SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
23rd September 2007
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UP THE IRISH
Woof Woof
Paddy and his missus were lying in bed listening to the next door neighbour's dog barking. It had been barking for hours and hours. Eventually Paddy jumped up out of bed and said "I've had enough of this". He went downstairs. When finally he came back up to bed his wife said, "The dog is still barking; what have you been doing?" Paddy replied "I've put the dog in our yard; let's see how they like it!"
An Irish Prayer
May those that love us, love us; and those that don’t love us, may God turn their hearts; and if He does not turn their hearts, may He turn their ankles so we will know them by their limping.
TRAVELLERS TALES (22)
Canon Andrew (2000)
In July, at half past seven in the morning we set off for the holy island of Iona. This is a small island of the Inner Hebrides where St Columba landed in 563 and founded a monastery which rapidly became the centre of Celtic Christianity. From this monastery missionaries were sent to Scotland and Northern England and numerous daughter houses were established. The Christianising of Scotland and Northern England in being accompanied by no force or bloodletting, was notable for its gentleness. After Columba’s death, until the removal of his relics in the 9th century, Iona was a popular centre of pilgrimage, and the monastery became famous for its learning. Although plundered many times by Norsemen, it was repeatedly rebuilt and survived until the Reformation.
Pilgrims
We four pilgrims from Wodonga passed through some of the loveliest countryside we had seen since being in Scotland on our way to Iona from Invergowrie. It got lovelier and lovelier once we passed Perth and headed west through Crieff, travelling beside impressive lochs in lush valleys and alongside green mountains. We avoided Oban, the more direct and usual route and ferry crossing to the island of Mull, largely because the ferry is expensive and large, but also to enable us to see more countryside. The roads were relatively quiet until we got into the truly spectacular country, where there was a fair amount of tourist traffic about. Rannoch Moor and the famous Glen Coe pass were particularly awe inspiring. We then turned off the tourist roads and crossed the narrow neck of the great rift of which Loch Ness is a part by way of the ferry at Corran, and then headed across a peninsular of steep grassy hills heading for Lochaline. All the road signs were now in both Gaelic and English. I do wonder about this self-conscious revival of old cultures. It is spitting in the face of history and the natural process of assimilation and could well lead to Balkanisation, the fuelling of ancient hatreds and petty nationalism. The road we turned on to and which headed for Lochaline was a single track with lots of passing bays marked by black and white poles. It is mostly sheep country and they were everywhere, straying often on to the road, there were also some conifer plantations. After an exhilarating drive we arrived at tiny Lochaline and the ferry to Mull. This was a more substantial vessel than the little one we had taken at Corran, but nowhere near as large as those that ply from Oban to Mull. The return ticket was £15.45 for the car, £1.75 each for the girls and £3.50 each for Margaret and me, £26.45 in all. A mostly cloudy day had by this time turned sunny and very windy, but mountainous Mull itself was covered with cloud and appeared forbidding and gloomy. We crossed from Lochaline to Fishnish, the latter no more than a ferry terminal and having forgotten to buy bread and chicken for lunch we didn’t take the scenic route over the mountains of Mull, but instead headed round the coast to Craignure where we encountered the large Oban ferry, tourist coaches and lots of people. There we bought our victuals from a sour faced old lady in a small supermarket, eating a late lunch with gusto in the car overlooking an inlet in the grounds of a castle.
