SECOND SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY
16th January 2005
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
Seneca .....in his treatise ‘On Earthquakes’... begins by surveying the damage done to Pompeii and its regions in AD 62, when the town was severely hit by an earthquake which we know presaged the great eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. First he points out that, since we die anyway, it does not matter that we do so in a natural disaster. What is important is to be ready for death, whenever it comes. Second, he goes on, ‘It will help to keep in mind that gods cause none of these things and that neither heaven nor earth is overturned by the wrath of divinities. These phenomena have causes of their own; they do not rage on command.’ Peter Jones. (Seneca - 4BC to 65AD - was a Stoic, moralist and satirist. Tutor to Nero, in the end he was forced, by Nero to commit suicide.)
TRUE TO HIS WORD
After a long drought it had begun to rain, and it rained for days and days. The river had swollen, broken its banks, and the whole district was flooded. Not to be outdone by the weather, a travelling salesman rowed a boat across to the homestead, where a farmer, his wife and children were sitting on the galvo roof. “Pretty bad, eh?” called the salesman, clambering up into the gutter. As he sat chatting he noticed a battered old Akubra moving round and round in circles on the floodwater. “Do you see that?” asked the salesman. “Oh, that,” said the farmer. “That’s Grandpa. Last week he said that come hell or high water, he was going to mow the lawn today.”
People who live in chateaux
Should not throw tomateaux J D Morton
PRAYER
Caesarius of Heisterbach (1180-1240), tells of a lay brother who was heard to pray to Christ: “Lord, if Thou free me not from this temptation I will complain of Thee to Thy mother.”
THE KIRK
Two elderly sisters were most devout and regular attenders at the kirk every Sunday morning. The minister was a fine God-fearing man whose only fault, if it is a fault, was that his sermons were never less than fifty minutes. On one particular Sunday he excelled himself by continuing for over the hour, and was still going strong, when one of the sisters (very deaf) turned to the other and asked in a loud voice: “Is he no feenished yet?” To which the other replied: “Aye, he’s feenished, but he canna stop!”
THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
Fr Andrew Neaum
The problem of evil and innocent suffering is always cropping up in the life of a parson. It doesn’t take a dreadful tsunami to bring the matter to the forefront to the mind.
I was standing by the open boot of a car some time ago my foot on its bumper, a corn whisky on ice in a glass in my hand, talking to a sceptic. It was a beautiful day, in a beautiful place, but we were talking about the problem of evil. “I am a father,” said my interlocutor “and my children, whom I love, like to play with bare feet on our lawn, but if, when they do so, they get their feet full of nasty bindi thorns, then I buy weed killer, and apply myself to getting rid of the bindi weeds, so that they can delight in the lawn without pain and grief. What sort of a Father is God, who does so little to alleviate the terrible pain and grief of his sons and daughters?”
Some weeks later someone else said to me: “I gave away faith ages ago. I read Richard Dawkins’ book ‘The Selfish Gene’ and that confirmed what I had suspected for years that life is a vicious and meaningless fight for survival. There is far too disproportionate an amount of evil, pain and unhappiness about to allow us to believe in a good God.”
As you would expect, I took up the cudgels for God, sprang to his defence. It is something I have been doing all my life. Even as a school boy and a university student, I was always a doughty defender of God. I hope he’s noticed, and that it will be counted unto me for righteousness.
There is a technical word for justifying God, so technical that the dictionary on my Word Processor doesn’t recognise it. It is “theodicy” a word from the Greek that means “justification of God”.
Down the centuries God has been put in the dock many, many times. Nearly always over the question of suffering and evil. In the bible Job puts him in the dock. Some of the Psalms put him there, as does the Book of Lamentations.
However, it was a fifth century Roman Consul and philosopher called Boethius who gave theodicy it’s classic definition: In essence: “If God is good and righteous, why evil?”
He was an interesting man was Boethius, he spent a year in prison for treason during which he wrote one of the most influential of all the books of his time and one of the few philosophical books that I personally have read from cover to cover. It is called “The Consolations of Philosophy”, in it philosophy personified gives solace to the distraught and imprisoned author by explaining the changeable and fickle nature of all earthly fortune and demonstrating that happiness can only be attained by virtue, that is, by being like God.
