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St Edward’s Anglican Church
Corner Collick Street and Holmes Place, Hilton
Holy Communion:
9.00am Sunday
Includes Sunday School during school term
Morning Prayer:
9.00 am Every Thursday Morning
We seek to be a church that loves God, our local community
and each other, in the same loving way as Christ loves us.
SUNDAY 22nd MARCH 2015
FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT
Welcome to our worship this morning.
Our service today begins on p.119 of the green Prayer Book.
Please join us for morning tea after the service.
SUNDAY 22ND MARCH 2015
FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT
SUNDAY 29th MARCH 2015
Palm Sunday
Welcomer
First Reading
Olive
Jeremiah 31:3134
Psalm
Second Reading
119:9-16
Hebrews 5:5-14
Nathan
Gospel
John 12:20-35
Revd
Terry
Bruce
Preacher
Priest
Intercessions
Ann F
LPM/LA
Graeme
Morning Tea
Ann F & Nyasha
S. School
Yvonne
Musician
Margret
Offering Counters: Geoff & Brian
Welcomer
First Reading
Sam (Graeme)
Isaiah 50:4-9a
Psalm
Second
Reading
Gospel
118:1-2+19-29
Preacher
Intercessions
LPM/LA
Morning Tea
S. School
Musician
Archie & Gaye
Priest
Terry M
Lesley
Kate & Jane
Yvonne
Elizabeth
Brian
Philippians
2:5-11
Christine
Mark 11:1-11
Revd Terry
Sunday Offerings
Needed to balance our weekly budget:
Last week’s offering:
Monthly offering Amarna Living
Offerings from electronic funds transfer:
St Edward’s Bank Account: BSB 706-001 A/c No. 30003545
$625.00
$784.00
$
$
St Edward’s Prayers and Thanksgivings
 Pray for our church: That we will continue to grow and flourish.
 Please pray for Bill who is hospital due to his illness, that God will comfort him and
give him the peace that passes all understanding. Pray also for Lily as she spends her
time with Henry, her son, that God will comfort her in this time of uncertainty.
 Please pray for Kirsty’s sister Rachael, that God will heal her and bring her back to
good health. Pray also for Rachael’s sister Kirsty and their family that they will know
and feel God’s peace during this stressful time.
 Please pray for Tom who keeps an eye on our church who has had a set back in his
healing that God will heal him and bring him back to good health. Please pray for
Tom’s wife Margy and their family that they may know God’s peace and feel His love
during this stressful time.
 Please Pray for Harold, Mercy’s husband, who is in hospital, that God will heal his
breathing problems.
 Please Pray for the persecuted church in other lands
THE READINGS FOR THIS WEEK
Jeremiah 31:31-34
31
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the
house of Israel and the house of Judah. 32It will not be like the covenant that I made with
their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a
covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. 33But this is the
covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put
my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they
shall be my people. 34No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, ‘Know
the Lord’, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord;
for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.
Hebrews 5:5-14
5
So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a high priest, but was appointed by the
one who said to him, ‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you’; 6as he says also in
another place, ‘You are a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’ 7 In the
days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to
the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent
submission. 8Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; 9and
having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,
10
having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. 11
About this we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become dull in
understanding. 12For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to
teach you again the basic elements of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food;
13
for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the word of
righteousness. 14But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been
trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.
John 12:20-35
20
Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. 21They
came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, ‘Sir, we wish to see
Jesus.’ 22Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.
23
Jesus answered them, ‘The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24Very
truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single
grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 25Those who love their life lose it, and those who
hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26Whoever serves me must follow
me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will
honour. 27 ‘Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say—“Father, save me from this
hour”? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. 28Father, glorify your name.’
Then a voice came from heaven, ‘I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.’ 29The
crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, ‘An angel has
spoken to him.’ 30Jesus answered, ‘This voice has come for your sake, not for mine. 31Now
is the judgement of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. 32And I,
when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.’ 33He said this to
indicate the kind of death he was to die. 34The crowd answered him, ‘We have heard from
the law that the Messiah remains for ever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be
lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?’ 35Jesus said to them, ‘The light is with you for a little
longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. If you
walk in the darkness, you do not know where you are going.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
 Mainly Music: 9:30am Every Tuesday morning
 Sunday School: Every Sunday morning during school term
 Morning Prayer: Every Thursday morning at 9.00am
 Singing Group: Every 1st, 2nd & 4th Thursdays @ 6:00pm. Contact: Kirsty on
0423 549 090 or kirst_hulka@hotmail.com
 March 28th : 7:30am Sausage sizzle @ Bunnings
 March 29th : Palm Sunday
 April 2nd : Maundy Thursday
 April 3rd : Good Friday
TAKING FAITH HOME . . . 22nd MARCH 2015
Daily Bible Readings:
John 12:20-33
The grain of wheat that dies
Sunday
Romans 5:6-11
Christ died for us
Monday
Romans
5:12-19
Many made righteous
Tuesday
He died for all
Wednesday 2 Corinthians 5:14-19
Hebrews 2:9-15
Bringing many to glory
Thursday
Hebrews 9:24-28
He takes away the sins of many
Friday
Isaiah 53:4-6,10-12
He bore the sins of many
Saturday
Mark 11:1-11
Jesus enters Jerusalem
Sunday
Scripture Verse for this Week: “I tell you for certain that a grain of wheat that
falls on the ground will never be more than one grain unless it dies. But if it dies, it will
produce lots of wheat.”
