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ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF BALLARAT ANGLICAN PARISH OF ARARATHoly Trinity Ararat, Christ Church Great Western, Christ Church Moyston,EDITION 16 All Saints’ Willaura. FEBRUARY 2009

Cardinal George Pell is Australia's mostsenior Catholic cleric and he wrote in 2008in The Sunday Telegraph an EasterMessage. Part of this message is reprintedbelow…..

At Easter we celebrate most of thefoundational events in the Christian systemof meaning, Christ's institution of theEucharist, his death on the cross, and hisresurrection. Christians claim that Christrose bodily from the dead, which was not aresuscitation, not a return from a near-death experience. Christians also believethat through Christ's death and resurrectionsin, evil and death have been conquered.In ancient times the priest entered the Holyof Holies in the Jerusalem temple, offeredincense and sprinkled the Mercy Seat withblood, before the scapegoat was driveninto the desert, carrying the sins of thepeople. Christians see Christ's sufferingand death as replacing this annual ritual,purifying the hearts of those who repent oftheir sins and seek forgiveness.Christ was crucified between two thieves,bandits guilty of serious crimes. Luke tellsus one of them mocked Jesus, tauntinghim to save himself and them. The goodthief rebuked the first, saying that Jesushad done nothing wrong, unlike them whodeserved their sentences.

Then he turned to Jesus and asked"remember me when you come into yourkingdom". A simple request.Jesus replied to this criminal, this man ofviolence. "Today you will be with me inparadise".I think they are the most beautiful lines inthe Bible. They capture the Eastermessage.

See Page 3 for Easter Services in 2009

Emergency ReliefOne of the ways we can help others is withemergency relief. It is wonderful to see oursupplies of food at an all-time high. This offcourse is mainly because of the Govern-ment grant last year, which suppliedfamilies with enough money to have areally great Christmas. With the result ourservices were not needed in December butthis will change with the start of school,fees uniforms, shoes etc. Thankyou to eve-ryone who donated food to help us care forpeople in need.Kids ClubThe last Friday of Kids Club, at our break-up I decided it would be fun to have apiñata in the shape of a dragon (only one Icould find). After filling it up with lollypopsand stringing it up in the middle of the roomI then proceeded to blow up balloons andfill lolly bags with various special items.Pick up time and a group of very enthusi-astic children rushed in to fill themselveswith snacks, after which Peggy madespecial Christmas cards with them. FatherJohn read a story then it was time. Blind-folded children all had a turn at belting apiñata, which turned out to be extremelywell made, as it wouldn’t break. Peggy hada go, Father John, me, and finally Brittanyand Abby’s dad managed to break it openand out poured all the lolly pop sticks fol-lowed by chunks of broken lollypops, muchto my horror. The moral of this story isdon’t fill your piñatas with lollypops thatsmash.I would like to thank Gavin, Janet, FatherJohn, Peggy and Sue for there fantasticsupport over the year. And also all thechildren who continue to provide us withsome very special moments.

I wish everyone a year full of the wondersonly God can provide. Blessings always.Jenny Wells

Welcome toanother “Wells

Wisdom”

Another year hasflown buy andChristmas with all

its preparation, worry about what to buy,copious amounts of food poured into therefrigerator pulled out again cooked anddevoured, presents, wrapped in prettypaper, only to be ripped apart and thrownaway, good wishes and hugs are just amemory. I hope you managed to enjoyyour Christmas as much as I did.

How many of us ever get a secondchance?

In small country towns if you do make amistake you are ladled (it seems forever).Do you know someone who has alwaysbeen labelled no matter how hard they tryto turn their lives around? Comments suchas “Oh you know her she’s never going toamount to anything, just a looser”Jesus came down to earth to give us asecond chance He died in agony on thecross so we would be forgiven for all oursins. Every Sunday we say, “We who aremany are one body in Christ for we allshare the one bread. Do we believe this?Are we ever equal? Or is our church theonly society that doesn’t take care of ourwounded (quote from Selwyn HughesEvery Day with Jesus). There are lots ofways to change how we feel about thetown’s sinners. Be friends, help them,mentor or just talk its amazing when youdo you may find out they are not so differ-ent after all. Jesus did.

