St Luke's Anglican Church in Enmore a lively, inclusive welcoming liturgical community

Notices — Seventh Sunday After Epiphany — 20th February 2022

NOTICES:

Today we com­plete the NCLS (Nation­al Church Life Survey)

We have set aside the time nor­mally reserved for the ser­mon to com­plete the Nation­al Church Life Sur­vey togeth­er.  Pens will be dis­trib­uted.  The best response is almost always the response of your first impres­sion, so no need (or time) to agon­ize over it!

There is a fair amount of read­ing involved — if this is an issue for any reas­on (eg for­got your glasses), help is avail­able in the walkway.

The Nation­al Church Life Sur­vey is an Aus­tralia-wide sur­vey of all church­go­ers and occurs every five years in tan­dem with the nation­al Census.  Hav­ing as many parish­ion­ers as pos­sible com­plete it is of great help to the Parish.

There will be an online option for those who are not in church today.  Details to be provided in due course.

 


War­dens’ Din­ner Thank you — Thanks to all parish­ion­ers who came to the War­dens’ Din­ner last week in try­ing con­di­tions.  It has giv­en us many ideas for next year’s theme “Noah’s Ark”.

 

The New Mas­ter Roster for Feb­ru­ary — May 2022 is now avail­able in church and chapel foyers.

 

OpShop phone num­ber has changed: The new num­ber is Mob: 0416 913 578.  Please use this num­ber to con­tact the Opshop dur­ing open­ing hours.

 

Thank you to Noel Jeffs who has gen­er­ously donated the Pas­cal Candle for use at St Luke’s Enmore this year.

 

Palm Crosses: Please remem­ber to bring in your palm crosses from last year.  We will burn these to make the ash on Shrove Tues­day for our Ash Wed­nes­day services.

 

Men’s Night Out 2022: The first MNO for 2022 will be held at Alberto’s Pizzer­ia, 589 King Street New­town (Phone 9 519 4262) on Sat­urday 26th Feb­ru­ary at 6.00 for 6.30 pm.  Con­tact Kev­in on 0405 691 055.

 


 

ABM Len­ten Study – ‘Repair­ing the Breach’

Will be held on Wed­nes­days after 10.30am Ser­vice and morn­ing tea (start­ing on Ash Wed­nes­day), and also Monday nights via zoom at 7.30pm (start­ing on 7th March).

A zoom link will be provided closer to the time.  Please con­tact the office if you wish

to par­ti­cip­ate.  Lim­ited cop­ies of the book ‘Repair­ing the Breach’ (provided by Fr Jeff) are avail­able FREE for par­ti­cipants in St Luke’s Stud­ies ONLY from the Par­ish Com­munity Resource Centre.  Please see Steph­en Gates after the ser­vice dur­ing morn­ing tea.  Any­one wish­ing to par­ti­cip­ate in Len­ten Stud­ies out­side St Luke’s can pur­chase the book for $10 from the Par­ish Resource Centre or from the ABM WEBSITEabmission.org

 


2022 nation­al online Lent Appeal Launch — Tues­day 1 March

Hos­ted by the Dean of Bris­bane, the Very Rev­er­end Dr Peter Catt.

Time: 3pm (NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

Dur­a­tion: 1 hr, includ­ing Q&A.

RSVP: by Fri­day 25 Feb­ru­ary to info@abmission.org.au or phone 1300 302663

A Zoom link will be sent out the day before the event with inform­a­tion on how to join.  Join ABM sup­port­ers from across the coun­try to learn how your sup­port of our 2022 Lent Appeal to bring love, hope and justice to com­munit­ies in Aus­tralia and over­seas who are in need dur­ing this pandemic.

 


St James’ Insti­tute 2022 pro­gramme is now avail­able from the Com­munity Resource Centre table.  For more inform­a­tion vis­it stjamesinstitute.org.au or ring (02) 8227 1300

 

Noel Jeffs’ book ‘Matur­ing in the Reli­gious Life’ is avail­able for sale now at ‘Bet­ter Read Than Dead’ book­shop in Newtown

 


Pan­cakes at the Rect­ory – Tues­day 1st March at 7.00 p.m.  Bring the fam­ily but please RSVP to Fr Jeff or Michelle by Wed 25 Feb­ru­ary.  It’s at this gath­er­ing that we make the ashes for Ash Wednesday.


Future Dates for your Diary:

Wed 2nd March –Ash Wed­nes­day ser­vices at 10.30am & 7.30pm.

Sun 6th March – First Sunday in Lent and Bap­tism at 9.30am and 6pm Even­ing Ser­vice with Holy Communion.

Wed 9th March – (Ecu­men­ic­al) Taizé ser­vice St Luke’s Enmore at 7.00 pm.

Sun 13th March — Par­ish Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM).

