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Notices & Events

1 December, 2019
Advent Sunday

This Sunday’s Services

8:00am BCP Eucharist
Preacher: The Ven. Canon Heather Patacca, Precentor

9:00am Family Style Eucharist
Preacher: The Precentor

10:30am Choral Eucharist
Preacher: The Precentor

1:00pm Mandarin Worship 華語崇拜
Preacher: Cleopas Zhang

6:00pm Advent Carols Service
Preacher: The Very Revd Dr Andreas Loewe, Dean

Copies of Orders of Service can be found here.

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Notices  

Christmas Congregational Lunch
All are welcome to join our Christmas breakup lunch on Sun 1 Dec at 12.15pm in the Barbara Darling Room. Cost is $12 for two courses and drinks.

Advent Carols Service
Sunday 1 December at 6pm.
All are invited to join this special service to mark the beginning of Advent.
The preacher will be the Dean.

Bonhoeffer Book
Journeying with Bonhoeffer: Six Steps on the Path of Discipleship by the Dean and Dr Katherine Firth is available for purchase from the Cathedral Shop. Cost $20.


Pray with us
Each Wednesday between 8 and 10am, some members of our congregation have committed to spend some time, wherever they are, to pray for the Cathedral’s ministry and congregation. If you would like to join us and receive a monthly prayer list, please contact the Precentor.
 

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Christmas Service Times

Sunday 15 December
4pm    Christmas Carol Service. Preacher: The Dean
 
Christmas Eve
Tuesday 24 December

3pm    Children’s Christmas Service.
6pm    Christmas Carol Service. Preacher: The Dean
8pm    A Mandarin Christmas.  Preacher: The Canon Missioner
10pm  First Eucharist of Christmas. Preacher: The Dean
11.45pm   Midnight Mass. Preacher: The Dean
 
Christmas Day
Wednesday 25 December

8am    Eucharist with Hymns. Preacher: The Precentor
10am  Choral Eucharist. Preacher: The Archbishop
1.00pm A Mandarin Eucharist. Preacher: Bishop John Harrower

This Week

Monday 2 December
12:15pm Midday Eucharist
1:00pm Stories Under the Windows
2:30pm English Conversation Class
5:10pm Evening Prayer

Tuesday 3 December
12:15pm Midday Eucharist
5:10pm Choral Evensong

Wednesday 4 December
12:15pm Midday Eucharist
5:10pm Choral Evensong

Thursday 5 December
12:15pm Midday Eucharist
5:10pm Choral Evensong

Friday 6 December
12:15pm Midday Eucharist
5:10pm Choral Evensong

Saturday 7 December
12:15pm Midday Eucharist
4:00pm Wedding

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Next Sunday’s Services 
Advent 2
8 December, 2019

8:00am BCP Eucharist
Preacher: The Very Revd Dr Andreas Loewe, Dean

9:00am Family Style Eucharist
Preacher: The Dean

10:30am Choral Eucharist
Preacher: The Dean

1:00pm Mandarin Worship 華語崇拜
Preacher: The Revd Canon Robert Vun, Canon Missioner

6:00pm Choral Evensong
Preacher: The Revd Emily Fraser
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Please Pray With Us For

The World 
Continue to pray for those affected by bushfires and drought in Australia; peace to return to Hong Kong following months of unrest; Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Lybia in ongoing conflict; Zimbabwe suffering from severe drought with two million at risk of starvation and spiralling economy; places where people are starving daily including Central African Republic, Yeman, Chad, Madagascar, Zambia, Liberia, Haiti and Timor-Leste.

The Anglican Communion
Pray for mission agencies and their work throughout the Anglican Communion.

The Australian Anglican Church
Mission Agencies of the Anglican Church of Australia.

The Diocese of Melbourne
Archdeaconry of Essendon (Len Firth); St Matthew's Wheelers Hill (Jed Crispin).

Our Cathedral
Our Dean, the Very Revd Dr Andreas Loewe; the Cathedral Chapter and Sub-committees; Our Canon Missioner, the Revd Canon Robert Vun, our Bible study Groups; the students and teachers of our English Conversation Classes; Theological Students, Lydia Thangadurai and Cleopas Zhang.

Those is sickness or need
Joan Woodhouse, Beryl Coombe, Robyn & David Forbes, Judy and Frank Clift, Andrew, Lucilia & Carlota Soares, David Blake, Janet Marsden, Pam Sullivan, Martin Devine, John, Evonne Paddison, Seila, Mark Rostoks, Geoffrey Cox, Henri-Felix Vinson, Sum Vita.

Refugees in detention
Muneshwaran Veerasamy, Selvaraj Kumarasamy, Ali Tahir Ali, Jeyakumar Tharumkulasingam, Jabbar Hassanin.

Year's Minds

2        Charles Perry (First Bishop of Melbourne) 1891         
          Frances Perry (Founder Royal Women’s Hospital) 1892         
          George Langford (Builder and Lay Canon) 1942

5        Elisabeth Murdoch DBE (Benefactor) 2012
7        Robert George Kent (Lay Canon) 1914

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Read the Bible With Us

You may like to use these readings, which we use at the Cathedral for daily prayer, as part of your personal devotions throughout the week

Monday: Ps 122; Matt 8.5-11

Tuesday: Ps 72.1-7; Luke 10.21-24
Wednesday: Ps 23; Matt 15.29-37
Thursday: Ps 118.19-25; Matt 7.21-27
Friday: Ps 27.9-17; Matt 9.27-31
Saturday: Ps 147.1-6; Matt 9.35-10.1 (2-4) 5-8


An order for Morning and Evening Prayer can be found here
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