Services this Sunday (November 25th):
Warrnambool 9:00am - Service of the Word
Hawkesdale 9:00am - Service with Holy Communion
Cobden Miniature Railway 11.15am - Service of the Word
Readings for this Sunday:
Daniel 7:9,10,13-14 "A vision of God surrounded by His court"
Revelation 1:4b-8 "Christ is coming in the clouds"
John 5:21-29 "The Son's authority to judge and to save"
Sermon for this Sunday (Warrnambool)
Matthew 25:31-46 "Where were You and where are You, God?"
Sermon for this Sunday (Hawkesdale, Cobden)
John 5:21-29 "Bad news for some, good news for others: there is no escaping God's inevitable judgment"
Remaining Events during the week beginning November 18th:
Wednesday: Parish Confirmation Class 4.15 in Warrnambool church hall
Wednesday: Study Fellowship Group at the home of Ern and Marie Rentsch
Events during the week beginning November 25th:
25th: Sunday School/Congregational Outing at the Cobden Miniature Railway
We begin with a service on site at 11.15, followed by a BYO shared finger food lunch (crockery, cutlery, tea, coffee, juice provided), before commencing the afternoon's activities, which will include as many free rides on the miniature trains as you want, minigolf, other activities;
25th: Study/Fellowship Group at Terang, continuing our work in the letter of James.
28th Parish Confirmation Class 4.15.
29th Parish Camp Planning Committee 5.00pm;
30th Parish Youth Fellowship End of Year Break Up - Lawn Bowls, Barbecue. Further details will be distributed over the weekend on the 24th/25th.
THE LAST SUNDAY IN THE CHURCH YEAR
The following are some notes from the Commission on Worship of the Lutheran Church of Australia
The 'Last Sunday of the Church Year' (November 25th in 2012) may be seen as a day when the focus is on God's 'fulfilment' of his judgment and salvation. For us Christians, this is at the same time the 'fulfilment' of the hope to which we were called at our Baptism.
The LCA opted to use the same name for this Sunday as that used by the Missouri Synod in Lutheran Worship: 'The Last Sunday of the Church Year (Day of the Fulfillment)'.
Sermon for this Sunday (Warrnambool)
Matthew 25:31-46 "Where were You and where are You, God?"
Sermon for this Sunday (Hawkesdale, Cobden)
John 5:21-29 "Bad news for some, good news for others: there is no escaping God's inevitable judgment"
Remaining Events during the week beginning November 18th:
Wednesday: Parish Confirmation Class 4.15 in Warrnambool church hall
Wednesday: Study Fellowship Group at the home of Ern and Marie Rentsch
Events during the week beginning November 25th:
25th: Sunday School/Congregational Outing at the Cobden Miniature Railway
We begin with a service on site at 11.15, followed by a BYO shared finger food lunch (crockery, cutlery, tea, coffee, juice provided), before commencing the afternoon's activities, which will include as many free rides on the miniature trains as you want, minigolf, other activities;
25th: Study/Fellowship Group at Terang, continuing our work in the letter of James.
28th Parish Confirmation Class 4.15.
29th Parish Camp Planning Committee 5.00pm;
30th Parish Youth Fellowship End of Year Break Up - Lawn Bowls, Barbecue. Further details will be distributed over the weekend on the 24th/25th.
THE LAST SUNDAY IN THE CHURCH YEAR
The following are some notes from the Commission on Worship of the Lutheran Church of Australia
The 'Last Sunday of the Church Year' (November 25th in 2012) may be seen as a day when the focus is on God's 'fulfilment' of his judgment and salvation. For us Christians, this is at the same time the 'fulfilment' of the hope to which we were called at our Baptism.
Lutheran
churches since the Reformation continued to refer to this Sunday as the Last
Sunday after Trinity. When the Lutheran Book of Worship (1978) was
adopted by the American Lutheran churches, they also adopted the 3-year
lectionary which had been developed by Roman Catholics, including the festival
of 'Christ the King'. This festival had first been introduced by Pope Pius XI
in 1925 to emphasise the supreme authority of Christ and his church over
against what he perceived to be the increasing atheism and secularisation of
society. In the 1970 revisions of the lectionary, the feast was renamed
'Christ, King of the Universe' and took on a stronger cosmological character.
The Lutheran Church
of Australia
* The Lutheran church has generally used this
Sunday to focus on the last things at the end of the age.
* There are already several other major
festivals of the Church Year which emphasise the kingship of Christ, notably
Transfiguration, Palm/Passion Sunday, and Ascension.
* There may be a note of 'triumphalism' in
the festival of Christ the King which sits uncomfortably with Lutheran
theology.
* Lutheran churches in Europe and the Lutheran Church Missouri
Synod in America
The LCA opted to use the same name for this Sunday as that used by the Missouri Synod in Lutheran Worship: 'The Last Sunday of the Church Year (Day of the Fulfillment)'.
With the
adoption of the new Revised Common Lectionary, the LCA faced this question once
again, especially as the readings for the Last Sunday of the Church year have
obviously been chosen to fit with the festival of Christ the King. The
Commission on Worship did not wish to make radical changes to the lectionary
for use in the LCA, in order to keep it as ecumenical as possible. It therefore
recommended only two changes (namely the addition of preferred alternative
gospels for year B and year C) and that the name for this Sunday continue to be
'Last Sunday of the Church Year (Day of the Fulfilment)' rather than 'Christ,
the King'.
