Sunday 29th July 2018 Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Welcome to worship...

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1 Sunday 19 August at 11.45am Winter Fundraiser in the Rectory Monday 20 August at 6.30pm 7.30pm concert by Camerata Antica Tuesday 18 September at 1.15pm Lunchtime recital- Fr Daniel Dries - Organ; Peta Dries Violin Tuesday 9 October at 1.15pm Lunchtime Recital - Judith Rough Soprano; Nicole Smeulders Contralto; Bransby Byrne Accompanist Saturday 20 October Spring Fundraiser - Garden Party & High Tea Friday 26 October - Bus Trip Sunday 25th November - Christmas Luncheon in the Parish Hall Saturday 8 December at 6pm Consort 8 at St Paul's Anglican Church, Burwood Rd Burwood W 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 wearing a name badge, over a cup of tea or coffee in the parish hall after the service. You ll find the hall behind the church. 圣公会圣保罗堂欢迎你前来参加我们的英语传 统圣樂圣餐崇拜 Sunday 29th July 2018 Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Welcome to worship am Sung Eucharist 9.30 am Parish Eucharist Farewell Edwin! p.3 The Transfiguration of Our Lord p.5 Jesus Christ Elizabeth Thompson just completed p.8 100kms race! The Aussies helping Manus and P.15 Nauru refugees resettle in America

2 First aid kits are located on the wall of the kitchen in the Large Hall behind the church and in the choir vestry. People needing wheelchair access can enter St Paul s most conveniently by the door at the base of the belltower. Name badges help make St Paul s an 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. Please turn your mobile phone off or on to silent before the service starts. It ll save you much embarrassment later on. Toilets are available at the entrance to the parish hall, which is located behind the church. Ask a member of the clergy or anyone who s wearing a name badge. We re here to help. Children are welcome in church at any service. There is a selection of children s books and toys at the back of the church near the font and there are also kids activity sheets and pencils available at the back of the church where the pew sheets and prayer books are. Children s Church runs during Term Time. Meet at the back of the church at the beginning of the 9.30am Eucharist. 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 there be a fire, leave quickly, turn right, and assemble by the roundabout on Burwood Road. Please do not take photos inside the church or during the services of worship without permission.

3 We extend our heartfelt best wishes to Edwin as he takes leave from us for 6 months to pursue his legal profession. Thank you to David and Pam Priest for repairing the lawn mower. Thank you to the parishioners who donated $500. Thank you to the incredible team of 11 parishioners plus a vet who helped to make our life jacket evening on Thursday such a success. Our warmest best wishes to all who have celebrated a Birthday during the month of July many happy returns to you all. Those who have celebrated a July Birthday include Fr John Hawkins, Pam Brock, Jeremy Southwood, Mary Purnell, Emma Hull, Bruce May and any others who have a July birthdate. We wish you every blessing and much happiness in the year ahead happy days. Do come to the Parish Hall after the 9.30 am Eucharist and enjoy some birthday cake kindly baked by Joy Brandy over a cuppa. If you have any used stamps then please bring them to Church with you and leave them in the box at the back of the Church as these earn money for the work of the Anglican Board of Mission Australia. Leave at least a 2cm border around stamps.

4 The exciting news on Facebook today from Joshua Ryan: " I have received confirmation that I have completed my honours year and have been awarded the University Medal for music. I am surprised and overwhelmed by this achievement. Over the past few years people have questioned my commitment to my studies and why I didn't put other things first. For me, this achievement completely justifies why I put so much effort and time into my education. I have enjoyed every moment of it." We extend our sincere congratulations to Joshua on this notable achievement. Joshua Ryan was born in 1994 in Sydney, Australia. He commenced his organ studies in late Currently he is studying for a Bachelor of Music Honours (performance) degree, majoring in Organ, at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (The University of Sydney). His teachers have included Philip Swanton, Peter Jewkes, Thomas Wilson, and Oliver Brett. In 2011 Joshua received a scholarship to study at the Prospective Organ Scholar Course at Oxford University. At Oxford he received lessons from Susan Landale, James Parsons, David Goode, and Daniel Hyde. This scholarship also allowed him to travel throughout the UK and Holland. In late 2011 Joshua received first prize in the Intermediate Section of the Sydney Organ Competition. Joshua has performed in major Sydney venues such as the Sydney Opera House (as part of its open day celebrations in 2010 and 2011), the Sydney Town Hall, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, St Mary's Cathedral, Christ Church St Laurence, and St Andrew s Cathedral. In 2015 he was invited to give a recital in Hardenberg,

