NINTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
29th July 2007
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TRUE SHARING
An assiduous parish priest visited an elderly woman on the parish roll. As he sat on the settee he noticed a small bowl of peanuts on the coffee table. “Mind if I have a few” he asked? “No, not at all,” the woman replied and pushed the bowl closer. They chatted for an hour and as the priest stood to leave, he realised, to his chagrin, that instead of eating a few he had emptied the bowl. “I’m terribly sorry for eating all the peanuts. I meant only to take a few,” he said. “That’s alright,” the woman replied. “Ever since I lost my teeth, all I can do is suck off the chocolate.”
TRAVELLERS’ TALES (18)
Andrew Neaum (2000)
The unexpected visitors on the Gala Day described last week were Father Ashley’s parents. They live in a tiny village on the other side of the Tay estuary, near to St Andrews, and they come to Dundee to shop at Tesco’s. They had popped in to make our acquaintance and stayed to have a cup of tea.
After chatting about this and that we soon decided that we liked them very much indeed. Bill Cummins used to be a lecturer in geology, but took early retirement and then began writing history books. Judy used to be a nurse, but some years ago took a degree in theology which she enjoyed mightily, though she says she still finds it difficult to engage in deep discussion with Ashley, because his theology has philosophy behind it as well and so he loses her. They have a daughter who lives in a cottage attached to her parent’s ancient cottage and who is married to a teacher at a private school in St Andrew’s. They told us that Ashley and his family were having a wonderful time in Wodonga, so much so that they wondered if they wouldn’t try to emigrate. We very much enjoyed their company and so were delighted to be invited to have lunch with them some weeks later.
We set out for our lunch date across the great Tay bridge on a breezy, sunny day and found our way to the little village of Kincaple with ease. There they live in two very attractive joined stone cottages set in a common garden. We started with a cup of tea in Bill and Judy’s home and then moved to the other cottage for lunch and eventually dinner. They were given a grant to help restore the ancient and neglected cottages and the grant carried with it certain requirements, one being that skylights be set into the new tiled roof for circulation, the windows of such cottages being considered these days to be too low and small. The welcome and hospitality we received were bountiful and genuine. We began with a cup of tea and home made current bread, discovering that the son in law, Andrew, is a very quirky and humorous conservative, unlike Ashley who although funny is anything but a conservative! Andrew teaches classics at St Leonard’s School in St Andrew’s, a small school that is housed in ancient buildings originally a part of the university. He loves his subject and can justify it’s continued existence eloquently, but feels slightly insecure, because in today’s utilitarian climate and with a new head teacher about to be appointed, there was a slight worry about the future of a classics department. He has made a little computer program that he hopes to market. It is an aid to teaching children their multiplication tables. He demonstrated it to me and it seems slick and effective, his own school has adopted it with enthusiasm. The most interesting thing to me about this was to discover how easy basic programming of this sort is, with the help of a programming program!
Charming warts on cows
His wife, known as Tig, her real though never used name being Sheila, we also delighted in. She is also very clever, with degrees in old Icelandic and a doctorate in medieval medicine. The latter is a fascinating subject to talk about, and, as you would expect, when once you think about it, medieval medicine is not at all to be dismissed as primitive and barbaric nonsense. Over the centuries, trial and error, allied to common sense and human ingenuity were bound to turn up effective palliatives, cures and remedies for all sorts of common ailments. People are unlikely for too long to use things that patently do not work, though one has to admit that blood letting had a surprisingly long run for all its ineffective-ness. At table we had an interesting little chat about “‘wart charming” and the case of a man being called to charm away the warts that appeared on a prize cow shortly before it was due to be shown and were threatening its success. The man called in to charm them away was successful, not only on the cow, but also on the hands of a worker. Afterwards the man said he didn’t believe in such nonsense, that it must be coincidence or something. His warts returned, the cow’s did not! The most interesting point from such a story, and there are others, is that if warts can be charmed off animals then the charming cannot be said to be either faith healing or psychosomatic. So what the dickens is going on!
A kindred spirit
Tig, like me, is a great lover and admirer of the counter-tenor James Bowman and the soprano Emma Kirkby. She has her own harpsichord, does lacework and loves Harry Potter, Tolkien and C S Lewis. She goes to church, the higher the church the better, and now devotes pretty well all her time to the educating of and caring for young Maud, their autistic daughter, who is a pretty little blonde able to go to kindergarten three times a week, but only with her mother present in case of difficulties. The little girl cannot be rushed or forced, and so it might take ages, for example, to get her in to a car to go anywhere. Because so disengaged emotionally she has an ethereal, detached air to her, a bit like the heroine in a Pre-Raphaelite painting. The usual tricks to amuse children seem to leave her unmoved and so she unconsciously puts you in your place by showing you to be unimportant to her. Tig, talking of herself, said that when she was young she was very untidy and it used to get her in to trouble, so much so that Ashley, who in those days was not untidy, but is now, would go in to her room and tidy it for her to save her from getting in to trouble. A lovely testimony to sweetness of nature. He seems a much loved son and brother. We learned that he does all the baking at home, including bread - something that I wouldn’t have suspected. It is interesting putting together the bits and pieces of a jigsaw that make up the personality of someone you have never met and yet in whose house you live. The parents are delightful too. Judy, wears long and faintly pre-Raphaelite looking dresses and is very kind. She teaches a bit of theology to people on Lay Readers courses, having acquired her degree in theology, which included Hebrew, some years ago. She also helps out a great deal with little Maud. Bill, her husband, is kind, quiet and much involved in domestic life while quietly producing excellent books on the Picts. A truly fascinating and talented family.
Mary Queen of Scots
Before lunch we went into St Andrew’s and had a look at the lovely University College in which Ashley and his mother studied theology. It has, a lawned quad with a huge and ancient ilex tree set in it and is surrounded by ancient stone buildings, one side medieval. We looked over an ancient library, beautifully wood panelled in the nineteenth century and then we went to see a medieval student’s room, preserved as it would have been centuries ago, probably for two students. There was an alcove for two bunks and it was not un-roomy and had its own open fireplace. Then Andrew took us down the street to an old but unpretentious looking building which is his school’s (St Leonard’s) library. It is also known as Queen Mary’s House because Mary Queen of Scots once resided there for a short time. At the top of the building there is the room in which she slept, her bed is preserved in a small window alcove with doors, as though she was sleeping in a cupboard with a window. Presumably the doors helped to keep her warm as well as private. There is an ancient bed cover on the bed, possibly one that she used. The fourth oldest chair in Scotland was there, elegant but less than comfortable, as well as ancient floorboards, wall panelling and so on. From the windows there are lovely views of ancient buildings and gardens. The remainder of the building makes up the school’s library, and what a library for young folk to enjoy! Three stories of thick walled rooms, full of nooks and crannies, especially the bottom floor, each small room of which is buttressed and stone vaulted. There is a little school museum there too, showing old uniforms and the like.
Kellie Castle
Back at Kincaple, after a lunch of salad, cheese, delicious bread, and elderflower cordial (with a taste that reminded me of lychees) and a long wait to get Maud into the car, we headed off to Kellie Castle, a proper and ancient castle, though civilized, in the seventeenth century into a reasonably comfortable residence. The ancient rooms are full of all sorts of furniture and pictures from a variety of centuries, reflecting the hundreds of years it has been inhabited. For example, there is a most interesting children’s nursery at the top of a turret. It is full of what seem to be mostly nineteenth century toys and furniture, but what a secure and happy place it would have appeared to children fortunate enough to enjoy it. The highlight of our visit, however, was the garden. Walled gardens are the most lovely of gardens and this was the best I have ever seen. The high stone walls were made in the 16th century from stones from dismantled outworks and fortifications. There are formal paths lined with densely planted flowers, many of them ancient varieties: roses, delphiniums, purple flowered lemon balm, and many, many others of all sorts, varieties and types, an unutterable delight to walk quietly beside. There are also little hedged gardens within the garden, ancient fruit trees, lawns, some of them left to go to seed as in a meadow, vegetables and fruit canes, a little summer-house like stone building, and in recesses in the wall there are old fashioned bee boles, some of them open and used by bees. The walls are beautifully climbed by roses or espaliered fruit trees and always, as a splendid backdrop to it all, there is the great chiselled quarry of lovely stone that is the castle itself.
Lavender flavoured syllabub
We travelled back to Kincaple, a little late, for venison, mange-tout and small new potatoes accompanied by good red wine and followed by a mixture of stewed currants, strawberries and raspberries eaten either with cream or lavender flavoured syllabub. This was followed by much talk, a little harpsichord playing, a cup of tea and then farewells and home. A truly delightful day spent with people who are not only interesting, but good in the full and rich Christian meaning of that word. God bless them.
