Notices — Sunday 6th Feb — Presentation of Christ in the Temple.

NOTICES:

 

 

Our con­grat­u­la­tions to Fr Jeff and Michelle who are cel­eb­rat­ing 40 years of mar­riage today.

 

 

 

Happy Birth­day to:  Veron­ica Nath; Fr Jeff Park­er; Eddie Reddy; Evelyn Maack; Rose­mary Brad­ford; Kev­in Green; Susan Hill; Alex Hill; Janet Wid­mer; and Lyn Carrington.

 

 

 

Tonight: 6pm Even­ing Service.

 

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This Week: War­dens’ Din­ner – from 7pm on Sat­urday 12^th February 

The War­dens’ Din­ner will take place out­doors in the car­park (closed to cars). The theme is “Under the Stars”. Tick­ets are $20pp or $40 for a fam­ily (kids are free). An “all you can eat” pizza din­ner with dessert will be provided, with wood fired piz­zas of diverse descrip­tions baked to order. Soft drinks included, with BYO wine.  Enter­tain­ment will be music and singing from newly formed folk-pop-jazz duo Jo Bur­ton and Rachel Hard­ing, with sup­port from Fabi­an on accor­di­on and the Clarke fam­ily band.  Don’t miss out on this one.  Fabi­an will be selling tick­ets at morn­ing tea, EFT­pos available.

 

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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 only to con­tact the Opshop dur­ing open­ing hours.

 

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Future Dates for your Diary:

Sun 20th Feb­ru­ary — NCLS Survey.

Sun 27^th Feb­ru­ary – Feast of the Transfiguration/ Last Sunday After Epiphany.

Tue 1^st March – Shrove Tues­day — Pan­cakes at the church.

Wed 2^nd March — Ash Wednesday.

Sun 6^th March – First Sunday in Lent.

Sun 13th March — Par­ish AGM.

Sun 10th April — Palm Sunday.

Thurs 14th April — Maun­dy Thursday.

Fri 15th April — Good Friday.

Sun 16th April — East­er Day.

 

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Pas­cal Candles for Blayney and Millthorpe:

As has been cus­tom­ary, the Par­ish is donat­ing 2 Pas­cal candles to our sis­ter Par­ish of Blayney / Mill­thorpe (one candle to each church).  They will be delivered in per­son by Eddie Reddy, on Sunday 27^th Feb­ru­ary 2022.

 

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ST PAUL’S PANTRY needs food, health and clean­ing items:  A bas­ket is in the church foy­er for dona­tions.  Please keep your dona­tions to rel­at­ively small items like pack­ets of noodles, microwaved rice, small tins of baked beans etc these are the most needed.

 

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: 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 Depar­ted:  Kev­in Saun­ders; Robert Emme­neg­ger; and Francie Fielder.

 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list:  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.

 

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday: Kay Younie, Nata­sha & Timothy; Shir­ley Allen, Bar­bara & Jade; Beth Arm­strong; and Jen­nifer, Peter, Elise & Blake B.

Monday: Fr John & Joanne Bowen; and Fr Philip & Rose­mary Bradford.

Tues­day: Tony Brown­low; Les & Lyn Car­ring­ton; and Ruth Champion.

Wed­nes­day: Tiffany, Kev­in, Alex­an­der & Nich­olas Chiew.

Thursday: Ron, Milly, Nam & Viol­etta Clarke; and Edi & Oscar Davis.

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.

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Read­ings for Next Sunday — Sixth Sunday After Epi­phany:  First Read­ing: Jeremi­ah 17.5–10;  Psalm: 1;  Second Read­ing: 1 Cor­inthi­ans 15.12–20;  and      Gos­pel: Luke 6.17–26