Notices — Second Sunday After Epiphany — 17th January 2021

NOTICES:

Par­ish Office Hours:  From Monday 11^th Janu­ary 2021 onwards the office will be open on Monday, Tues­day and Thursday, 9.15am to 2.45pm.

Fr Jeff is on Leave: Until tomor­row, Monday 18^th Jan, 2021.

The updated New Big Roster for Feb­ru­ary that includes 31^st Janu­ary is now avail­able in church foy­er and hall foy­er. 

We need parish­ion­ers espe­cially to assist with wel­com­ing — Thank you to those who have already volun­teered.  Please speak to Ruth Cham­pi­on if you can help Mob: 0400 166 041.

 

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Annu­al Epi­phany BBQ in the Moun­tains — Sat­urday, 6^th February 

12 noon, approx., for Euchar­ist ser­vice then 1 p.m. for the barbecue.

Please note: Because of the pan­dem­ic, the bar­be­cue will have to be handled some­what dif­fer­ently this year:

The bar­be­cue is strictly RSVP. Because of social dis­tan­cing require­ments, the num­ber of people who can attend has to be strictly lim­ited to that we can safely house inside if there is rain on the day. Therefore:

If you are think­ing of attend­ing, please email me at lea.macneil@gmail.com on or before Sunday, 24^th Janu­ary. It is very much a first up best dressed affair with your name being entered on a spread sheet in the order it comes in. I will also need con­tact details, email address prefer­ably, or phone num­ber, both to be able to con­firm with you your attend­ance and to be able to con­tact you in case everything has to be can­celled at the last minute.

There will be a hand san­it­a­tion sta­tion as you enter the prop­erty and oth­ers stra­tegic­ally placed for your use. Access to the sides and dessert table will not be the usu­al free-for-all of pre­vi­ous years but served by volun­teers (any­one will­ing to volun­teer?) to pre­vent cross-con­tam­in­a­tion. Also, access to the under­croft where the food will be served will be strictly lim­ited to just a few people at a time.

The bar­be­cue will be fully catered so no need to bring any­thing but your­self, a party­ing spir­it and sunny weath­er, if you can man­age it. It is also worth not­ing that if you want some­thing posh­er from the bar­be­cue than snags, you are at liberty to bring what you desire to be bar­be­cued for you, although there will be a good selec­tion of non-bar­be­cued and non-meat options on the sides table.  Also, bring a bottle of your favour­ite tipple if you wish to imbibe some­thing stronger than soft drink or juice.

Hop­ing for the best while plan­ning for the worse, we remain your gen­i­al hosts,

Lea MacNeil and Don­ald Thomas

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Meet­ing to dis­cuss ABM contribution

Each year St Luke’s par­ish, and par­tic­u­larly the op shop, gen­er­ously con­trib­utes to ABM.  There will be a meet­ing after mass on 7 Feb­ru­ary, at 11 ‑30 a.m. in the church to dis­cuss our con­tri­bu­tion.  Our present pro­jects are:  Holy Land — Gaza Child Nutri­tion Pro­ject, Vanuata — Integ­rated Wash and Lit­er­acy Pro­ject and Aus­tralia — Wontulp-Bi-Buya Col­lege.  Any­one inter­ested should see Tony Brown­low.  Tony can also sup­ply people with an ABM pro­ject booklet.

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ANGLICARE — Intro­duct­ory Pas­tor­al Care Course – Online

The course is ideal for people who provide pas­tor­al care sup­port with­in your church com­munity, or who may like to volun­teer at a hos­pit­al or aged care facil­ity. It intro­duces the rela­tion­al min­istry of pas­tor­al care, the aims and resources for pas­tor­al care in both insti­tu­tion­al and church con­texts, listen­ing skills, per­son­al reflec­tion and theo­lo­gic­al assess­ment, and the value of

pas­tor­al supervision.

Five Sat­urdays: Feb­ru­ary 6, 13, 20, 27 and March 6, 8:30am – 2:00pm.

Course presenter: Rev. Ian Rienits.

Cost:  $300 or $150 concession.

Please do not let cost pre­vent your attend­ance – if it is a con­cern, please email ACPD@anglicare.org.au or call 1300 111 278.

Register Online by 4^th Feb­ru­ary, 2021.

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Lea MacNeal has jam to sell and vari­ous sauces; please email her lea.macneil@gmail.com if you would like to give her an order.  You may, of course, ask her what type of jam and/or pre­serve or sauces she has on hand.  Don­ald, her hus­band can deliv­er your spe­cif­ic order to the Opshop where you are able to pay for it.

Food for our worms – Food scraps (no dairy, cit­rus or meat) can be left in the buck­et provided.  This is part of our Par­ish envir­on­ment­al initiative.

