The Anglican Parish of Kilmore First Reading: Exodus 17:1-7

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with Broadford, Tallarook and Pyalong From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites
journeyed by stages, as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim,
but there was no water for the people to drink. 2The people quarrelled with
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Moses, and said, ‘Give us water to drink.’ Moses said to them, ‘Why do you
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quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?’ 3But the people thirsted there
for water; and the people complained against Moses and said, ‘Why did you
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bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?’
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So Moses cried out to the Lord, ‘What shall I do with this people? They
3rd Sunday in Lent are almost ready to stone me.’ 5The Lord said to Moses, ‘Go on ahead of
27th March 2011 the people, and take some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your
hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6I will be standing
there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will
Today come out of it, so that the people may drink.’ Moses did so, in the sight of
Kilmore 9am Eucharist with Hymns the elders of Israel. 7He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the
Israelites quarrelled and tested the Lord, saying, ‘Is the Lord among us or
Tallarook 11am Eucharist with Hymns not?’
Broadford 11am Morning Prayer
For the word of the Lord: Thanks be to God
Pyalong No Service
Psalm 95 (said antiphonally)
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This Week O come, let us sing out to the Lord:
Monday let us shout in triumph to the rock of our salvation.
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Let us come before his face with thanksgiving:
Tuesday and cry out to him joyfully in psalms.
Wednesday 10am Christ Church Eucharist with Bach 3
For the Lord is a great God:
Thursday 10am St Matthew’s Eucharist with Bach and a great king above all gods.
Thursday 10am-1pm Church House Flameingoes Women’s 4
In his hand are the depths of the earth:
Support Group and the peaks of the mountains are his also.
Thursday 10.30am Willowmeade Eucharist 5
The sea is his and he made it:
Thursday 4pm Dianella Eucharist (not 3rd Thurs) his hands moulded dry land.
Friday 10am-4pm Church House Op Shop 6
Come, let us worship and bow down:
Saturday 10am-12 noon Church House Op Shop and kneel before the Lord our maker.
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For he is the Lord our God:
Rector: Honorary Priest: we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
Father Trevor Smith Father John Young 8
Today if only you would hear his voice- “Do not harden your hearts, as at
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Meribah:
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“When your forebears tested me:
put me to proof, though they had seen my works.
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“Forty years long I loathed that generation and said:
“It is a people who err in their hearts, for they do not know my ways”;
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Of whom I swore in my wrath:
‘They shall not enter my rest.’
Second Reading: Romans 5:1-11
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Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through
our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom we have obtained access to this
grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of
God. 3And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that
suffering produces endurance, 4and endurance produces character, and
character produces hope, 5and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s
love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been
given to us.
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For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
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Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person—though perhaps for
a good person someone might actually dare to die. 8But God proves his
love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us. 9Much
more surely then, now that we have been justified by his blood, will we be
saved through him from the wrath of God. 10For if while we were enemies,
we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more
surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life. 11But more than
that, we even boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom
we have now received reconciliation.
For the word of the Lord: Thanks be to God
The Gospel: John 4:5-42
The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John chapter four,
beginning at the fifth verse.
Glory to you Lord Jesus Christ
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So Jesus came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground
that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus,
tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.
A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, ‘Give me a
drink’. 8(His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) 9The Samaritan
woman said to him, ‘How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman
of Samaria?’ (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) 10Jesus
answered her, ‘If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to
you, “Give me a drink”, you would have asked him, and he would have
given you living water.’ 11The woman said to him, ‘Sir, you have no bucket,
and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12Are you greater
than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his
flocks drank from it?’ 13Jesus said to her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this
water will be thirsty again, 14but those who drink of the water that I will give
them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a
spring of water gushing up to eternal life.’ 15The woman said to him, ‘Sir,
give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming
here to draw water.’
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Jesus said to her, ‘Go, call your husband, and come back.’ 17The woman
answered him, ‘I have no husband.’ Jesus said to her, ‘You are right in
saying, “I have no husband”; 18for you have had five husbands, and the one
you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!’ 19The
woman said to him, ‘Sir, I see that you are a prophet. 20Our ancestors
worshipped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must
worship is in Jerusalem.’ 21Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, believe me, the hour
is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in
Jerusalem. 22You worship what you do not know; we worship what we
know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23But the hour is coming, and is now
here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth,
for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. 24God is spirit, and those
who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.’ 25The woman said to
him, ‘I know that Messiah is coming’ (who is called Christ). ‘When he
comes, he will proclaim all things to us.’ 26Jesus said to her, ‘I am he, the
one who is speaking to you.’
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Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking
with a woman, but no one said, ‘What do you want?’ or, ‘Why are you
speaking with her?’ 28Then the woman left her water-jar and went back to
the city. She said to the people, 29‘Come and see a man who told me
everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah,’ can he?’ 30They left
the city and were on their way to him.
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Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, ‘Rabbi, eat something.’ 32But he
said to them, ‘I have food to eat that you do not know about.’ 33So the
disciples said to one another, ‘Surely no one has brought him something to
eat?’ 34Jesus said to them, ‘My food is to do the will of him who sent me
and to complete his work. 35Do you not say, “Four months more, then
comes the harvest”? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields
are ripe for harvesting. 36The reaper is already receiving wages and is
gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice
together. 37For here the saying holds true, “One sows and another reaps.”
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I sent you to reap that for which you did not labour. Others have
laboured, and you have entered into their labour.’
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Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s
testimony, ‘He told me everything I have ever done.’ 40So when the
Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed
there for two days. 41And many more believed because of his word. 42They
said to the woman, ‘It is no longer because of what you said that we
believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the
Saviour of the world.’
