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Study Groups 2021 – An Introduction to the New Testament

After Easter in 2021 we will be following up on last year’s study – An Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures – with a similar resource surveying the content, history and interpretation of the New Testament.

The study materials are available from the MtE website, and you are most welcome to use them independently if you can’t join one of our groups.

The discussion groups will likely gather via Zoom on Wednesday evenings and Friday afternoons. If you would like to receive details of this study when they are finalised, subscribe to the ‘MtE Reading Group’ list in the box below/right.

MtE Update – January 21 2021

  1. First update for 2021 – and just a short one!
  2. The most recent Presbytery News is here (Jan 4).
  3. This Sunday January 24 we will have a short ‘hymn-learning’ session to complete the second of the MtE communion settings by learning the till-now ‘missing’ Gloria for the setting! This will be shortly after the conclusion of the service.
  4. This coming Sunday January 24 we will hear some of the set readings for the day, Epiphany 3B, The details of the readings and some commentary are available here; our focus will be on the 1 Corinthians reading.

Worship

  1. Worship update Worship is now a gathered service in the church buildings. The services are also being live-streamed, with the links to this stream accessible from the congregational home page. We have sufficient space to accommodate those members of the congregation who would like to attend the service. VISITORS (from outside the usual membership) who would like to attend should register their interest and can be admitted only up to the maximum number allowed in the building. Visitors should register their interest prior to the service by contacting the minister via his email address on the contact page. We ask for your understanding should we not be able to admit you on the day.

MtE Update – December 24 2020

  1. Welcome to the last MtE update for the year!
  2. CHRISTMAS DAY – 9.30. Please come a little earlier if you can; this helps us move families together to fit more people in under the C-19 seating requirements (see further below on worship on-site and streamed). Services from Sunday December 27 onwards will be at 10.00.
  3. Christmas services information
  4. The Hotham Mission Christmas appeal is now open; for more information, see here.
  5. Christmas Day readings are from the Christmas I set; the readings for Sunday December 27 are details of the readings are available here;

Worship

  1. Worship update Worship is now a gathered service in the church buildings. The services are also being live-streamed, with the links to this stream accessible from the congregational home page. We have sufficient space to accommodate those members of the congregation who would like to attend the service. VISITORS (from outside the usual membership) who would like to attend should register their interest and can be admitted only up to the maximum number allowed in the building. Visitors should register their interest prior to the service by contacting the minister via his email address on the contact page. We ask for your understanding should we not be able to admit you on the day.

Christmas 2020 at Mark the Evangelist

Christmas 2015 Reflection ImageYou’re most welcome to join us at our Christmas celebrations this year!

Sunday December 20 (Advent 4, morning worship): a service of Advent carols and readings with Eucharist, 10am.

Christmas Eve (afternoon and evening): (we have no Christmas Eve services at Mark the Evangelist, but commend the Christmas Eve service at St Mary’s Anglican Church: 11.30pm Christmas Eve Midnight Mass).

Christmas Day: Worship with Eucharist, 9.30am

Normal services will continue, 10am, on December 27 and throughout January.

ALL SERVICES at MtE are presently being live-streamed from the designated start time, and are available later as a recording: details from streaming link on the Home Page

MtE Update – December 11 2020

  1. The Hotham Mission Christmas appeal is now open; for more information, see here.
  2. This Sunday December 13 we move into the season of Advent; details of the readings are available here; we will pick up themes from Isaiah 61 and Psalm 126.

Worship

  1. Worship update Worship is now a gathered service in the church buildings. The services are also being live-streamed, with the links to this stream accessible from the congregational home page. We have sufficient space to accommodate those members of the congregation who would like to attend the service. VISITORS (from outside the usual membership) who would like to attend should register their interest and can be admitted only up to the maximum number allowed in the building. Visitors should register their interest prior to the service by contacting the minister via his email address on the contact page. We ask for your understanding should we not be able to admit you on the day.

MtE Update – December 6 2020

  1. There will be a Congregational meeting on this Sunday December 6 to consider the 2021 budget and mission and ministry focuses for next year.
  2. The most recent Synod eNews (Dec 3)
  3. A first conversation about a proposed justice and peace group spanning inner-city UCA congregations will be held on Monday Dec 7 at 7.30pm via Zoom. If you would like the meeting details (Zoom link) or more information, please contact Craig.
  4. The Hotham Mission Christmas appeal is now open; for more information, see here.
  5. Worship update Worship this Sunday December 6 will be a gathered service in the church buildings. The service will also be live-streamed, with the links to this stream accessible from the congregational home page. We have sufficient space to accommodate those members of the congregation who would like to attend the service. VISITORS (from outside the usual membership) who would like to attend should register their interest and can be admitted only up to the maximum number allowed in the building. Visitors should register their interest prior to the service by contacting the minister via his email address on the contact page. We ask for your understanding should we not be able to admit you on the day.
  6. This Sunday December 6 we move into the season of Advent; details of the readings are available here; our focus text will be Isaiah 40.

Illuminating Liturgy – The Passion according to St Mark – A Service Order

For a number of years the Congregation of Mark the Evangelist has heard the passion narrative of the gospel for that lectionary year on Passion (Palm) Sunday as a preparation for Holy Week. A version of that order — for Mark’s Gospel in Year B – is shared here in the hope that it might be useful to others .

The text of the passion narrative is punctuated with prayers, psalms and hymns, with a few suggestions for dramatic actions which might help to reduce the ‘wordiness’ of such a long reading in church. The order also includes the Eucharist. More explanation of the service and how to prepare it are given in the downloadable document. Used ‘as is’ – including Holy Communion – the service would run for 60-65 minutes, depending on your music choices.

Please feel free to download this resource (in MS Word .docx format) and adapt it as appropriate to your local context. We’d love to hear whether it has been useful to you!

These services are occasionally updated/corrected, so check that you have the latest file version (the date is in the file name)

MtE Update – November 26 2020

  1. The most recent Synod eNews (Nov 19)
  2. Worship update: Worship this Sunday November 29 will be our first fully-gathered service since the March shut-down. The service will also be live-streamed, with the links to this stream accessible from the congregational home page. We have sufficient space to accommodate those members of the congregation who would like to attend the service. VISITORS who would like to attend should register their interest and can be admitted only up to the maximum number allowed in the building. Visitors should register their interest prior to the service by contacting the minister via his email address on the contact page. We ask for your understanding should we not be able to admit you on the day.
  3. There will be a Congregational meeting on December 6 to consider the 2021 budget and mission and ministry focuses for next year.
  4. This Sunday November 29 we move into the season of Advent; details of the readings are available here; our focus text will be Isaiah 64
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