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When are Worship Services held?

Easter Service Times

Palm Sunday
Normal Service Times

Maundy Thursday
9.30 am & 7.30 pm
Communion and Footwashing followed by
Silent Vigil.

Good Friday
10.00 am - Reflective Liturgy

Easter Day
8.00 am - Holy Communion
9.30 am - Traditional Sung Eucharist


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 Sunday – Contemporary Eucharist
3rd & 5th Sunday – Traditional Eucharist

Wednesday    9.30 am


5.30 -6.30pm - on the last Sunday of the month
Semaphore DevOCEAN .
An informal, reflective service.


For Prayer and Reflection

Choosing joy  
Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many  joy seems hard to find. They complain that
their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What then brings the joy we so much desire?
Are some people just lucky, while others have run out of luck? Strange as it may sound, we can
choose joy. Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite
differently from the other. One may choose to trust that what   happened, painful as it may be,
holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it.
What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.

Henri J. M. Nouwen, Bread for the Journey (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1996), p. 38.


Transformed by love  
Someone already transformed by love is needed, in order to convey an assurance of love
sufficiently strong to penetrate the defences of the flesh in another and let loose the power
of the spirit. This is the work of the community of love, but the particular group of human
beings cannot, in itself, do this unless it has within it the power of renewal, which cannot
reside in any one individual, at the risk of foundering when he founders, and of endangering
even his own ability to love. Sometimes one  person, sometimes another, can find the
courage to go on, and so renew the rest. It happens in a marriage, it happens in a group.
But the source of this courage is not the person himself, or herself. It is recognized as
coming from the thing shared. It may be one person who renews faith, but it is not faith in
him­self that he renews but just faith - the given-ness, that at-riskness, of love. Even when
faith is renewed by one person providing support, for a while, for the other or others, it is still 
support for the sake of love, or it doesn't work. Support given out of self-confidence becomes
possessive, and does not allow further growth.   Support given for love is willing to see the
support no longer needed. So whatever form the renewal of faith takes it is the renewal of
something shared. The centre, the heart of it, is never possessed but always given.
But this thing that is given is immensely powerful.... This [power] is the power that transforms.

Rosemary Haughton,
The Transformation of Man: A Study of Conversion and Community
(London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1967),pp. 114-15.


“LENT”
Lent is a time to learn to travel
Light, to clear the clutter
From our crowded lives, and
Find a space, a desert.
Deserts are bleak: no creature
Comforts, only a vast expanse of
Stillness, sharpening awareness of
Ourselves and God.
Uncomfortable places, deserts.

Most of the time we're tempted to
Avoid them, finding good reason to
Live lives of ease; cushioned by
Noise from self-discovery,
Clutching at world's success
To stave off fear.
But if we dare to trust the silence
To strip away our false security,
God can begin to grow his wholeness in us,
Fill up our emptiness, destroy our fears.
Give us new vision, courage for the journey,
And make our desert blossom like a rose.

Ann Lewin, from Candles and Kingfishers: Reflections on the journey
(Ann Lewin, 1993; Peterborough: Methodist Publishing House,
Foundery Press, 1997). © Ann Lewin 1997. Reprinted by permission
of the publishers.

 



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