Notices_Sunday 5th February — Presentation of Christ in the Temple

NOTICES:

Thank you to Fr Michael Dea­sey for cel­eb­rat­ing and preach­ing this morn­ing while Fr Jeff takes time off for his daughter’s wedding.

 

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Penny Park­er, Fr Jeff and Michelle’s daugh­ter who mar­ried Chris Pater­son yes­ter­day in St Luke’s church.  Also, to Fr Jeff and Michelle who cel­eb­rate 41 years of mar­riage this week.

 

 

Happy Birth­day to: Evelyn Maack; Rose­mary Brad­ford; Susan Hill; Alex Hill; Veron­ica Nath; Fr Jeff Park­er; Eddie Reddy; Kev­in Green; Janet Wid­mer; and Lyn Carrington.

 

 

 

Tonight: 6pm Taize style Even­ing Service.

 

Sunday 12^th Feb – is our Wel­come Back BBQ after church.  Gen­er­ously provided by the Chiew family.

 

Wed­nes­day 15^th Feb – Warden’s Zoom meet­ing at 7pm.

 

Sat­urday 18^th Feb­ru­ary — The first MNO for 2023 — 6.00 for 6.30 pm. Held at Alberto’s Pizzer­ia, 589 King Street New­town. Phone 9519 4262.  Con­tact Kev­in on 0405 691 055.

 

Sunday 19^th Feb – At 9.30am we will be hold­ing a Ser­vice for Recon­cili­ation and Under­stand­ing.  Our guest speak­er will be Jen­nifer New­man, a proud First Nations per­son, and a mem­ber of the NSW Civil and Admin­is­trat­ive Tribunal Guard­i­an­ship Division.

 

Also, Sunday 19^th Feb – Farewell for Nic­ola and James Howard dur­ing morn­ing tea – fol­low­ing the 9.30am ser­vice.  You are also invited to lunch at the War­ren View after­wards.  Please let Ruth know if you intend to come.

 

Palm Crosses Needed: Please remem­ber to bring in your palm crosses from last year.  We will burn these to make the ash on Shrove Tues­day for our Ash Wed­nes­day services.

 

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Future Dates for your Diary:

Tues­day 21^st Feb — Shrove Tues­day – Pan­cakes at the Rectory

Wed­nes­day 22nd Feb — Ash Wed­nes­day – 10.30am & 7.30pm

Sunday 26^th Feb – First Sunday in Lent — Par­ish Coun­cil meets.

Sunday 5^th March – Par­ish Annu­al Gen­er­al Meeting.

Sat­urday 11^th March – Cinema Para­diso – Cas­ab­lanca (1942)

 

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Len­ten Study – Start­ing Wed 22^nd February

Facil­it­ated by Fr Jeff using the 2023 ABM Len­ten resource “The ima­gin­ary Door­way: Stor­ies and stud­ies from the Gos­pel of Inclu­sion”.

Stud­ies to be held on Wed­nes­days after 10.30am ser­vice and morn­ing tea; and Monday nights at 7.30pm online via Zoom.

Book­lets $12 each.

Please con­tact Fr Jeff at parkerj272@gmail.com for fur­ther inform­a­tion and the zoom link.

 

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Sat­urday 4 March 2023 – Quiet Day — 10.00 am to 4.15 pm

(The Sydney Mis­sion-Col­lege of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd)

Lead­er: The Rev’d Ron­ald Hende­r­son OGS.

The church and grounds of St John’s Bal­main, Spring Street, Birch­grove.  Gath­er for cof­fee /conversation at 10 00 am.  Great­er Silence from 10.15 am until 4.15 pm.  Morn­ing and Even­ing Pray­er; the Holy Euchar­ist; two brief addresses; oppor­tun­ity for indi­vidu­al con­sulta­tion with lead­er; rest in the garden and loc­al park.

The Quiet Day is free of charge.  Par­ti­cipants are asked to bring their own packed lunches.  Tea and cof­fee provided.  All very welcome.

 

Sunday 5th March – Par­ish Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing: Will be held in the church after 9.30am ser­vice and morn­ing tea. If you are an office bear­er, would you please sub­mit your report/s to the Par­ish Office by email, on or before Sunday 19th Feb, as the col­lated final edi­tion should be in the hands of parish­ion­ers the week pri­or to the AGM, Sunday 26 February. And in accord­ance with Dio­ces­an pro­ced­ure, the date of the AGM will be affixed to the entrance doors to the church, two weeks pri­or to the meeting.

Sat­urday 11 March — Cinema Para­diso:  Cas­ab­lanca (1942)

RSVP:  con­tact Brett by 5 March 2023

After 80 years, and with anoth­er war in Europe, a show­ing of this clas­sic film on a big­ger screen.  The film is fam­ous for its lead char­ac­ters, mem­or­able lines, and per­vas­ive theme song.  Accord­ing to Wiki­pe­dia, it con­sist­ently ranks near the top of lists of the greatest films in his­tory.  In 1989, the United States Lib­rary of Con­gress selec­ted the film as one of the first to be pre­served for being “cul­tur­ally, his­tor­ic­ally, or aes­thet­ic­ally significant”.

 

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Sat­urday 25^th March – NSW State Elections:

The Elect­or­al Office is hir­ing our hall from 3 p.m. Fri­day 24^th to mid­night on 25^th March.  This will be a good oppor­tun­ity for us to hold a saus­age sizzle and pos­sibly a cake stall.  It will also bene­fit our OpShop.  More news later about times and what you might be able to help with.  Watch this space!

 

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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 from teabags.  (NB — no dairy, cit­rus, onions or meat).  Worm cast­ings are avail­able.  See Fr Jeff.

 

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday: Fr Philip & Rose­mary Brad­ford; Tony Brown­low; Ruth Cham­pi­on; Nancy Cheng; and Tiffany, Kev­in, Nich­olas & Alex­an­der Chiew.

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

Tues­day: Brett Dav­ies & Amrit MacIntyre; and Edi & Oscar Davis.

Wed­nes­day: John Dick­son; Kathy Drum­mond; and Dav­id Dunlop.

Thursday: Michael, Eliza­beth, Thomas, Ellen­or and Nich­olas Flemming.

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.

 

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Pray­ers for the sick:  Tony Brown­low; Pau­line Newell; Rose­mary Brad­ford; Mary Middleton; (Fr) John Hawkins; Christine Kon­draten­ko; Bax­ter Min­gis-Per­kins; Val Thomas; Maria & Trish; Kev­in Tib­bey; Simone Abra­hams; Salochna Devi; Ruth Dodd; Robyn Palmer; (Rev) Helen Phil­lips; Peter Cinelli; Julie Ankers; Robert & Lyn­dall Dubler; Geor­gia Keighery; Suzie Brooks; Franz Legrum; Peta Loveday-Hill; Raf Forents; Suz­anne Camp­ton; and The Cun­neen Family.

 

Pray­er of Thanks­giv­ing:  For the birth of baby Aviva born on 29^th Janu­ary – Daugh­ter of Geor­gia and Paolo; and Great-niece of Fabi­an LoSchiavo.

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Kev­in Saun­ders, Robert Emme­neg­ger; and Francie Fielder.

 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list:  Florence Shel­lard; Ray Som­mer; John Hardy; 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; Ann Jeffs; Noel Jeffs; Singla Pal­lav; and Jen­nifer McGovern.

 

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Read­ings for Next Sunday: Sixth Sunday After Epiphany

First Read­ing: Deu­ter­o­nomy 10.12–22    Psalms: 119.1–8

Second Read­ing: 1 Cor­inthi­ans 3.1–9      Gos­pel: Mat­thew 5.21–37