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Aboriginal Sunday

14 January 202526 January 2025

Sunday 19^th January 2025

9:15 am Sung Eucharist at St James, Thornbury
11:00 am Sung Eucharist at All Saints, Northcote

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Farewell to Epiphanytide (Candlemas, 2 February)

This week’s celebration of Candlemas marks the end of the Epiphanytide that bridges Christmas and Ordinary Time. In truth, I feel sadness at letting go of the beauty and joy that accompanies this early part of the year. Our nativity scenes in church have been packed away. I was a Godly Play teacher for many...

Ordinary Time

The season known as ordinary time is in fact the ordered life of the church, a period in which we live our lives neither in feasting or fasting as at Christmas or as in Advent or Lent. We are encouraged to live our lives in watchfulness and expectation. For, as we are told, we know...

Aboriginal Sunday

When we imagine the world as God intends for it to be, it is a pictureof unfathomable love manifesting as beauty, goodness and grace. InAustralia, we believe it’s a picture of our nation listening deeply toAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the truth of ourshared history. A picture where pursuing true reconciliation bringsan end...

Aboriginal Sunday

Sunday 19th January 2025 9:15 am Sung Eucharist at St James, Thornbury11:00 am Sung Eucharist at All Saints, Northcote

Turning pink (15 December)

This week our Advent candle is pink, a less sombre colour than the seasonal violet. So some churches will use pink vestments. The penitential theme of our readings has shifted and there is a more joyful tone to lighten the mood. This half-way point in the Advent season is a wonderful time to pause and...

A time for prayer (8 December)

It has been another exciting week for me in the parish. Because Advent always feels like a runaway train, I have to balance activity with purposeful reading and prayer. I need to ground myself in the Eucharist as I wait on the Spirit to enable threads to emerge in my preaching. Our new Christmas Calm...

Christ the King

Read Mother Linda’s sermon on Christ the King, 24 November 2024. Download the pdf:

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