5 Holland. He also actively performs with the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Symphony Orchestra, and Wind Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, Joshua performed as a soloist with the Conservatorium's Wind Symphony Orchestra in the premier performance of "Requiem for a City" by Matthew Hindson and Paul Mac as part of the Conservatorium's centenary celebrations. Joshua has held scholarship positions at St Mary s Cathedral, Sydney, and St Stephen's Church Macquarie Street, Sydney. Between June 2015 and July 2018 he was Organ Scholar of Christ Church St Laurence. Currently, Joshua is working as a freelance organist, accompanist, and teacher in both Sydney and Canberra. On 6th of August the Universal Church celebrates the Feast of the Transfiguration and so as not to neglect such an important and interesting Festival we will celebrate the Feast NEXT Sunday with a Liturgical procession to honour the Feast. S. Matthew says Jesus was transfigured before them. His face shone as the sun: his garments became white as snow. (Mt 17:1-6). The Feast has been celebrated in the east since the fourth century in and around Jerusalem and appeared in the west (Spain) from the eleventh century. Is the Feast shrouded in mystery what does it teach us about the life/ ministry of Jesus and the disciples? Why does tradition indicate it took place forty days before the crucifixion and why was the 6 August chosen as the date on which to celebrate the event forty days before 14 September, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross? Come along next Sunday to find the answers and to join in the celebration of this Feast of our Lord. Graham Norman Tickets are available for the Father's Day raffle. $2 each or 3 for $5. The prize is GMC Light weight blower Vacuum2400w.

6 Photo from last Sunday s Evensong Please ask for 2 trays of bread rolls and 2 trays of loaves & 1 tray of half loaves. You are all doing a fantastic job. Having bread each week is a great help to everyone. 30th July Kerin 6th August Margaret 13th August Gabriel 20th August Antonia 27th August Margaret We meet in the Rectory on Tuesday evenings at 7.30 p.m. Our new book is: Wilson, John, The Old Testament and Christian Living, Anglican Information Office, All are welcome and there is a wonderful level of engagement and respectful dialogue by those who attend. Even if you can t make it along to the study, you could purchase a copy of the book and read it at your own leisure. The Tuesday Study will re-commence on Tuesday the 24th of July.

7 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." If you would like to make a donation to the Parish for the upkeep and maintenance of the Heritage building it can be done through the National Trust. Cheques can be made out to National Trust of Australia (NSW) St Paul s Anglican Church Burwood Or Direct Credit to the above name with bank account details Westpac BSB: Account number: Branch: 275 George Street Sydney NSW Please contact Pam for more details or place a donation in an envelope and label with National Trust donation and include your name for your receipt and an address to post it to. Thank you.

8 Thank you to everyone who is dropping their loose change in the box at the back to help fund new linen for our sanctuaries. Already some money has gone towards the new red burse and veil we used at Pentecost and we now have almost enough to purchase our first new altar cloth for the high altar. As our altar is narrower than some, the maker will be able to cut two cloths from the one length of fabric thus reducing our costs for a second cloth. With everyone s help, our altars will be looking wonderful by Christmas and if we keep up the practice of throwing in our coins we may in time be able to carry out repairs on our wonderful frontals. Just to say thank you for your prayers (as always) but specifically for the race in Port Macquarie I've been preparing for! I started at 6:30AM Saturday, and finished just before 6:30 on Sunday morning. I completed 100KMs in just under 24 hours and finished 5th among the women. It's funny how the extreme isolation of the bush at night makes one feel closer to God - many many hours alone, and I definitely did not feel alone at all. There was a steep ascent up where, at the top, the stars are the brightest I've ever seen - I gave thanks to God for being alive in this universe. (I also, slightly deliriously, practiced the plainsong Kyrie the choir did a few weeks back to keep myself occupied, as I picked my way through a dry riverbed at about 2 in the morning. I think Sheryl would be proud.)

