South Sydney Uniting Church is ecumenical (e.g. supporting the National and World Council of Churches) and inclusive,
affirming the gifts of people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations and identities. We seek peace with justice,
and the integrity of creation. We celebrate a service of Word and Sacrament (Eucharist) each Sunday at 10am.

"We acknowledge the traditional owners of this land: the Gadigal people of the Eora nation."

56a Raglan Street
Waterloo NSW 2017
Phone/Fax: 02 9319 1373

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Rev. Andrew Collis
Mobile: 0438 719 470

This month – March 2014

Easter: Ash Wednesday is March 5, with Season of Lent to follow. Holy Week begins on Palm Sunday (April 13) and Easter Day is April 20.

Prayer Meeting: Heather and Miriam meet at 7.30am in the church most Saturday mornings for prayer. Please let them know if you’d like to join them or have a prayer offered on your behalf.

Wordplay: Wednesdays, March 5 & 19, 6-8pm. Creative Writing Group. Club Redfern (2/159 Redfern Street). Phone Adrian on 9690 1427 for more details. Bring along a favourite piece of writing and/or something you’ve written. All welcome.

Art Class: Saturdays, March 8 and 22, 12-4pm. Gold coin donation.

Children’s Activities: Sundays, March 9 and 24. During worship, activities for children.

Food Donations: Sunday, March 9. Donations of non-perishable foods are most  welcome today! Please bring forward during the Offering of the service.

Birthday Celebrations: Sunday, March 9. After church during morning tea enjoy cake and celebrate with everyone having a birthday this month. Contact Naomi for details.

Informal Lunch: Sunday, March 16. Meet after church for an informal and affordable lunch. There is a “lunch box” for donations to help facilitate – your contribution is much appreciated. Contact Naomi for details.

Spirit of the desert,

you drove Jesus

to the edge of the world

to find his truth and calling:

scour our hearts

and awaken our hunger

that freed from empty clinging

we might find ourselves in you;

through Jesus Christ, the Lord of the wilds.

Amen.

Homily
Lent 1, Year A
South Sydney Uniting Church
March 9, 2014

Romans 5:12-19; Matthew 4:1-11

‘The power to choose'’

The Last Temptation of Christ, directed by Martin Scorcese (1988), was met with fervent opposition on the part of some Christians unable to tolerate the thought of Jesus tempted away from his calling as God’s Chosen. Perhaps these were Christians unable to tolerate the thought (visualised in dream sequence) of Jesus as a sexual being – which is another way of saying human being. The film is based on a novel by a Greek Orthodox writer, Nikos Kazantzakis (1960). And this accounts, perhaps, for another intolerance – a Western Christian intolerance for the Eastern Christian doctrine of salvation as divinisation. God be with you ...

I need to say more about that. For Orthodox Christians human beings are saved by a process of divinisation, a being drawn into the Godhead. In Christ, humanity and divinity do not stand/pull apart but inform and infuse one another – the faithful human response of Jesus – the “obedience” of Christ – the faithful response of one reliant on Love alone – reveals both humanity in its depths and divinity in its fullness.

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