SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT
11th December 2005
The cartoons and graphics from the Pewsheet are found only in the printed version
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
“One word you will not find in this book except in quotation marks . . . is ‘housewife’.” So begins Jocasta Innes in her latest book, Home Time. This is understandable: with the rise of feminism, women in enlightened circles have felt more comfortable with the term prostitute than that awful word, and up to a point I sympathise with them. Milton's lines,
for nothing lovelier can be found
In Woman, than to study household good,
And good works in her husband to promote
would surely bring a snarl to the features of even the most complaisant little woman. Alice Thomas Ellis
Even the simple wing sounds of midges and mosquitoes play a role in bringing the sexes together. In this case it is the female that attracts the male by the hum of her wings, a fact quickly apparent to singers who hit a G in the vicinity of a swarm and end up with a mouthful of male mosquitoes. Howard Evans
THE ULTIMATE QUESTION
A guide on a coach tour said, “On my left is the Opera House. On my right is the Town Hall. On my left is Hyde park. We are now passing Darling Harbour. We are now passing the Rocks. We are now passing the oldest licensed hotel in New South Wales.” And a voice at the back shouted, “Why?”
TAKE A RISK THIS CHRISTMAS
Canon Andrew Neaum - From the Parish Christmas Card
An old reprobate whom I admired greatly, now long and prematurely dead from booze, smoking, womanising and general profligacy, wrote once that skating on thin ice is better exercise than jogging. By this he meant, that taking risks is what a worthwhile life is all about. There has got to be more to life than mere longevity, than devoting yourself to staying alive for as long as possible, than jogging, wuffling muesli and eating the purest of pure organic food.
An over concern with safety, security propriety, is dull, dull, dull, dull, dull. Leading to the sort of life regretted by T S Eliot’s anti-hero, in the poem “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”, who says:
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons....
I grow old.... I grow old...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
Well down with all that, I say! Far better a risk or two or three or four. Skating on thin ice is better exercise than jogging.
Some of the best things we do in our lives are the most risky and out of the ordinary. My father, for example, left a secure and beautiful and happy English country parish to go and live, with his young family, on the most remote, wild and loneliest island in the world, Tristan da Cunha. A risky move that enhanced and enriched all of our lives immeasurably.
Margaret and I did likewise in going to the island of St Helena, a second best for us, because we really wanted to go to the wild Falkland Islands, which we first investigated, but were thwarted.
The risk in coming to Shepparton
Then, many years later, came perhaps the riskiest move of our lives, coming to Shepparton, of all places. With its plastic cows springing up everywhere to impale you on their plastic horns, and its booze-crazed youths, allowed by complacent councillors to guzzle their alcohol and ruin their ear drums up until five o clock on a Sunday morning, whereupon they terrorise the inner suburbs, uproot trees, ring the Rector’s door bell and wildly shout and swear their way home to what I assume to be their foul and stinking beds.
But what a good move! Living and working at 93 Maude Street. It is the city’s oasis of lawn, fountains, trees, sweet architecture and home to the God of Gods, whom I love beyond telling. It is a good place to be.
There are other and more subtle risks that enhance life than merely changing location though. I remember once spending so much money on mere CD’s, that when the huge parcel from Amazon Dot Com arrived, appalled at my extravagance (well over a thousand dollars for every single piece of Johann Sebastian Bach’s recorded music, more than 160 disks) I couldn’t even bring myself to open the parcel. I put it behind a chair and left it unopened for 24 hours.
But it was one of the great, little decisions of my life, for I listen to a Bach cantata nearly every day in the chapel, and they bring me closer to God than almost anything. I love them, love them, love them as well as the God they so marvellously witness to. I punch the air in exaltation as I listen to them and follow their words. I risked the money, threw caution to the wind and was well and truly rewarded.
Not the peripheral trappings
We celebrate at Christmas a God who is intimately engaged in human existence, to the point of being one of us.
We do not celebrate the peripheral trappings, such as virgin birth, wise men, moving stars and angelic choirs. In a sense they are neither here nor there. They are beautiful, certainly, perhaps to some extent, even historical, who knows, but they are not of the essence.
