YTD Variance Total giving 63,104 69,700 (6,596) Fundraising 4,330 8,000 (3,670) Other church income 2,292 2,000 292 Rent and investments 26,973 26,492 481 Donations for mission 5,434-5,434 TOTAL INCOME 102,132 106,192 (4,060) Church ministry costs 40,006 40,990 984 Parish support costs 31,549 33,229 1,680 Property costs 18,755 23,993 5,238 Mission 4,984 1,669 (3,315) TOTAL EXPENSES 95,295 99,882 4,587 NET INCOME 6,837 6,310 527 Pew Sheet Deadline: Please ensure notices for the pew sheet are in the office by 5pm on Wednesday. Thank you! 7

St Paul s Ministry Teams: This Week s Ministry Team 2 nd of April: Fifth Sunday in Lent 8am Sidesperson Di Gurney Next Week s Ministry Team 9 th of April: Palm Sunday 8am Sidesperson Rosemary O Shea Reader Liturgical Asst Gillian Jensen Bert Lillywhite Reader Liturgical Asst Rosemary O Shea N/A Flowers Brass N/A Margaret Irvine and Gwenda Harding Flowers Brass N/A Margaret Irvine and Gwenda Harding 10am Sidespersons Lois Latimer and Charles Harrington-J 10am Sidespersons Jill and Stuart Bales Children s Talk N/A Children s Talk N/A Sunday School N/A Sunday School N/A Assistant N/A Assistant N/A J2A N/A J2A N/A Reader Julie Houghton Reader Margaret Capper Intercessor Ros White Intercessor Jonathan Chambers Welcomer All Welcomer All Liturgical Asst Tom Lambert Liturgical Asst Rowan Litchfield Server Gill Lambert Server Leanne Richmann Refreshments Sue and Andrew Flint Refreshments Gail White and Iris Mather Collection Counters Graham Scott and Diana Coultas Collection Counters Malcolm White and Liz Olie Parish Priest: Reverend Susanne Chambers 9830 0729 vicar@stpaulscanterbury.org.au 0405 758 776 Director of Music: Trevor Henley 9889 8887 Organist: Greg Ellsmore 0411 383 551 Pastoral Lay Coordinators: Rowan Litchfield 0419 54 70 88 Sue Flint 0419 316 931 Vicar s Warden: Liz Olie 0402 756 660 Church Warden: Andrew Flint 0419 313 047 Jeremy Bishop 0413 313 948 8