PENTECOST SUNDAY
27th May 2007
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RITE OF PASSAGE
A big bloke from the bush was trying out for a Sydney rugby team. “Can you tackle,” asked the coach? “Watch this,” said the boy from the bush - and proceeded to run full-speed into a telephone pole. He shattered it into splinters. “Pretty good,” said the coach. “I’m impressed. But can you run?” “Of course I can run,” said the boy from the bush. And off he shot. In just over nine seconds he had done a 100-yard dash. “Bewdy,” said the coach. “But can you pass a football?” The young bloke hesitated for a few seconds. “Well,” he said, “if I can swallow it, I can probably pass it.”
TRAVELLERS’ TALES (9)
Andrew Neaum (2000)
One of the best things about our parish exchange in Scotland was that we were not tourists! Tourism, during the last half of the twentieth century I have decided, has become one of the greatest of lesser vices. It is a particularly insidious form of exploitation of the poor and the beautiful by the rich and the ugly! There are few places in the world now that are not infested by affluent gawpers and “oohers” and “aahers”. Even the summit of Mount Everest has a litter problem! Every lovely little village in Europe and increasingly in Australia too, feels compelled to label and market itself as “historic” and to display all sorts of tourist bait, jam jars to catch rich wasps. Apparently ten million Britains travel abroad to Europe each summer and an even greater number of Europeans and others flood to Britain. So ironically, desirable and beautiful destinations are rendered less than desirable and beautiful by the huge number of folk, like me, who travel to admire them. As in human relations so too in geography we tend to hurt most those we love the most. Our first trip to Edinburgh inspired me to verse on the subject:
Tourists in Edinburgh
What a downright shame and pity
That Edinburgh, the lovely city,
Should suffer such an awful fate
As every year to pullulate
With hordes of gibbering, tourist monkeys,
Sight-seeing, mad enjoyment-junkies.
As summer heightens, more and more
From trains and planes and coaches pour,
Jostling, pushing, photographing
Gawping, shouting, joking, laughing.
They clog the pavements, streets and lanes,
And drop their litter in the drains.
Determined spenders, over payers,
They pose with busking bag pipe players
And round old churches chat and nod
In search of history not of God.
Pleasure seeking brash invaders
They tempt the local shops and traders
Into greed and avarice,
For no one local likes to miss
An easy profit or a killing
Made from folk so keen and willing
To purchase tatty memorabilia
Like porcelain puffins, or even sillier
Are fascinated and impressed
By Loch Ness monsters tartan dressed,
By thistle brooches, pewter otters,
Thick-lipped mugs from half baked potters,
Or half filled disks of Scottish tunes
And Celtic prayers in phony runes,
By tartan scarves, or heather dried
And into brittle bunches tied.
All of which turns Scottish enterprise
Away from projects good and wise
To make and peddle junk and trash
For therein lies such easy cash.
Thus tourists ruin all they see
By simply going there, like me.
A trip to Edinburgh
Edinburgh is a good sixty miles or more from Dundee, though there is a shorter and more lovely, if slower, route over the Tay bridge and along secondary roads. We again crossed the great suspension bridge over the Firth of Forth with the famous railway bridge on our left. There is no toll payable on the way south, it costs 80p on the way back. I prefer an outright toll like this to the confounded “E-tag” system in Melbourne, where I now never know what freeway I am allowed on without a tag, and so have to avoid them all!
Rambling about
We made our way right in to the heart of Edinburgh with no difficulty at all, slowing down to a crawl and being held up at lights a little only when right in the heart of the city. Elizabeth proved to be a good navigator. We found our way right up to the environs of the Castle and then headed slowly down the stone cobbled Royal Mile until Elizabeth guided us into New Street and a large under-roof car park. There we left the car for over six hours and were charged £5 when we left. We were to use this park on subsequent visits, so convenient it proved. It was an old warehouse with burger vans and a coach or two parked there as well as cars.
We decided first to make our way to an information centre and so walked up, with great delight, some of the Royal Mile, a beautiful old street with tiny little lanes and alleys leading off it into interesting looking court yards and closes. We stuck our noses into several shops and then made our way over a bridge into Princes Street. This is Edinburgh’s main street running alongside a park which occupies the valley below the road and at the foot of the crag upon which stands the Castle and old town. The Castle and old town are a beautiful sight from Princes Street, a great quarry of windowed, grey stone buildings beyond the park, the castle itself high at one end growing out of the basalt coloured, sheer cliffs upon which it is built. Princes Street effectively divides the old city from the new, though by Australian standards even the “new” is very old and for the most part lovely and emphatically not a hideous modern metropolis of glass-and-steel-glittering, sterile cubes. Already the city was full of tourists, though the season was not yet in full swing. The Information Centre was crowded, hot and hideously overheated like so many buildings in Britain. It contained such an over abundance of secondhand carbon dioxide that it began slowly to asphyxiate me, a soup almost dense enough to swim in. Our two girls bought a couple of little things and we acquired the usual swag of brochures.
