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Recent News Items
NSTM Award Ceremony: Please Join us Tomorrow
All graduates, participants and friends of the School are warmly invited to join us at St Peter’s Church, East Maitland to celebrate the achievements of participants at the NSTM Award Ceremony to be held at 2 pm on 21st April 2012. Further details are available here.
Diocesan Convention – Final Weekend for Registrations
This weekend is the final opportunity to register for the Diocesan Convention. Please encourage the person responsible for giving the notices in your Church this weekend to promote the Convention. If you have not yet registered please register through your parish using the form sent out to all parish priests. Further information is available here.
CM101-CM102 2012 Course Handbook Error
Certificate participants completing courses CM101 and CM102 who commenced their studies in 2012, please be aware that there is an error on page 460 of the materials. At the top of the page the following request should be added before task 154: ‘Please complete one of these tasks in your learning journal:’
A sermon preached by Bishop Brian Farran in Christ Church Cathedral on Easter Day 2012
Text: John 20: 1-18 –‘Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb…’ It’s dark. Mary comes to the tomb of Jesus in the dark. She is herself full of darkness. Intense grief darkens people. They live in a kind of mist, a psychological mist. [...]
A sermon preached by Bishop Brian Farran in Christ Church Cathedral Newcastle on Good Friday 2012
Good Friday is a perplexing day for many Australians. My eight-year old grandson speaks of bad Friday. He cannot get his mind around the notion that Jesus dying on the cross can be spoken of as good. And what perplexes young Harry perplexes or even alienates many adults. Reflecting on Good Friday requires us to [...]
A Sermon preached by Bishop Brian Farran at the Chrism Eucharists 2012
Study the Scriptures wholeheartedly, reflecting with God’s people upon their meaning, so that your ministry and life may be shaped by Christ. – The Service for the Ordination of Priests. I studied Latin as a school boy at Sydney High. The Latin class was much smaller than the other language classes on offer. It was not [...]
Bishop’s Reflection at Morning Prayer on Learning Day – 24th March 2012
You may have noticed that many new versions of church locate in light industrial estates. Finance dictates such locations as does the often restrictive local government requirements of off-street parking. Thus within the usual venues of Harvey Norman, JB-HiFi, Officeworks and the like you may sight a new expression of church. The exterior looks like [...]
Chrism Eucharist 2012
All NSTM participants are warmly invited to join the clergy and others from around the Diocese as we gather for the Chrism Eucharists in Holy Week. At the Chrism Eucharist the clergy renew their ordination vows and the holy oils are blessed for the coming year. The Chrism Eucharists will be celebrated throughout the Diocese [...]
Invitation to Participate in Southlakes Parish’s Retreat
We are happy to commend the Southlakes Parish’s Retreat to members of NSTM. The retreat will be held at Bethshan in Wyee from 17th – 19th April. The theme is ‘Faith and Prayer in the Celtic Church’. Further information and the opportunity to register can be found here. Please direct any enquiries to the Parish.
Thanks to Everyone who Participated in the Learning Day
Thank you to everyone who participated in the learning day on 24th March. We had a wonderful day together. We do apologise for the problems that led to the room changes early on in the day, and we will have this sorted out before we meet again! Please feel free to send any feedback or [...]
