Notices_Sunday 2nd November_All Saints’ Day

NOTICES:

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

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Happy Birth­day to:

Oscar Dav­is, John M., Stu­art Veitch, Janet Walms­ley, Milly Clarke, Dav­id Dun­lop, Kay Younie, Noel Jeffs, Michael Flem­ing, Ellen­or Flem­ing, Geoff Lind­say, and Blake B.

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Tues­day Night Bible Study at 7.30pm:

At Fr Philip Bradford’s place 5 Lin­coln St, Stan­more.  We will be com­men­cing the First Let­ter of Peter.  Please bring a bible.  All wel­come.

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TODAY – Meet­ing to organ­ise the Christ­mas Mar­ket.

Please come if you can.  All help much appre­ci­ated.

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Wed­nes­day 12^th Nov, 6pm for 6.30pm — Last Men’s Night Out for 2025

Will be held at the Thai Pothong Res­taur­ant, King Street, close to New­town Sta­tion.

Please see Kev­in Green for more details. Mob: 0405 691 055

Note: This is the last M.N.O for Fr Jeff who has been very loy­al in his sup­port for our M.N.O.; motiv­ated no doubt by the fact that he enjoys com­ing and shar­ing qual­ity time with some of the men of the par­ish.

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Sat­urday 15 Novem­ber – Work­ing Bee from 9.30 am to pre­pare our church and grounds for our Rect­or’s farewell.  Your help would be appre­ci­ated.

There is not much point rak­ing up the leaves as they just con­tinu­ally fall down but the garden needs weed­ing.

Thanks to Stu­art V and oth­er volun­teers who clean up before every ser­vice and every func­tion.

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Sunday 23^rd Novem­ber – Feast of Christ the King and Fr Jeff & Michelle’s Farewell.  Shared Lunch to fol­low the ser­vice.

Please bring some­thing to share!  Wine is per­mit­ted to be brought as well!

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Sat­urday 29^thNovem­ber at 5pm – Bal­main Sin­fonia presents their con­cert Parisi­an Fantas­ies

Ven­ue: Mar­rick­ville Town Hall.

Online-only prices: $40 (gen­er­al), $35 (con­ces­sion), $20 (stu­dent).
Tick­ets sold at the door are $5 more. Save time and money by pur­chas­ing ahead-of-time!

https://balmainsinfonia.com/concerts/2025-concert‑4/

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Sunday 30^th Nov from 10am — St Chris­to­phor­us Bazaar/Church Fete:

112 Edwin Street North, Croy­don, — after mass.  Typ­ic­al Ger­man food will be avail­able, as well as Ger­man beer and wine. Stalls will include books (in both Eng­lish and Ger­man), plants, home­ware, cakes, toys and bottles.  Music will be provided by the Ash­field Con­cert Band from 12.30pm

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Sat­urday 6^th Decem­ber at 6pm: Fest­ive Music for Advent & Christ­mas

St Pauls’ Anglic­an Church, Bur­wood.

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Sat­urday 13^th Decem­ber – St Luke’s Christ­mas Mar­ket

Save the date – more inform­a­tion to come.

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Cop­ies of Fr Jeff’s Sunday Ser­mons are made avail­able in the church foy­er each Sunday for those who would like to take a copy.  Back cop­ies are also avail­able upon request.

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

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday: Vic­tor Any­anji; Cyn­thia Berke­mei­er; Jen­nifer, Peter, Andy & Blake B.; and Fr Philip Brad­ford.

Monday: Mat­thew, Bron­wyn, Sam & Thomas Whit­ing; Sally Woell­ner.

Tues­day: Kay Younie, Nata­sha, Timothy & Jona­thon; and Nancy Cheng.

Wed­nes­day: John (Fr) & Joanne Bowen; Tony Brown­low; Les & Lyn Car­ring­ton.

Thursday: Ruth Cham­pi­on; and Tiffany, Kev­in, Alex & Nick Chiew.

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:

Rachael Reddy; Don­ald Thomas; Andy Ser­afin; John Bowen (Priest); Alex Regos; Rick; Sarah, Paul, Emma, & Michael; John Park­er; Kim McLoughrey; Gra­ham Dagg; Char­lotte Dolby; Ern­est MacIntyre; Maur­een Byers; Claire Bur­gess; Steven Solomonides, and Ara­bella Ross.

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Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Bob Morey; Har­old Port­er; Frank Gos­den; Viol­et Foster; Rockley Mil­len; Sus­san Gar­rad; Nel­lie Cor­nick; Aus­tin Day (Priest); Elva Aus­tin; Wit Takham; Owen Cur­rie; and Douglas Witt.

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Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion:

3^rd: Richard Hook­er, Priest and teach­er.

4^th: Day for Anglic­ans and Roman Cath­ol­ics to pray for one anoth­er.

8^th: Saints, mar­tyrs, mis­sion­ar­ies and teach­ers of the Anglic­an Com­mu­nion.

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Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: 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; Robert & Lyn­dall Dubler; and Mel McK­im­mie.

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Read­ings for Next Sunday: Remem­brance Sunday and 74^th Anniversary of the con­sec­ra­tion of the church build­ing.

First Read­ing: Job 14.1–14                     Psalms: 122

Second Read­ing: Romans 6.3–9              Gos­pel: John 5.19–29

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