Notices_Sunday 13th August 2023 — Mary Mother of Our Lord

NOTICES:

Thank you to Fr Philip Brad­ford for con­tinu­ing as our Locum.  Fr Jeff and Michelle will be away on long ser­vice leave until 10^th Septem­ber 2023.

 

 

The flowers in the church today are donated in lov­ing memory of Henry Anthony Robert Byers by Maur­een Byers, Eddie, Susan, Edwin, Leil­ani, Stephanie & Car­men Reddy, Dav­id Byers, and Josie, Stathis, Anthony, & Pamela Papadi­mitri­ou in lov­ing memory of their Hus­band, Dad, Fath­er-In-Law, Nan­nu, & Buz Nan­nu who died on 18th August 2017.   May he rest in peace.

 

 

TODAY: Par­ish Coun­cil meets today after church and morn­ing tea.

 

Small Group Lunches and Din­ners:  If this is some­thing you would like to be involved in, please see the notice on the board in the hall and add your name and con­tact details.  There is a page for host­ing and one for attending.

 

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Loc­al Indi­gen­ous His­tory Com­mit­tee:  Last year’s Sydney Syn­od reques­ted that each par­ish write a loc­al indi­gen­ous his­tory of their area.  At its 2023 AGM our par­ish approved the form­a­tion of a com­mit­tee to do this.  The Com­mit­tee has been meet­ing since Feb­ru­ary this year keep­ing the fol­low­ing words as a guide: know­ledge, under­stand­ing and engage­ment.  Through a know­ledge of the past we hope to grow in under­stand­ing and rela­tion­ship with First Nations Peoples.

While we have found some his­tor­ic­al inform­a­tion per­tain­ing to pre-European set­tle­ment and early white set­tle­ment we are lack­ing in resources from early white set­tle­ment to the present day.  If you know of any print or human resources we would be very grate­ful.  Oral his­tor­ies of any First Nations people either liv­ing in this area or from out­side with a know­ledge of the loc­al area would be par­tic­u­larly help­ful.  If you have ideas, do speak to a mem­ber of the Com­mit­tee: Selina Hardy, Louisa Sil­ver­man, Jo Middleton, Mandy Tib­bey, Moya Holle, Lyne Cun­neen or Tony Brownlow.

 

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Tues­day nights at 7.30pm — A Bible Study lead by Fr Philip:  Address: 5 Lin­coln Street, Stan­more.   Mob: 0431 655 220  Please bring a bible.  Sup­per will be provided.

 

Monday 21^st August — Ladies Lunch:  12 mid­day at De Lanna Thai, 220 Addis­on Rd, Mar­rick­ville.  All ladies, includ­ing our Opshop volun­teers, are invited.  We have chosen a Monday because the Opshop is closed.  Please RSVP to Ruth if you can make it by call­ing or tex­ting 0400 166 041 by Fri­day 18th August.

 

Sat­urday 26 August at 3.00 pm – Soap Mak­ing work­shop:   Jo Middleton is host­ing a soap mak­ing work­shop in the hall/kitchen.  There is no charge, and a cup of tea/coffee will be served.  If you would like to come, please bring with you some perfume/cologne or scen­ted oil to put a fra­grance into your bar of soap.  Please RSVP to Jo by the Wed­nes­day 23 August.

 

Sunday, 27^th August — THE ATONEMENT: MULTICOLOURED OR MONOCHROME at 2pm:   At St James Hall (169–171 Phil­lip Street, Sydney) and online, Rev’d Dr Max Wood, Rect­or of St Luke’s, Mos­man, will be giv­ing a talk on the atone­ment.  While many evan­gel­ic­als insist on a“penal sub­sti­tu­tion” the­ory that spot­lights viol­ence and pun­ish­ment, this talk will intro­duce a plur­al­ity of mean­ings of Jesus’ atone­ment.   Fr Max Wood has an Hon­ours degree in theo­logy and under­took doc­tor­al research at Durham Uni­ver­sity where he was made a fel­low of St Chad’s Col­lege.  For fur­ther inform­a­tion con­tact Tony Brownlow.

