FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT
29th March 2009
Graphics and cartoons & liturgical material appear only in the printed version
PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES
A couple of boundary riders from the north-west came down to Perth. After years of hard yakka they felt like a bit of fun. A couple of weeks of determined boozing caused their money to run out. They applied for jobs with a local council where they were told to see the foreman in his office at the works yard. The first boundary rider went into the office to be interviewed. The foreman (well versed in the subtleties of the latest interviewing theory) said, “If I poke you in the eye with my finger, what would you be?” He replied, “half blind.” “And if I was to poke you in both eyes?” “Totally blind.” “Fine. You can start on Monday. When you go out, send your mate in.” Outside, the boundary rider said to his mate, “Look, you only get asked two questions. The answers are easy. Half blind, and totally blind.” Feeling confident, the second boundary rider sat opposite the foreman. “If I cut your left ear off what would you be?” “Half blind,” said the boundary rider with a broad grin. The foreman looked at him incredulously. “And if I cut both your ears off?” “Totally blind.” “How the hell do you make that out?” “Well, me hat would fall over me eyes.”
Telling Stories
Rachel Neaum
(The text of a talk given on Mothering Sunday at St. Augustine’s Church, 22 March 2009)
It is obviously a little daunting to be standing before all of you today and being expected to say something of value. It feels a little presumptuous given my age. But I took courage from Coleridge, one of my favourite writers, who says, ‘All men are in error, they are not all in the same error, nor at the same time; and that each therefore may possibly heal the other.’ And if Coleridge is right, then we all have something of value to give to each other and I don’t need to worry.
Most of the things I know and most of my perspectives on life come from books and the ideas of people like Coleridge. So today I thought I’d talk about that. I’d talk about how other people’s stories and other people’s wisdom have always helped me to understand myself. Because right now, on the first mothering Sunday, without a mother, it is especially good to be able to fall back on other peoples experiences when mine is a bit difficult.
Stories can give both sides
Stories have always helped me to see different angles on things that seem to only have one side. How do I know what anybody else is feeling? I don’t. But I can imagine. And stories, which are already imaginative, help me to do that. They can give both sides.
Stories can give the experience of both the Jew and the Nazi. It can show how an ordinary Jew like Etty Hillesum can say “Even if there is only one decent German, they would deserve to be protected from the barbarian rabble and for that one German’s sake one should not pour out one’s hatred for the entire people.” An ordinary Jew, writing inside a concentration camp that would be the place of her death.
It can also show how an ordinary German can say, “My hand was shaking a bit with the first cars. By the tenth car, I was aiming calmly and shooting dependably at the many women, children and babies. Bearing in mind that I have two babies at home, I knew that they would suffer exactly the same treatment, if not ten times as bad, at the hands of these hordes.” That was Walter Mattner, a police secretary from Vienna, who participated in the shooting of 2,273 Jews. An ordinary man. An ordinary man who used the same images as Etty Hillesum to justify himself.
Literature gives me different sides and it stops me from assuming that my side is right simply because it is my side. It makes truth worthwhile and complicated.
Stories tell a different side of me
The stories I most like about myself are actually the ones that tell a different side of me. There are lots of stories that are indicative of who I am. That I studied English and Philosophy at university says a lot about me. That I want to do further study says a lot about me. The fact that I am talking to you today about stories says a lot about me.
But I like the stories that are unusual. I like that I was able to be here for the last few months instead of working as a research assistant to care for mum, with all of you. I like that, because I’ve always assumed that it was not a part of my story. I thought Elizabeth would be more capable more sturdy in the face of such things. My story was about ideas, not about illness. But a good story shows that things have more than one side. I can now tell a new story about myself, I can say that I am capable, that I can care for others and that I can notice what they need. My story has changed but it is better for it. As it turns out, I didn’t know the full story.
But that happens in stories too so I guess I was prepared for it.
Mistakes and failure in stories
Good stories help me to not be too worried if I make mistakes or if I don’t know everything about everything. They show that truth comes out of those mistakes. In a book called The Alexandria Quartet a young poet living in Egypt just before the Second World War, tells about how he falls in love with a young married woman named Justine. It’s a nice story but then he discovers that she is using him as a cover, she and her husband are involved in clandestine government business. So the young man tells the whole story again, everything is different and he remembers incidents that had seemed too trivial to be mentioned the first time. And this happens two more times in the book. It’s one story, about one place and one time, but it has lots of possibilities. Because good stories give us more than one side. And if they don’t there is always an antidote.
