ST AUGUSTINE’S DAY
28th May 2006
Graphics and cartoons appear only in the printed version
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
I have met in my life two persons, one a man, the other a woman, who convinced me that they were persons of sanctity. Utterly different in character, upbringing and interests as they were, their effect on me was the same. In their presence I felt myself to be ten times as nice, ten times as intelligent, ten times as good-looking as I really am. W H Auden
Reading The Penguin Book of Saints, I am sorry to learn that St Catherine of the Catherine wheel never existed. Another nonexistent saint is St. Uncumber, who, according to legend, miraculously grew a beard in order to avoid marriage. Whom now are wives to invoke when their husbands are too sexually importunate? W H Auden
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say; sanctity is the state about which theology has nothing to say. W H Auden
PROSECUTING “THE ADVOCATE”
Andrew Neaum
I find the diocesan paper, “The Advocate”, an almost intolerable bore, addicted as I am to sharper, critical and more pungent journalism. I can bring myself to give it only a disdainful skim before I move on to saltier and less condescending and self-congratulatory reading. Because of this, I have decided that every now and then I shall provide a critique of it in our pew sheet.
This could be useful in a number of ways. For a start it will force me to read the paper more thoroughly, and so perhaps uncover nuggets of worth that otherwise I might have missed. It will enable me to provide a context for some of its articles, which could put pew sheet readers more into the diocesan picture, and sometimes even ease their conscience by providing justification for ignoring a particular article. There is even a remote possibility of my critique improving the editorial committee’s performance, because I might well be prevailed upon to email it to each of them. One or two might have the broadness of mind actually to read it and take it to heart. Above all else though, writing a critique be will be enjoyable and disdain transmuted to enjoyment is a good thing.
Hagiographic puff, fluff and flam.
First some general remarks. My main objection to the Advocate is that it is not journalism at all. It is public relations spin. It appears to exist to promote the diocese less by telling the truth than ignoring it, and spinning almost exclusively happy little stories of success. Anything that is ill, failing, or appalling in the diocese is ignored. Problems and divisions, vital information as to the tensions that exist among the clergy and how they are being addressed or ignored are almost never reported or commented upon. There are no letters to the editor ever printed. I recall some years ago being asked to write a little introductory article on a new priest who was taking up an appointment in the diocese. I happened to mention that he was divorced, a useful and accurate piece of information for his prospective flock. It was censored from my article without any reference to me. I presumed this to be because it is deemed that priests are better not revealed as sometimes divorced. “The Advocate” is such a jolly, happy, anodyne, condescending, hagiographic piece of puff, fluff and flam, it makes very dull reading for anyone with any juice in his veins!
The Editorial Board
The Editorial Board itself is one of the problems. Its longest standing members are the Bishop’s wife and an Archdeacon. Both, quite properly, upholders and defenders of the establishment. There is not much chance of an independent, objective or critical viewpoint there though. “Freedom of the press” we shout, but not, of course at home.
The Current Issue
So to the current issue. The lead story on the front page tells of the first church service, held on Easter Day, in a college classroom, of a new worshipping community at Baranduda. There are happy pictures of the event and two accounts of it, the first by the Rector of Wodonga and the second by the Principal of the Anglican College at Baranduda. It is wonderful news, sixty seven people, including the bishop present, an occasion well worth trumpeting. One would have welcomed a note of realism however. An acknowledgement of the fact that this first occasion was “seeded” by both the congregation of St John’s Wodonga and the school. I believe the next service at Baranduda comprised little more than half a dozen worshippers, which of course reveals the project to be a courageous one, involving the risk of failure and certainly the likelihood of a long haul to lasting success.
The second front page story is a report on the first day of Synod. I had good reason not to be present, but the report indicates that it was a jolly, happy and positive event, as you would expect in “The Advocate”. Regrettably there is no attempt to comment upon, or explain, what lies behind Fr Matthew Healey’s interesting proposition, which is merely mentioned. In fact it is all to do with whether or not to pass the “enabling canon” to allow the ordination of women to become normative rather than exceptional in the diocese. The big question being, do we want, need or desire an “auxiliary bishop” for conservatives, which, as things stand, will be a consequence of passing the canon? As usual, what is truly crucial to the future of the diocese is passed over and the general reader is left in the putative bliss of ignorance.
