Newsletter

Sunday 21st August 2011
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost

WELCOME to Holy Innocents—we hope you enjoy this time of prayer as we reflect on Scripture together and celebrate the Eucharist. After the 8am service breakfast is served and morning tea after the 10am service. At 10 am everything in the service will be screened on the walls. Sunday School will continue today

Collect for Today
Creator God, You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in You; teach us to offer ourselves for Your service, that here we may have Your peace, and in the world to come, may see You face to face, through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen.
TODAY’S READINGS
Exodus 1: 8—20 and Romans 12: 1—8 to be read by Marg P
GOSPEL Matthew 16: 13—20
Fr Ron’s Notes available at http://www.anglican-belair.blogspot.com/
PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Vanessa D
We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, the Swaby family, Chris Contro, Yvonne Myers, Jenny Jeffrey, Dorothy Furnival, Olive Marston, Chris Barber and others known to us,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Margaret Carruthers, Jane Sweet, Eric Downes, Sarah Browne,
Alychia McKinnon
HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Eddie and Chris Barber
YEAR’S MIND— Edith Grace (2005), Donald Cameron (2003) Elizabeth Lapedus (1991) Freidrich Seith (1989)

PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
Readings Genesis 45: 1—15 and Romans 11: 13—21
Gospel Matthew 15: 21—28

REGULAR GROUPS AND BOOKINGS
PRAYER CIRCLE meets noon on the 2nd Tuesday each month at 36 Penno Parade North
BIBLE STUDY Wednesdays at 10.00am at Pressley’s home (not this week)
THURSDAY 9.30am Eucharist
SINGING GROUP Meets after the 10am service each Sunday. All singers welcome.

MOTHERS’ UNION Branch meets at 2.00pm on the third Thursday of the month in the Germein Room. All are welcome.

HELPLINE
Part of being a Christian community is the support offered to each other in times of need. We offer short-term delivery of food where needed, local transport, phone calls, visits and other types of assistance. Call Barb Capon 8278 3584 and Lucinda Hale 8278 8814.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS— ………….
Do not forget the Regenerate Dinner to be held in the Hall from 7.00pm on Friday 23rd September - you would have received your letter and invitation last Sunday. This is the time to look forward as we plan for the future of this parish. Archbishop Driver will be speaking to us all.

POWERPOINT ROSTER –
Today Cynthia Macintosh or Don Caddy
Next Sunday Jill Hilbig or Joy Campbell

READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER
Next Sunday Reader Hal S-C Intercessor Hal S-C
Sunday after Reader Jane S Intercessor Max A

SANCTUARY ROSTER
Next week Flowers Marilyn Little Brass Margaret Carruthers
Cleaning Susan L

OTHER ITEMS …….
World Vision Forty Hour Famine. Warren reports that he has registration material for all people interested in being involved in this year’s effort. Speak to him to obtain further detail. This annual event occurs over this weekend
The time-honoured ABM Lamington Drive is nearly here. The lamingtons will be available for collection from Holy Innocents' parish hall after midday on Friday 26 August.

RONBLOG .... Apropos of pondering what it means to worship ....
Quite a few years ago now, I was asked to give the Christmas address at a Combined Churches Christmas Service in the town where I was then priest. It was an outdoor affair, run each year in early December, and it included the fact that some of the shops would be open or opening soon, which meant that quite a few people would be in ear-shot if not heart-shot. In other words, whatever that service conveyed to anyone listening needed to stand up to examination, ring bells for even the ‘unwashed,’ and echo and re-echo for some time to come.
Fortunately for me, this event occurred not long after the pop singer Madonna had held a gig in Adelaide, and lots of the local young folk had spent their money and travelled for the occasion. Madonna, obviously, had a rather greater appeal for the young than a slowly ageing clergyman – even if he was involved with a combined Churches Youth Group in those days.
So as we were approaching Christmas, I asked the assembled group of people what they meant when they used the word worship. Did they mean singing hymns, or praying, or reading Scripture, or listening to me? Locals who knew me seemed aware that I was setting a trap, and hesitated offering an answer. So I pointed to the Madonna phenomenon.
How did people respond to Madonna, I asked. First – to my small mind – there was the cost. Tickets alone cost $70 or so. (It was early 90s.) And the trip to Adelaide – not cheap from three or four hours away. Then accommodation. And how much did you spend on T shirts and all the other stuff for sale? And how much did you bend your thoughts and actions to Madonna-like life styles? The repercussions were starting to build up. There was some sort of gentle protest arising.
How could I begin to compare a Madonna concert with the Faith? But I was not – I was pointing out what constitutes worship. Worship costs, when it is real worship. Worship is a life-style, a modus operandi. It is living like Someone; responding to other people like Someone. And it does not have a lot to do with feeling warm and fuzzy, or singing hymns and praying, All that is designed to give food for thought, food for expressing what you discover in the ordinary business of life and living.
Today at 7pm Blackwood Global Village 40 Hour Famine Celebration (featuring Melbourne Gospel Choir) will be held at the Blackwood Hills Baptist Church 72 Coromandel Parade, Blackwood. Schools, Churches and Businesses will be celebrating Blackwood communities’ involvement in the 40 Hour Famine.


MU Film Morning Oranges and Sunshine M The extraordinary true story of child migrants. Capri Cinema, Goodwood Monday August 29th Morning Tea 10.00am, Organ Playing 10.15am Film 11.00am Trading Table & Mystery Parcels Tickets $10 from MU Branch Reps and at the door

SPECIAL NOTE ....... from Craig Deane

Sadly we learnt last night (via Pat Kernot who phoned Jocelyn’s brother), that the 68 year pilot who died when his plane crashed in bad weather in Western Victoria while on a mercy flight to Melbourne with a young patient (who also died in the crash) was the younger brother of Father Frank Kernot. Father Frank was our parish priest here at Holy Innocents for more than 20 years.
It was under Father Frank’s leadership, faith, perseverance and guidance that funds were raised and our new church was built.
There would be many parishioners who.... if they knew of the connection who be deeply concerned for Father Frank.


Items for the Newsletter need to be sent to Fr. Ron at 8298 7160 or ronpkeynes@internode.on.net by Tuesday afternoon please …….