Notices_Sunday 10th August — Ninth Sunday After Pentecost

NOTICES:

Wel­come to any vis­it­ors with us today.  Please join us for morn­ing tea.

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The flowers in the church today are donate by Tiffany Chiew in lov­ing memory of her fath­er, John Sat­ter­ley.

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We wish Fr Jeff and Michelle a safe and happy time on their Long Ser­vice Leave/Annual Leave over the next 4 weeks!

Dur­ing this 4‑week peri­od Fr Philip Brad­ford will be our Locum and we thank him sin­cerely.

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Today after morn­ing tea — Chant­ing the psalms ses­sion

St Luke’s is almost unique in Sydney in that you as the con­greg­a­tion chants the psalms. I think you will agree that the last two months has been an inter­est­ing exper­i­ence. It would be a pity if we lost that tra­di­tion.

If you would like to learn to chant the psalms tra­di­tion­ally or have a refresh­er, Rajah with some assist­ance from Kathy and Kath­er­ine is will­ing to give some point­ers today after morn­ing tea.  So, if you’ve ever wondered what ·  |-  † *  — : , l and ll, double chant and single chant mean please come and join us.  No singing or oth­er music exper­i­ence neces­sary.

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Tues­day Night Bible Study has been can­celled for 12^th August only:    It will resume on Tues­day 19^th August when a study of the Gos­pel of Mark will com­mence.  All wel­come.

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Win­ter­fest High Tea – Sat­urday 16 August, 2.30 pm in St Luke’s Par­ish Hall

With mulled wine, hot fin­ger food, scones, sweet del­ic­acies, tea and cof­fee.

A short con­cert pro­gram is arranged for your enter­tain­ment with Jo Bur­ton (a pro­fes­sion­al sing­er with The Song Com­pany and Can­til­la­tion).

Cost is $40 pp and $35 Concession/Student.

Please con­tact Ruth Cham­pi­on on 0400 166 041 for a book­ing by TODAY — Sunday 10 August.

Tick­ets can be paid for on the day –Cash or EFTPOS

Thank you to those who made dona­tions of red wine or who have giv­en cash to pur­chase some non-alco­hol­ic wine for the day!

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Sat­urday 16^th August at 6pm – The Early Dance Con­sort

St Paul’s Anglic­an Church, Bur­wood

www.earlydanceconsort.com.au

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St James’ Inter­na­tion­al Organ Fest­iv­al – 5pm to 7pm

St James’ Church, 173 King Street, Sydney

Sat­urday 1^st Nov – Marko Servo (St James’ King Street)

Reserve your place at https://events.humanitix.com/2025iof4?hxchl=hex-pfl

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OpShop Dona­tions

Parish­ion­ers who can­not get to the OpShop dur­ing our open­ing hours are invited to bring dona­tions of good qual­ity used cloth­ing and house­hold goods and knick­knacks to church on a Sunday morn­ing.  Please do not bring elec­tric­al goods unless they are new and in a box.  All items may be left inside the hall at the rear near the Opshop interi­or stor­age area door.  Please do not leave any goods out­side.  If you can spare a few hours to help once a week or even once a fort­night, please speak with Andy Ser­afin, Steph­en Gates or Ruth.

Thank you for your assist­ance.

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Please bring in any spare plastic takeaway con­tain­ers: We use these in the kit­chen to par­cel up leftovers.

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Please DO NOT leave your peel­ings for the par­ish worm farms at the rect­ory while Fr Jeff and Michelle are on leave for the next month.  Just for this peri­od please dis­pose of them in your green bin if you don’t have your own worm farm.

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday: Ann Petersen & Rachel; Rick Prat­ley & Simon; and Jo, Ramendra, Thomas & Lucy Raj.

Monday: Joyce, Andrew, Rachael, Bianca, Belinda & Bryson Reddy.

Tues­day: Eddie, Susan, Stephanie, Edwin, Leil­ani & Car­men Reddy.

Wed­nes­day: John Reimer; Mat­ilda Rink­er; and Gra­hame Sadler.

Thursday: Rajah Selva­ra­jah & Greg; Peter Sey­mour; Andy Ser­afin & Colin.

Fri­day: We pray for pas­tor­al care min­istry teams at all Hos­pit­als and all those who are min­istered to.

Sat­urday: Almighty God, we pray for those in areas of con­flict.  We pray for heal­ing and good med­ic­al care for those who have been injured.  For those who have lost homes and pos­ses­sions, please meet their daily needs for food, clean water and shel­ter and com­fort those who mourn the loss of loved ones.  And bless all who are help­ing those impacted.  Amen.

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Pray­ers for the sick and for those in need of pray­er:

Christine Thur­ley; Ruth Cham­pi­on; Mat­ilda Rink­er; Mar­ilyn Gibbs; Janet Walms­ley; Andy Ser­afin; John Bowen (Priest); Mari­on Mad­dox; Sarah, Paul, Emma, & Michael; John Park­er; Kim McLoughrey; Dianne Albrecht; Mat­thew Bright; Gra­ham Dagg; Char­lotte Dolby; Ern­est MacIntyre; and Maur­een Byers.

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Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: John Sat­ter­ley; Aman­da Romeo; Ian Scott; Mary Sotiri­adis; Neil Daniels; Arthur Ayers; Maria Bugle; Amy Bur­row; John Levis; & Allan Pol­gen.

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Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion:

11^th: Clare of Assisi; and John Henry New­man, Car­din­al & theo­lo­gian.

13^th: Jeremy Taylor, Bish­op & spir­itu­al writer.

14^th: Twen­ti­eth Cen­tury mar­tyrs includ­ing Grand Duch­ess Eliza­beth of Rus­sia; Max­im­i­li­en Kolbe, Fri­ar; Diet­rich Bon­hoef­fer, theo­lo­gian; Maria Skob­t­sova, Abbess in Rus­sia; Mar­tin Luth­er King Jr, work­er for civil liber­ties; Janani Luwum, Arch­bish­op of Uganda; Oscar Romero, Arch­bish­op of San Sal­vador.

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Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: Alex Regos; Lyn Car­ring­ton; Simone Crowth­er; Kar­en Stein­er-Hill; Christine Kon­draten­ko; Mar­garet Chiew; Ray Som­mer; John Hardy; Marissa & Meg Maack, Jude, Isla, & Al Don­nell; Noel Jeffs; Michael Aiken; Robert & Lyn­dall Dubler; and Mel McK­im­mie.

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

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Aus­trali­an Anglic­an Church Cal­en­dar 2026

Avail­able from https://www.stpetersbookroom.com.au/

$17 each plus Post­age

Order forms avail­able from the St Luke’s Par­ish office

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Read­ings for Next Sunday: Mary Moth­er of Our Lord

First Read­ing: Isai­ah 61.10–62.3             Psalms: Song of Mary (APBA p. 31)

Second Read­ing: Gala­tians 4.4–7                        Gos­pel: Luke 2.1–7