FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY
6th February 2005
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
At least in the western tradition nothing so affects our attitude to God as our recognition of evil and suffering. An important factor in the modern bourgeois indifference to God has been a cultivated exclusion of evil from our consciousness. It is not long since English moral philosophers searching for an example of moral evil could only come up with promise-breaking: the liberal imagination shied away from real sin, just as commercial advertising shies away from suffering. It is a commonplace that prisons and hospitals are not only institutions for dealing with crime and sickness but also for hiding them. If we break out of this cosy world and face the real state of affairs we are liable to two apparently contrasting reactions. We may reject God as infantile, as unable to comprehend or have compassion on those who suffer and are made to suffer in this world. On the other hand we may find, as Job did, that it was our own view of God that was infantile, we may in fact come to a deeper understanding of the mystery of God. The first ‘atheist’ reaction may indeed be a part of the second. Herbert McCabe
CODSWALLOP
A bloke was struggling to help his mate land a monstrous Murray Cod. Finally they had it, and it took the two of them to carry it up to the back of their Land Rover, which it nearly filled. Not being greedy, they packed up then and headed for home. Pulling up at the pub for some beer, they noticed the barman craning his neck, eyes bulging in astonishment at the size of the cod hanging over the back of the ute. By the time the fisherman had walked in to order a slab of beer though, the barman had regained his composure. “Only caught one, eh?” he said, wiping the bar.
RELIGION
Religion is man’s attempt to communicate with the weather.
REALITY
Reality is for people who can’t cope with drugs.
A MATTER OF PREFERENCE
I’d rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
DESCARTES
I’m pink therefore I’m spam
CANDLEMAS
Last Wednesday, the 2nd of February, we celebrated “The Presentation of Christ in the Temple”, sometimes called Candle-mas and sometimes called “The Purifi-cation of our Lady”. We blessed all the candles in stock for the coming year and were each given a lighted candle to take to the font, where we crossed ourselves with blessed water and renewed our baptismal promises. There follows a slightly edited version of the homily.
There is something strangely satisfying about the primitive. Steam engines are more interesting than either diesel or electric ones. Vintage cars more interesting than modern ones. Wooden wine barrels are lovelier than galvanised iron brutes. Old stone churches are more worshipful than new brick ones. Ancient and labyrinthine cities are more soul-satisfying than coldly geometrical modern ones. Old people are more interesting than young, as many cultures bear witness, the Chinese, and many African tribes respect, revere and honour the aged, seeing them as repositories of wisdom and tradition. Youth is recognised as callow, inexperienced, dangerously impetuous, untrust-worthy.
The modern world’s obsession with the new and with youth, the advertising agencies’ obsession with the word “New” “New” “New”, appears to go against the grain then. It is more natural for us to look backward than forward, to be aware and appreciative of where we come from, to be conscious of the tradition, reverential to it. In short to be conservative.
Irresistible candles
I love the word Candlemas. It is an old word that celebrates an old and lovely form of illumination, the candle. There is something strangely satisfying about candles. For they are primitive. You can actually see and understand what is going on in a lighted candle, naked flame heating, melting and devouring wax, liquescent wax seeping and creeping up a wick, heating to gas and inflaming. A liquid wax reservoir, damned up by cooler wax walls around the edge, but making periodic breaches in them to trickle down the sides and congeal into fascinating shapes.
The smell of snuffed candles drifting down an empty church, how pleasing that is to my sensitive nose, redolent of the blessed end of innumerable childhood church services.
In our home, when the children were young, we were sometimes prevailed upon by them to have our evening meals by candlelight. However, so fascinating are candles that little fingers would irresistibly fiddle, and there were always arguments as to who blew which candle out.So it was a relatively rare privilege granted them. Children too love candles, candles are primitive, you can see and understand how they work. As you can with a steam engine, which has all its innards on the outside, great muscular pistons squirting steam. Candles are lovely, the electric bulb’s a bright bore, the neon strip an obscenity. There is something strangely satisfying about the primitive, about the first, about the old.
Golgotha’s candlestick
Candlemas celebrates light, candlelight. Candlelight doesn’t totally rout, vanquish, and banish darkness, it is too fragile, gentle and soft to do that. It just pushes the darkness back a little, the darkness is still there, brooding around, flickering, waiting inevitably to snuff so fragile a light.
As such, candlelight is a wonderful symbol of goodness and love and life. All of which are so fragile in our world, in our vale of tears. All so lovely, infinitely lovely, but so terribly fragile, so easily snuffed out by greed, lust, hatred, selfishness. So easily crucified. The darkness of death is waiting, always waiting to snuff out life’s so fragile light.
The Cross on Golgotha hill, on Skull Hill, was really a great big wooden candlestick, upon which there flickered and died the fragile light of the world.
Nunc Dimittis
Candlemas! It originates with old Simeon, the priest in the Temple, who when he saw the infant Jesus, composed what has become one of the world’s most lovely and famous songs: “Nunc Dimittis”, a song which most of this modern generation, hooked so unnaturally upon the new, has never ever heard of, known or loved, but which is sung, or said, at every authentic Evensong:
Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation which thou hast prepared before the face of all people to be a light to lighten the Gentiles, and to be the glory of thy people Israel.
