St Luke's Enmore with Stanmore
an Anglican Parish in the Diocese of Sydney.

Simon's mother-in-law was in bed with a fever,
and they told Jesus about her at once.

 

5^th February 2012

Fifth Sunday After Epiphany

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.

  Hospitality is of utmost importance in the Middle East and a host will go out of his or her way to entertain and provide for a guest.  The last thing a host wants is to have to provide hospitality while being sick.  Jesus arrived at Simon and Andrew’s home and Simon’s mother-in-law was unable to provide hospitality because she was sick.  Rather than demanding that the woman provide hospitality, Jesus went out of his way to provide for his host: he healed her and the many who gathered at her door.  We are reminded that Jesus always cares for everyone and that ‘those who hope in the Lord shall renew their strength’ (Isa 40.31a).

·         Pray for those who are sick and in need of any kind of healing.

·         Give thanks for the work of the Church as it fights HIV and the stigma attached to it.

Text: The Revd Drew Schmotzer, chaplain to the Most Revd Dr Mouneer Hanna Anis, Bishop of Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa
© Anglican Board of Mission, 2012

 

The Op Shop

The Op Shop is the flagship of our mission and outreach. It also keeps us financially afloat. Admiral Andy Serafin is to retire in April 2012, and a prospective Committee is planning to meet regularly and to work with Andy until April and then until the Lease comes up on 14^th August.

A Valuer has provided us with an estimate of the likely rent for 2013 which is much the same as we are paying now. Our option on the Lease (to renew for 3 years) must be exercised before 14^th February. A decision is to be made at the Parish Council Meeting on Wednesday 8^th February.

If you have any helpful suggestions, please write them down or send an email to the Rector or the Wardens.

If we renew the lease then we will need helpers.

1. Staff for the shop during the week. Morning and/or afternoon and relieving staff (for when someone can’t be there)

2. Saturday Staff – The more volunteers there are, the lighter the work load. Can you help by donating 2 ½ hours of your time once every 6 six weeks?

3. People to sort donated goods, price them and take them to the shop. As well as people to put unsaleable goods in the big green bin at church.

ABM needs your used postage stamps.

Please bring them in, envelopes and all.

Please don’t try to soak them off and please don’t cut too close to them.

Sometimes the franking (post office cancellation) can be as valuable as the stamp itself.

There is a box in the church foyer waiting to be filled with your stamps for ABM.

ABM made $5,000 last year from stamps. Please help.

2012 at St Luke’s

 – the Year Ahead.

Happy Birthday:  Eddie Reddy; Susan Hill; Grace Munro; Lyn Carrington; Kevin Green; Veronica Nath.

Today: Wardens Meeting –after church

Parish Council – Wed 8^th February 7pm

21^st February – Shrove Tuesday, pancakes at the Rectory 7pm.

22^nd February – Ash Wednesday, Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes at 10am & and 7.30pm

26^th February – First Sunday in Lent. Lenten Studies begin. Life of Jesus, video and study book.

The Study Books have arrived and are on sale at the bookshop for $10 each.

Study times are not settled, but there will be one after the 10am Eucharist on Wednesdays and one at 7.30pm on Thursdays. Others will be announced. See the Notice in the Hall and put your name down for a Study.

10-11^th March – Visit to Blayney Parish

Following a suggestion made at the 2011 Annual Vestry Meeting, we are now partners with the parish of Blayney. A visit is to take place on the weekend 10-11^th March. John Burns is arranging accommodation. It is intended that we go to Blayney, stay overnight, attend church with them and return. We intend to give the parish a Paschal Candle as a gift.

Annual Vestry Meeting

The AVM is to take place after church on Sunday 18^th March, beginning at 11.15am.

We will receive Reports, elect 2 Church Wardens, elect Parish Councillors and other Officers and, if desired, make recommendations to the incoming Parish Council.

Notices are to be posted in accordance with the Parish Administration Ordinance.

We are also in need of a Treasurer. Melinda Seed, after having done a highly competent and efficient job for the year, is no longer available, to our sadness. It is vitally important to have a treasurer who can use MYOB and has about 4 hours a week to spare for the task.

Thank you…

Thank you to Ken Searle who excavated the sumps in the car park, getting filthy dirty in the process and providing half a tonne of good compost for the rectory garden.

Thanks also to Tony Fryar who has offered to help with the gardening.

