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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?’