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8:00am Eucharist

10:00am Family Eucharist

6:00pm Evening Prayer

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* NOTICE *

Sydney Diocese effectively authorises
Lay and Diaconal presidency
of the Lord's Supper

To read about this disturbing and divisive development
go to articles

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At its meeting on Monday 17 November, 2008,
the Parish Council of St John's unanimously passed the following motion,
which was subsequently also unanimously passed at the parish's Annual Vestry Meeting on 9 March, 2009:

"We dissent from the resolution of the 2008 Sydney Diocesan Synod
concerning Diaconal and Lay administration of the Lord's Supper
and commit ourselves to maintaining Anglican order
as it has been traditionally understood."

Accordingly, we affirm that the Most Holy Eucharist (Holy Communion) at St John's
will only ever be consecrated by Priests or Bishops in the Church of God,
who have been properly ordained
to the ministry of word and sacrament,
in accordance with historic Anglican practice and Catholic order.

The Appellate Tribunal of the Anglican Church of Australia in a judgement dated 12 August 2010
came down comprehensively against the 2008 resolution of Sydney Diocesan Synod,
thus vindicating the parish's stand.
Sadly, the 2010 Synod of the Diocese of Sydney chose to defy the findings of the Appellate Tribunal by
reaffirming the 2008 resolution, despite that resolution being an assertion that Lay and
Diaconal 'administration' were already legally authorised, and
the Appellate Tribunal determining that this is not the case.

The Synod is thus in the strange position of having deliberately resolved something that has
been authoritatively declared to be illegal.

On 18 October 2010 the Parish Council of St John's unanimously reaffirmed its dissent from the
2008 and 2010 synod resolutions and its commitment to uphold Catholic order.

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