Notices — Seventh Sunday After Epiphany — 20th February 2022

NOTICES:

Today we com­plete the NCLS (Nation­al Church Life Sur­vey)

We have set aside the time nor­mally reserved for the ser­mon to com­plete the Nation­al Church Life Sur­vey together.  Pens will be distributed.  The best response is almost always the response of your first impres­sion, so no need (or time) to agon­ize over it!

There is a fair amount of read­ing involved — if this is an issue for any reas­on (eg for­got your glasses), help is avail­able in the walk­way.

The Nation­al Church Life Sur­vey is an Aus­tralia-wide sur­vey of all church­go­ers and occurs every five years in tan­dem with the nation­al Census.  Hav­ing as many parish­ion­ers as pos­sible com­plete it is of great help to the Par­ish.

There will be an online option for those who are not in church today.  Details to be provided in due course.

 

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War­dens’ Din­ner Thank you ‑ Thanks to all parish­ion­ers who came to the War­dens’ Din­ner last week in try­ing conditions.  It has giv­en us many ideas for next year’s theme “Noah’s Ark”.

 

The New Mas­ter Roster for Feb­ru­ary — May 2022 is now avail­able in church and chapel foy­ers.

 

OpShop phone num­ber has changed: The new num­ber is Mob: 0416 913 578.  Please use this num­ber to con­tact the Opshop dur­ing open­ing hours.

 

Thank you to Noel Jeffs who has gen­er­ously donated the Pas­cal Candle for use at St Luke’s Enmore this year.

 

Palm Crosses: Please remem­ber to bring in your palm crosses from last year.  We will burn these to make the ash on Shrove Tues­day for our Ash Wed­nes­day ser­vices.

 

Men’s Night Out 2022: The first MNO for 2022 will be held at Alberto’s Pizzer­ia, 589 King Street New­town (Phone 9 519 4262) on Sat­urday 26^th Feb­ru­ary at 6.00 for 6.30 pm.  Con­tact Kev­in on 0405 691 055.

 

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ABM Len­ten Study – ‘Repairing the Breach’

Will be held on Wed­nes­days after 10.30am Ser­vice and morn­ing tea (start­ing on Ash Wed­nes­day), and also Monday nights via zoom at 7.30pm (start­ing on 7^th March).

A zoom link will be provided closer to the time.  Please con­tact the office if you wish

to participate.  Lim­ited cop­ies of the book ‘Repairing the Breach’ (provided by Fr Jeff) are avail­able FREE for par­ti­cipants in St Luke’s Stud­ies ONLY from the Par­ish Com­munity Resource Centre.  Please see Steph­en Gates after the ser­vice dur­ing morn­ing tea.  Any­one wish­ing to par­ti­cip­ate in Len­ten Stud­ies out­side St Luke’s can pur­chase the book for $10 from the Par­ish Resource Centre or from the ABM WEBSITE — abmission.org

 

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2022 nation­al online Lent Appeal Launch — Tues­day 1 March

Hos­ted by the Dean of Bris­bane, the Very Rev­er­end Dr Peter Catt.

Time: 3pm (NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

Dur­a­tion: 1 hr, includ­ing Q&A.

RSVP: by Fri­day 25 Feb­ru­ary to info@abmission.org.au or phone 1300 302663

A Zoom link will be sent out the day before the event with inform­a­tion on how to join.  Join ABM sup­port­ers from across the coun­try to learn how your sup­port of our 2022 Lent Appeal to bring love, hope and justice to com­munit­ies in Aus­tralia and over­seas who are in need dur­ing this pan­dem­ic.

 

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St James’ Insti­tute 2022 pro­gramme is now avail­able from the Com­munity Resource Centre table.  For more inform­a­tion vis­it stjamesinstitute.org.au or ring (02) 8227 1300

 

Noel Jeff­s’ book ‘Maturing in the Reli­gious Life’ is avail­able for sale now at ‘Bet­ter Read Than Dead’ book­shop in New­town

 

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Pan­cakes at the Rect­ory – Tues­day 1st March at 7.00 p.m.  Bring the fam­ily but please RSVP to Fr Jeff or Michelle by Wed 25 February.  It’s at this gath­er­ing that we make the ashes for Ash Wed­nes­day.

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Future Dates for your Diary:

Wed 2^nd March –Ash Wed­nes­day ser­vices at 10.30am & 7.30pm.

Sun 6^th March – First Sunday in Lent and Bap­tism at 9.30am and 6pm Even­ing Ser­vice with Holy Com­mu­nion.

Wed 9^th March – (Ecu­men­ic­al) Taizé ser­vice St Luke’s Enmore at 7.00 pm.

Sun 13th March — Par­ish Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM).

Sun 10th April — Palm Sunday at 9.30 am.

Thurs 14th April — Maun­dy Thursday at 7.30 pm.

Fri 15th April — Good Fri­day at 9.30am and 12pm Sta­tions of the Cross.

