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Baptisms at St Mary’s TIMES: At St Mary's Church, Bungendore, baptisms are usually
on the 2nd Sunday of the month at 10:00 am. Please speak to
Deacon John or the parish office if this is not a suitable time for
your family.
MAKING A BOOKING FOR A BAPTISM:- You can phone the
Bungendore parish office on 6238 1247 between 11am and 5pm
on Wednesdays. The "Request for Baptism" form can be
downloaded from St Mary’s website,
www.stmarysbungendore.org.au/ completed and emailed to St
Mary’s Parish [email protected]
BAPTISM PREPARATION SESSION: At St. Mary’s, Baptism
preparation takes place in an informal conversation with either Fr
News from the Archdiocese and beyond 22 March – Concerned Catholics of Canberra
Parishioners, clergy, and friends are invited to the 3rd public
forum of Concerned Catholics of Canberra-Goulburn. Francis
Sullivan, CEO, Truth Justice and Healing Council, will provide
an analysis of the Royal Commission's final report.
Contact: Rog Page [email protected]
23 – March “End of Life Choices”
Submissions are urgently needed from ordinary ACT (and
surrounds) citizens regarding euthanasia. The ACT Legislative
Assembly is conducting an inquiry into End of Life Choices and
submissions are due on 23 March 2018.
https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/in-
committees/select_committees/end-of-life-choices
Most needed are short personal stories of positive
experiences of the palliative care of loved ones. If euthanasia
or assisted suicide is legalised in the ACT, it is unlikely that
palliative care will receive adequate funding in the future.
http://www.noeuthanasia.org.au/issues
27 March – Daramalan College Open Evening
Tours from 5.00-6.30pm. Optional information sessions for
Year 7, 2019 at 4.45pm and 7.00pm. Year 11, 2019
Information Session at 6.00pm. Contact 62456348.
Palms Australia—Overseas Volunteering Opportunities
Vulnerable communities overseas are seeking qualified
and/or experienced professional, trades and business people
willing to volunteer as mentors to their local personnel.
These volunteers live and work in the communities, building
capacity of local people and organisations through skill-
transfer.
https://www.palms.org.au/volunteer/current-opportunities/
Plaques for Memorial Wall
We are now taking orders for
plaques for the memorial wall.
Please contact the office for
more details. The following
format will be the one used.
Peter or Deacon John. The parish asks that you participate in a
preparation session if this your first child or if you have not
previously participated in such a session for any other children.
When you contact the office to organise a date for the baptism we
will help you to arrange a suitable time for this preparation to
happen.
PRESENTATION MASS: You will also be asked
to attend a Presentation Mass. This is where
you and your child will be welcomed to our
parish community. If possible, the godparents
are invited to attend this Mass to be part of this
service. From Sunday 7th January our weekend
Mass is at 8:30am on Sundays.
The St Mary's Autumn Fair planning stage is now under way and
your help is needed to make it as much a success as previous
years. We will be accepting applications for stalls for the very
reasonable fee of $30, from people wishing to sell locally made
goods and services.
We will need plants for the plant stall, cakes etc. for the cake
stall, books, CDs & DVDs for the book stall, and random objects
of reasonable quality for the white elephant stall, including good
quality second-hand clothes.
Volunteers to work at the parish stalls on the day will be greatly
appreciated, as will volunteers to staff the gate and run the
chocolate wheel.
Volunteers will also be needed for one or two grounds tidy-up
working bees before the fair.
Offers of participation in the entertainment program are also
welcome.
Donations of prizes for the raffle will also be gratefully accepted.
Please spread the word amongst your friends, family and
workmates about a great way to spend the day on the 14th April
2018.
Posters are now
available.
News about St Mary’s Fair
A Warm Welcome to Sophia Cashman and her Mum and Dad, Melinda and Joe.
Sophia is being presented to our community today and baptised next Saturday afternoon.
St Mary’s Bungendore
part of
Queanbeyan Mission
28 Turallo Terrace Bungendore
Website: www.stmarysbungendore.org.au/
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Entrance Antiphon
Give me justice, O God,
and plead my cause against a nation that is faithless.
From the deceitful and cunning rescue me,
for you, O God, are my strength. ______________________________________________________________________________
First reading
Jeremiah 31:31-34
See, the days are coming – it is the Lord who
speaks – when I will make a new covenant with the
House of Israel (and the House of Judah), but not a
covenant like the one I made with their ancestors on
the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of
the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant of
mine, so I had to show them who was master. It is
the Lord who speaks. No, this is the covenant I will
make with the House of Israel when those days
arrive – it is the Lord who speaks. Deep within them
I will plant my Law, writing it on their hearts. Then
I will be their God and they shall be my people.
There will be no further need for neighbour to try to
teach neighbour, or brother to say to brother, ‘Learn
to know the Lord!’ No, they will all know me, the
least no less than the greatest – it is the Lord who
speaks – since I will forgive their iniquity and never
call their sin to mind. ______________________________________________________________________________
Responsorial Psalm
R: Create a clean heart in me, O God. ______________________________________________________________________________
Second reading Hebrews 5:7-9
During his life on earth, Christ offered up prayer
and entreaty, aloud and in silent tears, to the one
who had the power to save him out of death, and he
submitted so humbly that his prayer was heard.
Although he was Son, he learnt to obey through
suffering; but having been made perfect, he became
for all who obey him the source of eternal salvation. ______________________________________________________________________________
Gospel Acclamation Glory to you, Word of God, Lord Jesus Christ!
If you serve me, follow me, says the Lord; and
where I am, my servant will also be.
Glory to you, Word of God, Lord Jesus Christ! _______________________________________________
Gospel John 12:20-33
Among those who went up to worship at the festival
were some Greeks. These approached Philip, who
came from Bethsaida in Galilee, and put this request
to him, ‘Sir, we should like to see Jesus.’ Philip
went to tell Andrew, and Andrew and Philip
together went to tell Jesus. Jesus replied to them:
‘Now the hour has come
for the Son of Man to be glorified.
I tell you, most solemnly,
unless a wheat grain falls on the ground and dies,
it remains only a single grain;
but if it dies, it yields a rich harvest.
Anyone who loves his life loses it;
anyone who hates his life in this world
will keep it for the eternal life.
If a man serves me, he must follow me,
wherever I am, my servant will be there too.
If anyone serves me, my Father will honour him.
Now my soul is troubled.
What shall I say: Father, save me from this hour?
But it was for this very reason that I have come to
this hour.
Father, glorify your name!’
A voice came from heaven, ‘I have glorified it, and I
will glorify it again.’ People standing by, who heard
this, said it was a clap of thunder; others said, ‘It
was an angel speaking to him.’ Jesus answered, ‘It
was not for my sake that this voice came, but for
yours.
‘Now sentence is being passed on this world;
now the prince of this world is to be overthrown.
And when I am lifted up from the earth,
I shall draw all men to myself.’
By these words he indicated the kind of death he
would die. _______________________________________________
Communion Antiphon Amen, Amen I say to you: Unless a grain of wheat
falls to the ground and dies, it remains a single
grain. but if it dies, it bears much fruit. _______________________________________________
Year B 5th Sunday of Lent 18th March 2018
That God’s desires would be written on our hearts, this is comforting. That the seed must die in order to produce fruit (that it can’t just painlessly transform into the fruit producing tree): this is not so comforting. Yet as Jesus approaches his passion, he speaks these words that teach his disciples what could be a painful truth, yet they are words that have inspired and consoled his followers ever since: “Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.” How is it that the seed that lets go of itself and dies can become a source of hope, of meaning, for so many? Is it not because it is a truth that we know in our depths, if and when we are willing to go there?
An extract from a talk by Sr Jessica Kerber ACI on the website http://catholicwomenpreach.org/preaching/03182018
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Reflection Questions From ‘GOOD NEWS in tough times’
Why is it important that Jesus’ mission is open to everybody? How should this fact shape our activity as Catholics?
Archbishop Christopher says that, as disciples of Jesus, we are able to share in the death and resurrection of Christ. How does the image of the wheat reflect your faith and discipleship?
How does knowing that we are sharing in the suffering of Christ change our understanding of the rough times that we go through? How can Jesus’ sufferings transform our own?
Reflection
St Mary’s Fair
Saturday 14th April
Project Compassion
Ditosa
Mozambique
Ditosa, a young girl from Mozambique, is cared for by her grandmother after her parents died
of AIDS-related illnesses. Featured in Project Compassion 2013, Ditosa faced a challenging
future with food scarcity, little education and few job prospects. In 2018, thanks to Caritas
Australia’s support Ditosa has graduated from school and hopes to go to university and secure
an even brighter future.
There is more information and a short video on www.caritas.org.au/projectcompassion .
Please pray for our sick Peter Fogarty
Margaret Mikkelsen Patrick Wright
Donn Oates (Barbara Rayner’s
Dad) Jill Hamley
Patricia Young Erwin Feeken
Tony Boys Alyssa Pettersen
Bill Yates Kevin Summerfield
Debbie Oxford Wilson Patricia Ryan
Maureen Boss Val Young
Mary-Anne Webster Frank Shugg
Theresa, Simon, James & Mary (Deacon John’s mum,
brothers & sister) David McCamley
Zelma McManus (Mary-Anne Curran’s mother)
Emanuel Mallia
Ray Jewell Lyn Connor
Recently Deceased:
Anniversaries:
Henry John Pearse William Henry Day James Gallagher Dorothy Weeks Catherine Doyle
John Joseph Kopec Alphonsus Daly
Michael Francis (Frank) Larkin
Bev Raby
Ministries Roster
Sunday 18th March 2018 8:30am
A: David Webster
E. Min: Alison Bishop & Tess Montesin
R: Peter Hugonnet & Cameron Gordon
Gifts: Rene Mallia & family
Altar Servers: Gilbert A. & Thomas K.
Ministries Roster
Sunday 25th March 2018 8:30am
A: Margareth Stumpel
E. Min: David Bishop & Meagan Sheather
R: Bernie Clarke & Sarah Dunkerley
Gifts: Louise Levy & Pauline Segeri
Altar Servers: Cameron G. & Kathleen D.
Church Cleaning : March:- Sarah Darmody plus some extra help please Thanks to Louise Mears & Maria Gwynne
for cleaning the church in February.
Morning Tea: Held on the 1st Sunday of the
month, after 8.30am mass.
Next one: 1st April 2018
(with Easter Egg hunt)
BUNGENDORE PARISH TEAM
Fr Troy Bobbin PP (resident in Queanbeyan) Fr Peter Day Associate Priest Bungendore / Braidwood (resident in Queanbeyan) Father Peter is happy to visit people in Bungendore; please arrange with Deacon John or the Parish Office Deacon John Lim (resident in Bungendore) 0499 508 449 Secretary - Mary
Finance - Maureen Parish Pastoral Council -
PHONE: 6238 1247
EMAIL: [email protected] POSTAL ADDRESS: PO Box 28 Bungendore NSW 2620 OFFICE OPEN: - Wednesday 11am - 5pm Office is next to the hall on the side away from the church.
BUNGENDORE PARISH MASS TIMES Weekend Mass: Sunday 8.30am Weekday Mass: Wednesdays 9.00am; Anointing Mass - 1st Wednesdays Hoskinstown: 1st Sunday 11am Gundaroo: 3rd Sunday 9am
Church Opening hours
St Mary’s is open most days from 9am to 5pm
for prayer and quiet reflection.
St Mary’s Crafty Made-ins Our craft ladies would love your kind donations of
items for our stall at the fair. We’d also like any
old teapots to enable us to display tea-cosies in
3D. Contact Jenny Amey [email protected]
Holy Week & Easter Service Times
March 29th ( Holy Thursday) : 6.00pm Mass.
March 30th (Good Friday) : Stations of the Cross
10.00am & Commemoration of the Passion
3.00pm.
March 31st (Holy Saturday) : 6.00pm Easter Vigil
Mass.
April 1st (Easter Sunday) : 8:30am Mass.
Volunteers are required for liturgical ministries
at all the above services. St Mary’s Hall Bookings Hall bookings can be made by emailing
Current regular bookings for the hall are Monday,
Wednesday 5:30—7pm, Friday 9am—10:15am,
and the Seniors from 10am to 2pm on Tuesdays.
There are also some bookings for Sundays after
baptisms.
A Warm welcome to all the families bringing their children for the Reconciliation program Children’s Liturgy The children will be staying in Mass today. Reconciliation Program
Final Preparation session for the children
during Mass today.
Combined Parish and First Reconciliation
Penitential Service Wed 21st March 6:30pm “Good News in Tough Times" Parish discussion Group
We are using this Archdiocesan resource as
the basis for our Lenten Discussion group at
7pm on Thursday evenings in the Parish Hall. Liturgical Ministries Roster The current roster runs out on Easter Sunday.
If you could please notify the parish office of
any changes to your availability by 21st
March. New volunteers welcome. Church Cleaning Any new volunteers for the church cleaning
roster will be extremely gratefully accepted.
Wednesday
21st March
6:30pm
Combined Parish and First Reconciliation
Penitential Service
Fair Deliveries Please deliver any items for the fair to the
right-hand garage behind the presbytery and not
to the hall. Fair Working-bee A working-bee to prepare the grounds of St
Mary’s for the fair will be held on Saturday 7th
April commencing at 8:30am.