readings for next sunday dear parishioners, james 2: 14-18 · 2018-09-09 · the brisbane oratory...
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The Brisbane Oratory in Formation
Parish of Annerley Ekibin Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B [OF] &
Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost [EF]: 8th/9th September, 2018
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: [email protected]
Web: www.annerleyekibinparish.com www.facebook.com/ annerleyekibinparish
www.twitter.com/AnnerleyEkibin
Parish Priest :
Fr Scot Anthony Armstrong
Parish Team:
Ms Shirley Sadler (Parish Secretary) Mrs Kathy Ducker (Finance Officer)
Ms Teresa Martin
Sacramental Co-ordinator)
Mr Richard O’Neil
† 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: 3426 8000
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
Br John Henry Nguyen
Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable
Adults Parish Representative
Contact for Safeguarding concerns
Marie Melski (3848 0338)
Catholic Enquiry Group
Lauren Le Feuvre (0410 939 661)
Frassati (Young Men)
Jerome Shogren (0449 090 071)
Flores Teresianes (Young Women)
Bernadette Tomlin (0401 446 613)
Frassati Youth (High School age)
Olivia Douglas-Robertson
(0488 559 239) [email protected]
St Vincent de Paul Helpline
Phone: 3010 1096
Homeless Hotline: 1800 474 753
Readings for next Sunday
15th/16th September
1st: Isaiah 50: 5-9
2nd: James 2: 14-18
Gospel: Mark 8: 27-35
Dear Parishioners, The Annual Catholic Campaign will be held this weekend to raise funds for Holy Spirit Seminary, Centacare, retired priests and Catholic Education. We have been overwhelmed with materials to provide in greater and greater anticipation for the occasion, so you will need no
reminders from me about the appeal. A return to normality should follow, one would hope.
Our next Oratorio is approaching: Sunday 16th September, at 7.30pm, Mary Immaculate church. In past years this third Oratorio for the year has been dedicated to sacred music composed in honour of Mary, the Mother of God, and this year continues that custom. Choral works will be alternated with instrumental music, not just to break up the monotony, but to provide a sampling of the ways in which musical genius has striven to
give honour to Our Lady and glory to God. All are warmly invited. The concert is free, but leaving donations following the performance are gratefully accepted.
in Christ, Fr Scot Anthony Armstrong
Traditional Divine Office Class: The Traditional Divine Office class will take place on Saturday 29th September immediately after the 8:15am Mass at Mary Immaculate church. If you have a traditional (1960) Roman Breviary, bring it along, though it is not compulsory as texts from the Office will be provided. Location to be announced.
PARISH DATE CLAIMERS Sunday 9th September Vespers, 4:00pm, Mary Immaculate church. Monday 10th September Please note the Elizabethan Social Club Bus Trip to Toowoomba has been cancelled. Tuesday 11th September Secular Oratory for Women, 7:30pm, Mary Immaculate church. Friday 14th September Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Solemn High Mass & Procession, 7:30pm, MI church. Saturday 15th September Baptism Preparation for Parents at 9:00am in MI School library (under church). Please phone the Parish Office to book. Sunday 16th September Marian Musical Oratorio, 7:30pm, Mary Immaculate church. Sunday 23rd September Vespers, 4:00pm, Mary Immaculate church. Saturday 10th November Remembrance Day Ball, Mary Immaculate Hall.
WE PRAY FOR: Those who are recently deceased: Hugh GRUGAN, Matt VASIL, Des CALLEN, Peter BROPHY (Cairns), Robert ENGLAND (Mermaid Waters), Noreen GREALY, Bob GILLESPIE, Carmel LEE and Elwyn THOMPSON.
Those who are sick: Luke ADENEY, Ksenia BORODIN, Rex BOWEN, Joan BRAMMER, Ted BUTTERWORTH, Duncan CARSTENS,
Dorothy CRAVEN, Shannon EMSLIE, Jane FARRELL, Bryan FITZPATRICK, Joan FLEW, Anne FRANETTOVICH, Gwen GAIR, Vilma GHOUSE,
Bronte GREER, Marlene JOHNSTON, Tony LEVICK, Aroha McCORMACK, Marie MITCHELL, Bernie O’HARA, Richard O’NEIL, Valerie ORTON, Mila PICKARD, Ron ROFE, Joan ROONEY, Rosa Maria SANTOS, Josephine & Bill WRIGHT and Matthew ZEMEK.
All the faithful departed.
Reflection
Be devout to the Madonna, keep yourself from sin, and God will deliver you from your evils.
