Notices_Fourth Sunday in Advent_Sunday 18th Dec 2022

NOTICES:

A very big thank you to those who helped at the work­ing bee yesterday.

 

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TODAY — Car­ol Singing and gift giv­ing at Stan­more Nurs­ing Home: After the 9.30am ser­vice and morn­ing tea.  Please note: Parish­ion­ers are advised that they must wear a mask and com­plete a pri­or-to-vis­it neg­at­ive cov­id test (RAT) to participate.

Thank you to all who have giv­en dona­tions to help with the cost of the gifts.

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TONIGHT – 6pm 9 Les­sons and Car­ols Service.

 

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The Radio Com­munity Chest’s Han­del Mes­si­ah 2022 –TODAY at 3pm: Com­bined Churches Choir includ­ing mem­ber of our congregation.

At Sydney Town Hall — For Tick­ets Call (02) 8256 2222 or vis­it www.cityrecitalhall.com/whats-on/events/handels-messiah

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NEW BIG ROSTER is now avail­able in foy­er for Dec 2022 to March 2023

 

 

CHRISTMAS DAY HOSPITALITY – Is any­one avail­able to volun­teer to do morn­ing tea on Christ­mas Day???  Please speak to Ruth Champion.

 

 

 

Christ­mas 2022 Services 

Sat­urday 24^th Decem­ber — 11pm Christ­mas Eve Service.

Sunday 25^th Decem­ber – 9.30am Christ­mas Day Service.

 

 

 

The Par­ish Office will be closed from 22^nd Dec 2022 and will reopen on 28^th Dec 2023.

 

 

The Opshop will be closed from 24th Decem­ber 2022 and will reopen on 3^rd Janu­ary 2023.

 

 

Christ­mas cards for sale: 2023 Stock — $13 per pack.  Sup­port the Lep­rosy Mis­sion.  Avail­able from the Par­ish Resource Centre.  Please see Stephan Gates dur­ing Morn­ing tea.

 

 

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

 

 

Food for our worms – Leave your worm food gifts at church on Sundays or drop off dur­ing the week.  Please remem­ber to remove the strings from teabags.  (NB — no dairy, cit­rus, onions or meat).  Worm cast­ings are avail­able.  See 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.

 

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday: Mat­ilda Rink­er; Gra­hame Sadler; Rajah Selva­ra­jah & Greg; Peter Sey­mour; and Andy Ser­afin & Colin.

Monday: John Reimer; Louisa Sil­ver­man; and Ray & Laurel Sommer.

Tues­day: Kar­lene Thompson; and Christine Thur­ley, Troy & Family.

Wed­nes­day: Stu­art Veitch, Jo Bur­ton & Laurence; and Janet Walmsley.

Thursday: Janet Wid­mer & Cliff; Ron & Katie Wil­li­ams; and Sally Woellner.

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

Sat­urday: Lov­ing God, we pray for the people of Ukraine, for all those suf­fer­ing or afraid, that you will be close to them and pro­tect them.  We pray for world lead­ers, for com­pas­sion, strength and wis­dom to guide their choices.  We pray for the world that in this moment of crisis, we may reach out in solid­ar­ity to our broth­ers and sis­ters in need.  May we walk in your ways so that peace and justice become a real­ity for the people of Ukraine and for all the world.  Amen.

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Pray­ers for the sick: Pau­line Newell; (Fr) John Hawkins; Lyn Ban­ner­man; Bax­ter Min­gis-Per­kins; Craig; Val Thomas; Rose­mary Brad­ford; Maria & Trish; Kev­in Tib­bey; Simone Abra­hams; Ed Leuen­ber­ger; Salochna Devi; Ruth Dodd; Robyn Palmer; (Rev) Helen Phil­lips; Peter Cinelli; Julie Ankers; Robert & Lyn­dall Dubler; and Geor­gia Keighery.

 

 

Recently Depar­ted: Mark Trav­is (Kay Younie’s Broth­er); and Con­stable Rachel Mc Crow, Con­stable Mat­thew Arnold, and Alan Dare (Killed dur­ing a siege at a Queens­land prop­erty on 13^th December).

 

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Sid­ney Smith; Sid­ney Anson; Giuseppe Bruzzese; Susanne Crowth­er; Bill Carter; Arthur Port­er; and Adri­an Archinal.

 

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion: 21^st: Thomas, Apostle and martyr.

 

 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: Mary Middleton; Florence Shel­lard; Ray Som­mer; John Hardy; Lyn Car­ring­ton; John Dick­son; Shir­ley, Bar­bara & Jade Allen; Rhi­an­non Henry-Edwards; Marissa; Jude, Isla, Meg & Al Don­nell; Grace & Han­nah Ashton; Kuwert; Rev Laurie MacIntyre; Kiki Chun; Raul of Radio Skidrow and his fam­ily; Andrew Strat­golda; Loch­lan Lones­bor­ough; Noel Jeffs; and Singla Pallav.

 

 

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Read­ings for Christ­mas Eve:

First Read­ing: Isai­ah 9.2–7                     Psalms: 96

Second Read­ing: Tit­us 2.11–14               Gos­pel: Luke 2.1–14

 

Read­ings for Next Sunday — Christ­mas Day:

First Read­ing: Isai­ah 62.6–12                 Psalms: 97

Second Read­ing: Tit­us 3.4–8a                 Gos­pel: Luke 2.8–20

 

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The Christ­mas Bowl Appeal — annu­al appeal of the Acts of Peace, the inter­na­tion­al aid agency of the Nation­al Coun­cil of Churches.

 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.

 

 

ABM Advent and Christ­mas Appeal

We encour­age parish­ion­ers to scan the code link to donate online.

 

Please note: There are a lim­ited num­ber of dona­tion envel­opes for both ABM and the Christ­mas Bowl Appeal avail­able in the church foy­er for those who do not use smart mobile phones with cameras.