SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
16th September 2007
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WORKAHOLISM
Bill had been a workaholic all his life and when he died his friends took up a collection for a headstone. It read: ERECTED IN BILL’S MEMORY BY HIS RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. They installed the headstone before the ground had settled and within a couple of days it had started to tilt. As a temporary measure, the mason looped a piece of fencing wire around it and tied the other end to a nearby tree. Bill’s mates visited the grave for the first time since the funeral. “Stone the crows! That’s our Bill,” said one, noticing the wire. “Work, work, work. Now he’s got the flamin’ phone on!”
TRAVELLERS TALES (21)
Canon Andrew Neaum (2000)
Visiting parishioners, although almost always very rewarding, is a time consuming business for someone like me. There are priests who are so self-disciplined that they stay at any house they visit no more than twenty minutes, but I have never been like that. If the company is congenial, as it usually is, I settle down for a good yarn, have a cup of tea and remain for an hour or two.
One of the households I visited while in Scotland was that of Mr and Mrs Mowbray (not their real name). They are neighbours and friends of Doreen Stewart the wonderful All Souls’ sacristan. Doreen is a neighbour to them in the full biblical sense of keeping a loving eye on them, running errands for them and being all but indispensable. When I called Mrs Mowbray was in the middle of making rhubarb jam and seemed almost reluctant to ask me in. Who wouldn’t be hesitant when interrupted in the middle of so important a job? It is a long time since I ate rhubarb jam.
Some weeks later I was sent round a jar not of rhubarb but of strawberry jam. Perfection! Mrs Mowbray is a jam maker without parallel. Once I had charmed my way into the house, we got on so well that by the time I left she was urging me to come back and bring the family too - for a glass of wine or whatever. It was one of those visits that warms the heart of the visitor and ensures that he leaves feeling that he has gained more from the visit than he has given. Mrs Mowbray’s husband is afflicted by all sorts of ailments, and he sat there listening and smiling, able to make only an odd comment or two. Among his illnesses are renal failure, minor strokes, diarrhoea and worse! Mrs Mowbray herself suffers from emphysema to the extent of having to have oxygen in the house, and also from arthritis and a very bad back! However, she battles on, cheerfully doing what is required of a doughty and loving wife, and what she promised to do in her wedding vows. I left hoping that I might have cheered them up a bit, and on a subsequent visit had a whisky with them and a really good talk.
It is amazing how almost everyone you meet in Scotland, even those with apparently modest resources, has been abroad, and not only to Europe either. This old couple had been to America only the year previously, and it was there that the old fellow first began to have strokes. Thank heavens for travel insurance, which paid for them to fly back home first class. The Scots have spread all over the world and their relatives love to visit them. I eventually left, after giving the old man a benediction, warmed by the courage, fortitude and good humour of a pair of extraordinary, very ordinary people.
Skipping home
On the same day I visited an elderly widow whose Scottish accent was so thick that it could have been sliced and stacked on a shelf. This made communication difficult, but we managed a little bit of it. I then visited Joe Morrow and shared a bottle of wine with him. He is one of those people who refills his visitor’s glass more frequently than his own and so, eventually, I all but skipped my way home. Joe is a most delightful priest who lives, with a friend, in the village. He is a tubby man in his forties, with a strong Scots accent, and he practises full time as a barrister while at the same time running, more successfully than most I think, a parish in his spare time. He has lived in the vicinity of Dundee all his life and so knows everything. He was able to fill me in on a lot of church news. He told me that the bustling little bishop who had turned up in Invergowrie church recently, Bishop Halliday, had been elected bishop because he was the only candidate who was remotely reasonable in a field of three non-locals and nine aspirant locals who had allowed their names to go forward. However, he had proved not really up to the job, perhaps just because he was so delightful a man and suffered an eventual nervous breakdown. A New Testament scholar he used to challenge his clergy on things they said in their sermons!
If you applied a “contentment-meter” to most bishops they would register less than happy I think. Running an Anglican diocese in an affluent Western world in which reasonable and thoughtful religion is in decline and only crack-pot fanaticisms flourish, must be a depressing business. At the parish level depression is ameliorated in no small measure by the loving parish community of which the parish priest is the centre. This helps make it all worthwhile, but a bishop has no parish and his pastoral care is largely limited to a group of awkward, often incompetent, ding-bat and dilly clergy men and women!