Thank you also to James Barnes, who is labouring behind the scenes to produce the Auditor’s Report in time for the Annual Vestry Meeting.

May his example encourage the others who need to write reports…

The Rector, Wardens, Treasurer, Organ Committee, Op Shop, Thai Community, Children’s Ministry, Book Shop, Synod Reps and all other Parish Ministries. (There are quite a few when you start thinking about it!)

 

Holy Week and Easter

25^th March: Fr Michael Whiting is to preach at our Service and to baptize his Grandson, Tom Whiting at the end of the Service.
Tom’s family will celebrate in the Hall so after Morning Tea there will be Palm Cross Making in the Emmaus Room. We have orders from three parishes.

1^st April – Palm Sunday, 9.30am Procession with Palms.
Holy Week Begins

 

 

 

5^th April – Maundy Thursday 7.30pm
Maundy Mass;
Washing of Feet;
Vigil in the Garden of Repose.

 

6^th April – Good Friday.
9.30am Solemn Liturgy of Good Friday
12 noon – Way of the Cross
3pm – Prayer at the foot of the Cross

 

8^th April – Easter Day. 9.30am, Lighting the New Fire, Easter Procession and Mass. Shared Lunch in the Hall afterwards

 

 

 

 

Introit Hymn:

1. I to the hills will lift my eyes:
   where shall I find my help?
   My help comes only from the Lord
   who made the earth and heaven.

2. Your foot he’ll not let slide, nor will
   your guardian ever sleep:
   the one who guards his people still,
   he slumbers not, nor sleeps.

3. The Lord will be a shield and shade:
   with him at your right hand
   no harm will come from sun by day
   nor from the moon by night.

4. The Lord will keep you from all harm:
   will guard your very life,
   preserve your going out and in
   now and for evermore.

Scottish Psalter 1650
rev. Granton Douglas Hay 1943–

Words revision © G. D. Hay

Reproduced with permission

The Sentence: Those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles.                                           Isaiah 40.31                       

The Collect:
 Saving God,
whose Son, Jesus Christ healed the sick
    and brought them wholeness of body and mind;
inspire us, his disciples,
so that we may constantly proclaim his gospel by our words
    and by the dedication and integrity of our lives;
who lives and reigns with you and  the Holy Spirit.
one God, now and for ever. Amen

First Reading                                                                        Isaiah 40.21-31

A reading from the book of the prophet Isaiah

Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is God who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in; who brings princes to naught, and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing. Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when God blows upon them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble. To whom then will you compare me, or who is my equal? says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high and see: Who created these? The One who brings out their host and numbers them, calling them all by name; because God is great in strength, mighty in power, not one is missing. Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"? Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. The LORD does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. The LORD gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless. Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted; but those who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

For the word of the Lord                                                   Thanks be to God 

Psalm 147.1-11

1. O praise the LORD for it is good to sing praises | to our | God;
        and to | praise him is | joyful and | right..

2 The LORD is re|building Je|rusalem;
        he is gathering together the | scattered | outcasts of | Israel.

 3 He heals the | broken in | spirit:
        and | binds | up their | wounds.

 4 He counts the | number of the | stars;
        and | calls them | all by | name.

5 Great is our Lord and | great is his | power;
        there is no | measuring his | under|standing.

6 The LORD re|stores the | humble;
        but he brings down the | wicked | to the | dust.

7 O sing to the LORD a | song of | thanksgiving;
        sing praises to our | God up|on the | harp.

8 He covers the heavens with cloud and prepares | rain for the | earth:
        and makes the grass to | sprout up|on the | mountains.

9 He gives the | cattle their | food,
        and feeds the young | ravens that | call to | him.

10 He takes no pleasure in the | strength of a | horse,
        nor does he de|light in | any man’s | legs:

11 But the Lord’s delight is in | those that | fear him,
        who | wait in | hope for his | mercy.

Glo|ry to | God; Father | Son and | Holy | Spirit.
As in the be|ginning so | now; and for | ever. | A|men

 

Second Reading                                                         1 Corinthians 9.16-23

A reading from Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians

If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel! For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a commission. What then is my reward? Just this: that in my proclamation I may make the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my rights in the gospel.

For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though I myself am not under the law) so that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (though I am not free from God's law but am under Christ's law) so that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, so that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.

