BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//LaughingBird - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:LaughingBird X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://laughingbird.net X-WR-CALDESC:Events for LaughingBird REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Melbourne BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST DTSTART:20250405T160000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:20251004T160000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST DTSTART:20260404T160000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:20261003T160000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST DTSTART:20270403T160000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:20271002T160000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST DTSTART:20280401T160000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:20280930T160000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST DTSTART:20290331T160000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:20291006T160000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST DTSTART:20300406T160000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:20301005T160000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260906T000000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260906T235959 DTSTAMP:20260409T032334 CREATED:20200824T045634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231016T005056Z UID:10001594-1788652800-1788739199@laughingbird.net SUMMARY:Proper 18 - Year A DESCRIPTION:Below you will find the Bible readings set for this occasion in the Revised Common Lectionary\, with our Australian idiomatic paraphrases of them\, plus prayers and sermons based on them. \n\n\n\nBible Readings (paraphrased)\n\n\n\nLections from The Revised Common Lectionary. Copyright 1992 by the Consultation on Common Texts(CCT) P.O. Box 340003\, Room 381\, Nashville\, TN 37203-0003\, USA. Used with Permission. \n\n\n \n\n \n \n Exodus 12: 1-14 \n \n\n \n \n \n After the King of Egypt had refused to listen to all the warnings\, the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron again\, saying: \n“Rewrite your calendars — from now on\, this month is to be the beginning of the new year. Put the word out among all the Israelite people that on the tenth day of the month\, each household is to obtain a lamb or a young goat to be eaten. Small households can combine with their neighbours to share one\, dividing it up so that there is enough for everyone to have some. The lamb must be a healthy male yearling with no deformities — not a runt. Having obtained the lamb\, the household is to keep it at home for four days. Just after sunset on the fourteenth\, all the Israelites are to slaughter the lambs ready for cooking. Take some of the blood and paint it on the frame of the front door of the house where you are eating the lamb. Cook and eat it that night. Don’t serve it raw or boiled. Don’t even cut it up or gut it. Spit-roast it whole over the fire and serve it with unleavened flat-breads and bitter herbs. Eat it all that night. If there is any left over in the morning you are to burn it. When you eat it\, you are to eat as though you were in a hurry and about to leave on a journey. You should be dressed and packed\, with your walking boots on and your stick at hand. In this way you are to keep the feast of Passover in honour of me\, the LORD. \nThat night\, I will pass through Egypt\, killing the firstborn sons of every family and the firstborn male animals. I am the LORD\, and I will carry out the sentence I have passed on the gods of Egypt this night. The lamb’s blood painted on your door frames will be the sign that your households are to be exempted. I will pass over every house that I see marked with the blood\, and you will not be touched by the plague that will strike down the Egyptians. \nRemember this day and\, in every generation to come\, celebrate it as an annual festival to honour me\, the LORD.” \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Psalm 149 \n \n\n \n \n \n You are the greatest\, LORD! \nWe sing your praises like we’ve never sung before\, LORD\,\nalong with all your faithful people everywhere. \nOur greatest joy is knowing\nthat you made us as your people.\nWith all the children of your holy city\,\nwe celebrate you as our King! \nEvery mention of your name sets us singing and dancing;\nwe strike up the band in your honour. \nFor you\, LORD\, delight in your people;\nyou share the spoils of victory with ordinary folk. \nYour faithful ones revel in your glory\,\nand bask in the sheer joy of praising you. \nPut your words in their mouths\nand your sword in their hands\, God\,\nso that they can bring the nations to justice\nand execute your sentence on every population.