Sunday, November 26, 2006

Rhythm.



Hi All,
Today, Pastor John explores the rhythms of life as we would like it to be and how it quite often is! Recapping todays reading from Revelation 1:4-8, we are reminded of the natural rhythms such as tides, season, sunrise and sunsets and, of course our own heartbeats.
Sadly, our pressured life leads to such a fast pace that everything seems to go too fast. Have you been captured and turned into a 'slave to the rhythm'?
Listen to Pastor John lead us through the Gospel that promises relief from that crazy rhythm!

Click to download: Rhythm.

Illawarra Lutheran Parish
26th November 2006
Last Sunday of the Church Year
Day of Fulfilment

Prayer of the Day
Merciful Saviour, you have taught us that those who believe in you will not be condemned, but have already passed from death to life. Give us faith in your forgiveness, so that we fearlessly wait for the time when you set us completely free. For you live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Prayer Points
  • Pray for those affected by the drought, particularly those on the land and those who's livelihood is connected with the land.
  • Pray for those who have served in some way in our parish in the past year: readers, musicians, cleaners, pray-ers, Sunday School teachers, lay readers, elders, stewards, church councilors.
  • Pray for those suffering illness or hospitalization: Fritz T., Wolfgang G., Christine F., Linda F., Hardy B., Max C., Harold M. and Horst M.
  • Pray for the guidance of the Holy Spirit to help us live in the rhythm God sets for our lives and not in the rhythm the world demands.
  • Pray for generous hearts in the lead up to Christmas.
  • Give thanks for all those who courageously spread Gods word in difficult circumstances.
  • Ak God how he can lead each one of us to live out our faith more effectively.
  • Give thanks that Samuel Strelan has entered God's family through the waters of baptism.
  • Give thanks that God keeps his promises and pray for faith to trust in those promises.
Todays Readings
Daniel 7:9-10
Revelation 1:4-8
John 18:33-37

Todays liturgical colour is
GREEN

Minor Festivals and Colours this week:
Saint Andrew
30th November
Red
St. Andrew was a native of Bethsaida in Galilee, a fisherman by trade, and a former disciple of John the Baptist. He was the one who introduced his brother Peter to Jesus, saying, "We have found the Messiah." Overshadowed henceforth by his brother, Andrew nevertheless appears again in the Gospels as introducing souls to Christ. After Pentecost, Andrew took up the apostolate on a much wider scale, and is said to have been martyred at Patras in southern Greece on a cross which was in the form of an "X". This type of cross has long been known as "St. Andrew's cross."
When Andrew was led to the place of martyrdom, on beholding the cross from a distance he cried out: "O good Cross, so long desired and now set up for my longing soul I confident and rejoicing come to you; exultingly receive me, a disciple of Him who hung on you." Forthwith he was nailed to the cross. For two days he hung there alive, unceasingly proclaiming the doctrine of Christ until he passed on to Him whose likeness in death he had so vehemently desired.

Things to Do.
Tandra Cakes
In parts of England Saint Andrew is considered the patron of lacemakers — perhaps coming from the resemblance of intersecting threads in certain types of lace to the cross of Saint Andrew. Seventeenth-century bakers made cakes or buns known as Tandry or Tandrew "Wigs," composed of plain dough in wedge shape, ornamented with currants and caraway seeds. INGREDIENTS
· 1lb (400g) flour
· 1 teaspoon salt
· 1/2 oz (12.5g) fresh yeast
· 1 teaspoon (caster) sugar
· 1/2 pint (250g) water
· 1 egg
· 4 oz (100g) lard (substitute with shortening or butter)
· 4 oz (100g) currants
· 4 oz (100g) sugar
· 1 oz (25g) chopped lemon peel (crystallized)

DIRECTIONS
Mix the flour and salt, then sift into a mixing bowl. Slightly warm the water in a different bowl and add to it a mixture of yeast and sugar. Blend and put aside until the frothing stops. Mix in a beaten egg and slowly add the mixture to the flour and salt. Next slowly melt the lard and, when cool, add the mixture, stirring until smooth. Knead, cover and leave to rise.

After doubling in size, knead in the currants, 4 oz sugar and peel, then transfer it to a 2 lb (1kg) loaf tin. Leave until the dough has risen to the top, then bake in a moderate oven (350ºF) until golden-brown, approximately 1 hour.

Thought for the Week
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."-Elbert Hubbard.

Photo credit: 'Business Timing' by Tania, USA.

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