The Brisbane Oratory in Formation

PARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBIN The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) [OF] &

Second Sunday After Pentecost [EF] 13th/14th June, 2020

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 Scot Anthony Armstrong

Parish Team:

Ms Shirley Sadler

(Parish Secretary) Mrs Kathy Ducker (Finance Officer)

Ms Teresa Martin

(Sacramental Co-ordinator)

† 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 Tyson King

Br Conor Power

Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable

Adults Parish Representative

Contact for Safeguarding concerns

Marie Melski (3848 0338)

Catholic Enquiry Group

Teresa Martin (0413 763 256)

Frassati (Young Men)

Jerome Shogren (0449 090 071)

Flores Teresianes (Young Women)

Bernadette Tomlin (0401 446 613)

St Vincent de Paul Helpline

Phone: 1800 846 643

Homeless Hotline: 1800 846 437

Dear Parishioners, We ought to be ever conscious of the presence of God at all times in our everyday lives. There is a wonderful Carmelite lay brother, Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection (c. 1614 – 1691), who served as a lay brother in a Carmelite monastery in

Paris, who left us great teaching on practising the awareness of the presence of God. He spent his life with the Parisian community, where his primary assignments were working in the kitchen and, in his later years, repairing sandals. His gentle character and humility attracted many to him. He had a reputation for experiencing profound peace and visitors came to seek spiritual guidance from him.

[9] The wisdom he passed on to them, in

conversations and in letters, would later become the basis for the book, The Practice of the Presence of God. "Lawrence was open, eliciting confidence, letting you feel you could tell him anything…Once you got past the rough exterior you discovered unusual wisdom, a freedom beyond the reach of [most]". A summary of his approach can be gleaned from some passages from his book. "[H]aving resolved to make the love of GOD the end of all his actions, he had found reasons to be

well satisfied with his method. He was pleased when he could take up a straw from the ground for the love of GOD, seeking Him only, and nothing else, not even His gifts....That in order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him; we must at first apply to Him with some diligence: but that after a little care we should find His love inwardly move us to it without any difficulty." The practice of the awareness of the Presence of God has the power to refresh our spiritual lives and greatly enliven our prayer. I recommend the example and teaching of Br Lawrence to you.

Please see below for the latest updates on Masses, Confessions, etc., in the slow rolling-out of the easing of COVID-19 restrictions.

In Christ, Fr Scot Anthony Armstrong

Readings for next Sunday

20th/21st June, 2020

1st: Jeremiah 20: 10-13

2nd: Romans 5: 12-15

Gospel: Matthew 10: 26-33

Mass New Update New government regulations now allow us to have 20 people at St John Fisher and 40 people in two sections of 20 inside Mary Immaculate Church. The two sections must remain separated at all times. The sections are assigned before hand and the porter will inform you of which section you are in. We will only be able to continue to have 40 people if these regulations are followed, so we very much appreciate your help in sitting in your assigned sections. The online booking system remains in place and bookings are necessary to attend Mass. Mass availability is released fortnightly for two week periods at a time to allow us to respond to updates as they occur. You may now book in for daily Mass Monday to Saturday Morning, and two Masses per calendar month for those on Saturday evening through to Sunday. Please ensure you follow the instructions on the booking website, especially in regards to the number of people you are booking in, otherwise your booking may not be properly recorded and seating limits will still be observed in such cases. Please follow the instructions of porters at all times who have the support of the Fathers and Brothers. The dispensation from attending Sunday Mass continues and we ask you to stay home if you are unwell. Entry cannot be permitted for those showing symptoms of Covid-19. Following these regulations allows us to provide you with the Sacraments, so we thank you for your patience and understanding in these matters. Let us continue to pray together for the easing of restrictions.

Livestream With the increased opportunity for people to attend Mass and Exposition more regularly, live-streaming will no longer be continued which becomes more difficult when we have more people inside the church. For those of you who like to watch livestream Mass we point you to other Australian Masses being live-streamed such as that offered daily by the monks of Notre Dame Priory. While it is always important to have regular habits of prayer it is especially so during this time when we are no longer attending Mass regularly. Especially on Sunday be sure to set aside an amount of time for prayer. We encourage you to view some suggestions on Keeping Sunday Holy on our website. Please see Page 2 for further updates.

COLLECTIONS: ELECTRONIC CONTRIBUTIONS

(average for week): $1,683.80

Thank you from a grateful parish.

ELECTRONIC GIVING: BSB: 064 786 Account Number: 516991102

Account Name: Annerley Ekibin Parish Thank you for supporting our parish.