JOHN 12:24
Developed by Pastor Greg Priebbeno
Book of Common Prayer
Resourced from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Reformation
Further attempts at revision
1662–1832
Between 1662 and the 19th century, further attempts to revise the Book in England stalled
On the death of Charles II, his brother James, a Roman Catholic, became James II. James
wished to achieve toleration for those of his own Roman Catholic faith, whose practices
were still banned. This, however, drew the Presbyterians closer to the Church of England
in their common desire to resist 'popery'; talk of reconciliation and liturgical compromise
was thus in the air. But with the flight of James in 1688 and the arrival of the Calvinist
William of Orange the position of the parties changed. The Presbyterians could achieve
toleration of their practices without such a right being given to Roman Catholics and
without, therefore, their having to submit to the Church of England, even with a liturgy
more acceptable to them. They were now in a much stronger position to demand changes
that were ever more radical. John Tillotson, Dean of Canterbury pressed the king to set up
a commission to produce such a revision (Fawcett 1973, p. 26). The so-called Liturgy of
Comprehension of 1689, which was the result, conceded two thirds of the Presbyterian
demands of 1661; but, when it came to convocation the members, now more fearful of
William's perceived agenda, did not even discuss it and its contents were, for a long time,
not even accessible (Fawcett 1973, p. 45). This work, however, did go on to influence the
prayer books of many British colonies.
1833–1906
By the 19th century, pressures to revise the 1662 book were increasing. Adherents of the
Oxford Movement, begun in 1833, raised questions about the relationship of the Church of
England to the apostolic church and thus about its forms of worship. Known as Tractarians
after their production of Tracts for the Times on theological issues, they advanced the case
for the Church of England being essentially a part of the "Western Church", of which the
Roman Catholic Church was the chief representative. The illegal use of elements of the
Roman rite, the use of candles, vestments and incense – practices collectively known as
Ritualism – had become widespread and led to the establishment of a new system of
discipline, intending to bring the "Romanisers" into conformity, through the Public
Worship Regulation Act 1874 (Carpenter 1933, p. 234). The Act had no effect on illegal
practices: five clergy were imprisoned for contempt of court and after the trial of the much
loved Bishop Edward King of Lincoln, it became clear that some revision of the liturgy
had to be embarked upon (Carpenter 1933, p. 246).
One branch of the Ritualism movement argued that both "Romanisers" and their
Evangelical opponents, by imitating, respectively, the Church of Rome and Reformed
churches, transgressed the Ornaments Rubric of 1559 ("...that such Ornaments of the
Church, and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained,
and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the
Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth"). These adherents of ritualism,
among whom were Percy Dearmer and others, claimed that the Ornaments Rubric
prescribed the ritual usages of the Sarum Rite with the exception of a few minor things
already abolished by the early reformation.
Following a Royal Commission report in 1906, work began on a new prayer book. It took
twenty years to complete, prolonged partly due to the demands of the First World War and
partly in the light of the 1920 constitution of the Church Assembly, which "perhaps not
unnaturally wished to do the work all over again for itself" (Neill 1960, p. 395).
1906–2000
In 1927, the work on a new version of the prayer book reached its final form. In order to
reduce conflict with traditionalists, it was decided that the form of service to be used
would be determined by each congregation. With these open guidelines, the book was
granted approval by the Church of England Convocations and Church Assembly in July
1927. Since the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 required measures
affecting the Book of Common Prayer to be approved by Parliament before receiving
royal assent, the measure authorising its use, together with an annexed copy (a "Deposited
Book"), was submitted to Parliament. The House of Lords approved the Book by a large
majority, but the corresponding resolution in the House of Commons was defeated by
thirty-three votes on 15 December 1927 when the MPs William Joynson-Hicks and
Rosslyn Mitchell "reached and inflamed all the latent Protestant prejudices in the House"
and argued strongly against it on the grounds that the proposed book was "papistical",
restored the Roman Mass and implied the doctrine of transubstantiation.
