Sunday 18th February 2018 First Sunday in Lent

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ELCOME TO ST PAUL’S. We are
glad that you have come to
worship God with us today. If
you are a visitor from another parish, or
worshipping with us for the first time,
please introduce yourself to our parish
priest, Fr James Collins, or to anyone
 Tuesday 20 February
wearing a name badge, over a cup of tea
1.15pm Lunchtime
Vocal Recital with or coffee in the parish hall after the service.
Christopher Harris
You’ll find the hall behind the church.
Study Group/Lenten Study
圣公会圣保罗堂欢迎你前来参加我们的英语传
7.30pm in the Rectory -
统圣樂圣餐崇拜。
 Saturday 24th February
2018 6.00PM – The 30th
Anniversary of Fr James
Year B – Sunday 18th February 2018

Ordination to the Sacred
Priesthood First Sunday in Lent
 8.00 am – Sung Eucharist
 Friday 9th March - Parish
 9.30 am – Parish Eucharist
Bus Trip
 Sunday 18th March –

AGM
 Fr James 30th Anniversary Ordination p.3
 Tuesday 20 March at
1.15pm Lunchtime  Kay Goldsworthy becomes world's first p.5
recital – Mark Isaacs - female Anglican Archbishop
Piano
 Congratulations Timothy and Heidi! p.6
 Tuesday 24 April at
 What is a Peal? p.14
1.15pm Lunchtime recital
– Nakul Kaushik - Clarinet
People needing wheelchair access can
enter St Paul’s most conveniently by the
First aid kits are located on the wall of door at the base of the belltower.
the kitchen in the Large Hall behind
the church and in the choir vestry.
Please turn your mobile phone off or on
to silent before the service starts. It’ll
Name badges help make St Paul’s an
save you much embarrassment later on.
inclusive community. If you need a new
name badge, fill in the form inside the
pew sheet, send it to the parish office,
and one will be made and left in church
for you.
Children are welcome in church at any
service. There is a selection of
children’s books and toys at the back of
Toilets are available at the entrance to the church near the font and there are
the parish hall, which is located behind also kids’ activity sheets and pencils
the church. available at the back of the church
where the pew sheets and prayer books
are.
Children’s Church runs during Term
Ask a member of the clergy or anyone Time. Meet at the back of the church at
who’s wearing a name badge. We’re the beginning of the 9.30am Eucharist.
here to help.
Please feel free to bring your children to
the altar rail to receive a blessing, or to
receive Communion if they have been
admitted to the sacrament.

As you take your place in your pew,

please make yourself aware of the route
to the nearest emergency exit. Should Please do not take photos
there be a fire, leave quickly, turn right, inside the church or during the services
and assemble by the roundabout on of worship without permission.
Burwood Road.
Collection given at St Paul’s on
Sunday 11th of February:
$2393
Other collection given:
Parish Pantry: $15
New Life Centre Nepal: $50
New Linen: $509.30
Total: $2967.30

Thank you for responding to God’s
generous love.
In 1984, Melbourne Bishop James Grant ordained Kay Goldsworthy a
deaconess. It was a time when, despite more than a decade of intense
struggle in the Australian Anglican Church for women to be allowed to
take Holy Orders, it was by no means certain that that would ever hap-
pen. So Kay, who had first felt the call to priestly ordination as a young
girl in the parish of Mooroolbark - a vocation encouraged strongly by
her vicar, Gerald Beaumont, later a bishop - accepted the only role then
available.
She was, as it turned out, one of Melbourne’s last deaconesses. Just a
year later the General Synod passed legislation to allow women to be-
come deacons, the first rung on the ‘ladder’ of Holy Orders. The first or-
dination of women deacons in Australia happened in Melbourne in Feb-
ruary the following year, and Goldsworthy was among the women or-
dained in that historic service.
So it was fitting that both Bishop Grant and Bishop Beaumont were in
Perth on Saturday to see Bishop Goldsworthy become the first woman in
the Anglican world to become an archbishop. And Melbourne’s Arch-
bishop Philip Freier, as Primate, was there to bless her and, on behalf of
the Australian bishops, to recognise her officially as Archbishop of
Perth.
A former Archbishop of Perth, Peter Carnley, was also in St George’s
Cathedral on Saturday 10 February. It was he who broke the roadblock
preventing women becoming priests when he led Perth Diocese to take
the decisive step of ordaining Australia’s first women priests in advance
of General Synod legislation after years of stalemate. Archbishop
Goldsworthy, who had moved to Perth to become a school chaplain in
1988, was among the first women ordained priest in Australia in St
George’s Cathedral March 1992. In May 2008, again in St George’s
Cathedral, she became Australia’s first woman bishop, and served as an
assistant bishop in Perth until becoming Bishop of Gippsland in 2015.
To add to the succession of historic ‘firsts’ on Saturday, Archbishop
Goldsworthy was installed by another woman bishop, the diocesan
administrator, Kate Wilmot. Yet another woman, Kerry Sanderson, the
Governor of Western Australia, welcomed her on behalf of the wider
community.
In her sermon, Archbishop Goldsworthy noted, in an oblique reference
to the child sexual abuse crisis, that “right now, the church’s trust bank
is pretty depleted”. She continued: “The hurt and grief which has been
brought to light has wrapped around us, and we find ourselves in totally
unchartered territory.” The church, she said, was no longer at the centre
of city and community but “on its edges”.
“How we look to the future together as church matters. Both for the close
-up of our here and now, and as we faithfully give ourselves to proclaim-
ing day by day, in words and actions, the centre of God’s great purpose
of love.” We had to commit to the task “not as an organisation in which
we feel labelled as untrustworthy” or as an institution which is “tired
and useless”, but as “people of faith, living from the deep spiritual well-
spring of that place of homecoming in which each and every communi-
ty, each and every person knows themselves fully part of the Body of
Christ.”
Today, Fr James will be officiating at the wedding
of Timothy John Brandy and Heidi Rose Cheung.
We pray God’s blessing upon them as they begin their lives together.
Today, we welcome into the family of God, the Church,
through the sacrament of Holy Baptism Declan Kenneth
Hogan.
Please pray for Declan, his parents and his godparents that they may
know God’s presence in their lives and be enfolded with God’s love.
We have a number of new kneelers ready to take their place in the
church. Thank you to those people who have continued to donate them
and to those who tirelessly keep on making them. We are approaching
180 kneelers and our target is 250 so we are making great headway.
Today we return the first ABM Lenten Envelop we received last Sunday –
thank you.
Today we will receive our 2nd ABM Lenten Envelop for next Sunday –
please read the Interesting information on the front to discover more of
the work of ABM.
The season of Lent is an opportunity to give to the ministry that ABM do
on our behalf –
Please pray for the ABM team as they Work for Love, Hope and Justice.
If you wish to share, as part of your Lenten discipline return your Lenten
envelope the offertory each Sunday.
We extend our prayerful good wishes to Barry and Joy Brandy on the oc-
casion of their 45th wedding anniversary on Saturday the 24th of Febru-
ary.
We thank God for Barry and Joy – for their love for God and for each and
for their family and for their friends.
We pray for God’s richest blessing to be upon Barry and Joy as they con-
tinue to be an example to us all of devoted love and self-giving love for
the benefit of the other.
Barry and Joy, may God bless you and keep you.
Play Group has now started for 2018. Angela and Jude were in early set-
ting up for a busy morning. Each Monday morning they are accompa-
nied by Manjia who's music creates a wonderful and welcoming back-
ground for the myriad of activities the children, their parents and grand-
parents experience.
Our thanks to these loyal three people who come each week to help in
this ministry.

Thank you to Judith and Rosemary for beginning the process of
sorting our Liturgical linen and hangings, etc..
Thank you to the parishioner who gave the two beautiful new
embroided palls to the parish.
Thank you to the Mater Chorale who, under the direction of Fr Michael
sang Evensong for us last Sunday afternoon. The beautiful music
delighted the congregation who enjoyed the choral worship.
Thank you to our electricians for repairing the lights in the car park
and connecting electricity to our new pantry. The drive will be safer at
night and the pantry can have light, refrigeration and cooling.
THE NEW PARISH PANTRY
After long expectations the New Parish Pantry opened on Tuesday
morning with the able assistance of Kerin Brown.
Over the last few weeks we have had shelves assembled and installed,
electricity has been connected so that we can run a small refrigerator
and an air conditioner. It can get very hot in that shed in the middle of
the day.
The first morning was a huge success, with lots of affirming comments
from our customers.
Thursday, though a little quieter was still a busy morning with Kerin
and Phillipa keeping an eye on proceedings.
With open shelves there is now a clearer view of stocked items and
room for a greater variety of goods. Though there are still things to be
tweaked we are now open for business.
All the same food items are needed but we will branch out into
dishwashing liquid and sponges, paper towel and washing power and
toilet rolls; all things to help keep homes clean.
A very big thank you to everyone who helped this come to fruition:
Fr James, Fr Michael, Jane and Bob, Jeanette and Fred, Jude, Syd and
Barbara H. and of course Kerin and Phillipa. None of this could happen
without the very generous contributions that each of you make to the
pantry each week.
Our friends were so happy with the new facility. It was very gratifying
to get their feedback. Below are some photos of the first morning.

We will re-commence our studies on Tuesday the 20th of February,
2018 at 7.30pm, being the first Tuesday after Ash Wednesday as we
begin our journey through Lent.
We will be studying: Jesus : A Very Short Introduction by Richard
Bauckham, Oxford University Press, 2011 (available from Dymocks)
All are very welcome to come and engage with God and with all those
who attend our wonderful study group.
Over the years the parish has benefitted from the generosity of
parishioners, not only when they have been active members of the
parish, but also at the time of their death. Parishioners are invited to
remember the parish in their wills by making a bequest as a thank
offering to God and to ensure that generations to come will enjoy
worship and fellowship in well maintained buildings.
Those wishing to make a bequest are invited to do so using these or a
similar form of words: "I bequeath the sum of $............ to the Rector and
Wardens of the Anglican Parish of St Paul, Burwood, to be used at their
absolute discretion for the charitable purposes of the parish."
There are always opportunities to help. Assistance is needed to maintain
the church and Rectory gardens, flower arranging, choir, bell ringing,
morning tea takes many hands. The sidesperson and welcoming roster is
a very important ministry.
Assistance at special functions e.g. fetes, Sunday trading table, selling
raffle tickets, making jams & pickles to sell, collecting bread, helping
with afternoon tea after recitals and the upcoming BBQ to name a few.
Please speak to the Sheryl, regarding choir and recitals, Wardens or the
Church Office so we can direct your efforts.