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But when I went to Dad's school after teachers' college as probationer, I did commit the gaffe, when I entered the staff room on my first day at morning break, of sitting in the nearest chair and being gently told that it was Dad's seat.
Classic. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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What a day. We have a lady who is in excruciating pain. She said it was like giving birth to twenty children. The doctors have been working all afternoon to try and give her "time out"--a time of sedation. She has enough drugs on board to kill an elephant but she is still awake. When I spoke to her and said "*** it's James" she would quieten down for a while but then she would start up again. It is so distressing to see a person suffering so much. We have a nurse who is "specialling" her. ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
I'm going to have some wine and a relax--if I can. This is the time when I really feel my singleness, no-one to sit and talk to.
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![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) Tough job James, hope you're feeling a bit refreshed today.
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James, anything I can think of to say in response to your post sounds trite and facile.
I am continuing to pray for you, the work you do and the people in whose lives you are involved.
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It's a hard one James: the question of how you, personally, can let go of all the pain you soak up in your ministry.
Are there Chaplain's meetings where you can mentally download? If not, I think it might be time for you to set up this sort of support group for you and others. Psychologists have these sort of groups and sessions. They find them invaluable.
To me what you are feeling would seem to be a sign you need a way of getting rid of the pain you obviously absorb in this work. Most sensitive people involved in any helping profession do absorb it to some extent. But it's essential to realise that the pain is not yours and that, ultimately, you; the other helping professionals (such as the nurse you mentioned) and the person involved need to place matters which cannot be medically alleviated in God's hands.
Forgive me if what I say seems trite but I've seen this happen to people before and I'd rather not see someone like you stress out in these circumstances.
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Words of wisdom from PATDYS and Sir P. I forgot I replied to PATDYS by PM so you are not aware I do have a forum for unloading. In God's precious timing, I see her tomorrow!
Thank you for your words of wisdom and concern.
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James if it helps, think of us as a cloud of witnesses who would bear the pain with you if it were possible.
And, for another kind of pain, a bombshell in church this morning: the (Presbyterian) church property trustees have had all churches and church buildings assessed, up and down the country. Our brick and concrete building, dating from I think the 1950s, is less than 10% earthquake compliant, and should be evacuated immediately. We'd already scheduled a congregational meeting for this afternoon to hear our Futures Group's options; suddenly it's become a whole heap more urgent.
The funny thing is that although I've been in and out of the building constantly for 40-odd years, and it's my second home, so much had changed in what happens in the building, even the way we've moved the furniture etc, that for months I've been ready for a major structural change, and I'm rather excited at the possibility of something new and visionary coming from it. But people on the whole are hurting.
From a city riddled with fault-lines, constantly reminded that it's 'not if but when'. And better to do it this way than have the building come down about our ears. The church is, after all, the people.
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Just heard that two of our (NZ)soldiers have been killed in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan. Our celebrations over Olympic and Super 15 Rugby successes seem a bit trivial now.
May they rest in peace, and may the rest of them come home soon.
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For them all and their loved ones
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Take care, James.
Remember that proper detachment doesn't mean you don't care. I saw one estimable priest handle a very long traumatic pastoral care case which went on for many years right till the end. It concerned a very old, very ill widow who seemed to have transferred most of her "affection focus" to him and another cleric even though she had children, relatives and excellent neighbours.
He genuinely cared, but was also detached, which sounds paradoxical but wasn't.
I'm not very good myself with these sorts of situations, in fact I think I'm hopeless and I am sure you both care and make a difference, but please remember to be kind to yourself too. Take a good break after. Relax.
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Originally posted by Cryptic: A bit like the hospital in "Yes Minister" that had no patients. It ran at 100% efficiency.
Yes, and was even up for the Florence Nightingale Award!
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Hi all, g'day!
Though this is not my first post here on the Ship, wanted to say HI and give greetings from the Anglican Diocese of Sydney - now, before anyone wants to read too much into my locality, please do read my signature - and note that I am the DoL for the Anglican Communities of Our Lady.
Being an AC (in the Affirming Catholicism style) in this Diocese is just about as much a minority as one can get anywhere!
I was born and raised here in Sydney, attended a middle-high road Anglican Church until I left to do my theological training at St John's College, Morpeth in the Diocese of Newcastle (alas, no more, St John's that is, not the Diocese); and my latest post-grad course is a Master's in Liturgy, with a dissertation on Reglious Controversies in Australia during the 1900s which is in its pentultimate week (hopefully)of writing.
Always open to chat and discussion and controversy and humour - and a drink or two with like minded friends and colleagues.
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Hi, emli, and welcome aboard!
