FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT
10th February 2008
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THE DAY AFTER THE NIGHT BEFORE
The other morning out walking in a paddock up Lemnos Road way, I overheard two cows talking. One said to the other: “Daisy, you are not looking very well this morning, are you feeling all right?” Daisy replied: “No, I am not. In fact I am feeling awful. the trouble is that I went to several parties last night - the first was with the Guernseys, then on to the Frieslands and finishing with the Herefords. Anyhow, I didn’t wake up this morning, I missed being milked - and now I’ve got a hell of a hang-under.”
TRAVELLERS TALES (42)
(Andrew Neaum in the year 2000)
We arrived in Cape Town on time after an uneventful and reasonably comfortable flight. My sister Sue, her husband Bob and their daughter Pam were waiting for us at the airport, and so having negotiated customs and immigration with no trouble, and on a cloudy and cool day we headed for their home.
The lovely Cape
Cape Town is one of loveliest cities in the world, and it was good to be back. It means a lot to me because several times it has been a staging or shipping post for me on the way to other even more inviting and exciting destinations. We stopped for some weeks there on our way to live on Tristan da Cunha, and then again on our way back to England three and a half years later. We stopped there on our way to live in Rhodesia nine months later, and also on our way to live on the island of St Helena, many years later and indeed were stranded in Cape Town that time for a few months. With its spectacular mountains, peninsulars, bays, and its mixture of Dutch, African, Huguenot, English and Malay cultures it is the most fascinating of cities. Close to the airport we passed through some terrible shanty towns, most of the inhabitants, according to Bob, being Africans from other countries. We then sped along roads not completely forgotten to Muizenberg and to Sue and Bob’s home. The rest of the day was spent eating, talking and sleeping.
Church and flea market
The following day was a Sunday and we got up at a civilized time and went off to church. The church at Muizenberg is a pleasant little building and there was a good number of folk present for the 9.30 Eucharist. Bob and Sue usually attend the 8.00am service at which, apparently, there is a similar sized congregation. The service we went to had an almost exclusively coloured congregation. The hymns were traditional, from the new Hymns Ancient and Modern book, and the Eucharist was traditionally taken. The singing was a bit wild and wayward, with a ropy and unrobed choir made up largely of women. A part time “supplementary” priest took the service, an amiable seeming fellow, but very hard to follow with his strong accent, and he spoke in rushes with soft cadences. His sermon of twenty minutes seemed pretty vapid from what I could hear of it. They have a new rector who is hardly ever there, being perhaps at other churches in the parish. We returned home for a bacon and egg breakfast and then we went for a drive. First to the city itself on a clear, chill and squally day. There we wandered around a large flea market, where Lil bought a wooden elephant. There were lots and lots of African curios and carvings, as well as many other items ranging from, clothing to electrical goods and brassware. We made our way home along the spectacular Twelve Apostles road, through Constantia, enjoying the irresistible combination of mountain and sea.
Along False Bay
My sister’s house is only a few minutes away from the beach, and so early next morning I set out for a walk along it. It is a magnificent beach that stretches for miles and miles around False Bay, all the way, presumably to the towns of Gordon’s Bay and Strand. A couple of poor folk were sifting through the contents of the rubbish bins as I made my way to the beach. I walked into the morning sun along the water’s edge, dodging the waves, and there were very few people about. Big round jelly fish stranded on the beach were great blobs of aspic inviting me to tread on them, and there were lots of lovely big triangular shells. The sand is soft and fine and the ocean, although encircled by the bay’s beaches and mountains, is a real ocean, with rollers thrashing down on their way in, unlike on any of the beaches we visited in Scotland or England. I turned round eventually to face the lovely mountains of the peninsula, clear cut in the bright sunlight. In a jersey I was beginning to feel warm by the time I returned for breakfast.
Whales at Hermanus
Some time later we prepared egg and cheese rolls and set out by car for Hermanus, along the road behind the beach on which I had walked earlier. We then headed up the spectacular Sir Lowry Pass and over stony highlands with plantations and orchards and one shanty town, before dropping down to less stony and more arable land and canola fields coming in to flower. Hermanus is now a large holiday town, but in a lovely setting with blue sea and mountains, that irresistible combination. We found our way to a low-cliffed stony coastline in front of houses and with seats and paths set in most beautiful flowering, coastal shrubbery. As soon as we stopped we saw immediately and very close to land a pair of great whales blowing and sporting. This was one of the purposes of the trip. They were much closer to us than ever we have seen them at Warnambool. The great clusters of barnacles on their heads were clearly visible to the naked eye. In all there were four or five groups or pairs visible about the bay. We watched awhile and then had a relaxed picnic lunch, followed by a walk, before we headed off up the very beautiful coastal road to Gordon’s Bay, a section of the road between boulder strewn and fire ravaged, precipitous mountains and the sea. We stopped in Strand where I stood everyone to coffee, tea or chocolate, and was reminded of a poor old man whom I helped financially in my first parish in Zimbabwe. He had come from Strand to Rhodesia, his birthplace and was banned by the South African Immigration officials from returning, though he had lived for most of his working life there and had married and fathered a son. It was on his wife’s death that he had returned to Rhodesia in search of relatives to care for his son should he too die, leaving his son in Strand. The swinish authorities would not let him return to his son, or even to collect his possessions. Strand is rather reminiscent of the Gold Coast with many high rise holiday apartments.