Thomas Fuller and John Pryor
Page two, as usual, contains an item from the bishop. This time it is made up of his Synod sermon (by request, we are informed). Like most sermons it is a worthy effort, but far too long, I didn’t make it to the end. Like the 17th century priest and historian Thomas Fuller who, when reading scripture, confesses to being unable to resist turning the page to see how much more is to come, my spirits also sank when I saw, over the page, how much followed. Most clergy, when under pressure, are prone to succumb to the too easy compliments passed about sermons to think they will double as articles. They rarely make scintillating reading. The other article on the second page is by the Rev’d Dr Paul Dalzell. He bangs his Catechumenate drum again, one of his great enthusiasms, and he is always worth reading.
Page three contains an informative piece of workmanlike journalism by Suzie Don Leonard. It realises the promise of its headline: “Anglicare Hume News”. The only other article on that page is by the Registrar, Dr John Pryor and is an advertisement masquerading as an article. It invites us to fork out $4754.00 on a proposed 16 day tour of Israel to be led by him and the Bishop. Not for me thank you, and it should have been boxed with all the other advertisements.
Self praise not recommended.
The most difficult page to edit and collate in any diocesan paper is the parish pump material in the column “Around the Diocese”. Too few parishes ever send in any items of news, and those that are sent in are usually as dull as a Low Sunday sermon and boringly self-congratulatory. I refrain from criticising so difficult a page to compile, though it could do with an injection of editorial flair and panache to make it more digestible. However, elsewhere in the paper there are two articles from the parishes of two members of the editorial board that should have been reduced by three quarters and made items of the “Around the Diocese” column. The first tells us about Cobram parish’s Lenten Studies and how much they were enjoyed, the case in every parish in the diocese, one would have thought. Five hundred or so words that should have been fifty. Then there is a whole half-page devoted to a “Memorable Holy Week at Benalla” by the parish’s Rector. Too full of superlatives, we are given a precis of the visiting preacher’s sermons, told that the “full rites of the Church were celebrated” (I should think so too, they were in Shepparton), of packed churches (of course) and so on. All this is in a jolly and condescending Sunday-school teacher’s style. What should have been a single, economical paragraph has been inflated into eleven, a happy occasion into the Second Coming.
A surprise in this edition of “The Advocate” is a half page article by Peter Martin in response to a previous article on Intelligent Design by our learned Registrar. I disagree with pretty well every word in Peter’s article, but it is unusual to read a dissentient piece in the Advocate, and for that it is welcome.
The best at the back
Fr Ellis Jones is one of the most talented, quirky and intelligent of writers and thinkers in the Australian Anglican Church. That such a sophisticate should be reduced to writing primarily for the young, and under archly hideous titles like “Yungwunz” and “Yunklies” (even if his own inventions) is little short of a crime. He has told me in conversation that his more outlandish and inventive flights of fancy are sometimes censored, which does not surprise but disappoints me. Even labouring under his present constrains, however, he is well worth reading.
A full page obituary on Bishop David Hand seems a little excessive, but it is as interesting a read as anything in this edition. He was a very great missionary and bishop. The Review, by Dr Colin Holden, of Muriel Porter’s Book “The New Puritans”, which graces the back page with Fr Ellis Jones’ article, is learned, thoughtful.
The back two pages of the Advocate are the most worthwhile then. The rest deserves but a skim. The most remarkable thing of all about this month’s edition, however, is that it is the first I have thoroughly read in five or six years.
SUMMING UP
A little boy was doing his arithmetic homework. He said to himself, “Two plus five, that son of a bitch is seven. Three plus six, that son of a bitch is nine....” His mother heard what he was saying and asked, “What are you doing?” He answered, “I’m doing my homework, Mum.” “And is that how your teacher taught you to do it?” the mother asked. “Yes,” he answered. Puzzled, the mother asked the teacher the next day, “What are you teaching my son in arithmetic?” The teacher replied, “at present, we are learning addition.” The mother asked, “and are you teaching them to say two plus two, that son of a bitch is four?” After the teacher stopped laughing, he answered, “what I taught them was, two plus two, the sum of which is four.”
JUSTIFYING GRAVEYARDS AND
MEMORIAL WALLS
Andrew Neaum
Death is a vile, horrible and ugly thing and cannot be made beautiful. It can be made less than ugly, it can be made right and fitting by being placed into a context that puts it into perspective, fits it into the order of things, so making it almost acceptable and appropriate. To do this, in our tradition, the Church is needed.
