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A time for prayer (8 December)

ByAlma Ryrie-Jones 7 December 202426 January 2025

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…

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Christ the King

ByAlma Ryrie-Jones 4 December 20242 February 2025

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

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Now But Not Yet

ByAlma Ryrie-Jones 1 December 20242 February 2025

Read Mother Linda’s sermon for the First Sunday of Advent, 1 December 2024, on how we need to live in God’s time. Download the pdf here:

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Weekly message

Christ The King (24 November)

ByAlma Ryrie-Jones 24 November 202426 January 2025

A message from Mother Linda I want to thank you for my warm welcome to the parish this week. I feel quite overwhelmed and very emotional about this new beginning. At the Commissioning rehearsal your enthusiasm for your parish was palpable. I am deeply grateful for the time, effort and energy you have put into…

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Are you listening? (11 May)

In this week’s gospel (found in John, Chapter 10) Jesus talks about himself as the Shepherd and identifies those who listen to him as his sheep. My sermon this week boils down to one question: are you listening for his voice? This question implicates a lot of sub-issues. How is your prayer life? Are you...

Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea

Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea

Help us support Cancer Council this year at our Biggest Morning Tea event at St James, Thornbury after the 10:30am service on 25 May.

The power of the Holy Spirit (4 May)

Dear Friends, I feel greatly inspired with the power of the Holy Spirit this week. A day of Diocesan training and a Parish Council meeting have left me buoyed. Preparing this week’s sermon has also been a source of comfort. Our Sunday gospel (found in John 21) provides an inspiring example of the Resurrected Lord...

Vale Pope Francis (April 27)

This first week of Easter has been coloured for me by the death of Pope Francis. The Pope took his name from Francis of Assisi who likewise was an extraordinary character. Many years of teaching children about the latter had me researching the intricacies of his life story. I feel sure you know the stories...

Easter Day! (April 20)

Dear Friends, Holy Week has finally arrived, and my sense of anticipation is palpable. Our choir rehearsals have brought me much joy because they bring the opportunity to focus deeply on words and images in hymns. These resonate. No doubt you have an idea of how singing is a whole-body experience. The repetitive nature of...

Looking to Holy Week (13 April)

Here we are at the sixth Sunday of Lent and we know the gospel so well (taken from Luke chapter 23) that we could probably recite parts of it. The ultimate question for each of us is where we stand in relation to that crowd that gathered at Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem. Are we...

Washing the feet of Jesus (6 April)

This week we have another gospel that we know so well (from John, chapter 12). The story of Mary anointing Jesus’ feet with costly oil and drying them with her hair. It is a story of an intimate action that takes place in public. At a dinner, no less. This action of washing prefigures Jesus’...

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