CHRIST CHURCH, NORTH ADELAIDE

April-May 2014

The Cornerstone

“Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of man

must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on

the third day rise.” S. Luke 24:6

We have learned that Susan & Chris Lane have moved from their home in Magill to a retirement village, and in the process, moved a little closer to Christ Church. Very sensible!

- o O 0 - We offer our congratulations to Geoff Eastick upon having the strength to make it to ‘fourscore’!

- o O o -

On Sunday, 23rd March, we bade farewell to our handyman/cleaner , Denver Fernandopulle with his wife, Edna and son, who are moving to Sydney, where they will connect with their extended family.

o O o -

It was a joy to welcome the second child of Paul and Brooke Pearce, Andrew Cameron into the fold of Christ’s Church through Holy Baptism.

o O o -

The members of the Choir enjoyed a barbeque lunch at the Rectory on Sunday, 2nd March. The Rector was the cook. Good to report that the members seem to be singing quite well!

The Parish Prayer Almighty Father, thy loving providence has brought us into the fellowship of this parish of Christ Church; help us by thy grace to worship thee with such a holy worship, and to serve thee with such unselfish love, and to give ourselves so generously for the spread of thy kingdom, that we may be worthy members of thy Holy Catholic Church, and that this Parish may faithfully fulfil its mission to make known thy truth and to convey thy life to others; through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN.

Our Parish Vision

A Traditional Church for a Modern World,

proclaiming Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Heard about the Parish

2

When I look at the summer TV programmes, it baffles me why Evensong isn’t more popular.

Dear People of Christ Church,

You will find the regime for our Holy Week services elsewhere in this issue of the Cornerstone, including the Easter Triduum. Over twenty years ago the Wangaratta Diocesan Liturgical Committee published a resource booklet entitled: Services for Holy Week and Easter. The liturgical summary of Holy Week is well made in the Preface: During Holy Week and Easter the Church uses every aspect of her Liturgy (that is, of her public, official worship of God) to reveal the Lord Christ as the fulfilment of the hopes of God’s people. His Passover is seen to be the reality of which the ancient Passover was the sign. The Liturgy itself is more than a dramatic representation: it is the means whereby we are united to the great acts of redemption wrought by Christ. Nowhere is this more true than in the Services of Holy Week and Easter. Here a significant means of grace is given to us: it is for us to receive the gift and put it to use. Thus on Palm Sunday we go up to Jerusalem with our Lord, and acclaim him as our King. On Maundy Thursday we recall that first Eucharistic meal, of which continual and constant repetition has proclaimed his sacrifice and nourished us with his life. It is in the Upper Room of the Lord’s

Supper that we learn the lesson of loving service; and afterwards, in the garden of Gethsemane that we begin to comprehend something of the cost of our redemption. On Good Friday we experience the devastation and travesty of the crucifixion, and the utter emptiness of a world that has turned its back on God; yet knowing, at the same time, that the victim is the victor, and that the powers of darkness have been conquered. Then the great triumph of the Easter Vigil, for this is the Christian Passover. In the darkness of the tomb, we shall be with Christ, symbolized by the Easter (Paschal) Candle, as he bursts the bonds of death. Then he comes sacramentally to the altar, so that we may join in the offering of the one all-sufficient Paschal Lamb, and feed on the true Manna of his Body and Blood, before we go forth into the world to continue living the resurrection life, striving to fulfil the baptismal promises we have just renewed.* Pray earnestly, then, for your own sake, and for the sake of all your brothers and sisters in Christ, that the Holy Spirit will help you find in the Services of Holy Week and Easter the wonderful gifts God has so graciously prepared for your soul. The promise of Easter is that we can, not that we can’t. It is not about looking at, or detailing the various tombs of the landscape of the 21st Century.

