15th January Bulletin

13 Jan

Written By Sonya Gubbins

The Anglican Parish of Tamborine Mountain

15th January 2023

Second Sunday after Epiphany

St. George’s, Tamborine Mountain St. Luke’s, Canungra

2 Dapsang Drive, 15-21 Kidston Street,

Tamborine Mountain Canungra

Sunday: 10.00am Eucharist Sunday: 8.00am Eucharist

Sentence for the Day

God is faithful;

by him you were called into the fellowship of his Son,

Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Corinthians 1.9

Collect

Almighty God,

whose Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ,

is the light of the world:

may your people,

illumined by your word and sacraments,

shine with the radiance of his glory,

that he may be known, worshipped,

and obeyed to the ends of the earth;

who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,

one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Liturgy: via PowerPoint + APBA Colour – Green

Readings: 49.1-7; Ps 40.1-14; 1 Corinthians 1.1-9; John 1.29-42

We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Wanggeriburra people of the Yugambeh Nation, the traditional owners and ongoing custodians of the land on which we gather, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people worshipping with us today.

A note from Helen

When you talk about significant events in your life, for how many of them do you include time of day, night or day, weather, date. Because for some events, being able to ‘situate’ them in the specifics of ‘when’ they occurred gives depth to their story. Do you remember the time you gave birth to your child/ren. Do you remember the specifics of your graduation, either from school or higher education or maybe even both. Do you remember the specifics of when you were given some truly bad news, or maybe some amazingly good news. In our gospel, John finds it important to specify that ‘it was about four o’clock in the afternoon’. Why was the time so important that he needed record. Time matters in this story, not just to mark time, but to remind us of God’s time. That God entered into time, when God did not have to. That God elected to be limited by time when God did not have to. That God decided time matters when omnipresence could have allowed for an easy way out. For the disciples, four in the afternoon was their first invitation to ‘be’ with Jesus, to ‘abide’ with him. Not just to come and see, but to ‘be’, and ‘abide’. Because ‘abiding’ is important for the author of this gospel. To abide is to belong; to be saved; to be assured of a future with God. Presence in time is the promise of Epiphany. And Epiphanic moments need to be declared in time. The incarnation anticipates and even demands that time matters. Because time matters to God and our times matter deeply to God.

NOTICES…

Reports for Parish AGM#2

To allow timely preparation and distribution of the Annual Report to the AGM please forward all reports for individual ministries to the parish office by Monday 23rd January.

Parish mobile Phone. The parish now has a mobile phone, so if you need to contact Helen, please call on the mobile. 0492488330.

Aboriginal Sunday - 22 January 2023

This year we shall be observing Aboriginal Sunday. There are special resources, from Common Grace, which we will be using for the day.

What is Aboriginal Sunday?

On January 26 1938, Aboriginal leaders including William Cooper, met for a Day of Mourning, seeking equality and full citizenship (though it would take another 30 years). The Australian Churches were then asked to set aside the Sunday before January 26 as Aboriginal Sunday (previously called Aborigines’ Day), a day for Christians to act in solidarity with Aboriginal peoples and the injustices being expected.

Clergy Summer School

Rev’d Helen will be attending Clergy Summer School on 16, 17, 18 January.

Year’s Mind Anniversaries this month

Jean Dunlop

This week’s intercessions: Prepared by John N.

This is the day that the Lord has made....Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Let us first thank God for the wonders of this world in which we live, for the heavens above and the earth beneath, and for all the living creatures with which we share this world. Let us always remember that we are but guardians of God’s creation for all those who will come after us and its beauties and resources must be treated wisely and preserved as far as possible.