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EDITOR’S NOTE
BISHOP Kay Goldsworthy has left to be Bishop of Gippsland, The
Reverend Dr Elizabeth Smith leaves for Kalgoorlie on 1 May as
Mission Priest, and the Reverend Dr David Wood is now Rector of
Fremantle. The result of all these changes is that I have returned to
the new position of Co-ordinating Editor.
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that has in-depth articles on current issues facing the church and the
nation. The Messenger will also appear on the Archbishop’s website
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the design of the new diocesan website that it would be possible to
subscribe to the Messenger online.
The abstract image on the cover is of the women in the garden on
Holy Saturday signalling the season of Easter.
God of glory, by the raising of your Son you have broken the chains
of death and hell: fill your Church with faith and hope; for a new
day has dawned and the way to life stands open in our Saviour
Jesus Christ. Amen
Wishing you a blessed and holy Easter.
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A BROKEN BODY HOLDING LIFE
IN THE midst of all the events commemorating the ANZACs was
the reporting of a special Holy Communion service held in
St Andrew’s Uniting Church in Brisbane. The chalice and paten
was the Communion set used by Service Chaplain, Padre Ernest
Merrington, in Gallipoli. Merrington was the minister of the parish
from 1910-1923.
One of the diggers who attended the service was a 92 year old
Gallipoli veteran. He observed that receiving the bread and wine
from this set brought those who had died close to him.
The Most Reverend
Roger Herft, AM
Archbishop of Perth
Communion sets linked to the history of war and peace are found
across the world. Some were made out of the wedding rings of war
widows who wanted the memory of loved ones killed in battle held
in these vessels of remembrance. Other such as the Gold Book of
Memory exhibited in Cathedrals can truly be called icons – they call
us into a holy presence.
Many of the young men who fought in the trenches were
unchurched. The service of Morning Prayer with its strong emphasis
on the Scriptures was not accessible to those caught up in the mud
and death. The Psalms certainly spoke to that messy world. More
than anything else what did speak to these young men surrounded
by suffering, by bloodied bodies and by despair was the Holy
Communion:
The men didn’t need to be familiar with the liturgy for they soon
came to recognise God in a body broken for them – and blood
poured out for them. Communion brought them the comfort of
God’s real presence and hope for light, even there where death
seemed to rule.
Jane Williams, Lost for Words
The bread and wine, ordinary elements, filled the theatre of war
with a presence of love wounded, yet healed. A hope, a promise,
that this bloody battle was not the last word for humanity in the
yearning for peace. The wars, terrible as they were and are, bring
perspective. They expand the horizons of those who take the
comfort of democracy for granted. War calls us to seek other ways
to bring about peace.
We are told that there are occasions in the history of the world or
nation when members of our family, friends, neighbours, strangers
and people in the community become taller, they expand in stature.
We become caught up in an atmosphere that calls forth, summons
us, to a place to be more than who we are.
In the wounds of life Jesus
comes. In moments when
beauty breaks through God
comes. In the simplicity
of bread broken and wine
outpoured he comes.
A cross; a body broken in forgiveness on a hill outside Jerusalem;
a tomb that holds the mystery of resurrection life are historic events
that demand our attention.
In the wounds of life Jesus comes. In moments when beauty
breaks through God comes. In the simplicity of bread broken and
wine outpoured he comes: Come Jesus conqueror of death, giver
of life – make us a resurrection people and let Easter hope fill the
battlefields of death with life Eternal.
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What was Jesus doing
when he was dead?
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At The Tomb With Mary
Magdalene (John 20:1-18)
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A New Creation
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Stop The Traffik
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Beach Rescue
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Our Rich Liturgical
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WHAT WAS JESUS DOING WHEN HE
WAS DEAD?
The Reverend Dr Andrew McGowan
Dean and President of the Berkley
Divinity School at Yale and McFaddin
Professor of Anglican Studies at Yale
Divinity School
IN THE First Letter of Peter (3:9, 4:6) there are references to
Christ preaching to the dead. This is sometimes linked with
the confession in the Creeds that he ‘descended to the dead’
(or to hell). Some traditional interpretations suggest that this
retrospective proclamation was his work on Holy Saturday.
Hence Jesus was not so much dead as busy elsewhere,
triumphantly striding across a different, infernal, landscape of
ministry, rather than genuinely silent or absent.
While 1 Peter has something important to say about the universal
scope of Jesus’ saving work – it is for all times and places, not just
for those who met him or have lived since – we would be mistaken
to use this story as a way to interpret the silence of Jesus’ grave.
The liturgical year integral to the Anglican way of following Jesus
involves both suffering and joy, in the characteristic ways a path is laid
for prayer and praise through the triduum (three days) that culminates
with Easter. Yet while there are ritual signposts on the Thursday
evening, Good Friday, and on the dawn of Sunday, the Saturday itself
involves an awkward silence.
While his death on the Cross may seem to be the sufficient
demonstration of the reality of Jesus’ solidarity with humankind in
death, Holy Saturday is the confirmation of what the Cross really
means. If the divine Jesus merely departed for a day, abandoning
his human body like a shell, faith and hope in the Cross would be
compromised. Or if the Cross led immediately to Easter, a transition
point without the need for waiting or watching, we would likewise be
avoiding a major part of what this central mystery of Christian faith
means.
Jesus suffered and died in reality, not merely appearance. He did
not merely take time out from bodily existence, but entered into
the whole of our condition, accepting death and depending on the
power of God to raise the dead. When we face our own mortality,
the Gospel does not offer the false hope that we avoid death or just
drift on incorporeally – despite the prevalence of such beliefs inside
and outside the Church. The Gospel is that the God who raised Jesus
from death can also raise us from death.
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This is good news for the world we really inhabit, a Holy Saturday
world. Although we affirm what both the Friday and the Sunday tell
us, and indeed receive it as something already true for us in a sense,
life has a more obvious unfulfilled or ambiguous character.
Jesus suffered and died
Although we view it differently as a result of that Friday and Sunday,
the Holy Saturday world goes on as though little has changed for
most times, most people and most places. We still experience the
ambiguity of a life filled with what often seems like an incoherent
mixture of joy and suffering, of the profound and the meaningless.
Although we and our contemporaries try to hold death at bay with
our false attempts at obtaining security or avoiding reality, from
time to time something happens that reveals how our own lives are
vulnerable.
merely take time out
in reality, not merely
appearance. He did not
from bodily existence, but
entered into the whole of
our condition, accepting
death and depending on
the power of God to raise
the dead.
Even some religious figures offer the false ‘hope’ that tragedy
reflects judgement, and good fortune blessing. The Cross of
Jesus makes such talk not merely insensitive but blasphemous;
but experience of the Holy Saturday world suggests it is simply
demonstrably wrong. Faith is no more proof against tragedy than any
other false hope; rather it is the willingness to believe that we wait,
as Jesus waited, for God.
This world needs hope to interpret it, to see the possibility of God’s
reality as the key to discerning meaning. Ultimately every joy will
be revealed as blessing and every tragedy have its truth revealed,
and every tear wiped away. Today, however, is not that time. Today is
Saturday, and we must wait.
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AT THE TOMB WITH MARY MAGDALENE
(JOHN 20:1-18)
I. IT IS DARK when Mary Magdalene reaches the tomb on Easter
The Reverend Canon Professor
Dorothy Lee
Dean of Trinity College Theological
School and Frank Woods Professor
morning, the darkness before the dawn on the day following
the Sabbath rest. To her dismay, Mary finds the stone rolled
away and assumes that the tomb has been raided and the body,
wrapped in its thick blanket of spices, stolen. She runs back to
tell the other disciples the news that the tomb is ransacked, but
neither of the two who then race to the tomb can assist her or
explain. They leave in some confusion and return home. She is
left alone at the tomb, weeping.
of New Testament
‘Why are you weeping?’
Why do you weep when
life has taken the place
of death, when the
radiance of Light has burst
through the stifling pall of
darkness?
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Like the lover in the Song of
Songs, Mary begins to search
for her Beloved as the dawn
breaks and the sun steals over
the horizon. Again she peers
into the tomb. Now in place of
a dark and gloomy interior, she
sees by the light of morning two
angels seated at the head and
foot of the stone slab on which
the body lay. They sit in silence,
like the cherubim whose
wings meet over the ark of the
covenant to protect the empty
space, the mercy seat, beneath.
The two angels reveal nothing
but a still, meditative presence.
After a time they speak, asking
a simple yet puzzled question.
‘Why are you weeping?’ Why
do you weep when life has
taken the place of death, when
the radiance of Light has burst
through the stifling pall of
darkness? Why do you weep,
when the air throbs with the
joy of resurrection in this place
of death? Why weep when you
are standing in the restored
primeval garden of delight?
Mary does not see the light
or feel the joy or grasp the
significance of the garden; she
does not realise she is in the
presence of celestial beings.
Her grief stubbornly persists
and she turns away in despair,
coming face-to-face with the
living Body himself, but she
does not recognise him. For
her it is not the divine Gardener
who once created Eden and
has now restored Paradise,
but the ordinary, everyday
gardener who labours dayby-day to weed and tend and
water the plants. Through her
tears, Mary blunders from one
misunderstanding to another,
her heart too overwhelmed with
pain and loss, with the pungent
awareness of death, to identify
the vibrant signs of life all
around her.
Jesus repeats the angels’
question, adding another:
‘Whom are you seeking?’ For
a moment hope surges up: If
you are the gardener, perhaps
you know who took the body;
perhaps you can help me
find it. She is seeking a dead
Messiah not a living Lord. Jesus
releases her from the false
hope, the misapprehension,
the overmastering grief and
speaks only her name: ‘Mary!’
It is enough. Hearing and
recognising the voice of the
Good Shepherd who knows all
his sheep by name, she grasps
at once that it is the Lord of life
who stands before her.
Mary responds with
enthusiasm. From tears and
mourning, her mood turns
abruptly to joy. She embraces
him, throwing herself at his feet.
‘My Teacher’, she says devoutly,
incredulously. He is restored to
me, she tells herself exultingly,
and everything has gone back
to normal again, after all the
needless pain and sorrow.
But she is wrong and it seems
at first that he repels her:
‘Do not touch me!’ he says,
although he will say the very
opposite to Thomas and invite
him to touch the wounds. Yet
it is not the touching which is
the problem. It is her holding of
Jesus, as if this is the way he is
to return to her, as if the cross
has been unsaid, reversed.
Though she sees and knows,
she does not fully understand
that he is now to be with her,
not in the flesh (not yet) but in
and through the Spirit, in the
sacramental life of the church,
in the love of disciples one for
another.
He is still to ascend, to depart,
to the One who is her Father
and his Father, her God and his
God. It is a vital distinction for
her to grasp: not ‘our Father’
here, he tells her, but yours
and mine. His status as the
Son, the true Child of God, is
pre-eminent and unique. Mary
is God’s child, a true daughter,
but only because she has
entered into Christ’s filiation, his
sonship. Her oneness with God
is made possible through his.
She is drawn into that sublime
love that flows between Father,
Son and Holy Spirit. By sharing
in Christ’s status, she enters
into the divine love and shows
herself to be a true daughter of
God, the living emblem of the
church: a new Eve, a new life, a
new apostolic calling.
Now, as the ‘apostle of the
apostles’ she has a message to
proclaim, a new vocation: first
among the disciples to see and
grasp and speak. Now she is
to proclaim the gospel to the
apostles and together they are
to proclaim to the world the
divine victory over sin, evil,
violence, hatred and death. So
she returns in haste and joy to
the gathered disciples. ‘I have
seen the Lord!’ she cries out
in triumph and joy. ‘The rule of
death is ended: alleluia!’
II. As we enter John’s
story, we place ourselves
imaginatively alongside Mary
Magdalene at the tomb in the
garden on Easter morning.
We bring with us our fears
and dread, our sorrows and
suffering.
We too misunderstand; we
too blunder around; we
too fail to see the signs of
Christ’s living presence within
and among us. We seek
desperately for a seemingly
silent God to speak, only to
find that God standing right
before us or close behind
us. We need to be drawn
tenderly into recognition and
understanding, moving from
despair to hope, from grief
and sadness to joy.