3

From the Select Vestry: Of matters new and those continuing to be dealt with: The Budget for 2014 has been

prepared and will be presented to the Annual Vestry Meeting for adoption;

A letter of thanks to Mrs

Elaine Edwards for her six years of taking and producing Minutes for the meetings of the Select Vestry was forwarded by the churchwardens;

Hall hiring arrangements have

been reviewed and appropriate documentation generated for the hiring of the Hall;

New security cameras are to be

installed which will provide additional monitoring of the interior of the church and greater coverage of the grounds of the church and the rectory;

Documentation regarding

Music Scholarships has been revised and updated;

The Select Vestry is

endeavouring to obtain a more advantageous arrangement with the Adelaide City Council, concerning the provision of Street Parking in North Adelaide when events are being held at the Adelaide Oval (Stadium);

Lent 5—Passion Sunday Sunday, 6th April

8:00 am Holy Eucharist 10:00 am Choral Eucharist 5:45 pm The Litany 6:00 pm Evensong

Palm Sunday 13th April

8:00 am Holy Eucharist Procession from the Hall 10:00 am Choral Eucharist Procession from ‘Light’s Vision’ 6:00 pm Evensong

Holy Week

Daily Eucharist (see notice p. 6)

Easter Day

20th April 10:00 am Festival Eucharist

NB Only service this day

St Mark’s Day Tuesday 29th April

9:30 am Holy Eucharist

St Philip & St James Thursday, 1st May

9:30 am Holy Eucharist

Easter 4 Sunday, 18th May

9:00 am Choral Eucharist 11:00 am Annual Vestry Meeting

Ascension Day

Thursday, 29th May

11:00 am Holy Eucharist 6:00 pm Holy Eucharist

4

5

(cont. from p. 3) We are not to live like the dead among the living. Easter tells us he is Risen and so are we. Practise resurrection. * Services for Holy Week and Easter. Liturgical Committee of the Diocese of Wangaratta The Preface. Benalla Printing 1992

Keith Brice Rector

with his Holiness Pope Francis.” The Queen has had a succes-sion of meetings with popes during her 62-year reign. She met Pope John Paul II at the Vatican in 1980, and then welcomed him to the UK two years later, before meeting him in Rome again in 2000. In September 2010, the Queen welcomed Pope Benedict XVI to Holyrood House on the first stage of his British tour, which concluded with the beatifica-tion of John Henry Newman. The media have speculated that the royal couple will not meet Pope Francis in the Vatican state apartments, but in the Domus Sanctae Marthae hostel, where Pope Francis has three modestly furnished rooms.

The Church Times, No 7873 London, 7th February, 2014

report by Simon Caldwell p. 8

Ed note: this space needed filling!

Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

The Sanctus

A warming from the 16th cent.

The Queen will meet Pope Francis at the Vatican in the spring (northern hemisphere), Buckingham Palace has an-nounced. The Private audience on 3rd April will be the first time the two have met. A statement issued by the Palace said that the Queen will be joined by the Duke of Edin-burgh in their first overseas trip in three years. The Queen and Prince Philip will visit Rome for a day “at the invitation of the President of Italy”, Giorgio Napolitano, the Palace said. “The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh ... will attend a private lunch hosted by the President, “the Palace said. “Following the private lunch, Her Majesty and His Royal

6

When you come to the sanctuary rail to make your communion on a Sunday morning (or a weekday) the vessels will be shining, clean, as will the linen used for the service. All these items will have been cleaned and laundered by Eileen Ralston. Eileen is our Sacristan. You might happen to receive an order of ser-vice and a hymn book from Eileen when you arrive at church, for Eileen is also one of our ‘sides-persons’ . This means that she may also present you with a collection bag at the appropriate time during the service. Eileen has been exercising this min-istry at Christ Church for a number of years, but we can’t disclose how many! What we can disclose is that without her faithful ministry our of-fering of worship would be less than it is.

