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Fifth Sunday of Easter   Rev Greg Seach - (28 April 2002 - 8 & 10am)
"Living for God in the "culture of complaint."
". . . We are, so our culture tells us, victims of our parenting, of our schooling, of whatever else may have influenced our upbringing . . ."

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Fourth Sunday of Easter   Rev Tim Gaden - (21 April 2002 - 8 & 10am)
"The Good Shepherd and the Crucified Lord"
". . . The most popular image in early Christian art is the good shepherd, the image that today's gospel speak about. . . ."

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Third Sunday of Easter   Rev Tim Gaden - (14 April 2002 - 8 & 10am)
"Words and the Word"
". . . Anglicans are very wordy people. We like words, and we use them a lot. This is true both in our worship and in the wider life of our church. . . ."

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Second Sunday of Easter   Rev Tim Gaden - (7 April 2002 - 8am)
"Jesus came and stood among them and said, 'Peace be with you.'"
". . . The Risen Christ changes perspectives and he changes priorities.. . ."

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Easter Day   Rev Tim Gaden - (31 March 2002 - 6 and 10am)
"New Life'"
". . . The Hebrew word shalom, peace, means 'wholeness, fullness, equality, common purpose'.. . ."

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Good Friday   Rev Tim Gaden - (29 March 2002 - 10am)
"The Saviour of the World is dead-or is he?"
". . . Here in this biblical picture of life and death, we come face to face with the totality and finality of Christ's death and our own death. . . . ."

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Fifth Sunday in Lent   Revd Gregory Seach - (17 March 2002 - 8 and 10am)
"Calling Out"
". . . Yet, like Lazarus, we too are called by our Lord in this church - from the lectern where we hear the good news proclaimed, from this altar where the good news of Christ's saving death is shown forth - we are called daily from death into life! . . . ."

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Fourth Sunday in Lent   Rev Tim Gaden - (10 March 2002 - 8 and 10am)
"Reconciliation and Forgiveness"
". . . Our litigious friends may well find justice in the courts, but they won't find the Good News, the Good News that gives life. . . ."

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First Sunday in Lent   Rev Tim Gaden - (17 February 2002 - 8 and 10am)
"The Three Temptations"
". . . It's not the odd extra beer or chocolate here, but the big temptations, the things that make us forget who we are as Church . . ."

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Third Sunday after Epiphany   Rev Tim Gaden - (27 January 2002 - 8 and 10am)
"Proudly Australian"
". . . Yesterday was the first Australia Day I have celebrated in Australia for six years". . . . "I probably need scarcely recount the levels of celebration and excess with which the Australian expatriate community in London celebrate their national day.. . ."

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Second Sunday after Epiphany   Rev Tim Gaden - (20 January 2002 - 8 and 10am)
How Christian Communities are made
". . . Christ will make us new, new people, using not only our native strengths but sometimes working on us just where we are weak.. . ."

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The EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD   Rev Tim Gaden - (6 January 2002 - 8 and 10am)
"The crib as a judgement"
"There is an awful of stuff going on in the Gospel reading today.. . ."

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First Sunday after Christmas   Rev Tim Gaden - (30 December 2001 - 8 and 10am)
"Making sense of trying times"
" . . . But there it is, plain as day in Scripture, and despite my instinctive dislike for the idea, going through a traumatic event like that, and coming out the other side, surprising things emerge.. . ."

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Christmas Day    Rev Tim Gaden - (25 December 2001 - 9am)
"The crib as a judgement"
"You might think that the crib, in the south transept, over there, is something for kids. . ."

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Christmas Midnight Eucharist    Rev Tim Gaden - (25 December 2001 - Midnight)
The Word made Flesh
"Words are cheap-fleeting, not meant, easily produced, soon forgotten, cheap. . . ."

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Fourth Sunday in Advent    Rev Tim Gaden - (23 December 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
The World of the Professional Liturgist.
". . . I think of them like Abattoir workers. . . ."

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Third Sunday in Advent    Dr. Muriel Porter - (16 December 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
Preparing for Christmas.
". . . Prepare ourselves for Christmas, certainly, and not just by our hectic shopping, cooking, decorating, and card-writing. . . ."

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First Sunday in Advent    Fr. Ray Cleary - (2 December 2001 - 10 am)
Welcome to the season of Advent
". . . Welcome to the season of Advent, a rich mix of politics, prayer, prophecy and perseverance expressed inside and outside the church. . . ."

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Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost    Rev Tim Gaden - (18 November 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
Christ's Lordship.
"When we were very young, we weren't allowed to have a TV set in the house . . ."

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Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost    Rev Tim Gaden - (11 November 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
The Resurrection.
"Almost all of you will have seen the film, The Life of Brian . . ."

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Festival of All Saints and All Souls    Rev Tim Gaden - (4 November 2001 - 8 am)
"On the importance of being teleological".
"Like a lot of things, the meaning of our lives is something that is hidden from us, something that we do not yet know.. . ."

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Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost    Rev Tim Gaden - (28 October 2001 - 8 am)
Luke at work on Mark.
"I'm sure that it is not news to you . . . . that the gospels did not fall down from the sky fully formed. . ."

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Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost    Rev Richard Treloar - (21 October 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
The Scriptures.
"Martin Luther used to speak of Scripture as the 'cradle' of Christ. . . ."

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Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost    Rev Tim Gaden - (14 October 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
Vestry and the Leper who returned.
"Today's Gospel requires a great leap of the imagination. . . . . "

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Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost    Rev Tim Gaden - (7 October 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
St Augustine.
"I have lots of big fat books at home in which the toss is argued back and forth. . . . "

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