TRINITY SUNDAY
18th May 2008
Graphics and cartoons & liturgical material appear only in the printed version
MIRACLE
A bishop who was a keen do-it-yourself man, was watching a carpenter at work in the house and trying to pick up the odd tip. The young carpenter found it a little off-putting and soon hit his finger with the hammer, where upon he let out a cry of “bloody hell!” The bishop tut-tutted and remonstrated, saying he should count to ten and pray for easement. Unconvinced but chastened, the carpenter continued growing all the more nervous in the bishop’s presence. Sure enough disaster struck again, the chisel slicing off the end of his thumb. Stifling a scream he looked at the bishop, gritted his teeth and prayed. Whereupon the piece of thumb suddenly leapt back into place. “God Almighty,” said the carpenter. “Bloody hell,” said the bishop.
THIS AND THAT
Andrew Neaum
It has been a better week than most. I have been away on retreat in lovely Harrietville, so little wonder, not at all troubled by having too much to do.
Bare ruined choirs
I learned a Shakespearian sonnet off by heart in order to convince myself that my memory has not deserted me entirely. It has not, for I managed to learn it off pat, but it did take a lot, lot longer than it used to. I went for long and lovely walks reciting it to myself. Harrietville is very lovely in late autumn, far lovelier than I am in my late autumn. The first four lines of the famous sonnet were appropriate not only to the season and place but also to my age:
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang....’
The “bare ruined choirs....” of a skeletel autumnal tree are doubtless a reference to one of the many ruined medieval abbeys despoiled by Henry VIII half a century before Shakespeare.
I ought to learn a poem a week, not only to stimulate the memory but also because it is only by learning a poem off by heart that you really and truly plumb its depths. Of course I won’t learn one a week. There are far too many less important things to do in life! When we were at Wodonga I would paste good poems onto the door of the loo in a print size large enough to be read from the throne. The idea was for all of us to read them, appreciate them and to learn at least some of them off by heart, which for a while we did, or at least some of us did. We would recite them to each other, alternate line by alternate line, as we jogged up the Beechworth Road to keep fit!
I also finished off a novel that most people seem to have read but I had not, namely “To Kill a Mocking Bird”. This I loved and found to be utterly absorbing and very moving. It is only now that I am beginning to appreciate American literature,. My biassed and parochial youth allowed only English literature to be of any quality. I also grappled with a very deep book lent to me by Ravi Bhatt. Also by an American is is called “Forgiveness” and subtitled “A Philosophical Exploration”.Written from a secular not a Christian standpoint, it became so difficult at one point that I seriously considered abandoning it. I am glad I did not though for it is enlightening and stimulating.
Other than that I ate well, worshipped, said my prayers, slept well and enjoyed the addresses from the Reverend Ken Parker of Castlemaine. He was our Patronal Festival guest preacher and speaker a couple of years ago. His addresses at the Retreat were based on interesting and largely Anglican figures, people such as the two English writers Dorothy Sayers and Rose Ma`cauley, the artist Stanley Spencer, the Australian Anglicans Ernest Burgmann and Gerard Tucker. George Herbert, and yet another American, the poet Mary Oliver. His talks were gentle and quietly absorbing.
Echoes from the past
In a magazine recently I came across a reference to someone from my past in Rhodesia..... Charles Moore writes of him as follows: When I first visited Zimbabwe in the early Nineties, I came across the powerful story of an Englishman, John Bradburne. He was, in his own words, a ‘strange vagabond of God’, who ended up living with the inmates of a remote leper colony called Mutemwa, which means “You are cut off” He inhabited a tin shack near the lepers’ huts and would help care for the lepers, pray with them and created musical settings of the Mass which they would play in the bush church, banging on the drums with their stumps. John Bradburne was an early martyr of Robert Mugabe. Despite his absolute lack of interest in politics, he aroused the suspicions of Mugabe’s guerrillas because he refused to leave the lepers despite the dangers of the civil war. In September 1979, Mugabe’s guerrillas kidnapped him, subjected him to a rather Christ-like trial in the bush, and shot him. Since then, a cult of John Bradburne has grown up, and some want him made a saint, attributing miracles to him. Bradburne wrote poems, reciting them in his own very beautiful voice. One of the best things he did was to dignify each leper, and he tried to write a separate poem about every one, by name:
“This is the panoply of Dick -
Blanket, love, and a blind man’s stick”.
