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Parish Office: 83 Nerang Street, Southport, 4215 [email protected] P.O. Box 1950, Southport, 4215 Tel: 5532 8978 Fax 5564 0870 Office Hours: 8.30am-2.00pm Monday—Friday
Prayers & Readings
www.stpetersgc.com.au
Service Times (Holy Eucharist):
Wednesday 10.00am
Thursday 12.00noon
Friday 7:00am
Sunday 7.00am, 9.30am, 5.45pm
Suzie Sutherland, David Thompson, Caroline Banderas, Winston Ison-Harling, Nadine Chen, Linda Weller, Allan Tulloch, Catherine Lynch, Ian Reynolds, Rachel Evans, Mary Hope Moore, Bill Stewart, June, Royston Clarke, Sue, Donna Frigo, John Pye, Lynette Elison, Joy Styles, Leslie, Wayne, Daisy Kaillis, Despina, Brooke Banderas, Terry Allen, Greta Clarke, Lindsay Whybrow, Francis, Lorna, Kent, Katherine Fildes, Barbara Taylor, Margaret Tillin, Nigel Faull, Flora Porter, Kerrie, Julie, Anne Garrick, Linda Townsend, Michael Hansard, Rosemary Morgan, Alice Clish, Denise.
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Prayer List
What’s on @ St Peter’s
Please check our website for updates or last minute changes or contact Parish Office
May 2017
14 Küng Study 4.00pm
16 Parish Council Meeting 7.00pm
17 Bible Study 11.00am
17 Pilgrim Group 7.00pm
21 St Hilda’s Service 9.30am
24 Bible Study 11.00am
24 Pilgrim Group 7.00pm
28 Kung Study
The Sentence for the Day: “No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” John 15:13
Prayer of the Day: Almighty Father, whose will is to restore all things in your beloved Son, the King of all: govern the hearts and minds of those in authority, and bring the families of the nations, divided and torn apart by the ravages of sin, to be subject to his just and gentle rule; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Prayer of the Week: Blessed Lord, you have caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: grant that we may so hear them, read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them, that, by patience and the comfort of your holy word, we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.
Prayer for our Parish: Teach us, O God: to attempt great things for you: and from you to expect great things, so that your Church in this Parish may be strong to win men, wom-en and children to love, worship and serve you; to the Glory
of your Holy Name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Psalm 46: The Lord of hosts is with us: the God of Jacob is our refuge.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea; though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with its tumult.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of the city; it shall not be moved; God will help it when the morning dawns. The nations are in an uproar, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts. The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Come, behold the works of the Lord; see what desolations he has brought on the earth. He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear; he burns the shields with fire. “Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth.”
The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
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What’s on @ St Peter’s
Please check our website for updates or last minute changes or contact the Parish Offices
November 2017
12 Remembrance Day Services 12 Küng Study 4.00pm 15 Bible Study 11.00am 17 Wine and Cheese evening 6.00pm 19 Küng Study 4.00pm 21 Parish Council Meeting 7.00pm 22 Bible Study 11.00am 26 Küng Study 4.00pm 29 Bible Study 11.00am
December 2017
3 Küng Study 4.00pm 6 Bible Study 11.00am
Micah 4.1-5 Romans 8.31-39 John 15.9-17
Part II.c. Post-Modern (“post-this and post-that”…continued)
LAST week I outlined my difficulties with the whole notion of ‘Post-Christendom’ – it is too self-marginalising, it is defeatist in tempera-ment, it ignores the New Testament stance on ‘authorities’ (which reminds us that ‘all authorities are instituted by God’. Rom 13.1) and it reinforces the ‘us against them’ voices within Christianity itself. By which I mean to say: those voices within the church that are quick to bury ‘Christendom’ as a 12 Century-long-aberration of the true Christian faith seem too happy to throw out the baby with the bath water. Yes, there were some real abuses of power during that time, but there were also some amazing achievements. Another term has crept into popular usage in recent discussions about mission and the church. It is: Post-Modern. Post-Modern seems to be the rallying cry of those churches that see themselves as ‘emerging churches’. They are ‘institution-wary … low church and constantly pressure (the church) for cultural relevance’. If the ‘modern’ world can be seen to have faith in science, strategies, analysis and ‘big-picture’ thinking, then post-modern thinkers hold the opposite. Paas succinctly summarises post-modern thinking: “They focus on mystery, relationships, multi-sensory communication, bottom-up networking and personal authenticity.” It can be argued that the weakness of post-modern thought, both within the church and without, is that it appears very happy to trade on a stereotypical view