FROM “OUTREACH”
Patronal Festival
The Revd. Dr. Scott Cowdell was our Patronal Festival guest. He gave two splendid lectures on Saturday 19th of May, the first was on Richard Dawkins who, with a few other academic haters of faith, has grabbed his Islamic fundamentalist moment to kick the Christianity he despises in the guts. We heard a well wrought presentation, beginning with an eloquent and charitable appreciation of Dawkins as the brilliant populariser of science and evolution that he undoubtedly is, and then a penetrating critique of his philosophical and theological pretensions and shortcomings. The second talk was on Christianity and Sexuality, this proved to be a sensitive and learned reinterpretation of Christianity’s traditional stand, in the light of new and more profound understandings of human sexuality. Although these talks were well publicised and well attended there appeared to be few if any local atheists, libertines or Eros Foundation disciples in the audience. It is not only the faithful who seek bliss in ignorance.
Catholics and Anglicans
When I was away on Retreat recently, and the Revd’ Gail Bryce on holiday, our Wednesday 10.00am Eucharist was simply changed to Mattins and taken by Monsignor Peter Jeffery of St Brendan’s. That is the way things ought to be! The differences between mainline denominations these days are as nothing compared to what we hold in common, and such acts of ecumenical goodwill and charity are both innumerable and heartening. Many thanks to the good Monsignor.
Choral Scholarships
We offer Choir Scholarships of $1000 per annum to young aspirant singers at St Augustine’s.
The church choirs that my daughters have been members of in Canberra offer similar scholarships to young students. The purpose of these is to open young vocalists to the glories of the liturgical musical tradition, which is second to none, to assist often impoverished students to pay for their singing tuition, to augment St Augustine’s parish choir with fine, young voices and to foster local musical talent.
The scholarships carry both privileges and obligations. Among the privileges are innumerable opportunities to sing solos regularly in public, membership of a friendly and supportive little choir and the opportunity to grace one’s curriculum vita with the achievement of a substantial scholarship. Among the obligations is the requirement to attend both a weekly choir practice and the 8.30am Eucharist on Sundays.
The fact that as yet no Scholarship has been awarded is partly because we are a provincial city and so unlike Canberra, have no Conservatorium of Music or university faculties of music filled with talented youngsters looking for opportunities to develop their talents and boost their income. We live in hope though. There must be talent around that has yet to find its inevitable way to our State capital cities. Please pass the word around.
Being Googled
One of the good things about having a personal web page (http://www.andrewneaum.com/) and also a distinctive name, is that folk from my past occasionally make contact with me. I received an email today from a Catholic priest in England who lived as a school boy in the town of which I was first a Rector, namely Gatooma in Rhodesia. He Googled the town’s name and discovered me. I might, when next in London have a beer with him. In my reply to him I said: “Gatooma when I was there was graced by one of Rhodesia’s very best poets, a man called Noel Brettel and he, after one of my sermonic attempts to articulate the Divine and give voice to the Word, pointed me to Henry Vaughan’s great poem “The Retreate”. Whenever I think of my youth in Rhodesia words from that poem, out of context totally, come to mind:
O how I long to travel back,
And tread again that ancient track!
That I might once more reach that plain
Where first I left my glorious train;
From whence th’ enlightned spirit sees
That shady City of Palm-trees.
But ah! my soul with too much stay
Is drunk, and staggers in the way!
Some men a forward motion love,
But I by backward steps would move;
And when this dust falls to the urn,
In that state I came, return.
Good and Evil in the Shepparton News
I take the Shepparton News every day, and nearly always manage to donate to it five minutes of cursory perusal. I do so more out of duty than for pleasure. As a local parson I do need to be in touch with what is going on locally.
Like most newspapers it irritates me as much as it informs me. The covering of local news events, however, is often very good, heartening and useful. Profiles of ordinarily extraordinary folk like Matoc Achol and his Sudanese community’s pride in his graduation at Dookie College are lovely and informative, and the coverage of local sport and issues is usually comprehensive and balanced.
The most annoyingly idiotic of all items would surely have to be “On the Street” in which photographs of randomly chosen individuals are shown, with their ill-considered answer to what is usually an extremely stupid question. The most fatuous question that I can remember was “What colour underpants do you wear?” Who cares? Who would bother to answer it? Who could read it without a curling lip? What sort of an editor lets such triviality take up space that it is so expensive to buy for advertisements?
Letters to the Editor are always worth a glance, if only to confirm my conviction that humankind is as much in need of redemption from folly as it is from sin. The letters from punishment freaks out to topple Dallas Terlich, from his relatively modest perch in local government reminded me of this. I recently read an excellent article on misdeeds in public figures that focussed primarily on Governor General Sir William Slim, but also upon Arthur Koestler and George Orwell. It ended magnificently thus: “.........no human being is, or can be, perfect, and ...we are obliged to accept good people knowing that they are never wholly good. It is the overwhelming tendency of their character that counts. Alexander Solzhenitsyn was getting at something similar in his famous anti-utopian warning: “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.”