In 1855, when the nave of Christ Church was extended to its present length, a gallery was built at the west end of the church. In 1862, an ocular window was placed in the west wall as a donation from a Mr Brooks. The window was named as ’The Prince Consort Memorial Window’, but this writer is unaware of any description of that window. In the Jubilee year of 1899, it is re-corded that, “repairs were made to the west gable and the circular Prince Consort memorial window.”* In 1926, the ocular window, now in situ, was installed as a memorial to Clara Ellen Jose (1866-1925), the beloved wife of the Rector, by her family; the original window having been blown out previously as the result of a storm. The window portrays a Christmas angel bearing a scroll with the proclamation: “Gloria in Excelsis Deo”. Standing above the font, it reminds us of the event of the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ—God come down to earth in order to save humanity from sin. This is the purpose of Holy Baptism. * A. L. Bulbeck, This Stone which I have set up (1955)

OUR UNSUNG HEROES Parishioners who work ‘behind

the scenes’

Eileen Ralston

OUR WINDOWS

7

The Holy Week Service Schedule

Palm Sunday (13th April) 8:00 am Procession from hall & Holy Eucharist 10:00am Procession from Light’s Vision & Sung Eucharist 5:45 pm Litany 6:00 pm Evensong Holy Monday: 8:00 am Holy Eucharist Holy Tuesday: 9:30 am Holy Eucharist Holy Wednesday: 7:00 pm Holy Eucharist Holy Thursday: 11:00 am Holy Eucharist

7:00 pm Holy Eucharist and the Stripping of the Altar Followed by the Maundy Vigil Good Friday 9:00 am Liturgy of the Cross

The Easter Service Schedule

Easter Eve 7:00 pm The Easter Ceremonies: Lighting of the New Fire The Proclamation of the Record of Salvation, and the Sung Eucharist Easter Day 9:00 am Festival Eucharist ( no other services this day)

EASTER VESTRY MEETING

On Sunday, 18th May, the Annual Easter Vestry Meeting for Christ Church, will be conducted in the Parish Hall from 11:00 am

8

MOSES AND HIS ‘HORNS’

In a session of the Lenten study, we were contemplating the implications of that mystical event recorded by St Luke, which we call, The Transfiguration. It is recorded that the ‘inner band’ of disciples: Peter, James, and John, beheld Jesus transfigured in glory and speaking with Moses and Elijah (who represent the Law & the Prophets of the Old Covenant). Somebody asked, “”How did they know that it was Moses?” I replied, “He’s the one with horns.” It was intended to be a humorous comment, but, like many of my comments of this sort, it failed to land in fertile soil! In the 16th century, when Michel-angelo was exercising his

extraordinary talent as a painter and sculptor, the translation of the Bible in common use was the Latin translation, called the ’Vulgate’ which had been first carried out by St Jerome in the 4th century. This version of Scripture was revised as the ‘Douay-Rheims’ version by Roman Catholic Scholars in the 16th century, but retained much of Jerome’s work. In Exodus 34:29-30, Jerome trans-lated thus; “And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, he held the two tablets of the testimony and he knew not that his face was ‘horned’ from the conversation of the Lord. And Aaron and the children of Israel seeing the face of Moses horned were afraid to come near.” The scholars who produced the King James Version of Scripture in 1611, translated the passage ( in part) more accurately as: “...when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him” (God). To be fair to St Jerome, the Hebrew word in question can be translated as ‘horned’ which, in a curious way, is connected with being ‘glorified’. It is interesting that the 20th century modernist artist, Marc Chagall, a devout Jew, commonly depicts Moses in Biblical scenes as having ‘horns’, or rays of light where horns would be located .

