Both our Churches are fitted with a hearing induction loop. Please use the ‘T’ or other appropriate switch on your hearing aid. Please tell us if you experience any difficulty.

We acknowledge the Yalukit Willam Clan, the traditional owners and custodians of this land. We pay our respects to them.

May we walk gently here.

The CarmeliteParish of Port Melbourne and Middle Park

in the care of the Carmelites since 1882

8th Sunday of Ordinary Time 3 March 2019

in this issueParish News ...... ...3 &4 Welcome to Our Family Divine Mercy Chaplet Stations of the Cross St Vincent de Paul Enquiries Plenary CouncilParish Lenten Calendar..5Project Compassion ...6&7Lent & Easter Timetable.8Reflection on this Week’s Readings .. 9Our Liturgy ............ 10

My dear Parishioners,

ASH WEDNESDAYThis Wednesday, 6 March is Ash Wednesday and signifies the beginning of the Lenten season. There will be 3 masses that day: OLMC at 9:00am; St Joseph’s at 9:00am and OLMC at 7:00pm.

LENTEN REGULATIONS AS COMMUNICATED BY THE VICAR GENERALOn all Fridays, except Solemnities, the law of the common practice is fulfilled by performing any one of the following:

(a) Prayer – for example, Mass attendance, family prayer, a visit to a church or chapel; reading the Bible; making the Stations of the Cross; praying the Rosary; or in other ways.

(b) Self-denial – for example, not eating meat; not eating sweets or dessert; giving up entertainment to spend time with the family; limiting food and drink so as to give to the poor of one’s own country or elsewhere; or in other ways. Project Compassion is a major means of expressing our self-denial in Australia.

(c) Helping others – for example, special attention to someone who is poor, sick, elderly, lonely or over-burdened; or in other ways.- All who have completed their 18th birthday and have not yet begun their 60th years are bound to fast. All who have completed their 14th year are bound to abstain (Canon 1252)- The season of lent is a time of penance. During this season the faithful are exhorted to devote themselves in a special manner to prayer, to engage in works of piety and charity, and to deny themselves.- Each of the faithful is obliged to receive Holy Communion at least once a year. This precept must be fulfilled between Ash Wednesday, 6 March 2019 and Trinity Sunday, 16 June unless for a good reason it is fulfilled at another time during the year.- The wonderful gift of the Lord’s merciful love is offered in a special way in the sacrament of Reconciliation. Lent is a most appropriate time to receive this Sacrament. All the faithful who have reached the age of discretion are bound faithfully to confess their grave sins at least once a year.

our parish this weekMonday 4 March9.00am Mass, both churches

Tuesday 5 March9.00am Mass, both churches

Wednesday 6 March - ASH WEDNESDAYParish Office Closed9.00am Mass, both churches7.00pm Mass, Mt Carmel

Thursday 7 March9.00am Mass, both churches10.00am Christian Meditation Program, Malone Room7.00pm Meditation, Malone Room.

Friday 8 March9.00am Mass, both churches9.30am Lectio Divina, Mt Carmel

Saturday 9 March9.00am Mass, both churches6.00pm Vigil Mass, Mt Carmel

Sunday 10 March - 1st Sunday of Lent9.00am Mass, St Joseph’s10.30am Mass, Mt Carmel11.00am Mass, Indonesian Catholic Community

we remember

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Churches St Joseph’s cnr Rouse & Stokes Streets Port Melbourne

Our Lady of Mount Carmel cnr Richardson & Wright Streets Middle Park

Sunday Masses 6.00pm (Sat) Mount Carmel 9.00am Saint Joseph’s 10.30am Mount Carmel

Reconciliation after 9.00am Mass Saturday

Carmelite Parish Office 274 Rouse Street Port Melbourne Vic 3207

Telephone 03 9681 9600

After Hours Emergency 0408 754 283

Email parish@sj-mc.org.au

Parish Website www.sj-mc.org.au

Carmelite Website www.carmelites.org.au

Office Hours 9am-4pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday(CLOSED WEDNESDAYS)

Parish Priest Fr Hugh Brown OCarm

Parish Secretary Anne Ierardo (Monday to Thursday)

Community Liaison Sr Geraldine Stapleton csb(Monday/Tuesday & Weekend Mass)

Pastoral Life Co-ordinator Michael Murray (Wednesday/ Thursday)

Finance Officer Shane Harrison (Tuesday - Friday)

Facilities Manager Ken Chaffer

Galilee Regional Catholic Primary School Bank Street South Melbourne Vic 3205

Telephone 03 9699 2928 Principal Simon Millar

Please ask permission of the sick person(s) before puttng their name(s) on the list. We need to be sensitive to the fact that some people may not wish their names published.

Those who are ill or in need of prayer: John Bassett, Karen Brown, Maureen Dickason, Ivy Hermence, Tony Hyde, Maria & Joseph Jelincic, Kath Kehoe, Fr Phelim McGowan, SJ, Betty Molnar, Greg Pringle, John Pringle, Rafal Rafalski, Sash Carti Somerset-Beauverie, Helen Stanley, Ivo Strauss, Jim Sullivan, Jonathon Will, Tami Yap, Helen York, Roma Zinger.

Those who have died recently: Rex Doran, Dr James Evans, Darrell Hill, Bono Toohey

Those who anniversaries occur at this time: Sr Claude Bhuojaha, Joan Fowler, Connie Williams and Carmelites, Paul Knüppel, and James O’Sullivan

ministers

for your generosity last SundaySt Joseph’s Carmelite and Parish Offering $1,349.00Our Lady of Mt Carmel Carmelite and Parish Offering $1,547.00

thank you

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9/10 March1st Sunday of Lent

6.00pm Mount Carmel

Commentator: Sandra Diafas

Reader: Pat Mount

Eucharistic Ministers: Sandra Diafas, Janine Brodie, Kathy Mount

Communion to the Sick: N/A

9.00am St Joseph’s

Commentator: Brian Harrison

Reader: William Kininmonth

Eucharistic Ministers: Zabette Howson, Elaine Chaffer, Frances Galvin

Counters: Jane Dee & Jim Power

Childrens’ Liturgy: N/A

10.30am Mount Carmel

Commentator: Peter Thomas

Reader: Sally Diserio

Eucharistic Ministers: Denis Churkovich, Margaret Smith, Sally Diserio

Childrens’ Liturgy: N/A

Hospitality: Richard Grant

in our parishMYKI CARDSA huge thank you for your support for our MYKI Card project which supports the work of the Brigidine Asylum Seeker Program and their outreach to the asylum seekers and refugees seeking work here in Melbourne. Last week we raised $504.55 – that’s fantastic!

VISIT TO TIMOR LESTELast week I spent a few days in Timor Leste for a meeting of our Provincial Council. It was very interesting to return there for my 2nd visit in 6 years and to have the opportunity to catch up with our Timorese brothers. It was good to see them as well as to meet our students and novices – they are welcoming and enthusiastic. Needless to say, it was very hot and the diet indescribable but thank the Lord for rice.

Again, it struck me just how poor and in need Timor Leste really is and it made me appreciate even more the kindness and generosity of so many of our parishioners in the various ways you support both the country and the Carmelite endeavours there. It also makes me even more appreciative of what we have in Australia – so thank you.It was wonderful to catch up with Angelino who sends his best wishes to you. He seems happy and is establishing himself in a career as a teacher. He is as jovial and easy-going as ever.

FIRST RECONCILIATION CANDIDATESOur Reconciliation candidates this year start their program this Saturday under the care of our new Sacramental Co-ordinator, Bernadette Riley, so a very warm welcome to her, the candidates and their families over the next 4 weeks.

THANK YOU TO FR BRIAN MCDERMOTTA very big thank you to Fr Brian McDermott for helping out with the Masses while I’ve been away. He is a delight to have celebrate with us and I am immensely grateful for his help.

LENTEN PROGRAMS AT CARMELITE CENTREDon’t forget the Lenten Programs that are available through the Carmelite Centre – there is quite an array of activities so there is plenty to choose from.

Enjoy the changing of the seasons.

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Carmelite Centre Program BookingsT: 9690 5430 (leave message if unattended) or registration@thecarmelitecentremelbourne.org

via website: www.thecarmelitecentremelbourne.org

The Carmelite Centre is a joint venture of the Carmelites of Australia and East Timor and our Parish of Port Melbourne/Middle Park.

Address: 214 Richardson Street, Middle Park Vic 3206 (Mel Ref 2K C10) T: (03) 9690 5430 Website: www.thecarmelitecentremelbourne.org

The Carmelite LibraryThe Carmelite Library, located in the Carmelite Hall next to the Church, is open on

Tuesdays from 12.00 to 8.00pm and Wednesday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm. t: (03) 9682 8553e: librarian@carmelitelibrary.org website: www.carmelitelibrary.org

In Our Parish

Divine Mercy Chaplet3.00pm Sunday 3 March 2019

Our Lady of Mount Carmel ChurchBenediction, Adoration before Blessed

Sacrament, rosary and hymns. All Welcome.

Welcome to our FamilyWe celebrate the Sacrament of Baptism during the 10.30am Mass at Mt Carmel for Paige Madeleine Harris and William Jeffrey Young. Please keep Paige and William, their family and godparents in your prayers.

Your last opportunity to submit to the Plenary Council Team.Catholics across Australia are being urged to make a submission to the Plenary Council organisers as a response to the question…”What do you think God is asking of us in Australia at this time?”. The closing date for submissions is Ash Wednesday (6 March 2019). You can submit your thoughts and suggestions online at http://plenarycouncil.catholic.org.auThese submissions will be used to draft the Agenda for the Council.

Our conference meets next Tuesday evening, 5 March at 7.30pm in St. Joseph’s Hall Port Melbourne. All welcome. If you would like

to enquire about helping in our rewarding work please join us on Tuesday evening or call Joan Cusack on 0478224624 or Pat Mount on 0418380549.

Sacramental/Administration EnquiriesAre you new to our parish? Are you and your partner looking to get married? Would you like to have your child baptised? Are you or do you know someone who would like to become a Catholic? Would you like to join our Thanksgiving Program? For all these enquiries please contact the parish office on 9681 9600, and we will do our best to assist you.

Stations of the CrossOur Lady of Mount Carmel Church

8.30am Fridays of LentStations of the Cross will be held each Friday

in Lent staring this Friday 8 March at 8.30am All are welcome.

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www.thecarmelitecentremelbourne.org info@thecarmelitecentremelbourne.org +61 3 9690 5430

facilitating spiritual journeys

Parish Lenten Program 2019

Anytime by appointment

Carmelite Retreat Weekend Friday 12 - Sunday 14 April Silence in the Carmelite Traditionwith Fr Matthew McPhee OCarmat Santa Casa, Queenscliff.

Christian Meditation 10.00am every Thursday with Kathryn Pilein the Malone Room.

Lectio Divina9.30am every Fridaywith Fr David Hofman OCarmin the Lady Chapel, OLMC.(Not on Good Friday)

Mornings Evenings

WeekendsDay of Prayer10am-3pm Saturday 30 March Wisdom for the Lenten Journeywith Fr Peter Martin in the OCP Rooms.

Lenten Refl ection7.00 Tuesday 26 FebruaryReading Luke’s Gospelwith Br Matthew Tonini OCarmin the OCP Rooms.

Meditation7.00pm every Thursday with Peter Thomasin the Malone Room.(Not on Holy Thursday)

Carmelite Conversations10.30am Wednesday 3 AprilThe Martyrs of Compiègnewith Emily Frazerin the Carmelite Library.

Library Lecture7.00pm Tuesday 12 March Spirituality in Religious Educationwith Rina Madden in the OCP Rooms.

You are invited to use some or all of these opportunities during Lent and make space and time to support your faith journey.

Please check the various fl yers in the churches for more information about each of these offerings or contact the Carmelite Centre (details below) with any queries.

Spiritual Direction‘Life Conversations’ to support you on your spiritual journey.Contact the Carmelite Centre to discuss the options available.

Carmelite Conversations10.30am Wednesday 6 MarchFive Carmelite Saintswith Damien Peilein the Carmelite Library.

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Please take home a Project Compassion box and/or a set of donation envelopes and support Caritas Australia this Lenten season themed “Give Lent 100%”. This year’s Project Compassion showcases the many ways we work around the world with our local partners to offer hope to people most vulnerable to extreme poverty and injustice.As Pope Francis said, “The future does have a name… and its name is hope.”

Through your generosity during Project Compassion this year, you are empowering communities with hope and helping those in great need to shape a better future for themselves, their families and their communities.

Lives change when we all give 100%.

You can donate through Parish boxes and envelopes, or by visiting www.caritas.org.au/projectcompassion or phoning 1800 024 413.

Your donation will support programs around the world that provide vulnerable people with the skills and opportunities they need. Project Compassion money boxes and envelopes are available for collection from the Church foyer. The money boxes are an excellent way to introduce your children to Project Compassion.

Project Compassion

Creator God,You are our constant hope!

In the season of Lent, you call usto prayer, fasting and love of those

most marginalised.As a community of faith and courage,

let our gifts to Project Compassionbe symbols of hope and solidarity

with our one human family.Accompany us as we journey with Jesusto bring ‘good news’ to all creation and

ready our hearts to work for thecommon good of all your people.

We ask this in Jesus’ nameAMEN

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Ash Wednesday 6 March 9.00am: Both Churches 7.00pm: at Mt Carmel

Parish Mass of Anointing Tuesday 19 March, 10.00am: St Joseph’s

Community Reconciliation Monday 8 April, 7:00pm: Mt Carmel Thursday 11 April, 7:00pm: St Joseph’s

Palm/Passion Sunday 13/14 April 6:00pm: Vigil Mass at Mount Carmel 9:00am: Mass at St Joseph’s 10:30am: Mass at Mount Carmel

Holy Thursday 18 April 9:00am: Morning Prayer – Both Churches 7:30pm: Mass of the Lord’s Supper at Mount Carmel

Good Friday 19 April 10:00am: Morning Prayer – Both Churches 3:00pm: Solemn Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion – Both Churches

Holy Saturday 20 April 10:00am: Morning Prayer – Both Churches 7:30pm: Easter Vigil at Mount Carmel

Easter Sunday 21 April 9:00am: Easter Mass at St Joseph’s 10:30am: Easter Mass at Mount Carmel

Port Melbourne/Middle Park Parish

Lent and Easter Timetable 2019

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REfLECTIONS ON THIS WEEK’S READINGSAt Rome, during the 16th Century, the most famous confessor in town was St Philip Neri. Popes and paupers sought his counsel and spiritual direction.

One day a famous Duchess came to him and confessed the sin of gossip. Philip Neri told her to go home and get a feather pillow and return to the steps of the Church. Some time later he met her there and produced a small knife. He told the noblewoman to rip open the pillow. As she did, the swirling wind in the square picked up the loose feathers and they danced around the square and down the lanes.

St Philip and the Duchess watched in silence as the feathers went everywhere. He then turned to her and said, "Now, go and collect all the feathers." To which she protested, "They have gone everywhere, I couldn't possibly find and regather them." "So too with your tongue, Madam," St Philip scolded her, "You have no idea where you gossip goes and you can never unsay it."

In today's Gospel Jesus teaches us that our words reflect the state of our hearts.

Psychologists tell us that there are three main reasons why people habitually gossip, or 'share the news' as Australian men prefer to call it: power, envy and boredom.

To know something about someone else can put us in a more powerful position with friends or colleagues. By being able to share what we have 'just heard', we are seen to be current and interesting. But this type of power is destructive because our friends normally assume that when they are absent they are maltreated in the same way. Gossipers have more alliances than friendships.

The most malicious gossip often comes out of envy. Envious gossip often sees people make things up about others and pass it off as though it were true. The worst of tabloid newspapers, television and radio trades on this destructive vice. There is no place for the 'rumour file' in the Christian life. Sometimes, when a company or person have to deny the false accusations made about them, we get what we want – their reputations are tarnished and even their business can be in danger. No wonder medieval theologians called envy a 'deadly sin'.

Boredom, however, is a modern cause for gossip. Our relationships and the way in which we hold each other's trust and good name to be paramount, are undermined by images from the media about how exciting life should be for everyone. Scene after scene in novels, television programs and films where confidences are betrayed and lives are raked over for comment and intrigue fill in the boredom in our lives with a distorted portrayal of human behaviour. The more we take it in, the more we mirror it in our own conduct.

Jesus does not tell us today that there is no place for criticism, challenge, confrontation and correction in the Christian life. Just that we have the responsibility to very careful about what we say about others and how we criticise and condemn them. Jesus reminds us that most of our condemnation of others, is what we now call, "projection", where we ignore similar failings in ourselves, but roundly condemn them in others.

May this Eucharist, then, help all of us let go of the need to be powerful, the deadly sin of envy and more creative with what we do when we are bored. May it help us make better choices about how we speak, to whom we speak and what we say.

St Philip Neri knew it all too well: most times we cannot know the consequences of what we say and we can never unsay it.

© Richard Leonard SJ.

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OUR LITURGYprocessional hymn Sing To god WiTh Joy

Penitential Rite

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Gloria

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Responsorial psalm Psalm 92 Lord iT iS good To give ThankS

Ecclesiasticus27:4-7 In a shaken sieve the rubbish is left behind, so too the defects of a man appear in his talk. The kiln tests the work of the potter, the test of a man is in his conversation. The orchard where the tree grows is judged on the quality of its fruit, similarly a man’s words betray what he feels. Do not praise a man before he has spoken, since this is the test of men.

1 Corinthians 15:54-58 When this perishable nature has put on imperishability, and when this mortal nature has put on immortality, then the words of scripture will come true: Death is swallowed up in victory. Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting? Now the sting of death is sin, and sin gets its power from the Law. So let us thank God for giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

It is good to give thanks to the Lordto make music to your name, O Most High,to proclaim your love in the morningand your truth in the watches of the night.

The just will flourish like the palm-treeand grown like a Lebanon cedar.

Planted in the house of the Lordthey will flourish in the courts of our God,still bearing fruit when they are old,still full of sap, still green,to proclaim that the Lord is just.In him, my rock, there is no wrong.

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gospel acclamation

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Luke 6:39-45 Jesus told a parable to his disciples, ‘Can one blind man guide another? Surely both will fall into a pit? The disciple is not superior to his teacher; the fully trained disciple will always be like his teacher. Why do you observe the splinter in your brother’s eye and never notice the plank in your own? How can you say to your brother, “Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,” when you cannot see the plank in your own? Hypocrite! Take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to take out the splinter that is in your brother’s eye.

‘There is no sound tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces sound fruit. For every tree can be told by its own fruit: people do not pick figs from thorns, nor gather grapes from brambles. A good man draws what is good from the store of goodness in his heart; a bad man draws what is bad from the store of badness. For a man’s words flow out of what fills his heart.’

Never give in then, my dear brothers, never admit defeat; keep on working at the Lord’s work always, knowing that, in the Lord, you cannot be labouring in vain.

APOSTLES CREED

I believe in God, the Father almighty,Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried;he descended into hell; on the third day he rose again from the dead;

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HOLY, HOLY

Memorial Acclamation

Cel: The Lord be with you. All: And with your Spirit.Cel: Lift up your hearts. All: We lift them up to the Lord.Cel: Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God. All: It is right and just.The Celebrant prays the preface at the end of which all sing:

Response for Prayers of the FaithfulCommentator: We pray to the Lord.All: God of mercy, hear us.

he ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty;from there he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church,the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins,the resurrection of the body,and life everlasting. Amen.

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Cel: Behold the Lamb of God. Behold him who takes away the sins of the World. Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb.

All: Lord I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.

Lamb OF GOD

Communion HYMN BLeST are They

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Recessional hymn The FuLLneSS oF god

The CaTholiC Parish of PorT Melbourne and Middle Park is CoMMiTTed To Providing a safe and nurTuring CulTure

for all Children and young PeoPle in our Parish.