Bloubergstrand and Karoo Oysters
The next day we set off early in the morning in both cars, across to that part of Cape Town from which you look across the sea right at the beautiful face of Table Mountain, Bloubergstrand I think it is called. It is the most famous of all views in the Cape. We went to Sue and Bob’s son John’s new home. Later, for lunch, we went to a restaurant on the sea front, upstairs by a window looking out on Table Mountain and Bay. There was a great tanker at anchor, kite propelled boarders whizzed along on a choppy sea in a strong wind and Mandela’s prison island, Robin Island, was visible low in the Bay. Afterwards we went in to Cape Town proper where we wandered about and then fed peanuts to descendants of the squirrels I had similarly fed 48 years previously. A barbecue in South Africa is called a braaivleis, or a braai’ for short and that evening we experienced one at John and Debbie’s. There were “karoo oysters” to start with, before the meal proper. These are lumps of lamb’s liver wrapped in charred lamb fat, and are tasty but rich. With them came nogs of boerwors, the famous South African beef sausage. The main meal consisted of “butterfly” lamb, boned legs, marinated and cooked in a webber.
A walk to Kalk Bay
The next day was cold and squally and so we went on a shopping expedition. Having established that there were roughly four rands to the dollar we looked around a rather too small Woolworth’s, the South African equivalent of Marks and Spencers. Not very fruitfully, though. I couldn’t find any sandals and the girls and Margaret found few of the items they were looking for. All the banks have security men, and in one I entered I was frisked with an electronic device before being allowed entry. In the afternoon the four of us, in threatening weather and so well coated, walked into Muizenberg and then along the walkway to St James, having to run or to choose our moment every now and then to avoid being soaked by waves as the tide was right in. From St James’ we crossed the railway line to the road and walked to Kalk Bay. We looked over the church and identified the holiday cottage owned by the Church where we had stayed briefly before finally catching our boat to St Helena about eighteen years previously. From there we walked down to the fishing harbour, it was very lovely in a full tide, with all the boats in harbour. It has been tidied up since last time we were there and is obviously a tourist attraction these days. We then walked back by way of Boyes Drive, the road behind all the houses, a few hundred feet up the side of the mountain. It is a beautiful walk with the houses of the wealthy below us, steep and lovely mountains above and the sea and bay spread out beyond the houses and the coastal road. Groups of whales were blowing and rolling. Many of the houses have little lifts to take their idle or tottering owners down the steep hill side to their front door from a garage on the side of the road above. All the houses are marked as guarded and most have fierce dogs on the prowl. The walk took about three hours in all, but it was a merry and lovely ramble, we cut down a path through beautiful wild, yellow, flowering protea bushes to Muisenberg and so home.
Stellenbosch and an interesting man
Our next trip in the beautiful Cape was to Stellenbosch, the cradle of apartheid, though the town doesn’t advertise that fact these days. It is a beautiful town with white painted Dutch styled buildings and is famous for its university, which used to teach in Afrikaans and provided the intellectual heart of Afrikanerdom. We stopped and had a beer outside a pub, but although the sun shone it was a bit chill and no wonder really, for the last bursts of rain had dusted the peaks of the mountains with snow. It was lovely to be in the heart of South African wine country again. We pressed on to a winery called Hartenberg, where for 40 Rand each we had a lovely lunch with a carafe each of wine. That evening we went to have dinner with an interesting relative of Margaret’s, a cousin who lives in Fishoek. The cousin is a kindly faced and delightful woman, a doctor’s bookkeeper who is now semi retired. Her husband is a fascinating fellow who worked in the surveyor general’s department until he retired. He is an eccentric, sagging faced, pouch-eyed, skin head of a man, dressed in a hanging out check shirt and old trousers. He is also a little deaf. He turned out to be a free thinking, extreme liberal and a great supporter of the ANC, even before Mandela’s rise to power with the collapse of apartheid, all of which made it respectable in South Africa to be so. He is also, a respectful non-believer. We discussed much agreeing on most things, even on religion, certainly in deploring all forms of fundamentalism and fanaticism. However when he started attacking Tony Leon, the leader of the South African opposition and characterising all empire builders like Rhodes and white Rhodesians as evil, Nazi type racists, I ventured to demur a little suggesting, mildly, that perhaps he was being as one-eyed and fanatical in his own way as religious sectarians, that all men’s motives are mixed and that there were some noble motives to Empire building besides naked greed. I suggested that white Rhodesians had been quite understandably as much motivated by fear of the consequences of black rule as by racism, a fear that has been justified recently in the activities of Mugabe. He heard me out, gave a loud tut tut, got up and poured himself another glass of wine and refused to talk to me again for the rest of the meal! We did, however, pass a few pleasantries before leaving. He is an interesting old cove, a rare type, rejoicing in being different. He used to play the sax and in his day led a fine band.
