Ascension Day
Thursday 26 May
Seventh Sunday after Easter
Sunday 29 May 10 am St James.
Sung Eucharist. This is no service at All Saints this week.
Day of Pentecost
Sunday 5 June
9:15 am St James Sung Eucharist.
11 am All Saints Sung Eucharist.
Category: South Darebin
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Our services leading up to Pentecost
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Our services leading up to Ascension Day
Third Sunday after Easter
Sunday 1 May
9:15 am St James Sung Eucharist.
11 am All Saints Sung Eucharist.Fourth Sunday after Easter
Sunday 8 May 11 am All Saints.
Sung Eucharist.St Mathias Apostle and Martyr
Sunday 15 May
9:15 am St James Sung Eucharist.
11 am All Saints Sung Eucharist.Sixth Sunday after Easter
Sunday 22 May
9:15 am St James Sung Eucharist.
11 am All Saints Sung Eucharist.Ascension Day
Thursday 26 May
10:30 am St James and 7pm All Saints.Seventh Sunday after Easter
Sunday 29 May 10 am St James.
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ANZAC day
This Sunday we honour those who have served and died in war.
St Mark Evangelist and Martyr
Sunday 24 April 11 am All Saints.
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Take up something for Lent
The season of Lent begins on Wednesday 2 March with the Eucharist at 7 am at All Saints and 10.30 am at St James. The services will also include the Imposition of Ashes. I hope as many as possible will join us on the day. On the day before, Tuesday 1 March, come and share pancakes and the burning of last year’s palm crosses. This gathering will commence at 6 pm at All Saints. Bring friends and children along.
Lent has traditionally been understood as a time for fasting, alms giving and prayer. This was my first experience of Lent during my adolescence, a rather dour time, lacking any form of anticipation and possibilities, rather than being a period of reinvigoration and inspiration. Instead, it was a time of brow-beating, the events of Good Friday and Easter Day apparently lost somewhere along the way. In later years I look on the season of Lent as a time of recreation and inspiration while still embracing the need for prayer, alms giving and fasting. I find it interesting that in our secular context elements of Lenten practices have been taken up with events like febfast for charitable fundraising. I am not suggesting that we abandon past practices including the giving up of something, but rather, as well, take something on that will challenge and encourage you on your spiritual journey. There will be two occasions when we will ‘break open’ the scriptures – Tuesday evenings at 7.30 pm via Zoom and Thursday morning following the 10.30 am Eucharist at St James.
During Lent we will take up a weekly gold coin collection for Anglican Overseas Aid and Anglican Board of Mission. I would like to encourage everyone to place a gold coin in the boxes provided, one at St James and All Saints, each time they come to church. Of course you can deposit more than one coin, or even notes. I will donate $10 for every $50 collected through the boxes.
Over the past few weeks we have been hearing from Luke’s Sermon on the Plain as our Gospel readings. Luke stresses the needs of the poor and our social obligations and reminds us not to flatter ourselves until we are good through and through. In the Gospel for this week we are given the splinter and the log to ponder over. It is a reminder to us to use the same standards for ourselves as we do for others.
Shalom
Ray
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The Greatness of Desmond Tutu
Bob Geldof writes in the Guardian how Desmond Tutu taught us all the true meaning of greatness.
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Privacy
Parish of South Darebin Privacy Policy
Commonwealth legislation prescribes a set of ‘Australian Privacy Principles’ that generally apply to departments and organisations, including the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne. In line with this, and as part of its approach to making the church safe for all people, the Parish has developed a policy on collecting, using and disclosing information. This Privacy Policy was adopted by the Parish Council in February 2024.
Privacy Policy for the use of this website
Our website privacy policy outlines for users of this website, the nature of data that may be collected and how that data may be used.
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Mission Action Plan
Our Mission Action Plan is an expression of how we see our community, where we are headed, and what we are called to do. It guides our actions, our use of resources, and our engagement with others.
