THE LAST SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY
HARVEST FESTIVAL
26th February 2006
Graphics and cartoons appear only in the printed version
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
Dashing from one mattins to the next, Diana’s small car hurrying round the big bend of Sandy Hill, I am suddenly reminded of a thrilling cry from childhood, “They are cutting at Wilson’s!” Because there on the right is a freshly mown barley-field, level as a new carpet. Its gold beats against the windscreen and burnishes our faces.....The barley fields can have long stalks for thatchers but mostly they are short-stalked with top heavy heads. They hiss and gently rattle with elfin applause..... Years ago there would have been a rush to make the first loaf from it for Lammas - Loaf Mass in the early English church, celebrated in thanksgiving for the harvest - on the first of August. Barley has grand antecedents in scripture. Christ’s own family first took root in a barley field when farmer Boaz fell in love with the widowed girl he had allowed to glean. And it was barley loaves which fed the five thousand, symbolically satisfying the world’s spiritual hunger. Ronald Blythe “Borderland”
This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. G. B. Shaw
At the Harvest festival in church, the area behind the pulpit was piled high with IXL tins of fruit for the old-age Pensioners. We had collected the tinned fruit from door to door. Most of it came from the old-age pensioners. Clive James - “Unreliable Memoirs”
HE WOULD A WOOING GO
An Australian business man, shy and with little if any romance in his life was scanning the books for sale at the new Hong Kong airport when he noticed a thick paperback entitled “How to Woo”. Given that he was scheduled to spend quite a lot of time in that part of the world he thought that it might, just might, prove useful. Knowledge of the appropriate social etiquette might well improve his life romantically speaking. Settling back in his seat after takeoff, in a Boeing heading for Beijing, he was devastated to discover that he had just purchased volume two of the Hong Kong telephone directory.
THE RECTOR’S UNOFFICIAL REPORT
In early March a Rector gives
an “Annual Report”
Of usually a dull, immodest
wordy, dreary sort.
Pretending that his parish grows
and goes from strength to strength,
A lie the which to propagate
he’ll go to any length.
And where himself he justifies
applauds, defends, excuses,
Laying any blame that’s due
on others he accuses.
While he, a paragon of virtue,
is called by God to come
To be deferred to, preach and teach
(and idle on his bum).
Reports like this are not my scene.
Blunt truth I much prefer,
As anyone who reads this verse
should readily infer.
Here goes then! In the year that’s past
our parish didn’t grow.
We’re where we were this time last year,
or very nearly so.
This isn’t any body’s fault
unless of course it’s mine,
For I have been an inefficient,
less than focussed swine.
I rise each morning very early,
my prayers to say contrive,
Opening up our lovely church
sometimes at half past five,
But there, at prayer, I often find
I wallow in self-doubt,
Or worse, I scribble evil verse
instead of being devout.
The hours I spend perfecting sermons
so elegant of phrase,
Can be as much to Neaum’s glory
as for his Maker’s praise.
Those pew sheets with their jokes and quotes
are made to make folk think
Of God! But also that I’m clever,
for which, of course, they stink.
My visits to the sick and dying
spring often from compassion.
Yet sometimes of reluctant duty
there’s far too good a ration.
Teaching fools in schools is fun,
but only as I do it.
In prospect and in preparation,
I hate the task and rue it.
Although I love my faithful flock
and value and admire them,
Should they, lukewarm, desert their Church
I want to roast and fry them,
And strike them from the parish roll
for Laodiceanism.
Frustrated rage can sometimes be
an Andrew Neaumism!
Very far from organised,
a great procrastinater,
I push aside essential tasks
to do, too late, much later.
That most of you can tolerate
so fallible a swine,
Indicates that all of you
might share these sins of mine!
That I’m acceptable as priest
because I’m one of you,
No haloed saint without a taint,
but just a sinner too.
A better priest I’m bound to be
if one both like and for you.
It means my sins and faults amount,
in some strange way to virtue!