(To be continued)
READERS
Those Readers who were unable to attend our little seminars last Sunday please help yourself to a copy of the handout on the Narthex Table.
VESTRY MEETING
There is a Vestry Meeting on Wednesday at 2.00pm if that time suits everyone. Let the Rector know if it does not please
CONGRATULATIONS
Birthdays
Liam Bognar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14th Feb
Irene Dyer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15th Feb
Margaret Kidman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15th Feb
Joy Campbell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15th Feb
Trish Britten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16th Feb
Anniversaries
Max & Bev Ralph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11th Feb
Margaret & Laurie Hoare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14th Feb
LENTEN STUDIES
The “Life Calling” Lenten Study is held on Monday’s at 1.30pm at St Augustine’s and at Anne Russell’s home in Dookie on Thursdays at 7.30pm. Another Lenten Study based on the novella by John Austin Baker “Travels in Oudamovia” is on Wednesdays at 7.30pm in the Narthex. It is preceded by a Eucharist at 7.00pm for those who would like to attend.
CONGRATULATIONS
Daryl Akers elder son of Alan & Hilary Akers was presented with a Community Award in the Australian Day Honours for his voluntary contribution to schools and the environment. Joyce Cavill has received an award from the Administration of Harmony Village for her outstanding voluntary work with the elderly. Congratulations to both.
OUR NEW SERVANTS
At a very light-hearted and concise Annual General Meeting on Ash Wednesday the following nominations were duly announced as elected or appointed: Church Wardens: Bev Condon, John Horder, (Rector’s appointment) John Pleming. Councillors: Charlotte Brewer, Dorothy Cook, Heather Fitzgerald, John Griffin, Carole Henderson, Kay McGregor, Norm Mitchelmore, Mary Pearson, Sandra Simonis. John Evans is the first of three Rector’s appointments. Parochial Nominators: Heather Fitzgerald, John Horder, John Pleming (Supplementaries: Bev Condon, Heather Pearson, Sandra Simonis). Synod Representatives: Charlotte Brewer, Bev Condon, Heather Fitzgerald. (Supplementaries: Heather Pearson, Sandra Simonis, Dorothy Cook). All of these are to be admitted and prayed in at either Eucharist on March 2nd.
DOOKIE & KATANDRA AGM
The Dookie AGM will take place on Tuesday 19th Feb at 5.00pm without a Eucharist.
“AGEING GRACEFULLY”
The St. Augustine’s Grief Support Group: “Moving On” meets at 7.00pm in the Narthex on Tuesday, 12th February. We will be considering how to age gracefully with the help of some our very graceful elderly.
SAUSAGE SIZZLE 9th MARCH
After Children’s Church on March 9th there will be an exceedingly informal Sausage Sizzle for all who would like to attend. Sausage and bread will be provided.
ENROLL YOUR CHILD
We are now taking enrollments for the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd which will be starting in March.
READING ROSTER
An amended Reading Roster is available in the Narthex.
EASTER “OUTREACH” OFFERINGS
The next edition of OUTREACH is due out on or before 9th March this year. So that volunteers can do the printing folding and addressing we need all contributions at the church office by 24th of Feb. As I’ve said before ALL SUBMISSIONS ARE WELCOME. I will publish all honest views that are of not unreasonable length and won’t get me sued. Surely there is something going on that you want to comment on, or even more surely I have written something that you feel should not go unquestioned. Please help us make this a lively issue (Ron Rose)
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
The devotional service “Stations of the Cross” takes place after the 10.00am Eucharist every Wednesday during Lent.
