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FIFTH SUNDAY in LENT

21st March 2010


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RUSTIC FOLLY

At a big-time wool-grower’s daughter’s wedding, in true egalitarian Australian fashion, the property’s entire staff were invited. One of the station-hands bravely sampled all the flash tucker that had been especially imported for the wedding feast. First he put some caviar on a biscuit, then grabbed a paper napkin and spat it out. Then he tried a black olive, screwed his face up, and spat that too into a paper napkin. “Stone the flamin’ crows!” he muttered fiercely to another station-hand. “You’d think the boss or the cook’d be a bit more careful with this tucker - the flamin’ blackberry jam tastes like fish, and I reckon the cat’s piddled on the prunes!”


ATHEIST CHIC

Andrew Neaum

One of the odd fragments that has stuck in my wicked mind from many years ago comes from Elizabeth Arden, of all people: To be Catholic or Jewish isn’t chic. Chic is Episcopalian (i.e. Anglican).

 

How things have changed. Today: to be Christian or Buddhist isn’t chic. Chic is Atheism. The Dawkins’ circus is in town, and being fawned over by the fashionable lumpen-intelligentsia.

 

Coming out

I was talking to a dying patient in hospital recently when a passing “specialist”, with his entourage of student disciples, proudly and gratuitously took the trouble to reveal himself an “atheist”. So too a nurse a few days later. Atheists are “coming out”! Derek Guille declared himself fashionably to be one last week on the ABC, while enthusing over the recent Melbourne “Global Atheists Convention”, and there will be more and more, trust me.

 

It is indeed becoming fashionable you see, and fashion largely dictates the views and politics of the majority of the poorly, moderately and even well degreed.

 

For and against

The arguments for there being no God are much the same as they were in Charles Bradlaugh’s or Bertrand Russell’s day and indeed before that. What is different is that it has now become acceptable, fashionable, chic, stylish to espouse them. Dawkins has media panache, he is a celebrity. Where the “celebs” go, behind them follows the herd.

 

His arguments, some of them good, some of them shoddy, can all be countered, though not necessarily despatched. For it remains the case that just as no one can prove God’s existence no one can disprove it either. However, if his eloquence and cock-sureness get you down, the best and most exhilarating demolition job done on both him and Christopher Hitchens is by the Marxist, Terry Eagleton in his Book, “Reason, Faith and Revolution”.

 

I have little quarrel with atheism, so long as it smiles at me rather than sneers. So long, that is, as it is charitable enough to respect my position (at its best) and therefore in dis-agreeing with my views does so courteously and charitably. I might well have hopped down on to the atheist side of agnosticism’s wavering fence myself had not the Christ-ianity I had grown up with, been marinaded in, wrestled against and attempted to live been so beautiful and life enhancing. The arguments against God can appear as comp-elling as those for him, though not more so.

 

It is uncharitable, condescending, up-itself atheism that I deplore and despise, as too I do Christianity of the same sort, not least when I myself slip into it.

 

Overvaluing intelligence

Dawkins’ atheism does appear at times to be uncharitable, condescending, up-itself and arrogant. For example, he was widely reported as saying of the British Airways employee Nadia Eweida, who was at the centre of a row a year or so ago for insisting on wearing a crucifix at work: “she had one of the most stupid faces I’ve ever seen.” How gratuitously nasty. At the recent Atheists Convention he is reported as describing the “Family First” Senator Steve Fielding as being “more stupid than an earthworm” and as referring to the Pope as a “Nazi”. How unpleasant.

 

He obviously over-values intelligence and shows it by decrying those less intelligent than himself. His attempt to persuade us to swap the term “atheist” for the word “bright” underlines this contempt for those less intelligent than himself. It also implies that being bright is a characteristic of atheism, which it most certainly is not. I have stumbled across many a pub or barbecue atheist of remarkable dimness. We need to remember too that Robert Mugabe is hugely intelligent as too, doubtless, was Stalin. It is goodness that matters not intelligence.

