Last Weekend’s Thanksgiving Program

Next Week’s Counting Team: No. 2 (14/05/2018)

1st Collection 2nd Collection Piety Shop St Anthony’s

$1182.25 $1977.00 $35.00 $49.65

If we are generous in our giving, and if all of us are prepared to share the load, then together we can help our Parish to move forward. (Fr. John Khoai)

Weekly Diary : 07th —12th May 2018 Monday 07th : 08.00 am. Mass

Tuesday 08th : 08.00 am. Mass, followed by Eucharistic Adoration.

: 10.30 am. Anointing Mass at Arcare Aged Centre Hope Island.

Wednesday 09th : 09.30 am. Mass, followed by Rosary.

Thursday 10th : 09.30 am. Mass, followed by Rosary.

Friday 11th : 09.30 am. Anointing Mass, followed by Rosary

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Saturday 12th : 09.30 am. Mass, followed by Rosary.

Saturday 12th : 5.30 pm. : Ascension Sunday Year B

Sunday 13th : 07.00 am. + 09.00 am. : Ascension Sunday Year B

11.00 am. 3 Children Baptismal Celebration

The 1st Evening Sunday Mass of June will be on the 3rd at 5.30 pm. : Solemnity of Corpus Christi B.

Mass Duty Roster : 12th /13th May 2018

Mass Co-ordinator

5.30pm

Pierrette & Rino

Lectors

Pierrette Serra

Rino Serra

Extraordinary Ministers of Communion

Jean Di Benedetto, June Molloy, Helen Topham

Clive Broughton, Rachelle Broughton

Servers

Mia Braun

7.00am

Trudy Andrews

Christine McDougall

John Carter

Rose Hessen, Michael Nicholson, Danielle Carter

Margaret McNamara, Celine Lobb

Brianna & Ashley

9.00am

Ronnie Wilson

Rose Lopez

Ronnie Wilson

John Lynch, Kathy Fuller

Pam Nelson, Denise Moar

John & Matthew Healey

Parish News

Sacrament of Eucharist (First Communion) Year 4

Lessons 3 & 4 Monday 14 May from 6.00pm to 7.00 pm.

Tuesday 15 May from 3.30pm to 4.30 pm.

Rehearsal 1 Monday 21 May from 6.00pm to 7.00 pm.

Rehearsal 2 Monday 28 May from 6.00pm to 7.00 pm.

Celebration of Sacrament Sunday 03 June at 9.00 am Mass

For the first time, the Brisbane Archdiocese will host the national Proclaim Conference. PROCLAIM 2018 will focus on inspiring, equipping and encouraging parishes and Catholic communities to engage in Evangelisation and Renewal. The theme of this year’s Conference is “Make your home in me” (Jn 15:4).

PROCLAIM 2018 will run across three days from 12-14 July, 2018 at The Edmund Rice Performing Arts Centre (St Laurence’s College, South Brisbane).

For more information: Phone: (07) 3324 3440 | Email: eb@bne.catholic.net.au

Love Demands Sacrifice

True love is a choice that demands sacrifice. People who fall in and out of love have not made a choice that demands sacrifice. When people are getting married, sadly, some of them don’t see the Lord as the center of their love; they really do not want Christ’s love in their marriage. That costs too much.

The Love of Christ comes with a price. There is sacrifice that we need to make to return the Lord’s love. Jesus says: “It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you to go forth and bear fruit.” This is hard to accept in a society that preaches endless choices, a society that caters to infantile fantasies of no rules and no limits to life. But because we have been chosen to work for the Kingdom, then our options are limited. We have to have rules for a way of life that is truly Christian. We have to deny our childish desires for the infinitely greater good of the Kingdom of God.

Princess Alice, the second daughter of Queen Victoria of England got a baby boy. At the age of four, he got a terrible disease, highly contagious. There was no cure, no hope. The doctors told her to stay away from her son. One day she heard her little boy whispering to a nurse, “Why doesn’t mommy hold me and kiss me anymore?” That was more than Princess Alice could bear. She ran to her son’s bed, hugged him and kissed him. She did what any loving mother would do. She had no choice. She had to show her love. He needed her. Within weeks she came down with the sickness. Both were buried together.

The choice of love demands that we accept limitations on our lives and even pain and suffering in order to love as Jesus loved. Parents respond to their baby’s cries in the middle of the night. They have no choice if they really love their child. But that choice takes sacrifice. This is the meaning of true love. Look at your Moms and Dads. Look at the sacrifices each makes for the other. In a true marriage, marital love is infinitely more than the physical expression of that love.

Millions of little routine daily sacrifices make the greatest life there ever was a reality in our world.

The true love of Jesus imposes limits on us. Jesus died for others. When we look at him on the cross, we realize that we have been chosen to make Jesus’ life a reality.

It is said that when we sneak into heaven and the angels will immediately slam shut the gates of heaven as soon they do not see marks of the nails in our palms. They know we are not the Lord’s friends. Having no wounds of love, we are obviously imposters. If we have been chosen by Christ, and we have, then we have to accept his way of life, the way of limits, the way of sacrificial love.

Fr. John Khoái

6th Sunday of Easter Year B 6th May 2018—Issue No. 274

Fr John Khoái Parish Priest Tel : 07 5537 4320 - 3 Mob : 0427 777 500 pp.rbay@bne.catholic.net.au

Audrey Ho

Parish Secretary

Tel : 07 5537 4320 - 2

Parish address : 16 Simbai Street Runaway Bay Q. 4216

Postal : PO Box 125 Runaway Bay Q4216 Tel : 07 5537 4320 Fax: 07 5537 5476

rbay@bne.catholic.net.au

Parish Website :

www.holyfamilyrunawaybay.org.au

Parish Office Hours Tues, Wed,Thurs, Fri (Closed on Monday): 8.45am-3pm

Ronnie Wilson

President of PPC

Tel 041 7004 942

Rachelle Broughton

Vice President of PPC

Tel 041 2463 720

Averil Dorego

Secretary of PPC

Tel 0439 992 154

Peter Fox

Chair of PFC

07 5510 9175

Jan Levinge

Marriage Coordinator

Kathy Fuller: Principal

St Francis Xavier School

Tel : 07 5537 2633

Fax: 07 5537 9946 kfuller@bne.catholic.edu.au

Reconciliation at 4.00pm 1st Saturday of the month.

Baptism Preparation at 7pm 1st Thurs of the month

READINGS OF 6th SUNDAY OF EASTER YEAR B

FIRST READING Acts 10:25-26. 34-35. 44-48 The gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.

On Peter’s arrival at Caesarea, Cornelius, a centurion of the Roman cohort, met him, and falling at his feet, worshipped him. But Peter made him get up, saying, “Stand up; I am only a mortal.” Then Peter began to speak to those assembled in the house of Cornelius, “I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word.

The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit

had been poured out even on the Gentiles, for they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter said, “Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” So he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they invited him to stay for several days.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM Ps 98:1-4 R. The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.

O sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvellous things. His right hand and his holy arm have brought him victory. R.

The Lord has made known his victory; he has revealed his vindication in the sight of the nations. He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. R.

All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises. R.

SECOND READING 1 John 4:7-10 Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION John 14:23 Alleluia, alleluia! All who love me will keep my words, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them.

GOSPEL John 15:9-17 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

Jesus said to his disciples: “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. “You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one an-other.”

COMMUNION ANTIPHON: John 14:15-16 If you love me, keep my commandments, says the Lord, and I will ask the Father and he will send you another Paraclete, to abide with you for ever, alleluia!

PRAYERS FOR THE SICK AND DECEASED RECENTLY DECEASED: Rita Glenn, Joan Elizabeth Patmore ANNIVERSARIES: Patricia Maud Dehnert, May McAloon SICK LIST: Reginald Cox, Simon Stretton, Philomena McAloon, Margaret Kwong, Letty O’Sullivan, Ann Morrison,

Gwen Zeitzen, Tony Collett, Val Wolfenden, Ben Cebuliak, Marilyn Rodgers, Frank Hewitt, Anthony Donellan, Dolores Kilian, Robert Duff, Mary Ann Boeheme, John Nekvapal, Rita Ryan, Maureen Currie, Harry Hunter, Margaret Wiersma, Madeline Hodgetts, Erin Mehmet, Nancy Kelly, Tamara Toms, Baby Charlie Shirran, Bernie Pack, Kevin O’Donnell, Elizabeth Norris, Stephen Deshaies, Patricia Ryder, Kathy Pearman, Ken Hannam, Kelly Blount, Gail Callaghan, Pistang Retute, Vanessa Pritchard, Carol Johnston

PRAYER: O Lord Jesus Christ, rest your weary ones, bless your dying ones, soothe your suffering ones, pity your af-flicted ones, shield your joyous ones, and all for your love’s sake. Amen. (St Augustine)