Today

8:00am…...

Food Collection for St Alban’s Pantry and St Mark’s Pantry Fitzroy Eucharist followed by coffee at

10:00am

4.30pm

5.00pm

Sung Eucharist with Holy Baptism Olivia Rose Kirkby followed by refreshments in the hall. Interment of ashes of the late Roger Nicholson.

Meditation and Eucharist

Tuesday 9.00am Cabrini Ministry

Thursday 10.15am

7.00pm

Eucharist

Choir Practice

Welcome to St George’s

St George’s Anglican Church | Malvern

Third Sunday in Lent Yr C 24 March 2019

Practical Information & Today’s Music.....Page 2

Reading Sheets.........................................................Pages 3 - 6

Parish Information / Notices...........................Pages 6 - 8

Please welcome our new Parish Office Administrators, Mrs Katie Ferguson and Ms Fleur Michael. They are job-sharing this

position with Katie working Mon, Tues & Thurs, and Fleur working Wed. and Fri. We are fortunate that both bring a wealth of experience to this role

in the Parish and look forward to working with them.

Today we farewell The Reverend Jacqui Smith who has been the Curate since 2015 and who will be commissioned as Priest

in Charge of St Stephen’s Bayswater at 7.30pm on 8 May.

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Please note the Lenten changes to the liturgy which are on the insert sheet. The psalm is sung to Anglican Chant and music is

provided for your participation. Copies of the Lenten mass setting are also available at the entrance bench.

HYMNS: 621 136 559 463

SETTING: Lenten Setting Nixon

PSALM 63: 1-9 Chant: Parratt (see insert sheet)

ANTHEM: Like as the Hart Howells

POSTLUDE: O Gott, du frommer Gott Brahms

HEARING AID LOOP

Please adjust your T Switch for hearing.

VISITORS are most welcome at St George’s. Please introduce yourself to the clergy. Gluten free wafers are available; please advise the clergy or a welcomer before the service. CAR PARKING for worship services. It would be appreciated if you leave the car spaces closest to the Church for the less agile worshippers. It helps older parishioners if you park behind the Church when coming to worship, unless you need to be closer.

Sundays 8:00am Eucharist 10:00am Sung Eucharist

5:00pm Meditation & Eucharist

Weekdays 9:00am Morning Prayer in St Martin ’s Chapel

Thursdays 10:15am Eucharist

The service begins on page 119 of the green Prayer Book.

St George’s Anglican Church | Malvern

Third Sunday in Lent 24 March 2019 Sentence. Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near. Isaiah 55.6 Collect Brooding Spirit, beneath your wings there is creation and life: accompany us on the difficult path with the disappeared and the broken, the fearful and the vengeful, until we find the way to the city of our peace where we are accepted as we are; through the cross of Jesus Christ, our only Lord. Amen. A reading from the book of the prophet Isaiah This Hebrew poem probably dates to the return from exile in Babylon and looks ahead to Israel’s restoration. Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. See, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. See, you shall call nations that you do not know, and nations that do not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel,

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for he has glorified you. Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous their thoughts; let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55.1-9 Reader For the word of the Lord All Thanks be to God Psalm 63.1-9 APBA Page 284 10am see insert sheet A song of trust; the psalmist sings of humanity’s ‘thirst’ for God and echoes of the feast in the Isaiah reading are heard. A reading from the first letter of Paul to the Corinthians Paul draws an analogy with Israel in the wilderness and the new community of Jesus’ followers, and finds in the Exodus story types of the two major Christian sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist: the children of Israel were baptized when they passed through the cloud and through the Red Sea, and they were nourished with spiritual food and drink by the manna and the water from the rock in the wilderness. I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were bap-tized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spir-itual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wil-derness. Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did. Do not become idolaters as some of them did; as it is written, ‘The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.’ We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. We must not put Christ* to the

test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents. And do not complain as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer. These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down to instruct us, on whom the ends of the ages have come. So if you think you are standing, watch out that you do not fall. No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it. 1 Corinthians 10.1-13 Reader May your word live in us, ALL And bear much fruit to your glory. Gospel Acclamation ALL Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus. Jesus told the Pharisees, ‘On the third day