St Philip Neri
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On how God can draw good even from our faults: "St Therese of the Child Jesus loved greatly this phrase of St John of the Cross: 'The Divine Love is able to profit from everything, the good as well as the bad that It finds in me, and to transform it into Itself.' God, once we return with a contrite heart, is able to cause good to spring forth, if only to make us grow in humility and to teach us to have a little less confidence in our own strength and a
little more in him alone. Bl Jan van Ruysbroek, a Flemish mystic has these words: 'The Lord, in His clemency, wanted to turn our sins against themselves and in our favour; He found a way to render them useful, to convert them in our hands into instruments of salvation. This should in no way diminish our fear of sinning, nor our pain in having sinned. Rather, our sins have become for us a source of humility." They can just as well become a source of tenderness and mercy towards others. The sign of spiritual progress is not so much never falling as it is being able to lift oneself up quickly after one falls." (See J. Philippe, Searching For and Maintaining Peace [Sceptre, New York, 2002]
Tuesday Rosary: On all Tuesdays in September, the Holy Rosary is recited for 'those who are humble; they will receive what God has promised!' And for the Pope, the Bishops and the Priests, through the intercession of Our Lady of Grace. It begins 10 minutes after the 7am Mass in Mary Immaculate Church. All welcome. Enquiries: Legion of Mary on O421 258 418 (Bill)
THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES OF ST. IGNATIUS 19th ANNOTATION RETREAT IN DAILY LIFE, OFFERED AT THE ORATORY
If you have a reasonably well-developed and committed prayer life, perhaps the Lord is calling you to experience these Spiritual Exercises in this setting between October 2018 and June 2019? If you believe so, you are invited to send a confidential email to Fr Wise, outlining briefly why you feel called to take part in this retreat in daily life at this point in your life. Please email [email protected] by September 14th. See the Oratory’s Facebook page for further information.
Parish Diary & Mass Times: 10th - 16th September
Monday 10th September 6:30am Mass [OF+] SE 7:00pm Mass [EF] MI Tuesday 11th September 7:00am Mass [EF] MI 9:00am Mass [OF] SE School Wednesday 12th September
6:30am Mass [OF] SJF 9:00am Mass [EF] MI Thursday 13th September
7:00am Mass [OF+] MI
9:00am Mass [EF] MI
5:45pm Exposition SE
Friday 14th September
7:00am Mass [OF] SE
7:30pm Mass [EF] MI Exaltation of the Holy Cross
7:30pm No Holy Hour MI
Saturday 15th September
8:15am Mass [EF] MI
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
5:30pm Vigil [OF] SJF
5:30pm Vigil [OF+] MI
Sunday 10th 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) 7:30pm - 8:30pm (MI) 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 weekday Masses, at SE & SJF.
All night Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament takes place each Thursday at SE 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 MI Church.
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament takes place from 9.40am to 11.30am on every First Friday at Mary Immaculate Church.
The Holy Rosary is prayed at Mary Immaculate after the 7am Mass on Tuesdays, at 7.30am on Saturdays and after the 8.15am Mass on every First Saturday.
Rosters for next week
St Gregory’s Latin Mass Community: Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Wilston 7:30am
Friday, 14th September, Away: For the Holy Souls in purgatory 7:00am Mass at SE: For a Special Intention Saturday, 15th September, Away: In thanksgiving, at the request of the donor 8:15am Mass at MI: For Brian Jennings (Perth), recently deceased (30/8/2018) 5:30pm Vigil at MI: For the Special Intentions of Teresa 5:30pm Vigil at SJF: Mass for the People, “pro populo”
Sunday, 16th September, Away: For the benefactors of the Brisbane Oratory in Formation, living and deceased 7:30am Mass at MI: For a Special Intention 9:00am Mass at MI: For a Special Intention
PLEASE NOTE
There will be no 9:00am Mass on Friday, 14th September
and no Holy Hour at 7:30pm. Mass for the Exaltation of
the Holy Cross will be celebrated at 7:30pm on this day.
Also please note that Friday morning Masses at
St Elizabeth’s will be from 7am.
