CATHOLIC CHURCH FRANCIS XAVIER

SAINT

ARMADALE Parish Office: 9399 2143 / 9399 4687 Address: 279 Forrest Road, Hilbert 6112

E-mail: armadale@perthcatholic.org.au Planned Giving: accounts.armadale@perthcatholic.org.au Website: Parish—https://sfxarmadale.org.au Hours: Monday—Friday, 9.00am to 4.00pm

29TH/30TH AUGUST 2020 22ND SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME—YEAR A

CHURCHES • ST FRANCIS XAVIER: 279 Forrest Rd, Hilbert • ST KEVIN: Richardson St, Serpentine

PARISH TEAM Fr Mark Baumgarten - Parish Administrator Fr Matteo Verdi - Assistant Priest Deacon Patrick Moore (Stella Maris Seafarers’ Centre - 0414 703 408) Mrs Karen Daubney – Parish Secretary (Mon & Tue) Mrs Julie Bogoni - Parish Secretary (Wed & Fri) Ms Angelina Tang - Parish Secretary (Thurs) Mrs Helen Chew - Parish Finance Officer Ms Helen Lesniak - Chi Rho Coordinator

WEEKEND MASSES • ST FRANCIS XAVIER - Hilbert

Saturday: 6.30pm Vigil Mass Sunday: 7.30am, 9.30am, 6.00pm

• ST KEVIN - Serpentine Sunday: 9.00am

WEEKDAY MASSES • ST FRANCIS XAVIER - Hilbert

Monday & Thursday 8.00am Tuesday 7.00pm Wednesday & Friday 9.00am Saturday 8.00am

ADORATION Saturday 8.30am to 9.00am

RECONCILIATION • ST FRANCIS XAVIER - Hilbert Saturday 8.30am—9.00am & 5.30pm—6.15pm Sunday 5.30pm—6.00pm

• ST KEVIN– Serpentine

First Sunday of the Month after 9am Mass

BAPTISMS Available every Sunday at 11.00am. Baptism Preparation Meeting 1st Thursday of the month at 6pm. Please contact the parish office to make a booking.

MARRIAGES By appointment please ring our parish office.

SCHOENSTATT SHRINE 9 Talus Drive, Mt Richon Phone: 9399 2349 www.schoenstattwa.org.au Opening Hours: 7.00am - 8.00pm Mondays: 6.45pm Rosary Cenacle & Divine Mercy. 7.30pm - 8.30pm Silent adoration with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Fridays: 10.00am Holy Mass, followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament until 8.15pm.

XAVIER CATHOLIC SCHOOL 271 Forrest Rd, Hilbert WA 6112 Phone: 9391 7000 E-mail: admin@xavier.wa.edu.au

SALVADO CATHOLIC COLLEGE 115 Abernethy Rd, Byford, WA 6122 Phone: 9526 4500 E-mail: admin@salvado.wa.edu.au

ST JOHN BOSCO COLLEGE 170 Monticello Parkway, Piara Waters, WA 6112 Phone: 9234 9600

READINGS

1st Reading: Jeremiah 20: 7-9

You have seduced me, Lord, and I have let myself be seduced; you have overpowered me: you were the stronger. I am a daily laughing-stock, everybody’s butt. Each time I speak the word, I have to howl and proclaim: ‘Violence and ruin!’ The word of the Lord has meant for me insult, derision, all day long. I used to say, ‘I will not think about him, I will not speak in his name anymore.’ Then there seemed to be a fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones. The effort to restrain it wearied me, I could not bear it.

Antiphon to the Psalm:

My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.

2nd Reading: Romans 12: 1-2

Think of God’s mercy, my brothers, and worship him, I beg you, in a way that is worthy of thinking beings, by offering your living bodies as a holy sacrifice, truly pleasing to God. Do not model yourselves on the behaviour of the world around you, but let your behav-iour change, modelled by your new mind. This is the only way to discover the will of God and know what is good, what it is that God wants, what is the perfect thing to do.

PLEASE TAKE THIS BULLETIN HOME OR PLACE IN

RECYCLING BOX AFTER USE.

Reflections from POPE FRANCIS

WEEKLY CALENDAR

Tuesday, 1 September 09.00am - Heritage Quilters recommence 02.00pm - Legion of Mary Prayer Group 04.00pm - Chi Rho Classes

Wednesday, 2 September 08.30am - Rosary 06.00pm - Legion of Mary 07.30pm - KSC meeting

Thursday, 3 September - St Gregory 06.00pm - Baptism Preparation 06.00pm - Mass at the Shrine followed by Novena

Friday, 4 September 08.30am - Rosary

PRAY FOR THE SICK Please pray for all those in our Parish ‘Book of the Sick’. You are welcome to add names to this book in the church foyer and cross out names when our prayers are no longer needed.

DEATH & ANNIVERSARY Prayers this week will be offered for… Albert Bearcroft, Krystyna Krukowicz, Steven Grubert, Patrick Joseph Mathews, Clive McCarley , Maureen Johnson , Edward Junior all our dearly departed, those recently deceased and those who have their anniversaries around this time. May all our dearly departed rest in the Lord’s peace.

SAFEGUARDING PROJECT Our Parish Safeguarding Officers: AMANDA BOWEN 0407 577 435 ANN BOND 0438 765 010

Email: sgo.armadale@perthcatholic.org.au

We share a commitment to safeguard our children and make our Church safe for everyone.

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Sunday’s reading from the Gospel according to Matthew brings us to the critical point at which Jesus, after having ascertained that Peter and the other eleven believed in Him as the Messiah and Son of God, “began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things…, and be killed, and on the third day be raised” (16:21).

We Christians live in the world, fully integrated into the social and cultural reality of our time, and rightly so; but this brings with it the risk that we might become “worldly”, that “the salt might lose its taste”, as Jesus would say (cf. Mt 5:13). In other words, the Christian could become “watered down”, losing the charge of newness which comes to him from the Lord and from the Holy Spirit. Instead it should be the opposite. When the power of the Gospel remains alive in Christians, it can transform “criteria of judgment, determining values, points of interest, lines of thought, sources of inspiration and models of life” (Evangelii Nuntiandi, n. 19).

This is why it is necessary to renew oneself by continually drawing sap from the Gospel. And how can one do this in practice? First of all by actually reading and meditating on the Gospel every day, so the Word of Jesus may always be present in our life.

Remember: it will help you to always carry the Gospel with you: a small Gospel, in a pocket, in a bag, and read a passage during the day. But always with the Gospel, because it is carrying the Word of Jesus, and being able to read it. In addition, attending Sunday Mass, where we encounter the Lord in the community, we hear his Word and receive the Eucharist which unites us with Him and to one another; and then days of retreat and spiritual exercises are very important for spiritual renewal. Gospel, Eucharist, Prayer. Do not forget: Gospel, Eucharist, Prayer. Thanks to these gifts of the Lord we are able to conform not to the world but to Christ, and follow him on his path, the path of “losing one’s life” in order to find it (Mt 16:25). “To lose it” in the sense of giving it, offering it through love and in love – and this leads to sacrifice, also the cross – to receive it liberated from selfishness and from the mortgage of death, newly purified, full of eternity.

May the Virgin Mary always go before us on this journey; let us be guided and accompanied by her.

GOSPEL Matthew 16: 21-27

Jesus began to make it clear to his disciples that he was destined to go to Jerusalem and suffer grievously at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, to be put to the death and to be raised up on the third day. Then, taking him aside, Peter started to remonstrate with him, ‘Heaven preserve you, Lord,’ he said. ‘This must not happen to you.’ But he turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle in my path, because the way you think is not God’s way but man’s.’

Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me. For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it. What, then, will a man gain if he wins the whole world and ruins his life? Or what has a man to offer in exchange for his life?

‘For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and, when he does, he will reward each one according to his behaviour.’

48HR ROSARY BOUQUET: Everyone is invited to pray a rosary in honour of Our Lady’s Birthday. Please add your name to an hourly timeslot from 6pm Saturday 5 September to 6pm Monday 7 September. Sign up sheet is in the foyer.

Presentation of the scroll of names will be made at the 12.10pm Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral on 8 September. All information can be found at www.legionofmarywa.org

WALK FOR MARY: Legion of Mary in conjunction with the Sisters of Schoenstatt Shrine are holding their annual ‘Walk for Mary’ on September 13, commencing at 2pm from St Francis Xavier Church to the Shrine, followed by Benediction and afternoon tea. All are invited to join in this special tribute to Our Lady.

SLIDE OPERATORS: If you are able to assist with operating the slides at the 9.30am Mass, please call Carol on 0409 826 145.

CHOIR: Do you love singing? Our 9:30am morn-ing choir is looking for new members, please contact the Parish office for more information.

PARISH NEWS

BAPTISM: We welcome in to God’s family through the waters of Baptism this weekend:

Loudrexel Fabricante Robledo, son of Arian Robledo and Catherine Fabricante

Saskia Halley Cox, daughter of Jonathan and Crystal Cox

Eion Daniel and Donnacha James Kenny, sons of David and Mairéad Kenny

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Amberley Charlotte Dean, daughter of Peter Dean and Lufola Sakulanda

Thomas William Burgess, son of Christopher Burgess and Nicole McGowan

SOCIAL JUSTICE SUNDAY:

SOCIAL DISTANCING: A friendly reminder that we still need to adhere to the Phase 4 COVID restrictions, and that the parish potentially faces significant penalties for non-compliance. Please continue to maintain a safe social distance of 1.5 metres between members of differing households both in the church and the hall. Use the hand sanitizer provided and stay home if you are unwell.

BULLETIN REMINDER: We are not allowed to reuse our bulletins— please either take your copy home or dispose of them in the recycling boxes provided

FATHERS DAY SAUSAGE SIZZLE: Next Sunday 6 September, the youth will be having a sausage sizzle after the 7.30am, 9.30am and 6pm Masses to raise funds for youth activities in the parish. Sausage in a bun (with or without onion) with be $3.00. Thank you in advance for your support!

SUNDAY MORNING TEA: The Sunday morning tea which follows the 9.30am Mass is something many parishioners look forward to each week. Catching up over a cuppa and a chat is so very important especially for our senior parishioners! We are looking for some lovely people to help set up and/or serve morning tea. People work in teams and are rostered only once every couple of months. We especially require assistance with setting up the chairs and tables prior to the Mass. This could be done by someone who attends either the 7.30am or 9.30am Mass. If you can help, please contact Julie at the office, 9399 2143 or Olive on 0433 758 144.

AGM: A reminder to all Parish Group Leaders to prepare a report for the Annual General Meeting scheduled for early November.

OUR LADY OF FATIMA FIESTA: You are cordially invited to attend the Our Lady of Fatima Fiesta sponsored by the Our Lady of Fatima Prayer Group.

Commencing with our daily 9 days/nights novena which starts on Thursday, 3 September at the Schoenstatt Shrine, 9 Talus Drive, Mount Richon from 7:00pm daily.

Please note that on our first night novena on Thursday, 3 September, Mass will be celebrated at 6:00pm (prior to the novena) by Fr Mark from our parish.

Our Lady of Fatima Fiesta will be celebrated by Fr Benny on Saturday, 12 September with Holy Mass at 3:00pm in honour to Our Lady of Fatima at the Schoenstatt Shrine followed by an AGAPE at Emilie House, 9 Talus Drive, Mt Richon. Please bring a plate of food to share.

EVENTS AROUND THE ARCHDIOCESE SALVADO CATHOLIC COLLEGE NEWS

The Covered Assembly Space became a frosty wonder-land where there was ‘snow much to read’ at our Virtual Book Fair last week. Students went on an arctic adventure and visited the space to create their wish lists. The first Virtual Book Fair was a big success! We also celebrated Children’s Book Week with a dress-up day and parade, we enjoyed seeing all the students in their creative costumes.

This week, we celebrated Science Week with Scitech incursions and Science activities throughout the week. The students are also all in training, preparing for the Athletics Carnival later in the term. The Year 5 students are preparing for their Retreat to New Norcia next week.

We keep in our prayers all the children in our Parish preparing to receive their First Eucharist in a couple of weeks at St Francis Xavier Masses over the weekend of 12/13 September.

There are places available in our second Pre-Kindy class on a Friday. If you would like to enrol, please visit our website to request an application pack. We are also accepting enrolments for Year 7 in 2021, interviews for this year group are ongoing. Contact us via email, call 9526 4500 or visit our website www.salvado.wa.edu.au if you are interested in more information.

Peace & Happy Days! Santino Giancono

SAINT JOHN PAUL II’S UNDERSTANDING OF FREEDOM, LOVE AND RESPONSIBILITY Commences this week! Join Natalie Thomas for four Wednesdays 7.30pm to 8.30pm, from 2 - 23 September Catholic Pastoral Centre, 40A Mary St, Highgate. Suggested Donation: $20 (includes light supper). Presenter: Natalie Thomas. To register, visit http://cfe.org.au/courses-and-events/, email cfe@perthcatholic.org.au, or call 92415221. A reminder that CYM Mass is at 5:30pm followed by Holy Hour at 6:15pm. All youth welcome!

TRINITY COLLEGE JUNIOR SCHOOL OPEN MORNING: Whatever your son’s interest may be, he will find a way to nurture it at the Trinity College Junior School. From virtual reality, rocket launching and science experiments to sport and performing arts, we provide a diverse range of opportunities for every student. Come and explore at our Open Morning on Wednesday, 9 September. It will include an address from the Principal, Head of Junior School and Junior Head Boy, student-led tours, light refreshments and a Q&A with key staff, teachers and the admissions team. The tour will commence at 9:00am from Gibney Hall, Trinity College. Please note, this is an interactive morning and your son is welcome to attend. Further details can be found via www.trinity.wa.edu.au or you can register directly through https://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/enrolments/junior-school-open-morning-2020/. You can also email registrar@trinity.wa.edu.au or call 9223 8121.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY PERSONAL ADVOCACY SERVICE - INCLUSION FACILITATOR: Personal Advocacy Service (PAS) has a vacancy for a Part Time, (0.60 FTE) 3 Year Fixed Term Contract for an Inclusion Facilitator. The Inclusion Facilitator will proactively encourage parishes and parish priests to include people with an intellectual disability into the parish community within the Archdiocese of Perth. The person will provide training to parish based Inclusion Coordinators to assist them with implementing the Parish Inclusion Program as well as providing training to Group Advocates and Group Leaders. The person will be involved in all aspects of the SPRED and Parish Inclusion Programs including the organisation of PAS events. The role also requires good collaboration with other PAS staff and Inclusion Facilitators to support the Inclusion Program and Parish Ownership Model as well as be involved in a SPRED group and be willing to complete the Advocate Training Module to enable them to be involved in Activities and/or Group Leadership roles.

To receive the Job Description and submit your application by Friday 4 September, please contact Ray Ryan: ray.ryan@perthcatholic.org.au