The Brisbane Oratory in Formation

PARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBIN Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time [OF] &

Fourth Sunday After Pentecost [EF] 27th/28th 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, It is good that we are able to have more people attending Mass, and we continue to pray that full and free access to Mass and the Sacraments might soon become possible again.

As we now take bookings for attendance at Masses, our parish secretaries Shirley Sadler and Kathy Ducker have been finding that they are spending an inordinate amount of time on the phone, and are unable to give their attention to other equally important parish matters.

We would like to ask that you kindly make all bookings online, if you are able to do so. If you experience some difficulty with this, you might consider asking for the assistance of family or friends. If you are unable to find assistance, then call the parish office during office hours (9am-1pm Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays).

Also, please be mindful of the various requirements regarding distancing, the sanitising of hands, remaining in your allocated seating-section of the church, and, in the ordinary form of the Mass, the Archbishop’s directive to receive Holy Communion in the hand. Thank you. In Christ, Fr Scot Anthony Armstrong

Readings for next Sunday

4th/5th July, 2020

1st: Zechariah 9: 9-10

2nd: Romans 8: 9, 11-13

Gospel: Matthew 11: 25-30

Update Mass Attendance

The Mass booking system remains online for your convenience. Mass times will be released

once a fortnight. There is no limit on daily Mass, but we ask you to only preregister for two

Sunday Masses per calendar month. Every Saturday after 12 noon, however, you are welcome

to book in for any remaining Masses that weekend, and these bookings will not count towards

your monthly limit for Sunday Masses. Please also be sure to read the instructions on the

booking website. If you are booking people from a different address you must enter them as a

separate booking, and always be sure to include the names of those you are booking in in the

appropriate section. Especially on Sundays you may wish to arrive around ten minutes before

Mass starts to ensure we can get everyone through the door. We thank you for your patience

in these matters as we pray for an end to restrictions.

Sunday Vespers and Benediction

Please join the Fathers and Brothers for Sung Vespers and Benediction of the Blessed

Sacrament on Sundays at 5:00pm. Vespers is the official evening prayer of the Church sung

by priests, monks, nuns and lay people throughout the world. For centuries Catholics would

attend Mass on Sunday Morning and then Vespers in the evening to thank God for all his

blessings. Both before and after Vatican II the Church has encouraged the laity to attend

Vespers especially on Sundays. We are pleased to return to public Vespers and invite you to

join us by registering at www.annerleyekibinparish.as.me.

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.

Stay Updated

Please go to our websites: www.annerleyekibinparish.com and http://brisbane-oratory.org for

the latest updates and to view our most recent newsletters.

Please see inside for information about 24 Hour Adoration at St Elizabeth’s Chapel.

FOR MASS BOOKINGS, PLEASE GO TO:

https://annerleyekibinparish.as.me

COLLECTIONS: ELECTRONIC CONTRIBUTIONS

(average for week): $1,683.80

Thank you from a grateful parish.

ELECTRONIC GIVING: BSB: 064 786 Account Number: 516991500

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

Reflection It is God’s custom to interweave human life with a trouble and a consolation, at least, of an interior sort,

alternately. St Philip Neri

"The best way to establish in ourselves the admirable reign of Jesus are precisely those of continual prayer and peace of soul...Don't measure your love of our Lord by the depth of your feelings, this is truly a small measure. Respond to all misfortune, whatever it may be, with gentleness, peace, tenderness and interior moderation before God, abandoning yourself simply into His hands so that He may make of you and in you what He pleases.”

(Jacques Philippe, Searching For and Maintaining Peace, 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

ADORATION IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH

Pater tales quaerit qui adorent eum . . . in spiritu et veritate.

The Father seeketh such to adore Him .... in spirit and in truth. (John iv. 23)

THE object of Eucharistic adoration is the Divine Person of our Lord Jesus Christ present in the Most Blessed

Sacrament. He is living there. He wants us to speak to Him, and He will speak to us. Anybody may speak to our

Lord. Is He not there for everybody? Does He not tell us, "Come ye all to Me"?

This conversation between the soul and our Lord is the true Eucharistic meditation, i. e., adoration.

The grace of it is given to everybody. In order, however, to succeed in it and avoid routine or dryness of mind and

heart, adorers must seek inspiration in the grace of their vocation, in the various mysteries of the life of our Lord

and of the Blessed Virgin, or in the virtues of the Saints. In this way they will honour and glorify the God of the

Eucharist through the virtues of His mortal life as through those of all the Saints, of whose holiness He was the

grace and end as He is now its crown of glory.

Look upon the hour of adoration assigned to you as an hour in Paradise. Go to your adoration as one would to

Heaven, to the Divine banquet. You will then long for that hour and hail it with joy. Take delight in fostering a

longing for it in your heart. Tell yourself, "In four hours, in two hours, in one hour, our Lord will give me an audience

of grace and love. He has invited me; He is waiting! for me; He is longing for me." - St Peter Julian Eymard,

"The Real Presence - Vol 1"

The rest of this writing of St Eymard has been printed as a booklet and available at the Chapel for you to take.

