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Judi Bird Ordained a Priest in Hometown of Charlton The monthly Anglican Diocese of Bendigo september 2018 issue 140 Priested: Judi Bird with Archdeacon Anne McKenna and Bishop Matt as she is presented as a newly ordained priest Photo: Jenny Pollard Judi Bird ordained a priest in hometown of Charlton Sarah Crutch Bishop Matt, carrying out his first congregation responding in great ordination as Bishop of Bendigo, applause as she was presented as a he Revd Judi Bird was ordained preached from Ephesians 4: 1-13 where newly ordained priest in the Church a priest in the very same church he outlined the role of a priest and of God. encouraged Judi and the congregation sheT was baptised and confirmed in “To also be ordained in the church in to be expectant of God’s gifts for us. at a vibrant ordination service led by which I was baptised and confirmed Bishop Matt Brain on 18 August. “God is a gift-giving God, and if that is is a source of joy for me,” Judi said. true, then we as God’s people need to be With the excitement of hosting such a “Support and encouragement has expectant – we need to want what God is special occasion, the people of St Martin’s come from everywhere and for this I about to give,” he said. Charlton and the parish of Charlton- am eternally grateful”. Donald welcomed not just regular “Judi you are being gifted so that all of Judi will continue to minister as parishioners but friends from the local God’s people can be engaged in His work”. community and the wider diocese to join the Priest-in-Charge of the Parish in the celebrations as Judi committed Fellow diocesan clergy then joined of Charlton-Donald, caring for the herself to serve as a priest. together to lay hands upon Judi, with the people across the four rural centres. Swan Hill welcomes New appointments Family trio baptised Bishop’s grave new rector announced in Charlton rededicated page 4 page 8 page 9 page 11 The Monthly newsmagazine of the Anglican Diocese Spirit of Bendigo Address: The Spirit, PO Box 2, BENDIGO VIC 3552 The Bishop Member, Australian Religious Press Association Telephone: 03 5443 4711 writes General: [email protected] ....and tweets @MattBrain1 Publishing Editor: Sarah Crutch Consultant: The Revd Dr Charles Sherlock The Spirit is published in the first week of the month (excluding January). Advertising rates are available from the Editor. All advertisements are accepted at the Editor’s discretion; acceptance does not imply endorsement of the product or service. Contributions are welcome, and will be edited. Email contributions are preferred. Anonymous articles will not be considered for publication. Photographs should be sent in digital form to the general email address above. Full size, ‘raw’ files are necessary. Physical photos are normally not returned. The Anglican Diocese of Bendigo and the Editor are not responsible for opinions expressed by contributors, nor do these necessarily reflect the policy of the diocese. October issue: Contributions due Friday 21 October. is that we blossom and bloom into all Dear Friends, that we can be. aving spent most of my One of the very attractive things for childhood, youth and early me about Christianity is the promise Hadulthood in Western Australia I that God cares about new life and is discovered a number of new things in the business of making us flourish. Another way of putting this is that God when we moved to Canberra. One delights in people suddenly springing was how cold and wet snow actually alive (literally and metaphorically), or is. The other was how autumn and those in a rut coming ‘back to life’. spring work. We see this described throughout Now, you might think this sounds odd, scripture in the stories told of but let me explain. I knew that autumn different people who were called on sits between the hot, dry summer and to do business with God. Three that the cold, wet winter, and spring is the come to my mind are the remarkable hinge between the wet, cold winter ‘springing back to life’ of the widow of and the hot, dry summer. I also knew Zarephath (1 Kings 17), the beautiful that in autumn leaves lost their green and gold tips of the crops pushing their blossoming of Ruth (she has her own colour and dropped from the trees, way out of hard ground further west is book!), and St Paul’s confrontation by and in spring the bare branches sprung cheering for the soul. As I drive around and reorientation to Christ (Acts 9). to life with green buds and blossoms. the diocese and drink in the freshness Each of these stories shows the two I had learned this from picture books. of the blossoms and new growth I am sides of embracing life. What I discovered was that I hadn’t constantly reminded of the difference The first common theme as I see it is experienced an autumn or spring like between appearance and reality. What that God is at work to initiate contact those in the picture books because looks dead, given the right conditions, with the people; through Elijah, the most of my life had been spent with springs to life. ‘coincidental’ events of Ruth’s choices, two seasons – warm and dry, and hot One of the great challenges for and the dramatic confrontation on the and dry – with not much in between. modern life is actually finding ‘new’ Damascus road. It is both significant and In my lived experience autumn and life each day. The pressures of our comforting that God should so initiate spring were really just a way of labelling contemporary world are very tiring, contact. Having to reinvent myself is months. So to move to Canberra and even when they are a lot of fun. not only tiring, but pulling one’s self discover a discernible cooling of the air Ironically the demand to keep pace up by the bootstraps is an exercise in which led to a drying and changing in with our market driven world so that futility! The flip side to God’s initiation the colour of the leaves, and then the we can enjoy the many good fruits is that each of the heroes responded slow creep of the warming sap in the of being alive here and now means by embracing God at work. The widow trees giving rise to beautiful flashes that we are often on a treadmill that was persistent in pursuing Elijah. Ruth of blossom was a delight. I can still is difficult to get off. We may be was bold in holding Boaz to account, remember my reaction when seeing a frenetically busy, but so often stuck in and Paul was humble when broken and shrub in blossom for the first time on a rut. Additionally, our very nature as laid bare. Each then saw buds form and my way in to the office. human beings means that we slip into blossoms bloom on dry branches and I am loving the blossoming of the trees energy saving routines (another way bare twigs. here in Bendigo and the southern of saying ruts) even while craving new Spring has come. Where has God been part of the diocese. And even if the things to sink our teeth into. We are initiating contact with you? What are blossoms may be absent, the green constantly needing to consider how it you doing to embrace it? The 2 Spirit september 2018 www.bendigoanglican.org.au New in the Keith Cole Library - Paul: a biography by Tom Wright Heather Marten n 2013, former Bishop of Durham, Professor N T Wright Ipublished Paul and the faithfulness of God, all 1800 pages of it. Early this year he published Paul: A biography which draws on this earlier academic work but is aimed Happy: The Revd Suzannah Daniels with daughter Lizzie, Paul Daniels, Camren much more at a general readership, Downing-Mooney and Bishop Matt hence ‘Tom’ not N T Wright. The book is in three parts. In Beginnings, Wright explores the zeal Committed to following God of the young Saul and the narratives Contributed that shaped him, the encounter with of his parents, sisters, godparents, the risen Christ on the Damascus amren Downing-Mooney sponsors and the congregation at True road, Paul’s ‘hidden years’ in Tarsus made a strong commitment to North, Huntly. and Arabia, and the beginnings of C his ministry in Antioch. The second follow God as he was confirmed by Before his confirmation Camren part, Herald of the King covers the Bishop Matt at the 5pm evening spoke of what being confirmed missionary journeys and Part three, meant to him, and gave thanks to all service at True North, Huntly. The Seas, the Sea is a retelling of those who had been with him in his Fourteen year old Camren was Paul’s final voyage to Rome. confirmed into the Anglican Church faith journey so far. surrounded by love and the support Camren’s address can be read below. For the most part, the emphasis of the book is on the meaning and significance of Paul’s life and ministry, and some themes are repeatedly Hi, I'm Camren and I am so happy that I’m being confirmed today mentioned, such as Wright’s concerns because it means I can follow God more at home, at school, at to rebut suggestions that his subject BBC youth group and in my life more. created a new ‘religion’, and that Paul Confirmation means ‘yes’ so in a way you are saying yes to God.
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