For the word of the Lord                                                  Thanks be to God 

Gospel Procession

1. Lord, your word abiding, and our footsteps guiding,
   gives us joy for ever, binds us all together.

2. Who can tell the pleasure, who recount the treasure,
   by your word imparted to the simple-hearted?

3. Word of mercy, giving nourishment for living:
   word of life, supplying comfort for the dying.

4. O that we, discerning its most holy learning,
   Lord, may love and fear you, evermore be near you.

Henry Williams Baker 1821–77 alt. Reproduced with permission

The Gospel Acclamation.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Christ Jesus | bore our | sickness,
and in his | body | bore our | suffering
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

The Gospel                                                                              Mark 1.29-39

The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark
X Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ

As soon as Jesus and his disciples left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon's mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once. He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up. Then the fever left her, and she began to serve them.

That evening, at sundown, they brought to him all who were sick or possessed with demons. And the whole city was gathered around the door. And he cured many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.

In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed. And Simon and his companions hunted for him. When they found him, they said to him, "Everyone is searching for you." He answered, "Let us go on to the neighbouring towns, so that I may proclaim the message there also; for that is what I came out to do." And he went throughout Galilee, proclaiming the message in their synagogues and casting out demons.

For Gospel of the Lord                              Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ

 

Hymn after the Sermon

1. God of mercy, God of grace,
   show the brightness of your face;
   shine upon us, Saviour, shine,
   fill your church with light divine;
   and your saving health extend
   to the earth’s remotest end.

2. Let the people praise you, Lord!
   be by all that live adored;
   let the nations shout and sing
   glory to their Saviour king;
   at your feet their tribute pay,
   and your holy will obey.

3. Let the people praise you, Lord!
   earth shall then its fruits afford;
   God to us his blessing give,
   we to God devoted live:
   all below, and all above,
   one in joy and light and love.

Henry Francis Lyte 1793–1847 alt. from Psalm 67 Reproduced with permission

 

Offertory Hymn

1. The God of Abraham praise who reigns enthroned above,
   ancient of everlasting days, and God of love:
   the Lord, the great I AM by earth and heaven confessed!
   We bow and bless the sacred name for ever blessed.

2. The God of Abraham praise, whose all-sufficient grace
   shall guide us all our happy days in all our ways.
   He calls us each a friend, he calls himself our God;
   and he shall save us to the end through Jesus’ blood.

3. He by himself has sworn, we on his oath depend:
   we shall, on eagles’ wings upborne, to heaven ascend:
   we shall behold his face, we shall his power adore,
   and sing the wonders of his grace for evermore.

4. The God who reigns on high the great archangels sing,
   and ‘Holy, holy, holy,’ cry, ‘almighty King!’
   who was and is the same and evermore shall be,
   the Lord, our Father, great I AM eternally.

5. Before the Saviour’s face the ransomed nations bow,
   all praising his almighty grace, for ever new.
   He shows his wounds of love, they kindle to a flame
   and sound through all the worlds above the slaughtered Lamb.

6. The whole triumphant host gives thanks to God on high:
   ‘Hail, Father, Son and Spirit blest!’ they ever cry.
   Hail, Abraham’s God and ours! With heaven our songs we raise:
   all might and majesty are yours, and endless praise.

Thomas Olivers 1725–99 alt. based on the Jewish Yigdal c.13th cent. and Revelation 4 and 5 Reproduced with permission

Communion Chant

 

 

Hymn after the Blessing

1. Now let us from this table rise
   renewed in body, mind and soul;
   with Christ we die and live again,
   his selfless love has made us whole.

2. With minds alert, upheld by grace,
   to spread the Word in speech and deed,
   we follow in the steps of Christ,
   at one with all in hope and need.

3. To fill each human house with love,
   it is the sacrament of care;
   the work that Christ began to do
   we humbly pledge ourselves to share.

4. Then give us grace, Companion* God,
   to choose again the pilgrim way,
   and help us to accept with joy
   the challenge of tomorrow’s day.

* ‘Companion’, from Latin cum = ‘together with’, panis = ‘bread’,
means literally ‘someone who breaks bread with you’.