 

Sunday, 27^th August — 4pm Pre-Syn­od Meet­ing organ­ised by Anglic­ans Togeth­er fol­lows at St James Hall (169–171 Phil­lip Street, Sydney).

 

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Sat­urday 2^nd Sept at 11am – The Feast of the Com­mem­or­a­tion of the New Guinea Martyrs:

Will be held at Christ Church St Laurence, 812 George Street, Sydney.

Cel­eb­rant: Fr Daniel Dries and Speak­er: The Rev­er­end Dr Mur­ray Har­vey, Bish­op of Grafton.

Refresh­ments after­wards in the Par­ish Hall, Pitt Street, Sydney.

Please RSVP for cater­ing by 31^st August to Den­ise in ABM Office info@abmissin.org.au

 

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Sunday 17^th Sept — 40^th Anniversary of Sydney MOW:

Cel­eb­rated at Christ Church St Laurence Hay­mar­ket, at the 9am & 10.30 am ser­vices, where the Arch­bish­op of Perth, Kay Goldsworthy AO, will be our guest preach­er.  Fol­low­ing the 10.30am ser­vice there will be a lunch­eon in the hall and a short lec­ture giv­en to hon­our the life of the late Dr Patri­cia Bren­nan, by The Ven­er­able Dr Colleen O’Reilly.

If you are a mem­ber of MOW, please ensure you renew your mem­ber­ship pri­or to the event.   The lunch­eon will cost $30 per per­son.  Please book using Try­book­ing online at Sydney Move­ment for Ordin­a­tion web­site by 1^st Septem­ber 2023.  https://www.trybooking.com/CJTJZ

If you would like to join our mem­ber­ship, please go to the MoWatch Aus­tralia web­site https://mowatch.com.au/membership-form/  or see Ruth who is the Sydney Con­ven­or.  We will be respect­fully ral­ly­ing out­side Syn­od again this year to raise aware­ness of the status of women in this dio­cese, on Tues­day 12^th and Wed­nes­day 13^th Septem­ber at 2pm for approx. 1 hour.

 

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Sat­urday, 23^rd Sept 2023 — Cinema Para­diso:  Chaplin’s Mod­ern Times:

3.30pm for a 3.45pm start, con­clud­ing at 5.40pm.  RSVP:  con­tact Brett by Sunday, 17 Septem­ber 2023

Mod­ern Times (1936) — As the role of AI is debated in soci­ety today, a screen­ing of Chaplin’s last per­form­ance of the Little Tramp char­ac­ter, strug­gling to sur­vive in a mod­ern, indus­tri­al­ised world.

Accord­ing to Wiki­pe­dia, Chap­lin com­menced work on the film after a con­ver­sa­tion with Mahatma Gandhi about mod­ern tech­no­logy.  He did not under­stand why Gandhi gen­er­ally opposed it, though he gran­ted that “machinery with only con­sid­er­a­tion of profit” had put people out of work and ruined lives.

Part-talk­ie, the film is a satir­ic­al, hil­ari­ous and romantic com­edy (Chaplin’s romance theme was later giv­en lyr­ics and became the song Smile, first recor­ded by Nat King Cole).  It is the first film to fea­ture Chaplin’s voice in The Non­sense Song.

The film uses silence and phys­ic­al jokes (Chap­lin per­formed all of his own stunts) to depict the dehu­man­ising effects of indus­tri­al­isa­tion and auto­ma­tion, explor­ing themes of human­ity versus machine, the power­less­ness of the poor, and the con­nec­tions between unem­ploy­ment, poverty and crime.

 

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Sunday 15^th Octo­ber — St Luke’s Patron­al Fest­iv­al:  Our Guest Speak­er is to be The Ven­er­able Dr Colleen O’Reilly, a former parish­ion­er.  Fol­low­ing the ser­vice we will hold a shared lunch, out­doors in the church car­park — weath­er permitting.