The real wonder, the miracle of miracles, is God not as miracle, but rather God the ordinary, God as one of us, God in some profoundly real and objective way, in human life, God engaged with, and a real and objective part of suffering humanity. God knowable, God lovable, God loving, God ordinary. That is faith’s nitty gritty. That is what we celebrate at Christmas.
To believe it properly is risky, is disruptive, is swimming against the materialistic tide, is to resist going with the flow. It changes one’s life.
I took the risk properly and completely as a young teacher in London in 1970. I got off the fence, stopped shilly-shallying and believed.
Not the Sunday School God
Believed, of course, not in the Sunday School God, of easy miracles, easy answers, infallible bibles, moral black and whites, favouritism and wowserism. That daft God, I had long outgrown and discarded, with relief. Instead I stopped my faint-hearted shilly-shallying to believe in the real God, in the enigmatic, compelling, mysterious God, in the numinous, wholly other God, in the God of the great theologians and poets. The God who in some profoundly real and objective way, is engaged with and a real and objective part of suffering, ordinary humanity.
Since when I have doubted him many times, lost sight of him often, but upon his reality I risk my all, and proudly! He adds a dimension to life that is incomparable, tempting, pushing, urging me out of the rut of predictability, time and time again. Belief was the best decision of my life, not least for being so splendidly and extremely disruptive.
A life time of shilly-shallying, a life time of maybe or maybe not, a life time on the fence, of hedging bets, of wishing it were true, but not being sure, of wanting to come to Church but somehow hardly ever getting round to it, of wanting to throw oneself into the life of the Christian community, but not doing so, appears to be cowardice to me, J. Alfred Prufrockism, Measuring out a life in coffee spoons. “Do I dare to eat a peach.....?”
So on Christmas eve or day, 2005, have the good sense to kick against the tide, and actually get to Church, and have the courage to believe. It will change your life. I dare you to!
WHAT IF
The little me that used to be
was taught to fear the fires of Hell.
The priest and nuns were just the ones
to scare a child. They did it well.
Then, at an age when passions rage
and mortal sins are two a penny,
I learned instead that God was dead
and, as for Hell, there wasn't any.
But now, grown old and none too bold,
the child I was can scare me stiff
by floating near my better ear
and whispering, “What if....? What if...?”
Ralph Rochester
HORRIBLE HOODS AND HUMBLE HOMILIES
Canon Andrew Neaum
Of all the garments that clergy sometimes wear, the most ridiculous is the academic hood! I sat behind hundreds of clergy at a large ecclesiastical function in St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, some years ago. Nearly every one of them wore a specimen of these large, useless, empty bags. They looked like outsized and withered goiters that had been flung out of the way over the shoulder for convenience's sake.
Academic skunk
In these days when any building which contains a stick of chalk, black board or white board is likely to be termed a university, it is a wonder that our schools have not started conferring academic hoods upon their matriculants. They come in every colour and size and shape, as often as not trimmed with the fur of ermine, rabbit, mink and surely skunk. They are outward and visible signs of academic competence, achievement or snobbery.
Cavalier idleness
I have an infallible nose for academic insecurity. Not a few of the bishops I have worked for have been victims of it. Many of the clergy are. It is a debilitating and depressing disease. It manifests itself in the pursuit of degrees by correspondence, in the demeaning of folk without “pukka” degrees or of those with anything less that a first class degree, as well as in name-dropping and an excessive regard for academic pedigree in acquaintances and favoured authors. Any reader who suffers the shame of attaining only a third class pass for his degree, should remember what Faber said of Newman, who in one university examination achieved a mere pass, lower even than a third: “At least he was spared the ignominy of a second”. This because to achieve a second means that you must have done some work, and have therefore proved yourself not up to the achievement of a first, whereas a third could well be a sign not of incompetence but rather of admirable and cavalier idleness and insouciance in the face of mere examinations.
