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FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT :: 18TH FEBRUARY 2024
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From the Vicar
BIBLE Today is the first Sunday in Lent. It is quite similar to the season
SUNDAYS VICAR of Advent; however it is much less understood. I think Advent
READINGS
8.00am: Holy Eucharist The Rev Mark Pearce is easy for us to understand because it is normal for us to look
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TODAY how to look forward to Christmas morning simply by withholding
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(first Sunday) all those presents until that fateful morning. So when the vicar
5:00pm: Choral Evensong DIRECTOR OF MUSIC GENESIS gets up and starts talking about looking forward to Christmas
Richard Hoy :: 03 9894 2335 9:8-17 we just get it.
(first Sunday)
p 6 (OT)
However, the message of Lent is a much different one, and
MONDAYS in each month VERGER
much harder to understand. It is a message of depriving
Home Communion services at: Leslie Gibbons :: 0406 219 599 PSALM
ourselves, it is a message of looking into our own souls, it is a
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message of reflecting on our sinfulness, facing our temptations,
11am 1st Monday of the month MARKET COORDINATOR p 390 (OT)
finding strength in scripture, and ultimately looking to the cross
Broughtonlea, 1:30pm Natasha Kuperman
of Christ and seeing your sin being nailed there, your punishment
3rd Monday of the month treasuresandtastes@
gmail.com 1 PETER being taken away by Christ. So when the vicar gets up and
WEDNESDAYS 3:18-22 starts talking about depriving yourself, about reflecting on your
10.00am Holy Eucharist p 183-4 (NT) sin, and about using Lent to fully realize your sin it doesn’t come
PARISH OFFICE as easily for us.
1st and 3rd Wednesdays:
thanksgiving and healing service Dr Jude Westrup MARK Easter we understand, the joyous day of Christ’s
03 9890 2165 1:9-15 Resurrection. Easter Day! Hallelujah, Christ is risen! Christ is risen
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p. 27 (NT) indeed! The joyous celebration that comes with being a
10:00am: Parish Prayer Service Christian. But the pain, the suffering, the darkness that comes
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before Easter is something that not very many Christians
PARISH UPDATES & Montrose Street, actually practice.
references
Website: holytrinity.sh (177 Union Rd),
are for HT As we begin this 40 day walk known as Lent, there are three
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htsurreyhills NRSV) work to overcome temptation just as Christ did. Second - we
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PARISH OFFICE should turn to scripture - as Jesus showed us by his example
Phone: 03 9890 2165 turning to scripture, and thirdly - we should look to the cross.
For it is there that Jesus takes all of our failings upon himself,
email: and saves us from their burden.
office@holytrinity.sh God Bless
Mark
Youth Group tonight :: from 5-6pm in Trinity Hall
 THIS WEEK’S READINGS
FEBRUARY
The communion setting is Dudman.
Monday 19th Leviticus 19:1-2,11-18
Psalm 19:7-14
Matthew 25:31-46
Tuesday 20th Isaiah 55:10-11
Psalm 34.11-18
Matthew 6:7-15
Wednesday 21st Jonah 3:1-10
Psalm 51: 6-9
Luke 11:29-32
Thursday 22nd Addns to Ester 14:3-14
Psalm 138:1-3
Matthew 7:7-12
Friday 23rd Ezekial 18:21-28
Psalm 130
Matthew 5:20-26
Saturday 24th Deut 26:16-19
Psalm 119:1-8
Matthew 5:43-48
Sunday 25th Genesis 17:1-7,15-16
Psalm 22:24-32
Romans 4:13-25
Mark 8:31-38
LENT STUDY GROUPS AT HOLY TRINITY
Our Lent Study Groups begin next
week, on Wednesday 21st February at
11am following our Mid-week service.
Then at 7.30pm the same evening.
We wish a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY
The Lent study book “Watch and Pray”
to Les Mullins for 22nd February.
is available now, please contact the
Vicar or the Parish office.
Our NEXT MEN’S BREAKFAST will be
on Saturday March 9th at 8.30am.
An exciting venue and activity is
planned. More details to follow
soon. Please mark this date
in your diaries.
