Notices_Sunday 21st May — Sunday After Ascension — Seventh Sunday Of Easter

NOTICES:

TODAY: Par­ish Coun­cil meets after ser­vice and morn­ing tea.

 

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TONIGHT — 21^st May 2023 — NSW Ecu­men­ic­al Coun­cil — 5pm ser­vice & 6.30pm Annu­al Fund-Rais­ing Dinner: 

We are invit­ing you to gen­er­ously sup­port this endeav­our.  This year, the Coun­cil will cel­eb­rate the end of the Week of Pray­er for Chris­ti­an Unity on Sunday 21 May 2023 with a ser­vice of Wor­ship at St. Paul’s Anglic­an Church (205–207 Bur­wood Rd, Bur­wood NSW 2134) at 5.00 pm, next to the hall, where the Annu­al Din­ner will be held imme­di­ately after the ser­vice, at 6.30 pm.

The guest speak­er will be His Emin­ence Bish­op Angaelos, Coptic Ortho­dox Church, Dio­cese of Lon­don, on the top­ic “How Churches are work­ing for peace in our world and the new chal­lenges for ecu­men­ism in the con­text of our troubled times.” Bish­op Don­ald Kirk of Riv­er­ina Anglic­an Dio­cese will be the respond­ent to his talk.

For tick­ets to the din­ner, see Mandy Tib­bey after church.

$60 full price, $30 concession.

Let’s have at least one table of 10 of St Luke’s folk!

 

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Sunday 28^th May — Pil­grim­age and Anglic­an life in the Holy Land.

Come and hear the Rev Can­on Richard Sewell, Dean of St George’s Col­lege, Jer­u­s­alem speak.  There will be time to ask questions.

Where: Christ Church St Laurence Hall, 505 Pitt Street, Sydney

When: 2.30pm fol­lowed by after­noon tea.

Entry by note dona­tion to cov­er costs.

RSVP: robert.mclean@abmission.org.au by Wed­nes­day 24^th May for catering.

 

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Tues­day 30^th May at 6pm — Annu­al Com­mem­or­a­tion of the Holo­caust at the Great Synagogue: 

You are invited to THE NSW COUNCIL OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS SHOAH COMMEMORATION.  This year we com­mem­or­ate the 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Upris­ing.  Speak­er: Emer­it­us Pro­fess­or Kon­rad Kwiet.

VENUE: THE GREAT SYNAGOGUE — Entry via 178A ELIZABETH ST, SYDNEY

RSVP to Anna Ber­ger, CCJ NSW at anmber18@gmail.com

 

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Sun, 25^th June 2023 — St Luke’s Young Organ­ists Series: Recit­al at 3pm — Please keep and share the date

Win­ner of the Open Sec­tion of the 2022 Sydney Organ Com­pet­i­tion, Samuel Giddy per­forms works by J S and C P E Bach, Byrd and Brahms on the rare 1883 Wordsworth & Maskell Pipe Organ at St Luke’s Anglic­an Church Enmore with Stanmore.

The St Luke’s Young Organ­ists Series is an occa­sion­al series of recit­als by loc­al young and emer­ging organ schol­ars and organists.

Seat­ing unre­served — No book­ing required.

Entry, Pro­gramme & Refresh­ments:  $ note donation.

Enquir­ies:  Kathy Drum­mond / Brett Dav­ies / OrganatEnmore@gmail.com

 

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Sunday 17^th Sept — 40^th Anniversary of Sydney MOW:  Join us at CCSL for 10.30am ser­vice with female guest preach­er.  Fol­lowed by lunch with female guest speak­ers.  RSVP date to be announced.  Keep the date!

 

 

Notices for the Sunday Ser­vice book­let need to be received by Jen­nifer in the par­ish office by 10am on Thursday morn­ing.  It is best to email the details.

 

 

ST PAUL’S PANTRY needs food, health and clean­ing items: A bas­ket is in the church foy­er for donations.