The sermons that I most enjoy are of the quiet, reasonable and academic sort. Emotional harangues, anecdotal rambles, histrionic appeals for commitment, or waffling exhortations to be good are not my favourite fare. However, except perhaps for the last, all have their place in our pulpits; to each his taste.
The best sermons I have heard, of the sort I most enjoy, have come from priests without degrees. The first was the great Gonville Ffrench Beytagh. Before he became Dean of Johannesburg and bête noir of the white South African government, he was Dean of Salisbury in Rhodesia. He was a mesmerising preacher, not at all quiet, but passionately reasonable and intellectual, in a bright and shining rather than dusty sense. The other was Robert Mercer CR. He became bishop of Matabeleland and then jumped the pale to become Bishop of The Anglican Catholic Church of Canada. He was, and presumably still is, a very witty preacher, extremely well read and logical of argument but with a whimsical side to him. An unlikely mixture of radical and conservative views. His Evensong sermons when he was Rector of Borrowdale Parish in Salisbury, Rhodesia, earned him a small coterie of discerning and devoted fans, of which I was one.
How noble of me
Academic competence should, of course, be the mark of every parson, but a degree is not necessarily an infallible sign of it. Indeed, some of the best degreed clergy that I have known have been the most inarticulate and apparently foolish. I am pleased to say that even in the smallest of parishes in which I have served there has been at least one person in the pews with a far better degree than mine and certainly far more intelligent. Once upon a time, in the days when I was academically insecure myself (and I suppose that there remains a residue of such insecurity in me even today) it used to disconcert me enormously to be preaching to folk more intelligent and better educated than myself.. Nowadays I regard it as a blessing. To have such folk in the pew helps to prevent condescension from me, as well as pontification, or sloppy and cursory preparation of sermons or study-courses.
I seldom wear my academic hood. Entirely for the noble reasons outlined above, of course. It has nothing whatsoever to do with it being a miserable chocolate brown colour, with no ermine, rabbit or even skunk fur trim!
CHRISTMAS WITHOUT CHRIST
OR CHURCH
So what is Christmas? The newspapers always run those chirpy pieces about how the whole thing is a sentimental fraud, invented by Dickens and Prince Albert. Nonsense. It is a commercial fraud, for which A Christmas Carol is not responsible. The whole retail and much of the manufacturing economy depends on the coercion of tax-payers into buying mountains of over-priced trash for two months of the year. Therefore the fraud is un-indictable, invincible, triumphant, laughing in the faces of its victims, rolling through the malls in glory, sucking up the bank-notes of the poor, like old Doc Duvalier in reverse. It wears a mask of profusion, joy, and love in which to conduct operations of a severely commercial character....The American artist Nast, who invented the image of their `Santa Claus' was inspired by the fur-lined costumes sported by the Astor family in the 1860s. He converted Claus from the unruly, sweet-distributing imp of the 1820s into the burly, belted god of consumerism we now worship. Eric Christiansen
ROSE AND RHODODENDRON
A rose by any other name
As sweet would smell -
A rhododendron, by any other name,
Would be much easier to spell.
Anonymous, and no wonder
DEVILISH DEFINITIONS
Admiration: Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.
Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Accuse: To affirm another’s guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.
Achievement: The death of endeavour and the birth of disgust.
Age: That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the enterprise to commit.
Adore: To venerate expectantly.
Ambrose Bierce
CONGRATULATIONS
Birthdays
Marj Malcolm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sun 11th Dec
Margaret Osbrough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tue 13th Dec
Caitlyn Foster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wed 14th Dec
Tolsa Baxter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wed 14th Dec
Charles Grant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sat 17th Dec
Wedding Anniversaries
Maurice & Nancy Fennell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mon 12th Dec
THE PRAYER LIST
Next week we shall be starting the Prayer List again. So please put the names of anyone needing prayer on the list in the Narthex, after gaining their consent. If consent is unavailable simply put their Christian name.
