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Dear!Friends,!!This!weekend,!at!the!9.30am!Mass!at!Rosebery,!I!will!be!commissioning!

our!parish!catechists!and!youth!and!adult!ministry!leaders.!I!want!to!acknowledge!the!hard!work!and!dedication!of!these!men!and!women!and!pledge!our!support!for!their!mission.!!I!also!want!to!encourage!others!to!join!in!this!pastoral!work.!

The!Archdiocese!of!Sydney!has!policies!and!procedures!in!relation!to!children!and!vulnerable!adults.!It!is!my!responsibility!as!Parish!Priest!to!ensure!our!parishes!comply!with!these!standards.!I!want!to!let!you!know!that!the!Archdiocese!is!committed!to!our!churches!being!a!safe!place!for!all!people.!Some!volunteers!may!be!required!to!complete!a!safeguarding!seminar!later!in!the!year!which!will!outline!the!policies!and!procedures!of!the!Archdiocese.!I!will!let!you!know!more!details!when!I!have!a!better!understanding!of!the!information!already!collected!by!both!parishes.!The!Australian!Catholic!Bishops!have!established!Catholic)Professionals)Ltd.)The!main!purpose!of!this!company!is!to!audit!parishes!to!ensure!they!are!following!these!policies!and!procedures.!!

I!am!also!looking!for!a!Parish!Safeguarding!Officer!(PSO)!who!can!assist!me!in!this!work.!!

As!a!pastoral!team,!Fr!Gerard!and!myself!are!attempting!to!get!around!and!meet!as!many!people!as!possible!in!Rosebery!and!Redfern.!As!Parish!Priest!much!of!my!work!involves!meetings!and!administration!work!which,!as!St!Paul!says,!is!a!work!of!the!Holy!Spirit!(1!Cor!12:1R11).!!

Both!Fr!Gerard!and!I!are!still!trying!to!adapt!to!ministering!in!two!parishes.!I!thank!you!for!your!patience!as!we!continue!to!navigate!our!way!forward.!I!am!grateful!that!Fr!Gerard!is!here!to!support!me!and!our!parishes.!

!Fr!Gerard!was!ordained!last!August!at!St!Mary’s!Cathedral.!He!is!full!of!energy!and!enthusiasm.!Fr!Gerard!will!be!involved!with!the!youth!but!he!is!also!very!keen!to!visit!people!in!their!homes.!If!you!would!like!Fr!Gerard!to!visit!you!and!maybe!bless!your!house!please!contact!him!via!the!parish!email.!!!Lenten!Group!!Name!of!Parish! Date! Location!Redfern!Parish! Every!Tuesday!starting!

13!Feb!after!5pm!Mass!Back!of!the!church!

Rosebery!Parish! Every!Wednesday!starting!14!Feb!after!7pm!Ash!Wednesday!Mass!then!at!7pm!for!the!rest!of!Lent.!!

Community!Room!

God!bless!you,!!

Fr!Paul!Smithers!!

Sunday'|'3rd'–'4

th'February'2018'

FIFTH'SUNDAY'OF'ORDINARY'TIME'–'YEAR'B''

Fr!Paul!Smithers,!Parish)Priest) ))))))))))))Follow!on!Instagram!&!Twitter:!@frpaulsmithers) ) )

Fr!Gerard!Woo!Ling,)Assistant)Priest))) )Monsignor!Greg!Flynn!PE,!Assistant)Priest) ) ) ))))''

Parish!Office!Hours:!Mon,!Wed!&!Fri!–!10amR1pm!Office!Phone:!(02)!9663!5343!!!!!Secretary:!Therese!Poulton!Office!Address:!74!Rosebery!Ave,!Rosebery!NSW!2018!Postal!Address:!PO!Box!1067,!Strawberry!Hills!NSW!2012!roseberycatholic@gmail.com!!!!|!!!www.roseberyparish.org!!

The!Parishes!of!City!South!acknowledges!and!

honours!the!Gadigal!People!as!the!traditional!custodians!of!

this!land.!!!

WEEKEND!MASS!TIMES:!ST!JOSEPH’S,!ROSEBERY:!

Sat.!6pm!;!Sun.!7:30am!Sun.!9:30am!(Kids!Liturgy!resumes!11!Feb!2018)!

OLMC,!WATERLOO:!Sat.!5pm!;!Sun.!8am!&!10am!

ST!VINCENT!DE!PAUL,!REDFERN:!Sat.!6pm!;!Sun.!10am!

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WEEKDAY!MASS!TIMES:!ST!JOSEPH’S,!ROSEBERY:!

Mon.!7am!–!!!!!!!!Communion!!Service!Tues.!–!Fri.!7am!Mass!

OLMC,!WATERLOO:!Tues.!5pm!;!Wed.!8am!Thurs.!8:30am;!!Fri.!9am!

ST!VINCENT!DE!PAUL,!REDFERN:!Tues.!5pm!;!Wed–Thurs!9am!Fri!–!8am!

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ADORATION!OF!THE!BLESSED!SACRAMENT!at!Rosebery!Church!!!Sat.!3:30pm!R!5:30pm!INCLUDINGi)

Sacrament!of!Reconciliation!Sat.!4pm!R!5pm!

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Baptisms!&!Weddings!!!By!appointment!!!!

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ENTRANCE$ANTIPHON:!!O!Come,!let!us!worship!God!and!bow!low!before!him!who!made!us,!for!he!is!the!Lord!our!God.!!COMMUNION$ANTIPHON:!Let!them!thank!the!Lord!for!his!mercy,!his!wonders!for!the!children!of!men,!for!he!satisfies!the!thirsty!soul,!and!the!hungry!he!fills!with!good!things.!!

REDFERN$REMINDER:!Starting!this!week,!the!Friday!mass!will!be!at!8.00!am!to!assist!the!Share!a!Meal!program.!!

Liturgy$Formation$!At!times,!there!is!the!impression!that!creativity!means!that!we!have!a!freedom!to!change!and!adapt!the!liturgy!as!we!see!fit.!!But!this!is!not!the!Church’s!understanding.!!Creativity!in!Catholic!worship!means!that!we!do!as!well!as!possible!what!the!Church!sets!down!in!the!liturgical!books.!!People!coming!to!Mass!have!a!right!to!a!celebration!of!the!liturgy!according!to!the!norms!set!down!by!the!Church;!anything!else!can!be!unsettling!and!distracting.!!Without!changing!anything,!we!are!to!bring!as!much!prayer,!intelligence,!imagination!and!sensitivity!as!we!can!to!the!act!of!worship.!!Creativity!concerns!the!quality!of!our!participation,!not!an!adaptation!of!the!ritual!in!an!attempt!to!improve!it!or!to!make!it!more!relevant.!!!! Archbishop Mark Coleridge, Archbishop of Brisbane. !

HEALTHY$AGEING$SEMINARS$at$ST$JOSEPH’S$PARISH$HALL$–$all$welcome$“!Do!you!find!yourself!getting!more!anxious!as!you!age?!Are!you!wondering!when!it’s!something!to!get!worried!about?!!!!!!The!Healthy!Ageing!Seminars!are!starting!up!again!on$Sun$Feb$11th$at$10:30am!in!St!Joseph’s!Parish!Hall.!!!!Ageing!and!Anxiety!is!the!topic!for!our!guest!speaker!from!the!Black!Dog!Institute.!Entry!by!donation.”!!

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First Reading Jb 7:1-4. 6-7I am filled with sorrow all day long.

Job began to speak:

Is not man’s life on earth nothing more than pressed service,

his time no better than hired drudgery?Like the slave, sighing for the shade,or the workman with no thought but his

wages,months of delusion I have assigned to

me,nothing for my own but nights of grief.Lying in bed I wonder, ‘When will it be

day?’Risen I think, ‘how slowly evening

comes!’Restlessly I fret till twilight falls.Swifter than a weaver’s shuttle my days

have passed,and vanished, leaving no hope behind.Remember that my life is but a breath,and that my eyes will never again see joy.

Responsorial Psalm Ps 146:1-6. R. v.3

(R.) Praise the Lord who heals the broken-hearted.

or(R.) Alleluia!

1. Praise the Lord for he is good; sing to our God for he is loving: to him our praise is due. (R.)

2. The Lord builds up Jerusalem and brings back Israel’s exiles, he heals the broken-hearted, he binds up all their wounds. Hefixesthenumberofthestars; he calls each one by its name. (R.)

3. Our Lord is great and almighty; his wisdom can never be measured. The Lord raises the lowly; he humbles the wicked to the dust. (R.)

Second Reading 1 Cor 9:16-19. 22-23Punishment will come to me if I do not preach the Gospel

I do not boast of preaching the gospel, since it is a duty which has been laid on me; I should be punished if I did not preach it! If I had chosen this work myself, I might have been paid for it, but as I have not, it is a responsibility which has been put into my hands. Do you know what my reward is? It is this: in my preaching, to be able to offer the

Good News free, and not insist on the rights which the gospel gives me.

So though I am not a slave of any man I have made myself the slave of everyone so as to win as many as I could. For the weak I made myself weak. I made myself all things to all men in order to save some at any cost; and I still do this, for the sake of the gospel, to have a share in its blessings.

Gospel Acclamation Mt 8:17

Alleluia, alleluia!He bore our sickness,and endured our sufferingAlleluia!

Gospel Mk 1:29-39He cured many who suffered from diseases of one kind or another.

On leaving the synagogue, Jesus went with James and John straight to the house of Simon and Andrew. Now Simon’s mother-in-law had gone to bed with fever, and they told him about her straightaway. He went to her, took her by the hand and helped her up. And the fever left her and she began to wait on them.

That evening, after sunset, they brought to him all who were sick and those who were possessed by devils. The whole town came crowding round the door, and he cured many who were suffering from diseases of one kind or another; he also cast out many devils, but he would not allow them to speak, because they knew who he was.

In the morning, long before dawn, he got up and left the house, and went off to a lonely place and prayed there. Simon and his companions set out in search of him, and when they found him they said, ‘Everybody is looking for you.’ He answered, ‘Let us go elsewhere, to the neighbouring country towns, so that I can preach there too, because that is why I came.’ And he went all through Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out devils.

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The psalm responses are from the English Translation of the Lectionary for the Mass ©1981 International Committee on English in the Liturgy Inc.(ICEL). All rights reserved. The psalm texts, from The Psalms, A New Translation, ©1963 by The Grail, England and used by permission of the publishers. The scriptural quotations are taken from the Jerusalem Bible, published and copyright 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton Longman and Todd Ltd and Doubleday & Co Inc, and used by permission of the publishers.© 2017 Creative Ministry Resources Pty LtdAll use must be in accordance with your user licensing agreement.

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B 4 February 2018

Reflection by Fr Michael TateThe mother-in-law of Simon (Peter)was sick in bed with a raging fever.When Jesus learned about herdistressed state, he ‘took her bythe hand and helped her up’. Hebroke the taboo about physicalcontact with a woman not hisrelative because he wanted toholistically heal her dis-ease.Simon’s mother-in-law didn’t needan aspirin and a cup of tea. Shefelt quarantined, isolated, andneeded a hand reassuring her ofsociable relationships. Jesusovercame her fever and her dis-ease with the world.At every Mass we exchange aphysical gesture at the greeting ofPeace. This quite often overcomesbeing ill-at-ease with a familymember or just with the neighbourin the pew. We need to take thatsymbolic action into the world. Forsomebody, it may be the mosttouching thing we ever do.We could pause for a moment toidentify that person who needs usto reach out, to take their handand help them up.

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