At this Eastertide, we are
invited to enter more deeply
into Christ’s sonship, into his
relationship with the Father, into
the love of the triune God: the
God of love and light and joy
beyond all our imaginings who
is revealed uniquely in Jesus
Christ. We are invited into the
Garden which God has planted
for us, through Christ’s death
and resurrection, bringing others
with us who need the same
life and joy. Here we will be at
last one with the triune God,
one with Mary Magdalene and
all the saints, one with each
other, and one with a renewed
creation.
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Exult all creation around God’s throne!
Jesus Christ, our King, is risen!
Sound the trumpet of salvation!
Rejoice O earth in shining splendour,
radiant in the brightness of your King!
Christ has conquered! Glory fills you!
A NEW CREATION
FOR MANY Christians, the Great Easter Vigil is, rightly, the
liturgical highlight of the year. At that service, in the light of the
newly lit Paschal Candle, words like these are sung or said:
The Reverend Dr Gregory Seach
Warden at Wollaston Theological
College
Exult all creation around
God’s throne!
Jesus Christ, our King, is risen!
Sound the trumpet of salvation!
Rejoice O earth in shining
splendour,
radiant in the brightness
of your King!
Christ has conquered!
Glory fills you!
This ancient hymn, the Exsultet,
the Great Easter proclamation,
concludes with words that
summarise our great joy: Easter
is a time ‘truly blest, when
heaven is wedded to earth
and all creation is reconciled
with God!’ In these words,
the hymn echoes Colossians
1:20: ‘through [Christ] God was
pleased to reconcile to himself
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all things, whether in earth or in
heaven making peace through
the blood of his cross.’
We very properly rejoice at
Easter because ‘Christ has
conquered’. Through Jesus’
death and resurrection, we
fallen human beings have been
rescued from the power of
death. But perhaps we risk
losing sight of the fact that ‘it
isn’t all about us’!
Have you ever wondered why
in John’s gospel, in the account
of the Passion set for Good
Friday, and the account of the
Resurrection set for Easter
morning, so much of the action
takes place in a garden?
John stresses this constantly.
Jesus and his disciples gather in
a garden, Jesus is arrested in a
garden, his body is laid in ‘a new
tomb’ in a garden, and Mary
Magdalene encounters him in
a garden. Just as John’s gospel
begins with the remarkable
reworking of Genesis
chapter 1 – ‘In the beginning
God created’ echoed with ‘In
the beginning was the Word’ –
so here, near the gospel’s end,
we have another reference to
the beginning of Creation, to
the first dealings God has with
humanity and all the created
order, in a garden. From this
new tomb, in a garden, comes
the beginning of a new creation,
restored and reconciled with
God.
That gives us some rather hard
thinking to do about how we
relate to this creation that God
has reconciled, renewed and
transformed in and through
Jesus and by the power of
the Spirit. It makes us explore
what the role of humanity
was initially. Given that we
were created in the image and
likeness of God, as those with
whom God chose to converse
as God walked in the garden,
some theologians have argued
that humanity was called to a
special role. We were to be the
summit of all creation because
our task was to unite all creation
in worship and praise of God.
Of course, human beings chose
not to do that, choosing instead
to use and exploit all elements
of creation, including other
human beings, for our own
ends.
Christians believe, however,
that in Jesus, God becomes
human, to show humans what
we are to be and do. And not
only to show us, but to make
that possible: Jesus is, so Paul
tells us, the ‘new Adam’, the
new way of being human, a
way of being human into which
we are initiated by our baptism.
(Now we can see why the early
Church insisted on baptism
taking place at the Easter
Vigil!) So, as part of creation in
his humanity, Jesus brings all
creation to worship God, not
through exploiting creation, but
by nurturing and transforming it.
That’s why, too, gathering
around the Lord’s Table is such a
crucial part of Easter, and every
Sunday, our weekly Easter.
At that Table, we take created
things, fruit of the earth and
work of human hands, bread
and wine. Through the work
of the Spirit, the same Spirit
who hovered over the waters
at the first creation, and with
the prayers of human voices,
those elements of creation are
transformed, in a mysterious
way we can never fully
understand, into the body and
blood of Christ. They are a true
and real sign and instance of the
communion God desires with
all creation. And, in a similarly
mysterious way, we too are
transformed into the Body of
Christ. We become his presence
in, to and for the world. As
Christ’s body, can we continue
to treat the rest of creation – a
creation with which we are now
reconciled through him – in the
old, fallen way of exploitation
and misuse any longer?
As we rejoice at Easter, then,
let’s remember that it isn’t
all about us! We live in and
bear witness to the new and
transformed creation God
desires for the whole cosmos.
We are in communion with God
and all things through Jesus’
saving work in the garden.
No wonder we ‘exult with all
creation around God’s throne’!
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BEACH RESCUE
STOP THE
TRAFFIK
The Right Reverend Allan Ewing
Bishop of Bunbury
Fuzz Kitto and Carolyn Kitto
Directors of STOP THE TRAFFIK Australian Coalition
MOST people are not aware of the extent of human trafficking in our world today, let alone in the
chocolate industry. But yes, in Cote d’Ivoire children and young people have been trafficked from
Burkina Faso and other surrounding countries to work on the cocoa farms. It is not acceptable at
Easter to eat chocolate Easter eggs that may be the direct cause the suffering that Jesus came to
overcome.
Cote d’Ivoire is the French
name for what used to be
called Ivory Coast. It is the
biggest producer of cocoa
in the world. It was one of
the first countries to have its
debt forgiven but then the
consequential demand was to
remove tariffs and operate in
the open world market. To meet
this they resorted to taking
young trafficked boys (mainly)
to help plant and harvest the
cocoa. Until 2011 officials
in Cote d’Ivoire denied any
human trafficking. In early 2012
Madame Dominique Ouattara,
the First Lady of Cote d’Ivoire,
personally took on the issue
and is working to bring an end
to human trafficking in Cote
d’Ivoire. She needs our support
and prayers.
It has taken a long time for the
chocolate industry to admit and
then do something about human
trafficking in its products. Most
have Cocoa Plans and they
are starting to develop some
very good models that include
education, water and sanitation
– all which help in prevention.
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These are steps in the right
direction but there is a long way
to go. Big chocolate companies
and supermarkets still need
our encouragement and to
know that we will exercise our
consumer power to support
them in bringing change.
To support activists like Madam
Ouattara and to support farmers
we can choose to do the right
thing. The Fairtrade, Rainforest
Alliance or UTZ Certification
tells us that an audit has been
done to check labour conditions.
This is part of making chocolate
traffik-free.
Australia may seem like a
long way from West Africa.
However, we are linked through
our stomachs because of
the amount of chocolate we
consume. We have buying
power! We consume double the
world average of chocolate per
person. We can choose to buy
chocolate that is certified.
In the Easter Story Jesus has
become the victor and Lord even over our buying choices.
You are invited to respond to
Human Trafficking as followers
of this God of generous love and
grace who brings to the world a
reality of freedom, love and life
lived to the full.
What can you do this Easter?
Visit www.stopthetraffik.org/
au/traffikfree_easter for all your
resources Make Easter Traffik
Free
• Ask Coles and Woolworths
to double the certified Easter
products for 2016 and thank
Aldi and Haighs for being
100% certified in their Easter
chocolate products. Cards
can be ordered at:
www.stopthetraffik.com.au
or you can print your own
• Download the Good Egg
Guide and choose to buy only
certified Easter chocolate
products.
• Use the Easter prayer to pray
that human trafficking will
STOP http://bit.ly/1M42wfM
As Easter People how will we
respond?
THERE is a modern parable which tells the story of one person facing the tragedy of thousands of
starfish cast up onto a beach. Gasping in the deathly air, the starfish are dying, they need the water
to live. So a few people begin to slowly walk along that beach, picking one fish after another and
throwing them back into the sea. A passerby, looking down onto the thousands of fish on the beach
calls out, ‘You’re wasting your time; look back, you are not making any difference.’ ‘Perhaps not,’
comes the reply, ‘but it will make a difference to this one.’ And with that another starfish is returned
to living water.
The parable is intended to
encourage us to focus on what
we can do, rather than be
daunted by the task ahead of
us; to see a global challenge and
to respond by acting locally.
It is a good and rich reminder
that even the smallest of actions
can be life saving to another in
distress.
I returned to this image as I
thought about the significance
of Easter Day. In Easter services
across the world phrases such
as ‘new life’, ‘atonement for our
sins’, and ‘a new creation’ are
used to convey the significance
of the action of God in the death
and resurrection of Jesus. These
phrases can speak volumes
to those who understand
the language, but for many
they can be bewildering if not
incomprehensible.
The great Easter Anthems
which many Christians will sing
on Easter Day start with an
affirmation that is not easy to
explain: ‘Christ our passover
has been sacrificed for us,
so let us celebrate the feast.’
They conclude with the equally
puzzling ‘as in Adam all die,
even so in Christ shall all be
made alive.’ These passages,
gathered from I Corinthians 5,
Romans 6 and I Corinthians 15,
offer a profound celebration of
theological truth in a manner
that is hard to explain to fellow
Christians, let alone those who
are searching to understand
spiritual realities in their life.
watch the rain drenching but
not drowning the fish and
themselves. And as the rain
continues to fall the waters lift
the fish, first one or two, and
then squadrons of fish; restored
to life the starfish flow back to
the sea.
It is perhaps not surprising
that the Greek words used to
describe God’s action in the
re-establishing of relationship
between God and all God’s
creation has found no effective
English word. So we talk of
atonement, or more accurately
we talk of God’s action of AtOne-Ment; God’s making of one
all which is separate or divided.
Where once the beach had
been carpeted with dying fish
soon it is empty, deserted.
The sea is filled with the living
fish and the sands have been
swept clean. Still the rain falls,
filling the sea, and soon the
beach begins to recede as the
full sea reclaims the dying land.
The rain will not stop until there
is no way that any fish can be
beached again.
To return to the opening story;
the beach is covered as far as
the eye can see, and beyond,
with dying starfish. Nothing can
be done, in human terms, to
save the lives of these stranded
fish.
Then comes Easter.
It begins to rain. Hard steady
rain falls and water begins to
flow from the top of the beach,
forming streams and rivers
through the sand and gravel.
Those who were labouring
on the beach to bring hope
to a small number stop and
In John’s gospel Jesus invites
a woman rejected and despised
by her neighbours to come to
living water. In her response she
is restored into community and
life is renewed.
In the simple story the starfish
represent all of us and each
of us, and the rain is the living
water of God’s gift to us.
It is only by the living water
of Jesus Christ that creation
becomes ‘At-One’ with God.
This is the promise and hope of
Easter day. New life indeed.
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Christ has been raised from the dead: the firstfruits of those who sleep. For as by one
man came death: by another has come also resurrection of the dead; For as in Adam all
die: even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
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I CAN still remember as a teenager being enriched by the words
of the Easter Anthems from BCP, which spelled out some of the
glorious yet challenging implications of our Lord’s death and
resurrection. Found in APBA on pages 6-7, it is a combination of
verses from the apostle Paul.
The Right Reverend
Dr Peter Brain
Christ our Passover has been
sacrificed for us: so let us
celebrate the feast, not with
the old leaven of corruption
and wickedness: but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity
and truth.
Christ once raised from the
dead dies no more: death has
no more dominion over him. In
dying he died to sin once and
for all: in living he lives to God.
See yourselves therefore as
dead to sin: and alive to God in
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Christ has been raised from
the dead: the firstfruits of those
who sleep. For as by one man
came death: by another has
come also resurrection of the
dead; For as in Adam all die:
even so in Christ shall all be
made alive.
Great riches are found in
these verses. They stand as
timely reminders not only of
the unique Easter events but
of the response required of all
believers.
Typically our liturgies affirm
two truths. They both select
verses that remind us of core
theological truths, and also tell
us what we are to make of
these great events.
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Put another way, God saves
us from misunderstanding or
speculation about the meaning
of our Lord’s death and
resurrection. Rightly we ponder,
meditate on and marvel at the
events, but this will only prove
helpful as we accept what the
biblical writers tell us about their
meaning. We refuse to devalue
these treasures with human
speculation and reap the rich
dividends that God would have
us enjoy.
Any sin, be it sexual, greed,
party spirit or pride, like leaven,
risks corrupting the church and
its witness.