ARARAT ANGLICAN CHRONICLE FEBRUARY 2009

PALM or PASSION SUNDAY(Sunday 5th April)

11am PARISH EUCHARISTat WILLAURA

8pm STATIONS OF THE CROSSat ARARAT

MAUNDY THURSDAY(Thursday 9th April)

8pm PARISH EUCHARIST ofthe LORD’S SUPPER atARARAT

GOOD FRIDAY(Friday 10th April)

9.30am PARISH SOLEMNLITURGY of thePASSION at ARARAT

EASTER VIGIL(Saturday 11th April)

8pm PARISH EUCHARISTof the RESURRECTIONat ARARAT

EASTER SUNDAY(Sunday 12th April)

8am EASTER EUCHARIST atGREAT WESTERN

9.30am EASTER EUCHARIST atARARAT

11.30am EASTER EUCHARIST atWILLAURA

Come and hear Fr John talk aboutthe Easter Story and the paintingsof Giotto

Note: LENTEN STUDIESin the RECTORY

on Tuesday nights during Lentfrom 7.30pm. All welcome


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Above: Picnic after church at Willaura on AllSaints Day. Members from Ararat and Willauragot together to talk and eat and tell jokes.

Right: Ararat Sunday School end of the yearprogram included doing the Jesse Tree inChurch and Lauren Cheesman is putting asymbol on the tree. Thank you to Tony Millearfor the Christmas Tree at Ararat and Willaura


Above: An enjoyable Christmasbreak up was held at the RSL inArarat and was well attended anda lot of Christmas fun wasenjoyed.

Right: Willaura Sunday Schoolalso did the Jesse Tree and hadlots of fun.


Kid’s Club ended the year on a high. Thankyou to Jenny Wells and the other helpers

Tom Banfield (above) turned 80 in Januaryand Stawell and Ararat Parishes went toPomonal to celebrate with an outdoorMass


Please place your donation in the enve-lope along with the deceased person youwant remembered.

The church will host an evening of finedining, super entertainment and gracioushostility.

Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayerand medication to follow.

The ladies of the Church have cast offclothing of every kind. They may be seenin the basement on Friday afternoon.

This evening at 7 PM there will be hymnsinging in the park across from the Church.Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.

Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursdaymorning at 10 AM. All ladies are invited tolunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B. S.is done.

Low Self Esteem Support Group will meetThursday at 7 PM. Please use the backdoor.

The eighth-graders will be presentingShakespeare's Hamlet in the Church base-ment Friday at 7 PM. The congregation isinvited to attend this tragedy.

Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at theFirst Presbyterian Church. Please uselarge double door at the side entrance.

The Associate Minister unveiled thechurch's new tithing campaign slogan lastSunday: 'I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours!

Don't let worry kill you off - let the Churchhelp.

Thank God for priests and church ladieswith typewriters -- misspellings, badsentence construction or choice ofwords all make for fun reading. Thesesentences actually appeared in churchbulletins or were announced in churchservices:

The Fasting & Prayer Conference includesmeals.

The sermon this morning: 'Jesus Walks onthe Water.' The sermon tonight: 'Searchingfor Jesus.'

Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It'sa chance to get rid of those things notworth keeping around the house. Bringyour husbands.

The peacemaking meeting scheduled fortoday has been canceled due to a conflict..

Miss Charlene Mason sang 'I will not passthis way again,' giving obvious pleasure tothe congregation.

For those of you who have children anddon't know it, we have a nursery down-stairs.

The Rector will preach his farewellmessage after which the choir will sing:'Break Forth Into Joy.'

Irving Benson and Jessie Carter weremarried on October 24 in the church. Soends a friendship that began in their schooldays.

At the evening service tonight, the sermontopic will be 'What Is Hell?' Come early andlisten to our choir practice.


probably in Rome sometime before theyear 60 A.D.; he wrote it in Greek for theGentile converts to Christianity. Traditiontells us that St. Mark was requested by theRomans to set down the teachings of St.Peter. This seems to be confirmed by theposition which St. Peter has in this Gospel.

Like one other Gospel writer, Luke, Markwas not one of the 12 apostles. We cannotbe certain whether he knew Jesuspersonally. Some scholars feel that theevangelist is speaking of himself whendescribing the arrest of Jesus inGethsemane: "Now a young man followedhim wearing nothing but a linen cloth abouthis body. They seized him, but he left thecloth behind and ran off naked" (Mark14:51-52).

Others hold Mark to be the first bishop ofAlexandria in Egypt. Venice, famous for thePiazza San Marco, claims Mark as itspatron saint; the large basilica there isbelieved to contain his remains.

A winged lion is Mark's symbol. The lionderives from Mark's description of John theBaptist as a "voice of one crying out in thedesert" (Mark 1:3), which artists comparedto a roaring lion. The wings come from theapplication of Ezekiel's vision of fourwinged creatures (Ezekiel, chapter one) tothe evangelists.

Most of what we know about Mark comesdirectly from the New Testament. He isusually identified with the Mark of Acts12:12. (When Peter escaped from prison,he went to the home of Mark's mother.)

Paul and Barnabas took him along on thefirst missionary journey, but for somereason Mark returned alone to Jerusalem.It is evident, from Paul's refusal to let Markaccompany him on the second journeydespite Barnabas's insistence, that Markhad displeased Paul. Later, Paul asksMark to visit him in prison so we mayassume the trouble did not last long.

The second called John Mark. Both he andhis mother, Mary, were highly esteemed inthe early Church, and his mother's housein Jerusalem served as aGospel was writ-ten by St. Mark, who, in the New Testa-ment, is sometimes meeting place forChristians there. The oldest and theshortest of the four Gospels, the Gospel ofMark emphasizes Jesus' rejection byhumanity while being God's triumphantenvoy. Mark's Gospel is the gradualmanifestation of a "scandal": a crucifiedMessiah.

St. Mark wrote the second Gospel,


of Holy Week (not including Sundays), sobeginning Lent on the sixth Wednesdaybefore Easter, Ash Wednesday. Liturgicaldress is the simplest possible. Churchesare kept bare of flowers and decoration.Gloria in excelsis is not used. The FourthSunday of Lent (Laetare or RefreshmentSunday) was allowed as a day of relieffrom the rigour of Lent, and the Feast ofthe Annunciation almost always falls inLent; these breaks from austerity are thebackground to the modern observance ofMothering Sunday on the Fourth Sunday ofLent.

As Holy Week approaches, theatmosphere of the season darkens; thereadings begin to anticipate the story ofChrist’s suffering and death, and thereading of the Passion Narrative gave tothe Fifth Sunday its name of PassionSunday. There are many devotionalexercises which may be used in Lent andHoly Week outside the set liturgy. TheStations of the Cross, made popular in theWest by the Franciscans after they weregranted custody of the Christian sites in theHoly Land, are the best known.

Lent may originallyh a v e f o l l o w e dEpiphany, just asJesus’ sojourn in thewilderness followedimmediately on hisbaptism, but it soonb e c a m e f i r m l yattached to Easter, ast h e p r i n c i p a loccasion for baptism

and for the reconciliation of those who hadbeen excluded from the Church’s fellow-ship for apostasy or serious faults. Thishistory explains the characteristic notes ofLent – self-examination, penitence, self-denial, study, and preparation for Easter, towhich almsgiving has traditionally beenadded.

Now is the healing time decreedfor sins of heart and word and deed,

when we in humble fear recordthe wrong that we have done the Lord.

(Latin, before 12th century)

As the candidates for baptism wereinstructed in Christian faith, and aspenitents prepared themselves, throughfasting and penance, to be readmitted tocommunion, the whole Christian commu-nity was invited to join them in the processof study and repentance, the extension ofwhich over forty days would remind themof the forty days that Jesus spent in thewilderness, being tested by Satan.

Ashes are an ancient sign of penitence;from the middle ages it became the customto begin Lent by being marked in ash withthe sign of the cross. The calculation of theforty days has varied considerably inChristian history. It is now usual in theWest to count them continuously to the end


liberation from the power ofsin and death by the crossa n d r e s u r r e c t i o n o fJesus. When we celebratethe Mass, we proclaim thedeath of the Lord (1 Cor11:26). In the Mass, thesacrifice of Jesus on thecross (the whole of his savingworks) become sacramen-tally present through wordand sign.

In the Mass we commemo-rate the saving death ofJesus. It is not a new orindependent sacrifice that insome way replaces orrepeats the sacrifice of thecross. What it does is makesacramentally present, thesacrifice of the cross whichhas taken place for all. Weare drawn by Jesus into hissacramental act because weare his body and because weare united with him throughbaptism and this sacrifice ofthe cross takes place throughthe ministry of the gatheredcommunity as they offerthemselves as a livingsacrifice of praise andthanksgiving.

The Eucharist is thesacrament in which Christ’ssaving work on the cross ismade present to eachgeneration of faithfulbelievers. Christ does notdie again each time Mass iscelebrated. What happensis that we are caught up inthe ongoing consequencesof that once for all death onGolgotha. The one sacrificeholds good for all peoples ofall times (Heb 9:11-28;10:10,14). When, at theLas t Supper, Jesuscommanded do this inmemory of me he commis-sioned the disciples to makepresent this one sacrificialact to peoples everywhereuntil he comes again inglory (Lk 22:19; 1 Cor11:24,25).

When the bible speaksabout remembering, it is nottalking about think back tosomething that happenedsome time ago in thepast. Remembering meansmaking present, here andnow, the fullness of someaction that took place in thepast. Thus, when theJewish faithful celebratePassover each year, theybelieve that they are takenback to Egypt andparticipate in that originalexodus event. Christiansbel ieve that in theEucharistic sacrifice theChurch commemorates


Submitted by Reginald Wiltshire(Extract abridged from the Spectator)

In 2006 the Sunday evening programme‘Choral Evensong’ on the B.B.C.celebrated its 80th. birthday. It is a ‘live’outside broadcast init ial ly fromWestminster Abbey but now touring thecountry to anywhere with a decent choir.Fans of the programme follow its weeklyprogress like groupies of a rock band.While all around it has changed ChoralEvensong is reassuringly, wonderfully,astonishingly not a bit updated from itsorigins in the 16th. century. The Introit,followed by Canticle and responses, apsalm, the Magnificat and Nunc Dimitis,prayers, a couple of bible readings and ananthem in which the choir and organist letrip. You might have thought that such anancient institution would never havesurvived. But is has proved tough enoughnot just to withstand the invasion of theGoogling hordes but also to embrace them.Online access means that it is now verypopular in Alaska.

I think Reg wants us to bring backEvensong…..who is interested? FJ


In 2008 we had five speakers culminatingwith a final evening in the Hall attended byover 30 people drawn from our church andother organisations in town.Reg had kindly arranged for WilbertMapombere to speak to our group. Wibertcame to Australia from Zimbabwe as arefugee in 2003. As CEO of the law societyand Deputy Chief Magistrate in Harare, hefrequently defended the rights of citizens,invoking the wrath of the Mugabe govern-ment. Thanks to an early morning warninghe was able to flee the country that after-noon, board a plane and finish up here inAustralia. He has settled in Ballarat wherehe has established a law firm. His wife andone child joined him in 2008. He is stillworking to bring his remaining children toAustralia.Wilbert spoke of the beauty of his country,once the food bowl for twelve nations, nowunable to feed itself since the farmers havebeen removed. Half the population is inneed of food aid (“The Age”, Jan 30, 2009).He spoke also of the problems of choleraand inflation.We dined well. FJ, ably assisted by IanCroft, provided roasts for all of us, meatbeing kindly donated by our farmers.Thanks to Reg for his initiative and we lookforward to another fine year with someinteresting speakers lined up for us.

- Rick Thomas

Reginald Wiltshire, Wilbert Mapombere &Rick Thomas

Where would I start? Should I start ?Praying & pondering whether to visit familyin Seoul? What would our Holy Fatherhave us do?In my kitchen there is a verse, from aQuaker hymn I think. It goes ,"‘tis a gift tobe simple, ‘tis a gift to be free, ‘tis a gift tocome down in the place we should be, andwhen we find ourselves in the place justright, ‘twill be in the valley of love anddelight"North and South Korea are apparently stillat loggerheads and though my little kitchenhas witnessed much unrest, it's also aplace "of love and delight."So, what would I like to share with ourChurch Communities? I guess it's what awonderful Heavenly Father we Christianfolk worship, despite all our differences,divisions, failings, doubts, joys and glad-ness, He is still there with us. The sameyesterday, today and forever. Still loving usand through His beautiful Holy Spirit stillsaying, "Come, just come."And now a little lighter. It was Easter 1994when I believe God answered my heartfeltprayer in an amazing way - a born againexperience one might say. I felt like a"Cupboard Christian", I wanted to speakout and tell of my joy, but could I within ourconservative Anglican tradition?Nearly 15 years later I can truly say I can.All praise is music to the Lords ears , soI've been told, and I love to sing , ratherrusty but a verse from a song that singerDebbie Reynolds sang a long way backsums it up."Now I shout it from the highest hillsEven told the golden daffodilsAnd now my hearts an open doorFor my secret love's no secret anymore."May God be with us.Best wishes to all for a healthy, happy andholy 2009. Sincerely Phyllis McInnes.


WE ARE SURVIVORS( For those born before 1940 )

We were born before television, beforepenicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox,contact lenses, videos and the pill. Wewere before radar, credit cards, splitatoms, laser beams and ball-point pens,before dishwashers, tumble driers, electricblankets, air conditioners, drip-dry clothes… and before man walked on the moon.We got married first and then lived together( how quaint can you be?). We thought‘fast food’ was what you ate in Lent, a ‘BigMac’ was an oversized raincoat and‘crumpet’ we had for tea. We existedbefore house-husbands, computer datingand ‘sheltered accommodation’ was whereyou waited for a bus.We were before day care centres, grouphomes and disposable nappies, We neverheard of FM radio, tape decks, artificialhearts, word processors, or young menwearing earrings. For us ‘time sharing’meant togetherness, a ‘chip’ was a piece ofwood or fried potato, ‘hardware’ meantnuts and bolts and ‘software’ wasn’t aword. Before 1940 ‘Made in Japan’ meantjunk, the term ‘making out’ referred to howyou did in your exams, ‘stud’ was some-thing that fastened a collar to a shirt and‘going all the way’ meant staying on a dou-ble-decker bus to the terminus. In our day,cigarette smoking was ‘fashionable’,’grass’was mown, ‘coke’ was kept in the coal-house, a ‘joint’ was a piece of meat you ateon Sundays and ‘pot’ was something youcooked in. ‘Rock music’ was a fondMother’s lullaby, ‘Eldorado’ was an icecream, a ‘gay person’ was the life and soulof the party, while ‘aids’ just meant beautytreatment or help for someone in trouble.We who were born before 1940 must be ahardy bunch when you think of the way inwhich the world has changed and theadjustments we have had to make.No wonder there is a generation gap today…. BUT By the grace of God we havesurvived! (Contributed by Joan Talbot)

The pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostelain northwest Spain owes its origin to thediscovery, in what is now Galicia, of thetomb of the apostle James the Greatsometime early in the 9th century. Itprobably achieved its greatest popularity inthe 12th century, when it came to rivalRome and Jerusalem as a goal of Christianpilgrimage, and although it declined there-after, it has never been entirely forgotten.In recent years it has seen a renewedsurge of interest, and in 1987, it wasdeclared the first European Cultural Routeby the Council of Europe.¹In Spanish, “camino” means road or way.The most used pilgrimage route toSantiago is the Camino Frances or FrenchWay. This crosses northern Spain fromthe Pyrenees Mountains in the east, toGalicia in the far north west.

¹ Web site The Confraternity of Saint James

WHY A PILGRIMAGE?Towards the end of2006, Ian was complet-ing a course of inten-sive chemo and radio-therapy to treat hiscancer. He wasresponding well to thetreatment and wedecided to plan to dosomething special tocelebrate the end of thisperiod of our lives.We both enjoy walkingand seeing new places,and had been consider-ing for some time thepilgrimage walk toSantiago de Compos-tela in northern Spain.Lately we had readseveral accounts of the

walk written by recently returned pilgrims.We attended a lecture about the practicalaspects of the walk at the CAE inMelbourne and joined the “Camino Club”, agroup of bushwalkers who either had done,or planned to do, the pilgrimage.One thing we had to consider was whether,at our age, we were fit enough to walk along way, for a long time. Having decidedthat we were not willing to carry large back-packs we then researched various ways ofdoing a supported walk.We found a specialist walking company“Spanish Steps”, whose program fitted ourrequirements for available dates and lengthof walk. We walked every day for a fort-night but did not have to carry anythingexcept our day-packs. Each night westayed at small country hotels where weate very well and relaxed before the nextday.

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NOTES FROM A PILGRIMAGEby Sue Kirkham

we headed in to the forest to climb up anddown some hills on a short and muddywalk to the Alto de Mezquiriz which layabove our small hotel in Burguete. Thecountryside was misty and green, lots ofwildflowers, wild strawberries and violets,we saw the first of the yellow arrows whichwe would follow all the way to Santiago,and we passed through farm yards wherethe horses as well as the cattle werewearing bells. When we arrived at Bur-guete we had an orientation with ourguides and were each given a scallop shellto tie on to our backpacks as a symbol ofSant Iago (Saint James).Before dinner that night we drove back toRoncesvalles to attend the evening serviceand Pilgrims’ Blessing in the Iglesia deSanta Maria chapel of the monastery. Theservice was conducted in Spanish andincluded an acknowledgement of all thepilgrims who had registered at the monas-tery office today, how many and fromwhich countries we had come.Towards the end of the service, with the

only light in the chapel being from the largecandles, the priest invited all of us pilgrimsto approach the altar and we were blessedfor our coming pilgrimage.

Thank you Sue and we look forward to possiblymore instalments about your pilgrimage. FJ

We were followed by our small bus/vandriven by one of our guides, which carriedour luggage and the ingredients for picniclunches along the way. We were a party ofsix with two bilingual guides who fed andentertained us and encouraged us to keepwalking.

THE PILGRIMS’ BLESSING ATRONCESVALLES

Roncesvalles is a village high in thePyrenees Mountains on the Spanish sideof the border between France and Spain.Here the Augustinian community has beencaring for pilgrims to Santiago since the12th century. Here are received allpilgrims, “sick and well, Catholics, Jews,pagans, heretics and vagabonds”. Thevillage appears to be situated there solelyto care for pilgrims. There are few otherbuildings than those of the monastery.Some pilgrims to Santiago walk across theborder from their starting point in France orother European countries but many, likeour group, start at Roncesvalles. Here, wesaw the rather daunting sign telling us thatit is 790 kilometres to Santiago deCompostela.We arrived in an afternoon in late May, itwas cloudy and misting and the grey build-ings loomed indistinctly out of the fog. Weentered the monastery office to fill in formsdetailing our reasons for doing the pilgrim-age and whether we were on horseback,bicycle or foot. A church official then inter-viewed us individually and we were issuedwith our pilgrim credencials (passports).These were then stamped with our firstsello (stamp). We would need to havethese stamped at least once each day onour way to Santiago.We were now accredited pilgrims and setoff for our first walk. Leaving Roncesvalles


It is with sadness we note the passing ofMargaret Neaum on Friday 23.01.09 aftera long fight with cancer.Margaret with Fr Andrew were in Araratfrom 1989 –1996.Please pray for the soul of Margaret andfor Fr Andrew and his family as they grieve

FEBRUARY 2009

Sunday 1st Feb CANDLE MASS

Sunday 8th Feb HARVEST FESTIVAL

Tues 24th Feb SHROVE TUESDAY6.30pm Pancake tea in Hall at Ararat

Wed 25th Feb ASH WEDNESDAY10am and 7pm Mass

MARCH 2009

Sunday 29th March WALK-A-THON

APRIL 2009

Sunday 5th April PALM SUNDAYat Willaura

Thursday 9th April MAUNDY THURSDAYFriday 10th April GOOD FRIDAYSaturday 11th April EASTER VIGILSunday 12th April EASTER SUNDAY

