Prayer After Communion:

(For Minsters to the Home-bound)

God my creator breathe on me

again, renew me, refresh me,

extend my abilities, comfort me

in adjusting to changes in

health, mobility and

activity.

Body and Blood of Jesus Christ

flow through every fibre of my

being.

Keep me well, and hope filled

always.

Holy Spirit use me in my

situation, for the good of

others. Amen.

Our Finance

Liturgy Rosters:

Many thanks for the wonderful works you do!

This Weekend: 27th October

Saturday Vigil: 6.00pm

Leader: L. Cooper

Reader: Vol. please

Minister: K-A O’Keefe, D. Kierce

Gifts: M. Gregory, H. Stevenson

Welcome: D. Kierce

Sunday: 10.30am

Leader: K. Howman

Reader: P. Couttie

Ministers: K. Arnott, L. Goebel, I. Eichler

Gifts: C. Boyadjian

Welcome: M. King

Next Weekend: 3rd November

Saturday Vigil: 6.00pm

Leader: H. Webb

Reader: D. Baudinette

Minister: M. Lambert, F. Mizzi

Gifts: D. Baudinette, G. Priestley

Welcome: F. Mizzi

Sunday: 10.30am

Welcome: L. Cooper

Reader: K. Loftus

Ministers: D. Kierce, M. Lambert, F. Arnott

Gifts: J. Hall & K. Sullivan

Church Flowers: Marg Antony 19th & 26th

Church Linen: 20/10 A. McIntyre, 3/11 J. Hall

Church Cleaning:

27/10 M. Kempton, M. Antony

03/11 The Arnott Family

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World Missions

$ 503

Presbytery Account

Priest support: inc. EFT $ 522.20

Direct deposit payments for the presbytery account can

be made electronically. Details are as follows:

Account Name: All Saints Presbytery Portland

BSB: 083 526

Account No. 24476 6002

Planned Giving for Parish Account

Given last week, inc. EFT: $ 990.50

Direct deposit payments for planned giving and donations

can be made electronically. Details are as follows:

Account Name: Portland Catholic Church

BSB: 083 532

Account No. 5159 81661

Target $64,000

Total YTD 2018/19 $ 20,672

Total YTD 2017/18 $ 23,575

LEAVING A GIFT IN YOUR WILL

All Saints Parish has been present at most of the

important milestones in your life: your Baptism, your

First Communion, at times of great celebration and at

times of great sadness.

By leaving a gift to your Parish in your Will, you will

leave a legacy of faith – a legacy to help ensure that the

mission and pastoral outreach that has been important

to you will continue both for today’s needs and for

those of our children, our grandchildren and beyond.

“The Spire“

All Saints’ Parish

Portland - Heywood - Dartmoor

All Saints’ Parish Office

PO Box 210 Portland 3305

Phone: 5523 1046 email: portland@ballarat.catholic.org.au www.ballarat.catholic.org.au/parishes

Rev. Gregory A. D. Tait, P.P. email: greg.tait@ballarat.catholic.org.au

Parish Secretary: Antonella Webbstock Wednesday & Friday 9.00am till 3.00pm

All Saints Parish is committed to Child Safety - our Child Safety Policy and Code of Conduct are on display on the Parish website and noticeboard in the Tower Entrance of the Church.

All Saints Parish Portland acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which our Parish Community meets, the Gunditjmara people. We pay our respects to their Elders past and pre-sent and commit ourselves to the ongoing journey of reconciliation and constitutional acknowledgement of first peoples

Weekday Services 29/10 to 01/11

Tuesday: 5.00pm Mass

Wednesday: 5.00pm Mass

Thursday: 10.00am Mass

Friday: 9.30am Morn. Prayer & Adoration

10.00am All Saints Feast Day Mass

(morning tea at Edward’s

after Mass)

*Note* Funeral Masses will always take the place of

Weekday Mass for that day.

