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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.