After his year in prison being consoled by philosophy, poor Boethius was executed. Another example of unnecessary and unfair evil, a great and lovely man, with much to contribute to the world, killed prematurely. He was eventually canonised as St Severinus, but how do we justify God allowing such unjust and terrible things to happen?
The simplest answer is not to believe in God at all. Then there is no God to justify. Things are as they are simply because they are. There is no sense, purpose, meaning in anything at all. And that is that. It is an answer that satisfies me not one jot.
Another ancient answer is a religious one but almost as fatalistic. It maintains that God should be compared to an ancient and autocratic King, that is, to a despot, and so the theory is called by philosophers Despotism. God is the boss, the king, the sultan, the despot. The believer simply accepts him as that without question. What God wills is what God wills. As Jeremiah said, “how can the clay question the potter?” Don’t have the temerity to question God at all, simply worship him and serve him. This is more or less the answer offered by the Book of Job, but the most extreme form of the answer is found in Islam with its fatalistic doctrine of “the will of Allah”
In Christianity, Calvinism stresses the sovereignty of God almost to the same point, hence the doctrine of predestination, and even in sweet Anglicanism you sometimes hear Christians say, when faced by tragedy, “It is the will of God”, shrugging their shoulders fatalistically.
Most moral philosophers today, however, at least those who have the common sense that you and I do, regard this despotic theory with little favour. It is morally offensive to us that something should be right simply because God wills it. Instead of God willing something because it is right.
Another ancient answer to the question: if God is good and just, why evil? Is that posited by what philosophers call Dualism. This is an answer that limits God’s power by seeing the world as a battleground between two equal forces or principles. Light in conflict with darkness, good in conflict with evil.
Many ancient religions and cults held to this view, and it still pops up in a lot of New Age religion and in some of the wackier Christian cults. It too is unsatisfactory. For can God be God in any real and satisfactory sense if he is under threat, is involved in an eternal life and death struggle, is not master and creator of all?
A rather more satisfying answer to the problem is unfortunately so philosophically sophisticated that it is not much solace or help to ordinary folk like us who face lawns full of bindis in our everyday life, or loved ones contracting cancer or being killed in road accidents, or to folk who’ve lost loved ones in a monstrous tsunami.
It is an answer that originates with the great Plato, but is found in both Augustine and Thomas Aquinas and indeed in some current thought and philosophy.
It argues that Evil is nothing at all in itself for only the good has existence; evil is merely the absence of good, that which does not exist. But although this, when amplified and argued out, does makes a great deal of philosophical sense it isn’t, as I’ve said, of much use to ordinary, non-philosophically minded folk who are undergoing intense suffering. To be told that the suffering you are undergoing isn’t real doesn’t much help.
So how does one answer folk who question a good God on the grounds of their being so much evil and unfairness in the world? Well, the first thing we have to admit to them is that there is no neat or satisfactory or complete answer. The terrible Lisbon earthquake in the eighteenth century was the first great and well reported tragedy to knock out the foundations from beneath easy answers. The great Voltaire well and truly kicked them out in a long poem and in his novel Candide. The First World War’s trenches and poison gas, the unspeakable evil of Auschwitz, the Cambodian killing fields, the indiscriminate and blanket killing in Hiroshima, the genocide in Rwanda have done so even more emphatically in the 20th century. The Indian Ocean tsunami has done so in the 21st century.
However, having admitted this much we can then ask our questioners to attempt to imagine a better world than the one we inhabit and which would still foster and nurture the virtues we hold most dear in this one. In a world without suffering, without inexorable natural laws which, in their inexorability, are often cruel, could there be any good at all, as we know it? Probably not. Virtue and beauty and truth and love, courage, fortitude, great art, sporting achievement are all dependent upon their being a world just such as ours is.
We cannot both have our cake and eat it. If we want virtue and good and love, then it seems we have to have evil and suffering. In a world that was all sweetness and light, with no struggle or pain, in which everyone had all they desired and wanted. We would all, surely, be vacuous, burping, bladders of lard, if we existed at all.