Pray­ers for the sick: Kristen Har­ley; Steph­en Thur­ley; Mary Middleton; Fr John Bunyan; John Hardy; Louise Trott; She Kar Nair; Maur­een Clunas; Wolf Winter; Linda Mac­qual­ter; Esth­er Middleton; Peter Cinelli; John Dick­son; Rita Mus­cat & her fam­ily; Tamara & Craig; John Can Pahali; Alex Regos; Aman­da Cow­ley; Gra­ham Sadler; Fr Phil­lip Carter; Phil­lip Kuwert; Peter Knox; Sr Colleen Crook; Nada G.; John Thompson; and Br William

Recently Depar­ted: Jean Boyd (U.K. Cous­in of Ruth C. & Family).

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Robert Dav­id Miller; Kev­in McEntee; Mary Carr; Keith Arnold Dahler; Henry Ped­er­son; Bri­an Rawns­ley; and Kay Matthews.

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion: 18^th Jan: Con­fes­sion of Peter;  21^st Jan: Agnus, Mar­tyr at Rome, vir­gin (d.304); and 22^nd Jan: Vin­cent, Dea­con & Mar­tyr (d.304).

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Community:

Sunday: Steph­en Gates & Andrew Eld­er; Mar­ilyn Gibbs; Kev­in Green; and Peter Gil­bert & Alfredo Narnolo.

Monday: Stu­art Grigg & ‘Tri­cia Blom­berry; Richard Hagen & Som Sirithammakij.

Tues­day: John, Martha & Chris­toph­er Haly; and Selina & John Hardy.

Wed­nes­day: Ray­mond Hesle­hurst; and Susan Hill, Janet Broady & Alex.

Thursday: Moya Holle; Anne Hywood & Peter Tre­gil­gas; and Noel Jeffs.

Fri­day: Diana Jef­fer­ies; Eddy, Mint, Atom, & Arty Kit­tir­at; and John Lo.

Sat­urday: Dear lov­ing Fath­er, please deliv­er us from the coronavir­us and lim­it its impact on Aus­tralia and the world. In your mercy bring a swift end to this crisis.  Please pro­tect with your lov­ing care those we love — our fam­il­ies, friends and neigh­bours.  Let your fath­erly hand guide, shel­ter and strengthen them.  Cast out all anxious fears and doubts.  Give us an increas­ing trust in you and fill our hearts and minds with your peace.  We pray for those around the world now strug­gling with COVID-19.  Heal and com­fort those who are sick and suf­fer­ing.  Pro­tect and guide the health pro­fes­sion­als who are at the front line.  Please give wis­dom and cour­age to those who bear respons­ib­il­ity for con­front­ing this chal­lenge. We ask these things through the power­ful name of Jesus.  Amen.

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Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: Andrew Reddy; Shir­ley, Bar­bara & Jade Allen; Br Noel Jeffs (SSF); Kiki Chun; Beth Arm­strong; Ann Jeffs; Rhi­an­non Henry-Edwards; Marissa; Jude, Isla, Meg & Al Don­nell; Lyn Car­ring­ton; Suz­anne Camp­ton; Pau­line Newell; Bar­bara Beec­roft; Ann Con­nolly; Fr Peter Carls­son; Day­alan Sam­inath­an; Grace & Han­nah Ashton; Anaisha, & her par­ents Anu & Digvi­jay; Ron Nath; Ron­an Nath; Veron­ica Nath; Rose­mary Brad­ford; Rev Laurie McIntyre; and Ver­ity Wright.

 

Read­ings for Next Sunday — Third Sunday after Epi­phany:  First Read­ing: Jonah 3.1–10; Psalm: 62.5–12; Second Read­ing: 1 Cor­inthi­ans 7.29–31; and    Gos­pel: Mark 1.14–20

 

Read­ings for the com­ing week: Even­ing Pray­er 

Sunday	Deu­ter­o­nomy 10.12–11.1	Ps 47	1 John 2.3–11
Monday	Jeremi­ah 5.1–17	Ps 44.10–27	Colos­si­ans 3.1–11
Tues­day	Jeremi­ah 5.18–31	Pss 46;47	Colos­si­ans12-17
Wed­nes­day	Jeremi­ah 6.1–15	Ps 49	Colos­si­ans 3.18–4.6
Thursday	Jeremi­ah 6.16–30	Ps 119.41–64	Colos­si­ans 4.7–18
Fri­day	Jeremi­ah 7.1–20	Ps 52;53	James 1.1–15
Sat­urday	Jeremi­ah 7.21–8.3	Ps 55.13–15, 18–28	James 1.16–27