FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT
23 December 2012
Graphics and cartoons & liturgical material appear only in the printed version
AT A GULP
A big fellow from the bush was trying out for a Sydney Rugby team. “Can you tackle?” asked the coach. “Watch this!” said the boy from the bush, and he proceeded to run full-speed into a telephone pole. He shattered it into splinters. “Pretty good,” said the coach. “I’m impressed. But can you run?” “Of course I can run,” replied the boy from the bush. And he dashed off like a shot. In just over nine seconds he had done a 100 yard dash. “Bewdy,” said the coach. “But can you pass a football?” The young man hesitated for a few seconds. “Well,” he said, “if I can swallow it, I can probably pass it.”
THIS AND THAT (64)
Andrew Neaum
Not the easiest of weeks last week. Grace developed a gastric bug on Sunday and then so did I on Monday night. For a while I thought mine to be the result of a less than perfect curry I had made and gobbled. It came back in a mighty rush, violently shortly after eating it leaving me with a fit of the ague, helping me to identify with one of my favourite buffoon characters in Shakespeare, Sir Andrew Aguecheek. However, it was the dreaded bug, and all of Tuesday I was heavy-eyed, head-achy and ran a slight temperature.
The Nativity Play
The very best thing about the week was the Children’s Nativity Play on Sunday. It was a little triumph with a good number of parents and children present. Little Josh as Joseph was movingly solicitous and loving of the baby Jesus, who happened to be his little sister Katie, who in being a girl was a wholly appropriate reminder that the Incarnation is about God becoming human rather than a man.
Fascinating mathematics
I did a fascinating little bit of mathematics last week and found to my surprise that I have lived longer in Shepparton than anywhere else in my life. Who would have thought it? Shepparton of all places. My father stayed in his last parish for seventeen years, but I lived there at home for only eight years, perhaps even less, whereas I have been in Shepparton for nine.
With all the Christmas services to prepare, as well as Sunday’s, several sermons and two funerals I need to get on with things instead of ruminating over and attempting to make sense of the ordinary events in a parson’s and parish’s daily life in this diary column. So once more I have recourse to recent history:
the continuation of an edited diary from our time in England earlier this year.
After a brief look at the very, very beautiful Southwell Cathedral we pressed on towards Newark, bypassing it to stop in Beckingham to stay with Jenny and Ben (Jenny being Diana’s niece and goddaughter). Beckingham is a pleasing village bypassed by the busy main road and so secluded and quiet. Its houses are mostly redbrick, many of them of venerable age and pleasing to the eye. There is a fine church, though sadly no vicarage or resident priest. Ben holds the lease on the only pub in the village of only three or four hundred people.
They have bought a pleasing house that has three bedrooms upstairs, low ceilinged and obviously fairly ancient. A largely glass conservatorium on the back is useful as a sort of living space in addition to the conventional kitchen and lounge. Finlay their little boy is a splendid fellow. Curly haired, bright eyed and attractively contrary, on the go all the time. It was here, when I opened up the computer, that we got the good news about our berth on the Aghulhas being confirmed. So a pleasant stay indeed. We had long chats with Jenny, Ben being hard at work in the pub most of the time, though we did go a walk with him and little Finlay, leaving them behind to make their own way home as we took a longer route beside the river and then up through fields on what was a chilly but bracing day.
We left the next day and headed for London stopping at Wellingborough to view the church and house where Diana and Michael and the two little ones lived during Michael’s first curacy, before they headed to St Helena where at that time I and my family were already ensconced. We then made our way to Milton Keynes, that strange “new” city that appears not to be one a all when you travel through it, offering just hints of its existence behind the great corridors of tree lined roads. There we stopped at an old house in which Diana and Michael had lived after university, when he was working for the railways and Diana and other landscape architect colleagues were helping lay out Milton Keynes. The house they lived in was a fine old one, next to a church, obviously once the great rectory. We knocked front and back and eventually roused someone to fill our bottle with water as light rain fell.
We then on back to Victoria through the centre of London to drop the car at about 7.00pm and so home to Martha’s at 8.00 for a vegie curry that was very good.
Wednesday 29 August, 2012
Yesterday we headed back to Tooting and to Pula and Olga’s place to make phone calls and do some bank work. I am now online with Natwest, though my first attempt to get on line this morning failed. I fear the worst. Diana and I spent over an hour with her bank manager, a lovely Goanese fellow, sorting out this and that. The first Goanese person I got to know was our doctor in Gatooma, my first parish in Rhodesia, an excellent and learned fellow who became a good friend. We had a good lunch with Olga and Mariana, Stilton cheese and bits and bobs. We paid through the bank for our voyage from Cape Town to Tristan and back, The cost for us both seemed horrendous when quoted in South African rands, (R11,275), but in pounds eminently and indeed astonishingly reasonable, about £860.
