www.saintjohnstoorak.org Welcome to The Anglican parish of St John the Evangelist 86 Clendon Rd Toorak VIC 3142 PH 98261765 Vicar Archdeacon Dr Bradly S Billings our mission statement What we have seen and heard we announce to you also, so that you will join us in the fellowship that we have with the Father and with his son Jesus Christ. 1 John 1.3 St John’s Anglican Church Toorak 3 February 2013 Candlemas (The Presentation of Christ in the Temple) 8am Holy Communion A Prayer Book for Australia 1995 10am Sung Eucharist A Prayer Book for Australia 1995
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www.saintjohnstoorak.org
Welcome to
The Anglican parish of
St John the Evangelist
86 Clendon Rd
Toorak VIC 3142
PH 98261765
Vicar
Archdeacon Dr
Bradly S Billings
our mission statement
What we have seen and heard we announce to you
also, so that you will join us in the fellowship that we have with the Father and with his son Jesus
Christ. 1 John 1.3
St John’s Anglican Church
Toorak
3 February 2013
Candlemas (The Presentation of
Christ in the Temple) 8am Holy Communion
A Prayer Book for Australia 1995
10am Sung Eucharist
A Prayer Book for Australia 1995
NOTICES
Today ‘Candlemas’ (Feast of the Presentation of Christ), with prayers for the start of the new school year, and the commissioning of the 2013 Vestry.
Parish Barbecue The parish barbecue will be held today following the 10am service. From March, the barbecue will move to the third Sunday of the month to coincide with the All Age Service at 10am, and to avoid Messy Church, which is on the first Sunday of the month from March and includes a meal. The next barbecue will be Sunday 17th March.
St John’s Men’s Group First get-together of the year! Barbeque at Kooyong Tennis Club on Saturday 9 February from 6.00pm. Please confirm to Greg or the Parish Office by today Sunday 3 February.
Mission Travel Talk On Sunday 17 February at 11.30am, Liz Hawthorne will talk about her Mission travels in Africa. In Buxton Hall, after the 10.00am service. Please make a drink in the Guild room and bring your tea or coffee in with you.
Messy Church resumes on the first Sunday of March (3rd), 4pm-6pm in the Buxton Hall. If anyone has any children's musical instruments (home make shakers/ symbols anything!) they would like to donate to Messy Church that would be greatly appreciated. We are also looking for some high-chairs for the younger children if you have a spare one in the garage you no longer need could you drop it into church office. Please contact Nicky on 9885-9509 or email [email protected] if you can donate any play or music children's goods.
Jane has performed and recorded with groups such as the Oslo Barokkorkester, Concerto Köln, Academy of Ancient Music, Florilegium, English Touring Opera, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Cappella Coloniensis, London Handel Orchestra, English Concert and New College Choir. Dutch born harpsichordist Peter Hagen majored in pianoforte and harpsichord at Melbourne University, and later studied with Bob Van Apseren, Jacques Ogg, and Ton Koopman in The Netherlands. As well as playing in ensembles such as Il Teatro Musicale and the Flevolandskamerorkest he has given solo recitals in Switzerland, England, Germany, Canada and The Netherlands. A unique treat not to be missed - admission is $20, children under 12 free.
Austral Harmony - one Melbourne performance only On Sunday 17 February, at 2.30pm, international baroque duo Austral Harmony will present their one and only Melbourne performance at St John's. Austral Harmony takes its name from an early collection of Australian poetry, and is an ensemble of Australian musicians who specialize in playing music of the 18th century, fostering a particular interest in the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Featuring UK based Artistic Director Jane Downer on baroque oboe, oboe d’amore, recorder, with Peter Hagen on harpsichord. After reading modern languages and music at the University of Adelaide, Jane studied the baroque oboe under the tutelage of Valerie Darke in the UK.
This Sunday: 3 Feb ‘Candlemas’ the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (white)
A Prayer Book for Australia, p.119 Hymns: 143 omit v3, 58, 165, 276 v1-3, 315 omit v2
Exodus 34.29-35 (D Smith) Psalm 99 2 Corinthians 3.12-4.2 (B Ormiston) Luke 9.28-36 Anthem O Nata Lux (Tallis) Motet Song of Simeon (Govenlock)
Celebrant: Bradly Billings Preacher: Bradly Billings Intercessor: Helen Brown
5pm Evening Service & Bible Study will resume again
10th February 2013.
5pm Evening Service & Bible Study
WORSHIP Director of Music - Professor Mel Waters
World & Nation: We pray for Anglican Christians working for peace in so many troubled parts of the world. Lui, Sudan (Bp Stephen Dokolo Ismail); the Diocese of Armidale (Bp Rick Lewers, clergy and People); SPCKA (Michael Collie, National Director); Parish of Wandin, Seville & Mt Evelyn (Trevor Filewood); St Aidan’s Strathmore (Bp Philip Huggins).
Those getting married: Jason Carroll & Gabrielle Bombell.
For schools in the community Geelong Grammar School Toorak Campus (Glamorgan), Head of Campus Garry Pierson; St Catherine's School, Principal Sylvia Walton AO; CRE program and teachers at Toorak Primary School.
The Toorak Ecumenical Movement: Pray for our partner churches: St Peter’s Roman Catholic Church, Toorak Uniting Church, The Swedish Church.
For those who lead us in the Anglican Church:
The Most Revd Philip Freier-Archbishop of Melbourne Reverend Keith Pritchard. The Right Revd Paul White, Bishop of the Southern Region.
For our CMS Link Missionaries: Andrew, Helen, Jacqueline and Alyssa.
