TWENTY SECOND SUNDAY after PENTECOST (31)
31st October 2004
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being. E. M. Cioran
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. E. M. Cioran
No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. E. M. Cioran
WEALTH
Wealth consists not in having possessions but in having few wants. Esther de Waal
A GRAVE MATTER
A young priest was contacted by a local funeral director to hold a graveside funeral service at a small local cemetery for someone with neither family nor friends. The priest started out early, but quickly got lost, making several wrong turns. He arrived half an hour late, the hearse was nowhere in sight and the workmen were eating their lunch. The priest went to what seemed obviously the grave and although finding the vault lid already in place he took out his Prayer Book and read the service. As he returned to his car, he overheard one of the work men say “Do you think we should tell him that was the septic tank?”
JUST COHABITING
Fr Andrew Neaum
While away at last week’s Conference I managed to find enough spare time to read an excellent little book called “Just Cohabiting”, subtitled “The Church, Sex and Getting Married”, written by Duncan Dormor, the Dean of St John’s College, Cambridge.
Nearly every couple I marry at St Augustine’s has been cohabiting for several years before their Church wedding, and I cannot say that this disturbs me much. It seems to me that these couples are already married, and are simply coming along to put the seal on their marriage. It was, good, however, with the help of this book, to be able to think through the matter a little more thoroughly.
The book reduces and renders palatable a great deal of research and a large number of reports and statistical surveys. It makes an over-whelming case for a shift in the Church’s attitude towards a full acceptance of co-habitation prior to marriage, not least because of the great watershed that safe and reliable contraception has proved to be and the consequent liberation of the sexual act from its bondage to procreation.
The sexual act has been freed to become as much a maker of love as of maker of babies, to be expressive of commitment and an enricher and deepener of relationships. The book’s short survey of the history of betrothal and marriage ceremonies down through the centuries, leads to a similar conclusion. We need, as a church, to incorporate responsible cohabitation into our accepted scheme of things. In no way, needless to say, should such a view endorse promiscuity.
Most interesting of all, though, was a thought that came to me after finishing the book. How is it that the Church is so stupid as to be attempting to define and refine its attitudes to homosexual relationships, before it has resolved this far more fundamental question to do with heterosexual relationships?
The Windsor Report, arising out of the controversy that followed the consecration of a homosexual bishop in America, has recently been released. It is too conservative for liberals and too liberal for conservatives, and it inadequately attempts to resolve a problem that as yet is far too difficult ever to find consensus upon.
It would make much more sense, I would have thought, to be debating the advisability of a change in the Church’s views on heterosexual activity before marriage. This would be controversial enough, of course, but the African bishops might be less vociferously conservative on this issue. Who knows? Certainly their experience of polygamy, of the problems of migratory workers, of betrothal traditions closer to biblical ones than ours, and indeed of AIDS, might lead them to a more creative role in the debate. Furthermore a more open acceptance in heterosexual relationships of sexual activity as not being ineluctably connected to procreation, but rather as creatively expressive of love and commitment, might eventually open the way to similar creative shifts in viewing non hetero-sexual relationships.
Were I Rowan Williams I would arrange for a few maverick bishops to start agitating in favour of cohabitation before marriage. How the conservatives would rage and fulminate, but probably less destructively than on homo-sexuality, and after a century or two of debate we might not only accept pre-marital cohabit-ation, but be ready as well to debate homo-sexuality!
There is a copy of a report on the Windsor Report, taken from the Church Times, in the Narthex.
IN PRAISE OF
ORGANISED RELIGION
.......I like organised religion. Yes, it’s a shocking admission, I know. But I like that dank odour of crumbling Victorian churches. I have a soft spot for hard, wooden pews, a badly-played organ, musty hymnbooks, absurdly high, ornately-carved pulpits. I like to hear children wailing desperately as a decaying old boy intones a decent but dull sermon.
Well, I’ve come clean and I know I may never work again – because organised religion is to blame for everything that is wrong in any culture, isn’t it?
Disorganised religion, on the other hand, is acceptable. A better description for it would be “private” religion. You see, for religion to be politically correct these days, it must be practised behind closed doors. I’m allowed to pray on my own, but in a public place with other people is going too far. I can be on an individual path to spiritual enlightenment – but I mustn’t share that with others in an organised, institutional context.
Most people today want a feel-good religion they can practice with minimal interruption to more important things. God in the gaps. Putting it bluntly, private religion is selfish religion.