9 In the recovery phase, I'm grateful to be uninjured, though shoes are not quite tolerable on my poor feet just yet. - Elizabeth

10 List of items most needed for the parish pantry: Tinned fruit Sun Rice Meals e.g. Butter chicken, Green chicken curry, Chicken satay, etc Boxed meals Tins of corned beef, spam, ham; Rice Cream Drinks poppers Pasta sauces For the kitchen: Washing up liquid Coffee; tea; Paper towels Sugar; Chux Boxes of Cereals Sponges All Day Breakfast by Heinz; Chunky soups Heinz & Campbells; Tinned tuna, sardines, salmon; Harvest Meals in a tin eg Vegetables and Sausages Rice, cuscus, polenta, instant potato, pasta, spaghetti Tinned corn Tinned vegetables For the laundry: Health Washing powder Feminine hygiene products Toothpaste Shampoo & Conditioner Urgently needed - Sweet & savoury biscuits; Sunrise meals in a box; Long life Milk - Full cream Tuna; Milk; Spam;

11 Collection given at St Paul s on Sunday 22nd July: $2534 Other collection given: Parish Pantry: $60 Specific (Restricted Use) Donation: $ New Life Centre Nepal: $70 Building Fund Donation: $10 Trading Table (July): $500 Donation (cleaning): $55 Gift: $500 Total: $3829 Thank you for responding to God s generous love. 2 Samuel ; Psalm 14 Ephesians ; John The Psalmist tells us that God is with the company of the righteous and so for us to be with God we need to be among them. We need to be just, kind and humble (Micah 6.8) and not follow King David s example of self-centred iniquity. Pray for the grace to be just, kind and humble in whatever you do. Pray for the Church of Bangladesh, giving thanks for the work they do to further God s mission in the world. Text: Anglican Board of Mission, 2018

12 Sunday 19th August Winter Fundraiser Soup/Slice at 11.45am in the Rectory Saturday 20th October Spring Fundraiser - Garden Party & High tea Friday 26th October Bus Trip Lower North Shore (The Newcastle/Stockton trip will be re-scheduled next year) Sunday 25th November Christmas Luncheon in the Parish hall St Paul s Anglican Church Burwood Road, Burwood LUNCHTIME RECITALS 2018 National Trust (2017) award winner for conservation interiors, recreating the ceiling interior to Edmund Blacket's original design in keeping with Australian colonial neo-gothic architectural intent. 1.15pm-1.45pm Other dates and artists TBC Tuesday 18 September Fr Daniel Dries - Organ Peta Dries Violin Tuesday 9 October Judith Rough - Soprano, Nicole Smeulders - Contralto Bransby Byrne - Accompanist Entry by donation Light refreshments will follow in the Rectory St Paul s Church Office: Ph.: / office@stpaulsburwood.anglican.asn.au

13 A one-hour recital program featuring the unlikely, but highly effective pairing of soprano saxophone and cornetto, amongst a broken consort of viol, harpsichord and voice. The program features guest artist Christina Leonard on Soprano Saxophone. As well as highlighting the beautiful sounds of these two instruments playing early Italian instrumental duets, this program also includes two new compositions by Australian composers Alice Chance and Elena Kats-Chernin, commissioned in 2015 by Camerata Antica. Recordings of these new works are available on request. This program is delivered in a semi-informal manner, with program notes spoken rather than printed. This program was first performed in Sydney in Repertoire includes: Sonata Duodecima 'La Strozza' by Cazzatti Weep You No More Sad Fountains by J Dowland Black Tie by Elena Kats-Chernin Ode on Melancholy by Keats (text) & A Chance (music) Musicians Anna Sandström Soprano, Matthew Manchester - Cornetto Christina Leonard - Soprano Saxophone, Laura Moore - Viola da Gamba Anthony Hamad Harpsichord

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15 The ABM Sydney Committee invites you to celebrate The Feast of the Commemoration of the New Guinea Martyrs at a Eucharist Service which will be held at the Church of St John the Evangelist, Balmain (Cnr Spring St & Birchgrove Rd., Balmain) on Saturday 1st September at 11am. Celebrant: Fr Peter Yeats (Rector) Speaker: Mr Howard Graham Refreshments afterwards in the Parish Hall. For those able to stay, please RSVP to Margaret White via margjohnwhite@gmail.com When Maree de Marco talks about Australia's treatment of asylum seekers you can feel the anger rising inside her. You hear the words catch in her throat. What a terrible thing, to be ashamed of the country you love. "I can't put it any other way," she says. "I hate that part of Australia." Since ministers in the Howard government claimed that asylum seekers had thrown children overboard in 2001, de Marco wanted to do something to help refugees. But how? She was a single woman living in central Victoria, far from Australia's offshore detention centres. In 2012, after falling in love with an American man, she moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. A dry city surrounded by rugged mountains, it is best known as the global headquarters of the Mormon church. De Marco still followed the news about Australia's refugee policies, but she felt more distant and helpless than ever.

16 Then, while checking her Facebook feed in May, an advertisement caught her eye. It was for a group connecting Australian expats with refugees resettled in the US under the deal struck between Malcolm Turnbull and the US president Barack Obama. An estimated 300 refugees from Manus Island and Nauru have been resettled in the US since September. "I thought, 'I'm an immigrant myself so I could definitely help someone in the same situation,'" she says. But she didn't expect there to be any refugees from Manus Island or Nauru in Salt Lake City. It turned out there was, and that one of them wanted to meet her. Before arriving in the US, Rohingya refugee Mohammad Noor had been imprisoned in some form or another for almost a decade. At 15 he fled Myanmar, where authorities have a long history of violence and discrimination against the Rohingya people, and escaped to Thailand. He says he was imprisoned there for eight months before fleeing to Malaysia. From there he went to Indonesia and decided to take an asylum boat to Australia. But the boat was intercepted and he spent the next year in jail. In 2013 he tried again only to find, when his boat reached Australian waters, that Kevin Rudd had declared no asylum seeker who arrived by boat would be resettled in Australia. Noor, now 25, spent the next five years on Manus Island, an experience he describes as "unspeakable". "Sometimes we survived without water, without food for days. My family's village was burnt down and I had no way of contacting them. I thought I would be stuck there forever." The day he found out he had been accepted for resettlement in America was the happiest moment in his life, he says. He chose to live in Salt Lake City because he has a cousin who lives there. "This is the first time for me living in a place of freedom. I'm so excited to be here." Four months after his arrival, Noor and de Marco met for coffee at Starbucks.

17 "I told him I'm aware of what happened on Manus Island, of people sowing up their mouths," de Marco says. "He said he had friends committing suicide around him and I just burst out crying. I thought, 'How can we do this to people?'" "If I was in his shoes I would be thinking, 'Australia really doesn't like me'. I wanted him to know that some of us would open our arms to refugees." All over the US - from California to Ohio to Texas - meetings like this have been happening since Ads-Up (Australian Diaspora Steps Up) quietly launched two months ago. The group was founded by two Australians living in New York, fashion designer Fleur Wood and Ben Winsor, a journalist who has covered the resettlement of refugees in the US. "As I was writing these stories I was thinking, I wish someone was helping these people a bit more," he says. "It is such an abrupt thing to come to America after five years on Manus or Nauru and to be on your own. It is very startling for some people." Wood and Winsor decided to use targeted Facebook advertising to tap into the estimated network of 100,000 Australians in America. "The idea was: we've moved here, we've learnt how to navigate the bureaucracy, maybe we can help other people when they arrive," Winsor says. More than 300 Australians have signed up to participate and the group's database includes more than 120 refugees. Winsor says some volunteers - like de Marco - are driven by a desire to repent for government policies they disagree with. Others had never really taken much interest in refugee issues but want to help out. "We don't mind why people get involved. We're not preachy, we don't have a political position."

18 The Australian expats help refugees in many ways: filling out government forms, fine-tuning resumes and navigating the bamboozling US healthcare system. Ads-Up has also secured free dental work for refugees and negotiated with landlords to stop refugee families from being evicted for falling behind on rent. But the emotional connection is often most important, Winsor says. "Some of these refugees are 20 or 21, and they arrive in a small town where there might be no other refugees or anyone else from their country. To have a friendly face, someone who cares about them, it's meaningful." The organisation, which currently has little funding, is now aiming to raise enough money to help cover refugees' study expenses. "Many are in jobs working $US7.75 [$10.49] an hour, and they spend all that on rent and food," Winsor says. "It's not enough to make a better life. They're struggling just to keep their head above water." In Salt Lake City, where he has lived for six months, Noor works as a forklift driver on the night shift, sending much of his income to family members in refugee camps in Bangladesh. He wants to get his high school equivalency and become a police officer. Since their first meeting, de Marco and Noor have had a picnic together by the river and Noor has cooked a traditional curry for de Marco and her husband. In the future they plan to go fishing together and to the movies. "They are very kind, they are like family," Noor says. "I will appreciate them forever." De Marco says: "I'm hoping I can be a friend. I've made it clear I'm available at any time. If he has a problem I will step in and step in loudly. "I want him to succeed, to be able to do everything and feel everything the rest of us do. He deserves that."

