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Meditative Quiet Day with Kathryn Houston at St George’s Hall, Maleny on
Saturday 9 March - 9:30am till 1pm followed by a shared lunch
A Secure Base and A Delicate Balance RSVP Attendance Sheet at each Church.
For more information please contact: Maureen Cooper on 5446 0312
Sharing a Cuppa during Lent As a special Lenten activity, and focussing on our Diocesan theme of ‘Generous Hospitality’, I would like to intentionally share a cuppa with parishioners. I am, of course available to speak with you anytime but during this Lenten period, I hope to be able to catch up with a few more of you. It is hard on Sundays for me to spend much time chatting with you so I would love to shout you a coffee or tea at one of our wonderful local cafes and sit with you one-on-one and chat. You may like to share a problem or just have a talk with me and that’s fine. If you have mobility problems, I can come to you or I can pick you up and take you to your favourite place. If you are interested, just give me a ring on 0429 073 262 or send me a text or email [email protected] and we can book in a mutually convenient time. I am happy to meet you in Maleny, Mapleton, Montville, Kenilworth or wherever. Maybe, some other parishioners would like to follow my lead and would like to invite someone to share a cuppa with them? How good would that be … I look forward to meeting up with many of you … Blessings, Rev’d Jeanette
Ash Wednesday Services NEXT WEEK - 6 March 7:30am St Mary’s, Montville 9:00am St George’s, Maleny 11:00am St Luke’s, Kenilworth
He Set His Face to Jerusalem This is the Lenten Study Book by Richard Wilke which is the focus of the study group at St George’s commencing next Thursday, 7 March at 11.00am in the Shepherd’s Shed.
The book contains chapters for each week in Lent journeying with Jesus on his way to Jerusalem relating his experiences to our lives today. There are great questions for reflection and discussion at the end of each chapter. This book is an ideal
companion for us as we journey through Lent giving us a focus for our personal times of quiet and study and as we join in fellowship and discussion together. Please add your name to the list at the front of the church if you plan to join the discussion group or if you wish to purchase the book to use for personal study at home. Cost $18.50 each.
Containers for Change update -
Total received for 2019 so far is $235.50
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Our vision is to
“Love one another as Jesus loves us”
Our mission is to
Obey Jesus’ commandment,
“Love one another as I have loved you.” John 15:12
Eighth Sunday After Epiphany -
3 March 2019
Grant, O Lord, that the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered by your governance, that your Church may joyfully serve you in all godly quietness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
WELCOME to our worship today. Please invite someone to join you and stay for fellowship and refreshment after the Service.
TODAY’S SERVICES
Services: Celebrants:
St Mary’s Montville 7:30am Rev’d Jeanette Jamieson
St George’s Maleny 9:00am Rev’d Jeanette Jamieson
St Luke’s Kenilworth 9:00am Rev’d Derek Barrett
FAMILY SERVICE TODAY
St George’s Maleny
Clever or Crazy - Silly or Sensible
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Readings for 17 March
Second Sunday In Lent Genesis 15.1-12, 17-18 Psalm 27 Philippians 3.17-4.1 Luke 13.1-9
Readings for 10 March
First Sunday In Lent Deuteronomy 26.1-11 Psalm 91.1-2, 9-16 Romans 10.4-13 Luke 4.1-15
A READING FROM THE BOOK OF ISAIAH CHAPTER 55: BEGINNING AT THE 10TH VERSE: (Pew Bible page 598) For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it. For you shall go out in joy, and be led back in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall burst into song, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be to the Lord for a memorial, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD THANKS BE TO GOD
PSALM 92.1-4, 12-15 (A Prayer Book for Australia page 3 We say alternate verses
How good to give thanks to the Lord: and to sing praises to your name, O Most High, To declare your love in the morning: and at night to sing of your faithfulness, Upon the lute, upon the lute of ten strings: and to the melody of the lyre. For in all you have done, O Lord, you have made me glad: I will sing for joy because of the works of your hands. The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: they shall spread abroad like a cedar in Lebanon. For they are planted in the house of the Lord: and flourish in the courts of our God. In old age they shall be full of sap: they shall be sturdy and laden with branches; And they will say that the Lord is just: the Lord my rock, in whom is no unrighteousness.
