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Palm Sunday Year B 25th March 2018
SEASONS Newsletter of the Catholic Parish of St. Thomas More, Mount Eliza
313 Canadian Bay Rd Mount Eliza Vic. 3930
Phone: 9787 7777 Fax: 9787 9734 Email: [email protected]
Web: www.stm-mteliza.org
Pastoral Leadership Team
Fr. Laurie Pearson (Parish Priest) Lys Crowe (Pastoral Associate)
Peter Whyte (School D Principal) Ange Virgona (Chairperson)
Jacinta Griffin Carolyn Gascoigne
Sue Carr Paul Stinear Justin Crawford
PPLT Email: [email protected]
PCC=Parish Community Centre U=Undercroft
C=Church
MPR=School Multipurpose Room
Diary
This Sunday Pizza Night, 5pm, PCC
Tuesday Social Club Committee Meeting,
10am, PCC Film - As It Is In Heaven, 7.30pm, C
Wednesday
RCIA, 8pm, C
Weekday Masses
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Holy Thursday
Good Friday Liturgy
No Mass
No Mass
9:15 am
8.00 pm
3 .00 pm
Weekend Masses
Saturday Easter Vigil
Easter Sunday
8:00 pm
8:00 am 10:00 am
For a Just Future “We can only build the future by standing together, including everyone.”
A Just Future Starts with Opportunity
When Psyche Mae featured in Project Compassion 2008, she was living in a squatter settlement, on the edge of a giant rubbish dump outside Manila in the Philippines. Her family was forced to pick through the rubbish to sell what they could to survive.
In 2018, Psyche Mae is now a young social worker, achieving her dream of helping others struggling to leave poverty behind them – with plans to study a Master’s degree.
Thanks to the support of individuals and Caritas Australia through Project Compassion, the Faithful Companions of Jesus (FCJ) program helps people like Psyche Mae to learn job and income-generating skills, encourages edu-cation, addresses health and runs programs that enable members to save money and take out small, low interest loans. It’s estimated around 5000 people are assisted directly or indirectly by this program.
Psyche Mae’s mother now sews full-time at home and her father works with the House Repair program, run by FCJ. Her brother, Franklin has grad-uated from tertiary education and is working in IT, while her other two brothers and her sister are studying hard. With their jobs and the help of a community savings plan – Psyche Mae’s entire family managed to lift them-selves out of poverty and build a just future.
PAGE 2 SEASONS PALM SUNDAY YEAR B
The recently deceased…
Margaret Vino, Josephine Carra
those whose anniversaries fall at this time…
Ellen Shannon, Gwen Murtagh, Geoff Wines, Kate
Gloury, Jack Hooker, Betty Sullivan, Mary Russell,
Bartolo Vino, Adolf Wigger, Patricia Lawton
and the sick...
Jake Steyn, Erika Stanek, Althea Greff, John Taylor,
Pam Montgomery, Fr. Ernie Smith, Michael Blick, Ann
Shackleton, Frank Nolan, Marcia Fiume, Leonie Pur-
cell, Gerard Carra, Judy Pessato, Maureen Anstey, Fr.
Michael Walsh, Shane Dobson, Adrian Gobel, and all
of the sick at the George Vowell Centre & Ranelagh
Gardens Nursing Home.
and the parishioners of St Thomas More Parish,
Tequinomata, East Timor, St Therese Parish,
Bathurst Island and Our Lady of the Sacred
Heart Parish, Alice Springs.
We pray for...
Financial Matters
Stewardship
Received last weekend .......................................... $3,211
Pledged last weekend ............................................ $3,023
February Average ................................................... $3,136
Presbytery
Received last week ................................................ $1,486 Thanks to all of you who give so generously to support our par-
ish.
Palm Sunday - Year B
First Reading: Isaiah 50:4-7
I did not cover my face against insult and I know I will
not be ashamed.
Responsorial Psalm My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?
Second Reading: Philippians 2:6-11
He humbled himself to become like us and God raised
him on high.
Gospel Acclamation: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, king of endless glory!
