Notices_Sunday 2nd July — Fifth Sunday After Pentecost

NOTICES:

Wel­come to any vis­it­ors with us today.  Please join us for morn­ing tea.

 

Thank you to Fr Michael Dea­sey for tak­ing our Sunday ser­vices for the next few weeks while Fr Jeff and Michelle Park­er, and Fr Philip Brad­ford are away.  Fr Jeff and Michelle will be away on long ser­vice leave until 10^th Septem­ber 2023.  Fr Philip will be our Locum from Wed­nes­day 12^th July until their return.

 

 

The flowers in the church today are donated in cel­eb­ra­tion of Bp Ron Wil­li­ams’ con­sec­ra­tion as Bish­op 30 years ago at St John’s, Bris­bane on St Peter’s Day.

 

 

 

Happy Birth­day to: Mat­ilda Rink­er; Susan Deas; Ron Wil­li­ams; Edi Dav­is; Nich­olas Flem­ing; and Rohan Nath.

 

TONIGHT: 5pm Even­ing Pray­er ser­vice. All are welcome.

 

Offer­tory Envel­opes are now avail­able in the church foy­er for 2^nd July onwards.

 

The Lord May­or Clover Moore AO presen­ted a May­or­al Minute to Coun­cil on Monday even­ing 26^th June 2023 about Fabi­an Lo Schiavo and is now avail­able to view at Vale Fabi­an LoSchiavo.pdf (nsw.gov.au)  A copy is also avail­able on the notice board in the hall foy­er and hall.

 

Next Par­ish Coun­cil Meet­ing will be held on Sunday 16 July at 11.30 a.m.

 

Sunday 16 July at 6.30pm — Oxford Move­ment Even­song: The Par­ish of Christ Church St Laurence (812 George St, Hay­mar­ket) extends an invit­a­tion to Fest­iv­al Even­song, Pro­ces­sion and Bene­dic­tion on.  This ser­vice will com­mem­or­ate Oxford Move­ment Sunday, giv­ing thanks for the litur­gic­al tra­di­tion with­in Anglic­an­ism.  The ser­vice will be fol­lowed by light refresh­ments.  No RSVP required.  All welcome.

 

Church Gar­dens: If any­one can spare an hour or two to help get rid of weeds from the vari­ous garden beds with­in the car­park, please liaise with Ruth for a day and time!

 

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Spe­cial Thanks to Kathy Drum­mond and Brett Dav­ies for arran­ging our Young Organ­ist Recit­al Series! 

Des­pite repeated delays due to the implic­a­tions and restric­tions caused by Cov­id, the first recit­al finally happened last Sunday; fea­tur­ing Samuel Giddy who is a remark­able young performer!

Sam played a wide rep­er­toire of organ music com­posed over the cen­tur­ies, on our Wordsworth & Maskell Pipe Organ and his tech­nic­al skill and artist­ic per­form­ance had us mes­mer­ised.  He spoke to each piece with intim­ate under­stand­ing and wit. Sam did­n’t start learn­ing the organ until 2011 and amaz­ingly gained his Licen­ti­ate [in organ] with dis­tinc­tion at age 15!  He is described as one of the finest young musi­cians of his gen­er­a­tion.  Hav­ing per­formed in com­pet­i­tions in Ger­many and played at recit­als in vari­ous cathed­rals through­out Eng­land, he is cur­rently assist­ing at St Andrew’s Cathed­ral, has recently been appoin­ted music min­is­ter (part time) at St John’s, Darlinghurst, where he will be play­ing and coordin­at­ing music at two Sunday ser­vices and assist­ing in out­reach to the com­munity through music.  He is re-estab­lish­ing the choir and organ music for the services.

There were about 45 in the audi­ence, which while not a great num­ber, they were non­ethe­less a very enthu­si­ast­ic and appre­ci­at­ive audi­ence. Glasses of Pro­secco, tea, cof­fee and plat­ters of food fol­lowed the per­form­ance, and this hos­pit­al­ity was also much appreciated.

Thank you to all those who came, served or chat­ted with our vis­it­ors and helped after­wards.  There were some at the per­form­ance who had respon­ded to our social media advert­ising, so we will cer­tainly do more of that next time.

The next recit­al will prob­ably be held in Novem­ber in con­junc­tion with the St. Anmorè Music Fest­iv­al.  Watch this space!

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There is a “Vale” to Rose­mary Brad­ford on Page 27 of this month’s issue of the South­ern Cross magazine which may be of interest to those who weren’t able to attend her funeral.

 

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Sunday 17^th Sept — 40^th Anniversary of Sydney MOW: Cel­eb­rated at Christ Church St Laurence Hay­mar­ket, at the 10.30 a.m. ser­vice, where the Arch­bish­op of Perth, Kay Goldsworthy AO, will be our guest preach­er.  Fol­low­ing the ser­vice there will be a lunch­eon in the hall and a short lec­ture giv­en to hon­our the life of the late Dr Patri­cia Bren­nan, who foun­ded Sydney MOW.

If you are a mem­ber of MOW, please ensure you renew your sub­scrip­tion pri­or to the event.  An RSVP date and lunch­eon cost will be announced by next month.

If you would like to join our mem­ber­ship, please go to the MoWatch Aus­tralia web­site and renew online or see Ruth who is the Sydney Con­ven­or.  We will be respect­fully ral­ly­ing out­side Syn­od again this year to raise aware­ness of the status of women in this dio­cese.  Sydney is still a work in progress!!

 

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Sunday 15 Octo­ber is our St Luke’s Patron­al Fest­iv­al: Our Guest Speak­er is to be The Rev’d Dr Colleen O’Reilly, a former parish­ion­er. Fol­low­ing the ser­vice we will hold a shared lunch, out­doors in the church car­park — weath­er permitting.

 

Sat­urday 21^st Oct at 6.30pm – Warden’s Din­ner: Save 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.

 

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.

 

Worm food – Please do not leave food scraps at the church or rect­ory while Fr Jeff and Michell are away.  There will be no one to col­lect them.

 

Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday Peter Gil­bert & Fred Narnolo; Joyce Grant; Stu­art Grigg & ‘Trica; Richard Hagen & Som; Selina Hardy & John; Susan Hill, Janet and Alex.

Monday: Moya Holle; Noel Jeffs; and Joseph, Esth­er, Joyti & Joshlyn Kumar.

Tues­day: Geoff Lind­say & Mandy Tib­bey; and Lea MacNeil & Don­ald Thomas.

Wed­nes­day: Evelyn Maack; Jen­nifer McGov­ern; John M.; and Jo Middleton.

Thursday: Ron­ald Naidu; Ron, Anthea, Ron­an, Veron­ica & Rohan Nath.

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 the Ukraine who are suf­fer­ing fol­low­ing the dev­ast­at­ing flood.  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 help­ing those impacted.  Amen

 

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

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted:  Mary Har­win; Her­bert Miller; Les­ley-Anne Cook; June Nyberg; Fr John Green; and Alfred Swaffield.

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion: 3^rd: Thomas, Apostle and mar­tyr; and 6^th: John Fish­er, Bish­op, and Thomas More, Mar­tyrs (d. 1535).

 

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.

 

Read­ings for Next Sunday: Sixth Sunday After Pentecost

First Read­ing: Gen­es­is 24.34–38, 42–49, 58–67    Psalm: 45.10–17

Second Read­ing: Romans 7.14–25                      Gos­pel: Mat­thew 11.15–30