St Paul's ChurchBurwood, Sydney
Welcome
Wherever you are on your spiritual journey, we would be delighted to welcome you as a parishioner or have you join us at one of our regular services or parish activities.
圣公会圣保罗堂欢迎你前来参加我们的英语传统圣樂圣餐崇拜。
Acknowledgement of Country:
We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land upon which we meet. In his wisdom and love, our heavenly Father gave this estate to the Wangal people of the Eora Nation. Upon this land, they met for generations until the coming of British settlers. As we continue to learn to live together on these ancestral lands, we acknowledge and pay our respects to their elders, past, present, and emerging, and we pray that God will unite us all in the knowledge of his Son, in whom all things were created, in heaven and on earth, whether visible or invisible - for all things have been created through him and for him.
Recognising those who have been custodians of this land is not a perfunctory gesture, but an acknowledgement that many have gone before us and many will come after us—we are but passing through. As King David stated some 3,000 years ago:
We are foreigners and strangers in your sight, as were all our ancestors; our days on earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding. (1 Chronicles 29:15)
The first inhabitants of this land were created by God to tend this land as stewards of his common grace. With only general revelation in the created order as their guide, they were allotted this land 'that they should seek God, in the hope that they might reach out to him and find him', as the apostle Paul declared to his first-century Athenian audience, 'for in him we live and move and have our being' (Acts 17:27-28).
God says through the prophet Jeremiah that:
"For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope." (Jeremiah 29:11)
Because of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord, Christians are a people of hope and because we are a people of hope we seek to work and pray for peace, justice, and love for all, including God's beautiful creation, and to devote ourselves to seeing God's kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.
We seek to bequeath God's beautiful creation to future custodians in a far better state than what we inherited so that creation itself and all beings may flourish as God intends.
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Prayers for the week
God of all creation, we give thanks for your amazing generosity to us: for the beauty and richness of our world, for the love of family and friends but most particularly for your boundless love for us. Fill our hearts to overflowing so that our love will be outpoured for you, our loving father, and for all people.
Lord, in your mercy: hear our prayer.
God of grace, we give you thanks for your church in all its forms and for the universal message of love it proclaims. We pray for all Christians, that they may have the courage to reach out and speak out in love to their own community, embracing not only their fellow believers, but all people, earnestly seeking to care for them. We pray especially today for our Parish Pantry, a simple ministry of love to those in need. Fill our hearts to overflowing so that our love will be outpoured for you, our loving father, and for all people.
Lord, in your mercy: hear our prayer.
God of grace, our world is groaning under the sorrow of the millions affected by COVID19, war, persecution, terrorism and hunger. May your love guide the leaders of the nations as they respond to the ever growing needs for health care, peace and justice for all and may your love guide each one of us to respond generously to the plight of refugees in our community and abroad and to speak out to promote their needs. Fill our hearts to overflowing so that our love will be outpoured for you, our loving father, and for all people.
Lord, in your mercy: hear our prayer.
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God of grace, we give thanks for those individuals whose response to your love is to reach out to help the helpless. We pray for aid workers across the world; for frontline workers in the fight against coronavirus, especially where numbers are ballooning and for those who speak out for freedom and justice at the risk of their own lives. Fill our hearts to overflowing so that our love will be outpoured for you, our loving father, and for all people.
Lord, in your mercy: hear our prayer.
God of mercy and love, we give you thanks for people working to improve the lives of victims of domestic violence and abuse often hidden in communities. Give us the wisdom to see their plight and the strength to support them. We pray for the homeless and those in need, for those who mourn and those who comfort them. We pray for the sick, especially those on our parish prayer list. Fill our hearts to overflowing so that our love will be outpoured for you, our loving father, and for all people.
Lord, in your mercy: hear our prayer.
God of the ages, we pray for our loved ones who have passed beyond our sight but, we trust, are surrounded by your love. We pray for those who have their year's mind around this time, for Stephen Frew, Stuart Furley, Percy Jones, Lerola Meyers, Gwynn Williams, Owen Blackwell, Donald McKinley, Jeanie Cranley, Lucile Denney and David St John. May they rest in peace and rise with Christ in glory. Almighty God, you have promised to hear our prayers. Grant that what we have asked in faith we may by your grace receive through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
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Father James Collins 
Father Michael Deasey 
Father Jim Pettigrew
Ms Rosemary King
Mr David Russell- Bailey Yeates
Brian Luhr
Rector
TC Dip Teach, Grad Dip RE, Grad Dip RE Stud, BEd, BTheol, CPE RPH, Post Grad Dip Arts(Rel Stud), MA(Rel Stud), PhD
Father James was born and raised in rural Western Australia. He obtained a degree in education from the WA College of Advanced Education and taught music at both primary and secondary school levels. In 1984 he began to study theology at Perth Theological Hall and later at Murdoch University. He was ordained in 1987. He holds a PhD from the University of Tasmania. Father James' interests outside ministry include reading, bush walking and music.