PLUCKING BLACKBERRIES
Andrew Neaum
To walk into the kitchen, laden with tomatoes from your own garden, or cauliflowers, or peas, or broccoli, is the closest most of us get to the primitive joy of harvest. Usually our wife gratifies our legitimate pride with a whistle of admiration. Unless, of course, it is zucchini! Then she is quite likely to take the big one that we allowed to get away from us and which grew sixteen inches in the ten minutes we took off to collect the post, and beat us over the head with it. Zucchinis are a curse: zucchini cake, zucchini soup, zucchini pickle, zucchini salad, zucchini curry, zucchini this, zucchini that. The house-wife’s summer is ruined by zucchini. Too fruitful by half, they are always there, reproaching her, making her feel inadequate. The summer landslide of zucchinis is a form of wife abuse, is more a problem, in middle class homes, than domestic violence or abuse by husbands. I am surprised the feminists haven’t declared war on the prolific brutes.
Really to appreciate the harvest you have directly to depend upon it. Bales of wool to the sheep farmer and silos of grain to the wheat farmer, are rather more vital than an armful of garden tomatoes to the suburban gardener, not least because they mark the difference between survival and defeat. So when the harvest is safely in, there is great relief and joy if it is a good one, foreboding if it is a bad one.
Supermarket harvest
In ancient times the harvest was even more vital. If it failed you starved, as did your village. Everyone was directly dependent upon the harvest. Once it was safely gathered in, the long lean winter ahead seemed less daunting and it was time for merry making and for giving thanks to God the giver good. Suburbanites in the affluent west, who eat apples from New Zealand, oranges from Brazil, salmon from Canada and prawns from Taiwan, are insulated from what the harvest really means.
We don’t plough the fields and scatter
the good seed on the land,
We walk the aisles of supermarkets,
where everything’s to hand.
We are cushioned by affluence and well-stocked supermarkets from the elemental rhythms and realities of life. So of course there is an air of unreality about Harvest Festivals. They are just a little bit of fun, a way the parson has of injecting a little excitement into the dull Christian round.
For much the same reason there is an air of unreality about God too. Cushioned from elemental reality by affluence, painkillers, switch-on entertainment and sport, God, inevitably recedes into the background of our lives. He becomes little more than a comforting tradition, a nostalgic backwater of our lives, and merits a doffing of the hat at Christmas and Easter, perhaps, but little more.
Imagination, empathy and courage
So to be truly and intelligently human, and truly and intelligently Christian today, requires more imagination, empathy and radical courage, than it did in days gone by. It is all too easy to slip into hedonism, into pleasure-seeking, to live only for pleasure, to be blind to the elemental, the ultimate, to the seasonal rhythms, to the miracle of life, germination, growth, flowering, fruiting, death.
Courage, imagination and empathy are needed to turn off the television to think, to wrestle with ultimate questions, courage is required sometimes to turn the radio off to listen, to bathe in silence and so hear the still small voice of God. Empathy is demanded if we are to enter imaginatively into the lives not only of friends, family and neighbours, but also of farmers, workers, African or Bangladeshi peasants, or the lives of scriptural heroes and heroines.
Nothing has changed. The harvest remains vital, we still depend upon the rhythms of the seasons, and upon providence, God’s providence.
We just happen to be fortunate, or unfortunate enough, to live in a mind-numbingly affluent part of the world.
Blinded by the steam of gravy
Nothing has changed. Even the case for God is as good as it ever was. It is not reason or science that drives most of us from God, it is a self- satisfied sense of self-sufficiency. It is affluence, having more than enough to eat and to do. We’re blinded by gravy’s steam.
The world we live in is as glorious as ever it was, is as charged with God’s grandeur as ever it was. The rhythms of life go on as ever they did, the orderly procession of summer, autumn, winter, spring, the underlying reliability of nature which enables harvests and elicits gratitude, is as much with us today as ever it was. The magpie’s song is as beautiful today as it was a hundred and fifty years ago. Jesus of Nazareth is no less intriguing today than of old.
All we need is imagination, empathy, and radical courage, to lift our snouts from the trough, to turn down the din, and to look, listen, see, taste, smell, think and be different. Different enough to see a loving providence behind the harvest, to want to acknowledge that love, and so be a part of that harvest that Jesus talked of in today’s Gospel.
