FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
14th May 2006
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
....the choice of words and verbal styles available to the English poet is dazzling. Think of cityscapes. In London, thanks to a mixture of fires, blitzes, ludicrous mismanagement and muddled planning, the medieval, Tudor, Georgian, Victorian and modern jostle together in higgledy-piggledy confusion. The corporate, the ecclesiastical, the imperial and the domestic coexist in blissful chaos.....The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilized too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane: each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not is a mongrel mouthful of Chaucerian, Shakespearean, Miltonic, Johnsonian, Dickensian and American. Military, naval, legal, corporate, criminal, jazz, rap and ghetto discourses are mingled at every turn. The French language, like Paris, has attempted, through its Academy, to retain its purity, to fight the advancing tides of franglais and international prefabrication. English, by comparison, is a shameless whore. This is partly what is meant by the flexibility of English: it is more than a question of the thousands more words available to us, it is also a question of the numberless styles, modes, jargons and slangs we have recourse to. If by poetry we mean something more than the decorative, noble and refined, then English is a perfect language for poetry.
Stephen Fry “The Ode Less Travelled” published by Hutchinson.
QUID PRO QUO
A lawyer’s dog escaped from its leash and headed straight for the local butcher. It ran through the door scattering sawdust off the floor, and grabbed a leg of lamb off the counter. The butcher went to the lawyer and said, “If a dog, running unleashed, steals a leg of lamb from my shop, do I have the right to demand payment for it from the dog’s owner?” “Absolutely,” said the lawyer. The butcher said, “Fine, then you owe me $12 for the leg of lamb your dog nicked from me this morning.” Without a word the lawyer wrote the butcher a cheque for $12. The next day, a courier delivered an envelope from the lawyer. The butcher read the contents. “Consultation:$50.”
THE BEST GROUNDS FOR CHARITY
When asked why he constantly gave money to beggars, Dr Johnson replied: “Madam, to enable them to beg on.”
FUNEREAL THOUGHTS
Andrew Neaum
Life is a mixture of happiness and sorrow, tragedy and triumph, joy and woe. That peculiar poet William Blake put it thus:
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.
When someone we love has died tragically or prematurely, the easiest thing, certainly at funerals, is to ignore the woe, focus determinedly and grimly on the joy, deny the grief and dwell only upon past happiness. You see this especially at non-church, “funeral parlour” ceremonies (though not at quite all of them I am pleased to say). Escapism is easier than confrontation with truth.
But William Blake has got it right. In human existence, joy and woe are woven fine. They cannot really be un-picked. Not at funerals, nor even at weddings. We married off our daughter Elizabeth a couple of weeks ago, what joy and happiness that was, but also, deep down in my heart, grief too, at her loss to me and mine. Because,
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
C’est la vie.... it is life!
At funerals, especially premature ones, or sudden and tragic ones, we need to acknowledge the truth, not turn away from it. To acknowledge it, is the first and necessary step in accepting it. When we are shell-shocked, shattered, gutted by grief and tragedy, we need to admit it, express it and, like the authors of the Psalms and of the Book of Job, to shake our fist at our Creator shed our tears and cry, “Why, why why......?”
This is where the great Christian story is so helpful and why church funerals are usually preferable to others. In Church funerals, if properly done, our personal tragedy, our subjective and emotional turmoil, our ganglion of grief, is given a context, is placed alongside of and fitted into a larger story. It is given perspective, a modicum of objectivity. To our subjective, emotional chaos is granted the beginning of a pattern and shape that are reflected in the sweet pattern and shape of the funeral liturgy itself.
There need be no soppy, platitudinous answers from the priest or officiant. After all, the bible’s Job didn’t get his answer, nor did the psalmists or Jesus of Nazareth, who, quoting the Psalms, gasped as he died “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me.....” Crucifixion!
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
C’est la vie.... it is life!
At Church funerals, more than at others, because part of a great tradition, a tradition that encompasses and attempts to contextualise and make sense of both joy and grief, we can be honest with ourselves, and acknowledge the truth. We can shed our tears, shake our fists and howl our anguish, devastated by grief and life’s unsatisfactoriness, but remember and recall too that,
Under every grief and pine,
runs a joy with silken twine.
