Reflection from the Reverend Rob Sutherland CSC  

Transfiguration – 15 February 2026

Dear Friends,

As I write this, the forecast is that we might have some much-needed rain before and on Sunday – my lawn and water tank could certainly use it.  To our North there has been far too much rain and to our South and West far too little.  These are some of the incongruities of being God’s beloved children but also subject to the realities of life in the world in which God has given us to live.  

This Sunday we have three readings which tell us of people’s encounters with God on mountain tops.  In Australia, with our absence of real mountains, we often have to find other places to be our mountain tops, our places in which we can experience God in both the awe of beauty and in undistracted solitude.  God the Father, called both Moses and Jesus away from the distractions of the world so that they might hear from God and God spoke directly to them. Sometimes we read of the power of the ‘voice of the Lord’; in Psalm 29, ‘the voice of the Lord divides the lightning-flash;’ but most of the time God wants us to listen to his voice in the silence. In Psalm 46:10, God commends us to, ‘Be still, and know that I am God.’ 

God wants us also to listen as he speaks directly to us; where in our super-busy, super-crowded and noisy world, can we go to be still and hear his voice speaking to us?

In this bulletin you will find details of Ash Wednesday (18 Feb) 8:30am and 5:30pm Holy Communion Services (with imposition of ashes); plus details of our many other meetings, services, breakfasts, bishop’s visit and Lenten study.

Also, throughout Lent, (commencing 27 Feb) we will be having a Friday evening reflection group, based around Evening Prayer and using the Joy 26 study guide as a focus (you don’t need to have the book to participate).

Hope to see you in church on Sunday.

Grace and peace and hope and life,

ROB

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