Glen Osmond Anglican Community in Adelaide, South Australia | Church

Glen Osmond Anglican Community

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8379 4114

Address: 2 Pridmore Road 5064 Adelaide, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.stsavioursgo.net/

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17.01.2022 Finding God in Australian Literature (Article) A.D. Hope wrote, in his famous poem Australia, that he hoped that it was ‘still from the deserts that the prophets do come’. I love this line because it speaks of biblical prophets raising their ‘voices in the desert’: Moses, Elijah, Jesus, John the Baptist, and Paul in the Arabian desert, and it speaks of St Anthony and the wisdom of all the desert fathers and mothersbut, it also speaks of Australia, a land which has been under...stood as hard soil to the seeds of Christianity. Hope’s vision suggests we might look to those who live in the difficult places in our country for wisdom. To the deserts, to the detainees, to the deep wisdom of aboriginal people; to learn from those who have, ahead of us, learned some of the lessons that this land has to teach us. In a related literary move, Peter Carey’s novel Oscar and Lucinda tries Christianity out in colonial Australia. In this novel it comes to Australia in the unlikely hands of an awkward couple. Oscar, the young minister, made his way through his studies on the proceeds of gambling and this is also his truth and faith. Quoting the theology of Pascal, Oscar tells Lucinda, ‘We bet that there is a God. We bet our life on it.’ In one poignant scene from the film based on the novel, Oscar is transported along a river inside a glass church the couple are taking inland. They are ‘betting’ on there being a God, they are living with the precariousness of faith and even life itself in outback Australia. There is also an idea here of the Christian person being seen, being vulnerable, and being what people look at in Australia, even as traditional church buildings become transparent in the harsh Australian light. Les Murray, one of Australia’s finest poets also knows this Australian taste for authenticity, especially in matters relating to religion. He knows that it’s the person inside the ritual and the theoretical which matters here, perhaps, more than anywhere on earth. Murray offers us many insights, among them ‘God is the poetry caught in any religion’ and ‘on the end wall hangs the gospel before he was a book.’ these and many more insights about what it means to be a person of faith in Australia can be explored through reading Australian literature together. See more

16.01.2022 Watch this space...... 'heavenly herbs' are growing!!

10.01.2022 Here are our Christmas Service times

10.01.2022 God in Australian Literature

09.01.2022 Please keep a look out for our precious wildlife. Found this little fella looking quite flat. He drank a whole tub of water. Contacted Koala rescue who are coming to check him out. God bless this organisation

07.01.2022 Our first topic in the 'God in Literature' series - Where is God when it Hurts? - Tim Winton, The Riders: 6 February at 7.30pm St Saviours Church, 2 Pridmore Road, Glen Osmond. All Welcome

05.01.2022 Christmas Evensong on this Sunday at 7.00pm with a special visit from Santa.

03.01.2022 Here are our Easter Service times: 29 March MAUNDY THURSDAY 7.00pm Sung Eucharist with Foot-Washing, Gethsemane Watch 30 March GOOD FRIDAY... 10.00am Liturgy for Good Friday 12 noon Stations of the Cross for all the family 1 April EASTER DAY 8.00am Sung Eucharist with Lighting of new fire, Paschal candle ceremonies, Easter Eggs Parish BBQ breakfast to follow

03.01.2022 Metropolitan Male Choir are performing "A pleasant Sunday afternoon" St Saviour's Church 23 September at 2pm... Tickets: $15.00 per person and are available at the door See more