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PARISH PRIEST
FR PAUL CHACKANIKUNNEL CMI Email: [email protected] Mob: 0428624287 (only urgent or after hours calls)
PARISH ADMINISTRATION: Phone: 07 3359 0239
Mrs Kerstin Knott ( Parish Secretary) Email: [email protected]
SACRAMENTAL COORDINATOR
Mrs Dianne Trudgian Email: [email protected]
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE ADULTS:
Compliance Officer: Isabelle Watt : Carmela Knauth (Acting) Email: [email protected]
WORKPLACE HEALTH & SAFETY OFFICER: TBA
YOUTH COORDINATOR
Ms Abbey Coman Email: [email protected]
PARISH OFFICE 146 Maundrell Terrace, Chermside West 4032 Phone: (07) 3359 0239
Mail: PO Box 859, Aspley Qld 4034
Email: [email protected] Website: www.olaparishchermside.org.au
PARISH SCHOOL
Our Lady of the Angels Primary School 30 Warraba Ave, Wavell Heights Q 4012
Leadership Team: Principal: Mr Nick Hurley (Acting) APA: Mrs Kirsten Karey (Acting) APRE: Mrs Jennifer Surawski (Acting) PLL: Mrs Chelsea Harkness Phone: 07 3359 9198
MASS TIMES
St Gerard Majella - 146 Maundrell Tce, Chermside West
Tuesday: 8:30am Friday: 8:30am Saturday Vigil: 4:30pm Sunday: 8:00am & 5:30pm
St Paschal Baylon - 30 Warraba Ave, Wavell Heights
Wednesday: 9:00 am Thursday: 9.00 am Saturday Vigil: 6:00pm Sunday: 9:30am
CONFESSION by appointment only until further notice. All Mass times are subject to COVID Restrictions.
Check our parish website for regular updates.
25 July 2021 - 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
A Walk Through the Mass: A Step by Step Explanation
The Mass—it’s structure, the signs and symbols used in it, for your continuing formation. The final installment……… Announcements. Finally we prepare to go back to that world in which we will live for the coming week. The burdens we have laid down at the door of the church for this Eucharist, we know we must now bear again—but now strengthened by this Eucharist and this community. There may be announcements at this time which remind us of important activities coming up in the parish. The priest again says, “The Lord be with you”—the ritual phrase serves now as a farewell. Blessing and Dismissal. We bow our heads to receive a blessing. As the priest names the Trinity—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—we make the Sign of the Cross. The priest or deacon then dismisses the assembly: “Go in peace.” And we give our liturgical “yes” by saying, “Thanks be to God.” Living the Eucharist in the world. We leave the assembly and the church building—but we carry something with us. What happens in our lives during the week gives deeper meaning to the ritual actions we have celebrated at Mass, whether it’s family, work with poor or just plain work. It is only in relation to our daily lives that the full meaning of the ritual actions of the Mass becomes clear to us.
We hope you found this series informative and enlightening, if you would like a copy of the complete document please contact the parish office.
Next weeks sees the beginning of a new series of informative explanations on the Catholic Church Structure, Symbolisms and Meanings ………….
What will I see and what happens in a Catholic Church?
WORLD DAY FOR GRANDPARENTS
Sunday,25 July 2021, has been designated by Pope Francis, as the 1st Word Day for Grandparents & the Elderly. It coincides with the Feast of Sts Joachim & Anne, grandparents of Jesus, on July 26. Occurring in the Year of Amoris Laetitia Family 2021-2022 with the theme, “I am with you always”, the day draws attention to the vital role grandparents and the elderly play in our communities and in the mission of the Church. HAPPY DAY TO ALL OUR WONDERFULL GRANDPARENTS AND ELDERLY WHO SUPPORT US.
PLEASE SUPPORT OUR PARISH. . . All your donations, the Planned Giving (collection plate, direct debit & credit card), support the running of the Our Lady of the Angels’ Parish.
For those who wish to utilise Direct Deposit bank account details for the Parish Collections a/c are as follows: Bank: CBA - BSB: 064-786 - A/c no. 100000243. Please use your 1st initial, surname and Envelope No (if applicable) as reference.
If you would like to donate via Direct Debit, Credit Card, or envelope system, please contact the parish office on 3359 0239 or email [email protected] for the appropriate forms and assistance.
