Notices_Sunday 13th Feb 2022_Sixth Sunday After Epiphany

NOTICES:

Next Sunday 20 Feb 2022 — NCLS (Nation­al Church Life Sur­vey) day: The Nation­al Church Life Sur­vey is an Aus­tralia-wide sur­vey of all church­go­ers and occurs every five years in tan­dem with the nation­al Census.  It was delayed last year due to COVID.  As we have always done, we will set aside a short time dur­ing the ser­vice to enable us all to com­plete the sur­vey.  There will be help on hand if you need it to com­plete the sur­vey.  At St Luke’s we have always had a very good response to the sur­vey and these responses have been extremely help­ful to Par­ish Coun­cil, War­dens and Nom­in­at­ors in our deal­ings with the Dio­cese and loc­al politi­cians, as it provides us with a com­pre­hens­ive and author­it­at­ive pic­ture of who we are at St Luke’s.  There will be an online option for those who can­not make it on the day, details to be provided in due course.

 

The New Mas­ter Roster for Feb­ru­ary — May 2022 is now avail­able in church and chapel foyers.

 

OpShop phone num­ber has changed: The new num­ber is Mob: 0416 913 578.  Please use this num­ber to con­tact the Opshop dur­ing open­ing hours.

 

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Men’s Night Out 2022:

The first MNO for 2022 will be held at Alberto’s Pizzer­ia, 589 King Street New­town (Phone 9 519 4262) on Sat­urday 26^th Feb­ru­ary at 6.00 for 6.30 pm.  Con­tact Kev­in on 0405 691 055.

 

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2022 nation­al online Lent Appeal Launch — Tues­day 1 March 2022

Hos­ted by the Dean of Bris­bane, the Very Rev­er­end Dr Peter Catt.

Time: 3pm (NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas          Dur­a­tion: 1 hr, includ­ing Q&A

RSVP: by Fri­day 25 Feb­ru­ary to info@abmission.org.au or phone 1300 302663

A Zoom link will be sent out the day before the event with inform­a­tion on how to join.  Join ABM sup­port­ers from across the coun­try to learn how your sup­port of our 2022 Lent Appeal to bring love, hope and justice to com­munit­ies in Aus­tralia and over­seas who are in need dur­ing this pandemic.

 

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Taizé Ser­vice at St Luke’s Enmore – 7.00 pm on Wed­nes­day 9 March

‘An Even­ing Pray­er‘ led by a Broth­er from the Taizé Com­munity.  Sponsored by the NSW Ecu­men­ic­al Council.

 

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Pas­cal Candles for Blayney and Mill­thorpe: As has been cus­tom­ary, the Par­ish is donat­ing 2 Pas­cal candles to our sis­ter Par­ish of Blayney / Mill­thorpe (one candle to each church).  They will be delivered in per­son by Eddie Reddy, on Sunday 27^th Feb­ru­ary 2022.

 

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Future Dates for your Diary:

Tue 1^st March – Shrove Tues­day — Pan­cakes at the church.

Wed 2^nd March — Ash Wednesday.

Sun 6^th March – First Sunday in Lent.

Wed 9^th March – (Ecu­men­ic­al) Taizé ser­vice St Luke’s Enmore at 7.00 p.m.

Sun 13th March — Par­ish Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM)

 

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

 

Food for our worms – Please leave your worm food gifts at church on Sundays or drop off dur­ing the week.  (NB — no dairy, cit­rus or meat)  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.

 

Pray­ers for the sick:  Wolfgang Rose; Julie Ankers; John Bowen; John Per­kins; Mar­garet Chiew; Florence Shel­lard; Aman­da Romeo; Maria Ser­afin; Andy Ser­afin; Maryrose Crowth­er; Ruth Dodd; and Joan Dale.

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted:  James Hag­ston; Mur­i­el Blatch; Bert Blatch; Nola Barr; Ivy Lawson; Eric Juer­gens; and Edgar Fisher.

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion: 14^th Feb: Cyril (d.869) and Meth­o­di­us, Bish­op (d.885) mis­sion­ar­ies to the Slavs; and 17^th Feb: Holy Innocents.

 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list:  John Hardy; Pau­line Newell; Beth Arm­strong; Lyn Car­ring­ton; John Dick­son; Steph­en Thur­ley; Shir­ley, Bar­bara & Jade Allen; Rhi­an­non Henry-Edwards; Marissa; Jude, Isla, Meg & Al Don­nell; Grace & Han­nah Ashton; Andrew Hiro Itadani; Kuwert; Rev Laurie MacIntyre; Kiki Chun; Raul of Radio Skidrow and his fam­ily; Andrew Strat­golda; Loch­lan Lones­bor­ough; and Noel Jeffs.

 

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday: Brett Dav­ies & Amrit MacIntyre; John Dick­son; Kathy Drum­mond; Dav­id Dun­lop; and Michael, Eliza­beth, Tom, Ella & Nick Fleming.

Monday: Steph­en Gates & Andrew; Mar­ilyn Gibbs; and Kev­in Green.

Tues­day: Peter Gil­bert & Alfredo Narnolo; Stu­art Grigg &’Tricia Blombery.

Wed­nes­day: Lach­lan Gray, Rose­mary Ran­dall & Frances.

Thursday: Richard Hagen & Som; John, Martha & Chris­toph­er Haly.

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

Sat­urday: Dear lov­ing Fath­er, please deliv­er us from the coronavir­us and lim­it its impact on Aus­tralia and the world. In your mercy bring a swift end to this crisis.  Please pro­tect with your lov­ing care those we love — our fam­il­ies, friends and neigh­bours.  Let your fath­erly hand guide, shel­ter and strengthen them.  Cast out all anxious fears and doubts.  Give us an increas­ing trust in you and fill our hearts and minds with your peace.  We pray for those around the world now strug­gling with vari­ous COVID stains.  Heal and com­fort those who are sick and suf­fer­ing.  Pro­tect and guide the health pro­fes­sion­als who are at the front line.  Please give wis­dom and cour­age to those who bear respons­ib­il­ity for con­front­ing this chal­lenge. We ask these things through the power­ful name of Jesus.  Amen.

 

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Read­ings for Next Sunday: Sev­enth Sunday After Epiphany

First Read­ing: Gen­es­is 45.3–11, 15                     Psalm: 37.1–11, 40–41

Second Read­ing: 1 Cor­inthi­ans 15.35–50             Gos­pel: Luke 6.27–38