THE TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD
6th August 2006
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
When the writer Philip Toynbee was dying of cancer he asked a priest who was visiting him how he came to be ordained. “He told me that he had tried several things first - engineering and psychiatric nursing among them - but this was the first pool he had stepped into in which he couldn’t feel the bottom. A wonderful answer.”
Michael Mayne “Learning to Dance” page 219
Picture the scene: The early sixties. It is late summer, after midnight and a group of us sit around a fire on a beach in Devon drinking wine and cider, somebody strumming a guitar, when suddenly a girl strips and runs naked into the sea. Everybody follows suit and, not wanting to be last in, I unbutton my jean. Then pause, somebody had better stay behind and keep an eye on the clothes, common sense. Listening to the screams and laughter, I throw another piece of driftwood on to the fire and take a long, untroubled swig of scrumpy. Thanks Max (or, to give him his full title, Maximus Cautious, a captain in the Brigade of Guardians)
Roger McGough - Autobiography “Said and Done”. Century.
EXTRACTION
A Scotsman phoned a dentist to inquire about the cost for a tooth extraction. “£85 for an extraction, sir” the dentist replied. “How come so much? Huv ye no’got anythin’ cheaper?” “Well with the anaesthetic, the dental nurse, that’s the normal charge,” said the dentist. “Whit aboot if ye didnae use any anaesthetic?” “That’s unusual, sir, but I could do it and knock £15 off. “Whit aboot if ye used one of your dentist trainees and still without an anaesthetic?” “I can’t guarantee their professionalism and it’ll be painful. But the price could drop to £40". “How aboot if ye make it a trainin’ session, ave yer student do the extraction with the other students watchin’ and learnin’?” It’ll be good for the students”, mulled the dentist. “I’ll charge you £5, but it’s going to be very traumatic.” “Och, now yer talkin’ laddie! It’s a deal,” said the Scotsman. “Can ye confirm an appointment for the wife next Tuesday then?”
SACRAMENTALISM
The following poem, written by Alice Meynell (1847-1922) though written to a particular political circumstance is universal in its beautiful expression of what sacramentalism means to the likes of us. (AN)
IN PORTUGAL, 1912
And will they cast the altars down,
Scatter the chalice, crush the bread?
In field, in village, and in town
He hides an unregarded head;
Waits in the corn-lands far and near,
Bright in His sun, dark in His frost,
Sweet in the vine, ripe in the ear -
Lonely unconsecrated Host.
In ambush at the merry board
The Victim lurks unsacrificed;
The mill conceals the harvest’s Lord,
The wine-press holds the unbidden Christ.
BAD THINGS TO GOOD PEOPLE
Andrew Neaum
If you fall deeply and genuinely in love with someone and so worship the ground she walks on, you do so not because of the nice feelings it gives you. Nor do you do so because you like walking on air with your heart pumping custard. That would be to fall in love merely with being in love. Rather you fall in love with and love her simply for who she is, for herself, and so desire to pay her her worth. That is, to worship her for being the beautiful and lovely creature that she is.
Bribery and corruption
So too with God. I love him and worship him simply for being who he is. I love him because he is! I do not love him for what I get out of him. Genuine love does not expect a return, is not bribed or paid into existence. Indeed the Christian faith, more than any other faith, demonstrates with perfect clarity that perfect love is likely to lead to crucifixion?
This being so, I am surprised that people should evince distress or puzzlement when good and godly folk suffer misfortune or contract a terminal disease. Godliness is no guarantee of longevity.
Certainly I don’t expect God to treat me more favourably than anyone else just because I am a parson, a believer and someone who tries to fulfil his will for me. I consider myself to be as likely to develop cancer as anyone else of a similar genetic background. I am sure that I am as prone to car accidents as anyone else who is as dozy a driver as I am, and that it is as probable that I should suffer a stroke as should anyone else of similar dietary habits.
I do not expect a better deal from life just because I am a believer. I am glad that this should be so. A better deal would mean that I was being bribed into goodness, belief and love of God, and bribery corrupts and debases love.
