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Sunday 2nd September, 2012 FOURTEENTH 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 for the Day Cleanse our consciences, O Lord, and enlighten our hearts through the daily presence of Your Son Jesus Christ, that when He comes in glory to be our judge we may be found undefiled and acceptable in His sight; Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Today’s Readings Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost read by Iris D Readings Song of Songs 2: 8—13 & James 1: 17—27 GOSPEL Mark 7: 1—8 & 14—23 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 , Dianne Cordes. Jim (fighting cancer;) Tommy Ferguson, Judith Manning, Bob Arnold, baby Mitchell, Helen, Yuri and family. Kathy Pennos, Danny Hodgson, Hilary Seith, Ann Daughtry, Dennis and Walter, Chris Barber, Natasha Campbell. HAPPY BIRTHDAY - HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - Arndrae and Bobbie Luks, Jim and Evelyn Scrivens YEAR’S MIND— Chris Fraser (1995) Dr. Bob Russell (1995) Ruth Stalley (1999), Meg Cameron (1996) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-8, 22-23 and James 2:1-10 GOSPEL Mark 7: 24—37 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 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. NOTE CAREFULLY Young People’s group meets at Daughtry’s home this evening at 5.00pm. What a pity that many of us are not young enough!!! Archbishop Driver will be here next Sunday with a Confirmation on the day. With Mary Vandepeer at the helm, there will be a rather nice Morning Tea after the 10 am Service ….. Meanwhile Mary is calling for helpers with the foyer morning tea table after 10am services please. Also do not forget that Cheryl Wiseman takes her vows as a member of the Order of St. Barnabas and Cecelia at Melrose next Sunday. For a series of reasons, the Friday coffee morning is no more until November ….. Operation Christmas Child - Samaritans Purse Time once again to start thinking about filling a BOX for the above. I will have a few boxes in the foyer on Sunday, and will bring a Sample box for you to see. These will be need to be brought in by the middle of October. Thanking you, Marlene Dixon. The Schools Ministry Group will be held between September 9-17th 2012. On 16th, Sara Walding, the Christian Pastoral Support Worker at Belair Primary School, will be preaching." Also as part of this there will be an after service plate collection on 9th and 16th September for Christian Pastoral Support Workers (School Chaplains) and for the funding of transition bags. 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 Most of us noticed the arrival of 50 rather nice chairs—from St. Luke’s Whitmore Square, at a remarkable price of $10 each. Anyone wishing to make a contribution towards the cost is encouraged so to do. POWERPOINT ROSTER – Next Sunday Min Araki or Ron Keynes Sunday after Cynthia Macintosh or Don Caddy READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader John F Intercessor Max A Sunday after Reader Paul H Intercessor Don B SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Jan Tregenza Brass Margaret Caruthers Cleaning Group 5 Mark your diary please ...... (a) St John's Exams 29/10-14/11 Does anyone using Windows XP have a use for an HP Laser printer (10/10) and/or a Flatbed Scanner? A call to Fr. Ron on 82987160 will solve the problem ….. for free! RONBLOG on today’s Readings Do you recall any of the rather odd prohibitions from your time as a young Christian? This is going back quite some way, but I recall one of my contemporaries being so very holy and not wearing a bra (news I received from my sister, not by personal examination!) and refused to use lipstick although she was certainly one of the very people who needed both decorations!!!!!. On the male side of the fence, smoking was a no-no and so was dancing. You will not be surprised that I ignored both prohibitions! All manner of other restrictions were applied and obeyed generally, with no questions asked. That was the horrific part – to which I did not prescribe. OK, it all sounds so funny and obsolete now, and it did have some value back then when people respected other people, which is not very much the case nowadays. But it did make the prospect for ‘newcomers’ to see the Faith as a total restriction on enjoyment of anything! Rules, bloody rules. And that is precisely what Jesus blew out of the water, although it has taken a long time for people to catch up. Here was a completely different way of relating to God, and – more particularly, - to each other. The real issue, as far as our Lord was concerned, was that people of His day and age asserted that they were being true to God by applying the most minute of rules and thus proving their holiness, when ……. ‘your hearts are far from Me.’ Those people were far more concerned about exerting, and proving their holiness, their power and their superiority. However in so acting that way, all they proved was the exact opposite. Self-righteous prigs is how we now see them. And so am I if I follow that pattern. It is repulsive, even to fellow Christians. How much more is it to those ‘on the outside?’