Bunnesan and Fionnphort
We then carried on along the coast awhile before crossing the island alongside Loch Scridain, still on a single track road with passing bays that require courteous driving. It was about thirty miles or so, I think, to Fionnphort, the ferry point to Iona. The sea loch we travelled beside for much of the way was blown choppy by wild wind, but the sky was mostly blue. We stopped to post a couple of letters at Bunessan - a pretty little seaside fishing village whose name is very familiar to me, for it is the name of the tune of the hymn “Morning has Broken”. There is a cairn outside the village in honour of the poetess, Mary Macdonald, who wrote the original and very Presbyterian words, a local woman. The tune is also local. Fionnphort we thought to be a bit of a dump, very much a ferry town and little else. I dropped Margaret and the girls and raced to leave the car in the free car park, but not in time, and so we missed the ferry and had to wait three quarters of an hour for the next time round. Tourist cars and buses are not allowed on Iona, and so with only the very few vehicles of about a hundred permanent residents permitted on the island, and very few roads anyway, a sweet, ambulatory peace reigns. In windy sunshine we boarded the ferry for the holy island of Iona. It appeared low and grey-green, its little village clearly visible and the impressive abbey, a little to the north, always drawing the eye. The island just over three and a half miles long and a mile and a half wide. The Sound that divides it from the Isle of Mull is no more than a mile I would guess, though it marks a very clear geological divide. The rocks of Fionnphort are red granite, the rocks of Iona white-lichened grey gneiss.
Breanachd
On disembarking we turned left and walked for about ten minutes to our bed and breakfast destination - “Breanachd” - an unremarkable bungalow, but only yards from the sea and very comfortable. It is run by a delightful Yorkshire, middle-aged Anglican spinster. She was once a domestic science teacher, but left because teaching became impossible for her when she moved to a large comprehensive school. She then entered the catering business, running first a Church of Scotland establishment in Crieff, then Bishop’s House on Iona and the Heritage tea room on the island. She made friends with the lady who owned the house she now lives in, and the lady eventually died and left it to her.
The island is rugged to walk (and walk it we did, all over) with rocky outcrops, mossy, heathery areas, often boggy on the uplands, but with lovely thick grassy parts lower down that are cropped short by the ubiquitous, black-faced sheep. The single and tiny village is a pleasant hamlet consisting of little more than two streets, the one along the sea front made up of pleasing old dwelling places.
The ancient abbey, restored in the 19th and early 20th century is most impressive, but we didn’t visit it on our first walk, because now that the island is owned by the National Trust and the Abbey is maintained by them, things are more commercial than they used to be and there is a charge of a couple of quid a head to enter it. We wanted more time to look it over than would be available on our first evening. However we decided we would attend the evening service there at 9.00pm. On our first walk we looked over the ruins of an Augustinian nunnery, made lovely by being a flower garden. Then I, on my own, for the others were tired after a long day’s journey, climbed the highest peak on the island. It is not very high and the cold, strong wind allowed me to get to the top at speed with no perspiring. There was a wonderful view of everything from the top, the sea white- horsed and on the horizon Hebridean islands everywhere. I made my way back to the house for soup and rolls and then eventually Margaret and I went along to Monday night’s service at the Abbey.
Worship in the Abbey
The abbey is very beautiful and worshipful and was made all the more atmospheric that evening with numerous candles. It is built on the site of Columba’s first monastery. The Vikings, centuries later, time and again reduced the buildings almost to nothing and the famous Book of Kells, which was certainly begun on Iona and perhaps finished there, was removed to Ireland and Kells to be saved from the Vikings. Later, in the Middle Ages, the Benedictines set up a monastery on the island and it is the ruins of this that have been now restored, little more than the walls of the original building remaining to be incorporated in the present lovely Abbey.
The worship that Monday night, I confess, was not to my taste. Apparently on Mondays the service always has a “peace and justice” theme. A kids’ band of rattles and drums, as a prelude to worship, was so loud as to be unpleasant, and then the group of people in residence at the restored monastic buildings that adjoin the Abbey entered and filled the chancel/choir area, lots of them. The kids from the band joined them there as well and were notably well behaved. We were taught a couple of Taize type, simple harmony hymns/songs and then two women led the “service”. Both of them were difficult of hear, one because of her poor diction, the other because of a foreign accent. The worship was didactic and all to do with the releasing of Third World debt, there were freedom songs to accompany it all, as well as Old Testament bible readings and the inevitable and hackneyed “Kum ba ya”. Eventually a long paper chain was passed round for everyone to hold, until there was a loud bang and it was broken! Sunday School stuff, edification or education rather than worship. There was no sense of awe or of “otherness”. Obviously it was all prepared by the community and those staying in the abbey buildings during the day, lovingly I am sure, but not for me.