Selfless loving
When bad things happen to good people in our family or parish then, there is no need for it to shake our faith and cause us to doubt God’s goodness more than momentarily. As Jesus himself said, “God sends his rain upon the just and the unjust....”
Thank God for that. It means we can worship and love him simply for who he is, rather than for what we get out of him.
Virtue’s pay back
This does not mean to say that there are not benefits that accrue to us from being good and loving people. Goodness does carry its own particular rewards that help offset the crucifixion that it also often attracts. If we are honest, for example, we might now and then be taken for a ride and duped, but we are likely also to gain good friends, because honest people make and attract good friends. So too if we are generous.
If we are hard-working, diligent and trustworthy we are likely to succeed in life, for such virtues, as a rule, carry such rewards. Whereas if we lie, cheat and swindle people, then our friends are likely to be few and dubious and if we philander and cheat on our spouse, then our familial relationships are likely to be rocky and far from satisfactory.
So in spite of what a lot of naive Christianity teaches, we are punished by our sins rather than for them and we are rewarded by our virtues rather than for them.
Necessary predictability
We need to remember too that it is merciful that we live in a world that operates in predictable ways. That we know, for example, that if we fall off a cliff we will hurtle to its base at a speed that will result in an impact that is likely to kill us. This means that should we push someone over such a cliff deliberately we can be held blameworthy for doing so. However if God intervened sometimes, and suspended the law of gravity for godly people, then we would not know where we were. The results of our actions would be unpredictable, and we could legitimately blame God for not intervening if someone did indeed die as a result of an act of ours.
For us to have the moral freedom that comes from being able to predict the likely result of our actions (which is to be human and “in God’s image”) means that we require a world such as the one we have. That is, a world that runs according to natural laws that allow accidents to happen and cancers to grow and of which tragedy is an inescapable part.
Such a world, it seems, is necessary. It allows us to be morally free, does not bribe us into a debased love, but on the contrary allows and indeed encourages the greatest good that there is to flower freely among and within us, namely, disinterested and sacrificial love.
Interceding with understanding
When we pray to God for him to make things better, or to bring people back to health we do not ever, unless we are mad, or naive in our faith, ask for him to suspend natural law and to declare the world to be other than it is. Rather we ask him simply to use our love combined with his great love to work the very best that is naturally possible in a particular case. For God’s love can work through natural cause and effect to produce wonderful natural miracles, miracles of a sort though, that by being natural do not bribe or bludgeon people into belief, because they require faith to be seen and acknowledged, just because they are of the natural order of things.
Love God then simply because he is. Love him even more because he is no sugar-daddy god, and therefore elicits from us far more than mere cupboard love.
Love God because he’s given us a world of both tragedy and comedy, in which the rain falls upon the just and unjust alike, a world that is a vale of soul-making and tears, a world of joy, courage, perseverance and sacrificial love, of natural virtues and goods so great and lovely that they augur well for life beyond life, in the land of the Trinity, the Trinity of love.
CONGRATULATIONS
Birthday
Margaret Neaum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9th August
THANK YOU
Many thanks for the prayers for Barry Wood who has made an excellent recovery. Praise God.
MEN’S BREAKFAST
There is a Men’s Breakfast this Saturday at which the Speaker will be Mr Ian Bryce, talking about a trip to Palestine, well worth hearing! As usual there is a Eucharist at 8.00am and an excellent breakfast begins at 8.30am. Put your name on the list in the narthex and invite along some friends as well.
AIDS IN SOUTH AFRICA
On Wednesday the 6th of September the Revd. Lynne Coull, who is an ordained Anglican Priest from South Africa will be visiting Shepparton to talk about her life and work alongside people suffering from HIV/AIDS. This will be a fascinating talk from a fascinating person on a heart-rending problem. Do come along and do encourage friends to come along. The talk will begin, here at St Augustine’s at 12 noon and there will be a lunch to follow. See the Notice Board for more details.
SIMPLY SOUL SOOTHING
Each Tuesday, from 12.15pm we are offering a new service of worship at St. Augustine’s. We hope the church community will support this new venture and spread the word to your families, neighbours, friends, work colleagues. The service will usually be held in the Lady Chapel - but may change to the beautiful St. Augustine’s gardens from time to time. We are particularly hoping some people who work in the City of Shepparton and nearby, will become part of this new worship community. The format may be quite different from week to week and music, art, poetry and literature will be used to focus on an aspect of God our Creator. A light lunch will follow for $5.00. Please support this with your presence and, hopefully a friend or neighbour alongside you.”
