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PARISH DIRECTORY:

296 Glenferrie Road, Malvern VIC 3144 LOCUM VICAR: The Reverend Ray McInnes Phone: 9822 3030 Email: office@stgeorgesmalvern.org

CURATE: Vacant

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: Fleur Michael (Wed & Fri) WARDENS: Jenny Newton 9570 7731 Ravi Renjen 0412 399 897 Malcolm Tadgell 0400 799 030

FACEBOOK Please visit and facebook/St George’s Anglican Church Malvern

Welcome to St George’s

St George’s Anglican Church | Malvern

12 May 2019 Fourth Sunday of Easter Year C

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

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

Parish Information / Notices...........................Pages 7 & 8

Today 8:00am…. Eucharist followed by

coffee at Giorgio’s.

10:00am...

Eucharist followed by refreshments in the Parish Centre.

5:00pm…. Meditation & Eucharist

Monday 1.30pm

2.00pm

Funeral Service of Helen Shepherd

Book Club –North Room Discussion of The Pearl Thief by Fiona McIntosh. All welcome.

Tuesday 9:00am…. Cabrini Hospital Ministry

7:30pm…. Parish Council - North Room

Thursday 10:15am...

Eucharist

Welcome to The Revd Ray McInnes, locum priest who will be with the parish on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays.

Bountiful God, give to this parish a faithful pastor who will faithfully speak your word and minister your sacraments; an encourager who will equip your people for ministry and enable us to fulfil our calling. Give to those who will choose, wisdom, discernment and patience, and to us give warm and generous hearts, for Jesus Christ’s sake. Amen.

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HEARING AID LOOP Please adjust your T Switch for hearing.

VISITORS are most welcome at St George’s. Please introduce yourself to the clergy and collect a special “Welcome” leaflet at the entry bench inside the church. 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

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

HYMNS: 246 772 524 382

SETTING: St Mary’s Mass Caesar

PSALM 23: TiS 11

ANTHEM: The Lord is My Shepherd Chilcott

POSTLUDE: Pastorale mvt 4 BWV 590 J S Bach

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NOTICES

TWO MEETINGS IN ONE!

There will be a Parish consultation

about future directions with members of the Incumbency

Committee and Parish Council. YOU are needed so plan to come

along on 26 May after 10am service &

TWO DIOCESAN SYNOD LAY REPRESENTATIVES

and an alternate are to be elected on Sunday 26 May. Nomination forms

available on the bench and nominations close at 8am on 19 May

St George’s elects only two lay representatives for a three year term.

The Diocesan Synod meets annually in

October and passes legislation relating to parish life and debates matters of church and community

importance.

This Synod will also elect the Diocesan Council and other key boards and

committees of the Diocese. We are a people who are

episcopally lead and synodically governed. It is one the glories of our

Anglican way that major decisions are made by the bishop, the clergy and the laity together in Synod, Lay participation in governance is one

of the most significant differences between us and the Roman Church.

The Reverend Jacqui Smith was installed as the new Priest in Charge at St Stephen’s Bayswater on Wednesday evening.

Thank you to the many parishion-ers from Malvern who came to commend her to her new Parish and her new beginning in ministry. Jacqui spoke well and warmly to her new people and we pray she will find her time in Bayswater to be fulfilling and fruitful.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Sunday 26 May

The next food collection for St Alban’s and St Mark’s is Sunday 26 May. If purchasing groceries is too difficult, store cards or cash are also very welcome as donations.

Thursday 20 June

The Feast of Corpus Christi will be kept at St Peter’s Eastern Hill at 6.15pm. The preacher will be Fr Rod Bower from Newcastle Dio-cese and Bishop John Parkes will preside . All are welcome to at-tend.

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Bible Readings next week Fifth Sunday in Easter Acts 11.1-18 Psalm 148 Revelation 21.1-6 John 13.31-35 Prayer for the Week O God, whose Son Jesus is the good shepherd of your people: help us when we hear his voice to know him who calls us each by name, and to follow where he leads; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Pray for the Faithful Departed We remember before God: Peggy Shannon; Edgar Chandler; Albert Wilson, priest; Anne Nicholls; Margery Johnson; Peter Olney; William Hardy, priest; Betty Glover and Jess Slattery, whose anniversaries occur this week. Commemoration of the week. Matthias, Apostle and Martyr, transferred to Thursday 16 May.

Matthias was elected to replace Judas Iscariot ***********

THANK YOU … from the former Vicar.

