Pentecost Sunday – 19th May 2024
Dear Friends,
Happy Birthday!
Yes, this Sunday, Pentecost Sunday, when we celebrate the gift to us of God’s Holy Spirit, is also the birthday of the Christian Church. Today marks the transition to the third and current era and the third type of relationship of human beings, God’s ultimate creation, with God.
God has given life to all in creation that has life, but human beings alone are created in the image of God and have life breathed into us with God’s own breath. It is human beings alone that can have this gift of and this relationship with God through God’s indwelling Holy Spirit.
There are all sorts of wonderful symbols that we use to mark and to show the presence of the Holy Spirit of God in each of us and within our church.
The Bible tells us of the signs of the Spirit coming upon the disciples like a rushing wind and with the appearance of flames above their heads. It sounds amazing, spectacular and impossible to deny or not recognise. The point of these symbols was not that we should try to emulate the symbols but that we should all realise that what followed, the supernatural acts of the disciples, was truly in the power of God, of God’s Holy Spirit.
This Sunday, we will celebrate and also explore the meaning of Pentecost, of our birthday and the birthday present to us from God, God’s own spirit or breath.
A few additional notices with more details in this GNT:
· Bishop John Roundhill has advised that he will be visiting us on Sunday 7 July
· Our next Parish working bee is planned for Saturday 15 June
Next Sunday as we celebrate Trinity or ‘who is God?’ Sunday.
Let us remember Jesus’s message before he left his disciples – “it is to your advantage that I go away … I will send the Advocate [Holy Spirit] to you.
Grace and peace and hope
Rob
19 May 2024
Liturgical Resources
The Sentence
‘A new heart I will give you, and a new Spirit I will put within you,’ says the Lord God; ‘I will put my spirit within you and you shall live.’
Ezekiel 36:26; 37-14
The Collect
Almighty God, you sent your Holy Spirit to be the life and light of your Church: open our hearts to the riches of your grace, that we may bring forth the fruit of the Spirit in love, joy, and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Hymns and Readings – Pentecost - 19 May
First Ezekiel 37:1-14
Psalm 104 26-36 Page 331
NT Acts 2:1-21
Gospel John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15
Hymns
414 There’s a spirit in the air
409 O breath of life, come sweeping through us
158 God has spoken by his prophets
474 Here in this place
Prayers for the People and Issues within our Parish Family and Community
We pray for those who have asked for our prayers as they travel: Rob and Jan Nolan; Eleanor Greenwood; Rob and Maggie Law.
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Please pray for those who have asked for our prayers: Andrew Pratt; Peter Gardner; Marilyn Hohnke; Barbara Strong; Catherine Robertson; Allison King; Ann Higgins; Helen Williams; Andrew Williams; Andrew Nolan; James Harding; Geoff; Shane; Peter; Debbie Day; Ann Thomas
King Charles and Catherine Wales.
· Please speak to Reverend Rob or Reverend Angela if you would like someone’s name added to or removed from the prayer list.
Hymns and Readings – Trinity Sunday - 26 May
First Isaiah 6:1-8
Psalm 29 (Page 248)
NT Romans 8:11-17
Gospel John 3:1-17
Hymns
143 Immortal Invisible
717 Give thanks with a grateful heart
132 Holy, Holy, Holy
161 Tell out my soul
NOTICES
Coming Events
· Morning Prayer and Bible Discussion – Wednesday Mornings 8:30 am
· Men’s and Ladies Breakfast – Saturday 25th May. 7.30am
· Moggill Markets – Saturday 1st June 9am-2pm
· Parish Working Bee – Saturday 15th June from 7.00am
· Bishop’s visit – Sunday 7 July
Church Winter Working Bee Saturday June 15 from 7.00am
Parish Council has agreed there will be two working bees this year, one in Winter and the other in Spring. Our Winter working bee is planned for Saturday June 15 followed by breakfast.
The jobs identified are as follows:
Indoors
Washing down kitchen walls and replacing lights in the kitchen (prior to preparing breakfast)
Washing down hall walls
Replacing several small tiles in the bathroom entry
Checking the hall chair legs for wear and tear and providing new ‘shoes’ as required.
Outdoors
Attaching notice board to hall door
Levelling raised tree root on pathway to front gate
General weeding, mowing, and tidying.
Breakfast will follow.
Favourite Hymns
Thank you for the many hymn suggestions that have been made. There is still time for more before we consider how to use the suggestions. (Clipboard at the back of the church).
Health
If you feel unwell or have cold or flu-like symptoms you should not attend gathered worship.
CAREFORCE, INALA PANTRY.
Thank you to Miranda and Peter who have been delivering our donations.
Donated items are collected at church and delivered at regular intervals to St. Hugh’s Inala. Items of long-life milk (full cream), tea, coffee, sugar, flour(1kg because that is the easiest to carry for those who walk home), cereal, tinned fruit and vegetables, in addition to the usual dried foods like rice, pasta, lentils they also suggested cooking oil (olive, canola etc) tinned fish, tinned soup and other tinned food, biscuits, spreads, washing liquid and powder, disinfectant, toilet paper and tissues as well as bathroom items like deodorant, shampoo and toothpaste, and finally snacks for kids lunch boxes like muesli bars and cheese and crackers are much appreciated. Thank you to all who donate to this worthy cause.
CHURCH CONTACTS
Our Church Email moggillmtcrosby@anglicanchurchsq.org.au
Follow Anglican News on our Website: www.mmcanglican.org.au
Clergy:
The Venerable Rob Sutherland, CSC (Locum Tenens part-time)
Mobile 0406 767 757 – Email Rob.Sutherland@anglicanchurchsq.org.au
The Reverend Angela McNeill (Honorary Assistant Priest)
Mobile 0439 877 057 - Email ajmcneil@bigpond.net.au
Church Wardens:
Bronwen Thomas Mobile 0448 120 218 - Email bronwen.thomas@sap.com
Sam Towers Phone - 3202 5196 - Email samantha.towers01@gmail.com
Rob Law Mobile 0403 842 329 – Email roblaw1512@gmail.com
Treasurer (and also Hall Hire contact): Richard Ponsonby
Mobile 0448 899 801 - Email moggillmtcrosby.treasurer@anglicanchurchsq.org.au
Children’s Ministry Coordinator: Helen Donovan Mobile 0417 789 433
Maintenance Coordinator: Anne Greenwood Mobile 0438 201 900 Email: annejeanette1949@outlook.com