Notices_Sunday 23rd July ‑Eighth Sunday After Pentecost

NOTICES:

Thank you to Fr Philip Brad­ford for con­tinu­ing as our Locum and tak­ing our Sunday ser­vices and also our Wed­nes­day ser­vices when he’s avail­able over the com­ing weeks.  Fr Jeff and Michelle will be away on long ser­vice leave until 10^th Septem­ber 2023.

 

NEW BIG ROSTER – now avail­able in church and chapel foyers.

 

Small Group Lunches and Din­ners:  It has been sug­ges­ted that Parish­ion­ers may wish to be involved with a small group once a month; to meet for a meal and a chat, and just gen­er­ally get­ting to know each oth­er bet­ter.  If this is some­thing you would like to be involved in, please see the notice on the board in the hall and add your name and con­tact details.  There is a column for host­ing and one for attending.

 

Sunday, 27^th August — THE ATONEMENT: MULTICOLOURED OR MONOCHROME at 2pm:  At St James Hall (169–171 Phil­lip Street, Sydney) and online, Rev’d Dr Max Wood, Rect­or of St Luke’s, Mos­man, will be giv­ing a talk on the atone­ment.  While many evan­gel­ic­als insist on a” pen­al sub­sti­tu­tion” the­ory that spot­lights viol­ence and pun­ish­ment, this talk will intro­duce a plur­al­ity of mean­ings of Jesus’ atone­ment.  Fr Max Wood has an Hon­ours degree in theo­logy and under­took doc­tor­al research at Durham Uni­ver­sity where he was made a fel­low of St Chad’s Col­lege.  For fur­ther inform­a­tion con­tact Tony Brownlow.

 

Sunday, 27^th August — 4pm Pre-Syn­od Meet­ing organ­ised by Anglic­ans Togeth­er fol­lows at St James Hall (169–171 Phil­lip Street, Sydney).

 

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Sunday 17^th Sept — 40^th Anniversary of Sydney MOW: 

Cel­eb­rated at Christ Church St Laurence Hay­mar­ket, at the 10.30 a.m. ser­vice, where the Arch­bish­op of Perth, Kay Goldsworthy AO, will be our guest preach­er.  Fol­low­ing the ser­vice there will be a lunch­eon in the hall and a short lec­ture giv­en to hon­our the life of the late Dr Patri­cia Bren­nan, by The Ven­er­able Dr Colleen O’Rielly.

If you are a mem­ber of MOW, please ensure you renew your sub­scrip­tion pri­or to the event.   The lunch­eon will cost $30 per per­son.  Please book using Try­book­ing online at Sydney Move­ment for Ordin­a­tion web­site by 1^st Septem­ber 2023.  https://www.trybooking.com/CJTJZ

If you would like to join our mem­ber­ship, please go to the MoWatch Aus­tralia web­site https://mowatch.com.au/membership-form/ or see Ruth who is the Sydney Con­ven­or.  We will be respect­fully ral­ly­ing out­side Syn­od again this year to raise aware­ness of the status of women in this dio­cese, on Tues­day 12^th and Wed­nes­day 13^th Septem­ber at 2pm for approx. 1 hour.

 

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Sunday 15 Octo­ber — St Luke’s Patron­al Fest­iv­al:  Guest Speak­er is to be The Ven­er­able Dr Colleen O’Reilly, a former parish­ion­er.  Ser­vice fol­lowed by a shared lunch, out­doors in the church carpark.

 

Sat­urday 21^st Oct at 6.30pm – Warden’s Din­ner:   Cel­eb­rat­ing the 30^th Anniversary since our OpShop first opened on Enmore Road in 1993.  Buy your­self an OpShop out­fit.  Prices for best dressed male and female, fun­ni­est out­fit, and cheapest out­fit.  So, keep your receipt to prove it!  2 course din­ner. BYOG.

 

Notices for the Sunday Ser­vice book­let need to be received by Jen­nifer in the par­ish office by 10am on Thursday morn­ing.  It is best to email the details.

 

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: Jen­nifer, Peter, Elise & Blake B.; Fr John Bowen & Joanne; Fr Philip Brad­ford; Tony Brown­low; Ruth Cham­pi­on; and Nancy Cheng.

Monday: Kay Younie, Nata­sha, Timothy & Jonathon.

Tues­day: Les & Lyn Car­ring­ton; and Tiffany, Kev­in, Nich­olas & Alex­an­der Chiew.

Wed­nes­day: Ron, Milly, Nam & Viol­etta Clarke; and Lyne Cun­neen & John.

Thursday: Brett Dav­ies & Amrit MacIntyre; 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: Almighty God, we pray for those in war torn areas, par­tic­u­larly the Ukraine and the Sudan.  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:  Christine Thur­ley; Mar­gret Chiew; Noel Jeffs; Peter Sey­mour; Dav­id Dun­lop; (Fr) John Bowen; Janet Walms­ley; Christine Kon­draten­ko; Val Thomas; Simone Abra­hams; Salochna Devi; Ruth Dodd; Robyn Palmer; Julie Ankers; Peta Loveday-Hill; Peter Crook; Cath­er­ine Lough­man; Wolfgang Haas; Chris Middleton; Barry Pear­ton; and Charles Said-Vassallo.

 

Recently Depar­ted: Moth­er Juliet Kolai (PNG).

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted:  Fr Philip Westly; Neville Hack; Ivy Row­lands; Rita Green; Queenie Balk­well; and Harry Harrison.

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion:  25^th: James, Apostle & Mar­tyr; 26^th: Anne, moth­er of the Blessed Vir­gin Mary; and 29^th Mary & Martha of Bethany.

 

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 & Jade Allen; Rhi­an­non Henry-Edwards; Marissa; Jude, Isla, Meg & Al Don­nell; Kuwert; Rev Laurie MacIntyre; Kiki Chun; Raul of Radio Skidrow and his fam­ily; Andrew Strat­golda; Loch­lan Lones­bor­ough; Ann Jeffs; and Singla Pallav.

 

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Read­ings for Next Sunday: Ninth Sunday After Pentecost

First Read­ing: Gen­es­is 29.15–28             Psalm: 105.1

Second Read­ing: Romans 8.26–39          Gos­pel: Mat­thew 13.44–58

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