OTHER PROPOSED DATES for 2009

Sat 2nd May PARISH FETESun 24th May PLEASANT SUNDAY

AFTERNOONSun 7th June TRINITY SUNDAY

Luncheon in hall after MassFriday 5th Sept SPRING TIME BALL

CHECK OUT THE PARISHWEB SITE ON

www.araratanglican.com.au


NEED A COFFEE??Great coffee, good books

TRUE STORYGeorge Bernard Shaw once sent twotickets to the opening night of one of hisplays to Winston Churchill with the follow-ing note: "Bring a friend, if you have one."Churchill wrote back, returning the twotickets and excused himself as he had aprevious engagement. He also attachedthe following: "Please send me two ticketsfor the next night, if there is one."

PARISH DIRECTORY

PARISH PRIEST: Fr John MathesHoly Trinity Rectory (49 High St)

PO Box 110 , Ararat 3377Phone (O3) 5352 1109 Mobile 0417 407 768

Email: [email protected]: www.araratanglican.com.au

WARDENS:Cheryl Haines 5352 3073

Chris Wells 5352 4265Gavin Anderson 5352 1705

PARISH COUNCIL4th Thursday in Month

SECRETARY: Cheryl Haines 5352 3073TREASURER: George Ettwell 5352 5128RENEWAL /EVANGELISM COMMITTEE

Fr John Mathes 5352 1109SACRISTAN

Ararat: Peg Moorfoot 5352 1713Willaura: Betty Robinson 5354 1378

Great Western: Marie Turner 5356 2226Moyston:

ORGANISTSArarat: Nicholas Hatswell 5352 1887

Willaura: Lynda Gellert 5354 1350HALL BOOKINGS Cheryl Haines 53523073

ARCHIVES Julia Norman-Bail 5352 1623SUNDAY SCHOOL

Sun 9.30am in Ararat/ 1st Sun 11.30am WillauraCarolyn Mathes 5352 1109

KIDS CLUBFriday fortnights 4.30-6pm in Ararat

Jenny Wells 5352 4265YOUTH GROUP Fr John Mathes 5352 1109

WILLAURA WOMENS GUILDElsie Duver 5354 1286

ANGLICAN LADIES FELLOWSHIP (ALF)Carolyn Mathes 5352 1109

MEN’S DINNER CLUBRick Thomas 5352 1673

ARARAT CHURCH CHOIRThursday 7.30pm Kris Hughes 5352 3794

CHURCH DANCES1st Friday in the month at Ararat

Leila Croft 5352 4422Dance Lessons Mondays 7.30pm in Hall

GREAT WESTERN FELLOWSHIP GROUPMarie Turner 5356 2226

BIBLE STUDY & FELLOWSHIP GROUPFr John Mathes 5352 1109

SCOTTISH DANCINGCheryl Haines 53523073

PARISHSERVICES

FIRST SUNDAY IN THE MONTH9.30am HOLY TRINITY, ARARAT11.30am ALL SAINTS’, WILLAURA

SECOND SUNDAY IN THE MONTH9.30am HOLY TRINITY, ARARAT11.30am ALL SAINTS’, WILLAURA

THIRD SUNDAY IN THE MONTH9.30am HOLY TRINITY, ARARAT11.30am ALL SAINTS’, WILLAURA5pm CHRIST CHURCH, MOYSTON

(5.30pm in day light saving time)

FOURTH SUNDAY IN THE MONTH9.30am HOLY TRINITY, ARARAT11.15am CHRIST CHURCH, GREAT

WESTERN

TUESDAY10am HEALING MASS, HOLY TRINITY,

ARARAT

WEDNESDAY10am MIDWEEK MASS, HOLY TINITY,

ARARAT

Morning and Evening Prayer is said each day atHoly Trinity Ararat. See Fr John for details.

Services are also held at various times GorrinnHouse, the Ararat Day Centre and the WillauraHostel. See Fr John also for HomeCommunions.

The Parish Priest, Fr John, is available forbaptisms, weddings, confession and otherservices by appointment.

The Parish has bible study groups, social nights,women’s groups, a men’s group and well aschildren’s ministry which all are invited toparticipate in. See Fr. John for more details


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