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christmas services
Family christmas service: 5pm christmas eve
midnight mass: christmas eve 10.30pm
christmas day holy communion 9.30am
pew bulletin for 27 december 2020
from the vicar
There are so many great cartoons floating around at the moment. This one was sent to me by someone in the parish. It really tickled my sense of humour:
It’s so good to be able to meet together and share this festival with one another both in church as well as in our family homes.
The cow in this cartoon was annoyed by a disruption to his meal. We have all been disrupted this year by Covid and not been able to enjoy the year as we might have hoped. Something from the outside has impacted our inside lives and this has been really hard.
Today we celebrate a different disruption in the birth of Christ. When the cow looked in to her trough she expected one thing and found another. What do we expect when we look to the places that feed us? The first thing to ask here, is what is it that feeds and sustains us? What has surprised us and made us more aware of things beyond ourselves recently?
I love that the story of Christ is a disruption. It has the potential to make us stop and think and gives us a chance to reorient our lives. We can easily be annoyed by disruptions but they can serve to help us - to stop and look, to think and to see differently.
What did you expect when you came to church for our services? Did you find what you expected or did the trough offer you something new?
I wish you all the very best for this season. May the disruption of Christ’s birth offer you life, hope and healing.
Love and blessings
Sophie
It’s so good to be able to meet together and share this festival with one another both in church as well as in our family homes.
The cow in this cartoon was annoyed by a disruption to his meal. We have all been disrupted this year by Covid and not been able to enjoy the year as we might have hoped. Something from the outside has impacted our inside lives and this has been really hard.
Today we celebrate a different disruption in the birth of Christ. When the cow looked in to her trough she expected one thing and found another. What do we expect when we look to the places that feed us? The first thing to ask here, is what is it that feeds and sustains us? What has surprised us and made us more aware of things beyond ourselves recently?
I love that the story of Christ is a disruption. It has the potential to make us stop and think and gives us a chance to reorient our lives. We can easily be annoyed by disruptions but they can serve to help us - to stop and look, to think and to see differently.
What did you expect when you came to church for our services? Did you find what you expected or did the trough offer you something new?
I wish you all the very best for this season. May the disruption of Christ’s birth offer you life, hope and healing.
Love and blessings
Sophie
Rev. dr linda fiske will be filling in for the christmas services until sunday 10 january
here's a note from linda:
I was Chaplain at Christ Church Grammar School teaching all children from Prep to Grade 6 and I finished there in the middle of the year after eight years of full-time work across school the and the parish of Christ Church South Yarra. I have made the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, and my Ph D in Education focused Jungian Psychology. For those reasons I have a particular interest in how imagination promotes spiritual growth. A large part of my teaching at school incorporated Godly Play methodology. I am now Honorary Associate Priest at St George’s East Ivanhoe. This is the parish where I grew up and attended Sunday School. I am married to John and have one adult son. John and I have just become grandparents to baby Gryphon. What an utter joy!