Our Lord’s grace and sacrifice
shown so lovingly and
deliberately on Calvary bring us
the unearned and undeserved
riches of redemption and the
presence of the Holy Spirit.
But sadly this gift can so easily
lead to presumption and pride.
The invitation to see our whole
Christian life as a feast to be
celebrated with sincerity of
motive and truthful actions is a
timely reminder of the cost of
the investment the Lord of glory
made for us personally and of
the immense value he places
upon our corporate witness.
St Paul, once rich in his own
self-righteousness, came to
recognise the real richness of
Christ’s righteousness when
he turned to him. The three
passages from Paul’s pen that
form our Easter Anthems enrich
us in a number of overlapping
ways.
By quoting Romans 6:9-10
we are reminded that Christ’s
once for all death on the cross
and unique bodily resurrection
were clearly historical events
which are not only to be
remembered but also a pattern
to be emulated. Just as there
is no room for reincarnation
in Christian thinking, there
is no room for either fear of
judgement, complacency or
self-interest for those who own
Jesus as Saviour and Lord.
The first, from 1 Corinthians
5:7-8, forms part of Paul’s
rebuke of the Corinthian
Christians who proudly tolerated
sin within their church. As a
result of Christ’s sacrifice on the
cross, which fulfils the Jewish
Passover, the believer not only
stands in a new relationship
with God but has an obligation
to live distinctively.
The way we think about Christ
and ourselves is vital. When
we ‘see ourselves as dead to
sin and alive to God’ we are
taking seriously Jesus’ death
and resurrection. Sin matters,
and as his death deals with
sin’s penalty, Jesus lives to
help us to conquer sin’s power.
We look back to what our Lord
has done for us, we look up
to him for what he will do in
us as mediator and through
his indwelling Spirit, and we
look forward to the day when
sin’s presence will be removed
completely and forever.
Finally, in 1 Corinthians
15:20-22, Paul helps us capture
the richness of God’s grace
and the benefits of Christ’s
death and resurrection that
accrue to us by faith. Christ’s
resurrection is the guarantee
of a great harvest for all who
trust him. It has been said that
in God’s eyes there are just
two men, Adam and Christ, and
‘they have all others hanging
on their girdlestrings’. Quaint
language, but this is the truth
that lies behind Jesus words
‘you must be born again’. We
are all ‘in Adam,’ sinners who
deserve judgement, simply
by being born; whereas we
must be born again by God’s
Spirit to be ‘in Christ.’ We will
die physically but not eternally
if we turn to Christ. As a
consequence, for the believer
death holds no more fear than
going to sleep at night. And all
because Christ ‘died once and
for all’ and ‘has been raised
from the dead.’
Here are riches that money
cannot buy and surely worth
investing our whole selves in.
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ARTICLES
OFFERING SOME SCAFFOLDING
3. Make, or have made some,
BIG BOLD signs that can
displayed wherever possible
inviting people to join you.
Make them short, clear and
with images that people will
recognise. ‘Billboarding’ is still
a viable advertising medium.
The Reverend Alison Gilchrist
Parish Priest Bassendean
Diocesan Evangelism Enabler
ONCE I heard of Dr Robi Sonderegger, his story was hard to get out of my mind. Of Swiss heritage,
Robi grew up on the edge of the Australian ski fields, and was the man who taught both Prince
Charles and Prince Harry to snowboard. Which is quite impressive! Robi, however, is best known
for taking psychology ‘from the frontline to the home front.’ Author of Free to Be You, which helps
readers discover identity, purpose and self-worth, he is at the forefront of a number of major
campaigns and initiatives that address the issues of flourishing in children, in both Australia and
other parts of the globe.
It’s not his amazing resume
that has kept Robi in my mind,
but a statement he made in an
interview. ‘While travelling in
rural Zambia, I began to read The
Message, and the Bible came
alive for the first time. One day,
while sitting in the front seat
of a bus on a bumpy road in
the middle of nowhere, it all
of a sudden made sense. By
Romans 8 I had discovered both
the incredible excitement of this
gift and the anger no one had
ever told me before now.’
Robi’s comment hit a ‘hot spot’
created for me over the years,
as I have heard such stories
again and again. I ask myself
why we find it so difficult to
hear this evidence, and believe
it. Why, in our current society,
which we hear is populated
by those who readily admit to
‘seeking for something more
spiritual in my life,’ are so many
people ready to hear the Good
)'
News of the Gospel, but so few
are offering to tell them?
This statistic are clear: 82
percent of the unchurched are
at least ‘somewhat likely’ to
attend church if they are invited.
Perhaps we need to restate it
differently: More than eight out
of ten of the unchurched said
they would come to church if
they were invited. What the
research goes on to tell us
is that only two percent of
church members ever invite an
unchurched person to church.
As Easter arrives with
Pentecost not far ahead, we are
in one of those times of year
when inviting others is easier.
We know more people attend
church at Easter and Christmas
than at any other time. The
openness is there. So, being
an out and out pragmatist, I am
going to use the rest of this
article to make a few simple
suggestions as to how we
4. Make up an electronic
‘billboard’ which is easily
accessed and copied by
church members so they can
post to social media or send
by email.
5. Make a text message with
a picture or some attractive
words. Send to all church
members so they can send
the invitation on to those in
their phone books.
All these ideas ‘scaffold’ our
attempt to give it go. All are
fairly easy, replicable, low cost
and within the reach and skill
set of most of us. ‘Scaffolding
success’ is well-used adage
in educational circles, and it
works with exceptional results,
especially where confidence is
low.
Let’s ‘scaffold’ each other,
build some confidence and
encourage each other as we
share the GOOD NEWS with
folk like Robi Sonderegger,
this Easter and Pentecost and
beyond.
Why... are so many people
ready to hear the Good
News of the Gospel, but
so few are offering to tell
them?
might help each other become
those who invite. And, for the
rest of 2015, I will use this page
to offer some more practical
ideas, some easy to adapt and
adopt ‘how to’s’, to embolden
us so that folks like Robi
Sonderegger aren’t left being
mad because they hadn’t heard.
1. Make some cards or flyers
with all the details of your
events over the Easter period
on. Maybe put them in plastic
eggs with a seasonal lolly.
Give a couple to each church
member so inviting is an
easier task.
2. Make up some cards inviting
people to return them to
church, via the giver or to
the church directly, so that
they can be prayed for in
your Easter services. Include
a phrase such as ‘You are
welcome to join us as we
pray for your/your family.’
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THE ORPHANS’ HONOUR BOARD
AMANA LIVING SHINES
SPOTLIGHT
Lara Lynch | Diocesan Archivist
Amana Living has grown its team of highly skilled clinicians
and experts in dementia, restorative care, clinical services
and lifestyle. In February, they were brought together under
the direction of Tim Nayton.
THE SWANLEIGH site is currently run as a Camps and Conferences Facility, but it still has strong
memories and ties to its former life as both a Hostel for Country Children (1960 – 2010) and as an
Orphanage (1876 – 1959).
With the anniversary of WW1
approaching, Lotterywest sent
out a call for grants relating
to the Anzac Centenary in the
hopes of giving the community
an ‘opportunity to remember
the contribution of the original
Anzacs, and all Australian
service personnel, in war
and peace keeping efforts.’
Swanleigh has an honour
board, which was created
as a memorial to orphanage
residents that enlisted and went
to the First World War. The staff
at Swanleigh immediately saw
the opportunity to have this
honour board conserved for the
future.
The Memorial Board was
carved in the 1920s by
Mr Malraisen, who was a
member of staff at the Swan
Boys Orphanage. He was
assisted by boys who were
learning woodwork under his
tutelage.
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There are 127 names on the
board with 12 boys marked as
having died in service. During
research it has been discovered
that 20 boys actually died
overseas in service, six boys
enlisted but were discharged
before active service, one boy
was found to have gone but has
not been listed and two boys
went to both WW1 and WW2.
The conservation process
the board underwent was
extensive. All the nest and
surface areas were cleaned and
brush vacuumed. The paint was
removed by either a scalpel or
chemical remover, and loose
items were reattached. Tinted
wax was placed in areas that
were faded, and microcrystalline
wax was used to help prevent
corrosion.
Vanessa Wiggin from Artworks
Conservation came to
Swanleigh to complete the
process rather than removing
the board to her workshop. The
board is so large and heavy that
we needed three men to move
it!
The honour board holds
pride of place in the foyer of
Waylen House, which is now
the administrative section of
Swanleigh. It is the first thing
you notice upon entering the
main building. The conservation
has process has improved
its visual appeal immensely
and has ensured that, for
now at least, the degradation
of the board by time and
environmental factors has been
reduced considerably.
We are very grateful to both
Ms Wiggin and Lotterywest for
their assistance in helping us
preserve the honour board as a
memorial for the orphans who
went to the First World War.
TIM NAYTON, new General Manager Health Care, believes that aged care services must rapidly
evolve and adapt in the face of a ‘perfect storm’: an ageing population, a rapid increase in the
prevalence of dementia, a shift away from long-term family care, higher expectations of support
from the community, and increased pressure on the health care dollar.
‘The new position of General
Manager Health Care
demonstrates that Amana
Living is committed to
continually improving the care
and services it delivers – and
even to investigate whole new
paradigms in health care,’ he
said.
In recent years, Amana Living
has grown its team of highly
skilled clinicians and experts
in dementia, restorative care,
clinical services and lifestyle.
In February, they were brought
together under the direction of
Tim Nayton.
‘There are currently 32,000
people living with dementia in
Western Australia and this is set
to increase by 14 per cent over
the next five years and double
by 2050,’ said Amana Living
Chief Operating Officer Suzi
Cowcher; ‘At the same time, the
oldest of the large baby boomer
population is now approaching
their 70s. The result is an
increasing pressure on clinical
services.
Amana Living has anticipated
this trend by growing our clinical
team and investing heavily in
vital, innovative programs that
better support older people and
help to prevent deterioration
of their physical and mental
health.’
This growth has included the
introduction of:
• transition care, creating
a platform to develop
restorative care across
the organisation and to be
more proactive in the space
between hospital and home;
• ‘dementia hubs’, with more
services for those living with
dementia and their carers;
and
• a new ‘lifestyle program’
in residential care facilities,
which looks more closely at
the activities that will help
each individual to be more
fulfilled.
‘With clear synergies across
these areas, we saw great
benefit in bringing them
together under a single health
care portfolio,’ said Ms Cowcher.
‘Amana Living anticipates
this portfolio growing further
as it develops new service
approaches and build a strong
research base.’
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PADRE WHITE AND ANZAC DAWN
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
Dennis Connelly
THE FIRST ANZAC Commemoration Committee was established in Brisbane, Queensland on
10 January 1916. It was designed to help people remember before God the men who had fallen in
the Dardanelles campaign.
The man unanimously elected Secretary of the
Committee was Canon David John Garland (18611939). He had served as an Anglican priest in
Western Australia before moving to Queensland.
He became known for his work as a military
chaplain in the army camps set up around
Brisbane.
Canon Garland’s difficulty lay in bringing members
of every mainstream Christian denomination
to agree to a service in which all could share.
He succeeded in this, and the observance he
presented was eventually adopted with only minor
alteration. Each Christian denomination continued
to commemorate in their own ways those who
had died.
In early 1918, an Anglican priest and former AIF
chaplain in Albany celebrated a requiem mass
for those who had died in battle. He was Padre
Arthur Ernest White. After the service he and
some members of the congregation climbed to
the summit of Mt Clarence. As he looked over
Princess Royal Harbour he is reported to have said,
‘Albany was the last sight of land our troops saw of
Australia. Perhaps we should commemorate them
this way every ANZAC Day.’ When Padre White
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was appointed Rector of Albany in September,
1929, he decided to mark the following ANZAC
Day by celebrating a Dawn Eucharist.
On April 25, 1930, some of his parishioners
attended this 6am service then accompanied
their rector to the nearby war memorial where he
placed a wreath on behalf of the parish. They then
followed him up Mt Clarence to wait for a boatman
to lay a wreath on the water at the entrance of the
harbour where it would drift out to King George
Sound. When he entered details of the service on
the church register he wrote, ‘First Dawn Service
held in Australia.’ The record is preserved.
Most authorities agree that the Dawn Service,
as we know it, began to gain popularity in the
early 1930s. Padre White continued his practice of
celebrating a Dawn Eucharist, followed by wreath
laying and a pilgrimage throughout his incumbency.
