We begin our Holy Week Commemorations this Sunday 29th March with a procession of Palms. The church is decorated with Palms as we hear the story of his entry into Jerusalem and his Passion. Our procession begins at 9.00am in the church hall at Holy Trinity Yarram.
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| Holy Trinity decorated for Palm Sunday 2014 |
MORNING PRAYER 9.00am Monday 30th March - Friday 3rd April at Holy Trinity
Wednesday 1st April
7.30pm Stations of the Cross
Holy Trinity Hall Commercial
Road, Yarram
Maundy Thursday 2nd
April 6.00pm Foot Washing and Fellowship Meal Holy Trinity Hall
Commercial Road, Yarram
Good Friday 3rd April
11.00am Ecumenical Service Christ Church Old Sale Road, Tarraville
Holy Saturday 4th
April
Tarra Festival
DIY V
Stations of the Cross following the parade Holy Trinity Hall
Commercial Rd, Yarram
8.00pm Lighting of the New
Fire and Renewal of Baptismal Vows Holy Trinity Yarram
Easter Services Sunday 5th
April
9.00 am Holy Trinity Yarram
10.30am St John’s Port Albert with Easter Egg Hunt in
the grounds
2015 Strategic Plan is ‘To be changed as we
listen to God in Prayer.’ This focus is in addition to those areas agreed to in
February 2014.
There are many ways to pray and many places in which to pray. As
Anglicans we have a very good resource for daily prayer in the Prayer Book for
Australia. During Holy Week Reverend Jo will lead Morning Prayer each day
9.00am at Holy Trinity.
Anglican Aid Abroad
offer this prayer for our use:
Oh God, our Heavenly Father, who didst send thine only begotten
Son into this world to teach us to love one another, grant that the
missionaries of St Andrew and their co-workers may so faithfully obey His
commands that all people may live free from want, in peace and security,
through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with three in
the unity of the Holy Spirit, world without end. Amen.
There are a great number of tasks to be done in preparation for Holy
Week.
Parish Councillors will be approaching you to help out.
Jobs include:
Stations of The Cross
-
decorate
hall
-
assist
with advertising
-
offer
hospitality on Holy Saturday (see below)
Maundy Thursday Foot Washing and meal
at Holy Trinity
-
set up
hall
-
food for a simple meal
-
serving
and washing up
Good Friday at Christ Church
Tarraville
-
clean
church before event
-
co-ordinate
members of other churches to participate
-
cross
bearer
Holy Saturday – Tarra Festival Parade
-
open our
hall for those preparing floats for the parade
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organise
refreshments
After the
parade – Self-guided Stations of the Cross
-
hospitality
Lighting of New Fire and Renewal of
Baptismal Vows 8pm at Holy Trinity
-
readers
-
ring
bell, turn on lights on cue
-
liturgical
assistant
EASTER CELEBRATION - Sunday 5 April
9am Holy Trinity
-
readers,
power point, welcoming etc
-
Someone
to give out Easter Eggs and wish everyone Happy Easter
10.30am St John’s followed by Easter
Egg Hunt
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Prepare
children’s activity
-
Hiding
eggs and supervision of Easter Egg Hunt
BIBLE STUDY GROUPS –
Our Bible Study Groups resume their study of the Gospel of The
Gospel of Luke: New Hope, New Joy by Ada Lum
Won Wron Group meets weekly during
Lent Tuesdays 6pm dinner; 7pm study
Port Albert Group meets weekly at St John’s Raglan St Port Albert Wednesdays
4pm
Yarram Coffee Connect
Group meets
at Coffee Palace currently studying the Book of Jonah Wednesdays 3.45pm
NEW
TO MISSION TABLE –
Anglican
Overseas Aid – Easter Appeal; this organisation is the preferred agency of The
Primate of Australia, Archbishop Philip Freier and Archbishop of Canterbury
Justin Welby in providing rapid response to the disaster in Vanuatu following
cyclone Pam. A retiring offering will again be available following the service
today. (see the parish website for more information)
Ship
to Shore
– the magazine of The Mission to Seafarers; this group is a particular charity
of our Parish given our association with the sea via fishing off Port Albert.
Brotherhood
of St Laurence – Building Better Lives March Issue; multiple copies, feel free
to take one home to read.
Anglican
Aid Abroad
– March Issue; this is one of our chosen mission projects for this year;
multiple copies of their newsletter are available.
STATIONS OF
THE CROSS at Holy Trinity Yarram – Wednesday 1st April 7.30pm;
a service of
prayer and meditation as we walk the way of the cross with Jesus and Saturday 4th
April following The Tarra Festival Parade; a self-guided walk available until
4.00pm.
This year we
mount a display of art posters created by the Benedictine Nuns of Turvey Abbey in
Bedford UK. These inspired illustrations of Christ's journey to the cross are
presented to us through colour and symbol. Extremely rich in colour the images
trace Christ's journey to the cross, from Peter's denial of his master and
Jesus's willing acceptance of his cross to the crucifixion and entombment. This
display will be accompanied by decorated crosses created by The Umbrella Club
in 2014.
