Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost — 13 November 2016

Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pente­cost

13 Novem­ber 2016

Wel­come to our wor­ship this morn­ing

At St Luke’s we seek to share God’s uncon­di­tion­al love and accept­ance of all people, regard­less of age, gender, race, mar­it­al or fam­ily status, sexu­al ori­ent­a­tion,

dis­ab­il­ity or wealth.

It is easy to be con­fused and over­whelmed by a world which seems out of con­trol. But the future of all things is not in our hands, but in God’s. Isai­ah reminded Israel and he reminds us that the LORD will cre­ate new heav­ens and a new earth, the past will be for­got­ten, there will be great rejoicing and the sound of weep­ing and cry­ing shall be no more. There will be life as it is truly meant to be. Come Lord Jesus, come and renew all things.

• Pray that the Lord of peace him­self will give us peace in every way and be with us every day.

• Give thanks for the work of the Epis­copal Church of South Sudan and Sudan’s Health Com­mis­sion, the Edu­ca­tion Com­mis­sion, and the Devel­op­ment and Relief Agency (SUDRA).

Text: Dr Michael Sut­ton
Cat­ech­ist, St Paul’s Anglic­an Church Bur­wood
© Anglic­an Board of Mis­sion, 2016

Introit Hymn: TIS 90 – I’ll praise my maker

The Sen­tence : May the Lord of peace him­self give you peace at all times in all ways. 2 Thes­sa­lo­ni­ans 3.16

The Col­lect:

Lord God of all the ages,
the One who is, who was, and who is to come:
stir up with­in us a long­ing for your king­dom,
keep our hearts steady in times of tri­al,
and grant us patient endur­ance until the Sun of justice dawns.
We make our pray­er through your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spir­it,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

First Read­ing Isai­ah 65.17–25

A read­ing from the book of the proph­et Isai­ah

For I am about to cre­ate new heav­ens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind. But be glad and rejoice for ever in what I am cre­at­ing; for I am about to cre­ate Jer­u­s­alem as a joy, and its people as a delight. I will rejoice in Jer­u­s­alem, and delight in my people; no more shall the sound of weep­ing be heard in it, or the cry of dis­tress. No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a few days, or an old per­son who does not live out a life­time;
for one who dies at a hun­dred years will be con­sidered a youth, and one who falls short of a hun­dred will be con­sidered accursed.

They shall build houses and inhab­it them; they shall plant vine­yards and eat their fruit. They shall not build and anoth­er inhab­it; they shall not plant and anoth­er eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labour in vain, or bear chil­dren for calam­ity; for they shall be off­spring blessed by the Lord —and their des­cend­ants as well.

Before they call I will answer, while they are yet speak­ing I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox; but the serpent—its food shall be dust! They shall not hurt or des­troy on all my holy moun­tain.

For the word of the Lord Thanks be to God

A Song of Isai­ah (said in place of the usu­al psalm)

Priest: ‘Behold, God is my sal­va­tion:
I will trust and will not be afraid;

People: For the Lord God is my strength and my song:
and has become my sal­va­tion.

Priest: With joy you will draw water:
from the wells of sal­va­tion.

People: On that day you will say:
Give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name;

Priest: Make known his deeds among the nations:
pro­claim that his name is exal­ted.

People: Sing God’s praises, who has tri­umphed glor­i­ously:
let this be known in all the world.

Priest: Shout and sing for joy, you that dwell in Zion:
for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.’

Glory to God; Fath­er Son and Holy Spir­it.
As in the begin­ning so now; and for ever. Amen.

Second Read­ing 2 Thes­sa­lo­ni­ans 3.6–13

A read­ing from Paul’s Second let­ter to the Thes­sa­lo­ni­ans

Now we com­mand you, beloved, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from believ­ers who are liv­ing in idle­ness and not accord­ing to the tra­di­tion that they received from us. For you yourselves know how you ought to imit­ate us; we were not idle when we were with you, and we did not eat anyone’s bread without pay­ing for it; but with toil and labour we worked night and day, so that we might not bur­den any of you. This was not because we do not have that right, but in order to give you an example to imit­ate. For even when we were with you, we gave you this com­mand: Any­one unwill­ing to work should not eat. For we hear that some of you are liv­ing in idle­ness, mere busy­bod­ies, not doing any work. Now such per­sons we com­mand and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own liv­ing. Broth­ers and sis­ters, do not be weary in doing what is right.

