Sunday, March 29, 2026
Almighty and everlasting God,
of your tender love towards us
you sent your Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ,
to take upon him our flesh,
and to suffer death upon the cross,
that all should follow the example of his great humility:
mercifully grant
that we may both follow the example of his patience,
and also be made partakers of his resurrection;
through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Stay In Touch
Father Ted Starr - Priest-in-Charge - 0451 929 180 - edward.starr@anglicanchurchsq.org.au
Mrs Liz Peters - Rector’s Warden - 0400 844 946
Mrs Gail Symons - People’s Warden - 0409 618 511
Mr Tony Hughes - People’s Warden - 0468 764 009
Zoom Church - 328 492 8300 - 548 747
Readings
for Passion Sunday
Isaiah 50:4 - 9a
Psalm 31:9 - 18
Philippians 2:5 - 11
Matthew 27:11 - 54
Giving
Offering - 704 901 - 0000 0780
Building Fund - 704 901 - 0001 4767
Want to give in other ways? Cards are on sale at the back of the church.
For Your Prayers
We ask of your goodness, Lord, to comfort and sustain all who in this transitory life are in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity, and especially Shirley Kimber, Alex, Ann, Lois, Barbara, Helena, Ian, Maggie, Uncle Peter, Chris, Bill Tattam, Jeff Byrne, Karne, Greg, Aaron, Joanne, Grace and Faith, Beryl Old, Fr David, Nina, and Gary McKenzie. Please contact Fr Ted to be on this list.
We also give thanks for those whose year’s mind occurs at this time, and amongst them Gordon Bust and Alec Fisher. Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon them.
Mission and Outreach
BCA (support for the Church in the Bush) are running a donation drive for water during Lent. Also, March is the time to return our BCA boxes. There are spare boxes on the back table – try filling one up with your spare change to support this ministry.
Meals for Woody Point Special School are starting again. Please label your meal with title, ingredients and date cooked, then freeze it, and bring it to church on Sunday. Meal containers are on the back table. Alternatively, give a monetary donation or supermarket gift card. For more information on both of these ministries, contact Elizabeth on 0404 080 861.
Barnabas Brekkie is on Saturday, 9 May to raise money for persecuted Christians in Ghana. Your parish needs you! Do you have a CostCo membership? Can you cook eggs and bacon, brew tea and coffee, wash dishes,or move furniture? Contact Florine, Dale or Gail if so.
Ministry During the Week
Mother’s Union meets at a new time: Third Wednesdays at 9am.
Thursday Fellowship: every first and third Thursday from 9:30am to 11:30am. All welcome for a cuppa and a chat. Bring your craft to work on or just enjoy the company.
Caring and Sharing: every fourth Wednesday from 11am.
Talent Table: every last Sunday after the second service.
Bible Study: Tuesdays at 9am and Thursdays at 7pm. All materials supplied. Please Note: No Tues or Wed Services or Bible Studies this week.
Easter Services are now live on the website, the calendar at the front of the church, and inside this pew sheet. Please prayerfully consider engaging with the full suite of services that take us through our Lord’s arrest, passion, death and resurrection.
The Week Ahead
Tues, 31 Mar
7:00 pm - Chrism Mass at St John’s Cathedral
Wed, 01 Apr
10:00 am - Working Bee
Thu, 02 Apr
9:30 am - Friendship and Craft Group
6:00 pm - Agape Meal for Maundy Thursday, followed by The Watch
Fri, 03 Apr
8:30am - Good Friday
Sat, 04 Apr
8:00 am - Sung Matins
8:45 am - Working Bee
6:00 pm - The Great Vigil of Easter
Sun, 05 Apr
8:00 am - Easter Day
Easter is coming, and there are many ways you can enter into this time of the Church year with your parish.
Tuesday, 31 March at 7pm, Chrism Mass will be held at St John’s Cathedral, where holy oils are blessed for the coming year. If you have access to olive branches, do consider coming to help set up the side chapel on Wednesday, 1 April in preparation for the vigil on the following evening. Thursday, 2 April is Maundy Thursday, beginning with an Agape Meal at 6pm. Agape is the New Testament word for love, and we will affirm Christ’s command and example for us to love one another. Please sign on if you intend on joining us for the Meal. From the command to love one another, we move to Christ’s words “as I have loved you”, celebrating Holy Communion in the church, concluding with the stripping of the altar and The Watch at the Altar of Repose. Friday, 3 April is Good Friday, worship at 8:30am. Saturday, 4 April begins at 8:30am with a traditional service of Sung Matins, followed by a working bee to prepare the church for Easter, which begins that evening at 6:30pm with The Great Vigil of Easter. Do consider coming to this service; it is “the big one”. Sunday, 5 April is our combined service at 8am to celebrate Easter Day.
The Liturgy of the Palms
Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Behold your king comes to you, O Zion, meek and lowly, sitting upon an ass. Ride on in the cause of truth and for the sake of justice. Your throne is the throne of God, it endures for ever; and the sceptre of your kingdom is a righteous sceptre. You have loved righteousness and hated evil: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
The Lord be with you. And also with you.
Dear friends in Christ, during Lent we have been preparing by works of love and self-sacrifice for the celebration of our Lord’s death and resurrection. Today we come together to begin this solemn celebration in union with the Church throughout the world. Christ enters his own city to complete his work as our Saviour, to suffer, to die, and to rise again. Let us go with him in faith and love, so that, united with him in his sufferings, we may share his risen life.
The blessing of the palms:
God our Saviour, whose Son Jesus Christ entered Jerusalem as Messiah to suffer and to die, let these palms be for us signs of his victory; and grant that we who bear them in his name may ever hail him as our King, and follow him in the way that leads to eternal life; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.
The Gospel: Matthew 21:1-11
Let us go forth, praising Jesus our Messiah.
We process around and into the church, singing
TiS 333All Glory, Praise and Honour