Anglican Parish of Drouin in Drouin, Victoria | Community organisation

Anglican Parish of Drouin

Locality: Drouin, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5625 4121

Address: 128-132 Princes Way 3818 Drouin, VIC, Australia

Website: http://anglicanparishdrouin.org.au

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25.01.2022 We hope this brightens your day 'Believe' from the Hillsong Worship album 'Beautiful Exchange' released in July 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSVxHNxmXc4

24.01.2022 Join Bishop Richard and Dean Susanna for a Good Friday Eucharist

24.01.2022 A Prayer in the time of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Keep us good Lord, Under the shadow of your mercy. Sustain and support the anxious,... Be with those who care for the sick, And lift up all who are brought low; That we might find comfort knowing that Nothing can separate us from your love in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen (Credit St Stephen’s Richmond pew sheet) See more

23.01.2022 This week we meet the Venerable Graham Knott, Archdeacon and Vicar General in the Anglican Diocese of Gippsland, who this year celebrates 40 years in ordained m...inistry. Join us to hear of his journey from the UK to Leongatha where he serves as Rector. Graham discusses how the parish of Leongatha is continuing to worship and support the community through this period of social isolation stemming from the Covid19 pandemic. As Ministry Development Officer, Graham also challenges us to listen to the questions that may be stirring within us, prompted by the Holy Spirit, that shape our sense of calling to baptismal and in some cases ordained ministry. See more

21.01.2022 Holy Week 2020 - Maundy Thursday. Jesus shares a last supper with his closest friends before he is betrayed. The night is filled with humanity's worst traits - violence, abandonment, humiliation, confusion, fear. But the Good News is coming...

21.01.2022 From our Locum Priest, Liam: Good Friday In 1988 I did my first eight-day Ignatian retreat at St Bueno’s Jesuit Spirituality Centre, Tremeirchion, North Wales. The sister who guided my retreat shared with me a set of different meditations taken from four small booklets on the thirty-day retreat written by American Religious Sisters. ... Sadly, the names of the Sister who guided my retreat and the authors of the booklets are all forgotten. The meditation ‘King and Priest’ I copied from the book from the third week. My prayer is that these simple yet profound words that I have carried with me and used many times in meditative prayer, may be helpful to you and your reflections on this Good Friday. Liam King and Priest In his body lives the totem spirit of the tribe. These words surely can be applied to Jesus. For Jesus, as king and priest, embodies the life of his people, God’s own Spirit. In his crucifixion, Jesus is flagrantly displayed! Above his head the title, King of the Jews, simultaneously extols and condemns him, while at his feet, soldiers gamble to see who will win the priest-like garment, his seamless tunic. Suspended in stark vulnerability between heaven and earth, Jesus king and priest unites the secular and the sacred, chaos and cosmos, creator and creature, feminine and masculine, body and spirit. Wounded, Jesus is the healer of all that is disembodied. The sufferings of Jesus are the means by which all things are reconciled to each other and to God. Through the cross, the marriage of opposites is affected. In Jesus, all humanity is thrust forward out of its slumbering darkness into the awakening of holy consciousness. Night truly blessed when heaven is wedded to earth and all is reconciled with God! Author unknown

21.01.2022 From our Locum Priest, Liam: Maundy Thursday The Church celebrates this day as the day in which Jesus gave his love command. What Jesus was in effect doing was summarizing his entire life. In bending down to wash the feet of the disciples in Jn 13:1-13, Jesus brings together all that he was, all that he is, all that he does.... Jesus abandoned his will to do only the will of God which for me is best expressed in this prayer called the prayer of Abandonment, by Charles de Foucauld Father, I abandon myself into your hands; do with me what you will. Whatever you may do, I thank you: I am ready for all, I accept all. Let only your will be done in me, and in all your creatures I wish no more than this, O Lord. Into your hands I commend my soul: I offer it to you with all the love of my heart, I am ready for all, I accept all. Let only your will be done in me, and in all your creatures I wish no more than this, O Lord. Into your hands I commend my soul: I offer it to you with all the love of my heart, for I love you, Lord, and so need to give myself, to surrender myself into your hands without reserve, and with boundless confidence, for you are my Father. The heart of Jesus’ love is found in the gospel of John, when it says that Jesus loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end. Jesus in His humanity, experienced weakness of body, of spirit, of mind. When we are depleted, exhausted and at the end of our ropes in life, we can recall the journey to Calvary that demonstrated Jesus’ manifestation of human weakness. Yet in that weakness, He was fortified by the Father’s grace. The washing of the disciples’ feet not only teaches us an important lesson about how we are to love, it teaches us a lesson about the kind of God we have. Our God, the Creator of the Universe, is willing to bend down in front of us and wash the dirt off of our feet. It’s in this simple, intimate act of service that God reveals his nature. He loves us tenderly, gently and all the way to the cross. He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end. Liam your Locum Priest

16.01.2022 Poem by John Donahue This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. ... Try, as best you can, not to let the wire brush of doubt Scrape from your heart All sense of yourself And your hesitant light. If you remain generous, Time will come good; And you will find your feet Again on fresh pastures of promise, Where the air will be kind And blushed with beginning.