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Sunday 26th August, 2012 THIRTEENTH 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 Ever-living God, by Whose Spirit the whole body of the Church is governed and sanctified: hear the prayers we offer for all Your faithful people, that in the ministry to which You have called them each may serve You in holiness and truth; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen Today’s Readings Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost read by Eric D Readings: 1 Kings 8: 22-30 & 41-43 and Ephesians 6:10-20 GOSPEL John 6: 56 –69 Those who follow my blogs may prefer to receive them by email.. If that is so, please email me to receive said notes. Or check it out on the Facebook page that Wendy has opened. PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Warren We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, Jenny Jeffrey, Dorothy Furnival, the Swaby family , Dianne Cordes. Jim (fighting cancer;) Tommy Ferguson, Judith Manning, Bob Arnold, baby Mitchell, Helen, Yuri and family. Kathy Pennos, Danny Hodgson, Hilary Seith, Ann Daughtry, Rachel Milosevic, Dennis and Walter, Chris Barber, Natasha Campobell. HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Margaret Carruthers, Eric Downes, Sarah Browne, Alicia McKinnon HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - Chris & Eddie Barber YEAR’S MIND— Edith Grace ( 2010) Donald Cameron (2003) Elizabeth Lapedus (1991) Freidrich Seith (1989) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Readings Song of Songs 2: 8—13 & James 1: 17—27 GOSPEL Mark 7: 1—8 & 14—23 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 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 That means this Saturday 1st September.. Archbishop Driver will be here on 9th September, with the possibility of a Confirmation on the day. Warren asks if anyone wishes to reaffirm their baptism or Confirmation on that day to get in touch with him. A meeting at 11.30am after Church is set for people wishing to be part of the Renewal vows. Also please note that Cheryl Wiseman takes her vows as a member of the Order of St. Barnabas and Cecelia at Melrose on that day. For a series of reasons, the Friday coffee morning will take a break from this Friday and will re-open on 16th November. Please take careful note. The Schools Ministry Group will be held between September 9-17th 2012. On 16th, Sara Walding, the Christian Pastoral Support Worker at Belair Primary School, will be preaching." Also as part of this there will be an after service plate collection on 9th and 16th September for Christian Pastoral Support Workers (School Chaplains) and for the funding of transition bags. 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 Most of us noticed the arrival of 50 rather nice chairs—from St. Luke’s Whitmore Square, at a remarkable price of $10 each. (Hopefully we will have a chance to buy more of them.) Anyone wishing to make a contribution towards the cost is encouraged so to do. POWERPOINT ROSTER – Next Sunday Barb Capon or Trevor Tregenza Sunday after Min Araki or Ron Keynes READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Iris D Intercessor Hal S-C Sunday after Reader John F Intercessor Max A SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Iris Downes Brass Rosemary Conlon Cleaning Susan Lee Mark your diary please ...... (a) St John's Exams 29/10-14/11 Does anyone using Windows XP have a use for an HP Laser printer (10/10) and/or a Flatbed Scanner? A call to Fr. Ron on 82987160 will solve the problem ….. for free! RONBLOG on today’s Readings I wonder if it is too far a jump for you to see that today’s rather odd mixture of readings presents something of a broad picture of the faith, and yet for some may seem to picture the very oddity that one needs to avoid. If I am speaking in riddles, then please allow this explanation: In the OT Reading we have the story of Solomon and his temple, or more particularly his perception of God at the time. (Give or take a few years afterwards and Solomon’s view of God goes really quite feral. The Epistle offers, for some an odd military expression of faith, and then The Gospel seems to go quite overboard in its rather gory imagery (which was distorted and misrepresented by old Roman foes) and can easily leave modern believers wondering quite what Jesus was on about. Rather than concentrate on the readings for today, my thoughts are to take a rather wider view of things and to remind us all of the need to explore and understand both the Faith and