Blakehurst Bowling Club, 17 April 2016 Year C Fourth ... · Fourth Sunday of Easter -Blakehurst...

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Parish Clergy: Fr Janusz Bieniek CSMA (Parish Priest) Fr Piotr Hadro CSMA Parish Staff: Leena Strickland-Langatuki (Office Admin) Valerie Gonzaga (Sacramental Co-ordinator) Mass Times: Sunday Masses: Vigil Mass (Sat) 5.00pm, Sundays 8am, 10am & 6pm Spanish: Saturday 6.30pm Cantonese: Fourth Sunday at 12.00pm Mandarin: 1st & 3rd Sundays at 12.15pm Weekday Masses: Mon, Tues & Wed: 6.45am and Thurs, Fri: 9.15am, Sat: 9am Healing Mass: First Friday of: March, June, September & December at 6pm Children’s Liturgy: Sunday 10.00am Mass (except 5th Sunday) Confessions: Every Saturday: 9.45am—10.15am & 4pm –4.45pm Baptisms: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Sundays of the month at 11.15am Marriages: Please contact the Priest 6mths prior to the wedding. Pre-marriage course is required Anointing of the Sick and Dying: Call the Priest any time Fourth Sunday of Easter - 17 April 2016 Year C This is tradionally known as “Good Shepherd” Sunday, and is part of the connuing journey of Easter – remember that Jesus is the Good Shepherd who both gives his life for his sheep and takes it up again. His relaonship with us, aſter the resurrecon, is closer than we can imagine: through his dying and rising, Jesus fulfils the promise he makes in today’s Gospel: “I give them eternal life, and they will never be lost.” This Sunday is another opportunity for us to consider the consequences of the Resurrecon – how we live the Easter Story. Come and celebrate with us... FR JANUSZ’ 60TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Friday 24 June 2016 at 7pm Bethany Hall, Bethany College 4 Croydon Road, Hurstville (next door to St Michael’s Parish) Tickets are available after all Masses this weekend Tickets are $25 each This includes dinner, drinks and entertainment. TUE 19 APRIL Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Marian Movement of Priests Cenacle 6pm Church Devotion to St Michael & the Angels 7pm Church Spanish Prayer Group 7pm Corroboree Room WED 20 APRIL Legion of Mary 7.30pm Old Church THU 21 APRIL Morning Prayer Group 10am Corroboree Room Marian Devotion Croatian Prayer Group 11am Church FRI 22 APRIL Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 10.30am Church SAT 23 APRIL Meditation 8am Presbytery Meeting Room Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help after 9am Mass Reconciliation 9.45am and 4pm Cantonese Prayer Group 10.30am Back Meeting Room MON 25 APRIL ANZAC DAY 9am MASS NEEDED—MUSICIANS AND VOCALISTS Thank you for your support! We have 5 talented and experienced people who have signed up to the task, can we please have some more people, musicians and vocalists needed. Come and share your time and talents, please contact the Parish Office to provide your details. A meeting will be held in the coming weeks to discuss plans for the planning/creation of the new Choir. An invitation to all parishioners to be involved in the St Mary’s Winter Appeal 2016 Knit-In This winter we would like to do something to help the homeless and the poor and continue to build the wonderful faith community here at St Mary’s School and St Michael’s Parish. Everyone can be involved. Donate wool, knitting needles or crotchet hooks, Knit or crotchet squares Teach a student to knit or crotchet. Squares can be knitted or crocheted and are to be 25cm X 25cm square. Completed squares or donations of wool can be left in the school foyer. For more info, please contact Maria Boyd on [email protected]. Sr Pauline’s 93rd Birthday To all friends of St Michael’s come and celebrate with Sr Pauline on Tuesday 10 May 2016 at 12.30pm, Blakehurst Bowling Club, 12 Merriman Street, Kyle Bay 2221. Immediate RSVP appreciated by calling Rose Polic on 0411 637 050. Costs to be confirmed.

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Parish Clergy: Fr Janusz Bieniek CSMA (Parish Priest) Fr Piotr Hadro CSMA

Parish Staff: Leena Strickland-Langatuki (Office Admin) Valerie Gonzaga (Sacramental Co-ordinator)

Mass Times: Sunday Masses: Vigil Mass (Sat) 5.00pm, Sundays 8am, 10am & 6pm Spanish: Saturday 6.30pm Cantonese: Fourth Sunday at 12.00pm Mandarin: 1st & 3rd Sundays at 12.15pm Weekday Masses: Mon, Tues & Wed: 6.45am and Thurs, Fri: 9.15am, Sat: 9am Healing Mass: First Friday of: March, June, September & December at 6pm

Children’s Liturgy: Sunday 10.00am Mass (except 5th Sunday) Confessions: Every Saturday: 9.45am—10.15am & 4pm –4.45pm Baptisms: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Sundays of the month at 11.15am Marriages: Please contact the Priest 6mths prior to the wedding. Pre-marriage course is required

Anointing of the Sick and Dying: Call the Priest any time

Fourth Sunday of Easter - 17 April 2016 Year C

This is traditionally known as “Good Shepherd” Sunday, and is part of the continuing journey of Easter – remember that Jesus is the Good Shepherd who both gives his life for his sheep and takes it up again. His relationship with us, after the resurrection, is closer than we can imagine: through his dying and rising, Jesus fulfils the promise he makes in today’s

Gospel: “I give them eternal life, and they will never be lost.” This Sunday is another opportunity for us to consider the consequences of the Resurrection – how we live the Easter Story.

Come and celebrate with us...

FR JANUSZ’ 60TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

Friday 24 June 2016 at 7pm

Bethany Hall, Bethany College

4 Croydon Road, Hurstville

(next door to St Michael’s Parish)

Tickets are available after all Masses this weekend Tickets are $25 each

This includes dinner, drinks and entertainment.

TUE 19 APRIL Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Marian Movement of Priests Cenacle 6pm Church

Devotion to St Michael & the Angels 7pm Church Spanish Prayer Group 7pm Corroboree Room

WED 20 APRIL Legion of Mary 7.30pm Old Church

THU 21 APRIL Morning Prayer Group 10am Corroboree Room Marian Devotion Croatian Prayer Group 11am Church

FRI 22 APRIL Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 10.30am Church

SAT 23 APRIL Meditation 8am Presbytery Meeting Room

Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help after 9am Mass

Reconciliation 9.45am and 4pm Cantonese Prayer Group 10.30am Back Meeting Room

MON 25 APRIL ANZAC DAY 9am MASS

NEEDED—MUSICIANS AND VOCALISTS

Thank you for your support! We have 5 talented and

experienced people who have signed up to the task, can we please have some more people, musicians

and vocalists needed.

Come and share your time and talents, please contact the Parish Office to provide your details.

A meeting will be held in the coming weeks to discuss plans for the planning/creation of the new

Choir.

An invitation to all parishioners to be involved in the St Mary’s Winter Appeal 2016 Knit-In

This winter we would like to do something to help the homeless and the poor and continue to build the

wonderful faith community here at St Mary’s School and St Michael’s Parish.

Everyone can be involved. Donate wool, knitting needles or crotchet hooks, Knit or crotchet squares

Teach a student to knit or crotchet. Squares can be knitted or crocheted and are to be 25cm X 25cm square. Completed squares or donations of wool can be left in the school foyer.

For more info, please contact Maria Boyd on [email protected].

Sr Pauline’s 93rd Birthday

To all friends of St Michael’s come and celebrate with

Sr Pauline on Tuesday 10 May 2016 at 12.30pm,

Blakehurst Bowling Club, 12 Merriman Street, Kyle Bay 2221.

Immediate RSVP appreciated by calling Rose Polic on 0411 637 050.

Costs to be confirmed.

KEEPING THE CHURCH CLEAN AND TIDY

It has been noticed that food crumbs and used tissues as well as other

various items that are meant for the rubbish bin have been left in the

pews. Can you please check your pew and take with you all personal items and

any rubbish with you when you leave.

The Church should be kept clean and tidy at all times.

A REMINDER to GROUPS using the CHURCH/ HALL/ MEETING ROOMS

Please leave all areas tidy, lights, fans and air-conditioning turned off, chairs returned and most importantly, please

return any keys to their original storage area.

ENTRANCE ANTIPHON The merciful love of the Lord fills the earth; by the word of the Lord the heavens were made, alleluia.

FIRST READING: Acts 13:14, 43-52 A reading from the Acts of the Apostles Paul and Barnabas carried on from Perga till they reached Antioch in Pisidia. Here they went to synagogue on the sabbath and took their seats. When the meeting broke up, many Jews and devout converts joined Paul and Barnabas, and in their talks with them Paul and Barnabas urged them to remain faithful to the grace God had given them. The next sabbath almost the whole town assembled to hear the word of God. When they saw the crowds, the Jews, prompted by jealousy, used blasphemies and contradicted everything Paul said. Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, ‘We had to proclaim the word of God to you first, but since you have rejected it, since you do not think yourselves worthy of eternal life, we must turn to the pagans. For this is what the Lord commanded us to do when he said: I have made you a light for the nations, so that my salvation may reach the ends of the earth.’ It made the pagans very happy to hear this and they thanked the Lord for his message; all who were destined for eternal life became believers. Thus the word of the Lord spread through the whole countryside. But the Jews worked upon some of the devout women of the upper classes and the leading men of the city and persuaded them to turn against Paul and Barnabas and expel them from their territory. So they shook the dust from their feet in defiance and went off to Iconium; but the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit. The word of the Lord.

RESP PSALM Ps 99:1-3. 5. R. v.3 R. We are his people, the sheep of his flock.

Cry out with joy to the Lord, all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before him, singing for joy. R.

Know that he, the Lord, is God. He made us, we belong to him, we are his people, the sheep of his flock. R.

Indeed, how good is the Lord, eternal his merciful love.

He is faithful from age to age. R.

SECOND READING: Rv 7:9, 14-17 A reading from the book of the Apocalypse I, John, saw a huge number, impossible to count, of people from every nation, race, tribe and language; they were standing in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palms in their hands. One of the elders said to me, ‘These are the people who have been through the great persecution, and because they have washed their robes white again in the blood of the Lamb, they now stand in front of God’s throne and serve him day and night in his sanctuary; and the One who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them. They will never hunger or thirst again; neither the sun nor scorching wind will ever plague them, because the Lamb who is at the throne will be their shepherd and will lead them to springs of living water; and God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.’ The word of the Lord. GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Alleluia, alleluia! I am the good shepherd, says the Lord; I know my sheep, and mine know me. Alleluia! GOSPEL: Jn 10:27-30 A reading from the holy Gospel according to John Jesus said: ‘The sheep that belong to me listen to my voice; I know them and they follow me. I give them eternal life; they will never be lost and no one will ever steal them from me. The Father who gave them to me is greater than anyone, and no one can steal from the Father. The Father and I are one.’ The Gospel of the Lord. COMMUNION ANTIPHON The Good Shepherd has risen, who laid down his life for his sheep and willingly died for his flock, alleluia.

We pray for the repose of the souls of

the recently deceased: Annie Honer, Jessica Anne Murphy, Cecilia Patricia Fitzsimmons, Peter Si, Teresa Malana, Rosa Betty Kaulima and Nelson Bull.

We remember those relatives and

friends who have departed this life: Theressa Eteaki, Renecio Espiritu, Francesco Park, Valerie Craig, Alan & Kathleen Mercer, Tracey & Kelly

Families, Antonino Picone, Joseph & Cecilia Teo, Anthony Teo, Florence May Jones, Joseph George Sakr, Ken Lucas, Frank & Lillian Lucas, Jennifer

Meredith, Herbert & Dora Christensen, George & Josephine Cowell, Trevor Gaynor and the

Manwaring Family.

We pray for: Helen Carson, Chan Kwong Kau and

Domenic D’autilio whose anniversaries occur

about now.

We pray for the sick in our community: Patricia Shiel, Ellie & Hannah Humphreys, Danielle Vatikiotis, Mirjana Talevski, Therese Bull,

Archbishop Anthony Fisher, Warsito Brillo, Bill Banks, Michelle Anthony, Joseph Park,

Rick Ynfante, Betty Donohoue, Fred Pereira, Neville Zacka, Andrew Ang, Badoui Massoud,

Slavka Kokinovski, Sr Pauline Fitz-Walter, George Coaker and baby George Benjamin Craven.

We pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory and for

those that have no one to pray for them.

ONE MILLION ROSARIES FOR UNBORN BABIES. The 2016 One Million Rosaries For Unborn Babies is scheduled to take place 06, 07 and 08 May. All those who wish to participate in this multinational pro-life prayer event are invited to pray a rosary for the protection of the lives of unborn children. To register, please visit: www.saintmichaelthearchangel organization.org.

W A L K W I T H C H R I S T P O S T P O N E D . D u e t o complications associated with the Light Rail works in the CBD, the decision has been taken to

postpone the annual Eucharistic Procession, Walk With Christ, to a time close to the Feast of Christ the King (Sunday 20 November 2016). This will allow us to close the Year of Mercy with the Eucharistic Procession. His Grace also hopes that he might be able to accompany the procession in November.

Check the Notice Board for the latest information and to see what’s happening in our local and surrounding areas within the

Archdiocese of Sydney.

A Special Mass will be held on

ANZAC DAY at 9am

on Monday 25 April 2016.

(Please note there is NO 6.45am Mass)