Outreach - South Darebin Anglican Parish

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’...

Coming home (30 March)

Here we are at Mothering Sunday, also known as Refreshment Sunday, so named since the Middle Ages. This is an opportunity to review our Lenten process thus far. This fourth Sunday of Lent is a time of relaxed Lenten observances, and some churches will use rose-coloured vestments. Either a piece of Simnel cake or a...

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