Fr James is married to Dr Helen Collins and Helen and James were married in St George's Cathedral, Perth over 30 years ago.
After ordination in 1987, James worked full-time in ministry, having parishes in Western Australia and, since 2001, in Tasmania. He has also had a university chaplaincy position. Prior to his induction as Rector of St Paul's on 9 February 2011, Fr James was Rector of the Parish of Moonah in Hobart where he had responsibility for two churches, St Mary's and St Anne's. In addition, Fr James was an Enabler in the parishes of New Norfolk, Break O'Day, Channel/Cygnet, Hamilton and Brighton. This role involved training parishioners to take responsibility for all aspects of parish life and to reach out to the local community with the Gospel message and with practical ministry.
The following verse atttributed to King Alfred has played an important part in my life:
To see Thee is the End and the Beginning
Thou carriest me and thou goest before
Thou art the Journey and the journey's End.
I believe that God is love, and that where there is love there is God. God has been present with me, sustaining me throughout my life as an ever present Presence. Sometimes God is revealed in quietness and peace, sometimes through hardship and disquiet; but most often through the love of those who care.
As God is the God of love, and life, and of being, we are called to participate in and share God's love, life, and being, so that others may love, live, and be who and what God intends them to be (that is, to grow into the fullness of life which God has for all). This call is to participate in and share God's love, life and being may, at tmes, involve a struggle to work for justice and peace, and involves as active engagement with our community/society.
This Kingdom of God way of living is beautifully expressed in the words of Micah Chapter 6 verse 8:
He has told you, O mortal, what is good;
and what does the LORD require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?
It is wonderful to be part of a Parish which is seriously seeking to engage in this mission to, for, and with our community/society.
Reverend Michael Deasey OAM, CGS, Senior Assistant Priest and Parish Organist
BD, BEd(Mus), FRSCM, Hon FGCM, FTCL, LRAM, ARCO, ARCM, DipAngOrd,.
After a career in church music in England and Canada, and then as organist/director of music at St Andrew’s Cathedral in Sydney for more than two decades, Michael graduated as a Bachelor of Divinity from the Melbourne College of Divinity and was ordained in 2005 for the diocese of Bathurst. Here he served for ten years as Precentor, Assistant Priest and Director of Music at All Saints Cathedral, Bathurst. In addition he was, and remains a Priest Companion of the Company of the Good Shepherd, which provides ministry to the more remote parts of the Central West of NSW.
Michael is married to Antonia who sings in the choir of St Paul’s and they have three adult children, Meghan, Jeremy and Amélie who currently reside on three different continents.
So far they have three grand-daughters, twins Willow and Olive, and Piper, who live in Chicago USA.
Honorary Priest
MTC ThL(2 Cl Hons) Dip
Fr Jim has served faithfully in many parishes, including both rural and urban settings, and as well as assisting at St Paul's Fr Jim often helps in other parishes as a locum.
Lay Minister
Dip PE (Hons), B.A., M.Litt., B.D., CPE RNSH., Grad. Cert World Religions
Rosemary King is a retired high school teacher. Having trained as a Physical Education teacher Rosemary soon added History and Geography to her teaching subjects. Then after graduating from Melbourne College of Divinity with a Bachelor of Divinity she went on to teach Religion and Studies of Religion in both Catholic and Independent Schools. Alongside Studies of Religion she developed a passion for Service Learning.
With the three years spent at St John's Theological college in Morpeth and her teaching experiences she retired in 2013 to embrace the position of Lay Minister in the parish.
Director of Music
DAVID RUSSELL B.Mus (Performance) M.Mus Studies (Conducting)
David Russell completed a Bachelor of Music Performance (Voice) at the University of Sydney Conservatorium of Music and was a recipient of the Horace Keats Memorial Scholarship for Singing. He subsequently completed a Master of Music Studies (Conducting), also at the Sydney Conservatorium, where he was the recipient of the Eugene Goosens Fellowship.
Through the Symphony Australia Conductor Development Program David has worked with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, The Queensland Orchestra and the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra.
He sang with the Choir of Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney, for 20 years and as Assistant Conductor conducted numerous works with choir, organ and orchestra. He featured as both a singer and conductor on several CDs and conducted the choir in the UK, USA, Germany, France and Italy.
David has conducted the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, the Song Company, the Sydney Children’s Choir & Gondwana Voices, the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra and Chorus (USA), and the Ochsenhausen Vocal Ensemble (Germany). In 2008 David was Chorusmaster for the World Youth Day Choir – a national choir created for the visit of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI in July of that year. As a soloist he has also appeared with the Sydney Consort and has sung with the professional Sydney-based ensembles, Cantillation and Pinchgut Opera.
He was awarded the Sydney Choral Symposium Foundation National Choral Conducting Scholarship which provided him with the opportunity to travel to the USA, UK and Europe for further conducting study.
David is currently the Artistic Director of CAPTIVATE, the performing arts program for Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta which provides opportunities in music, dance, drama and visual arts to students in the 84 Catholic systemic schools in western Sydney.
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