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Responsorial Psalm: (R.) Lord, let us see your kindness,
and grant us your salvation.
2. Mercy and faithfulness have met;
justice and peace have embraced.
Faithfulness shall spring from
the earth and justice look down
from heaven. (R.)
3. The Lord will make us prosper
and our earth shall yield its fruit.
Justice shall march before him
and peace shall follow his steps. (R.)
Second Reading: 2 Pt 3:8-14 We wait for new heavens and a new earth.
There is one thing, my friends, that
you must never forget: that with the
Lord, ‘a day’ can mean a thousand
years, and a thousand years is like a
day. The Lord is not being slow to
carry out his promises, as anybody
else might be called slow; but he is
being patient with you all, wanting
nobody to be lost and everybody to be
brought to change his ways. The Day
of the Lord will come like a thief, and
then with a roar the sky will vanish,
the elements will catch fire and fall
apart, the earth and all that it con-
tains will be burnt up. Since every-
thing is coming to an end like this,
you should be living holy and saintly
lives while you wait and long for the
Day of God to come, when the sky will
dissolve in flames and the elements
melt in the heat. What we are waiting
for is what he promised: the new
heavens and new earth, the place
where righteousness will be at home.
So then, my friends, while you are
waiting, do your best to live lives with-
out spot or stain so that he will find
you at peace.
The word of the Lord
SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT - Year B 9 - 10 Dec, 2017
Entrusted to the Salesians of Don Bosco
Catholic Church
Gospel Acclamation:Alleluia, alleluia!
Prepare the way of the Lord,
make straight his paths:
all people shall see the
salvation of God. Alleluia!
GOSPEL: Mk 1:1-8 Make straight the paths of the Lord.
The beginning of the Good News
about Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
It is written in the book of the
prophet Isaiah: Look, I am going to
send my messenger before you; he
will prepare your way. A voice cries
in the wilderness: Prepare a way
for the Lord, make his paths straight,
and so it was that John the Baptist
appeared in the wilderness, pro-
claiming a baptism of repentance for
the forgiveness of sins. All Judaea
and all the people of Jerusalem
made their way to him, and as they
were baptised by him in the river
Jordan they confessed their sins.
John wore a garment of camel-skin,
and he lived on locusts and wild
honey. In the course of his preaching
he said, ‘Someone is following me,
someone who is more powerful than
I am, and I am not fit to kneel down
and undo the strap of his sandals.
I have baptised you with water, but
he will baptise you with the Holy
Spirit.’
The Gospel of the Lord
Communion Antiphon: Jerusalem, arise and stand
upon the heights, and behold the
joy which comes to you from God.
Entrance Antiphon O people of Sion, behold, the Lord will
come to save the nations, and
the Lord will make the glory of his
voice heard in the joy of your heart.
First Reading : Is 40:1-5. 9-11
Prepare the way for the Lord.
‘Console my people, console them’
says your God. ‘Speak to the heart of
Jerusalem and call to her that her
time of service is ended, that her sin
is atoned for, that she has received
from the hand of the Lord double
punishment for all her crimes.’ A
voice cries, ‘Prepare in the wilderness
a way for the Lord. Make a straight
highway for our God across the
desert. Let every valley be filled in,
every mountain and hill be laid low,
let every cliff become a plain, and the
ridges a valley; then the glory of the
Lord shall be revealed and all man-
kind shall see it; for the mouth of the
Lord has spoken.’ Go up on a high
mountain, joyful messenger to Zion.
Shout with a loud voice, joyful mes-
senger to Jerusalem. Shout without
fear, say to the towns of Judah, ‘Here
is your God.’ Here is the Lord coming
with power, his arm subduing all
things to him. The prize of his victory
is with him, his trophies all go before
him. He is like a shepherd feeding his
flock, gathering lambs in his arms,
holding them against his breast and
leading to their rest the mother ewes.
The word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm: (R.) Lord, let us see your kindness,
and grant us your salvation.
1. I will hear what the Lord God has
to say, a voice that speaks of peace,
peace for his people.
