Welcome - 200 Military Road Semaphore

St. Bede's is active and engaged in the local area and strives to make a difference.
We relate as a lively, nurturing, and supportive community of faith. We gather as a
diverse community to support one another with the particularities of our lives. We
offer a faithful community where together we grapple with the things that matter
most to us - relationships, self worth, caring for our bodies and for our enviroment,
the struggles and challenges of livelihood and vocation, the exploration of the
profound experience all people share through birth, sickness and health, suffering
and joy, rites of passage, death and new life.

Our key projects at St. Bede's include the following:
Bede's Bazaar
Semaphore Community Markets
Community Garden
St. Bede's Drop-In Centre
Find out about our other outreach projects by seeing the How We Work page.

When are worship services held?

Each week there are three services of Holy Communion at St Bede's

Sundays at 8 am
Shorter said service from the Australian Prayer Book

Sundays at 9.30 am [Followed by a cuppa]
Eucharist/Communion with music

Wednesday 9.30 am

For Prayer and Reflection

Forgiveness
The resurrection is forgiveness: not a decree of forgiveness, but the presence of
gratuity as a person. The simple fact of Jesus' appearance to his disciples, as soon
as they had recovered from their consternation at the presence of what was quite
outside their experience, was the presence of forgiveness. Their sorrow, and guilt,
and confusion, could be loosed within them, because the focus of their sorrow and
guilt and confusion had come back from right outside it, and was not affected by it.
There was no element in the presence of the risen Jesus of any reciprocating by
Jesus of what had been done to him. If there had been, His presence would not
have been outside our human tit-for-tat, it would not have been gratuitous, and it
would not have been forgiving.

James Alison, Knowing Jesus (London: SPCK, 1993), p. 16