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PARISH OFFICE
2 Walkers Drive Maleny
P.O. Box 265 Maleny 4552
Ph. 54999130
Office hours:
Monday and Tuesday 9.00am - 1.00pm
email: [email protected]
Website: malenyanglicanparish.com.au
Parish Priest: Fr Harry Reuss - 0428 187 625
Please pray for:
Maleny: Gwen Barrett Heather Bolton
Montville: Christine Long Robert Weber Samuel Thorne
CHURCH WARDENS Jim Atkinson Ph: 5494 3064 email: [email protected] June Allison Ph: 54352941 email: [email protected]
Henriette Guest Ph: 5445 7608 email: [email protected]
DISTRICT WARDENS Montville Christine Sheldrick Ph: 5445 0109 Kenilworth Cecil Pearson Ph. 5446 0368
Parish Minute Secretary Parish Honorary Treasurer Margaret Walker Ph:5494 2028 Susan Myring Ph: 5494 4153 email: [email protected] email : [email protected]
RETIRED PRIESTS
The Very Rev’d Chris Whittall The Rev’d Derek Barrett The Rev’d Kaye Pitman The Rev’d Canon Dr. Monty Morris
Prayer Chain Co-ordinators: Kenilworth: Yvonne Riedel 5446 0458 Montville: Margaret Young 5445 7550 Maleny: Patricia Jackson 5494 2583
Pastoral Care Co-ordinators: Carole Phillips 5445 7839 (Montville), Shirley Moreland 5446 0171 (Kenilworth)
The Anglican Parish of Maleny in the Diocese of Brisbane is committed to protecting your privacy. The people on the list of the sick have personally
requested prayers.
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Maleny Anglican Parish
Our vision is to “Love one another as Jesus loves us“
Our mission is to obey Jesus’ commandment,
“Love one another as I have loved you.” (John 15:12)
TODAY’S SERVICES
Services: Celebrants:
St. Mary’s Montville 7.30am Canon Dr Monty Morris
St George’s Maleny 9.00am Fr Derek Barrett
St Luke’s Kenilworth 9.00am Mr. Peter Hennessy
Second Sunday after Epiphany 17th January 2016
WELCOME to our worship today.
Please stay for fellowship and refreshment after the Service.
“Jesus
revealed
his glory,
and his
disciples
believed in
him.” John 2.11
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Today’s Readings: Isaiah 62.1-5 Ps. 36.5-10 1 Corinthians 12.1-11 John 2.1-11
Readings for Next Sunday: Jeremiah 29.4-14 Ps. 33.12-21 1 Thessalonians 5.12-24 John 8.31-36
Opening Sentence: Jesus revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
John 2.11
Prayer for the Day: Bountiful God, whose Son revealed his glory at Cana of
Galilee: help us to believe and obey, so that, as our Saviour promised, we may be
filled with the wine of new life and show forth his joy and love; who lives and
reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
READINGS FOR THE DAY
A READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH
CHAPTER 62 VERSES 1-5:
The LORD says this: For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake
I will not rest, until her vindication shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a
burning torch. The nations shall see your vindication, and all the kings your glory;
and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give. You
shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand
of your God. You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be
termed Desolate; but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land
Married; for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married. For as a
young man marries a young woman, so shall your builder marry you, and as the
bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD THANKS BE TO GOD
PSALM 36.5-10: We say alternate verses:
Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens,
and your faithfulness to the clouds.
Your righteousness is like the strong mountains,
your justice like the great deep; you save both human and beast, O Lord.
How priceless is your love, O God!
your people take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
They feast upon the abundance of your house;
you give them drink from the river of your delights.
For with you is the well of life, and in your light we see light.
Continue your loving-kindness to those who know you,
and your favour to those who are true of heart.
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WE ASK YOUR PRAYERS:
For lasting solutions to bring peace to our troubled world: we
pray particularly for those parts of the world that are in the
news this week.
For the Diocese of North Queensland: +Bill Ray, clergy & people
For our Archbishop Phillip Aspinall and our Bp Jonathan Holland
For our Church family and community
For the Parish of Kenmore-Brookfield: Hugh Begbie—Locum
For the Parish of Ipswich: Owen Strong—Locum Tenens and his people
For the sick in our parish, for those listed in the pew sheet, and for those
known to us personally
For the faithful departed, remembering those whose years mind occurs at this
time—May they Rest in Peace and Rise in Glory.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: The Parish Annual Meeting will be held
on the 28th February 2016. Leaders of all groups and
organisations are asked to have a report to the Office by end of
January to allow time for printing and publication of the
booklets before the meeting. Please pray about your
nomination to position of Parish Councillors, Churchwardens,
Parish Nominators and Synod Representatives. Closing date for nominations is
the 18th February 2016. Nomination forms can be found at all centres.
