Newsletter

Sunday 25th March, 2012
Fifth Sunday in Lent

WELCOME to Holy Innocents—we hope you enjoy this time of prayer as we reflect on Scripture together and celebrate the Eucharist. Breakfast is available in the Hall after the 8 am service and morning tea after the 10 am. All are welcome. Sunday School is in action until the School holidays.

Collect for Lent V
O God, our Redeemer, in our weakness we have failed to be Your messengers of forgiveness and hope: renew us by your Holy Spirit, that we may follow Your commands and proclaim Your reign of love; through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
TODAY’S READINGS
Readings Jeremiah 31: 31—34 & Hebrews 5: 5—14
GOSPEL John 12: 20—33
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, Jenny Jeffrey, Dorothy Furnival, the Swaby family , Lynda Knight, Dianne Cordes. Ivanka Cosic, Jim (fighting cancer;) Jake and Gail. Hazel Looney, Tommy Ferguson, Judith Manning and Valda Seith.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Marlene Dixon, Tommy Ferguson, Valda & Wolf Seith
HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
YEAR’S MIND— Evelyn Halstead (1997) Betty Haines (2006)

PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY - Lent VI
Readings Isaiah 50:4—9a and Philippians 2: 5—11
GOSPEL Mark 1: 1—39

REGULAR GROUPS AND BOOKINGS
PRAYER CIRCLE meets noon on the 2nd Tuesday each month at 36 Penno Parade North
BIBLE STUDY 10am Wednesdays at Pressley’s
THURSDAY 9.30am Eucharist
SINGING GROUP Meets after the 10am service each Sunday. All singers welcome
MOTHERS’ UNION - meets third Thursdays each month at 2.00pm

Flinders Medical Centre — Helpers
Easter Day 8th April is our day to visit the Flinders Medical Centre wards and take patients to the chapel service. We need your help. Please be at the chapel by 10am. Phone Jean Fordham for details. Phone no. 8278 2837.
Other dates for 2012 Sunday 8th July Sunday 14th October Mark your diaries please.

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, and other types of assistance. Call Iris Downes on 8278 3260 and Marlene Dixon on 8278 8568..

POWERPOINT ROSTER –
Next Sunday Trevor Tregenza or Joy Campbell
Sunday after Don Caddy or Cynthia Macintosh

READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER
Next Sunday Reader Neil T Intercessor Warren
Sunday after Reader Paul H & Max A Intercessor ********

SANCTUARY ROSTER
Next week Flowers Anna Kelly (no flowers)
Brass Joan Durdin Cleaning Group 3


Mark your diary please ......
(a) The Parish Annual Vestry Meeting follows the 10am Service TODAY
(b) Wedding May 5 Private function in Hall May 6
(c) St John's drama production in hall afternoon and evening of May 31 and June 1
(d) St John's Exams 17-20 July and 29/10-14/11

Lenten Envelopes for ABM: Many parishioners received 'gold envelopes' for their Lenten Offerings last Sunday. For those who missed out, gold envelopes are still available on the table in the foyer.
Faith of the Elders
The ‘Faith of the Elders’ Exhibition will be opened by Bishop Tom Harris today at 5pm with wine and nibbles. The church will be a gallery for the evening as we display photographic portraits of 12 of our ‘elders’ alongside their stories of faith and connection with the church. It’ll be a combination of faith, art, local history and celebration.
Bible study/discussion for young adults.
Stephen will be running a Bible Study/discussion group for the young adults in our congregation. We want to support these fantastic young people as they grow in faith. Please pray for the group as they meet on Sunday evenings.

The Flea Market – 19th May YOU can help make this a successful event…..it is planned to keep the Flea Market / Jumble Sale to a manageable level with stalls mainly occupying the hall.
Warren is still looking for assistance for the Children’s Good Friday Service at 9.00am. The Stations of the Cross service needs adult helpers—more info from Fr. Warren.

ATTENTION SIDESPEOPLE - from Yvonne
The key to the safe has been damaged and thus it was unable to be used to open or close the safe. A replacement key has now been attached to the key ring. However, to prevent this happening in the future please ensure that the door is closed firmly with all items placed well back in the safe. Turn the handle to horizontal and then GENTLY turn the key to securely lock the safe. When unlocking the safe, the door requires a sharp tug to open. Please do not force the key in the lock. If you encounter any difficulty, please seek assistance. Many thanks again for your work as sidespeople and hopefully the above instructions will make your job easier.

Special Note: A strong capable father of two requires work to support his children—willing to do gardening, cleaning or anything. Phone Yvonne Myers on 8278 6297

The Sacred Garden - Stations of the Cross
This afternoon from 2.45pm, parishioners of Woodville, Croydon-Woodville Gardens and Parkside, as well as any others who wish to attend, will be spending time walking the Stations of the Cross, in prayer, at the Sacred Garden, St Paul's Monastery, 15 Cross Road, Glen Osmond. The service, lasts about 45 minutes, will commence at 3.00pm . As is usual for this service we are all asked to arrive and depart quietly leaving behind only our cares and our generous donations to help maintain this beautiful garden. There is no need to RSVP unless anyone wants to, in which case my phone number is 0418 152554. Pam Judge Woodville

RONBLOG …… on today’s Readings
The Season of Lent – as it follows the steps of Jesus in His testing before the start of His public ministry, - focusses on the seriousness of the business of discipleship, not just for Jesus but for all of His followers of whatever age, or time, or place. In the light of that emphasis, perhaps these readings come with rather greater impact, as well they should. In our worship, the readings are there for us to listen to the Father, to understand what issues are put into focus, and then to ponder our response.

One of the great and disturbing factors in Jesus’ ministry was the extent to which people quite outside the Faith, quite beyond the pale, seemed to have a far clearer, truer picture of the faith reality than those who were Jewish adherents. Here, blow me down, are Greeks, nobodies and outsiders, who should have been totally ignorant of the direction of the Faith let alone its content,. Jesus’ response was to welcome them and take them on from where they were, so to speak. He trusted them with some very powerful information. Here is no info for some spiritual elite; here is core material that Jesus had been conveying in so many different ways, but had fallen on deaf ears even with the Twelve. Yet these ‘outcasts’ understood and responded.

I am often surprised at the extent to which apparently ‘godless’ people are not only aware of the point and purpose of the Faith but live it.


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