Notices_Sunday 11th February — The Transfiguration of Our Lord

NOTICES:

Next Sunday — Par­ish Coun­cil meets in the church after 9.30am ser­vice and morn­ing tea.

 

OpShop 30-year cel­eb­ra­tion pens are avail­able in the foy­er for $2 each.

 

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

 

Tues 13^th Feb – Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day:  You are invited to our annu­al Pan­cakes in the rect­ory at 6.30pm  It would help if you can bring your choice of savoury or sweet fillings.  But if you’re not a cook, come any­way.  Some drinks provided.

 

 

Wed 14^th Feb­ru­ary – Ash Wed­nes­day ser­vices will be held at 10.30am in the chapel & 7.30pm in the church.

Please note that there is a dance group in the hall in the even­ing so park­ing in the St Luke’s car­park will be limited.

To avoid get­ting parked in it is best to park in the Cyprus Club or the pub­lic Edge­ware Road carpark.

 

 

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Sat 17^th Feb at 3.30pm — Cinema Para­diso: Some like it Hot (1959)

RSVP not essen­tial — Screen­ing in the Church Hall

3.30pm for a punc­tu­al 3.45pm start, con­clud­ing at 5.40pm.

Inter­val at 4.30pm (30 minutes) with wine, cheese and analysis

Set in 1920s Pro­hib­i­tion-era Chica­go, two hard-up musi­cians wit­ness the shoot­ing of a police inform­er on the infam­ous St Valentine’s Day Mas­sacre.  To escape the Mafia, they dis­guise them­selves as women and flee to Miami with an all-female jazz band.  Famil­i­ar to many, it is a per­fect film for late Sum­mer in Sydney — Rot­ten Toma­toes call­ing it ‘A spry, quick-wit­ted farce that nev­er drags.’

 

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2024 Len­ten Stud­ies – Begin Mon 19^th Feb & Wed 21^st Feb:

Monday group will be at 7.30pm on Zoom or held in the rect­ory.  We will be using the Arch­bish­op of Can­ter­bury’s Lent Book, “Tarry Awhile — Wis­dom from Black Spir­itu­al­ity for People of Faith.’’ There is an amount of read­ing involved. It is avail­able from Amazon — Hard­copy $30 or the Kindle format $18.99.  The deliv­ery from these sources is very fast so you would have the book for Lent which begins on 15 Feb.

 

 

 

Wed­nes­day group will be held in the hall after the 10.30am ser­vice and morn­ing tea.  We will be using LIVING IN HARMONY from Gar­ratt pub­lish­ing – pur­chased by Fr Jeff.

 

 

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Sat 2^nd March 2024 — Len­ten Quiet Day from 9.45am – 4.15pm:

The Sydney Mis­sion-Col­lege of the Oratory of the Good Shep­herd invite you to share in a day of silence, pray­er and reflec­tion at the begin­ning of Lent.

Ven­ue: The church/grounds of St John’s Bal­main, Spring Street, Birchgrove.

What? Gath­er for cof­fee and con­ver­sa­tion at 9.45 am.  Great­er Silence from 10.00 am until 4.15 pm.  Morn­ing and Even­ing Pray­er; the Holy Euchar­ist; two addresses; oppor­tun­ity for indi­vidu­al con­sulta­tion with lead­er; rest in the garden and loc­al park.

Event is Free of charge.  Par­ti­cipants are asked to bring their own packed lunches. Tea and cof­fee provided.  This year the lead­er is The Rev’d Linda Mary CSC.  All very welcome.

 

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Sat 2^nd March @ 6pm for 6.30pm — The first M N O for 2024:

Held at Por­tugalia Pizzer­ia, 104 Per­civ­al Road, Stan­more. Phone 9569 9872.

Con­tact Kev­in Green for details on Mob: 0405 691 055.

 

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Sunday 17^th March – Par­ish Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing:

Will be held in the church after 9.30am ser­vice and morn­ing tea.

If you are an office bear­er, would you please sub­mit your report/s to the Par­ish Office by email, on or before Sunday 25^th Feb,   as the col­lated final edi­tion should be in the hands of parish­ion­ers the week pri­or to the AGM, Sunday 10^th March.

And in accord­ance with Dio­ces­an pro­ced­ure, the date of the AGM will be affixed to the entrance doors to the church, two weeks pri­or to the meeting.

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Dates for your Diary

Sun 24^th March – 9.30am Palm Sunday.

Thurs 28^th March – 7.30pm Maun­dy Thursday.

Fri 29^th March – 9.30am Good Friday.

Sun 31^st March – 9.30am East­er Day.

 

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Tues 2^nd April at 7.30 pm — Tues­day Bible Study recom­mences at Fr Philip’s home, 5 Lin­coln St Stan­more. All wel­come. The study for this term will be The Acts of the Apostles.  Please bring a bible.

 

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

 

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday:  Kay Younie, Nata­sha, Timothy & Jona­thon; Vic­tor Any­anji; and Jen­nifer, Peter, Andy & Blake B.

Monday: Fr John Bowen & Joanne; Fr Philip Brad­ford; and Tony Brownlow.

Tues­day: Les & Lyn Car­ring­ton; Ruth Cham­pi­on; and Nancy Cheng.

Wed­nes­day: Tiffany, Kev­in, Alex­an­der & Nich­olas Chiew.

Thursday: Ron, Milly, Nam & Viol­etta Clarke; and Lyne Cun­neen & John.

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

 

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Pray­ers for the sick: Mar­garet Chiew; Dav­id Dun­lop; (Fr) John Bowen; Janet Walms­ley; Joseph Kumar; Ger­ald Grant; Alex Regos; Christine Kon­draten­ko; Salochna Devi; Ruth Dodd; Robyn Palmer; Cath­er­ine Lough­man; Helen Woell­ner; Libby Dav­is; Steph­en Grif­fen; Tom Hall; Auntie Glor­ia (Shipp); Nick Moles­worth; Douglas Sey­mour; (Fr) Max Wood; Dav­id Brad­ford; Evelyn de Zoysa; Fran, Jac­queline; Donna Har­ris; and Douglas Johnston.

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Francie Field­er; and James Hag­ston; Mur­i­el Blatch.

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion:  17^th: Holy Innocents.

 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: Simone Crowth­er; Ruth Cham­pi­on; (Fr) John Hawkins; Robert & Lyn­dall Dubler; Andy Ser­afin; Florence Shel­lard; Ray Som­mer; John Hardy; Lyn Car­ring­ton; John Dick­son; Bar­bara Allen; Marissa & Meg Maack, Jude, Isla, & Al Don­nell; Ann Jeffs; and Noel Jeffs.

 

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Read­ings for 9.30am Ser­vice – First Sunday in Lent

First Read­ing: Genis­is 9.8–17                  Psalm: 25.1–10

Second Read­ing: 1 Peter 3.18–22           Gos­pel: Mark 1.9–15

 

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Thank you, Card received this week, from the Chair of ABM, Rev’d Andrew Sempell.

 

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