The Anglican Church of St Philip's O'Connor, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Services on Sunday: Holy Communion 8am and 10am. Wednesday 10am

Priest:(the Rev'd) Rob Lamerton. Ph 62478004, Fax 62307775, E-mail: stphil@acay.com.au

Lent Day Six


Remember Chad, missionary and Bishop of Lichfield (died 672) and the early Saints of England.
"Chad was a Northumbrian and a pupil of Aidan of Lindisfarne. Irregularly appointed Bishop of the Northumbrians, he humbly accepted Theodore of Canterbury's decision that Wilfrid was the rightful bishop. Shortly afterwards he was sent to be missionary bishop of the Mercians and settled his see at at Lichfield. His devotion to prayer, humility, and missionary zeal is typical of the early British saints." (Sinden 64)

Continuing Genesis 37

Joseph is a foolish youth... narcissistic, not aware of the "inner worlds" or other people. (see Zornberg 253 "Joseph behaves with the narcissism of youth, with a dangerous unawareness of the inner worlds of others.")

Exile and slavery are the immediate consequences for Joseph. The family is to follow him at a later time.

"The midrash presents human beings as participants in a drama of God's devising. Though ultimately not malicious, God's intents are inexorable, and human beings are for the most part unconscious actors in His plot." (255)

this then questions the freedom, autonomy and responsibility of the actors. It may be that God said: 'I shall draw his son down before him, and he will go down after him, unawares..' (midrash quoted in Zornberg 256)

So, the youth is stripped by his brothers, thrown into a pit, rescued from death and sold into slavery. As a slave he enters into the processes of "remembering and forgetting" (274)

Lent is a time of remembering, of re-membering the dismembered; putting the pieces together into a whole...

ST. PHILIP'S O'CONNOR PARISH CALENDAR 2004



Lenten Calendar 2004
| Ash Wednesday | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| First Sunday in Lent | February 29th
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Second Sunday in Lent | March 7th
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| Third Sunday in Lent | March 14th
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| Fourth Sunday in Lent | March 21st
| 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| Fifth Sunday in Lent | March 28th
| 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| Sunday of the Passion (Palm Sunday) | April 4th
HOLY WEEK
| 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Good Friday | Easter Eve |


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