I am in recovery from a prison ministry weekend - which was an enormous roller coaster of emotion, though it finished well. I was in a perimeter support role, and am always amazed at watching just how much the Holy Spirit can accomplish in people in such a short space of time. Every so often someone would tumble out of all the activity going on and have a deep and meaningful with me, so I felt very privileged to be exactly where I was needed most.
But now it is time to rest, and do a few things for myself. Like James, I came home last night, uncorked the bottle and put my feet up. There's so much pain some people endure, and one can only hope that by showing them they are not alone, it helps a little.
Next year's leader has already asked me back on team so I guess that means that the role was an effective one.
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Nice to see you here emendator liturgia !
I just attended a seminar from one of the chaps that was responsible for putting together the APBA and he encouraged us all to become academics in liturgy as there were currently none in Australia.
He must have missed you.
Btw, I believe you and Gee D share a similar sig line.
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Welcome Emli (I can't remember your name so the shortened one will have to do for now ![[Biased]](wink.gif) ).
Just back from supervision. Oh, that feels better!
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Originally posted by Evensong:
Nice to see you here emendator liturgia !
I just attended a seminar from one of the chaps that was responsible for putting together the APBA and he encouraged us all to become academics in liturgy as there were currently none in Australia.
He must have missed you.
Btw, I believe you and Gee D share a similar sig line.
Hi Evensong, thanks for the welcome.
Liturgy is, unfortunately, quickly disappearing as a subject, bother here (and in both Anglican and RC circles, or so my colleagues at the Australian Academy of Liturgy tell me) and overseas. Who was it that felt that there were no liturgical scholar nowadays, so I can set him right, in the nicest possible way, of course! ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
And yes, did notce another Sydney-ite and I shared both local and thoughts - I tried to differentiate myself and not steal his by-line (hope I succeeded.
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I may sue. Are your solicitors instructed to accept service of the originating process?
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Originally posted by emendator liturgia:
Who was it that felt that there were no liturgical scholar nowadays, so I can set him right, in the nicest possible way, of course!
I could tell you.
But then I'd have to kill you.
(Unless Gee D gets to you first? )
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Welcome from me too.
It is a tad chilly down here in chilly Victora, on the chilly banks of the chilly Snowy River.....
question the parish must decide....
First service since December in high country church.
Church has no power.
Snow will have fallen.
Church 5 hrs from my home.
Booked to stay in a fam.
Service is at 3pm.
Minister willing to attend. Yep, that's me......
Parishioners not so sure.
Do we cancel?
Opinions welcome
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Emendator, welcome. I think you'll find all the Anglicans who live in Sydney and regularly post on this thread aren't Sydney Anglicans
Seriously, all of us must get together, oh gee I don't know, somewhere in the middle of the triangle making up CCSL, St Docs and SJKS.
Rowen..I'd cancel.
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Without glasses, I read
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This seemed an unusual option. Lol
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Liturgical Dance?
![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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I hope that no shipmates live anywhere near this volcano.
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This seemed an unusual option. Lol
Move the 'l' left until it touches the 'c'. Typical of mild dyslexia.
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Or the middle-aged, without glasses.....
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Originally posted by Evangeline:
Seriously, all of us must get together, oh gee I don't know, somewhere in the middle of the triangle making up CCSL, St Docs and SJKS.
Good idea, indeed.
BTW, all Shipmates in and around Sydney are cordially invited to our Feast of Title celebrations on Sunday 19th August. We're a newish grouping, having started in January 2011 but we've grown from one to two communities in that time and by the end of this year hope to be up to no. 3, at least.
At last years Feast of Title we had about 130 present with a former Archbishop of Melbourne as our preacher.
We're the only AC worship community in the whole of Western Sydney, making us unique in so many different ways.
Only too happy to answer any enquiries, and we always appreciate prayer support.
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Tell me, emendator liturgia, has something unforeseen I don't know happened to St Luke's, Enmore? I was under the impression it was still alive and functioning. Not sure about your geography but I would place it in Inner Western Sydney. ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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Originally posted by Sir Pellinore (ret'd):
Tell me, emendator liturgia, has something unforeseen I don't know happened to St Luke's, Enmore? I was under the impression it was still alive and functioning. Not sure about your geography but I would place it in Inner Western Sydney.
St Doc's is indeed still alive and kicking. It is in inner west. Quite inner west going on Sydney's geography and spread these days. Another shipmate and I enjoy it.
You'll have to look further west. I have my own ideas but not my place to air guesses. As GeeD points out on occasions, we are not as few as imagined at times. scattered here and there over Sydney.
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I hope that no shipmates live anywhere near this volcano.
Moo
It's miles away from me, about the middle of the North Island, it's connected to the volcanic area GG mentioned on another thread. I don't think we have any shipmates in the immediate area, although there may be lurkers.
Of course all skiers and snow bunnies will be better to head south - earthquakes are safer than volcanoes, unless of course the Alpine Fault goes, in which case all bets are off and Australia will have a bigger refugee problem than it currently has .
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Originally posted by Sir Pellinore (ret'd):
Tell me, emendator liturgia, has something unforeseen I don't know happened to St Luke's, Enmore? I was under the impression it was still alive and functioning. Not sure about your geography but I would place it in Inner Western Sydney.
Sir Pellinore, Greater Western sydney is well to the 'west' of the inner west: I usually trend to think of places like Enmore as an inner cuburb and not even inner west - no offence to our great StDocs members;
For what defines GWS (10% of the Australian population lives in its area) THIS
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Sorry, emendator liturgica, but that link doesn't lead where you think it leads.
[sorry about the spelling - it was a link not a kink!]
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Is it not not so much the triangle you described as a quadrilateral with St John's Balmain? Of course, there's also St Paul's at Burwood, which may now count as Inner West??? The same for Concord as well. And quite a few others around which elsewhere would be MOTR - e.g. Dulwich Hill, Ashfield, Croydon and so forth. I gather that St Mark's Granville now has a large component of recent arrivals from East Asia, and has gone down the candle (but up in numbers in the congregation) in the last couple of years. Much the same at All Saints Parramatta.
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GeeD, do you know much about St John's Balmain, does it have many members and is it at the liberal or conservative end of the high church spectrum? I think I must get round to paying it a visit, as it's pretty close to home for me.
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Evangeline, no idea of the size of the congregation at all. Fr James Butt is the rector and I would say he was a liberal catholic in theology, but without some of the liturgical practices you may be accustomed to at Enmore.
Prayers for all in NZ who may be at risk of the eruption and that this does not foretell further troubles throughout the Shaky Isles.
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Good grief, in my and my wife's time at St Luke's I'd never heard it called St Doc's.
St Anne's, Strathfield was High not so long ago.
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That was St Anne some years ago, and I'm not sure now. I was told that things had changed, but a quick glance at the web site suggests that all remains OK. But even Strathfield is called inner west these days - just as places such as Mosman are called North Shore.
To go back a few posts, a couple of the Regional Bishops are well though of as successors to ++Peter. Such a succession would not be a bad thing. Some of the wind seems to have gone from the Moore College sails over the last years: the aim of having 10% of Sydney's population in Bible Believing churches has clearly and unsurprisingly failed; and there was the financial disaster following the GFC.
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Some of the wind seems to have gone from the Moore College sails over the last years: the aim of having 10% of Sydney's population in Bible Believing churches has clearly and unsurprisingly failed; and there was the financial disaster following the GFC.
Indeed, once they got as good as absolute power in the diocese, they found, surprise surprise that it wasn't as easy to make converts as they had thought when they were criticising everyone else. The financial loss made many realise that they weren't invincible and the failure of the Dean to turn St Andrew's Cathedral into a megachurch has removed some of the hubris.
I am hopeful that in time, possibly a long time, a more open and flexible Anglicanism might flower in Sydney. A recent conference on Anglican education, at which the Abp gave the opening address gave me much hope, the theme was about spiritual formation and gave much credence to liturgy and the reductionist approach to evangelism, just conveying information was actually criticised (this is a big deal in a city where 2 ways to live is deemed to be the epitome of good evangelism).
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After some general feeling poorly for last 5 days, had some blood tests yesterday am and then returned home late arvo to panicked call to get to hospital. Not heart attack, some kind of infection/inflammation.
Wired up in hospital waiting for more tests. Have seen some great Olympics over night. Go Anna and Sally!
All good on home front.
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Mr C.
May all things hidden be revealed re your diagnosis.
(And also wherever the gold is for the Aussies...)
TP has taken to declaring: "It's silver for the Aussies. Silver for Australia. Silver, silver, silver!" as only a delighted ex-Pom can. Mind you, he also wants anyone not doing a PB to be made to refund all the money the Australian government has spent on them, but let's not go there. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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I gather that St Mark's Granville now has a large component of recent arrivals from East Asia, and has gone down the candle (but up in numbers in the congregation) in the last couple of years. Much the same at All Saints Parramatta.
GeeD, you are spot on the mark there! (pun intended.)
Since the time of Fr John Kohler (May he rest in peace and rise in glory) St Mark's enjoyed a rise up the candlestick, especially with the boost given by Fr Ron Silarsah (now Acting Rector at CCSL) and then when Fr James MacPherson moved from his specialist ministry at SJKS to became the PP in 2001.
Fr John, to memory, never used incense, wore surplice and stole each Sunday but would wear a cope on festival occasions, and appreciated well run liturgy, accompanied by good music, and sound preaching. He was a catholic rather an an A-C, and a pastoral priest without peer.