Should you feel that you would like to contribute more directly to the reduction of the Parish Loans you can do so by depositing directly to the parish Fund Raising a/c, details are as follows: Bank: CBA - BSB: 064-786 - A/c no. 100023237. Please use your 1st Initial and Surname as a reference.
St Ignatius Parish
Women’s Night of Spirituality
Wednesday 28 July at 7.30pm Speakers: Fr Richard Leonard sj and Dr Danielle Anne Lynch
BOOKING LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/womens-night-of-spirituality-tickets-156038151311
LIVE STREAM LINK: https://youtu.be/RA7aRObyDsM
Sacramental Enrolments Children in Years 3 or 4 are invited to join the next
Sacramental Programme working towards Confirmation in October and Reconciliation and First
Communion in the first half of 2022.
Applications forms are available at Masses, from the Parish Office or on our Parish Website -
www.olaparishchermside.org.au. Additional information is contained in the form.
Applications close 30 July.
Parish Giving App This app is ideal for those of our parishioners
who are unable to attend our parish community Mass over the week-ends either regularly or occasionally. A profile will need to be created the first time you log in, then it is very easy to make a single donation or to create recurring gifts. Please see below links to the slide shows of the Parish Giving App User Guides.
How to create a new profile and add a Card - https://parishgiving.brisbanecatholic.org.au/slides/
How to make a single donation - https:/parishgiving.brisbanecatholic.org.au/slides/giving_transaction.html
For details about both options, please see below. If you require any assistance to access the Parish Giving App or the Online Payment System, please telephone the OLA Parish Office 3359 0239.
Position Vacant – Administration Assistant
Applications are open for the above position at the Acacia Ridge
Parish. The position is a casual role with the possibility of it
becoming full time and will begin ASAP.
For additional information, please visit the Archdiocese of Bris-
bane website https://brisbanecatholic.org.au/ and to careers.
Applications close: Sunday 8 August 2021 The Archdiocese of Brisbane has standards of conduct for workers to maintain a safe and healthy environment for children. Our commitment to these standards requires that we conduct working with children checks and background referencing for all persons who will engage in direct and regu-lar involvement with children and young people (0 - 18 years) and/or vulnerable adults. The organisation is fully committed to child safety and has a 0 tolerance to abuse of children or vulnerable adults.
WE ARE HIRING
The Catholic Mission Brisbane team
is growing, and we are recruiting an
Administrative Assistant (2 day pw).
Please visit the Catholic Mission website for more
information:
https://www.catholicmission.org.au/jobs-at-catholic-
mission Applications close Sunday, 25th July 2021
Stewardship
July 25, 2021 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time
“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?” JOHN 6:9
The miracle of the Loaves and Fishes carries two im-portant messages. First, no matter how little we have, we always have enough to share. Second, Christ can take our humble gifts and do great things with them if we are just willing to let Him. Nothing is impossible with God. All of our gifts, big or small, were given to us for a reason. No gift is too small or insignificant!
Accessed on July 22,2021 from https://www.archstl.org/about-stewardship/bulletin-inserts/weekly-bible-reflections)
Our Lady of the Angels’ Parish
warmly welcomes our newest
members through Baptism:
Poppy Benson & Poppy Hughes 2021 Baptisms will be celebrated on Saturday mornings at 10:00am
alternately at St Gerards’ and St Paschals’.
Bookings to be arranged in person at the Parish Office Monday - Friday between 9am - 5pm.
Please check the Parish website for documentation required when making a booking.
Pete’s Pence Collection
Weekend of 24 & 25 July 2021 The Pete’s Pence Collection will taken up as a retiring
collection at all Masses this weekend. The collection gives
Catholics in Australia an opportunity to join in communion
with the Catholic faithful throughout the world in support
of the charitable works of the Holy See. This allows the
Holy Father to respond to the most needy throughout the
world, to offer timely, effective emergency assistance to
our suffering brothers and sisters.
HOMILY by Richard Leonard
Recently I was invited to a relative’s home for dinner. This family has been having more than a little trouble with their 13-year-old daughter, who is going through a particularly defiant and rebellious stage. The young girl was not happy with the vegetables her mother served at dinner and so she refused to eat them. The uneaten vegetables became the staging ground for an adolescent conflict. Trying to coax the girl into eating, her mother calmly used some lines I’d heard before. ‘Wasting food is a sin’ and ‘There are starving people in the world who would be grateful for what you don’t want’. With that the girl jumped up and left the dining room. A few minutes later she returned with an oversized envelope and a marker pen. She began to stuff the food into the envelope and as she did she angrily asked, ‘What starving people do you want me to send these vegetables to?’ Who said being a
parent was easy? Celibacy had never looked better!
