FOURTH SUNDAY after EPIPHANY
3 February 2013
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ANTARCTIC ROMANCE
Two leprechauns went to the convent and begged an audience with Mother Superior. "Well, how can I help you little people?" asked Mother Superior. The larger and more intelligent looking of the leprechauns asked: "Oh Mother Superior, would you be knowing of any midget nuns here at the convent?" "No," says Mother Superior, "I don't have any midget nuns here at the convent". "All right then, Mother Superior, would you be knowing of any midget nuns in all of Ireland then?" "No, no," replied Mother Superior, "I don't know of any nuns who are also midgets in all of Ireland at all." "Well then Mother Superior, in all of nundom, in the whole world of all the nuns, would you be knowing, then, of any midget nuns?' "No, I would not, there are no midget nuns in the whole of the world!" replied Mother Superior, "and would you please tell me what this is all about!!?" The asking leprechaun turned sadly to the stupid leprechaun and said: "See, it's as I told you all along, you've been dating a penguin."
THIS AND THAT (70)
Andrew Neaum
The age of 65 is the retirement age for priests in our Diocese. As I approached that age, a couple of years ago, I told the Bishop that once a suitable replacement for me turned up I would be happy to sail off into the sunset.
It appears that at last the right person has indeed turned up. Our Parochial Nominators have met with their Diocesan equivalents and, after due consideration, they agreed to offer the Parish to a fine priest who has accepted the offer. His name cannot be revealed until the 4th of March. It is only on that date that his present parish will be informed of his departure. Diana and I, perverse to the end, will not be sailing off into the sunset, we will be sailing off into the dawn. Sometime in late May or early June we board a freighter to sail east to England through the Panama Canal.
A short interregnum
At this stage the new priest and his wife plan to arrive on or around the 29th of May. This means that there will be a very short interregnum because Diana and I have agreed to stay on until mid May. Then I will take a couple of weeks leave to clear up and out before signing off totally on the 31st of May.
The new priest’s first Sunday, June the 2nd, is designated our “Patronal Festival”. The Bishop has agreed to come to celebrate that great day with you all at the 10.30am Eucharist, but more than likely with no lunch to follow. Instead, in the late afternoon, the new priest will be Inducted at a Choral Evensong, followed, hopefully by excellent eats and drinks.
All of this has yet to be discussed by the Vestry and Parish Council, but suggestions and comments are welcome. The Induction needs to be separate from the morning Eucharist to enable clergy from the Deanery and elsewhere to attend. What fun to have a Choral Evensong again, and what an opportunity for the choir to shine.
Possum caught
We caught a large and healthy looking possum in Harry and Heather Nicholls’ trap on Thursday morning. A great thrill. We photographed, fingerprinted and admonished it before taking it off for release elsewhere. Are our tomatoes now safe?
RETURN TO
TRISTAN DA CUNHA (5)
13th September 2012
After a first visit to the small and only supermarket on the island, we made a preliminary reconnaissance of the village. First impressions were slightly disappointing. The new method of building the walls of the low cottages is to put up wooden shutters and fill them with reinforced concrete. Such walls are rather less attractive than the traditional, axe-shaped blocks of soft, volcanic rock that formed the gables ends of houses in days gone by. However most of the new houses are brightly painted and so look pretty in a different way. The island’s single village, called Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, has the feel of a Scottish crofters’ village. The flax-thatched roofs have all given way to brightly painted corrugated iron, but the houses are low and nestle comfortably into New Zealand flax wind breaks. In my youth there were no trees at all, it being too windy for most varieties. There are now quite a few New Zealand pohutukawa trees around the village which, because they spread with great ease, threaten to displace endemic trees and shrubs on the mountain. Zealous, purist botanists urge their eradication.
Stone walls are more a feature of the village than sixty years ago. The common land around the village is now largely paddocked with them, and most gardens are walled as well. The 1961 volcano has made available an unlimited number of small, jagged black rocks that prove ideal for dry stone walling.
