THE EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

St Francis of Assisi – Blessing of the Animals

10am                               Eucharist with hymns

Celebrant & Preacher:    Bishop Philip Huggins

Piano:                                 Jim Richardson

Readings:                      Genesis 2: 18 – 25

                                          Matthew 6: 25 – 29

Hymns:

134                                    Mother earth, our mother birthing

135                                    All things bright and beautiful

607                                   Make me a channel of your peace

100                                   All creatures of our God

THIS WEEK

Monday 10 October                5.30pm                                     Meditation

NOTICES

DATES TO REMEMBER!

Sunday October 30:         ‘Solace’  12noon – 12.45pm

Saturday November 12:   HTPM Mini-market and cake stall

Sunday November 27:     HTPM Parish Statutory Meeting  (AGM)

PARISH STATUTORY MEETING – Sunday November 27 @ 12 noon

This meeting will be held in person after church on Sunday November 27.  In the next few weeks Nomination Forms will be available for the election of Churchwardens, Parish Council Members, Parish Incumbency Committee.  Please consider.

THE MELBOURNE ANGLICAN – New look!

TMA, the previous monthly newsletter from the Melbourne Anglican Diocese, has a new ‘magazine style’ format and is now called ‘The Melbourne Anglican’.  Copies of the October edition are on the entry table – please take one and read about faith news from Australia and beyond, as well as stories celebrating the work of churches and their members.

MINUTES OF PARISH COUNCIL MEETINGS

If anyone would like to read the minutes from Parish Council Meetings, there is a purple folder at the entry table containing the previous months’ minutes.

DONATIONS FOR BASP (Brigidine Asylum Seeker Project)

Many thanks to Barbara for delivering our recent donations to BASP in Albert Park.  In the latest BASP newsletter there was information about the donations that are currently needed:

  • Emphasis on VOUCHERS so that people can choose their own food and groceries.
  • Sugar, cooking oil,  salt & pepper, tea,  coffee, herbs and spices, long-life milk, noodles, and rice.
  • Household goods such as tinfoil, pegs, toothpaste and toothbrushes, soap deodorants, and GARBAGE BAGS  and BIN LINERS – all sizes.

*** PLEASE NOTE *** – THEY HAVE ENOUGH TINNED FOOD (esp. soup)—NO TINS NEEDED AT THIS POINT IN TIME.