After his death, a marker which was placed next
to his simple grave affirmed the same belief, and
at Werribee, NSW, a small Anglican Church boasts
stained glass windows, known as the Dawn
Service Windows, dedicated to his memory.
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CEO Anglicare WA
THE LENT and Easter periods are times rich in culture, tradition and ritual. One of the important
dates through this time for Anglicare WA was Sunday 8 March. Why – you ask? Because it is the
global celebration of International Women’s Day.
Eugene Yakub, a United
Nations worker from Kenya,
has eloquently described the
day as being a celebration
honouring all the women who
daily have given, do give, and
will always give of themselves
to their families, communities,
and countries; by the roadside,
in the fields and factories,
in private homes and public
institutions; to commerce,
Government, the media,
universities and international
organisations; informing, healing
and comforting, leading and
following, participating and
contributing, enlightening and
creating and encouraging, multitasking and loving and guiding,
laughing and crying, being
tough, gentle, stoical.’
Locally, here at Anglicare WA,
it was a day to recognise the
contributions of our female staff,
volunteers and supporters as
they pursue, with compassion
and respect, our vision of a just
and fair Western Australia where
all people thrive.
I acknowledge and thank you all.
Eighty-five per cent of our staff
are women, including two of our
three executives, and four of our
five senior consultants.
These women make up a
huge proportion of the fierce
advocates and change makers
at Anglicare WA who work
tirelessly for a stronger, safer
Western Australia.
International Women’s Day
was also a time to recognise
that many of our female
clients struggle with gender
equality issues on a daily basis.
At Anglicare WA we work
together for a community
where all women are free of
gender based violence and
discrimination, where they are
free to exercise their choices
about education, work and
participation in community life.
International Women’s Day
was an opportunity to reflect
on progress made, to call for
change and to celebrate acts
of courage and determination
by ordinary women who have
played an extraordinary role in
their communities.
This year, on a global scale,
International Women’s Day
commemorated Beijing +20,
a global campaign celebrating
progress towards gender
equality since the landmark
Beijing Platform for Action was
signed in 1995 by 189 countries.
While we have come a long
way, many serious gaps remain.
As UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon commented this week,
‘When we unleash the power
of women, we can secure the
future for all.’
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NOT ALL NEIGHBOURHOODS ARE THE
SAME
The Right Reverend Tom Wilmot
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Assistant Bishop
THE ‘ECO BISHOPS’ discovered that not all neighbourhoods are the same, at the recent Conference
of the Anglican Communion Environment Network gathering in Capetown, under the chairmanship
of Archbishop Thabo Makgoba.
The 16 invited Anglican ‘Eco
Bishops’ brought climate impact
reports from their Provinces.
They produced a global Anglican
perspective on climate change,
with recommendations for
future action. These local
narratives demonstrated
the clear and accelerating
impacts of climate change in
each represented Province of
the global Communion, but
interestingly also demonstrated
that climate change is having
an uneven impact in different
places.
This is not surprising, given
that increases in average air
temperature are not evenly
distributed over the planet.
A global average increase
of 0.9°C translates into a
increase of almost 4.0°C in
the Arctic Circle, with serious
consequences for the northern
hemisphere. The Bishop of
New York, Andrew Dietsche,
a Californian originally, spoke
of the debilitating impacts
of uncharacteristically cold
weather, and storm surge
flooding by Cyclone Sandy for
New York. Paradoxically, this
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is matched by the negative
impacts of uncharacteristically
hot weather on the Californian
‘food bowl’ of the USA. Flood
and fire do harm to commerce
and food security respectively.
Bishop Robert from the
Philippines reported that 3,000
people are still unaccounted for
following the world’s biggest
hurricane, when 350kph winds
struck the Central Philippines
in September 2013. He said
that when Pope Francis visited
the Philippines, a five year old
girl who had lost her entire
extended family came up on the
stage with a question for the
Pope. She asked: ‘Why does
God let these terrible things
happen to children?’ Pope
Francis replied, “I don’t know!”
However, in that same
month the Pope convened a
gathering of mining industry
representatives for a Day of
Reflection at the Vatican to
consider the ethical implications
of their activities. This is not
to lay the blame on extraction
industries. We all enjoy the
benefits of their products, at
least in the developed world.
RIGHTEOUSNESS KNOWS NO RACIAL
OR RELIGIOUS BOUNDARIES
However, this initiative by the
Pope reminds us all of the
serious consequences of our
human actions.
The way we have organised
our economic activities and
our addiction to consumption
is having serious ecological
and social impacts. The
consequences go well beyond
our national borders and pass
into the next generation. Our
species is currently using the
non-renewable, finite resources
of 1.5 planets each year!
‘The fathers have eaten sour
grapes and the children’s teeth
are set on edge’ (Jeremiah
31:29), or as Rabbi Jonathan
Sacks would interpret this
ancient proverb, ‘We are not
passing on a better world to our
children; we are borrowing from
their future.’ I would add that
more is being borrowed from
from some than from others,
because not all neighbourhoods
are the same. This poses an
ethical dilemma for all of us
if we are to honour the first
commandment God gave: to
care for creation.
I THINK about her from time to time — regal, dignified, every inch the princess she was. Yet there
was something more about her. Humanity? Courage? Compassion? She knew that she lived under
a brutal regime that turned men into slaves and worshipped power as an idol hungry for human
sacrifice. Worse, she knew that her own father was the author of this tyranny. He had condemned an
entire race to extinction by ordering their children killed at birth.
I doubt whether the reality of
that fact had ever really struck
her before. It wasn’t the kind
of thing they spoke about in
the palace. It was all happening
a long way away and she
preferred not to think about it.
Until . . .
One day, about to go for a
swim in the Nile, she saw a
basket floating downriver. She
told one of her attendants to
swim out and bring it to her.
Even before she opened it, she
knew what it contained. She
heard the cry of a child and
knew, without having to be told,
that it belonged to one of the
Hebrews.
In her mind she reconstructed
the story: a Hebrew slave
had given birth, taken the
child, wrapped it in a blanket,
placed it in a basket and set
it loose on the river in the
hope that somehow it would
circumnavigate the decree
of death. And now she, the
Egyptian princess, Pharaoh’s
daughter, held it in her hands.
She had no doubt as to what
to do. She would shelter it,
adopt it, bring it up as her own.
This was Hitler’s daughter,
or Eichmann’s or Mussolini’s,
saving a Jewish child.
She knew the risks. An ancient
Jewish legend of the kind we
call midrash, says that her own
servants told her not to go
ahead with what she had in
mind. She ignored them. She
even gave the child its name:
Moses (Mses was an Egyptian
name, probably meaning ‘child’,
as in Ramses, ‘child of the sun
god’). In the Bible, names are
significant. They are given by
the parents and in rare cases
by God himself (who changes
Abram into Abraham and Jacob
into Israel). Yet Moses always
bears the name given to him by
the Egyptian princess. Says the
midrash: ‘This is the reward for
kindness, that even God himself
called Moses by the name
Pharaoh’s daughter gave him.’
And her own name? On that,
the Bible is silent, intimating
perhaps that sometimes the
greatest deeds are done by
people who remain anonymous.
Jewish tradition, however,
supplied the gap. Elsewhere, in
the Book of Chronicles, there
is a reference to a ‘Bityah,
daughter of Pharaoh’ and they
identified it with her. Bityah
means ‘daughter of God.’
Once again the midrash has an
explanation, which is that God
said: ‘Moses was not your son,
but you called him your son.
You are not My daughter, but
henceforth I shall call you My
daughter.’
I love this story, not only
because it tells us what, more
recently, we discovered in the
Holocaust, that there are those
who in an age of evil can stand
out against it and defy it — but
also because it tells us to look
beyond stereotypes. Pharaoh
may have been a tyrant but his
own daughter was a heroine,
her courage eternalised in the
book held holy by his victims.
Righteousness knows no
racial or religious boundaries. It
exists where we least expect
it, redeeming our hope in
humanity, and our faith that
God’s image lives in those who,
unblinded by prejudice, see and
respond to it in others.
(First published in The Times)
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LIVING, BREATHING LEADERSHIP
Christ Is Risen!
He Is Risen Indeed!
Alleluia!
NOR’WEST
POSTCARD
The Reverend Dr Elizabeth Smith
Mission Development Coordinator
CHRISTIANITY’S great example of ‘inspirational leadership’ is Jesus Christ. He died and was buried and
rose again and, when we are baptised, so do we. Jesus lived and loved and forgave generously and, as
his disciples, so do we. He inspires us. He literally breathes his Holy Spirit into us.
Jocelyn Ross OAM
THE PILBARA Archdeaconry gathering was hosted by Wickham Community Church early in
March, with clergy and seafarers’ chaplains from Port Hedland, Exmouth, Karratha, Newman and
Paraburdoo/Tom Price attending. Despite obstacles to the members travelling there, the meeting
was appreciated, with MP Peter Abetz providing a helpful presentation on human trafficking and
prostitution. The road from Paraburdoo opened just in time for David Morgan to get there, but was
closed again by flood water on the return trip. It took him 24 hours to reach home. Amanda and
Derek McArtney got there from Newman, despite Derek having been rained-in at Roy Hill Mine
the day before. At the end, locums Wayne and Gladys Sutton had an unscheduled 4-day wait in
Paraburdoo before heading home to Geraldton.
The clergy were in good
heart, though most of their
communities are struggling
with job cuts by BHP and
Rio. It is causing a great deal
of uncertainty in Newman,
Paraburdoo, Karratha and Port
Hedland. An added cause of
stress is the consequent drop
in house values and rental
income. Many small businesses
are struggling to survive, some
already having closed. Despite
that, Port Hedland Seafarers
Centre has continued its high
level of turnover of seafarers
and income. The housing
downturn has enabled the
Committee to provide off-site
accommodation for staff, and
land has become available for
the building of a new Centre.
Wickham Community Chaplain,
Richard Goscombe, reports that
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Brendan Corner and his family
have joined the Chaplaincy
team. They have come to
establish a Wood Shop to
provide an avenue to help men
out of dysfunctional lifestyles.
It is a pilot for a number of
micro-industries, creating
interest in the town, to give local
people an opportunity to engage
in something of value and move
away from their sedentary use
of alcohol. Pray for them as they
settle in to a new environment,
for God’s financial provision, and
that Brendan is able to assist
men and boys develop a love of
learning, gain trade skills, and
discover their worth and value
to their families and community.
The church at Carnarvon has
been encouraged since the start
of the school year by some new
people in the congregation,
including a number of children to
form a Sunday School. Sue van
Dongen, a lady in her nineties
and a long-time member
of Carnarvon MU, had just
returned from a trip to England,
and sadly landed in hospital in
Perth with a broken hip. We pray
for her good recovery.
The Geraldton Brigade
Company, which includes both
boys and girls, were on parade
at a recent Service at Holy
Cross Cathedral. With their
parents they helped fill the
church, as they publicly affirmed
their promise to uphold the
objectives of the Brigade. The
morning was made even more
enjoyable for all with a free
sausage sizzle after the Service.
He lives! He lives! Christ Jesus
lives today!
Inspiring leaders in our churches, schools,
chaplaincies and agencies have Jesus’ colour and
flavour about them. When we are with those leaders,
we get a bit of the perfume of the Spirit breathing
life into them and into us. We look for them to be
creative, to be kind, to be a bit ‘out there’ when
necessary, to make our world a bit more lively and
productive.
Our inspirational leaders are not always the big
names with the important roles in the system. They
are often the glue in a workplace and the fresh air in a
system of relationships. Leadership is not only about
policy and planning. It is also about storytelling
and social skills. Leaders make us want to belong,
they make us keen to contribute, and they make
us proud of what we achieve together.
We can give them a break. If everything always
depends on one leader for direction and energy, it’s
a lot of eggs in one basket. If that one person gets
tired, or ill, or simply wants a holiday, the whole
project may grind to a halt. Jesus Christ, risen from
the dead, is the only one who is perpetually on call.
Our Christ-like leaders need regular, uninterrupted
rest and recreation, and sometimes we need to let
them step down permanently from their leadership.
The Spirit will find them another role, all in good time,
and God may be making room for someone else to
step up to lead our particular project. Could it be you
or me?
What can we do to keep our best leaders in good
shape for more of their best work?
We can thank them for leading us. We can tell
them that we trust them, that we enjoy working
with them, that we feel as if we’re doing God’s
work when we’re on their team. Don’t just thank
them for their work; thank them for the leadership
they give us for our own work. We can write
them a card, send them an email of appreciation,
or post a photo of them on social media, doing
what they do best. Christ-like leaders don’t expect
thanks, and they will often want to give the credit
to others, but they are human, and our ‘thank you’
is food for their hard-working hearts.
We can recruit more helpers to join the team
that they lead. Whether the group’s mission is
distributing emergency food relief, running a
Mainly Music programme, stitching altar linen or
visiting the sick, more hands are always needed
on deck. When a team member says to a friend
or neighbour: ‘We have a great programme, and
our leader is terrific – please come!’ it is very
encouraging for the leader.
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FILLING THE VOID
CRADLE PLACES
The Reverend Ray Simpson
Co-founder of the international Community of
Aidan and Hilda
I TELL pigeon-holing pilgrims to UK’s Holy Island of Lindisfarne that I was ordained into ‘the
one, holy, catholic and apostolic church in Lichfield Cathedral which was founded by Saint Cedd
of Lindisfarne in the seventh century’. During fruitful ministry in an Ecumenical Partnership
at Bowthorpe, Norwich, which commissioned me to ‘establish one family of Christians in
one neighbourhood’ I realised that evangelical and catholic, justice, charismatic, creation and
contemplative streams which we honoured had flowed as one river in pioneer churches in Celtic
lands, and that it’s no good painting a cabin in the Titanic if the ship – Christendom - is beginning to
go under.
On pilgrimage at Lindisfarne
I watched the Archbishop
of Canterbury’s midnight TV
message on how Cradle Places
had brought faith to nations.
I stumbled into a prayer cell that
had been a stable. I experienced
one of those shattering, oncein-a-life- time experiences. God
seemed to be saying ‘I want
places that this “Cradle of
Christianity to English speaking
people” symbolises more than
top-down places like Rome or
Canterbury. I want Bethlehems
more than Jerusalems. I want
my world-wide people to
reconnect with my presence
in creation, in the people of
all races and backgrounds
outside the churches, and in
the unseen world of the saints
and the angels. I want them
to cast off excess baggage,
travel simply and make space
in their hearts for hospitality
towards others…’I worked
with one of my bishops to seek
discernment over two years.
I joined six others in founding
the international Community of
Aidan and Hilda which seeks
to restore Christianity as a Way
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of Life and to equip church
members with disciplines
that have the depth of the
monasteries and the flexibility
of the modern age. This took
off world-wide. I became
founding guardian and moved to
Lindisfarne when its Vicar, David
Adam, said he would welcome
a presence there. Anglicans,
Orthodox, Pentecostals and
Roman Catholics follow our
Way of Life, based on three
Beatitude Values and Ten
Waymarks, such as a daily
Rhythm of Prayer, Work and
Re-creation. We journey with a
soul friend who helps us apply
this to our own temperament
and circumstances in a way
that is life-giving. Although we
are trans-denominational we
are an Acknowledged Anglican
Community and the Bishop of
Coventry is our Episcopal Visitor.
My reflections are contained in
over thirty books, a daily prayer
tweet and a weekly blog, see
www.raysimpson.org. My
thirty-sixth book, Celtic
Spirituality in the Australian
Landscape, is co-authored by
Melbourne’s The Reverend
Brent Lyons-Lee. We explore the
idea of lands such as Australia
‘facing their Shadow’, seeking
God in the desert, embracing
a Way of Life, and discovering
a new model of mission that
is as old as Jesus and Saint
Aidan of Lindisfarne. We quote
Australians who believe that
Celtic spirituality could provide
an ‘aboriginal’ dimension that
has been overlooked in western
Christianity. The book can be
ordered online at
www.aidanandhilda.org.au.
Ray Simpson dates for Western
Australia
Thursday 14 May to
Saturday 16 May –
Dayspring Celtic Retreat
for details contact info@
dayspring.org.au
Monday 18 May to Friday
22 May - Desert retreat at
Koora for details contact
www.kooraretreat.com
The Reverend William Thomas
St Bartholomew’s Chaplain
EASTER for Christians is a time of death of our old self and coming into new life. Easter is a time of
celebration and renewing our baptismal vows. Well, that’s what we Christians believe, but for many
in today’s society Easter is a long weekend where they have hot cross buns and Easter eggs. When
we start to talk about Easter being a time of remembering the death and resurrection of Jesus,
some people’s eyes just seem to glaze over.
I had a recent discussion
with a member of St Bart’s
community who was brought
up in a post-Christian family.
His grandparents were the last
of his family members who
regularly attended church. His
parents were forced to go to
church when they were children
but left the church when they
were teenagers, never to return.
The closest this person came to
going to church was attending
wedding and funerals.
With this type of background it
wasn’t surprising that he really
had no understanding of Lent,
Easter and Pentecost. It wasn’t
a surprise that when I spoke
of death and resurrection he
thought I meant reincarnation.
He had heard of Palm Sunday
but thought that this was a day
of protest against government
refugee policies. He knows
nothing of Jesus’ triumphal
entry into Jerusalem the week
before the Passover.
So it was with great interest
that I listened as he spoke of his
resurrection story. He grew up
in a beautiful part of the South
West, had hot cross buns on
Good Friday, Easter eggs on
Easter Sunday and basically
enjoyed the long weekend.
As he went into his teens he
studied hard, went to university
and got a degree. In his mid
twenties he married, had
children and bought a house.
He was living the Australian
dream. He saw no need to
seek anything spiritual, and he
was happy to quote German
philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
who said God is dead. He had
grown up believing that life is
what you make of it and belief
in a god was like having an
imaginary friend.
Now this member of our
community is in his 50’s. His
children have left home, he has
a comfortable life but he feels
something is missing. He has
tried filling the void with more
education, eastern philosophical
practices and becoming more
involved in his local community.
None of it has filled the void.
Where he finds contentment
is when he concentrates on
those who are in need. Where
he finds fulfilment is when
he is looking beyond his own
needs and helping those who
have no voice in our society.
While he may think he is going
through a time of reincarnation,
I believe he is going through a
time of death to his old self and
resurrection into a new life.
This year my hope is that when
he has his hot cross buns on
Good Friday he will think of the
symbolism behind the cross.
I pray that when he chomps into
his Easter egg on Easter Day he
will remember Jesus and the
opening of the tomb.
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AN AUTUMNING OF THE SOUL
CATHEDRAL
PRAYER
AND SUPPORT
From the Anglican Alliance | Syrian refugee children in Shabrieh Lebanon
Photo Credit: Joan Barkman/CFGB
AS THE terrible torment of the Syrian people continues into its fifth year, the #withSyria coalition of
international agencies calls on world leaders to fulfil their commitments to bring an end to the conflict
and suffering.
The Syrian crisis is the largest humanitarian crisis
in the world today. Over 200,000 people have been
killed and over half of all Syrians have been forced
to abandon their homes. Over 7.5 million people
are displaced within Syria and four million have fled
to neighbouring lands in Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and
Jordan.
families ever more at risk, particular children, the
elderly and people with disabilities.
In total, 12 million people are in desperate need of
humanitarian assistance. The United Nations calls it
“the worst humanitarian crisis of our time”. Recent
freezing winter conditions have made vulnerable
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The #withSyria coalition has launched a global
petition calling on world leaders to do more to end the
suffering of the Syrian people.
#withSyria calls for:
a significant increase to the humanitarian response
asylum safety for refugees
an end to attacks on civilians
a political solution respecting human rights.
Dr Hassan, who is a surgeon in Aleppo, Syria, said:
“Marwan was on the operating table when the lights
blinked and fizzed out. The nurse pulled her mobile
phone from her pocket – generating the only light
in the pitch-black basement. Others followed suit,
producing just enough light to allow me to finish
repairing his broken little body.”
Raya, a mother of four who fled from Dara’a to a
refugee camp in Jordan, said: “One should never
give up hope. I hold on to any bits of hope because
I do not want to fall. Even if I do fall, I must stand up
on my feet again in order to support and protect my
children.”
Amongst others in the international community, many
Anglican and ecumenical agencies are involved in the
humanitarian response, through their ACT Alliance
sister agency, the International Orthodox Christian
Charities (IOCC), to reach people with food, bedding,
water clothes, shelter, healthcare and education.
Anglican and ecumenical agencies involved in the
response include The Primate’s World Relief and
Development Fund – PWRDF (Canada), Anglican
Board of Mission (Australia), Anglican Overseas Aid
(Australia), and Christian Aid (UK).
To date they have reached over two million vulnerable
people working often in the most volatile areas.
The Very Reverend Richard Pengelley
Dean of St George’s Cathedral
I’VE OFTEN wondered about the northern hemisphere ‘Anglo’ origins of Lent and how well they
translate to our experiences here in Australia. For example the word itself comes from the AngloSaxon word ‘lencten’ meaning spring or the lengthening of days. This culminates of course in the
blending of pre-Christian celebrations of the fertility goddess Eostre and the return of the warmth of
the sun and the new life it will bring, with the Christian stories of the resurrection of Jesus and the
return of the blazing glory of the Son and the eternal life he offers.
Here in Australia, our days
have shortened during Lent. It
grows cooler and the darkness
closes in, which lends a
completely different meaning
to the experience. For example,
I wonder how this quote from
Rowan Williams, the former
Archbishop of Canterbury,
translates to our experience:
‘It’s important to remember
that the word ‘Lent’ itself
comes from the old English
word for ‘spring’. It’s not about
feeling gloomy for forty days;
it’s not about making yourself
miserable for forty days; it’s not
even about giving things up for
forty days. Lent is springtime.
It’s preparing for that great
climax of springtime which
is Easter – new life bursting
through death. And as we
prepare ourselves for Easter
during these days, by prayer and
by self-denial, what motivates
us and what fills the horizon is
not self-denial as an end in itself
but trying to sweep and clean
the room of our own minds and
hearts so that the new life really
may have room to come in and
take over and transform us at
Easter.’
Clearly there is a universal
invitation to ‘sweep and clean
the room of our own minds
and hearts…’ during Lent but
I wonder whether we take the
time to contextualise some of
the traditions we have inherited.
Personally, I have connected in
a new way this year through the
pattern of the daily office and
eucharist at the Cathedral, with
the rhythms of nature and the
city as part of a Lenten practice.
From the pulsing and pounding
of the building site next door, to
the relief from the intense heat
and humidity, to the changing
colours of the leaves and
changing fashions of the busy
city population, I have sensed in
a new way a ‘lenctening’ of the
meaning of the season of Lent.
This is not spring; it is an
‘autumning’ of the soul. By
going ‘inside’ and becoming
aware of the cooling, shortening
and shedding of the season,
I am invited to do the same.
Where has my faith ‘cooled
off’? What short cuts have I
been taking with my prayer
life, my stewardship and my
commitment to walk the Way of
Christ? And what might I need
to shed to lighten the load, to
embrace life in the ‘abundance’
that Jesus promised, and to free
myself to be open in new ways
to the full meaning of the cross,
tomb and resurrection promises
to come?
These and many more
reflective questions ‘spring’ to
mind and invite me to some
‘autumn’ pondering. I hope
your own Lenten journeys and
disciplines have been fruitful,
preparing you well for the shock,
shame, devastation and delight
of Holy Week and Easter.
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SCHOOLS
OPPORTUNITIES FOR
EVERYONE
BEING CHURCH AT SCHOOL
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Jason Bartell
The Reverend Peter Laurence
Principal Swan Valley Anglican Community School
CEO Anglican Schools Commission WA
THE SWAN Valley Anglican Community School (SVACS) was established and built on the premise
that it would provide low-fee educational opportunities, founded on Christian principles, to all
children within the communities of Ellenbrook, Aveley and its surrounds. This is the founding
purpose of all Anglican Schools Commission schools, as outlined in the ASC’s Mission and Values
statements and supported by the eight Christian Purposes of the ASC. The challenge for all ASC
Principals is to maintain the founding principles of the ASC within our local contexts and by doing
so, enhancing the opportunities for children in the communities within which we are located.