With the arrival of Fr James, and with his previous training and work in Queensland (a Canon of Brsibane cathedral), as well as his time at SJKS, he certainly did raise the liturgical bar, building in part on some of the small improvements made by his immediate predecessor, Fr John Adams (may he rest in peace and rise in glory), such as in the installment of Stations of the Cross along the walls of the church. (Unfortunately, these are now only allowed out of the cupboard during Lent and put back straight afterwards, along with the crucifix that used to hang beide the pulpit). Fr James introduced many liturgical features associated with moderate, modern A-C.
Your mention of All Saints', North Paramatta has interesting parallels. When the Revd David Johns became the rector there, he managed to alientate a good proportion of the community - a trickle of leavers became an exodus (including wardens and councillors) and many of them eventually came to St Mark's, which at that time was struggling with small but dedicated numbers. Many jokingly referred to DJ as 'Saint DJ' in thanks for his sending Granville so many worthy, faithful, hard-working souls to swell the pews, the choir, and, after time, parish councils and committees!
Unfortunately, as you indicated, St Mark's has gone into liturgical reverse. The present incumbent is not personally comfortable with many of the marks of A-C worship and hence either tolerates some or else refused to countenance others (such as the Stations of the Cross and the curcifix mentioned earlier). The 8.30am Sung Eucharist (used to be Choral Eucharist with about 8 choir) service is now much smaller in number, with many former members now worshipping at CCSL, St Paul's Burwood, St Alban's Epping, and with the Communities of Our Lady.
To his credit, the present incumbent has over a reasonably short time established two further services which are much alive and growing, and he deserves much credit in opening up the doors of the Anglican Church in the erea (whose Regional Bishop is +Ivan Lee) to people from South-East Asia. He now holds services in Mandarin and Cantonese ( a joint English-Mandarin service, such as Good Friday, is now about 2.5 hrs long.
For all these positives, it is a pity though that 50% of the former Anglo parishioners, all of whom accepted and gave thanks to God for outreach in the establishment of the new congregations, also felt that it was no longer their spiritual home, after as many as 60 years there for some of them.
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Your mention of All Saints', North Paramatta has interesting parallels. When the Revd David Johns became the rector there...
Opps, meant Revd David Jones, not Johns.
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Originally posted by Evangeline:
I think you'll find all the Anglicans who live in Sydney and regularly post on this thread aren't Sydney Anglicans
Yep - that's me too! Welcome emli (sorry for shortening your name but I'm a lazy typist).
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Originally posted by Zappa:
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Originally posted by emendator liturgia:
note that I am the DoL for the Anglican Communities of Our Lady
Mrs Jensen?
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
How to block Parramatta Road. Hope they get it moving again before peak hour.
When did the truck clear Loth? I quickly read your post yesterday before leaving work to pick up Cryptogirl from school and taking her to band practice - I would have otherwise blundered into that blocked intersection!
Evangeline - See St John's Balmain website - it's very good (as are most of the websites of AC parishes in Sydney).
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Originally posted by Gee D:
That was St Anne some years ago, and I'm not sure now. I was told that things had changed, but a quick glance at the web site suggests that all remains OK.
A friend of my mother's still attends St Anne's, from what I hear through her things aren't as "OK" as the website might suggest.
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Originally posted by Gee D:
Some of the wind seems to have gone from the Moore College sails over the last years: the aim of having 10% of Sydney's population in Bible Believing churches has clearly and unsurprisingly failed; and there was the financial disaster following the GFC.
...and there was the disaster that was "Connect 09". I think that there is a big element of "don't mention the war" about the diocesan attempts to evangelise Sydney.
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Originally posted by Gee D:
But even Strathfield is called inner west these days - just as places such as Mosman are called North Shore.
Oh, the horror...
Mr Curly, good job to have the blood tests, nasty business, but it's better to know what's going on.
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Someone told me the new cleric at St Anne's was definitely a Sydney man but cognizant of the tradition.
BTW what happened to Multipara? She used to be in the Choir at CCSL although also a practising Catholic at her local church. I hope all is well with her. She was a lovely person.
Ditto Ozo, who seems not to post these days.
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Originally posted by emendator liturgia:
For what defines GWS (10% of the Australian population lives in its area) THIS
If you believe Kevin Sheedy and the Blacktown Bogans, then GWS stretches out to Canberra and beyond. But we're too one-eyed to change allegiance.
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Originally posted by Sir Pellinore (ret'd):
BTW what happened to Multipara? She used to be in the Choir at CCSL although also a practising Catholic at her local church. I hope all is well with her. She was a lovely person.
Ditto Ozo, who seems not to post these days.
I don't believe that Multipara returned to posting after being given a short period of shore leave, and unless I am misspelling she is no longer in the directory. I understood from Loth that she had been unable to make the meet with Tree Bee, so still very much on the planet.
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