Issue 3 Spring/Summer 2018 - stsavioursgo.net Osmond Anglican 18-10.pdf · Issue 3 Spring/Summer...

Issue 3 Spring/Summer 2018

Christmas Service Times:

Christmas Eve

7 pm for Carols

and Santa

Christmas Eve:

11:30 pm for

Midnight Mass

Christmas Day:

9:30 am Sung

Communion

with Choir.

A Christmas Prayer:

Loving God,

we kneel at

your cradle

ordinary folk:

Shepherds,

Inn-keepers,

Wise Men and

Wise Women.

Help us to

rise bigger

than we are.

Amen.

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The Glen Osmond Anglican

From the Priest’s Desk — Not a Tame God

C.S. Lewis, in his Narnia chronicles, has the character that approximates Jesus in the story played by a lion named Aslan. Aslan the lion is capable of great generosity, majesty, gentleness even playfulness — but never-the-less he is a lion whose character is marked by the thing which would, perhaps, strike us most about being in the presence of a lion — he is wild. A talking beaver, who has heard of Aslan lives in a land under a spell which makes it always winter but never Christmas. He is talking excitedly of Aslan to the children in the story, who, up until now, have never met Aslan. When they first understand that this Aslan, who will break the spell and make it spring again, and make it Christmas, is in fact a Lion, one of them asks Mr Beaver if he is safe, if he can be trusted with children. ―Safe?‖ said Mr. Beaver; ―don‘t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‗Course he isn‘t safe. But he‘s good. He‘s the King I tell you.‖ At the end of the story, after Aslan has been encountered, and after they all learn to trust and to love him, Aslan slips away from their celebrations and disappears. Lucy, the youngest sees him steal away. A Narnian tells her: "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.‖

In another story, another girl encounters Aslan for the first time. She has stumbled into this new enchanted world and fights with the boy who is there with her, and who has been there before. He falls from a cliff because of their fight, and is rescued but, stranded in the land at the top of the cliff she now finds herself alone, and after a few hours, desperately thirsty. Driven by thirst she investigates the table land behind the cliff face, looking for a stream. Presently she discovers a stream, only to find her way to it blocked by a huge lion lying in the grass. ―Are you not thirsty?" said the Lion. "I am dying of thirst," said Jill. "Then drink," said the Lion. "May I — could I — would you mind going away while I do?" said Jill. The Lion answered this only by a look and a very low growl. And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.


From the Priest’s Desk — Cont.

The delicious rippling noise of the stream was driving her nearly frantic "Will you promise not to — do anything to me, if I do come?" said Jill. "I make no promise," said the Lion. Jill was so thirsty now that, without noticing it, she had come a step nearer. "Do you eat girls?" she said. "I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it. "I daren't come and drink," said Jill. "Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion. "Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer. "I suppose I must go and look for another stream then." "There is no other stream," said the Lion.‖

Like Mary and Joseph, when we begin our journey with Jesus we often want to control him a little bit, don‘t we? Isn‘t that where our piety begins? Here we are in Church, that‘s good isn‘t it? Then, just like Jesus‘ parents leaving the temple after the day of religious festival, church time is over. We can shut the door on the church, and in so doing imagine we are shutting the door on God. He is safely shut up in here and we can go about our normal lives, confident that God, with his interfering ways is satisfied with our piety, our religious observances on the holy days, and that this dangerous being who might call us to dangerous faith won‘t now bother us as we go about our business. Only trouble with all that is that God won‘t be confined to the boxes we design for him. Not the temple and its ritual in first century Judea, and not this church and its ritual here today. Where is Jesus? This is a question Mary and Joseph ask on the road going out of Jerusalem. We can read about it in Luke‘s gospel. It is the same question Luke puts on the lips of the disappointed disciples going away from Jerusalem after Easter. ‗What was that all about?‘ ‗Where is God in all of that?‘ ‗Things have not turned out how we expected them to, or how we had hoped.‘ Part of being a Christian is to hang onto a sense of humility before the ―otherness‖ of God. We want to teach him a thing or two about how the world works, how you shouldn‘t go wandering off on your own Jesus, how crucifixion is what happens to idealists, Jesus. Jesus wants us to remember how to trust, how to hope, how to believe.