In sharing this mission and
purpose to my staff I have
described the purpose of ASC
Schools by using an airline
carrier analogy: ‘we should aim
to offer an Emirates experience
at a Jetstar price.’ Being located
in the North Eastern corridor of
Perth and within the constraints
of a satellite city, the attraction
and retention of local children to
our school has, over the course
of our short history, been a
challenge. We therefore strive
to maintain the ‘Jetstar’ price
with the ‘Emirates standard
and experience’ so that those
local children who would benefit
most from attending our school
may have this opportunity.
With the school’s mission
and purpose in mind, the
SVACS Council has introduced
5 Community (Year 7) and 5
Endeavour (Year 11) Bursary
Scholarships. These entitle each
recipient family to a 50% fee
reduction for their child for the
duration of their engagement
with our School. These Bursary
Scholarships have been offered
to children based partly on their
efforts (please note, not on
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their achievements!) at school
and partly through an income
test on their parents’ income.
Successful applicants must
also show a willingness of
both parent and child to avail
themselves of the opportunities
that may be afforded to them at
SVACS. These scholarships were
very successful in attracting 10
new students to our school who
would, in normal circumstances,
not be able to attend due to
their family financial constraints.
SVACS Council has also
launched itself into further
developing the school’s facilities
to ensure a higher level of
engagement and focus for
the vocationally inspired and
motivated children of our local
community. The new Technology
and Enterprise Training Centre
was commenced in April 2014
and is progressing very well.
It is scheduled to be available
to staff and students from the
beginning of Term 2, 2015.
The Technology and Enterprise
Training Centre will include a
new canteen, two new Food
Technology classrooms, one of
which will be developed to a
commercial kitchen standard,
a new woodwork room, a
new metalwork room with the
relevant associated machinery,
a student IT service help desk,
new IT offices and server room
and a specialist classroom
with technology that will cater
for Computer Aided Design
software specifications. This
facility will ensure that SVACS
can offer higher level Certificate
Courses to children who wish
to specialise in the areas of
Manufacturing and Hospitality.
You can imagine that, within
our local area, hospitality and
manufacturing skills are seen
as being premium skills to
possess.
Our school is motivated
to ensure that all children
within our local Swan Valley
community, be they academic
or vocational, with or without
physical, intellectual or social
impairment, whether they are
from affluent or poor families
are all respected, celebrated
and supported to develop to
their true potential and aspire to
personal excellence.
IN JOURNEYING through Lent, my mind has repeatedly turned to the question of the how our
schools can ‘be Church’.
As Anglicans, our main time
of ‘coming together’ is Sunday.
Sure, we may be involved in
weekday or evening church
activities, but our corporate time
is Sunday.
In contrast, what we do in
schools is largely a Monday to
Friday affair. Academic classes,
cultural activities, sports and
camps are all fitted into a
weekday or night. Of course
there are weekend sporting
and cultural activities in some
schools for some students, but
the majority of our ‘being’ is
Monday to Friday. Schools work
well on this five day timetable.
Shift work and FIFO practices,
whilst common across the WA
workforce, have not translated
to schools!
Chapel works this way too.
Schools model and live out the
Christian life then and there, at
school during the week.
Regularly throughout a year
I am privileged to be invited
to lead or join in worship with
students and staff in Anglican
schools across WA, be they
Eucharists or other liturgies.
How thrilling it is in some
places when confirmations and
baptisms occur in the school
chapel or assembly hall, during
the week, with the congregation
of the candidates’ peers
surrounding them.
I have pondered whether
it is right and proper for our
schools to do on a weekday
what the parochial church does
on a Sunday? My answer is a
resounding YES. Rather than
seeking for our schools to
be something they are not, I
celebrate when they embrace
‘being Church’ to and with their
diverse communities, amid the
hustle and bustle of a school
term.
A friend and colleague in the
USA, The Reverend Dr Daniel
Heischman, is Executive
Director of the National
Association of Episcopal
Schools. Dan talks of the
ministry of ‘being Church’ with
students in our schools this
way:
‘We work with them in the
midst of their lives, right at the
heart of what is at the centre
of their activities, priorities,
and their values. Rather than
leave the matter to a place set
apart, we bring the question
of God—whether it be in
chapel, the classroom, or the
conversations we have with
students—into the very midst
of the busy, complicated, and
often pressured lives that our
students lead. The sacred
intersects with the rough and
tumble of life in school, and in
so doing it helps us find a bridge
to link what sometimes seems
to be a very big divide between
faith and everyday life.’
In a recent video, The Right
Reverend Michael Curry, Bishop
of the Episcopal Diocese of
North Carolina, speaks of this
important work that our schools
do in ‘being church’ as faith
being done ‘right smack dab
in the middle of their lives.’
Now that nails it! This is exactly
what Anglican school chaplains,
teachers, principals and
governors are seeking to do.
We are blessed to be part of
a church whose bishops are
actively promoting new ways of
‘being Church.’ Most of those
who worship amidst ‘the rough
and tumble of life in school’ do
not sit in one of our churches on
Sunday. That is a statistical fact.
The question to ask is, if we are
truly seeking to ‘be Church at
school’, does it matter?
Cardinal Hume of Westminster
wrote late last century: ‘The
great gift of Easter is hope Christian hope which makes us
have that confidence in God, in
God’s ultimate triumph, and in
God’s goodness and love, which
nothing can shake.’ May all in
our schools and wider Anglican
family know the hope found in
the crucified and risen Christ
this Easter.
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GOOD NEWS
PROJECT
REFLECT
RECOGNISE
CELEBRATE
the church and highlights/
re-invents the traditional act
of religious garment-making.
Parish unknown.
• My Good News Story is that
I have been introduced to the
‘Fresh Expressions’ concept
at Willeton with a book,
Being Church, Doing Life by
Michael Moynagh.
Noëlle Udall | Creating Communities
THE FIRST series of three Good News Project Cafés based around the themes of Reflect,
Recognise, Celebrate, took place in February in the three diocesan areas, with 90+ people attending.
They contributed to and expanded upon the ways in which their parishes, agencies and schools can
celebrate and liberate the Good News.
Over a simple, shared meal,
participants became engrossed
in conversation that encouraged
broad thinking about context,
opportunities for partnerships,
alliances and ways of making a
difference.
Attendees appreciated having
a forum where quiet achievers
and unsung heroes in parish
communities could come
together to share and be
acknowledged for what’s taking
place. At the same time, it
became clear that these cafés/
workshops provide the chance
for lay people to recognise
the possibilities for their own
churches and suburbs.
At the end of the workshop,
participants made a
commitment to do something
small or big to further the Good
News and we will be sharing
their progress on this when we
next meet.
Observations and achievements
included:
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• Good Friday Stations of the
Cross art exhibition involving
college religion classes and
parish, creating opportunity
for community engagement.
Parish unknown.
• Alek, a single refugee
mother of four has been
coming to church. Alek
has been in an incredibly
vulnerable position but
she’s been embraced and
supported by our community
– particularly by a number
of women who have been
helping her shop, teaching
her to cook, helping her
with financial management.
One family even sold their
motorbike to buy an eightseater car to bring Alek and
her children to church, shops,
etc. Parish unknown.
• At St Mark’s Bassendean
Church on the Rise, we have
a great men’s ministry. Once
a month, the guys meet for
breakfast, usually with a
Christian speaker. They are
encouraged to bring a friend.
The breakfasts attract 25 men
– sometimes more. A weekly
men’s Bible Study attracts
12-14 men and men are being
encouraged in their faith and
discipled. There are times of
significant sharing and prayer.
It is Good News to see an
effective men’s outreach
happening at Church on the
Rise.
• Our church has had many
years of contact (baptisms,
first communions) with
several Aboriginal families in
Wongan Hills. The mother
of one of the families was
at risk of four months
imprisonment. Our church
agreed to supervise
community service for 12
months. We asked her to
become a regular worshipper
on Tuesdays and Sundays,
and to help with dishes after
morning tea, etc. It has led
to her regularly attending
with her children, providing
food for kids club, being a
parent helper for ‘Drumbeat’
workshops. Becoming ‘a
regular’ at church has made a
big difference in her life, and
asking her to contribute has
given her self-respect.
• Being able to confidently
share the Good News, the
Gospel, via social media.
Apps like ‘Instapray’ allow
sharing prayer across the
world.
• A local (non-Christian)
fabric and textile artist was
commissioned to produce a
contemporary chasuble. This
connected local artists with
• Fellowship Group enjoys
time together and works on
projects for the parish but
also for people who they
hear are in need of support.
There is a growing depth of
connection between them
yet they are not a closed
group. Rather they encourage
those who are new or on the
fringe to come along. Mainly
Music group connecting
to unchurched in our
community. Parish unknown.
Following his attendance at one
of the cafés, the Archbishop
commented, ‘The opportunity
to listen, to share and to seek
opportunities to discover God’s
Good News in Christ at work
in and around us is a blessing
indeed. May we be graced to
continue to engage in creative
and positive partnerships.’
Good News Project Café
#3 – Partner | Liberate
North – Thursday, 16 April
South – Friday 17 April
East – Thursday, 23 April
The March series of cafés is
taking place as we go to press.
Why not come along to the final
Good News Cafés after Easter
and share your experiences?
For more information on specific
venues or to reserve your place,
please email: goodnews@perth.
anglican.org or visit the website
http://goodnewsproject.org.au/
• Our Children & Family
Service at 5.30pm on the first
Saturday of the month started
in 2010 and still thriving. The
children read the Bible, do
the prayers, light the candles,
take the collection, and do an
activity-based on the reading
– craft, drama. Has brought
new families into the church.
Supper and fellowship after
the service. Parish unknown.
• A few weeks ago, St Peter’s
at Jennapullin celebrated its
centenary. It is 16 kilometres
from Northam, built of local
stone brought in by farmers.
The land was donated. The
same hymns were sung as at
the consecration.
A parishioner who has a farm
next door has offered to buy
the church and maintain it
as a place of worship. Parish
Council has agreed and it
will come before Diocesan
Council.
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LAURENCE Foster is one of many people who come to Kalgoorlie-Boulder for a short-term job.
Originally from North Queensland, Laurence is a faithful Anglican who found his way to St John’s
Kalgoorlie for worship recently and got to know visiting priest, Elizabeth Smith.
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Through his work at a local
earthmoving company, Laurence
became aware of a ministry
opportunity. Some of his
employers are keen competitors
at the Kalgoorlie International
Speedway, and the national
championships were coming up.
The speedway’s former chaplain
had left town, and who could
be found at short notice for a
blessing?
A few emails later, Elizabeth’s
attendance at the two nights
of the national Street Stock
Championships was secured.
Now, while Elizabeth is wellknown for her ability to write
prayers for any occasion, she
had never actually been to a
speedway before. So she asked
a non-churchgoing neighbour for
his tips on the sights, sounds,
smells, equipment, people and
activities of the cars, drivers,
spectators and crews. Then she
wrote a blessing based on his
vivid suggestions, as well as a
short preamble about WWJD
– What Would Jesus Drive? –
based on Jesus’ one and only
recorded ride on a donkey.
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Once at the speedway, while
Laurence drove his grader
round the track to prepare it for
the cars, Elizabeth was able to
chat with many people, from
spectators to security gards,
from crash crew and ambulance
volunteers to scrutineers and
the official who waves the allimportant flags. The blessing
was received with smiles and
‘amens’.
This is a Good News story
because it highlights the way lay
people make connections for
mission in the wider community.
Every Christian belongs to
something beyond their church:
a workplace, a social club, a
sporting association, an interest
group. Laurence made the
connection between his church
belonging and his other ways
of belonging, even as a shortterm local resident. His priest
was willing to go outside her
usual cultural comfort zone. As
a result, doors were opened for
ministry and mission.
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DOWN
ACROSS
1, & 8 across. Gaga laity
across at a festivity. (4)
26. Broken tree as time of
resurrection. (6)
2.
Lash cap crookedly for
Easter. (7)
8.
See 1 across.
28. I grab a twisted
inflationary protection
system! (6)
10.
11.
13.
16.
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21.
22.
24.
29. Scripture scholars
Made laypersons cross
initiated. (2)
at a later time. (5)
30. Take nothing from the
Backed off late right
bent supercop to put
away in the Hebrew
a hole in the wooden
dew. (3)
boat! (7)
Can the transcendental
32. Myself in Middle
extravaganza do kingly
English. (2)
anointings?