The poet Keats called our world “The vale of soul-making” and that is what it is, this world exists to make us, to allow us to become beings who are loving, forgiving and truly human. We exist to learn to love and to be godlike in love and freedom. No other imaginable sort of world would allow this.
What is more, alongside us in our vale of soul making, so our sweet faith teaches and demonstrates, is God himself incarnate, love incarnate, to demonstrate the purpose and sense of it all, to support us in our journey into goodness and love.
He assures us we are not alone when we suffer. That he is with us.
So perhaps the fellow I was talking to over a glass of corn whisky on that lovely day, by the boot of his car, would have been an even better father, if he had left his children to suffer the bindis awhile, and encouraged them to clear the lawn of bindis themselves for each other and him, with him.
Then, maybe they all might have appreciated that hurtful bindis, although a problem contain the answer to the very problem they pose.
PRAYER OF THE WEEK
Lord God, your world is a wonderful world, full of beauty, order and delight. It is also a terrifying world in which beauty too easily turns to ugliness, order to chaos, delight to horror. Help us to retain our faith in the integrity of your creation and to understand that without a world such as you have given us, all that we hold most dear, the virtues that we most admire in Jesus of Nazareth and in our faith’s great heroes: courage, love, forgiveness, compassion, sacrifice would be impossible to realise. We pray for all who have suffered so much in earthquakes, tidal waves and from man’s inhumanity to man. We thank you for all who work so hard and who give so generously to alleviate such suffering. Help us to follow their example.
PARISH COUNCIL
There is a Parish Council meeting on Wednesday the 19th at 7.30pm, in the library.
WELCOME
Welcome and thank you to Fr Wayne for taking the services at St Augustine’s today. Fr John Price has taken the opportunity of a weekend off, and he deserves it. Fr Andrew is at Dookie and Katandra. The service today will naturally bear some reference to the “Day of Prayer for the Indian Ocean Disaster”, though it was last Sunday that our primary focus was upon this.
NOMINATION FORMS
Nomination forms are available for Church Wardens, Parish Councillors, Parochial Nominators, Supplementary Parochial Nominators, Lay Representatives for Synod and Supplementary Representatives for Synod. For Synod we will elect three Representatives and three supplementaries, but if there is only one licenced priest in the parish by the time Synod arrives, then only the first two will be eligible, so the third elected will be provisional.
ROSTERS
All the Rosters for 2005 are now done and can be collected from the Narthex. It is impossible for their compiler to cross-reference from one roster to another and so if ever you are rostered for duties that clash, arrange for someone else to do one of them. If you cannot perform any duty because of being away or for whatever other reason, please arrange a swap and if truly on the ball let the Parish Office know so that the change is recorded in the Pew Sheet. If any particular Roster becomes too utdated during the year it can always be revised and reprinted.
MACEDONIAN SERVICE
On Wednesday at 8.00am there occurs the interesting Macedonian Celebration of the Baptism of our Lord with the Blessing of the Water. All are welcome to attend.
IMPORTANT DATES
You might notice that there are a fair number of new events and function on the Important Date list. Please let us know if there are any clashes with other important or significant dates that might mean we should change the proposed date of something. To this list we hope to add, eventually, an African Mass and a Blessing of the Fleece service to complement the Harvest Festival, plus any other good suggestions that are forthcoming.
CONGRATULATIONS
Birthdays
Edith Robins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 18th
Val Downie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wednesday19th
Heather Carlyon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 20th
Elvie McInnes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 22nd
Anniversary
Heather & Joe Pearson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 18th
PRAYER INTENTIONS
We start a new Prayer Intention list every month. If you wish someone to be prayed for by name, please put the name and date on the list in the Narthex and sign your own name to take responsibility for the name being published in this pew sheet.
PARISH OFFICE
Heather is away on holiday until the 26th January, however on Mondays the Parish Office is attended by volunteers.
HALL KITCHEN
Hall kitchen renovations begin soon. The kitchen and supper room will be out of commission during all of February and the first week in March.