Welcome the Lord – worship
Reverence for liturgy and joy in music are central to our worship. The observance of season and feast has continued in unbroken service in this place for 157 years. We seek to be close to God in the celebration of Baptism and in the breaking of the bread, and to draw others into a sense of the sacred. We hold to a middle way, resisting extremes, allowing for difference and listening to new ideas, but always anchored in Bible, prayer book and hymnal, in parish and Diocese, and in the great Anglican tradition. In practising our faith here, we acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which the church is built, and respect their spiritual connection to country.
Welcome the stranger – relationship
The defining spiritual features of our community are love, tolerance, warmth and inclusiveness. We are less concerned about numbers, money, appearances, power or status than about hospitality, participation, and the gifts each person brings, regardless of their age or abilities or sexual orientation or any other personal characteristic. We love children and young people. We treat people compassionately and support agencies of social action. We look for opportunities to support reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and actively oppose racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. We support actions to address inequality and processes of exclusion and social injustice.
Welcome the friend – partnership
We are enriched by our connection with St James the Great Thornbury as part of an amalgamated parish, and we respect the different identities of each community. We are active participants in ecumenical exchange and interfaith activity. We value our relationship with St Philip’s Collingwood and St Mark’s Fitzroy. We view our partnership with the Brotherhood of St Laurence as an essential part of our mission. We seek to reduce our environmental footprint through energy conservation and sustainable practices.
You can download our mission action plan below
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Health and safety
Health and safety guidelines ensure that our buildings and grounds are used in a safe way, and any risks are identified and managed. All members of the community and other users of the site, such as hirers of facilities, must read and abide by the guidelines. The guidelines include information on child safety and the protection of all from inappropriate or unprofessional behaviour. Our health and safety guidelines can be downloaded or viewed in PDF format. This booklet applies specifically to All Saints, Northcote, but similar guidelines apply also at St James, Thornbury.
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Climate Change and Social Justice forum
Anjali Sharma addresses the forum. Still at school, Anjali has since led a class action against the Australian Government on the grounds that failure to address climate change infringes the rights of the young. Still the greatest moral challenge of our generation. In 2007 Kevin Rudd said that climate change was such an enormous challenge for governments across the world that in this country it should already be ‘beyond politics’.
More than ten years later, our national and global response remains woefully inadequate, and we are being called to action by those who will have to live with the consequences and will feel the full force of the impacts.
Failing to curb the human contribution to climate change is an injustice because those who have done least to bring it about will be hurt most:
- Children and young people everywhere
- Our Pacific neighbours and other vulnerable people
- All creatures of the land, the air and the oceans.
The Rev’d Alex Sangster of Fairfield Uniting Church moderated the audience discussion with an outstanding panel, including:
- Dr John Hewson, Australian National University
- Anjali Sharma, school climate activist, strike leader
- Professor David Karoly, climate scientist, formerly with the IPCC
- Rabbi Jonathan Keren-Black, Australian Religious Response to Climate Change
- Dr Sue Ennis, Secretary, Australian Religions for Peace Australia.
The Rev’d
Alex SangsterParticipants enjoy meeting and picking up further information from local climate organisations following the forum Held with the support of our friends at St Philip’s Collingwood, this event was a discussion with outstanding panel of people, as they shared their views on the challenge and offered some insights into what can and should be done. There was also opportunity to connect with other concerned people and local organisations.
The event program can be download in PDF format:
Further information can be found on the St Philips Collingwood Facebook page.
Photos by Brett Scapin
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Housing and Social Justice forum
In March 2018, All Saints hosted a forum on the critical role of housing in the just treatment of the many thousands in our community who have no access to the private rental market and who are forced to live without affordable, secure housing, with all of the mental and physical health issues associated with this. The forum was held in the context of impending demolition of the public housing estate opposite the church, in Walker Street, Northcote. This estate has since been demolished and all tenants have been relocated to alternative housing while the site is redeveloped to provide for a smaller number of people to be housed in properties managed by community housing providers, and a much larger number of properties to be available for private sale.
Click below to download information on the event and on leading speakers:
Photos by Brett Scapin
