Notices_Sunday 18th October — St Luke’s Patronal Festival

NOTICES: 

Thank you to Fr Steph­en Wil­li­ams for tak­ing time out of his busy sched­ule to be with to us today.  Unfor­tu­nately, his wife Sue was unable to come, due to a com­mit­ment at the Cathed­ral in New­castle today.

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Wel­come to any vis­it­ors with us today.  Please join us for morn­ing tea after the ser­vice.  Lunch at the War­ren View will fol­low togeth­er with Fr Steph­en, Fr Mark and all those who advised us of their attend­ance.

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Tues­day Night Bible Study at 7.30pm

Held at Fr Philip Bradford’s place.  Please bring a bible.  All wel­come.  We will be con­tinu­ing with Paul’s first let­ter to the Cor­inthi­ans.

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Series at St James’ King Street called “Pro­gress and Pur­pose”

The old pro­gress nar­rat­ives are look­ing ever more like magic­al think­ing, espe­cially to young people. Is there a straight and nar­row way that leads onward and upward, if only we could find it? Or are we on a spir­al into plan­et­ary crisis and glob­al con­flict? In this sea­son of renew­al and resur­gent life, the St James’ Insti­tute addresses the indic­at­ors of broken­ness and approach­ing col­lapse and enquires into the dream of bal­ance, the nature of human fail­ure, and the stor­ies we tell about where we are going, and what we are reach­ing for.

Vari­ety of dates and top­ics.

Facing Cli­mate Change:  6:30–8pm, Thursday 22nd Octo­ber, St James’ King Street and online.

If cli­mate change is an exist­en­tial threat to the liv­ing world, what does the Word who made and still makes the world offer in the Chris­ti­an Scrip­tures – dia­gnos­ing the root issue, describ­ing right­eous responses, encour­aging the faith­ful?

Andrew Erring­ton is rect­or of New­town & Erskinev­ille Anglic­an Church, a bib­lic­al eth­i­cist, and mem­ber of the Sydney Diocese’s Social Issues Com­mit­tee.

For regis­tra­tion and more inform­a­tion.

https://sjks.org.au/event/progress-and-purpose/

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NEXT Sat­urday 24^th Octo­ber 2026 at 5.30 for 6pm -The War­dens’ Din­ner – The War­dens fly down to Rio     ###SOLD OUT

The pro­ceeds from our fun­drais­ing events this year will go towards renov­at­ing our hall kit­chen!

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NEXT Sunday 25^th Octo­ber – Par­ish Coun­cil will meet after the 9.30am ser­vice and morn­ing tea.

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Tues­day 27^th Oct at 11am – ABM Aux­il­i­ary Mis­sion lunch

Guest speak­er: Richard Cog­swell, A Par­ti­cipant in ABM’s Pil­grim­age to the Solomon Islands (Hon­i­ara, Guadal­canal Island).

Ven­ue: Christ Church St Laurence Hall, 505 Pitt Street, Sydney

RSVP appre­ci­ated by Tues­day 20th Octo­ber 2026 to ABM Office: info@abmission.org.au OR Call Den­ise on 9264 1021

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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.

Regis­tra­tions now open — Con­ces­sion rates for MOW mem­bers.

Please renew your mem­ber­ship or join for 2026–27 before you register.

Find out more at: https://mowatch.com.au

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Monday 30^th Novem­ber at 7pm – Com­mis­sion­ing of The Rev Jack Mon­aghan as our new Rect­or.  SAVE THE DATE

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Sat­urday 5^th Dec – St Luke’s Christ­mas Mar­ket – SAVE THE DATE

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 ST PAUL’S PANTRY needs food items includ­ing tinned and non-per­ish­able goods: A bas­ket is in the church foy­er for dona­tions.

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Monday: Janet Wid­mer & Cliff; Mat­thew, Bron­wyn, Sam & Thomas Whit­ing.

Tues­day: Sally Woell­ner; and Kay Younie, Nata­sha, Timothy & Jona­thon.

Wed­nes­day: Vic­tor Any­anji; Cyn­thia Berke­mei­er; John (Fr) & Joanne Bowen.

Thursday: Jen­nifer, Peter, Andy & Blake B.; and Philip (Fr) Brad­ford.

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 and nat­ur­al dis­asters.  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.

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Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: Christine Thur­ley; Don­ald Thomas; Fr John Bunyan; Fr John Bowen; Janet Walms­ley; Lyn Car­ring­ton; Simone Crowth­er; Kar­en Stein­er-Hill; Christine Kon­draten­ko; Mar­garet Chiew; Ray Som­mer; John Hardy; Marissa & Meg Maack, Jude, Isla, & Al Don­nell; Noel Jeffs; Michael Aiken; Mel McK­im­mie; Bar­bara Ray­mond.

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Read­ings for Next Sunday: 22^nd Sunday After Pente­cost

First Read­ing: Deu­ter­o­nomy 34.1–12                   Psalm: 90.1–6, 13–17

Second Read­ing: 1 Thes­sa­lo­ni­ans 2.1–13             Gos­pel: Mat­thew 22.34–46

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The Revd John Bunyan has a very lim­ited num­ber (30) of his latest book, Around The Broad Land: Pray­ers and Read­ings for the Circ­ling Year.  It has 268 pages, with 500 Scrip­ture pas­sages (2/3rds AV and 1/3rd RSV-based & includ­ing 40 BCP psalms with annota­tions), 200 col­lects and oth­er tra­di­tion­al pray­ers, simple forms of Mat­ins & Even­song.  John has paid for the print­ing.

These books, are numbered and signed, and are avail­able for dona­tions of at least $100 to send via ABM to the Epis­copal Dio­cese of Jer­u­s­alem.

The money is for Al-Alhi Hos­pit­al, foun­ded by CMS in 1882, and the only Chris­ti­an hos­pit­al in Gaza, with no income from nor con­nec­tion with the Hamas author­it­ies.  Details of this small but very import­ant hos­pit­al are on the dio­ces­an web-site.  Even our small gifts will give encour­age­ment to those who care for young and old, sick, wounded, trau­mat­ised, or dying, in very dif­fi­cult cir­cum­stances, and show that our Church in the “Holy Land” is not for­got­ten.

For more inform­a­tion please con­tact the par­ish office stlukes.enmore@outlook.com

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Pres­ence – Advent and Christ­mas Daily Reflec­tions for 2026

“Embark on a pray­er­ful jour­ney through Advent and Christ­mas using this beau­ti­fully presen­ted 84-page full col­our book­let invit­ing you to slow down, become attent­ive, and redis­cov­er the pres­ence of Christ in every­day life.”

Fr Philip will be using this book­let for reflec­tion at the 7.30pm Tues­day night bible study dur­ing Advent and all are wel­come to attend.  You are also wel­come to order a copy to use indi­vidu­ally at home.

Cop­ies are avail­able for $7.00 each

Please con­tact Jen­nifer in the par­ish office stlukes.enmore@outlook.com if you would like to order a copy by Sunday 25^th Octo­ber.

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Tick­ets now avail­able for St Luke’s Fun­draiser — $20 each – drawn at the Christ­mas Mar­ket on Sat­urday 5^th Decem­ber at 1.30pm

Thanks to our very gen­er­ous spon­sors we have 11 fab­ulous prizes:

1st Prize – 1 x return tick­et to Fiji (1/5/27–30/6/27)

2^nd Prize – 2 x tick­ets to Gold Coast (31/1/27–28/2/27)

3^rd prize – 3 nights at Wyn­dam Manly Beach (4/6/27–7/6/27)

4^th Prize – Men’s Sher­wani & Ladies Lehenga

5^th Prize — Sup­ply & Install Ceil­ing Fan + Sup­ply Table Lamp

6^th Prize — Ladies Sari

7^th Prize — TAPO RV20 Robot­ic Vacu­um & Mop

8^th Prize — Shared Three-Course Din­ner at The Meat & Wine Co. Barangaroo

9^th Prize — $150 Gift Card

10^th Prize — $100 Gift Card

11^th Prize — Air Fry­er

Funds raised will go to the renov­a­tion of the Hall kit­chen.

For tick­ets, please con­tact the par­ish office stlukes.enmore@outlook.com

Tick­ets will also be avail­able on Sat­urday 24^th Octo­ber at the Warden’s Din­ner.