The wild goose
The Iona Community, which during the long summer runs residential courses at the Abbey, was formed in 1938 by a remarkable and dynamic man, the Rev George MacLeod. His purpose was to express in social terms the theology of the Incarnation, using as a symbol of this purpose the cooperative rebuilding of the Benedictine abbey. Its members were originally ministers and lay people from the Church of Scotland, but it is nowadays ecumenical. At the beginning members of the Community lived together in Iona for three months as a preparation for work in Scottish industrial areas and in the mission field. They layed a special stress on political activity and the discipline of devotional and economic witness as well as spiritual healing. The community is perhaps most widely known in Christian circles these days for the production of liturgical material and music that is as distinctive as that emanating from Taize. Based in Glasgow rather than Iona the community consists of about two hundred people, though there are many, many more associate members. The wild goose, an ancient symbol of the Holy Spirit is the community’s striking icon.
Walking the Island
Iona certainly grows on you, and we walked the island well. It gets much less rain than Mull - an average of 55 inches compared to 88. Because most people who come to the island have some religious interest and the resident population is so small, there is no problem with crime. People leave things for sale outside, all night, with an honesty box for the money - stones, carvings, jars of jam etc. On our first and major walk we followed the narrow road across the centre of the island, past scattered houses, some were obviously once crofters dwellings and still involved in farm and island work, others were holiday homes and such like. There are little outcrops of grey stone on both sides of the path, but the island is not really mountainous. Then we came to the machir, low grassland sloping down to the beach and sea, thick like a lawn, with plenty of clover in it and well dotted with sheep who keep it well cropped. We then headed south, eventually leaving the grassland and on up a stony track, the vegetation turning to heather. We arrived at the small loch that used to be the island’s only water supply, ruffled by a still strong wind, then we tramped up and down toward’s St Columba’s Bay, crossing lawn-like grass again as we got down to it, with heather outcrops and areas of iris, sadly not in flower, all sloping down to a beach of big, smooth pebbles. The old marble quarry we were looking for was harder to find and involved a lot of tramping. It is a seam of marble, no longer worked, but old machinery from the beginning of the last century still lies about, as well as great blocks of marble, tumbling down to the sea. The sun came out again to dazzle us bouncing from white, broken marble. We tramped back through high heather country to the grassland, going on further to discover some of the lovely beaches on the west side of the island. In the afternoon we headed for the village and looked at craft and produce. In the Iona community’s shop we bought the new Harry Potter book for Rachel, a ring for Elizabeth, a Celtic wall cross for Margaret and other bits and pieces.
We then went to look at the Bishop’s House, an Anglican residential retreat centre not far from the sea at the end of the only real street in the town - a lovely old building with a fine little chapel right in its centre. We decided to go to the 6.00pm Eucharist, which was a good decision for it was lovely to get back to liturgy in an Anglican style and setting. The priest was a youngish, head-shaved Glaswegian, his accent the explosive, unattractive version of the Scots accent, but he delivered an excellent little homily on the famous Benedict, whose day it was, and on Droston the unfamous, whose anniversary of death it was. They sang the liturgy to what he said later was a Russian setting. The Kyrie in particular was very beautiful. Our bed and breakfast hostess was there and about twenty five of us in all. It was a lovely Eucharist bringing us as close to St Columba and the spirit of sweet Celtic Christianity as any experience on the island
To be continued
CONGRATULATIONS
Birthday
Beryl Long. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29th Sept
PARISH FAIR AND GARDEN PARTY
10th November
A Meeting is to be held in the Den at 4.30pm on Thursday next, September 26th. This is an important meeting and representatives of all outdoor activities as well as stall holders, are requested to attend. The Location of stalls and activities, both in the Food Hall and on the lawns, will be discussed and finalised. Those preparing plants for the Fair, please to name plants and state the colour of any that flower.
APPREHENSION
When he was a little boy my brother hummed as he ate. You could always tell when he was enjoying his food because, as he chewed away with gusto, he sounded as contented as a hive of wing-shimmering bees.
When ever your Rector suspects that his parish is ceasing to hum his wings stop shimmering and apprehensive furrows crease his noble brow. There seems to be little humming around the narthex table to sign up for raffle ticket selling duties at City Walk and I.G.A. Do sign up on the list for a stint or two of duty, and hum with contentment as you do so! Don’t leave it all to a silent and stressed minority.
There seems to be little humming too about the Sudanese Choir visit. Sign up on the narthex table with offers of accommodation if at all possible and wax enthusiastic with your friends and so help contribute to the improvement of a poverty-stricken African hospital, the condition of which makes any complaints about our own hospitals and facilities shameful.
WELCOME
We welcome into our church family today by way of baptism Joshua and Jye Traval and Jaylah Parr. We welcome for their Confirmation Sophie Bell and Tom Woodcock of this parish and Helen Clarke and Charlotte Drinnan from the parish of Muchison/Rushworth: Welcome too to family and friends.
PET BLESSING
The St. Francistide Blessing of Pets Service takes place on Sunday the 7th October at 5.00pm. Start training your pet in prayerful postures and decorous liturgical gestures.
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. We need a few more 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. Please book the date in your diary and ask friends along as well. There will be a bring and share lunch and a bowl for donations both at church and hall. Folk from other churches or none are welcome to lunch and the afternoon’s entertainment.
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. A medium pie costs $3.50 and pies for individuals cost $1.50. Great bargains. Extra large pies can be ordered for $12.00. The profits from these pies will be ploughed into the great Guild Cake Stall effort for the Parish Fair. Pat’s phone number: 58 311606
SPARE A GOLD COIN
The “Spare a Gold Coin” ABM appeal from the 16th to the 30th of September, is to raise funds for water projects in the Philippines. Please be responsive! Nola
ANGLICAN CHURCH CALENDAR 2008
To order one of these fine Calendars for next year please place your name on the list in the Narthex. They cost $12 each.
DATES FOR THE DIARY
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, 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: Julie Camp, Julie Mollinson.
Anniversary of death: Emily Irwin, Peter Adams, Lorna Brown 22nd, Allan Hamilton 23rd, William Poulter, Olive Crouch, Gladys Webber, Alan McDonald 24th, Roy Oxley, Herbert Lightfoot, Sydney Stansfield 26th, Douglas Weaving 27th, David Ross, Muriel Wright 29th.
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
Duties for 30th September 2007
Vigil Eucharist at 6pm 29th Sept. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Celebrant 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.45 St. Luke’s Dookie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 10.45 St. Mary’s Katandra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gail Bryce
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ian Bryce, Victoria Heenan
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Pearson, Carole Henderson
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michelle, Daniel, Ben
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan, Sally, Erin
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Carlyon, Bev Condon
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Griffin, Hearther Fitzgerald
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carole henderson,Margaret Neaum
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anita Saville, Heather Nichols
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frank Steen, Nola Brewer
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Merv Cowland, Gwyn Cowland
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nola Brewer, Alan akers
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heather Pearson
Mowing 29th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Adrian Evans....
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH
Mon 24th September Rector’s Day off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Tuesday 25th September
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
3.00pm Bishop in Council etc.
12.15pm Simply Soul Soothing - Lady Chapel
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Wednesday 26th 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 Special Council Meeting re Hall - the Den
Thursday 27th September
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
4.00pm Parish Fair & Garden Party meeting/Den
7.30pm Study Group - Carole’s Pad
Friday 28th September
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
11.00am Ave Maria
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Saturday 29th Sept. Associate Priest’s Day Off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist (Traditional Rite)
6.00pm Vigil Eucharist
30th September 18th Sunday after Pentecost
8.30am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
10.30am Eucharist - St Augustine’s/Sudanese Choir
8.45am No Service - Coming in to St. Augustine’s
10.45am St. Mary’s Katandra
5.30pm Evening Prayer
N. B. (1) Special Council Meeting on Wednesday about the Hall at 7.30pm.
(2) No Dookie Service next week.