Frederik Herman Kaan 1929– Words by permission Stainer & Bell, London Words: additional permission required. Available from LicenSing & CCLI & Word of Life

 

 

 

Prayers for each day of the week Today:Eddy, Mint & Arty Kittirat; Joseph & Esther Kumar; Ross Lehman & Kuna Arjunan; Geoff Lindsay & Mandy Tibbey. Monday: John Lo & Nancy; Fabian LoSchiavo; Remy & Melinda Low; Lea MacNeil & Don Thomas; Mac Maitree. Tuesday: Alex Maneekaew; Merrill & Georgie Martin; Dorothy & Michael McCabe; Jennifer McGovern. Wednesday: John Merchant; Ron Morris; Fran Morris; Anthea, Ron, Ronan, Veronica & Rohan Nath. Thursday: Pauline & Bill Newell; Frances, Kevin & William Nielsen; Mathias Oduro Stuart Ogg; Katherine Oldfield. Friday: Julie Olston & Philippa Fredrickson; Stanley, Tuni & Dennis Palusi; Ann & Rachel Petersen & Wolf. Saturday: Helen Pink, Judi & Tayla; Kate Potrayanont; Apirak Premsiri; Jo, Ramendra, Thomas & Lucy Raj.

Our Prayers for those in need... Elizabeth Armstrong; Mark Bishop; Ross Black; Jenny Callan; Michael Conway; Les Dixon;  John Fraser. Joanna Galvin; Sonia & Chris Gillies;  Irene & Richard Harrop; Sue & Callum Henry-Edwards; Sophie Hicks; Jenny Kavanagh;  John Lo;Michael McCabe;  Ken Searle; Wit Takham; David & Elizabeth Taylor; Marie McGrath; Poppy Prezios; Michael, Zachary,  Rev’d Paul Watkins. Anniversaries of Death Kevin Saunders; Robert Emmenegger

Next week‘s Readings Sixth Sunday after Epiphany
2 Kings 5.1-14.  Psalm 30.  1 Corinthians 9. 24-27. Mark 1.40-45

Bible Readings for the Week 6^th to 12^th February 2012

MONDAY	1 Kings 8.1-13	Psalm  132.7-11	Mark 6.53-56
TUESDAY	1 Kings 8.22-23,27-30	Psalm  84.1- 4	Mark 7.1-13
WEDNESDAY	1 Kings 10.1-10	Psalm  37.35- 41	Mark 7.14-23
THURSDAY	1 Kings 11.4-13	Psalm 106.32-39	Mark 7.24-30
FRIDAY	1 Kings 11.29- 12.9	Psalm 81.10-16	Mark 7.31-37
SATURDAY	1 Kings 12.26 – 13-34	Psalm 106.20-24	Mark 8.1-10

 

 

 

Parish Information

SUNDAY WORSHIP Sung Eucharist and Children's Ministry 9.30am

WEEKDAY SERVICES:
Morning Prayer Tuesday 8.30 am, Wednesday 9.30am (before the Eucharist) Thursday, 8.30am, Friday 8.30am

Holy Communion Wednesday 10.am with the laying on of hands and Healing Ministrations, followed by fellowship and Bible Study as advertised from 11am to 12 noon.

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

PARISH DIRECTORY‑ABN.78 161 584 893.

Rector: Fr Gwilym Henry-Edwards. (Ph 9557 4219 Mb 0418 641 189) Address: 11 Stanmore Road, Enmore Postal PO Box 64. Enmore NSW 2042 OFFICE HOURS: Tuesday, Thursday; Friday 9.30am to 12 noon OFFICE PHONE  9557 4219 web - www.stlukesenmore.org.au email rector@stlukesenmore.org.au HON CLERGY ASSOCIATES Fr Jeffrey Sheather Fr Ron Morris (Mb 0409 451362.) Honorary Thai Pastor: Marut (Mac) Maitree O H and S Officer: Julie Olston ST LUKE'S OP SHOP, 133 Enmore Rd, Tel: 9550 5713 Hours: Tues‑Fri 9.30 ‑ 4; Sat 9.30 – 2.30, Sunday and Monday – Closed.

HALL ADMINISTRATOR: Stuart Veitch 8225 1403. Wardens (until 18th March): Richard Hagen Ph 02 9516 4317 Eddy Reddy; Mb 0410634948; Ruth Champion Mb 0400166041. Parish Council: Mandy Tibbey; Kay Younie; Wit Takham; Katherine Oldfield; Remy Low; Melinda Seed (Treasurer) Mac Maitree; John Burns; (Rector’s Appt.) Nominators: Moya Holle; Richard Hagen; Ruth Champion; Stuart Veitch; Mandy Tibbey Synod Representatives: Stuart Grigg & Katherine Oldfield. Ruth Champion & Jennie Winton (Alt) PASTORS AND EVANGELISTS: All of us!