Notices_Sunday 4th February 2024 — Presentation of Christ in the Temple

NOTICES:

Many thanks to Fr Jeff and Michelle Park­er who cel­eb­rate their 5^th Anniversary with us at St Luke’s this week.

 

 

Happy Birth­day to: Susan Hill; Evelyn Maack; Fr Jeff Park­er; Kev­in Green; Eddie Reddy; Lyne Cun­neen; Janet Wid­mer; Alex Hill; Veron­ica Nath; and Lyn Carrington.

 

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TODAY – Meet­ing for Par­ish Week­end at Stroud: 23^rd-25^th Feb 2024

There will be a meet­ing in the chapel after morn­ing tea today.

All wel­come to attend, to determ­ine if what we have planned suits you and you would like to come.

 

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TONIGHT: 6pm Spir­it of Taize Service.

 

OpShop 30-year cel­eb­ra­tion pens are avail­able in the foy­er for $2 each.

 

Palm Crosses Needed: 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.

 

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Dates for your Diary

Tues 13^th Feb– Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day in the Rect­ory Garden.

Wed 14^th Feb­ru­ary – 10.30am & 7.30pm Ash Wed­nes­day services.

Sun 18^th Feb – 9.30am First Sunday in Lent.

Sun 17^th March – Par­ish AGM.

Sun 24^th March – 9.30am Palm Sunday.

Thurs 28^th March – 7.30pm Maun­dy Thursday; Fri 29^th March – 9.30am Good Fri­day; and Sun 31^st March – 9.30am East­er Day.

 

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Sat 17^th Feb at 3.30pm — Cinema Para­diso: Some like it Hot (1959)

RSVP not essen­tial — Screen­ing in the Church Hall

3.30pm for a punc­tu­al 3.45pm start, con­clud­ing at 5.40pm.

Inter­val at 4.30pm (30 minutes) with wine, cheese and analysis

Some Like It Hot (1959) opened to crit­ic­al and com­mer­cial suc­cess and remains one of the great Hol­ly­wood films.  Set in 1920s Pro­hib­i­tion-era Chica­go, two hard-up musi­cians wit­ness the shoot­ing of a police inform­er on the infam­ous St Valentine’s Day Mas­sacre.  To escape the Mafia, they dis­guise them­selves as women and flee to Miami with an all-female jazz band.  Famil­i­ar to many, it is a per­fect film for late Sum­mer in Sydney — Rot­ten Toma­toes call­ing it ‘A spry, quick-wit­ted farce that nev­er drags.’

 

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Tues 20^th Feb­ru­ary at 7.30 pm — Tues­day Bible Study recom­mences at Fr Philip’s home, 5 Lin­coln St Stan­more.  All wel­come.   The study for this term will be The Acts of the Apostles.  Please bring a bible.

 

Sun 18^th Feb­ru­ary — Par­ish Coun­cil will meet after 9.30am ser­vice and morn­ing tea.

 

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Sunday 17^th March – Par­ish Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing:

Will be held in the church after 9.30am ser­vice and morn­ing tea.

If you are an office bear­er, would you please sub­mit your report/s to the Par­ish Office by email, on or before Sunday 25^th Feb, 

as the col­lated final edi­tion should be in the hands of parish­ion­ers the week pri­or to the AGM, Sunday 10^th March.

 

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Sat 2^nd March 2024 — Len­ten Quiet Day from 9.45am – 4.15pm:

The Sydney Mis­sion-Col­lege of the Oratory of the Good Shep­herd invite you to share in a day of silence, pray­er and reflec­tion at the begin­ning of Lent.

Ven­ue: The church/grounds of St John’s Bal­main, Spring Street, Birchgrove.

What? Gath­er for cof­fee and con­ver­sa­tion at 9.45 am.  Great­er Silence from 10.00 am until 4.15 pm.  Morn­ing and Even­ing Pray­er; the Holy Euchar­ist; two addresses; oppor­tun­ity for indi­vidu­al con­sulta­tion with lead­er; rest in the garden and loc­al park.

Event is Free of charge.  Par­ti­cipants are asked to bring their own packed lunches. Tea and cof­fee provided.  This year the lead­er is The Rev’d Linda Mary CSC.  All very welcome.

 

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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.

 

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 your teabags.  (N.B. — no dairy, cit­rus, onions or meat).

 

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday: Gra­hame Sadler; Rajah Selva­ra­jah & Greg; Peter Sey­mour; Andy Ser­afin & Colin; and Lous­ia Silverman.

Monday: Laurel & Ray Som­mer; Kar­lene Thompson; and Janet Walmsley.

Tues­day: Christine Thur­ley, Troy and Fam­ily; and Noël Waugh.

Wed­nes­day: Stu­art Veitch, Jo Bur­ton & Laurence; Janet Wid­mer & Cliff.

Thursday: Ron & Katie Wil­li­ams; and Sally Woellner.

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 areas of con­flict.  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.

 

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Pray­ers for the sick: Mar­garet Chiew; Dav­id Dun­lop; (Fr) John Bowen; Janet Walms­ley; Joseph Kumar; Ger­ald Grant; Alex Regos; Christine Kon­draten­ko; Salochna Devi; Ruth Dodd; Robyn Palmer; Cath­er­ine Lough­man; Helen Woell­ner; Libby Dav­is; Steph­en Grif­fen; Tom Hall; Auntie Glor­ia (Shipp); Nick Moles­worth; Douglas Sey­mour; (Fr) Max Wood; Dav­id Brad­ford; Evelyn de Zoysa; Fran, Jac­queline; Donna Har­ris; and Douglas Johnston.

 

Recently Depar­ted: Laurent Grand­si­mon (Stu­art Grigg’s Son-in-law); and Michael Egen.

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Florence Simpson; Kev­in Saun­ders; and Robert Emmenegger.

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion: 5th: Mar­tyrs of Japan, cru­ci­fied at Naga­saki (d.1597).

 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: Simone Crowth­er; Ruth Cham­pi­on; (Fr) John Hawkins; Robert & Lyn­dall Dubler; Andy Ser­afin; Florence Shel­lard; Ray Som­mer; John Hardy; Lyn Car­ring­ton; John Dick­son; Bar­bara Allen; Marissa & Meg Maack, Jude, Isla, & Al Don­nell; Ann Jeffs; and Noel Jeffs.

 

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Read­ings for 9.30am Ser­vice – The Trans­fig­ur­a­tion of our Lord

First Read­ing: 2 Kings 2.1–12                 Psalm: 50.1–6

Second Read­ing: 2 Cor­inthi­ans 4.3–12    Gos­pel: Mark 9.2–9

 

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LENT 2024

I’ve long heard of the Arch­bish­op of Can­ter­bury’s yearly Lent Book.  This year it is entitled “Tarry Awhile”.  The sub­title is ‘Wis­dom from Black Spir­itu­al­ity for People of Faith.’

There is an amount of read­ing involved and there is a cost.  From Amazon the book costs a little more than $30 or in the Kindle format it is $18.99, again from Amazon.   The deliv­ery from these sources is very fast so you would have the book for Lent which begins on 15 Feb.

I intend to use this study on Monday even­ings via Zoom or mem­bers are wel­come to come to the Rect­ory on those even­ings if that is prefer­able for you.

If the cost of the book­let above is an issue for you, please let me know.  I’m sure there is help available.

I have ordered some altern­at­ive mater­i­al for the Wed­nes­day morn­ing study.

Look­ing for­ward to Lent 2024.

Fr Jeff