\nDeliver every despot and dictator into their hands\nto be tried and sentenced\nand put behind bars where they belong. \nMay all your faithful ones share in this glory\, LORD\,\nfor you are the greatest! \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Romans 13: 8-14 \n \n\n \n \n \n Keep yourselves out of debt. Let the only thing you owe anyone be love. If you are loving others you are measuring up to the standard that God’s law has always been seeking. The law contains lots of detailed commandments such as don’t betray your marriage partner\, don’t kill anybody\, don’t pinch other people’s stuff\, and don’t get preoccupied with the desire to possess things you don’t have. All such commandments can be summarised into the one simple instruction: “Love your neighbour as attentively as you love yourself.” Love never does the wrong thing by anybody\, so if you really love\, you will measure up to the whole law without even thinking about it. \nYou will realise how important these things are\, because you understand the significance of the times we are living in. It is time to wipe the sleep out of your eyes; to be on your feet\, fully alert. Salvation is at hand. It has been approaching ever since we first put our trust in God\, and it is now drawing near. The night is almost gone; the new day is about to dawn. So let’s make sure that we get rid of any old ways of living that belong to the darkness of our past. Let us live our lives in such a way that we’ll be able to hold our heads high when the broad light of day shows up everything for what it really is. Avoid the desperate pursuit of pleasure with its common pitfalls of substance abuse\, sexual sleaze\, hostile belligerence\, and crippling jealousy. Instead\, take on the persona of our Lord Jesus the Messiah and don’t give any encouragement to the selfish desires that clamour for your attention and seek to hijack your life. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Matthew 18: 15-20 \n \n\n \n \n \n While teaching his followers\, Jesus said\, “If another one of the brothers or sisters in the congregation does the wrong thing by you in some serious way\, go and try to sort it out between the two of you. If the offender takes on board what you have to say\, then you have rebuilt the relationship. If your approach is rejected\, have another try\, but this time take one or two others with you\, so that there will be witnesses to all that is said and done between you. If the offending brother or sister still refuses to accept responsibility for the problem\, then bring the issue to the congregation. If even the congregation’s decision is rejected\, then it is time for them to sever ties and to relate to the offender as they would to anyone else whose behaviour is beyond the pale and who is yet to respond to the call to turn around and become part of the people of God. I kid you not\, when you make decisions together about what may and may not be done as you live your life in the congregation\, heaven will back you up. And again I’m not kidding when I say that if two of you make a joint commitment to something in prayer\, then my Father in heaven will support you in it. For whenever two or three people gather together\, identifying themselves with me\, I will be right there with them in the gathering.” \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Below are the alternative 1st Reading and Psalm themed to the Gospel lection \n \n\n \n \n \n Prior to the revision of the Lectionary in 1992\, the 1st reading and the psalm that responded to it were chosen to link thematically with the gospel reading. After hearing the critique of those who said that the Hebrew Scriptures\, from which the first reading is usually chosen\, should be allowed to speak with their own voice rather than just add support to the gospel reading\, the Lectionary was revised so that during Ordinary Time\, the 1st reading runs in its own semi-continuous series\, working through various books of the Hebrew Bible. The older themed series continues to be available as an alternative. \nThe weekly prayers offered here at LaughingBird Resources are based on the four readings above\, and do not draw on the themed 1st reading and psalm. \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Ezekiel 33: 7-11 \n \n\n \n \n \n The LORD God said to me: \n“Ezekiel\, I have given you the job of standing guard over my people. You are to pass on to them\, word for word\, every warning you hear from me. If I give you a message for those who have gone off the rails\, saying\, ‘You people are corrupt and it is going to destroy your lives and kill you\,’ you are to give it to them in no uncertain terms. If you fail to warn them of the need to turn their lives around\, then they will continue on their fast track to an early grave\, and I will hold you culpable for their deaths. But if you give them fair warning to mend their ways\, and they take no notice\, then they will still end up dead\, but you won’t have their blood on your hands. \n“Now\, young man; can you hear what my people are saying? They are saying that their past has caught up with them\, and that the mistakes that they once made will go on ruining their lives from now on. They think they are stuck with no way out\, and no life to look forward to. This is what I want you to tell them\, Ezekiel: ‘I am the LORD your God who lives forever\, and I can assure you that I take no pleasure