The R. S. C. D. Association
We took a walk up Princes Street, popping in to a very beautiful Episcopal Church, St John’s I think it was called, with lovely windows, a church that is obviously well frequented and well run. It advertised itself as a haven for refugees in a country that it claimed to be inhospitable to them, and it boasted a “One World” shop which we were later briefly to look in to. Some weeks after our visit I learned that this church was the fashionable one of which our Bishop, the Bishop of Brechin, had been the successful and happy incumbent for a good number of years. We then moved on past the street’s end on our way to Coates Crescent and the headquarters of the Royal Scottish Country Dancing Association. On the way we passed the restaurant at which, only about twenty four hours previously, a young Australian waitress had been killed by falling masonry from four stories above. Holes in the awnings told the horrific story. The headquarters of the Royal Scottish Country Dancing Association was not, as I supposed, a shop with lots of goodies on display, but a set of decorous rooms in a rather posh stone built Victorian crescent, and we had to ring a bell to effect entry. We had a chat with a coolly friendly woman and bought two copies of the “Wee Green Book” which is a sort of short-hand crib-book for Scottish country dancers. We also bought copies of all the Scottish Dances the Society publishes. We then made our way back to the old city by zig zagging up a path from the bottom of the Castle crag to the top. Not too strenuous. In the esplanade of the Castle men were busy erecting the great tiers of seats needed for the annual Military Tattoo in August, for which we already held tickets. The esplanade of the Castle looked rather smaller in area than TV shots had led us to expect.
Gawping at churches and palaces
After a picnic lunch, eaten late, ravenously and most unromantically in the car park, we made a trip to Old St Paul’s, an Anglican High Church Mecca, tucked away and overshadowed by larger buildings than itself. It was dark inside with a most effective light on the crucifix on the high altar. The walls were pleasingly impregnated with incense that breathed a slight, lingering whiff of that loveliest and holiest of scents. Built of heavy stone, the whole building looks much older than in fact I think it is. We said a prayer there and passed on back into the Royal Mile. There were lots of busking pipers about, much photographed and doubtless collecting a fair amount of money. Tourists seem to spend freely and the pubs were full to overflowing with cheery folk. We had a look round St Giles Cathedral, though how the Church of Scotland, which is so opposed to bishops, can have the effrontery to continue to call it a “cathedral” when, as you would expect there is no bishop’s throne or “cathedra” nor any bishops to sit on it, I don’t know! It is a lovely building with a footling little square “altar” right in the middle, with, I concede approvingly, two candles on it. This divides it into what is in effect two churches - on one side of the central “holy table” green box pews, on the other, rows of chairs. In one transept there is a modern and recently donated organ which looks as though it is a thoroughbred, though its modern design looks incongruous in such a setting. Nowhere could I find any statues or representations of Christ, but there was a free-standing, life size statue of that wowser of wowsers John Knox! Incidentally, half way down the Royal Mile is his house, now a museum. We said a short prayer in a little chapel set aside for the purpose and then headed out and down a side street to look for a statue of Greyfriars Bobby - a legendary, loyal little dog about which a famous book has been written, one dear to the heart of Margaret. The statue was easy enough to find, but to get in to the graveyard where the dog and his master are buried took more doing, though eventually we made it.
A two tier city
What is odd about this little part of the old town is that you walk down a street, look over a wall and see a bustling road beneath you and actually passing under the one you are on - as though, quite impossibly, there is a double decker city! By this stage we were too tired fully to work this out, even when fortified by a large ice cream, but it must have something to do with the contours of the hills upon which the city is built. By this time we had had enough of touristy rambling and so by car we travelled down to the bottom of the Royal Mile and passed the Palace of Holyrood House where the number of policemen and the Royal Standard flying led us to suppose the Queen to be in residence. We then drove slowly up and around Salisbury Crags which offered us wonderful views back into the city. On our way back through the city we headed up to Nelson’s monument and the Observatory. There we got out and looked around. Again there are wonderful 360 degree views of the whole city and district.
