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Thu 3 March

Thursday afterward Ash Wednesday

First reading

Deuteronomy xxx:15-twenty

I set before you lot today life or death, blessing or curse

Moses said to the people: 'See, today I prepare before you life and prosperity, expiry and disaster. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I enjoin on you today, if you lot dearest the Lord your God and follow his ways, if you keep his commandments, his laws, his customs, you volition alive and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which yous are entering to make your ain. Just if your heart strays, if you refuse to listen, if you let yourself exist drawn into worshipping other gods and serving them, I tell you today, yous will virtually certainly perish; you lot will not alive long in the land you lot are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. I call heaven and earth to witness confronting you today: I gear up before you life or expiry, blessing or curse. Cull life, then, so that yous and your descendants may alive, in the dearest of the Lord your God, obeying his vocalization, clinging to him; for in this your life consists, and on this depends your long stay in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob he would give them.'

Psalm or canticle

Psalm 1:i-4,6

Happy indeed is the man
 who follows not the counsel of the wicked;
nor lingers in the way of sinners
 nor sits in the visitor of scorners,
but whose delight is the law of the Lord
 and who ponders his law day and night.

He is like a tree that is planted
 beside the flowing waters,
that yields its fruit in due flavor
 and whose leaves shall never fade;
 and all that he does shall prosper.

Not then are the wicked, not so!
For they like winnowed crust
 shall be driven away by the wind:
for the Lord guards the way of the just
 simply the way of the wicked leads to doom.

Gospel

Luke 9:22-25

Whoever loses his life for my sake will save it

Jesus said to his disciples:
'The Son of Man is destined to suffer grievously, to be rejected past the elders and master priests and scribes and to be put to death, and to be raised up on the 3rd twenty-four hours.'
Then to all he said:
'If anyone wants to exist a follower of mine, permit him renounce himself and take upward his cross every twenty-four hours and follow me. For anyone who wants to save his life volition lose information technology; but anyone who loses his life for my sake, that man will save information technology. What gain, so, is information technology for a man to have won the whole world and to accept lost or ruined his very self?'

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Wed 2 March

Ash Wednesday

Showtime reading

Joel 2:12-18

Let your hearts be broken, non your garments torn

'Now, at present – information technology is the Lord who speaks –
come back to me with all your heart,
fasting, weeping, mourning.'
Let your hearts be cleaved, not your garments torn,
plough to the Lord your God again,
for he is all tenderness and compassion,
wearisome to anger, rich in graciousness,
and fix to relent.
Who knows if he will not turn over again, will not relent,
volition not leave a approval as he passes,
oblation and cooler
for the Lord your God?

Sound the trumpet in Zion!
Society a fast,
proclaim a solemn assembly,
phone call the people together,
summon the customs,
assemble the elders,
get together the children,
fifty-fifty the infants at the breast.
Let the benedict leave his chamber
and the bride her alcove.
Betwixt vestibule and chantry let the priests,
the ministers of the Lord, lament.
Let them say,
'Spare your people, Lord!
Practice not make your heritage a thing of shame,
a byword for the nations.
Why should it be said amidst the nations,
"Where is their God?"'

Then the Lord, jealous on behalf of his land,
took pity on his people.

Psalm or canticle

Psalm l(51):iii-6,12-14,17

Have mercy on me, God, in your kindness.
 In your compassion blot out my offence.
O wash me more and more from my guilt
 and cleanse me from my sin.

My offences truly I know them;
 my sin is ever before me
Against yous, you lone, accept I sinned;
 what is evil in your sight I have done.

A pure heart create for me, O God,
 put a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me away from your presence,
 nor deprive me of your holy spirit.

Requite me again the joy of your help;
 with a spirit of fervour sustain me,
O Lord, open my lips
 and my oral cavity shall declare your praise.

2nd reading

ii Corinthians 5:xx-6:2

Be reconciled to God

Nosotros are ambassadors for Christ; it is as though God were highly-seasoned through us, and the appeal that nosotros brand in Christ'southward proper name is: exist reconciled to God. For our sake God made the sinless one into sin, and then that in him we might become the goodness of God. As his fellow workers, we beg yous once over again not to neglect the grace of God that you have received. For he says: At the favourable time, I have listened to you; on the solar day of salvation I came to your aid. Well, now is the favourable time; this is the day of salvation.