For the word of the Lord Thanks be to God

Gos­pel Pro­ces­sion:

Gos­pel Acclam­a­tion

Alle­lu­ia, Alle­lu­ia, Alle­lu­ia, Alle­lu­ia,
Lift up your | heads and | see;
your re | demp­tion is | near at | hand.
Alle­lu­ia, Alle­lu­ia, Alle­lu­ia, Alle­lu­ia.

The Gos­pel Luke 21.5–19

The Gos­pel of our Lord Jesus Christ accord­ing to Luke

Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ

When some were speak­ing about the temple, how it was adorned with beau­ti­ful stones and gifts ded­ic­ated to God, he said, ‘As for these things that you see, the days will come when not one stone will be left upon anoth­er; all will be thrown down.’ They asked him, ‘Teacher, when will this be, and what will be the sign that this is about to take place?’ And he said, ‘Beware that you are not led astray; for many will come in my name and say, “I am he!” and, “The time is near!” Do not go after them. ‘When you hear of wars and insur­rec­tions, do not be ter­ri­fied; for these things must take place first, but the end will not fol­low immediately.’ Then he said to them, ‘Nation will rise against nation, and king­dom against king­dom; there will be great earth­quakes, and in vari­ous places fam­ines and plagues; and there will be dread­ful portents and great signs from heav­en. ‘But before all this occurs, they will arrest you and per­se­cute you; they will hand you over to syn­agogues and pris­ons, and you will be brought before kings and gov­ernors because of my name. This will give you an oppor­tun­ity to testi­fy. So make up your minds not to pre­pare your defence in advance; for I will give you words and a wis­dom that none of your oppon­ents will be able to with­stand or con­tra­dict. You will be betrayed even by par­ents and broth­ers, by rel­at­ives and friends; and they will put some of you to death. You will be hated by all because of my name. But not a hair of your head will per­ish. By your endur­ance you will gain your souls.

For the Gos­pel of the Lord Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ

Hymn after Ser­mon: TIS 459 – In Christ where is no east or west

Pray­er for our Par­ish

God of Love,

God of Mis­sion
You alone bring growth to your Church.
Send to us your Holy Spir­it — to give-
Vis­ion for our plan­ning,
Wis­dom in our actions,
And power to our wit­ness.
Help our church to grow in num­bers,
In spir­itu­al com­mit­ment to you
And in ser­vice to our loc­al com­munity.

Offer­tory Hymn: TIS 414 – There’s a spir­it in the air

Hymn dur­ing Com­mu­nion:

Final Hymn: TIS 416 – Great God, your spir­it

THE NOTICES

Today our vis­it­ing speak­er is Lien Pham, from the “Christmas Bowl” — Act for Peace for the Inter­na­tion­al Aid Agency Nation­al Coun­cil of Churches in Aus­tralia. Each Christ­mas we encour­age parish­ion­ers to donate to this worthy cause and Lien will speak about the work accom­plished through your gen­er­ous dona­tions.

War­dens Meet­ing is also on today in the Emmaus Room after morn­ing tea.

Toys & Tucka for Angli­care will be col­lec­ted on Tues­day 6 Decem­ber. We need to start think­ing about bring­ing in our gifts, Sunday by Sunday. No chocol­ates please or any­thing that is per­ish­able. Vari­ous toys, canned goods or pack­et foods are most accept­able.

Tues­day 15 Novem­ber at 7.30 pm- Our Bible Stud­ies have resumed at the Bradford’s home — 5 Lin­coln Street — and we are look­ing at the Book of Daniel. The study book is avail­able at the Book­stall for $15.

Com­bined Advent Stud­ies on John the Baptist (Locusts and Wild Honey), in 4 Parts. Starts at 7:00 p.m. on: We are join­ing with loc­al churches as is our cus­tom.
22 Novem­ber, St Josephs Cath­ol­ic Church, cnr Bed­ford & Sta­tion Sts New­town;
29 Novem­ber , St Lukes Church Enmore;
6 Decem­ber, St Lukes Church Enmore:
13 Decem­ber, Met­ro­pol­it­an Com­munity Church, 96 Crys­tal St Peter­sham.