It is a great and lovely prayer to use when dying, a prayer of acquiescence, of acceptance of death: Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace... Words that resonate down through the ages, carrying myriad associations. To be a light to lighten the gentiles..... A light that pushes back the darkness, candlelight, flickering, fragile, lovely; hope, joy and peace in darkness. Candlemas, the day on which the Church blesses its candles, which like Christ die to give light to the world. Candlemas, the day on which we process around the church carrying candles. There is something strangely satisfying about the primitive. About the first, the original, the old.
Old meets new
But hopeless traditionalist though I am, even I recognise that the old, eventually, has to give way to the new.
However, it should always do so with reverence. Revolutions are fuelled by hate, they topple, overturn, murder and wreck the old in replacing it. Ideally the old is replaced by the new with love and reverence and regret.
The meeting of aged Simeon and the infant Jesus, was a reverential meeting of the old and the new.
Simeon, a priest of the old Israel, welcomed Jesus, the New Israel. Jesus, who was to be a lover of the Old Covenant, a frequenter of the temple, a practitioner of the Old Covenant, but who nonetheless gave us the New Covenant.
This initial meeting of old and new, of Simeon and Jesus, was an occasion of joy and acceptance, not conflict. It is a pity that the meeting of old and new isn’t always so harmonious.
As a lover of tradition, as one conscious of the profundity and richness of the great tradition which I have inherited, of the mighty river of tradition in which I swim, I would want all proponents of change to the tradition to be lovers of the tradition, not despisers, denigrators and haters of it.
Conflict over the priesting of women
The conflict that racked our Church a decade or so ago, and which unbelievably still racks our own diocese today, the Ordination of women, would have been a less hurtful business if so many of the proponents of it, hadn’t seemed to despise the tradition, vilifying it as discriminatory, patriarchal, misogynistic, evil, derisory, hidebound.
There was an element of all of these things present in the tradition, to be sure but also much that was lovely, loving and good. Much indeed that was lovable.
Had there been more acknowledgement from both sides of a common love of, and reverence for the tradition, how much more creative and gentle and good might have been the acceptance of women priests.
But then, who am I to talk? In this regard I have myself sometimes been too brutal an advocate for change. For which, I suppose, I deserve to be sat down in the harsh, bright, white neon light of hell. However I know, for all that, that the gentle, fragile light of the world, will mercifully still invite me, with all of humankind, into the soft, flickering, sweet candlelight of heaven. Fr Andrew Neaum
PRAYER OF THE WEEK
O Lord of Love, who are not far from any of your children, watch with your care those we love who are far from us: be about their path: be within their hearts; make it their joy to do your will. Let not distance break the bonds of love that bind them to us and to you; but unite us closer in your love for the sake of Jesus Christ.
Bishop Boyd Carpenter
CONGRATULATIONS
Anniversaries
Joyce & Vernon Auldrige. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday 6th Feb
Max & Bev Ralph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Friday 11th Feb
Birthdays
Brayden White. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monday 7th Feb
Trevor Batey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tuesday 8th Feb
Joan Harder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wednesday 9th Feb
LENTEN STUDIES
We hope to have two Lenten Studies again this year. One on Tuesdays at 2.00pm and one on Wednesdays beginning with a Eucharist at 6.00pm and then a Lenten meal of soup and bread. The Study itself will begin at 7.25pm if anyone is able only to come to that. Please sign up if you intend coming to a Study Group so that I can order material. The cost is likely to be $8.00 for those who can afford it. Nothing for those who cannot.
PANCAKES
The Shrove Tuesday Pancake Party is at 6.00pm this Tuesday, February the 8th. There is a gold coin donation charge only. Pancakes are delicious if not too thick and chock full of delicious filling. There could even be a glass of wine available before the Lenten drought begins.
ST AUGUSTINE’S DAY
The Revd Dr Helen Malcolm has agreed to celebrate the Eucharist at the 8.30am Eucharist on May the 29th, to preach at both the 8.30am and 10.30am Eucharists and to talk at the St Augustine’s Luncheon afterwards. This should be a momentous occasion, please note the date in your diary now!
ADVANCE NOTICE
Shepparton High School Chaplaincy Committee is arranging a day trip to Ballarat on Thursday March 17th to visit the Begonia display and an English rose garden. Morning tea and light lunch included $45.00.
Contact Nola MacDonald 58 213237
ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICES
7.45am Mattins
8.00am Imposition of Ashes and Eucharist
10.00am Imposition of Ashes and Eucharist
7.00pm Imposition of Ashes and Eucharist
FEBRUARY PRAYER LIST
Next week we start the Prayer List from scratch again. The list does get very long and so this is a way of ensuring that only those who really need prayer are on the list.
PRAYER SUPPORT GROUP
The Prayer Support Group has resumed its prayer meetings in the Chapel each week. They take place this year on Tuesdays starting at 7.30pm and all are welcome.