In a depressing book called Billy Liar a boy on the cusp of his life fails entirely to realise any of his dreams. He was going to go to London but he doesn’t, he was going to get the girl but he doesn’t, he was going to get the job but he doesn’t and his greatest achievement for the whole novel is to grow the thumbnail on his left hand really long. Which is depressing to read at the age of twenty three. But that’s okay because there are lots of other stories that give hope. Where people make the right decisions and they have good fortune. Where life works out.
But there is always Billy Liar to remind me that things may not turn out the way I want, that I may be too afraid to take the big risks and that I should learn from him and be merciful to him because I will inevitably be a little like him. His story has an impact. Because other people’s stories give me options on how I tell my own story.
Mary’s and Martha’s story
For example, I used to say that I was not a practical person. But now I don’t have to tell my story like that. I know I have a serious tendency to walk away from conflict or anything a little bit difficult. But I don’t have to tell my story like that. I like to let my sister to do the housework when she visits. And I tell myself that I’m like Mary to her Martha and then I feel morally righteous for taking the better course of action, as told by Jesus Christ himself. Because then I don’t have to notice that I’ve forced her into doing everything by my lack of action.
But the story won’t let me get away with this. Because stories are more than just the action. They put things into a narrative arc, they show us the significance of certain events, and they take us inside the motivations and meanings of things. Jesus’ story about Mary and Martha has a really specific meaning, it’s about taking time out of the daily chores to notice the divine and give it its due. In co-opting the story for my own ends I am destroying its most important part – its meaning. Good stories are honest, they show things truly, they bear witness to life. And in doing that, they teach us how to be honest as well. So the story of Mary and Martha can be used as a cover for a little while but it eventually breaks down.
Stories are sneaky
Stories are sneaky like that. It’s books that warn you not to trust books too much. They say, “Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.” Or they say that “There is nothing one cannot find in books, except the experience which proves them true.”
But it’s the books that tell us this. And it’s that double-sidedness that I like.
Stories, like everything, can be good or bad, they can be consumed thoughtlessly or weighed carefully. But I never feel like I’ve wasted time on a book, no matter how bad it is. If I read it carefully I can find something of value in it. Even if it is simply the knowledge of what constitutes a bad book. As someone else has already said, “Books are humanity in print.” So to be able to find something of value in every book means there is hope that I’ll be able to find something of value in every human being.
And Stories have the power to change everything. When I was three, Mum started reading Narnia to me. Those seven books have had more impact on me than most things. In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader the travellers stop at an island at the end of the world. An old man lives there and they ask him who he is, ‘I am Ramandu,’ He replies, ‘and I am a star at rest.’ ‘In our world,’ says Eustace, ‘a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.’ And Ramandu replies, ‘Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is but only what it is made of.’”
That idea has always been one of the most important ideas in my life. Hardly surprising since it was planted there when I was so young. The idea that there is always more to things than meets the eye. The idea that metaphor and relationship are just as important as the thing itself. It is so firmly ingrained in who I am that it is inescapable. It is thanks to books like Narnia, the ones that have formed me so completely, that I am the way I am. It’s thanks to the ideas in Narnia that I am so inescapably a Christian. I couldn’t throw off those ideas, it would be like trying to unlearn language. It is how I see the world. I see it in stories.
Stories and death
When mum died, there was a moment when there was no story that told what had happened. We’d had so long to prepare and to write drafts of the event in our minds that it was almost more difficult to imagine that this was the final copy because of all those drafts. The first thing they teach you in logic at University is the syllogism, All men are mortal. Caius is a man. Therefore Caius is mortal. But of course, I can’t help but think that I’m immortal, at least till the day I die. Death is so impossible a thing that without stories there is no way I could ever understand such a ridiculous idea. It’s stupid. I’ve read lots of books that have people die in them. The death of Ivan Illych is about the death of Ivan Illych and absolutely nothing else. I know that Seneca is right when he says we should not be surprised by death because we all know it’s going to happen to us. And, in truth, Mum’s death was not so very terrible. The actual dying was quite straight forward. But that is different to the fact that a person is no longer living. It is harder to find a story that fits that ending. Because Death is the end of a story.
I’m always sad to finish a good book because I know that I can never read it again with the same sense of expectation and wonder as the first time I read it. Finishing the book is not sad in itself. Knowing that particular experience can never be reencountered is sad. I know that I can never flick through the pages of my mother’s life and read her expressions and encounter her turns of phrase. Her very particular self is gone.