Life is not all tragedy. Prior to a funeral the priest sits down with the family of the bereaved to talk about the funeral and, more importantly, about the beloved deceased. This is usually a heart-warming and moving experience. It is one of those times in life when the guard is down, and love and joy and regret and true feelings are revealed, without the constraints, artifice and hypocrisy that polite society usually demands and receives from us. Life’s small joys and achievements are recalled, savoured and celebrated, are seen to be of the essence and not peripheral. Laughter mingles with tears, joy with regret, and the celebrant begins to get an essential feel of family dynamics which will enable him all the better to objectify subjectivity, by fitting the intensely personal story he has been vouchsafed a true glimpse of, neatly into the great Christian story.
It also enables him to balance the honesty of grief, anguish and shaking fists at God and life, with the expression of honest gratitude and joy in the life and achievements of the deceased.
Under every grief and pine
runs a joy with silken twine.
In a church funeral too, there is the great comfort of the church setting itself. Attention can be drawn to this and people advised to look around at what is so often so beautiful a building. All those arches, quoins, great rafters, buttresses and thousands of bricks that give shape, significance, beauty and mystery to a cube of space, a block of emptiness, a nog of nothing, on a city’s unremarkable or even squalid street.
Why? How? To what purpose? Because there is more than nothing to nothing, there’s a reality behind reality, there’s a mystery to existence and being that simply cries out to be acknowledged, named as God and to be deferred to, and turned to at times like tragic funerals.
God is revealed in our sweet tradition and articulated in our beautiful buildings as a loving God, as one who opens his arms in sacrificing love on a cross to everyone. To everyone, without exception, church-goer, non-church-goer, saint and sinner and to whom we can entrust our beloved deceased.
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.
May the souls of our beloved departed rest in peace and rise in glory. Amen.
LET THEM EAT CAKE
All the hullabaloo to do with last week’s Budget and the billions of dollars being splashed over an already affluence-drugged, mammon-maddened and wealth-sodden society, while children starve by the millions in other parts of the world, brought to my mind the famous saying attributed wrongly to Marie Antoinette “Let them eat cake”.
It is a saying that illustrates insensitivity to and incomprehension of the brute realities of life for those who are unfortunate. It comes from Rousseau’s Confessions where we read of a great princess who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, “Let them eat cake.”
Andrew Neaum
VINES AND VINEYARDS
Today’s Gospel comes from the famous passage in St John about the “True Vine”. There follows a little information about vines and vineyards as context, derived largely from the Oxford Companion to the Bible.
It is in Isaiah’s “Song of the Vineyard” (Isaiah 5:1-7) that we find the best biblical description of the different steps that were required to plant a vineyard and successfully harvest its grapes. First the soil had to be cleared of stones before planting the vine stocks in it. The stones could be used to build a wall to keep out animals such as boars (Psalm 80:13) and foxes (Song of Solomon 2:15). A watchtower might also be constructed to ensure the safety of the crop, especially at harvest time (Isaiah 5:2). The vinedresser could prune away the new small shoots so that the main fruit-bearing stems would obtain greater nourishment (Leviticus 25:3, Isaiah 18:5, John 15:2) A wine press would be constructed, usually hewn of rock, because the main purpose of raising grapes in ancient times was for the making of wine.
The symbolic use of the vine occurs throughout the bible. In Psalm 80:8, Israel is identified as a vine: “You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.” While this imagery is used positively to indicate how Israel will bear fruit as a vine (Hosea 14:7), more commonly Israel is described as an unproductive vine (Jeremiah 8:13:cf 6:9), a vine that is plucked up and left to wither away (Ezekiel 19:12), a choice vine that has become wild (Jeremiah 2:21). Closely related to this imagery is the portrayal of Israel as a vineyard, as in Isaiah 5:1-7. Here Israel, whom Yahweh planted looking for choice grapes, had yielded wild grapes (Jeremiah 12:10-11). Many have understood John’s image of Jesus as “the true vine” (John 15:1) as a deliberate contrast to the portrayal of Israel as a vine/vineyard that has not proved fruitful.
