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PARISH DIRECTORY:

296 Glenferrie Road, Malvern VIC 3144 LOCUM VICAR: Archdeacon Ray McInnes Phone: 9822 3030 Email: locum@stgeorgesmalvern.org 0436484066 ray.mcinnes26@gmail.com

CURATE: Vacant

HONORARY ASSOCIATE PRIEST:

The Revd Bill Michie

ORGANIST & DIRECTOR OF MUSIC Elizabeth-Anne Nixon Email: music@stgeorgesmalvern.org CHURCH OFFICE Tuesdays to Fridays: 9:30am-12:30pm Phone: 9822 3030 Email: office@stgeorgesmalvern.org Parish Office: Riley Brooks (Tues to Fri, for June) WARDENS: Jenny Weller-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

30 June 2019 Third Sunday after Pentecost

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

- Preached by Bishop Brad Billings

5:00pm Meditation & Eucharist - Reflection from Archdeacon Ray McInnes

Tuesday 9:00am Cabrini Hospital Ministry

Thursday 10:15am Eucharist

6:00pm 150th Anniversary Committee Meeting

7:00pm Choir Practice—South Room

A Prayer during an interregnum 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, wis-dom, discernment and patience, and to us give warm and generous hearts, for Jesus Christ’s sake. Amen.

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10am Eucharist: HYMNS: 561 444 527 595

SETTING: Holy Trinity Mass Ross

PSALM 77: verses sung by the choir

ANTHEM: A Prayer of St Richard of Chichester White

POSTLUDE: Concerto in G mvt 1 J.S. Bach BWV 592

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

St. George’s Annual Parish Lunch

Sunday noon, July 28, 2019

BYO wine etc, and please bring salads and dessert to share.

Roast meat and soft drinks provided

$10, RSVP July 21

All welcome

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NOTICES

Welcome Today we welcome back to St

George’s Bishop Brad Billings as our Preacher and Celebrant

(morning services)

150th Anniversary of St George’s On September 19.2019 St George’s Church will be 150 years old. This is a great milestone and plans are

now well advanced to celebrate the event. Soon you will see billboards,

posters and invitations. Choral Evensong on the night of the

Anniversary and a Choral Eucharist with our special guest Bishop Andrew Curnow on the

following Sunday. Please put these dates in your diary - not to be

missed. More news about these Anniversary events will be

circulated in coming weeks.

Creswick visit - July 22nd The fellowship group has

organised a trip to Creswick shop, Hawthorn. There will be a bus

leaving from the church parking lot at 12:30pm, and the parade will

be followed by an afternoon tea. The bus will return by 4pm. For those wishing to come, a sign up sheet will be on the noticeboard

early July.

Database In preparation for our 150th

Anniversary celebrations we are hoping to invite old parishioners who might have moved out of the

Parish. If you know anyone whom we should invite please put their name and contact details on the

little leaflets now available at the church door.

Danube River Cruise with Oberammergau 2020

Led by our Locum Vicar Ray McInnes and Glenys McInnes

Sail through Central Europe’s splendid capitals and charming towns in Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and Germany. Then travel to the Bavarian village of Oberammergau for the performance of the Passion Play. Performed once a decade, the Passion Play is

a stunning theatrical event with a history dating back to 1634. The perfect blend of adventure, relaxation, and inspiration, this is truly a once in a lifetime experience.

The river cruise begins in Budapest, then sets sail for Bratislava, the Slovakian capital.

Continue to Vienna, the world’s most liveable city before continuing to Linz and the cobblestones streets of Passau. After docking in Innsbruck you will have 2 nights there

before driving to Oberammergau for the Passion Play performance.

Itinerary and more information at https://myselah.com.au/trip/danube-river-cruise-with-oberammergau-2020/

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Pray for the Faithful Departed We remember before God: Helen Cotton, Leonard Newton, Bill McSpedden, Priest, Roberta Frost, Daphne (Bon) Chandler, Erich Mehrens, Thomas Percival (Tom) Pringle, Margaret Hooper, Mary Margaret (Peg) Blackman, Margaret Emma Elliot, William Green, Valda Konings, Eva Mary Reichardt, Frank Mansell, George (Warwick) Ramsden, whose anniversaries occur this week.

From our Locum Vicar

Recently I noted that the CEO of Anglicare Vic, Paul McDonald slept rough in a cardboard box on a Melbourne street. I know Paul very well, having served on the board of Anglicare for nine years until 2017. Paul is a champion of the poor and marginalised and in joining some other CEOs in this sleep out they make an important point and lead their organisations by example.

There is a major crisis in Australia at this time, and there are without doubt many factors - the rapid spread of the drug ‘ice’, domestic violence, and the inability for people to make ends meet at home, because of the rising costs of living, especially utilities and rent.