For the sick and all in need: Sophie; Beverley Smith; Matthew; Phillip Treloar; Hazel Lord; John Saunders; Susan; Duncan Ansell; Jenny Williams; Ann Brewer; Alan; Noriece Bradbury; Joy Pearce; Dorothy Wood; Victoria Warne, Paul Dalton
For those in nursing homes and those who are house bound: Nan Milner; Randall Watt; Lorna Mirfield; Dorothy Hughes; Marje Smith. Give thanks for those whose Anniversary of death is this week:. Rupert Clarke; Warwick Granowski; Bruce Lilley; Lorna Nolan; Jill Heath; David Chartes; Thomas Longney; Kathie O’Brien; Lisa Vine; Annabel Gutteridge; Freda Saba; Emma Shmith; Dick Seddon; John Sleigh; Thelma Stansfield-Smith; Jennie Wiltshire; Hasie Ball; Russell Hughes; John Williams; Patricia Gellie; Catherine Sugden; Gary Condon; Kate Cuming; Edward Newbiggin.
PRAYER NOTES
SUNDAY 17th FEBRUARY 2013 2.30 - 3.30pm
St John’s Anglican Church Toorak Buxton Hall
17th-century hautboys
AUSTRAL HARMONY on historical instruments
Jane Downer baroque oboe Peter Hagen harpsichord
Oboe Origins – 17th & 18th century music for the baroque hautboy & harpsichord by Lully, Hotteterre, Philidor, Tele-
mann, Handel, Babell, Sammartini
TICKETS from trybooking: www.trybooking.com/CCAD www.trybooking.com/36507
Are you passionate about social justice? Would you like to help Anglican Overseas Aid work towards a peaceful, just and sustainable world for all? We are looking for volunteer ambassadors to be advocates of our work within your local parish or community group.
As a volunteer ambassador you will receive training, support and regular updates on our work. Your role would be to inform your parish or community group about our current projects and emergency appeals, inspiring and encouraging people to get involved. Throughout 2013 we will be celebrating our 25th anniversary with a series of events and talks that we would also ask you to promote and be a part of.
To discuss this volunteer opportunity further, please contact Kathryn Barres on 9495 6100.
Messy Church
All Welcome Messy Church is soon to kick off for the year. Sunday March 3rd is coming around and everyone is keen to start the year—especially the children. There is a dedicated team who work together to ensure all that attend have a fun filled and entertaining time. Each month a meal is shared after the children have completed activities, including craft making and games as well as a brief service in the Church.
If you would like to become involved in helping with Messy Church we would love to hear from you! We are always looking for people who could assist with the cooking (simple meals such as Spaghetti Bolognese, Roast Chicken and veggies etc) all ingredients are supplied and can be cooked either in the Buxton Hall kitchen or at home. Setting up and clearing away of tables is also a job we could use a hand with if you are free 20mins prior to Messy Church or could lend a hand for about 20 mins after
Please speak to Brad or email Nicky [email protected] if you would like to be involved even as a once off!
Dates for 2013 Buxton Hall 4pm –6pm
Write them in the diary and invite friends to come along
Sunday 3rd March 2013 Sunday 4th August 2013
Sunday 7th April 2013 Sunday 1st September 2013
Sunday 5th May 2013 Sunday 6th October 2013
Sunday 6th June 2013 Sunday 3rd November 2013
Sunday 7th July 2013 Sunday 1st December 2013
*All team members of Messy Church have completed a working with children check
THE LORDS PRAYER The Lord’s Prayer is said by all, immediately after the Thanksgiving Prayer. At St. John’s the traditional form of the prayer is said by all as written below Vicar: As our Savior Christ has taught us, we are confident to pray, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory For ever and ever. Amen.
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Season of Lent. The Ash Wednesday service at St John’s will be at: 7.30pm on Wednesday 13th February The service includes the traditional imposition of ashes on the foreheads of those attending, in the context of the Eucharist. An introduction to the season – from Common Worship (The Church of England), Lent may originally have followed Epiphany, just as Jesus’ sojourn in the wilderness followed immediately on his baptism, but it soon became firmly attached to Easter, as the principal occasion for baptism and for the reconciliation of those who had been excluded from the Church’s Fellowship for apostasy or serious faults. This history explains the characteristic notes of Lent – self-examination, penitence, self-denial, study, and preparation for Easter, to which almsgiving has traditionally been added. Now is the healing time decreed for sins of heart and word and deed, when we in humble fear record the wrong that we have done the Lord. (Latin, before 12th century) As the candidates for baptism were instructed in Christian faith, and as penitents prepared themselves, through fasting and penance, to be readmitted to communion, the whole Christian community was invited to join them in the process of study and repentance, the extension of which over forty days would remind them of the forty days that Jesus spent in the wilderness, being tested by Satan. Ashes are an ancient sign of penitence; from the middle ages it became the custom to begin Lent by being marked in ash with the sign of the cross.
February Wednesday 6 Feb 7.30pm - Pre-Marriage Course. Thursday 7 Feb 11.00am - Holy Communion. 3.30pm - Wedding of Jason Carroll & Gabrielle Bombell. Breakfast or Morning Tea before service or after service!
Breakfast—all are invited to join us for breakfast at 9am in the Guild room. If you’re in the 8am service please stay and have something to eat. If you’re coming to 10am come early and join us.
Morning Tea: After the 10am service all parishioners and visitors are welcome to join us for a tea or coffee and chat in the Guild Room. This is located behind the church through the kinder gates and you will find us there.
Director of Music & Organist Professor Mel Waters E:[email protected]
Marriage Ministry Co-ordinator Ms Gay Djumas mariagemin@saintjohnstoorak. org
Administration Mrs Sally Robertson
Prayer Chain Co-ordinator Mrs Annette Wilson 9822 8968 We would love to hear from you. If you have enjoyed the service or music please drop us a note and let us know and we will pass your sentiments on.
