Notices_Sunday 25th May — 6th Sunday of Easter

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

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A Spe­cial thank you to Fr Michael Dea­sey for preach­ing today.  He has enabled our Rect­or to take part in a quiet day yes­ter­day.  Unfor­tu­nately, due to heavy rain and loc­al­ised flood­ing the Retreat at Stroud could not pro­ceed.

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Tues­day Night Bible Study at 7.30pm: At Fr Philip Bradford’s place 5 Lin­coln St, Stan­more.  Cur­rently study­ing the book of 1 Samuel and up to chapter 9.  Bring a bible. All wel­come.

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Due to an increase in the cost of cof­fee and tea we ask that parish­ion­ers con­sider mak­ing a reg­u­lar note dona­tion to cov­er the costs.  The ‘Piggy’ money box will be avail­able for dona­tions at morn­ing tea.

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NEXT Sunday 1^st June – 5pm Spir­it of Taizé Ser­vice

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NEXT Sunday 1^st June – Par­ish For­um: in the hall after 9.30am ser­vice for mem­bers of the par­ish to share ideas about:

~ What we appre­ci­ate about our par­ish,

~ What we could do bet­ter,

~ What should be fur­ther developed and

~ What qual­it­ies and exper­i­ence we seek in our next Rect­or.

Please come along, share your ideas and views and listen to those of oth­ers.

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Fri­day 13 June 2025, Pray­er Ser­vice 5.30pm and Fun­drais­ing Din­ner 7pm for the NSW Ecu­men­ic­al Coun­cil, com­mem­or­at­ing the 1700^th anniversary of the Nicene Creed, to be held at the Coptic Ortho­dox Church, Guild­ford.  All invited, tick­ets $70.00. Scan bar­code on fly­er in hall or pur­chase tick­ets at https:/www.trybooking.com/DAZAQ

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Sat 14^th June 2025 at 3pm - St Luke’s Young Organ­ists Series — Recit­al

Samuel Giddy returns to St Luke’s to per­form on the rare 1883 Wordsworth & Maskell Pipe Organ. Samuel will fol­low his 2023 per­form­ance with anoth­er ped­al solo, a celes­ti­al adagio by J S Bach and oth­er works. The pro­gramme also includes the trans­port­ing Arabesque by Louis Vierne (organ­ist at Notre Dame de Par­is from 1900 until his death in 1937)

Seat­ing unre­served ‑No book­ing required

Entry, Pro­gramme & Refresh­ments by note/tap dona­tion (to con­trib­ute to the performer’s fee)

Enquir­ies:  Kathy Drum­mond / Brett Dav­ies

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Sat­urday 28^th June – Sydney MOW Meet­ing at 2.30pm.  Guest speak­er Moth­er Kathyrn Bell­house from CCSL. After­noon tea will be served. All wel­come!

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

St James’ Church, 173 King Street, Sydney

Sat­urday 2^nd August – Felix Hell (Ger­many)

Reserve your place at https://events.humanitix.com/2025iof3?hxchl=hex-pfl

If you would like com­pany; Brett Dav­ies and Kathy Drum­mond will be there.

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday: Selina & John Hardy; Susan Hill, Janet Broady & Alex; Moya Holle; Noel Jeffs; Mandy Tib­bey & Geoff Lind­say.

Monday: Joseph, Esth­er, Joyti & Joshlyn Kumar; and Evelyn Maack.

Tues­day: Lea MacNeil & Don­ald Thomas; and Jen­nifer McGov­ern.

Wed­nes­day: John M.; Pamela Naple; Fran Neilson; and Kath­er­ine Old­field.

Thursday: Fr Jeff & Michelle Park­er; Andrew Pat­ter­son; Mea­ghan Pat­ter­son.

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:

John Bunyan (Priest); Tony Brown­low; Mar­ilyn Gibbs; Janet Walms­ley; Lea MacNeil; Andy Ser­afin; John Bowen (Priest); Alex Regos; Helen Woell­ner; Douglas John­ston; Jane Edwards; Mel Kew­ley; Jona­thon & Joshua; Jack­ie Chaffo; John Park­er; Eva; John Hower; Dav­id Reeks; Alec & Tarra; Ger­ald Grant; and Richard Shears.

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Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Freda Fer­guson; Ann Dav­is; Peter Edgley; Steph­en Thur­ley; Lawrence Clayton; and Len Jack­son.

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Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion:

26^th: Augustine of Can­ter­bury, mis­sion­ary and Bish­op.

29^th: We pray for the cel­eb­ra­tion of Ascen­sion Day.

31^st: We pray for the cel­eb­ra­tion of the vis­it­a­tion to the Blessed Vir­gin Mary to Eliza­beth.

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Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: Max Woods (Priest); Lyn Car­ring­ton; Simone Crowth­er; Kar­en Stein­er-Hill; Nalini MacIntyre; Christine Kon­draten­ko; Mar­garet Chiew; Bar­bara Ray­mond; 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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Read­ings for Next Sunday – Sunday After Ascen­sion

First Read­ing: Acts 16.16–34                  Psalm: 97

Second Read­ing: Rev­el­a­tion 22.12–22     Gos­pel: John 17.20–26