Visiting the “steamy”
A previous visit that morning had been to the Campbells. They live almost opposite the Rectory in Station Road and Mrs Campbell is a regular church goer, usually on Wednesdays, another refugee from the child-chaos on Sunday mornings. She has lived in Invergowrie all her life and went to the local school, which in her day was a secondary as well as a primary school. She and her husband told me how much more expensive housing is in Invergowrie than elsewhere in the Dundee area. A little house on Errol Road that we had noticed was for sale was being offered, they said, for £84,000 although with no central heating or double glazing. Elsewhere in Dundee you can get a four bed-roomed house, with all mod cons, for ten thousand less than this.
Mr Campbell talked interestingly of tenement life in the Dundee of his youth. No one had hot water at home or even a bathroom, nor did they have clothes washing facilities. Instead, once a week, they would go and do the washing, or have a bath, at the “Steamy”. If you had a first class bath, for a shilling, you controlled the water yourself, for a second class one you would call out to the woman running the place, “a bit more hot water in number eight please” - and so on! All the twenties and thirties pebble-dash houses you see surrounding Dundee and in the villages round and about, he told me, were put up to depopulate the tenements and enable them to be pulled down. He and his wife met at a local dance. At these dances there was an unwritten convention that if you refused a dance to someone, you were not allowed to dance that particular dance with anyone else. You had to wait for the next one - a rather civilized convention, it seems to me. He had his mother’s old washing board, of the sort used by skiffle bands, apparently the players of these boards had a thimble on the end of their finger, hence the noise! I was unaware of this.
Peter Pan
One afternoon we took a trip out to Kirriemuir, which is a lovely town on a hill not too far from Dundee. It is built of red sandstone. Even the new buildings, sealed with the inevitable pebble-dash stucco, have been tinted to the colour of the prevailing sandstone. It is famous for being the birth place of J M Barrie and so there is a statue of Peter Pan in the little square at the centre of the town, copper green in colour, with bird droppings streaking his head and face.
Barrie’s actual childhood home, a pleasant looking little cottage, is a shrine to his memory, but one we couldn’t be bothered to pay the entrance fee to worship in. None of us is a devotee of Peter Pan. We wandered the town and admired a locked, but impressive, Anglican Church. It had a piece of cardboard in the centre of the porch to catch nesting swallows droppings, a very charitable and Franciscan-type of answer to the problem of nesting swallows. We enjoyed the winding narrow streets of the town, one memorably named “Malcolm’s Wynd”. I have a nephew called Malcolm, so we took a photograph of ourselves under the street sign to amuse him. The word “wynd” is Scots for a lane or alley, and is very commonly used. We bought ourselves a huge ice cream and then headed up to Glen Isla, a verdant valley, making a diversion to the Black Water Reservoir, where we picked a bunch of “bell heather”, all of which was beginning to come into purple flower. The real heather had still some weeks to go before flowering. We spent some time, unsuccessfully, trying to spot oyster catchers’ nests and in the car chased, unintentionally, a mother duck away from her ducklings, as they walked along the road. We hoped that she soon returned to gather them to safety.
Smiths, Browns and Blacks
At about this time, at a strawberry and short-bread supper put on by the Bishop and his wife for our parishioners and for those of a next door parish, I met for the first time the husband of one of our parishioners. He proved to be a delightful old bomber pilot, who early on in the last War had done some training in Rhodesia at an airbase called Guinea Fowl. This was the base that was turned into the school to which I went for three and a half years. He came to the supper in a Smith tartan kilt. Apparently Smith is a Scots name, and is by far the most numerous of all names in most Scottish telephone directories. The names Brown, White and Black are also very common, not least because MacGregor was once a proscribed name, due to the depredations of Rob Roy and so names such as Brown, Black and White were adopted in its place. Mr Yorston, not Mr Smith was this man’s name and we arranged to have dinner with him and his wife a few weeks later. He speaks Gaelic and thinks that Scottish independence will be a good thing, so long as it doesn’t include Scotland south of the Tay! He wants nothing to do with Glasgow. Indeed, most northern Scots seem to have as little regard for Glasgow as they do for England.
