THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT
16 December 2012
Graphics and cartoons & liturgical material appear only in the printed version
A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE
An Australian business man visiting an office in Madrid at 3.00pm one week-day was decidedly disconcerted to find no one on duty. He roused the caretaker in the basement and asked: "Do they not work in the afternoons in Madrid?" "That is not correct," came the answer. "It is in the mornings that they do not work. In the afternoons we have the siesta."
THIS AND THAT (63)
Andrew Neaum
Two fascinating South American creatures dominated our early morning conversation in the Rectory on Tuesday: peccaries and ais.
From pessaries to peccaries and ais
Both are mammals. It was word association that dredged up the first from the great multitude of inconsequential facts buried in my subconscious. The word “pessary” had appeared in an article we had read and that was enough to pull up from the depths a peccary.
Related to pigs but not actually pigs, peccaries are found in the southwestern area of North America and throughout Central and South America. They usually measure between ninety and one hundred and thirty centimetres and unlike authentic pigs are too cantankerous to domesticate. As a source of food for many people in Central and South America they are invaluable, but only from the wild.
What is it about piggishness, about a snout that ends in a mucous-damp, cartilagenous disc and about tiny little eyes in a head too large for them that causes two distinct, very different and yet piggish creatures to evolve separately in totally different parts of the world I wonder? Do they have a common ancestor, or is piggishness somehow an evolutionary necessity?
The tusks of a peccary are sharpened against each other every time they open their mouths and the creatures warn off predators by making a noise from rubbing their tusks together. Fascinating creatures, I love them.
An Ai (pronounced Ah-ee) is a three toed sloth (a word that rhymes with “both” not “cloth”). These too are fascinating South American animals. They were pulled into our early morning consideration from Diana’s subconscious, not mine.
They appear to live the sort of life that too many human beings dream of and aspire to, for they sleep many, many more hours than not and are immobile for most of each day and night. One of their chief and regular activities is clambering slowly from the tree tops down to the ground once a week in order to dig a little hole in which to defecate. So immobile are they that a mossy algae grows on their fur which helps camouflage them. With human beings, orang-utans and bonobos they are the only mammals that mate abdomen to abdomen. Now if all of that is not fascinating, what is? Our early morning conversations fizz and pop with interest!
The new pharisees and puritans
Outraged indignation, self-righteousness, and finger-pointing were once considered to be a characteristic of Christians, especially of the more extreme protestant and puritan sort.
This bleached mantle appears to have been passed on to the ABC and general media these days. Christians, other than those on the fanatic fringe, appear to be far more concerned with forgiveness, mercy and the second-chance than judgement, I am proud to say.
Those who most relentlessly search out, identify, harass and fulminate against “wrong-doers”, are media interviewers journalists and talk-show hosts. The modern penitents’ stool is the television studio’s armchair. It is on shows such as the Seven Thirty Report that ferret-faced inquisitors self-righteously smirk, probe, pinch and prod as they attempt to break victims down and make them squirm. It is often so discomforting and dispiriting a spectacle that I tune out or off.
It is not truth, ideology or punishment-freak theology that motivates this form of armchair torture. It is ratings and entertainment value. The more successful and total the skewering of a victim, the more likely is the receipt of a media award.
Pranking
The recent and ultimately tragic “prank call” to a hospital in England is rather different, but not totally so. In cases like this one, entertainment value and therefore ratings and advertising revenue trump humanity and so stifle any fellow-feeling, empathy or consideration for the feelings of the victims. It is just a joke, a laugh until, until..... The face of the poor nurse shamed into suicide haunts me.
The two perpetrators of the prank are themselves now victims. No one could possibly foresee so tragic a consequence from so footling and cheap a jape. However to prank for such casual, ignoble and what are ultimately merely commercial ends has been revealed for what it really and truly is, deplorable.
Huge and unforeseen consequences of apparently harmless and even frivolous little actions, sometimes reveal or highlight for us the dangerous moral vacuousness that can underlie even the smallest of our actions.