 

Rowan or Richard

Of course many Christians are just as uncharitable and arrogant if not more so than Professor Dawkins. However, Dawkins is atheism’s self-appointed standard bearer. He is the nearest atheist equivalent to our Christianity’s Archbishop of Canterbury. Rowan Williams is unfailingly charitable and humble in his brilliance, but then you see he is a true exemplar of a faith whose blueprint urges humility, charity and love. That blueprint, that Gospel, as exemplified not only by Rowan Williams, but by nearly all of the loveliest people I have encountered in my now lengthy pilgrimage through life, is one good reason why I remain so happily on the Christian faith side of agnosticism’s wavering fence.

 

 

COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS

Canon D Neaum 1912-2001

Having reached my 17th year when Eric and I were sacked from the choir and each of us having brothers in the choir, we had seen copies of the music to be sung and so ‘lifted up our voices’. Then the whole choir went on strike, in sympathy, and joined us at the back of the church. Fr.Walker then filled the choir pews with what we called ‘Rubbish’, i.e., folk who couldn’t sing! It must have been a grievous time for such a master of music and it lasted for a month or so, with beautiful voices at the back of the church and little of note from the front choir pews.

 

One morning, after Convent Mass, Fr. Walker said to me, “I think it’s about time you lot came back into the choir”. How can we, I asked, you’ve filled the choir with other folk. “Oh,” he said, “You’ll soon get rid of them!” I don’t know what he had told the interlopers, but we all turned up on practice night and the newcomers were not to be seen until Sunday came and they had rejoined the congregation. It was after this that the Vicar told me what had happened after the first Mass when Eric and I had sung at the back of the Church. Sitting a few rows in front of us was the Squire’s widow who was very poor sighted. She asked the verger to tell the Vicar she’d like a word with him. Going to her, she told him that she didn’t know who they were, but there were two men behind her that morning with good voices and she thought he ought to get them into the choir!

 

One other result of the strike was a deputation from the congregation asking if the choir could always be at the back as it helped the whole Church family to sing. This, however, went against the Vicar’s ideas for he liked to have the choir near to the Sanctuary ‘to keep his eyes on them’. We remained in the front choir pews.

 

Before I pass on, one last memory of school. It was the last year before our ‘A Level’ exam and I and two friends so annoyed the French Mistress that, in the first term, she refused to have us in her class. For a week or so we enjoyed the freedom and then remembered that French was the only subject in the exam that had to be passed as it was our only foreign language. I went to the library and took out all the French writers I could find and spent many hours on them, especially the set books. Came the exam and I was able to tackle all the questions. Feeling rather pleased with myself, I met the French Mistress as I left the exam room. With a somewhat satirical look she asked me how I’d gone on. I told her I thought I’d done quite well. Her reply was typical for she said “We shall see. Time will tell.” It did and I got a good credit of sixty seven percent.

 

That year, my last in school, I won the First prize. The Head called me in, to ask what book I’d like. It was the time of Edgar Wallace’s crime stories, so I asked for some of them. “We don’t give that sort of prize” was his reply. “In that case, I will have a Bible” I replied. I duly received it, took it home and found that the Head had played an excellent trick on me - the Bible was in French! I never managed to read it!

 

There were six weeks before the results of the exam were to be published and I couldn’t remain idle, despite the interest in motor bikes, angling and working with Pa on his hobby, the trout farm. My parents thought I might like to try the Law and I got a job with a Derby Solicitor at fourteen shillings a week. It took only a fortnight for me to realise that I had then, and would never have, any interest in that profession, so I left and got myself a temporary job in a coal office with its place of work at the large Goods Station in Belper.

 

Before starting that job, which I thought might be a bit dirty, I went to the “Thirty Shilling Tailors” (A normal suit cost about five pounds) and bought myself a pair of cheap trousers for ten shillings. On my first morning in the small office, I bent down to attend to the coal stove and the trousers split right across the seat! It was my good fortune to have taken my mac with me and I was able to walk home at lunchtime without being arrested for indecency - but what a horrible feeling to have only one’s underpants to keep out the cold!