Saying sorry
I wonder if Mr Blair, if he was asked to, would apologise to the Scots for centuries of English brutality and harassment. We were discussing this subject over the dining table recently. When I was at school I was taught that in any debate, argument, or serious consideration of a controversial question in an essay, the first thing necessary is to define one’s terms. This is because, when analysed, most disagreements in either a debate or argument tend to arise from different understandings of the meaning of terms. So in our discussion, after a measure of disagreement, we decided to look up the word “sorry”. We found that it is a word that derives from the Old English word sarig meaning sore, and that etymologically it carries in its meaning no admission or acknowledgement of guilt. It means simply “pained at heart, distressed or sad; full of grief or sorrow”. The word “apologize”, on the other hand, in one usage at least, does indeed carry an acknowledgement of guilt, the definition being, “to acknowledge and express regret for a fault without defence.” In the light of this, Mr Blair and indeed Mr Howard, should have little difficulty with saying sorry for historical sins, but greater difficulty in apologizing for them! The confusion arises from the widespread use of the word “sorry” to express an apology!(to be continued)
HALF WAY THERE
The wife of the Rabbi of Roptchitz said to him: “Your prayer was lengthy to-day. Have you succeeded in bringing it about that the rich should be more generous in their gifts to the poor?” The Rabbi replied: “Half my prayer I have accomplished. The poor are willing to accept them.”
CONGRATULATIONS
Birthday
Aaron Wells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17th Sept
Kate Horder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19th Sept
Wedding Anniversary
Dulcie & Peter Ackland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17th Sept
SWEET METAPHOR
A broad, bulky man, he is profoundly ugly, massively ugly, except that his ugliness is easily trounced by the tangible kindness of his look and manner... Alastair Reid in “Oases”
DINNER AT DOOKIE
The Parish Council will be held this week at Dookie on Wednesday. We leave the car park at 5.30pm sharp, will look over St Luke’s and then make our way to the Pub for a meal and meeting. All parish councillors are booked in for a meal except for apologies made before Tuesday midday. After this you are likely to be charged for your meal even if you drop out!!
PARISH OFFICE THIS WEEK
This is a topsy turvy week at the Parish Office because Heather will be working on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next week. This means that the office will be unattended on Thursday and Friday. There are good reasons for this!
CONFIRMATION
Next Sunday, the 23rd of September is the Confirmation which takes place at the 10.30am service. There are two candidates from our parish, Tom Woodcock and Sophie Bell, and two from Murchison parish. There will also be several baptisms.
ORGANISTS
Our remarkably faithful 8.30am organist, Elizabeth Woodyard is away next Sunday and so is Chris Evans, so the 8.30am Eucharist is likely to be celebrated with the aid of disks. The talented Audrey Keeley will be playing for us at the Confirmation.
KATANDRA AT ST AUGUSTINE’S
St. Mary’s Katandra congregation will be joining with St. Augustine’s for the Confirmation, not least because Tom Woodcock, one of those being confirmed, is a Katandra lad. Please note that there will be no service at Katandra on this day.
POWER AND TRUST
Power and Trust seminars are being offered for all who are working with children and youth in the Parish. This, although at this stage voluntary, is highly recommended. Series 1 takes place on Friday 30th November from 10.00am to 3.30pm and Series 2 on Friday 7th December from 10.00am to3.30 pm. Both at Ridley College Parkville.
SUDANESE VISITORS
On Sunday the 30th September we have a choir of about thirty Sudanese folk joining us at the 10.30am Eucharist. Afterwards they will be joining us at lunch to sing, dance and entertain us. All of this is to raise money for Yirol Hospital in Southern Sudan, the home place of Matoc who has been a part of our parish for the last three and a half years, mostly at Dookie, but now, latterly in Shepparton. The details of the day have still to be fully worked out but we do need offers of accommodation for the night of Saturday the 29th!! Please put your name down on the list in the narthex if you can help. Those who provided accommodation a couple of years ago were enormously blessed in doing so. Please book the date in your diary and ask friends along as well.
VISITING WODONGA
The Rector is celebrating and preaching at Wodonga this Sunday, hence his absence from the parish. The reason for this is a desire of the folk up there to see Margaret and relish in her company. The Rector is a mere optional extra! Margaret saw her specialist last week and continues to travel well, given the gravity of her situation. Your prayer and love combined with her serene acceptance continue to allow God’s grace to work its good. So keep up the good work and many thanks to you all from us both.
PIES FOR SALE
Order a fine Pat Griffin’s pie. A large pie can still be ordered, either apple or apricot, for only $5.00. The profits from these pies will be ploughed into the great Guild Cake Stall effort for the Parish Fair.
SOUL SOOTHING
On Tuesdays in the Lady Chapel, there is a short, meditative non-Eucharistic service followed by lunch and fellowship at 12.15pm.
OUTREACH
We encourage and welcome any items or articles for the next Outreach, the cut off date is next Sunday the 23rd September.
SICK PARISHIONERS
Please let the Clergy or Parish Office know if there are sick parishioners in need of a visit.