READINGS FOR THE DAY
Sentence of the Day: And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth. John 1.14
Prayer of the Day: O God, glorious and faithful, you reveal the beauty of your face to those who seek you with a sincere heart: strengthen us in faith to embrace the mys-tery of the cross, and open our hearts to its transforming power, so that, clinging in love to your will for us, we may walk as followers of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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Church Wardens Carole Phillips 5445 7839 email: [email protected] Shirley Moreland OAM 5446 0171 email: [email protected] Jim Atkinson 5494 3064 email: [email protected]
District Warden Montville Paula Randall 5478 6181
Parish Minute Secretary Parish Hon Treasurer Assistant Treasurer Margaret Walker 5494 2028 Debbie Shepherd Susan Myring
Retired Priests: The Rev’d Derek Barrett, The Rev’d Kaye Pitman OAM, The Very Rev’d Chris Whittall OAM Honorary Assistant Priest: The Rev’d Ann Shepperson (Pastoral Care Coordinator Sunshine Coast University Hospital)
Prayer Chain Coordinators: Kenilworth: TBA Montville: Margaret Young 5445 7550 Maleny: Patricia Jackson 5494 2583
Pastoral Care Coordinators:
Kenilworth: Shirley Moreland 5446 0171 Montville: Carole Phillips 5445 7839
2 Walkers Drive (PO Box 265) Maleny Qld. 4552
Office Hours: 9:00 am - 1:00pm Wednesdays and Thursdays Ph. 5499 9130 Parish Secretary - Debbie Shepherd
Email: [email protected] Website: malenyanglicanparish.com.au
www.facebook.com/MalenyAnglicanParish
Parish Priest of Anglican Parish of Maleny and Area Dean of the Sunshine Coast Deanery:
Rev’d Jeanette Jamieson - 0429 073 262
Parish
Office
Acknowledgement of Country As we gather in this Church, we acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, the Kabi Kabi
and Jinibara people, and pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging.
Upcoming Events - Tuesday 5 March 1-4:30pm Pastoral Care Training - St George’s Shepherds Shed Wednesday 6 March Mothers’ Union Meeting - St George’s Weds 6 March Ash Wednesday 7:30am St Mary’s Montville
9:00am St George’s Maleny 11:00am St Luke’s Kenilworth Thursday 7 March 11:00am St George’s Lenten Study Group - Shepherds Shed Saturday 9 March Meditative Quiet Day - Kathryn Houston - St George’s Hall, Maleny
9:30am till 1pm followed by a shared lunch
Tuesday 12 March 1pm Parish Council – St Mary’s Tuesday 19 March 1-4:30pm Pastoral Care Training - St George’s Shepherds Shed Wednesday 20March 7pm Cursillo Meeting – St George’s Friday 12 April Maleny Street Stall Saturday 20April Kenilworth Cake Stall in the Park
Saturday 27 April Women’s Breakfast at Uniting Church Maleny Saturday 27 April 2pm Concert - Kim Kirkman at St George’s Sunday 28 April 7:30am St Mary’s Montville - Bishop Jeremy Greaves 9:00am St George’s Day - Bishop Jeremy Greaves Parish Lunch - Le Relais Bresson
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We ask your prayers:
• For peace and justice in the world: we pray particularly for those parts of the world that are in the news this week • For The Iglesia Anglicana de Chile: †Hector (Tito) Zavala Munoz Bishop of
Santiago & Primate • For The Diocese of Armidale: †Rick Lewers; Clergy and People • For The Parish of Tara: Monthly Ministry & Tim Lloyd-Morgan • For Mission to Seafarers • For Cannon Hill Anglican College, Cannon Hill : Principal - Gary O’Brien; Chaplain -
Sarah Leisemann; Chair of College Council - Gavin Nicholson; members of College Council; staff and students
• For Churchwardens, Parish Councillors, Parish Nominators & Synod Representatives • For people who are sick, in body, mind or spirit, for those whom we have listed in our
bulletin, and for those known to us personally. • Remembering the faithful departed & all those whose years mind occurs at this time.
Within our Parish Maleny: Roger Byrne, Mabel Crosby, Margaret Drake, Matthew Dawson & Amelie
Montville: Keith Alright, Christine Long and Anne McAlister
The Anglican Parish of Maleny in the Diocese of Brisbane is committed to protecting your privacy. The people on the list of the sick have personally requested prayers.
‘Going For Growth in Christ’ - Anglican Church Southern Queensland
Our Vision Through: Knowing God and our faith more deeply Serving our communities more
compassionately Making new disciples of Christ to impact the world more effectively Resourcing this mission more generously
Prayer Living God, creator, redeemer, strengthener: enliven, guide and strengthen your Church in all you send us to do. By your Holy Spirit enable us to grow - in faith, in service, in generous giving; and add to your Church new disciples that your saving, reconciling, recreating work may go forward, Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Weekly Events Update Meditation Groups - Wednesdays 9:00am Montville and 11:00am Maleny
Thursdays 9:00am Kenilworth
Prayer & Praise Night - Tuesdays 6:45 to 8:45 pm
Neil & Judy Payne 5429 6544
Deadline for Weekly Pew Sheet - Items need to be at the office by Tuesday afternoon.
Lenten Taizé - Catholic Church Maleny
Wednesday 27th March 7:00pm
The Taizé Prayer service has ecumenical origins in France. Its short mantra-like
songs create a relaxing style of prayer well suited to Lent. The simplicity and
repetition become a way of listening to God in a church dimly lit with
candle light. Come along with other Christians to the Catholic Church in Maleny
on Wednesday evening 27th March at 7 pm to experience a Lenten Taizé service.
(For more info: Judy 54786271)
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A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15: BEGINNING AT THE 51ST VERSE: (Pew Bible page 936)
Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labour is not in vain.
HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD THANKS BE TO GOD
THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO LUKE CHAPTER 6: BEGINNING AT THE 39TH VERSE: (Pew Bible page 838)
Jesus also told the disciples a parable: “Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? A disciple is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully qualified will be like the teacher. Why do you see the speck in your neighbour’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbour, ‘Friend, let me take out the speck in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbour’s eye. “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit; for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of the evil treasure produces evil; for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks. “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I tell you? I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, hears my words, and acts on them. That one is like a man building a house, who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock; when a flood arose, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built. But the one who hears and does not act is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against it, immediately it fell, and great was the ruin of that house.”
FOR THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD PRAISE TO YOU LORD JESUS CHRIST
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Rev’d Derek Barrett’s Commentary on the Readings: Transfiguration
Psalm 99
The theme for today’s Eucharist is the Transfiguration of Our Lord. The reading from Exodus concerns itself with Moses coming down from the mountain top with the two tablets of the covenant with a face radiant with Divine Glory. Today’s psalm has been chosen because it reflects the ancient belief in the otherness and holiness of the Lord of Heaven and Earth. “Holy is He” is the refrain of both verse 3 and verse 5. “Holy is the Lord our God” is in verse 5. It is not a pointless repetition but one of emphasis and a powerful means of fastening this concept so that it becomes firmly fixed in the mind. Bp. Reginald Heber (1783-1826) used this literary device for his famous hymn, Holy, Holy, Holy, for these three words are the beginning of all four verses, and it is the third verse which is being considered in our thinking, reading, singing, praying and preaching today: Holy, Holy, Holy! Though the darkness hide Thee, Though the eye of sinful man Thy glory may not see, Only Thou art Holy, there is none beside Thee, Perfect in power, in love, and purity. 2 Corinthians 3 – 4
Judaism concentrated on what Moses brought down from the Mountain summarised by what was contained in “The Decalogue”, the ten commandments engraved in solid stone. The words we are hearing in today’s epistle were written about 54 years after Our Lord was born, therefore only 20 or so years after His death and resurrection. So these are very early days in the mission field and there were no “scriptures” as we know them today. Errors were bound to arise and the leaders of the infant church were bound to make mistakes in need of correction. There are no “Ten Commandments” for the followers of Jesus except that which can be written “in the heart”, and this must have been totally galling for the Christian teachers who had first been Jews. Paul knows that the “Law” was preparatory and transient (veiled). It throws light on the One who was to come. Jesus has given a new commandment (singular): You are to love, for God is love (unveiled). Paul is reminding us that the “Law” kills. Jesus gives life. Luke 9
Irenaeus wrote, “The glory of God is the living person, and the life of people is the vision of God”. The account of the transfiguration (metamorphosis) is in the first three gospel and the prologue of the fourth gospel ends with the words, “The Word was made flesh and lived among us, and we beheld His glory.” Which prompted a more recent commentator to conclude: “The transfiguration is the revelation of the potential spirituality of the earthly life in the highest outward form…..here, the Lord as Son of Man, gives the measure of the capacity of humanity, and shows that to which He leads those who are united with Him” (Bp. Westcott). It has been rightly noted that St. Luke is the evangelist of prayer, for only Luke records that the transformation took place while Jesus was praying on the mountain top. At the conclusion of the vision the voice of God was heard, “Listen to Him”. Jesus had perhaps already heard another voice, the voice of a father of an epileptic boy at the foot of the mountain!
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ABM Pew Reflections - Eighth Sunday After Epiphany Today Jesus tells a parable about those who build their house on rock, and those who build it on soft soil. As the hymn-writer wrote, ‘Christ is made the sure foundation.’ During the upcoming season of Lent we can strengthen our faith by looking to Jesus – spending more time with him in prayer, worship and Scripture reading.
Pray that we might unveil our hearts to God further and allow him to move and change us more deeply.
Give thanks for the work and witness of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente, the Philippine Independent Church.
Text: The Rev Will Johnston, Anglican Board of Mission, 2019
Parish Garage Sale end of August * Plants * Cake & Preserve Stall * Books *CDs * Clothing * Trash N Treasure * Furniture & Household Goods etc.
In preparation for a Garage Sale at the end of August would you please consider potting plant cuttings and putting aside items you would like to donate to any of the stalls. Let the office know if you need or have extra pots available for plants.
Pastoral Caring in Your Community Course with Rev’d Ann Shepperson
Next session: Tues 5 March - 1pm to 4:30pm St George’s Maleny Shepherds Shed
FOOD PANTRY - NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE: March’s request : Long Life Milk
To prepare for next month - April’s request : Pasta Sauce
Compassion Quote of the Week
“Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.” Henri Nouwen
Street Stall Dates for 2019
Saturday 06 April - Kenilworth Saturday 17 August - Kenilworth
Friday 12 April - Maleny Friday 13 September - Maleny
Saturday 20 April - Kenilworth Cake Stall Saturday 23 November - Kenilworth
Saturday 08 June - Kenilworth Friday 06 December - Maleny
Wednesday 26 June - Maleny
