St John s Anglican Church Toorak

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1 St John s Anglican Church Toorak Welcome to The Anglican parish of St John the Evangelist 86 Clendon Rd Toorak VIC 3142 PH Vicar Archdeacon Dr Bradly S Billings our mission statement What we have seen and heard we announce to you also, so that you will join us in the fellowship that we have with the Father and with his son Jesus Christ. 1 John September 2012 Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost 8am Holy Communion A Prayer Book for Australia am Sung Eucharist A Prayer Book for Australia

2 NOTICES Messy Church Today is the launch for the new Messy Church service, 4.00pm-6.00pm. Flyers, postcards, are available in the narthex. Please help us get the word out! A Messy Church fact sheet is included in the pew slip. Parish Barbecue The parish barbecue will take place next on Sunday 9th September following the 10am service, on the day Bishop White visits the parish. We hope to be on the South Lawn in the Spring sunshine. The barbecue will then be on the first Sundays of October, November, and December. Cocktail party Cocktail party and soiree and refreshments at Cranlana, 62 Clendon Road, Toorak. Exquisite singers! This Thursday 6 September 6-8pm. $60 per person. R.S.V.P to Claire Beecher by Monday 3 September. Please come along to support Anglican Overseas Aid (previously Anglicord). A most wonderful cause. Claire Beecher Men s Group There will be a Men s group get-together at Fiorini s restaurant 470 Toorak Road, Toorak on Wednesday 19 September at 6.30pm. B.Y.O. Please sign the sheet at the back of the church or contact Greg or the Parish Office if you would like to attend.

3 The Toorak Op Shop needs donations of winter clothing for men, women and children. We also require clothing and hats that can be worn during the Spring Racing Carnival. We would appreciate it if you would mention this to your family and friends. Donations can be dropped off to the Op Shop between 10am 4pm Monday to Saturday or after hours, placed in the green charity bin which is adjacent to the shop. The Toorak Op Shop is located at: 143 Canterbury Road, Toorak our telephone number is or Rosie Mason if goods need collecting. Many thanks. Toorak Op Shop. Diamond Jubilee High Tea Come and celebrate the Queen s Diamond Jubilee in style with a lavish and elegant High Tea on Saturday 13 October at 3pm in the Buxton Hall. Tickets $50. Champagne, Door Prizes and Raffle. Plus a wonderful musical program designed by our own Director of Music, Professor Mel Waters. This is an event not to be missed. Contact the parish office ( ) or enquires@saintjohnstoorak.org to make a booking. Payments must be received by Monday 1 October. CMS Link Missionaries Our CMS Link Missionaries Andrew and Helen will visit St John s on Sunday 21 October

4 Back to Church Sunday Sunday 7 th October - our guest will be Athol Guy of The Seekers. Back to Church Sunday is an opportunity for each and every one of us to invite a family member, a friend, a neighbour, or a colleague, to come back to church. It gives us all, together, a further opportunity to welcome visitors and guests. Invitation cards will be available soon. In the meantime, please consider using the Back to Church Sunday prayer (below) and see the information sheet in today s pew slip for more details. We thank you Lord that you created us and loved us more than we can ever know. Without you our lives would be lost, but through Jesus you have given us all things richly to enjoy the forgiveness of our sins and the gift of life eternal. We pray that we and our church family will be bold in inviting our friends to Back to Church Sunday. We also pray that all who come to church on that day, will be warmly welcomed and blessed with a desire to know you more. May this Back to Church Sunday be a day of celebration of your love for all people, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

5 WORSHIP Director of Music - Professor Mel Waters This Sunday: 2 Sept Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost (green) 8.00am - Holy Communion A Prayer Book for Australia, p.101 Hymns: 59; 168; 93 Song of Songs (B Mouritz) Ps ; 6-9 James (J Smith) Mark 7.1-8; Celebrant: Bradly Billings Preacher: Bradly Billings Intercessor: Ted Mouritz 10.00am Sung Eucharist A Prayer Book for Australia, p.119 Hymns: 59; 144; 168; 93 Song of Songs (C Beecher) Ps ; 6-9 James (E Beecher) Mark 7.1-8; Anthem: Siehe, wir preisen (Mendelssohn) Motet: Locus Iste (Bruckner) Celebrant: Bradly Billings Preacher: Bradly Billings Intercessor: clergy Next Sunday: 9 Sept Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost (green) 8.00am - Holy Communion A Prayer Book for Australia, p.119 Hymns: 96; 598; 545 Proverbs , 8-9, (J Foxcroft) Ps 125 James , (S Kincaid) Mark Celebrant: Bp Paul White Preacher: Bp Paul White Intercessor: Josephine Foxcroft 10.00am Sung Eucharist With Reception into Communicant Membership Printed order of service Proverbs , 8-9, (C Simon) Ps 125 James , (B Ormiston) Mark Anthem: Sanctus K317 (WA Mozart) Motet: Ave verum (Elgar) Celebrant: Bp Paul White Preacher: Bp Paul White Intercessor: Helen Brown 5pm Evening Prayer during Messy Church (4pm - 6pm) 5pm Evening Prayer

6 World & Nation: We pray for Anglican Christians working for peace in so many troubled parts of the world. The Episcopal Church of the Sudan (Abp Daniel Deng Bul Yak); The Diocese of Adelaide (Abp Jeffrey Driver, Bps Timothy Harris, David McCall, Clergy and people); St Michael s Grammar School (Simon Gipson, Principal; Cary Mansell, Kenyon McKie, Chaplains); Church of the Ascension Burwood East (Robyn Boyd); St Hilary s Kew (Abp Philip Freier); St Philip s Mt Waverley - confirmation (Bp Barbara Darling). Those celebrating birthdays: Lillian Morgan (Mon); Greg Robb (Thur). Those being baptised: Stella McGregor. For our link parish: Christ Church, Tallangatta, and for their vicar, Revd Canon Malcolm Halford. For schools in the community Geelong Grammar School Toorak Campus (Glamorgan), Head of Campus Garry Pierson; St Catherine's School, Principal Sylvia Walton AO; CRE program and teachers at Toorak Primary School. The Toorak Ecumenical Movement: Pray for our partner churches: St Peter s Roman Catholic Church, Toorak Uniting Church, The Swedish Church. PRAYER NOTES For those who lead us in the Anglican Church: The Most Revd Philip Freier, Archbishop of Melbourne The Right Revd Paul White, Bishop of the Southern Region. For our CMS Link Missionaries: Andrew, Helen, Jacqueline and Alyssa. For the sick and all in need: Sophie; Beverley Smith; Matthew; Dave Mills; Phillip Treloar; Hazel Lord; John Saunders; Susan; Duncan Ansell; Jenny Williams; David; Ann Brewer. For those in nursing homes and those who are house bound: Nan Milner; Randall Watt; Betty Blomfield; Lorna Mirfield; Dorothy Hughes; Marge Smith. Give thanks for those whose Anniversary of death is this week:. Pamela Dalziel; Nevinson Faulkner; James Smibert; Peter Best; Linda Buckley; Peter Campbell; Chris O Sullivan; Peggy Waddington; Gwen Nilsen; Eveline Sallmann; Barbara Shenton; Winifred Tapp; Geoffrey Tebbutt; Norman Wilson; Margaret Woods; Hazel Gray; Olive Heath; Louise Officer; Bessie Rowell; John Truscott; Jessie Veal; Alison Moule; Roland Murrell; Prue Richardson; Jane Wilson; Jean Gibson; Ethel Hancock; Jeffrey Holloway; Sofia Barros; Gordon Jackson; Betty Mason; Rodney Westbrook.