There is a fragment of verse that has become an indispensable part of my literary vocabulary. I have known and resorted to it for years, it is by George Macdonald:
Alas, how easily things go wrong
A sigh too many or a kiss too long
And their follows a mist and a weeping rain
And things are never the same again.
Now the continuation of an edited diary from Diana and my time in England
Wednesday 22 August, 2012.....
The day began with an appreciative early morning and so tourist-absent look over beautiful Worcester Cathedral. It rose gloriously above a tranquil River Severn upon which flotillas of swans drifted. We then made our way to nearby Malvern, a most pleasing, steep-streeted and prosperous seeming town. Our purpose was to visit Diana’s godson, a surgeon who with his wife and two little ones has recently moved there. He was at work when we called, but we were welcomed by his wife and her mother who was visiting to help them settle into their new house, an interesting and substantial Victorian dwelling with as yet an unkempt but large garden. After a cup of tea we had a tour of what is a splendidly labyrinthine house. We agreed to return today to have a cup of coffee so as to be able to meet Diana’s godson.......
26 August, 2012
We had a full and talkative breakfast at Hazel and David’s in Worcester and then a walk around their large and lush garden which runs right down to the banks of the River Severn. David is a boffin of sorts, obviously very clever. Once he gets going in conversation it soon ceases to be conversation and turns into monologue, very interesting if a little relentless. His wife, still pretty in her late seventies, appears to thrive on such talkativeness and seems the most gentle and contented of folk. David is a retired senior civil servant, a mathematician and statistician, who used to direct a department that produced all sorts of statistics both comforting and discomfiting for politicians and prime ministers on request.
On leaving Worcester we headed again to Malvern and had coffee with the full family this time, partaking of a delicious cake cooked for the occasion by dad. It was good to get to know him a little, he is an incisive and bright fellow. One interesting point he made was to do with the cost effectiveness of fitting even nonagenarians with pacemakers. To do so usually enables them to head back for a few years more of reasonable and active life, whereas not to do so is likely to involve many months of high cost care until they die.
Later:
We are now in Wirksworth, Derbyshire at my cousin John and Heather’s comfortable residence in a beautiful part of the world and after a scenic and very lovely drive. After leaving Malvern we headed off north by way of often very minor roads in sunny and showery weather. Diana is a good map reader, though prone to make idiosyncratic detours to obscure railway stations and tracks. The first part of today’s trip was by way of winding lanes through lovely countryside, along ridges, down valleys and eventually following the Severn Valley for many miles. Some of the roads we traversed were single-car narrow, highly hedged and lovely. Little traffic too. A good way to go if you are not in a hurry. Driving in England is very different from Australia, even on the back streets of London the way is so narrow, with cars parked on at least one side of the road, that you have to give way to oncoming traffic, as people most readily do.
We stopped first at Highly, right down beside the River Severn, to see a restored railway station and watch a steam train come in. There are quite a few of these old rail tracks being restored by private means to take largely tourists and holiday makers for short trips, but not always entirely, they can be useful for local business traffic too. We had a pappy but welcome bacon roll there as we waited for the train and as thunder rolled.
We then pressed on to a most interesting town called Iron Bridge to view in a valley steep enough to be almost a gorge the first ever iron bridge, a neanderthal ancestor of Sydney Harbour bridge. We strolled over the bridge, which is now only used by pedestrians, and then had a good look at a display in the old toll house where there are fascinating accounts of how the bridge was conceived and constructed. There used to be a lot of mining and smelting in the area in years gone by, this area being one of the birth places of the industrial revolution.
We then pressed on to Derbyshire as stone walls began to displace hedges calling in at Ashbourne, of blessed memory, where we strolled round the triangle looking for a place to buy a bottle of wine for my cousin John. Through heavy showers of rain, but with sunshine to follow them, we then headed up through the highlands and along a lovely road to Wirksworth, this part of Derbyshire is divine.
