Reflections

From Tuesday 26th of May there will be weekday services for up to 10 people at Christchurch Hamilton. That’s great!!… what else do I need to know?? In order to ‘book’ one of these highly desirable places, please contact Fr. David no later than the day before you wish to attend. Ph. (03) 5571 1317 M...Continue reading→

The Sunday mass will be live streamed from St. Marks Cavendish on Sunday 17th of May at 10:30am. https://www.facebook.com/AnglicanHamilton

A reflection for Sunday May 17th Easter 6, May 17th God first took the initiative by loving us. God always takes the initiative and He always will. Its just that we don’t realise it and we are always playing catchup. An example of this is the sacrament of ordination. In our heady rush to get...Continue reading→

I have dabbled in that which I swore I never would. That formidable world called “Facebook”. I have tiptoed in with much trepidation. What would I discover lurking in the depths of this vast ocean of social media? To be honest I think that I am only splashing around in the shallows and that suits...Continue reading→

Sunday mornings mass will be live streamed from Christchurch Hamilton at 10:30am https://www.facebook.com/AnglicanHamilton on May the 10th

I was in grade 5 at Warracknabeal Primary School, when the principal walked into our classroom and calmly said. “Johnny,” (obviously not his real name) “There is a message for you at the office.”Johnny promptly left the classroom and the real reason for the principals visit tumbled out.He explained that over the weekend Johnny had...Continue reading→

I’ve been having a bit of a go at live streaming our Sunday morning service. This is a big new scary adventure and I will be trying to stomp on the cyber-bugs for a long time into the future. For some reason that I will never know, we had the text of what I was...Continue reading→

Sundays Mass on the 3rd of May will be live streamed from All Saints Penshurst at 10:30am. https://www.facebook.com/AnglicanHamilton

Most of you know that I grew up on a wheat / sheep farm in the Wimmera. With mixed feelings I remember droving sheep with my father and brother. We had to take the sheep to a farm where there was a facility to drench them. The time it took to get there seemed endless....Continue reading→

In the film “The Quest for the Holy Grail” an excited throng bring a woman to their village leader claiming that she is a witch and that she ought to be burnt. Her ‘trial’ goes like this.“How do you know she is a witch?” “She looks like one!”“They dressed me up like this” comes the...Continue reading→

-- Sunday Mornings mass will be live streamed from Christ Church Hamilton on the 26th of April at 10:30am Fr. David Oulton droulton72@gmail.com

It used to be a doorbell, a handshake,  a cuppa, a chocolate biscuit and a conversation. Reading the nuances, asking the right question at the right time and knowing when to bask in the silence. This was how I connected. But I do things differently in April 2020. My time is spent pushing buttons on...Continue reading→

Easter 3  26th of April. Matthew 28:8 Suddenly Jesus met them and said, ‘Greetings!’ And they came to him, took hold of his feet, and worshipped him. The clutching of the feet is interesting. For one thing it tells us the posture of the disciples.They must have been pretty much prostate on the ground which...Continue reading→

Someone of ‘mature of years’ kindly phoned the other day. They reflected that the millennial generation will speak of ‘pre’ and ‘post Covid19’. They will be able to recollect what life was like before the pandemic, what it was like during and what life is like after.At the moment we haven’t emerged out the other...Continue reading→

I’ll call her Kerry. Kerry lived a while back and in a parish many kilometres from here. Kerry had terminal cancer and she was a terrifyingly close in age to me. Kerry didn’t come to church much, but she was always receptive to a visit. The hospitality was generous and the conversation was gregarious. There...Continue reading→

Sunday's Mass on the 19th of April, will be streamed at 10:30am from St. Mary's Dunkeld. https://www.facebook.com/AnglicanHamilton

Princess Matilda is articulate, swift of mind, exquisitely manicured and media savvy. But Matilda has a problem. A vicious pestilence has broken out in her tiny kingdom of 17,000 souls. At the moment the afflicted are small in number, but she is shoulder to cheek with neighbours on every side and this pestilence will not...Continue reading→

The Easter Sundays mass will be streamed from one of the parish churches at 10:30am every Sunday morning. Please click on this link. https://www.facebook.com/AnglicanHamilton

A service for Good Friday will be streamed on Friday 10th of April at 3:00pm https://www.facebook.com/AnglicanHamilton

A service for Holy Thursday will be streamed on Thursday 9th of April at 7:30pm https://www.facebook.com/AnglicanHamilton