What’s on @ St Peter’s
Prayer List
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changes or contact Parish Office
Suzie Sutherland, David Thompson, Caroline Banderas,
Winston Ison-Harling, Nadine Chen, Linda Weller, Allan
Tulloch, Catherine Lynch, Ian Reynolds, Rachel Evans, Mary
Hope Moore, Bill Stewart, June, Royston Clarke, Sue,
Donna Frigo, Despina, John Pye, Ron Martin, Lynette
Elison, Hilton Blake, Joy Styles, Leslie, Wayne, Daisy Kaillis,
Brooke Banderas, Terry Allen, Greta Clarke, Lindsay
Whybrow, Francis, Lorna, Kent, Katherine Fildes, Barbara
Taylor and others known to us.
November
20 Hans Küng Bible Study 4.00pm
Advent begins
23 Pilgrim Group 6.30pm
27 Christmas Cantata-Gold Coast City Choir 5.00pm
27 Sausage Sizzle 6.30pm
27 Church & grounds come alive with lights 7.15pm
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the sick have personally requested prayers. Please let the Parish
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December
04 Vicky Hong Piano Recital 2.00pm
04 Hans Küng Bible Study 4.00pm
Ordinary Sunday 28
your Church in this Parish may be strong to win men,
women and children to love, worship and serve you; to the
Glory of your Holy Name, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Prayers & Readings
The Sentence for the Day: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of
Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Lo, your king
comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble
and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Zechariah 9.9
CANTICLE: Song of Zechariah U Blessed be the Lord
who sets his people free.
Blesséd are you, Lord, the God of Israel: you have come to
your people and set them free. You have raised up for us a
mighty Saviour: born of the house of your servant David.
Prayer of the Day: Eternal God, you exalted Jesus Christ
to rule over all things, and have made us instruments of
his kingdom: by your Spirit empower us to love the
unloved, and to minister to all in need, then at the last
bring us to your eternal realm where we may be
welcomed into your everlasting joy and may worship and
adore you for ever; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who
lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
U
Through your holy prophets, you promised of old: to save
us from our enemies, from the hands of all who hate us,
To show mercy to our forebears: and to remember your
holy covenant. U
This was the oath you swore to our father Abraham: to set
us free from the hands of our enemies, free to worship you
without fear: holy and righteous before you, all the days of
Prayer of the Week: Stir up, we pray you, O Lord, the
wills of your faithful people, that they, plenteously
bringing forth the fruit of good works, may by you be
plenteously rewarded; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
our life. U
And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Most
High: for you will go before the Lord to prepare the way,
To give God’s people knowledge of salvation: by the forgiveness of their sins. U
Prayer for our Parish: Teach us, O God: to attempt great
things for you: and from you to expect great things, so that
Jeremiah 23.1-6
Colossians 1.11-20
Parish Office:
83 Nerang Street, Southport, 4215
P.O. Box 1950, Southport, 4215
Office Hours:
20th November 2016 – Christ the King
Luke 23.33-43
8.30am-2.00pm Monday—Friday
In the tender compassion of our God: the dawn from on
high shall break upon us, To shine on those who dwell in
darkness and the shadow of death: and to guide our feet
into the way of peace. U
[email protected]
Tel: 5532 8978 Fax 5564 0870
20th November 2016 – Christ the King
Services Times:
Wednesday 10.00am
Thursday 12.00noon
Sunday 7.00am, 9.30am, 5.45pm
www.stpetersgc.com.au
[email protected]
Message from Fr Don
For millennia the world knew only natural lights: solar and lunar stars. And then there was light from the burning of
natural materials: wood, oil, gas. The advent of electric light, in the latter part of the nineteenth century was greeted with
considerable alarm for it altered the circadian rhythms of the world. It symbolized, like no other invention before or since,
the opposition between a natural world – of clear demarcation between night and day – and a modern world – in which
business and leisure could and soon would operate 24/7. The darkness which could
only be held at bay by fire, was overthrown by the click of a switch.
I wonder how that changed Christian spirituality. Is ‘Shine Jesus Shine’ a direct
result of the ease with which we now turn on the lights? Is there a difference
between lighting a real candle in prayer, versus turning on a battery operated one?
More importantly, what happened to our concept of spiritual darkness once
physical darkness was so easily overcome?