 

The tremendous joy of that job was that by about l0.30am I had seen to the loading of the coal drays - forty hundred-weight bags of coal - and, as there was no telephone, there was little or nothing more for me to do until lunchtime was over. I soon discovered a young man’s dream by getting pally with the driver of the shunt engine whose work was making up all the different trucks into a train for the same destination. This proved a fascinating job for I was allowed to be with the driver and fireman on the engine itself.

 

There was, however, one danger that I quickly discovered. The space between the engine and the tender was covered by a hinged plate which did not reach to the far end of the floor. As I was standing, looking out of the side, I must have had my heel in the space where the cover didn’t reach and as the engine changed lines with the necessary turn, the engine and tender drew together. Fortunately, it was the heel of my shoe and not my foot that suffered for, in a moment, it was shattered. That danger known, I enjoyed my shunting mornings to the full until the exam results came out and I left the job.

                                                                                                       (to be continued.)


                                                                      Blue Hydrangeas, September

                                                                             By Gillian Clarke

                                                                        You bring them in, a trug of thundercloud,

                                                                        neglected in long grass and the sulk

                                                                       of a wet summer. Now a weight of wet silk

                                                                       in my arms like her blue dress, a load

                                                                       of night-inks shaken from their hair

                                                                       her hair a flame, a shadow against light

                                                                       as long ago she leaned to kiss goodnight

                                                                       when downstairs was a bright elsewhere

                                                                       like a lost bush of blue hydrangeas.

                                                                       You found them, lovely, silky, dangerous,

                                                                       their lapis lazulis, their indigoes

                                                                       tide-marked and freckled with the rose

                                                                       of death, beautiful in decline.

                                                                       I touch my mother’s skin. Touch mine.

From a very beautiful collection of poems on ageing, in the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/13/carol-ann-duffy-poems-ageing


JUDAS AND MARY

This Sidney Carter song referring today’s Gospel

will be sung during Communion at 8.30 am today.

 

                                                                        Said Judas to Mary, “Now what will you do

                                                                             With your ointment so rich and so rare?

                                                                             “I’ll pour it all over the feet of the Lord,

                                                                             And I’ll wipe it away with my hair,” she said,

                                                                             “I’ll wipe it away with my hair.”

 

                                                                             “Oh Mary, oh Mary, oh think of the poor -

                                                                             This ointment it could have been sold;

                                                                             And think of the blankets and think of the bread

                                                                             You could buy with the silver and gold,” he said,

                                                                             “You could buy with the silver and gold.”

 

                                                                             “Tomorrow, tomorrow I’ll think of the poor,

                                                                             “Tomorrow,” she said, “not today;

                                                                             For dearer than all of the poor of the world

                                                                             Is my love who is going away,” she said,

                                                                             “My love who is going away.”

 

                                                                             Said Jesus to Mary, “Your love is so deep,

                                                                             Today you may do as you will;

                                                                             Tomorrow, you say, I am going away,

                                                                             But my body I leave with you still,” He said,

                                                                             “My body I leave with you still.”

 

                                                                             The poor of the world are my body,” He said,

                                                                             “to the end of the world they shall be;

                                                                             The bread and the blankets you give to the poor

                                                                             You’ll find you have given to me,” He said,

                                                                             “You’ll find you have given to me.”

 

                                                                             “My body will hang on the cross of the world

                                                                             Tomorrow,” He said “and today,

                                                                             And Martha and Mary will find me again

                                                                             And wash all my sorrow away,” He said,

                                                                             “And was all my sorrow away.”


CONGRATULATIONS

Birthdays

Bev Condon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24th Mar

Andrea Fisher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25th Mar

Rita Seymour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25th Mar

Margaret Morton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26th Mar

 

WARDENS & COUNCILLORS

At our Eucharists today, before the last hymn we will admit and pray-in our new Councillors and Wardens.


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.


NOTABLE GUEST PREACHER

Our preacher at 8.30am during Lent is the Revd. Dr. John Pryor. His subject this week is Pontius Pilate (See the sheet)

 

Next Week’s Sermon Outline

 

Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus

 

Readings next week:

Jn 19.31-42 + Mk 15.42-43

 

                                         1.       Crucifixion and Good Friday

                                         2.       Burial in Jesus’ Day

                                         3.       Joseph of Arimathea

                                         4.       Nicodemus

                                         5.       Significance of their Action

                                         6.       Conclusion


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 26th March in the Supper Room, beginning at 10.00am. Do come along to help, it’s a good social occasion.


HOLY WEEK & EASTER SERVICES

 

Maundy Thursday 1st April

7.00pm- Washing of Feet, Altar Stripping and Watch of the Passion

 

Good Friday 2nd April

9.30am The Liturgy of the Day and Acknowledgement of the Cross

At Dookie and Katandra a Devotional Service at 8.45am and 10.45am respectively.

 

Holy Saturday 3rd April

10.30pm Easter Vigil, Easter Candle, Renewal of Baptism vows and first Easter Eucharist celebrated with the Macedonians.

 

Easter Day

8.30am & 10.30am Eucharist. At Dookie and Katandra: 8.45am and 10.45am respectively.


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 or Easter Eve.

 

MOUNT MAJOR

All are invited to attend the Ecumenical Sunset Palm Sunday Service on Sunday 28th March starting at 6.15pm. 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.


LENT COURSES CONTINUE

Lent Course (1) The Revd. Helen Malcolm.                               Mondays 7.00pm (Library)

 

Lent Course (2) The Revd Gail Bryce.                              Wednesdays 1.30pm (Library)

 

 

Lent Course (3) The Revd Andrew Neaum.                        Thursdays 7.00 pm (Library)


LADY DAY

In Wangaratta Cathedral on Wednesday 24th March starting at 10.15am with morning tea followed by the Eucharist at 11.00am. Bishop John Parkes is celebrant and preacher. Lunch at 12.30pm ($10.00) is catered for by ABM. The guest speaker will be the Rev’d Robert Whalley, Bishop’s Chaplain. Please let our office know by the 15th of March if you would like lunch ordered for you.


GARDEN WORKING BEE

There is a Gardens Working Bee this Saturday 27th March starting at 9.00am. The wonderful rain we’ve had makes for easy weeding and digging, though it has ravaged some our trees. I hope that all your gardens faired alright in the mighty storm. Come along and enjoy some time with the garden group, we’d love to see you.                   Barbara Whyte


EASTER OUTREACH

The Easter edition of “Outreach” is available in the Narthex, please help yourself to the copy with your name on it and deliver any to friends or neighbours too (before next Sunday, please). Many thanks to Ron Rose who has thoughtfully edited the “Outreach” for some years now and although giving up as editor will remain a contributor. Many thanks too to Helen Malcolm who has taken on the editorship with great ease and expertise.


WHAT IS MAN?

Man as we know him is a poor creature; but he is half way between an ape and a god, and he is travelling in the right direction.

Dean W R Inge

SALTY WIT

Seen in a butcher’s shop in Ireland: “This bacon was cured in Lourdes’!        


DATES FOR THE DIARY

Mar 26th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00am Palm Cross Making

Mar 26th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arise 255/ Youth Group

Mar 27th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garden Working Bee

May 31st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pastoral Care Meeting 11.15 in the Library

Apr 3rd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Macedonian Easter

Apr 4th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Easter Day

Apr 13th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .“Moving On” Grief Support Group

Apr 17th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Men’s Breakfast

Apr 24th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garden Working Bee

Apr 27th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rector disappears for six months

May 15th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Men’s Breakfast

June 6th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patronal Festival

Aug 5th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meeting Parish Fair 4.00pm Roz’s Room

November 13th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parish Fair and Garden Party


                                                    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.


 

Prayer Requests: Nicole Ackland, Jeffrey Andrewartha, Debbie Bagley, Laura Bates, Liam Bognar, Val Cowper, Malcolm Elliott Diane Feldtmann, Kate Goulopoulos, Kath Grills, Frank Harder, Frederick Inniss, Hilder Lidgard, Wyn Lawrence, Sophie Mould, Maureen Olphert, Albert Oxenbury, Mavis Proctor, Koop Purss, Kevin & Isabelle Richards, Betty Smith, Patricia Sparks, Peter Swindells, June Warner, Heather Vines, Bill & Glenda, David, David & Judith, Kate, Stephen, Charlotte, Sandy, Julia & family, Jodie & Scott.

 

Rest in Peace: Mary Brookes

 

Year’s Mind: Sydney Doney, Noel Batey 21st, John Wheller, Peter Briggs-Collie, John Will, Nathanial Carson 22nd, Alan Wilkie, Dorothea Vibert, Eric Reid 23rd, Jean Varvaressos, William Northey 24th, Ronald Chambers, Lillian Simson, Herbert Moller 25th, Carl Classen, Donald Oliver, Horace Smith 26th, Isabel Shepherd, Helen Grundy 27th.

 

Duties for 21st March 2010

Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Norm Mitchelmore, Victoria Heenan

Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jenny Moran, Samantha Conway

Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beth, Michelle

Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Greg, Venita, Valerie

Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Celebrant, Verna Pestell

Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Danita Potter, John Griffin

Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Greg Pestell, Joe Fernandez

Welcomers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anita Saville, Pat Griffin

Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jenny Moran, Frank Steen

Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joe Pearson, Norm Mitchelmore

Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Alan Akers

Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Val Bambrook

Welcoming Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bev Walsh

Mowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . none this week


Duties for 28th March 2010

Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Wellman, Jeanette Smith

Readers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Courtney Craven, Verna Pestell

Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Michelle, Beth

Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Greg, Bethany, Sophie

Intercessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pat Griffin

Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carole Henderson, Bev Condon

Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Christine Evans, Greg Pestell

Welcomers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Judy Lloyd, Eileen Quaife

Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sandra Simonis, Charlotte Brewer

Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gwyn & Merv Cowland

Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nola Brewer, Lesley Kenna

Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Val Rose

Mowing 27th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Norm Mitchelmore, Michael Egan

Welcome Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dorothy Cook


READINGS 28th March

Lent Five

Isaiah 50:4-9a, Philippians 2:5-11


THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH

 

Monday 22nd March Rector’s Day off

  7.45am     Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel

  3.30pm    Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel

  7.00pm    Lent Course- Rev Helen Malcolm - Library

 

Tuesday   23rd March  

  7.45am     Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel

11.00am    Bishop in Council etc. - Wangaratta

10.00am    Playgroup - Roz’s Room

  3.30pm    Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel

 

Wednesday 24th March-Paul Couturier & Oscar Romero

 7 .45am     Mattins only - Lady Chapel

10.00am    Eucharist - St Augustine’s

  1.30pm    Lent Course - Rev Gail Bryce - Library

  3.30pm    Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel

  6.00pm    EfM - Roz’s Room

 

Thursday 25th March The Annunciation

  7.45am     Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel

11.00am    Eucharist - Harmony

  3.30pm    Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel

  4.00pm    Catechesis - Atrium

  5.30pm    Choir Practice - St Martin’s Chapel

  7.00pm    Lent Course - Canon Andrew - Library

 

Friday 26th March - Joseph, Husband of the B.V. M.

  7.45am     Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel

  9.30am     Catechesis of the Good Shepherd - Atrium

10.00am    Making of Palm Crosses - Supper Room

11.00am    Eucharist - Ave Maria

  3.30pm    Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel

  5.30pm    Arise 255

   

Saturday 27th March Associate Priest’s day off

  7.45am     Mattins only - Lady Chapel

  9.00am     Garden Working Bee

  6.00pm    Vigil Eucharist - Lady Chapel

 

 Palm Sunday 28th March

  8.30am     Sung Eucharist - St Augustine’s

10.30am    Baptisms & Family Eucharist - St Augustine’s

  8.45am     Eucharist - St Luke’s Dookie

10.45am    Eucharist - St Mary’s Katandra

12.15am    Orthodox Baptism - St Augustine’s







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