Notices_Sunday 10th November — Remembrance Sunday

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

 

 

The flowers in the church today are donated and arranged by Ann Petersen in lov­ing memory of Wolfgang Winter.

 

NEXT Sunday 17th Novem­ber- Par­ish Coun­cil Meets in the church after the 9.30am ser­vice and morn­ing tea.

 

Christ­mas Cards for 2024

We encour­age parish­ion­ers to vis­it The Lep­rosy Mis­sion, ABM, or The Bush Church Aid Soci­ety web­sites to order their own cards this year.

We have 3 packs of small Christ­mas cards from 2023 for sale in the Com­munity Resource Centre.  Please see Jen­nifer after church.

 

7.30 pm — Tues­day Night Bible Study: At Fr Philip’s home, 5 Lin­coln Street, Stan­more.  All welcome.

The study is cur­rently on the book of Gen­es­is.  Please bring a bible.

 

Cop­ies of Fr Jeff’s Sunday Ser­mons are made avail­able in the church foy­er each Sunday for those who would like to take a copy.

 

2024 St James’ Inter­na­tion­al Organ Festival:

Sat­urday 16th Novem­ber @ 5pm – Sarah Kim (France), Aus­trali­an organist.

Held at St James’ Church, 173 King Street, Sydney.

Tick­et avail­able at cost – In Per­son or livestream. Vis­it https://www.sjks.org.au

 

 

Thursday 28th to Sat­urday 30th Novem­ber – MOW Con­fer­ence in Brisbane.

See the leaf­let in the hall, our St Luke’s Web­site or

MOWatch Web­site for more inform­a­tion about this event.

 

Sat­urday 30th Novem­ber – Men’s Night Out — 6pm For 6.30pm 

The final MNO for 2024 will be held at: The Row­ers Club,  1 Levey Street  Wolli Creek.  Ph: (02) 9599 1932

See Kev­in Green for more details or call Mob: 0405 691 055

 

Wed­nes­day 4th Decem­ber at 6pm – Patron­al Fest­iv­al ‑Nich­olas Ferrar: 

The Sydney Mis­sion-Col­lege of the Oratory of the Good Shep­herd invites to a sung Euchar­ist at Christ Church St Laurence fol­lowed by sup­per in the hall. All are very wel­come to attend.

Nich­olas Fer­rar and their fam­ily are remembered for their wit­ness to pray­er and ser­vice.  The Fer­rar fam­ily lived in com­munity in the early sev­en­teenth cen­tury at Little Gid­ding, a pion­eer ven­ture in dan­ger­ous times.

The Oratory of the Good Shepherd’s con­sti­tu­tion was for­mu­lated at Little Gid­ding, circa 1912.

 

SATURDAY 7TH DECEMBER – ST LUKE’S CHRISTMAS MARKET from 9am – 2pm.

The But­ter Chick­en stall is open to take any dona­tions and pre-orders for the Christ­mas Mar­ket Day.

~ But­ter Chick­en and Rice packs with a papad­um — $10 each

~ Veget­ari­an Sam­osa with chut­ney — $3 each

~ Mas­ala tea — $4

Pickup dur­ing the mar­ket day: 9am — 2pm

Please see Rachael Reddy or con­tact her on 0410 552 144

 

Dona­tions for Stan­more Nurs­ing Home Christ­mas Gifts would be appre­ci­ated — either via the St Luke’s Account (details on the back of the ser­vice book­let) or a Cash offer­tory giv­ing (in a marked envel­ope).  Thank you.

 

Sat­urday 21st & Sunday 22nd Dec at 3pm – Handel’s Messiah 

Presen­ted by Radio Com­munity Chest.  Held at Sydney Town Hall

Tick­ets avail­able from https://handelsmessiahsydney.org.au

 

 

Christ­mas 2024 Services 

Sunday 22nd Decem­ber — 6pm Car­ol Service.

Tues­day 24th Decem­ber — 7.30pm Christ­mas Eve Service.

Wed­nes­day 25th Decem­ber — 9.30am Christ­mas Day Service.

(Note: There will be no 10.30am Wed­nes­day Ser­vice on 25th Dec 2024 or 1st Jan 2025.)

 

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

 

Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Community:

Sunday: Mat­ilda Rink­er; Gra­hame Sadler; Rajah Selva­ra­jah & Greg; Peter Sey­mour; and Andy Ser­afin & Colin Spokes.

Monday: Eddie, Susan, Stephanie, Edwin, Leil­ani & Car­men Reddy.

Tues­day: Louisa Sil­ver­man; Laurel & Ray Som­mer; and Kar­lene Thompson.

Wed­nes­day: Christine Thur­ley, Troy and fam­ily; and Geof­frey Turnham.

Thursday: Stu­art Veitch, Jo Bur­ton & Laurence; and Janet Walmsley.

Fri­day: We pray for pas­tor­al care min­istry teams at all Hos­pit­als and all those who are min­istered 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.

Pray­ers for the sick: Steph­en Gates; Andy Ser­afin; John Bowen (Priest); Ron; Simone Crowth­er; Alex Regos; Helen Woell­ner; Douglas John­ston; Susie Brooks; Sarah; Mari­on Mad­dox; Sarah; Max Woods (Priest); Mike Nix­on (Priest); Bar­bara Noble; and Jane Edwards.

 

We pray together:

God of love and liberty,

we bring our thanks for the peace and secur­ity we enjoy.

We remem­ber those who in time of war

faith­fully served their country.

We pray for their families,

and for ourselves whose free­dom was won at such a cost.

Make us a people zeal­ous for peace, and hasten the day

when nation shall not lift up sword against nation

neither learn war anymore.

This we pray in the name of the one who gave his life

for the sake of the world:

Jesus Christ, our Redeem­er. Amen.

 

We pray for our defence and police forces:

Etern­al God, the only source of peace,

we pray for all who serve in the defence and

police forces of this land.

Give them cour­age and com­fort in danger,

patience in wait­ing, and dis­cip­line in the just use of force.

Help us to seek for all people

the free­dom to serve you and each oth­er in com­pas­sion and peace.

We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

 

Names of the Depar­ted: Par­ish Hon­our Rolls and Remem­brance List names will be read out.

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion:  11th: Mar­tin, Bish­op of Tours (d. c. 387); 12th: Charles Simeon, evan­gel­ist (d. 1836); and 16th: Mar­garet of Scot­land, Queen, help­er of the poor (d. 1093).

 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: Jen­nifer McGov­ern; Kar­en Stein­er-Hill; Nalini MacIntyre; Christine Kon­draten­ko; John Bunyan (Priest); Mar­garet Chiew; Ger­ald Grant; Bar­bara Ray­mond; Janet Walms­ley; Florence Shel­lard; Ray Som­mer; John Hardy; Lyn Car­ring­ton; Bar­bara Allen; Marissa & Meg Maack, Jude, Isla, & Al Don­nell; Noel Jeffs; Laurie Bestel; Robert Gibbs; Michael Aiken; Sabitri Thapa; Joel Thapa; and Robert & Lyn­dall Dubler.

 

Read­ings for Next Sunday – 26th Sunday After Pentecost

First Read­ing: 1 Samuel 1.4–20 Psalm: Song of Han­nah (APBA p.429)

Second Read­ing: Hebrews 10.11–14, 19–25 Gos­pel: Mark 13.1–11