St Bernard’s Church 4 Klumpp Rd., U.M.G.

St Martin’s Church Cnr Logan & Chester Rds

Eight Mile Plns, Bne.

St Catherine’s Church 388 Newnham Rd., Wishart.

PARISH PRIEST Fr Patrick Molony

ASSOCIATE PASTOR Fr Stephen Kumyangi

PASTORAL ASSOCIATE Mrs Trish Stapleton pa.umg@bne.catholic.net.au

PASTORAL MINISTERS VOLUNTEERS Mrs Debbie James E: cv.umg@bne.catholic.net.au

YOUTH & YOUNG ADULTS E: yaya.umg @bne.catholic.net.au

PARISH MANAGER Mignon Telford E: umg@bne.catholic.net.au

PARISH OFFICE Michelle Baldi Lorraine Neagle Phone: (07) 3849 7158 Emergency: 3830 5178 Fax: (07) 3849 8742 E: sec.umg@bne.catholic.net.au

Website:http://umgwcatholic.org.au/ F: Like us: http://www facebook.com/umgwparish

DEANERY www.parishes.bne.catholic.

net.au/south/index.html

ST VINCENT DE PAUL Welfare: 1800 846 643

ST BERNARD’S SCHOOL 1823 Logan Rd., U M G Phone: 3849 4800

ST CATHERINE’S SCHOOL 388 Newnham Rd., Wishart Phone: 3349 7188

CLAIRVAUX MACKILLOP COLLEGE

24 Klumpp Rd., U M G Phone: 3347 9200

NEWSLETTER 5/6 May 2018

SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER/B READINGS: Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48; 1 St John 4:7-10

GOSPEL: John 15:9-17

Upper Mt Gravatt Wishart Parish

Guided by the Holy Spirit, we aim to be an evangelising, faith-filled parish whose members care for one another and are welcoming and inclusive.

Remain in my Love... The Italian film, Life is Beautiful vividly portrays the truth of today’s Gospel. It shows a father convincing his five-year-old son that the concentration camp is an elaborate game that the Nazis had invented to test the Italians. Some members of the Jewish community criticised this film because they claimed it made light of the holocaust. Writer and director, Roberto Benigni, however, argued that the heart of the film lies in the fact that most parents will do anything to spare their children the reality of evil. Most parents who have seen and wept through the film know exactly what he’s talking about. And if parents could take such risks and go to such lengths for their children, how much more has God done for us in Christ Jesus. We are the only world religion to believe that our God took our form and died out of love for us so that we might understand the love God has for us, and the love we are called to have for each other.

It isn’t, however, just any old love Christ calls us to practise. It’s not about a fleeting feeling or having a warm fuzzy inside. Jesus tells us today that the character of Christian love is the degree to which it’s sacrificial. This is a challenging way of working out who we really love, isn’t it? The people we love are those for whom we are prepared to sacrifice something of ourselves, maybe everything. If that’s the case we could decide to stop telling people we don’t love, that we love them.

The goal of the Christian life is to love everyone, but until we achieve that, the more we lie about love the more we lower its currency. It’s perfectly acceptable to like, enjoy, be fond of, respect, admire and be grateful to others, and not love them. There are a very few people for whom most of us would be prepared to lay down our lives. This criteria sorts out our intimates fairly quickly.

We could also decide to stop saying we love things, animals, ideas or organisations which cannot love us back. Human beings can only truly love people. Jesus did not die for an ideology or an institution. He was put to death because of his uncompromising love for all humanity everywhere. If we find ourselves saying we love our pets, house, car, job, our ideology, even our Church more than we love other human beings, then we’re in trouble.

That’s what I like best about the model of loving Jesus gives us in today’s Gospel. Just when we might expect to find him using the analogy of a family, he talks about us being his friends. Sometimes we can hear people lament that they are ‘stuck’ with their families, and that they prefer their friends. It’s an instructive moment, usually born out of a bitter and unloving history. We choose our friends, and the strength of any particular friendship is usually found in how we know their history and story, and they know ours, in the way we give them time, attention and affection. A true friendship is mutual. Jesus loves us, his friends, enough to know us, be available to us, challenge and forgive us. And his love is mutual. The only thing stopping us from having a deeper relationship with Christ is our desire for it.

But Jesus also shows how friends are prepared to give their lives for one another. That’s what we celebrate here each Sunday, that Jesus the Lord showed the quality and care of his love for us so that we might be empowered to go out and enable others to know and experience his love in the joyful way we sacrifice ourselves for them. No one promised us that the Christian life would be easy. All we have is our brother Jesus and all our friends, our family in faith, to support us in every loving sacrifice we make.

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READERS ROSTER 12/13 May 2018

NEW EUCHARIST MINISTERS & READERS ROSTERS ARE NOW

AVAILABLE

Please arrive 20 mins before Mass

St Bernard’s: Betty Breakspear,

Denis Fitzpatrick, Amanda

Fitzpatrick; David Stubbs, Pauline

Huxley, Lyn Rebecchi; Anne

George, James Chow, Brad

Correia; Youth.

St Martin’s: Carol Fuhrmeister,

Jacob Cheruvankalayil, Jasmine

Cheruvankalayil.

St Catherine’s: Maria Cabalse,

Novita Jurry, Darryl Petersen;

Lisa Quinlivan, Paul Robertson,

Fay Lynn.

Upper Mt Gravatt Wishart Parish

BAPTISM Congratulations to Kelsey Franklin, daughter of Joseph

& Kimberley. She will be baptised this Sunday in St Bernard’s Church.

Volunteer

Requirements

Thank you to the parishioners who contacted the Parish Office regarding the Memorandum from Monsignor Peter Meneely, Vicar General ou t l i n ing the new Vo lun teer Requirements which were published in our newsletter dated 28/29 April 2018. It is important to remember that while the Archdiocesan requirements have changed to include positions of trust, as outlined in the Memorandum these changes also safeguard us as volunteers. We are extremely grateful to our volunteers who play a very important role in our parish. Please contact the Parish Office for the various forms, as all paperwork has to go through the parish. Accreditation from other agencies is not approved by the Archdiocese.

The Best is Yet to

Be! Retreat

Wednesday 9th May, 9.00 am-1.00 pm,

Fr Aspinall Centre,

Upper Mt Gravatt.

Confirmation

Celebration

We have 31 children in final preparation for their full initiation into the Catholic Faith. We celebrate their Confirmation on Friday 18 May, 6.30 pm in St Bernard’s Church. Please keep them and their families in your prayers at this special time on their faith journey.

Did you know?

Did you know the parish has a Lifelong Learning/Social Justice/Share Our World Group. This group meets once a month on the second Thursday of the month at 7.00 pm. This very small band of parishioners are the ones who keep important issues and events before us as a parish. This group is desperate for more members who are passionate about important social issues affecting our society.

They are going through a transition time to break into a Social Justice group [including Share our World] and a

separate Lifelong Learning Group.

With all your amazing and insightful ideas, please contact Trish.

Extraordinary

Ministers of

Communion

Training

Tuesday 15 May, 7.00 pm

St Bernard’s Church

Sunday 27 May 9.30 am

St Catherine’s Church.

All rosters at St Bernard’s and St Catherine’s could do with more

volunteers please.

Many people, when approached, say that they are not worthy, or not good enough for this ministry. We do not make ourselves worthy for these ministries.

God does! and through the grace of our Baptism we are called to serve our community.

Please give it some serious thought.

PARISH MEN’S

BREAKFAST

“Come Hungry, Get Fed!” ALL MEN WELCOME Saturday 12 May, 7 - 9.00am. Aspinall Centre, Upper Mt Gravatt. $10.00 pay at door. Fellowship-Guest Speaker-Lucky Door-Joke of the Day-Raffle! Bacon, Eggs, Tomato, Sausage, Baked Beans, Toast, Jam, Coffee, Tea, Juice. RSVP by Thursday 10 May to Robert Baldi 0419 675 838 or mensbfastumgw@gmail.com.

Prayer for Christian Unity Service

will be held at

St Bartholomew’s Church,

Cnr. Mountain Street & Logan Rd, Mount Gravatt

Wednesday 16 May commencing at 7.00pm.

MAY:

Tues. 8th May, St Catherine’s Community Meeting

7 pm St Catherine’s Community Centre.

Mon. 21st May, St Martin’s Community Meeting

7.00 pm St Martin’s Church.

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Upper Mt Gravatt Wishart Parish

equips and encourages Catholic

communities. Ron Huntley, a key coach

for parishes that are part of the Divine

Renovation network, will travel from

Canada to address PROCLAIM 2018.

Contact the parish office for bookings.

AGEING GRACEFULLY—AN IGNATIAN WAY A day of reflection celebrating the graces

of ageing. All ages welcome as we are

all ageing. Thursday 17 May 9.30 am

- 3.30 pm, Daley Centre, 67 Dawson

Parade, Keperra. BYO lunch to share.

Cost: Donation. Bookings Gerry Ellis

0422 422 996 or 3355 2667.

CLAIRVAUX MACKILLOP COLLEGE

COLLEGE TOUR DAYS Friday, 11th May 9.00am – 11.00am.

Presentation in the Auditorium

followed by a College tour with

our Student Leaders. There is

an opportunity to meet with our

Principal and members of the Leadership

Team. Bookings recommended. Please

contact our Enrolment Secretary –

ph. 3347 9223 or

E: enrolments@cvxmck.edu.au.

TERRACE PAST MOTHERS’ MASS AND MORNING TEA Gregory Terrace College

invites Past Mothers to a Mass

and Morning Tea Sunday

27 May. Mass 10 am,

Chapel of the Holy Family followed by

Morning Tea in the Founders Room.

Cost $20. RSVP Wednesday 23 May.

Rachel: terrace_ladies@outlook.com.

Register via college events.

ALL HALLOWS SCHOOL OPEN DAY

11.00 am, Sunday 27 May

The day includes a welcome from our

Principal, Mrs Catherine O’Kane at

11.30 am and 12.30 pm as well as the

opportunity to view displays, meet our

staff, enjoy performances, view

academic and co-curricular displays and

tour the School. The day concludes at

2.00 pm. To register your attendance and

to vi ew the program vi s i t

www.ahs.qld.edu.au.

WE PRAY FOR THOSE

WHO HAVE DIED Especially Barry Morrison (brother of

Vince), Monica Williams (aunt of

Margaret Naylon), Brian Stacey,

Carmel Carroll (mother of Susan

Maroney), Mary Adrian Ryan, Alec

Dalton, Sarina Caiulo, and Anthony

Jack who have died recently, also Ann-

Maree Cavanagh, Brian Lawton,

Charles & Scott Sullivan, Simeon

Madrinan, Regina Madrinan, Rainer

Amps, Elizabeth Loan Le, Joseph Linh

Dinh, Rosie Dinh, Jock & Phylis

Birgan, Joseph Hong Trinh, Laura Sim,

Gus Sim, Hilary & Cleta de Souza, Rita

Galea, Simon Tinh, Madeleine

McLaughlin and Geoff Musgrave

whom we remember at this time.

MORNING TEA Join us for a cuppa and morning tea this

Sunday after Masses: 8 am St Martin’s;

8.30 am St Catherine’s; and 9.30 am St

Bernard’s. New parishioners most

welcome. St Bernard’s 7 am community

will enjoy morning tea next Sunday.

SENIORS BUS TRIPS To The Lyell Deer Sanctuary at Mt

Samson, Wednesday 23 May, leaving

St Catherine’s at 8.00 am.

Bookings: Ros 3349 9218. Stamps for

the Missions to Bob & Maureen Hore or

left in St Catherine’s Church.

MADONNA KING - TALK AT SAN SISTO COLLEGE Is your daughter approaching 14?

This talk is for parents and

carers to gain a greater

understanding of what it is like

to be a teenager in 2018.

Madonna King’s best-selling

‘Being 14’ taps into what our girls are

thinking and what they want us - their

parents - to know. The girls say it puts

into words what they struggle to

articulate. For parents, it’s the

information you need to ensure your

teen becomes an awesome woman.

7 pm Tuesday 5 June, San Sisto

College, 97 Mayfield Road, Carina

RSVP: scarina@bne.catholic.edu.au.

PROCLAIM 18 Brisbane Conference 12-14 July 2018.

One of the Catholic Church’s most

celebrated parish transformers will be a

keynote speaker at PROCLAIM 2018

– the national conference that inspires,

CATHOLIC MISSION The Brisbane team of

Catholic Mission is

expanding. We are

looking for someone

with passion, energy and a sense of

humour to join us as a donor relations

officer.

If you know someone who wants to

make a difference in the world and has

a heart for mission and evangelisation

please share the link below with them.

http://catholicmission.org.au/about-us/

work-with-us

POSITION VACANT Parish Finance Secretary

Applications are open for a position at

the Pine Rivers Parish. A person with

excellent financial skills is required for

this part time position for 15 hours a

week, Monday & Tuesday. For

additional information, please visit the

Archdiocese of Brisbane website

https://brisbanecatholic.org.au/ and to

careers.

CATHOLIC LEADER Pope Francis and people around the

world mourn the death of British

toddler Alfie Evans

‘Before all else’, survivors of abuse

and their families need a better deal

from the Church, former Truth,

Justice and Healing Council

executive says

Dioceses, congregations and

parishioners invited to have a say

on Church’s draft standards to

safeguard children and vulnerable

adults

Cardinal George Pell to stand trial

over abuse allegations, pleads not

guilty.

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SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER/B - 5/6 May 2018 ♫ PROCESSIONAL: SING OF THE LORD’S GOODNESS

1. Sing of the Lord’s goodness, Father of all wisdom, come to him

and bless his name. Mercy he has shown us, his love is for ever,

faithful to the end of days.

Refrain: Come, then, all you nations, sing of your Lord’s goodness,

melodies of praise and thanks to God. Ring out the Lord’s glory,

praise him with your music, worship him and bless his name.

2. Power he has wielded, honour is his garment, risen from the

snares of death. His word he has spoken, one bread he has

broken, new life he now gives to all.

4. Praise him with your singing, praise him with the trumpet, praise

God with the lute and harp; praise him with the cymbals, praise

him with your dancing, praise God till the end of days. Text & Music : Sands, Ernest. © 1981 OCP Publications ONE LICENSE #A-641326

FIRST READING: Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48 RESP. PSALM: THE LORD HAS REVEALED TO THE NATIONS

Antiphon: The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.

1. Sing a new song to the Lord, for he has worked wonders. His right hand and his holy arm have brought salvation. R/

2. The Lord has made known his salvation; has shown his justice to the nations. He has remembered his truth and love for the house of Israel. R/

3. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. Shout to the Lord all the earth, ring out your joy. R/ Text: Psalm 97, Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1997. Verses © The Grail.

Music: Smith, Colin © 1995 Willow Pub. ONE LICENSE #A-641326.

SECOND READING: 1 St John 4:7-10

♫ GOSPEL ACCLAM: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. All who love me will keep my words and my Father will love them, and we will

come to them, Alle Alleluia. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. Text: Excerpts from the English Translation of The Roman Missal © 2010

ICEL. Music: Mason, Paul © 2004 Willow Pub. ONE LICENSE #A-641326

GOSPEL: John 15:9-17

♫ EUCHARISTIC ACCLAM: Save us saviour of the world…. ♫ COMMUNION: TAKE AND EAT

Refrain: Take and eat; take and eat: this is my body

given up for you. Take and drink; take and

drink: this is my blood given up for you.

1. I am the Word that spoke and light was made; I am

the seed that died to be reborn; I am the bread that comes from

heav’n above; I am the vine that fills your cup with joy. (Refrain)

2. I am the way that leads the exile home; I am the truth that sets

the captives free; I am the life that raises up the dead; I am your

peace, true peace my gift to you. (Refrain)

3. I am the Lamb that takes away your sin; I am the gate that

guards you night and day; You are my flock you know the

shepherd’s voice; You are my own: your ransom is my blood. (R) Text: Verses, Quinn James sj © 1989. Music & refrain: Joncas, Michael © 1989 GIA

Publications. ONE LICENSE #A-641326

♫ SONG OF PRAISE: A NEW COMMANDMENT

A new commandment I give unto you: that you love one another

as I have loved you, that you love one another as I have loved you.

By this shall others know that you are my disciples: if you have

love one for another. By this shall others know that you are my

disciples: if you have love one for another. Text: John 13:34,35. arr Bartlett Lawrence © Aust Hymn Book ONE LICENSE #A-641326

♫ RECESSIONAL: WE REMEMBER

Ref: We remember how you loved us to your death,

and still we celebrate, for you are with us here;

And we believe that we will see you when you come,

in your glory, Lord, we remember, we celebrate, we believe.

MASS TIMES 7 - 13 May 2018

St Bernard’s:

Tues: 9.15 am

Wed. 7.00 pm

Thurs. 7.00 am

Fri. 8.00 am

Sat. 5.00 pm - Vigil

Sun. 7.00 am, 9.30 am, 6.15 pm

St Martin’s:

Fri. 9.30 am

Sunday 8.00 am

St Catherine’s:

Mon. 9.15 am

Wed. 7.00 am

Sat. 6.15 pm Vigil

Sun. 8.30 am

RECONCILIATION St Bernard’s - 4.15 pm

DENOTES CHANGE

THIS WEEK Mon. 7 May 2018

Public Holiday - Mass 9.15 am St Catherine’s.

HeartFIT - NO HeartFIT this Monday. SVDP Meeting - 5 pm, St C’s Community Centre. Baptismal Preparation - 7 pm, Aspinall Centre.

Tues. 8 May 2018 Craft Group - 10 am, St B’s Community Centre. St Catherine’s Community Meeting - 7 pm, St Catherine’s Hall.

Wednesday 9 May 2018 “The Best is Yet to Come” Retreat - 9 am St Bernard’s Aspinall Centre. SVdP Meeting - 5 pm, Aspinall Centre Rm 1.

Thurs. 10 May 2018 Play Group - 9.15 am, St B’s Community Centre. Bethany Family Prayer - 1 pm Community Centre.

Friday 11 May 2018 Mass - 8 am St Bernard’s; 9.30 am St Martin’s. Play Group - 9.30 am, St Catherine’s Hall. HeartFIT - 10 am, Aspinall Centre.

Upper Mt Gravatt Wishart Parish

3. Christ, the Father’s great “Amen” to all the

hopes and dreams of ev’ry heart; Peace beyond

all telling, and freedom from all fear; (Refrain)

4. See the Face of Christ revealed in ev’ry person

standing by your side; Gift to one another, and

temples of your love; (Refrain) Text & Music: Haugen, Marty© 1996 OCP Publications. ONE

LICENSE #A-641326

ASCENSION OF THE LORD/B - 13 May 2018

READINGS: Acts 1:1-11; Ephesians 4:1-13.

GOSPEL: Mark 16:15-20.