DATES FOR THE DIARY
Sept 18th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Afternoon Guild 2pm
Sept 19th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parish Council/Dookie leave Shepp at 5.30pm
Sept 20th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Evening Guild 1.30pm
Sept 23rd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Outreach articles due
Sept 27th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parish Fair & Garden Party Committee mtg
Sept 30th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sudanese Choir
Oct 6th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 2.30pm
Oct 6th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Men’s Breakfast
Oct 7th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . St Francis’ Blessing of Pets Service
Oct 13th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 3.30pm
Oct 15 -18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Clergy Conference
Oct 25th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parish Fair & Garden Party Committee mtg.
Oct 27th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 1.00pm
Nov 10th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parish Fair
Nov 17th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 3.00pm
Nov 17th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 5.00pm
Nov 24th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 2.00pm
Nov 24th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 3.30pm
Dec 1st. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 2.00pm
Dec 8th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 4pm
REQUESTS FOR PRAYER
At the beginning of each month this list is cleared and ALL names need putting down again on the list in the narthex and signed in. No names should be listed without permission.
Tony Armstrong, Liam Bognar, Jack Cook, Julie Camp, Michael Condon, Nicky Cavill, Sam Chapman, Donna Dyson, Charles Grant, Stephen & Charlotte Goulopoulos, Frank Harder, Vida Hardy, James Karkham, Marjorie Millerick, Margaret Neaum, Doris Nichols, Margaret Noble, Margaret Osborough, Reg Oxenford, Jan Riches, Edith Robins, Sandra Simonis, Robyn Stone, Peter & Eva Swindells, Lorraine Vogul, Natalie Whyte,David, Faye, Joy, Glenda, Layla, Camron, Heather, Kate, Faye, Warren, John, David & Judith, Roslyn, Alexandra & Charles.
Rest in Peace: Rob Tremlett
Anniversary of death: Donald Malcolm, Glen Wells 16th, Bessie Jones 18th, Gerald Green 19th, Abbey Jamieson, Norman Ellis 20th.
Duties for 16th September 2007
Vigil Eucharist at 6pm 15th Sept. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Revd Gail Bryce
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .The Revd Gail Bryce
Celebrant 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .The Revd Gail Bryce
Morning Prayer 8.45 Dookie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mrs Anne Russell
Morning Prayer 10.45 Katandra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs Anne Russell
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Fitzgerald, Gwyn Cowland
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ian Bryce, Nancy Noonan
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Volunteer, Michelle, Beth
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jenny, Benjamin, Daniel
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pat Griffin, Christine Jones
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ian Bryce, Carole Henderson
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev Condon, Jenny Pleming
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beryl Goodfellow, Bev Reither
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hilder Lidgard, Jenny Moran
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trevor Batey, Joy Campbell
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Alan Akers, Nola Brewer
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gwyn Cowland
Welcome Tbl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.30 Dorothy Cook 10.30 Heather Carlyon
Mowing 15th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kay McGregor, Merv Cowland
Duties for 23rd September 2007
Vigil Eucharist at 6pm 22nd Sept. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bishop
Celebrant 8.45 Dookie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heather Carlyon, Margaret Neaum
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Christine Evans, Bev Condon
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beth, Alex, Philippa
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joan, Zebedee, Joe
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Fitzgerald, Nancy Fennell
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Neaum, Bev Condon
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clergy
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bob Galt, Norm Mitchelmore
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Pleming, Charlotte Brewer
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bob Galt, Norm Mitchelmore
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Pleming, Charlotte Brewer
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev Reither
Welcome Tbl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.30 Val Rose 10.30 Mary Pearson
Mowing 22nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Margaret Carroll, Brendan Carroll
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH
Mon 17th September
Rector’s Day off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Tuesday 18th September
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
10.00am Playgroup
12.15pm Simply Soul Soothing - Lady Chapel
2.00pm Afternoon Guild
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Wednesday 19th September
7.45am Mattins only- Lady Chapel
10.00am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
5.30pm Choir Practice for 10.30 Eucharist
7.30pm Parish Council - Dookie
Thursday 20th September
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
11.00am Eucharist- Harmony Village
9.30am Tarcoola
1.30pm Evening Guild
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
5.30pm Choir Practice
7.30pm Study Group - Carole’s Pad
Friday 21st September
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Saturday 22nd September
Associate Priest’s Day Off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist (Traditional Rite)
6.00pm Vigil Eucharist
23rd September 17th Sunday after Pentecost
8.30am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
10.30am Eucharist - St Augustine’s/Confirmation
8.45am St. Luke’s Dookie
5.30pm Evening Prayer