His help is near for those who
fear him and his glory will dwell in
our land. (R.)
26 Swanston Street, St Marys, NSW 2760
Tel: (02) 9623 1962 Fax: (02) 9833 1063
Parish Email: [email protected]
Parish Website: www.olrchurchstmarys.org.au
PARISH TEAM Parish Priest: Fr. Brendan Murphy SDB Assistant Priest: Fr Guy Riolo SDB Parish Secretary: Fleur Mathias
Parish Telephone: 9623 1962 Parish Email: [email protected] Web: www.olrchurchstmarys.org.au
Parish Fax: 9833 1063
For Enquiries Please Phone The Parish Office
between 9:30am - 12:30pm & 1:30pm - 3:30pm, Mon-Fri
Salesian Community: Phone: 9623 1220
Rector: Fr John Walenciej SDB
Don Bosco Youth Centre: Phone: 9623 0450
Co-Directors: Sr Jenny Doudle FMA Fr John Walenciej SDB
Our Lady of the Rosary Primary School
Principal: Mr Michael Siciliano Phone: 9623 2500 Email: [email protected]
Web: www.olorstmarys.catholic.edu.au
Emmaus Catholic College
Principal: Mr Robert Nastasi
Phone: 9670 4588 Email: [email protected] Web: www.emmauskempscreek.catholic.edu.au
PARISH MINISTRIES St Vincent de Paul Society: meets every Tuesday at 7:00pm in the St Vincent de Paul Office beside the Parish Hall.
Junior Legion of Mary: meets on Fridays, 4:30pm to 5:45pm in the Parish Hall and Parish Meeting Rooms. Young people welcome
Senior Legion of Mary: Tuesdays, 6:30-8pm in the Parish Hall Meeting Room. All Welcome to join.
The Cenacle: Every Thursday after 9am Mass, you are invited to join us to pray the Cenacle of the Marian Movement of Priests.
Cuppa and Craft Club: Thursdays at 9:30am, Parish Hall. Contact Parish Office 9623 1962. Computer Class (50 years & over):Basic:9.30am-11.30am and Advance:1.30pm-4pm, Parish Hall Mtg Rm. Please contact Parish Office. Rosary Statue: Mrs Helen Kubala, 12 Beaty St, St Marys.
RCIA: meets Thursdays, 7:30pm, Parish Meeting Room. Know someone who would like to be a Catholic? New enquirers welcome.
Catechists: Teaching God’s Word in our State schools. Volunteers needed. Contact Maureen Watts 9623 9272. Mother’s Prayers: Every Monday, 10am at the Infant School.
Ladies Auxiliary: 2nd Mon’s, Parish Office Meeting Room, 7:30pm
Youth Choir: Choir Practices on the 2nd Sunday of the month, 2.30pm – 4pm. Choir sings at the 9am Mass on the 4th Sunday of the month. All young people welcome, 6 -16 years. OLR-Schoenstatt Pilgrim Mother Apostolate (PMA) Rosary Prayer: every 4th Sunday of the month after the 10.30am Mass (11.45am) in the Church. All Welcome!
Sat 9 Dec ST JUAN DIEGO 6:00pm Fr Jerry Breen
Sun 10 Dec 2ND SUNDAY OF ADVENT
7:30am Spyros Terides 9:00am Midak Family
10.30am Pro Populo 5:30pm Peter Chiew
Mon 11 Dec ST DAMASCUS I 6:30am Holy Souls in Purgatory 9:00am Bazyli & Kathryn Terejko
Tue 12 Dec OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE 9:00am Hugh Green
Wed 13 Dec ST LUCY
12 noon Cheree Caberoft
Thur 14 Dec ST JOHN OF THE CROSS 9:00am Gladwin Fedilies
Fri 15 Dec 9.15am Kevin Dwyer
Sat 16 Dec 5:00am Misa De Gallo Mass 8:00am Chevie Cobcroft
RECONCILIATION
Every Wednesday: 11:15am - 11:45am.