Eulogies
As a frequent taker of funerals, I have to suffer some interminable “eulogies”.To sit composed through forty five minutes of undiluted praise, and waffly, sentimental expressions of affection for a deceased stranger requires great fortitude.
I prefer brevity, wit, eloquence and above all, truth. If a life is to be summed up at all adequately there has surely to be some reference to faults as well as virtues. A man deserves the honour of being remembered for who he really was, not for whom we wish he had been. Sooner a snappy epitaph than an interminable, lying eulogy! While still a university student, the poet John Heath Stubbs eulogised himself succinctly, truthfully and in a way that would surely resonate with most Anglican university students. I remember it as going something like this:
Orthodox of belief, concerning the English Church,
Barring some heresies he would have for recreation,
Too often left these sound principles (as I am told) in the lurch,
Being troubled by idleness, lechery, pride and dissipation.
Funerals are being more and more influenced by celebrity extravaganzas publicized by television. An absence of any belief in God, and an all but total ignorance of and contempt for the river of tradition that has borne our civilization thus far, means that the only focus left for many such ceremonies is the usually footling life of the deceased. Hence interminable reminiscence and emotionally inflated and sentimental expressions of affection. Gooey horror!
ALTERING THE PAST
Of course the sinner must repent. But why? Simply because otherwise he would be unable to realise what he had done. The moment of repentance is the moment of initiation. More than that. It is the means by which one alters one’s past. The Greeks thought that impossible. They often say in their gnomic aphorisms “Even the Gods cannot alter the past.” Christ showed that the commonest sinner could do it. That it was the one thing he could do. Christ, had he been asked, would have said - I feel quite certain about it - that the moment the prodigal son fell on his knees and wept he really made his having wasted his substance with harlots, and then kept swine and hungered for the husks they ate, beautiful and holy incidents in his life. It is difficult for most people to grasp the idea. I dare say one has to go to prison to understand it. If so, it may be worth while going to prison.Oscar Wilde - “De Profundis”
RECTOR HOLIDAY
Margaret and I are heading off north from Wednesday until Saturday 18th August.
CHILDREN’S CHURCH MEETING
There is a Children’s Church planning meeting on Tuesday at 10.45am. Those interested please come along to the Library.
CONGRATULATIONS
Birthday
Rosemary Mitchelmore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29th July
OUTREACH
Please help yourself to the copy of “Outreach” with your name on it. If your name is not on a copy it could mean that you are not on the parish roll. Please let us know.
EVENING GUILD
The Evening Guild birthday meeting takes place on Thursday August 16th at 12 noon. The venue is the Terminus Hotel. Please phone your name to Merle 58315601 or Joyce
58215096. Thank you
BLESSING OF SCULPTURE
AND WALL HANGING
Sunday, August 26th is a big day in the life of the parish. At the 10.30am Eucharist we will
bless the “Baptism of Christ” Sculpture and the “Ascension” Wall hanging. We will have the Bishop and other guests with us and there will be a free luncheon afterwards. The 8.30am choir, I hope, will join the 10.30am choir to make sweet music and the 8.30am Eucharist on that day will be said. We hope that Dookie and Katandra folk will join us and so there will be no services there on that day. To aid us in catering please sign up for lunch on the list in the Narthex. Dookie and Katandra folk please ring in or give the clergy notice of your intention to attend the lunch. Ask friends along. This is a parish occasion demanding from us all a “sense of occasion”, i.e. it requires, if necessary, trouble taken to attend!
TEA WITH THE SALVOES
On Tuesday 7th August at 10am you are invited to join the Women’s Fellowship of the Salvation Army as they celebrate 100 years of ministry to women in their Church. Morning tea will feature delights for the ear as well as the mouth with the Sing Australia choir. There will be a Gold coin donation
Cnr. Nixon & Orr Street
COMMUNIONS IN THE HOME
Our Eucharistic Assistants and clergy take Holy Communion to those in hospital or to the homebound regularly or on request. Please do let us know if there are folk who would like or require this. It is an awful thing if folk who have been faithful communicants all their lives, as soon as they become immobile or elderly drop out of our Eucharistic fellowship!
GARDEN WORKING BEE
The vibrancy of the bird song these days suggests that spring and romance are in the air. Time for Gardening. Come to this Saturday’s Working Bee at 9.00am.
PRAYER LINE
Anyone needing urgent prayer can phone the Prayer Line: Hilary Akers on phone 58314267 sets it all in motion.