We then headed to Amanda and Richard’s who are friends of Diana’s and now of me too of course. Amanda did her degree with Diana. Their place is a three storeyed, narrow terrace house in north London in an area these days dominated by Hasidic Jews, who are in evidence everywhere, the girls all wear lisle stockings. Apparently wives all wear wigs to come out, for they are shaven and the men and boys have long ringlets on either side of their face. The house proved to be a pleasing rabbit warren of a place with a garden whose fecundity had been aided and abetted in times past by Diana. It was Amanda’s 70th birthday (and our own second wedding anniversary) and so we headed off by car to one of their two daughters for a BBQ. Richard talking to me all the way, and a long way it was too, right out past Dagenham. It was a lovely celebration and the two daughters both delightful, as too the grandchildren. Amanda and Richard are charismatic RCs in favour of married clergy and women priests as well as very keen Labourites.
Thursday 30 August, 2012 6.45am
One of those unforgettable reminders of my ageing occurred a couple of days ago. On the tube station with our back packs Diana sat down on one available platform seat. Her neighbour, a young woman, seeing me standing with my bag stood up and gave me her seat.
Yesterday I headed off to Liverpool Street to catch a train to Clacton. An easy and uneventful trip there and back during which I finished the Bowra biography and got half way through Rowan’s Narnia book.
The purpose of my trip was to see Tony and Alison. Tony is my oldest friend dating from our first year at university, we were in the same English Honours group and he is excellent company, Alison is a saint to have put up with such evident joy for so many years so curmudgeonly a contrarian, though of course an attractive and interesting one. They were a little late to meet me at the station, and no wonder really because they walked, their home being only five minutes from the station, but Tony’s knees were giving him zip and so he walked slowly with the aid of a pair of sticks. They have both recently retired and bought a very pleasing semi-detached (or terraced, I didn’t notice) house which they have done up most successfully.
The various houses I have visited them in over the years have always been interesting, for they have collected some lovely bric a brac and art over the years and fascinating books and CD’s are everywhere. Tony’s study is almost a shrine, full of books, disks, icons, candles and all sorts of religious ornaments and bits and pieces. The candles are battery operated in what is a glittering little prayer and study den with a colourful Persian carpet on the floor. Just his ticket.
We gossiped about everything. His certitude in faith and contentment with the traditional Christian narrative just as it is, is very different from me and mine, and leads us to much teasing of each other. He has become a Roman Catholic and appears to be happy as such, as does Alison, though he does admit to things he misses, I am pleased to say.
Alison left us to enjoy animated conversation leaving us a lovely Vichyssoise soup with bread and cheese for lunch, and then later we enjoyed together an early supper of baked salmon, new potatoes and the ubiquitous and lovely string beans. This was followed by a couple of delicious nectarines.
The trip back was easy and trouble free, to Bounds Green and a walk back down the hill, in a very cool breeze, arriving at about nine o clock.
Friday 31 August, 2012.
Our last night at Martha and Llew’s.
Not the best of days. In the morning, after picking plums and blackberries from the garden and stewing them for Diana to make a crumble (delicious too it turned out) we headed for the centre of Bounds Green and did all sorts of shopping, not least of which was a great swag of seasick pills. In the afternoon Diana went down to the Post Office to try to sort out a few mundane matters, to no effect. While she was away Mariana and Bella were on the bunk beds playing when there was a loud shriek and Max rushed in to say that Mariana had fallen from the top bunk. I dashed in and there she was groaning on the floor. I picked her up, all limp and out of focus, very scary. She recovered somewhat in my arms, but didn’t stop crying and complaining of a sore head and later a sore ear. Eventually Diana returned and Olga, Mariana’s mother was phoned. It was decided to order a taxi and take her all the way to Tooting to pick up Olga and then on to St George’s hospital, all of which we did.
At the hospital the much reviled NHS (memorably celebrated in the opening ceremony to the Olympic Games) proved beautifully effective. The attention granted to Mariana was immediate, hugely competent and friendly. The upshot, because she had vomited twice, was to keep her in hospital for observation, though we were reassured that all appeared well, it being a case of mild concussion. Diana and I didn’t get back until after ten. Ho hum.
Saturday 1 September, 2012 at Janet’s
I lie in bed at Janet’s and it is good to be in a bed again. The settee at Martha’s was very comfortable and although the house is small for an influx of two great adults you develop a way of coping and it becomes home. We ate breakfast there outside on a cool morning, cereal and the stewed blackberry and plum juice from the crumble. I then headed on my own for town and Oxford, unencumbered, as we had decided that all our gear would be taken to Janet’s by Martha in the afternoon.
I made my way straight down to Victoria with a change at Finsbury Park and found a bus stop for the “Oxford Tube” where I had to wait a mere couple of minutes. The cost, as a Senior, was just £13 and a bit, there and back. I sat in the front on the left, another fellow, unpleasantly sniffing with a cold on the right side of the bus. Lo and behold at the next stop two large German fraus came and plonked down their great bodies, one next to me and one to him on a bus full of empty seats. I couldn’t be bothered to get up and change seats, so sat reading Larkin’s Letters to Monica and dozing off. I probably dozed more than usual for the journey disappeared in no time and I was in Oxford by about eleven.
However, I found my phone wouldn’t work and on going to a mobile phone shop was granted a free call to David and got his message service. I told him I would meet him at St Mary’s and then went in search of a British Telecom outlet. The fellow there decided that the phone was blocked and so it wouldn’t do to buy more time for it. We assumed that the Tooting unblocking had blocked with the change of month, although a day early. So I reconciled myself to no phone. A significant and mistaken acquiescence because Diana was trying to phone me later to tell me to call at Eastern Road on my way back to pick up our stuff after all, which of course I didn’t. Much later, when here at Janet’s I took the sim card out and replaced it and lo and behold the phone was working again.
In case David hadn’t got my message I eventually made my way to St Mary’s and got the secretary to ring him for me. She got Rachel who said he would be here in five minutes, as indeed on his bike he was. We trotted off to the magnificent building in which Ray works, the OUP, a great stone classic- pillared building with a lovely quadrangle of lawn to be glimpsed through the opening. No access though. We had a lovely meal, in a restaurant of the better sort, as you would expect with David. We had the special of the day which is two courses with a bottle of wine. I had a rare beef salad followed by a soft poached egg on a haddock risotto which was delicious indeed. Something to repeat at home some time, crunchy onion in the risotto.
The conversation was good, much of it to do with our future plans, but also books and clerical gossip. After a fond and final farewell for this trip to England, I went to the bus station with David and was back at Janet’s place around five or so. There was no Diana or Martha there, and eventually we rang them, after I had had a cup of rooibos tea with Janet. Diana asked me to come and meet her as she was at Balham on the train and would soon be at Streatham Hill. This I duly did. Things had been a bit less satisfactory for her and so all our gear was still at Eastern Road, but Martha who hadn’t been able to get away from work early enough for them to do anything together would be bringing it all later. Mariana is still in hospital as she had a temperature, all a bit miserable.
However things sorted themselves out. We heard eventually that Mariana was home, the temperature unlikely to be linked to the fall, and when Martha and the kids turned up they were as happy as happy for they all enjoy driving and the two kids ate a great impromptu meal, we having already eaten. Martha was looking forward to a week off in Portugal with the family so all was well after all. A good read and to bed relatively late for a comfortable night and an eventful day today.
Monday 3 Sept. 2012 10.13am Cape Town
Well here we are, I sit in the spare bedroom of 22 Ventnor Road in Muizenberg, the Cape, South Africa. We were last here nearly two years ago, newly married and ultimately Zimbabwe bound, this time Tristan bound.
Our last day in England was relatively uneventful. As Diana and Janet talked I cooked up a mixture of vegetables to add to pasta for lunch, to which Olga, Pula and family came to say farewell and enjoy a pleasant time together with us, Mariana seemed fine after her fall and hospital experience. We sat outside, though not the warmest of days, but warmer than Cape Town. We eventually set off for the airport, Janet driving us to the District Line underground station, Southfields. We swapped at Earls Court, very different from the days when I used it not infrequently as a teacher in the early seventies, and then boarded a very crowded train all the way to Heathrow "Terminal Five". Our little hand luggage case handle stuck in the out position rendering it hard to stack in a crowded tube, but we managed to get it back into place at Heathrow, though we daren't now pull it out in case it happens again. No trouble at all with flights, tickets or customs except that the Heathrow scanners misinterpreted bottles of pills and things as possible bottles of liquid, and so that same little troublesome piece of hand luggage was thoroughly searched and Diana's beloved Canadian body-cream was refused entry and so confiscated. As we waited to board we phoned folk up to use time still available on our phones. My phone which had refused to work when I needed it in Oxford, I had persuaded to work again by fiddling with the sim card. Our phones will now be out of use until we return to Australia.