John and Heather were as delightful and hospitable as we expected. He is a typically loquacious Neaum, one of a pair of very musical twins, the sons of my father’s brother Peter and his wife Joan. We immediately tipped in to good talk about our family and much else. John is a man after my own heart, an unutterable bigot on things like music, as am I, a wide reader and a passionate Christian, but a questioning one, open to truth and change as necessary, rather than a defensive protector of an entrenched position. He is also a great lover of the curmudgeonly but incomparable poet Philip Larkin. Although widely read, he reads slowly he says. A good evening meal of salad and ham and chicken with apple pie to follow. A beer beforehand. In conversation with them both I kept slipping a generation and calling him Peter, for he looks like his father and she not totally unlike Joan, her mother in law. All in all it was a most pleasing stay and the conversation good and unflagging.
After breakfast we pressed on to their my father’s home town of Belper, where we arrived far too early for the 11.00am Eucharist at Christ Church, the cradle of my father’s faith. This enabled us to obtain a parking spot close to the church, and we walked across the well remembered bridge over the River Derwent which was in full and raging spate, more so than I ever remember seeing it. It was a crossing I walked every school day for the nine months that we lived in Belper between Tristan and Rhodesian. We then ambled the track beside the Derwent, somewhat muddy before cutting across a damp meadow up to the Ashbourne road, calling in at the Spinney, the old family home, to see a surprisingly fit looking Joy (another cousin) and her husband Neal, to tell them we might be a bit late for lunch, given the service’s time at 11.00.
The service was well done with a woman celebrant who is an associate priest and being a local well acquainted with the Neaums. The vicar, with a most friendly wife who accosted us afterwards, is called Jonathan Page. The church is now modern “catholic” with a choir of twelve who didn’t sing an anthem during Communion, which was a pity, for although mostly elderly they were fairly good. There was plenty of most pleasing holy smoke, the congregation not unlike ours here, was elderly with about sixty or more present. We had a good chat with the priest’s wife, and a short one to him before we searched out one of Joan’s old friends, Doris Wainwright, who had known my father and indeed all of us, a delightful person as deaf as a post.
We then drove up to the Spinney for a gossipy lunch of pork pie, Stilton cheese, both blue and white, smoked salmon, wine etc, all delicious. The tomatoes, cucumber and spring onions all came from Neal’s fine garden. Too much family talk really to take it all in. The eccentricity of my grandfather and grandmother mother was really emphasised and the fact that he went to gaol for six months was established. Possibly the most interesting fact gleaned was that they had paid for the Spinney a mere eight thousand quid, it would be worth well over a million now.
After lunch we went up to see yet another cousin, Joy’s brother Malcolm, right at the top of Shire Oaks. A practical man like most Neaums he has done an amazing job extending and renovating an old stone house on a prime site, he appears to be able to turn his hand to anything. Beryl his wife was there too, her beehive hairstyle of days gone by much reduced, most welcoming and loving to old Malcolm, so commonsensical, normal, open and straightforward. He has a lovely voice and sings in a male choir based in Belper known as the Dalesmen, one of their founder members still alive then and perhaps still, was a certain Reg Dean, who celebrated his 110th Birthday in November 2012. Much of what Malcolm has achieved with his house and garden he was assisted by my father’s brother Francis, another capable man who could turn his hand to anything from playing the classical guitar to designing houses, engines or whatever. We had a cup of tea and then walked back to say goodbye to Joy and Neal before setting off to Newark, stopping at Southwell for a quick look around its very lovely and not widely known cathedral.
EPITAPH OF A HYPOCHONDRIAC
See!
