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Sunday 27th May, 2012 PENTECOST 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 with another celebratory cake! Sunday School is back in action again ……... Collect For Pentecost Almighty God, You sent Your Holy Spirit to be the life and light of Your Church: open our hearts to the riches of Your grace, that we may bring forth the fruit of the Spirit in love, joy, and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who is alive and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Today’s Readings - Pentecost read by Iris D Readings Acts 2: 1—11 & Romans 8: 22—27 GOSPEL John 15: 26—27 & 16: 4b-15 r Ron’s Notes available at http://www.anglican-belair.blogspot.com/ PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Max A 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, (home by the time you read this!) little premature baby Hayley Haig …... HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Neal Barber, Neil Thomas HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - Ray and Marcia Wilkins YEAR’S MIND— Gwenyth Rounsevell PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY - TRINITY SUNDAY Readings Isaiah 6: 1—8 & Romans 8: 12—17 GOSPEL John 3: 1—17 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. Each Friday morning, 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 chat among friends. Only $2.00 for your tea or coffee and biscuit. Many thanks to all involved in last Saturday’s Flea Market. It was a huge effort which, at recent report, raised around $3,300. Sadly, an enormous amount of items given remained unsold, and chilly weather on the day would not have helped. Stephen chaired an excellent meeting after Church last Sunday, designed to clarify roles and responsibilities among those who do lots of things for the Church, often behind the scenes. Thanks, Stephen, and to all involved—it was a fruitful and valuable exercise. One of the outcomes was to ask people on rosters to let roster-makers know if they will not be available for their roles. 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 REMINDER RETIRING COLLECTION FOR "BEACON" - TODAY Beacon is an Emergency Relief Service initiative of the Mitcham Hills Inter-Church Council and provides local people with Food Aid and Budget Advice and links people with specialist community services POWERPOINT ROSTER – Next Sunday Jill Hilbig or Ron Keynes Sunday after Joy Campbell or Craig Deane READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader John F Intercessor Vanessa D Sunday after Reader Arndrae L Intercessor Ben L SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Jan Tregenza Brass Yvonne Caddy Cleaning Group 3 Mark your diary please ...... (a) St John's drama production in hall afternoon and evening of May 31 and June 1 (b) St John's Exams 17-20 July and 29/10-14/11 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 Pentecost For most Christians, Acts 2 is a well-known and often studied part of Scripture. However, much of the real point and purpose of the tale is lost on moderns. This story has nothing to do with speaking in tongues (glossolalia to some) but about the reversal, if you will, of the damage ‘done’ at the Tower of Babel. That is why the emphasis is upon the reference to the various languages spoken by the various people from around the Mediterranean. Ordinary, then currently used languages. And the point of that is simple and Biblical - the emphasis of Pentecost is on restoration of fellowship together, reconciliation. Do not miss that point, as well as seeing that the issues being dealt with are present and immediate. That is much of the point of the entire Bible!. Your Faith is a response to so much that makes life intolerable for many. Then, notice how the response of some outsiders that day was to denigrate and deride? So very often. that tactic is employed by people who do not want to see reality and are determined to avoid it. (They did it with Jesus; that crown of thorns etc., was not torture but derision!) The real and huge difference for people at Pentecost was that up to that point, the Spirit of God was seen as available only to people in position of leadership: prophets, holy people, kings and such like. But even the OT prophets were aware that the Spirit was available to all who would respond. Read Isaiah and Ezekiel carefully (Ezekiel 37 is an alternative reading for this morning) and see how they understood God to be working. If you are game, keep your ears open and hear how often so-called unbelievers these days are aware of and do their best to follow truth and real justice ..... And they are on our side, so to speak. ***************************************************************************** From Conrad …...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. PATRONAL FESTIVAL EVENSONG SERVICE ST PETER’S CATHEDRAL SUNDAY, 17 JUNE 2011 PREACHER: The Rev’d Dr Matthew Anstey 6:00PM Cheese and Wine - Cynthia Poulton Hall 7:00PM Evensong (robing from 6.40) Please let us know if you are coming. RSVP by 12 JUNE 2012 (admin@sbtc.org.au). Now located at 1 Susan Street, Hindmarsh. An offering will be collected for the work of the College Please join us for this celebration in the life of the College and hear about the proposal for the new site from the architects, Walter Brooke Items for the Newsletter need to be sent to Fr. Ron at 8298 7160 or ronpkeynes@internode.on.net by Tuesday afternoon please …….