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22 Pray for the Anglican Church for Justin, Archbishop of Canterbury; Philip Freier of Melbourne, Primate of Australia; Glenn, Archbishop of Sydney; Michael Stead, our Regional Bishop; and for all the bishops, priests, deacons and Religious of the Anglican Communion. In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer we are asked to pray for Province de L'Eglise Anglicane au Rwanda, for its Bishop, The Rt Revd Onesphore Rwaje and for his clergy and people. Pray for Fr James and for Fr Michael as well as for Helen and Antonia. May God bless them and their ministries and may we support them as they work among us in Christ s name. Pray for St Paul s: God of mercy, strengthen us to help shape a parish where diversity is a source of enrichment, compassion is common, life s poetry realized, suffering lightened through sharing, justice attended, joy pervasive, hope lived, the hum of the universe heard, and together with you and each other we build what is beautiful, true, worthy of your generosity to us, an echo of your kingdom. Amen. (Ted Loder) Pray for, St Matthew s, Zababdeh, (West Bank, Palestinian Territorries), our Anglican Communion Partner: We remember especially their Parish Priest, Fr Saleem Dawani, and his ministry in the parish. We remember also Jameel Maher, who acts as the St Matthew s partnership link person with us. May both our parishes be blessed by the link we are establishing. Pray for the Church s mission: Lord Jesus Christ, you stretched out your arms of love on the hard wood of the cross that everyone might come within the reach of your saving embrace: So clothe us in your Spirit that we, reaching forth our hands in love, may bring those who do not know you to the knowledge and love of you; for the honour of your name. Amen. (Author unknown) Pray for our Children s Church: The Lord said, Let the little children come to me and do not forbid them for such is the kingdom of heaven. Bless, Lord, your children who now stand before you in prayer. Help them to understand the depth of your love. O Lord, bless our Children's Church and all its future endeavours, that through it we may glorify you with your Father and the Holy Spirit, now, always and forever. Amen.

23 Pray for peace: Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; lead me from hate to love, from war to peace. Let peace fill our hearts, our world, our universe. Pray for all in need, remembering especially this week the people of Greece. We pray for all those who lost their lives in the recent fires, the injured and the ones whose fate is still unknown. Pray for the sick and their carers: Andrew; Joyce Bannister; Margaret Baseley; Barry Brandy; John Burns; June Cameron; Andrew Connolly; Scott Cameron; Rodney Chesham; Hilary Davies; Vicky Dodman; Dave Ernst; Fahim; Florence; Paul Gibson; Caroline Huet; Matthew; Margaret Hayes; Heather; Bruce Hellyer; Bishop Ivan Lee; Jan Morgan; Y Nhan; Nicola; Erene O Connor; Alister & Sally Palmer; Paul Phillips; Robert; Jean Rennick; Malcolm Sandstrom; Jean Storey; Elsa Sorensen; Peter Sorensen; Nancy Thompson; Reg Vine; Margaret Wheatley; Bill Whittle; Bob Woods; In love and charity please remember the recently departed, Fr Ken Munns that God may grant him a place of reshment, light and peace. Pray, too, for, Shirley Pozzi,Francis Hewit Taylor, Marjorie White, Gordon Henry Gregory, Frank Ireland, George Edward Ellis, Cave Patricia Moon, Ruth Anderson and for any others whose year s mind falls around this time. Rest eternal grant unto them O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon them! A mid-week Eucharist will be held in the Chapel of our Lord's Passion on Wednesday at 10.30am. Commemorations noted by the lectionary this week Monday 30th July William Wilberforce, social reformer (d.1833) Tuesday 31st July Joseph of Arimathea Ignatius of Loyola, priest and founder of the Society of Jesus (d.1556) Wednesday 1st August Holy men and women of the Old Testament Friday 3rd August Stephen, Deacon & First Martyr Saturday 4th August John Baptist Vianney, parish priest of Ars, France (d.1895)

24 Phone Post PO Box 530, Burwood, NSW 1805 Website Rector Senior Assistant Priest Honorary Priest Fr James Collins Fr Michael Deasey OAM Fr Jim Pettigrew Lay Minister Ms Rosemary King Director of Music Organist Mrs Sheryl Southwood Mr Edwin Taylor Rector s Warden Dr Jane Carrick People s Wardens Mrs Elizabeth Griffiths Mrs Pam Brock Office Secretary Mrs Caroline Badra (9.30am to 2.30pm, Tuesday to Friday) office@stpaulsburwood.anglican.asn.au HOURS 7 DAYS INDEPENDENT, AUSTRALIAN OWNED FUNERAL SERVICE