Scripture, moving away from might be a more ”politically correct” approach! That approach tends to accept anyone’s view of things, whether harebrained or sensible, which is why I have never found that PC approach to have any basis whatever in reality! So where are you in the understanding the Faith stakes? Are you, unlike the people in ‘My Brother’s Sect,’ prepared to question and test and query? If so, good on you – and stay that way. It may well mean that you have all sorts of doubts and questions. It would bother me if you did not!!! So this is a plea – perhaps even more than a plea – that all should be far more questioning and even critical in their approach to the Faith. The more I am aware of its aims and goals, and even more aware of its power and impact, the better. If it does not stand up to the test of veracity, then the sooner we leave it the better. The real issue is this search for truth about life and living and relationships.

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Sunday 19th August, 2012 TWELFTH 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 Ever-living God, Your Son, Jesus Christ, gave Himself as living bread for the life of the world: give us such a knowledge of His presence that we may be strengthened and sustained by His risen life to serve you continually; through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You in unity with the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Today’s Readings Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost read by Vanessa D Readings: 1 Kings 2:; 10-12 3:3 –14, and Ephesians 5: 11—21 GOSPEL John 6: 51—58 Those who follow my blogs may prefer to receive them by email.. If that is so, please email me to receive said notes. Or check it out on the Facebook page that Wendy has opened. PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Ben L We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, Jenny Jeffrey, Dorothy Furnival, the Swaby family , Dianne Cordes. Jim (fighting cancer;) Michelle and Jack,. Tommy Ferguson, Judith Manning, Bob Arnold, baby Mitchell, Helen, Yuri and family. Kathy Pennos, Danny Hodgson, Hilary Seith, Ann Daughtry, Rachel Milosevic, Dennis and Walter. HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Wayne Parham HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - Barb & Nick Capon, Wayne and Sue Parham YEAR’S MIND— Ted Newland (1993) Win Lamden (1992) Edith Biggs (2010) Rosemary Mayne (2005) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: 1 Kings 8: 22-30 & 41-43 and Ephesians 6:10-20 GOSPEL John 6: 56 –69 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. Archbishop Driver will be here on 9th September, with the possibility of a Confirmation on the day. Warren asks if anyone wishes to reaffirm their baptism or Confirmation on that day to get in touch with him. Also please note that Cheryl Wiseman takes her vows as a member of the Order of St. Barnabas and Cecelia at Melrose on that day. Mitcham Council is keen for parishioners to have this information please. ‘ To improve traffic safety on Sheoak Road Mitcham Council has erected NO STANDING signs for a 30 metre section on the approaches to the bend opposite Holy Innocents. This will effect some parking but will help prevent the likelihood of a traffic accident.’ Michael Whiting Over the weekend Ross Hill-Brown is taking part in the World Vision Forty Hour Famine (finishing at midday after the 10.00 am service this morning). His aim is to raise $300. Over the next few weeks Ross can be sponsored for having taken part. Forty Dollars ($40) can help feed a family of five for a month. Donations can be made before by September 2012 through http://www.worldvision.com.au/40HF/ProfilePage.aspx?preferredurl=RossHillBrown . Donations can also be made by BPAY Biller Code: 199745 Ref: 600830400. Donations over $2 are tax deductible For a series of reasons, the Friday coffee morning will take a break from the last Friday in August (24th) and will re-open on 16th November. Please take careful note. The Schools Ministry Group will be held between September 9-17th 2012. On 16th, Sara Walding, the Christian Pastoral Support Worker at Belair Primary School, will be preaching." Also as part of this there will be an after service plate collection on 9th and 16th September for Christian Pastoral Support Workers (School Chaplains) and for the funding of transition bags. The Annual ABM Lamington Drive will take place towards the end of August. Orders for Lamingtons (at $10.00 per dozen) may be placed by writing your name and the number required on the yellow form on the notice board in the hall near the servery. Please make payment by placing your money in the box near the form. Also tick 'paid'. Lamingtons may be collected from the kitchen on Friday 31 August (p.m.) until Sunday 2 September. Joan Durdin Wendy Morecroft is the Administrator for the new Holy Innocents' Anglican Church Belair Facebook page. If you are on Facebook, please visit the page and press "Like" so that you will receive any updates. If you have news items that you would like to be uploaded to the page please email Wendy at awsc@internode.on.net or call 0400576364. 