 

 

Food for our worms – Leave your worm food gifts at church on Sundays or drop off dur­ing the week.  Please remem­ber to remove the strings from teabags.  (NB — no dairy, cit­rus, onions or meat please).  Worm cast­ings are avail­able.  See Fr Jeff.

 

 

Lea MacNeil has jam, con­serves, pickles and vari­ous sauces to sell; please email her at lea.macneil@gmail.com to order them from her.  All pro­ceeds go to St Luke’s Parish.

 

 

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday: Ruth Cham­pi­on; Tiffany, Kev­in, Alex­an­der & Nich­olas Chiew; and Ron, Milly, Nam & Viol­etta Clarke.

Monday: Les & Lyn Car­ring­ton; Nancy Cheng; and Susan Deas.

Tues­day: Lyne Cun­neen & John MacLu­lich; Brett Dav­ies & Amrit MacIntyre.

Wed­nes­day: Edi & Oscar Dav­is; John Dick­son; and Kathy Drummond.

Thursday: Dav­id Dun­lop; Michael, Eliza­beth, Tom, Ella & Nick Fleming.

Fri­day: We pray for Fr John Bunyan’s pas­tor­al care min­istry at Bank­stown Hos­pit­al and all those he min­is­ters to.

Sat­urday: Almighty God, we pray for those in Tur­key and Syr­ia who are suf­fer­ing fol­low­ing the dev­ast­at­ing earth­quake.  We pray for heal­ing and good med­ic­al care for those who have been injured.  For those who have lost homes and pos­ses­sions, please meet their daily needs for food, clean water and shel­ter and com­fort those who mourn the loss of loved ones.  And bless all who are on the ground help­ing those impacted.  Amen

 

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Pray­ers for the sick: Mar­gret Chiew; Noel Jeffs; Peter Sey­mour; Dav­id Dun­lop; (Fr) John Bowen; Janet Walms­ley; Tony Brown­low; Peter Brown; Bar­bara Ray­mond; Christine Kon­draten­ko; Val Thomas; Kev­in Tib­bey; Simone Abra­hams; Salochna Devi; Ruth Dodd; Robyn Palmer; Julie Ankers; Franz Legrum; Peta Loveday-Hill; Peter Crook; Cath­er­ine Lough­man; Jonath­an Har­ris; Wolfgang Haas; Chris Middleton; and Barry Pearton.

 

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Rhoda Palmer-Gib­son; Fre­drick Crowth­er; Clive Turn­bull; Neville Arm­strong; Patrick Sadler; Freda Fer­guson; Ann Dav­is; and Peter Edgely.

 

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion: 24^th: John (d. 1791) & Charles (d. 1799) Wes­ley, evan­gel­ists; 25^th: Bede of Jar­row, Priest, and teach­er (d. 735); and 26^th: Augustine of Can­ter­bury, mis­sion­ary and Bish­op (d. 605).

 

 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: Pau­line Newell; (Fr) John Hawkins; Robert & Lyn­dall Dubler; Andy Ser­afin; Florence Shel­lard; Ray Som­mer; John Hardy; Lyn Car­ring­ton; John Dick­son; Bar­bara & Jade Allen; Rhi­an­non Henry-Edwards; Marissa; Jude, Isla, Meg & Al Don­nell; Kuwert; Rev Laurie MacIntyre; Kiki Chun; Raul of Radio Skidrow and his fam­ily; Andrew Strat­golda; Loch­lan Lones­bor­ough; Ann Jeffs; and Singla Pallav.

 

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Read­ings for Next Sunday: Day of Pentecost

First Read­ing: Acts 2.1–21              Psalm: 104.26–36

Second Read­ing: 1 Cor 12.1–13              Gos­pel: John 20.19–23

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EASTER Appeal 2023

Envel­opes are avail­able in the church foy­er to place on the col­lect plate

Or Scan the QR code to make a dona­tion online.

You can also donate online at www.abmission.org/Easter2023