— God Bless, Fr. Dave


Kayak Trek Report

On Monday 8 October Fr Dave led 14 young people from Glen Osmond, Belair and Parkside parishes, supported by 5 adults on a kayak trek to the River Murray. The bus and supporting cars arrived at Younghusband where we were met by Chris (who runs Breeze Holiday Hire) who supplied not only canoes but also gave Fr Dave use of a dinghy and outboard. We know young people get hungry so they appreciated buttered buns before they left. Temperature was ideal with overcast but windy conditions. The first session was a safety briefing, with warnings about motor boats and sunburn. All participants who went on the water were issued with personal floatation devices and bottles of water.

The part of the river selected for the trek had high cliffs on one side and a lagoon on the other, with all waterways lined with magnificent red gums. The crew commented on the bird life that they saw. The scheme was to go upstream for an hour and then return to base, but it took a bit longer than that… Meanwhile, back at base, a few difficulties were being encountered. A helpful neighbour loaned us a gas cylinder saving us a trip back to Mannum. The brand new portable BBQ took a while to assemble and then the wind kept blowing out the flame – it was very slow cooking because of the wind, and was only made possible by moving into the lee of the bus. That made opportunities for enterprising ducks who kept stealing full slices of bread! The upshot was that it took an extra hour to cook lunch. Fortunately, the kayaks were an hour late getting back, and then most needed to change into dry clothes so food was ready in time.

Different people had different skills – some could paddle effectively, some could stay upright, but within 100m there was a capsize. Fortunately, no harm was done, and the crew were soon back on board. Most of the dinghies shipped some water so even the competent paddlers got wet. It was re-assuring to have the dingy to help the less competent crews and for communication.


During lunch time there was good fun with cricket and socialising on the picturesque River Murray banks. After lunch, Fr Dave took the crew to a nearby cliff where after a little fossicking several fossils were found.

A Christmas party/sausage sizzle/cricket match will be held at Tusmore Park at 5:30pm on Wednesday 19 December. This year it will be augmented by the participation of young people from the inter-parish youth project, and they have invited the whole Parish to come along. To make things interesting, Bp Keith will captain a cricket team of parishioners to take on the youth group, which will be headed up by Ray Correll. Please approach one of these two to indicate your interest in playing – whichever team you choose. We will be using a tennis ball and bowling will be underarm, so don’t be shy…please bring a salad. Meat

will be supplied. Before the match, the young people will be producing care packs for young mothers in developing countries at the Mitcham Church Hall. They will then arrive at the Park as a team, ready to take on Bp Keith’s XI. Last year even Cocky came.



We all sat down on the grass and said what we had enjoyed most – the favourites included the bird life, the trees, the river and the fossils. Fr Dave took us through an abridged ‗Morning Prayer‘ service that included Psalm 1 with the appropriate words ‗He is like a tree planted by streams of water‘. It was a fun day – but the support crew were tired. Special thanks to Katy, Celeste and Vic for their input.


In this story there is a little boy that was in a mass of hungry people. The little boy had brought his lunch with him that his mother had packed the very same morning. The boy was listening to Jesus the story teller talk about God’s kingdom. The people grew tired of being hungry and started complaining. Some people had some food but not enough to feed 5,000 starving listeners they needed more. They couldn’t just go on their way home and drop in at Hungry Jacks or MacDonald’s because this type of thing didn’t exist in Jesus’s time. The boy looked at his food 2 pieces of fish and 5 loaves of bread he knew it wasn’t enough but it would make a slight dent in the hungriness. He walked up to Jesus and handed him all he had. Jesus’ friends laughed at the boy and told him that was hardly enough. Jesus could see the boy looked embarrassed. Jesus winked and told the boy to watch. Then Jesus held the bowl of food up into the air and thanked his Father. Soon he returned the boy’s lunch back and waited. Out of the sky it started pouring fish and bread the parishioners went left and right to hand out the food for the people some even had 4ths or 5ths and everybody felt calm and happy especially the little boy who gave what he had to the other 5,000 people and expected nothing in return. This story makes me remember there is a God that guides us through the dark and helps us when we need it most but it also shows me that you can be helpful to God no matter how small or young you are. By Lily

The story if

told today

Filled Full! The feeding of the 5,000 people from Matthew 14, Mark 6, Luke 9 Retold by Lily McDougall, aged 10


Christmas Services

Monday 24th December 7pm

St Saviours Church, Glen Osmond

Christmas Services

Two services will be held on Christmas Eve.

The first will be at 7pm – a Carol Service and Santa will be

present, with a small gift for any children present. Many carols

will be sung as we welcome the Christ Child among us.

A great service to invite your friends, children and grandchildren to.