Each house appears to be minded by a black and white collie-like dog, for the most part they appear silent and wary. We had been warned by someone on the ship to be careful of them and so were. The pleasing call of cockerels brought back memories of Africa as well as the Tristan of old.
A map of the village had been left for us in the rectory. It has every house numbered and all occupiers listed, 270 in all. Very useful. As we wandered around we were able to identify Lar’s place and Eddie’s.
We found the church and looked it over. It is much changed. Affixed to the east end is a good sized vestry, constructed of unpainted concrete, adding to the building’s facilities both running water and a toilet, a welcome addition. The whole church has been widened and so there are no longer attractive pillars and it is less cosy and intimate than I remember. We said mattins in it this morning at eight o clock. As we did so, by the window looking out over flax to the sea, we felt very much at home, and blessed to be here. Neaum vocal chords setting moist South Atlantic molecules of air vibrating with the sweet cadences of Anglicanism once more. The psalms for the day, 96 and 97, were particularly appropriate: Let the heavens rejoice and let the earth be glad: let the sea roar and all that fills it..... The Lord is kin let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of the islands be glad. Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. Fire goes before him: and burns up his enemies on every side. His lightnings light the world: the earth sees it and quakes. The mountains melt like wax before his face:.....
The oak altar rails that I helped to sand as my father made them all those years ago are no longer there. Of necessity they were replaced with the widening of the church. A portion of them remains as a handrail outside the church gate, weathering into decay they were fingered lovingly by me as I walked in.
In our village wanderings we met Simon, a fellow passenger on the ship. He asked us round to his father’s place for lunch, so we went, although it must have been a bit of a surprise for his mother. We later discovered that Jim and Sue Kerr his parents, are two of only three expatriates who come to church with any regularity. They gave no hint of this as we talked and ate with them. To my delight there was crayfish galore in a variety of forms and very good indeed. Jim had spent eight years as school principal years before, when Simon was a little boy. He and Sue returned a year or so ago for their present stint, not as principal, for that post is now held by an Islander, but rather as an “Adviser”.
We were told that the little school has thirty five children and is made of up composite classes, with a teacher for each class and one spare. The teachers are competent and dedicated locals, though largely untrained. Some of the classes have only two or three pupils, few if any over five. There used to be an arrangement to send a couple of bright children to Denstone College, an English private school which had once sent an expedition to Inaccessible Island and so developed a relationship with the island. For a variety of reasons the sending of pupils no longer occurs. Instead a few pupils were sent to the Prince Andrew School on St Helena, but because of transport difficulties now that the RMS St Helena no longer visits Tristan regularly, this arrangement too has fallen through. Jim Kerr has managed recently to organize for a few bright kids to attend a little school in Cape Town.
After lunch, because we had been warned that the weather was to break and that today and Friday were likely to be wet, we set off on a walk to the west of the island’s settlement plateau. The road is now paved, after a fashion, with a sort of smooth tar, forming a pleasant narrow little lane. The island is riven by deep gulches, the first of them on the way west being Hottentot Gulch, no longer the formidable obstacle that I remember it to have been. There is a little bus stop there, to pick up folk heading out to the Potato Patches.
We walked as far as the Hill Piece, a green hill slowly and spectacularly being eroded into the sea, hence only a piece of a hill. We decided not to climb it, but instead made our way up one of its little foot hills to get a lovely view of the potato patches, the sea and Inaccessible island. Very beautiful.
The base mountain, past Hill Piece appears rather less scarred and rough looking and also greener, though the grass is rather less than vivid as it reaches up to the cliffs. There are sheep all the way up these slopes and there is a fence at the foot to keep them there. It is difficult in photographs to catch the immensity and closeness of this great 2000 foot base mountain that hides the peak from view. It is omnipresent and dominating. I do love it. The great watercourses and gulches are spectacular, some of them in great steps, which after heavy rain must be spectacular waterfalls, though only briefly, for the journey from the island peak to the coast is short and sharp.
