Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-24 Death was not God's doing, he takes no pleasure in the extinction of the living. To be - for this he created all; the world's created things have health in them, in them no fatal poison can be found, and Hades holds no power on earth; for virtue is undying. Yet God did make man imperishable, he made him in the image of his own nature; it was the devil's envy that brought death into the world, as those who are his partners will discover

Psalm 29:2. 4-6. 11-13 R. I will praise you, Lord,

for you have rescued me

I will praise you, Lord, you have rescued me and have not let my enemies rejoice over me. O Lord, you have raised my soul from the dead, restored me to life from those who sink into the grave.

Sing psalms to the Lord, you who love him, give thanks to his holy name. His anger lasts but a moment: his favour through life. At night there are tears, but joy comes with dawn.

The Lord listened and had pity. The Lord came to my help. For me you have changed my mourning into dancing, O Lord my God, I will thank you for ever.

2 Corinthians 8:7. 9. 13-15 You always have the most of everything - of faith, of eloquence, of understanding, of keenness for any cause, and the biggest share of our affection - so we expect you to put the most into this work of mercy too. Remember how generous the Lord Jesus was: he was rich, but he became poor for your sake, to make you rich out of his poverty. This does not mean that to give relief to others you ought to make things difficult for yourselves: it is a question of balancing what happens to be your surplus now against their present need, and one day they may have something to spare that will supply your own need. That is how we strike a balance: as scripture says: The man who gathered much had none too much, the man who gathered little did not go short.

Acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia! Our Saviour Jesus Christ has done away with death and brought us life through his gospel. Alleluia!

Mark 5:21-43 When Jesus had crossed in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered round him and he stayed by the lakeside. Then one of the synagogue officials came up, Jairus by name, and seeing him, fell at his feet and pleaded with him earnestly, saying, 'My little daughter is desperately sick. Do come and lay your hands on her to make her better and save her life.' Jesus went with him and a large crowd followed him; they were pressing all round him.

Now there was a woman who had suffered from a haemorrhage for twelve years; after long and painful treatment under various doctors, she had spent all she had without being any the better for it, in fact, she was getting worse. She had heard about Jesus, and she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his cloak. 'If I can touch his clothes,' she had told herself 'I will be well again.' And the source of the bleeding dried up instantly, and she felt in herself that she was cured of her complaint. Immediately aware that power had gone out of him, Jesus turned around in the crowd and said, 'Who touched my clothes?' His disciples said to him, 'You see how the crowd is pressing round you and yet you say, "Who touched me?"' But he continued to look all round to see who had done it. Then the woman came forward, frightened and trembling because she knew what had happened to her, and she fell at his feet and told him the whole truth. 'My daughter,' he said 'your faith has restored you to health; go in peace and be free from your complaint.'

While he was still speaking some people arrived from the house of the synagogue official to say, 'Your daughter is dead: why put the Master to any further trouble?' But Jesus had overheard this remark of theirs and he said to the official, 'Do not be afraid; only have faith.' And he allowed no one to go with him except Peter and James and John the brother of James. So they came to the official's house and Jesus noticed all the commotion, with people weeping and wailing unrestrainedly. He went in and said to them, 'Why all this commotion and crying? The child is not dead, but asleep.' But they laughed at him. So he turned them all out and, taking with him the child's father and mother and his own companions, he went into the place where the child lay. And taking the child by the hand he said to her, 'Talitha, kum!' which means, 'Little girl, I tell you to get up.' The little girl got up at once and began to walk about, for she was twelve years old. At this they were overcome with astonishment, and he ordered them strictly not to let anyone know about it, and told them to give her something to eat.

Living Word The

“ “If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much.”

—Lewis Carroll

13TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B — JUNE 28 2015

INGHAM

SAT 6.00PM SUN 8.30AM SUN 7.00PM

HALIFAX SUN 7.00AM

CANOSSA SUN 10.00AM

ABERGOWRIE SUN 10.00AM

Sunday Masses

4/5 July

MON 5.30PM ST PATRICK ’S STS PETER & PAUL, APOSTLES

TUES 5.30PM ST PAUL’S

WED 8.00AM ST PATRICK ’S

THURS 5.30PM ST PATRICK ’S

FRI 7.00AM ST PATRICK ’S ST THOMAS, APOSTLE

Weekdays

29 June—3 July

Not the Pastor’s Pen!

