Notices — The Baptism of Our Lord — Sunday 10th January 2021

NOTICES:

The flowers today are donated by Jo Middleton in lov­ing memory of her broth­er, Peter Middleton.

 

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 Monday 18^th Jan, 2021.  His daugh­ters Penny and Rebekah will be in the rect­ory dur­ing this time.

 

We are short of parish­ion­ers to assist with wel­com­ing and hos­pit­al­ity — Our new big roster starts in Feb­ru­ary.  Thank you to those who have already volun­teered.  We have anoth­er hos­pit­al­ity team and 2 more welcomers.

 

Epi­phany BBQ in the Moun­tains – tent­at­ively set for Sat­urday 6^th Feb, 2021.  TO BE CONFIRMED.

 

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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.

 

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Community:

Sunday: Shir­ley Allen, Bar­bara & Jade; Beth Arm­strong; Ian Barnett; Ken­neth Bar­ongo; and Fr John & Joanne Bowen.

Monday: Jen­nifer, Peter, Elise & Blake B.; and Fr Philip & Rose­mary Bradford.

Tues­day: Chris­toph­er Brooks; Tony Brown­low; and Les & Lyn Carrington.

Wed­nes­day: Ruth Cham­pi­on; Nancy Cheng; Ron Cross; and John Dickson.

Thursday: Brett Dav­ies & Amrit Macintyre; and Edi & Oscar Davis.

Fri­day: Kathy Drum­mond; Dav­id Dun­lop; and Michael Flem­ing, Eliza­beth Arm­strong, Thomas, Ellen­or & Nicholas.

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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In Thanks­giv­ing: Bar­bara Reyne & fam­ily give thanks for heal­ing and for the pray­ers of the people of St Luke’s; and Rob Lake gives thanks for a suc­cess­ful bypass oper­a­tion & recuperation.

 

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; Jean Boyd; Gra­ham Sadler; Fr Phil­lip Carter; Phil­lip Kuwert; Peter Knox; Sr Colleen Crook; Nada G.; and John Thompson.

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Peter Middleton; Irene Crit­tenden; Thelma Cordukes; Rockley Isa­bella Miller; John Fraser; and Edna Juergens.

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion: 13^th Jan: Hil­ary of Poit­i­ers, Bish­op, and teach­er (d. 367).; and 14^th Jan: Sava, first Arch­bish­op of the Ser­bi­an church (d. 1235).

 

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 — Second Sunday after Epi­phany: First Read­ing: 1 Samuel 3.1–10; Psalm: 139.1–5, 12–18; Second Read­ing: 1 Cor­inthi­ans 6.12–20; and Gos­pel: John 1.43–51

 

Read­ings for the com­ing week: Even­ing Prayer

Sunday	Ezekiel 47.1–12	Ps 2	John 1.19–34
Monday	Jeremi­ah 1	Pss 30; 32	Colos­si­ans 1.1–8
Tues­day	Jeremi­ah 2.1–19	Ps 31	Colos­si­ans 1.9–20
Wed­nes­day	Jeremi­ah 2.20–34	Pss 35.18–29; 36	Colos­si­ans 1.21–29
Thursday	Jeremi­ah 3.6–23	Ps 119.17–40	Colos­si­ans 2.1–7
Fri­day	Jeremi­ah 4.1–18	Ps 37.18–41	Colos­si­ans 2.8–15
Sat­urday	Jeremi­ah 4.19–31	Ps 39	Colos­si­ans 2.16–23