Notices_Sunday 15th October — St Luke’s Patronal Festival

NOTICES:

Tues­days at 7.30pm — A Bible Study on St John’s Gos­pel:  Led by Fr Philip:  Address: 5 Lin­coln Street, Stan­more.   Mob: 0431 655 220.  Please bring a Bible.  Sup­per will be provided.  All welcome!

 

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Call for Choristers — RCC Handel’s Messiah Choir 2023:

https://www.handelsmessiah.org.au/choir

Weekly rehears­als begin on Monday 16 Oct at St Steph­en’s Church, Macquar­ie Street from 7:00pm to 8:45pm

Regis­tra­tions at https://registration.handelsmessiah.org.au/

Gen­er­al: $35; and Con­ces­sion (pensioner/disabilities) $20

The per­form­ance will be on 16^th & 17^th Decem­ber at Sydney Town Hall.

 

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Dis­aster Recov­ery Volun­teers REQUIRED:

 

Angli­care needs many more Dis­aster Recov­ery Volun­teers for the South Sydney Region. The facts are, across the whole South Sydney region we cur­rently have just 2 act­ive volun­teers. We need 40–50.  To help reach these num­ber we need to see an Inner West Group – DR Volun­teer Team formed.  While volun­teer num­bers are strong in oth­er regions, our won­der­ful South Sydney region has room to grow.  Tem­per­at­ures are soar­ing.  El Niño has offi­cially been declared.  Bush­fire sea­son will soon be upon us and in full force.  For more inform­a­tion scan the QR code or see https://www.anglicare.org.au/disaster-recovery/

 

 

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Wed­nes­day 25 Octo­ber 2023 at 11am — ABM ‘A SRI LANKA’ LUNCH

Guest Speak­er: LINA MAGALLANES (Head, Sus­tain­able Com­munit­ies Pro­gram ANGLICANS INDEVELOPMENT).

Join us in sup­port­ing this new PROJECT which is in con­junc­tion with ABM’s Part­ner – THE DIOCESE OF COLOMBA.

Ven­ue: Christ Church St Laurence Hall, enter at 505 Pitt Street, Sydney – Oppos­ite Mur­ray coach office.

Pub­lic Trans­port = train, bus or tram stops at Rail­way square.

RSVP: ABM office: abmission.org.au or PH:9264 1021

 

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Sat 2^nd Dec 2023, 9.30am to 2pm — ST LUKE’S CHRISTMAS MARKET 

Cake, Plant and Jam Stalls, BBQ/Sausage Sizzle, Food Stalls, Op Shop, Morn­ing Tea & more.  Please make your­self avail­able to help on the day.  More inform­a­tion later.

 

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Sat 21^st Oct at 6.30pm – Warden’s Din­ner “Oppor­tun­ity Knocks”

Cel­eb­rat­ing the 30^th Anniversary since our OpShop first opened on Enmore Road in 1993.  Don’t for­get to pur­chase your out­fit from our OpShop.

Prizes will be awar­ded for the fol­low­ing out­fits:  the quir­ki­est, 2. the most cre­at­ive, 3. best upcycle recon­struc­tion, 4. the most expens­ive, and 5. the cheapest. Please keep your receipts for the last two categories.

Please BYOG. (Be aware that we sup­port the respons­ible sup­ply and use of alco­hol).  Soft drinks and water provided.

We will use the car park area at 6.30pm for pre-din­ner drinks and nibbles.  Our Cater­er will serve din­ner in the hall at 7.15pm but people are wel­come to sit outside.

PLEASE NOTE: There will be very lim­ited park­ing avail­able in the church car park on the night.  The cater­ers will need access.

A ded­ic­ated drop off/pick up zone for less mobile attendees can be accessed via drive­way with exit via back gate to the lane­way.   Park­ing is avail­able on Stan­more Rd or the Edge­ware Car­park (for a fee).

 

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Sat 4th Novem­ber at 2.30 p.m. – Sydney MOW Annu­al Meeting

St Paul’s Burwood Par­ish Hall, 205–207 Bur­wood Road, Burwood.

Spe­cial guest speak­er The Rev’d Elaine Farm­er from the Dio­cese of Can­berra-Goul­burn, speak­ing on ‘Foot Sol­diers in the Mon­strous Regi­ment of Women’.

Attend­ance is free. You don’t need to be a mem­ber to attend, but you are encour­aged to bring some after­noon tea to share.