PASTORAL CARE MEETING
There is a Pastoral Care Meeting on Tuesday 8th of August at 4.00pm in the Narthex.
A. B. M. APPEAL
Spare a Gold Coin to support “2006 A.B.M. Water Appeal”. A box will be available at the Church at all services this week and next. Please help with this urgent need for clean water systems! Thank you all in anticipation of another successful effort. Nola Brewer
PARISH ROLL
It is vital that we keep our Parish Roll up to date and are always amending it as new information is handed in. If you know of any changes please notify the Parish Office.
WANTED - TICKET SELLERS
We are requesting help to sell raffle tickets for the Parish’s major raffle. There is a list of times and places which have been allocated to us on the narthex table. Would you please help by placing your name by at least one of these times.
BEAN BAGS PLEASE
Bean bags are needed for use by our Playgroup. Contact Roz Dunlop please.
OSTEOPOROSIS
An “Osteoporosis Prevention & Self Manage-ment Course” begins this month at the R.S.L. (88 Wyndham Street) on Thursdays from 1.30pm to 4.00pm, the 10th, 17th, 24th, and 31st. There is no charge and light refreshments will be provided. Phone 58323100
ENSEMBLE GOMBERT
This internationally regarded choral group – which has developed a very high reputation for its pure intonation and historically informed approach to choral sounds and musical style - will perform in Wangaratta Cathedral on Saturday, 12 August at 7.30pm prior to a European tour in September. The program includes works by Thomas Tallis, Palestrina, Brahms and Bach. Tickets at the door are $20, $15 concession, children under 16 free. Enquiries : Margaret Brickhill, phone (03) 5721 6523.
BAPTISING INFANTS
The great gift of baptism is often abused by parents who treat the vows they make on behalf of their infants as if they are nothing. This is sad and we do all we can to prevent it. However, just as the widespread abuse of marriage vows should not tempt us to do away with marriage, so too with infant baptism, we have to persevere. The case for infant baptism has never been more succinctly or intelligently put than by the late Alan Richardson in his “Introduction to the Theology of the New Testament”......
The central truth of the Gospel which infant baptism enshrines is that faith is the response to God’s saving act, not the condition of it. I am not baptised because I have decided to believe; I believe because I have come to know that I have already been admitted to the sphere of Christ’s redemption. My decision to believe follows from the saving fact; it is not the saving fact itself.... I am not saved by any decision which I have taken; on the contrary, while I was weak and helpless, God took me and placed me within the sphere of the redemption wrought by Christ. I did not choose to be born into a Christian family or to be taken to the font.... I did not earn the grace that was given freely to me; God’s election of me remains a mystery, something of which I can give no rational explanation at all. I did not choose Christ; It was Christ who chose me (cf John 15:16); I love because he first loved me (cf 1 John 4:19) This is the New Testament doctrine of baptismal justification; I am not justified by my faith; I believe because I have been justified. This doctrine, which is the heart of the apostolic faith, is perfectly symbolised in the baptism of infants: the important thing that happens in baptism is what God does, not what we do. Our faith is not the condition of our baptism but the response to it, made possible by our having already received the Holy Spirit.(Cf 1 Cor 12:3)
IMPORTANT DIARY DATES
Aug 12th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Men’s Breakfast 8.00 Eucharist, Breakfast 8.30
Aug 15th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Afternoon Guild
Aug 15th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Baptism Preparation 7.30
Aug 16th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parish Council
Aug 17th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Evening Guild
Aug 24th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parish Fair Committee Meeting 4.30pm
Sept. 2nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seasonal Garden Working Bee
Sept 5th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Planned Giving Campaign kicks off
Sept 6th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .South African Visitor to talk
Oct 1st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thanksgiving Sunday
Oct 1st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pet Service 5.30pm
Oct 7th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 3pm
Oct 13th/ 14th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Synod
Oct 15th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Out Reach” publication day
Oct 21st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 2.30pm
Oct 21st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 4pm
Oct 23 - 26. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Clergy Conference
Oct 28th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Men’s Breakfast 8.00 Eucharist, Breakfast 8.30
Oct 29th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Confirmation
Nov 3rd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Youth Event
Nov 4th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 2pm
Nov 4th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 4.30pm
