19th March Bulletin

17 Mar

Written By Sonya Gubbins

The Anglican Parish of Tamborine Mountain

19th March 2023

Fourth Sunday in Lent

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

4.00 pm Eucharist

We are a Christian faith community living in the way of Christ accepting and welcoming all in loving service; growing Christ’s future on Earth.

Sentence for the Day

‘I am the light of the world,’ says the Lord;

‘those who follow me will have the light of life.’

John 8.12

Collect

Gracious God,

out of your love and mercy

you breathed into dust the breath of life,

creating us to serve you and one another:

call forth our penitence and acts of love,

and strengthen us to face our mortality,

so that we may look with confidence for your salvation;

through Jesus Christ our Lord,

who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,

one God, now and for ever. Amen..

Liturgy: via PowerPoint + APBA Colour – Violet

Readings: 1 Samuel 16.1-13; Psalm 23; Ephesians 5.8-14; John 9.1-41

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 Jesus comes into your life and changes things around, life can get a bit confusing. Not necessarily just for you either, but for everyone around you. In today’s gospel, Jesus heals a man in response to a question posed by his disciples about the cause of the man’s blindness – did he sin or his parents. But when the man becomes sighted, his community fails to recognise him, his parents know it is his son but distance themselves from ‘becoming involved’ in the authority’s search for answers to how it is that he now sees. And frustrated by a lack of clarity, the authorities drive the man out of the community. When Jesus finds the man, he confirms the healing, the new identity, and abundant life. When our lives are changed by Jesus, we sometimes face the same challenges – friends, and maybe even family, fail to accept the change and continue, or insist, on still responding to us as the person we used to be. But Jesus will always seek us out, affirm the changes in our lives, affirm our new identity and invite us into rich and abundant lives.

NOTICES…

Expressions of Easter

You are invited to add your ‘expression of Easter’ to the fence at St George’s. It would be good to have all of them there by Palm Sunday. They can take any art form you desire.

Palm Crosses

If you have palms branches which could be used for Palm Sunday or for making palm crosses, could they please be left at the church between March 25 and 31.

EASTER SERVICES

Maundy Thursday St Georges – 6pm pilgrim supper; 7pm service

Good Friday St George’s 8am

Stations of the Cross – St Georges 12md

Canungra Ecumenical Service 3pm

Easter Day Lighting of the Easter Fire, St George’s, Time TBA

St Luke’s 8.00am

St George’s 10.00am

CPR Training

If you need, or would like, to undertake CPR training, a course will be held in the Georgian Room at 9.30am on Friday 21st April. $60/head. Please advise the office before 10th April if you would like to attend.

Candidates for Confirmation

Please pray for Cy and Sophia who are preparing for Confirmation.

Hymns

Introit TIS 275 Hail to the Lord’s Anointed

Gradual (St G’s) TIS 447 Lord, your almighty word

Offertory TIS 246 Christ is the world’s light

Missional TIS 265 O come, O come, Emmanuel

This week’s intercessions: Prepared by Keith S

We pray for the peoples of the world: for all whose lives are shattered by warfare and violence; for victims of incompetent and corrupt government; for leaders of nations, for our state and federal politicians; and for those who minister the law.