Weekday Masses

Monday, Funeral for Patricia

Rayner

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

10.30 am

No Mass

9:15 am

7:00 pm

9:15 am

Sunday Masses

Saturday Sunday

6:00 pm

8:00 am

10:00 am Reconciliation

Saturday 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A 20th August 2017

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: MountEliza@cam.org.au

Web: www.stm-mteliza.org

Pastoral Leadership Team

Fr. Laurie (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: MountEliza.PPLT@cam.org.au

PCC=Parish Community Centre U=Undercroft

C=Church

MPR=School Multipurpose Room

SSR=School Staff Room

Diary

This Sunday

Movie Group, Hampstead 2.15pm, Mornington Cinemas

Monday Poetry Group, 1.30pm, PCC

Tuesday

First Eucharist Mass Practice, 7pm, C

Thursday Social Club Mornington Golf

Club Lunch, 12.30pm Liturgy Team Meeting, 7.30pm, PCC

Holy Communion During Communion adults or children who are not Catholic or not

receiving Holy Communion are welcome to come forward for a bless-

ing to any of the Eucharistic Ministers.

Please indicate your wish for a blessing by crossing both arms in front of you.

First Eucharist this Weekend

We celebrate with, and congratulate, our young people who are receiving the Eucharist for the first time this weekend.

at 6pm Mass - Zoe March, Will Kent, Mitchell Batten, Ava Zammit, Olivia Cooke, Keely McIntosh, Ashleigh Smith, Alice Webster, Leo Steen-holdt, Aiofe Currie, Sibella Verhoeft, Noah Palamara, Jorja Cooling and Jiro Mirabella

and at 10am Mass - Kaiah Parkyn, Lucy Storen, Molly Clutterbuck,

Ike Ryan, Michael Latu, Ashton Kelleher, Sienna Russie, Matilda Smith,

Poppy Seeley, Xavier Barr, Amelia De Jong, Charlotte Snow, Olive

Larner, Anthony Martin and Lorcan McCarthy

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Liturgy - Twentieth Sunday Ordinary Time 8am Mass

First Reading: Isaiah 56:1, 6-7

I will lead the foreigners to my holy mountain.

Responsorial Psalm Oh God, let all the nations praise you!

Second Reading: Romans 11:13-15, 29-32

The gifts and call of God are irrevocable.

Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!

Jesus preached the Good News of the kingdom, and

healed all who were sick.

Alleluia!

Gospel: Matthew 15:21-28

Woman, you have great faith.

Those who have died recently

Irene Anderson, Patricia Rayner

those whose anniversaries fall at

this time…

Thomas Smith, Ruby McCartney, Kevin Sheehy, Wil-

liam Lindner, Dr. Trevor Connolly, Ida Smeeton,

Frederick Taylor, Rex Smith, Doris Hill, John Bourke,

Ethel Blake, Valerie Crowe

… and the sick

Diana Herrmann, Russell MacGregor, Wal Gibson, Bill

Hodges, Anne McGrath, Robyn Davies, Jinny Rein-

hard, Rod McKenzie, Maureen Anstey, Stephanie Mul-

cahy, Jake Steyn, Pam Montgomery, Arnold Mann,

Penelope Allen, Gordon Foulis, Len Crowe, Des Ley-

den, Pat Crowther, Margaret Beale, Angela Butler,

Sue Kelly, Maria Kelly, Will Murray, Sr. Tarcissius,

Frank Nolan, Fr. Michael Walsh, Shane Dobson, Ken

& Mary Allen, Ray Grant, Rob Nicholls, Adrian Gobel,

Rachael Sanderson (nee Davies), and all of the sick at

the George Vowell Centre & Ranelagh Gardens Nurs-

ing 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...

Next Week’s Roster

Mass Time Lector Commentator

6 pm 1st Eucharist 1st Eucharist

8 am Catharina T Mercia Gleeson

10 am 1st Eucharist 1st Eucharist

Mass Time Ministers of the Eucharist

6 pm

Barbara Hunt David Wirth

Lys Crowe Pat McConvill

Michael Robertson

8 am Tricia Woods (Book)

Marie Alaimo (Gifts)

Mary Goss (Gifts)

10 am Peter Royal Lys Crowe

Jim Bourke Gui Hone

Pat McConvill

10 am Children’s Liturgy

1st Eucharist

Counters Julian Collins

Larry McEvoy

Maurie Hutchinson

Cuppa after 10am Mass

Your hosts this weekend will be An-

drew, Chiara & Siena Postregna.

You are all warmly invited each week

after 10am Mass to linger for a cuppa and an oppor-

tunity to get to know some other members of your

parish community better.

Next week’s host will be Katie Rodgers and Ruth

Pusic.