Friends of John Bradburne have now made a selection and released them on a CD called “Alive to God (Herald Talking Books, www.heraldav.co.uk ).It is more poignant than ever to hear them today now that Bradburne’s killers have reduced the entire country to the poverty which, in his day, was reserved for the people he tended....
Before Bradburne’s time that leper colony was in my father’s mission district and he used to go there regularly to take Communion to the Anglicans. Bradburne’s death shocked us all at the time. He had been the inspiration of a friend of ours, Michael Stebbing who was priested with me in the Cathedral in Salisbury. Michael too lived out in the bush with the Africans, speaking their language and eating their food. Bradburne’s murder put him in a difficult position, should he stay in the bush and invite martyrdom or leave? He was not minding vulnerable lepers and so the Bishop persuaded him to leave. He has ended up as a monk in Mirfield in England, and there played an important part in David’s journey to priesthood. He still visits the Zimbabwe he loves as often as he can, mourning with its ordinary people the dreadful state of the country, longing for the renaissance that must surely come once Mugabe and his cronies are displaced.
Atheism
I was reflecting to someone the other day that the only substantial difference between atheism and theism is one of perspective. The atheist is someone who sees all that is spirit or spiritual, like love, virtue and beauty to be entirely and totally contingent and dependent upon matter and the material. No matter no spirit. The theist is someone who sees all that is matter or material as entirely and totally contingent and dependent upon spirit and the spiritual. No Spirit, not matter. This profound insight impressed the person I was talking to as little as it does you who have just read it, I am sure!
There is a good article by bishop Tom Frame in the latest edition of Quadrant entitled “Should the Church Apologise to Atheists”. He is a very fair minded man and gives the militant atheists their due, acknowledging that he has been enriched by his encounters with some of them both in their person and in their writings. “There is usually much to be gained from encountering people with different, even opposing viewpoints. It helps to sharpen the mind by strengthening the use of reason. Had every atheist kept silent, I would have been able to avoid some tough and searching questions that deserved an answer. Dealing with these questions has given me an enlarged intellectual agenda and fresh perspectives on persistent problems. For prompting me to think in new and different ways, I am grateful to the militant atheists of this world. They are fellow travellers in ways they would probably not have imagined. But there are some elements of this engagement that I have appreciated much less.....”
Questions for atheists
He has some real problems with them too though, and some questions to ask of them: .....In my experience, very few atheists show any readiness to reveal doubts about their atheistic certainties. Have they never been tempted to believe? Indeed, have they ever attempted to believe and then failed? Have they never experienced transcendence or savoured the numinous, and wondered whether there might be more to this existence than the material world? Do they ever suspect that there could be domains of being that are unknowable to the finite mind or a deity whose ways are unfathomable to the human mind? Are they ever coaxed into at least hoping that there might be more than this life or disconcerted by future unknowns or the world’s darkness? Have they no desire to secure some posterity for themselves and their families? Does the pointlessness and nothingness affirmed by atheism ever depress them or lead them to think there might be an overarching purpose or a set of beliefs that might redeem the pain and suffering endured by so many in this world.?
“I cannot believe that all atheists have unassailable confidence in their own powers of reasoning and deduction all the time. Surely they do not think it is wrong to doubt even their own faltering convictions - or must they always and everywhere remain strong and resolute in their denials of Gods existence?”