FORGIVENESS
Forgiveness is the final form of love. Reinhold Niebuhr
FROM THE REGISTERS
Birthdays:
Petkana Radevski. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Dec
Joy Martin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Dec
Barbara Philp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 Dec
Erin Dunlop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 Dec
Christina Furze. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Dec
Pando Radevski. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 Dec
Ella Egan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Dec
Anniversary:
Jim & Maureen Olphert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Dec
ONE EAR RING-FOUND its owner
Hip Hip Horray
PATRONAL FESTIVAL
Thank you to all the good folk who supported the Katandra Patronal Festival. It was a lovely service with an excellent sermon from Helen and good tucker and good humour afterwards.
PARISH COUNCIL MEETING
19 Dec Wednesday 7.30pm at the Rectory
The Parish Council Meeting on Wednesday will be in the Rectory, starting at 7.30pm and afterwards will break into food, drink and merriment. Bring a bottle or plate or both or neither, but don’t miss it.
CAROL SERVICE
AND
FAREWELL TO DEACON GRACE
21 Dec Friday 7.00pm
Our Carol Service at St Augustine’s is always different. This year there are new carols by the choir and old favourites for the congregation. There is also an interesting Russian Christmas Story to augment the biblical story.
More importantly however, Deacon Grace leaves us at the end of December and so the Carol Service will be her “official” farewell. At the end, over in the Supper Room we will crack champagne bottles, speechify prettily, make a presentation and eat tasty nibbles all in her honour. PLEASE BRING ALONG SOMETHING GOOD AND DELICIOUS TO SHARE.
ST PAUL’S RUSHWORTH
Combined Evening Eucharist and Meal
30 Dec Sunday 5pm
Join the ‘Almost New Year Celebration’ when Rushworth and Murchison invite everyone to join them at 5pm in Church followed by a delicious meal after in the Hall. Please contact Phil Lowden 58 561 513 or Dawn Wilkinson 58 561 768 for numbers Tickets $20 including raffle ticket
WE COLLECT USED STAMPS
FOR CHARITY
Fr Norm Hart of Euroa sorts and sells used stamps to raise money for ABM (Anglican Board of Mission). Please encourage others as well as yourself to put them by and bring them in to our box on the Narthex table.
FOR THE DIARY
Dec 19 Wed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parish Council and drinks
Dec 21 Fri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7pm Carol Service & Deacon Grace’s Farewell
Dec 30 Sun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 pm Rushworth Combined Service and Meal
Feb 3 Sun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cologne Chamber Orchestra
Feb 13 Wed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ash Wednesday & AGM
May 23 Thu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4pm Raffle sub Committee Roz’s Room
June 02 Sun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patronal Festival
June 13 Thur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4pm Fair Planning Group Roz’s Room
READINGS NEXT SUNDAY
Micah 52-5a, Song of Mary, Hebrews 105-10 (8.30 only)
REQUESTS FOR PRAYER
Betty Adams, Hilary & Alan Akers, Joyce Auldrige, Liam Bognar, Nola Brewer, Ella & Michael Egan, Victoria Heenan, Bruce Hodgson & family, Mia Hogan, Katherine Holt, Edwin Johnson, Dos King, Elsie Lieschke, Colin Mackenzie, Helen McDonald, June McKellar, Lynn Morcom, Menique Richards with Shylah & Mitchel, Richard Ross Edwards, Ethel & George Rumble, Lynda Saville, Suzanne Singh, Nicole Sleeth, Patricia Sparkes, Heather Steen, Janet Whelan, Joyce & Ray, Fr Peter, Paul Simon & Cheryl, Beryl, Lucy, Mitchel, Shenley, James & Rachel.
Rest in Peace: Derek Darby
Anniversaries: Bernard Bazeley (16 Dec), Michael and Esme Houghton(18 Dec), Bub Fennell, Victor Reither, Daphne Clark(19 Dec), Bertha Northey(20 Dec), Frederick Nowell, Maxwell Allen, Ethol Miles, Mavis Trevanskis, Mary Clark, Margaret Maynard(21 Dec), Vera Tattersall, Kim Chapman, Gwendoline Hounslow(22 Dec).