John M. Edwards

Moses by Michelangelo

9

to be true to him, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. There is a medieval story of a poor man named Isaac, who lived in a hovel miles from a city. He dreamed that if he were to make the long trek to the city he would find a bag of gold under the bridge leading into the city. Isaac set off on his journey. The next day, footsore and weary, he at the bridge only to discover that it was heavily guarded. As he loitered, seeking an opportunity to search for the treasure, the Captain of the Guard shouted, “What are you doing here old man?” Isaac re-lated his dream, and the Captain, scarcely able to contain his laughter, replied, “Why, you old fool, where would we be if we took notice of our dreams? Only last night I dreamed that I would find treasure behind the fireplace of an old man named Isaac, if I would travel to a hamlet many miles from here.” Isaac hastened home again to find the treasure behind his own hearth. We also seek a treasure, and the truth is that it is to be found very near us—in our hearts. The presence of Jesus is already with us through the indwelling of his Holy Spirit. In order to discover this treasure we must undertake a long journey—the journey of our lives. And yet, while we make our journey, we know that we have a place waiting for us; a place we will not fully know until we arrive, but when we do, we will recognise it as the place we have been seeking.

John M. Edwards

WE ARE PILGRIMS

Recently, I sat down to eat my lunch and turned on the ‘box’ to accompany me. I saw an interview with an Australian visual artist, who told of how he had been able to purchase a small island with the proceeds of his first exhibition. There he lived a simple life and painted. After a time he decided to travel to Europe to broaden his ex-perience. He spoke of the time he spent travelling and producing sufficient works to sustain himself. He enjoyed the great freedom of only having to paint what he wished. “All the time,” he said, “I knew that I could come back to my island.” The Christian life is meant to be like that. We are on a journey, and the place of our journeying is this world, but it is not our true home. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city which is to come (Heb. 13:14). In that city we are assured of a room (Mansion KJV), for Jesus said: In my Fa-ther’s house sre many rooms...I go to prepare a place for you. (Jn 14:2). It is this assurance of a se-cured place for us which enables us to make our earthly journey with confidence. Anyone who has travelled independently knows , that upon arrival in a new place, first secures a bed for the night before going to explore this new place. The followers of Jesus are called to be pilgrims. The whole Church is on a pilgrimage— a spiritual jour-ney which we must make if we are

10

PLEASE PRAY THIS Almighty God, who dost govern all things in heaven and earth: mercifully hear the supplications of us thy servants, and grant unto this parish all things that are need-ful for its spiritual welfare. Strengthen and confirm the faithful; visit and relieve the sick and afflicted; turn and soften the wicked; rouse the careless; recover the fallen; re-store the penitent; remove all hindrances to the advance-ment of thy truth; bring all to be of one heart and mind within the fold of thy holy Church; to the honour and glory of thy name; through Jesus Christ our Lord

W. J. Butler Dean of Lincoln (1885-94)

A NEW

SERVICE SCHEDULE

Please note that our

Choral Eucharist is now being celebrated at

10:00 am

each Sunday morning

PAPER WEIGHTS TO BUY

The paper weights illustrated above have been donated to Christ Church for sale for the benefit of the Anglican Board of Mission—Australia. Made by the firm of Caithness, in Scotland, each is 60mm (h) and 80mm (w). The weight? We’re not sure but certainly weighty enough to keep your documents from blowing away. The paper weights can be viewed by arrangement with the Rector or the office staff members. It is proposed that the paper weights will be sold by ‘auction’ - i.e. written offers may be made to the office. A jeweller has suggested that a value of at least $100 each can be placed on the paper weights. If you would like to have one or more of these attractive paper weights in your home—or to give as a gift to a loved one—please make your offer to the CCNA office by Wednesday, 30th April. You will have the enjoyment of the paper weights; ABM will receive the proceeds.

11

DAVID LANG COMMISSION

The emerging South Australian composer David John Lang has been commissioned by Christ Church to compose a new communion anthem, which will be given its premiere performance by our choir later this year. David John Lang completed his Honours degree in Music (Composition) at the Elder Conservatorium in 2012, supervised by Graeme Koehne. His other teachers included David Harris, John Polglase and Charles Bodman Rae. He attended three of the Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camps during this time (twice as a com-poser and once as a writer), and in July 2012 he participated as a composer in the four-week Atlantic Music Festival, held in Waterville, Maine, USA. Since graduation, David has been find-ing work as a library assistant, an usher, a writer of concert programme notes... and occasionally as a composer! He plays the trumpet in the Adelaide Wind Orchestra and has sung in and conducted several choirs. David’s composition work takes many forms, from ambitious orchestral projects to late-night song-writing with his cousin Emma. He has written for choirs, orchestras, short films, theatre, fun and friends. David’s music has been performed by the Australian String Quartet, the Adelaide Chamber Singers, the Elder Conservatorium Wind Orchestra, the Adelaide Youth Orchestra, and various other ensembles and soloists. In addition to our commission, David is currently completing a piece for string orchestra.

David will have the opportunity to workshop his composition with our choir, enabling him to give us feedback on our interpretation and performance, and allowing him to tweak or revise the piece before it is given its premiere. We look forward to this collaboration with David, and the privilege of bringing a fresh work of music off the page and into life. I also hope this anthem will have a life be-yond Christ Church, and other churches and cathedrals will take it up and add it to their repertoire. David John Lang’s new commun-ion anthem is due to be premiered at the 10:00am Sung Eucharist on Trinity Sunday, 15th June.

Andrew Georg Director of Music

God’s Little Instruction Book

Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see. “For we walk by faith, not

by sight.” (2 Corinthians 5: 7)

O come let us sing unto the Lord: let us heartily rejoice in the strength of his salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving: and shew our-selves glad in him with psalms.

The Te Deum

12

Devjyoti Biswas, who allows as to call him ‘Dev’, has joined our serving team in recent months. Dev writes, “I am twenty-four years old and was born in Bangladesh. I have completed a degree in Electronics & Communication from the West Bengal University of Technology in India. Currently, I am studying for a Master of Information Technol-ogy and a Master of Information and Communication Technology Management at the University of South Australia. I have completed one year of a two year course. In terms of my professional career, I hope to get a good and respectable job in the future. Moreover, I want to live a spiritual life with proper knowledge and customs. Strongly I believe that a true relationship with God can bring success, prosperity, and peace in our life.”

THE PARISH LITURGICAL TEAM

The people who assist us in our

worship

The Story behind the Hymns:

“The Day of Resurrection”, and

“Come, ye Faithful, Raise the Strain”

(The text of the hymns can be found at nos. 157 and 143 of Common Praise) These two Easter hymns are both products of Saint John of Damas-cus, one of the last Fathers of the Greek Church, who is considered to be one of the Eastern Church’s greatest poets. Little is known about St John’s life, but it seems he held a position in the court of the Caliph of Damascus before retreating to the Monastery of Saint Sabas, located in a desolate wilderness between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea. His known literary output includes: three orations in favour of Icons, a treatise in defence of orthodoxy, and numerous hymns and canons. (A “canon” here being a series of odes [usually 8] based on Biblical canticles, linked together by an acrostic.) He is also credited with developing the 8-mode (Oktoechos) system of music used in the Orthodox church. Saint John died between 754 and 787, and is com-memorated in the Greek calendar on December 4.

John Neale (1818-1866) is responsi-ble for the English translations of many of the odes of St John. Neale was an expert linguist with a knowl-edge of 20 languages. Although ordained into the priesthood, his frail health prevented him from tak-ing on much more responsibility

The Story behind the Saint

A series about ‘minor’ saints

Richard of Chichester

(AD 1197—1253) He was born at ‘Wyclaterh’ in Worcestershire. He later forsook his landed inheritance in favour of his brother, preferring a life of study and the Church. He was educated at Oxford, and, subsequently, began to teach there. He proceeded to study in Paris and then Bologna, becoming proficient in canon law. On his return to England, he was elected as the Chancellor of Oxford University. About 1257, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Edmund, a former tutor of Richard, invited him to become the Chancellor. Later, upon the death of Edmund, Richard responded to a call to become a priest. He studied theology in Orleans for two years and was ordained priest. When he returned to England, Richard was reappointed as the Chancellor of Canterbury. He was elected as the Bishop of Chichester in 1244. A man of deep spirituality, Richard lived frugally in a priest’s house and was an excellent administrator of his diocese, doing much to raise the standard of clerical life. As a result of his life of sanctity, Richard was canonised in 1262. His shrine in the cathedral was destroyed by order of Henry VIII in 1538.

Feast Day, 3rd May

13

than the Wardenship of a home for destitute old men. He worked quietly and diligently on his studies of ancient liturgy and hymnody, also writing original hymns. Neale’s transla-tions proved to be his most enduring work, and his studies in the field of Greek hymnody were significant.

The Day of Resurrection is Neale’s translation of the first ode in the “Golden Canon of Easter”. In the Golden Canon, St John of Damascus shows how the prophecies of the Old Testament were fulfilled in the Resurrection. In the first stanza, the Resurrection is in-terpreted as a new Passover, and

reference is made to the Exo-dus. Later verses show Christ “in rays of resurrection-light”, and call on all creation to join in a victory-song of praise. The ode is loosely based on the Song of Moses. (Exodus 15:1-19) In the Greek Church, the Golden Canon is sung at midnight as Easter Day begins; it is accom-panied by a blaze of light as the congregation lights their can-dles, and silence is broken with the cry of “Christ is risen!”

Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain is from the Canon for St Thomas’s Sunday. (The Sunday after Easter in the Greek calen-dar.) The first stanza is again based on the Song of Moses.

(Cont. p. 14)

The Sanctuary Guild The Sanctuary Guild conducted its Annual General Meeting on 20th February. The election of officers was conducted and the current office bearers were re-elected: The Hon. Secretary: Helen Swan The Hon. Treasurer: Mary McLeod

14

SUPPORT ABM

The Anglican Board of Mission—

Australia

Thank you to all those who are using the Lenten envelopes in sup– port of the Mission work of ABM , during Lent. The final envelope in the series, to be used on Good Friday, will, as usual, direct our support [both prayer and financial] to the Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East. Please continue to give generously of your Lenten almsgiving to ABM-A. On Wednesday, 30th April, at the Capri Theatre at Goodwood, you can have an enjoyable morning and support the ABM Auxiliary who will be presenting the film ‘Grace of Monaco’, starring Nicole Kidman. There will be a well-stocked Bring and Buy stall; good prizes offered in the Raffle and the Wurlitzer organ will be playing from 10am. The film begins at 10.30am, morning tea from 9.45am. Tickets are available from the CCNA office, or from Elaine Edwards. Set aside Thursday, 29th May, from 10 am-2.30pm for a Time of Reflection at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Plympton. This is an opportunity for us to be quiet with God—to set aside our busy lives and to be renewed in body and soul. The Rev’d John Beiers will lead us. Further information from Elaine Edwards [8165 0313].

Be still and know that I am God.

(from p. 13) Then the author takes a different turn, likening the Resurrection to Spring, the “queen of seasons.” As the sun and its warmth return after the darkness and chill of winter, Christ’s return from the grave brings us light and life. The fourth verse is a call to praise our King immortal. These two hymns, over 1200 years old in origin, continue to be an in-spiring part of our Easter hymn repertoire.

Andrew Georg

The Monastery of St Sabas

Regular Events Weekly: Holy Communion Thursday 11:00 am Fr Frank Kernot Fr David Keay Choir Practice Thursday 7:30 pm Mr Andrew Georg Play Group Friday 10:00 am Mrs Jean Bain Monthly: Eucharist at Helping Hand Tuesday 11:00 am Fr John Edwards (1st) Eastern Home Group Tuesday 11:00 am Mrs Elaine Edwards (2nd) Lectio Divina Thursday 10:00 am The Rector (4th)

Enquiries concerning the Pastoral Offices of the Church: Baptisms, Marriages, and Funerals,

should, in the first instance,

be directed to the Parish Office

8267 2673 e-mail: office@ccna.asn.au

15