MASS INTENTIONS Saturday, 8th September, Private: For the intention of the donor
5:30pm Vigil at MI: Mass for the People, “pro populo”
Sunday, 9th September, 7:30am Mass at MI: For the intentions of the donor 9:00am Mass at MI: For the benefactors of the Brisbane Oratory in Formation, living and deceased Monday, 10th September, 6:30am Mass at SE: For the intention of the donor 7:00pm Mass at MI: For Frassati groups and their members Tuesday, 11th September, Private: For the repose of the soul of Charlie Morella, recently deceased 7:00am Mass at MI: For Paul & Betty Moore and Family, and for the Holy Souls in purgatory Wednesday, 12th September, Away: For the intention of the donor 9:00am Mass at MI: For the repose of the soul of Lyla Melville, anniversary of birth ( 27/8/1931) Thursday, 13th September, Away: For the Pope and Bishops 9:00am Mass at MI: For the repose of the soul of Eric Francis Bond, 7th anniversary of death (30/8/2011)
Christus Rex pilgrimage (26th – 28th October, 2018): registrations are open for this year’s pilgrimage in honour of Christ the King. For more details, or to register, go to http://crex.org/wordpress/ .
Rosters for next week
MINISTERS OF THE WORD
Sat (SJF) 5:30pm Kay Holmes
Sun (MI) 7.30am Brian McMahon, Noel Everding
Sun (SJF) 8:30am Dianne Shanahan
Sun (MI) 5.00pm Anna Herbert, Liam Herbert
EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION
Sat (SJF) 5:30pm: Bert Jacobs, John Lesina, Prem Nair
Sun (MI) 7:30am: Joan Coghlan, Paul Coghlan,
Charles Grugan, Kathleen Grugan
COUNTERS
Monday, 10th September, 2018
CHURCH CARE
Sacristy (SEC)
Sanctuary & Sacristy (MI) Mabel Saah
Church Cleaning (MI)
Laundry (SJF) Pat Smith
Laundry (MI) Mabel Saah
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B: 8th/9th September, 2018
MASS READINGS
First Reading: Isaiah 35:4-7
Say to all faint hearts, ‘Courage! do not be afraid. Look, your God is coming, vengeance is coming, the retribution of God; he is coming to save you.' Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, the ears of the deaf unsealed, then the lame shall leap like a deer and the tongues of the dumb sing for joy; for water gushes in the desert, streams in the wasteland, the scorched earth becomes a lake, the parched land springs of water.
The Word of the Lord
Response: Thanks be to God
Responsorial Psalm 145 (Said by all)
It is the Lord who keeps faith for ever, who is just to those who are oppressed. It is he who gives bread to the hungry, the Lord, who sets prisoners free.
It is the Lord who gives sight to the blind, who raises up those who are bowed down, the Lord who loves the just, the Lord who protects the stranger.
The Lord upholds the widow and orphan, but thwarts the path of the wicked. The Lord will reign for ever, Zion's God, from age to age.
Second Reading: James 2:1-5
My brothers, do not try to combine faith in Jesus Christ, our glorified Lord, with the making of distinctions between classes of people. Now suppose a man comes into your synagogue, beautifully dressed and with a gold ring on, and at the same time a poor man comes in, in shabby clothes, and you take notice of the well-dressed man, and say, 'Come this way to the best seats’; then you tell the poor man, 'Stand over there' or 'You can sit on the floor by my foot-rest.' Can't you see that you have used two different standards in your mind, and turned yourselves into judges, and corrupt judges at that?
Listen, my dear brothers: it was those who are poor according to the world that God chose, to be rich in faith and to be the heirs to the kingdom which he promised to those who love him.
The Word of the Lord
Response: Thanks be to God
Gospel Acclamation:
Alleluia, alleluia! Jesus preached the Good News of the kingdom and healed all who were sick. Alleluia!
Gospel: Mark 7:31-37
Returning from the district of Tyre, Jesus went by way of Sidon towards the sea of Galilee, right through the Decapolis region. And they brought him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they asked him to lay his hand on him. He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, put his fingers into the man's ears and touched his tongue with spittle.
Then looking up to heaven he sighed; and he said to him, `Ephphatha', that is, `Be opened'. And his ears were opened, and the ligament of his tongue was loosened and he spoke clearly. And Jesus ordered them to tell no one about it, but the more he insisted, the more widely they published it. Their admiration was unbounded. `He has done all things well,' they said `he makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.'
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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COLLECTIONS LAST WEEKEND: $2,051.35 ELECTRONIC CONTRIBUTIONS AVERAGE FOR WEEK: $1,712.95 Thank you from a grateful Parish.
Creighton Model FertilityCare: Ann O'Donovan is training to become a Practitioner in this method and would welcome any women and couples who would like to find out more about this method of fertility awareness and its benefits. Please call if you have any questions or would like to make an appointment. Mobile: 0427 806 384
The Catholic Inquiry Group continues to meet on Tuesdays at 7:30pm at the Parish Office, 14 Ferndale Street, Annerley. If you would like to know more about the Catholic Church or are interested in becoming a Catholic, please contact Teresa on 0413 763 256 or email: [email protected].