At Johannesburg the time between flights was fairly limited, not hugely so, but we unfortunately exacerbated the problem by standing for a while in the wrong luggage check-in queue. However the situation was redeemed by going to the "Club" class queue having found the appropriate check-in spot and so made it in time to walk straight on board.....
FROM THE REGISTERS
Birthdays:
Joe Pearson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Dec
Mary Pearson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Dec
Thelma Irwin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Dec
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
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.
THANK YOU PAT
The demand for Pat Griffin’s home made fare has been great and so far has raise $130 for the ABM Xmas Appeal.
FAREWELL GRACE
Those who did not attend the Carol Service on Friday night will have missed the farewell to Deacon Grace who leaves us to spend a year teaching in a huge refugee camp in Thailand. It is a crazy move of the sort that Mother Church has inspired many of her most faithful to undertake. She goes with no salary and no fares paid, and will have to live very, very frugally. The diocese will be meeting her fares and costs, St Augustine’s will be providing her with regular pocket money to spend we hope on herself to allow for a few luxuries and indulgences. We wish her God speed, look forward to some interesting news and thank her for all the good work she has done among us and for us. Her cheerful countenance as well as her unsparing willingness has been a great boon to the Rector. He is hugely grateful, as are so very many whose lives she has touched.
FOR THE DIARY
Dec 30 Sun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 pm Rushworth Combined Service & 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 30 December
1 Sam 218-20,26, Psalm 148, Colossians 312-17 (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, Bob & June McKellar, Lynn Morcom, Menique Richards with Shylah & Mitchel, Richard Ross Edwards, Ethel & George Rumble, Gary Saville, Lynda Saville, Suzanne Singh, Nicole Sleeth, Patricia Sparkes, Heather Steen, Janet Whelan, Joyce & Ray, Fr Peter, Paul Simon & Cheryl, Beryl, Lucy, Mitchel, Shenley, Tom, David, James & Rachel.
Rest in Peace: Graeme Ford, Hazel McDade,Dianne Henry
Anniversaries: Garnet Wall, Chloe Schaper(23), Christine Swainsbury, Bruce Schier, Betty Eggins, Ian Midgley(25), Bill Brown-Shepherd, Edna Ainsworth, Ivy Lloyd, Patricia Key(26), Bernie Robins, Margot Hardwick, Ivy Doney, Jennifer Gibbins, Dorothy Allan(27), Pamela Ball, Alec Steen, Esme Dennis, Fr. David Neaum, Jack Byrne, Valma Hall(28), Charles Hopkins(29).
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Voluntary
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
Duties for Sunday 30 December
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Norm Mitchelmore, Liz Gyles
Intercessor 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pat Griffin
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michelle Soibahn, Beth,
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Grace Sharon, John Horder
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gwyn and Merv Cowland
Welcomer 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev & Max Ralph
Welcome Table 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dorothy Cook
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Barbara Schier
Reader 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chris Evans
Intercessor 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Jones
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Grace Sharon
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Johnm Pleming, Irene Crawford
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beryl Black, volunteer
Welcome Table 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dprpthy Cook
Projector 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Black Family
Children’s Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Diana
Mowing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .none
Monday Office 31 Dec. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . none
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH
Sunday 23 December
2.00pm Sudanese Church Service
5.30pm Evening Prayer- Lady Chapel
Monday 24 December Christmas Eve
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
5.30pm Crib Service and Eucharist
7-9pm Jacobite Mass
8.30pm Eucharist - Katandra
11.00pm Carols - St Augustine’s
11.30pm Midnight Mass - St Augustine’s
11.00pm Eucharist - Rushworth
Tuesday 25 December Christmas Day
8.30am Sung Eucharist - St Augustine’s
8.45am Reserve Sacrament - St Luke’s Dookie
9.00am Eucharist - Murchison
10.30am Eucharist -St Augustine’s
Wednesday 26 December St Stephen
7.45am Mattins - Lady Chapel
10.00am Reserve Sacrament - St Augustine’s
5.00pm Evening Prayer
Thursday 27 December St John
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
5.00pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Friday 28 December Holy Innocents
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
8.30am Narthex Breakfast
5.00pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
Saturday 29 December Thomas Becket
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist
6.00pm Vigil Eucharist
Sunday 30 December First after Christmas
8.30am Sung Eucharist - St Augustine’s
10.30am Eucharist - St Augustine’s
8.45am Eucharist - St Luke’s Dookie
2.00pm Sudanese Church Service
5.00pm Combined Service Rushworth and Meal
5.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel