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