Mum’s death illuminated this in a way that was particularly suitable for someone who tried to live her whole life by the Gospel story. For the last week of her life she slowly faded out, the words went, the story was silenced. She closed herself up like a book. Because it was difficult for me to sit with that silence and to face the closing of her life, I read to her. I gave her stories because that’s what the living have. The dead can’t tell their own story.
Coleridge, who I began by quoting and whom I am particularly fond of, says: “Truths... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.” It is really easy, when you live with someone day to day, to forget their truths, to be habituated to their extraordinariness and treat them as ordinary. It is easy to treat mothers as everyday affairs when motherhood is always astonishing. Lawrence Durrell says, “The presence of death always refreshes experience – that is its function to help us deliberate on the novelty of time.” In losing the story we can see it afresh, it is like reading it again for the first time.
My mother’s story
I can now look back on my mother’s life as an entirely new, strange, amazing thing. I can now see just how much of her story was too complicated for me to understand. I can see that I skipped lines and read too fast and thus missed some of her narrative. I realise that I don’t have the full story but also that the story is worth telling, even in fragment form.
I like to imagine God as the supreme story-teller, the Author of Life Divine, as the hymn calls it. That means that even though the dead cannot tell stories, even though they cannot change their narratives or retell their past, there is an Author who keeps every page open and every line of the story alive.
Coleridge said that stories performed that function for people. If truths become old and stale it is stories that can keep them fresh because the same truths are reclothed again and again in different narratives. So we must tell stories about ourselves and about others. And we must change them so that we don’t forget how amazing we can be.
HOLY WEEK
AND EASTER SERVICES
Maundy Thursday 9th April
7.00pm- Washing of Feet, Altar Stripping and Watch of the Passion
Good Friday 10th April
9.30am The Liturgy of the Day & Veneration or the Cross.
At Dookie and Katandra a Devotional Service at 8.45am and 10.45am respectively.
Holy Saturday 11th April
7.00pm Easter Vigil: Easter Candle, Renewal of Baptism vows
and first Easter Eucharist, followed by a celebratory drink & nibble
Easter Day
At St Augustine’s: 8.30am & 10.30am Eucharist.
At Dookie and Katandra: 8.45am and 10.45am respectively
BIRTHDAYS
Shirley Bartlett. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1st April
Betty Downing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1st April
Marj Millerick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2nd April
Dale Wells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2nd April
SIGN UP PLEASE
Lists for those who are prepared to watch through Maundy Thursday night or have their feet washed are available in the Narthex. Please volunteer!
PALM CROSSES
Next Sunday is Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week. The therapeutic art of Palm Cross making will take place on Friday the 3rd March in the Supper Room, beginning at 10.00am. Do come along to help, it’s a good social occasion.
VEILED CROSSES
The veiling of the crosses and major ornaments in the church today marks the beginning of the lead up to Holy Week and Good Friday, during which time we focus upon the Passion of our Lord in its stark reality rather than elaborated or softened by art and ornamentation.
MOUNT MAJOR
All are invited to attend the Ecumenical Sunset Palm Sunday Service on Sunday 5th April starting at 4.30pm. The Gates open at 3pm for afternoon tea. Bring your own everything, chair, rug, coat, food, thermos, soft drink, torch & repellent. More details on the Notice Board.
SERVERS AND EUCHARISTIC ASSISTANTS HOLY WEEK
Would servers and Eucharistic Assistants put their names down on the list in the Narthex detailing when they are available, if necessary on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday for Easter Eve. There will be a general practice for Eucharistic Assistants after the 10.30 Eucharist next Sunday.
CATECHESIS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
The need for leaders of this superb educational program for young children is very great. It is one of the very best things we are doing in this parish. There is a six day Leader Formation Training Course coming up in late April, please seriously consider taking on this rewarding vocation. More information on the Notice Board.
RAFFLE RESULTS
Results of Lady Day - ABM raffle: 1st Jardiniere - Sara Nichols. 2nd Clock - Kay McGregor. Thank you! Nola Brewer
PASTORAL CARE
There is a Pastoral Care meeting this Wednesday 1st April 11.15 in the library.
