Notices_Sunday 9th July 2023 — Sixth Sunday After Pentecost

NOTICES:

Thank you to Fr Michael Dea­sey for tak­ing our Sunday ser­vices over the last 3 weeks while Fr Jeff and Michelle Park­er, and Fr Philip Brad­ford have been away.  Fr Jeff and Michelle will be away on long ser­vice leave until 10^th Septem­ber 2023.  Fr Philip will be our Locum from this Wed­nes­day 12^th July until their return.

 

 

The flowers in the church today are donated by Colin Spokes in lov­ing memory of Noel O’Donnell.

 

 

Offer­tory Envel­opes are now avail­able in the church foy­er for 2^nd July onwards.

 

NEXT SUNDAY: Par­ish Coun­cil Meet­ing will be held in the church after the ser­vice and morn­ing tea.

 

Sunday 16 July at 6.30pm — Oxford Move­ment Even­song: The Par­ish of Christ Church St Laurence (812 George St, Hay­mar­ket) extends an invit­a­tion to Fest­iv­al Even­song, Pro­ces­sion and Bene­dic­tion on.  This ser­vice will com­mem­or­ate Oxford Move­ment Sunday, giv­ing thanks for the litur­gic­al tra­di­tion with­in Anglic­an­ism.  The ser­vice will be fol­lowed by light refresh­ments.  No RSVP required.  All welcome.

 

Church Gar­dens: If any­one can spare an hour or two to help get rid of weeds from the vari­ous garden beds with­in the car­park, please liaise with Ruth for a day and time!

 

Sunday 17^th Sept — 40^th Anniversary of Sydney MOW:  Cel­eb­rated at Christ Church St Laurence Hay­mar­ket, at the 10.30 a.m. ser­vice, where the Arch­bish­op of Perth, Kay Goldsworthy AO, will be our guest preach­er.  Fol­low­ing the ser­vice there will be a lunch­eon in the hall and a short lec­ture giv­en to hon­our the life of the late Dr Patri­cia Bren­nan, by The Ven­er­able Dr Colleen O’Rielly.  An RSVP date and lunch­eon cost will be announced by next month.  If you would like to join our mem­ber­ship, please go to the MoWatch Aus­tralia web­site and renew online or see Ruth who is the Sydney Con­ven­or.  We will be respect­fully ral­ly­ing out­side Syn­od again this year to raise aware­ness of the status of women in this dio­cese.  Sydney is still a work in progress!!

 

Sunday 15 Octo­ber is our St Luke’s Patron­al Fest­iv­al:  Our Guest Speak­er is to be The Ven­er­able Dr Colleen O’Reilly, a former parish­ion­er.  Fol­low­ing the ser­vice we will hold a shared lunch, out­doors in the church car­park — weath­er permitting.

 

Sat­urday 21^st Oct at 6.30pm – Warden’s Din­ner: Save the date!

 

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday:  Kath­er­ine Old­field; Julie Olsten & Phil­ippa; Fr Jeff & Michelle Park­er; Andrew Pat­ter­son; and Ann Petersen & Rachel.

Monday: Pau­line Newell; and Johnny Nitchareon & Eed Intapan.

Tues­day: Jo, Ramendra, Thomas & Lucy Raj; and John Reimer.

Wed­nes­day: Joyce, Andrew, Rachel, Bianca, Belinda & Bryson Reddy.

Thursday: Eddie, Susan, Stephanie, Edwin, Leil­ani & Car­men Reddy.

Fri­day: We pray for Fr John Bunyan’s pas­tor­al care min­istry at Bank­stown Hos­pit­al and all those he min­is­ters to.

Sat­urday: Almighty God, we pray for those in the Ukraine who are suf­fer­ing fol­low­ing the dev­ast­at­ing flood.  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: Joseph Kumar; Mar­gret Chiew; Noel Jeffs; Peter Sey­mour; Dav­id Dun­lop; (Fr) John Bowen; Janet Walms­ley; Tony Brown­low; Christine Kon­draten­ko; Val Thomas; Kev­in Tib­bey; Simone Abra­hams; Salochna Devi; Ruth Dodd; Robyn Palmer; Julie Ankers; Peta Loveday-Hill; Peter Crook; Cath­er­ine Lough­man; Wolfgang Haas; Chris Middleton; Barry Pear­ton; and Charles Said-Vassallo.

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted:  Noel O’Donnell; Albert Clayton; Peter Mill; Hinekahu Wilson; and Mor­an Davis.

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion:  11^th: Bene­dict of Nur­sia, Abbot (d.550); and 13^th: Sydney James Kirkby, Bish­op, pion­eer of out­back min­istry and The Bush Church Aid Soci­ety (d. 1935).

 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: Pau­line Newell; (Fr) John Hawkins; Robert & Lyn­dall Dubler; Andy Ser­afin; Florence Shel­lard; Ray Som­mer; John Hardy; Lyn Car­ring­ton; John Dick­son; Bar­bara & Jade Allen; Rhi­an­non Henry-Edwards; Marissa; Jude, Isla, Meg & Al Don­nell; Kuwert; Rev Laurie MacIntyre; Kiki Chun; Raul of Radio Skidrow and his fam­ily; Andrew Strat­golda; Loch­lan Lones­bor­ough; Ann Jeffs; and Singla Pallav

 

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Read­ings for Next Sunday: Sev­enth Sunday After Pentecost

First Read­ing: Gen­es­is 25.19–34             Psalm: 119.105–112

Second Read­ing: Romans 8.1–11            Gos­pel: Mat­thew 13.1–9, 18–23

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https://www.naidoc.org.au/

NAIDOC WEEK   Is held annu­ally in July from the first Sunday through to the second Sunday.

 

 

DO YOU KNOW WHAT NAIDOC STANDS FOR?

On 26 Janu­ary 1938, while many Aus­trali­ans cel­eb­rated 150^th anniversary of the land­ing of the First Fleet, a group of over 1000 Abori­gin­al people gathered at Aus­tralia Hall in Sydney to call for full cit­izen­ship status and laws to improve the lives of First Nations people.  As one of the first civil rights gath­er­ings in the world, this day became known as the Day of Mourn­ing.  Since then, Nation­al NAIDOC Week has grown to become both a com­mem­or­a­tion of the first Day or Mourn­ing as well as a cel­eb­ra­tion of the his­tory, cul­ture, and excel­lence of First Nations people.

 

This year’s Nation­al NAIDOC Week Award Win­ners were announced at the 2023 Nation­al NAIDOC Awards cere­mony, held in Meanjin (Bris­bane).  The 10 award recip­i­ents were selec­ted from almost 200 nom­in­a­tions from across the nation.  The Per­son of the Year Award went to Australia’s first Indi­gen­ous sur­geon, Wor­imi man, pro­fess­or Kelvin Kong.  The Life­time Achieve­ment Award went to Aunty Dr Naomi May­ers, OAM.  Fed­er­al Min­is­ter for Indi­gen­ous Aus­trali­ans, Linda Bur­ney said at the Awards Cere­mony: “The Awards recog­nize and cel­eb­rate the achieve­ments of all the incred­ible final­ists and nom­in­ees.”  “This year’s theme, ‘For Our Eld­ers’ is an oppor­tun­ity to hon­our our Eld­ers who have worked tire­lessly to have the voices of Abori­gin­al and Torres Strait Islander people heard.

 

St Luke’s has formed a Loc­al Indi­gen­ous His­tory Com­mit­tee with the aims: 1. Pro­mote Justice for First Nations People;  2. Serve the needs of First Nations People in the Par­ish bound­ar­ies;  3. Broaden the under­stand­ing of links between the Par­ish and First Nations People;  4. Identi­fy sig­ni­fic­ant sites, events people and organ­isa­tions (past and present) with­in the Par­ish bound­ar­ies.  For inform­a­tion about this Com­mit­tee con­tact Tony Brown­low, Coordin­at­or of Lyne Cun­neen, Sec­ret­ary.