CAROL SERVICE
The Carol Service takes place this Friday the 16th of December at 7.00pm. It will be followed by a glass of wine, or cuppa and a nibble. The wine and cuppa will definitely be on offer. The nibbles depend upon the generosity of the good folk who come along to what might well be the most interesting carol service in Shepparton.
MISSION BOXES
We forwarded $531 to ABM from the Mission Boxes. Well done and thank you for your support. Nola Brewer
ROSE COLOURED VESTMENTS
The Rose coloured vestments worn for the first time today have been given in memory of little Georgia Morcom, by her family, and were made by Margaret Neaum. We hope eventually to have a rose coloured frontal to the altar as well. Rose coloured vestments are worn on only two Sundays of the year, the Third Sunday in Advent and the Fourth Sunday in Lent. Rose indicates joy in anticipation of our Lord’s coming at the end of the Advent and of his Resurrection at the end of Lent, it also indicates a brief respite from the austerities of the penitential seasons. The new vestments will be blessed on the Fourth Sunday in Lent, which is also Mothering Sunday, a good day to bless vestments given in memory of a lovely little girl.
ROSTERS
We have been thinking for some weeks about what duties we wish to be rostered for next year. We can mow lawns, read lessons, welcome, intercede, provide tea after services, help with the flowers and so on and so on. There are lists in the narthex for folk who would like to sign up or sign off.
HELP YOURSELF
In the Narthex is an envelope for everyone on the parish role. Help yourself and as usual take as many as you can to deliver. Inside the envelope there is nothing horrible, no requests for money, time or work. Not at all, not at all.
SOLD AND DONE WITH
Both my redundant vehicles are now sold. Margaret and I are back to the respectability of a single car. The bicycle will be called upon when we desire to travel in opposite directions. The old vegie van was bought in 1994 and has served us well, we shall miss it.
ROSTERS
It is unlikely that next year’s duty rosters will be available until early January, though do live in hope and pray for us. You never know. The pewsheet will inform us at least a week ahead of who does what until the rosters are completed. Add your name to the list for any duty if your conscience pricks you sufficiently to do so. When the Rosters are eventually available some of them will have on the back a few helpful details about particular duties. In the meantime a few hints for our heroic mowers of lawns from Norm Mitchelmore:
The Church has two mowers stored in the shed, the key of which can be found in the usual place (ask if you don’t know). A spare key is kept in the Parish Office. Both mowers are four stroke and run on ordinary unleaded fuel. Fuel is kept in the black 5 litre can. If this is empty, fuel can be obtained from the Mobil Handymart, corner Nixon and Wyndham Street and booked to the Anglican Church account. The oil should be checked on both mowers before starting. Oil is also kept in the shed. (If two-stroke fuel is used in the mowers they will not start). A new large wheel barrow is also kept in the shed and could be used for carting lawn mower clippings (easier than using a wheely bin). In 2006 we hope to have several compost bins for rotation purposes.
Lawns to be mowed include the south lawn betweet the Church and the units, the lawn in front of units 1 & 2, the Maude Street nature strip, the Mckinney Street nature strip, the Nixon Street nature strip, the lawns in front of the Rectory and Parish Hall and the lawns in the tennis courts. If any of the volunteers have a lawn edger then this can be used to improve the job.
THANK YOU
Many thanks to those who minded the Parish Office on Mondays during the year. It is much appreciated. Heather
PRAYER OF THE WEEK
Open wide unworthy eyes, O Father of all good things, that we may rejoice in the glory of our country, the green of its winter pastures, the bleached gold of its summer paddocks, the beauty of its moving water, the stillness of its billabongs, its dry creeks, its stark, clear deserts, mountains and glorious beaches. Let our land be praised and preserved among us, for the joy of those that come after us, and the love of him who praised the lilies beside the Syrian sea, even Jesus Christ our Lord.