ST ELIZABETH’S CHAPEL 24 HOUR ADORATION: PERMANENT HOURS IN NEED EACH WEEK

Please email - adoration.oratory@gmail.com

Sundays: 7:00am, 8:00am, 9:00am, 10:00am, 11:00am

Mondays 1:00am, 10:00am, 11:00am

Tuesdays: 1:00pm

Wednesdays: 1:00am, 4:00pm

Thursdays: 8:00am, 9:00am, 10:00am

Fridays: 8:00am, 9:00am, 10:00am, 5:00pm

Saturdays: 10:00am, 11:00am, 10:00pm, 11:00pm

REMINDER: Flores Morning Tea. Our Flores events begin again with a lovely casual morning tea on Saturday 27th June from 9:30am - 11:30am. There will be 7:30am Mass and 8:30am Mass at Mary Immaculate Church beforehand which we encourage you to book yourselves in for. Please make sure you RSVP if you’re coming to this event. You can click “attending” on our Facebook event or you can send Bernadette a text on 0401 446 613.

Saturday, 27th June, Private: For a Special Intention

5:30pm Vigil at SJF: For the Holy Souls in purgatory

Sunday, 28th June, Private 7:00am:

For a Special Intention

8:30am Mass at SJF: For a Special Intention

Private 8:30am: For the Holy Souls in purgatory

10:00am Mass at MI: For the Pope and the Bishops

Monday, 29th June, Private:

For Frassati groups and their members

7:00am Mass at MI: For Jesus Youth

Tuesday, 30th June, Private:

For the Holy Souls in purgatory

9:00am Mass at MI: For all souls in purgatory, especially deceased members of the Friends of the Suffering Souls

Wednesday, 1st July, Private: For the Benefactors of the Brisbane Oratory in Formation, living and deceased

6:30am Mass at SJF: For the Pope and the Bishops

Thursday, 2nd July, Private: For a Special Intention

7:00am Mass at MI: For the Holy Souls in Purgatory

Friday, 3rd July, Private:

For Jim Graham, for healing from stroke

Private: For the Brothers of the Brisbane Oratory and for Oratorian Vocations

Saturday, 4th July, Private: For Ann Tonkin

7:30am Mass at MI: For Notre Dame Priory (Tasmania), for the Carmel of Jesus, Mary, & Joseph (Wilcannia-Forbes), and for a reflourishing of religious life in Australia

Sunday, 5th July, Private 7:30am:

For the Holy Souls in purgatory

8:30am Mass at SJF: For the Pope and the Bishops

10:00am Mass at MI: For the Holy Souls in Purgatory

6:00pm Mass at MI: For a Special Intention

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:

Joan TATHEM, Bishop Basil MEEKING, Trevor SWIFTE, Dianna WILLIAMS, Margaret O’MEARA, Father Jonathan ROBINSON, Cong. Orat., Frances NINNES, William (Bill) KEEN, Doris HUEZO and Joy CULLEN.

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, 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.

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A, 27th/28th June, 2020

MASS READINGS First Reading: 2 Kings 4:8-11.14-16

One day as Elisha was on his way to Shunem, a woman of rank who lived there pressed him to stay and eat there. After this he always broke his journey for a meal when he passed that way. She said to her husband, `Look, I am sure the man who is constantly passing our way must be a holy man of God. Let us build him a small room on the roof, and put him a bed in it, and a table and chair and lamp; whenever he comes to us he can rest there.' One day when he came, he retired to the upper room and lay down. `What can be done for her?' he asked. Gehazi (his servant) answered, `Well, she has no son and her husband is old.' Elisha said, `Call her.' The servant called her and she stood at the door. `This time next year,' Elisha said `you will hold a son in your arms.'

The Word of the Lord

Response: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm 88 (Said by all)

I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord; through all ages my mouth will proclaim your truth. Of this I am sure, that your love lasts for ever, that your truth is firmly established as the heavens.

Happy the people who acclaim such a king, who walk, O Lord, in the light of your face, who find their joy every day in your name, who make your justice the source of their bliss.

For it is you, O Lord, who are the glory of their strength; it is by your favour that our might is exalted: for our ruler is in the keeping of the Lord; our king in the keeping of the Holy One of Israel.

Second Reading: Romans 6:3-4.8-11 When we were baptised in Christ Jesus we were baptised in his death; in other words, when we were baptised we went into the tomb with him and joined him in death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glory, we too might live a new life.

But we believe that having died with Christ we shall return to life with him: Christ, as we know, having been raised from the dead will never die again. Death has no power over him any more. When he died, he died, once for all, to sin, so his life now is life with God; and in that way, you too must consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus.

The Word of the Lord Response: Thanks be to God

Alleluia, alleluia! You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy people. Praise God who called you out of darkness and into his marvellous light. Alleluia!

Gospel: Matthew 10:37-42

Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows: `Anyone who prefers father or mother to me is not worthy of me. Anyone who prefers son or daughter to me is not worthy of me. Anyone who does not take his cross and follow in my footsteps is not worthy of me. Anyone who finds his life will lose it; anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it.

‘Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me; and those who welcome me welcome the one who sent me.

‘Anyone who welcomes a prophet because he is a prophet will have a prophet's reward; and anyone who welcomes a holy man because he is a holy man will have a holy man's reward.

If anyone gives so much as a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple, then I tell you solemnly, he will most certainly not lose his reward.'

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.

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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We welcome your enquiries. Please phone 3848 1107 for assistance.

FOR RENT Self-contained 2 bedroom unit (ground level of Catholic home) Partly furnished (BYO microwave and TV). Full use of yard and one undercover garage space, shared laundry. Suit married couple or students. Southside - 10 minutes from Mary Immaculate Church, close to transport/shopping centre. Internet and Electricity included.

Please call Parish Office for further information.

SEEKING NANNY

Nanny sought to care for 3 year old boy and 1 year old girl, two days a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays). The position will be commencing in September and located in Corinda.

Please contact Clare for more details on 0403560122.