At 11.30pm Midnight Mass will be

celebrated.

On Christmas Day a sung Eucharist

with the Choir will be held at 9am.










People ask me, ‘GO Outreach! What do you do?’ Our role is to act as a catalyst to help the Parish look outside itself and be concerned with the needs of the wider community. And for more than 30 years – that’s just what we have been doing – helping the Parish share the love of Christ in the community. Through your help we have recently raised $337 to assist the victims of the Indonesian Earthquakes and Tsunami. These funds are being sent to the Australian Red Cross for their relief operations in the Sulawesi area. And your support of our trading tables - where we raise $300-$400 each month! - enables St Saviour’s to support other valuable community activities. We recently donated $1000 to the Burnside Inter Church Council (BICC) to fund local school chaplains. A further $300 was added to our special ABM (Anglican Board of Mission) fundraiser, see below. July – August was a busy time. Your support for the Bush Church Aid (BCA) Bush Tubs enabled Celeste to sell $600 worth of sweets and nuts (I can’t go past the chocolate almonds, myself) and the ABM Lamington Drive, coordinated by Jenny Sorell was equally popular – especially the new line of smaller lamingtons. We also had a very successful fund raising lunch for ABM’s PNG Adult Literacy project. Mary Catford, the National ABM Auxiliary President, began proceedings by sharing, with the 30 or so lunch goers, her enthusiasm for the literacy project, which the ABM Auxiliary is championing this year. Barramundi and chicken main course, along with tropical dessert to die for, and a room abuzz with chatter made it a great social event. We were delighted to raise over $550, enabling Mary to make a donation of over $850 from St Saviour’s at the ABM’s National Auxiliary annual conference in Sydney in mid-September 2018. October is Operation Christmas Child month for the Samaritan’s Purse and once again our parish members supported this worthy cause. In 2017 over 320,000 shoe boxes from Australia were sent to children in Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Fiji and Madagascar. Filled with gifts which include writing materials and hygiene products these boxes make a valuable contribution towards impoverished children’s health and education needs. One of our very rewarding activities is supporting the Conversational English program at Glenunga Uniting Church (we decided it was easier to join a local group rather than start up our own). Our regular helpers are Jenny Sorell, Sharilyn, Doff, Beth and Rose. Most participants are non-permanent residents - mothers of children undertaking their education in Australia. People living in our community as non-Australians can feel very isolated (especially Asians) and so the social contact is just as important as the learning. We have lots of fun and laughs


working in small groups on a Monday morning during school terms. If you would like to be on our monthly rota, see Jenny. Don’t forget your BCA and ABM giving boxes are now due for collection, and Celeste Basson will be selling those lovely Anglicare Christmas Cards in the weeks leading up to Christmas. ABM Plum Puddings (from Kytons Bakery – need I say more) will also be for sale - see Jenny Sorell Thank you to everyone who has helped us in anyway, enabling Outreach to do its thing. Other ways you can contribute to St Saviour’s Outreach activities include:

Volunteering as a collector (for one hour) for Act for Peace Christmas Bowl

Badge Day, Friday 7th

December. We collect in the pleasant surroundings

of the foyer of the Burnside Council Chambers. See Beth, or phone

8338 7839.

Bringing in your used stamps for Save the Children Fund and old

prescription glasses. Colleen Hawkes will get them on the way to

people in need.

After Strawberry Fair (where they will be much appreciated), drop off

any reusable bags with handles – plastic, but preferably paper - in the

box in the Narthex. Judy Liebich ensures these reach Anglicare for the

distribution of donated food and other groceries.

Beth Walton, Co-coordinator, GO Outreach!

The ReTURn of ST SaVioUR’S SeminaR SeRieS

Get ready for a brand new series of St Saviour’s information seminars in 2019. Our themes will focus on Care: Caring for our Community and Caring for Creation. As a taster we are holding our first seminar at 7.00pm on Tuesday 20th November. It will be a workshop Be Bushfire Ready - enabling people in peri-urban and suburban areas (such as our local area) prepare a Bushfire Ready Plan for their families and properties. (Yes, St Saviour’s and it surrounds lies in a higher risk bushfire area.) It will be facilitated by a community engagement officer from the Country Fire Service.


In the last 12 months the grounds of St Saviour’s have been transformed

from a distant vision into an exciting developing reality.

A good dose of encouragement, energy and enthusiasm; including heavy

lifting and driving a front end loader for excavation, moving soil and

rocks etc. by Fr. Dave along with many helpers and donors, and a few

dedicated regular weekly volunteers have made a significant start.

