Notices_Sunday 10th May — Sixth Sunday of Easter

NOTICES: 

Wel­come to any vis­it­ors with us today.  Please join us for morn­ing tea after the ser­vice.

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A very big thank you to The Rev’d Dr Ray Wil­li­am­son and the Rev’d Dr Erica Math­ieson for being with us for the past 2 Sundays.

Fr Glenn Maytum will be back with us again next week.

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A gen­er­al invit­a­tion is exten­ded to every­one who would like to come to the pub for lunch at the War­ren View (2 Stan­more Road, Enmore) after the ser­vice and morn­ing tea of a Sunday.  We look for­ward to see­ing you there.

Tues­day Night Bible Study at 7.30pm:

Held at Fr Philip Bradford’s place.  We are con­tinu­ing with the Gos­pel of Mat­thew.  Please bring a bible.  All wel­come.

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Thursday 14^th May 2026 at 6pm – Ascen­sion Day at CCSL:

The ser­vice includes a Pro­ces­sion and Sol­emn High Mass

Preach­er: Fr Daniel Driers.

Held at Christ Church St Laurence, 812 George Street, Sydney.

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Sunday 17^th May – Par­ish Coun­cil meets in the office at 11.40am

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Sunday 17^th May 2026 — Sanc­tu­ary Team Morn­ing Tea:

We plan to have a spe­cial morn­ing tea after the 9:30am ser­vice for those involved in the Sanc­tu­ary Team. 

We want to encour­age all our cur­rent team as well as any church mem­bers inter­ested in join­ing the team to a little social gath­er­ing in the church hall. It will be a time where we can get to know each oth­er a little bet­ter, bring fresh ideas to the team and can­vas ideas around how we can sup­port, train and encour­age each oth­er more.

This is also an oppor­tun­ity to invite any­one to come along who may be inter­ested in becom­ing cru­ci­fer, thur­ifer, dea­con or sub-dea­con. 

It would be great to get an idea of num­bers for cater­ing, also to cater for any diet­ary spe­cif­ic needs.  If you could let Jo or Rick know ahead of the day it would be appre­ci­ated. 

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Sunday 17^th at 12.30pm — Fest­iv­al of Wild Ideas:

Speak­er: Asso­ci­ate Pro­fess­or Dav­id Smith – The US and us: mak­ing sense of Amer­ic­an polit­ics.  Dav­id is jointly appoin­ted between the United States Study Centre and the School of Social & Polit­ic­al Sci­ences at the Uni­ver­sity of Sydney. His research exam­ines con­flict over reli­gion & cul­ture in Amer­ica, and Aus­tralia includ­ing polit­ics.

Where: St Paul’s Par­ish Hall, 205–207 Bur­wood Rd, Bur­wood

Cost: Dona­tion $20 — to cov­er light lunch and drinks after­wards

To book: https://www.trybooking.com/DKZCT (Stu­dents under 18 free)

For fur­ther inform­a­tion con­tact Phil­lip Seale — phillip@pscontracting.com.au

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Tues­day 19^th May at 6pm for 6.30pm – Next Men’s Night Out:

Held at El Torino res­taur­ant, Enmore Road New­town.

For more inform­a­tion con­tact Kev­in Mob: 0405 691 055

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Fri­day 22^nd May 5.45pm for 6pm — Ser­vice of Pray­er for Chris­ti­an Unity and Fun­drais­ing Din­ner:

Hos­ted by the NSW Ecu­men­ic­al Coun­cil and co-hos­ted by Bish­op Vin­cent Long and the Roman Cath­ol­ic Dio­cese of Par­ra­matta

Held at St Patrick’s Cathed­ral, Par­ra­matta, 1 Mar­ist Place, Par­ra­matta NSW 2150

Tick­ets are $75.00.  It would be good to have a table of us from St Lukes. Please let Mandy Tib­bey know if you would like to attend or book online https://www.trybooking.com/DLGUZ   (see the notice boards)

We will try to organ­ise lifts for people if required.

If you would like to come but the cost is a prob­lem, let Mandy know.

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Wed­nes­day, 27 May 2026 at 6pm — Vivid Sydney Laser Light­fall:

Cho­reo­graphed light trans­forms the sky with Laser Light­fall, the inaug­ur­al Vivid Sydney Laser Show.  Laser Light­fall ima­gines lasers as sparks of life, eager to con­nect and con­verge into a world of col­our. It runs four 7 minute sequences each hour — the aim is to see at least one or two sequences from 6pm.

[Warn­ing: for those with pho­to­sensit­ive or sens­ory sens­it­iv­it­ies, or con­di­tions affected by intense visu­al stim­uli].

Time: 5.30pm sharp

Meet: at Paddy’s Mar­ket Light Rail stop

Weath­er: If it rains on the day will be post­poned to Wed­nes­day, 3 June 2026.

Updates will be sent to the Par­ish email list — please ensure you are on the list.

After­wards: A bite to eat in the Darling Square area.

RSVP not essen­tial but help­ful so we don’t leave without you.

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Sat­urday 30^th May at 2pm – Sydney MOW Meet­ing at CCSL. More inform­a­tion to come.

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Sat­urday 4^th July – Christ­mas in July High Tea – Keep the Date.

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12^th to 14^th Nov – Move­ment for the Ordin­a­tion of Women Con­fer­ence: “Make no mis­take … God calls Women”

Aus­trali­an Centre for Chris­tian­ity and Cul­ture, Can­berra.

Find out more at: https://2026mowdateclaimer.my.canva.site

ST PAULS PANTRY needs food, health and clean­ing items:

A bas­ket is in the church foy­er for dona­tions.

Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity: 

Sunday: Ron (Bp) & Katie Wil­li­ams; Sally Woell­ner; Vic­tor Any­anji; Cyn­thia Berke­mei­er; and Jen­nifer, Peter, Andy & Blake B.

Monday: Mat­thew Whit­ing, Sam, Thomas & Bron­wyn; John & Joanne Bowen.

Tues­day: Kay Younie, Nata­sha, Timothy and Jona­thon; Philip (Fr) Brad­ford.

Wed­nes­day: Tony Brown­low; Les & Lyn Car­ring­ton; Kristina Cat­tell.

Thursday: Ruth Cham­pi­on; Quinn Chen; and Nancy Cheng.

Fri­day: We pray for pas­tor­al care min­istry teams at all Hos­pit­als and all those who are min­istered to.

Sat­urday: Almighty God, we pray for those in areas of con­flict.  We pray for heal­ing and good med­ic­al care for those who have been injured.  For those who have lost homes and pos­ses­sions, please meet their daily needs for food, clean water and shel­ter and com­fort those who mourn the loss of loved ones.  And bless all who are help­ing those impacted.  Amen.

Christine Thur­ley; Don­ald Thomas; Andy Ser­afin; Alex Regos; Sarah, Paul, Emma, & Michael; John Park­er; Kim McLoughrey; Gra­ham Dagg; Char­lotte Dolby; Steven Solomonides, Ara­bella Ross; Suz­anne Camp­ton; Lilac John­ston; Lawrence Bestel; LayKum Ho; and Nej­det Danis.

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Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Fabi­an LoS­chiavo; Allan Peime; George Nix­on; Ben Doyle; Edelmira Lorca; Ron Cross; Myra Hack; and Dawn Sparkes.

Read­ings for Next Sunday: Sunday After Ascen­sion

First Read­ing: Acts 1.6–14                      Psalms: 68.1–10,32–35

Second Read­ing: 1 Peter 5                     Gos­pel: John 17.1–11