Entrance Antiphon: Blest be God the Father, and the Only Begotten Son of God, and also the Holy Spirit, for he has shown us his merciful love. Communion Antiphon: Since you are children of God, God has sent into your hearts the Spirit of his Son, the Spirit who cries out: Abba, Father. _______________________________________________________________ PLEASE PRAY FOR MEMBERS OF OUR PARISH COMMUNITY: Our Sick: Kath McDonald, Helen Abbey, Maureen Maher, Joan Buist, Kath Atkins, Richard Hannigan, Hilton Denis, Leanne Frost, Joao Merchado, Tobias Alesana-Rennie, Mary Cunney, Michael Steel, Alexandre Branco, Steve Estrada, Janno Punla, Conrad Murray, Therese Grima, Geoff Shalala, Maureen McLoughlin, Fr Jaime Bonet.

Deceased Anniversary: Natalina Beghetto (13 Jun); Mark McClarkin (16 Jun).

Birthdays: Alice Gabriel (10 Jun); Dominic Angeles (11 Jun); Warren Walker (12 Jun); Janet Dyne (13 Jun); Sonia Farrugia, Mikayla Sangha (14 Jun); Christian Sommer (16 Jun); Loretta Galvin, Marie Dashwood (16 Jun).

ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH, ROSEBERY Fr Greg Morgan Parish Administrator

Fr Alfredo Serrano Parish Assistant Parish Office Hours: Tues, Wed, Thurs & Fri 9am-2pm

Phone: (02) 9663 5343 Secretary: Mari Aguilar Parish Office & Postal Address: 74 Rosebery Ave, Rosebery NSW 2018

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The Most Holy Trinity – Year A Sunday | 10th-11th of June 2017

REGULAR WEEKEND MASSES:

Saturday 6pm Sunday 7:30am

Sunday 9:30am – Family Mass with Children’s Liturgy

WEEKDAY SERVICES - 7am Monday: Communion Service*

Tuesday - Friday: Mass *No Communion service on the 12th of June 2017 due to public holiday

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

Saturday 3:30pm - 5:30pm

Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday 4pm - 5pm

Baptisms & Weddings By appointment

PARISH MINISTRIES: To offer assistance/make enquiries contact the following people or the Parish office: - Altar Servers; Eucharistic Ministers & Acolytes: Rosemary 9667 2955 - Readers; Public School Catechists: Josette 0409 662 468 - Visiting the sick, elderly

& lonely: Grainne 9663 3945

- Music & Choir: Phil 0423 233 109 - Youth: Phil 0423 233 109 - St Vincent de Paul: Bernard 0408 114 789 - RCIA: Michael Steel 0415 437 132 - Morning Tea: Helen 0414 397 105

East Africa Food Crisis Appeal 2017

23 million people are currently on the brink of famine in South Sudan & other areas of East Africa. Caritas Australia & their partners are delivering life-saving food & water to countries most in need. Donations are 100% tax deductible if your details are supplied with the donation & can be made by using the envelopes on the table at the back of the Church or online www.caritas.org.au/foodcrisis or by calling 1800 024 413.

Marist Youth Festival “Awaken” Marist Youth Festival is a vibrant four-day celebration of Catholic faith, expressed through the Marist Charism, where young people aged 15-25 nourish their relationship with God and awaken their desire for service and justice as agents of change in today’s world. When: 30 June at 17:00 to 3 July at 20:00 Venue: St Joseph’s College, Hunters Hill, Sydney Cost: $270 per participant Register: https://www.maristyouthministry.com/myf-2017-link-request

No Communion Service to take place on Monday, 12th of June 2017 due to the public holiday. Have a great long weekend!

ROSTERS Readers Extra Eucharistic Ministers 6pm This T Poulton/ B Rodrigo T Poulton/ A Lobo

Next A Lobo/C Buxton C Buxton/ R Cameron 7:30am This J Sciberras/ J Merchant J Sciberras

Next M Burns/ P Murphy J Sciberras 9:30am This J Maher/ C Harajanto J Buist

Next S Middleton/M Machado L Steel Counters This N & P Paredes/ J Buist

Next D Tolliver/ M Cunney/ J Buist

MASS CONTRIBUTIONS: Thank you for your contributions towards our Parish. You can also

contribute via weekly envelopes or electronic transfer:

Our bank details are: Account Name:

Rosebery Parish Church Account BSB: 062 784

Account No.: 537 5002

We thank our anonymous sponsor for the printing of this week’s bulletin.

FEAST DAYS THIS WEEK Sun, 11th June St Barnabas, Apostle Tues, 13th June St Anthony of Padua

All married couples are warmly invited to renew their wedding vows at the 2017….

MARRIAGE MASS & RENEWAL OF VOWS Celebrated by the Most Reverend Anthony Fisher,

Archbishop of Sydney Sunday, 2nd of July at 10:30am

St Mary’s Cathedral Couples are requested to RSVP to the Life, Marriage & Family Centre on (02) 9307 8404 or LMFevents@sydneycatholic.org

The Father Factor Robert Falzon, co-author of the book The Father Factor, will tour Sydney this month to speak about the importance of fathering for success and happiness of children & their fathers, & healing when fathering has been physically or emotionally absent.

Robert Falzon will be speaking in three locations: Tues 13 June, 7:30pm - Good Shepherd Parish, Hoxton Park Wed 14 June, 7:30pm - Holy Name of Mary, Hunters Hill Thurs 15 June, 7:30pm - St Patrick's, Sutherland The event is free of charge & all are invited to come along.

St Patrick’s Young Adults invites you to attend an evening with Fr Rob Galea

COURAGE that spreads joy Be led with great music by Fr Rob Galea followed by talks, adoration, dinner & Q&A with Fr Rob!

When: Thursday, 15 June 2017 @ 6:30pm Venue: St Patrick’s Church Hill 20 Grosvenor St, The Rocks, Sydney Cost: $30 RSVP: www.trybooking.com/266664

Grace & Silence Are you a young woman aged 17 to 30 contemplating your vocation? Why not consider taking some time out At Mount Schoenstatt, a place of grace, to discern your vocation or to just have a general retreat day. Dates: Saturday, 5th August Saturday, 7 October Cost: $30 Where: 230 Fairlight Road Mulgoa RSVP: Sr Julie: juliebrcar@gmail.com

WEEKLY CONTRIBUTION ENVELOPES: If you are interested in using the weekly envelope system to make contributions in the second collection, please contact the Parish Office to supply your details. New envelopes will be available later this month for the new financial year and will automatically be available for those who have used them during the current financial year. Thank you.

Dementia Seminar Are you interested in learning to stay steady on your feet as you age? We will now be doing “Falls prevention” with Mark Sarmiento, Nurse Educator from St Vincent’s Health on June 18 at 10:30am, (directly after 9:30am Mass). Tea and coffee will be provided. Please bring along a donation, which we will give to the presenter.”

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”

Matthew 28:19

The Living Word The Most Holy Trinity, Year A

St Anthony of Padua was born at Lisbon, Portugal in c.1193. He joined the Franciscan friars around the age of 25 and worked as a missionary among the Muslims in Morocco. Returning to Europe due to ill health, Anthony spent time at an Italian hermitage, where his gift for preaching was soon discovered. Due to his reputation as a biblical scholar, he spent the remaining nine years of his life teaching in France and Italy before dying at Padua, around 1232. Many miracles were attributed to his intercession and to this day St Anthony is regularly invoked by many as a finder of lost items. He is named as one of the doctors of the Roman Catholic Church.

Across1: rescue5: the planet earth is our _ _ _ _ _7: not ever8: humans10: Jesus was speaking to this man11: belief in God

Down1: to pass something to another2: the opposite of death3: persecute4: our Father6: “For God so _ _ _ _ _ the world that he gave his only Son,”9: forever and always

CROSSWORD

Find your way to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit

START

First Reading Ex 34:4-6, 8-9A reading from the book of ExodusThe Lord God, ruler of all, merciful and loving.

With the two tablets of stone in his hands, Moses went up the mountain of Sinai in the early morning as the Lord had commanded him. And the Lord descended in the form of a cloud, and Moses stood with him there.

He called on the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, ‘Lord, Lord, a God of tenderness and compassion, slow to anger, rich in kindness and faithfulness.’ And Moses bowed down to the ground at once and worshipped. ‘If I have indeed won your favour, Lord,’ he said, ‘let my Lord come with us, I beg. True, they are a headstrong people, but forgive us our faults and our sins, and adopt us as your heritage.’

Responsorial Psalm Dn 3:52-56. R. v.52

(R.) Glory and praise for ever!

1. You are blest, Lord God of our fathers. (R.)

Blest your glorious holy name (R.)

2. You are blest in the temple of your glory. (R.)

You are blest on the throne of your kingdom. (R.)

3. You are blest who gaze into the depths. (R.)

Youareblestinthefirmament of heaven. (R.)

Second Reading 2 Cor 13:11-13A reading from the second letter of St Paul to the CorinthiansThe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Brothers, we wish you happiness; try to grow perfect; help one another. Be united; live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Greet one another with the holy kiss. All the saints send you greetings.The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Gospel Acclamation See Apoc 1:8

Alleluia, alleluia!Glory to the Father, the Son,

and the Holy Spirit:to God who is, who was,

and who is to come.Alleluia!

Gospel Jn 3:16-18A reading from the holy Gospel according to JohnGod sent his Son to save the world through him.

Jesus said to Nicodemus,

‘God loved the world so muchthat he gave his only Son,so that everyone who believes in him

may not be lostbut may have eternal life.For God sent his Son into the worldnot to condemn the world,but so that through him the world

might be saved.No one who believes in him will be

condemned;but whoever refuses to believe is

condemned already,because he has refused to believein the name of God’s only Son.’

11 June 2017The Most Holy Trinity, Year A

The psalm responses are from the English Translation of the Lectionary for the Mass ©1981 International Committee on English in the Liturgy Inc.(ICEL). All rights reserved. The psalm texts, from The Psalms, A New Translation, ©1963 by The Grail, England and used by permission of the publishers. The scriptural quotations are taken from the Jerusalem Bible, published and copyright 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton Longman and Todd Ltd and Doubleday & Co Inc, and used by permission of the publishers.© Creative Ministry Resources Pty LtdAll use must be in accordance with your user licensing agreement.

Reflection by Michael Tate

When he was crucified Jesus uttered: ‘It is finished.’ What had finished? His earthly ministry during which he painted a picture of the most intimate communion between Himself, the Father, and the Holy Spirit, so intimate that the Church needed a new word: ‘Tri-Unity’ or ‘Trinity’ for short.

God is pulsating, shimmering light, dancing in threefold exchange of love, each being simultaneously poured into the other. God is ‘Being-In-Love’ and love is always relational.

‘You are made in the image and likeness of God’? Because of the ministry of Jesus Christ, we know what that really means. We are made to live in relationship – not in solitary.

If we think that the ultimate good is to be self-sufficient/autonomous, that leads to a hellish existence. When we live with as much self-giving as is possible, we are on the way to a heavenly existence.

We could pause for a moment to give thanks for the revelation of the nature of God, and consequently of the true nature of human beings.

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