Imagination, empathy, radical courage are required to look, listen, see, taste, smell, think and be different.... because, as Elizabeth Barrett Browning said:
Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes -
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
CONGRATULATIONS
Birthdays:
Barbara Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sunday 26th Feb
Jason O’Keefe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday 26th Feb
John Pleming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 28th Feb
Hilary Akers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wednesday 1st March
Angus Fisher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Friday 3rd March
THANK YOU DEBBIE AND STEVE
One of the great pleasures for me, since coming to St Augustine’s, has been the faithful and cheerful serving at 8.30am on Sundays, of Steve and Debbie. They have been on duty Sunday after Sunday, week in week out and willing to come along for special occasions as well. Debbie’s lovely smile and Steve’s sense of humour have lightened Sunday mornings for me enormously. They have decided now to drop their serving to once a month and do a bit of scouting around to different churches on other Sundays. I am very glad that they remain a part of our serving team and on behalf of all the 8.30 worshippers thank them very much for their wonderful, willing and cheerful service. Any volunteers to take on serving at 8.30am on the other Sundays?
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
LENTEN STUDIES
There will be two sessions each week of the Lenten Studies this year. One on Tuesdays at 1.30pm, preceded by a Eucharist at 1.00am and there will be 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. We will be considering “The Return of the Prodigal” based upon a famous painting by Rembrandt and the clergy will share the leadership of each group.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
After the 7.00pm Ash Wednesday Eucharist there takes place the Annual General Meeting. So today is your last chance to nominate Councillors or Wardens. We trust that the meeting will be brisk and good humoured and all are encouraged to attend.
PANCAKES
The Shrove Tuesday Pancake Party is at 6.00pm this Tuesday, February the 28th. There is a gold coin donation charge only. Pancakes are delicious if not too thick and imaginatively filled. There could even be a glass of wine before the Lenten drought begins.
ST AUGUSTINE’S DAY
The Revd Ken Parker, Rector of Castlemaine has agreed to preach at the 8.30am and 10.30am Eucharists on May the 28th our Patronal Festival, and to talk at the St Augustine’s Luncheon afterwards. By all accounts he is well worth listening to and an engaging man, please note the date in your diary now and come!
A.G.M. ST LUKE’S
The AGM of St Luke’s Dookie takes place in the church on Tuesday 7th March starting with a Eucharist at 7.30pm.
COPIES OF A.G.M. ACCOUNTS AND REPORTS
The Accounts for last year and all the Reports that have been submitted for the Annual General Meeting are available today. Please help yourself to a copy if you would like one. All Reports will be taken as read at the actual meeting on Wednesday!
NAME TAGS
Please wear your name tags both in church and narthex as an act of charity for amnesiacs.
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER
The World Day of Prayer service this year takes place on March 3rd at the Salvation Army Hall on the corner of Orr and Nixon streets at 10.30 am. Th Speaker is Kaylene Fyfe and the theme is ‘Signs of the Times’ South Africa. Fr Andrew will be talking at the service in the Uniting Church at Katandra at 8.00pm on that day.
THE PRAYER LINE
If there is any urgent need for prayer ring Hilary Akers 58 314267. She will then set the Prayer Chain going.
TRANSPORT
If you have difficulty in getting to Church let the clergy or Parish Office know and a lift can always be arranged.
LADY DAY SATURDAY MARCH 25TH
We are again conducting the Pie Stall and Raffle. Raffle books are now in circulation if you would like a book contact Nola Brewer. All funds raised go to A.B.M.
GARDEN COMMITTEE
On Friday 3rd of March our monthly meeting will be held at 10.00am in the Library. The Autumn Working Bee will be held on Saturday 4th March, with again an early start and breakfast. The more the merrier, do join us.
