BRISBANE ORATORY IN FORMATION

PARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBINPARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBINPARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBIN Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A [OF] &

Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost [EF]: 19th/20th August, 2017

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

Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable

Adults Parish Representative

(Contact for Safeguarding concerns)

Marie Melski 3848 0338

Frassati (Young Men)

Dylan Shogren (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, It was gratifying to see how remarkably quickly the book Treasure and Tradition: the Ultimate Guide to the Latin Mass sold out last Sunday after being on sale after the 9:00am Mass. Within a few minutes all copies were gone! Apologies if you were one of the many people who missed out. There will be a display copy at the back of Mary Immaculate Church this weekend, along with an order form that you can fill out. Alternatively you can order a copy though the Parish Office until Wednesday if you wish.

This weekend we especially pray for the thirty-three children of our parish who will be making their First Holy Communion (18 at the 5:30pm Saturday Vigil at SJF; 10 at the 8:30am Sunday Mass at SJF and 5 at the 5:00pm Sunday Mass at MI). May they always realize what a precious and sacred gift they receive in Holy Communion - the gift of Jesus Christ himself as the Bread of Life given to us with grace and love beyond all imagining. We also pray for several children who will be confirmed today in the traditional rite of the sacrament by Bishop Brian Finnigan. May the gifts of the Holy Spirit be ever fruitful in them.

Finally, we bid farewell this weekend to Br Conor Power and Br Matthew Buckley who will be returning this Wednesday to the Toronto Oratory and seminary in Canada to continue their studies for the priesthood. Thank you once again to all those whose financial support of our seminarians allows them to continue their formation to be ordained as priests for the Brisbane Oratory.

Our Reflection this week is taken from the Pastoral Letter from the Bishops of Australia on the issue of Same Sex Marriage. It is vital that we are all informed on what the Church (and therefore Christ) teaches on the sacred meaning and purpose of marriage in God’s plan as our Father and creator.

Fr Andrew Wise Reflection

The Catholic Church opposes all forms of unjust discrimination. We deplore injustices perpetrated upon people because of religion, sex, race, age etc. The Catechism of the Catholic Church calls for understanding for those with deep-seated homosexual tendencies for whom this may well be a real trial. “They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided.” {2358} Christians believe that all people including those with same-sex attraction are called by God to live chastely and that, by God’s grace and the support of friends, they can and should grow in fulfilling God’s plan. Even those who take a different view to us

about the place and meaning of sexual activity can appreciate the particular significance and importance of this institution of marriage. We now face a struggle for the very soul of marriage… To Page 2

Readings for next Sunday

2nd/3rd September, 2017

1st: Jeremiah 20: 7-9

2nd: Romans 12:: 1-2

Gospel: Matthew 16: 21-27

Just a reminder that on Sunday September 10th I will offer the 9:00am Mary Immaculate Mass in thanksgiving for the gift of serving as a priest of Jesus Christ for thirty years. Afterwards everyone is invited to celebrate over a special ‘brunch’ in the Marymac Centre. I hope there will be many parishioners and Oratory supporters who will be able to celebrate this special anniversary with me.

PARISH DATE CLAIMERS Monday 28th August Frassati Talk at the Marymac Centre at 8:00pm. Please see notice on back page . Saturday 16th September Baptism Preparation for Parents at 9:00am in the Music Room (under MI church). Please contact the Parish Office to book.

WE PRAY FOR Those who are recently deceased: Andrew CHRISTIE, Mary & Anthony McKINLAY (Ireland),

Beryl ROBERTSON, Delma COWLEY, Stephanie McCLARTY, Fr Christopher SCHICK and Pauline CAVELL (Tathem).

Those who are sick:

Bob GILLESPIE, Luke ADENEY, Baby CHARLIE, Ksenia BORODIN, Rex BOWEN, Joan BRAMMER, Peter BROPHY, John BROPHY, Shannon EMSLIE, Jane FARRELL, Bryan FITZPATRICK, Joan FLEW, Anne FRANETTOVICH, Gwen GAIR, Vilma GHOUSE, Bronte GREER, Marlene JOHNSTON, Marie MITCHELL, Valerie ORTON, Mila PICKARD, Ron ROFE, Joan ROONEY, Rosa Maria SANTOS, Anthony TONKIN, Matt VASIL, Charlie WINTER, Josephine & Bill WRIGHT and Matthew ZEMEK.

All the faithful departed.

Creating a Will creates peace of mind for

you, your family and your loved ones.

Please prayerfully consider naming either/both Annerley Ekibin Parish/the Brisbane Oratory

in Formation as beneficiaries in your Will. To find

out how please contact the parish office or go to:

https://catholicfoundation.org.au/articles/

donate-perpetual-fund/,choose ‘designation’ and

select Annerley Ekibin Parish and/or Brisbane Oratory in Formation.

COLLECTIONS LAST WEEKEND: $1938.30

ELECTRONIC CONTRIBUTIONS , AVERAGE FOR WEEK: $1,845.55. Thank you from a grateful Parish.

Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern

Cross 5th Anniversary Celebration Mass: Come

and help us celebrate our patronal festival and

our fifth anniversary at this is a Solemn Sung

Mass on Thursday, 31st August at 7:00pm at

Mary Immaculate Church, Annerley. For further

information, please phone (02) 9713 7960.

ANGELORUM COLLEGE WOOLWORTHS EARN AND LEARN

Angelorum College is pleased to be participating in this year's Woolworths Earn and Learn promotion.

Anyone can support us by shopping at Woolworths, and collecting Earn and Learn stickers. We will be able to

redeem the stickers for much needed educational resources from Modern Teaching Aids. All help is greatly

appreciated as the College is very small and still very new. For more information, please contact Kate Hoey

at kate.hoey@angelorum.com.au. A collection box for the stickers has been placed at the back of MI church.

FROM THE ORATORY: The Oratory community is very grateful to those who so generously support us. Our

benefactors assist us to cover the costs associated with the training of our seminarians for the priesthood, with the running of our house and putting food on the table, and supporting the various works of the

Oratory. During August we are inviting our friends and supporters to consider becoming a regular giver to the Oratory, particularly through direct deposit or credit card giving. Your regular gift,

of whatever amount you can afford, greatly helps our planning and budgeting. Are you able to sign up to

make a weekly, fortnightly or monthly gift at this time? There are forms at the back of the churches, especially if you wish to use your credit card. Details can also be found at the donations section at http://brisbane-

oratory.org/. Please contact Father Adrian for further information (0427 109 054 or sharpa@bne.catholic.net.au). As a small incentive, those who commence a regular gift (or increase their regular gift) before the end of August will go in the

draw to win a $200 gift card!

From Page 1: Marriage is an institution designed to support people of the opposite sex to be faithful to each other and to the children of their union and it is not discrimination to reserve it to them. Indeed, in this pastoral letter we argue that what is unjust – gravely unjust – is: to legitimise the false assertion that there is nothing distinctive about a man and a woman, a father or a

mother; to ignore the particular values that real marriage serves; to ignore the importance for children of having, as far as possible, a mum and a dad, committed to them and

to each other for the long haul; to destabilize marriage further at a time when it is already under considerable pressure; and to change retrospectively the basis upon which all existing married couples got married.

In 2016, your donations transformed the lives of 20 students through

the gift of a Catholic education, through a MacKillop Fund bursary.

Please support the 2017 Annual Catholic Campaign—your gift will be a

blessing to a child, and bring hope to their family.

The MacKillop Fund bursaries are funded by gifts to the

Annual Catholic Campaign. Your tax-deductible donation this year will

fund even more deserving children.

Believe the incredible,

and you can do the

impossible. It is our

want of faith that holds

us back, even as Peter.

When did he begin to

sink? The Gospel gives us the reason. He took

account of the winds, he began reading some

surveys; it was established statistically that

99.44% of mankind cannot walk on water. All

of the incredulities were in the winds. When

he took his eyes off Christ, Peter began to

sink. Fulton J. Sheen

Parish Diary & Mass Times: 28th Aug - 3rd September

Monday 28th August

6:00am Mass [OF+] SE

7:00pm Mass [EF] MI Tuesday 29th August 6:00am Mass [OF+] SE 7:00am Mass [EF] MI

9:00am Mass [OF] MI School, Year 3

Wednesday 30th August

6:30am Mass [OF] SJF

9:00am Mass [EF] MI

Thursday 31st August 6:00am Mass [OF+] SE 7:00am Mass [OF+] MI 9:00am Mass [EF] MI Friday 1st September

6:30am Mass [OF] SE

9:00am Mass [EF] MI

7:30pm Holy Hour MI Saturday 2nd September 8:15am Mass [EF] MI Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time

5:30pm Vigil [OF+] MI

5:30pm Vigil [OF] SJF

Sunday 3rd September 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, 26th August, Away: For the intentions of the donor 8:15am Mass at MI: Seeking the Holy Spirit to defuse all avenues of bias & persecution against Cardinal Pell during his trial

5:30pm Vigil at MI: To the honour of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Immaculate Heart of Mary and for the repose of the soul of Peter Letec Sunday, 27th August, 7:30am Mass at MI: For the People of the Parish: Pro populo 8:30am at SJF: For the repose of the soul of Patrick O’Halloran 9:00am Mass at MI: For the repose of the soul of Carlos Octoso 5:00pm Mass at MI: For the Pope and the Bishops Monday, 28th August, Private: For the Benefactors of the Brisbane Oratory in Formation, living and deceased 6:00am Mass at SE: For a Special Intention Tuesday, 29th August, 6:00am Mass at SE: For Jesus Youth 9:00am Mass at MI: For a Special Intention Wednesday, 30th August, 6:30am Mass at SJF For the Intentions of the Donor 9:00am Mass at MI: For the repose of the soul of Fiona Rowan, 1st anniversary of death

St Gregory’s Latin Mass Community: Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost, Wilston 7:30am