MUSIC FOR THE 9:30AM SERVICE
Introductory hymn No 506
Forty days and forty nights
Psalm 25: 1-10
Gradual hymn No 29
As pants the heart
Offertory hymn 488
O for a closer walk
Anthem during communion is "Turn
thy face from my sins" by the
English composer Thomas Attwood
(1765-1838) (see insert).
Concluding hymn 476
O for a heart to praise my God
The postlude is "Fugato" by the
French composer Leon Boellmann
(1862- 1897).
FAMILY COMMUNION SERVICE
Sunday 3rd March: 9:30am
The theme for 2024’s Family
Communion Services is
‘Getting to know Jesus’.
The theme for 3 March is:
‘Jesus as a young man’.
We welcome and enjoy the
involvement of our children in
the service, as well as adults.
AT HOLY TRINITY
Our Mission is to be:
CONNECTED TO GOD IN CHRIST
CONNECTED WITH EACH OTHER
CONNECTED WITH THE COMMUNITY
CONNECTED WITH THE GENERATIONS
COLLECT OF THE DAY
God of the new and eternal
covenant, as the forty days of the
great flood swept away the world’s
corruption and watered new begin-
nings of righteousness and life:
grant to us, who are washed clean
and born again in the saving flood of
baptism, the wellspring of your grace,
that your gift of new life may flourish
once again; through Jesus Christ our
Redeemer, who lives and reigns with
you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one
God, for ever and ever. Amen
Source: ePray.com.au
PARISH PRAYER LIST
Dorothy Duncan, Gwen Jackson,
Helen Burston, Stephen Binns, William
Stewart (Stu) Parry, Robyn Foskett,
Margaret Howard, Thelma Fiddyment,
Rachel Hayman, Gay and Bruce
Knox, Helen Morris, Hayden Daley,
John James, Betty Cranwell, Pam
Dewar, Edith Jenkins and Carl Anjou.
WE PRAY FOR THE DEPARTED
Eric Percival Lamble, 19 February 1966
Ida May Deans, 19 February 1988
Charlotte Tanswell, 22 February 1972
Doris Annie Hutton, 23 February 1997
Rest eternal grant to them O Lord
and let light perpetual shine upon them
WE PRAY FOR OUR COMMUNITY
This week we pray for Banool Road,
Shepreth St. and Meldreth St. Surrey
SURREY HILLS MUSIC FESTIVAL
Saturday 24th February starting at 1pm.
Our Church is one of a 3-part choir, and
Surrey Hills Orchestra is on at 5:30pm.
PRAYER OF THE WEEK
O Lord, who for our sake fasted forty
days and forty nights: give us grace
to use such abstinence, that, our
flesh being subdued to the spirit,
we may ever obey your godly will
in righteousness and true holiness;
to your honour and glory, who live
and reign with the Father and the
Holy Spirit, one God, world without
end. Amen.
Source: ePray.com.au
Holy Trinity Anglican Church
Surrey Hills::Mont Albert
MUSICAL EVENTS DURING MARCH
CHORAL EVENSONG FOR LENT
Join us for a service of reflection on Easter themes
presented by the Holy Trinity Evensong Choir
@ 5pm Sunday March 3rd
The service includes hymns, psalms, readings and choir items by
• Henry Purcell “Thou knowest, Lord”
• Thomas Walmsley “Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis”, and
• W A Mozart “Ave Verum Corpus”
CANTATA “THE CRUCIFIXION” BY JOHN STAINER
This well-known cantata is regularly performed in Lent
and is a meditation on the events of Easter Week.
It will be presented by the Holy Trinity Evensong Choir
with the Friends of Anglican Music
@ 5pm Sunday March 17th
Tenor soloist Richard Thomas, Baritone soloist Barry Fry
Conducted by Derek Jones with Organist Richard Hoy
Holy Trinity Church web: holytrinity.sh
Cnr. Union Road and Montrose Street, Surrey Hills
Enquiries 98902165 or 98942335
DIRECT GIVING TO THE PARISH
You can give directly to the Parish,
via the Anglican Development
Fund (ADF).
BSB: 703-122. Acct No: 0500 4680.
Holy Trinity Surrey Hills.
For our reference, please add your
name. URL: https://
www.melbourneanglican.org.au/
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