Gospel

Matthew 6:1-vi,16-eighteen

Your Father who sees all that is done in secret will advantage you

Jesus said to his disciples: 'Be conscientious non to parade your good deeds before men to attract their notice; by doing this you will lose all reward from your Father in heaven. So when you give alms, practice not have information technology trumpeted before you; this is what the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win men'due south admiration. I tell you lot solemnly, they have had their reward. But when you give alms, your left hand must not know what your correct is doing; your almsgiving must be underground, and your Father who sees all that is done in cloak-and-dagger volition reward you lot.
'And when you pray, practice not imitate the hypocrites: they love to say their prayers standing upwardly in the synagogues and at the street corners for people to encounter them; I tell you solemnly, they have had their reward. Just when you pray, get to your private room and, when y'all have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in that secret place, and your Father who sees all that is washed in secret will reward yous.
'When you fast practise not put on a gloomy look as the hypocrites practise: they pull long faces to permit men know they are fasting. I tell you solemnly, they have had their advantage. Simply when y'all fast, put oil on your head and wash your confront, so that no 1 will know you are fasting except your Father who sees all that is done in secret; and your Male parent who sees all that is done in secret will reward you.'

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Scripture readings taken from The Jerusalem Bible, published and copyright © 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd and Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc, and used by permission of the publishers. For on-line information virtually other Random Business firm, Inc. books and authors, see the Cyberspace web site at http://world wide web.randomhouse.com.

Tue 1 March

Tuesday of week 8 in Ordinary Time

Offset reading

1 Peter 1:x-16

Put your trust in the grace that is coming to you

It was this salvation that the prophets were looking and searching and then hard for; their prophecies were virtually the grace which was to come to you. The Spirit of Christ which was in them foretold the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would come up later them, and they tried to find out at what time and in what circumstances all this was to be expected. It was revealed to them that the news they brought of all the things which have now been announced to you, by those who preached to you the Proficient News through the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, was for you and not for themselves. Even the angels long to take hold of a glimpse of these things.
Free your minds, then, of encumbrances; control them, and put your trust in nothing but the grace that will be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. Do non comport in the way that you liked to before you learnt the truth; make a habit of obedience: be holy in all you exercise, since information technology is the Holy One who has called you, and scripture says: Be holy, for I am holy.

Psalm or canticle

Psalm 97(98):1-four

Sing a new song to the Lord
 for he has worked wonders.
His correct hand and his holy arm
 take brought conservancy.

The Lord has fabricated known his salvation;
 has shown his justice to the nations.
He has remembered his truth and beloved
 for the firm of Israel.

All the ends of the earth have seen
 the salvation of our God.
Shout to the Lord, all the earth,
 ring out your joy.

Gospel

Mark 10:28-31

Whoever has left everything for the sake of the gospel volition be repaid

At that time Peter began to tell Jesus, 'What well-nigh united states of america? We accept left everything and followed you lot.' Jesus said, 'I tell you solemnly, there is no ane who has left house, brothers, sisters, father, children or land for my sake and for the sake of the gospel who will not be repaid a hundred times over, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and land – non without persecutions – now in this present fourth dimension and, in the world to come, eternal life.
'Many who are first will be last, and the last showtime.'

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Our diocesan logo is theologically rich and very succinct. Equally a manus, it depicts our mission as a diocese and as individuals within the diocese, of bearing (bringing, carrying) Christ's love to 1 another and to the world effectually us. In this, we are the hand of Jesus Christ, and we are offering ourselves to him so that he might work through us.

We can exist the bearers of his honey just as a response to his call and in the force of his grace. Nosotros are reminded of this in two ways—through the symbol of the pigeon (the Holy Spirit) also present in the logo, and by the incorporation of the cross that segments the logo. The presence of the cross is a reminder that bearing the love of Christ will inevitably cost united states if we alive it authentically. Even so, in the way that the Cross is the portent of redemption and life—an echo of the tree of life in the volume of Genesis—so becoming bearers of the honey of Christ volition as well bring us to life.

The iv fingers of the hand also stand for the four regions of our diocese. The outset is blue representing the beautiful water of the Shoalhaven. The second is a blueish and green combination representing the waters and escarpment of the Illawarra. The 3rd is light-green depicting the hills and plains of the Macarthur. The fourth is dark green illustrating the forests of the Southern Highlands.

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