Notices_Sunday 5th October — Feast of St Francis of Assisi and Blessing of the Animals.

NOTICES:

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

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Happy Birth­day to: Ann Petersen, Nich­olas Chiew, Lucy Raj, Moya Holle, Stu­art Grigg, Mandy Tib­bey, Peter Gil­bert, Fred Narnola, and Lea McNeil.

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The Flowers in the church today have been donated by Ruth Cham­pi­on in lov­ing memory of her moth­er, Emily Cham­pi­on.

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Spe­cial Heal­ing Ser­vice — Sunday 26^th Octo­ber: On this morn­ing at St Luke’s we will pray for God’s heal­ing for ourselves and our loved ones with per­son­al private heal­ing pray­ers with anoint­ing and the lay­ing on of hands being offered for all who wish by Fr Jeff and Fr Philip.  This is an ideal time to invite any­one you know in need of this min­istry.

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6pm ser­vice is sus­pen­ded for the time being.  The ser­vice struc­ture is cur­rently being reviewed by Fr Jeff and Peter Sey­mour.

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Tues­day Night Bible Study at 7.30pm: At Fr Philip Bradford’s place 5 Lin­coln St, Stan­more.  Cur­rently study­ing the Gos­pel of Mark.  Please bring a bible.  All wel­come.

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Sunday 19^th Octo­ber at 9.30am – St Luke’s Patron­al Fest­ival:

Our guest preach­er will be Moth­er Kath­ryn Bell­house, Dir­ect­or of the St Laurence Centre, at Christ Church St Laurence.

Please join us for morn­ing tea after church, and lunch at the War­ren View Hotel after­wards, if you can make it.

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ABM CELEBRATIONS — 175 Anniversary Spe­cial Cel­eb­ra­tion Events:

~ Tues 28^th Octo­ber from 10am to 5pm — a Gath­er­ing of bish­ops, clergy and people to listen and dis­cuss the future; lunch $10.00.

~ Tues 28^th Octo­ber at 5.30pm — Myan­mar Road Show.

~ Wed 29^th Octo­ber at 4pm — FESTAL THANKSGIVING EVENSONG at St James Church, King Street, Sydney.

~ Wed 29^th Octo­ber at 6.30pm ANNIVERSARY DINNER, Par­lia­ment House.

Details on ABM’s web­site <abmission.org/175th-anniversary/>

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St James’ Inter­na­tion­al Organ Fest­iv­al – 5pm to 7pm

St James’ Church, 173 King Street, Sydney

Sat­urday 1^st Nov – Marko Sever (St James’ King Street)

Reserve your place at https://events.humanitix.com/2025iof4?hxchl=hex-pfl

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Sunday 23^rd Novem­ber – Feast of Christ the King and Fr Jeff & Michelle’s Farewell.  Shared Lunch to fol­low the ser­vice.

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Sunday 30^th Nov from 10am — St Chris­to­phor­us Bazaar/Church Fete: 112 Edwin Street North, Croy­don, — after mass.  Typ­ic­al Ger­man food will be avail­able, as well as Ger­man beer and wine. Stalls will include books (in both Eng­lish and Ger­man), plants, home­ware, cakes, toys and bottles.  Music­al will be provided by the Ash­field Con­cert Band from 12.30pm

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Sat­urday 6^th Decem­ber at 6pm: Fest­ive Music for Advent & Christ­mas. St Pauls’ Anglic­an Church, Bur­wood.

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Sat­urday 13^th Decem­ber – St Luke’s Christ­mas Mar­ket

Save the date – more inform­a­tion to come.

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday: Brett Dav­ies & Amrit MacIntyre; Edi & Oscar Dav­is; Susan Deas; Kathy Drum­mond; & Dav­id Dun­lop.

Monday: Lyne Cun­neen & John; Michael, Eliza­beth, Tom, Ella & Nick Flem­ing.

Tues­day: Steph­en Gates & Andrew; Mar­ilyn Gibbs; and Kev­in Green.

Wed­nes­day: Peter Gil­bert & Fred Narnola; and Joyce Grant.

Thursday: Stu­art Grigg & ‘Tri­cia; and Richard Hagen & Som.

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.

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Pray­ers for the sick and for those in need of pray­er:  Don­ald Thomas; Andy Ser­afin; John Bowen (Priest); Alex Regos; Rick; Sarah, Paul, Emma, & Michael; John Park­er; Kim McLoughrey; Gra­ham Dagg; Char­lotte Dolby; Ern­est MacIntyre; Maur­een Byers; Claire Bur­gess; Cheryl King­don; Steven Solomonides, and Ara­bella Ross.

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Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Emily Cham­pi­on; and Aus­tin McLach­lan.

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Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion:  6^th: Wil­li­am Tyndale, bib­lic­al schol­ar.

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Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: 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; Robert & Lyn­dall Dubler; and Mel McK­im­mie.

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Cop­ies of Fr Jeff’s Sunday Ser­mons are made avail­able in the church foy­er each Sunday for those who would like to take a copy.  Back cop­ies are also avail­able upon request.

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Read­ings for Next Sunday: Eight­eenth Sunday After Pente­cost

First Read­ing: Jeremi­ah 29.1, 4–7           Psalms: 66.1–11

Second Read­ing: 2 Timothy 2. 8–15        Gos­pel: Luke 17.11–19

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