Notices_The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary_Sunday 27th March 2022

NOTICES:

Many thanks to Fr Philip for cel­eb­rat­ing and preach­ing today.

Fr Jeff and Michelle are cur­rently in Adelaide for the week­end with their fam­ily in order to cel­eb­rate their daugh­ter Penny’s engage­ment to Chris­toph­er Pat­ter­son.  Penny and Chris plan to be mar­ried at St Luke’s on 4^th Feb­ru­ary 2023.

 

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NEXT SUNDAY 3^rd April — Par­ish Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM)

The AGM will be held at 11.30am in the hall after the morn­ing ser­vice.  At this AGM, the Par­ish Coun­cil, War­dens and Nom­in­at­ors will be elec­ted.  There is no elec­tion of Syn­od Rep­res­ent­at­ives since a Syn­od lasts three years and the 52nd Syn­od has anoth­er year to run.

There is a form avail­able in the church foy­er and on Par­ish Resource Centre table which gives notice of an inten­tion to make a nom­in­a­tion.  Parish­ion­ers who wish to nom­in­ate anoth­er per­son for an office may com­plete the form and give it to a Warden.  The form requires the per­son being nom­in­ated to sign it as an indic­a­tion of their con­sent to be nominated.

PLEASE NOTE: You must still be present at the meet­ing to nom­in­ate some­body else wheth­er or not a form has been com­pleted, but the per­son being nom­in­ated does not have to be present at the meet­ing so long as con­sent to the nom­in­a­tion has been given.

For ref­er­ence, the above is taken from dio­cese web­site at https://www.sds.asn.au/general-meetings-parishioners?menu_id=12#8

(Scroll down to “Con­duct­ing the gen­er­al meet­ing of parish­ion­ers” then to “Elec­tions”)

 

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 Sim­nel Cake:  In cel­eb­ra­tion of Moth­er­ing Sunday, Sim­nel cake is avail­able for every­one to share.  Fr Philip will bless it and it will be dis­trib­uted at morn­ing tea.  A very big thank you to our cooks.

 

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Sunday 3^rd April — Day­light Sav­ing ends at 3.30am

Remem­ber to put your clocks back 1 hour!

 

 

 

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ABM Len­ten Study – ‘Repair­ing the Breach’:

Will be held on Wed­nes­days after 10.30am Ser­vice and morn­ing tea, and also Monday nights via zoom at 7.30pm.  Ask Fr. Jeff for the link.

 

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Lunch at the War­ren View has resumed: Please join us the War­ren View for lunch after church and morn­ing tea.  All welcome.

 

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ABM Lent & Good Fri­day Appeal 2022

Envel­opes and Digit­al dona­tions cards are avail­able in church foyer.

Or you can donate online at www.abmission.org/Lent2022

 

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Unfin­ished Busi­ness: Cel­eb­rat­ing Anglic­an Women’s Min­istry in Australia

A nation­al con­fer­ence to be held at Christ Church St Laurence, 812 George Street, Sydney, 16–18 Septem­ber 2022

Fur­ther details, includ­ing the con­fer­ence pro­gram and regis­tra­tion details, will be provided in due course.

 

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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

 

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Future Dates for your Diary:

Sun 3^rd April – Par­ish AGM

Sun 10th April — Palm Sunday at 9.30 am with Procession.

Thurs 14th April — Maun­dy Thursday at 7.30 pm.

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

Sun 17th April — East­er Day at 9.30 am.

 

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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.

 

For our com­munity today: Richard Hagan & Som; Selina & John Hardy; Susan Hill, Janet Broady & Alex; Moya Holle; Nic­ola & James Howard; Pamela Jak­sic; Noel Jeffs.

 

Pray­ers for the sick: Rajah Selva­ra­jah; Paul; Kar­lene Thompson; Wolfgang Rose; Julie Ankers; John Bowen; John Per­kins; Mar­garet Chiew; Florence Shel­lard; Aman­da Romeo; Andy Ser­afin; Maryrose Crowth­er; Ruth Dodd; Joan Dale; Robert & Lyn­dall Dubler; Joanne Kenny; and The Pso­mas Family.

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Harry Mos­sop; John Faulks; Mynette Alex­an­der; and Fr Ron Morris.

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion: 29^th: John Keble, Priest (d. 1866).

 

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Monday: John, Martha & Chris­toph­er Haly; Geoff Lind­say & Mandy Tibbey.

Tues­day: Eddie, Mint, Atom & Arty Kit­tir­at; and Fabi­an LoSciavo.

Wed­nes­day: Joseph, Esth­er, Joyti, Joshlyn, Deepika & Deep­shi­ka Kumar.

Thursday: Lea MacNeil & Don­ald Thomas; Evelyn Maack; and Jen McGovern.

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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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; Kuwert; Rev Laurie MacIntyre; Kiki Chun; Raul of Radio Skidrow and his fam­ily; Andrew Strat­golda; Loch­lan Lones­bor­ough; and Noel Jeffs.

 

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Read­ings for Next Sunday: Fifth Sunday in Lent.

First Read­ing: Isi­ah 43.16.21                              Psalm: 126

Second Read­ing: Phil­ip­pi­ans 3.3–14                    Gos­pel: John 12.1–8

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