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Dear Parish Friends This Sunday is a special day for St Luke's Ekibin. We welcome The Most Rev'd Dr Phillip Aspinall, Archbishop of Brisbane, to lead our service. This will include the confirmation for seven of our young people: Daniel, Isaac, Georgette, Neil, Eva, Hannah and Poppy. Please keep them all in your prayers. There will be a single service at 9am (i.e. no 7am service). This will also be streamed over Zoom, and you can find the order of service, together with the we

Dear Parish Friends This Sunday we come to the last Sunday in the church's year. The year starts with anticipating Jesus' birth and ends with this celebration of Christ's reign in glory. But the readings, which again include apocalyptic passages from Daniel and Revelation, direct us to think too of Christ's present reign. In our gospel passage Jesus says "I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice." We are reminded

Dear Parish Friends This Sunday our reading from Mark's gospel is part of what is known as 'the little apocalypse'. Jesus talks about 'wars and rumours of wars', and that 'nation will rise up against nation'. It all sounds grim, but we are reminded that despite all this we can be confident in God that there will be an end in which God's reign will come. This doesn't take away from our present trials, but it does put it in context. As we also keep Remembrance Sunday, the same

Dear Parish Friends This week we celebrate the festivals of All Souls and All Saints. There will be a special service of Evening Prayer for All Souls at St Luke's tomorrow at 6pm (also streamed over Zoom) at which we will remember and give thanks for those who have died who were instrumental in our life's journey. Then on Sunday morning we will remember all the saints of all ages and places at our services at 7am and 9am (with the 9am service also being streamed over Zoom a