In today’s Gospel, after the 5,000 have been fed, Jesus says, ‘Gather the pieces together that are left over. Let nothing be wasted’. Some of us have never truly been hungry, so it can be hard to fully appreciate how wasteful our developed world must appear to those who watch their families die of starvation. People who lived through the Depression or have lived through wars often carry the scars of being hungry. To this day some of them are on guard against waste. Others try to numb the memory of want by overindulging. For most of us in the developed world, especially 13-year-old middle-class kids, hunger has only ever been fleeting,
and we are presently eating ourselves into obesity.
Some people would prefer to think of the story of the feeding of the five thousand exclusively in spiritual terms. There is no question that today’s Gospel refers to the Eucharist where all are spiritually nourished by Christ our host. It also refers to the eternal banquet where hunger will be no more. But this Gospel asks us to look at our world through the eyes of Christ’s kingdom where the mighty will be cast down from their thrones, the poor will be raised
up, and the rich who will not share will be sent away.
There is such a thing as healthy guilt. It’s where we become aware of what we have done or failed to do to bring about Christ’s Kingdom in our world. Given that it is entirely unnecessary for 29,000 people, on average, to die each day because of lack of food and water and the diseases this brings, guilt on our part seems a reasonable response. It becomes a healthy moment in our lives when we decide to change our priorities, and call for similar changes in a nation’s priorities which spends more on
bombs than starving babies.
I often wonder what God thinks when he hears wealthy nations say that the reason they refuse to share more with the poor is because these poorer nations often have unelected despots who divert their country’s wealth into Swiss bank accounts or nuclear and conventional weaponry programmes. Even in the face of these complex issues we could find a way to feed the hungry who
might, one day, be empowered to take charge of their nations.
‘What starving people do you want me to send these vegetables to?’, the 13 year old asked. To which I wanted to reply, ‘Put your own name on the envelope because your own comfort makes you
the neediest person in the world’.
May this Eucharist enable us to do on earth what is done in heaven, where the hungry are welcomed and fed, the leftovers are gathered together and nothing is wasted.
© Richard Leonard SJ
This years Australian Bishops’
Social Justice Statement will be
launched on August 5th of 2021.
The theme Cry of the Earth, Cry of
the Poor, affirms that “we human
beings need a change of heart,
mind, and behaviour”. It draws from
Scripture, from the theological
tradition, from Catholic Social
Teaching, and from the wisdom of
the world, including the insights of the First Nations.
In the statement, the Bishops invite the whole Catholic community
to join them in taking up Pope Francis’ invitation to a seven-year
journey towards total ecological sustainability, guided by seven
Laudato Si’ goals. These goals are: response to the cry of the
earth; response to the cry of the poor; ecological economics;
sustainable lifestyles; ecological spirituality; ecological
education; and community engagement and participatory
action. The statement will be available for download from the
ACBC Office for Social Justice website from August 5th.
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN & VULNERABLE ADULTS PREVENTION AND PROTECTION POLICY
The Archdiocese of Brisbane holds that children, young people and vulnerable adults are a gift from God with an intrinsic right to dignity of life, respect and security from physical and emotional harm. They are to be treasured, nurtured and safeguarded.
NEXT WEEK’S READINGS 1st AUG 2021
18 TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
1st Reading: Ex 16: 2—4, 12—15
Psalm: 77:3-4, 23-25. 54.
2nd Reading: Eph 4: 17, 20-24
Gospel: Jn 6: 24-35
WE PRAY FOR
Recently Deceased: Don Ireland (one of the original old St Gerards parishioners), Gwendoline Maloney, Stephen Kerr
Anniversaries: Please pray for all those whose names appear in our Parish Books of Remembrance. Sick: Please pray for all those whose names appear in our Parish Books of the Sick.
Our Lady of the Angels Parish Weekend Collections
Thank-You for your generous donations.
Weekend 1st Coll 2nd Coll Loose TOTAL
18/7/21 377.05 844.00 2487.90 $3708.95
UPCOMING EVENTS
26 Jul - Christian Meditation 5:30pm P
6 Aug - Adoration after 8:30am Mass G
13 Aug - 2nd Friday Healing Mass (8:30am) G
13 Aug - Friday Movie Night G
20 Aug - Bris City Pops Concert P
(G) St Gerards (P) St Paschals