33. The rod is turned for
Began on the Revised
the character in the
English. (2)
The Seventh Tower. (5)
A farewell purchase, I
34. Deakin, ACT, Australia
hear? (3)
for short. (3)
Start by studying your
36. Crossing the river
Bible. (3)
steady in gratitude. (5)
Chop American
39, 41, 42 & 44 across.
Express! (2)
Tramped pedal duo
raised on high. (8)
A number not kinder
turned to irritation. (5)
45. The scrupulous – it
turns out – uses icon
A reddish colour to the
tonic! (13).
former Prime Minister,
why? (5)
1, & 3 down. Rejoicing
among the gladiators?
(4)
4.
Tease out caterpillar
hairs. (5)
5.
Clothed one hundred
short, young man! (4)
21. First man across
Canada mountains? (4)
23. The King’s School first.
(2)
25. Deutsch Bibel initially.
(2)
27. Dry D.U. turned a
roseate hue. (5)
Crowns of light
discovered when shoal
28. A pain! Tortured like a
disturbed. (5)
bee! (5)
7, & 8 down. Asian nanny
31. Turn and aspire to
may play ahead. (4)
glorify God. (6)
12. Broken stride in the
35. From the city’s
most arid way. (6)
foundation 753 BC. (3)
13. New Orleans crossover
36. Disciples of Christ. (3)
music: French folk with
jazzy decorations. (6)
37. Obtained old-fashioned
in the congregation. (3)
14. What key, sir, is played
when repeating ‘Lord, 38. Sid turned up with
Have Mercy?’ (6)
some fresh-water fish.
(3)
15. Orthodoxy generally
crosses to an
40. Palestina Ozias. (2)
inflammable gas. (6)
41. Left side first side. (2)
17. Ears bent for ages! (4)
43. Divine intervention! (2)
18. Place your wagers in
44. Evangelical Union
sorbets. (4)
started in Europe? (2)
20. Prickle lodged in
kookaburra. (4)
6.
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REVIEWS
THEATRE
Anthony Howes
T S Eliot said that ‘God created Man to be, in his turn, a creator.’ I have been reminded of this very
much in the last month. It is this that has allowed me to encounter God while being an on-looker
to the horrors of terrorism, feeling revulsion in learning of arsonist-inspired bush fires, and despair
as the starkness of capital punishment became so vivid. The Theatre, or rather, those who create
theatre, pointed me back to the joy (in the C S Lewis sense) that is God.
What became clear was,
that here, in Jenny and her
Company, were people who
regarded our seniors not only
as the repository of our history,
our community’s story, but
custodians of the messages
of relationships that shaped
us, and continue to resonate
today. From these memories,
"'
Jenny is able to create theatre
which is for both today and
tomorrow. For as Ghandi said of
nations, the same is true of our
community, that ‘a nation that
forgets its past, has no future.’
For the past several months,
Jenny has been meeting with
senior folk in a city community
centre. They relate to her their
stories against the events of
(say) the fifties. These will be
creatively developed into a
theatre experience to be seen in
Heritage Week in October.
Confirmed by her work
on another project, one to
commemorate the Gallipoli
centenary, Jenny reported
that one of the most humbling
aspects of the Agelink process
is how the custodians of the
stories feel so more vital as
human beings of some worth,
by the value given to their
memories. Contact Agelink
Theatre – 0411 318 974 – for
performance details and
involvement.
For the young (of any age),
there is always the same
creative energy with Spare Parts
Puppet Theatre. Moominpappa
at Sea is adapted from the book
by Tove Jannson. Playing from
4 – 18 April in their Fremantle
theatre, director and performer,
Michael Barlow and puppets
take audiences on a journey
of self-discovery, with the
hope that they will develop
a great deal more curiosity
about the world around them.
This Company brings joy to
the creative process - and
passes it on! Incidentally,
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is
offering a limited number of
places for a full time puppetry
training intensive from 3-14
August, led by the company’s
Artistic Director Philip Mitchell,
Associate Director Michael
Barlow and master-puppeteer
Noriko Nishimoto. Applications
are now open and close 17 April.
For more information visit www.
sppt.asn.au or call 9335 5044.
Finally, I bring to your attention
two productions you may care
to investigate. As detailed in
last month’s Messenger, The
Importance of Being Miriam,
with the inimitable Miriam
Margolyes plays at the State
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Theatre Centre from 7 – 11
April. Miriam will talk about her
own life and her great love of
literature, and perform some
of the unforgettable figures
she vividly portrays. Also at
the State Theatre Centre,
from 23 May – 14 June, Black
Swan State Theatre Company
presents the American modern
‘classic’, David Mamet’s
Glengarry Glen Ross. I shall give
you more detail next month.
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‘a nation that forgets its
past, has no future.’
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Let me explain. Jenny Davis is
the artistic director of Agelink
Theatre. Wearing my hat as
Cathedral Drama Consultant,
I discussed with Jenny how St
George’s Drama might assist
in her Company’s work, which
is dedicated to discovering
and keeping alive the rich
history of our seniors and their
insights into our heritage, then
creating plays which proclaim
this to the wider community.
I discovered much more than
just a professional playwright
and director, talking with some
‘old folk’, picking up a few ideas
from them and writing them up
as dramatic sketches.
So it was with these
encounters that depression
was lifted, by looking to God
the Creator – and the joy in
creativity that is mirrored in so
many theatre people and their
work.
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BOOKS
Rowan Williams, in his latest book, The Edge of Words, describes
Michael Leunig as the brilliant Australian cartoonist for whom ‘the word
God cannot be grasped scientifically, rationally or even theologically
without it exploding. It can only be held lightly and poetically.’
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Shirley Claughton
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Convictions, says the author, ‘is a bit of a memoir’ combining the triad
of memories, conversions and convictions, birthed in his experience
of turning 70. Marcus Borg’s wife, Marianne, had been a priest and
canon for 18 years, and he himself had been bestowed with the title
Canon Theologian. He was not a priest. ‘Ordination,’ he says, ‘is not a
requirement for becoming a canon.’ Rather, Marianne tells me, canon
means ‘big shot.’ The occasion of his 70th birthday led him to think ‘What
are the convictions that my life has led me to that I want most so speak
as I turn 70?’
WHEN I TALK TO YOU:
by Michael Leunig, $19.95
– hard cover gift book
Walter Wink said ‘In every generation there is a handful of writers of
whom it can be said ‘read everything they write’ – Marcus Borg is one of
these today.’
CONVICTIONS:
By Marcus Borg, $32.95
Marcus Borg has had a vast appeal to many and varied types of Christian
thinkers. He was a progressive before the term became popular. His loyal
fans have eagerly awaited the arrival of each new book, and sadly this
is the last of the 21 books from his hand. Marcus Borg died in January
2015. On his website a condolence page has been opened and the wideranging responses testify to his amazing influence on Christian thinking.
Taking us through the journey and the pain of growing up poor, we are
privileged to have insight into how circumstances helped shape Borg’s
own beliefs and lead to a non-literal approach to the bible. With wit
and humour he humbly takes us through his student years when he
became President of the Young Republican Club and conservative political
columnist for the student newspaper. Then, he says, ‘I read Amos. It was
a revelation. Stunning… Amos was about God’s passion, God’s desire...
for the transformation of this world to a world of greater economic
justice.’ In his early 30s he became convinced that what is meant by
the word ‘God’ is real and sometimes known or at least glimpsed. ‘This
conviction remains with me and more than anything else has shaped my
understanding of God, the Bible and the enduring religions of the world’
and ‘is the foundation of everything I have ever written in the past 30
years, including this book.’
The mystical experience he shares is that of knowing or at least
glimpsing God. He recounts what he calls the richest moments, when
several religious experiences transformed him. His description of these
experiences (most visual, a few triggered by music) will inspire all who
read them.
This is a book to dip into, to discuss, to study. It is a quality production,
including notes and scripture index and in case the reader was unaware, it
is sub-titled A Manifesto for Progressive Christians.
#*
For us in Australia, Leunig is part of our folk art because he has taught
us how the word God enters the everyday. His two best-selling books
are Common Prayer and the Prayer Tree and many of us have grown up
with these as gifts for celebrations including rites of passage such as
Confirmation and ordination. This new book is an enhanced edition of
those much-loved editions (which are still available), so includes much
of the poetry from those, together with new material. Written for this
edition is ‘A Note on God,’ an outstanding essay accompanying the
classic Preface and Introduction of earlier editions, explaining the purpose
of the book, the nature of prayer and the symbolism of his delightful
illustrations.
It is a book which can be confidently presented to young and old. The
final prayer, captures the sincerity of the collection:
Love one another and you will be happy.
It’s as simple and difficult as that.
There is no other way.
Amen.
We live in a world where we are trying to raise peaceful children despite
being surrounded by much that is not gentle and peaceful. This new Bible
Story Book ticks all the boxes for being bright and cheerful, yet, caring
and gentle, drawing a positive and hopeful message from each of the
stories.
"
‘In the beginning there was nothing, then God made the world…take
care of my world- it is a good world and it will give you all you need.’
MY FIRST BIBLE STORIES:
A LION GIFT BOOK, $13.95
Through vibrant illustrations, the youngest child can meet the main
characters in bible stories. A delightful rendition of Baby Moses is seen
through Miriam’s eyes, the story of Jonah is told with humour, Daniel and
the Lions gently, and trauma-free. The story of the Lost Sheep concludes
with Jesus saying ‘When someone who has lost their way comes back to
God, all the angels sing.’
Padded cover, large double spread pages, animals and children with
smiles on their faces and an inclusive message of love and acceptance
make this a perfect book for a class or one-to-one story telling.
There is nothing scary about this book, and it is modern, educationally
sound, with delightful brightly coloured pictures and minimal text.
All books available from St Johns Books Highgate Court, Fremantle (08) 9335 1982
#)
MOVIE: TESTAMENT OF YOUTH
Review: Mark A Hadley
RATING:
M
DISTRIBUTOR:
Transmission Films
RELEASE DATE:
23 April, 2015
Testament of Youth carries
the burden of being the
descendant of a muchadmired biography about
the horrors of war in a year
already choked with World
War One offerings. But its
call to peace is as clear as
ever and possibly even more
moving.
Based on the life of leading
20th century feminist Vera
Brittain Testament of Youth
chronicles her struggles to
become a writer even as the
shadows of international conflict
fall across England. Alicia
Vikander stars as the young
woman who manages to fight
her way to Oxford University
only to see her brother’s closest
friends enlist for action. As
the fatalities begin to mount
she signs up to serve as a
Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse
in London, Malta and France,
giving her first-hand experience
of a generation lost to conflict.
The tragedy that unfolds for Vera
is both visceral and emotional.
What emerges is a slow-burning
tale that details the burdens
borne by women held at a
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distance by war but required to
suffer all the same.
Testament of Youth could never
be as erudite or challenging
as the biography. The written
word informs in a way images
never can. But moving pictures
do in fact ‘move’ viewers with
an economy and intensity that
surpasses words. If you go to
the movies to feel then in that
regard Testament of Youth
is a success. If you want to
think more about Vera Brittain’s
approach to war, then I’d
direct you to her original work.
You’ll see the trenches in the
cinemas and sense the growing
despair, but it will be hard to
comprehend the betrayal World
War One represented for a
generation:
“Between 1914 and 1919
young men and women,
disastrously pure in heart
and unsuspicious of
elderly self-interest and
cynical exploitation, were
continually re-dedicating
themselves to an end that
they believed, and went on
trying to believe, lofty and
ideal.”
Brittain held that if a society
so dedicated to the value of
the individual were to see
similar wholesale slaughter in
the animal kingdom it would
react with outrage and action.
Her personal response was to
dedicate herself to a lifetime
of pacifism. Yet Testament of
Youth captures the irony of
the age and her anger when
she appears at a debate
urging crushing reparations for
Germany. A single line captures
her sense of futility and
sadness:
“Our generation will never
be new again. Our youth
has been stolen from us.”
How could any such post-war
punishment bring back her
fiancé and her brother, or breed
anything but bitterness? The
result is a moving, occasionally
despairing production that
challenges us to turn our faces
away from war in any form.