14.01.2022 Holy Week 2020 - Palm Sunday. Jesus is welcomed like a celebrity to Jerusalem.

11.01.2022 Holy Week 2020 - Easter Sunday. THE GOOD NEWS IS REVEALED "For God so loved the world, that he gave His only son, that he who believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16

11.01.2022 Thank you to the thousands of viewers who have joined us for services over Holy Week and Eastertide via this website. Like the first disciples behind closed do...ors for fear, we listen anew for the call of our Crucified and Risen Lord to come together in his name across the barriers of isolation, we hear again his message of peace, and we recognise him in the breaking of the bread. This video resource offers viewers a chance to participate remotely in a Eucharist for the Third Sunday in the Easter season, 26 April 2020. The service was recorded at St Paul’s Cathedral, Sale, with Dean Susanna Pain officiating and The Ven Graham Knott, Archdeacon of the Southern Region of Gippsland, Vicar General, and Rector of St Peter’s Leongatha, preaching. Lay Reader and ordination candidate Jackie Belot, Chaplain of Gippsland Grammar, offers a children’s talk, and Jenny Batten helps to lead the singing. The hymns, the setting for the Eucharist, and the organ postlude, are played by Cathedral organist, Mr Anthony Hahn. Following the service, we recorded a 30-minute conversation with Archdeacon Graham, and the link to that can be found HERE: https://youtu.be/hVF4e-qGEqQ In the weeks ahead I will be continuing to interview the preachers for these pre-recorded services, as a way of helping us to get to know some of the clergy who exerciseThank you to the thousands of viewers who have joined us for services over Holy Week and Eastertide via this website. Like the first disciples behind closed doors for fear, we listen anew for the call of our Crucified and Risen Lord to come together in his name across the barriers of isolation, we hear again his message of peace, and we recognise him in the breaking of the bread. You may like to practice the tradition of ‘spiritual communion’ as you watch and listen to this Eucharist, and especially at the point of distribution of the Sacrament in this video. The following prayer may be helpful: O Lord Jesus Christ, through your tender mercy grant that as the hem of your garment, touched in faith, healed the woman who could not touch your body, so the soul of this your servant may be healed by like faith in you, whom I cannot now sacramentally receive. In union with the faithful at every altar-table in your Church I desire to be united with you, and pray that you will come spiritually into my heart. Let nothing ever separate me from your love, for you live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. This audio file is available for those with limited data availability. https://soundcloud.com/user-799339262/3rd-sunday-in-easter Please feel free to share this resource with anyone you feel may benefit from it. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling: one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all. (Eph 4:5-6) May we draw on the unity that is ours in the risen Christ all the more deeply in these days when we feel the pain of separation. Grace and peace, +Richard

10.01.2022 A ‘fire-side chat’ with The Ven Sue Jacka Sue is Archdeacon of the Western Region of the Diocese, and Rector of the Parish of Trafalgar. After her involveme...nt in the pre-recorded Eucharist for the Fourth Sunday in Easter, we recorded an interview with Sue in the Registry Office at Chapter House, as part of the ‘Getting to know you’ series. Sue reflects on family life, pastoral practice during and possibly post-COVID-19 restrictions, and shares with us a little of her own journey of faith and call to ministry. One of her areas of responsibility as an Archdeacon is on the Editorial Committee of The Gippsland Anglican, to which she and husband Ross are both contributors in the forthcoming edition online only for the first time in 116 years! See more

04.01.2022 Holy Week 2020 - Good Friday. Jesus is crucified and dies. His body is laid in a closed tomb. All hope seems lost. The Good News is coming...

02.01.2022 This week, you might find yourself asking, "Where are You (God) in this present pandemic when people, world-wide are suffering?" Our Gospel reading of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead gives an insight into God's enduring love and mercy. Find that, and much more in this week's notices. If you want to get in touch, please message us. If you would like a notice emailed directly to you, let us know. ... May peace be with you. http://anglicanparishdrouin.org.au//29-March-2020-Drouin-A

01.01.2022 Anglican Prison Chaplain, Heather Toms, on ‘Justice Sunday’ This Fourth Sunday in Easter, 3 May, is also Justice Sunday, when we focus on the ministry of our pr...ison chaplains and the work of Anglican Criminal Justice Ministry through Anglicare Victoria. In this conversation with Bishop Richard, Anglican Chaplain to Fulham Correctional Centre, The Revd Heather Toms, reflects on her passion for this ministry over the last 11 years, and what drives her still. Heather discusses the gospel of reconciliation which is at the heart of her work, and gives us an insight into the profound influence of faith and spirituality in the lives of many prisoners. Heather has also written a feature article in the May edition of The Gippsland Anglican, which you will find on the Diocesan website this week. See more