Duties for Sunday 16 December
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Pearson, Victoria Heenan
Intercessor 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Norm Weaver
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beth, Soibhan, Michelle
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Pearson, John Horder
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joe Pearson, Joy Campbell
Welcomer 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cecily McDonald, Bev Reither
Welcome Table 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dorothy Cook, Bev Condon
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gwyn Cowland
Reader 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Martin
Intercessor 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nancy Noonan
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jenny Pleming
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grace Sharon, Joe Fernandez
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Pleming, Mitch Macheda
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beryl Black, Irene Crawford
Welcome Table 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dorothy Cook
Projector 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Charlotte Brewer
Children’s Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nativity Play
Mowing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .none
Monday Office 17 Dec. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Barbara Brown, Pat Gibson
Duties for Sunday 23
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gwyn Cowland, Jeanette Smith
Intercessor 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bev Condon
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michelle, Soibahn, Beth
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Griffin, Bev Condon
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Di Gribble & Gavin Gall
Welcomer 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heather Nichols, Beryl Goodfellow
Welcome Table 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dorothy Cook
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shirley Dean
Reader 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christine Jones
Intercessor 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joan McCann
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sarah & James Davies, Ella Rohde
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jenny Pleming
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Pleming, Frank Steen
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Robert Gilbert, Volunteer
Welcome Table 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dorothy Cook
Projector 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sandra Simonis
Children’s Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Diana
Mowing 29 Dec. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Pleming, John Wellman
Altar Linen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pat Griffin
Monday Office 24 Dec. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . none
Duties for Monday 24 Dec 5.30pm Crib Service
Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .children
Intercessor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . children
Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beth, Siobhan, Michelle
Euc. Assts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Grace Sharon, Barbara Schier
Sidespeople . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Pleming, Dorothy Cook
Welcomers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beryl Black, Irene Crawford
Duties for Monday 24 December
11.00pm Carols and 11.30 “Midnight Mass”
Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev Condon, Joan McCann
Intercessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pat Griffin
Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beth, Siobhan, Michelle
Euc. Assts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Grace Sharon, John Griffin
Sidespeople . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Di Gribble, Gavin Gall
Welcomers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Leoni Gilbert, Sandra Simonis
Duties
Christmas Day 25 December
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Norm Mitchelmore, Gwyn Cowland
Intercessor 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .clergy
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beth, Soibhan, Michelle
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Horder, volunteer
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Di Gribble, Gavin Gall
Welcomer 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dorothy Cook, Shirley Dean
Reader 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Martin
Intercessor 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .clergy
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nick , Sarah, James
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Grace Sharon, volunteer
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kylie Milsom, volunteer
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . volunteer, volunteer
Projector 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Charlotte Brewer
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH
Sunday 16 December
2.00pm Sudanese Church Service
5.30pm Evening Prayer- Lady Chapel
Monday 17 December
(Rector’s day off)
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
5.00pm Evening Prayer- Lady Chapel
Tuesday 18 December
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
10-12 Play Group
11.00am Shepp Aged Care
5.00pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Wednesday 19 December
7.45am Mattins - Lady Chapel
10.00am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
11.15am Grutzner
4.00pm Banksia
5.00pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
7.30pm Parish Council and drinks - Rectory
Thursday 20 December Lucy
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
9.30am Tarcoola
11.00am Harmony
5.00pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
5.30pm Choir Practice
Friday 21 December St Thomas
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
8.30am Narthex Breakfast
5.00pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
7.00pm Carol Service and Farewell for Deacon Grace
Saturday 22 December
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist
6.00pm Vigil Eucharist
Sunday 23 December 4th Sunday in Advent
8.30am Sung Eucharist - St Augustine’s
10.30am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
9.00am Rushworth - local
11.00am Murchison - local
8.45am Eucharist - St Luke’s Dookie
10.30 am Eucharist - St Mary’s Katandra
2.00pm Sudanese Church Service
5.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel