St Matthew’s Day, 21 September 1993: double consecration at St Andrew’s Cathedral - Brian King to be Bishop of the Western Region (name change from Bishop of Parramatta) and Reg Piper to be Bishop of Wollongong.
Happy and blessed Sunday all! Call to remember any of our brothers or sisters that may have "fallen through the cracks" or any out there stuggling, known or unknown.
Annual leave - so I popped into the next deanery to worship this morning.
A beautiful and different east window!
We adore you, O Christ,
and we bless you,
because by your holy cross
you have redeemed the world.
Evensong (Trinity XVI 2026): from Trinity Anglican Church (Connersville, IN) Psalm 104; Ezekiel 13; 1 Corinthians 5; Metrical Psalm 18:43-46
43 Our factious tribes, at strife till now, by God's appointment me obey; The heathen to my scepter bow, and foreign nations own my sway. 44 Remotest realms their homage send, when my successful name they hear; Strangers for my commands attend, charmed with respect, or awed by fear. 45 All to my summons tamely yield, or soon in battle are dismayed; For stronger holds they quit the field, and still in strongest holds afraid. 46 Let the eternal Lord be praised, the rock on whose defense I rest; O'er highest heav'ns his name be raised, who me with his salvation blest.
Hosea 14:4-5 KJV
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Deuteronomy 32:41-43 KJV
If I whet my glittering sword, And mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, And will reward them that hate me. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; And that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, From the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: For he will avenge the blood of his servants, And will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.