EPIPHANY SEVEN
18 February 2007
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AS PANTS THE HART
An enthusiastic Welsh Minister in Aberystwyth in the mid-1980s, preached at length on the virtues of “panting as the deer before the righteousness of the Lord.”In mid-flow, he broke off to exhort his listeners with a heartfelt cry of... “And I ask you – dear bothers and sisters – where are your pants?”
INTO THE VOID
There is a Christmas carol by William Mathias called , “Sir Christemas”? It is the one where everyone shouts “NOEL!” at the top of their voices at the end. Apparently Rochester Cathedral were singing this at their Nine Lessons and Carols one year, and the lay clerks bet one of their number a considerable sum of money that he wouldn’t shout “BO***CKS!” instead of “NOEL!” The piece came to its noisy conclusion and the lay clerk did indeed inflate his lungs and bawl “BO***CKS!” in the middle of Rochester Cathedral. Unfortunately, all the other lay clerks practically whispered their “Noel!”. It is reported that the chorister didn’t even last until Epiphany.
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has been found. Winston Churchill
He talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. Barry Goldwater of Hubert Humphries
SWEET LUNACY
Andrew Neaum
The Christian Faith has received two huge blows over the past decade. Or so, it seems to me. The first, and most serious, was the attack on the Twin Towers in New York. Because widely perceived to be the result of religious fanaticism, it has gradually percolated down to our self-considered intelligentsia, that if Islam is dangerous, so too must be all religion. The Gospel of love and sacrifice has been blackened with the same brush as militant and militaristic Islam. The enigmatic, compelling, loving and lovable Jesus of Nazareth is dismissed as being morally equivalent to the far less compelling, violent and to me at any rate very far from attractive Mohammed.
The second blow is that into this general pool of post “9 / 11” suspicion and scepticism have leapt Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and company, insisting eloquently that all faith in God is lunacy. Dawkings, in a best-selling book and a highly regarded television program, soon to appear on the ABC, has knocked down, trodden upon and demolished the straw-man Christ of the fundamentalists, and of the unthinking fools who preside each Sunday morning in far too many a pulpit in far too many a church of even the sweet and supposedly reasonable Anglican Church. The winds of scepticism seem chillier and stronger than at any other time in my thirty and more years of ministry.
Sitting by the fire believing in God
The self-styled intelligentsia have never ever really been friends of the Christian faith though. The majority of them, certainly from the time that I was a university student, have always believed that anyone who thoroughly believes in God is something of a lunatic or even worse. In 1925 Virginia Woolf reacted to the conversion of T S Eliot to Anglo-Catholicism by writing: “There’s something obscene in a living person sitting by the fire and believing in God”! There are innumerable web sites dedicated to revealing all believers to be lunatics.
To be thought a lunatic by the likes of such folk appears to me to be a compliment. For it is lunatics, literally, who keep me sane. Every parish church of which I have been a part has had its quota, and I love them. There are several in Shepparton who provide me with a most refreshing balance to what sometimes can seem too worthily and muesli-wholesome a diet of middle class rectitude, puritanism and propriety. The often feckless but usually generous, frequently dope-headed, schizophrenics and psychotics who regularly engage me in bizarre conversation, and who challenge me to charitable acts and to time not wasted but rewarding, are blessed relief.
There was one who was almost a daily communicant at Wodonga and in many ways almost a personal friend. He would kneel for ages in front of the altar, kissing the carpet with his backside in the air inviting but not receiving a kick. He was the most generous of folk and would receive nothing for nothing, insisting on paying for any favours received, and paying generously. I trusted him with anything. He was as totally and completely honest and apparently contented on almost nothing. An illustration therefore of Jesus’s assertion as to the blessedness of the poor, and of the truth of the aphorism attributed by St Paul to Jesus “....it is more blessed to give than to receive.”
“Knocks the demons out of yer!”
When I was Rector of Ararat I had more than usual dealings with lunatics. Up until both institutions closed I celebrated the Eucharist in the old Forensic Centre there, where the “criminally insane” were incarcerated, and also in Aradale, a large institution for the more conventionally mentally ill. To do so was a refreshing and rewarding experience.