Personal attacks
He goes on later to say, “......given the tendency of Christians and atheists to engage in ‘ad hominem’ debate, I try to be scrupulous in avoiding personal attacks. But when militant atheists make themselves part of the message and claim that they are reasonable thinkers and that I, as a religious believer am not; when they compare the clarity of their thought and the courage of their convictions with the stupidity of religious believers and the speed with which they allegedly cower before any question of their cherished beliefs; it is sometimes difficult to avoid wanting to comment on the lives and motivations of those who have achieved celebrity status through their loud advocacy of anti-theism.
I would, for instance, be unwilling to share a platform with either Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens because I dislike their attitude to other people. Having seen them on television on many occasions, I despair of their haughtiness, conceit and, in the case of Hitchens, downright nastiness. Both have shown a readiness to humiliate publicly those who do not share their apparently self-evident views. Although they regard religion as just another subject to be debated, they should not feign surprise or imply incredulity when believers are highly sensitive to their cavalier dismissal of all theological reflections on life. Religion touches on personal values and individual virtues. Christian people of high and low standing in the world accord religion considerable significance in their lives because, rightly or wrongly, they believe it involves matters of life and death. It is uncharitable and irresponsible to treat religious beliefs as though they had no greater significance than the reasons given for supporting one sporting team over another.
“.....Nonsense is nonsense and should be exposed as such. But the sheer longevity of religious beliefs and the stature of the people who have held them mean they deserve at least some continuing respect. There is a world of difference between the beliefs of the Archbishop of Canterbury or Pope Benedict XVI and those professed by suicide bombers and fundamentalist fanatics of all religious persuasions. They are not simply different points on a continuum......
“....While I understand why Sam Harris so quickly condemns the perverted ideology of Mohammed Atta and his co-conspirators who flew planes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Centre in September 2001, it is unreasonable to deal with equal speed and severity with the views of Joseph Ratzinger and Rowan Williams. Their beliefs are “manifestly dissimilar. They were derived by different means and have different social and political consequences. To claim other wise is to misrepresent what is professed by both of these distinguished theologians and the basis on which their convictions are grounded.....”
Tom Frame is an Anglican Bishop, until recently to the Australian armed forces but now the Director of St Mark’s National Theological Centre in Canberra.
The monthly magazine “Quadrant” publishes a lot of poems and has as its Literary Editor no less a poet than Les Murray. In the same edition as the Tom Frame article, quoted at length above, is a lovely little poem by an atheist of the sort that no Christian would have any problems with at all. The poem is called “Stilla Natt, Heliga Natt!” Swedish for “Silent Night, Holy Night” It describes the poet, Geoff Page, observing Swedish children celebrating St Lucy in Advent, possibly on television, it isn’t clear. The poem finishes thus:
I hear the half-familiar hymns
sung in words I do not know.
I relish their geometries.
I do not share their faith although
I understand the shape it gives:
the sudden star, the three wise men,
the Christ child and the virgin mother,
the “no room at the inn” again.
To hear it in a foreign tongue
from children troubles disbelief.
The narrative is archetypal.
I wrestle with its sweet relief.
Experiments
Experiments are not always successful. A train company once tried out new safety glass for drivers’ cabins by adapting technology from an aviation manufacturer which had developed new cockpit protection against bird strikes. However, when the bird projectiles were launched the mocked-up train windows shattered and the dummy driver was decapitated. In dismay, the results were sent to the aviation specialists. They replied tersely: “Try defrosting the chickens first.”
CONGRATULATIONS
Birthdays
Charlotte Brewer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20th May
Peter Ackland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22nd May
Mary Lindsay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23rd May
ARCHBISHOP’S VISIT
On June 1st the Archbishop will be with us to celebrate St Augustine’s Day. He will be interested to meet every single one of us, so don’t dare not to be present! On that day there will be one official Sunday Eucharist at 10.30am, though there will be a quiet, sermonless 8.30am for anyone who does turn up. There will be no Eucharist at Dookie or Katandra. There has been something of a mix-up with the booking of the Archbishop and so he is likely to be talking before we eat at the luncheon as he has to be at an engagement in Melbourne at 3.00pm.