Yet I couldn’t help wondering
whether Testament of Youth
overreached itself – is there a
place for war?
I think we forget at our peril
that war is also mercy’s last
hope. There are some conflicts
we enter into because the
cause is so needy and doing
nothing would be the real crime.
World War One was, as Brittain
observed, brought about by
‘self-interest’ and ‘cynicism’,
not to mention ego and empire
building. Yet World War Two, by
contrast, was a challenge to the
sort of fascism that eventually
resulted in the construction of
concentration camps and gas
chambers. Many of Brittain’s
own generation who had
witnessed first hand the horrors
of war, re-enlisted because the
world’s need out-weighed their
personal suffering.
How could any such postwar punishment bring
back her fiancé and her
brother, or breed anything
but bitterness?
The same phrase might answer
why God felt the need to send
his son to an ignominious death
on a Roman gibbet. Testament
of Youth declares the futility
of human attempts to forcibly
create lasting peace. Yet Jesus’
empty tomb shows that God,
through a single death, can
bring about eternal life.
VANUATU CYCLONE
EMERGENCY APPEAL
ABM has launched an emergency appeal to help those affected by Cyclone Pam, which struck
Vanuatu over the weekend causing death, widespread devastation and leaving thousands of people
homeless.
One of the most powerful and fiercest in living memory, the Category 5 cyclone has caused major
damage to infrastructure and levelled trees and houses across the nation. Communication with Vanuatu
has been cut off due to the severe winds and rains. The United Nations has now confirmed 24 deaths
with the number expected to rise sharply as communication is re-established with areas outside Port Villa,
the capital city.
ABM is anxiously waiting to hear news from our Vanuatu partner, the Anglican Church of Melanesia, and
also our Vanuatu Program Officer who is stranded there.
We aim to raise $100,000 through this appeal to provide emergency relief to the many displaced
people who are in urgent need of food, shelter and clean water. Please donate now.
For more details on the appeal visit http://www.abmission.org/vanuatu-emergency or tel: 1300 302 663
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APRIL 2015 PURPLE PATCH
02
Maundy Thursday
Archbishop
Bishop Tom
Cathedral (7.30pm)
Greenwood (6.00pm)
Good Friday
Archbishop
Bishop Tom
Cathedral (10.00am and 12.00noon)
Greenwood (9.00am)
Holy Saturday
Bishop Tom
Darlington-Bellevue (7.30pm)
Easter Day
Archbishop
Bishop Tom
Bishop Jeremy
Cathedral (6.00am, 10.00am and 5.00pm)
Greenwood (9.00am)
Northam (10.00am)
Archbishop
Bishop Tom
Bishop Jeremy
Balga-Mirrabooka
Floreat Park
Lockridge-Eden Hill
19
Archbishop
Bishop Tom
Bishop Jeremy
Lesmurdie
Joondalup
Murdoch-Winthrop Swan
12
Archbishop
Bishop Tom
Bishop Jeremy
Bassendean
Toodyay-Goomalling – Farewell for Archdeacon Peter Bourne
Toodyay-Goomalling – Farewell for Archdeacon Peter Bourne
03
04
05
12
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CLERGY NEWS
CHANGE OF STATUS
The Reverend Gail Falconer
Rector, Scarborough
APPOINTMENTS
The Reverend Dr Elizabeth Smith
The Reverend William Thomas
The Reverend Peter Boyland
The Reverend Bruce Hyde
The Reverend Rae Reinersten
The Reverend Sebastiana Pienaar
Senior Mission Priest, The Goldfields
Associate Mission Priest, The Goldfields
Area Dean, Claremont Deanery
Chaplain, GFS – An Anglican Ministry
Cathedral Pastor
Deacon Parish of Riverton
01.05.15
01.05.15
LOCUM TENENS
The Reverend Steve Conway
Mt Lawley
01.03.15 – 30.04.15
RETIREMENT
The Reverend Rodger Bull
Priest-in-Charge, Belmont
26.07.15
RESIGNATIONS
The Reverend Mark Walker
Priest-in-Charge, Lesmurdie
07.07.15
11.03.15
15.03.15
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WHERE TO WORSHIP
ACCOMMODATION
JOHN SEPTIMUS ROE
ANGLICAN COMMUNITY
SCHOOL
ALBANY
ST GEORGE’S
CATHEDRAL
38 St George’s Terrace, Perth
Daily: 7.30am Morning Prayer
and 8am Eucharist.
For details of all other daily Eucharists and
Evening Prayer, see our website:
www.perthcathedral.org | 9325 5766
SUNDAY SERVICES
8am: Holy Eucharist (BCP) with hymns
10am: Choral Eucharist and Sunday School
5pm: Choral Evensong
SPECIAL SERVICES IN APRIL 2015
THURSDAY 2 APRIL (Maundy Thursday)
7.30pm: Eucharist of the Lord’s Supper
with the Washing of the Feet and the
Watch of the Passion. Western Wind Mass
(Sheppard), Ubi caritas (Duruflé), A new
commandment (Tallis).
FRIDAY 3 APRIL (Good Friday)
10am: The Solemn Liturgy of Good Friday
with the Singing of the Passion.
Mass for Three Voices (Byrd), Timor et
Tremor (Poulenc), Crucifixus (Lotti), Passion
according to St John (Victoria).
12 noon: The Three Hour Devotion.
SUNDAY 5 APRIL (Easter Day)
6am: The Easter Vigil and First Eucharist
of Easter with Baptism and Confirmation.
8am: Holy Eucharist with hymns.
10am: Procession and Choral Eucharist
with hymns. Coronation Mass (Mozart),
Worthy is the Lamb from Messiah
(Handel). 5pm: Festal Evensong ‘Spiritual
Songs and Sparkling Wine’. Five Mystical
Songs (Vaughan Williams), Service in C
(Stanford).
SUNDAY 12 APRIL
5pm: Evensong with Blessing of the
Barrels (‘the kirking o’ the whisky’) with
ticketed whisky-tasting and dinner.
SUNDAY 19 APRIL
5pm: Choral Evensong.
WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL
6pm: “Pimms, England, and St George”
- celebrating all things English with
Patronal Eucharist, Pimms & Cucumber
Sandwiches, followed by Celebrate
St George ‘music-hall’ entertainment
(ticketed).
SUNDAY 26 APRIL
5pm: Choral Evensong commemorating
the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux.
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St John’s, York Street
Sundays 8.00am Eucharist (with hymns)
10.00am Sung Eucharist and Sunday
School. Visitors welcome
www.anglicanchurchalbany.org.au
BUSSELTON
St Mary’s Anglican Church
Cnr of Queen St & Peel Tce Busselton
Fri: 9.30 am Sat: 6.15 -7pm
Sun: 7.30am, 8am, 9.30am & 5pm
0897543775
CANNINGTON
St Michael and All Angels’ Church
46 George Way, Cannington
Sunday Eucharist 8.00am and 9.30am
Midweek Eucharist Weds 10.00am
Sacrament of Reconciliation and
Spiritual Direction by appointment.
The Reverend Ron Ross Locum
mob
0424 745 795
email
reross1054@gmail.com
www.canningtonanglicans.org.au
St Paul’s Chapel Choir
Director: Jamil Osman
Organist: Jonathan Bradley
CHORAL EVENSONG
TUESDAYS at 5.00 pm during school term
St Paul’s Chapel
John Septimus Roe Anglican Community
School
Corner Mirrabooka and Boyare Avenues,
Mirrabooka
(Parking is available on the School grounds)
DIOCESE OF PERTH –
PARISH VISITS 2015
St Patrick’s Basilica, Fremantle
11.00 am Sunday 24 May
St Nicolas Anglican Church,
Carine/Duncraig
9.30 am Sunday 28 June
Church of Resurrection,
Swanbourne/Mt Claremont
5.00 pm Sunday 26 July
St George’s Cathedral, Perth, (Evensong)
5.00 pm Sunday 23 August
St Boniface Cathedral, Bunbury
9.45 am Sunday 25 October
Grace Church, Joondalup
9.00 am Sunday 22 November
MANDURAH
Christ Church, Sholl Street
Sunday 7, 8.15, 10 am
(The bells are rung 9.25 - 9.55 am)
FREMANTLE
OTHER
9 Lessons & Carols
6.00 pm Sunday 29 November 2015
St Paul’s Chapel, Mirrabooka
For information regarding the Chapel
Choir please refer to the School website
www.jsracs.wa.edu.au
St John’s in the Square
EUCHARIST
Sundays 8.00am & 10.30am
Ash Wednesday 12.30pm & 6.00pm
Tuesday & Thursday 8.00am
Wednesday 12.30pm
Friday 9.30am
DUNSBOROUGH
Fully furnished house, close to shops and
beach. Sleeps 6-8. $100 per night.
Sorry no pets.
T: 0419 654 258
ADVERTISING
ALCOHOLISM
AL-ANON FAMILY GROUP
Hope for families and friends of alcoholics.
If you are troubled by someone else’s
drinking you will find help in Al-Anon.
T: 9325 7528 (24hrs)
Perth Home Fix
KINLAR VESTMENTS
Quality handmade and decorated
vestments, albs, chasubles, stoles, altar
cloths, banners.
Contact: Vickii Smith Veness
T: 9402 1318 M: 0409 114 093
12 Favenc Way, Padbury 6025.
By appointment only.
kinlar.vestments@gmail.com
www.kinlarvestments.com.au
RICH HARVEST CHRISTIAN SHOP
Bibles, CDs, cards, apparel, gifts statues,
religious vestments
39 Hulme Ct Myaree, 9329 9889
After 10am Mon - Sat
ABN: 69603667161
Specializing in
WANTED
WANTED
Pre-loved black priest’s cassock and
surplice to fit 44 inch waist.
Call John 08-9246 5898
Renovation - Handyman
• Carpets
• Tile and grout
• Upholstery
• Flood damage
• Carpet repairs
Personalized Service Domestic
and Commercial
Painting, Carpentry
Bathroom, Kitchen
Call Bijan on: 0405 144 128
Email: perthhomefix@yahoo.com
Call Stephen 0413 561 751
SPIRITUAL DIRECTION or
PROFESSIONAL SUPERVISION
Silent Retreats for Women conducted by
Josephine Griffiths
24-26 July
20-22 November
“Challenging, energising,nurturing,
restful. How can one retreat hold so
much, yet somehow Josephine’s do”
Ring Josephine on 9207 2696 for
information and enrolment
email jojo1@iinet.net.au
PALMYRA
Office 9335 2213
www.anglicanparishoffremantle.com
Experience the peace, quiet and prayer of
the Benedictine monastic community of
New Norcia. 132km north of Perth.
Twin rooms with en-suites and single
rooms. Join the monks for daily prayer.
Directed retreats by arrangement.
Recommended donation of $80/person/
day full board.
Inquiries: Bernadette at
guesthouse@newnorcia.wa.edu.au
T: 9654 8002 www.newnorcia.com
ST JOHNS BOOKS FREMANTLE
2015 Lectionary available now, together with
resources, spirituality
and bibles.
CONTEMPORARY SPIRITUALITY
Office 9335 2213
www.anglicanparishoffremantle.com
EUCHARIST
Sundays 9.15am
Wednesday 10.00am
Ash Wednesday 10.00am
NEW NORCIA MONASTERY
GUESTHOUSE
for clergy or lay people. Call Rev'd John
Clapton at Eulogeo Resources
0408 957 997. Competitive fees.
Sunday Evening Prayer 5.00pm
St Peter’s in Hammad Street
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Normal Shop hours
10am-1pm Mon-Fri
10am-12noon Sat's
Wonderful
selection of
good books
Large range of new
Year B resources.
Check out our website
* on-line sales welcome via
our website
Highgate Court, Fremantle (across the road from
St Johns Church and next door to 26 Queen St)
email us books@stjohnsbooks.com.au
check out website www.stjohnsbooks.com.au
Rod Evans
Community Centre
is offering
Senior Fitness Classes, Nordic
Walking and Tiny Tots Playgroup.
Three Course Lunch for $12.00
Service starts 12.00pm sharp
Bookings are essential
Phone: 9325 1507
160 Hay Street
EAST PERTH WA 6005
email: rodevanscentre@bigpond.com.au
phone (08) 9335 1982 during shop hours
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