St Philip's Anglican Church, O'Connor ACT

24/11/2025

Join us as we celebrate Christ's birth! Christmas eve crib service 5pm; midnight mass 11pm; Christmas Day 9.30am.

14/06/2025

17/12/2024

Christmas Services

Service of Nine Lessons and Carols, Sunday 22nd December, 7pm.
Christmas Eve: Tuesday 24 December, 11.30pm — Midnight Eucharist.
Christmas Day: Monday 25 December, 9am — Christmas Day Eucharist.

13/07/2024

At present the position of Rector (priest-in-charge) at St Philip's is vacant. We are actively seeking a minister to take up a permanent full time appointment.

Good news!

These priests have kindly made themselves available to take services of Holy Communion:
Revd Dr Colin Dundon — Sunday 14 July 2024
Revd Susanna Pain — Sunday 21 July 2024
Revd Dr Christopher Simon — Sundays 28 July and 4 August 2024.

From 11 August 2024, Revd Rob Miners will be Locum Rector (acting priest-in-charge) part time, Sundays and Thursdays.

13/05/2024

With ANGLICAN BOARD OF MISSION - AUSTRALIA – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

05/05/2024

All set for celebrating the feast of St Philip.

29/04/2024

An event at St Philip's 18th May.

We have been preparing a delightful programme of night-themed music, loosely based on the ancient monastic office of Compline, and would be delighted to share it with you in the following concerts:

- St Philip's Anglican Church, O'Connor, on Saturday 18 May, 5pm

- St Paul's Anglican Church, Manuka, on Sunday 26 May, 5pm

Each concert will run for approximately 45 minutes (no interval), and includes works by Byrd, Tallis, Mendelssohn, Bruckner, Rheinberger, Stanford, Beach, Wood, Harris and Daley.

No bookings necessary - exit by donation.

21/04/2024

ABM AID’s Dr Julianne Stewart is currently traveling In Luapula Diocese of the Anglican Church in Zambia.

Yesterday she and the team from Zambia Anglican Council Outreach Programme (ZACOP) heard from Miriam, a survivor of gender-based violence who was able to turn her life around when she volunteered to be trained as a Gender Action Group promoter. While teaching local families in her village about GBV, she got the courage to confront the violence she herself was experiencing at home due to her husband’s alcoholism. With counselling and support provided through ZACOP’s Gender Equality project, he is now recovered and no longer violent. It helps to explain the happy look on Miriam’s face.

17/04/2024

For pondering.

Professor Amy Jill Levine is coming to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and online!

Professor Amy Jill Levine (“AJ”) is Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace and University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies Emerita and Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies Emerita, at Vanderbilt.

Her publications include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi; six children’s books (with Sandy Sasso); The Gospel of Luke (with Ben Witherington III, the first biblical commentary by a Jew and an Evangelical); The Jewish Annotated New Testament (co-edited with Marc Brettler), The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently (with Marc Brettler), The Pharisees (co-edited with Joseph Sievers), and thirteen edited volumes of the Feminist Companions to the New Testament and Early Christian Literature. Her Beginner’s Guide series includes Sermon on the Mount, Light of the World, Entering the Passion of Jesus, The Difficult Words of Jesus, Witness at the Cross, and Signs and Wonders.
Information about events:
https://www.maristformation.org/amy-jill-levine-speaking-engagements?fbclid=IwAR1nWCtcfTPuDa-Tq01yquz3rbt4mE-hTPM8g04YjzBvYxmm2bSBivienuA

15/04/2024

We wish Julianne a blessed trip.

12/04/2024

This would be very interesting. This 12-day study tour of Germany, France, Switzerland, and Italy enables students to immerse themselves in the history, culture, and sites of the European Reformation, one of the most influential episodes in world history. Tour led by CSU Senior Lecturer in History, Dr Michael Gladwin

This 12-day study tour of Germany, France, Switzerland, and Italy enables students to immerse themselves in the history, culture, and sites of the European Reformation, one of the most influential episodes in world history.

10/04/2024

For pondering.

A fabulous visio divina to share with you today courtesy of Yahoo News. This image was taken by photographer, Wayne Suffield earlier this week at Lake Buninjon, northwest of Melbourne. It shows kangaroos appearing to defy gravity as they hop across the lake.

Truly a shot of a lifetime and a fitting one to contemplate in wonder and praise during Eastertide!