20th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - Ipswich Catholic Community · 20th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B...
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20th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B 19th August 2018
OUR CHURCHES
St. Mary’s - Elizabeth Street, Woodend St. Brigid’s - Matthew Street, Rosewood
Mater Dei - Cnr Ferrett Street and Rowland Tce, Sadliers Crossing St. Joseph’s - 42 Pine Mountain Road, North Ipswich
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal - Robertson Rd, Eastern Heights Immaculate Heart of Mary - 22 Old Toowoomba Road, Leichhardt
A very warm welcome to anyone visiting our Parish. It is good to have you with us.
If you have any questions or would like to know more about the Ipswich Catholic Community please visit our
parish website at www.ipswichcatholic.com We hope you enjoy your time in Ipswich. Please come again soon.
Dear Parishioners
A question I was often asked by my family and friends during the holiday in Vietnam is that: “Who cook the meal for you?” They know that I am the worst cook. I told them that I can cook for myself. They then asked what happened if I had a visitor or friend. I told them that the ‘Supermarket’ or the ‘Restaurant’ will cook for us…
The Gospel this Sunday brings to us an important reality for our life. Jesus no longer speaks of himself as the “bread of life” but about his flesh and blood: “I tell you most solemnly, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in you… He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in him.” We are invited to the banquet of the Eucharist where we will be nourished by both the Word of God and especially the Body and Blood of Christ. This is wonderful and necessary for us on our pilgrim journey towards the eternity.
We are also invited, after being nourished at the Eucharistic Banquet, to be food for one another by loving, helping and caring for our brothers and sisters in need according to our ability and capacity. The food (and other items) brought up to the Altar with the bread and wine in the Offertory Procession at
weekend Masses so far is a significant sign, I guess, of being food for one another in our Ipswich Catholic Community, and beyond through Saint Vincent de Paul. And surely, we can be food for our brothers and sisters in Christ in a lot of other ways.
May I add another ‘item’ to our prayers at Mass this Weekend. We have the children in our parishes who will receive the Sacrament of Confirmation this coming Thursday, 23 August. We keep them in our prayers. May the Holy Spirit be at work in them as they continue their life journey ahead. And of course, we journey with them in whatever way we can…
Eucharist is the heart of the Church all the time, and the heart of our life. We pray that we be always aware of this reality in our living and dealing with one another.
May God bless us all!
John Hong.
CONFIRMATION 2018: Gifts for Confirmation: We have available in stock at the piety shop (situated at the front of St Mary’s Church) gifts specifically for Confirmation. Come and have a browse through the shop, as there are a range of other religious good available. The shop is normally open before and after Mass if there is a volunteer available.
WEEKDAY MASS TIMES
Monday, 20th August– St Bernard
7.00am St Joseph’s, North Ipswich
7.00pm Mater Dei, Sadliers Crossing
Tuesday, 21st August - St Pius X
9.00am Immaculate Heart of Mary, Leichhardt
Wednesday, 22nd August - The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
9.00am St Mary’s, Woodend
9.30am St Brigid’s, Rosewood
Thursday, 23rd August - Ordinary Time 20
9.00am St Joseph’s, North Ipswich
9.00am St Mary’s, Woodend
5pm & 7pm CONFIRMATION CELEBRATION
Friday, 24th August - St Bartholomew
8.00am St Mary’s College Chapel
9.00am OLMM, Eastern Heights
WEEKEND MASS TIMES - 25TH AND 26TH AUGUST
SATURDAY CHURCH LOCATION
4.30pm Immaculate Heart Leichhardt
5.30pm OLMM Eastern Heights
6.00pm St Mary’s Woodend
SUNDAY MASS CHURCH LOCATION
7.30am St Joseph’s North Ipswich
8.00am St Brigid’s Rosewood
8.30am St Mary’s Woodend
6.00pm St Mary’s Woodend
SACRAMENT OF PENANCE
DAY TIME CHURCH
Friday 8.30am-8.50am OLMM
Saturday 4.15pm-4.25pm Leichhardt
Saturday 5.00-5.30pm St Mary’s
COMMUNITY DIRECTORY
Parish Priest
Parish Ministers
Pastoral Associate
Fr Stephen Bliss ofm [email protected]
Fr John Hong Fr Enoch Iheme
Bernadette McAndrew Ph 0488 008 817
Local Safeguarding
Children and
Vulnerable Adults
Representative
Kate Castles
0428 455054
Administration Staff Mrs Maree Coyne Mrs Kathy Lund Mrs Rosalia Risati Mrs Kate Castles Mrs Bernadette Lenihan
Office Hours Monday: 10.00am-3.30pm Tues-Thurs: 8.00am-3.30pm Friday: 8.00am-1.00pm
Ipswich Catholic Community Contact Information
Telephone Email Post Mass Times
07 3281 2133 [email protected] PO Box 23, Ipswich 4305 07 3281 0707
New Media—Evangelisation
Website www.ipswichcatholic.com
Find us by searching for ‘ipswichcatholic’ on
Facebook / YouTube / Twitter / iTunes
Schools and Colleges in our Community
St Mary’s Primary Immaculate Heart St Joseph’s School St Brigid’s School St Mary’s College St Edmund’s College
Woodend Leichhardt North Ipswich Rosewood Woodend Woodend
07 3281 1998 07 3812 1077 07 3201 6188 07 5464 1563 07 3432 5444 07 3810 4400
MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR AUGUST
Monday, 20th Catechesis Of The Good
Shepherd for the 3 to 6 year olds
3.30pm-5pm, bottom floor of early years classrooms, St Mary’s Primary.
Tuesday, 21st Catechesis Of The Good
Shepherd for the 7 to 9 year
olds
3.30pm-5pm, bottom floor of early years classrooms, St Mary’s Primary
Wed, 22nd Prayer Group 5.00pm, St Mary’s Parish Centre
Thursday, 23rd CONFIRMATION CELEBRATION 5 & 7pm, St Mary’s Church, Ipswich
Friday, 24th HIVE - Youth Events 6.30pm, Mater Dei
Sunday, 26th ICC Pilgrimage Walk 9am, start from Rosewood Church
SEPTEMBER, 26 Wedding Anniversary Mass 7.00pm, St Mary’s Church, Ipswich
NOVEMBER, 2nd
Remembrance Mass 7.00pm, St Mary’s Church, Ipswich
PILGRIMAGE WALK OF THE
IPSWICH CATHOLIC COMMUNITY
In recognition of the Saints after whom our churches are named in the
Ipswich Catholic Community please join us on
A PILGRIMAGE FROM ROSEWOOD TO IPSWICH
Sunday 26th August 2018, St Brigid’s Rosewood Mass – Start time 8am
Walk to start from Rosewood—9am
All fundraising from this walk will go directly to St Vincent de Paul
Society Queensland, for use within the Ipswich Community.
To donate directly log onto https://my.goodcompany.org/au/
fundraising Pilgrimage-Walk-of-the-Ipswich-Catholic-Community
Support Buses available Children Welcome
Come along and Dress up with Hat’s/Costumes
For more information please contact Co-ordinator—Mobile:
0418200842. To register please contact Ipswich Catholic Community
Parish Office: 32812133
… What’s happening in the Ipswich Catholic Community ...
The SECOND edi-
tion of TALKA-
BOUT FOR 2017
is available this
weekend. Please
PILGRIMAGE WALK OF THE
IPSWICH CATHOLIC COMMUNITY
In recognition of the Saints after whom our
churches are named in the Ipswich Catholic
Community please join us on
A PILGRIMAGE FROM ROSEWOOD TO
IPSWICH
Sunday 26th August 2018
St Brigid’s Rosewood Mass – Start time 8am
Walk to start from Rosewood—9am
All fundraising from this walk will go directly to St Vincent
de Paul Society Queensland, for use within the
Ipswich Community.
To donate directly log onto https://my.goodcompany.org/
au/fundraising Pilrimage-Walk-of-the-
Ipswich-Catholic-Community
Support Buses available Children Welcome
Come along and Dress up with Hat’s/Costumes
For more information please contact
Co-ordinator—Mobile: 0418200842
LEICHHARDT CARE & CONCERN: Our next Morning Tea will be held on Tuesday 21st August at 9.30am in the School Hall. Everyone is most welcome to come along and have a chat over a nice hot cuppa.
OVER THE COMING WEEKS I WILL SHARE WITH YOU SOME INSIGHTS FROM PARISH RENEWAL FROM THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ADELAIDE AND THE PROCLAIM CONFERENCE: Building on the Second Vatican Council, Pope Francis calls us to the renewal of our parishes:
The parish is not an outdated institution; precisely because it possesses great flexibility, it can assume quite different contours depending on the openness and missionary creativity of the pastor and the community. While certainly not the only institution which evangelizes, if the parish proves capable of self-renewal and constant adaptivity, it continues to be “the Church living in the midst of the homes of her sons and daughters”. This presumes that it really is in contact with the homes and the lives of its people, and does not become a useless structure out of touch with people or a self-absorbed group made up of a chosen few. The parish is the presence of the Church in a given territory, an environment for hearing God’s word, for growth in the Christian life, for dialogue, proclamation, charitable outreach, worship and celebration. In all its activities the parish encourages and trains its members to be evangelisers. It is a community of communities, a sanctuary where the thirsty come to drink in the midst of their journey, and a centre of constant missionary outreach. We must admit, though, that the call to review and renew our
parishes has not yet sufficed to bring them nearer to people, to make them environments of living communion and participation, and to make them completely mission-oriented (Pope Francis, The Joy of the Gospel, par. 28).