Please advise Ruth Cham­pi­on, Sydney Con­ven­or if you are able to attend or wish your apo­lo­gies to be recor­ded ruthchampion47@gmail.com

 

 

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Sat 18 Nov 2023 — St Luke’s Young Organ­ists Series — Recit­al (time TBC)

Organ Schol­ar Bailey Yeates, Win­ner of the Inter­me­di­ate Sec­tion of the 2023 Sydney Organ Com­pet­i­tion, per­forms works by J S Bach, Diet­rich Bux­te­hude, Aus­trali­an com­poser Graeme Koehne and oth­ers on our rare 1883 Wordsworth & Maskell Pipe Organ.

No book­ing required — Seat­ing unreserved.

Entry, Pro­gramme & Refresh­ments:  $ note donation.

Dona­tions wel­come to con­trib­ute to the performer’s fees.

Enquir­ies: Kathy Drum­mond / Brett Davies

 

 

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Sat­urday 16^th & Sunday 17^th Decem­ber at 3pm — RCC Handel’s Messiah:

Join Radio Com­munity Chest for their 82nd annu­al per­form­ance of Han­del’s immor­tal ora­tor­io, Messiah.

These breath­tak­ing per­form­ances fea­ture a 300+ choir, the world-renowned Organ of the Town Hall, pro­fes­sion­al soloists and orchestra.

Ven­ue: Sydney Town Hall, 483 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000

For book­ings see — https://www.trybooking.com/CLBSQ

 

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23nd-25th Feb­ru­ary 2024 — Par­ish Retreat:  Old Mon­as­tery Stroud (Fri­day even­ing to Sunday after­noon).  We will start tak­ing names for reser­va­tions in early Decem­ber 2023.

 

 

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 your teabags.  (N.B. — no dairy, cit­rus, onions or meat).

 

 

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

 

 

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: Kath­er­ine Old­field; Julie Olston & Phil­ippa; Fr Jeff & Michelle Park­er; Andrew Pat­ter­son; Ann Petersen & Rachel.

Monday: Jo, Ramendra, Thomas & Lucy Raj; and John Reimer.

Tues­day: Joyce, Andrew, Rachel, Bianca, Belinda & Bryson Reddy.

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

Thursday: Mat­ilda Rink­er; Gra­hame Sadler; and Rajah Selva­ra­jah & Greg.

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

Sat­urday: Almighty God, we pray for those in war torn areas, and those effected by earth­quakes, mud­slides or floods.  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.

 

 

Pray­ers for the sick: Gra­hame Sadler; Christine Thur­ley; Mar­garet Chiew; Dav­id Dun­lop; (Fr) John Bowen; Janet Walms­ley; Ruth Cham­pi­on: Alex Regos; Christine Kon­draten­ko; Simone Abra­hams; Salochna Devi; Ruth Dodd; Robyn Palmer; Julie Ankers; Cath­er­ine Lough­man; Chris­toph­er Middleton; Helen Woell­ner; Libby Dav­is; Joyce Grant; and Ger­ald Grant.

 

 

Recently Depar­ted: Rhi­an­non Henry-Edwards.

 

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted:  John Tonetti; Nor­man Pol­gan; Leo Castles; Len Har­ris; Ruth Arthur; Ella Morey; Vi Wat­son; Her­bert Gold­smith; Alice Bugle; Olga Wall; Wal­ter Pinker­ton; and Anne Barret.

 

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion: 16^th: Hugh Latimer and Nich­olas Rid­ley, Bish­ops and mar­tyrs (d. 1555).; 17^th: Igna­tius of Anti­och, Bish­op and mar­tyr (d. c. 1150); and 19^th: Henry Martyn, mis­sion­ary and Bible trans­lat­or in India and Per­sia (d. 1812).

 

 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: Pau­line Newell; (Fr) John Hawkins; Robert & Lyn­dall Dubler; Andy Ser­afin; Florence Shel­lard; Ray Som­mer; John Hardy; Lyn Car­ring­ton; John Dick­son; Bar­bara Allen; Marissa; Jude, Isla, Meg & Al Don­nell; Ann Jeffs; and Noel Jeffs.

 

 

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Read­ings for Next Sunday: Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost

First Read­ing: Exodus 33.12–23                               Psalm: 99

Second Read­ing: 1 Thes­sa­lo­ni­ans 1.1–10            Gos­pel: Mat­thew 22.15–33

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