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Sunday 10th February, 2013 Last Sunday after Epiphany 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 today Almighty God, You have given us Your only Son to be for us both a sacrifice for sin and also an example of godly life; give us grace that we may always thankfully receive the benefits of His sacrifice, and also daily endeavour to follow the blessed steps of His most holy life; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Today’s Readings Last Sunday of Epiphany—Transfiguration —read by Vanessa Readings Exodus 34:29—35 and 2 Corinthians 3: 12—42 GOSPEL Luke 9: 26—36 (37-45) Ash Wednesday 9.30am and 7.45pm Eucharist and Imposition of Ashes PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Warren We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, Dorothy Furnival, the Swaby family , Dianne Cordes. Tommy Ferguson, Bob Arnold, Ann Daughtry, Pat Pater, Susan Daulby, Janet Phillips, Jan and Mollie, Eddy Klose, Allan Pressley, Robyn Keynes’ sister Pam .. HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - David & Barbara Corbett, Allan and Kate Jennings YEAR’S MIND— Alice Moore (2010) Alfred Barber (2003) Arleen Charlick (2008) Walter Marston (2001) Anne Bills (2009) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY First Sunday in Lent Readings: Deuteronomy 26:1-11 and Romans 10:4—13 GOSPEL Luke 4: 1—15 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 5.30pm Evening Prayer with Wendy MOTHERS’ UNION - meets third Thursdays each month at 2.00pm—next meeting February 21st –Fr. Warren will celebrate the Eucharist with a Lenten focus, and a planning meeting will be held . Suggestions for speakers etc., please, - and a small plate of afternoon tea t o share. Margaret Pressley, (Group Leader) WALKING CHURCH First Saturday of each month at 5.00pm at Belair National Park gates near railway station bridge. Friday Morning HI Tea and Coffee is on again from 8.30am. Don’t miss the chance for a yarn Anna Kelly is calling a meeting of people on the Sanctuary Roster for Sunday 17th February at 9.30am—all volunteers are asked to attend please. Mary Vandepeer is planning the Shrove Tuesday Pancake evening, (13th Feb) and asks all who plan to attend to provide fillings for the pancakes that evening please. 6.00pm at the Church. Someone lent Fr. Ron a large swag of old photos of Holy Innocents’ when the 20 year anniversary magazine of the move to this building was published. Since then, the person who lent them has not claimed them. Please catch up with Fr. Ron if you know who it was. Jocelyn Deane is sorting them out just at present. Lenten Studies are to be held on Luke’s Gospel. Meetings for next week, Sunday 11.30am in Church, Tuesday 10am in foyer, and 7.30pm at the Rectory. Official lists are available in the foyer—changes will be noted each week in these pages. You are reminded of the forthcoming WORLD DAY OF PRAYER on Friday 1st March at 10.00am at Holy Innocents’ Church. We are hosts to this event. You are encouraged to invite your friends to this event. 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 Following week Barb Capon or Trevor Tregenza READER AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Eric D Intercessor Hal S-C Sunday after Reader Iris D Intercessor Max A SANCTUARY ROSTER Next Sunday Flowers No flowers Brass Rosemary Conlon Cleaning Cleaner GENTLE REMINDER Wendy M has been using Facebook to convey information from the parish on her page at Holy Innocents’ Anglican Parish Belair, and is obtaining increasing numbers of hits. It may be a little rude for me to report that my full notes on Sunday’s Readings are also posted on that page each week. St Barnabas’ Theological College Commencement Monday 25 February 2013, 6.30 pm – St Peter’s Cathedral Our theological college will celebrate the new academic year with its Commencement Service, This will include the presentation of prizes to several students to commemorate their success in theological studies. The Guest Preacher will be Dr Ben Myers, one of Australia’s leading young theologians. Following the evensong service, the Commencement Lecture will be held starting at 7.30pm. The title of Dr Ben Myer’s talk is God and Other Strangers: Rowan Williams and Theology in the Public Square. Parishioners are welcome to attend the Service and/or Lecture. If you have any queries please telephone the College on 8340 0411. Here are some various activities in Lent, to enable parishioners to contribute to the work of the ABM, the Anglican agency for overseas mission. 1. Making Palm Crosses.Palm crosses are distributed on Palm Sunday. Each year a group undertakes to make crosses from palm tree leaves. It is a tricky process, though quickly learnt, or re-learnt. All crosses in excess of those needed for distribution in the parish will be directed to the Auxiliary of the ABM in Adelaide. They will sell them to other parishes, the proceeds going to the ABM. In addition to some ‘makers’ of crosses, we need a supply of palm fronds, in good condition. From each ‘good’ frond - clean, and not old and dry - about 30 or more crosses can be made. Help in supplying these will be welcome. 2 The Lenten Envelope Appeal In this annual appeal, all parishioners are invited to contribute weekly. Your contribution can be placed in a special envelope, which will be available on the first Sunday in Lent, and may be returned with your offering on Easter Day. All of us can remember the work of the Anglican Board of Mission as a part of our Lenten discipline of prayer For more information, please contact Joan Durdin (8178 0704) RONBLOG on today’s Gospel - Transfiguration Many years ago, I was driving back from a rather hectic and stressed Tuesday of visits and counselling in the next valley, drained, exhausted and wondering whether it might be wise to ring up the dozen or more folk who looked forward to the Bible Study Group in that parish. It was latish afternoon, sun dropping down in the west, and time of year not all that far off harvest. The lowering sun somehow caught the ripening wheat and the ttint brought tears to my eyes. It was such a beautiful sight that I stopped the car, and got out to drink in the vision there in front of me – acres and acres of golden wheat, slowly swaying in the slight breeze. Kids these days would call that ‘awesome,’ and so it was. After ten minutes of simply looking, it so refreshed me that any idea of cancelling the Study dissipated. When we all gathered that evenoing, I mentioned my very own transfiguration, and it was a lovely surprise to have other people report their own similar experiences. A transfiguration is an ordinary situation taking on an extraordinary value, quite invigorating and encouraging and strengthening aware people. And offering a huge challenge as well. Neither of those stories are designed to get you all emotional; far from it. Rather it is simply an attempt to help see that more often than not, transfigurations are a remarkable yet constant revelation of something marvellous which emerges out of something quite unremarkably ordinary. Some people call such things as light-globe moments, eureka times, when out of the blue comes a chance at a learning curve. There is less point simply enjoying the moment than there is in moving in the direction such an experience points.