Skip to content
South Darebin Anglican Parish
  • HomeExpand
    • All Saints Northcote
    • St James Thornbury
  • Services
  • From our vicar
  • AboutExpand
    • Our Community
    • Our Clergy
    • Our HistoryExpand
      • History of All Saints Anglican Church Northcote
      • History of St James Anglican Church Thornbury
    • Our Policies
    • Our Facilities
  • OutreachExpand
    • Social Justice
    • Westgarth Op Shop
  • Contact
South Darebin Anglican Parish
Recommended Reading

Now But Not Yet

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:

20241201 Now But Not Yet sermonDownload

Have you read?

How do you best learn? (20 July)

Dear Friends, As our Sunday gospel is Mary and Martha (found in Luke Chapter 10), it is appropriate that some of us have taken time out this week end to be still with God. It is a challenge for we who are ‘doers’. It is so easy to find ourselves experiencing the tyranny of the...

Hearing God’s voice (13 July)

Another week has disappeared! I had occasion this week to link back to my Ignatian discipline as I prepared for Carer’s Corner and the Sermon. What an interesting phenomenon it is to weave together prayer, study, and the stuff that makes up daily life in the parish. God walks before us, encouraging us and offering...

Staying on task (7 July)

This week’s gospel (found in Luke, Chapter 10) is sharp and direct. It tells us exactly how we should be working for the Spiritual Harvest. We need to direct our attention away from the mundane everyday world of numbers in church, budgets and deadlines. These quantifiable issues may serve some purpose but they should not...

The bitter-sweet struggle (29 June)

Dear Friends, We have an interesting opportunity to reflect on the lives of saints Peter and Paul this week. This is not an exercise I had not previously set myself. These were two flawed characters who became spiritual giants through the intervention of God in their lives. Of course we look to them as examples...

What has possessed you? (22 June)

Dear Friends, We have an unusual gospel this week (from Luke, Chapter 8). One of the commentaries I’ve read used the heading ‘The Madman and the Pigs’. No theological nuance there. This is a story of demonic possession, not given credibility in contemporary society. However, a fruitful way to explore this gospel is to look...

Focus on the Trinity (15 June)

This week is our opportunity to celebrate the Trinity. This follows hot on the heels (pardon the pun) of the coming of the Spirit. I spoke last week about the challenge of discerning the Spirit. In Ignatian terms there is Good Spirit that leads to life and Bad Spirit that leads us away from God....

The Holy Spirit! (8 June)

Dear Friends, This week we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit (as depicted in the Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 2). What an extraordinary event! It is an opportunity each year to think about how seriously we take the movement of the Spirit in the world, our community and our lives. In this week’s...

© 2025 South Darebin Anglican Parish Everyone is welcome

  • Home
    • All Saints Northcote
    • St James Thornbury
  • Services
  • From our vicar
  • About
    • Our Community
    • Our Clergy
    • Our History
      • History of All Saints Anglican Church Northcote
      • History of St James Anglican Church Thornbury
    • Our Policies
    • Our Facilities
  • Outreach
    • Social Justice
    • Westgarth Op Shop
  • Contact