Solemnity of Ss. Peter and

Paul - June 29

Peter (d. 64?). St. Mark ends the first half of his Gospel with a triumphant climax. He has recorded doubt, misunderstanding and the opposition of many to Jesus. Now Peter makes his great confession of faith: "You are the Messiah" . It was one of the many glorious moments in Peter's life, beginning with the day he was called from his nets along the Sea of Galilee to become a fisher of men for Jesus.

The New Testament clearly shows Peter as the leader of the apostles, chosen by Jesus to have a special relationship with him. With James and John he was privileged to witness the Transfiguration, the raising of a dead child to life and the agony in Gethsemane. His mother-in-law was cured by Jesus. He was sent with John to prepare for the last Passover before Jesus' death. His name is first on every list of apostles. And to Peter only did Jesus say, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven" (Matthew 16:17b-19).

But the Gospels prove their own trustworthiness by the unflattering details they include about Peter. He clearly had no public relations person. It is a great comfort for ordinary mortals to know that Peter also has his human weakness, even in the presence of Jesus.

He generously gave up all things, yet he can ask in childish self-regard, "What are we going to get for all this?" . He receives the full force of Christ's anger when he objects to the idea of a suffering Messiah: "Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do" .Peter is willing to accept Jesus' doctrine of forgiveness, but suggests a limit of seven times. He walks on the water in faith, but sinks in doubt. He refuses to let Jesus wash his feet, then wants his whole body cleansed. He swears at the Last Supper that he will never deny Jesus, and then swears to a servant maid that he has never known the man. He loyally resists the first attempt to arrest Jesus by cutting off Malchus's ear, but in the end he runs away with the others. In the depth of his sorrow, Jesus looks on him and forgives him, and he goes out and sheds bitter tears. The Risen Jesus told Peter to feed his lambs and his sheep (John 21:15-17).

Paul (d. 64?). If the most well-known preacher today suddenly began preaching that the United States should adopt Marxism and not rely on the Constitution, the angry reaction would help us understand Paul's life when he started preaching that Christ alone can save us. He had been the most Pharisaic of Pharisees, the most legalistic of Mosaic lawyers. Now he suddenly appears to other Jews as a heretical welcomer of

Welcome to all visitors and new parishioners. Please make yourself known to us.

ROSARY

9.30AM MONDAY IN ST PATRICK ’S

ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

TUESDAY 9AM TO 8.30PM IN ST PAUL’S CHAPEL

Devotions

Confessions

SATURDAY 5.00PM OR BY APPOINTMENT

Parish Contacts

Parish Priest: Fr Damian McGrath Associate Pastor: Fr Cipriano Mallari Priest in Residence: Fr Michael Igo

Parish Secretary: Pauline Pennisi Assistant and RE Co-ordinator: Marcella Cantatore Pastoral Care: Sr Nina Barra

Mail: PO Box 375, Ingham Q 4850 Phone: 4776 2600 Fax: 4776 5199

Web: www.inghamcatholic.com Email: parishoffice@inghamcatholic.com

Office Hours: 9am to 12pm Monday to Friday, 1pm to 3pm Monday to Thursday

Upcoming Events

• Catholic Education Week 26 July to 1 August

• Combined Schools Mass 29 July

• Fr Damian’s “My Million Steps’” Dinner and Report Night—15 August following 6pm Mass.

• First Holy Communion Ingham 22 & 23 August

• First Holy Communion Halifax 29 August

• First Holy Communion Canossa 30 August

Congratulations to:

Paul Mostachetti and

Catherine Cantoni

married in St Patrick’s Church on Saturday.

Please keep in your prayers: Catherine Pedruzzi,.

May the Lord’s healing hand rest upon them.

Welcome to new children of God:

Jack Ryan Naughton

&

Amelia Sam Lousick

baptised this Sunday at St Patrick’s &

St Peter’s respectively

Vestments—Chasuble

The chasuble is the outer liturgical garment worn by the priest at Mass. It is a sleeveless vestment that shows the color of the day’s feast. The common traditional colors

are white, red, green, violet, and rose (twice a year). The word comes from a Latin word casula. It developed

from Roman garments that were common at the time. It changed over the years from a completely round or

square cloth with a opening for the head to a garment shaped to make it easier for the priest to move his

arms. The chasuble is usually purchased from a religious goods store, but in some parishes they are

lovingly handmade by parishioners.

New Planned Giving Boxes

Weekly Planned Giving givers, please collect your new box of envelopes from the front of St Patrick’s. Apologies to Canossa people for forgetting to send your boxes out last week. They are there this week for collection. It costs approx. $4-$5 to post these boxes so please pick yours up.

Cursillo Weekend

An invitation is extended to you to attend a Men’s only Cursillo at St Raphael’s College on the James Cook University Campus in Townsville (with a Women’s Cursillo to follow) from the evening of Friday 3 July until the evening of Monday 6 July 2015.

What is a CURSILLO three days? AN EXPERIENCE IN CHRISTIAN AND PERSONAL GROWTH THROUGH A SERIES OF TALKS, MEDIATATIONS, DISCUSSIONS, PRAYER & MASSES. A CURSILLO THREE DAYS OFFERS YOU SPIRITUAL GROWTH. It offers you the opportunity to deepen your personal relationship with Christ and to discuss questions that can make a difference in your life with support from a group of people who really care about your spirituality.

A CURSILLO THREE DAYS OFFERS YOU AN EXPERIENCE OF CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY. It is an enjoyable and enriching experience which offers you an effective way of living out your Catholic Faith. It is ADULT SHARING, CHRISTIAN LIVING AND GOOD FUN.

For further details contact Vince & Marlene Trovato 4777 4278 or Joe & Margaret Girgenti 4776 3934.

Gentiles, a traitor and apostate. Paul's central conviction was simple and absolute: Only God can save humanity. No human effort—even the most scrupulous observance of law—can create a human good which we can bring to God as reparation for sin and payment for grace. To be saved from itself, from sin, from the devil and from death, humanity must open itself completely to the saving power of Jesus. Paul never lost his love for his Jewish family, though he carried on a lifelong debate with them about the uselessness of the Law without Christ. He reminded the Gentiles that they were grafted on the parent stock of the Jews, who were still God's chosen people, the children of the promise.

In light of his preaching and teaching skills, Paul's name has surfaced (among others) as a possible patron of the Internet.

Comment:

We would probably go to confession to Peter sooner than to any of the other apostles. He is perhaps a more striking example of the simple fact of holiness. Jesus says to us as he said, in effect, to Peter: "It is not you who have chosen me, but I who have chosen you. Peter, it is not human wis-dom that makes it possible for you to believe, but my Fa-ther's revelation. I, not you, build my Church." Paul's expe-rience of the risen Jesus on the road to Damascus was the driving force that made him one of the most zealous, dy-namic and courageous ambassadors of Christ the Church has ever had. But persecution, humiliation and weakness became his day-by-day carrying of the cross, material for further transformation. The dying Christ was in him; the living Christ was his life.

Office Hours during the school holidays.

Please note that during the school holidays (29 June to 10 July) the office will only be open from 9.00am to 12 noon Monday to Friday . Normal office hours will resume on Monday 13th July.

Requiescant in pace Please Pray For: Stefano (Steve) Valastro. (died this

week), Ross Girgenti, Giuseppina Contarino, Mary

Andrews, Giuseppe Pallanza,Teresa, Giovanni (Johnny)

Accornero, Bernard Doherty, Peter Silvini, Rosemary

Meaney (annivs at this time), Nancy Musumeci,

Margaret MacKenzie, Tom Hiceta, Janice Day, Eddie &

Lina Gileppa, Marianne Ferrero, Olga Lancini, Santo

Contarino, Angelo Pietrobon, Kate Tropea, Vittorio &

Maria Cantoni, Carlo & Maria Magoni, Giulio Magoni,

baby Elliott Francis Mathersen, Lina Lazzaroni, Dina

Menegon, Robert Mizzi, Baldo Fanti, Santo & Anna

Giliberto, Bert De-Campo, Guseppe Marbelli, Peter

Venturato, Lino Zampatti

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord. Let perpetual light shine upon them.

May they rest in peace. Amen. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God,

rest in peace. Amen.

My Million Steps

Day 19 - June 29 – 27km—Moratinos to El Burgo Ranero

Day Sponsors: John & June Leonardi; John & Margaret Spina & Family; Vito & Gina Guarrera

5000 Steps: (1) Joan Kennedy; (2) Sr Helen Mary Peters; 3) Enzo & Gloria Motti; (4)Alf & Finie La Rosa (5) Alf & Finie La Rosa; (6) Gilroy Santa Maria Day 20 - June 30 – 19km—El Burgo Ranero to Mansilla de las Mulas

Day Sponsors: Lawrence & Elsa Gusmeroli; Nick Adonasis & Family; Duffy Family

5000 Steps: (1) Mary Barnes; (2) Mary Barnes; (3) Frank & Jan Boon (4) Charlie & Connie Scerri; (5) Gilroy Santa Maria

Day 21 - July 01 – 19km—-Mansilla de las Mulas to León

Day Sponsors: Matthews Family; Lydia Sullivan; Joe & Margaret Girgenti

5000 Steps: (1) Charlie & Connie Scerri; (2) Renzo & Grace DI Bella (3) Trevor, Mirella & Andrew Pallanza (4) Trevor, Mirella & Andrew Pallanza (5) Gilroy Santa Maria Day 23 - July 03 – 21km—León to Villar de Mazarife

Day Sponsors: Sister Nina Barra; Jairo & Olga Llanos; Anonymous

5000 Steps: (1)Phillip & Maria Fichera; (2) Alfia Silvini (3) Denis, Joanne, Kristen & Sarah Garutti ; (4) Tom & Eva Duffy; (5) Gilroy Santa Maria Day 24 - July 04 – 31km—Villar de Mazarife to Astorga

Day Sponsors: Gary & Bernadette Roveglia & Family; George Day; Jim & Roberta Busuttin

5000 Steps: (1) Diana Perticato; (2) Peter & Carmen Marbelli; (3) Peter & Mari Quabba; (4) Alfia Silvini; (5) Janene Guazzo; (6) John & Rosetta Russo; (7) Ken and Ann Barnes

Day 25 - July 05 – 25km- Astorga to Foncebadón

Day Sponsors: Carmel, Alfina & Sebastian Coco; Peter & Alice Costanzo & Family; Marlies Maussen

5000 steps – (1) Rose Dametto; (2) Mary Zampatti; (3) John & Deanna Gollogly (4) Gilroy Santa Maria; (5) Ray & Diane Guandalini; (6) Cecil & Jo Day You can follow me:

Blog: mymillionsteps.blogspot.com Email: damian@mcgrath.mobi Mobile: +34634307743 (please feel free to sms in support but note that I can’t text back on my Spanish plan without selling a vital organ)

Rosters Counters This Week:

R Blanco J Girgenti R Girgenti O Marino

Counters Next Week:

S Di Bartolo F Di Bartolo A La Rosa R Romano M Garutti

Children’s Liturgy—Saturday 4 July at 6.00pm

Russell Andrews & David Pelleri

Altar Servers 4/5 July:

Sat 6.00pm: Help Needed

Sun 8.30am: Help Needed

Sun 7.00pm: Georgia Noble Trista Kopeshke

Organists 4/5 July:

Sat 6.00pm: Paul Cavallaro Sun 8.30am: Monica Vitale Sun 7.00pm: Lynette Di Bella

Commentators 4/5 July:

Sat 6.00pm: Gerard Girgenti Sun 8.30am: Lorraine Pietrobon Sun 7.00pm: Judy Vigh

Readers 4/5 July:

Halifax: Robyn Neitz & Lorraine Castles

Canossa: C/1 Mirella Pallanza 2/3 Sam Spina

Sat 6.00pm: 1 Judy Reitano 2 Felix Reitano 3 Gerard Girgenti Sun 8.30am: 1 Connie Corradini 2 Madeliene D’Urso 3 Lorraine Pietrobon Sun 7.00pm: 1 Steve Vigh 2 Paula Martin 3 Judy Vigh

Abergowrie: Eva Duffy & Maryann Barra

Special Ministers 4/5 July:

Halifax: Santina Cross & Elizabeth Castorina

Canossa: Trevor & Julie Nowak

Sat 6.00pm: Sam Duffy Fred & Nancy Gangemi

Sun 8.30am: Viv Garrigan Mario Marbelli Alex Pietrobon

Sun 7.00pm: Ben Barbi Debbie Sartor Adrian Scovazzi

Abergowrie: Tom Duffy