Advent is the annual invitation to consider light and dark. I was brought up in
America where Advent thrust us out into the darkness as we walked around our
neighbour-hood admiring each house’s Christmas lights. The more garish and
twinkly, the more I sensed God playing, extravagantly, in the darkness. Today my
experience of Advent usually involves carolling in the rain, thanking God for the
dim light thrown by underpowered torches onto sodden song sheets.
These are moments when technology touches my spirit. A more profound
reflection on the interplay between electric light and darkness can be found in
poetry, particularly of the Modernist era, when such light was a new phenomenon.
T. S. Eliot’s ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ (which would later inspire ‘Memory’ from
Cats) conveys some of the angst surrounding this new technology. Hart Crane’s ‘To Brooklyn Bridge’ links the new light to
the old as he looks at cars streaming over the bridge:
Again the traffic lights that skim thy swift
Unfractioned idiom, immaculate sigh of stars,
Beading thy path - - condense eternity:
And we have seen night lifted in thine arms.
This Advent, one challenge might be to follow the poets as they trace both the star against the sky, and the headlights on a
river: to look at light in all its forms as it plays out against the darkness of the world. And to look at Scripture as it, too,
considers the different forms light might take: ‘Thy word is a light unto my feet, and a lamp unto my path’ (Psalm
119.105). ‘The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it’ (John 1.5).
Author: Karin Voth Harman (Assistant Curate of King’s Cliffe Benefice in East Northamptonshire.) from The Sign, 1 Dec 2014 – used with permission.
ORDINATION St John’s Cathedral 3rd December
welcomes
granddaughter
Sasha
Advent
This week
Piano Recital
Hope, Love, Joy, Peace
Vicky Hong is a talented Gold Coast
piano teacher and performer who has
gained many awards in reputable
Australian Piano Competitions. A lady
with remarkable piano skills and
musical ability.
Sunday 27th November Advent I
5.00pm “One Silent Night” – a Christmas Cantata and
other music to celebrate Christmas with the Gold Coast
City Choir—free admission
6.30pm Sausage Sizzle
7.15pm Christmas Light Escapade following our theme
for 2016 ‘Let’s Get Noticed’. The church & grounds will
come alive with lights.
Wednesday 30th November
The recital will take you through a
piano journey "Sound of Nature"
For tickets and information contact Vicky on 0411-888-561
10.00am Holy Eucharist
11.00am Bible Study
Sunday 4th December Advent II
7.00am
9.30am
2.00pm
4.00pm
5.45pm
Sung Eucharist
Sung Eucharist
Vicky Hong Piano Recital (Adults $25, Cons $20)
Küng Bible Study
Holy Eucharist
Wednesday 7th December
The flowers in the Sanctuary
are to the Glory of God
in loving memory of:
Elsie Whichello
Given by her family
10.00am Holy Eucharist
11.00am Bible Study
Sunday 11th December Advent III
The towering arms of Brooklyn bridge hint at the arms of Our Father, lifting night, holding the darkness. It is by the light of
the traffic that we can see and sense a bigger presence.
Graeme
our Organist
Christmas Diary
Looking towards the Light—Advent
The bus will be leaving from in front of the Church at
8.00am sharp.
Cost $15
There are still some seats left if you would like to join
us for the Ordination of Pauline & Chris Tyack.
List is at the back of the church.
7.00am
9.30am
4.00pm
5.45pm
Sung Eucharist
Sung Eucharist
Küng Bible Study
Holy Eucharist
Harriet Peggy Middleton
Daughter of James & Lucy
Wednesday 14th December
10.00am Holy Eucharist
11.00am Bible Study
Sunday 18th December Advent IV
Kaylin Joan Aspin
7.00am
9.30am
5.45pm
7.00pm
Daughter of Kristaan & Terri
Sung Eucharist
Sung Eucharist
Holy Eucharist
Carols on the Terrace
Saturday 24th December Christmas Eve
7.00pm Family Service with ‘Blessing of the Crib’
11.30pm Midnight Mass
Sunday 25th December The Birth of our Lord
7.00am Sung Eucharist
9.30am Sung Eucharist
Cover Window—All
Saints Episcopal Church, Oregon
5.45pm
Holy Eucharist
Jessica Annette Hoppner
Daughter of Jeffrey & Shital
Our Lord Jesus Christ said ‘Let the children come to me, do not hinder them, for to such the Kingdom of Heaven belongs’. Mark 10.14