In the Gospels, Jesus is quoted as using the vineyard in two parables: the parable of the labourers in the vineyard who were hired at different hours of the day (Matt 20:1-16) and the parable of the wicked vinedressers (Matt 21:33-41) the description in the latter of the work done in the vineyard is derived from Isaiah 5:1-7)
CONGRATULATIONS
Birthdays
Charlotte Brewer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20th May
Baptism Sunday 14th May
Maddison Hodges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14th May
Congratulations to parents Andrew &Amanda
EVENING GUILD
Once again we are having our Annual Raffle Garage Sale/Op Shop on June 23rd and 24th. We need saleable articles for it, so delve into those cupboards once again please. For information, or pick-ups: Margaret Kidman 58251962, Elaine McMullen 58219404, Betty Bush 58211558
MEMORIAL WALL
The Dedication of the new Memorial Wall takes place at 2.00pm on Sunday 21st of May. Please bring along a plate of something suitable for afternoon tea. The simple ceremony will be followed by afternoon tea in the hall which should provide an opportunity to greet some of the friends of St Augustine’s now living elsewhere and to hear just the right amount of speechifying and no more.
PARISH COUNCIL
There is a Parish Council Meeting on Wednesday at 7.30pm
PRIESTS’ RETREAT
The Rector is away on Retreat from Tuesday mid- morning to Friday noon and looks forward to it.
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
The second of the training sessions for those who wish to be a part of the referral service that is being started by the Social Responsibilities Group is on this Thursday 18th of May from 1.00pm to 4.00pm.
RECIPES
The Afternoon Guild are in the process of compiling a Recipe Book to print for sale as a fund raiser. Anyone who is prepared to part with a Family Favourite or a tried and true recipe, please leave it or them at the office for either Val or Pat. Thank You.
GARDEN WORKING BEE
A special working Bee is to be held Saturday next, the 20th May, to have our gardens looking their best for the Memorial Wall dedication service to be held the following day. Do join us for some occupational therapy.
Barbara Whyte
RICE STRAW MULCH
The Shepparton High School Chaplaincy Committee is selling bales of premium Rice Straw for mulch, as a fund raiser. It contains no weeds, takes two years to break down and is environmentally friendly to plants and wildlife. Orders can be placed by phoning Mrs Joan Guymer on 587219056 or Mrs Margaret Watters on 58213136 by the 18th of May. The bales can be picked up at Ford Reserve on Saturday 27th May 2006 between 9.00am and noon.
CHAPLAINCY ANNUAL MEETING
The Annual meeting of the Shepparton High School Chaplaincy Committee will be held on Thursday 18th May at the VCE Centre, Shepparton High School beginning at 7.30pm. The guest speaker will be the Revd. Moss Arnot, Chaplaincy Field Support Manager. Supper will be served at the conclusion of the meeting and all are welcome to attend.
THE SOIREE
Do put your name down on the list in the Narthex as a participant in July’s Soiree. Don’t be reticent or modest. We need you.
GUILD MEETINGS THIS WEEK
The Afternoon Guild Meets this week on Tuesday at 1.30pm in the Supper Room and the Evening Guild meets at 2.00pm on Thursday also in the Supper Room.
TWO IMPORTANT DATES
There is a Hospital Aged Care Visitors meeting on Wednesday 17th May at 11.30 in the Library . Please bring your own lunch. There is a meeting of the Grief Support Group on Thursday 18th May at 7.30pm in the Library.
IMPORTANT DIARY DATES
May 16th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Afternoon Guild
May 17th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parish Council
May18th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Evening Guild
May 18th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Volunteer training 1pm
May 18th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grief Support meeting
May 16th -19th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clergy Retreat
May 21st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dedication of Memorial Wall
May 25th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fair Meeting 4.30
May 28th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patronal Festival St Augustine’
Jun 3rd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seasonal Garden working bee
Jun 4th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kiwanis Club Church Parade - 10.30
Jun 17th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
Jun 23rd & 24th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Evening Guild Garage Sale
July 28th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Soiree
Jul 30th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Out Reach” publication day
Aug 12th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Men’s Breakfast 8.00 Eucharist, Breakfast 8.30
Aug 18th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Youth Event
Aug 25th -15th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rector’s Holiday
Sept. 1st.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seasonal Garden Working Bee
Oct 1st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pet Service 5.30pm
Oct 15th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Out Reach” publication day
Oct 21st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
Oct 23 - 26. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Clergy Conference
Oct 28th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
Oct 28th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Men’s Breakfast 8.00 Eucharist, Breakfast 8.30
Oct 29th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Confirmation
Nov 3rd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Youth Event
Nov 4th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding
Nov 11th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Church Fair
Nov 18th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding
Dec 2nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Seasonal Garden Working Bee
REQUESTS FOR PRAYER
Liam Bognar, Percy Barton, David Burrow, Nan Cowan, Hamish Fisher, Bill Hunter, Brian Loxley, Merle Maskell, Bob McKellar, Denise McKellar, Judy McGuire, Marvin Mould, Leon Myer, Margaret Noble, Peter & Eva Swindells, Marj Watts, Barry Wood, Glenda, Andrew, Barbara, Brian, Cherryl, Claire, Heather,Jason, Jenny, Joan, John, Kerry, Leah, Lilian, Lorna, Mary & Family, Noel & Brynda, Raelene, Renee, Shannon, Stewart, Tania, Zoe & Zac.
