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Sunday 30th September, 2012 EIGHTEENTH 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 in recess over School holidays Collect for the day O God, Your Son has taught us that those who give a cup of water in His name will not lose their reward: open our eyes to see those who are in need, and teach us to set no store by riches and earthly rewards, so that, in surrendering ourselves to serve You in Your children, we may labour for the treasure that endures; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Today’s Readings Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost read by Hal S- Readings Esther 7:1 ...22 and James 5: 12—20 GOSPEL Mark 9:38—50 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;) Tommy Ferguson, Judith Manning, Bob Arnold, baby Mitchell, Helen, Yuri and family. Kathy Pennos, Danny Hodgson, (doing well, back playing piano!) Ann Daughtry, Dennis and Walter, Chris Barber, Pat Pater, Susan Daulby, Natasha Campbell, Dennis Smith and Janet Phillips. HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Warren Huffa (late) Thomas Downes HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - YEAR’S MIND— Eddie Schmidt (2001), Marjorie Norton (1990) John Halstead (1995) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Readings Job 1: 1:1 & 2: 1-10 and Hebrews 1: 1-4 & 2: 5—12 GOSPEL Mark 10: 2—16 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 YOUNG PEOPLE’S GROUP 5pm Sunday 30th at Daughtry’s home SINGING GROUP Meets after the 10am service each Sunday. All singers welcome MOTHERS’ UNION - meets third Thursdays each month at 2.00pm SPECIAL NOTE FROM MUI: Mothers' Union will be holding a trading table on the Sunday 21st October—we suggest that you come prepared!!! WALKING CHURCH First Saturday of each month at 4.00pm at Belair National Park gates near railway station bridge. That means next Saturday!!! FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE It is our turn to visit the wards and take patients to the service in the chapel on Sunday 14th October. Please be at the chapel by 10am to allow plenty of time. If you are able to help in this outreach to the community please come and join us. Enquiries to Jean Fordham ph. 8278 2837 Bonney Tomlinson will be away for a while soon and calls for volunteers for Morning Tea roster during her absence. Please see Bonney herself in the kitchen after Church. Church Spring Cleaning Working Bee Saturday 3rd of November Please make a diary note now!. Should anyone prefer to work during the week preceding, please note that St. John’s exams in the Hall preclude any work being done before 4.00 pm. Bottles and Cans and Cartons Readers are advised that these are still being called for, as the income goes towards Children’s and youth ministry. Please leave these in the Germein Room for Robyn to collect. Operation Christmas Child - Shoe Boxes There are still a few boxes left so please take one home to fill. Let’s beat last year’s total. Take a leaflet as well for further information. Return by middle of October please. Thanking you. Marlene Dixon. Retiring Collections for Interchurch School Chaplaincy—$397.75 was received, an excellent effort and our thanks to all who donated so generously. Has everyone noticed the marvellous job Craig Deane has done on the steel chairs in the Church? Beautifully coloured and upholstered! Thanks, Craig! 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 Hillbig or Barb Capon Sunday after Joy Campbell or Craig Deane READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Caroline S Intercessor Mary V Sunday after Reader Trevor T Intercessor Wendy M SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Iris Downes Brass Yvonne Caddy Cleaning Group 2 Mary V mentioned the project for making stoles for Stephen and would appreciate offers of help in making same. Contact Mary if you are able to assist. Mark your diary please ...... St John's Exams 29/10-14/11 Inter-Church Family Picnic Day - 7th October The Inter-Church Council is winding back the clock for a family day out. Please mark this event in your diary and plan to join the local churches at the Weymouth Oval, Coromandel Valley for a good old fashioned church picnic on Sunday 7th October from 12.30pm – 4.00 pm. Bring your lunch and picnic gear (rug, chairs etc.). This event is part of the Coro Alive 175 celebrations marking the first settlement of Coromandel Valley in 1837 – “they jumped ship to settle at Coromandel Valley”! 40 Hour Famine Ross Hill-Brown would like to thank all those who supported him in taking part in the 40 Hour Famine and he is pleased to announce family Hill-Brown reached its target of $400." RONBLOG on today’s Readings Salt ….. Have I told you before of the time, many years ago, when a busload of Adelaide students was travelling down the Oodnadatta Track (and it was no easy journey in those days!) and the vehicle broke down a few miles north of the William Creek pub, which was far less-well-known then than it is now, and far less well equipped. One of the teachers volunteered to walk to the hotel for help in the heat of summer, and set off expecting to reach his destination, about eight kms away. Time passed, and no rescue came for the students – and there would have been minimal traffic around then. It emerged subsequently that the volunteer never made it, perishing on the road as he had neither water nor salt – both elements absolutely essential in those hot and dry conditions even today. Back to salt: too much of it is damaging; yet none renders things tasteless. Changing expressions, asking or offering is more productive than demanding; serving is better than ordering. And it is not just in the New Testament that we find such wisdom appearing, but also in the Old. Now, to be a servant is hardly attractive stuff these days, now is it? It all sounds so meek and mild and pathetic. So it is if your ego is at stake; but if the issue is not me but all of us, then the reality has to move away from power, force, violence and destruction. One of the saddest lessons never learnt by humans was that World War I was meant to be the ‘war to end all wars.’ When will we ever learn? So the answer lies largely in the need for followers of Jesus to be followers of Jesus. ST BARNABAS’COLLEGE VALEDICTORY SERVICE CELEBRATION OF GRADUANDS St Andrew’s Walkerville Friday, 9 November 2012, 6.30 pm Please join us for this celebration of the College’s first graduands from Charles Sturt University PREACHER: The Rev’d Jenny Wilson 6:30PM Evensong (robing from 6.15) 7:30PM Drinks and Supper - Hall Please let us know by 1 November 2012 if you are coming to our celebration: admin@sbtc.org.au; or 8340 0411 An offering will be collected for the work of the College

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Sunday 23rd September, 2012 SEVENTEENTH 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 in recess over School holidays Collect for the day God and Father of all, You have taught us through Your Son that the last shall be first, and have made a little child the measure of Your kingdom: give us the wisdom from above, so that we may understand that in Your sight the one who serves is the greatest of all. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Today’s Readings Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost read by Arndrae L Readings Proverbs 31: 10—31 James 3: 1—12 GOSPEL Mark 9: 30—37 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 , Dianne Cordes. Jim (fighting cancer;) Tommy Ferguson, Judith Manning, Bob Arnold, baby Mitchell, Helen, Yuri and family. Kathy Pennos, Danny Hodgson, Ann Daughtry, Dennis and Walter, Chris Barber, Natasha Campbell, Dennis Smith and Janet Phillips. HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Gary Campbell, Sue Harry HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - YEAR’S MIND— John Newland (1987) Trevor Tomlinson (2002) Dallas Bruse (2007) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost Readings Esther 7:1 ...22 and James 5: 12—20 GOSPEL Mark 9:38—50 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 YOUNG PEOPLE’S GROUP 5pm Sunday 30th at Daughtry’s home 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. Operation Christmas Child - Samaritans Purse Please take and fill a shoe box from the table in the foyer. To be returned by middle of October. I would like to be able to send 25 boxes like we did last year. If in doubt see me. Thanking you Marlene Dixon. 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 Don Caddy or Cynthia Macintosh Sunday after Jill Hillbig or Barb Capon READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Hal S-C Intercessor Ben Luks Sunday after Reader Caroline S Intercessor Mary V SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Noelene Carter Brass Sweet family Cleaning Susan Lee Mark your diary please ...... St John's Exams 29/10-14/11 Inter-Church Family Picnic Day - 7th October The Inter-Church Council is winding back the clock for a family day out. Please mark this event in your diary and plan to join the local churches at the Weymouth Oval, Coromandel Valley for a good old fashioned church picnic on Sunday 7th October from 12.30pm – 4.00 pm. Bring your lunch and picnic gear (rug, chairs etc.). This event is part of the Coro Alive 175 celebrations marking the first settlement of Coromandel Valley in 1837 – “they jumped ship to settle at Coromandel Valley”! 40 Hour Famine Ross Hill-Brown would like to thank all those who supported him in taking part in the 40 Hour Famine and he is pleased to announce family Hill-Brown reached its target of $400. RONBLOG on today’s OT Reading in particular This will certainly raise the ire of some, but I ask then to be patient as the story unfolds to its conclusion. It was many years ago now, around 35-odd, at the height of the Feminist struggle, especially within the Church. The Bishop of the time has asked me to be our rep at the Council of Churches annual gathering so I went as requested. It took not more than a few moments to realize that this body of people was entirely at the mercy of a rather large band of vociferous and pugnacious women, who used every opportunity to nail their colours to the mast and prove themselves superior. At that stage in my life, I could manage to cope with most people, situations and things, but this was becoming something of a very unpleasant experience. The agenda had nothing to do with Council of Churches – and everything to do with their demands. Whatever contribution or comment I or anyone made was mis-read and mistranslated as being an expression of male superiority. Being the fourth child in our family after three girls, and having never had any superior airs for that reason, it was all rather bewildering—and actually stupid and self-destructive. In the end, I exploded gently, suggesting that the agenda for the gathering be brought back to the issues that were listed. As you might imagine, I was over-ruled with considerable noise, and I determined not to return next year. Whilst I understood that the womenfolk must have felt similarly