The Second Sunday after the Epiphany – Sunday 17 January 2016 Isaiah 62.1-5; Psalm 36.5-10; 1 Corinthians 12.1-11; John 2.1-11
Our closeness to God is what he desires more than anything and the prophet Isaiah expresses this through the image of that sacred institution, Marriage. God’s people are close to him like a bride is close to her bridegroom, and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so God rejoices over his people. Now, we receive so many gifts through the Spirit every day, often without us fully appreciating them or even being aware of them. The goal of these gifts is for us to draw closer to God and to bring others close to him as well.
Pray for the awareness of God’s Spirit active in our lives and in the life of the Church, that we might cultivate and refine our gifts and draw closer to God.
Give thanks for the Anglican Church of Kenya, remembering especially today the children enrolled in the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd programs.
Rev Will Johnston, Assistant Curate, St Peter’s, East Maitland, Diocese of Newcastle © Anglican Board of Mission, 2016
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Rev’d Derek Barrett’s Commentary on the Readings:
Psalm 36 The writer of this psalm does what the other psalmists do, namely to compare and
contrast one concept with another, darkness/light, truth/lies, godly/ungodly. But it is
not all black or white, the imagery is in technicolour and the sky and the mountains
and the seas are painted in rich and strong shades. There are those who can detect
this and there are those who can’t. Those who do see in this way are able to imagine
the splendour of the Almighty who is never monochrome or dull. This psalmist
challenges us to say whether or not we can see God in all His majesty and
magnificence and are consequently enlightened by the splendid panorama of
creation. If so, it is not only a revelation of beauty but a matching acceptance of
order and morality in our own lives. So the psalm ends in prayer. All these created
resources are at our disposal, and we are to pray that we make good use of them all.
The love and the saving power are freely offered.
1 Corinthians 12 Many Christians like this passage because it contains the words of a favourite
hymn, “Jesus is Lord, Creation’s voice proclaims it, for by His power each tree and
flower was planned and made….praise Him with alleluias for Jesus is Lord”. It is
an ancient battle cry for it was coined in an empire where Caesar alone was Lord.
You only said Jesus is Lord at the pain of death, and it was well said that the blood
of the martyrs was the seed of the Church. Paul is saying that the words could only
be uttered because the Holy Spirit allowed them to be said. No-one ever discovered
the truth of the saying by intellectual endeavour but because God in His Grace made
the revelation and the earliest Christian congregations proved that Jesus was their
Lord by responding to what the Holy Spirit was giving them, namely, wisdom,
knowledge, faith, healing, power and prophecy, discernment. This passage also
contains, “You are the Body of Christ” which we proudly and confidently proclaim
at every Eucharist as, “We are the Body of Christ, His Spirit is with us”!
John 2
Epiphany has its own themes and topics, and one of them has always been “the first
miracle that Jesus wrought in Cana of Galilee” to quote Archbishop Cranmer from
the B.C.P. marriage service. Later theologians have updated Cranmer’s term
‘miracle’ to ‘sign’, because the writer of the fourth gospel doesn’t call the
supernatural events miraculous, they are signs or signposts to indicate the
progressive nature of the revelation of Jesus and the order in which His disciples
came to believe in Him. Today we are to come to terms with the first of the seven
signs, the other six being the healing of a nobleman’s son, the healing of an
impotent man, the feeding of five thousand people, walking on the water, the
healing of a man born blind and the resurrection of Lazarus. So the conversion of a
large volume of water into excellent wine was not a “one-off” as they say in
industrial circles. Jesus had this consecrating touch, and the disciples (so called in
this narrative) saw it and felt it for themselves, and in this manner they learnt who
and what He was.
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THE EPISTLE IS WRITTEN IN THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE
CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 12 VERSES 1-11:
Concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be
uninformed. You know that when you were pagans, you were enticed and led
astray to idols that could not speak. Therefore I want you to understand that no
one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says ‘Let Jesus be cursed!’ and no one
can say ‘Jesus is Lord’ except by the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of
gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord;
and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of
them in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the
common good. To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and
to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another
faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another
the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of
spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of
tongues. All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each
one individually just as the Spirit chooses.
HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD THANKS BE TO GOD
THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO ST JOHN
CHAPTER 2 BEGINNING AT THE 1ST VERSE:
There was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine
gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ And Jesus said
to her, ‘Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet
come.’ His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ Now
standing there were six stone water-jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each
holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to them, ‘Fill the jars with water.’
And they filled them up to the brim. He said to them, ‘Now draw some out, and
take it to the chief steward.’ So they took it. When the steward tasted the water
that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the
servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward called the bridegroom and
said to him, ‘Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine
after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until
now.’ Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his
glory; and his disciples believed in him.
AUSTRALIA DAY:
Please note that the readings set for next Sunday are those for
our Celebration of Australia Day—Sunday, 24th January.
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THANK YOU: To Fr Derek for Celebrating and Preaching at St George’s this
morning (and playing the organ) and to Canon Dr. Monty Morris for Celebrating
and Preaching at St Mary’s today whilst Fr Harry is away. Thank you also to Peter
Hennessy who is leading the worship at St Luke’s. Should you need pastoral care
during Fr Harry’s absence please contact Fr Derek or Mr. Brian Warren on 5499
9237. For any other queries please contact one of the Wardens.
PARISH SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TRAINING SEMINAR:
These Seminars are being held throughout the Diocese for all Clergy, Wardens,
Parish Councillors and interested parishioners. The workshop for the parishes in
our Deanery is on Saturday, 6th February at Tewantin, Noosa Parish from 9.00-
4.00pm. The Workshop will include information and practical application of the
following:
General WHS Legislation overview
Components of the Safety Management System
WHS responsibilities
Incident/Hazard Reporting Induction / Consultation
Emergency Response Contractor safety management
WorkCover/Rehabilitation Safety planning
Please let one of the Wardens or the Parish Office know if you attending this
important workshop.
LENT STUDIES 2016:
Lent is fast approaching, Ash Wednesday is on the
10th February. This year the Parish Lenten study
will be ‘Walking Humbly with God‘ by The Rev’d
Canon Dr. Timothy Gaden. Each week of the study
focuses on a different aspect of this humble walk with God. The studies will be
led by Mr. Ron Wiseman in Montville and Fr Harry in Maleny. Please put your
name down on the list at the church door if you wish to take part in the study at
Maleny or contact Ron Wiseman in Montville - the books are $9.95 each and
we need to order them by the end of January. There are some leaflets about
the study on the information table in the Hall.
LUKE: A HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE LUKE’S GOSPEL FOR YEAR C—Saturday 13 February 2016 9.30am-4.30pm - A seminar with The Revd Dr Alan Cadwallader $50.00 / $35.00 - bookings: www.trybooking.com/JPKF or by phone: 5445 2060 - St Mark’s Anglican Church, Main Street, Buderim
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TOGETHER IN SONG HYM BOOK APPEAL
Based on the indication of Parishioners, the Parish Council has decided to proceed
with the replacement of our old and much used ‘Australian Hymn Book’ with the
widely recognised ‘Together in Song’ Hymn Book. The cost of each book will be
$30.
As well as donating copies to our churches, some parishioners may wish to give a cash
donation or take advantage of this low purchase price and obtain a copy for personal
use.
If you would care to purchase copies in memory of loved ones please fill in the details
using the order form and panel below, in order that a memorial acknowledgement can
be placed in the hymn book/books. (See example). If you want more than one book
then please write your memorial details out for each book and give them to the Parish
Office. Please place your donation in an envelope marked ‘Hymn Books’. Cheques
made payable to ‘Maleny Anglican parish’. Thank you.
ORDER FORM FOR ‘TIS’ HYMN BOOKS
Please order ________ new Hymn Books at $30.00 each $.....................
Please order ________ new Hymn Books at $30.00 each $...................
(for personal use)
Please accept my donation to this Appeal $....................
TOTAL: (Cash /Cheque) Enclosed $..............................
NAME ................................................................................................ (Please Print)
Telephone No.................................................................................................
Church where you normally worship..............................................................
MEMORIAL DETAILS (PLEASE PRINT)
AMDG
and
In Loving Memory
of
Mary Joan Smith 12-1-1935 /2-2-2001
~~
The gift of John
Smith and family
2015