Every Saturday: 9:00am - 10:00am, 5:00pm - 5:30pm
ADORATION BEFORE THE BLESSED SACRAMENT Wednesday: 11:15am - 11:45am, Mass at 12 noon
Every Thursday: 9:30am - 6:00pm (after 9:00am Mass) Friday: 8:30am - 9:00am. followed by Mass at 9:15am
PRAYERS FOR THE DECEASED Please remember in your prayers our deceased
parishioners, family and friends especially Daniel Walmsley, Jadwiga Walenciej, Mark N. Lucas, Mario Daros, Alfred Farrugia. Francine Low, Sid Lawrence, Mario Daros, Daniel Samardzic, Sr Hen-riette, Jessie Gomes, Joe Rukavina, Mary Briffa, Matt Julian, William Melton, Fr Jerry Breen, Charlie Zammit, Alberto Garate., Bernadette Downey, Sr Doris Barbero, Maria Teresa Urbina, Grazia Gullo, Nella Capasso, Vency Pinto, Brian Buan, Sejundina Sacun, Moises Sorrigaga, Francesca Premutico, Maria Castigli-oni., Kevin Kennedy, Malcolm Wood, Betty Cox, Linda Dunn, Pamela Polland, Gwendoline Cash, Ron Hopkinson, Daniella Siciliano, Rory Hampsey. Eternal rest grant unto their souls O Lord, let perpetual light shine
upon them, may they rest in peace. Amen
PRAYERS FOR THE SICK
Jesus the Healer, we commend to your gentle hands those who are sick
Fr George O’ Mara, Fr Lawrie Mooney, Brendon Vella, Trevor Douglas, Alby Kemp, Dennis McGee Jnr, Judith Urbano-Lopez, Denham de Silva, Clare O’Rance, Mary Bonanno, Leanne Barlon, Plaridel Santos, Kathy McMillan, Charlize McMillan, Soaad Halaka, Ester Santos, Jeblet, Greg , Sharan & Baby Larna, Anna R, Iris Warne, Donna, George Safi, Joan Law, Joseph Camilleri, Charlie Sultana, Maria Maciejewska, Peter Wetton, Maureen Cocks, Daniel Jacobson, Linda & William Weightman, Grazia Gullo, Tracey Bokor, David Fuller, Sylvia Smith, Adrian Durando, Andrew Boulos, Ricardo Herft, Grant Butterfield, Avalee, Dana, Garry., Meerle Steere, Elivra Puyat, Renato Cazar, Vera Gould, Loyd, Carol Greentree, Tangey Fernandes, Vitas Varnas, Luzia J. Vinuya, Joan Sattlar, Anna Clarke, Jim Kama, Allan Williams, Ryan Cleary, Shaanan Pereira, Imelda & Joe Bonser, Frank Campbell, Wiloto Seng, Padraig Smith, Rosina Paulo, Sally McFarlane.
Next Sunday’s Readings:THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT
1st Reading: Isaiah 61:1-2, 10-11 Responsorial Psalm: Luke 1:46-50, 53-54
2nd Reading: 1 Thessalonians 5: 16-24 Gospel: John 1: 6-8, 19-28
1st and 2nd Collections: 1st Collection: for the support of the priests of the parish 2nd Collection: (including planned giving envelopes) goes towards the running costs of the Parish.
Thankyou for your ongoing support.
Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults - RCIA Do you know anyone interested in becoming a Catholic?
Please invite them to contact: Vera on 0416 008 582 or the Parish Office on 9623 1962
St Marys Gardens Nursing Home Communion Roster
Sun 10 Dec: IMPACT Youth
Sun 17 Dec: White Family, Violet P, Marcy P, Mila H
COMING EVENTS FOR THE DIARY 12 Dec: 2nd Rite of Reconciliation, 7.30pm
Legion of Mary, Parish Hall Meeting Room 6.30pm
St Vincent De Paul, Parish Hall Mtg Room, 7:00pm
15 Dec: Junior Legion of Mary, Parish Hall, 5pm
17 Dec: Carols by Candlelight, 7.30pm
16-24 Dec: Misa de Gallo, 5am Mass
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Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
ADORATION CHAPEL Mondays & Tuesdays 8am - 9pm
CHURCH Thursdays 9:30am - 6pm
ALL WELCOME
WE WELCOME
Praise Chimaobi Egbufor, Miracle Adaenyi
Egbufor, Kaiden Joseph Kevin Kasman, Monica
Grace Seymour, Charlie Francesca Raccanello.
Into our Parish Family through the Sacrament of Baptism
OLR Parish - Carols by Candlelight We welcome all our Parishioners, families, friends &
visitors to join us for our Carols by Candle light.
Date: Sunday, 17 December.
Time: 7.30pm start
Venue: MacKillop Centre (Collins St)
Bring a candle, picnic rug / chair
along with your singing voices.
Children welcome to come
dressed as Angels & Shepherds.
If you would like to help please
contact Tina 0402 619 250.
100’S CLUB FLOWERS FOR THE ALTAR
The Raffle for the Term July to December was drawn
by Denise at the Parish Office on December 4th.
CONGRATULATIONS to the 5 Lucky Winners
1st. Prize $200 - L Banno
2nd.Prize $100 - Gianno Stefan
2nd.Prize $100 - Victor Franco
3rd.Prize $50 - Angie Abreva
3rd.Prize $50 - Margaret Dwyer
Please collect your prizes from the Parish Office during
working hours.
To keep our Altar adorned with flowers we do depend on the
generosity of you the Parishioners. We need atleast 100
people to enrol and subscribe $20each for the
TERM JANUARY ’18 to JUNE ’18.
There will be only two collections each Term. We hope to
complete our Quota of 100 subscribers within this period.
Collection Dates: January 13th and 14th and January 21st and
22nd 2018. The Core Group members will collect after all
Masses during the respective weekends.
Thank you to all our regular contributors, you have been
contributing to one of the longest running collections in the
Parish. 17 years is a long time and during this period we
have all worked together to keep our Altar
looking beautiful. New members are always welcome. Do-
nations accepted. A statements of accounts is handed to the
Parish Office every year July/ August.
Our next Raffle will be drawn in June’18. $500 in the
kitty. We thank Grace our ever obliging florist and Beverley
our Accountant.
The Core Group thanks Jesus and Mother Mary for all the
help and we pray that you will be blessed with health and joy
in the New Year. Stay safe and happy
Core Group Judy, Carmel, Antonia and Gladys.
ROSTERS SPECIAL MINISTERS, READERS, ACOLYTES
Please refer to the Roster for the 4th Sunday of Advent
which is placed in the Church Foyer.
Morning Masses will be as usual on
Sunday 24th December, Christmas Eve.
Co-ordinator - Primie Sumampong
THANK YOU! Senior’s Christmas Lunch - 3 December
The Ladies Auxiliary Team thanks all those who attended
the lunch last Saturday and a special thanks to all those
who supported our Fundraising efforts to raise funds for
the Senior’s lunch.
Winner of $250 - Denise Tondys (No. 46)
Raffle Winners 1st Prize - Eileen Morrow
2nd Prize - Hillary
3rd Prize - Margaret Dwyer
16 Lucky Door Prizes claimed on the day.
Congratulations to all our winners.
Ladies Auxiliary Team
St Vincent de Paul Christmas Appeal
"Thank you to everyone who recently took a
gift tag from the Christmas tree for a child in
need. Could you please return all Christmas
presents by this weekend to the church. They
MUST be back early enough for us to
distribute before Christmas. We need time to assemble
hampers and presents for families.
The total raised from the Appeal to date is $3,490. Thank you to everyone who kindly donated to our request.
Peter Morgan - President, St Vincent De Paul
THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION
We have uploaded instructions regarding our
“Collection and Correction of Information” on
our website – yourcatholicfoundation.org.au
December 9-10 : 2nd Sunday of Advent
Dear Parishioners,
Catholic Outlook: Please take a copy of the one-off
edition of the Catholic Outlook.
Second Rite of Reconciliation Tues Dec 12: Father
Paul Barszczewski OP from Kingswood will lead us in
our Advent Second Rite of Reconciliation, a Liturgy of
the Word with individual confession and absolution.
I encourage every member of the parish to make good use
of this sacrament before Christmas.
Parish Carols by Candlelight Sun Dec 17: Come to
the MacKillop Centre for our annual Carols by Candle-
light next Sunday evening, starting at 7:30pm. Bring a
candle and a chair and your friends for a beautiful night.
Saint Nicholas is again able to visit us on the night.
Australian Catholic Youth Festival: Thanks to Father
Guy and Brother Jeff for assisting the involvement of our
young parishioners in this historic event.
Misa de Gallo Christmas novena of Masses: There
will be a 5am Mass every day from Dec 16 till Dec 24
inclusive. Thank you to Mr Gerry Galam for organising
this novena, and to the visiting priests for accepting the
invitation to celebrate Mass for and with us.
Coming Up:
Dec 12: 7:30pm: 2nd Rite of Reconciliation
Dec 16-24: Misa de Gallo 5am Mass
Dec 17: Parish Carols by Candlelight 7:30pm.
God bless.
Fr Brendan
********************************** SAINTLY AUSTRALIAN SR. MARY GLOWREY-
MISSIONARY- MEDICAL DOCTOR (Part 3)
By Anna Krohn
The treasury of her family
In the town of Watchem [in Victoria’s Western District – Mary was born in Birregurra] at the age of six, she became entirely capable of a wide range of self-sufficient tasks – “making jam, soap, candles and simple meals.” Making something out of nothing became a miracle she worked in her later medical work.
At the same very early age, she also had a powerful insight that formed the rest of her life: “that if I should always do what was well pleasing in God’s sight” then all things would be clear and even sin would be impossible.
Mary was the third of seven children, and was deeply formed by the everyday prayer life of her family and particularly of her beloved mother and father, Margaret and Edward Glowrey. Regular ‘trimmings’ on the Rosary included a plea for more priests and doctors. In addition, it was understood through the example of her parents that all the baptised were ‘apostles’, years before this was articulated and confirmed by several 20th-century Popes and Vatican II.
Her mother Margaret was a gifted untrained catechist who ‘met’ children and others at their own pace. Mary called this ‘mother’s apostolate’ and it deeply impressed her. Mary’s mother taught her to wait patiently on God’s will – not as if God was some remote and dictatorial tyrant but as a loving Father who called us to live in relationship with Jesus Christ through the very real power of the Holy Spirit. Thus in her remote Australian town, Mary had a true taste of Trinitarian mission. Later her dedication to the Holy Spirit was to play a vital role in her work as a missionary doctor.
The call of the culture of life
In a very moving letter to her family from India, on her father’s death, Mary wrote that the guileless disciple of Jesus, Nathaniel, reminded her of her father Edward Glowrey: “Dada’s goodness was that of that unobtrusive, self-forgetting kind, which is so precious and so rare.”
It was Edward who gave Mary the strongest encourage-ment in the apostolate of medical studies, particularly supporting her against the common view that medicine was an unfeminine vocation. With Mary’s mother, he opened her mind to offering hospitality and social justice to a group of travelling Indians who would regularly stay on their property and were nursed back to health by the family. “My father’s kindness to this group of Indians was not an isolated instance. He was kind to everybody … His solicitude extended to the spiritual as well as the temporal welfare of those he met,” writes Mary. (concluded next week)
***************************** "Hear and let it penetrate into your heart, my dear little
son: let nothing discourage you, nothing depress you. Let
nothing alter your heart or your countenance. Also, do
not fear any illness or vexation, anxiety or pain. Am I not
here who am your Mother? Are you not under my
shadow and protection ? Am I not your fountain of life ?
Are you not in the crossing of my arms ?" The Blessed Virgin speaking to St Juan Diego, on
Tepeyac Hill, Mexico City (December 1531) [Dec 12: Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe]
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SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT