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Sunday April 21

Fourth Sunday in Lent

Notices
Opening Hymn: The Lord's My Shepherd
Sentence of the Day
Collect of the Day
Lesson: Acts 4:5-12
Epistle: 1 John 3:16-24
Gradual Hymn: Lead Us, Heavenly Father, Lead Us
Gospel: John 10:11-18
Sermon
Prayers & Intercessions
Anthem: The Lord Is My Shepherd - John Rutter
Closing Hymn: Guide Me, Oh Thou Great Jehovah

Notices

Fisherfolk Newsletter & Pew Sheet for Sunday April 21

Opening Hymn: The Lord's My Shepherd

Sentence of the Day

"I am the good shepherd," says the Lord: "I know my own and my own know me".
John 10:14

Collect of the Day

Good shepherd of the sheep,
by whom the lost are sought
and guided into the fold;
feed us and we shall be satisfied,
heal us and we shall be whole,
and lead us that we may be with you,
with the Father and the Holy Spirit,
where you reign one God for ever.
Amen.

Lesson

Acts 4:5-12

⁵ The next day the rulers, the elders and the teachers of the law met in Jerusalem. ⁶ Annas the high priest was there, and so were Caiaphas, John, Alexander and others of the high priest’s family. ⁷ They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”

⁸ Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people! ⁹ If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed, ¹⁰ then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. ¹¹ Jesus is

“‘the stone you builders rejected,
which has become the cornerstone.’

¹² Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

Epistle

1 John 3:16-24

¹⁶ This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. ¹⁷ If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? ¹⁸ Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.

¹⁹ This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: ²⁰ If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. ²¹ Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God ²² and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. ²³ And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. ²⁴The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

Gradual Hymn: Lead Us, Heavenly Father, Lead Us

Gospel

John 10:11-18

¹¹ “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. ¹² The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. ¹³ The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.

¹⁴ “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me — ¹⁵ just as the Father knows me and I know the Father — and I lay down my life for the sheep. ¹⁶ I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. ¹⁷ The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life — only to take it up again. ¹⁸ No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”

Sermon

The Shrine of Remembrance, located in Kings Domain in Melbourne, was built as a memorial to the men and women of Victoria who served in World War I and is now a memorial to all Australians who have served in war. It is one of the largest war memorials in Australia.

The sanctuary of the Shrine contains a marble Stone of Remembrance, upon which is engraved the words "Greater love hath no man". Once a year, on the precise anniversary of the cessation of hostilities, at 11am on the 11th of November, a ray of sunlight shines through an opening in the roof to light up the word "Love" in the inscription... Read more...

Prayers & Intercessions

Prayers of the People for Sunday April 21

Anthem: The Lord Is My Shepherd - John Rutter

Closing Hymn: Guide Me, Oh Thou Great Jehovah