Barbara Whyte
OUTREACH
Anyone who you know who would appreciate receiving a copy of “Outreach”, let us know their name and address. Let them know that they should take into account the cost of producing the magazine. Articles for the next Outreach are invited. Ron Rose - Editor
IMPORTANT DIARY DATES
Mar 1st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AGM (Ash Wednesday)
Mar 17th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Youth Event
Mar 18th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weddings 2.00pm & 4.00pm
Mar 25th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lady Day
Mar 26th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Out Reach” publication day
April 9th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bishop’s Visitation - Palm Sunday
April 21st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Synod
April 22nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weddings 3.00pm & 4.30pm
April 23rd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding
May 4th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Training of Social Responsibilities Volunteers
May 7th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dedication of Memorial Wall
May 13th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Men’s Breakfast 8.00 Eucharist, Breakfast 8.30
May 13th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 1.00pm & 3.30pm
May 13th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Turaton Concert
May 28th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Patronal Festival St Augustine’s
Jun 17th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
Jun 22- Jul 14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rector on leave
July 28th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Soiree
Jul 30th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Out Reach” publication day
Aug 12th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Men’s Breakfast 8.00 Eucharist, Breakfast 8.30
Aug 18th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Youth Event
Oct 8th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
Duties for February 26th 2006
Celebrant 6.30 Saturday 25th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Canon Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Revd Gail Bryce
Celebrant 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Canon Andrew Neaum
Celebrant Dookie 8.45am. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Canon Andrew Neaum
Celebrant Katandra 10.45am. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Revd Gail Bryce
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jeanette Smith, Victoria Heenan
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Pearson, Nancy Noonan
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Michelle, Steve, Debbie
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jenny, Sally, Georgia substitute
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Griffin, Margaret Neaum
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev Condon, Carole Henderson
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heather Carlyon, Nancy Fennell
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eileen Quaife, Joyce Cavill
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hilder Lidgard, Jenny Moran
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Norm Mitchelmore, Trevor Batey
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adrian Evans, Alan Akers
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Val Rose
Mowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kay McGregor, Merv Cowland
Duties for 5th March 2006
Celebrant 6.30pm Sat 4th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Canon Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Canon Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .The Revd. Gail Bryce
Celebrant Dookie 8.45am. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .The Revd. Gail Bryce
Celebrant Katandra 10.45am. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Canon Andrew Neaum
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Frank Harder, Liz Gyles
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lionel Waterson, Nancy Fennell
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michelle, Margaret Neaum, John Griffin
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jenny, Zebedee, Joe
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carole Henderson, Bev Condon
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maureen Cormican, Chris Evans
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carole Henderson, Maureen Cormican
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gwen Betson, Shirley Dean
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Charolotte Brewer, Nola Brewer
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Trevor Batey, Joy Campbell
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlotte Brewer, Nola Brewer
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bev Reither
Mowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Norm Mitchelmore, Lawrie Tinning
REQUESTS FOR PRAYER
Liam Bognar, David Burrow, Nan Cowan, Margaret Dove, Hamish Fisher, Claire Horder, Bill Hunter, Tim Maher, Denise McKellar, Leon Meyer, Ann Mills, Margaret Noble, Margaret Osbrough, Peter & Eva Swindells, Kon Tokarew, Carole,Cheryl, Christine, Glenda, Ian, Jason, Jenny & family, Joanne, Joe, Lorna, Mary, Murray, Raeline, Shannon, Sherena.
Rest in Peace
Clarry Connor, Pamela Reich, Vera Woodhead.
Anniversary of Death: Suzanne Shepherd, Frederick Baldwyn 27th, Francis Simpson, John Phillips, Valerie Kennedy 28th, Margaret Stammers 29th, Ailsa Manley, Ruby Young 1st, Charles Day 2nd, Mary Shearer 3rd, Ronald Ford 4th.
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH
Monday 27th February
Canon Andrew’s Day off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Tuesday 28th February
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
1.30pm Afternoon Guild - Narthex
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
6.00pm Pancakes - Parish Hall
7.30pm Enquirers’ Group - Library
Wednesday 1st March
8.00am Eucharist Imposition of Ashes - Lady Chapel
8.45am Nursing Home Round
10.00am Eucharist & Imposition of Ashes - St Augustine’s
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
7.00pm Eucharist & Imposition of Ashes then AGM
Thursday 2nd March
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
10.00am Diocesan Catechumenate Meeting - Library
11.00am Eucharist - Multi Cultural Centre
5.30pm Choir Practice
Friday 3rd March World Day of Prayer
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
10.30am World Day of Prayer - Salvation Army Hall
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
8.00pm World Day of Prayer - Uniting Church Katandra
Saturday 4th March
The Revd. Gail Bryce’s Day Off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist (traditional rite) - Lady Chapel
6.30pm Vigil Eucharist - Lady Chapel
Sunday 5th March
8.30am Sung Eucharist - St Augustine’s
8.45am Eucharist - Dookie
10.30amEucharist - St Augustine’s
10.45am Eucharist - Katandra
5.30pm Evening Prayer - St Martin’s Chapel