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
1st Sunday – Kids Service
2nd, 4th & 5th Sunday – Traditional Eucharist
3rd Sunday - Contemporary Eucharist

Wednesday 9.30 am

For Prayer and Reflection

Concrete Realities
Merely claiming democratic or socialist ideology does ot assure that you will do
the things you claim to do, any more than claiming to be Christian means that one
becomes a real follower of Christ. Closeness to the Kingdom is a matter of concrete
reality, not ideology or institutional privilege. It is a matter of discerning the realities
of bondage and the realities of liberation that are actually taking place. This is why those
who discern signs of the Kingdom are prophets and not merely sociologists.
Nevertheless, it is possible, in the midst of the limits and transitoriness of human
existence, to make societies which are more liberating and less oppressive, and hence
closer to the Kingdom. To deny this is to deny all efficacy to God in history, to make the
world solely the kingdom of Satan. The opposite of God's kingdom is not "man's" kingdom,
but Satan's kingdom. Both God's kindom and Satan's kingdom are human kingdoms,
societies of this world. The task of the follower of Christ is to move society a little farther
from the kingdom of Satan, the kingdom of alienation and oppression, and closer to
God's kingdom, a society of peace, justice and mutuality.

Rosemary Radford Reuther,To Change the World: Christology and Cultural Criticism
(New York: Crossroad, 1988), pp. 22-23