Nov 11th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Church Fair
Nov 18th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 1.30pm
Dec 2nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 3pm
Dec 2nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seasonal Garden Working Bee
Dec 9th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 2pm
Dec 16th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
Jan 20th 07. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 3.30pm
Mar 3rd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding
Mar 10th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding
Mar 10th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
Mar 17th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 2.30pm
Mar 24th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 3pm
April 14th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
May 5th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 3pm
May 27th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patronal Festival
Duties for 6th August 2006
Celebrant 6.30pm Sat 5th Aug. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Fitzgerald, Norm Mitchelmore
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Helen Tracy, Bev Condon
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beth, Michelle
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joan, Sally, Georgia
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Neaum, Heather Fitzgerald
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ian Bryce, Jenny Plemming
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Fitzgerald,Mary Pearson
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joy Campbell, Bev Reither
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Frank Steen, Hilder Lidgard
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joe Pearson, Norm Mitchelmore
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John & Jenny Pleming
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heather Pearson
Mowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . None this week
Duties for 13th August 2006
Celebrant 6.30 Saturday 12th August. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Celebrant Dookie 8.45. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gail Bryce
Celebrant Katandra 10.45. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Andrew Neaum
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Liz Gyles, Bev Condon
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hilder Lidgard, Chris Evans
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beth, Michelle
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joan, Polly, Henry
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carole Henderson, Margaret Neaum
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev Condon, Ian Bryce
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heather Carlyon, Children
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joyce Cavill, Bev Ralph
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sandra Simonis, Charlotte Brewer
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joy Campbell, Trevor Batey
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Adrian Evans, Alan Akers
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Val Rose
Mowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Marg Carroll, John Pleming
REQUESTS FOR PRAYER
Dulcie Ackland, Liam Bognar, David Burrow, Alby Dean, Hamish Fisher, Melissa Galizia Irs and Charlie Grant, Catherine Herschig, Aaron Hinchliffe, Judith James, Marven Mould, Jan Riches, Peter & Eva Swindells, Sue & Wes Tyson, Olive Wisely, Andrew, Claire, David, Glenda, James, Jason, Kerryn, Mary, Maurie, Michael, Nina, Pam, Richard, Shannon, Stephanie, Stewart, Suzzane, Suzie.
Rest in peace:
Megan McIntosh, Ethan Smith
Anniversary of Death:
Alma Nowell, Brett Wells 6th, Margaret Grantham, Archdeacon Bruce Ball 8th, Ian Malcolm 9th, Irene Crawford 11th, Jocelyn Howells, Hilda Hillas, Ken Hardy, Olga McNabb 12th.
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH
Monday 7th August Holy Name
The Rector’s Day Off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Tuesday 8th August Dominic
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
10.00am Play Group - Parish Hall
12.15pm Lunch Hour Reflection & Light Lunch - Chapel
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
4.00pm Confirmation Class - Library
4.00pm Pastoral Care meeting/Narthex
7.00pm Baptism Evening “Taste & See”
Wednesday 9th August
7.45am Mattins only - Lady Chapel
8.45am Nursing Home Round
10.00am Eucharist- St Augustine’s
11.30am Bible Study - Library
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
4.00pm Stewardship meeting
5.30pm Hospice Meeting
Thursday 10th August Laurence
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
9.30am Kid’s Church Preparation
11.00am Eucharist - Multi Cultural
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
5.30pm Choir Practice
7.30pm Bible Study - Narthex
8.30pm Talk to Vehicle Drivers’ Club
Friday 11th August Claire of Assisi
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Saturday 12th August
Associate Priest’s Day Off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
8.30am Men’s Breakfast
6.30pm Vigil Eucharist - Lady Chapel
10th Sunday after Pentecost 13th August
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