Sat­urday 26 Novem­ber – Christ­mas Mar­ket. This year we are encour­aging great­er com­munity engage­ment and par­ti­cip­a­tion. If you know of any­one who would like to rent a stall or sell goods at our mar­ket, please con­tact Jen­nie Win­ton.

Christ­mas Hamper Raffle for Christ­mas Mar­ket
We need dona­tions of goods to place in the Christ­mas hamper which will be raffled dur­ing the Christ­mas Mar­ket. There is a bas­ket in the church foy­er where you can place deli­cious items for the hamper. Any ques­tions? Text or phone Julie Olston on 0400 650 676.

Monday 5 Decem­ber at 6 p.m. – The Feast of Nich­olas Fer­rar is cel­eb­rated by the Oratory of the Good Shep­herd at CCSL. Euchar­ist with refresh­ments to fol­low.

Book­stall News – We have cop­ies in stock of John Bunyan’s Reflec­tions and 24 Songs for a Reas­on­able Reform­a­tion: Beauty and Truth $12; also Keith Mascord’s Faith without Fear $30; and Jesus I have loved, but Paul? a Nar­rat­ive Approach to the Prob­lem of Pau­line Chris­tian­ity by J R Daniel Kirk. We have 2017 Cal­en­dars fea­tur­ing beau­ti­ful pho­to­graphs of Aus­trali­an Anglic­an Churches – only $10 each, and the 2017 Lec­tion­ar­ies have arrived.

Wanted – anoth­er team to do hos­pit­al­ity. The Camp­tons are leav­ing us for Cairns in Decem­ber and we need at least two more people to replace them on this roster. It is not a dif­fi­cult job! Please speak with Ruth about help­ing out.

Our Web­site www.stlukesenmore.org.au

Our web­site is being con­stantly updated by Fr Philip (ser­mons) and Angela Bell (weekly bul­let­ins and events). Have you taken a look recently? Your feed­back would be appre­ci­ated.

Please wear your name badge for the con­veni­ence of oth­ers!

Advance Notice

THEATRE PARTY
A NEW Aus­trali­an Music­al LADIES IN BLACK. Star City Lyr­ic Theatre — 8 pm Wed­nes­day 18 Janu­ary Cost $80. Let John Roe know by 13 Novem­ber if you are inter­ested 0400955772 or jroe@bigpond.net.au

Bible Read­ings for the Week 14^th to 20^th Novem­ber 2016

Next Sunday’s Read­ings – Christ the King, The Reign of Christ

Jeremi­ah 23.1–6
A Song of Zechari­ah (APBA. P. 10 or 425)
Colos­si­ans 1.11–20
Luke 23.33–43

Treasurer’s Report Janu­ary to Septem­ber 2016

Par­ish Inform­a­tion www.stlukesenmore.org.au ABN.78 161 584 893.

SUNDAY WORSHIP:

Sung Euchar­ist and Chil­dren’s Min­istry at 9.30 am fol­lowed by hos­pit­al­ity in the hall. Thai Com­munity meets in the Chapel after morn­ing tea. Enquir­ies to Aman­da Mason 0407 101 382.

WEEKDAY SERVICES:

Wed­nes­day 9.30 a.m. — Morn­ing Pray­er; 10.00 a.m. Euchar­ist (fol­lowed by morn­ing tea)
Fri­day 8.30 a.m. – Morn­ing Pray­er

CONFESSIONS (Sac­ra­ment of Recon­cili­ation) HOME COMMUNIONS, BAPTISMS, & MARRIAGES by arrange­ment.

Rect­or - Fr Philip Brad­ford — 0431 655 220 (Mob)
Office Ph 9557 4219 PO Box 64. Enmore NSW 2042
Par­ish email: rector@stlukesenmore.org.au
Fr Philip: bradford.pr@gmail.com

Pas­tor­al Care
Lay-Min­is­ters — Part Time – Lea MacNeil & Aman­da Mason.