NOtices_Sunday 16th February — Sixth Sunday After Epiphany

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

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TODAY – Par­ish Coun­cil Meets in the church after the 9.30am ser­vice and morn­ing tea.

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Thank you to every­one who sup­por­ted our Stand-Up Com­edy Show last week. We all enjoyed it immensely and had a good laugh. Thanks to the gen­er­os­ity of Tiffany and Kev­in for the dona­tion of the sta­ging and some of the light­ing. To Ann P for the door prizes and white wine — oth­ers wines and snacks donated net­ted us $400! We are not told how much the comedi­ans were donated by us but we hope they covered their costs!

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Tues­day Night Bible Study at 7.30pm: At Fr Philip Bradford’s place 5 Lin­coln St, Stan­more.  We are fin­ish­ing the Book of Gen­es­is this week and com­men­cing the Let­ter of Paul to the Romans next week.  Bring a bible.  All welcome.

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

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Sat­urday 1st March 6.00pm for 6.30 pm — M N O (Men’s Night Out):  Held at The Alley Viet­namese Res­taur­ant, 212 Enmore Road.  For fur­ther inform­a­tion please speak to Kev­in Green Mob: 0405 691 055

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Monday 3rd March at 10am — Memori­al mass for Hiro Andrew Itadani

There will be a memori­al mass for Hiro in the St Luke’s chapel at 10 am, Monday, 3rd March.  Hiro was a parish­ion­er at St Luke’s dur­ing Fr Mike Nix­on’s rect­or­ship and often played the organ.  Hiro left the par­ish for work in Cairns and then returned to Japan when he died of a stroke in July, 2021.  The reas­on for the time gap between Hiro’s death and the memori­al mass is that, when com­mu­nic­a­tion ceased between Hiro and his friends, it took the Pas­tor­al Care Com­mit­tee some time to ascer­tain what had happened to Hiro.

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St Johns Birch­grove, Cnr Birch­grove and Spring Street

The Sydney Mis­sion Col­lege of the Oratory of the Good Shep­herd invites you to a Len­ten Quiet Day.  The event will be led by the Rev­er­end Dr. Erica Math­ieson. Par­ti­cipants are reques­ted to bring their own pic­nic lunch, with tea and cof­fee provided. The day will com­mence with cof­fee and con­ver­sa­tion at 9:30 am, fol­lowed by times of silence, Morn­ing Pray­er, Holy Com­mu­nion, Even­ing Pray­er and addresses.

For fur­ther enquir­ies, con­tact Br Bri­an Luhr OGS OAM Mob:0400 193 626

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Sun 9th March – First Sunday in Lent.

Sunday 16th March – AGM.

Sunday 6 April — Palm cross mak­ing after morn­ing tea.

Sun 13th April — Palm Sunday.

Thurs 17th April — Maun­dy Thursday.

Fri 18th April — Good Friday.

Sun 20th April — East­er Day.

Fri­day 23rd to Sunday 25th May – Par­ish Retreat at old Mon­as­tery, Stroud.

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Cop­ies of Janet Walmsley’s book “When Hope Came” are now avail­able for $40.  Pro­ceeds go to The Lep­rosy Mis­sion. Please see Janet if you are inter­ested in pur­chas­ing a copy.

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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.  Back cop­ies are also avail­able upon request.

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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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Sunday: Rick Prat­ley & Simon; Jo, Ramendra, Thomas & Lucy Raj; Mat­ilda Rink­er; and Gra­hame Sadler.

Monday: Joyce, Andrew, Rachael, Bianca, Belinda & Bryson Reddy.

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

Wed­nes­day: John Reimer; Rajah Selva­ra­jah & Greg; and Peter Seymour.

Thursday: Andy Ser­afin & Colin; Lous­ia Sil­ver­man; Laurel & Ray Sommer.

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:  Bp Ron Wil­li­ams, Lyn Car­ring­ton; Lea MacNeil; Andy Ser­afin; John Bowen (Priest); Maur­een Byers; Alex Regos; Helen Woell­ner; Lilac John­ston; Douglas John­ston; Susie Brooks; Sarah; Mari­on Mad­dox; Max Woods (Priest); Jane Edwards; Chris; Fred Blake; Mel Kew­ley; Alex Naple; Jona­thon & Joshua; Jack­ie Chaffo; and Craig.

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Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Nic­ola Barr; Ivy Lawson; Eric Juer­gens; Edgar Fish­er; Mar­garet Turn­bull; and Kath­leen Rushton.

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17th: Holy Innocents.

20th: Wil­li­am Grant Broughton, first Bish­op of Australia.

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

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First Read­ing: Gen­es­is 45.3–11, 15 Psalm: 37.1–11, 40.41

Second Read­ing: 1 Cor­inthi­ans 15.35–50 Gos­pel: Luke 6.27–38