Thursday, 31st August, 6:00am Mass at SE: For the repose of the soul of Tereza Ferenc, recently deceased 9:00am Mass at MI: For the repose of the soul of Joseph Lutvey, anniversary Friday, 1st September, Private: For Kevin Rowen, recently deceased 6:30am Mass at SE: For the Twinned SVDP Conferences of MI & SE Conferences in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Indonesia & Thailand Saturday, 2nd September, Private: For the Seminarians of the Brisbane Oratory and for Oratorian Vocations 5:30pm Vigil at SJF: For Eric Hetherington, for good health Sunday, 3rd September, Away: For the repose of the soul of 13-year-old, Thomas Snell (Darwin) 8:30am Mass at SJF: For a re-flourishing of religious life in Australia, & for Notre Dame Priory, Tasmania 5:00pm Mass at MI: For the People of the Parish: Pro populo

PLEASE NOTE

No Weekday Masses are omitted this week

Legion of Mary Mystical Rose

Praesidium would like to invite all the

faithful to take a blessed opportunity

in this Jubilee Year to consecrate

themselves to the Immaculate Heart

of Mary on the 13th of October,

following the St Louis de Montfort formula. The 33-day

preparation for this consecration needs to begin on the

10th of September, 2017.

A copy of the consecration booklet can be obtained from

the Parish Office or a legionary (Phone: 0412 938 596),

or downloaded at:

www.quies.org/True-Consecration-33-Day.pdf

Rosters for next week

MINISTERS OF THE WORD

Sat (SJF) 5:30pm Kay Holmes

Sun (MI) 7.30am Michael Cooper, Sol Dobinson

Sun (SJF)8:30am Deidre Vokes, Dianne Shanahan

Sun (MI) 5.00pm Maggie Soares, Ken Meissner

EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION

Sat (SJF) 5:30pm: Bert Jacobs, John Lesina, Prem Nair

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

Sun (SJF) 8:30am: Peter Menagh

COUNTERS

Monday, 28th August, 2017 Nick Jabore, Bernie O’Hara

CHURCH CARE

Sacristy (SEC) Maria Monro

Sanctuary & Sacristy (MI) Mabel Saah

Laundry (MI) Mabel Saah

Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A: 26th27th August, 2017

MASS READINGS

First Reading: Isaiah 22:19-23

Thus says the Lord of hosts to Shebna, the master of the palace: I dismiss you from your office, I remove you from your post, and the same day I call on my servant Eliakim son of Hilkiah. I invest him with your robe, gird him with your sash, entrust him with your authority; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the House of Judah. I place the key of the House of David on his shoulder; should he open, no one shall close, should he close, no one shall open. I drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will become a throne of glory for his father's house.

The Word of the Lord

Response: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm 137 (Said by all)

I thank you, Lord, with all my heart, you have heard the words of my mouth. Before the angels I will bless you. I will adore before your holy temple.

I thank you for your faithfulness and love which excel all we ever knew of you. On the day I called, you answered; you increased the strength of my soul.

The Lord is high yet he looks on the lowly and the haughty he knows from afar. Your love, O Lord, is eternal, discard not the work of your hands.

Second Reading: Romans 11:33-36

How rich are the depths of God - how deep his wisdom and knowledge - and how impossible to penetrate his motives or understand his methods! Who could ever know the mind of the Lord? Who could ever be his counsellor? Who could ever give him anything or lend him anything? All that exists comes from him; all is by him and for him. To him be glory for ever! Amen.

The Word of the Lord

Response: Thanks be to God

Alleluia, alleluia! You are Peter, the rock on which I will build my Church; the gates of hell will not hold out against it. Alleluia!

Gospel: Matthew 16:13-20

When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi he put this question to his disciples, `Who do people say the Son of Man is?' And they said, `Some say he is John the Baptist, some Elijah, others Jeremiah or one of the prophets'.

'But you', he said, `who do you say I am?' Then Simon Peter spoke up, `You are the Christ,' he said, `the Son of the living God'. Jesus replied, `Simon son of Jonah, you are a happy man! Because it was not flesh and blood that revealed this to you but my Father in heaven. So now I say to you:

You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church.

And the gates of the underworld can never hold out against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth shall be considered bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth shall be considered loosed in heaven.' Then he gave the disciples strict orders not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.

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.

ARE YOU A NEW PARISHIONER?

OR ARE YOU FROM ELSEWHERE IN BRISBANE BUT

REGULARLY ATTEND MASS HERE AND WOULD LIKE

TO BE REGISTERED AS A FRIEND OF THE BRISBANE

ORATORY? If so, please fill in the form below and place it

on the collection plate or mail to our Parish Office:

P.O. Box 3131, Tarragindi. 4121.

□ I am a new parishioner

□ I am from elsewhere but would like to be

registered as a friend of the Brisbane Oratory

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Monday night Frassati talk at the Marymac Centre, 8pm

on August 28: History of Marian intercession & Muslim

military defeats. J Moloney

Treasure and Tradition This beautiful book (cover reproduced at left) is now only available to order. All 15 available copies were sold last Sunday. At just $25, (with the cost of these being heavily subsidised by the Oratory) they a re wonderful value. Please contact the Parish Office by phone or email to order your copy. There is also an order form at the back of MI church.