Early in 1928, a second measure, the Prayer Book Measure 1928, was introduced in the
Church Assembly proposing to authorise the use of the "Deposited Book" with certain
amendments which were set out in a schedule to the Measure. This Measure again was
approved by large majorities in both the Convocations and the Church Assembly; but
again failed to pass the House of Commons, being defeated by forty-six votes on 14 June
1928. Writing in 1947, Cyril Garbett comments:
"The House of Commons was within its constitutional rights in rejecting in a few hours
the work of many anxious years. Nonconformist members and members from
constituencies which would not have been affected by the Revised Book were only
exercising their full legal rights in throwing out a Measure which was approved by the
majority of English Members of Parliament. But whatever were the reasons behind the
votes of the majority, the rejection of the Measures made it plain that the Church does not
possess full spiritual freedom to determine its worship ..."(Garbett 1947, p. 194)
Stephen Neill points out that the Roman Catholic members of parliament abstained from
voting.(Neill 1960, p. 397note)
In response to this rejection, the bishops issued a unanimous statement, asserting the
Church of England's right to order its forms of worship and, in 1929, the Upper House of
the Convocation of Canterbury resolved that bishops might approve the use of the 1928
book, notwithstanding the lack of parliamentary authority. It became common for prayer
books to be printed with the 1662 and 1928 forms of service in parallel columns, although
the legal basis of the revision remained unclear. The 1928 revised forms of Matrimony and
Baptism were quite widely adopted, but those of other rites tended not to be; the
consequence, in practice, being very wide variation in liturgical practice from parish to
parish, with very few clergy adhering consistently to the strict observation of either the
1662 or the 1928 forms of worship.
The effect of the failure of the 1928 book was salutary: no further attempts were made to
revise the Book of Common Prayer. Instead a different process, that of producing an
alternative book, led to the publication of Series 1, 2 and 3 in the 1960s, the 1980
Alternative Service Book and subsequently to the 2000 Common Worship series of books.
Both differ substantially from the Book of Common Prayer, though the latter includes in
the Order Two form of the Holy Communion a very slight revision of the prayer book
service, largely along the lines proposed for the 1928 Prayer Book. Order One follows the
pattern of modern liturgical scholarship.
To be Continued
PALM SUNDAY WALK FOR JUSTICE
On Palm Sunday, March 29, there will be a walk for justice starting at St Georges
Cathedral at 1:00pm This walk is to demonstrate support for Justice for refugees. The
walk is supported by a wide range of churches, welfare groupsnd advocacy groups.
Anyone wishing to march are invited to take along palm branches from there churches as
well as any other banners or signs.
Last year around 1000 people participated in the walk. After a year of horror stories about
the threatment of of refugees on and off-shore, with children still imprisoned in
Immigration Detention Centres, and bipartisan support for cruel and degrading treatment,
strong voices for justice are needed more than ever.
Business leader, Janet Holmes a Court will be addressing the rally beforehand and we
anticipate being joined by a significant Liberal Party elder statesman and an Australian
literary Icon.
"Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org"
God is: not a genie.
Genies are magical beings from folklore who
grant wishes if their lamp is rubbed the right
way.
We often get into the bad habit of thinking God
is like a genie - rub Him the right way and He
will grant our every wish. We must understand
that God does not bless us on the basis of who
we are or what we do, He blesses us solely on
the basis of who He is. We can do nothing to
earn God’s blessings – we only receive through
His grace. Furthermore, God cannot be
bribed, bullied, blackmailed or ‘suckered’.
God has many reasons why He blesses some
and withholds blessings from others. These reasons are always in accordance with His
eternal plan.
Every time we feel that God isn’t giving us what we deserve, we should stop and consider
that due to our transgressions what we truly deserve is Divine judgement. The only
reason we receive blessings instead of condemnation is because Jesus Christ went to the
cross on our behalf. Eternal salvation is a free gift that can neither be earned nor
deserved. If we believe in Christ we will be eternally blessed and thankfully NEVER get
what we truly deserve (judgement in time and eternity). Ephesians 2: 8-9
Locum Priest
Revd Terry Pickersgill
Phone: Church 9337 5969 Home 9586 8978
Email: temac@iprimus.com.au
Parish Wardens:
Margaret Stanners (9337 5667)
Geoff Dyall (0426 272 114) Terry Milligan (9336 5027)
Parish Secretary:
Ann Foster (9418 7282)
Parish Councillors: Yvonne Dean, Gaye Thompson, John Thorp
Postal Address:
PO Box 419, Hamilton Hill 6963
Web Address:
http://hilton.perth.anglican.org
Happy birthday to you
To Jesus be true
God bless you and keep you
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