HARVEST FESTIVAL
In a mere five weeks the Harvest Festival takes place - on Mothering Sunday March the 6th. On this day there will be a breakfast between services with a speaker. For the Harvest Festival we will celebrate not only farm and garden but all occupations and avocations. So do think of something that represents your work with which to decorate the church - be it chalkboard, bedpan, bridle, chainsaw or whatever.
DIAL A PRAYER
There is a Jewish gag that phone calls to God are cheaper in Israel because it is a local call. Some years ago some joker took this seriously and an international prayer line was opened in Jerusalem for the benefit, chiefly, of Americans. Volunteers at the modest apartment housing the dial-a-prayer service expected most of the calls to be from troubled people and so they had scriptural texts on hand suited to various needs. ‘It’s a hurtin’ line, but people need it’, said one counsellor. An appropriate scriptural text for telephone companies which rip people off so shamelessly would come from Psalm 94: “The Lord shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.”
IMPORTANT DIARY DATES
Feb 8th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shrove Tuesday Pancakes
Feb 9th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Annual General Meeting
Feb 12th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding
Feb 17th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bishop in Council 4.00pm Shepparton
Feb 19th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding
Feb 20th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .St Mary’s Katandra AGM after Eucharist
Feb 22nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7.30 Eucharist and AGM St Luke’s Dookie
Feb 25th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . St Mary’s Guild Eucharist, AGM & Lunch 11.30
Feb 27th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Memorial Service Audine Fister 2.00pm
Mar 3rd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .St Luke’s Dookie AGM 7.30pm
Mar 5th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quarterly Garden Working Bee
Mar 6th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Harvest Festival & Mothering Sunday Breakfast
Mar 12th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
5th April. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lady Day - Wangaratta
16th April. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
16th April . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Organ Recital
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 29th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . St Augustine’s Day Luncheon
May 27th - 29th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Synod
Jun 2nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Men’s Breakfast
Jun 4th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ugandan Martyrs’ Prayers and 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
Sep 17th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding
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 6th January 2005
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Norm Mitchelmore, Victoria Heenan
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jenny Pleming, Charlotte Brewer
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michelle, Steve, Debbie
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wayne, Glen, Renee
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heather Fitzgerald, John Griffin
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Maureen Cormican & Chris Evans
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev Condon, Maureen Cormican
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Pearson, Heather Nicholson
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Judy Longley, Sandra Simonis
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joe Pearson, Norm Mitchelmore
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John & Jenny Pleming
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bev Reither
Mowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alan Akers, Merv & Steven Cowland
Duties for 13th February 2005
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carole Henderson, Joan Harder
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christine Jones, Nancy Noonan
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beth, Debbie, Steve
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan, Tiana, Zebedee
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Griffin, Carole Henderson
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev Condon, Carole Henderson
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Celebrant, Children
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anita Saville, Edna Wilson
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sandra Simonis, Nola Brewer
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joy Campbell, Trevor Batey
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Alan Akers, Adrian Evans
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shirley Dean
Mowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Norm Mitchelmore, Lawrie Tinning
FOR PRAYER
Joyce & Vernon Auldrige, Liam Bognar, Len Brereton, The Revd Colin Cameron, Daniel Cowan, Rae Egan, Lachlan Falls, Ron Hall, Heather Hort, Thelma Irwin, Lesley Kenna, Jackie Liversidge, Joyce Maloney, Ann Mills, Margaret Noble, Richard Pearson, Ray Prosser, Margaret Robinson, Rodger Saville, Susan Stone, Peter & Eva Swindells, May Wallace, Stan Windley, David, Elizabeth, Dorrie, Brian, Helena, Glenda, Tom, Elizabeth and Geoff, Faith, Genevieve.
Rest in Peace
Wyn Donlen
Anniversary of Death
Amelia Meloury, Jennifer Clarke 8th, John Chapman 9th, Sylvia Walls 11th, Ernest Fister, Molly Moore 12th.
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH
Monday 7th February
Fr Andrew’s day off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
6.00pm Evening Prayer
Tuesday 8th February Shrove Tuesday
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
6.00pm Pancake Party (Outside the Hall)
7.30pm Prayer Support Group - Lady Chapel
Wednesday 9th February ASH WEDNESDAY
8.00am Eucharist & Imposition of Ashes - Lady Chapel
10.00am Eucharist & Imposition of Ashes
1.30pm Hakea Lodge
6.00pm Evening Prayer
7.00pm Eucharist & Imposition of Ashes
7.30pm Annual General Meeting
Thursday 10th February Anskar
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
6.00pm Evening Prayer
7.30pm Choir Practice
Friday 11th February
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
5.30pm Wedding Rehearsal
6.00pm Evening Prayer
Saturday 12th February
8.00am Mattins- Lady Chapel
2.30pm Wedding
6.30pm Vigil Eucharist
Sunday 13th February First Sunday in Lent
8.00am Mattins - Lady Chapel
8.30am Sung Eucharist
9.00am Eucharist - Dookie
10.30amEucharist Children’s Church - St Augustine’s
10.45am Eucharist - Katandra West
5.30pm Evening Prayer - St Augustine