The parish is a community in which each member is called to a personal relationship with Jesus. The parish is directed towards discipleship, and understands itself as a community of disciples, and as a school of discipleship. It is a place of prayer and of formation that enables parishioners to embrace what the Second Vatican Council termed the universal call to holiness. Each of the baptised is seen as having a gift of the Spirit given for the sake of all. Each one is different, but all are participants: “To each is given a manifestation of the Spirit for the common good” (1 Cor 12:7). Our parishes, schools and communities will need to be places where members can learn to pray, to know and understand the Scriptures, and our Catholic tradition. They are places where we learn to discern and to use our gifts in the cause of the kingdom of God in our world. All are involved in evangelisation, bringing the gospel of joy to the world. (How do you experience being a disciple within the Ipswich Catholic Community, does our Parish nurture you in your discipleship?). Stephen ofm
MARIAN VALLEY CANUNGRA – All are invited to celebrate a special Birthday of Our Lady on Saturday 8th September 2018 at the Shrine of Our Lady Help of Christians, Marian Valley, Canungra. Commencing at 10am with Exposition, Rosary, Confession, Holy Mass (lunch available), Eucharistic Procession to the Grotto of Our Lady of Fatima, Benediction & Divine Mercy Chaplet. Mass Celebrant will be Most Rev Columba Macbeth-Green OSPPE, Bishop of the Diocese of Wilcannia-Forbes. For those not wishing to drive, a bus will leave [See below which time and place is appropriate for your parish] Fare $20 – Bookings and info Ann 3282 0321/Pam 3288 4594.
Bus departs: Leichhardt 7.45am; Ipswich (St Mary’s) 8.00am; Booval (French St) 8.10am; Goodna (Church) 8.20am; Darra (Polish Club) 8.30am.
ANNUAL GARDEN PARTY: Saint
Mary’s Garden Party will be held on
Saturday 13th October 2018 at 10am
at 2pm. Address: 129 Wildey Street,
Raceview 4305. There will be
entertainment throughout the
morning. Enjoy a Devonshire Tea
and visit our several stalls that will
be operating, this includes Residents
stalls, cakes and sweet stalls, trash
and treasure, entertainment,
hamburgers. Donations of baked
goods are welcome. All bake goods
must be labelled with all ingredients,
and if they have been frozen please
include the letter “f” on the label.
NEWS FROM AROUND OUR COMMUNITY
From the HIVE:
IGNITE CONFERENCE: is coming up fast in September. If you’re a youth or young adult interested or want more information please message us or approach a Hive Leader at Mass.
CONTACTS: Phone: 0478150103. Facebook: The Hive Youth & Young Adult Ministry. Instagram: @the hive.ministry
PLEASE PRAY FOR:
RECENTLY DECEASED: Minna Ward
ANNIVERSARY: John Ryan, Agnes Acutt, Marie Tonner, Margaret Sheils, Kevin James Maguire, Mylene Roallos, Fernando Roallos, John and Annie Devitt, George and Mary Nolan, Peter and MaryAnn Byrne
FOR THOSE WHO ARE SICK: Carmel Leadbetter
FOR ALL THOSE WHO ARE HOUSE-BOUND AND RECEIVE COMMUNION AT HOME.
Sing A New Song - A few years ago a new hymn book called “Catholic Worship Book II” was released and has been sitting in all parishes, with varying degrees of use. In an attempt to explore this resource more fully, our “Sing A New Song” sessions have attracted a happy band of singers keen to learn some new material that will eventually be incorporated into our liturgies. The next get-together will be on Tuesday the 21st of August at St. Joseph’s Church, North Ipswich, commencing at 7:00pm. If you have a copy of this green hymn book, please bring it along. Let’s see how many hymns we can get through in one hour! All parishioners are welcome.
2018 Annual Catholic
Campaign will be
conducted in the Ipswich
Catholic Community on
8th and 9th September
2018
NEW LITURGY ROSTERS FOR LEICHHARDT, NORTH IPSWICH
AND ROSEWOOD FOR THE MONTHS OF SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER
AND NOVEMBER WILL BE PREPARED SHORTLY. IF YOU WILL BE
UNAVAILABLE DURING THIS TIME PLEASE MAKE A NOTE IN THE
BOOK IN THE SACRISTY (Lcht and Nth Ips) OR LET BERNADETTE
LENIHAN OR MAREE KNOW (for Rosewood).
ARCHDIOCESAN SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE ADULTS SESSION:
If you were unable to attend the session held at St Mary’s Ipswich recently there is going to be a session on Saturday 8th September 3pm – 5:15pm St Mary’s Church – 15 Maitland Street Gatton. ICC parishioners who wish to attend are asked to register with St Mary’s Ipswich Parish Office by 31/8/2018.
OASIS DAY: We extend an invitation to parishioners to spend a few hours in quiet prayer and reflection on Thursday 6th Septem-ber from 5pm to 7.30pm to be held at Mater Dei, Ferrett Street Sadliers Crossing. The evening will be a mixture of prayer, scrip-ture, quiet personal reflection, and a shared dinner. Our hope in offering these Oasis days is to encourage a prayerful stillness where we can let go of the busyness of our lives and sit in the presence of God for just a few hours. Bring along dinner to share. To register for the Oasis day please phone the Parish Office on 3281 2133 or email [email protected]