Coming Events

This page contains information about coming events including Feast days,
parish fellowship, and ISS seminars.

Special Services, Festivals and Feast Days

Candlemas — Thursday 2 February, 2012

The Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple will be celebrated on the 2nd of February with Procession and High Mass at 6.15 p.m.

Ash Wednesday — Wednesday 22 February, 2012

Masses with Imposition of Ashes at 7.15 am and 1.15 pm.
High Mass with Imposition of Ashes at 6.15 pm.

First Sunday in Lent — Sunday 26 February, 2012

Usual Sunday Masses, with Litany in Procession at the 11.00 am High Mass.

Notes for your diary

Induction of Dr Hugh Kempster

Dr Hugh Kempster will be inducted as Vicar of St Peter's on Thursday 19 April, 2012. Further details of this will be available closer to the event. This appointment was announced to the parish on Sunday the 4th of December, and you can download the text of Bishop Graeme Rutherford's announcement by clicking here.

ISS Seminars

Saturday 25 February, 2012 — In the Shadow of the Cross

The Rev'd Chris Mostert will conduct this year's Lenten Quiet Day. He will give two talks to guide the retreat. The first will be on the messianic life of Jesus, and the second will be on the messianic death of Jesus.

Dr Mostert is Professor of Systematic Theology in the Uniting Church Theological College. He is a minister in the Uniting Church of Australia and has been co-chair of the joint Working Group on the Anglican and Uniting Churches in Australia.

This seminar takes the form of a quiet Saturday morning at St Peter's Church, between 9.30 am and 12.30 pm on Saturday the 25th of February. The cost is $15 (concession $12).

See the ISS page for further details.

Click here for further details about the ISS.

 

Going Deeper in Theology

Theology is loving God with our minds. Our Lord told us to do that as well as with our hearts and souls. Every Christian is called to be a theologian. If theology is basically talking about God, if you do that to any extent, you are a theologian. The question is, are you a good one or a bad one?

The groups studying for the Trinity College Certificate in Theology and Ministry will continue in 2012. This is a course specially designed to enable lay people to integrate their faith more with the rest of their lives.

The certificate is awarded on completion of six units:

• Unit 1:   EXPERIENCING FAITH
• Unit 2:   USERS GUIDE TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
• Unit 3:   USERS GUIDE TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
• Unit 4:   THE ANGLICAN CHURCH — OUR STORY
• Unit 5:   CONFESSING OUR FAITH
• Unit 6:   SERVING CHRIST TODAY

The next unit consists of 9 sessions on Church History and commences in March, 2012. The manual for the course is available from the Office and costs $60.

2012 Meeting Times for the Trinity Certificate in Theology and Ministry

Group 1 meets from 1 pm - 3pm on Sunday's after High Mass.
March 4, 11, 18, and 25. April 15, 22 and 29. May 6 and 13.

Group 2 meets from 7pm - 9pm on Thursdays
March 1, 8, 22, and 29. April 12 and 26. May 3, Wednesday the 9th, and the 17th. Dates have had to be re-arranged becasue of other parish events.

The course will be completed in 2012, with the remaining units after Church History being: 'Confessing our Faith' and 'Serving Christ Today'.

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