FRIENDSHIP GROUP
Formerly the Ladies Afternoon Guild
The next meeting will be on May 20th with transport from the church car park at 1.45pm, for afternoon tea at Emerald Bank Café at 2pm. This is an open invitation to all our fellow parishioners. Those needing transport please ring. Pat 58311606 or Val 58216974 by 9am Monday (leave name & message)
HOSPICE REMEMBRANCE SERVICE
Goulburn Valley Hospice Care will be holding their Remembrance Service on Sunday 1st June at 2.30pm at St. Brendan’s Church, Knight St. Shepparton and all are welcome. The speaker is to be the Revd Helen Malcolm.
BIGGEST MORNING TEA
On Thursday May 22nd from 10.00am Instead of going to Sarsfield St., please join us in the Supper Room at St. Augustine’s. We look forward to your usual support of this very worthy cause. Wilma & Bev
KIWANIS CLUB TRIVIA NIGHT
In aid of Heart Kids this worthy project is to be held in the Parish Hall on Friday 6th June commencing 7pm. Keep the date free and come and join us.
ROSTERED DUTIES
We are putting together the duty rosters for the next six months. If anyone wishes to add or delete their name from a roster please contact the clergy or the parish office.
FOIL PIE PLATES NEEDED
Pat is hoping to make fruit pies for Hospice but needs foil pie plates, new or used, as the plates are no longer available from the warehouse. Without pie plates there can be no pies! Thanks. Pat Griffin
OUT REACH
If you would like to contribute to our next edition of “Outreach” please have your article to either Ron Rose or to the office by Wed 28th May. Not much time! Ron Rose
CHAPLAINCY ANNUAL MEETING
The Annual meeting of the Chaplaincy Committee will be held on Thur 22nd May at the VCE room at Shepparton High School commencing at 7.30pm. The guest speaker will be Mark Rumble, Director of Brayton Youth & Family Services. Everyone is most welcome. Supper will be served at the conclusion of the meeting. Margaret Watters
A REQUEST FOR THE CATECHESIS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERDWe are in need of yet more of your great generosity! Two New Revised Standard version’s of the Bible (small book size) and A Prayer Book for Australia for the Prayer Table and the Altar in the Atrium. They will be inscribed with the donor’s name. Please let the Parish Office know if you would like to donate a copy so that we don’t end up with 100 copies! We are also in need of good quality, beautiful Christian Children’s books for the book-shelf. There is a list in the parish office. Sincere thanks. The Catechesis Team
PARISH COUNCIL
There is a Parish Council Meeting this Wednesday at 7.30pm
ON HOLIDAY
The Revd Gail Bryce is on holiday from the 22nd of May for a month.
DATES FOR THE DIARY
May 20th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Friendship Group
May 21st. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parish Council
May 23rd & 24th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Synod
May 29th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parish Fair planning meeting 4pm/Den
June 1st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patronal Festival
June 1st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hospice Memorial Service St Brendan’s 2.30
June 2nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pastoral Care meeting
June 6th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kiwanis Club Trivia Night/7pm Church Hall
June 7th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Garden Working Bee
June 11th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Vestry 2pm
June 18th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parish Council
June 19th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Evening Guild 1.30pm
June 20th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Baptism Preparation
June 21st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 3pm
July 5th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garden Working Bee
July 11th & 12th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Evening Guild Garage Sale
July 16th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parish Council
July 17th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friendship Group
Aug 2nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garden Working Bee
Aug 16th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mens Breakfast
Aug 20th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parish Council
Aug 30th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 1.30pm
Sept 6th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Garden Working Bee
Sept 17th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parish Council
Oct 4th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Garden Working Bee
Oct 4th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 1.30pm
Oct 5th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . St. Francis Tide Pet Service
Oct 7th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Visit of Gippsland AWA Eucharist & Meal
Oct 15th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parish Council
Oct 19th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .St Luke Day for Health & Caring Professionals
Oct 27-30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Clergy Conference
Nov 1st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .All Saint’s Day
Nov 2nd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . All Soul’s Day
Nov 1st. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garden Working Bee
Nov 8th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parish Fair
Nov 15th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mens Breakfast
Nov 19th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parish Council
Nov 22nd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 2pm
Dec 6th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Garden Working Bee
Dec 17th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parish Council
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. The list for names of those to be prayed for is kept in the top drawer of the little plastic box of drawers on the narthex table..