Dear friends in Christ, thank you very much indeed for the memorable last Sunday with you all. It was a truly memorable day. To begin something, is to enter into its ending. That day was always going to come and now it has. I give thanks to God for the call, twelve years ago, to come to you in Malvern as your parish priest. Those who were here then will recall that I made it clear I had come to be the Vicar and to do what vicar’s do, lest anyone imagine my purpose as your fist woman vicar was anything else. THANK YOU for the very kind and very generous gift, which quite took my breathe away! Thank you for the many kind words, and the love between us that was so evident. Walter and I are still in the Vicarage while we pack and do some serious downsizing in preparation for the move to our new home in Kew. God bless you all in the time of transi-tion and I pray that God will call a fine priest to join you for the future that awaits.

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St George’s Anglican Church | Malvern

Fourth Sunday of Easter Year C 12 May 2019 Sentence The Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the water of life, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Revelation 7.17 Collect Eternal God, from whose gentle hands none can snatch us away: give us faith to believe that we are known and loved with a passion strong enough to bring the whole world back to you; through Jesus Christ, who is the source of life. Amen A reading from the Acts of the Apostles The first reading in the Easter season continues to be taken from Acts instead of from the Old Testament. The book of the Acts of the Apostles shows the Christian community in its earliest years and the effect of the resurrection experiences on the apostolic Church. Acts is a ‘style’ of writing in which events may not literally be true, where the reader is meant to understand the deeper and symbolic meaning of the various stories. In Joppa there was a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which in Greek is Dorcas. She was devoted to good works and acts of charity. At that time she became ill and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in a room upstairs. Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, who heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him with the re-quest, ‘Please come to us without delay.’ So Peter got up and went with them; and when he arrived, they took him to the room upstairs. All the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was with them. Peter put all of them outside, and then he knelt down and prayed. He turned to the body and said, ‘Tabitha, get up.’ Then she opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up. He gave her his hand and helped her up. Then calling the saints and widows, he showed her to be alive.

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This became known throughout Joppa, and many believed in the Lord. Meanwhile he stayed in Joppa for some time with a certain Simon, a tanner. Acts 9.36-43 Reader For the word of the Lord All Thanks be to God Psalm 23 at 8am APBA, page 243 No psalm is better known that this and its imagery of the good shepherd, though remote from our urban world, still resonates with us as it speaks of God’s care and wise tending of our lives if only we will follow God’s leading. A reading from the Revelation to Saint John the Divine. We normally associate this passage with All Saints Day, but it is just as appropriate for Easter. The joy of the martyrs is sorrow turned into joy. Paschal (Easter) imagery is picked up in the phrase “the blood of the Lamb” as also the image of the shepherd who will guide the martyrs to springs of living water, an image that will recur in the gospel. I, John, looked, and saw there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands. They cried out in a loud voice, saying, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!’ And all the angels stood around the throne and around the el-ders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshipped God, singing, ‘Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen.’ Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, ‘Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?’ I said to him, ‘Sir, you are the one that knows.’ Then he said to me, ‘These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. For this reason they are before the throne of God, and worship him day and night within his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them. They will hunger no more, and thirst no more; the sun will not strike them, nor any scorching heat; for the Lamb at the centre of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to 5

springs of the water of life, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’ Revelation 7.9-17 Reader May your word live in us, ALL And bear much fruit to your glory. Gospel Acclamation ALL Alleluia! Alleluia!

My sheep hear my voice; I know them and they follow me.

ALL Alleluia! Reader The Lord be with you. ALL And also with you. Reader A reading from the holy gospel according to John. ALL Glory to you Lord Jesus Christ. The festival Jesus was attending is also called Hanukah (still kept today by Jewish people) and recalls a time in 169 BC when the Temple was desecrated by the occupying Greco-Syrians who sacrificed a pig on its altar. Rather than renounce their faith and customs, Jews were being killed. Judah Maccabee raised an army and reclaimed the Temple and the land. There was only enough oil to rekindle the Temple light for one day but miraculously it lasted eight days. With their Temple rededicated, messianic expectations were heightened, hence the question to Jesus: how long will you keep us in suspense? The festival of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon. So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, ‘How long will you keep us in sus-pense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.’ Jesus answered, ‘I have told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name testify to me; but you do not believe, because you do not belong to my sheep. My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. What my Father has given me is greater than all else, and no one can snatch it out of the Father’s hand. The Father and I are one.’ John 10.66-30 Reader For the Gospel of the Lord. ALL Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.