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 Joy Campbell or Craig Deane Sunday after Barb Capon or Trevor Tregenza READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Eric D Intercessor Warren Sunday after Reader Iris D Intercessor Hal S-C SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Audrey & Graham Bains Brass Yvonne Caddy Cleaning Group 4 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 I suspect that very many moderns would have difficulty with today’s Gospel... sounds like something ugly. It may help to go back a little to unwrap the power of this eating business. Please go back to Moses and Sinai and the Book of Exodus if you would. There Israel was losing hope for their journey through lack of sustenance. Manna and quail was the answer then, giving people strength to move on. Mind you, in that situation there was only sufficient food offered for each day. Jesus feeding was over-abundant. Of course, the food from Moses or Jesus, was simply a sort of parable for what one needs to keep going, progress and develop, and obviously pointed to something rather more significant than mere satisfaction of one’s gut!. What does a person need when living in a world in which conflict and dysfunction seem so often to be rife? The answer is to ponder the entire Gospel response to life and its bends and twists, to see that living with truth, equity, love and justice makes the most sense, and produces the best outcomes. There is no sense of superiority in this! It is pointing to where the best is possible for all involved. While it does mean subsuming one’s personal demands for the betterment of all, it does offer a clear and solid break from the usual checkmate situation. May I underline the complete lack of egotism in all this! When one sees Eucharist as illustrating all of our Lord’s response to conflict, all of His teaching and living, all that is clear and present in His Cross and resurrection, then a far clearer picture emerges, and makes far more composite sense. This all includes such risky things as refusing retaliation – as Jesus did in His arrest trial and execution. It also takes up all that the Psalm this week and the Epistle underlines, reminding us that the Gospel has more to do with redemption of life and living now than it does about getting to heaven.

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Sunday 12th August, 2012 ELEVENTH 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 Everliving God, Your Son, Jesus Christ, gave Himself as living bread for the life of the world: give us such a knowledge of His presence that we may be strengthened and sustained by His risen life to serve you continually; through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You in unity with the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Today’s Readings Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost read by David C Readings: 1 Kings 2:; 10-12 3:3 –14, and Ephesians 5: 11—21 GOSPEL John 6: 51—58 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 Sue D-T 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,. Tommy Ferguson, Judith Manning, Bob Arnold, Helen, Yuri and family. Kathy Pennos, Danny Hodgson, Hilary Seith, Ann Daughtry and Rachel Milosevic. HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Wendy Morecroft, Ben Luks, Amalia Hale, Jane Sweet HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - YEAR’S MIND— Gwladys Currer, (2008), Joyce Hannaford (1998) Linda Barber (1990) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY 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. Archbishop Driver will be here on 9th September, with the possibility of a Confirmation on the day. Warren asks if anyone wishes to reaffirm their baptism or Confirmation on that day to get in touch. Also Cheryl Wiseman takes her vows as a member of the Order of St. Barnabas and Cecelia at Melrose on that day. Please note that Esther and Neil will be playing during Communion at the 10 am service. So please be quiet as you listen …... Mitcham Council is keen for parishioners to have this information please. ‘To improve traffic safety on Sheoak Road Mitcham Council has erected NO STANDING signs for a 30 metre section on the approaches to the bend opposite Holy Innocents. This will affect some parking but will help prevent the likelihood of a traffic accident.’ Michael Whiting The Annual ABM ,Lamington Drive will take place towards the end of August. Orders for Lamingtons (at $10.00 per dozen) may be placed by writing your name and the number required on the yellow form on the notice board in the hall near the servery. Please make payment by placing your money in the box near the form. Also tick 'paid'. Lamingtons may be collected from the kitchen on Friday 31 August (p.m.) until Sunday 2 September. Joan Durdin Wendy Morecroft is the Administrator for the new Holy Innocents' Anglican Church Belair Face book page. If you are on Face book, please visit the page and press "Like" so that you will receive any updates. If you have news items that you would like to be uploaded to the page please email Wendy at awsc@internode.on.net or call 0400576364. 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 Craig Deane who had been busy painting all manner of doors and things in the Hall and Germein Room. A little fly on the wall let me know about this! 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 Jill Hilbig or Barb Capon Sunday after Joy Campbell or Craig Deane READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Vanessa D Intercessor Ben L Sunday after Reader Eric D Intercessor Warren SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Noelene Carter Brass Sid & Caroline Sweet 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 Feeding of 5,000 One needs to be more than a little aware of the contrast between Judaism (as popularly perceived in Jesus;’ day,) and all of that of which Jesus spoke .... and lived out. Whilst the Law has its enormous value and purpose, it is also true to say that people in positions of power can turn rules and regulations into means of control – something which (I dare to suspect) was very far from the minds of the original offerers of said Torah. And it was that distortion of the intended reality that turned a living faith into a dead ‘religion,’ from which there appeared to be little or no escape. Compare the Torah to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, noticing in particular the remarkable progress from dead legislation to living guidance. ‘You have heard it said’ is in contrast to ’but what I say to you’ and has repercussions of all sorts. Compare the codes on forgiveness, on murder, on adultery, and so on. The focus moves from the actions to the thoughts that provoke any such action. I have just been reading the newspaper reports on the recent (8/12) massacre in Colorado, and the local Advertiser magazine carries an article on if and how one can determine the insanity or otherwise of the assassins. The material makes very interesting reading, not least of which is a series of guesstimates as to how people can reach the depths of such destruction. While there is no definite resolution, there is very clear statements as to the length of time that such perpetrators manage to focus on their sense of injustice and so heighten their capacity to avoid any sense of responsibility for their actions. For such bitterness to lie so deeply hidden for such long periods of time underlines, if nothing else, the power in such gestation of hatreds. Then also, I once had a Bishop, a story of whom I have related previously. Arriving at our Rectory after a long trip into the Outback, the Bishop was having a cuppa with us and our local ‘oldest teenager’ who had spent the previous night evading the police. As he related his tale to the Bishop, Bill made the technical error of admitting to being very drunk. ‘I was not responsible, Bishop,’ the complainant said, ‘I was drunk.’ Said Bishop quietly and very firmly responded to Bill with ’Bill, you are human; you are responsible.’ Whilst I doubt many Courts would uphold such a view today, that presents the reason why life and relationships are disintegrating at a rate of knots even as we read and think. Late News Information has just come to hand about the next Diocesan Youth Thrive event to be held at Concordia College, 45 Cheltenham St, Highgate from 7.30 to 9.30pm on Friday 17th August. All young people are welcome, and there is a charge of $5 for supper.

