THE HUNGER FOR GOD
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Last Weekend’s Thanksgiving Program Next Week’s Counting Team: No. 1 (6/8/18) 1 st Collection 2 nd Collection Piety Shop St Anthony’s $1003.00 $1552.75 $38.00 $66.75 There is no greater way to express our thanks than to actually give something to God. This gift is a tangible expression of our faith in him, and our thanksgiving for what he does for us. Weekly Diary : 06 th —11 th August 2018 Monday 06 th : 08.00 am. Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, followed by Novena Tuesday 07 th : 08.00 am. Mass, followed by Eucharist Adoration. 10.30 am. Anointing Mass at Bupa Aged Centre Runaway Bay. Wednesday 08 th : 09.30 am. Solemnity of St Mary of the Cross, virgin, followed by Rosary. Thursday 09 th : 09.30 am. Mass, followed by Rosary. Friday 10 th : 09.30 am. Feast of St Lawrence, deacon, martyr, followed by Rosary Saturday 11 th : 09.30 am. Memorial of St Clare, virgin, followed by Rosary. Saturday 11 th : 5.30 pm. : 19 th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B Sunday 12 th : 07.00 am. + 09.00 am. : 19 th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B The 1 st Evening Sunday Mass of September will be on the 02 nd at 5.30 pm. : 22 nd Sunday in Ordinary Time B Mass Duty Roster : August 11 th /12 th 2018 Mass Co-ordinator 5.30pm Pierrette & Rino Lectors Jean Di Benedetto Pierrette Serra Extraordinary Ministers of Communion Helen Topham, Monique Labutte, Jean Di Benedetto Julie Dakin, Joe Dorego, Averil Dorego Servers Mia 7.00am Michael Nicholson Christine McDougall Danielle Carter Antona Brown, Jackie Cameron Bernadette Swindley, Danielle Carter Brianna & Ashley 9.00am Ronnie Wilson Rose Lopez Kathy Fuller Pam Nelson, Ronnie Wilson, Kathy Fuller John Lynch, Joe Dorego, Rose/Chona Lopez John & Matthew Parish News SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION (Year 3) Rehearsal 1 Monday 06 August at 6.00pm Rehearsal 2 Monday 13 August at 6.00pm Celebration of the Sacrament: Sunday 19 th August at 9am Mass presided by Bishop Ken Howell HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION FOR AUSTRALIA are 15 Aug (Assumption) and 25 Dec (Christmas). The importance of a day in the liturgical calendar is determined by its rank (solemnity, feast, memorial). A Holy Day is simply a solemnity celebrated like a Sunday, that is, with obligation. Canonical Visit of Bishop Ken Howell: From Friday 17 August to 19 August, 2018 Friday 17 Aug : 09.30 am. Mass with school Children : Visiting the school Saturday 18 Aug : 09.30 am. Mass Meeting with parishioners : 4 pm. Meeting with Parish Pastoral Council and Parish Finance Committee : 5.30 pm Mass with people Sunday 19 Aug : 07.00 am. Mass with people : 09.00 am. Confirmation within Mass THE HUNGER FOR GOD (John 6:35) “It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace. ” With these words, Fr Ronald Rolheiser commences his book “The Holy Longing.” He wrote: “We are so overcharged with desire that it is hard to come to simple rest. Desire is always stronger than satisfaction. There is within us a fundamental dis-ease, an unquenchable fire that renders us incapable, in this life, of ever coming to full peace.” This universal dis-ease is called the hunger for God. Saint Augustine wrote: “You have made us for yourself, Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you. ” God sent to the Hebrews in the desert Manna, bread from heaven to satisfy their hunger, so that freed from the ties of material things they might experience their utter need of him, and so get close to him. They could not get beyond their need for ordinary bread, a need which God catered for generously. That was all they wanted. They could not see anything else, or rise to anything higher. That is why they were always grumbling and rebellious to the point that they began to regret God’s choice of themselves for special attention. They failed to understand the true meaning of the gift of Manna, the “bread of angels” which is a sign of God’s unfailing love for his chosen people. There is no need for them to hoard anxiously or barter like slaves. Their only need is to trust in God’s steadfast loving-kindness shown in the gift of the Manna and take the wilderness as a place of God-given life. To the people who search for him as the bountiful supplier of food for their stomach rather than the source of spiritual food that endures for eternal life, Jesus offers them something more wonderful still, a new manna from heaven, the bread of eternal life which is himself. To eat this bread would involve believing in him, entrusting their lives to him, and following him as their sure guide to the Kingdom of God. This faith is the true miracle. We must all know that material things will never satisfy the hunger the heavenly Father has put in our hearts. Jesus’ vision is of a larger nourishment and wisdom that reaches beyond stomachs to hearts, beyond Israel to the whole world, beyond earth to heaven, beyond time to eternity. He promises that the nourishment of hunger and the quenching of thirst will be available not only to Israel, but to anyone who comes to him and believes in him. St Paul encourages us to follow the Ephesians’ example to “learn Christ,” not to learn about Christ, but learning him, his way and truth, and stripping oneself of anything that would distract from that. At Baptism we were clothed with a white garment as a sign of our new personhood in Christ, and the prayer of the rite acknowledges this garment as an outward sign of the Christian dignity that has been bestowed through the sacrament. The prayer continues with the hope that, with the help of family and friends, that baptismal dignity will be carried unstained by sin into the everlasting life of heaven. We all grow out of the material garment, but the continuing challenge is to grow into what it symbolizes, the new self created in God’s love and holy truth for the new age and the new creation. Such a radical transformation is a true miracle! And it is our possibility, as it was for the Ephesians. Only when we put on Christ, our dis-ease, our holy longing, our hunger for God will be satisfied, because one else but he who offered “the bread of eternal life” will satisfy this hunger. Fr. John Khoái 18 th Sunday in Ordinary Time B 05 th August 2018—Issue No. 287 Fr John Khoái Parish Priest Tel : 07 5537 4320 - 3 Mob : 0427 777 500 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] Reconciliation at 4.00pm 1 st Saturday of the month. Baptism Preparation at 7pm 1 st Thurs of the month
Transcript of THE HUNGER FOR GOD
Last Weekend’s Thanksgiving Program
Next Week’s Counting Team: No. 1 (6/8/18)
1st Collection 2nd Collection Piety Shop St Anthony’s
$1003.00 $1552.75 $38.00 $66.75
There is no greater way to express our thanks than to actually give something to God. This gift is a tangible expression of our faith in him, and our thanksgiving for what he does for us.
Weekly Diary : 06th —11th August 2018
Monday 06th : 08.00 am. Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, followed by Novena
Tuesday 07th : 08.00 am. Mass, followed by Eucharist Adoration.
10.30 am. Anointing Mass at Bupa Aged Centre Runaway Bay.
Wednesday 08th : 09.30 am. Solemnity of St Mary of the Cross, virgin, followed by Rosary.
Thursday 09th : 09.30 am. Mass, followed by Rosary. Friday 10th : 09.30 am. Feast of St Lawrence, deacon, martyr, followed by Rosary
Saturday 11th : 09.30 am. Memorial of St Clare, virgin, followed by Rosary.
Saturday 11th : 5.30 pm. : 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
Sunday 12th : 07.00 am. + 09.00 am. : 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
The 1st Evening Sunday Mass of September will be on the 02nd at 5.30 pm. : 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time B
Mass Duty Roster : August 11th /12th 2018 Mass Co-ordinator
5.30pm
Pierrette & Rino
Lectors
Jean Di Benedetto
Pierrette Serra
Extraordinary Ministers of Communion
Helen Topham, Monique Labutte, Jean Di Benedetto
Julie Dakin, Joe Dorego, Averil Dorego
Servers
Mia
7.00am
Michael Nicholson
Christine McDougall
Danielle Carter
Antona Brown, Jackie Cameron
Bernadette Swindley, Danielle Carter Brianna & Ashley
9.00am
Ronnie Wilson
Rose Lopez
Kathy Fuller
Pam Nelson, Ronnie Wilson, Kathy Fuller
John Lynch, Joe Dorego, Rose/Chona Lopez
John & Matthew
Parish News
SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION (Year 3)
Rehearsal 1 Monday 06 August at 6.00pm
Rehearsal 2 Monday 13 August at 6.00pm
Celebration of the Sacrament: Sunday 19th August at 9am Mass presided by Bishop Ken Howell
HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION FOR AUSTRALIA are 15 Aug (Assumption) and 25 Dec (Christmas). The
importance of a day in the liturgical calendar is determined by its rank (solemnity, feast, memorial).
A Holy Day is simply a solemnity celebrated like a Sunday, that is, with obligation.
Canonical Visit of Bishop Ken Howell: From Friday 17 August to 19 August, 2018
Friday 17 Aug : 09.30 am. Mass with school Children
: Visiting the school
Saturday 18 Aug : 09.30 am. Mass
Meeting with parishioners
: 4 pm. Meeting with Parish Pastoral Council and Parish Finance Committee
: 5.30 pm Mass with people
Sunday 19 Aug : 07.00 am. Mass with people
: 09.00 am. Confirmation within Mass
THE HUNGER FOR GOD (John 6:35)
“It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace.” With these words, Fr Ronald Rolheiser commences his book “The Holy Longing.” He wrote: “We are so overcharged with desire that it is hard to come to simple rest. Desire is always stronger than satisfaction. There is within us a fundamental dis-ease, an unquenchable fire that renders us incapable, in this life, of ever coming to full peace.”
This universal dis-ease is called the hunger for God. Saint Augustine wrote: “You have made us for yourself, Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” God sent to the Hebrews in the desert Manna, bread from heaven to satisfy their hunger, so that freed from the ties of material things they might experience their utter need of him, and so get close to him. They could not get beyond their need for ordinary bread, a need which God catered for generously. That was all they wanted. They could not see anything else, or rise to anything higher. That is why they were always grumbling and rebellious to the point that they began to regret God’s choice of themselves for special attention.
They failed to understand the true meaning of the gift of Manna, the “bread of angels” which is a sign of God’s unfailing love for his chosen people. There is no need for them to hoard anxiously or barter like slaves. Their only need is to trust in God’s steadfast loving-kindness shown in the gift of the Manna and take the wilderness as a place of God-given life.
To the people who search for him as the bountiful supplier of food for their stomach rather than the source of spiritual food that endures for eternal life, Jesus offers them something more wonderful still, a new manna from heaven, the bread of eternal life which is himself. To eat this bread would involve believing in him, entrusting their lives to him, and following him as their sure guide to the Kingdom of God. This faith is the true miracle. We must all know that material things will never satisfy the hunger the heavenly Father has put in our hearts.
Jesus’ vision is of a larger nourishment and wisdom that reaches beyond stomachs to hearts, beyond Israel to the whole world, beyond earth to heaven, beyond time to eternity. He promises that the nourishment of hunger and the quenching of thirst will be available not only to Israel, but to anyone who comes to him and believes in him.
St Paul encourages us to follow the Ephesians’ example to “learn Christ,” not to learn about Christ, but learning him, his way and truth, and stripping oneself of anything that would distract from that. At Baptism we were clothed with a white garment as a sign of our new personhood in Christ, and the prayer of the rite acknowledges this garment as an outward sign of the Christian dignity that has been bestowed through the sacrament. The prayer continues with the hope that, with the help of family and friends, that baptismal dignity will be carried unstained by sin into the everlasting life of heaven.
We all grow out of the material garment, but the continuing challenge is to grow into what it symbolizes, the new self created in God’s love and holy truth for the new age and the new creation. Such a radical transformation is a true miracle! And it is our possibility, as it was for the Ephesians. Only when we put on Christ, our dis-ease, our holy longing, our hunger for God will be satisfied, because one else but he who offered “the bread of eternal life” will satisfy this hunger.
Fr. John Khoái
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time B 05th August 2018—Issue No. 287
Fr John Khoái Parish Priest Tel : 07 5537 4320 - 3 Mob : 0427 777 500 [email protected]
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
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 [email protected]
Reconciliation at 4.00pm 1st Saturday of the month.
Baptism Preparation at 7pm 1st Thurs of the month
LITURGY OF THE LIVING WORD
FIRST READING Exodus 16:2-31 I am going to rain bread from heaven for you.
The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate our fill of bread; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” Then the Lord said to Moses, “I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and each day the people shall go out and gather enough for that day. In that way I will test them, whether they will follow my instruction or not. “I have heard the complaining of the Israelites; say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread; then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’” In the evening quails came up and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. When the layer of dew lifted, there on the surface of the wilderness was a fine flaky substance, as fine as frost on the ground. When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.” The house of Israel called it manna.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM Ps 78:3-54 R. The Lord gave them bread from heaven.
Things that we have heard and known, that our ancestors have told us, we will tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might. R.
He commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven; he rained down on them manna to eat, and gave them the bread of heaven. R.
Mortals ate of the bread of angels; he sent them food in abundance. And he brought them to his holy hill, to the mountain that his right hand had won. R.
SECOND READING Ephesians 4:17, 20-24 Clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God.
Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer live as the Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds. That is not the way you learned Christ! For surely you have heard about him and were taught in him, as truth is in Jesus. You were taught to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Mt 4:4 Alleluia, alleluia! No one lives on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. Alleluia!
GOSPEL John 6:24-35 Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were at the place where Jesus had given the bread, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal.” Then they said to Jesus, “What must we do to perform the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” So they said to him, “What sign are you going to give us then, so that we may see it and believe you? What work are you performing? Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” Then Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoev-er believes in me will never be thirsty.”
COMMUNION ANTIPHON: Wis 16:20 You have given us, O Lord, bread from heaven, endowed with all delights and sweetness in every taste.
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Faithfully Given to Give Faithfully
The book of Leviticus 27 states: “A tithe of everything… belongs to the Lord.” This is the command that the Lord gave to Moses on Mount Sinai for his people. It is the law of God for us to tithe… giving a tenth of everything we earn back to Him.
A tithe is giving a tenth of our income to God as an investment to express our thanksgiving and accept his divine honour for us eternally. That’s what God has called us to do. He is faithfully giving to us so that we can, in turn faithfully give.
THANK YOU: We have received a cheque for $11,034.72 from Bell Legal Group, who are acting on behalf of the executors of the Estate of Shirlee Patricia Williams.
On behalf of the Holy Family Parish we would like to thank Shirlee for her generous donation to our parish. Her generosity is very much appreciated. Any generosity forwarded to our parish only benefits our community. Thank you, Shirlee.
Kind regards,
Fr. John Khoái, Parish Priest
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PRAYERS FOR THE SICK AND DECEASED RECENTLY DECEASED: Patricia Wilson, Loretto Fox, Jean Rebeiro, Albert Chandler
ANNIVERSARIES: Leesa Halverson, Jim & Dan Lyon, Jack Lawton, Paul Lawton, Norma Nichols
SICK LIST: Bill Walker, Aaron Murphy, Cheryl Carter, Courtney Blount, Claire Mallon, Eileen O’Connor, Reginald Cox, Simon Stretton, Philomena McAloon, Margaret Kwong, Letty O’Sullivan, Tony Collett, Val Wolfenden, Ben Cebuliak, Marilyn Rodgers, Frank Hewitt, Anthony Donellan, Dolores Kilian, Robert Duff, Mary Ann Boe-heme, John Nekvapal, Rita Ryan, Maureen Currie, Harry Hunter, Margaret Wiersma, Madeline Hodgetts, Erin Mehmet, Nancy Kelly, Tamara Toms, Baby Charlie Shirran, Bernie Pack, Elizabeth Norris, Stephen Deshaies, Patricia Ryder, 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 afflicted ones, shield your joyous ones, and all for your love’s sake. Amen. (St Augustine)