 

Sat­urday 21^st Oct at 6.30pm – Warden’s Din­ner:  Cel­eb­rat­ing the 30^th Anniversary since our OpShop first opened on Enmore Road in 1993.  Buy your­self an OpShop out­fit.  Prizes for best dressed male and female, fun­ni­est out­fit, and cheapest out­fit.  So, keep your receipt to prove it was the cheapest out­fit!  2 course din­ner. BYOG.

 

Future date for your diary is the Par­ish Retreat, which we have booked at the Old Mon­as­tery Stroud (Fri­day even­ing to Sunday after­noon) on the week­end of 23–25 Feb­ru­ary 2024.   We will start tak­ing names for reser­va­tions in early Decem­ber.  The bed­rooms are nearly all single rooms with shared bath­rooms, and we will be self-cater­ing.  Yes, it most likely will be very warm at that time of the year, but it was all that was avail­able to book.  The place is very pop­u­lar with lots of parishes!

 

Notices for the Sunday Ser­vice book­let need to be received by Jen­nifer in the par­ish office by 10am on Thursday morn­ing.  It is best to email the details.

 

ST PAUL’S PANTRY needs food, health and clean­ing items: A bas­ket is in the church foy­er for donations.

 

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: Joyce, Andrew, Rachel, Bianca, Belinda & Bryson Reddy; Eddie, Susan, Stephanie, Edwin, Leil­ani & Car­men Reddy.

Monday: Jo, Ramendra, Thomas, & Lucy Raj; John Reimer; and Mat­ilda Rinker.

Tues­day: Gra­hame Sadler; Rajah Selva­ra­jah & Greg; and Peter Seymour.

Wed­nes­day: Andy Ser­afin & Colin Spokes; and Louisa Silverman.

Thursday: Laurel & Ray Som­mer; Kar­lene Thompson; and Christine Thurley.

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 war torn areas, par­tic­u­larly the Ukraine and the Sudan.  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:  Don­ald Thomas; Gra­hame Sadler; Christine Thur­ley; Mar­garet Chiew; Noel Jeffs; Peter Sey­mour; Dav­id Dun­lop; (Fr) John Bowen; Janet Walms­ley; Alex Regos; Christine Kon­draten­ko; Simone Abra­hams; Salochna Devi; Ruth Dodd; Robyn Palmer; Julie Ankers; Cath­er­ine Lough­man; Wolfgang Haas; Chris­toph­er Middleton; Charles Said-Vas­sallo; and Helen Woellner.

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted:  Henry Byers; Mary Sotiri­adis; Neil Daniels; Arthur Ayers; Maria Bugle; Amy Bur­rows; John Lewis; Allan Pol­gen; Mary McCarthy; Sydney Day; and Flo Taylor.

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion: 14^th: Twen­ti­eth cen­tury mar­tyrs includ­ing, Grand Duch­ess Eliza­beth of Rus­sia (d.1918), Max­imili­an Kolbe, Fri­ar (d. 1941), Diet­rich Bon­hoef­fer, theo­lo­gian (d. 1945), Maria Skob­t­sova, Abbess in Rus­sia (d. 1945), Mar­tin Luth­er King Jr, work­er for civil liber­ties (d. 1968), Janani Luwum, Arch­bish­op of Uganda (d. 1977), and Oscar Romero, Arch­bish­op of San Sal­vador (d.1980).

 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: Pau­line Newell; (Fr) John Hawkins; Robert & Lyn­dall Dubler; Andy Ser­afin; Florence Shel­lard; Ray Som­mer; John Hardy; Lyn Car­ring­ton; John Dick­son; Bar­bara & Jade Allen; Rhi­an­non Henry-Edwards; Marissa; Jude, Isla, Meg & Al Don­nell; Kuwert; Rev Laurie MacIntyre; Kiki Chun; Raul of Radio Skidrow and his fam­ily; Andrew Strat­golda; Loch­lan Lones­bor­ough; Ann Jeffs; and Singla Pallav.

 

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Read­ings for Next Sunday: Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost

First Read­ing: Gen­es­is 45.1–15               Psalm: 133

Second Read­ing: Romans 11.13–32        Gos­pel: Mat­thew 15.21–28

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