Sun 10th April — Palm Sunday at 9.30 am.

Thurs 14th April — Maun­dy Thursday at 7.30 pm.

Fri 15th April — Good Fri­day at 9.30am and 12pm Sta­tions of the Cross.

Sun 17th April — East­er Day at 9.30 am.

 


ST PAUL’S PANTRY needs food, health and clean­ing items: A bas­ket is in the church foy­er for donations.

 

Food for our worms –Please leave your worm food gifts at church on Sundays or drop off dur­ing the week.  (NB — no dairy, cit­rus or meat)  Fr. Jeff

 

Lea MacNeil has jam, con­serves, pickles and vari­ous sauces to sell; please email her at lea.macneil@gmail.com to order them from her.

All pro­ceeds go to St Luke’s Parish.

 

 

Pray­ers for the sick: Wolfgang Rose; Julie Ankers; John Bowen; John Per­kins; Mar­garet Chiew; Florence Shel­lard; Aman­da Romeo; Maria Ser­afin; Andy Ser­afin; Maryrose Crowth­er; Ruth Dodd; and Joan Dale.

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­tedMar­garet Turn­bull; and Kath­leen Rushton.

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion23rd Feb: Polycarp, Bish­op of Smyrna, mar­tyr (d. c. 155); and 24th Feb: Mat­thi­as, Apostle and martyr.

 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list:  John Hardy; Pau­line Newell; Beth Arm­strong; Lyn Car­ring­ton; John Dick­son; Steph­en Thur­ley; Shir­ley, Bar­bara & Jade Allen; Rhi­an­non Henry-Edwards; Marissa; Jude, Isla, Meg & Al Don­nell; Grace & Han­nah Ashton; Andrew Hiro Itadani; Kuwert; Rev Laurie MacIntyre; Kiki Chun; Raul of Radio Skidrow and his fam­ily; Andrew Strat­golda; Loch­lan Lones­bor­ough; and Noel Jeffs.

 


Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday: Selina & John Hardy; Susan Hill, Janet Broady & Alex; Moya Holle; Noel Jeffs; and Esth­er, Joseph, Joyti, Joshlyn, Deepika & Deep­shi­ka Kumar.

Monday: Pamela Jak­sic; and Eddy, Mint, Atom & Arty Kittirat.

Tues­day: Geoff Lind­say & Mandy Tib­bey; and Fabi­an LoSchiavio.

Wed­nes­day: Lea MacNeil & Don­ald Thomas; and Evelyn Maack.

Thursday: Jen­nifer McGov­ern; John M; and Jo Middleton.

Fri­day: We pray for Fr John Bunyan’s pas­tor­al care min­istry at Bank­stown Hos­pit­al and all those he min­is­ters to.

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 vari­ous COVID stains.  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.

 


Read­ings for Next Sunday: Trans­fig­ur­a­tion – Last Sunday After Epiphany.

First Read­ing: Exodus 34.29–35              Psalm: 99

Second Read­ing: 2 Cor­inthi­ans 3.12–4.2             Gos­pel: Luke 9.28–36


“Becom­ing Cre­at­ors of unity” Taizé Pil­grim­age of Trust in NSW 2022 

                    

facil­it­ated by Broth­er Mat­thew from the Taizé Community

AN EVENING PRAYER

Wed­nes­day, 9th March 2022 at 7.00pm

St Luke’s Anglic­an Church

11 Stan­more Road, Enmore

All are welcome!

 


 A MEMORIAL SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING

for the life of The Most Revd Dr Des­mond Tutu

Arch­bish­op Emer­it­us of Cape Town

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

will be held on Sunday 6th March 2022 at 4.00pm

 

in St James’ Anglic­an Church, King Street Sydney

The Ser­vice will be streamed on the St James’ Face­book page and

Online Ser­vices page. The links are:

www.sjks.org.au/online-services/ www.facebook.com/stjameskingstreet/

 

All are welcome

[full vac­cin­a­tion is recommended]

 


Sunday Night Services

Most would be aware that our lay min­is­ter, Peter Sey­mour, leads the Sunday even­ing ser­vice on the first Sunday of the month.  This takes place at 6.00 p.m. in the sum­mer and 5.00 p.m. in winter. Speak­ing with Peter, he believes that the need for and the form of this ser­vice should be revis­ited.  At the moment we fol­low the ser­vice of Pray­er, Praise and Pro­clam­a­tion from the Pray­er Book.

Speak­ing with oth­er par­ish min­is­ters, Sunday even­ing ser­vices are gen­er­ally hard to get going, even in much big­ger par­ishes.  Peter and I would like to know if there are any sug­ges­tions about what form the ser­vice should take, prefer­ably from people who would actu­ally attend and/or take part.   Please speak with Peter or Fr Jeff.