Notices_Sunday 25th October — 22nd Sunday After Pentecost

NOTICES:

Wel­come to any vis­it­ors with us today.  Please join us for morn­ing tea after the 9.30am ser­vice.

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A very big thank you to Fr Mark Hard­ing  for again step­ping in as Act­ing Rect­or for the last 6 weeks.

We are very grate­ful that he has been avail­able dur­ing our search for a new Rect­or and have sin­cerely appre­ci­ated his min­istry to us.

 

From next Sunday 1st Novem­ber we will wel­come back Fr Glenn Maytum as Act­ing Rect­or for the month.

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TODAY – Par­ish Coun­cil will meet after the ser­vice and morn­ing tea.

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A gen­er­al invit­a­tion is exten­ded to every­one who would like to come to the War­ren View (2 Stan­more Road, Enmore) for lunch after the ser­vice and morn­ing tea of a Sunday.  We look for­ward to see­ing you there.

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Tues­day Night Bible Study at 7.30pm:

Held at Fr Philip Bradford’s place.  Please bring a bible.  All wel­come.  We will be con­tinu­ing with Paul’s first let­ter to the Cor­inthi­ans.

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Series at St James’ King Street called “Pro­gress and Pur­pose”

Vari­ety of dates and top­ics.

The Future of Wel­fare: 6:30pm–8pm, Thursday 29th Octo­ber, St James’ King Street and online.

Chris­ti­an theo­logy was built into the ori­gin­al concept of the wel­fare state by Wil­li­am Temple, war­time Arch­bish­op of Can­ter­bury. Today the wel­fare state is at once in crisis and ripe for rad­ic­al renew­al – how might theo­logy con­trib­ute mean­ing­fully to con­ver­sa­tions about human strug­gling and human flour­ish­ing?

Sci­ence and Reli­gion: 12:30–2pm, Fri­day 30th Octo­ber, St James’ Crypt.

There are many myths to dis­pel about the rela­tion­ship between these two great enter­prises, some­times close and some­times fraught. Both are, in the end, deeply inter­ested in defin­ing and describ­ing the human con­di­tion.  Nick Spen­cer is Seni­or Fel­low at Theos Think Tank, Lon­don, host of the pod­cast Read­ing our Times, and author of books on wel­fare, sci­ence, and oth­er sub­jects.

For regis­tra­tion and more inform­a­tion see https://sjks.org.au/event/progress-and-purpose/

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12th to 14th Nov – Move­ment for the Ordin­a­tion of Women Con­fer­ence: “Make no mis­take … God calls Women”

Aus­trali­an Centre for Chris­tian­ity and Cul­ture, Can­berra.

Regis­tra­tions now open — Con­ces­sion rates for MOW mem­bers.   Please renew your mem­ber­ship or join for 2026–27 before you register.

Find out more at: https://mowatch.com.au

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Monday 30th Novem­ber at 7pm – Com­mis­sion­ing of The Rev Jack Mon­aghan as our new Rect­or fol­lowed by sup­per.

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Sat­urday 5th Dec – St Luke’s Christ­mas Mar­ket – SAVE THE DATE

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ST PAUL’S PANTRY needs food items includ­ing tinned and non-per­ish­able goods: A bas­ket is in the church foy­er for dona­tions.

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Monday: Les & Lyn Car­ring­ton; and Ron, Milly, Nam & Viol­etta Clarke.

Tues­day: Wil­low Cov­entry; and Lyne Cun­neen & John MacLu­lich.

Wed­nes­day: Brett Dav­ies & Amrit MacIntyre; Edi & Oscar Dav­is.

Thursday: Susan Deas; Kathy Drum­mond; and Dav­id Dun­lop.

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 and nat­ur­al dis­asters.  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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Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: Christine Thur­ley; Don­ald Thomas; Fr John Bunyan; Fr John Bowen; Janet Walms­ley; 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; Mel McK­im­mie; Bar­bara Ray­mond.

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Read­ings for Next Sunday: All Saints Day

First Read­ing: Rev­el­a­tion 7.9–17                Psalm: 34.1–10, 22

Second Read­ing: 1 John 3.1–3                   Gos­pel: Mat­thew 5.1–12

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The Revd John Bunyan has a very lim­ited num­ber (30) of his latest book, Around The Broad Land: Pray­ers and Read­ings for the Circ­ling Year.  John has paid for the print­ing.

