Notices Sunday 29th Sept 2019

NOTICES:

Next Sunday – Day­light Sav­ing starts Sunday 6^th Octo­ber. Remem­ber to turn your clocks for­ward 1 hour.

Next Sunday – we are cel­eb­rat­ing St Fran­cis of Assisi Day.  If you would like to bring in your pets for a bless­ing please do so. 

BBQ lunch at the rect­ory – Sunday 13^th Octo­ber . Our young people are par­tic­u­larly wel­come this day as Fr Jeff would like to talk with them.  Please bring own meat and drink, a salad or sweet to share if you are able.  The par­ish will provide bread rolls and con­di­ments.  Eddie Reddy will be our chef. 

Note: Even­ing Pray­er – 6pm on 13^th Octo­ber. For this month only we are hold­ing this low-key pray­er ser­vice on the second Sunday of the month.  Peter Sey­mour will lead the wor­ship and a very inform­at­ive (but short) talk and then those present are invited to head off to a loc­al café for some dinner. 

Pas­tor­al Care — The pas­tor­al care group would like all to have a good look at those names that appear on the lists for pray­er in the weekly bul­let­in.  The long-term pray­er list and the imme­di­ate sick list.  Next week we will start these lists again.  Some of the people on these lists may no longer be in need of our pray­ers for whatever reas­on.  If you have placed names on these lists in the past and the per­son is still in need of pray­er, then simply place their name on the new list.  Of course, the lists of per­sons’ names are for private pray­ers as well as when we are togeth­er for wor­ship so please remem­ber to pray for these dear ones.

St Luke’s Patron­al Fest­iv­al - Sunday 20 Octo­ber. It would be great to have a full com­ple­ment on that day.  A Patron­al fest­iv­al cel­eb­rates the life of a com­munity and notes and gives thanks for the qual­it­ies of the Pat­ron Saint.  It’s a time to come togeth­er and give thanks for each oth­er and also to think about our future togeth­er.  So, we need YOU to be here to make our cel­eb­ra­tion com­plete. Shared lunch­eon to fol­low the service.

Sunday 20th of Octo­ber — Reli­gious free­dom in Aus­tralia. Do we already have it? You are invited to attend this fas­cin­at­ing con­ver­sa­tion between Phil­lip Rud­dock and Andrew West at: St. Paul’s Par­ish Hall, Bur­wood at 2.00 p.m.

War­dens’ Din­ners – Sat­urday 26^th Octo­ber at 7pm. Is a “Coun­try Affair” with an easy jeans and check shirt dress code; a two-course meal with music and a dance caller! Tick­ets will be avail­able from Sunday 6 Octo­ber after church. If you do not pay online your cash pay­ment with the tick­et will book you a seat. 

Sat­urday, 2 Novem­ber 2019 – In the church hall. Cinema Para­diso: “The Song Keep­ers” at 4 for 4.30 pm. Keep the date.

A Spe­cial Anniversary - Fr Jeff cel­eb­rates 25 years of priest­hood on Sat­urday, 30 Novem­ber.  There will be a party at the Rect­ory to which you are warmly invited.   Begins 6.30 p.m.  There will be food and drink but if you would like to bring some addi­tion­al that would be appreciated.

Dona­tions of old android based smart phones — Phones are also sought by Broth­er Chris­toph­er John SSF to be reset for the SSF Broth­ers in PNG and the Solomon Islands. Please pass them to Jen­nifer McGov­ern for col­lec­tion.

Our Play Group for carers of young chil­dren is not held dur­ing the school hol­i­days.  It resumes Monday 14^th October. 

Any notices for the ser­vice book­let will need to be sub­mit­ted to the Par­ish Office email by Wed­nes­day even­ing at the latest.

Read­ings for the com­ing week:

Monday	Zech 8.1–8	Ps 102.18–22	Luke 9.46–50
Tues­day	Zech 8.20–23	Ps 87	Luke 9.51–56
Wed­nes­day	Nehemi­ah 2.1–8	Ps 137	Luke 9.57–62
Thursday	Nehemi­ah 8.1–12	Ps 19.7–14	Luke 10.1–12
Fri­day	Baruch 1.15–22	Ps 79.8–10	Luke 10.13–16
Sat­urday	Baruch 4.5–12,27–29	Ps 69.31–38	Luke 10.17–24

Read­ings for Next Sunday: First Read­ing: Jeremi­ah 22.13–16. Psalm: 148:7–14. Second Read­ing: Gala­tians 6.14–18.  Gos­pel: Mat­thew 11:25–30.

Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity: Monday — Kay & Nata­sha Younie; Amelia Zea; and Mar­cin Adam­czuk. Tues­day — Shir­ley & Bar­bara Allen; Vic­tor Any­ar­isi; and Beth Arm­strong. Wed­nes­day - James, Elli­ot & Harry Barnes; and Ian Barnett. Thursday — Ken­neth Bar­onga; and Angela Bell & Safron Pow­ell. Fri­day — Cyn­thia Berke­mei­er; and Peter, Jen­nifer, Elise and Blake, B. Sat­urday — We pray for all those cur­rently affected by bush­fires and extreme drought.  May rain bring the relief that they need. 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: Rose­mary Brad­ford; Michael Bunyan; Shir­ley, Bar­bara & Jade Allen; Beth Arm­strong; Den­ise Barnes; Jack­ie Bon­ham; Hugo Cun­ning­ham; Laurie Bestel; Robert Gibbs; Sam George; Joseph Jee­bell; Ann Jeffs; Bar­bara Granger; Pip Leonard; Rhi­an­non Henry-Edwards; Joyti & Joshlyn Kumar; Jude, Isla, Megan & Alan Marissa; Norma Macph­er­son; Helen Granowski (Priest); Bar­bara Beec­roft; Olivia Christ­mas; Deborah Vick­ers; Robert & Lyn­dall; Lyn Car­ring­ton; Sr Frances CSC; Geoff Wid­mer; Ruth Cham­pi­on; Gary & Kar­en Stein­er; Day­alan Sam­inath­anv; Ken­neth Bar­ongo and Loch­lan Lonesborough. 

A note from your organ­ist — Dur­ing Septem­ber, we have been cel­eb­rat­ing the Sea­son of Cre­ation. Chris and I try to select music appro­pri­ate for the ser­vice each week. Organ­ists are not always ser­i­ous — I have been hav­ing a bit of fun and select­ing music at the begin­ning and the end of the ser­vices which matches the part of cre­ation for the day. Regard­ing the postlude for Storm Sunday – under­stand­ably there was con­cern that some of the keys and ped­als on the organ were ‘stick­ing’. How­ever, as dir­ec­ted in the music, I was actu­ally play­ing sev­er­al keys and ped­als next to each oth­er and draw­ing out and push­ing back in the stop knobs slowly to give the effect of thun­der. The organ was behav­ing perfectly!

Storm Sunday: Chaconne in F minor (Pachel­bel), Shepherd’s Song (Guil­mant), The Thun­der Storm (T P Ryder).

Cre­at­ive Sunday: Fughetta super — Wir glauben all’ an ein­en Gott, Schöpfer – We believe in one God, Cre­at­or (Bach), Chor­al pre­lude Wir glauben all’ an ein­en Gott, Schöpfer (Walth­er), Med­ley of today’s hymn tunes – Wood­lands, Dix, Hyfry­dol, Love Divine.