Notices — Sunday 2nd August 2020

NOTICES:

Happy Birth­day to: Ron Nath; Jen­nifer McGov­ern; Brett Dav­ies; Ken Searle; and James Barnes.

Today: 5pm Even­ing Pray­er.  Fr Jeff is happy to give you com­mu­nion at this ser­vice, if you wish.

Sunday School/Children’s Min­istry has now resumed with social dis­tan­cing and hygiene meas­ures in place.  Please come along and join us

Remem­ber Mis­sion Giv­ing: The par­ish has benefited greatly from mem­bers switch­ing to elec­tron­ic giv­ing.   Thank you all again for this.  How­ever, with this change, our mis­sion giv­ing may have been neg­lected.  If this is so, you can leave your mis­sion giv­ing at the church in an envel­ope clearly marked to ABM or oth­er mis­sion agency.  The Web­site giv­ing but­ton also allows us to nom­in­ate a dona­tion to ABM as well.  In the cur­rent cir­cum­stances, our mis­sion agen­cies, like the churches, are in great­er need.  Please remem­ber to sup­port ABM and our oth­er missions.

Wed­nes­day Heal­ing Ser­vice — has resumed and is observing Cov­id-19 restric­tions re seat­ing and receiv­ing com­mu­nion.  A bib­lic­al dis­cus­sion, cur­rently on Matthew’s Gos­pel, takes place fol­low­ing morn­ing tea in the hall – all are invited.

Con­firm­a­tion – Booked in for Sunday 23^rd August: Bp Michael Stead has now con­firmed he will be here for con­firm­a­tion.  Please keep our four Con­firmees Alex, Lucy, Nich­olas & Nam in your prayers.

ABM — Feast of the com­mem­or­a­tion of the New Guinea Mar­tyrs: 11.00am on Sat­urday, 5 Septem­ber 2020 at St Mark’s Church, 8 The Mall, South Hurstville.  Refresh­ments in the Par­ish Hall fol­low­ing the Euchar­ist.  RSVP ESSENTIAL — by Monday 31st August.

Food for our little friends — Thanks for the food scraps which are now not going to land­fill and so redu­cing the pro­duc­tion of harm­ful green­house gasses, espe­cially meth­ane.  If you would like some worm cast­ings for your garden you can leave a buck­et or bag at the rect­ory with your details.  Our little fer­til­izer factor­ies have been doing a won­der­ful job and the fruit of their labours is now available.

Any notices for the ser­vice book­let will need to be sub­mit­ted to the Par­ish Office email by Wed­nes­day even­ing at the latest.

Pray­ers for the sick: Kristen Har­ley; Steph­en Thur­ley; Kev­in Tib­bey; Glen; Kiki Chun; Br Noel Jeffs (SSF); Edna Cham­bers; Br Michael Sam­inath­am (SSF); Sam George; Mary Middleton; Louise Middleton; Bar­bara Reyne; Vic­tor­ia Keighery;Fr John Bunyan; John Hardy; Louise Trott; Christina Rees (CBE); John Bowen; Ver­ity Wright; She Kar Nair; Ron Nath; Ron­an Nath; Veron­ica Nath; Ram Chander; Rev’d Val Tib­bey; Maur­een Clunas; Wolf Winter; Linda Mac­qual­ter; Esth­er Middleton; Suz­anne Camp­ton; Peter Cinelli; and John Dickson.

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Har­old Legge; Ant­o­nia Nagy-Laing; Sep­tima Mor­timer; Albert Wat­son; Mervyn Dav­is; and Dianna Gomes.

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion:  3^rd Aug: Steph­en, Dea­con and Mar­tyr;  4^th Aug: John Baptist Vian­ney, Priest of Ars, France (d.1895);  5^th Aug: Oswald, King and Mar­tyr (d.642);  6^th Aug: The Trans­fig­ur­a­tion of our Lord;  and 8^th Aug: Domin­ic, Priest and Fri­ar (d. 1221).

Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity: Sunday: Ron­ald Naidu; Anthea, Ron, Ron­an, Veron­ica & Rohan Nath; Monday: Pau­line Newell; Johnny Nitchar­oen & Eed; and Mat­thi­as Oduro; Tues­day: Kath­er­ine Old­field; and Julie Olston & Phil­ippa Fre­drick­son; Wed­nes­day: Fr Jeff & Michelle Park­er, & fam­ily; and Saf­fron Pow­ell; Thursday: Ann Petersen, Rachel & Wolf Winter; .Jo, Ramendra, Thomas & Lucy Raj; Fri­day: Joyce, Andrew, Rachel, Bianca, Belinda & Bryson Reddy; and Sat­urday: We pray for all health work­ers deal­ing with our cur­rent Cov­id-19 pan­dem­ic, par­tic­u­larly med­ic­al pro­fes­sion­als deal­ing with those affected by Cov­id-19.  We pray for every­one strug­gling psy­cho­lo­gic­ally or fin­an­cially at this time, that they may know they are not alone and are able to ask for and receive the help and sup­port that they need.

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: Andrew Reddy; Jen­nifer B.; Shir­ley, Bar­bara & Jade Allen; Beth Arm­strong; Ann Jeffs; Rhi­an­non Henry-Edwards; Marissa; Jude, Isla, Meg & Al Don­nell; Lyn Car­ring­ton; Ruth Cham­pi­on; Gary & Kar­en Stein­er-Hill; Pau­line Newell; Bar­bara Beec­roft; Loch­lan Lones­bor­ough; Ann Con­nolly; the Per­kins Fam­ily; Fr Peter Carls­son; Day­alan Sam­inath­an; Grace & Han­nah Ashton; Vic­tor Any­ar­isi; Baby Anaisha, & her par­ents Anu & Digvi­jay; Robert & Lyn­dall; Kit & Ben; Hiro Itadani; Rose­mary Brad­ford; and Mea­ghan Patterson.

Read­ings for Next Sunday — Tenth Sunday after Pente­cost: First Read­ing: Gen­es­is 37.1–4, 12–28;  Psalm: 105.1–6, 16–22;  Second Read­ing: Romans 10.4–15;  and Gos­pel: Mat­thew 14.22–36

Read­ings for the com­ing week: Even­ing Prayer

Sunday	Gen­es­is 31.43a, 44–32.2	Psalm 145.14–21	Romans 10.17–11.6
Monday	Lam­ent­a­tions 1.1–11a	Psalm 78.39–70	Romans 7.1–12
Tues­day	Lam­ent­a­tions 1.11b-22	Psalm 81	Romans 7.13–25
Wed­nes­day	Lam­ent­a­tions 2.1–10	Psalm 85; 87	Romans 8.1–8
Thursday	1 Kings 19.1–16	Psalm 89.5–18	John 12.20–33
Fri­day	Lam­ent­a­tions 3.1–33	Psalms 119.89–104	Romans 8.18–27
Sat­urday	Lam­ent­a­tions 3.34–66	Psalm 89.19–38	Romans 8.28–39