HALL COMMITTEE
There is a Hall Committee meeting today, Sunday the 29th at 12.15pm.
DATES FOR THE DIARY
July 29th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hall Committee Meeting 12.15pm
Aug 3rd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garden Meeting 10am
Aug 4th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Garden working bee
Aug 8th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vestry meeting
Aug 13th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pastoral Care meeting
Aug 15th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parish Council
Aug 16th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Evening Guild birthday meeting
Aug 26th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dedication of Sculpture & Wall Hanging
Sept 8th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 1.30pm
Sept 8th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 3.00pm
Sept 15th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 1pm
Sept 15th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 2.30pm
Sept. 27th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parish Fair & Garden Party Committee mtg.
Oct 6th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 2.30pm
Oct 6th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Men’s Breakfast
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 1st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Men’s Breakfast
Dec 8th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 4pm
Duties for 29th July 2007
Vigil Eucharist at 6pm Sat 28th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.45 Dookie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gail Bryce
Celebrant 10.45 Katandra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Norm Mitchelmore, Margaret Neaum
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carole Henderson, Courtney Cravan
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Volunteer, Beth, Michelle
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jenny, Sally, Erin
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heather Fitzgerald, Nancy Noonan
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Neaum, Bev Condon
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carole Henderson, Jenny Pleming
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Erma Wilson, Shirley Dean
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hilder Lidgard, Jenny Moran
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Merv Cowland, Gwyn Cowland
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jenny Pleming, Charlotte Brewer
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev Reither
Mowing 28th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Norm Mitchelmore, Michael Egan
Welcome Tbl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.30 Judy Lloyd 10.30 Mary Pearson.
Duties for 5th August 2007
Vigil Eucharist at 6pm 4th Aug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gail Bryce
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Celebrant 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Visitor
Celebrant 8.45 Dookie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anne Russell
Celebrant 10.45 Katandra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pat Griffin, Victoria Heenan
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jenny Pleming, Maureen Cormican
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Volunteer, Michelle, Beth
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jenny, Sophie, Bethany
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Carlyon, Joan McCann
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Griffin, Heather Fitzgerald
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jenny Pleming, Carole Henderson
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Val Bambrook, Beryl Goodfellow
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Charlotte Brewer, Roz Dunlop
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Max Ralph, Bev Ralph
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nola Brewer, Alan Akers
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heather Pearson
Welcome Tbl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.30 Heather Carlyon, 10.30 Dorothy Cook
REQUESTS FOR PRAYER
Liam Bognar, David Burrow, Holly Butterfield, Suzanne Camm, Julie Camp, Goldie Coe, Dorothy Cook, Nance Cook, Donna Dyson, Mavis Euling, Kath Grills, Frank Harder, Aaron Hinchliffe, Frank Holla, Denise McKellar, Margaret Neaum, Doris Nichols, Margaret Noble, Margaret Osborough, Elsie Rae, Edith Robins, Jan Riches, Robyn Stone, Peter & Eva Swindells, Laurie Tinning, Lil Utley, Lorraine Vogul, Bevan, Bill, David, Dorrie, Joan, Alexandra & Charles, David & Judith, Buffy, Liz, Peggy, Yvonne.
Anniversary of death
The Ven Douglas Smith, Barry Miller, Hock Sidebottom, Gwen Till 29th, Samuel Gaylard, Ronald Lindrea 30th, Lenard Lindrea 31st, Tassie Zurcas, Charli Fallon 1st, Dorothy Fowler, James Cooper 2nd,
John Brown-Shepherd 4th.
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH
Mon 30th July Rector’s day off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Tuesday 31st July
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
10.00am Playgroup
12.15pm Simply Soul Soothing - Lady Chapel
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
4.00pm Confirmation Class
Wednesday 1st August Heroes of the O Testament
7.45am Mattins only- Lady Chapel
10.00am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
3.00pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
5.30pm Choir Practice for 10.30 Eucharist
Thursday 2nd August
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
9.30am Tarcoola Village Eucharists
11.00am Eucharist- Harmony Village
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
5.30pm Choir Practice
7.30pm Inter Church Council
7.30pm Study Group - Carole’s Pad
Friday 3rd August
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
10.00am Garden Committee meeting
11.00am Eucharist - Mercy Health &Aged Care
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Saturday 4th August John Vianney
Associate Priest’s Day Off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist
9.00am Garden working bee
6.00pm Vigil Eucharist
Sunday 5th August 9th Sunday after Pentecost
8.30am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
10.30am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
8.45am St Luke’s Dookie
10.45am St Mary’s Katandra West
5.30pm Evening Prayer