Sun 17th April — East­er Day at 9.30 am.

 

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

 

Food for our worms –Please leave your worm food gifts at church on Sundays or drop off dur­ing the week.  (NB — no dairy, cit­rus or meat)  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.

 

 

Pray­ers for the sick: Wolfgang Rose; Julie Ankers; John Bowen; John Per­kins; Mar­garet Chiew; Florence Shel­lard; Aman­da Romeo; Maria Ser­afin; Andy Ser­afin; Maryrose Crowth­er; Ruth Dodd; and Joan Dale.

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Mar­garet Turn­bull; and Kath­leen Rushton.

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion: 23^rd Feb: Polycarp, Bish­op of Smyrna, mar­tyr (d. c. 155); and 24^th Feb: Mat­thi­as, Apostle and mar­tyr.

 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list:  John Hardy; Pau­line Newell; Beth Arm­strong; Lyn Car­ring­ton; John Dick­son; Steph­en Thur­ley; Shir­ley, Bar­bara & Jade Allen; Rhi­an­non Henry-Edwards; Marissa; Jude, Isla, Meg & Al Don­nell; Grace & Han­nah Ashton; Andrew Hiro Itadani; Kuwert; Rev Laurie MacIntyre; Kiki Chun; Raul of Radio Skidrow and his fam­ily; Andrew Strat­golda; Loch­lan Lones­bor­ough; and Noel Jeffs.

 

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday: Selina & John Hardy; Susan Hill, Janet Broady & Alex; Moya Holle; Noel Jeffs; and Esth­er, Joseph, Joyti, Joshlyn, Deepika & Deep­shi­ka Kumar.

Monday: Pamela Jak­sic; and Eddy, Mint, Atom & Arty Kit­tir­at.

Tues­day: Geoff Lind­say & Mandy Tib­bey; and Fabi­an LoS­chia­vio.

Wed­nes­day: Lea MacNeil & Don­ald Thomas; and Evelyn Maack.

Thursday: Jen­nifer McGov­ern; John M; and Jo Middleton.

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

Sat­urday: Dear lov­ing Fath­er, please deliv­er us from the coronavir­us and lim­it its impact on Aus­tralia and the world. In your mercy bring a swift end to this crisis.  Please pro­tect with your lov­ing care those we love — our fam­il­ies, friends and neighbours.  Let your fath­erly hand guide, shel­ter and strengthen them.  Cast out all anxious fears and doubts.  Give us an increas­ing trust in you and fill our hearts and minds with your peace.  We pray for those around the world now strug­gling with vari­ous COVID stains.  Heal and com­fort those who are sick and suffering.  Pro­tect and guide the health pro­fes­sion­als who are at the front line.  Please give wis­dom and cour­age to those who bear respons­ib­il­ity for con­front­ing this chal­lenge. We ask these things through the power­ful name of Jesus.  Amen.

 

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Read­ings for Next Sunday: Trans­fig­ur­a­tion – Last Sunday After Epi­phany.

First Read­ing: Exodus 34.29–35              Psalm: 99

Second Read­ing: 2 Cor­inthi­ans 3.12–4.2             Gos­pel: Luke 9.28–36

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“Becoming Cre­at­ors of unity” Taizé Pil­grim­age of Trust in NSW 2022

                    

facil­it­ated by Broth­er Mat­thew from the Taizé Com­munity

AN EVENING PRAYER

Wed­nes­day, 9th March 2022 at 7.00pm

St Luke’s Anglic­an Church

11 Stan­more Road, Enmore

All are wel­come!

 

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 A MEMORIAL SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING

for the life of The Most Revd Dr Des­mond Tutu

Arch­bish­op Emer­it­us of Cape Town

Nobel Peace Prize Laur­eate

will be held on Sunday 6th March 2022 at 4.00pm

 

in St James’ Anglic­an Church, King Street Sydney

The Ser­vice will be streamed on the St James’ Face­book page and

Online Ser­vices page. The links are:

www.sjks.org.au/online-services/ www.facebook.com/stjameskingstreet/

 

All are wel­come

[full vac­cin­a­tion is recom­men­ded]

 

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Sunday Night Ser­vices

Most would be aware that our lay min­is­ter, Peter Sey­mour, leads the Sunday even­ing ser­vice on the first Sunday of the month.  This takes place at 6.00 p.m. in the sum­mer and 5.00 p.m. in winter. Speak­ing with Peter, he believes that the need for and the form of this ser­vice should be revisited.  At the moment we fol­low the ser­vice of Pray­er, Praise and Pro­clam­a­tion from the Pray­er Book.

Speak­ing with oth­er par­ish min­is­ters, Sunday even­ing ser­vices are gen­er­ally hard to get going, even in much big­ger parishes.  Peter and I would like to know if there are any sug­ges­tions about what form the ser­vice should take, prefer­ably from people who would actu­ally attend and/or take part.   Please speak with Peter or Fr Jeff.

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