At the Forensic Centre there was a small and rather pleasing chapel, made from joining two cells together. Here, once a fortnight, always with a warder present because the inmates were considered unpredictable and dangerous, I celebrated the Eucharist with a congregation of four of five young and usually well tattooed men.
To make sense of the Gospel to such folk in a short homily required imagination and careful preparation. As often as not they would challenge what I said, or comment on it, or ask difficult questions, often to do with sex. The secret was always to take seriously what they said, to empathise with them and never, ever to descend into condescension or censorious pharisaism.
I remember once administering the consecrated host to a muscle-bound hulk of a man who, as he went back to his pew, loudly smacked his lips and said “Good tucker that! It knocks the demons out of yer.”
In one of my former parishes a particularly valued parishioner was a very large man of about forty. He had a severe speech impediment which made him difficult to understand, but some members of the congregation took the trouble to learn how to make sense of what he said and interpret it to us.
He loved our parish church dearly. Early every Sunday, before light in winter, he would arrive, talking to himself all the time, to set up the cups for tea after the 9.30am Eucharist. He put the pew leaflets into the hymn books and greeted people he knew with a great hug. He sat up at the front of the church and sang the Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus and any hymns he knew with unrestrained and moderately tuneful gusto. Every time he met me down town during the week he would ask if there was Evensong on Sunday night, for he looked forward to our monthly choral Evensong with particular pleasure.
Open hearted lunacy
That he should find in our congregation and parish church so much joy and fun and such a sense of purpose, authenticated our parish life and worship more than anything else we were or did. Where else in our society are such folk able to find free, non-professional and ready ears to talk to, a valued role and an assurance of their importance and essential lovableness?
I used to visit the small mental hospital on the Island of St Helena. This was an enjoyable experience, not least because there was a very happy family atmosphere to the place. All the nurses and warders came to the service and took a part in it, with their charges, joining in the wildly fervent hymn singing and apparently appreciative too of the homily.
One of the patients was a fat roly-poly lad called Arthur. I was told that he had spent many years confined in a box by his family before experiencing the liberation of this homely little mental institution. What I said in my short sermon was usually an adaption of what I had expounded half an hour before at a local primary school’s assembly. Arthur was a great splutterer and fidgeter, but we all got used to that. Once, however, during a dramatic pause in my oration, he broke wind with a force and emphasis that brought a gasp of admiration from his fellow patients and a guffaw or two from their charges. I carried on regardless.
However, when later telling a friend about Arthur’s windy exclamation, she said, without a moment’s hesitation: “I would have thought that to be a very fair comment on your sermons!”
A Prayer.....Grant us, good Lord, the imagination and openness of heart in reading the character of Jesus, and in understanding the Gospel of love, to see that the foolishness of God sits more happily with lunacy, extravagant fecklessness and hay-making while the sun shines, than it does with cautious, risk-avoiding pharisaism, miserly close-fistedness and cold rectitude. Madden us lord, tip us towards the generous and open-hearted lunacy that enables us to slip easily through the needle’s eye into the Kingdom of lunacy, folly and love that is heaven. Amen.
LENT IN THE RECTORY
In the Rectory this year we intend taking Lent seriously. We are determined not to fiddle and phaff about with mere tokenism!
This will mean seriously simplifying our diet, cutting out meat entirely, for example, and cutting down hugely on what else we eat. No more snacking between meals either and only water to quench thirst, not fruit juices, cordials and other drinks designed to titillate jaded palates more than to assuage thirst. There will be no booze, of course.
We will each take on a challenging book, spend more time on ruminative prayer, and give a substantial sum of money away to some worthy cause other than dear old St Augustine’s who benefits the most from our charity as a rule. All this will be done, we trust, cheerfully.
The reasoning behind it all is spelled out thoughtfully and well in an article on Lent in the latest Melbourne Anglican. Well researched, it is written by Hedley Beare, the Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Melbourne. I have photocopied it, with permission, and there are copies available in the Narthex for those who would like to take one.
Taking Lent really seriously is certain to enhance the quality of our lives rather than detract from it. In our society, the affluence and comfort we wallow in, is seriously inimical to all that is really worthwhile in life and is arguably the greatest cause of luke-warmness and the drift out of active church membership for so many. I commend the article and the serious practice of Lent to everyone this year.