We sat on the hill overlooking the west of the plateau for a while, the turf being very soft with a fair proportion of moss enabling me to walk bare-footed. The cattle are obviously much better managed than in my day, appearing nowhere near as emaciated. There were several pens for ducks along a “watron” on the way and the wind had all but died down on our trip back.
On the way out we passed one vehicle, the Kerrs returning from a look at the potato patches, and on the way back we met the relief doctor going for a walk, a very friendly fellow, who said he’d been brought out by a Royal Navy frigate (as was I sixty years ago,) but his frigate made the journey in less than three days, what remarkable, fast vessels they are these days with no portholes and so electronically sophisticated.
On our return we called on Lars and had a cup of tea with him and Trina, welcoming and lovely people. He will come to the Rectory early tomorrow to discuss Sunday’s service. I looked at the registers earlier and saw that they had between forty and sixty on most Sundays. He and his fellow Reader appear to do a good job and the service seems straightforward.
After an exceedingly good night’s sleep, we were in bed by about half past eight, we went up to the church to say mattins and had a bit of a look around. How the wind whistles about our sheltered house. The view from the office where I sit typing this is lovely, straight out to a tempestuous sea. Geoffroy the Frenchman who is in the process of handing over his seismic and atmosphere monitoring job to a compatriot, called in to see if we had any stuff off the ship that they are missing and which is vital to the three week’s work that a Swedish expert is doing to their equipment. We suspect it is still on the ship which is now on its way to Gough island.
What an odd place this island is. Not poverty stricken or down at heel in any sense, yet also a little make-shift, make-do. Heath-Robinson has to be called upon frequently to do his best, given the time required and expense called for to bring in parts to repair things. So isolated too, in spite of wonderful communication facilities. The changes since my youth are huge and yet the sense of having been here and a part of it is very strong. The old “station” (the expatriates’ compound), at the bottom of which was the Rectory, is long gone, but the Rectory is in the same place and behind it is a narrow and lovely lane meandering beside heavy flax where I smoked my first cigarette with my brother, Lucky Strikes and where we made a slide down the flax at one end.
The gully in front of the Rectory and over which I look as I write, although interfered with to its detriment by a new road and stone walls, is still the same shape and the steep little bit of garden behind the rectory which I remember as darker and danker, and where our pet penguin moulted, still resonates.
Heating and cooking in the houses here seems to be all cylinder gas. Electricity from the island’s diesel generators sees to everything else. We headed out to get some marmalade to have with our toast and bought a few other things as well. We got some aged and seriously deteriorating little onions for nothing, and have have bought the only pulses we can find here, split peas, as well as some curry powder. The rain teemed down on the way back and our over-trousers are likely to be very useful if such wind driven rain persists. The mountain, so close to us out of the back windows, is obscured completely by cloud, nor is there any horizon as I look out of the front window, the sea merges into grey sky a few hundred yards distant. We are both very well clothed and so although there is a gas cylindered heater in the lounge, we probably won’t use it.
Friday 14 September, 2012 2.12pm
It begins to look as though the sky is lifting and that we are in for some better weather. We went up to mattins this morning well togged up with beanies under our hoods, it being still cold, grey and wet. When I awoke during the night there was the sound of rain on the roof. We called on both Eddie and Carlene. Carlene is a bright spark and her lovely and friendly husband appears to be the son of a near contemporary of mine, James, who became a minor celebrity as a boy when he fell over the cliff and was severely injured. It is wonderful to see that he is still alive sixty years later. I must go to see him. His son was just off to take a meal to him. We had a soft drink with Eddie and his wife who was busy knitting. She came out with a good proverbial expression when he offered only half-heartedly to get a drink for us, leaving her to provide it in the end: “He only offered with one hand” she said.
FROM THE REGISTERS
Birthdays:
Yasmin Bhat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Feb
Trevor Batey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Feb
Abel Chandler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Feb
Joan Harder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Feb
Pam Wood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Feb
SPLENDID CONCERT TONIGHT
3 Feb Sunday 2013 at 7.00 pm, St Augustine’s
The Chamber Philharmonia Orchestra of Cologne presents very, very accomplished concerts and this one should not be missed. See the Notice Board for details of a most enjoyable programme. $30 adults, $25 seniors, $20 students, children under 12 free.
DEADLINE ANNUAL REPORTS TODAY
3 Feb Today to Parish Office please
ARISE 255 TOMORROW
4 Feb Monday 5.30pm
Come along to the Church Hall.
VESTRY
7 Feb Thursday 2.00pm
DEADLINE OUTREACH
10 Feb Sunday to Parish Office please
SHROVE TUESDAY PANCAKE PARTY
12 Feb Tuesday 6.00pm, under the big tree
GRIEF SUPPORT Moving On
12 Feb Tuesday 7.30pm in the Narthex
This first gathering in the New Year is a sharing meeting and all are welcome.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
13 Feb Wednesday 7.30pm
The St Augustine’s A.G.M. is on Ash Wednesday at 7.30pm. All are welcome. Nomination forms for Churchwardens and Councillors are on the table in the Narthex.
A ROVING LENT COURSE
From 19 February, Tuesday
Helen Malcolm will be leading a Lenten Study with a difference this year, a “Roving Course.” On Tuesdays the plan is to start in different locations at 7.30pm. When not held in Shepparton participants will meet up in the car park at 6.45 to arrange lifts.
Tues. Feb 19: Shepparton
Tues. Feb 26: Rushworth
Tues. March 5: Katandra
Tues. March 12: Murchison
Tues. March 19: Shepparton
Dookie does not feature because they will be participating in a local Ecumenical Group. Although each session stands alone, travelling to ‘away’ sessions is encouraged to get the full benefit and meet people from other congreg-ations. We will consider well known people’s opinions on “What is the most important spiritual question of our time.” There will be open discussion and background reading will be provided for each session. Do sign up.
MEN’S BREAKFAST
23 Feb Sat 8.00am Eucharist, 8.30 Breakfast. Sign up!
DEACON GRACE
We attempt to keep in touch with Deacon Grace in Thailand, though it is only at weekends that she can send and receive emails. She seems to be doing remarkable and creative work in the refugee school already, but also to be pushed for time and still having a little trouble with red tape. However, she has promised an article for Outreach and is still trying to sort our web pages with the Diocese! Keep her in your prayers.
FOR THE DIARY
Feb 4 Mon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Arise 255 Youth Group
Feb 12 Tue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6pm Pancake Party
Feb 12 Tue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Grief Support 7.30pm
Feb 13 Wed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ash Wednesday & AGM
Feb 19 Tue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friendship Group 2pm
Feb 19 Tue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lent Study in Shepparton 7.30pm
Feb 21 Thur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ladies Guild 1.30 pm
Feb 23 Sat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Men’s Breakfast
Feb 24 Sun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Katandra AGM
March 1 Fri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . World Day of Prayer
March 3 Sun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dookie AGM
March 10 Sun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mothering Sunday & Breakfast
March 31 Sun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Easter Sunday
May 23 The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4pm Raffle sub Committee Roz’s Room
May 31 Fri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Synod
June 1 Sat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Synod
June 2 Sun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patronal Festival
June 8 Sat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Martyrs of Uganda Service and Breakfast
June 13 Thur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4pm Fair Planning Group Roz’s Room
Oct 19 Sat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parish Fair
REQUESTS FOR PRAYER
Hilary & Alan Akers, Joyce Auldrige, Liam Bognar, Christina Furze, Victoria Heenan, Bruce Hodgson & family, Katherine Holt, Dos King, Bob & June Mc Kellar, Elsie Lieschke, Lynda Saville, Sandra Simonis, Menique Richards with Shylah & Mitchel, Ray, James & Rachel.