Refection The true medicine to cure us of pride, is to keep down and thwart touchiness of mind. St Philip Neri

The sign that we are in accord with truth, that our desire is in accord with the Holy Spirit, is not only that the thing desired is good, it is also that we are at peace. A desire that causes us to lose peace, even if the thing desired is excellent in itself, is not of God. It is necessary to want and desire, but in a free and detached way, in abandoning to God the realisation of our desires, as He desires and when He wishes. To educate our own heart in this sense is of great importance for our spiritual progress. It is God who converts us and causes us to grow, not our nervousness, our impetuosity and our impatience.

From Searching For and Maintaining Peace, by J. Philippe (Sceptre, New York, 2002)

Our faith sustains us through challenging times. Now,

more than ever, your support is needed to help your

Parish to continue valuable pastoral activities and to

provide ongoing sustainability.

To assist you to support the Parish during this time of

isolation, you can now give via

http://parishgiving.brisbanecatholic.org.au

Continuous Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament On Saturday evening, the Vigil of Pentecost, we commenced our time of Exposition and Adoration that will run

continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, until the feast of Our Lady's Assumption. Thank you to those who have registered for a regular hour which will allow others to also come and pray during this time. On the table below, the white coloured hours still need a registered adorer. Please email adoration.brisbaneoratory@gmail.com or phone 0492 987 132 to register, or to make any general enquiries. A regular time each week will help Our Lord to move you, as He gradually leads you closer to Him.

Sacrament of Confession Confession is available at Mary Immaculate Church:

Monday 7:30pm - 8:30pm

Wednesday 7:30pm - 8:30pm

Friday 7:30pm - 8:30pm.

Please maintain social distancing while you wait. In accordance with regulations names, address, and phone numbers of all people attending the church are recorded by a marshal and stored by the parish in case they are needed for contact tracing purposes. They will be destroyed after 56 days.

How to stay updated

As events unfold we may need to make changes or adjustments, we encourage you to stay updated by the following means:

Please check our webpage for current information on what is available in our parish.

For major updates we will continue to send out Oratory emails.

For any weekly updates read the parish newsletter online, uploaded every Friday, or you can have it emailed to you by sending an email request to the parish office.

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MASS INTENTIONS Saturday, 13th June, Private:

For the Holy Souls in purgatory

Private: For all souls in purgatory, especially deceased members of the Friends of the Suffering Souls

Sunday, 14th June, Private: For a Special Intention

Private: For the Holy Souls in Purgatory

Monday, 15th June, Private:

For Frassati groups and their members

7:00am Private: For the Holy Souls in Purgatory

Tuesday, 16th June, Private: For the repose of the soul of Doris Olsen, recently deceased (8/4)

7:00am Private: For the Benefactors of the Brisbane Oratory in Formation, living and deceased

Wednesday, 17th June, Private: For the intentions of Judith Turner, with grateful thanks

7:00am Private: For the Holy Souls in Purgatory

Thursday, 18th June, Private: For the repose of the soul of Hugh Farrell, Anniversary (2012)

7:00am Private: For the Holy Souls in Purgatory

Friday, 19th June, Private: For the repose of the soul of Paul Kinh Le and all Souls in Purgatory

7:00am Private: For the Holy Souls in Purgatory

Saturday, 20th June, Private: For Donald Trump

Private: For the Holy Souls in Purgatory

Sunday, 21st June, Private:

For the Holy Souls in Purgatory

Private: For the Holy Souls in Purgatory

SPIRITUAL COMMUNION A spiritual communion is a devotional practice whereby we exercise the mind and heart in desiring to receive Christ in the Holy Eucharist, either as a preparation for participation in the Mass, or when it is not possible to receive Holy Communion. Since Christ himself is the ultimate goal of every human desire, the value of a well made spiritual communion is very great. "When you do not receive Communion and you do not attend Mass, you can make a spiritual communion, which is a most beneficial practice; by it the love of God will be greatly impressed upon you." (St Teresa of Avila, the Way of Perfection, Ch35). St John Vianney taught that making a spiritual communion has an effect like that of blowing on embers to make them flame up again, so the love of God flames up in the heart by means of the spiritual communion. The most generally known form is that of St Alphonsus de Liguori:

"My Jesus, I believe that You are truly present in the Blessed Sacrament. I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot now receive you sacramentally, please enter spiritually into my soul. I welcome you, I love and adore You, never permit me to be separated from You. Amen."

WE PRAY FOR:-Those who are recently deceased:

Trevor SWIFTE, Dianna WILLIAMS, Margaret O’MEARA, Father Jonathan ROBINSON, Cong. Orat., Frances NINNES, William (Bill) KEEN, Doris HUEZO, Joy CULLEN, Solange de ROBILLARD and Maria DALL’ALBA.

Sr M Raymond RSM, Gaynor KANE and John MOSS. Those who are sick: Ksenia BORODIN, Rex BOWEN, Verna BOWEN, Clare CLARK, Duncan CARSTENS, Ruth Mary DALY, Sylvia DE LUCA, Shannon EMSLIE, Mark FARRAH, Jane FARRELL, Maria FARRELL, Bryan FITZPATRICK, Joan FLEW, Anne FRANETTOVICH, Gwen GAIR, Gloria GARR, Bronte GREER, Brent HILL, Marlene JOHNSTON, Tony LEVICK, Ben McFADDEN

((Ireland) Marie MITCHELL, Barbara MASON, Fr Ron MOLLISON, Mila PICKARD, Ron ROFE, Joan ROONEY, Joan RYAN, Rosa Maria SANTOS, Joan TATHEM, Norma TORPEY, Josephine & Bill WRIGHT and Matthew ZEMEK.

All the faithful departed.

Please call the Parish Office to have names placed on any of the

lists above or to remove someone who is now well.

ACT OF PERFECT CONTRITION

Through an act of Perfect Contrition you can receive the forgiveness of your sins outside of confession, even mortal sins, provided that you determine yourself to correct your life and make a firm resolution to go to

sacramental confession as soon as you can, when it becomes possible. Remember, these are extraordinary measures only, for times when a priest is truly not available to you.

Perfect Contrition is sorrow and detestation of sin arising out of the love of God. One way of exciting this contrition in our hearts is by considering the passion of Jesus Christ and making acts of love for Him. We can also think of the infinite love which God has for us, and express sorrow in our heart in

the presence of this great love which we have offended.

O my God, I am heartily sorry for all the sins of my life simply because by them I have offended You and Your infinite love. I desire never to offend You again. Grant that my soul may enter into Your grace, and remain united to You forever. Amen.

The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Year A, 13th/14th June, 2020

MASS READINGS First Reading: Deuteronomy 8:2-3.14.16

Moses said to the people: ‘Remember how the Lord your God led you for forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, to test you and know your inmost heart – whether you would keep his commandments or not. He humbled you, he made you feel hunger, he fed you with manna which neither you nor your fathers had known, to make you understand that man does not live on bread alone but that man lives on everything that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

‘Do not then forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery: who guided you through this vast and dreadful wilderness, a land of fiery serpents, scorpions, thirst; who in this waterless place brought you water from the hardest rock; who in this wilderness fed you with manna that your fathers had not known.’

The Word of the Lord

Response: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm 147 (Said by all)

O praise the Lord, Jerusalem! Zion, praise your God! He has strengthened the bars of your gates, he has blessed the children within you.

He established peace on your borders, he feeds you with finest wheat. He sends out his word to the earth and swiftly runs his command.

He makes his word known to Jacob, to Israel his laws and decrees. He has not dealt thus other nations; he has not taught them his decrees.

Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 10:16-17

The blessing-cup that we bless is a communion with the blood of Christ, and the bread that we break is a communion with the body of Christ. The fact that there is only one loaf means that, though there are many of us, we form a single body because we all have a share in this one loaf.

The Word of the Lord Response: Thanks be to God

Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia! I am the living bread from heaven, says the Lord; whoever eats this bread will live for ever. Alleluia!

Gospel: John 6:51-58

Jesus said to the Jews: I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.' Then the Jews started arguing with one another: `How can this man give us his flesh to eat?' they said. Jesus replied: `I tell you most solemnly, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in you. Any one who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life, and I shall raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in him.

As I, who am sent by the living Father, myself draw life from the Father, so whoever eats me will draw life from me. This is the bread come down from heaven; not like the bread our ancestors ate: they are dead, but anyone who eats this bread will live for ever.

The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ

Memorial Acclamation: Number One Save us, Saviour of the world, for by your Cross and Resurrection you have set us free.

Catholic Enquiry Group The Catholic Enquiry Group is currently in recess. Please watch this Newsletter for the date on which meetings resume. For further information about the Catholic faith, or if you interested in becoming Catholic, please phone:- Teresa Martin 0413 763 256 or email sacramental_annek@bne.catholic.net.au

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.

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Mary Immaculate Primary School Prep ENROLMENTS 2021 and beyond!

We are taking enrolment applications for Prep 2021 and beyond. If families have a child born between 1/07/2015 & 30/06/2016, he/she is eligible for Prep 2021. Please call in to the office to collect an enrolment form. Interviews have commenced!