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Sunday 20th May, 2012 SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER—Sunday after Ascension 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 back in action again ……... Collect for Sunday after Ascension Almighty God, Your blessed Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, ascended far above all heavens that He might fill all things: mercifully give us faith to trust that, as He promised, He abides with us on earth until the end of time; through the same 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 Acts 1:15-17 & 21-26 and 1John 5:9-13 GOSPEL John 17: 6—19 Fr Ron’s Notes available at http://www.anglican-belair.blogspot.com/ PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Hal S-C 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;) Michelle and Jack,. Hazel Looney, Tommy Ferguson, Judith Manning, Barb Capon, little premature Hayley Haig …... HAPPY BIRTHDAY Joan Fitter, Mary Roberts, Bob Arnold HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY YEAR’S MIND— Millicent Williamson (1995) Norah Huxham (2004) Alan Critchley (1986) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY - PENTECOST Readings: Acts 2: 1—11 & Romans 8: 22—27 GOSPEL John 15: 26—27 & 16: 4b-15 PENTECOST (WHITSUNDAY) is observed next Sunday. We have made arrangements for Celebratory Cakes for both congregations. Please find something red to wear for the occasion. Note from Conrad 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 5.45pm Evening Prayer with Wendy and Sue SINGING GROUP Meets after the 10am service each Sunday. All singers welcome MOTHERS’ UNION - meets third Thursdays each month at 2.00pm Walking Church First Saturday of each month at 4.00pm at Belair National Park gates near railway station bridge. ANOTHER SPECIAL NOTE … From Friday May 25th, coffee and tea will be served in the Parish Hall from 8.30am to 11.30am so please come along and bring a friend or neighbour for a relaxing chatr among friends. Only $2.00 for your tea or coffee and biscuit. TODAY After the 10 am service a special meeting of all with responsibility at Church will be held at 11.30am. This is to co-ordinate all areas of responsibility and to avoid ‘demarcation’ issues. 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 Stephanie Lloyd 8278 4260 and Lucinda Hale 8278 8814 RETIRING COLLECTION FOR "BEACON" - 27TH MAY Beacon is an Emergency Relief Service initiative of the Mitcham Hills Inter-Church Council - of which Holy Innocent's is a part. It provides local people with Food Aid and Budget Advice and links people with specialist community services. 2012 is a LEAN year for Emergency Relief Grants so we have to increase our donations to try and make up the shortfall to maintain our services. Please give generously to the Retiring Collection on 27th May David Hall ABM Lent and Good Friday Campaign 2012 The total donated by our Parish was $1,496.85 which includes $189.35 raised on Pancake Night. A magnificent effort. Thank you for your generous support of this mission. ABM have been notified of the Parishioners who require a receipt. POWERPOINT ROSTER – Next Sunday Don Caddy or Cynthia Macintosh Sunday after Jill Hilbig or Ron Keynes READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Iris D Intercessor Max A Sunday after Reader John F Intercessor Vanessa D SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Sue D-T Brass Caroline and Sid S Cleaning Susan Lee Mark your diary please ...... (a) School bookings: May 25 afternoon & evening (b) St John's drama production in hall afternoon and evening of May 31 and June 1 (c) St John's Exams 17-20 July and 29/10-14/11 The Quire St Nicolas is singing at St. Barnabas' Croydon SUNDAY, 20th May, at 3 pm for a celebration of choral and organ music from 1549 to 1928 ( the period between the first and last Book of Common Prayer ). It will be a great afternoon. The organist is Fr Bruce Naylor. Don't miss out:- 25th to 28th July is when Professor Paul Murray from Durham University will be in Adelaide talking about Receptive Ecumenism. His visit is being sponsored by the South Australian Council of Churches. Receptive Ecumenism is something that we can all do - a practical move forward in working together with other Christians. "What do we need to learn from them?" is the real question; see the notice in the Hall for details of Paul Murray's visit, together will a Registration Form. Forms are also available through the SACC website May is BCA box opening month. Please top up your boxes and leave them in the foyer early in May. If you would like to join the group who support BCA in this way, pick up a 'clean' box from the foyer. (David Hall) A couple of things coming out of the last Interchurch Council meeting 1. Mitcham Hills Interchurch Council will be taking part in the Coro Alive 175th Anniversary Celebrations by putting on a Old Fashioned Picnic on 7th October. It is hoped all Council churches will take part. An organizing committee has been set up and needs cross representation from all Council churches. Anyone who would like to represent Holy Innocents should get in touch with Mark Riessen through the Church of Christ office on 8278 8666 2. Also as part of the Coro Alive 175th Anniversary Celebrations there will a Men’s Choir Concert on 21st July at the Baptist Church, Coromandel Parade. There will be a gold coin collection to cover expenses. RONBLOG It is so far back in my history that the person of whom I write is no longer with us. He was jolly good stuff, however, when he was. Early 70s, and a group of young people and an adult or two were on a camp prior to their Confirmation, and it was a Sunday morning. After breakfast, I did to them something not dissimilar to that which Jesus did at the Last Supper. We had a Communion, with biscuits and orange juice, after which I left the group to get on with what they understood to be their calling as Christians. This event took place at the end of quite some months of other preparation. I moved out of the dining room of that campsite, and wandered out of earshot, for I fully expected what followed to happen. After some time of obviously confused discussion and debate in that room, dear old Derek emerged with a most worried frown on his face. ‘Ron,’ he apologised, ‘I do not have the foggiest idea of where we are supposed to go from here!’ Does that sound like the Eleven in that First Lesson today? After three years with Jesus (not quite some months as with that Confirmation Class,) that body of men had not the foggiest of where to head or what to do even at that point in the story. That attempt at democracy was rather more likely an attempt to spread the responsibility for the almost complete lack of readiness. Am I rude in suggesting that we may not have moved a long way from there? Modern Christians need to be far more aware of their role and calling, and get on with it. In some ways, dear old Mother Church can hold us back, by assuming that the clergy will do it all. ............ HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, (1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath. Elected a magistra by her fellow nuns in 1136, she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165. One of her works as a composer, the Ordo Virtutum, is an early example of liturgical drama and arguably the oldest surviving morality play. She wrote theological, botanical and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, and poems, while supervising brilliant miniature Illuminations. Much of her music is still sung and appreciated to this day. On 10 May 2012, Pope Benedict XVI extended the liturgical cult of St. Hildegard to the universal Church, in a process known as "equivalent canonization". It is somewhat ironic as she would almost certainly have been in the forefront of the fight for recognition of women’s place, even to ordination, if it had been remotely possible in those days. Items for the Newsletter need to be sent to Fr. Ron at 8298 7160 or ronpkeynes@internode.on.net by Tuesday afternoon please …….