I will finish my work,’ ALL Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus. Reader The Lord be with you. ALL And also with you. Reader A reading from the holy gospel according to Luke. ALL Glory to you Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus’ reference to the impossibility of a prophet being killed outside Jerusa-lem is ironic. That is precisely where the prophets died, and where he must go despite the danger. Jesus laments over the city which will not listen to God – yet again. Some Pharisees came and said to Jesus, ‘Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.’ He said to them, ‘Go and tell that fox for me, “Listen, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I finish my work. Yet today, tomorrow, and the next day I must be on my way, because it is impossible for a prophet to be killed away from Jerusalem.” Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! See, your house is left to you. And I tell you, you will not see me until the time comes when you say, “Blessed is the one who comes in the

name of the Lord.” ’ Luke 13.31.-35

Reader For the Gospel of the Lord ALL Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ

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Bible Readings next week Fourth Sunday in Lent Refreshment/Mothering Sunday with distribution of Simnel Cake. Joshua 5.2-12 Ps 32 2 Corinthians 5.16-21 Luke 15.11-32 Prayer for the Week Lord God, our Redeemer, who heard the cry of your people and sent your servant Moses to lead them out of slavery: free us from the tyranny of sin and death and, by the leading of your Spirit, bring us to our promised land; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Pray for the Faithful Departed. We remember before God: Mary Newton; Laura Gregory; Violet Mansell; Robert Howard; Margaret (Peg) Horsburgh; Marie Perry; Estelle Gregory; Helen Lilias McGee; Myrtle Hill; Dianne Mercer; Diana Smith and Alice Mary Johnson, whose anniversaries occur this week. Commemorations of the week: March 25. The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This key story is related in Luke 1.26-38, and celebrated in the art of all the peoples who have become Christian. March 29 John Keble (1792-1866) one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, a poet, hymn writer and a man of great learning and holiness of character. Thoughts on today’s gospel passage for the future church from Journey with Jesus <www.journeywithjesus.net> What would it take for us to embrace Jesus’s vulnerability as our strength? To trade in our images of a conquering God for the mother hen God of this lectionary passage? Maybe what we need most this Lent is not a fox-like divinity who wields his power with sly intelligence and sharp teeth, but a mother hen who calls to us with longing and desperation, her wings held patiently and bravely open. A mother hen who plants herself in the hot centre of her children’s terror, and offers refuge there. There at ground zero, where the feathers fly and the blood is shed. I’ve seen mother hens gather their chicks under their wings when a predator approaches. The way they swell with indignation, fear, and courage. The way they stand their ground. The way they prepare to die if they have to, their children tucked securely beneath their soft, vulnerable bodies. I can’t imagine a more profound or radical picture of our God. Can you?

Dates for your diary.

The Vicar’s last Sunday will be 28 April, The Second Sunday of Easter and a lunch will follow the 10am Sunday Eucharist. Further details soon.

Looking ahead…. Fourth Sunday in Lent—Mothering Sunday 31 March Simnel cake will be distributed at every service. Palm Sunday 14 April with distribution of palm crosses. Maundy Thursday 18 April 7.30pm New Fire, Vigil and First Eucharist of Easter Good Friday 19 April 10am Easter Eve 20 April 7.30pm Easter Day 21 April 8am, 10am & 5pm.

*************************************** From the Churchwardens and Incumbency Committee….. We are in the process of finalising a locum from early May. A parish consultation will be held in May about the future needs and direction of the Parish, to inform a Parish Profile that will be used for the search for a new Vicar. The Incumbency Committee is likely to be convened in late May, although the next Vicar will be an Archbishop’s appointment and will take time. Churchwardens: Jenny Newton, Ravi Renjen & Malcolm Tadgell Incumbency Committee parish members: Judy Mallinson, Bryan Elmes and Malcolm Tadgell, with Bp Geneive Blackwell, Archdeacon Howard Langmead and a clergy representative.

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PARISH DIRECTORY: 296 Glenferrie Road, Malvern VIC 3144 VICAR: The Reverend Dr Colleen O’Reilly Phone: 9822 3030 Email: vicar@stgeorgesmalvern.org

ASSOCIATE PRIEST:

The Revd Jacqui Smith 0410 855 300

Phone: 9822 3030 Email: curate@stgeorgesmalvern.org

HONORARY ASSOCIATE PRIEST : The Revd Bill Michie

ORGANIST & DIRECTOR OF MUSIC Elizabeth-Anne Nixon Email: music@stgeorgesmalvern.org CHURCH OFFICE Mondays to Fridays: 9:30am-12:30pm Phone: 9822 3030 Email: office@stgeorgesmalvern.org Parish Office Administrators: Katie Ferguson (Mon, Tues, Thurs) & Fleur Michael (Wed & Fri) WARDENS: Jenny Newton 9570 7731 Ravi Renjen 0412 399 897 Malcolm Tadgell 0400 799 030

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