Notices_Sunday 25th September_16th Sunday After Pentecost

NOTICES:

 Today — Par­ish Coun­cil Meet­ing will be held in church after morn­ing tea.

 

 

Day­light Sav­ing com­mences at 2am on Sunday 2^nd Octo­ber.  Please remem­ber to put your clocks for­ward one hour.

 

 

 

 

Sunday 2^nd Oct – St Fran­cis Day and Bless­ing of the anim­als: At the 9.30am ser­vice we will bless pets and the anim­als in gen­er­al and give thanks for all cre­ation. Please bring your pets along for a blessing

 

 

Next Sunday 2^nd Oct – 6pm Spir­it of Taize Service.

 

 

Sat 8^th Oct — Next MNO: Will be held at Peter­sham R S L, Tra­fal­gar Street Peter­sham at 6pm for 6.30pm.  See Kev­in Green for more details or Mob: 0405 691 055.

 

 

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 off teabags.  (NB — no dairy, cit­rus, onions or meat)  Fr. Jeff

 

 

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Sun 16^th Oct — St Luke’s Patron­al Fest­iv­al, Con­firm­a­tion Day & catered Par­ish lunch:

The Chiew and Clarke fam­il­ies will be host­ing a par­ish lunch after the ser­vice to cel­eb­rate St Luke’s Patron­al Fest­iv­al and Con­firm­a­tion of Nich­olas Chiew and Viol­etta Clarke.

This will be a fully catered event includ­ing 3 courses and drinks.

Please RSVP to tiffany@chiewfamily.com or sms Tiffany on 0434 521 156 so that we can con­firm the num­bers and any diet­ary requirements.

We look for­ward to see­ing you all on this spe­cial occasion.

 

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:  Sunday: Andrew Pat­ter­son; Ann Petersen & Rachel; Joyce Reddy; Andrew, Rachel, Bianca, Belinda & Bryson Reddy; and Eddie, Susan, Stephanie, Edwin, Leil­ani & Car­men Reddy.  Monday: Jo, Ramendra, Thomas & Lucy Raj; and John Reimer.  Tues­day: Mat­ilda Rink­er; and Gra­hame Sadler; Rajah Selva­ra­jah & Greg.  Wed­nes­day: Peter Sey­mour; and Andy Ser­afin & Colin Spokes.  Thursday: Louisa Sil­ver­man; Ray & Laurel Som­mer; & Kar­lene Thompson.  Fri­day: We pray for Fr John Bunyan’s pas­tor­al care min­istry at Bank­stown Hos­pit­al and all those he min­is­ters to.  Sat­urday: Lov­ing God, we pray for the people of Ukraine, for all those suf­fer­ing or afraid, that you will be close to them and pro­tect them.  We pray for world lead­ers, for com­pas­sion, strength and wis­dom to guide their choices.  We pray for the world that in this moment of crisis, we may reach out in solid­ar­ity to our broth­ers and sis­ters in need.  May we walk in your ways so that peace and justice become a real­ity for the people of Ukraine and for all the world.  Amen.

 

 

Pray­ers for the sick: (Rev) Mar­cia Green; Robyn Palmer; (Rev) Helen Phil­lips; Peter Cinelli; Ray Som­mer; (Fr) John Bowen; Tony Brown­low; Mary Middleton; Helen; Julie Ankers; John Per­kins; Florence Shel­lard; Andy Ser­afin; Ruth Dodd; Robert & Lyn­dall Dubler; Joanne Kenny; The Pso­mas Fam­ily; Len Par­sons; Clara Voigh; and Geor­gia Keighery.

 

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted:  Wil­li­am Dor­ring­ton; Thomas Mor­ton; Jean Thurl­ing; Mary Fisc­her; Mary Fer­guson; Bill Cum­mings; Wil­li­am Bugle; Claud­ine McLeod; Har­old McLead; Ellen Miller; and Marj Newport.

 

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion: 26^th: Lancelot Andrewes, Bish­op of Winchester (d.1626); 27^th: Vin­cent de Paul, Priest & work­er with the poor (d. 1660); 29^th: Michael and All Angels; and 30^th: Jerome, Priest & bib­lic­al schol­ar (d.420).

 

 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: John Hardy; Pau­line Newell; Beth Arm­strong; Lyn Car­ring­ton; John Dick­son; Shir­ley, Bar­bara & Jade Allen; Rhi­an­non Henry-Edwards; Marissa; Jude, Isla, Meg & Al Don­nell; Grace & Han­nah Ashton; Kuwert; Rev Laurie MacIntyre; Kiki Chun; Raul of Radio Skidrow and his fam­ily; Andrew Strat­golda; Loch­lan Lones­bor­ough; and Noel Jeffs.

 

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Read­ings for Next Sunday: Feast of St Fran­cis of Assisi

First Read­ing: Gen­es­is 1:20–31               Psalms: 148.7–14

Second Read­ing: Gal 6.14–18                 Gos­pel: Mat­thew 11.25–30