Rest in peace
Geoff Carmichael, Bosilka Damianopoulos
Anniversary of Death:
Pamela Oliver 15th, Doris Buzza, Eva Ford 16th, Robert Simonis, Wilfred Parry, Marjorie Sweet, Clive Baker 17th, Don Classen, Cladys Turner, Enid Hughes 18th, Kathleen Govan-Smith, Ian Robinson 19th, Evelyn Phillips, Robert Coghlan Valma Ralph 20th.
Duties for 14th May 2006
Celebrant 6.30pm Sat 13th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No service
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Celebrant 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant Dookie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Andrew Neaum
Celebrant Katandra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liz Gyles, Margaret Neaum
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jenny Pleming, Nancy Noonan
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Michelle, Steve, Debbie
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jenny, Joe & Zebedee
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ian Bryce, Heather Fitzgerald
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carole Henderson, Bev Condon
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Celebrant, Children
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beryl Goodfellow, Erma Wilson
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cheryl Richards, Frank Steen
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bob Galt, Norm Mitchelmore
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John & Jenny Pleming
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pat Griffin
Mowing 12th or13th May. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Norm Mitchelmore, Lawrie Tinning
Duties for 21st May 2006
Celebrant 6.30 Saturday 20th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Celebrant Dookie 8.45am. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Celebrant Katandra 10.45am. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Norm Weaver, Carole Henderson
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan McCann, Jenny Moran
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beth, Michelle
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joan, Henry, Polly
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carole Henderson, Bev Condon
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Evans, Maureen Cormican
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Margaret Neaum, Nancy Noonan
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Pearson, Cecily McDonnell
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jenny Moran, Sandra Simonis
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Merv & Gwyn Cowland
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adrian Evans, Alan Akers
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gwyn Cowland
Mowing 20th or 21st May. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lionel Waterson, Adrian Evans
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH
Monday 15th May
Not the Rector’s Day Off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
12.00noon Funeral - Bosilka Damianopoulos
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Tuesday 16th May
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
10.30am Playgroup
2.00pm Afternoon Guild - Supper Room
3.30pm Start of Diocesan Priest’s Retreat - Harrietville
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Wednesday 17th May
7.45am Mattins only - Lady Chapel
8.45am Nursing Home Round
10.00am Eucharist- St Augustine’s
11.30am Hospital Aged Care Visitors Meeting - Library
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
7.30pm Parish Council Meeting - Narthex
Thursday 18th May
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
11.00am Eucharist - Harmony Village
1.00pm Social Responsibilities Training Day - Narthex
1.30pm Evening Guild - Supper Room
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
5.30pm Choir Practice
7.30pm Grief Support Group - Library
Friday 19th May B Dunstan of Canterbury
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
11.00am Eucharist - Ave Maria
12.00noon Rector returns from Priest’s Retreat
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Saturday 20th May
Associate Priest’s Day Off !
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
6.30pm Vigil Eucharist - Lady Chapel
Sixth Sunday of Easter 21st May
8.30am Sung Eucharist - St Augustine’s
8.45am Eucharist - St Luke’s Dookie
10.30am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
10.45am Eucharist - St Mary’s Katandra
12.00noon Orthodox Baptism
2.00pm Memorial Wall Dedication
5.30pm Evening Prayer