These books, are numbered and signed, and are avail­able for dona­tions of at least $100 to send via ABM to the Epis­copal Dio­cese of Jer­u­s­alem.

The money is for Al-Alhi Hos­pit­al, foun­ded by CMS in 1882, and the only Chris­ti­an hos­pit­al in Gaza, with no income from nor con­nec­tion with the Hamas author­it­ies.  Details of this small but very import­ant hos­pit­al are on the dio­ces­an web­site.  Even our small gifts will give encour­age­ment to those who care for young and old, sick, wounded, trau­mat­ised, or dying, in very dif­fi­cult cir­cum­stances, and show that our Church in the “Holy Land” is not for­got­ten.

For inform­a­tion, please con­tact the Par­ish Office at stlukes.enmore@outlook.com

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Pres­ence – Advent and Christ­mas Daily Reflec­tions for 2026

“Embark on a pray­er­ful jour­ney through Advent and Christ­mas using this beau­ti­fully presen­ted 84-page full col­our book­let invit­ing you to slow down, become attent­ive, and redis­cov­er the pres­ence of Christ in every­day life.”

Fr Philip will be using this book­let for reflec­tion at the 7.30pm Tues­day night bible study dur­ing Advent and all are wel­come to attend.  You are also wel­come to order a copy to use indi­vidu­ally at home.

Cop­ies are avail­able for $7.00 each

Please con­tact Jen­nifer in the par­ish office stlukes.enmore@outlook.com if you would like to order a copy by Sunday 25th Octo­ber.

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Tick­ets now avail­able for St Luke’s Fun­draiser — $20 each – drawn at the Christ­mas Mar­ket on Sat­urday 5th Decem­ber at 1.30pm

Thanks to our very gen­er­ous spon­sors we have 11 fab­ulous prizes:

1st Prize – 1 x return tick­et to Fiji (1/5/27–30/6/27)

2nd Prize – 2 x tick­ets to Gold Coast (31/1/27–28/2/27)

3rd Prize – 3 nights at Wyn­dam Manly Beach (4/6/27–7/6/27)

4th Prize – Men’s Sher­wani & Ladies Lehenga

5th Prize — Sup­ply & Install Ceil­ing Fan + Sup­ply Table Lamp

6th Prize — Ladies Sari

7th Prize — TAPO RV20 Robot­ic Vacu­um & Mop

8th Prize — Shared Three-Course Din­ner at The Meat & Wine Co. Barangaroo

9th Prize — $150 Gift Card

10th Prize — $100 Gift Card

11th Prize — Air Fry­er

Funds raised will go to the renov­a­tion of the Hall kit­chen.

For tick­ets see Andrew or con­tact the par­ish office at stlukes.enmore@outlook.com

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The Com­mis­sion­ing of The Rev’d Jack Mon­aghan as our new rect­or is Monday 30th Novem­ber at 7 pm. 

The Bish­op has charged the War­dens with the respons­ib­il­ity of pre­par­ing the ser­vice for him in con­junc­tion with Fr Jack and the Act­ing Rect­or; and send­ing out invit­a­tions to Fr Jack’s fam­ily, loc­al dig­nit­ar­ies, clergy in the loc­al fra­tern­ity, the Loc­al Mis­sion Lead­er and Anglic­an clergy with­in the South Sydney Region.

Of course, we hope as many of our parish­ion­ers as pos­sible will be able to attend and help in pre­par­ing and serving sup­per to our many guests.

The War­dens will sup­ply cham­pagne and orange juice, tea and cof­fee.

Help would be appre­ci­ated early on Monday after­noon to make sand­wiches and to set up the hall. If that’s not pos­sible for you, per­haps you would make a cake or a slice or con­trib­ute some sushi or a plat­ter of cheese and or fruit and savoury bis­cuits.

Some people won’t have had din­ner so our sup­per will be appre­ci­ated, and we recall from 2019 at the last Induc­tion, there wasn’t much left over and the wine ran out!! [So many clergy, but none could turn water into wine!]

In addi­tion, on Sat­urday 28th Novem­ber from 9.30am we will have a work­ing bee to clean up the church, the hall and the grounds. It would be great if we had some people come that are young­er than 75 to help with this work, to make everything ship-shape! Please put the date in your diar­ies now.

Many thanks,

Andrew, Ruth and Tiffany