For the Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Please pray for those who are sick and in need…
Russell Walker, Seth Gunther, Adrian Walsh, Ethan Forcier, Jeannette
Jolley, Gwenda Stomann, Eileen Matts, Theo Staring, Rosemary
Homewood, Diana Kelly, Fr. Alex Kornaczcwski.
Anyone wishing to add a person to the Parish prayer list please make sure the person is
happy to be named and then contact Fr. Trevor.
Recently Departed: Katy Haddelsey
Year’s mind:
Today we remember before God those whose anniversary of death occurs
this week: 27th James Foster, Anthony Burge, Herbert Haetel; 28th David
Hiscock; 29th Vern Dodge, Joseph Kranz; 30th Margaret Dumaresq; 31st
Francis Walker, Bruce Walter, Graeme Martin; 1st April Shannon Burr; 2nd
Kelvin Prosser.
Saint’s Days this week: 29th John Keble, priest d.1866.
Notices
Accommodation Required: A mature woman formerly of Kilmore aged
55 years, needing board or accommodation in Kilmore, Broadford,
Wandong area at a reasonable rate. I have a little dog who is lovely called
Layla. I am quiet, musical, studying at Trinity Theology College, Melbourne
Uni and live in Shepparton at moment which is contributing to a worsening
rheumatoid arthritis condition.
Sincerely
Linda Prosser (Price about $100-$130 per week)
Direct Deposit into Parish Account: If anyone would like to make their
offerings or donations to the Parish by direct deposit can do so with the
following details:
CBA Account Name: Kilmore Anglican Parish. BSB 06 3698. Account
Number 1018 4649
Our Treasurer has asked if people can make periodic monthly deposits
instead of weekly – it lessens the entries on the Statements, and, please
mark them as ‘Offertory’. Thank you.
Incense @ Christ Church: Incense is used on the 1st and 3rd Sundays at
the 9am Eucharist. It is not used for the Gospel Procession.
Op Shop Interim Guidelines: After a number of conversations with the
Op Shop Committee I ask that everyone in the parish – Wardens, Parish
Councillors, and Parishioners, take heed of these guidelines so that the Op
Shop is operating as efficiently as possible in its ministry to the people of
this area and in its fundraising capacity for the Parish. I apologise for any
misunderstandings that I may have caused as I slowly come to some
understanding of a number of issues.
The Interim Guidelines:
• People on the ‘Morning Tea’ roster: Before the 9am Service on a
Sunday please open the wire door on the verandah so that access to
the WCs is assured.
• NB. There is to be no access to the WCs through the Op Shop.
Access is to be from the verandah.
• Shopping times are the advertised opening times – Friday 10am-
4pm, Saturday 10am-12noon.
• There is not to be any reserving of items.
• There is not to be any shopping out of hours.

The Op Shop Interim Guidelines(contd)
• NB The only out of hours shopping is to be for people in need of
emergency welfare.
• The priority of the Op Shop are its clients.
• As I understand it some of these points raise longstanding issues of
disagreement or even conflict and we can really do without such
distractions in the life and ministry of the Parish.
• ## The Op Shop is a vital part of Parish ministry and mission, as
well as a necessary contributor to the financial survival of the
Parish. All members of the Parish need to do all that is possible to
support and encourage the large number of tireless and dedicated
volunteers who make the Op Shop function.
• The Management Committee is Dianne Dixon, Mary Saunders,
Jenny Pearson, and Fr Trevor.
These guidelines are an attempt to contribute to the smooth and effective
operation of the Parish Op Shop and I ask for your full support for the
Management Committee and all the volunteers. Thank you, FR. Trevor.
Thankyou: to all who supported the Gavan Hall Dinner on Friday, 18
March. $1,915.50 was raised which will be put towards the upgrade of the
toilet facilities at St. Matthew's.
Next Sunday: 3rd April
Readings 1 Samuel 16:1-13; Psalm 23; Ephesians 5:8-14; John 9:1-41
Kilmore 9am Eucharist with Hymns
Broadford 11am Eucharist with Hymns
Tallarook 11am Morning Prayer
Pyalong 5pm Eucharist with Hymns
Parish Diary:
Thu April 14th - A PLEASANT THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
Everyone is invited to attend a PLEASANT THURSDAY AFTERNOON
in the Gavan Hall, Broadford, on Thursday 14 April at 2pm.
There will be afternoon tea, entertainment and a small stall stocked with
produce and preserves. Entry is $5. Contact Edie Simpson on 57841246 for
further information.
Sat April 30th - St Columb’s Fair 2011. ‘Worship, Liturgy, and Music’.
Seymour 10am.
Sat May 7th – St Matthew’s Mother’s Day street stall, 9am, The Mall.
Pew Reflections for the 3rd Sunday in Lent
Part of my ministry is delivering donated bread from a bakery to people in
the community who are in need. Not only are we satisfying a physical need
but also a spiritual need. This bread run gives me an opportunity to reach
out to these people and talk to them not only about everyday things but
also about Jesus.
• Pray that the words spoken will not fall on deaf ears and that, not
only will their physical needs be met, but that they will be touched
spiritually.
• Give thanks for the efforts to form a global Anglican Relief and
Development Alliance, and give thanks for ABM’s participation in it.
Text: The Revd Gloria Shipp ©Anglican Board of Mission Pew Reflections
2011
Pew Sheet Notices to Fr. Trevor by Thursday evening (preferably
emailed or written) or email to mjrmjones@optusnet.com.au