Paul McDonald has been a strong advocate for a summit on homelessness, to not only highlight the massive shortfall in shelter, apparently we urgently need over 700,000 new places in Australia - we also need to better understand what is happening and to turn this crisis around so that more people don’t end up among these deplorable statistics.

At Albert Park our Sunday Suppers program gave a free hearty meal to about 70-80 people every Sunday evening. Random surveys (over the time I was there) revealed about a third of our regulars were sleeping rough, a third were in rooming houses and a third were is some form of more stable accommodation (like a ministry of housing flat). All were living week by week and some day by day - most were therefore very vulnerable and close to that slippery slide if their luck was out.

I am very proud of Anglicare today, especially our work with young people and our programs around foster care and out of home care. But there is a mountain to climb as we tackle those current major social issues around homelessness and emergency relief. I hope and pray Paul McDonald and the CEOs who have bravely slept rough for a night recently can help the wider community and our political leaders get together. We need some action.

Every blessing,

Ray

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St George’s Anglican Church | Malvern

Third Sunday after Pentecost 30 June 2019

Sentence Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for Jesus’ sake will find it. Matthew 10.39

Collect O God, the light of the minds that know you, the life of the souls that love you, the strength of the thoughts that seek you: help us so to know you that we may truly love you, and so to love you that we may fully serve you, whose service is perfect freedom; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. A reading from the first book of Kings. This is the story of Elisha being found to succeed Elijah. He leaves his old way of life decisively by destroying his previous means of sustenance. It is Elisha who eventually anoints the kings named to Elijah signifying God’s engagement in the political process. The Lord said to Elijah, ‘Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus; when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael as king over Aram. Also you shall anoint Jehu son of Nimshi as king over Israel; and you shall anoint Elisha son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah as prophet in your place. So he set out from there, and found Elisha son of Shaphat, who was ploughing. There were twelve yoke of oxen ahead of him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle over him. He left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, ‘Let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.’ Then Elijah said to him, ‘Go back again; for what have I done to you?’ He returned from following him, took the yoke of oxen, and slaughtered them; using the equipment from the oxen, he boiled their flesh, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out and followed Elijah, and became his servant 1 Kings 19.15-16, 19-21 Reader Hear the word of the Lord All Thanks be to God

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Psalm 77 APBA, page 300, 10am see page 2

The psalmist reminds us that, even when our hearts are troubled, remembering God’s great works will be a comfort.

A reading from the letter of Paul to the Galatians

Paul contrasts freedom and slavery, flesh and spirit, and vice and virtue. The most important message of this passage is that by being set free through Christ, Christians are to continue to live guided by the Holy Spirit. By living by the Spirit, the ‘nine types of fruit’ become a readily discernible part of a person’s character. For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another. For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ If, however, you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another. Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not subject to the law. Now the works of the flesh are obvious: fornication, impurity, licentiousness,

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit. Gal. 5.1, 13-25

Reader May your word live in us, ALL And bear much fruit to your glory. Gospel Acclamation

ALL Alleluia! Alleluia! Jesus went through one town and village after

another, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. ALL Alleluia! Reader The Lord be with you 5

ALL And also with you Reader A reading from the holy gospel according to Luke. ALL Glory to you Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus’ going to Jerusalem is a fulfilment of his mission. Travelling in obedience to God’s call is one of the central pictures of what it means to be a Christian. Following Jesus is what it’s all about... and it’s not easy. It comes with great challenge. The question comes home to us. Where is Jesus asking us to travel? Are we ready to follow him wherever he goes?

When the days drew near for Jesus to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. And he sent messengers ahead of him. On their way they entered a village of the Samaritans to make ready for him; but they did not receive him, because his face was set towards Jerusalem. When his disciples James and John saw it, they said, ‘Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?’ But he turned and rebuked them. Then they went on to another village. As they were going along the road, someone said to him, ‘I will follow you wherever you go.’ And Jesus said to him, ‘Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.’ To another he said, ‘Follow me.’ But he said, ‘Lord, first let me go and bury my father.’ But Jesus said to him, ‘Let the dead bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.’ Another said, ‘I will follow you, Lord; but let me first say farewell to those at my home.’ Jesus said to him, ‘No one who puts a hand to the plough and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.’ Luke 9.51-62

Reader For the Gospel of the Lord ALL Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ Bible Readings next week Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Isaiah 66.10-14 Psalm 66.1-8 Galatians 6.7-18 Luke 10.1-12, 17-24 Prayer for the Week Especially remembering Christina, Ric, Neddy, Fran and Graeme, Jo, Michael, Members of the Parish in hospital facing surgery or recovering from an illness.

O God, who for our redemption gave your only-begotten Son to suffer death upon a cross, and by his glorious resurrection delivered us form the power of the enemy: grant us so to die daily to sin that we may evermore live with him in the joy of his resurrection; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.