of modern thinking. Hans Kung, in his monumental work Christianity, makes this very point. He outlines what he deems to be the three leading values of Modernity. These are (1) reason, (2) progress and (3) nationhood. Kung goes on to argue that the prime position that modernity gives to reason (and it has done so since the Enlightenment) can be caricatured as ‘rationalism’. Progress can be caricatured as ‘exploitation’ and nationhood (the surprising legacy of the modern age) can be caricatured as arbitrary lines on a map. But these are caricatures and half-truths – hardly doing the modern in post-modern real justice. In effect, the modern age (beginning in the late 18th Century and finishing with the close of WWI) has been used as a straw man by its post-modern critics. One might even argue that those who are busy ‘de-constructing’ modernism are actually using tools (reason, scientific inquiry, analysis) that modernism bequeathed them in the first instance. Having stated my lack of faith in post-modernity as a concept, I will begrudgingly allow it some latitude in matters of ecclesiology (i.e. our understanding of just what the church is). Post-modern ecclesiology is mostly the domain of the evangelical/low church. And it is often couched in a reaction against the mega-church movement. I get that. I believe that many folk want a church that they can attend without subscribing to an entity that is big and monolithic. So, without endorsing post-modernism as an ‘era’ in history I do understand their ‘reaction-ism’ at least in the context of understand-ing the church. Maybe I’m an accidental post-modernist… Stefan Paas, Church Planting in the Secular West (Grand Rapids, William B Eerdmans, 2016), 187. Brackets mine. Ibid., 188. Hans Kung, Christianity (London, SCM, 1995), 765-770.
The flowers in the Sanctuary are
to the Glory of God in loving
memory of:
Mavis Merle Oxley Leslie Quince
Given in love by their families
ST PETER’S NOW HAS A NEW EMAIL: [email protected] PLEASE NOTE THIS REPLACES: [email protected]
ST. PETER’S is looking to replace the red and white vestments in
the Sanctuary. If you would like to contribute
towards the cost of these, please see the Parish Administrator, Christine Corroy, in the Parish
Office.
TIME FOR CHANGE
Come and Light a Candle
WE are placing a simple votive candle stand in the Lady Chapel. Please feel free to come and light a candle and pray at any time when the church is open. Also, by request, we will use our Wednesday 10.00 am Holy Eucharist Service to remember those around the world who are caught up in the tragic events that come upon us. We will pray for them and light a candle with a few moments of silence.
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, We Will Remember Them
CADETS from the Gold Coast Squadron of the Australian Air League will join this morning’s service as St Peter’s remembers those who died fighting to protect our country. The squadron is commanded by Officer Command-ing Walter Savell and his cadets will be the flag bearers for the remembrance ceremony.
New to God’s church ST PETER’S was blessed last Sunday with two baptisms. RIGHT: Tiny Edisiri Cute Divine Jessah, the daugh-ter of Nelson and Vivian Jessah of Southport was welcomed into the church. BELOW: Mia Ashleigh Burdoe, the daughter of Juston and and Ashleigh Burdoe of Coomera also was made a member of the church.
Want to be a movie star?
An invitation to ordinations
AND THEY’RE RACING ... HERE is your chance to be immortalised on the silver screen. The New York Film Academy will be shooting in St Peter’s on Friday, 24 November be-tween 8am-2pm and you can be in the cast. Men must wear black or blue suits and white business shirt, with or without a tie, and women a black or white dress.
TWO priests who served at St Peter’s are to be ordained into the priesthood next month. The Reverend Jamee-Lee Callard and The Rev-erend Pauline Harley will be ordained in St John’s Cathedral at 10am on Saturday 2 De-cember. All parishioners are invited. If there is enough interest a bus will be organised.
THE Brisbane Chamber Choir is cele-brating its 20th anniversary year with two concerts in St John’s Cathedral. The concerts will be on: Saturday Decem-ber 2, 7pm: Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Missa Dei Patris and Claudio Montiverdi’s Can-tate Domino & Beatus Vir. Sunday December 3, 2pm: George Frider-ic Handel’s Dixit Dominus and the Coro-nation Anthems. Single concert: Adults $35. Concessions $25. Both concerts: Adults $60. Conces-sions $40. Tickets www.trybooking.com/323981
MELBOURNE Cup celebrations went off with a mighty pop as the cham-pagne was uncorked and the punters placed their bets on Tuesday. St Peter’s parishioners lined up to enjoy the afternoon that included their own versions of the big race and in the end everyone declared the day to be a winner.
Lest We Forget One of those who made the ultimate sacrifice and we remember today is L/BDR Bertie Albert George Hart, Royal Artillery.
19 September 1904-27 October 1943. Beloved husband of Beatrice, devoted father of Michael and Mary. Laid to rest Sangro River War Cemetary, Italy.
