BRISBANE ORATORY IN FORMATION

PARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBINPARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBINPARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBIN Second Sunday of Advent - Year A [OF] & [EF]

3rd/4th December, 2016

Readings for next Sunday

10th/11thDecember, 2016

1st: Isaiah 35: 1-6, 10

2nd: James 5:7-10

Gospel: Matthew 11: 2-11

Parish Office

14 Ferndale Street, Annerley 4103

PO Box 3131, Tarragindi 4121.

Office Hours:- 9:00am - 1:00pm

Monday, Wednesday & Friday

Phone: 3848 1107

Fax: 3848 1855

Email: annek@bne.catholic.net.au

Web: www.annerleyekibinparish.com www.facebook.com/ annerleyekibinparish

www.twitter.com/AnnerleyEkibin

Parish Priest : Fr Andrew Wise

Parish Team

Ms Shirley Sadler (Parish Secretary) Mrs Kathy Ducker (Finance Officer)

Miss Ria McIntyre

(Assistant Sacramental Co-ordinator)

Mr Richard O’Neil:0427 484 679

† Mary Immaculate Church

616 Ipswich Road, Annerley

† St John Fisher Church

17 Messines Ridge Road, Tarragindi

† St Elizabeth’s Chapel

61 Effingham Street, Ekibin

St Elizabeth’s Primary School

Phone 3848 0828

Mary Immaculate Primary School

Phone 3848 8965

Our Lady’s Secondary College

Phone: 3848 7462

St John Fisher Hall

17 Messines Ridge Road, Tarragindi

Phone 3848 1107 (Office hours)

Brisbane Oratory in Formation

Oratory House - 3392 9247

16 Ferndale Street, Annerley

http://brisbane-oratory.org/

Fr Adrian Sharp (Moderator)

Fr Andrew Wise

Fr Scot Armstrong

Br Shawn Murphy

Br Tyson King

Br Conor Power Br Matthew Buckley

Frassati (Young Men)

David Powick (0409 711 786)

Flores Teresianes (Young Women)

Elise Hewitt (0400 204 995)

Frassati Youth (High School age)

Abbie Powick (0477 055 778 ) frassatiyouthbrisbane@gmail.com

St Vincent de Paul Helpline

Phone: 3010 1096

Homeless Hotline: 1800 474 753

From the Parish Priest Dear Parishioners,

As we continue our Advent journey of prayerfully preparing to celebrate Christ’s coming at Christmas, a special solemnity takes place next Thursday, 8th December. This is Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception which is also the Patronal Feast for Mary Immaculate church. On that day there will be a 9:00am Ordinary Form Mass at MI church and then in the evening there will be an Extraordinary Form Missa Cantata at 7:30pm. Please do attend one of these Masses if you can to honour the Immaculate Virgin Mary our Mother. A reminder also about the Thank you Christmas Drinks for all our Parish and Oratory volunteers. This will be on Thursday 15th December in the Parish Office. The idea is that all our volunteers are warmly invited to simply drop in for a Christmas drink and finger food anytime between 5:00pm and 8:00pm and stay as long or as briefly as they wish, at this busy time of year. I hope there will be many parishioners and friends of the Oratory attending the Christmas dinner dance next Saturday evening (details on Page 2). The proceeds from the dinner dance will equally support both the Missionary Sisters of St Peter Claver and the Brisbane Oratory in Formation. Our reflection this week is from the wonderfully spiritual website Vultus Christi. It is based on the entrance antiphon for the first Sunday of Advent, but as the writer notes, this psalm sets the tone for the whole Advent season and indeed the whole liturgical year.