in seeing those who have done wrong pay for it with their lives. I would so much rather see them mend their ways and rebuild their lives. So you people who think your past is killing you\, turn around and get your lives back on track. Come\, my people\, why should you let these things kill you when there is a way out?” \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Psalm 119: 33-40 \n \n\n \n \n \n LORD\, teach me the way of life you have set for us\nand I will stick to it for keeps. \nHelp me to get my head around what you want\nand I will throw myself wholeheartedly into doing it. \nGuide me down the track you’ve mapped out for us\,\nfor nothing pleases me more than being where you want me. \nKeep me focussed on the values you’ve spelt out;\ndon’t let me get sucked into grabbing everything for myself. \nPut the blinkers on me so I see only your life-giving ways\nand am not distracted by fashionable froth and bubble. \nReassure me that I am in on what you promised to all\nwho respect you and work for you. \nProtect me with your good teachings\nso that I won’t disgrace myself as I fear I could. \nSee how much I long to do things your way;\nplease do the right thing by me and give me real life. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\nPrayers\n\n\n \n\n \n \n Eucharistic Preface \n \n\n \n \n \n Let us lift up our hearts.\nWe lift them to the Lord.\nLet us give thanks to the Lord our God.\nIt is right to give our thanks and praise. \nIt is indeed right to give you our thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor your delight is in your people\,\nand the day of our salvation is near. \nYou are our King and our maker\,\nfor all things came into being at your command.\nYou came to save your people from slavery\,\nstriking the land of their oppressors\,\nand setting free all who identified themselves\nwith the blood of your lamb. \nIn your child\, Jesus\, you have again come to save us.\nIn his love we have seen the fulfilment of your law\nand the revelation of your desire to reconcile all people –\nto yourself and to one another.\nWhen he was killed you raised him to life\,\nand marked us for salvation with his blood.\nNow wherever two or three gather\,\nclothed in his love\,\nyou are present in the midst of us\nand we rejoice in you forever. \nTherefore with ..... \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Short Preface (for insertion into Eucharistic prayers with fixed prefaces) \n \n\n \n \n \n We give you thanks for your child\, Jesus\,\nin whose love we have seen the fulfilment of your law\nand whose presence in our midst\nwe know and celebrate whenever we gather in your name. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n General Prayer of Thanksgiving \n \n\n \n \n \n (Preface reformatted for use apart from communion)\n\nWe give you all thanks and praise\, O God\,\nIt is indeed right to give you our thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor your delight is in your people\,\nand the day of our salvation is near. \nYou are our King and our maker\,\nfor all things came into being at your command.\nYou came to save your people from slavery\,\nstriking the land of their oppressors\,\nand setting free all who identified themselves\nwith the blood of your lamb. \nIn your child\, Jesus\, you have again come to save us.\nIn his love we have seen the fulfilment of your law\nand the revelation of your desire to reconcile all people –\nto yourself and to one another.\nWhen he was killed you raised him to life\,\nand marked us for salvation with his blood.\nNow wherever two or three gather\,\nclothed in his love\,\nyou are present in the midst of us\nand we rejoice in you forever. \nTherefore\, with our hearts lifted high\,\nwe offer you thanks and praise at all times\nthrough Jesus Christ our Lord\,\nwho lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit\,\none God\, for ever and ever.\nAmen. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Declaration of Grace / Absolution \n \n\n \n \n \n Jesus Christ has called us to lay aside the works of darkness\nand to confess our sins and be reconciled to God.\nYou have confessed your sin in the company of God’s people.\nYour forgiveness\, declared on earth\, is sealed in heaven. \nSisters and Brothers\,\n  your sins are forgiven;\n    be at peace. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Commission & Benediction \n \n\n \n \n \n Go out in love\, reconciled to one another in Christ.\nLay aside the works of darkness\nand put on the armour of light.\nLive honourably\,\nfulfilling the law through love for all. \nAnd may God mark you out for salvation;\nMay Christ Jesus be present among you always\,\nAnd may the Holy Spirit reconcile you to one another\nand fulfil the law of love among you. \nWe go in peace to love and serve the Lord\,\n   In the name of Christ. Amen. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\nSermons\n\n\n\nSermons will open in new tabs from our SYCBaps church website. \n\n\n\n\nThe Rituals of FaithA sermon on Matthew 18:15-20; Romans 13:8-14 & Exodus 12:1-14 by Garry Deverell\n\n\n\nOur Egyptian Identity?A sermon on Exodus 12:1-14 by Alison Sampson\n\n\n\nLove – reaching for the impossibleA sermon on Matthew 18:15-20 & Romans 13:8-14 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nLove\, Desire and LawA sermon on Matthew 18:15-20; Romans 13:8-14 & Exodus 12:1-14 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nOwe Only LoveA sermon on Romans 13:8-14 by Will Small URL:https://laughingbird.net/occasion/ap18/2026-09-06/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://laughingbird.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/P18.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20290909T000000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20290909T235959 DTSTAMP:20260409T032334 CREATED:20200824T045634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231016T005056Z UID:10002077-1883606400-1883692799@laughingbird.net SUMMARY:Proper 18 - Year A DESCRIPTION:Below you will find the Bible readings set for this occasion in the Revised Common Lectionary\, with our Australian idiomatic paraphrases of them\, plus prayers and sermons based on them. \n\n\n\nBible Readings (paraphrased)\n\n\n\nLections from The Revised Common Lectionary. Copyright 1992 by the Consultation on Common Texts(CCT) P.O. Box 340003\, Room 381\, Nashville\, TN 37203-0003\, USA. Used with Permission. \n\n\n \n\n \n \n Exodus 12: 1-14 \n \n\n \n \n \n After the King of Egypt had refused to listen to all the warnings\, the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron again\, saying: \n“Rewrite your calendars — from now on\, this month is to be the beginning of the new year. Put the word out among all the Israelite people that on the tenth day of the month\, each household is to obtain a lamb or a young goat to be eaten. Small households can combine with their neighbours to share one\, dividing it up so that there is enough for everyone to have some. The lamb must be a healthy male yearling with no deformities — not a runt. Having obtained the lamb\, the household is to keep it at home for four days. Just after sunset on the fourteenth\, all the Israelites are to slaughter the lambs ready for cooking. Take some of the blood and paint it on the frame of the front door of the house where you are eating the lamb. Cook and eat it that night. Don’t serve it raw or boiled. Don’t even cut it up or gut it. Spit-roast it whole over the fire and serve it with unleavened flat-breads and bitter herbs. Eat it all that night. If there is any left over in the morning you are to burn it. When you eat it\, you are to eat as though you were in a hurry and about to leave on a journey. You should be dressed and packed\, with your walking boots on and your stick at hand. In this way you are to keep the feast of Passover in honour of me\, the LORD. \nThat night\, I will pass through Egypt\, killing the firstborn sons of every family and the firstborn male animals. I am the LORD\, and I will carry out the sentence I have passed on the gods of Egypt this night. The lamb’s blood painted on your door frames will be the sign that your households are to be exempted. I will pass over every house that I see marked with the blood\, and you will not be touched by the plague that will strike down the Egyptians. \nRemember this day and\, in every generation to come\, celebrate it as an annual festival to honour me\, the LORD.” \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Psalm 149 \n \n\n \n \n \n You are the greatest\, LORD! \nWe sing your praises like we’ve never sung before\, LORD\,\nalong with all your faithful people everywhere. \nOur greatest joy is knowing\nthat you made us as your people.\nWith all the children of your holy city\,\nwe celebrate you as our King! \nEvery mention of your name sets us singing and dancing;\nwe strike up the band in your honour. \nFor you\, LORD\, delight in your people;\nyou share the spoils of victory with ordinary folk. \nYour faithful ones revel in your glory\,\nand bask in the sheer joy of praising you. \nPut your words in their mouths\nand your sword in their hands\, God\,\nso that they can bring the nations to justice\nand execute your sentence on every population.\nDeliver every despot and dictator into their hands\nto be tried and sentenced\nand put behind bars where they belong. \nMay all your faithful ones share in this glory\, LORD\,\nfor you are the greatest! \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Romans 13: 8-14 \n \n\n \n \n \n Keep yourselves out of debt. Let the only thing you owe anyone be love. If you are loving others you are measuring up to the standard that God’s law has always been seeking. The law contains lots of detailed commandments such as don’t betray your marriage partner\, don’t kill anybody\, don’t pinch other people’s stuff\, and don’t get preoccupied with the desire to possess things you don’t have. All such commandments can be summarised into the one simple instruction: “Love your neighbour as attentively as you love yourself.” Love never does the wrong thing by anybody\, so if you really love\, you will measure up to the whole law without even thinking about