Christ became obedient for us even to death, dying
on the cross. Therefore God raised him on high and
gave him a name above all other names. Praise to you,
Lord Jesus Christ, king of endless glory!
Gospel: Mark 14:1-15:47
The passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark.
Holy Communion During Communion adults or children
who are not Catholic or not receiving
Holy Communion are welcome to
come forward for a blessing to any of
the Eucharistic Ministers. Please indicate your wish for
a blessing by crossing both arms in front of you.
Morning Tea Your hosts this week will be Anne Davey
and John Bruitzman. You are all warmly
invited after 10am Mass to linger for a
cuppa and an opportunity to get to know
some other members of your parish community better.
No one needed next week.
Baptism Welcome Congratulations and Welcome to Harry Freeman
(Parents – Peter & Kathryn) who will
be baptised at the 6pm Mass this
weekend, Archie Bradbury (Parents
– Nathan & Rhea) who will be bap-
tised at the 8am Mass and Archie & Lily Neylon
(Parents – Mark & Jessica) who will be baptised at
the 10am Mass.
Easter Triduum Liturgies
Easter Vigil 8pm
Easter Sunday 8 am
Easter Sunday 10 am
Ministers of the Eucharist
Lys Crowe
Mary Cameron
Peter Griffin
2 More Volunteers Needed
Readers
Carmel Huggard
Judi Hannan
Bernard Dobson
Commentator
Anne - Marie Hyde
AV Operator
Irene Owsianka
Ministers of the Eucharist
3 Volunteers Needed
AV Operator
Bob Ribbons
Reader
Michele Hayes
Commentator
Volunteer Needed
Ministers of the Eucharist
Gui Hone (Book)
Alison Ferguson (Gifts)
3 More Volunteers Needed
Reader
Barbara Smith
Commentator
Volunteer Needed
AV Operator
Volunteer Needed
PAGE 3 PALM SUNDAY YEAR B SEASONS
What’s Happening Here...
Film Group - Future Films: The Shape of Water, TBA.
Enquiries to Christine on 5975 6687 or 0431 696
084.
Sunday, 25th March - Pizza Night, 5pm in the Par-
ish Community Centre. B.Y.O. Drinks and nibbles.
All most welcome.
Tuesday, 27th March - Committee Meeting 10am
in Parish Community Centre.
Tuesday, 3rd April - Monthly Meeting in the Un-
dercroft after 10am Liturgy of the Word. New
members will be most welcome.
Thursday, 19th April - Jackie O’Dwyer will pre-
sent Posties Autumn Fashions in the Undercroft.
Morning tea 10.15am. Show time 11am. This is an
invitation to all the ladies in the Parish, not just Social
Club Members. An enjoyable morning. If you would
like to come, please let Colleen know on 9787 2479
for catering purposes.
The Welfare Officers for March are Betty and Jim
Bourke.
STM Social Club Fun & Friendship For All
New members are always most welcome!
Membership fee is $20. All enquiries to:
Grevis 0414 527 172 or to Colleen 9787 2479.
Antiques and Collectibles Fair
What a fantastic Parish community day!
Thankyou and Congratulations to Michael Robert-
son who had the brilliant idea of hosting this event
and to the rest of the Committee – Maree Taver-
na, Mary-Lou Mansour, Anne-Marie Hyde and Car-
olyn Gascoigne - who worked tirelessly with him
for many months beforehand. Thanks, too, to Lys
who was such an important “go to” person both
before the event and on the day itself.
Thankyou to everyone else who supported this
event especially those who were able to spend an
hour or two or more on Friday, Saturday and Mon-
day picking up, setting up, packing up, taking back
trestle tables, helping people to park, making and
selling sandwiches, cooking and selling sausages,
selling admission and raffle tickets…. the list goes
on. So many people have told us how they met
and chatted with a parishioner they didn’t know
before – what a great side benefit of a day like this!
And we raised $5,500. A great effort by all.
Fr. Laurie
Holy Week / Easter Liturgies Timetable
Previously included ‘Seasons’ was a copy of the Liturgy
times for Holy Week/Easter. Extra copies are availa-
ble in the church foyer.
