Newsletter

Sunday 9th October, 2011
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
Anglicare Sunday
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.

Collects for Today
Saving and healing God, You have promised that those who have died with Christ shall live with Him: grant us grace to be continually thankful for all You have done for us, and in that thankfulness to be eager to serve and live for others, so that we and all Your children may rejoice in Your salvation; through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Collect - A prayer for Anglicare SA
God of Love, we pray for the daily work of Anglicare SA: for individuals, families and communities in whose life we share; for our colleagues, networks and supporters. May we strive together to work for justice, and show respect to every person we meet. May we freely share in your desire for fullness of life for all, in the present moment and in the time ahead. Amen.

TODAY’S READINGS Exodus 32: 1-14 & Philipp 4: 4—10 read by Max A
GOSPEL Matthew 22: 1—14
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, Aileen Shepherd, Hal Shaw-Calverley and Olive Marston both of the latter seem to be doing rather better. ,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: James Raymond, Yvonne Myers, Lily Conlon
HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
YEAR’S MIND— Joyce Cook (1995) Maurice Paternoster (1995) Doris Caddy (2000) and Stan Shepherd (2007)

PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
Readings Exodus 33: 12—33 and 1 Thess. 1: 1—10
GOSPEL Matthew 22: 15—33

REGULAR GROUPS AND BOOKINGS
PRAYER CIRCLE meets noon on the 2nd Tuesday each month at 36 Penno Parade North
BIBLE STUDY 10am at Pressley’s from this Wednesday
THURSDAY 9.30am Eucharist
SINGING GROUP Meets after the 10am service each Sunday. All singers welcome. And don’t they make a lovely contribution as they sing during Communion.

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.

ANGLICARE CHRISTMAS CARDS
Cards for sale are displayed on the board in the foyer. Orders can be placed on that list but needs to be done by today please note.

COMMUNITY HOUSING ASSOC AGM to be held in the Church Hall at 5.30pm on 20th October. Guest Speaker. A light meal will be served afterwards. All welcome to attend. This group supports accommodation for young people in distress.

SPECIAL SERVICE 23rd October at 10am St. Francis’ Day. Bring your pets. More detail forthcoming soon.

And St. John’s Grammar will be using the Hall for exams from 31srt October. A list if dates and times is available in the foyer.



Blackwood Church of Christ will be holding a special service at 10 o'clock on 23rd October for refugees living in our area; this service will include testimony from some who have just arrived and those who are just about to be granted citizenship. This will be an ecumenical service and it is hoped there will be representatives from the churches in the Mitcham Hills area.
POWERPOINT ROSTER –
Today Cynthia Macintosh or Don Caddy
Next Sunday Ron Keynes or Joy Campbell

READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER
Next Sunday Reader Araki family Intercessor Ben L
Sunday after Reader Clare B Intercessor Warren

SANCTUARY ROSTER
Next week Flowers Marilyn Little Brass Joan Durdin
Cleaning Group 1

RONBLOG .... On today’s readings ...........

In the world in which we live, there is an increasing distance from what we older people may describe as the way things were. None of us are sufficiently naive as to imagine things were totally acceptable then, for that is far from the case. But – as I think I have inferred in previous weeks – the ancient verities were acknowledged by the greater part of the population. There was little dispute about where truth and justice lay, and honesty could be expected from other people. None of us were much better off than others, at least as I encountered people, and in those days even houses were not locked unless we were on holidays. Go back far enough, and early model motor cars did not even have keys for doors or ignition. (This is post World War II mind, not the Dark Ages.)

Except in fairly rare instances, even idolatry was not an issue. In fact, even as children and young adults, we would look back to OT times and wonder how people could be so stupid as to worship things!!! That matter has resolved in the affirmative for a long time since those halcyon days. It may not be images today, but idolatry is reigning supreme these days,is it not?

How did all this arise? Well, after some thought on the subject, it seems to me that today’s readings – a little like last week – focus on issues that are of huge importance to the Christian person, but of rapidly decreasing value to – dare I say much of the rest of the world? I guess there is some unfairness there, but so much of today’s society seems bound to the direction of ‘gimme, gimme, gimme,’ so that things assume a far vaster value than people. In fact it may not be too much to suggest that Generations X and Y would regard today’s readings as naive and passé and valueless. So are we chasing the wrong dream? To my mind, closer examination would suggest strongly otherwise.

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SAMARITAN'S PURSE - OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD
Thank you to everyone who has filled a Shoe Box for Operation Christmas Child. Will you please return these to Church by the l6rh October (next week).
Thanking you Marlene Dixon.

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