LENT COURSES
Our Lenten Course this year comes from Brisbane and promises to be worthwhile. Please sign up now so that we know how much material to order. There will be two sessions every Wednesday, starting on the 28th of February. The first will be at 2.00 pm, the second, preceded by a Eucharist starting at 6.00pm and then light Lenten fare at 7.30 pm.
ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICES
There will be Celebrations of the Eucharist and Imposition of Ashes on Ash Wednesday, the 21st of February at 8.00am, 10.00am and 7.00pm. The AGM takes place after the last.
CONGRATULATIONS
Birthdays
Elaine Weaver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wednesday 21st
Betty Doherty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wednesday 21st
SHROVE TUESDAY PANCAKES
There will be the customary Pancake Party on Shrove Tuesday, the 20th of February. It starts at 6.00pm. There will be lots to eat, pancakes to cook as well as to eat, games for kids and wine for adults.
MUSIC
The music practice for the 10.30am Eucharist will take place this Week on Friday at 5.30pm. Musicians and singers welcome!
THANK YOU RACHEL
Rachel Neaum returns to Canberra to take up her Honours course today, and so this will be her last stint in the choir for a while. Many thanks indeed for a good voice and a faultless attendance record! Her doting parents will be taking her once the 10.30 am service is ended.
IMPORTANT GATHERING
This afternoon at 3.00pm in Euroa, there is a meeting to articulate and listen to different views, inform, discuss and consider the matter of women priests, coming up once more at the next meeting of Synod. Anyone requiring a lift should let the clergy know.
CONFIRMATION 2007
We would like to identify all those wishing to be confirmed well before Easter. Squeezing in to a course at the last moment is not likely to be countenanced this year. Names to the clergy please.
BAPTISM SPONSORS
Sign up in the Narthex to be a Baptism Sponsor please, or have a word with one of the clergy. This is an important task and not at all onerous.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The St Augustine’s A G M takes place this year, as usual on Ash Wednesday which is the 21st of February. Nomination Forms for Parish Councillors and Wardens are, I hope, available on the Narthex table.
SHEPPARTON AT SYNOD
We have been asked to present at Synod a view of parish life here at Shepparton. If we consent to doing so we will need digital photographs of every licit activity undertaken in the parish for a power point presentation. Photos of Children’s Church activities, Grief Support gatherings, Pastoral Care rumination, Gardening Team compostings, Guild fracas, Vestry contretemps and so on and so on. If you are a digital camera buff, then photo all you can and eventually either email the photos to the Parish Office or download to the Office Computer when Heather is present to password you in.
SKITS AND SKETCHES
We would like to transform our annual Soiree in July with some substantial skits and sketches. Anyone with any theatrical talents or interests please speak to John Griffin.
PASTORAL CARE
There is a Pastoral Care meeting scheduled for this Monday at 1.30pm
THANK YOU
Many thanks to Ian Bryce for his power point presentation on the Holy Land. Those who attended this found it most interesting and rewarding.
SIMPLY SOOTHING
Don’t miss this different, reflective time, followed by lunch, at 12.15pm on Tuesdays
SOY LIFE
Don’t forget to collect Soy Life Products bar codes and hand them in to the office.
A G M KATANDRA
This to take place after the 10.45am Sunday Eucharist on the 25th of February.
