Notices_Sunday 19th October — St Luke’s Patronal Festival

NOTICES:

Thank you to Moth­er Kath­ryn Bell­house for mak­ing time in her busy sched­ule to bring her mes­sage to us today.

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Wel­come to any vis­it­ors with us today.  Please join us after the ser­vice for morn­ing tea and then lunch at the War­ren View Hotel (over the road).

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Tues­day Night Bible Study at 7.30pm:

At Fr Philip Bradford’s place 5 Lin­coln St, Stan­more.  Cur­rently study­ing the Let­ter of James.  Please bring a bible.  All wel­come.

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Next Sunday 26^th Octo­ber- Spe­cial Heal­ing Ser­vice:  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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Next Sunday 26^th Octo­ber – Par­ish Coun­cil meets after the 9.30am ser­vice and morn­ing tea.

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ABM CELEBRATIONS — 175 Anniversary Spe­cial Cel­eb­ra­tion Events:

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

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

~ Wed 29th Octo­ber at 4pm — FESTAL THANKSGIVING EVENSONG at

St James Church, King Street, Sydney.

~ Wed 29^th Octo­ber at 6.30pm ANNIVERSARY DINNER, at 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 2^nd Novem­ber – Meet­ing to organ­ise the Christ­mas Mar­ket. Please come if you can.

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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.  Please bring some­thing to share!

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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.

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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: Ann Petersen & Rachel; Rick Prat­ley & Simon; and Jo, Ramendra, Thomas & Lucy Raj.

Monday: Andrew Pat­ter­son & Rose Bohara; and Mea­ghan Pat­ter­son.

Tues­day: Joyce, Andrew, Rachael, Belinda & Bryson Reddy; Bianca & Ali­as Ali­as.

Wed­nes­day: Eddie, Susan, Stephanie, Edwin, Leil­ani & Car­men Reddy.

Thursday: John Reimer; Mat­ilda Rink­er; and Gra­hame Sadler.

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: Her­bert Gold­smith; Alice Bugle; Olga Wall; Wal­ter Pinker­ton; Anne Bar­ret; Eliza­beth Dem­sey; Ram Chandar; Dorothy McCabe; and Jack Kimp­ton.

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Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion:

23^rd: James of Jer­u­s­alem, broth­er of our Lord, mar­tyr.

24^th: Inaug­ur­a­tion of the United Nations in 1945.

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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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Read­ings for Next Sunday: Heal­ing Ser­vice

First Read­ing: Joel 2.23–32                                 Psalms: 65

Second Read­ing: 2 Timothy 4.6–8, 16–18            Gos­pel: Luke 18.15–30

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Kath­ryn Bell­house joined Christ Church St Laurence in Janu­ary 2025, as Assist­ant min­is­ter with spe­cial respons­ib­il­ity for dir­ect­ing the devel­op­ment of The St Laurence Centre. Kath­ryn was ordained at St Paul’s Cathed­ral, Mel­bourne, in 2020, and served at a num­ber of par­ishes in the Mel­bourne dio­cese, where she was involved in vari­ous forms of com­munity out­reach and chap­laincy along­side sac­ra­ment­al duties.  In addi­tion to attain­ing a Mas­ter of Divin­ity with The Uni­ver­sity of Divin­ity, Kath­ryn has com­pleted a Bach­el­or of Arts (Eng­lish lit­er­at­ure & philo­sophy) and a Mas­ter of Cre­at­ive Writ­ing, Edit­ing, & Pub­lish­ing at The Uni­ver­sity of Mel­bourne. Kath­ryn enjoys the vari­ety of forms of com­munity engage­ment at Christ Church St Laurence, as well as the pray­er­ful rhythm of life, and the ever-flow­ing stream of theo­lo­gic­al and spir­itu­al dis­cus­sion.