Parish of Our Lady of the Southern Cross 18/19th May, 2019

Contact us ...

Fr Martin Tanti sdb ( Parish Priest)

Jennifer Jacobs-Vandegeer (Liturgy Co-ordinator)

Joan Parr (Secretary)

Thao Tran (Assistant Secretary)

Email: collclift@hotmail.com; office@olsc.org.au Website: olsc.org.au

St Joseph’s Community (1862) 46 Otter Street, Collingwood

Tel: 9417 2959 School: 9419 4918

The Good Shepherd Convent (1863) Abbotsford Tel: 9417 2909

St John the Baptist Community (1882) 61 Queens Parade, Clifton Hill

Tel: 9481 7333 School: 9489 1346

Principals

Ms Rachel Smith (St Joseph’s – 1861) Mr Daniel Ryan (St John’s – 1886)

The Collingwood Cottage Inc (Foodbank) Fridays : 9.00 am to 12.00 noon

St Joseph’s Community Store (St Vinnie’s) Tel: 8415 1593 (since mid 1800’s)

Normal weekend Mass times: St Joseph’s : Saturday 6 pm [English] Sunday 9 am [Vietnamese] St John’s : Saturday 6 pm [English] Sunday 9 am [Italian] 10.30 am [English] 5 pm [English] Good Shepherd Chapel : Weekdays: 9.30 am Sundays 9.30 am

Our Parish Priest

Response to the Prayers of the Faithful …

Lord, hear our prayer

Fr Martin Tanti, SDB PP is normally available at St John’s on Tuesdays and Thursdays, between 10am and 3pm. He is normally available at St Joseph’s on Wednesdays and Fridays between 10am and 4pm.

Sacramental Reception

Baptism : second and fourth Sundays at 12 noon Marriage: by appointment Reconciliation: approach a priest before Mass to make an appointment. First Communion and Confirmation: Preparation for this is conducted in our two schools; we also offer this preparation to State School children. Ring our office on 9481 7333 for further information.

For the sick and injured ...

Returned to the Father ... Condolences : We pray for the families and souls of those who have departed recently, Anniversaries : Nil. Apologies to Enrico Giammario who is still alive (Enrico was mentioned in Anniver-saries instead of the sick list last week) but he is not very well, so our prayers go out to him.

Please remember the following in our prayers: Gabe Sullivan, John Vo,

Trevor Williams, Simon Fenelon, Joseph Vodinh Ida and Mario Misurelli, Enrico Giammario and

Cecilia Nguyen.

If you hear of any of our parishioners who are not well or who have been injured, please let Joan know so that we can all remember them in our prayers.

Would you or someone you know enjoy having com-munion taken to your/their home? Please ring Joan with the details on 9481 7333.

Fr Martin will be at the Salesian Chapter meeting all next week, so will not be available for Mass or consul-tation. Therefore the only Masses celebrated at St Joseph’s will be on Wednesday and Friday with Fr Anthony and Fr Frank will be celebrating Mass at St John’s on Tuesday and Thursday, as per usual.

Don’t forget our Winter Warmers Drive - for the less fortunate in our Parish. Warm woollies will be greatly

appreciated.

The Archbishop’s Charitable Fund is conducting its annual Chaplaincy Sunday Appeal to support the vital work of chaplains in our community today (Sunday). The presence of Catholic chaplains in all the health, aged care, and justice systems across Melbourne is a crucial witness to our faith, a crucial dimension of our service of love, and a vital testimony to the value of life in all its stages. The focus for 2019 is healthcare Chaplaincy. Health-care chaplains offer emotional, spiritual and sacra-mental support to patients and their families in Mel-bourne’s major public hospitals, as well as hospitals in regional Victoria. Parishioners are encouraged to offer prayers and a financial donation to help provide continued spiritual and emotional comfort to families facing illness, pain, grief and death. Envelopes avail-able.

Our first healing Mass of the year offered us a time for quiet reflection and the opportunity to receive the beautiful gift of anointing of the sick. We are very fortunate to have this ministry of healing in our parish. We enjoyed a small morning tea after the healing Mass, which is always a great time to come and have a good laugh together. This is also part of the healing process. We hope to see many more people attending our next Healing Mass on June 22nd at St. Joseph's Church. Come and join us at 10 am, with Vietnamese (and English) refreshments afterward. As you know, Fr Martin Tanti has just recently be-come our new Parish Priest at Our Lady of Southern Cross in Collingwood and Clifton Hill. His formal installation was last Sunday. He has been with us only a few months but I know he will gain the love and respect of our parish family. He is a warm and friendly person with a deep love of God. I’m sure he will bring his own special qualities and ideas that we are eager to embrace. Our Lady of Southern Cross, especially the Vietnam-ese Community of the Parish, has always been blessed with outstanding Priests, and I have no doubt that Fr Martin will become one of them. We pray that his stay with us will be blessed with much happiness. We look forward to travelling with him as he leads us on the road to strengthening our Catholic faith.

Truc Nguyen

“Love one another, as I have loved you.” John: 13:34

May 24 : Mary Help of Christians both Schools Mass at 12 noon in St John’s Church

June 2 : Parish Family Mass at St John’s 10.30 am June 8 : Seminar on Homelessness (see below) June 8/9 : Speaker from Little Sisters of the Poor June 22 : Healing Mass at St Joseph’s 10 am June 25 : St John the Baptist Mass at 9.15 am July 7 : Family Mass at St John’s 10.30 am July 20 : Parish Fun Night “Christmas in July” July 28 : “Propagation of the Faith” speaker Dear Parishioners of Our Lady of the Southern Cross. It is with much appreciation that I once again say a BIG ‘Thank You’ for your presence at my installation last Sunday. It was wonderful to see all the many parts of the parish represented. Thanks for not only supporting me but also supporting each other. It was great to have Bishop Terry Curtain, the other priests and religious there supporting the parish. My heart-felt thanks goes out to ALL those who helped with the preparations including; the church environment, the booklet, the flowers, the music, the setting up and cleaning of the hall, the tasty food, especially that beautiful cake, and the Mother’s Day gifts. I feel very much at home here in the parish and look forward to continue building up our church and school commu-nities together.

On Saturday 8 June, 2019, with the onset of Winter, Catholic Social Services Victoria will host a forum “Homelessness What can Parishes do?” at Cardinal Knox Centre, 383 Albert Street, East Melbourne, from 9.30am-1.00pm. Come and hear what the Australian Bishops have to say about making a home for every-one in our land, what the Christian community is already doing to assist, and join in discussions about how you and your parish can help. Cost: $20, includes lunch. Bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/BBQOR; enquiries to Lucia Brick at lucia.brick@css. org.au, tel 03 9287 5566.

Weekday Masses

Roster 18/19 May 6 pm Saturday 10.30 am Sunday 5 pm Sunday

Readers Paul

Virginia Samoans Samoans

Basil Harrison

Offertory Parishioners Parishioners Parishioners

Communion Vernon

Parishioner Quyen

Samoans Bernadette

Gianna

25/26 May 6 pm Saturday 10.00 am Sunday 5.00 pm Sunday

Readers William Jennifer

Daniel N Jen P

Bernadette Daniel

Offertory Parishioners Parishioners Parishioners

Communion Vernon

Parishioner Margaret Christiaan

Jennifer Rafelina

We acknowledge that we are meeting on the traditional land of the Wurundjeri people and offer our respects to the elders past, present and

future. We recognise and respect the cultural heritage of this land.

At our Parish, Our Lady of the Southern Cross, we hold the care, safety and wellbeing of children and young people as a central

and fundamental responsibility of our parish.

Calendar

Chaplaincy Sunday

Fr Martin’s Installation

Homelessness—What can we do?

Healing Mass at St John’s

A very warm welcome