It is, after all, far easier to burn incense at home in a dimly-lit room than it is to practice the other side of faith – helping others in your local community. It’s easier to count the stars on a solitary hillside walk than, after a hard week at the office, play table tennis with spotty, distrusting, angst-ridden teenagers in a draughty church hall.
But that was how I became a fan in 1968. In a run-down church hall on the outskirts of London, with I’m the Urban Spaceman playing on a Dansette record player, someone, committed to organised religion, bothered to play table tennis with me – a spotty, distrusting, angst-ridden 15-year-old.
True spirituality may start in a personal encounter between the individual and his creator. But, in the Christian tradition, it never ends there. And, what’s more, thanks to those hours spent at the table tennis table in the home of organised religion, I’ve developed a wicked backhand smash.
Steve Goddard - “The Ship of Fools” Website
A PRAYER FOR THE WEEK
Lord, the day which you have given is over; yet the light of our gratitude for all the powers and joys of your providing, and for the kindlinesses of our fellows, does not fail: you have been very merciful, O Lord our God....But draw the darkness deep over our lost opportunities and failures, the ungenerous thought, the word ill spoken, the deed ill done, all hurt of others and indulgences of ourselves: be merciful, O Lord our God.....Be merciful: guard our unconscious hours; for you Lord it is who gives sleep to crown your daily gifts; you who transforms darkness into blessing with rest to the body and peace to the mind: thanks be to you, O Lord our God....Yet let our souls, freed from the prisons of day, turn to the prayer of trust, and mount on the wings of faith to sing canticles of praise at the windows of heaven; where there is no night, where you are listening always, our most merciful God.
LAY NOT UP....
The bees
Sneeze and wheeze
Scraping pollen and honey
From the lime trees:
The ants
Hurries and pants
Storing up everything
They wants:
But the flies
Is wise
When the cold weather comes
They dies.
NOSTALGIA FOR SIN
“Oh,” said the vicar, “sin is my hobby. Not of course, the commission of sin, ha ha, but the study of it. A vicar needs distractions from work which becomes increasingly secular. I think about sin with a kind of wistful nostalgia, like a long-dead summer of ginger-beer and blue-bottles. Nobody sins any more, and sin, after all, ought to be my business. I envy doctors; they have diseases. But what have I except the same old round of joyless fornications, mechanical slanders, malice clothed as self-righteousness? I see some point in people doing wrong so long as they do it zestfully. But where there’s no zest there’s no sin. Really, we might as well be back in the Garden of Eden. And, indeed, when I look at the photographs in some of the Sunday papers I often think we are.”
“It’s true enough,” said Crowther-Mason. “The concept of sin seems to be dead. It’s been expelled from the Garden. Freud and Marx hold up their flaming swords. But surely it’s a good thing?”
“It’s an atrocious thing,” said the Vicar. “It has killed both kinds of good living. It’s removed a dimension from our lives. We’ve all lost that incense-laden thrill we used to get from the exciting knowledge that, if you pulled up the floorboards, you would find a deliciously bottomless pit. What have we instead? Right and wrong, with their interchangeable wardrobes, and the police-courts, temples of a yawning, neutral god with a relish for disinfectants.” With a pleasant smile he raised his brandy to his lips, as with a relish for it, as in a silent toast to sin .....
From “The Eve of St Venus”
by Anthony Burgess
VULGAR GOODNESS
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle class respectability. Oscar Wilde
THE GREAT OCCASION
A Confirmation Service is one of the great occasions in a parish’s life, a cause for widespread rejoicing, interest and support. In days such as these, when mainline and reasonable Christianity of the sort that is practised in our churches, is less than popular, and only fanatical and irrational versions of the faith seem to burgeon, we should indeed be overjoyed when fine young people profess their faith and come fully into our parish community and the Church. They do so against the odds and are worth congratulating, praying in, supporting in any way open to us. I have often, in my ministry, been surprised at how uninterested many good church folk are in such an important event.
Last Sunday’s service was certainly a great occasion. The Bishop was in fine form and the choir in good voice, with nearly all its members in attendance, uncomplainingly transferring their efforts from 8.30 to 10.30 for the great event, as too did some of our 8.30am sanctuary team. Well done and thank you.
This year’s candidates have been a pleasure to be associated with, I have enjoyed my classes with them. They are remarkable young people, lively, interested and most likely to remain a part of the Church, thanks not only to their own level of interest and commitment, but also to good family support. Six of the eight came from Katandra and chose to be confirmed at St Augustine’s rather than St Mary’s only because they realised that the congregation would be too large for St Mary’s, as indeed was the case. The Vigil Service at 6.00pm on Saturday nights was put on to accommodate these young folk. These services will continue, though at least once a month I hope to arrange such a service at St Mary’s too.
The tables at the Bring and Share Luncheon in the hall after the service were laden with good food, much of it from Katandra, my particular delight being a plate of subtly flavoured and delicious, sliced, cold fillet of beef. Thank you to Sandra Simonis for setting things up so readily and willingly for us. Having been away at a Conference up until Saturday evening, I had neglected even to ask her, but there was no need!
WORTH NOTICING
The Notice Board on Maude Street outside St Augustine’s has been renewed splendidly. It swung most wildly and attractively in Wednesday’s great winds, the closest sign in Shepparton to one of those inviting English Pub signs that entice folk in from wild weather to good company, warmth, and heart warming communion! Most appropriate.
RAFFLE BOOKS!
Raffle Books are due in by the 7th of November, please note!!
CHRISTMAS CHOIR
It is time to begin thinking of the Christmas Carol Service, for which we invite extra singers to come along and join our choir. Next week on Thursday at 8.00pm we will begin to look at some of the material we might sing. If you are interested come along, or if you might be interested, have a word with the Rector.
OUTREACH
Ron Rose has agreed to edit “Outreach” for us with the help of a small committee consisting at present of Frank and Heather Steen. Items for the December edition can be left at the Office or given to Ron.
VISITORS
There is a great need for some systematic visiting to be done in the parish. For example all those to whom we send an invitation to Children’s Church should be visited for encouragement and also to ascertain whether our invitations are wanted. Apart from emergency visiting or sick visiting I do far too little for want of time, but what I do I find immensely rewarding. If anyone would like to be a part of a visiting team please sign up on the relevant sheet in the Narthex.
TABULA RASA
We begin a new list of those in need of prayer next week! Please put down on the new and clean sheet in the Narthex anyone still requiring prayer or newly requiring prayer, with your signature and the date. If you wish for prayer for anyone whose permission has not been granted, then simply put down their Christian name on its own which renders the person unidentifiable to anyone save yourself and almighty God.
ALL SOULS
This Tuesday is All Souls’ Day. All the departed laid to rest in the past year will be remembered by name at two Requiem Eucharists as well as anyone else whose name is written on the sheet in the Narthex. There will be a candle provided for anyone attending either services to be lit in memory of their loved ones and a vase will be available for a rose or flower brought as a memorial. The services are at 8.00am and 5.30pm.
PLAY GROUP
Playgroup will be held at Kidstown for the 9th & 16th November.
ACCOMMODATION NEEDED
Pina and her 14 year old daughter & budgie require temporary accommodation. They are waiting for a Housing Commission unit and have been told it will be a 2 month’s wait. They would live in a bungalow, room or caravan during this time and would prefer to have a woman in the household. Price is a consideration but any offers of help could be made to the office.
HOSPICE A.G.M.
The Annual General Meeting of Goulburn Valley Hospice Care Service Inc. Takes place on November 3rd at 6.00pm at the Rotary Hospice House 32 Pakham Street. All are welcome.
LECTIONARIES
Those who use an annual lectionary and would like us to order one for them should put their name down on the list in the Narthex.
PROFESSOR DOROTHY LEE
On Thursday December 9th at St David’s Uniting Church, King Street, there are two sessions led by the New Testament Scholar Dorothy Lee on St Matthew’s Gospel. It is from St Matthew that the majority of our Gospel readings on Sundays come next year. The sessions begin at 1.00pm and 3.00pm. See the Notice Board.
CHARITY CARD SHOP
The Charity Card Shop is open - Please note the new address: 299 Wyndham Street, (next to the old National Bank). It is open from 10am to 4pm. All the usual charities including our own Anglicare will be represented. Bev. Reither
PETITION
There is a group in the Diocese known as the “Building Bridges Group” that has been promoting, in a positive and peaceful fashion, the ordination of women as priests in our diocese, not least by arranging seminars and discussions. Members of the group are consulted by the Bishop on such matters and are respected by him. They have sent round to the parishes of the Diocese a petition to be signed by anyone who supports the ordination of women, as a sign that the time is right to pass the legislation enabling the priesting of women that is to be presented at the extra session of Synod in November. The petition is on the table in the Narthex, for those who wish, to sign.
DUTIES FOR THE 31st October
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victoria Heenan, Heather Fitzgerald
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Pleming, Charlotte Brewer
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michelle, Stephen, Debbie
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joan McCann
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Griffin, Carole Henderson
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Christine Evans, Maureen Cormican
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Victoria Heenan, Maureen Cormican
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev Ralph, Beryl Goodfellow
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cheryl Richards, Judy Longley
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Max Ralph, Bev Ralph
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlotte Brewer, Nola Brewer
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cecily McDonald
Mowing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Norm Mitchelmore, Lawrie Tinning
DUTIES FOR THE 7th November 2004
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan Harder, Gwyn Cowland
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christine Jones, Nancy Noonan
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beth
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jenny Pleming
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maureen Cormican, Christine Evans
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bev Condon, Heather Fitzgerald
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Carlyon, Andrea Fisher
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Nichols, Heather Pearson
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christine Jones, Sandra Simonis
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Norm Mitchelmore, Joy Campbell
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Pleming, Jenny Pleming
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gwyn Cowland
Mowing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lionel Waterson, Adrian Evans
FOR PRAYER
Margaret Bakker, Liam Bognar, Daniel Cowan, Johanna Camm, Rita Esam, Richard Goodfellow, Ron Hall, Carole Henderson, Margaret Kelley, Frances & family, Joyce Maloney, Ann Mills, Lance Morecroft, Joan Morris, Margaret Noble, Richard Pearson, Ray Prosser, Lesley Rankin, Margaret Robinson, Rodger Saville, Phyllis Thompson, Laurie Tindall, Judy Tremellen, Peter & Eva Swindells, May Wallace, Lillian Walter, Stan Windley, Genevieve, Wendy, Darren, Albert, Michael, Leanne & Cameron, Dorrie, Faith, Michael, Mary, Julia, Elizabeth, Timothy, David, Irene,Tanya & Peter, Glenda.
Anniversary of Death
Lindsay Dealy 31st. Oct. Annie Galt, Evelyn Sheppard 1st , Philip Clayton 2nd Ken Watts, Annie Hamilton 4th, Charles Goven-Smith, Elsie Steen 5th, Jessie Mitchelmore 6th.
Rest in Peace
May Still, Ernest Mustey, Margaret Kelley
IMPORTANT DATES FOR THE DIARY
Nov 2nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Baptism Preparation 7.30
Nov 4th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bishop in Council 9.30am
Nov 5th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dookie Guild
Nov 6th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 4.00pm
Nov 9th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.F.S. Townsend
Nov 9th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Playgroup/Kidstown
Nov 12th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chaplaincy Ecumenical Dinner
Nov 13th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 2.30pm
Nov 13th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parish Fair
Nov 14th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Children’s Church/Baptism
Nov 16th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Afternoon Guild 2pm
Nov 18th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Evening Guild 1.30pm
Nov 20th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding in Wodonga
Nov 21st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bishop’s Pastoral Visit
Nov 26th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Synod Session
Nov 27th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Youth forum -Wangaratta
Dec 4th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Quarterly Garden Working Bee
Dec 5th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 1.30pm
Dec 8th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . St. Mary’s Patronal Festival 8pm
Dec 17th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Christmas Carol Service
Dec 18th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 1.30pm
Dec 31st. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 4pm
Mar 5th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Quarterly Garden Working Bee
Jun 4th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Quarterly Garden Working Bee
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH
Monday 1st. November All Saints’ Day
Father Andrew’s day off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
6.00pm Evening Prayer
Tuesday 2nd November All Souls’ Day
7.45am Mattins & Requiem Eucharist - Lady Chapel
5.30pm Requiem for the Faithful Departed
7.30pm Baptism Preparation
Wednesday 3rd November
10.00am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
1.30pm Hakea Lodge
6.00pm Evening Prayer
6.30pm Study Group - Rectory
7.30pm Prayer Support Group - Chapel
Thursday 4th November
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
9.30am Bishop in Council
6.00pm Evening Prayer
7.30pm Choir Practice
Friday 5th November
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
2.00pm Dookie Guild
5.30pm Wedding Rehearsal
6.00pm Evening Prayer
Saturday 6th November
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
4.00pm Wedding
5.30pm Evening Prayer
6.00pm. Vigil Eucharist
Sunday 7th November
8.00am Mattins - Lady Chapel
8.30am Sung Eucharist - St Augustine’s
9.00am Eucharist - Dookie
10.30amEucharist - St Augustine’s/Baptism
10.45am Eucharist - Katandra West
5.30pm Evening Prayer - St Augustine