DATES FOR THE DIARY
Apr 4th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding
Apr 16th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evening Guild
Apr 21st. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Friendship Group
Apr 25th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Garden Working Bee
May 1st -3rd & 3rd -5th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Diocesan Lay Retreats
May 3rd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 1.30pm
May 13th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friendship Group
May 15th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Turaton Concert
May 21st. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Evening Guild
May 22-23. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Synod
May 23rd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 1.30pm
May 24th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Patronal Festival - Bishop John Parkes
May 30th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Garden Working Bee
May 30th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 3pm
June 6th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .New Guinea Martyrs
June 6th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 3.30pm
June 27th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Garden Working Bee
June 29th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Clergy Retreat until the 2nd July
July 5th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anniversary of The Rev Helen’s Ordination
June 16th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friendship Group
June 18th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Evening Guild
July 16th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evening Guild
July 21st. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Friendship Group
July 25th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Garden Working Bee
Aug 18th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Friendship Group
Aug 20th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Evening Guild
Aug 29th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garden Working Bee
Sept 15th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friendship Group
Sept 18th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Evening Guild
Sept 19th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding
Sept 26th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garden Working Bee
Sept 27th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Confirmation
Oct 3rd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 1pm
Oct 3rd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 3pm
Oct 5th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clergy Conference until 8th October
Oct 10th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 2.30pm
Oct 31st. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garden Working Bee
Oct 31st. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 3.30pm
Nov 7th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wedding 2.30pm
Nov 14th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parish Fair
Nov 21st. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 3pm
Nov 28th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Garden Working Bee
Nov 28th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding 3pm
Nov 28th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding
READINGS for 5th April
Isaiah 50:4-9; Philippian 2:5-11
Duties for 29th March 2009
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pat Griffin, Heather Carlyon
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Courtney Craven, Jenny Pleming
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beth, Michelle
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joe, Zebedee
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Victoria Heenan, Greg Pestell
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Griffin, Ian Bryce
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bev Condon, Jenny Pleming
Welcomers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anita Saville, Erma Wilson
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sandra Simonia, Jenny Moran
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gwyn Cowland, Merv Cowland
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Alan Akers, Nola Brewer
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Val Rose
Welcoming Table 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Val Rose
Mowing 28th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Pleming, Rick Coates
Duties for 5th April 2009
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gwyn Cowland, Heather Fitzgerald
Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Peter Martin, Christine Jones
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Michelle, Beth
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jenny Pleming
Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Fitzgerald, Nancy Noonan
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carole Henderson, Bev Condon
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Greg Pestell, Joe Fernandez
Welcomers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Judy Lloyd, Pat Griffin
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Johnson, John Pleming
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joe Pearson, Norm Mitchelmore
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlotte Brewer, John Pleming
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev Reither
Welcoming Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Margaret Hoare
Mowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . none this week
Confirmation classes for both adults and children will begin shortly. Names on the list in the narthex please.
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.
Nicole Ackland, Norma Anderson, Alison Baldwin, Liam Bognar, Kylie Butterfield, Barbara Carlyon, Nicky Cavill, Beth Chambers, Graham Clapp, Roz Dunlop, Richard Goodfellow, John Green, Frank Harder, Hilder Lidgard, Sophie Mould, Maureen Olphert, Margaret Noble, Shirley Pama, Jan Riches, Kevin Richards, Peter & Eva Swindells, Susan Singh, Lorraine Vogul, L:esley Wells, Allison, David, Carolyn, Glenda, Graham, Yvonne, Jenni, Johanna & Tony, David & Judith
Rest in Peace: Herbert Maxwell, Eric Read
Anniversaries: Ann Tacey 29th, Denise Thorn, Hugh Oakes, Doug Kissick, Dick Griffin 31st, Clifford Dodson, Caroline Waymouth, Hazel Kalms 1st, Alec Bassett, Mary Schliebs 2nd.
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH
Monday 30th March Rector’s day off
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
3.30pm Evening Prayer
7.30pm Lenten Study - the Den
Tuesday 31st March
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
10.00am Playgroup - Den
12.15pm Simply Soul Soothing
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Wednesday 1st April
7.45am Mattins - Lady Chapel
10.00am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
11.15am Pastoral Care meeting/Library
1.30pm Lenten Study - Den
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
4.00pm Banksia Kialla Gardens
6.00pm EfM/Den
Thursday 2nd April
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
9.30am Tarcoola Eucharists
11.00am Eucharists - Harmony
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
4 - 5pm Catechesis of the Good Shepherd 6-9yrs
5.30pm Choir Practice
Friday 3rd April
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
11.00am Mercy Centre
3.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Saturday 4th April (Associate Priest’s Day off)
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
4.00pm Wedding
6.00pm Vigil Eucharist - Lady Chapel
Palm Sunday 5th April
8.30am Sung Eucharist - St Augustine’s
10.30am Family Eucharist
8.45am Eucharist - Dookie (No Katandra service)