Stewardship Received last weekend .......................................$2,010

Pledged last weekend .........................................$2,260

July Average ..........................................................$3,087

Presbytery Received last week ..............................................$1,160

Thanks to all of you who give so generously to support our

parish.

Financial Matters

PAGE 3 TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR A SEASONS

What’s Happening Here...

Have You Walked The Camino? Later in the year, as part of the Parish

Pastoral Plan to hold Spirituality Nights

throughout the year, we are planning

to have a night where those parishion-

ers who have walked the Camino

could share and reflect on their experi-

ences of pilgrimage and journey with

the whole Parish.

If you are one of these people, could you please con-

tact Ange Virgona - email avirgona@padua.vic.edu.au

or phone 0407 535 704 so that this group of people

can get together and share and plan!

Thankyou in anticipation.

STM Open Gardens Proposal: to organise an Open Garden

Weekend in Autumn 2018.

Purpose: to raise funds for our parish.

This is just an idea at the moment. Be-

fore we proceed, we need to establish

the availability of suitable “autumn” gar-

dens. We would need to have three or

four gardens available over one weekend in autumn

next year, date yet to be decided.

Would you be prepared to open your garden to the

public, or have a family member or neighbour willing

to do so? It is anticipated that a team of parish volun-

teers would be present at each location to attend to

the various roles required to run the day.

For further enquiries or expressions of interest, please

contact me via email or phone: mareetaver-

na@hotmail.com or 0425 721 207.

Nametags: The Parish Pastoral Leadership Team

invites you to wear a nametag to Mass! This is just one

way of us getting to know each other better. You can

BYO, or we will have some stick-on ones available

each week.

Monday 21st August - The next gathering of the Po-

etry Group will be hosted by Keith Donovan at

1.30pm in the Parish Community Centre. All most

welcome to come along.

Thursday, 24th August - Mornington Golf Club

Lunch, at 12.30pm. Enquiries to Grevis on 0414 527

172 or to Colleen on 9787 2479.

Tuesday, 29th August - Committee Meeting in the

Parish Community Centre at 10am.

Wednesday, 13th September - A visit to the Morn-

ington Art Gallery, Dunns Road at 11am to view the

work of Constance Stokes, followed by lunch at Stee-

ples at 12.30pm (lunch only will be fine). Please book

and pay $10 deposit at the Monthly Meeting. Enquir-

ies to Grevis or Colleen.

The Welfare Officers for August are Margo Munro

and Carolyn Gascoigne.

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.

Sunday Movies The Social Club issues an open invita-

tion to anyone in the parish who

would like to join them to see Sunday

movies at Mornington Cinema adver-

tised in Seasons. We usually meet at the Mornington

Cinema about half an hour before the start and often

go for coffee after.

This week’s movie is Hampstead starring Diane Kea-

ton @ 2.15pm

Contact Fiona on 5976 7064 or 0420 764 234.

Baptism Welcomes This weekend we have the Rite of Welcome at the 8am Mass for Alexander Hollier (Parents –

Matthew & Rachel).

Congratulations and Welcome to Maximillian and Henry Reid (Parents – Philip and Elizabeth)

who will both be baptised after the 10am Mass on Sunday.

Wall of Remembrance Bronze plaques are available for

the Wall of Remembrance,

please contact Irene in the of-

fice for an order form, or to

make an appointment to come

in and prepare a draft.

Plaques usually cost around $235, depending on the

wording, and images (if any).

If you haven’t already reserved/purchased a brick - to

which the plaque will be fixed - this will need to be

arranged at the same time, at a cost of $120.

What’s Happening

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Baptisms These are held on the 1st & 3rd Sundays of each month at 11:15 am or at any of

the Parish Masses on the 2nd, 4th or 5th Sundays.

A compulsory preparation night for parents takes place on the first Tuesday of

each month in the Parish Community Centre at 7:30 pm. Children to be baptised,

and their families, are then invited to a Welcome Mass prior to Baptism where

they are introduced to the Parish Community and welcomed by them. In order for this to happen, preparation

needs to begin at least 4-6 weeks before the Baptism, with a call to confirm parents’ attendance at the Prepara-

tion Night.

When children of school age are to be baptised an extended preparation time is required. It is important to re-

member that Baptism is about the initiation of a child into a community of Faith or a community of Disciples.

There is no such thing as a ‘private’ Baptism... it is something done by the whole Church.

Would you like to advertise

your business in this space in Seasons?

In colour

Business card size

$50 for one week

We print 200 copies per week, and distribute to all

STM School families by email. It is also available on

the Parish website for six months. Please contact the

Parish Office on 9787 7777 for further details.

Melbourne Catholic Magazine The August edition of Melbourne Catholics is now

available from the Church foyer. $4 per copy.