Notices_Sunday 30th November 2025 — First Sunday of Advent

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

TODAY — St Luke’s Christ­mas Mar­ket Meet­ing

Join us after morn­ing tea to dis­cuss our plan­ning for the day. Stall volun­teers required.

Our Christ­mas Mar­ket — Sat­urday 13 Decem­ber 

If you are a per­son who neither makes nor bakes any­thing for the Christ­mas Mar­ket you may like to con­sider mak­ing a dona­tion towards the cost of ingredi­ents.  

 Please place in an envel­ope in the offer­tory, ref­er­enced “cook­ing costs Christ­mas cakes” or “cook­ing cost chick­en“.  Thank you one and all!

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Stan­more Nurs­ing Home Gifts: Your dona­tion no mat­ter how small helps the par­ish to pay for a selec­tion of equal value gifts — usu­ally chocol­ates, or some­thing suit­able for those patients who are dia­bet­ic.  If you would like to donate please place your dona­tion (in a marked envel­ope) in the offer­tory plate, or donate online ref­er­ence “Stan­more Nurs­ing Home”.  Many thanks for your gen­er­os­ity.

Type­writer wanted

Wil­low and Quinn are look­ing to bor­row a type­writer for their Christ­mas mar­ket stall.  If any­one has one in work­ing con­di­tion, which can be lent for a week or two, please con­tact Wil­low Mob:0422 194 742.

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Tues­day Night Bible Study at 7.30pm: At Fr Philip Bradford’s place 5 Lin­coln St, Stan­more.  We will be start­ing our Advent Study.  Please bring a bible.  All wel­come.

Sat­urday 13^th Decem­ber – St Luke’s Christ­mas Mar­ket — 9am to 2pm

BBQ & Barista Cof­fee; Food stalls includ­ing Indi­an food (But­ter Chick­en, sam­o­sas, Indi­an sweets), Cakes, and Jams/Preserves; Op Shop Cloth­ing; Christ­mas Gifts and dec­or­a­tions, Face paint­ing; Por­trait Drawing/Poetry, & Plant Stalls; Christ­mas Hamper Raffle; Riff Raff Rad­ic­al March­ing Band; Organ music and tours.

Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday: Peter Sey­mour; Andy Ser­afin & Colin Spokes; Louisa Sil­ver­man; Laurel & Ray Som­mer; Kar­lene Thompson.

Monday: Christine Thur­ley & Troy; Stu­art Veitch, Jo Bur­ton & Laurence.

Tues­day: Janet Walms­ley; Noël Waugh; and Janet Wid­mer & Cliff.

Wed­nes­day: Ron (Bp) & Katie Wil­li­ams; and Sally Woell­ner.

Thursday: Mat­thew, Bron­wyn, Sam & Thomas Whit­ing.

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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Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Clar­rie Ayers; Gregory Joubert; Jes­sica Juer­gens; and Mark Trav­is.

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Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion:

1^st: Andrew, Apostle and mar­tyr.

2^nd: Frances Perry, founder of the Roy­al Woman’s Hos­pit­al, Mel­bourne (d. 1892).

3^rd: Fran­cis Xavi­er, Priest and mis­sion­ary (d. 1552).

4^th: Nich­olas Fer­rar, Dea­con, man of pray­er.

6^th: Nich­olas of Myra, Bish­op and phil­an­throp­ist.

Second Read­ing: Romans 15.4–13          Gos­pel: Mat­thew 3.1–12

We encour­age parish­ion­ers to scan the code link and donate online (our par­ish is registered as ‘Enmore-Stan­more Anglic­an Par­ish’), or call 1800 025 101.