IMPORTANT (But Revisable) DIARY DATES
Feb 5th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Men’s Breakfast 8.00am
Feb 5th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding
Feb 8th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shrove Tuesday Pancakes
Feb 9th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Annual General Meeting
Feb 12th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding
Feb 17th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bishop in Council 4.00pm Shepparton
Feb 19th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding
Mar 5th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quarterly Garden Working Bee
Mar 6th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harvest Festival
Mar 12th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
16th April. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
23rd April. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
April 27th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quiet Day 10.00am
April 27th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quiet Evening 6.30pm
May 4th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Commencement of Study Group
May 7th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
May 14th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
May 17th -20th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clergy Retreat
May 21st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
May 26th or 30th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . St Augustine’s Day Celebration
May 27th - 29th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Synod
Jun 2nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Men’s Breakfast
Jun 4th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Quarterly Garden Working Bee
Jun 17th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Soiree 7.00pm
July 17th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bishop’s Pastoral Visit
July 30th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding
Aug 19th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rector’s 30th Anniversary of Priesting Bash
Aug 24th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Quiet Day 10.00am
Aug 24th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quiet Evening 6.30pm
Oct 1st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Men’s Breakfast
Oct 1st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
Oct 15th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
Oct 9th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pet Service 5.00pm
Oct 22nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding
Oct 29th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
Nov 5th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding
Nov 6th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Confirmation
Nov 12th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parish Fair
Dec 3rd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding
Dec 17th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding
Duties for 16th January 2005
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan Harder, Heather Fitzgerald
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nancy Noonan, Lionel Waterson
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beth, Kate & James
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wayne, Renee and Glen
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Griffin, Heather Fitzgerald
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carole Henderson, Bev Condon
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pat Griffin, Christine Jones
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joyce Cavill and Gwen Betson
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Adrian Evans and Cheryl Richards
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bob Galt, Victoria Heenan
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlotte Brewer, Nola Brewer
Mowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lionel Waterson and Adrian Evans
Duties for Sunday 23rd January
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frank Harder, Anne Weaire
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nancy Fennell, Mary Pearson
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michelle, Steve, Debbie
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan, Tiana, Zebedee
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carole, Bev
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Maureen, Chris
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Carlyon, Nancy Fennell
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shirley Dean, Bev Reither
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlotte Brewer, Frank Steen
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Merv & Gwyn Cowland
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Adrian Evans, Alan Akers
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heather Pearson
Mowing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frank Steen, Michael Egan
FOR PRAYER
Joyce & Vernon Auldrige, Liam Bognar, Len Brereton, The Revd Colin Cameron, Rae Egan, Lachlan Falls, Nancy Fennell, Ron Hall, Barry Henderson, Thelma Irwin, Joyce Maloney, Richard Pearson, Ray Prosser, Margaret Robinson, Rodger Saville, Susan Stone, Stan Windley, Elizabeth, Dorrie, Brian, Elizabeth and Geoff, Faith.
Rest in Peace
Laurie McPhail
Anniversary of Death
Colin Ferguson, Keith Dean 16th, Ernest Guyatt, Ilias Petcopoulas 17th, Madge Grutzner, Niko Rendevski 19th, Maria Balaburov 20th, Gerald Rogers 21st, Clifford Grantham, Francis McKendry 22nd.
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH
Monday 17th January Anthony of Egypt
Fr Andrew’s day off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
6.00pm Evening Prayer
Tuesday 18th January
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
6.00pm Evening Prayer
Wednesday 19th January
7.45am Mattins - Lady Chapel
8.00am Macedonian “Baptism of our Lord” Ceremonies
10.00am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
1.30pm Hakea Lodge
6.00pm Evening Prayer
7.30pm Parish Council - Library
Thursday 20th January
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
6.00pm Evening Prayer
7.30pm Choir Practice
Friday 21st January St Agnes
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
11.00am Eucharist - Ave Maria
6.00pm Evening Prayer
Saturday 15th January
8.00am Mattins- Lady Chapel
6.30pm Vigil Eucharist
Sunday 16th January
8.00am Mattins - Lady Chapel
8.30am Sung Eucharist
9.00am Eucharist - Dookie
10.30amEucharist & Baptisms - St Augustine’s
10.45am Eucharist - Katandra West
5.30pm Evening Prayer - St Augustine