Neo classical fascist
Just compare for a moment municipal or civil cemeteries, to traditional church graveyards, and then crematorium chapels to churches. Municipal cemeteries tend to be over-ordered, contrived, coldly geometrical and sterile, or so it seems to me. As for Crematorium chapels, they tend to such a distinctive, brutal ugliness that there is a type of architecture I call the Crematorium Style, featureless acres of characterless brick, cheap and nasty neo-classical, with a hint of the fascist.
Churches are different are they not? Not least because their focus is wide, is all-encompassing, is life and death, baptism and burial, beginning and end, joy and woe, heaven and hell, God and man, birth, life, death, resurrection. Such breadth allows for and indeed demands beauty, celebration, ornamentation, worship.
Where do you go in a town if you want your spirits lifted by beauty? To the local church, and in Shepparton, here to St Augustine’s.
Butterflies, moths and birds
And as for churchyards or church graveyards, they are oases of beauty and significance, places of reflective pilgrimage. They have been celebrated in ruminative and elegiac poetry over and over again in English literature, and in England, nowadays, they are places where, not only is mossed and lichened human history preserved and accessible, but so too is natural history, for in graveyards, unravaged as they tend to be, by pesticides, herbicides, superphosphates, and the profit motive, rare butterflies and moths, birds and bats, congregate to breed, flit, sing, dance, and feed on flowers and grasses that survive nowhere else.
Homeward plods the ploughman
Among the very, very greatest and loveliest of poems is Thomas Gray’s Elegy in a Country Churchyard. No one should be unfamiliar with it, though nearly everyone these days is.
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
It begins, and then a little later:
Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,
Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap,
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
And later still:
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
In Staffordshire and on St Helena
I have known only two Churchyards intimately. The first church I can remember as a little boy was a beautiful medieval one in Staffordshire and it was set in an ancient, Yew-tree-shaded, bramble and ivy clad, stone-walled graveyard, through which I walked to church, and in which I liked to play, and remember fondly. Church bells, the call of the cuckoo, the silence of the dead.
Death, especially when premature, we often imagine, gives the lie to God and Church and love and hope. And yet the Church and its God, seem never more secure and right than when shouldered by the dead, than when nudged and abutted by mossy graves. The Church carries the dead with prayers to their grave, the dead uphold the Church in its life, their endowments in cash, prayer, faith and witness symbolised and remembered in their gravestones.
The second traditional Churchyard I have known intimately, was on the Island of St Helena, I walked through it every day, for three years, on my way to mattins. A lovely walk through a patch of sweetly scented wild ginger, under some mist-bearded cypress tree boughs, down a well-worn, grassy path to the little Cathedral, barred ground doves contentedly crooning, and a shimmering, glittering sea as background, a mere couple of miles distant, and although seventeen hundred feet below its horizon, of course right up in the sky at eye level.
This was a well loved, well visited graveyard, and it was still in use, and had been for several centuries. This meant that the ground was being reused, and so, from the heap of earth beside a new grave, old shin bones sometimes protruded.
Speedy grave digging
The grave-digger was a man called Ivan, as humorous and philosophic as his counterpart grave-diggers in Hamlet, and able to fill a grave in about three frenzied minutes, while the mourners looked on appreciatively and sang a hymn. Ivan took such pride in the speed with which he filled a grave it necessitated his fall, and so once, at a funeral not taken by me, he over did things, slipped a disk and collapsed in groaning agony into the grave himself.
This was a beautiful churchyard, in an incomparable setting, and all of piece aesthetically and theologically with the Church it surrounded and embraced. Churchyards like that, sadly, are things of the past. There are too many of us to be buried around our city churches these days, and real estate is too valuable to be donated in perpetuity to the dead. Also, too many people have shaken themselves free from their Church heritage and from real faith, to desire any association in life or death with mother church.
More and more such folk ask at funerals for a magpie, sentimental, pick-and-mix of new-age mumbo jumbo, residual Christianity, with a dash of wishful thinking and all in the muted, schmaltz and kitsch environs of a typical undertaker’s chapel, accompanied by football songs, Slim Dusty, Celine Dion or worse.
Furthermore, faithless unbelievers in resurrection prefer to distance themselves from death’s reality in every possible sense, and so cemeteries are sited out of sight, miles away from where we live, move and have our being.
Nudged, shouldered and upheld
Thus even those of us still embedded in our heritage, and still clinging on to the sweet faith of our forefathers, are denied our tombstone in the parish church’s shadow, and our churches are no longer nudged, shouldered and upheld by the presence of our dead made visible in tombstones.