Rest in Peace: Geoffrey Trudgen, Ronald Jones
Anniversaries: Marion Nagal, Norma Anderson (3 Feb), Christina Meckharoff, Maurice Lovell (4 Feb), May Stonehouse, Bob Butcher, Reta Esam (5 Feb), Beryl Cormican, Brian Kelly (6 Feb), Amelia Meloury, Jennifer Clarke, Nance Evans (8 Feb), Glenis Joyce, John Chapman, Gladys Hooper, Jack Shortridge, Charles Turnbull (9 Feb).
READINGS NEXT SUNDAY 10 February
Isaiah 61-8, Psalm 138, 1 Corinthians 151-11
Duties for Sunday 3 February
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Pearson, Bev Condon
Intercessor 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pat Griffin
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Michelle, Beth, Soibhan,
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Barbara Schier, John Horder
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Di Gribble, Gavin Gall
Welcomer 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gwenda Betson
Welcome Table 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dorothy Cook
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shirley Dean
Reader 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chris Evans
Intercessor 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joan McCann
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ella and Olivia
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jenny and Joe
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Irene Crawford, Beryl Black
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Gilbert, Frank Steen
Welcome Table 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dorothy Cook
Projector 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Black Family
Children’s Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Diana Neaum
Mowing 9 Feb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garry Grant, John Horder
Mon Office 4 Feb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rosemary Moore, Jeanette Smith
Duties for Sunday 10 February
Readers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Victoria Heenan, Norm Mitchelmore
Intercessor 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bev Condon
Servers 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Griffin, Beth Soibhan
Euc. Assts 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev Condon, Joe Pearson
Sidespeople 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Merv & Gwyn Cowland
Welcomer 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cecily McDonnell, Beryl Goodfellow
Welcome Table 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dorothy Cook
Tea 8.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bev Reither
Reader 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mary Pearson,
Intercessor 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Evans
Servers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Euc. Assts 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sidespeople 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Pleming, Frank Steen
Welcomers 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Leoni Gilbert,volunteer
Welcome Table 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dorothy Cook
Projector 10.30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Karina Black
Children’s Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Suzanne
Mowing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .none
Monday Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jenny Mintern, Jan Phillips
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH
Sunday 3 February 4th Sunday after Epiphany
2.00pm Sudanese Church Service
5.30pm Evening Prayer- Lady Chapel
Monday 4 February Anskar of Sweden
(Rector’s Day off)
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
11.00am Shepp Aged Care
5.30pm Arise 255 - Church Hall (Youth Group)
Tuesday 5 February Martyrs of Japan
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
10.00am Play Group
11.00am Funeral - Murchison
5.00pm Evening Prayer
7.30pm Baptism Preparation
Wednesday 6 February
7.45am Mattins - Lady Chapel
10.00am Eucharist- St Augustine’s
4.00pm Banksia
5.00pm Evening Prayer
6.00pm EfM
Thursday 7 February
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
9.30am Tarcoola
11.00am Harmony
Hospital
2.00pm Vestry Meeting
5.00pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
5.30pm Choir Practice
Friday 8 February
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
5.00pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel
7.30pm PCC Rushworth & Murchison
Saturday 9 February: “Presentation in the Temple”
7.45am Mattins & Eucharist - Lady Chapel
6.00pm Vigil Eucharist
Sunday 10 February 5th Sunday after Epiphany
8.30am Sung Eucharist - St Augustine’s
10.30am Eucharist & Children’s Church- St Augustine’s
9.00am local - St Paul’s Rushworth
11.00am local - Christ Church Murchison
8.45am Eucharist - St Luke’s Dookie
2.00pm Sudanese Church Service
5.30pm Evening Prayer - Lady Chapel