Fr Andrew Wise All My Heart Goes Out To Thee: There is movement in today’s liturgy: a great sweep upward and away from all that holds us bound and confined “in darkness and in the shadow of death” (Lk 1:79). This is the ecstatic movement of prayer, of all right worship: out of self, upward, and into “the fullness of God” (Eph 3:19). The Introit sets the tone, not only for this the first Mass of Advent, but also for the rest of the Advent season and, indeed, for the whole new liturgical year. “To Thee, my God, I lift up my soul” (Ps 24:1) or, as Ronald Knox translated it, “All my heart goes out to Thee, my God.” Ready for the Leap of Hope: The heart, in going out to God, leaves much behind and cannot look back. This is the law of prayer, this is what it makes it costly, sacrificial and, at the same time, unspeakably sweet. The things we leave behind are mere trifles but, oh, the hold they can have on us! The old self, fearful and anxious about many things, grasps at every illusory promise of security, clings to things, arranges them in great useless piles, looks on them caressingly and takes inventory of them. The loss of any thing, even the most insignificant, represents for the old self, the loss of control, the loss of power, and of comforting familiar pleasures. All of this in incompatible with the prayer that the liturgy places on our lips today: “All my heart goes out to Thee, my God” (Ps 24:1). The upward flight of today’s Introit has nothing to do with cheap pious sentiment. It is an uncompromising call to detachment, to poverty of spirit, and to an obedience that is off and running with all speed, ready for the leap of hope. To Page 2

Christmas Timetable 2016 Saturday 24th December

8:15am Mass (last Advent Mass) Mary Immaculate

Confessions after Mass, as well as before, as usual.

Christmas Eve 24th December

5:30pm: Vigil [OF] St John Fisher church

7:30pm: Vigil [OF] St John Fisher church

6:00pm: 1st Vespers of Christmas [EF] Mary Immaculate church

8:00pm: Vigil [Solemn OF+] Mary Immaculate church

11:30pm: Carols Mary Immaculate church

Midnight: [Solemn High Mass EF] Mary Immaculate church

Christmas Day 25th December

7:30am: Mass [OF] Mary Immaculate church

9:00am: Mass [EF, Sung] Mary Immaculate church

No evening Mass Mary Immaculate church

PARISH DATE CLAIMERS

Tuesday 6th December Final Anointing Mass for 2016 at Mary Immaculate Church at 10:00am.

Wednesday 14th December Parish Pastoral Council meets at the Parish Office at 7:30pm.

Saturday 17th December Christmas Oratorio at Mary Immaculate Church. Please see notice below.

WE PRAY FOR: Those who are recently deceased: Corazon SALAO, Rina COOK, Alan HANCOCK, Fr Terry MADDEN, Jozef SCHUTZMAN, Michael GRATTEN, Margaret McKILLOP, Mary TIMMERS, Des & Gwen COOKE, Marie DUTHRIE, Ian COAD, Stephen PHILLIPS and David LEWIS. Those who are sick: Esther ADENEY, Luke ADENEY, Theresa BAGLEY, Gabrielle BENTLEY, Monique BENTLEY Neil BETTS, Ksenia BORODIN, Rex BOWEN, Stewart BOYD, Joan BRAMMER, Noelene BURGESS, Jeremy CARROLL, Robyn CLEMENTS, Jim CLIFFORD, Hilary COLLINS, Rochelle COWARD, Marietta CRUZADO, Diane ELLIS, Rowena ENNIS, David FARRELL, Jane FARRELL, Madge FARRELL, Tereza FERENC, Joan FLEW, Mary FORRESTER, Anne FRANETTOVICH, John FRANK, Gwen GAIR, Helen GIAQUINTA, Dulcey HARVEY (Ingham), Jan HEGARTY, Peter HEGARTY, Keith HOGG, Marlene JOHNSTON, Dominic KENNEDY, Robyn KINNES, Ryan MacGARY-WALSH, Cherril MALONEY, Bernard McALARY, Marie McMAHON SGS, Marie MITCHELL, Harry MOHR, Kathryn MORRIS, Robyn O’DWYER, Valerie & Kevin ORTON, Brian QUARRY, Ron ROFE, Joan ROONEY, Dorothy RYAN, Nick SHANAHAN (Jnr), Florence SNELL, Mary STUART, Heather TERRILL, Charlie WINTER, Fr John WORTHINGTON SM, Gary WYLIE, Josephine & Bill WRIGHT and Matthew ZEMEK .

All the faithful departed, especially Marlene ZIERVOGEL.

COLLECTIONS LAST WEEKEND: $2,687.60 ELECTRONIC CONTRIBUTIONS AVE. FOR WEEK

$1,988.05 Thank you from a grateful Parish

CHRISTMAS ORATORIO - Sat 17 Dec (7.30pm) Mary Immaculate Church, Annerley: Join us as the Oratory Choir & Artes Christi including a choir & orchestra of 50 musicians present a special evening of Advent music including Adam Lay Ybounden, This is the Record of John and HANDEL'S MESSIAH. Last Christmas, Artes Christi sang at the Vatican, Notre Dame Paris & across Europe so we are delighted to welcome them back to Brisbane after they sang here in 2012-14. The movements of HANDEL'S MESSIAH will include And the Glory of the Lord, Surely, For Unto Us, The Hallelujah Chorus & many others. The evening will last for 70 minutes. Entry by donation (suggested $10+), supporting the Oratory Choir and Artes Christi. For more info on the concert visit www.theword.org.au

Mary Immaculate School Centenary

Mary Immaculate School, Annerley is about to turn 100!

On April 30th, 2017, the school will officially commemorate its

100th birthday. Save the dates of Saturday, April 29th and

Sunday 30th April, 2017. We would love for as many as possible

to join us in celebrating on this weekend with an “Under the

Stars” late afternoon/evening event on Saturday 29th April with

guest of honour, Mr Hugh Lunn. On Sunday 30th April,

Archbishop Mark Coleridge will celebrate a Thanksgiving

Eucharist in honour of our Centenary. We are also seeking

memorabilia. Please contact Leanne Delaney on 38488965.

More info to come next week.

Mary Immaculate SVDP Conference Christmas Appeal 2016 will be launched at this weekend’s Masses - 3rd/4th December through the distribution of appeal envelopes on the pews. You can choose to return the addressed envelopes via the collection plates; to an SVDP volunteer at the back of the church at the end of

Mass; or mail it to the St Vincent de Paul Society. Many thanks.

SVDP Mary Immaculate Conference Giving Tree

Please take a card or two from the tree, at MI church, purchase the secret item and place it under the tree for

collection by SVDP. We are happy to receive the items at any time up until Sunday 18th December. Thank you for your support again this year.

Can you help distribute Hampers?

Correction: Our Conference requires volunteers to distribute Christmas Hampers donated by Greenslopes Hospital on Friday, 16th December from 11:00am to 2:00pm. Please phone Kevin on 3892 6113 to volunteer.

Parish Hampers prepared from Giving Tree donations will be distributed on Wednesday, 21st December.

On sale now at Mary Immaculate Piety Stall: Christmas cards (5 for $2.50, 8 for $3.00, 10 for $5.00) and 2017 Columban Calendars $8.00.

St John Fisher Church Giving Tree: Please take a tag from the tree and return the item requested by Sunday, December 18th. Hampers will be distributed to families and individuals in need during the week before Christmas. Also - purchase your Christmas cards and Columban Calendars at SJF: Packs of 5 cards for $2.00, Calendars are $8:00.

From Page 1: Cast Off the Works of Darkness: The Apostle says that the movement upward and into God is urgent. The advent of Christ brooks no delay. “You know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed; the night is far gone the day is at hand” (Rom 13:11-12). Again the call to detachment, a summons to throw off the things that weigh us down and impede our upward flight.

St Elizabeth’s Chapel Adoration:

Adoration at the Chapel will finish for the

year after Thursday, 22nd December and resume on Thursday February 2nd 2017.

Are you wondering how you can make a lasting gift to our

community? By leaving a charitable gift in your Will

to The Brisbane Oratory in Formation or the

Annerley Ekibin Parish you can make a meaningful

and profound gift to our future church. go to: https://

catholicfoundation.org.au/articles/donate-perpetual-fund/, choose ‘designation’ and select Annerley Ekibin Parish and/or Brisbane Oratory in Formation.

Parish Diary & Mass Times: 5th - 11th December

Monday 5th December

6:00am NO MASS SE

7:00pm Mass [OF+] MI Tuesday 6th December

6:00am Mass [OF+] SE

7:00am Mass [EF} MI

10:00am Mass [OF+] MI Anointing Mass

Wednesday 7th December

6:30am Mass [OF] SJF

9:00am Mass [EF] MI

Thursday 8th December

6:00am NO MASS SE

7:00am NO MASS MI

9:00am Mass [OF+] MI

7:30pm Mass [EF] MI Missa Cantata

Friday 9th December

6:30am Mass [OF] SE

9:00am Mass [EF] MI

7:30pm Holy Hour MI

Saturday 10th December

8:15am Mass [EF] MI

Third Sunday of Advent

5:30pm Vigil [OF+] MI

5:30pm Vigil [OF] SJF

Sunday 11th December 7:30am Mass [OF] MI 9:00am Mass [EF] MI 8:30am Mass [OF] SJF

5:00pm Mass [OF+] MI

OF = Ordinary Form | OF+ = Ad orientem | EF = Extraordinary Form]

MI = Mary Immaculate SE = St Elizabeth’s SJF = St John Fisher

CONFESSION TIMES: Mon 6:45pm (MI) Wed 9:40am - 10:00am (MI) Thu 9:40am - 10:00am (MI Fri 9:40am - 10:00am (MI) Fri 7:30pm - 8:30pm (During Holy Hour) Sat 7:15am - 8:00am (MI) Sat 4:45pm - 5:15pm (MI) Sat 5:15pm by request (SJF)

Sun During 9:00am Mass where possible (MI)

The Angelus and the Rosary are prayed half an hour before the early Masses, Monday to Friday, at SE & SJF.

All night Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament takes place each Thursday at St Elizabeth’s Chapel beginning at 6:00pm and ending at 6:45am on Fridays.

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament takes place on Saturdays from 7:15am - 8:00am at Mary Immaculate Church.

Rosters for next week

MASS INTENTIONS Saturday, 3rd December, Private: For a Special Intention 5:30pm Vigil at MI: For Margaret McKillop, recently deceased Sunday, 4th December, 8:30am Mass at SJF: For Laura Vacilotto, recently deceased 9:00am Mass at MI: In thanksgiving for Barbara Puzio and her family 5:00pm Mass at MI: For the People of the Parish: Pro populo Monday, 5th December, 7:00pm Mass at MI: For a Special Intention Tuesday, 6th December, 6:00am Mass at MI: For a Special Intention 10:00am Mass at MI: For Jacomina Maria Scott, deceased

St Gregory’s Latin Mass Community: Second Sunday of Advent: Wilston 7:30am

Wednesday, 7th December, 6:30am Mass at SJF: For the repose of the soul of Keith Higlett, recently deceased 9:00am Mass at MI: For Vincent Gerald Scott, deceased Thursday, 8th December, 9:00am Mass at MI: For the repose of the souls of Adrian & Tony Van Wegan 7:30pm Mass at MI: For a Special Intention Friday, 9th December, 6:30am Mass at SE: For a Special Intention 9:00am Mass at MI: For Carmel Collins, recently deceased Saturday, 10th December, 8:15am Mass at MI: For Sofia Chappuis, Birthday Sunday, 11th December, 7:30am Mass at MI: For a Special Intention 9:00am Mass at MI: For the People of the Parish: Pro populo

PLEASE NOTE: Weekday Masses Omitted For This Week

Monday, 5th December, 6:00am Mass at SE Thursday 8th December, 6:00am Mass at SE Thursday, 8th December, 7:00am Mass at MI

SUNG VESPERS on

SUNDAYS: Every

second and fourth Sunday of the month

Vespers, the evening

portion of the Divine

Office, is sung in

MI church at 4pm in

the Extraordinary Form.

Rosters for next week

MINISTERS OF THE WORD

Sat (SJF) 5:30pm Christine Nitz, Barbara Nicolaides

Sun (MI) 7.30am Ann Fell Readers needed for this Mass

Sun (SJF)9.00am Peter Menagh

Sun (MI) 5.00pm Pat Rickard, Andrew Carney

EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION

Sat (SJF) 6:00pm: Bert Jacobs, John Lesina, Prem Nair, Kevin Rowen, Valmai Winter

Sun (MI) 7:30am: Bertha Clark, Joan Coghlan, Paul Coghlan, Ester Evangelista, Charles Grugan, Kathleen Grugan

Sun (SJF) 9:00am: Peter Menagh

Sun (MI) 5:00pm: Liam Herbert (also available as a reserve.

Please phone 0417 727 480)

COUNTERS

Monday, 5th December, 2016

Clem Poncini, Bernie O’Hara

CHURCH CARE

Sacristy (SJF)

Sacristy (SEC) Maria Monro

Sanctuary & Sacristy (MI) Mabel Saah

Church Cleaning (MI)

Laundry (SJF) Rebecca Birkett

Laundry (SEC)

Laundry (MI) Mabel Saah

FIRST SATURDAY

PUBLIC ROSARY

RALLY on the footpath in front of

Mary Immaculate

Church following the

8:15 am First Saturday

Mass. Enquiries:

Mystical Rose Legion of Mary Praesidium,

Mary Immaculate on

0473 208 086.

Second Sunday of Advent - Year A: 3rd/4th December, 2016

ADVENT WREATH PRAYERS: Second Candle Celebrant: O WISDOM, WHO CAME FROM THE MOUTH OF THE MOST HIGH, reaching from end to end and ordering all things mightily and sweetly:

Response: COME, and teach us the way of prudence.

Celebrant: O LORD AND RULER of the House of Israel, who appeared to Moses in the flame of the burning bush and gave him the law on Sinai:

Response: COME, and redeem us with outstretched arms. Amen

SUNDAY MASS READINGS

First Reading: Isaiah 11:1-10

A shoot springs from the stock of Jesse, a scion thrusts from his roots: on him the spirit of the Lord rests, a spirit of wisdom and insight, a spirit of counsel and power, a spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. (The fear of the Lord is his breath.) He does not judge by appearances, he gives no verdict on hearsay, but judges the wretched with integrity, and with equity gives a verdict for the poor of the land. His word is a rod that strikes the ruthless; his sentences bring death to the wicked. Integrity is the loincloth round his waist, faithfulness the belt about his hips. The wolf lives with the lamb, the panther lies down with the kid, calf and lion cub feed together with a little boy to lead them. The cow and the bear make friends, their young lie down together. The lion eats straw like the ox. The infant plays over the cobra’s hole; into the viper’s lair the young child puts his hand. They do no hurt, no harm, on all my holy mountain, for the country is filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters swell the sea.

That day, the root of Jesse shall stand as the signal to the peoples. It will be sought out by the nations and its home will be glorious.

The Word of the Lord

Response: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm 71

(Said by all)

O God, give your judgments to the king, to a king’s son your justice, that he may judge your people in justice and your poor in right judgment.

In his days justice shall flourish and peace till the moon fails: He shall rule from sea to sea, from the Great River to earth’s bounds.

For he shall save the poor when they cry and the needy who are helpless. He will have pity on the weak and save the lives of the poor.

May his name be blessed for ever and endure like the sun. Every tribe shall be blessed in him, all nations bless his name.

Second Reading: Romans 15:4-9 Everything that was written long ago in the scriptures was meant to teach us something about hope from the examples scripture gives of how people who did not give up were helped by God. And may he who helps us when we refuse to give up, help you all to be tolerant with each other, following the example of Christ Jesus, so that united in mind and voice you may give glory to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

It can only be to God's glory, then, for you to treat each other in the same friendly way as Christ treated you. The reason Christ became the servant of circumcised Jews was not only so that God could faithfully carry out the promises made to the patriarchs, it was also to get the pagans to give glory to God for his mercy, as scripture says in one place: For this I shall praise you among the pagans and sing to your name.

The Word of the Lord

Response: Thanks be to God

Gospel Acclamation:

Alleluia, alleluia! Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths: all people shall see the salvation of God. Alleluia!

Gospel: Matthew 3:1-12

In due course John the Baptist appeared; he preached in the wilderness of Judaea and this was his message: `Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand'. This was the man the prophet Isaiah spoke of when he said: A voice cries in the wilderness: Prepare a way for the Lord, make his paths straight. This man John wore a garment made of camel-hair with a leather belt round his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then Jerusalem and all Judaea and the whole Jordan district made their way to him, and as they were baptised by him in the river Jordan they confessed their sins. But when he saw a number of Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism he said to them, `Brood of vipers, who warned you to fly from the retribution that is coming? But if you are repentant, produce the appropriate fruit, and do not presume to tell yourselves, "We have Abraham for our father", because, I tell you, God can raise children for Abraham from these stones. Even now the axe is laid to the roots of the trees, so that any tree which fails to produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown on the fire. I baptise you in water for repentance, but the one who follows me is more powerful than I am, and I am not fit to carry his sandals; he will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing-fan is in his hand; he will clear his threshing-floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn in a fire that will never go out.’

The Gospel of the Lord.

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

Memorial Acclamation: Number Three

Save us, Saviour of the world, for by your Cross and Resurrection you have set us free.

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