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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.