Notices — Sunday 15th January — The Baptism of Our Lord

NOTICES:

 

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

 

Wel­come back to Fr Jeff and Michelle.  We trust they enjoyed a relax­ing and peace­ful holiday.

 

Thank you to Fr John Bowen for tak­ing our ser­vices in Fr Jeff’s absence.

 

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Mon 16 (Tomor­row) & Tue 17^th Jan – St Luke’s CARPARK CLOSURE for par­tial repair work

(Note: this could take longer).

Please do not attempt to drive into the car­park on these days.

Thank you!

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A Funer­al for Joyce Page (Former Parish­ion­er) will be held at 11am on Monday 23^rd Janu­ary at Pit Street Unit­ing Church.

 

Sunday 12^th Feb – is our Wel­come Back BBQ after church.  Gen­er­ously provided by the Cater­ers of Nich­olas Chiew’s confirmation

 

Sunday 19^th Feb – Farewell for Nic­ola and James Howard  (Note: Par­ish Coun­cil will now meet on the fol­low­ing Sunday 26^th February)

 

Sunday 26^th Feb – Par­ish Coun­cil meets after morn­ing tea.

 

ST PAUL’S 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 teabags.  (NB — no dairy, cit­rus, onions or meat).  Worm cast­ings are avail­able.  See 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.

 

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday: Lea McNeil & Don­ald Thomas; Evelyn Maack; Jen­nifer McGov­ern; John M., and Jo Middleton.

Monday: Ron­ald Naidu; Anthea, Ron, Ron­an, Veron­ica, & Rohan Nath.

Tues­day: Pau­line Newell; & Johnny Nitchareon & Eed Intapan.

Wed­nes­day: Kath­er­ine Old­field; and Julie Olston & Philippa.

Thursday: Fr Jeff & Michelle Park­er; and Andrew Patterson.

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

Sat­urday: Lov­ing God, we pray for the people of Ukraine, for all those suf­fer­ing or afraid, that you will be close to them and pro­tect them.  We pray for world lead­ers, for com­pas­sion, strength and wis­dom to guide their choices.  We pray for the world that in this moment of crisis, we may reach out in solid­ar­ity to our broth­ers and sis­ters in need.  May we walk in your ways so that peace and justice become a real­ity for the people of Ukraine and for all the world.  Amen.

 

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Pray­ers for the sick: Tony Brown­low; Pau­line Newell; Rose­mary Brad­ford; Mary Middleton; (Fr) John Hawkins; Christine Kon­draten­ko; Bax­ter Min­gis-Per­kins; Craig; Val Thomas; Maria & Trish; Kev­in Tib­bey; Simone Abra­hams; Salochna Devi; Ruth Dodd; Robyn Palmer; (Rev) Helen Phil­lips; Peter Cinelli; Julie Ankers; Robert & Lyn­dall Dubler; and Geor­gia Keighery.

 

Recently Depar­ted: Joyce Page and Leigh Cuneen.

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Peter Middleton; Edna Juer­gens; Robert Dav­id Miller; Kev­in McEntee; Mary Carr; and Keith Arnold Dahler.

 

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Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion:

17^th: Anthony of Egypt, Abbot (d.356).

18^th: Con­fes­sion of Peter.

21st: Agnes, Mar­tyr at Rome, vir­gin (d.304).

 

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Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list:

Florence Shel­lard; Ray Som­mer; John Hardy; Lyn Car­ring­ton; John Dick­son; 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; Noel Jeffs; and Singla Pallav.

 

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Read­ings for Next Sunday: Third Sunday After Epiphany

First Read­ing: Isai­ah 9.1–4 ;   Psalms: 27.1–10;   Second Read­ing: 1 Cor­inthi­ans 1.10–18;  and  Gos­pel: Mat­thew 4.12–25