DATES FOR THE DIARYFeb 19th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Community Kitchens Workshop 2-4pm
Feb 20th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Afternoon Guild
Feb 20th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Shrove Tuesday Pancake Party 6.00pm
Feb 20th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baptism Preparation 7.30pm
Feb 21st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ash Wednesday Eucharist then AGM 7.00pm
Mar 2nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . World Day of Prayer 10.00am St Mel’s
Mar 2nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garden Committee meeting 10am
Mar 2nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Arise 255
Mar 3rd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 2.30pm
Mar 6th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10am Morning Tea for Office Volunteers
Mar 10th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Men’s Breakfast
Mar 10th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Weddings 1.00pm and 3.00pm
Mar 14th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A B M Missionaries at 10.00am Eucharist
Mar 14th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Vestry Meeting 4.00pm
Mar 18th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mothering Sunday, Speaker and Lunch
Mar 24. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lady Day
Mar 25th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Outreach Publication Date
Mar 25th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Catechesis of Good Shepherd Info. Day
Apr 8th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Easter Sunday
Apr 22nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday Wedding 2.00pm
May 19th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Scott Cowdell Seminar
May 20th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .St Augustine’s Day Celebrations & Lunch
May 25th - 26th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Synod
May 27th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pentecost
May 24th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parish Fair meeting 4.30pm
June 2nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Men’s Breakfast
June 18-21. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Clergy Retreat
Oct 6th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Men’s Breakfast
Oct 15-18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Clergy Conference
Nov 10th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parish Fair
Dec 1st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Men’s Breakfast
Duties for 18th February 2007
Celebrant 6.30pm Sat 17th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Celebrant 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.45 Dookie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 10.45 Katandra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I. Bryce, John Griffin
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Andrea Fisher, Margaret Neaum
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michelle, Ben, Daniel
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jenny, Sally, Erin
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heather Fitzgerald, Celebrant
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Griffin, Heather Fitzgerald
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carole Henderson, M.Neaum
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anita Saville, Heather Nichols
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Roz Dunlop, Frank Steen
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gwyn Cowland, Merv. Cowland
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nola Brewer, Alan Akers
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heather Pearson
Mowing ( 17th ). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kay McGregor, Merv Cowland
Welcome Table 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dorothy Cook
Duties for 25th February 2007
Celebrant 6.30pm Sat 24th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Celebrant 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.45 Dookie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 10.45 Katandra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carole Henderson, Norm Mitchelmore
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Courtney Craven, Mary Pearson
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beth, Alex, Philippa
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan, Ben, Bethany
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carole Henderson, Christine Jones
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carole Henderson, Bev Condon
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jenny Pleming, Chris Evans
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pat Griffin, Erma Wilson
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nola Brewer, Sandra Simonis
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev & Max Ralph
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Charlotte Brewer, John Pleming
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Val Bambrook
Mowing (24th ). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Norm Mitchelmore & Lawrie Tinning
Welcome Table 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
REQUESTS FOR PRAYER
Hilary Akers, Norma Anderson, Arthur Balaburov, Liam Bognar, David Burrow, Holly Butterfield, Nancy Cooke, Mark Cowan, Greg Cresswell, Donna Dyson, Heather Gowwinckel. David Griffin, Denise McKellar, Leon Myer, Marven Mould, Bill McIntosh, Marg Noble, Peter & Eva Swindells, Heather Vines, Lorraine Vogul, Buffy, Cherryl, David, Judith, Darren, Frank, Glenda, Greg, Heather, Judith, Jim Lynda, Peggy and carers, Robert, Ross, Sue & family.
Anniversary of death
Clarence Connor 18th, Peter McNamara 19th, Frederick Clark, Eva Baldwyn, Maisie Jolliffe, Elsie Blair, Melba Briggs 22nd, Venda Keenan, Graham Longley 24th.
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH
Monday 19th February Rector’s Day Off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
2.00pm Community Kitchen Workshop - Supper Room
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Shrove Tuesday 20th February
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
12.15pm Simply Soul Soothing - Lady Chapel
1.30pm Afternoon Guild - Narthex
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
6.00pm Pancake Party - Hall & Garden
7.30pm Baptism Preparation - Narthex
Ash Wednesday 21st February
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist at 8.00am - Lady Chapel
10.00am Eucharist- St Augustine’s
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
7.00pm Eucharist - St Augustine’s
7.30pm A G M - Supper Room
Thursday 22nd February
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
10.15am Eucharist - Grutzner House
11.00am Eucharist - Harmony Village
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
5.30pm Choir Practice
Friday 23rd February
7.45am Mattins and Eucharist - Lady Chapel
11.00am Eucharist - Ave Maria
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Saturday 24th February St Matthias
Associate Priest’s Day Off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist (Old rite) - Lady Chapel
6.30pm Vigil Eucharist - Lady Chapel
Sunday 25th Feb First Sunday in Lent
8.30am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
10.30am Eucharist (Baptisms) - St Augustine’s
8.45am St. Luke’s Dookie
10.45am St Mary’s Katandra West and AGM
5.30pm Evening Prayer