it. \nYou will realise how important these things are\, because you understand the significance of the times we are living in. It is time to wipe the sleep out of your eyes; to be on your feet\, fully alert. Salvation is at hand. It has been approaching ever since we first put our trust in God\, and it is now drawing near. The night is almost gone; the new day is about to dawn. So let’s make sure that we get rid of any old ways of living that belong to the darkness of our past. Let us live our lives in such a way that we’ll be able to hold our heads high when the broad light of day shows up everything for what it really is. Avoid the desperate pursuit of pleasure with its common pitfalls of substance abuse\, sexual sleaze\, hostile belligerence\, and crippling jealousy. Instead\, take on the persona of our Lord Jesus the Messiah and don’t give any encouragement to the selfish desires that clamour for your attention and seek to hijack your life. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Matthew 18: 15-20 \n \n\n \n \n \n While teaching his followers\, Jesus said\, “If another one of the brothers or sisters in the congregation does the wrong thing by you in some serious way\, go and try to sort it out between the two of you. If the offender takes on board what you have to say\, then you have rebuilt the relationship. If your approach is rejected\, have another try\, but this time take one or two others with you\, so that there will be witnesses to all that is said and done between you. If the offending brother or sister still refuses to accept responsibility for the problem\, then bring the issue to the congregation. If even the congregation’s decision is rejected\, then it is time for them to sever ties and to relate to the offender as they would to anyone else whose behaviour is beyond the pale and who is yet to respond to the call to turn around and become part of the people of God. I kid you not\, when you make decisions together about what may and may not be done as you live your life in the congregation\, heaven will back you up. And again I’m not kidding when I say that if two of you make a joint commitment to something in prayer\, then my Father in heaven will support you in it. For whenever two or three people gather together\, identifying themselves with me\, I will be right there with them in the gathering.” \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Below are the alternative 1st Reading and Psalm themed to the Gospel lection \n \n\n \n \n \n Prior to the revision of the Lectionary in 1992\, the 1st reading and the psalm that responded to it were chosen to link thematically with the gospel reading. After hearing the critique of those who said that the Hebrew Scriptures\, from which the first reading is usually chosen\, should be allowed to speak with their own voice rather than just add support to the gospel reading\, the Lectionary was revised so that during Ordinary Time\, the 1st reading runs in its own semi-continuous series\, working through various books of the Hebrew Bible. The older themed series continues to be available as an alternative. \nThe weekly prayers offered here at LaughingBird Resources are based on the four readings above\, and do not draw on the themed 1st reading and psalm. \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Ezekiel 33: 7-11 \n \n\n \n \n \n The LORD God said to me: \n“Ezekiel\, I have given you the job of standing guard over my people. You are to pass on to them\, word for word\, every warning you hear from me. If I give you a message for those who have gone off the rails\, saying\, ‘You people are corrupt and it is going to destroy your lives and kill you\,’ you are to give it to them in no uncertain terms. If you fail to warn them of the need to turn their lives around\, then they will continue on their fast track to an early grave\, and I will hold you culpable for their deaths. But if you give them fair warning to mend their ways\, and they take no notice\, then they will still end up dead\, but you won’t have their blood on your hands. \n“Now\, young man; can you hear what my people are saying? They are saying that their past has caught up with them\, and that the mistakes that they once made will go on ruining their lives from now on. They think they are stuck with no way out\, and no life to look forward to. This is what I want you to tell them\, Ezekiel: ‘I am the LORD your God who lives forever\, and I can assure you that I take no pleasure in seeing those who have done wrong pay for it with their lives. I would so much rather see them mend their ways and rebuild their lives. So you people who think your past is killing you\, turn around and get your lives back on track. Come\, my people\, why should you let these things kill you when there is a way out?” \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Psalm 119: 33-40 \n \n\n \n \n \n LORD\, teach me the way of life you have set for us\nand I will stick to it for keeps. \nHelp me to get my head around what you want\nand I will throw myself wholeheartedly into doing it. \nGuide me down the track you’ve mapped out for us\,\nfor nothing pleases me more than being where you want me. \nKeep me focussed on the values you’ve spelt out;\ndon’t let me get sucked into grabbing everything for myself. \nPut the blinkers on me so I see only your life-giving ways\nand am not distracted by fashionable froth and bubble. \nReassure me that I am in on what you promised to all\nwho respect you and work for you. \nProtect me with your good teachings\nso that I won’t disgrace myself as I fear I could. \nSee how much I long to do things your way;\nplease do the right thing by me and give me real life. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\nPrayers\n\n\n \n\n \n \n Eucharistic Preface \n \n\n \n \n \n Let us lift up our hearts.\nWe lift them to the Lord.\nLet us give thanks to the Lord our God.\nIt is right to give our thanks and praise. \nIt is indeed right to give you our thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor your delight is in your people\,\nand the day of our salvation is near. \nYou are our King and our maker\,\nfor all things came into being at your command.\nYou came to save your people from slavery\,\nstriking the land of their oppressors\,\nand setting free all who identified themselves\nwith the blood of your lamb. \nIn your child\, Jesus\, you have again come to save us.\nIn his love we have seen the fulfilment of your law\nand the revelation of your desire to reconcile all people –\nto yourself and to one another.\nWhen he was killed you raised him to life\,\nand marked us for salvation with his blood.\nNow wherever two or three gather\,\nclothed in his love\,\nyou are present in the midst of us\nand we rejoice in you forever. \nTherefore with ..... \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Short Preface (for insertion into Eucharistic prayers with fixed prefaces) \n \n\n \n \n \n We give you thanks for your child\, Jesus\,\nin whose love we have seen the fulfilment of your law\nand whose presence in our midst\nwe know and celebrate whenever we gather in your name. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n General Prayer of Thanksgiving \n \n\n \n \n \n (Preface reformatted for use apart from communion)\n\nWe give you all thanks and praise\, O God\,\nIt is indeed right to give you our thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor your delight is in your people\,\nand the day of our salvation is near. \nYou are our King and our maker\,\nfor all things came into being at your command.\nYou came to save your people from slavery\,\nstriking the land of their oppressors\,\nand setting free all who identified themselves\nwith the blood of your lamb. \nIn your child\, Jesus\, you have again come to save us.\nIn his love we have seen the fulfilment of your law\nand the revelation of your desire to reconcile all people –\nto yourself and to one another.\nWhen he was killed you raised him to life\,\nand marked us for salvation with his blood.\nNow wherever two or three gather\,\nclothed in his love\,\nyou are present in the midst of us\nand we rejoice in you forever. \nTherefore\, with our hearts lifted high\,\nwe offer you thanks and praise at all times\nthrough Jesus Christ our Lord\,\nwho lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit\,\none God\, for ever and ever.\nAmen. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Declaration of Grace / Absolution \n \n\n \n \n \n Jesus Christ has called us to lay aside the works of darkness\nand to confess our sins and be reconciled to God.\nYou have confessed your sin in the company of God’s people.\nYour forgiveness\, declared on earth\, is sealed in heaven. \nSisters and Brothers\,\n  your sins are forgiven;\n    be at peace. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Commission & Benediction \n \n\n \n \n \n Go out in love\, reconciled to one another in Christ.\nLay aside the works of darkness\nand put on the armour of light.\nLive honourably\,\nfulfilling the law through love for all. \nAnd may God mark you out for salvation;\nMay Christ Jesus be present among you always\,\nAnd may the Holy Spirit reconcile you to one another\nand fulfil the law of love among you. \nWe go in peace to love and serve the Lord\,\n   In the name of Christ. Amen. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\nSermons\n\n\n\nSermons will open in new tabs from our SYCBaps church website. \n\n\n\n\nThe Rituals of FaithA sermon on Matthew 18:15-20; Romans 13:8-14 & Exodus 12:1-14 by Garry Deverell\n\n\n\nOur Egyptian Identity?A sermon on Exodus 12:1-14 by Alison Sampson\n\n\n\nLove – reaching for the impossibleA sermon on Matthew 18:15-20 & Romans 13:8-14 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nLove\, Desire and LawA sermon on Matthew 18:15-20; Romans 13:8-14 & Exodus 12:1-14 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nOwe Only LoveA sermon on Romans 13:8-14 by Will Small URL:https://laughingbird.net/occasion/ap18/2029-09-09/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://laughingbird.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/P18.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR