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Sunday 29th July, 2012 NINTH SUNDAY OF 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. Sunday School is back in action Collect Gracious God, You have placed within the hearts of all Your children a longing for Your word and a hunger for Your truth: grant that, believing in the One Whom You have sent, we may know Him to be the true bread of heaven and the food of eternal life, Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with You and the Holy Spirit be glory and honour for ever and ever. Amen. Today’s Readings read by Araki family Readings: 2 Samuel 11: 1—15 & Ephesians 3: 14—21 GOSPEL John 6: 1—31 Following difficulties referred to previously, I wonder if those who follow my blogs may prefer to receive them by email.. If that is so, please email me to go on to a group to receive said notes. No charge of course. PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Vanessa D We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, Jenny Jeffrey, Dorothy Furnival, the Swaby family , Lynda Knight, Dianne Cordes. Jim (fighting cancer;) Michelle and Jack,. Hazel Looney, Tommy Ferguson, Judith Manning, Barb Capon, Bob Arnold, Genevieve Forster, and Chris Barber. Remain in support of Helen, Yuri and family in their very sad loss..The Haig family thanks us for prayers for her baby. Caroline Sweet had an op this past week, and Kathy Pennos is fighting cancer. So is Danny Hodgson. Please pray for the family of Jackson Marsh, the lad struck by lightning.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Joy Campbell, Annabelle Williams Graham Pater, Andrew Little HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - YEAR’S MIND— Brian Fopp (2011), Doreen Wrightson (1999) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Tenth Sunday after Pentecost—Transfiguration Readings: Daniel 7:9-10 & 13 –14 and 2 Peter 1:16—19 GOSPEL Mark 9: 2—19 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. Jobs being carried out by parishioners We are attempting to compile a record of "who is doing what" in the parish. Some people have already responded and the results are in the 'Display Book' on the table in the foyer. This has the potential to be a very useful document as it will provide an excellent Parish Profile, telling people who they should contact over particular matters and avoiding duplication. Chances are that you are doing things for Holy Innocent's church. Please put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard and let me know what you are doing. E-mail to dandlhall@bigpond.com or your written offering into an empty sleeve in the display book. Thanks for your co-operation David Hall - Warden 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. 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 POWERPOINT ROSTER – Next Sunday Ron Keynes or Barb Capon Sunday after Don Caddy or Cynthia Macintosh READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Clare B Intercessor Ben L Sunday after Reader David C Intercessor Sue D-T SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Marilyn Little Brass Bonney Tomlinson Cleaning Susan Lee Mark your diary please ...... (a) St John's Exams 29/10-14/11 The Bush Church Aid Society of Australia Annual Spring Lunch 14 September 2012 at 12:00pm at Holy Trinity, North Tce, Adelaide. Admission $15 each. Limited seating, bookings essential before 5 September 2012 to Helen or Vivien sa@bushchurchaid.com.au 8351 5950 RONBLOG on today’s Gospel You may be running intro difficulty right here and now, for what Chapter 6 has to say about Jesus, about the Faith, and about the Gospel, may be too much to take in one sitting. Not surprisingly, the Lectionary has us spreading Chapter 6 over several Sundays. If we concentrate on miracle, there, then we miss most of the point, purpose and direction of this incident. Please see that John describes this incident and others, not as ‘miracle’ but as sign. I usually edit the NIV translation for its constant misuse of the Greek text. That translation shows up as ‘miraculous sign’ where the Greek text has but sign. Very important. Next thing to notice is the fine print in John’s Gospel. After crossing the sea (Red Sea?) and climbing a mountain (Sinai) there is the feeding sign in Exodus. Recall the escape from Egypt, the encounters of Mount Sinai, and the manna and quail. What was going on there? And that was the salvation of Israel, in escape from slavery, and the sustenance offered them by God, not only in the food available but also in the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments. Once that is absorbed, try contrasting what happened here in the Gospel: in Horeb there was only just enough for the given day; and here there was stuff left over in droves. So now one can see that John is offering a comparison and contrast between Moses and Jesus. Please stop and realize that, in such a conservative religion as Judaism, such a process would hardly be at all welcome. So the outcome for those present had two prongs, so to speak: on the one hand there were those who saw Jesus as a prophet . Now that was progress of a sort. On the other hand some wanted to push Jesus into being king! And that was a step rather retrograde. They were looking for a messiah-like person who would simply be there to meed their needs, without effort or involvement from them. Small wonder then that Jesus disappeared from that scene.