Joyce Auldrige, Liam Bognar, Joshua & Nicky Cavill, Kylie Butterfield, Alison Baldwin, Adam Chapman,Jack Cook, Bernie Dreher, Donna Dyson, Richard Goodfellow, John Green, Frank Harder, Joan McRae, John Moore, Margaret Neaum, Margaret Noble, Albert Oxenbury, Ellen Pearson, Jan Riches, Carole Shields, Peter & Eva Swindells, Lorraine Vogul, Heather Vines, Amanda, David & Judith, David, Darren, Graham, Fiona, Glenda, Heather, Layla, Michael & Amanda, Tracey, Carolyn & Stuart, Sheila.
Rest in Peace
Florence Mary Graham, Eva May Wootton
Anniversary of death
Don Classen, Gladys Turner, Enid Hughes, Raymond Williams 18th, Katheleen Govan-Smith, Ian Robinson 19th, Evelyn Phillips, Robert Coghlan, Valma Ralph 20th, Betty Campesato 21st, John McClusky 22nd, Jeffrey Saville, Frank Page, Donald McPherson, Florence Harry 23rd, William Thorn, Patricia Gaylard 24th,
Duties for 18th May 2008
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liz Gyles, Jeanette Smith
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jenny Pleming, Mary Pearson
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Volunteer, Beth
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joe, Zebedee, Bethany
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carole Henderson, Celebrant
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carole Henderson, Heather Fitzgerald
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev Condon, Jenny Pleming
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beryl Goodfellow, Bev Ralph
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jenny Moran, Charlotte Brewer
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joe Pearson, Joy Campbell
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Pleming, Charlotte Brewer
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev Reither
Welcome Tbl 8.30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Hoare
Mowing 17th,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Norm Mitchelmore, Michael Egan
Duties for 25th May 2008
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Norm Mitchelmore, Pat Griffin
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev Condon, Charlotte Brewer
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Michelle, Beth, Philippa
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Helen, Tom, volunteer
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev Condon, Nancy Noonan
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Horder, Carole Henderson
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jenny Pleming, Margaret Neaum
Welcoming 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heather Pearson, Heather Nichols
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nola Brewer, Frank Steen
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gwyn Cowland, Merv Cowland
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Alan Akers, Nola Brewer
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Shirley Dean
Welcoming Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Judy Lloyd
Mowing 24th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kay McGregor, Merv Cowland
READINGS for 25th May
Isaiah 49:8-16a and 1 Corinthians 3:18-4:5
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH
Monday 19th May Rector’s Day off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
3.45pm Catechesis of the Good Shepherd
Tuesday 20th May
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
10.00am Playgroup
12.15pm Simply Soul Soothing
1.45pm Friendship Group/Meet in Car park
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
5.40pm Wedding Interview
7.30pm Baptism Preparation
Wednesday 21st May
7.45am Mattins only - Lady Chapel
10.00am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
7.30pm Parish Council
Thursday 22nd May Corpus Christi
Associate priest on leave
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
10.15am Eucharist - Grutzner
11.00am Eucharist - Harmony Village
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
5.30pm Choir Practice
Friday 23rd May
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
9.00am Catechesis of the Good Shepherd
11.00am Eucharist - Ave Maria
3.30pm Synod
Saturday 24th May
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel Trad Rite
9.30am Synod
Sunday 25th
8.30am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
10.30am Eucharist - St Augustine’
8.45am Eucharist - Dookie
10.45am Eucharist - Katandra