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Sunday 5th August, 2012 TENTH 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 Almighty God, Whose Son was revealed in majesty before He suffered death upon the cross: give us faith to perceive His glory, that being strengthened by His grace we may be changed into His likeness, from glory to glory; 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 Tenth Sunday after Pentecost—Transfiguration Readings: Daniel 7:9-10 & 13 –14 and 2 Peter 1:16—19 GOSPEL Mark 9: 2—10 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, Bob Arnold, Genevieve Forster, Remain in support of Helen, Yuri and family in their very sad loss..Kathy Pennos is fighting cancer as is Danny Hodgson. Hilary Seith is also on our list., as is Stephen Daughtry’s Mum. HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Joy Campbell, Annabelle Williams, Graham Pater, Andrew Little. Esther Cheah missed out a mention last Sunday. But now we know! HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - YEAR’S MIND— Brian Fopp (2011), Doreen Wrightson (1999) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY 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 Archbishop Driver will be here on 9th September, with the possibility of a Confirmation on the day. Warren asks if anyone wishes to reaffirm their baptism on that day to get in touch. Also Cheryl Wiseman takes her vows as a member of the Order of St. Barnabas and Cecelia at Melrose on that day. BCA The Parish has been busy working for BCA. BCA Boxes from Parishioners totalled $439.95. The Soup for Lunch event contributed $124 and the sale of Bilby Tubs contributed $75. (Additional tubs were purchased direct from Vivien Bleby.) This adds up to a grand total of $638.95. Many thanks go to everyone for this wonderful fundraising effort. 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 State Governor acknowledges Don Caddy A very significant milestone was celebrated on 24th July to mark 27 years volunteering at the Cancer Care Centre by Don Caddy. A function was held to mark Don’s milestone. In October 1985 a group of medical professionals together with people with cancer and their carers met and shared a vision to develop a Wellbeing centre for South Australia. Don Caddy was one of this inaugural group. Dr Alistair Robertson and Mrs. Dorothy Linnett were also part of the vision group team that helped develop the Centre and it was great that they also joined Don in celebrating the occasion. POWERPOINT ROSTER – Next Sunday Don Caddy or Cynthia Macintosh Sunday after Jill Hilbig or Barb Capon READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader David C Intercessor Sue D-T Sunday after Reader Vanessa D Intercessor Ben L SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Sue D-T Brass Joan Durdin Cleaning Group 3 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 First Lesson When one reads Daniel’s writings, I suspect that modern readers would wonder what in the name of fortune is going on! Sadly, our modern world seems either to be ignorant of Biblical issues or have decided the Book is irrelevant. Neither position is at all close to the reality. Scripture is not there to be ‘believed’ but the process of its arrival to the present is to be pondered, understood and acted upon where it fits. Daniel (almost certainly a pseudonym) was actually writing long after some of the reported events, but his approach was very much part of the Biblical process. Jewish people arrived at their understanding of God not by dogma or tenet, but by observing life and its experiences. This author was expressing huge concerns that Alexandrian Hellenism, the Greek invasion, (4th Century BC) had the potential to undermine, even destroy Hebrew culture and faith. This was a great fear held by very many contemporaries. However,, Daniel’s fascinating presentation is of the rise and fall of a series of empires and kingdoms, all seemingly invincible, lined up against his conviction that God’s Kingdom would outlast any mere human attempt at domination. This was a powerful conviction, based on past experience, that truth, justice, compassion and equity would see the end of any number of human control factors or kingdoms. It is almost death and resurrection before the focal event. This is a salutary response for Christian people of our own day and age, fearful that the Faith will disappear off the planet. God is not dead, nor is the Faith impotent! And nor does it demand unthinking, blind response of its adherents. We are called to nothing other than faithfulness, not to a creed or dogma, but to the conviction that truth may be suppressed, but it can never be killed. The same applies to love, compassion, and all the ancient verities. So whose side are you on? Really? Late News Information has just come to hand about the next Diocesan Youth Thrive event to be held at Concordia College, 45 Cheltenham St, Highgate from 7.30 to 9.30pm on Friday 17th August. All young people are welcome, and there is a charge of $5 for supper.