ARISE 255
Arise 255 is St. Augustine’s Youth Group. It
meets on Monday nights every second week during school terms. To find out more contact Mary 0418167968 or Simon 0439656479. On Monday, Feb 18th: Wet and wild water wonders
DATES FOR THE DIARY
Feb 12th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Moving On”/ Grief Support
Feb 18th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Arise 255-Youth Group 5-7pm
Feb 19th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Afternoon Guild 2pm
Feb 19th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dookie AGM 5.00pm
Feb 20th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Katandra Guild 11.30 Eucharist/Lunch & AGM
Feb 21st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evening Guild 1.30pm
Feb 22nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anglicare Planning Day/ Benalla
Feb 24th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katandra West AGM
Mar 1st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 2.30pm
Mar 3rd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Arise 255-Youth Group 5-7pm
Mar 8th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Weddings 1.00pm & 3.00pm
Mar 17th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arise 255-Youth Group 5-7pm
Mar 23rd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Easter Sunday
Mar 29th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lady Day/Wangaratta
April 10, 11, 12th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Catechesis Training in Shepp
Apr 14th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Arise 255-Youth Group 5-7pm
April 17,18, 19th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Catechesis Training in Shepp
April 19th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Weddings 11.00am, 3.30pm
April 28th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Arise 255- Youth Group 5-7pm
May 2nd/4th & 4th/ 6th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diocesan Lay Retreat
May 3rd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 1.30pm
May 12th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arise 255-Youth Group 5-7pm
May 23rd & 24th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Synod
May 26th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Arise 255-Youth Group 5-7pm
June 1st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patronal Festival
June 23rd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arise 255-Youth Group 5-7pm
Aug. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 1.30pm
Oct 4th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 1.30pm
Oct 7th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Visit of Gippsland AWA Eucharist & Meal
Nov 8th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parish Fair
Nov 15th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 2.00pm
Duties for 10th February 2008
Vigil Eucharist at 6pm 9th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Celebrant 8.45 St. Luke’s Dookie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Celebrant 10.45 St. Mary’s Katandra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liz Gyles, Jeanette Smith
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Andrea Fisher, Courtney Craven
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Volunteer, Michelle, Beth
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan, Helen, Tom
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victoria Heenan, Children
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev Condon, Carole Henderon
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christine Evans, Jenny Pleming
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heather Pearson, Heather Nichols
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nola Brewer, Frank Steen
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gwyn Cowland, Merv Cowland
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Charlotte Brewer, John Pleming
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pat Griffin
Welcome Tbl 8.30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pamela Lee
Mowing 9th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gary Grant, John Horder
Duties for 17th February 2008
Vigil Eucharist at 6pm 16th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 10.30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Neaum
Celebrant 8.45 St. Luke’s Dookie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Bryce
Celebrant 10.45 St. Mary’s Katandra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gail Bryce
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Norm Mitchelmore, Pat Griffin
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carole Henderson, Jenny Moran
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Volunteer, Michelle, Beth
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joan, Joe, Zebedee
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pat Griffin, Nancy Noonan
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heather Fitzgerald, John Griffin
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jenny Pleming, Margaret Neaum
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Anita Saville, Erma Wilson
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Charlotte Brewer, Sandra Simonis
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joy Campbell, Norm Mitchelmore
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nola Brewer, Alan Akers
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gwyn Cowland
Welcoming Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Hoare
Mowing 16th Feb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Pleming, Rick Coates
READINGS for 17th FEBRUARY
Genesis 12:1-4a, Psalm 121,
Romans 4:1-5,13-17, Matthew 17:1-9.
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 a person’s permission.
Liam Bognar, Geoff Bowen,Nicky Cavill, Jack Cook, Christine Day, Emmie Dean, Donna Dyson, Nance Evans, John Green, Kath Grills, Frank Harder, Jenny Laws, Rita Lee, Sam Martin, Joy Martin, John Moore, Margaret Neaum, Margaret Noble, Margaret Osborough, Albert Oxenbury, Reg Oxenford, Kevin Richards, Jan Riches, Carole Shields, Peter & Eva Swindells, Wes & Sue Tyson, Lorraine Vogul,Fran Wilson, David, Glenda, Layla,
Anniversary of death
Sylvia Walls, Frank Purdey 11th, Ernest Fister, Edna Moore 12th ,Niko Rendevski, Nanette Woodcock, Angel Taylor, Brian Kelly 16th.
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH
Monday 11th February Rector’s Day off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
1.30pm Lenten Study
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Tuesday 12th February
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
12.15pm Simply Soul Soothing
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
7.00pm “Moving On” Grief Support Group
Wednesday 13th February Ember Day
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
10.00am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
2.00pm Vestry Meeting - Library
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
5.30pm Choir Practice for 10.30 Eucharist
5.30pm Hospice meeting
7.00pm Eucharist
7.30pm Lenten Study
Thursday 14th February
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
11.00am Eucharist - Harmony Village
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
5.30pm Choir Practice
Friday 15th February Ember Day
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Saturday 16th February - Associate Priest ‘s day off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist (Trad Rite) - Lady Chapel
6.00pm Vigil Eucharist
Sunday 17th February
8.30am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
10.30am Eucharist - St Augustine’s / Kid’s Church
8.45am St. Luke’s Dookie
10.45am St. Mary’s Katandra