We do not, however, have to surrender entirely to the spirit of the age. Certainly not here at St Augustine’s. This is one of the chief reasons we attend to the beauty of our gardens. Even if our lovely grounds are not graced by well mossed tombstones, our parish church is nonetheless surrounded by such loveliness, that a latter day Thomas Gray even without the stimulus of grave mounds, urns or statuary would be inspired by the beauty of fountains, lawns, beds and trees to write beautiful and significant verse.
The most coherent of stories
And then we do provide a resting place, if not for bodies, for the cremated remains of our beloved departed. With our new and fine Memorial Wall, and its modest plaques, we bring them individually to mind by name and date, to be visited and remembered fondly, ruminatively in the shadow of the parish church that tells, retells, lives and relives the story of God, creation, fall, incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, upon which our civilization is based. The most coherent and beautiful of stories ever set to the music of what happens.
Our Memorial Wall then is more than just a good idea actualised, is more than mere beautification or ornamentation, more than a mere service offered to our members and families, is more than a way of raising money. Rather, like the beautiful Grutzner West End Rose Window that floods our church with soft and lovely evening light, symbolically the very light of Christ, so to our Memorial Wall fits in with everything we are on about. Is a vital part of the story of stories that makes sense of our lives, and which we love so much.
Many thanks to all the many folk who have contributed to it, not least to those commemorated on its plaques.
CONGRATULATIONS
Birthdays
Eileen Kelly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tues 30th May
Thomas Goldsack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tues 30th May
Janet Kiddle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wed 31st May
Edna Rattray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Thurs 1st June
Wedding Anniversary
Hilary & Alan Akers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sat 3rd June
WELCOME
We welcome to St Augustine’s today as our preacher and guest speaker at our Patronal Festival luncheon, the Revd. Ken Parker. He is the Rector of Castlemaine and a man, by all accounts, of learning, wit and discernment! We are most grateful for his acceptance of our invitation to celebrate with us.
MEMORIAL WALL
I am sure that we were all overwhelmed by the large turnout for the opening of our Memorial Wall and the launching of the “Memorial Wall and Garden Fund.” Many thanks to all those who put in so much work to ensure the day’s success, as well as everyone involved in the planning and building of the wall. It was a most happy occasion and like all worthwhile events the result of imaginative effort on the part of many.
SEEING RED
Next Sunday is Pentecost Sunday and it is customary to wear something red to recall Pentecostal fire. The old fashioned might wish, however, to wear something white in honour of Whitsunday.
MIDDAY REFLECTIONS
There are busy folk in town who might like to take time off in the middle of the day to have a time of quiet and guided reflection in the peaceful environs of St Augustine’s once a week. There are also folk about who have never been confirmed who might welcome a non-eucharistic act of worship or reflection once a week. With this in mind we will soon be holding a short and quiet lunchtime “reflection”, using a little music, sometimes, or paintings and readings and prayers and ending with a cup of good coffee and something good but light to eat. We hope that some of our regular worshippers will find this a blessing as well. More news later, but if you like the sound of it, have a word with your clergy.
THE GOOD GARDEN
On Friday the 2nd June our monthly meeting will be held in the library at 10.00am. On the Saturday that follows, the 3rd of June there takes place our quarterly Winter Working Bee starting at 9.00am. Do come and join us.
Barbara Whyte.
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.
Café to Go
Tuesday 6th June 7.15How to Care, What to Say:
The Experience of
Bereavement
Registrations by Mon 5th June please
to parish office or clergy.
Presenter Julie Poon Bereave-ment Counsellor/Clinical Nurse Consultant, Goulburn Valley Hospice Care Service Shepparton.
BIBLE STUDIES
We begin two Bible Studies this month. The first will be led by Ian Bryce on Tuesdays starting at 7.30pm beginning on the 20th of June. They will involve a careful consideration of a New Testament book. Please put you name on the list in the Narthex if you would like to participate.
The second will be led by the clergy, usually turn and turn about and will consider the forthcoming Sunday’s Gospel, so help partici-pants the better to appreciate it when Sunday arrives. These will be held on Wednesdays at 11.30am starting on the 21st of June.
Shepparton InterChurch Council
invites you to Project Abraham
Eastbank, Sunday 28th May, from 2.00pm
A conversation between
Muslims, Jews and Christians
See the table in Narthex
INTER CHURCH COUNCIL MEETING
On Thursday June 1st,this month’s ICC meeting is at St Mel’s Presbytery. All are welcome.