whenever they found themselves over-ruled, I have never had any sympathy with any revolution that simply changes the roles of oppressed and oppressor. I doubt if you have either! If you want the best illustration of what I mean, then hang on to your hat. The example par excellence, is the Cross of Christ. There was your Lord, facing all the expression of power and control of the time, quietly showing it up for its falsity, even allowing it to express its power over life and death, and yet simply, as Servant, beating it at its own game. What is more, He still left room for those rather hideous perpetrators to stop and realize what they had done, repent from their actions, and change direction. It cost Jesus His life, but then being true often has that sort of outcome. It is no mistake that, over 2,000 years from that event, our Lord is neither forgotten nor despised by a very large proportion of the population of the world. The radical love of Jesus as seen though the eyes of a young man named Francis: How can this generation show God's love to the world? A ONE-DAY SEMINAR presented by The Third Order Society of St Francis (SA) Cost: Free for all Date: Saturday 6th October 2012 9:00am to 9:00pm Venue: St Paul's Anglican Church, Port Adelaide in St Vincent Street, in front of the Birkenhead bridge Please bring: A plate to share for lunch and/or a salad or dessert for dinner More information: St Paul’s Church Office - 8447 7050 or 0421 278 345 (David) or 0419 800 542 (Wayne

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Sunday 9th September, 2012 FIFTEENTH SUNDAY OF PENTECOST Welcome to Archbishop and Confirmees 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 Almighty and everlasting God, increase our faith, hope, and love, and, that we may receive all You promise, make us love what You command; through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. The Bishop says the Prayer for Confirmation Ever-living God, your Spirit made us your children, confident to call you Father. Increase your Spirit within us and bring us to our promised inheritance in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Today’s Readings Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost read by John F Readings: Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-8, 22-23 and James 2:1-10 GOSPEL Mark 7: 24—37 PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE 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, Ann Daughtry, Dennis and Walter, Chris Barber, Natasha Campbell. HAPPY BIRTHDAY - John Kelly, David Hall, Trevor Tregenza, Mary Vandepeer HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - YEAR’S MIND— John Richardson (1997) Evelyn Goreham (1999) Stewart Leslie (1978) Iris Ferguson (2008) Murray Vandepeer (2008) William Forster (1981) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Readings Proverbs 1:20 –33 and James 2: 18—26 GOSPEL Mark 8: 27—38 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. Please remember that Cheryl Wiseman takes her vows as a member of the Order of St. Barnabas and Cecelia at Melrose today. 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 needed 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 POWERPOINT ROSTER – Next Sunday Cynthia Macintosh or Don Caddy Sunday after Jill Hillbig or Joy Campbell READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Paul H Intercessor Don B Sunday after Reader Arndrae L Intercessor Vanessa D SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Anna Kelly Brass Bonney Tomlinson 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 Gospel If you have not looked up your Bible atlas, you are likely to miss some hugely important issues that are referred to in what I call the ‘fine print.’ of these stories. Syro-Phoenician people were not Jews or anywhere near that status. They were Gentiles, goyim, outsiders beyond the slightest interest of the normal Jew or of God Himself, so the theory went. The geography also explains why Jesus went there for a rest, a blow, a chance to recover. No one would have known Him. Oh! Yeah? Please notice how this incident was reported: one is left suspecting that Jesus’ response to the mother was what the disciples would have expected, as would that mother. But that lady’s response to Jesus’ apparent rejection must have left some of the Twelve seeing how disgraceful was such an approach. Here was a person in need, not for herself, but for her very ill child. The outcome of the incident was that the mother’s needs were met, and met with great compassion. In other words, God’s interest was NOT limited to those of Hebrew descent, and, Twelve, you had better believe it. Now check you maps and see that the Decapolis (Ten Towns) was also outside Jewish territory so this man was also Gentile, and theoretically persona non grata. Did that stop Jesus? Of course not! But notice the thoughtful response Jesus made to this person, deaf and mute. Taken aside meant that there was a little peace and quietness for the person, and Jesus’ almost miming of the activity of healing meant that the person had a chance to understand what was being offered. Jesus’ request for no reaction from the crowd would have been as much for the healed man as for Himself, but notice that the response, even from this Gentile mob, was almost a quote from Isaiah! You may well be surprised at the extent of some apparently ’pagan’ people’s knowledge - and understanding— of Scripture.

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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.