Falkland Palace
We headed for home avoiding Perth by cutting off at Kinross. After an evening meal made up largely of delicious avocados, eaten while illegally parked on a cross country cycle path, we were attracted by a sign to Falkland and its palace and so headed that way, for although it was about 9.00pm it only gets dark at the time of the year at around 11.00pm. We discovered Falkland to be perhaps the prettiest village we had yet visited, with lovely little stone cottages and gardens all beautifully kept and unspoilt. The gates to the palace gardens were open, in spite of the late hour and so we wandered in, wondering why there were so many cars parked round and about. It transpired that there was an open air performance of Romeo and Juliet on offer, though we had arrived at the interval. A piece of luck really, for it meant we could get in and stroll around. It would be a pretty cold show though for the temperature was only about 12 or 13 centigrade. We then wandered up the road behind Falkland into the Lomond hills, very lovely and on the way down we noticed that at the back of the village was an ugly factory with a set of nasty nineteen thirties, pebble-dash houses for its workers - a paper mill. Whoever wished such a blight upon so lovely a village deserves hanging!
To be continued
CONGRATULATIONS
Birthdays
Eileen Kelly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30th May
Janet Kiddle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31st May
Edna Rattray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1st June
Anniversaries
Hilary & Alan Akers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3rd June
CONFIRMATION
Confirmation Classes take place on Tuesdays at 4.00pm.
WELCOME
We welcome into God’s family by way of Baptism today, Archer Mawson and William Steele. Welcome too to their parents, family and friends. Thank you to their congregational sponsors: Pat Gibson and John & Jenny Pleming.
KATANDRA, DOOKIE
AND CLERGY ON LEAVE
Sadly there will be no services at Dookie or Katandra on the 3rd June. Join us at St Augustine’s though! The Neaums are taking a week of their annual leave. The Bryce’s go away on leave from the 6th of June for a month and a bit. During this time we hope that there will Laity led services at our out centres.
HOSPICE SERVICE
There is a Hospice Service at St Augustine’s this afternoon at 2.30pm, especially for those whose loved ones have died during the past year.
ECUMENISM FOR PENTECOST
There is an Ecumenical Service in honour of Pentecost at Wesley Church starting at 7.30pm tonight. The coolness of the night will be warmed by the fire of the Holy Spirit’s ecumenical presence. All are urged to attend.
CATECHESIS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
Calling all non craft people:- If you’d like to contribute to the above children’s ministry program we are in need of items such as:- crayons, pencils, cleaning cloths, scissors, hand towels etc etc. There will be a master materials list on the table in the Narthex, please flip through and indicate any items you may be able to assist with. Thanks.
“HOSPICE TEA AND HARMONY”
Not to be missed
At Eastbank commencing 1.30pm on Tuesday 26th June. Guest Speaker: Rob Gell;
Guest Artist: Alison Lemoh, (Mezzo Soprano). For seat reservations and tickets, contact Pat Gibson 58 313080 OR Ella Egan 58 212078. Admission $21 (There will be no ticket sales at the door)
UGANDAN MARTYRS
Our annual combined morning service and breakfast with folk from the St Brendan’s Congregation takes place this Saturday 2nd June, in St Martin’s Chapel starting at 8.00am. Do please support it.
THE PRAYER LIST
We will start a new prayer list next week the beginning of June. This list can be come very long and unwieldy, please put the names of folk seriously in need of the Church’s prayers on the list on the Narthex table and sign your name to indicate that permission to be named has been given by the person listed.
EXTRA SPECIAL
Tuesday 5th June
“Simply Soul Soothing” 12.15 -12.40pm
to be led by Bela Angyal.
He is the only beaten copper sculptor in Australia and the he will explain his magnificent sculpture of John the Baptist baptizing Jesus on the West wall of St. Augustine’s. Lunch to follow costs $5. Please place your name on the list in the Narthex if you can come.
VARIOUS FORTHCOMING EVENTS
An initial Community Kitchen meeting in the Supper room Monday 28th May 2pm. Come along to find out more or to let us know what you would like to see operating. Social Responsibilities Committee meeting May 30th 12 noon in the Narthex. Mary’s Anglican Guild with Katandra West Uniting Church Fellowship are holding their splendid Annual Luncheon on Wednesday 30th May at 12 noon. There will be good company, soup, sandwiches, sweets, and marvellous entertainment as well as a raffle and stall. Entry $9. Phone 58655321. The Grief Support Group “Moving On” is holding a “happy memories” evening. We only grieve because we have loved and so have happy memories. You are invited to bring along a reminder or memento of those happy times to share with others on Tues 12th June at 7.30. The Hall Committee meets on Friday 8th June at 5.00pm. We should have some alteration plans and proposal costings to consider by then. The Anglican Women of Australia Annual Rally takes place on Wed 13th June in Wangaratta. Morning Tea at 10.30am, Eucharist at 11.00am, Lunch at 12.15.