IMPORTANT DIARY DATES
Dec 16th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carol Service
Dec 17th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 4.00
Jan 7th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 3.30
May 28th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Patronal Festival St Augustine’s
REQUESTS FOR PRAYER
Liam Bognar, David Burrow, Mary Clarke, Hamish Fisher, Kath Grills, Ron Hall, Bill Hunter, Thelma Irwin, Pam & Trudy Jackson, Marge Malcolm, Ann Mills, Ken Neal, Margaret Noble, Bev Ralph, Eleanor Routledge, Joanne Sherena, Patricia Sparks, Peter and Eva Swindells, Constantine Tokarew, Mr & Mrs Wilson, Ken & Shirley Young, Albert, Bevan, Brian, Cheryl, Christine, Darren, Dorrie, Gary, Glenda, Ian, Jade & family, Jason, Jeanette, Joan, Joanne, Kerry, Kim, Lorna, Mary, Norma, Shannon, Stuart, Suzanne, Tom, Val, Vivienne, Wayne.
Rest in Peace
Thelma Pinner, Ewen Boord
Anniversary of Death
Bernice Batey 11th, Betty Watts 12th, Anna McInnes, Vi Ball 13th, Bernard Baseley 16th and Georgia Morcom.
Duties for 11th December 2005
Celebrant 6.30 Saturday 10th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Canon Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Revd Gail Bryce
Celebrant 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Canon Andrew Neaum
Celebrant Dookie & Katandra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Canon John Price
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gwyn Cowland, Frank Harder
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan McCann, Nancy Fennell
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Michelle, Steve, Debbie
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jenny, Joe, Zebedee
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heather Fitzgerald, Ian Bryce
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Evans, Maureen (if still here)
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Margaret Neaum, Children
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pat Griffin, Jeanette Berry
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cheryl Richards, Sandra Simonis
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Max & Bev Ralph,
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nola Brewer, Charlotte Brewer
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gwyn Cowland
Mowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Horder, Michael Egan
Duties for December 18th 2005
Celebrant 6.30 Saturday 3rd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Canon Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .The Revd. Gail Bryce
Celebrant 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Canon John Price
Celebrant Dookie & Katandra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Canon Andrew Neaum
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heather Carlyon, Jeanette Smith
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan O’Reilly, Liz Booth
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Michelle, Steve, Debbie
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan, Sally, Georgia
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Griffin, Heather Fitzgerald
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carole Henderson, Bev Condon
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Victoria Heenan, Andrea Fisher
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eileen Quaife, Joy Campbell
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christine Jones, Frank Steen
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joy Campbell, Norm Mitchelmore
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John & Jenny Pleming
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Anita Saville
Mowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marg Carroll, John Pleming
Celebrants 25th December 2005
Celebrant 5.30 Sat 24th Dec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Canon Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.00pm Sat 24th Dec. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .The Revd Gail Bryce
Celebrant 11.30 Midnight Mass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Canon Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Revd Gail Bryce
Celebrant 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Canon Andrew Neaum
Celebrant Dookie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Canon John Price
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH
Monday 12th December
Canon Andrew’s Day off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Tuesday 13th December
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
10.00am Play Group - St Augustine’s
10.00am Fabric Committee Meeting - Narthex
10.00am Advent Study - Library
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
5.00pm Pastoral Care Meeting
7.30pm Advent Study - Library
Wednesday 14th December
7.45am Mattins only - Lady Chapel
10.00am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
11.00am Banksia House (Hakea 1.30pm, Acacia 2.15pm)
11.15am Wardens’ Meeting
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Thursday 15th December
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
8.45am Retirement Home Visits - Mooroopna
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
5.30pm Choir Practice
Friday 16th December
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
11.00am Eucharist - Ave Maria
11.45am Eucharist - Grutzner House
5.00pm Wedding Rehearsal
7.00pm Carol Service
Saturday 17th December
Revd Gail Bryce’s day off
7.45am Mattins and Eucharist- Lady Chapel
4.00pm Wedding
6.00pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
6.30pm Vigil Eucharist
Sunday 18th December Fourth Sunday in Advent
8.00am Mattins, Lady Chapel
8.30am Sung Eucharist - St Augustine’s
9.00am Eucharist - Dookie
10.30amEucharist - St Augustine’s
10.45am Eucharist - Katandra West
5.30pm Evening Prayer