Contemplative Prayer “Let tiny drops of silence fall gently through
your day”
Silent prayer in the Church each
Wednesday from 8:30 am to 9:15 am,
followed by Mass.
Children’s Liturgy is Back! Children’s Liturgy begins again this
weekend. Thankyou to our Team of
20 adults who will take it in turns (in
pairs) to lead our children at 10am
Mass each weekend during School Terms in their
own Liturgy of the Word.
This weekend’s leaders will be Ange & Theresa Vir-
gona.
Please encourage your school age children to join
them in the Undercroft, or you might like to go
with your pre-schoolers.
Bring and Buy Homemade, Hand-
made, Home Grown Our monthly stall is this weekend.
Don’t forget to stop and have a
look and see what you could pur-
chase – and see how creative and clever our
fellow parishioners are! If you are able to volun-
teer to be on the stall, to help sell the goodies that
arrive, on any of the months for the rest of the
year, please see Lys Crowe or Maree Taverna.
Presentation of the Creed -
this weekend At 6pm this weekend the Creed will be presented to
our RCIA candidates – Colleen Kemble, and Melanie
& Brett Paton. This is symbolic of us handing on the
faith to those who will officially join us as they com-
plete their Sacraments of Initiation at the Easter Vigil.
Joining them at this Mass, and at our Easter Vigil, will
be students from Padua – Adam & Daniel Houben
and Zoe & Chloe O’Shaughnessy as well as Kurt
Alaimo (who will receive the Sacraments at another
Mass shortly after Easter).
As Holy Week begins, let’s especially pray for all
these people as they take this courageous, faith-filled
step in their life journey.
More of what’s happening here….
PAGE 4 SEASONS PALM SUNDAY YEAR B
Lenten Film and Discussion Nights ‘As It Is In Heaven’ Rated M, will be on Tuesday 27th March at 7:30pm.
This is the story of a successful international conductor who suddenly interrupts his career and
returns alone to his childhood village in Norrland, in the far north of Sweden. It doesn’t take
long before he is asked to come and listen to the fragment of a church choir which practices
every Thursday in the Parish Hall, just to come along and give a little bit of good advice. He
can’t say no, and from that moment nothing in the village is the same again. The choir develops
and grows. He makes both friends and enemies. And he finds love.
ACRATH
Pope Francis said that “every person ought to have the awareness that purchasing is always a moral -
and not simply an economic - act.”
World Vision in its 2015t report, Chocolate’s Bitter taste, estimates that Australians spend up to $3 Billion on
chocolate a year, with sales peaking at Easter. Much of the chocolate we consume in Australia is make with co-
coa beans picked by enslaved children, particularly in West Africa. You can make a difference to the world, and
to the lives of these children, by buying only slavery-free chocolate.
ACTION: Pleas buy and eat only slavery-free Easter eggs and choco-
late this Easter. Look for one of these three symbols on the chocolate
wrapper and make a difference.
https://acrath.org.au/slaveryfree-easter for information and resources.
Palm Sunday Walk For Justice
For Refugees Just a reminder that the Palm Sunday March
for Justice for Refugees is on this Sunday 25th
March starting from the State Library at 2pm.
If you have any enquiries please call Bernard
on 0403 943 854.
Good Friday Special - 30th March On Good Friday Peninsula Radio free to air on
98.7fm (98.3fm in Frankston), will feature 8am to
11am a Catholic Hour of Devotion on the theme of
this event which changed the history of the world
forever.
It will be a special program for people who are
housebound by illness or circumstance, or even
those who are just curious about the history and
accuracy of such an important event, but are unable
to attend a church service.
We hope you can join us. You will be amazed!
St Macartan’s Parish Footy Tipping The 2018 AFL season started Thursday. However it
is not too late to join the St Macartan’s Parish Footy
Tipping Competition.
If you wish to join and you would be most welcome
Please go to http://www.footytips.com.au/comps/St-
Macartan--Footy-Tipping The password is Drake. If
you have any trouble call 5975 1707.
The entry fee is still $25 as it has been for the last 10
years. There are weekly prizes and prizes for the top
ten at the end of the year. There are prizes for the
top students.