DATES FOR THE DIARY
June 8th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arise 255
June 12th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grief support group”Moving On”
June 13th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anglican Women Annual Rally/Wangaratta
June 13th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Vestry 3pm
June 18th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pastoral Care meeting 1.15pm/Library
June 18 -21. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clergy Retreat
June 18th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pastoral Care meeting 1.30 Library
June 20th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parish Council
June 22nd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Arise 255
June 23rd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mens’s Breakfast
July 7th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 2.3pm
July 13th & 14th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garage Sale/ Evening Guild
Sept 8th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 3.00pm
Sept 8th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 4.30pm
Sept 15th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 1pm
Sept 15th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 2.30pm
Oct 6th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 2.30pm
Oct 6th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Men’s Breakfast
Oct 13th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 3.30pm
Oct 15 -18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clergy Conference
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 1st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Men’s Breakfast
Dec 8th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 4pm
REQUESTS FOR PRAYER
David Burrow, Betty Bush, Nancy Cooke, Donna Dyson, Mavis Euling, Frank Harder, Jean Hastie, Beryl Long, Carolyn McAlister, Denise McKellar, Lois Myers, Margaret Neaum, Margaret Noble, Jan Riches, Terry Rogers, Dawn & John Scott, Carol Shields, Peter & Eva Swindells, Phyl Sizler, John Sizler, Robyn Stone, Lorraine Vogul, Lil Walters, Anne, Buffy , Darren, David, David & Judith, Graham, Heather, Mark, Trevor, Joan & John, Karen, Les, Peggy, Toby, Alexandra & Charles, Joy, Sherena.
Rest in Peace
Betty Campesato
Anniversary of death
Milan Marcetic, Rohan Lynas, Geoffrey Waite 28th, Rudolf Neff 30th, Patricia Ramage, Vernon Auldrige 1st, Jack Shacklock 2nd.
Duties for 27th May 2007
Celebrant 6.00pm Sat 26th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Celebrant 10.30/Baptisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.45 Dookie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 10.45 Katandra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carole Henderson, Pat Griffin
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Courtney Craven, Mary Pearson
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beth, Alex, Philippa
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jenny, Zebedee, Joe
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pat Griffin, Celebrant
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ian Bryce, Carole Henderson
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christine Evans, Jenny Pleming
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beryl Goodfellow, Bev Reither
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Roz Dunlop, Frank Steen
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Merv Cowland, Gwyn Cowland
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Alan Akers, Nola Brewer
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gwyn Cowland
Mowig 26th ). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adrian Evans, Lionel Waterson, Rick Coates
Welcome Tbl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8.30Dorothy Cook, 10.30 Dorothy Cook
Duties for 3rd June 2007
Celebrant 6.00pm Sat 2nd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .no service
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Celebrant 10.30/Baptisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gail Bryce
Celebrant 8.45 Dookie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . no service
Celebrant 10.45 Katandra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .no service
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heather Pearson, Gwyn Cowland
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joan Harder, Charlotte Brewer
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michelle, Beth
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan, Jack Lear, Peter Lear
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Fitzgerald, Christine Jones
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ian Bryce, Bev Condon
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carole Henderson
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Pearson, Bev Ralph
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nola Brewer, Sandra Simonis
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Max Ralph, Bev Ralph
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Pleming, Ccharlotte Brewer
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev Reither
Mowing 19th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .no mowing
Welcome Tbl.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.30 Pamela Lee, 10.30 Mary Pearson
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH
Monday 28th May
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
2.00pm Community Kitchen meeting
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Tuesday 29th May
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
10.00am Playgroup - The Den
12.15pm Simply Soul Soothing - Lady Chapel
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
4.00pm Confirmation class
Wednesday 30th May
7.45am Mattins only - Lady Chapel
10.00am Eucharist- St Augustine’s
12noon Social Responsibilities Comm. Meeting
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
5.30pm Choir Practice for 10.30 Eucharist
Thursday 31st May
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
11.00am Eucharist- Harmony Village
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
5.30pm Choir Practice
7.30pm Bible Study
Friday 1st June
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
10.00am Garden meeting
7.00pm Arise 255
Saturday 2nd June
Associate Priest’s Day Off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist
8.00am Ugandan Martyrs Eucharist & breakfast
9.00am Garden working bee
6.00pm Vigil Eucharist
Sunday 3rd June
8.30am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
10.30am Eucharist - St Augustine’s/Baptisms
8.45am Eucharist - St Luke’s Dookie
10.45am Eucharist - St Mary’s Katandra West
5.30pm Evening Prayer