7 PASTORAL LETTER CONCERNING THE NEIGHBOURING PARISH OF ALL SAINTS KOOYONG 26 th August 2012 Dear St John s parishioners, I write to make you aware of events concerning the neighbouring parish of All Saints Kooyong, which is located on Glenferrie Rd near the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club and Scotch College. Some will be well aware that the parish of Kooyong has been, for some time, a gathering place for Anglicans who may be desiring to enter the Roman Catholic Ordinariate. For those who may not be aware of this, I have attached an article from The Age newspaper published on 8 th August As indicated in the article, the present vicar and some (but contrary to the comments made in the article not all) of the present congregation will leave the site of All Saints Kooyong after morning worship on Sunday 2 nd September and be received into the Roman Catholic Church over the course of the following weekend. For several months I have been acting as the liaison person between the churchwardens of All Saints Kooyong and the Diocese of Melbourne, having been asked to act in this way by the Archbishop. As you may appreciate, this has been a delicate and sensitive task, driven by the desire of all concerned for an orderly and amicable transition. The Anglican Diocese of Melbourne has indicated through its own press release (which I have also attached) that we offer our blessing and best wishes to those who wish to join the Roman Catholic Church, whilst reiterating our desire to continue to provide Anglican worship and pastoral ministry in the parish of All Saints Kooyong. The churchwardens from All Saints Kooyong have acted honourably throughout, and with good faith. As September 2 nd looms very near, this matter is now reaching a conclusion, and I am able to inform this parish of how the events in Kooyong will now affect us.

8 From Monday 3 rd September, I will be Priest in Charge of All Saints Kooyong, in addition of course to continuing as Vicar of St John s Toorak and Archdeacon of Stonnington & Glen Eira. Plans are in place now for a Sunday service on the site of All Saints Kooyong to be led by the Vicar of a nearby parish who has very generously offered his services to ensure the continuation of Anglican worship in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. My role will be to take over the administration of the parish of All Saints Kooyong, to deal with any pastoral needs that arise there, including weddings, baptisms, and funerals etc., and to develop, over the course of the next period of time, a plan of action for the future. At this stage, there is much that is not clear and much that is unknown. The situation will become more transparent over the course of the next few months as it becomes known how many will be remaining in the parish, what the demands and needs might be, and what the future of ministry on the site might look like. Obviously, this places some extra responsibilities on me. Thankfully, I am being assisted by our parish accountant Milton Robinson, whom the Registrar of the Diocese has asked to assist in facilitating the transition of the accounts and finances after September 2 nd. I will have more to report on this at a later time. In the meantime, the forward strategy (as indicated above) is for one of my colleagues to provide a Sunday morning service of worship at the site of All Saints Kooyong until the end of the year, as a mission plan for the future is being developed. I expect we may do something significant on the site of All Saints over Christmas, in the hope of rejuvenating the parish in its own community, and I expect I will be appealing to St John s parishioners to assist with this if you are in a position to do so, simply by attending and providing a critical mass. There is a possibility, as the financial situation becomes clearer, that a part-time minister may be able to be appointed in 2013 to assist with the task of enacting a mission plan at All Saints.

9 The details are being negotiated now, and the search is on for the right person. Any person so appointed would work under my supervision and also have a role here at St John s. At this stage, however, this is as much as I know! Any parishioner of St John s should feel very free to contact me regarding this with any questions or concerns, or with any thoughts about how we may assist in revitilising ministry at All Saints Kooyong. The Venerable Dr Bradly S Billings The Vicar

10 New world order as Anglican priests move to a Catholic Environment Barney Zwartz Published: August 8, 2012 CHRISTOPHER SETON leaves one job on September 2 and starts another six days later. In one sense it is exactly the same job, and in another it is completely different. Father Seton is one of four Anglican priests who will be ordained into the Catholic Church in Melbourne on September 8. Father Seton holds his last service at All Saints Kooyong on September 2. Then he and - so far as he is aware - his entire congregation will regather a week later at the Holy Cross Catholic Church in Caulfield South. There he will minister to the same people (and, doubtless, some new ones), using the same liturgy and singing the same hymns. But now they will be on the opposite side of a once-bitter sectarian divide. ''In a sense, we are just moving office,'' Father Seton said yesterday. But he, along with Fathers James Grant, Ramsay Williams and Neil Fryer, will now be priests in the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, the Catholic Church's new Anglican wing set up by Pope Benedict for those who felt disenfranchised by the ordination of women and other developments in the Anglican Church. Clergy in the ordinariate may be married, as is the Ordinary (the head), Harry Entwistle, who was a bishop in the breakaway Traditional Anglican Communion, but a married priest cannot be a bishop. The ordinariate began with Father Entwistle's ordination on June 15, and the creation of a 60-strong parish in Perth. Father Seton believes it is ''a safe place'' for Anglicans with Catholic inclinations.

11 ''So many of us have tried to find a space within established Anglicanism, but there's really no space for us any more. If you don't embrace the new religion they don't want you. You've got to believe in same-sex marriage and women priests, things that we just can't embrace.'' He says traditional Anglo-Catholics have been portrayed unfairly as misogynists, and treated by some liberals as ''a bit of a joke''. ''But we are taking our patrimony with us - the Anglican way of doing things and the spirituality and the theology. ''We will be pretty much what we always were.'' This story was found at: world-order-as-anglican-priests-move-to-a-catholic-environment sg1.html

12 Anglicans respect decisions made in good conscience 9/08/2012 By Roland Ashby, Letter to the Editor of The Age Contrary to Fr Christopher Seton s reported comments ( New world order as Anglican priests move to a Catholic environment, The Age, 8/8), the Anglican Church respects those who cannot accept, in good conscience, the ordination of women to the priesthood and the episcopate. Even though the ordination of women has been joyfully embraced by the Melbourne Diocese and a majority of the Australian Dioceses, the Anglican Church has sought to be supportive of those who cannot accept the ordained ministry of women priests or bishops. A protocol to ensure appropriate care and support for those who object to women s ordination is well established. Moreover, Fr Seton s reported assertion that you ve got to believe in same-sex marriage to remain in the Anglican Church is inaccurate and misplaced. A new priest will be appointed to Fr Seton s former Anglican parish of All Saints' Kooyong and the parish will continue as a worshipping community in the Anglican tradition. We wish the four priests who have chosen to enter the Ordinariate every blessing for their future ministry. We have a good relationship with the Roman Catholic Church in Melbourne, and hope to maintain this by avoiding the kind of commentary reported in this article.

13 Forthcoming events notice Today - Sunday 2 nd September: Launch of Messy Church at 4pm Sunday 9 th September: Parish visit and Reception into Membership, Bishop White, followed by barbecue Sunday 7 th October: Back to Church Sunday at 8am and 10am, with guest Athol Guy of The Seekers at 10am and parish barbecue afterwards Sunday 7 th October: Messy Church from 4pm, with the Blessing of the Pets and Animals at 5pm Sunday 4 th November: Parish barbecue after the 10am service, Messy Church at 4pm Sunday 11 th November: Service of Remembrance with RSL (10am) Sunday 18 th November: Annual Meeting of the Parish, following the 10am service Sunday 25th November: Feast Day of Christ the King Sunday 2 nd December: Parish barbecue after the 10am service, Messy Church at 4pm

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15 This week at St John s Sunday 2 September 2.00pm - Baptism of Stella McGregor. 4pm - Launch of Messy Church. Monday 3 September 9.30am - Geelong Grammar School service, St John s. Thursday 6 September 11.00am - Holy Communion 6pm - Cocktail party at Cranlana. Saint John s Anglican Church, Toorak 86 Clendon Road Toorak 3142 Telephone : Fax: enquiries@saintjohnstoorak.org Vicar Archdeacon Dr Bradly S Billings PH (mobile) vicar@saintjohnstoorak.org Associate Priest Revd Hilary Roath associate@saintjohnstoorak.org Director of Music & Organist Professor Mel Waters music@saintjohnstoorak.org Marriage Ministry Co-ordinator Ms Gay Djumas marriagemin@saintjohnstoorak.org Administration Mrs Sally Robertson Prayer Chain Co-ordinator Mrs Annette Wilson St John s on-line Website: