BRISBANE ORATORY IN FORMATION

PARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBINPARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBINPARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBIN Fifth Sunday of Lent - Year A [OF] & [EF]

1st/2nd April, 2017

Readings for next Sunday

8th/9th April, 2017

1st: Isaiah 50: 4-7

2nd: Philippians 2:6-11

Gospel: Matthew 26:14-27:66

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

Mrs Teresa Martin

(Assistant Sacramental Co-ordinators)

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)

The 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)

Dylan Shogrun (0449 994 929)

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,

Easter Sunday is now only two weeks away! Even if you have perhaps not participated very well so far in the call of Lent to generous prayer, penance and conversion of heart to Christ, it is still not too late! We are all called to make Holy Week and the time leading up to it as prayerful as possible, while at the same time not forgetting penitential self denial and the service of those in need. Making a good confession is of course also vital during Lent.

A few assorted notices follow:

Please note the change to the day and time of Tenebrae on our Holy Week timetable on Page 2.

I would like to ask those attending our Resurrection supper in the Marymac Centre after the Easter Vigil to please bring a plate of food to share. Tea and coffee, and cordial for the children will be provided. Thanks.

We are looking for readers (Lectors) for the Sunday 5:00pm Mary Immaculate Mass. Some training will be provided. Can you help? Please phone the Parish Office or speak to Father after Mass. Thank you.

The final part of our Reflection on confession now continues below.

Fr Andrew Wise

CONVERSION So often confession is the beginning of a great conversion. Bishop Sheen told this story: When Charles de Foucauld, a hero of France but still an evil man, entered a church one day,

he knocked at the confessional of Father Huvelin and said: "Come out, I want to talk to you about a problem." Fr. Huvelin answered, "No, come in; I want to talk to you about your sins." Foucauld, struck by Divine Grace, obeyed; later on he became a [hermit] in the desert and one of the saintly men of our times.

A young man once gave a talk about his conversion. He had been a Catholic since childhood, but he fell into sin and neglected confession, though he continued to go to Mass. So, he did need conversion. He went to confess one Saturday afternoon, and found himself at the end of a long line of people. He looked at his watch and decided he didn't have time to go,

so he started to leave. A woman close to the confessional grabbed him as he went by and said, "Here, take my place. You look like you may need it more that I." Indeed he did. He was caught... by the Hound of Heaven. He went in, confessed, and returned to the sacraments for the first time in over ten years. He went on to become a priest.

"I DON'T NEED TO GO TO CONFESSION. I HAVE ONLY VENIAL SINS."

Pope John Paul II said on June 15, 1983:

The sacrament of reconciliation is not reserved only for those who commit serious sins. It was instituted for the remission of all sins and the grace that flows from it has a special [power] of purification and support in the effort of amendment and progress. It is an irreplaceable sacrament in the Christian life; it cannot be disregarded or neglected if one wants the seed of divine life to mature in the Christian and produce all the desired results. When we confess just venial sins we develop a greater sensitivity to them, and become more inclined to overcome them. Most people who commit mortal sins began with repeated venial sins, and thus weakened, fell into more serious sins.

One person went on a retreat and as part of the retreat he went to confession. It had been more than two years since he had gone. He hadn't committed any mortal sins so he didn't absolutely have to go. Nonetheless, the priest gently corrected him on his staying away for so long. "Could it be a matter of pride that you haven't come to confession all this time?" He encouraged him to go at least once a month from then on, just for venial sins. The man admitted his pride, and resolved to go monthly. To Page 2

PARISH DATE CLAIMERS

Saturday 29th April/ Mary Immaculate Primary School Centenary Celebrations. Please contact the

Sunday 30th April school for details on 3848 8965 or go to https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?

eid=268305 to buy tickets for weekend events. Watch this Newsletter!

Monday 8th May Josephites Associates Meeting at 10:00am at Majellan House, Yeerongpilly. Please phone Jay on 3848 8923 or Claire on 3848 3998 for further information. Saturday 20th May Baptism Preparation for Parents at 9:00am in the Music Room (under MI church). Please contact the Parish Office to book.

Saturday 22nd July Brisbane Oratory Winter Ball from 6:30pm at Portside Wharf. Watch this Newsletter!

WE PRAY FOR: Those who are recently deceased: Peter THORNTHWAITE, Beverley HASSON, Noel TENNISON (Castlemaine, Victoia), Fr Dan MOORE (Ireland) Tiernan McCANN (Ireland), Mary BERRY, Helen O’NEILL, Margaret (Joan) DRUERY, Sean McCANN (Ireland), Mary Ann VAN DER WEIDE and Neil BETTS. Those who are sick: Luke ADENEY, Baby CHARLIE, Helen BAILEY, Ksenia BORODIN, Rex BOWEN, Joan BRAMMER, Peter BROPHY, John BROPHY, Shannon EMSLIE, Jane FARRELL, Tereza FERENC, Joan FLEW, Anne FRANETTOVICH, Gwen GAIR, Bronte GREER, Judy HARRIS, Marlene JOHNSTON, Brian McMAHON, Marie MITCHELL, Valerie & Kevin ORTON, Ron ROFE, Joan ROONEY, Rosa Maria SANTOS, Matt VASIL, Charlie WINTER, Josephine & Bill WRIGHT and Matthew ZEMEK.

All the faithful departed.

COLLECTIONS LAST WEEKEND: $2,244.85 ELECTRONIC CONTRIBUTIONS AVERAGE FOR WEEK: $2,077.40. Thank you from a grateful Parish.

2017 HOLY WEEK TIMETABLE

From Page 1: Pius XII wrote in Mysticii corporis: For a constant and speedy advancement in the path of virtue we highly recommend the pious practice of frequent confession... for by this means we grow in a true knowledge of ourselves and in Christian humility, bad habits are uprooted, spiritual negligence and apathy are prevented, the conscience is purified and the will strengthened, salutary spiritual direction is obtained and grace is increased by the effectiveness of the sacrament itself.

Confession: God doesn't need it. We do. © Rev. T. G. Morrow - With Ecclesiastical Permission

Jeff Cavins exciting Timeline Bible Study continues at the Little King’s Movement for the Disabled, 31/33 O’Keefe Street, Wooloongabba. Bible Study begins after prayers in the Chapel: 7 pm for 7:15 start. For more details phone Mystical Rose Praesidium 0473 208 086

Day Time/Ceremony Venue Notes

Tuesday

11th April

7:30pm – 8:00pm Stations of the Cross

& confessions

MI

Wednesday

12th April

7:30pm – 8:00pm confessions MI

Holy Thursday

13th April

7:00pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper [OF]

Watching with the Lord until 9:00pm

SJF

7:00pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper [EF]

Watching with the Lord until midnight

MI [EF] Sung Compline at 9:30pm

Good Friday

14th April

9:00am Stations of the Cross & Prayers [OF] SJF Followed by confessions

Veneration of the Cross for those not

attending at 3:00pm

10:00am Stations of the Cross & Prayers [OF] MI Followed by confessions

Veneration of the Cross for those not

attending at 3:00pm

3:00pm Solemn Commemoration of the

Lord’s Passion [EF] (approx. 2 1/2 hours)

MI Including confessions

7:30pm Tenebrae, including confessions

(approx. 2 hours)

Chanting of psalms from the Divine

Office with an ancient candle ritual

Holy Saturday

15th April

5:30pm Easter Vigil [OF]

Please bring a candle with a holder

MI Followed by Supper in

Marymac Centre

Please note there will be no Easter Vigil Mass at St John Fisher Church

Easter Sunday

16th April

7:30am Mass [OF] MI

9:00am Mass [EF] MI Missa cantata

8.30am Mass [OF] SJF

Please note there will be no evening Mass on Easter Sunday

The Oratory Winter Ball, Saturday 22 July 2017, from 6:30pm: Moda Events, Portside . Level 2, Portside Wharf, Hamilton. Semi-formal/Evening Wear. Book tickets at: trybooking.com/258077. Please contact Fr Adrian on 0427 109 054. Proudly sponsored by the Norman Hotel.

Singers are required for the 7:00pm Holy Thursday, Mass of the Lord’s Supper at St John Fisher Church. Would you like to lend your voice to this sacred liturgy? If so, please contact Christine on 0418 730 966.

Parish Diary & Mass Times: 27th March - 2nd April

Monday 3rd April

6:00am Mass [OF+] SE

7:00pm Mass [OF] MI Tuesday 4th April

6:00am Mass [OF+] SE

7:00am Mass [EF] MI

9:00am Mass [OF+] MI

Wednesday 5th April

6:30am Mass [OF] SJF

9:00am Mass [EF] MI

Thursday 6th April

6:00am NO MASS [OF+] SE

7:00am Mass [OF+] MI

9:00am Mass [EF] MI

Friday 7th April

6:30am Mass [OF] SE

9:00am Mass [EF] MI

7:30pm Stations of the Cross, MI

followed by Holy Hour until 8:45pm

Saturday 8th April

8:15am Mass [EF] MI

Palm Sunday

5:30pm Vigil [OF] SJF

5:30pm Vigil [OF+] MI

Sunday 9th April 7:30am Mass [OF] MI 8:30am Mass [OF] SJF 9:00am Mass [EF] MI 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, 1st April, Private: For the Intentions of the Donor 5:30pm Vigil at MI: For the Spiritual & Temporal Welfare of the Reverend & Mrs J.W. Hunwicke, Golden Wedding Anniversary Sunday, 2nd April, 7:30am Mass at MI: For Margaret Deed, anniversary, from the De Luca Family 8:30am Mass at SJF: For the Repose of the Soul of Bill Kelly, recently deceased 9:00am Mass at MI: For the People of the Parish: Pro populo Monday, 3rd April, 6:00am Mass at SE: For the repose of the soul of Fr Bruce Little, recently deceased Tuesday, 4th April, 6:00am Mass at SE: For the intentions of the Donor 9:00am Mass at MI: For Colleen Pearce (Murgon), recently deceased Wednesday, 5th April, 6:30am Mass at SJF: For the Holy Souls

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St Gregory’s Latin Mass Community: Fifth Sunday of Lent: Wilston 7:30am

>10:00am Mass at Tricare, Annerley: For the Repose of the Soul of Frances Banwell Thursday, 6th April, 7:00am Mass at MI: For Joseph & Thomas, deceased

7:00pm Chrism Mass at St Stephen’s Cathedral: For the Seminarians of the Brisbane Oratory and for Vocations Friday, 7th April, 6:00am Mass at SE: For a Special Intention 9:00am Mass at MI: For Shannon Emslie, ill health Saturday, 8th April, Private: For a Special Intention 8:15am Mass at MI: For a Special Intention 5:30pm Vigil at SJF: For the Repose of the Soul of Gladis Lutvey, anniversary Sunday, 9th April, 8:30am Mass at SJF: For the People of the Parish: Pro populo 5:00pm Mass at MI: For the Holy Souls

PLEASE NOTE:

Weekday Mass omitted for this week:

Thursday, 6th April, 6:00am Mass at SE

The Parish Statue of Our Lady has been circulating within the Parish in recent months. If you would like the Statue in your home for one or two weeks, please contact the Mystical Rose Legion of Mary Praesidium on 0412 938 596.

EASTER CEREMONIES: Volunteer sign-up sheets for

the upcoming Holy Week Ceremonies remain in both

churches. If you would like to participate in the

ministry of this year’s Easter celebrations please

provide your details. Thank you.

Rosters for next week

MINISTERS OF THE WORD

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

Sun (MI) 7.30am Ann Fell

Sun (SJF) 8:30am Peter Menagh

Sun (MI) 5.00pm Pat Rickard, Andrew Carney

EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION

Sat (SJF) 5:30pm: 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) 8:30am: Peter Menagh

Sun (MI) 5:00pm: Liam Herbert (also available as a reserve. Please phone 0417 727 480)

COUNTERS

Monday, 3rd April, 2017

Clem Poncini, Bernie O’Hara

CHURCH CARE

Sacristy (SEC) Maria Monro

Sanctuary & Sacristy (MI) Mabel Saah

Laundry (SJF) Rebecca Birkett

Laundry (MI) Mabel Saah

Please note that Adoration at St Elizabeth’s Chapel on

April 6th will commence at 10:00pm.

Fifth Sunday of Lent - Year A: 1st/2nd April, 2017

MASS READINGS

First Reading: Ezekiel 37: 12-14

The Lord says this: I am now going to open your graves; I mean to raise you from your graves, my people, and lead you back to the soil of Israel. And you will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people. And I shall put my spirit in you, and you will live, and I shall re-settle you on your own soil; and you will know that I , the Lord, have said and done this - it is the Lord who speaks.

The Word of the Lord

Response: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm 129

(Said by all)

Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord,

Lord, hear my voice!

O let your ears be attentive

to the voice of my pleading.

If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt,

Lord, who would survive?

But with you is found forgiveness:

for this we revere you.

My soul is waiting for the Lord,

I count on his word.

My soul is longing for the Lord

more than the watchman for daybreak

(Let the watchman count on daybreak

and Israel on the Lord.)

Because with the Lord there is mercy

and fullness of redemption,

Israel indeed he will redeem

From all its iniquity.

Second Reading: Romans 8:8-11 People who are interested only in unspiritual things can never be pleasing to God. Your interests, however, are not in the unspiritual, but in the spiritual, since the Spirit of God has made his home in you. In fact, unless you possessed the Spirit of Christ you would not belong to him. Though your body may be dead it is because of sin, but if Christ is in you then your spirit is life itself because you have been justified; and if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you then he will give life to your own mortal bodies through his Spirit living in you.

The Word of the Lord

Response: Thanks be to God

Gospel Acclamation:

Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ! I am the resurrection and the life, says the Lord; whoever believes in me will not die for ever. Glory and praise to

you, Lord Jesus Christ!

Gospel: John 11: 1-45

There was a man named Lazarus who lived in the village of Bethany with two sisters, Mary and Marth, and he was ill. It was the same Mary, the sister of the sick man Lazarus, who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair. The sisters sent this message to Jesus, ‘Lord, the man you love is ill.’

On receiving the message, Jesus said, ‘This sickness will not end in death but in God’s glory, and through it the Son of God will be glorified.’

Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, yet when he heard that Lazarus was ill he stayed where he was for two more days before saying the disciples. ‘Let us go to Judaea.’

On arriving, Jesus found that Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days already. When Martha heard that Jesus had come she went to meet him. Mary remained sitting in the house. Martha said to Jesus, ‘If you had been here, my brother would not have died, but I know that, even now, whatever you ask of God, he will grant you.’ ‘Your brother’ said Jesus to her ‘will rise again.’ Martha said, ‘I know he will rise again at the resurrection on the last day.’

Jesus said: ‘I am the resurrection and the life. If anyone believes in me, even though he dies he will live, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?’

‘Yes, Lord,’ she said ‘I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who was to come into this world.’ Jesus said in great distress, with a sigh that came straight from the heart, ‘Where have you put him?’ They said, ‘Lord, come and see.’ Jesus wept; and the Jews said, ‘See how much he loved him!’ But there were some who remarked, ‘He opened the eyes of the blind man, could he not have prevented this man’s death?’ Still sighing, Jesus reached the tomb: it was a cave with a stone to close the opening. Jesus said, ‘Take the stone away.’ Martha said to him ‘Lord, by now he will smell; this is the fourth day.’ Jesus replied ‘Have I not told you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?’ So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted up his eyes and said: ‘Father, I thank you for hearing my prayer. I knew indeed that always hear me. But I speak for the sake of all these who stand round me, so that they may believe it was you who sent me.’ When he said this, he cried in a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, here! Come out!’ The dead man came out, his feet and hands bound with bands of stuff and a cloth round his face. Jesus said to them, ‘Unbind him, let him go free.’ Many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and had seen what he did believed in him.

The Gospel of the Lord.

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

Memorial Acclamation: Number Two

When we eat this Bread and drink this Cup, we proclaim your Death, O Lord, until you come again.

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