Our aim to create a welcoming place, where perhaps there is more to our

church community than services on Sunday. Somewhere welcoming,

sharing, caring and interesting, worth exploring; where others’ wellbeing

and happiness is uppermost, with something to do and someone to listen

and care

Back to the garden.............

The first major achievement was the erecting of a substantial trellis along

the Portrush road frontage to support espaliered fruit trees and vines (the

late Henry Short was a wonderful support with his helpful ideas and know

how - not to mention the odd ladder climbing -much to Doff’s dismay).

From then on we have been blessed with a constant variety of herbs,

plants, fruit and ornamental trees, bulbs, annuals and perennials; gifts

from enthusiasts , often from the donor’s own garden.

New garden beds were established, soil and mushroom compost brought

in and Fr Dave built a lovely stone wall to enhance and contain the beds

and create a pathway, further extending the garden to the Pridmore road

frontage.

Over winter our small group of regulars has planted, watered, weeded,

pruned, fertilised including worm juice from the worm farm, and nurtured

the eclectic group of plants.

Spring has come in a bevy of blooming, blossoming, and fruiting,

bringing glorious colour, new life and promise to an area previously

lacking these vital elements.

THE first stage of our overall vision will be acknowledged and officially

opened by the

Archbishop Geoffery Smith

at the St. Saviour’s Strawberry Fair

November 17, 2018

Suzie McNulty

ST. SaVioUR’S

Heavenly Garden News


Picture, if you will, walking through the quiet streets of Oxford on a frosty night, your head filled with the glorious singing of the Queen’s College choir. As you approach the gates of Magdalen College where you are staying, the pealing of the Chapel bells suddenly breaks into your reverie. This is just one of the memorable experiences I had when attending “The Divine Office”, a choral music festival in Oxford; the perfect setting for four days of concerts with music ranging from the Renaissance to the present day. Involved were ten choirs and instrumental groups, among them Stile Antico, an ensemble which seemed to me to reach celestial heights. Oxford’s ancient Colleges provided magnificent chapels in which to hear not only the music of Tallis, Taverner and Sheppard, the golden age of English composition, but the works of their Italian and Spanish contemporaries as well as Baroque and classical pieces. Indeed the festival ended with Mozart’s Requiem where the tenor was Ruairi Bowen who’ll be performing in St John’s Passion in Adelaide next year. A unique feature of the festival was the complete Divine Office, the eight services of the monastic day, held at the intended times - Matins starting at one a.m. and Compline ending about ten p.m. This most spiritually charged and intense experience has changed little in fifteen hundred years. Plainsong intoned by the men of Westminster Cathedral interposed with the polyphony of Palestrina sung by the Tallis Scholars, is truly uplifting. Most of us found it difficult to keep awake for Matins and Lauds in the very early morning and we wondered when the monks actually had time to sleep. However, to be present when the finest music was rendered with such dedication was the experience of a lifetime.

Jenny Sorrell writes about Her Experience

at

“The Divine Office” A choral festival

in Oxford


Another fulfilling year of practices and singing by the Choir - attendances are very good and only affected through holidays or sickness. As mentioned before much time and effort goes into the choosing of the weekly hymns as it is a monthly process of checking on the set readings for each Sunday for the 4 weeks in advance. when Fr. Dave, Marg, Ian and I meet.

For many years now, our choir has sung Anglican chant to our weekly psalm and now the congregation is able to follow that per their pew sheet. With Fr. Dave‘s encouragement Margie has begun to preface the singing with an explanation of the history of the psalm and we ourselves have found that helpful - and trust the congregation has too. We celebrated our special festival for our parish on the Sunday nearest Holy Name Day, 7th August and where appropriate, sang descants to some of the rousing hymns which very often provokes pleasure to some of the congregation! Clive and I recently visited Tasmania and were able join the St David‘s Cathedral choir (all adults) to sing Evensong with them, having previously attended their choir practice. Evensong is held once a month and both choir and congregation sit in the choir stalls. We were made to feel welcome and were farewelled with ‗see you next year‘ During the year the choir sang at the funerals of Henry Short, John Higgs and Peter McBride. All three gentlemen have been connected with our parish and are missed. As always, I thank the choir for their loyalty and attendance and thank our three willing organists.

Rosemary Scrutton. Choir Leader.

The Choir Beneath the Spire


Heavenly Humour Jokes and stories contributed by readers


“The Twelve Days of Christmas” with thanks to Michael Leunig

Editor‘s note:

Being a bookkeeper I just couldn’t help taking this literally and working out just what my true love brought for me.

12 teapots and 12 pear trees – enough to set up an orchard, 22 curly cats - I’m allergic to cats, 30 nice ducks, 36 tweeting birds, 40 maaaagpies, 42 geese gaggling, 42 dogs trotting, 40 goats grinning, 36 ladies watering (they are handy to look after the pear trees), 30 blokes moping, but at least they can look after the animals, 22 pipers piping and 12 runners running – running away I think.

Needless to say, he is no longer my true love. This year I am looking for someone who will bring diamonds in those quantities.


My sincere thanks to all who supported the wonderful lunch held in August in aid of the Auxiliary Special Project "Adult Literacy in PNG" . Tom Pointon delighted us by saying grace in Pidgin English and he and Margie were able to share some observations of their life in PNG. The final amount raised was a fantastic $910. Jenny Sorrel is taking orders for Christmas Puddings at $15 & mince pies for $10 packet of 6. They are good quality Kyton products & will be available on Thanksgiving Day Nov 8. The Eucharist will be celebrated at 12 noon followed by a shared lunch. St Andrew's Tide will be observed on Dec. 2nd at Christchurch North Adelaide with more Coaldrake Awards being presented. You are most welcome to attend any ABM events & I would be pleased to give you any further information. The 2019 Auxiliary Project will be Newton College. With my thanks for your continuing support of ABM the official Mission Agency of the Anglican Church. Mary Catford


Our September meeting held after the 10.30 am morning

service was very successful. I would like to thank all the

people who came to make it so.

Andrea Ogier spoke to us about her Cranio Facial Journey.

She had a very sad childhood with a triple cleft pallet and was

not being able to eat properly until the age of 14. After many

operations she is now a very successful and happily married

lady.

In the Collection box that was present at the meeting we

donated $127. Thank you to everyone who donated.

At our next meeting in October, our guest speaker will be

Marion McCall OAM telling us about her trip to New Zealand,

for the MU Zone meeting.

Lesley Fenton


Where else can you get a main meal & desert with wine, juice, tea & coffee for $5.00???

We will always have room for more friends at these lunches held on the first Tuesday of the month. There are only 2 more friendship lunches this year. The November lunch is on Melbourne Cup day (6th) - there will be sweeps and a prize for the most interesting hats as well as a raffle. It is still only $5.00 but bring some extra cash for the sweeps & raffle. All friends are welcome, but please let us know how many are coming by either signing the list in the Narthex or ringing the office on 8379 4114 and leaving a message if it‘s unattended. The last lunch will have a Christmas theme on December 4. There is no lunch in January. Jeanette Peard. Convenor. 0416 230 846

Monthly Friendship Lunches


Farewell Peter McBride Peter McBride was given a final send off when his ashes were scattered in Gulf St Vincent. There was a strong wind forecast for Friday 19

th October 2018, but that did

not deter the crew that gathered on the ketch Solomon Ophir. Fr Dave conducted a beautiful service, assisted by crewman Robert, while the boat was skilfully handled by its skipper John Hanson.

Sunward I have climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Of sun-split clouds,--and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of --- Wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there

I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air… Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark or even eagle flew --- And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Written by John McGee (9/6/1922 – 11/12/1941), a World War II Anglo-American Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot and poet, who wrote the poem High Flight. He was killed in an accidental mid-air collision over England in 1941.

11/11/2018

Lest we

Forget

The

sacrifice of

so many

for our

freedom

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Jan Lawry assisting the Ven David McDougall with the blessing at Doreen and Fred‘s 60

th Diamond Wedding

Anniversary celebration.

What’s Inside

Pg 2 Food for Thought Article from Fr. Dave

Pg 4 Youth News

Pg 6 “Filled Full” – The feeding of the 5,000

Pg 7 Christmas Eve and Christmas Day service times

Pg 8 Go Outreach News

Pg 9 Return of St Saviour’s seminar series

Pg 10 Heavenly Garden News

Pg 12 “The Divine Office” - A choral festival in Oxford

Pg 13 The Choir Beneath the Spire Choir News

Pg 14 Heavenly Humour

Pg 16 ABM

Pg 17 Mothers’ Union

Pg 18 Monthly Friendship Lunches

Pg 19 Farewell Peter McBride

Pg 19 Remembrance Day

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