Newsletter

Sunday 2nd October, 2011

Do not get caught out with the change to Daylight Saving – we are all on an hour earlier

Sixteenth 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 is in recess until after the School holidays

Collect for Today
Almighty God, Your Son Jesus was the stone rejected by the builders, and, by Your doing, He has been made the chief cornerstone: grant that, by the power of His Spirit working in us, we may become living stones built up into your dwelling place, a temple holy and acceptable to you; through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
;TODAY’S READINGS Exodus 20: 1 …20 & Philipp. 3: 4b—14 read by Mary V
GOSPEL Matthew 21: 33—46
Fr Ron’s Notes available at http://www.anglican-belair.blogspot.com/

PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Sue D-T
We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, the Swaby family, Chris Contro, Yvonne Myers, Jenny Jeffrey, Dorothy Furnival, Hal Shaw-Calverley and Olive Marston,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
YEAR’S MIND— Marjorie Norton, (1990) Jo Halstead (1995) Pat Trebilcock (2005) Mary WILLOUGHBY (1990)

PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
Readings Exodus 32: 1-14 & Philipp 4: 4—10
GOSPEL Matthew 22: 1—14

REGULAR GROUPS AND BOOKINGS
PRAYER CIRCLE meets noon on the 2nd Tuesday each month at 36 Penno Parade North
BIBLE STUDY restarts this Wednesday 5th October
THURSDAY 9.30am Eucharist
SINGING GROUP Meets after the 10am service each Sunday. All singers welcome.
MAGAZINE COMMITTEE - Advent issue in preparation
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.

FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE— Next Service
Helpers are reminded that Sunday 9th October is our final day for the year for visiting the wards and taking patients to the chapel service. This is also a call for more helpers to be involved—it is only four times a year. Contact Jean Fordham.
Dates for 2012 are 8th January, 8th April, 8th July and 14th October.

POWERPOINT ROSTER –
Today Min Araki or Ron Keynes
Next Sunday Cynthia Macintosh or Don Caddy

READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER
Next Sunday Reader Max A Intercessor Mary V
Sunday after Reader Araki family Intercessor Ben L
SANCTUARY ROSTER
Next week Flowers Audrey & Graham Baines Brass Margaret Carruthers
Cleaning Susan Lee


RONBLOG .... On today’s Old Testament Lesson Ten Commandments

It is almost impossible to know where to begin (and even to finish!) with this most formative of Biblical passages, not only for Christians but far more for Jewish people. Here is no negative statement as abhorred by many, but one of the most freeing of concepts.
Sadder for Anglican Christians, in a way, is the fact that, until a handful of decades ago, each and every one of us would have known the Decalogue off by heart. At every celebration of the Eucharist, these ancient words were repeated. Sunday by Sunday, the code was embedded deeply into the psyche of everyone. Sadly, though, not a lot of explanation was offered with it. I remember one dear Bishop of mine pointing out, 40 odd years ago, that the prescription ‘was never designed to be a rod with which to beat people, Ron, but rather a pointer showing the way towards life at its most creative and redemptive.’ We ignore the whole thing to our peril as humans, and one would have to add that recent Australian – and world! –experience indicates the chaos that ensues from disregarding the Ten Commandments.
Early in the Long Weekend of October 2010, as I wrote all this, news broke of the utter waste and tragedy for several families as four or more lives were lost in a road accident at Bilpin in NSW.. It would appear that the driver of a car went out to overtake on the bending and narrow Bell’s Line of Route, that I have travelled often. One assumes that a double line was crossed, and the accident occurred. How often do people take that sort of risk, getting away with it. But why is the solid line there?
The answer is that such warnings are not there to limit people’s freedom, but to extend the safety of all of us. Road rules, I kept saying to schoolchildren in Scripture classes, are not there to limit BUT TO FREE. If we were allowed to travel on whatever side of the road we liked, the human road kill each year would be geometrically larger than it is. Believe me.
Or I used to use the discussion of why netball and football and cricket have rules, as do all sports. It is not easy to play a game of no rules and no limits, for the outcome would be quite dangerous chaos. Kids recognized that, even in Primary Scripture classes. And one of the most remarkable and positive short statements of what is important in life (not just in religion!) is the Shema Israel. The Two Great Commandments. At least that remains as important in the Anglican Liturgy, thanks to our Hebrew predecessors.

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SAMARITAN'S PURSE - OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD. Time once again to fill a shoe box for the Operation Christmas Child Appeal. Boxes available in the Foyer. More Information from Marlene Dixon. Boxes need to be returned by the beginning of October.—one week to go

Chaplaincy Support
Ross Hill-Brown is asking for donations towards the Inter-Church Council efforts to provide Year 7 children with an information pack as they prepare for High School. A plate to receive donations will be in the Narthex today, so please give generously.

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