Sunday, July 5, 2026
O God,
you have prepared for those who love you
such good things as pass our understanding:
pour into our hearts such love toward you,
that, loving you above all things,
we may obtain your promises
which exceed all that we can desire;
through the Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Stay In Touch
Father Ted Starr - Priest-in-Charge - 0451 929 180 - edward.starr@anglicanchurchsq.org.au
Mrs Liz Peters - Rector’s Warden - 0400 844 946
Mrs Gail Symons - People’s Warden - 0409 618 511
Mr Tony Hughes - People’s Warden - 0468 764 009
Zoom Church - 328 492 8300 - 548 747
Readings
for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67
Psalm 45:10-17
Romans 7:14-25
Matthew 11:15-30
Giving
Offering - 704 901 - 0000 0780
Building Fund - 704 901 - 0001 4767
Other Stewardship
Cards are on sale at the back of the church.
For Your Prayers
We ask of your goodness, Lord, to comfort and sustain all who in this transitory life are in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity, and especially Shirley and Alan Kimber, Rosina, Ann, Barbara, Kevin, Ian, Uncle Peter, Chris, Bill Tattam, Jeff Byrne, Karne, Greg, Aaron, Joanne, Grace and Faith, Beryl Old, Fr David, Nina, Sophie, Lesley, Helena, Claire, Shakiraia and Kristy. Please contact Fr Ted to be on this list.
We also give thanks for those whose year’s mind occurs at this time, and amongst them Michael Dyer, Ed Bishop, Sally Lindleyand Marian Cronin. Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon them.
Mission and Outreach
Meals for Woody Point Special School are on again. Please label your meal with title, ingredients and date cooked, then freeze it, and bring it to church on Sunday. Meal containers are on the back table. Alternatively, give a monetary donation or supermarket gift card. For more information on both of these ministries, contact Elizabeth on 0404 080 861.
Please pray for the next season of mission and outreach. Please pray for the Parish Council and other lay leaders in our church who are discerning where God is leading us to serve our community. Please also pray for the upcoming Spirited Generosity Morning, 11am, Saturday, July 18. Please reflect on your own gifts and experiences and bring them to this day of arish-wide discernment.
Ministry During the Week
Mother’s Union meets at a new time: Third Wednesdays at 9am.
Thursday Fellowship: every first and third Thursday from 9:30am to 11:30am. All welcome for a cuppa and a chat. Bring your craft to work on or just enjoy the company.
Caring and Sharing: every fourth Wednesday after Holy Communion.
Talent Table: after many years of faithful service, the Ladies Guild will be redirecting their efforts. Talent Table is now on indefinite leave. We give thanks to God for all the work the Guild has done in supporting our Parish and pray for his blessing on them.
Bible Study: Tuesdays at 9am and Thursdays at 7pm. All welcome; all materials supplied.
Beaumont Aged Care: Holy Communion every third Friday at 10:30am.
Recycling has resumed in the new location: the small white shed at the back of the property. Any questions call Elizabeth Melvin on 0404 080 861
Remember to check the shelf next to the church door for what’s happening this week.
The Week Ahead
Tues, 07 July
8:00 am - Holy Communion
9:30 am - Bible Study
Wed, 08 July
10:00 am - Holy Communion
Thu, 09 July
6:30 pm - Evensong
7:00 pm - Bible Study
Fri, 10 July
10:00 am - Funeral for Simon Zanatta
Sat, 11 July
12 noon - Holy Communion for St Benedict of Nursia, abbot
Sun, 12 July
7:00 & 9:00 am - Holy Communion for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Spirited Generosity, 11am, 18/07/26
The Parish Council has been praying and discerning over a document titled “Spirited Generosity”. The document describes Spirited Generosity as “a wholehearted, faith-led way of giving and sharing within Anglican churches. It’s about offering your time, abilities, and resources as a response to God’s overflowing grace, and doing so with purpose, joy, and care for others.” The first key theme grounds this movement in the heart of what it means to be Anglican: “Stewardship begins with the belief that all things belong to God. It calls us to care for creation and each other as an act of worship.”
You may have been engaging with the call over the past several weeks to pray and discern where God might be leading us as a parish. This document has been discerned as a tool for us to use in order to hear God’s call, and to follow it.
You are therefore warmly encouraged to attend a whole-of-parish gathering, where the Parish Council will present Spirited Generosity, as well as the current financial situation of the parish. In doing this, we pray that God might use our time together to inspire us with a direction to follow, and the grace to do so.
Please mark in your diary 11am on Saturday, July 18. We will gather, hear, discuss, ask, pray, and eat together as God’s people in this place, listening for his call, and seeking to follow it together.
Prayer Space with Leisa
Life can often be busy, and finding time to pray is not always easy. This simple morning prayer is offered as a gentle invitation to pause, even for just a few moments, to give thanks, seek God’s presence, and entrust the day ahead to his loving care. May it remind us that wherever we go, and whatever lies before us, God walks with us.
Loving God,
As this new day begins, we thank you for the gift of life, for your unfailing love, and for the promise that your mercies are new every morning.
Walk beside us today. Guide our thoughts, our words, and our actions, that in all we do we may honour you. Fill us with your peace when we are anxious, your strength when we are weary, and your wisdom when we face decisions.
Open our eyes to the needs of those around us. Help us to be generous in kindness, patient in spirit, and faithful in prayer. May we be instruments of your love, sharing hope, compassion, and grace wherever you lead us.
Bless our homes, our families, our parish, and our community. Continue to guide St Peter The Fisherman as we seek to follow your call to love one another and serve our neighbours with joyful hearts.
May your Holy Spirit lead us today, and may your will be done in us and through us.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord
Amen
Floral and Art Festival
On behalf of the Floral and Art Festival and the Growth Committee, I would like to thank the whole Parish community, their friends and families who came together to make this year’s festival so successful.
We had 1134 visitors, 6 award winning artists, 3 demonstrating artists, 10 musical performances, plus multiple students and their families from Southern Cross Catholic College. All the stalls, including the new Blind Date with a Book, decoupage vases and door welcomers, did well and the café did exceptionally well with the bigger menu. The whole enterprise was particularly well received with many commenting on the huge array of floral installations.
Each year the festival grows and the work to get it together is harder, but St Peter’s always, with God’s guidance, gets us through to show who we are and what we do in the community.
Thank you all for your prayers and a wonderful success.
Liz Peters
Grant Peters
On a very personal note, I would like to thank you all for your prayers, care, comforting words and cards on the sudden passing of Grant on June 7. His death was not dementia related but a perforated gall bladder with lesions on the liver which led to sepsis. We had a wonderful few days of celebration, happiness and laughs with the close family, following all his wishes, hence no formal funeral. As a family, we know he is God’s hands, in eternal rest and peace.
Blessings to you all, Liz
"Now Let Us From This Table Rise.”
This morning I have chosen as our concluding and dismissal hymn, one written by Fred Kann entitled, "Now Let Us From This Table Rise.”
Fred Kaan was born in July 1929 in Haarlem, Netherlands. He was a hymn writer and translator whose works often addressed issues of peace and justice. Baptized in St. Bavo Cathedral, he was raised in a family that did not attend church regularly. During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, he witnessed the deaths of three grandparents from starvation and his parents’ involvement in the resistance movement, including taking in refugees. Kaan became a pacifist and began attending church in his teenage years. In 1963, he became minister of the Pilgrim Church in Plymouth, where he began composing hymns. Fred Kaan died in 2009. His hymns remain in use in modern hymnals and are noted for their social and theological relevance.
1. Now let us from this table rise renewed in body, mind, and soul; with Christ we die and live again, his selfless love has made us whole.
2. With minds alert, upheld by grace, to spread the word in speech and deed, we follow in the steps of Christ, at one with all in hope and need.
3. To fill each human house with love, it is the sacrament of care; the work that Christ began to do we humbly pledge ourselves to share.
4. Then grant us grace, Companion God, to choose again the pilgrim way and help us to accept with joy the challenge of tomorrow's day.
This hymn reminds us that our morning’s worship ought to flow into service in the world. Drawing upon biblical themes emphasising discipleship, unity, and faithful action, the lyrics highlight that participation in the sacrament leads to service and ethical discipleship.
Fred Kann, for the bases of his hymn, uses biblical themes particularly from Luke 22:19-20 “Then he took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.’ And he did the same with the cup after supper, saying, ‘This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.’” And from 1 Corinthians 11:26, “For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.” The hymn calls for the Eucharistic Community to connect our worship and reception of Christ’s Body and Blood with that of the mission of the Church, to carry the grace of worship into daily life, promoting compassion, justice and faithful service.
With its strong call to discipleship the hymn reminds us that worship does not cease at the end of the liturgic offering, instead it sends us out from our participation at the Altar of the Lord’s sacrificial love, into the world to embody Christ’s love in the world. The New Testament consistently connects faith with service. Jesus models humble service in acts such as washing disciples’ feet and instructing his followers to imitate his example.
As you leave the front door of St Peter’s this morning, having taken the Body and Blood of Christ and been commissioned to go and ‘Do this in Remembrance’ of Christ’s sacrificial gifting to you, I invite you to consider - how can you intentionally and worshipfully engage in an act of compassion, justice and faithful service each day of the coming week?
Fr David