FEAST OF UGANDAN MARTYRS
This feast, on Saturday 3rd of June, honours both Catholic and Anglican martyrs in Uganda. For several years parishioners from St Brendan’s have joined with members of our parish for Morning Prayer together followed by breakfast. This year St. Brendan’s are the hosts and they invite us to participate next Saturday, the 29th at 8.30 for Morning Prayer followed by breakfast at the Parish House.
ANNUAL ECUMENICAL PENTECOST SERVICE
This service, which deserves full support takes place this year at St Brendan’s Church on Sunday, June 4 at 7.30pm. It concludes the Week of Prayer and Reconciliation
LOVE
By love can God be gotten and holden, by thought and understanding never. The Cloud of Unknowing
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
PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS STATEMENT
“After many years in the Church the Rev John Price resigned from his position on 21 December 2005. Mr Price made this decision after a complainant alleged inappropriate behaviour of a serious nature which occurred many years ago and which was not in accordance with expectations of priestly behaviour. Mr Price admitted to this behaviour and tendered his resignation, effective immediately, which was accepted by Bishop Farrer.” CS
IMPORTANT
DIARY DATES
Jun 3rd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ugandan Martyrs
Jun 3rd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seasonal Garden working bee
Jun 4th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kiwanis Club Church Parade - 10.30
Jun 6th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Café to Go
June 14th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Warden’s meeting
June 14th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Grammar School Thanksgiving Service
Jun 17th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
June 20th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Afternoon Guild
June 20th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bible Study 7.30pm
June 21st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Reflections of the Gospel 11.30am
June 22nd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Evening Guild
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
Duties for 28th May 2006
Celebrant 6.30pm Sat 27th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Celebrant 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant Dookie 8.45. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant Katandra 10.45. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jeanette Smith, Heather Carlyon
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrea Fisher, Charlotte Brewer
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beth, Michelle
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jenny, Joe, Zebedee
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Griffin, Ian Bryce
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev Condon, Jenny Pleming
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victoria Heenan, Christine Jones
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anita Saville, Jeanette Berry
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nola Brewer, Cheryl Richards
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Max & Bev Ralph
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlotte Brewer, Nola Brewer
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pat Gibson
Mowing 26th or 27th May. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Russell family, Michael Egan
Duties for 4th June 2006
Celebrant 6.30 Saturday 3rd June. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Celebrant 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant Dookie 8.45. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant Katandra 10.45. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frank Harder, Heather Pearson
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Pearson, Nancy Noonan
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beth, Michelle
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan, Georgia, Sally
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heather Fitzgerald, Ian Bryce
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carole Henderson, Maureen Cormican
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pat Griffin, Nancy Fennell
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pat Griffin, Joy Campbell
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hilder Lidgard, Jenny Moran
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joe Pearson, Bob Galt
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jenny & John Pleming
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erma Wilson
Mowing 20th or 21st May. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Horder, John Pleming
REQUESTS FOR PRAYER
Liam Bognar, Percy Barton, David Burrow, Nan Cowan, Hamish Fisher, Brian Loxley, Merle Maskell, Bob McKellar, Denise McKellar, Judy McGuire, Marvin Mould, Leon Myer, Peter & Eva Swindells, Marj Watts, Barry Wood, Aaron,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: Ray Williams, Floss Harry.
Anniversary of Death: Milan Marcetic, Rohan Lynas, Geoffrey Waite 28th, Rudolf Nett 30th, Patricia Ramage, Vernon Auldrige 1st, Vida Verran 3rd.
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH
Monday 29th May The Rector’s Day Off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Tuesday 30th May
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
10.00am Catechumenate Meeting - Wangaratta
10.30am Playgroup
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Wednesday 31st Visitation
7.45am Mattins only - Lady Chapel
8.45am Nursing Home Round
10.00am Eucharist- St Augustine’s
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Thursday 1st June Justin
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
11.00am Eucharist - Harmony Village
1.00pm Social Responsibilities Training Day - Narthex
5.30pm Choir Practice
7.30pm SICC Meeting - St Mel’s
Friday 2nd June
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Saturday 3rd June
Associate Priest’s Day Off
7.30am Eucharist - Lady Chapel
8.00am Martyrs of Uganda - St Brendans
9.30am Garden Working Bee
6.30pm Vigil Eucharist - Lady Chapel
PENTECOST 4th June (Kiwanis Church Parade
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
5.30pm Evening Prayer