Recent Deaths:

Estelle Wason, Graeme Hanes, Alan Meyrick

Anniversaries:

Mary Knight, Mary Hanes, Ross Grundy, Patricia Taggart, Tex Vaughan, Michaela Perrin, Essie Tomasetti, Tom Hansford, Eric Lovell, Stan Murphy, Jim Clynes, Ted Kempton, Jim O’Halloran, Thelma Byron, Ferdi Meerbach, Mary Hendrick, Mons Nolan, Beryl Perry

Prayer Requests:

Margaret Couttie, Patricia Bailey, Noela Clifford, Les

Hildebrand, Nicky Schultz, Claire Jesser, John Smith,

Lea-anne Bourke, Rudy Legray, Michelle Mutch,

If you have any prayer requests please contact Antonella at

the Parish Office; for privacy reasons only Next of Kin may

ask for names to be added: Thank you

Weekend Mass & Sacrament of Penance times.

PORTLAND

Mass: Saturday 6.00 pm,

Sunday 10:30 am

HEYWOOD

1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th Sundays,

9.00am Mass

4th Sunday, Lay Led Assembly, 9.00am

DARTMOOR

4th Sunday 8.30amm Mass

Baptisms by appointment with Fr. Gregory

1st, 3rd & 5th Sunday 10.30am or any Saturday 6.00pm vigil

Marriages by appointment with Fr Gregory Tait.

Sacrament of Penance By Appointment with Fr Gregory.

Responsorial Psalm 32

The Lord hears the cry of the poor.

I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise always on my lips; in the Lord my soul shall make its boast. The humble shall hear and be glad.

The Lord turns his face against the wicked to destroy their remembrance from the earth. The just call and the Lord hears and rescues them in all their distress.

The Lord is close to the broken-hearted; those whose spirit is crushed he will save. The Lord ransoms the souls of his servants. Those who hide in him shall not be condemned.

The Lord hears the cry of the poor.

Gospel Acclamation Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! God was in Christ, to reconcile the world to himself; and the Good News of reconciliation he has entrusted to us. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

The English translation of the Psalm Responses, the Alleluia and the Gospel vers-

es, are from the Lectionary for Mass © 1997, 1981, 1968, International Committee on

English in the Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved.

27th October

2019

30th Sunday

Ordinary Time

Year C

Children’s Liturgy

27th October

Anne & Mary

Gospel Connections - Luke 18: 9 - 14

Jesus spoke the following parable to some people who prided

themselves on being virtuous and despised everyone else, ‘Two men

went up to the Temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax collector.

The Pharisee stood there and said this prayer to himself, “I thank you,

God, that I am not grasping, unjust, adulterous like the rest of mankind,

and particularly that I am not like this tax collector here. I fast twice a

week; I pay tithes on all I get.” The tax collector stood some distance

away, not daring even to raise his eyes to heaven; but he beat his breast

and said, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner.” This man, I tell you, went

home again at rights with God; the other did not. For everyone who

exalts himself will be humbled, but the man who humbles himself will be

exalted.’

Reflection - Diane Bergant CSA

It is very easy for religious people to fall into a kind of self-righteousness. Their very enthusiasm and generosity can plant the seeds of religious arrogance. They know what commitment demands of them; they experience relative success in their endeavors to be faithful; they distance themselves from what they think might threaten their resolve; and then they pass judgment on those who do not share their values or experience their success. This kind of arrogance is often imperceptible, because there is enough truth in every step along the way that it is difficult to recognise when one is veering off the track.

Jesus extols the humility of the one who admits being a sinner, and can accept the implications of that admission. This is the kind of prayer that is described in the reading from Sirach and the psalm response. It is those who can admit that they are needy who turn to God in that need. It is those who trust that God will be their strength in the face of their weaknesses who are strengthened.

Paul’s own prayer demonstrates the attitudes that should be ours as we pray. Like the Pharisee, he acknowledges his success. He has competed well; he has finished the course; he has kept the faith. However, unlike the Pharisee, he acknowledges that God is the source of any good he has been able to accomplish. The Lord stood by him and gave him strength. If there is any glory, it belongs to God. Paul’s confident prayer springs from a humble heart.

Parish Events & Dates to Remember

November 3rd: 175th Anniversary of the first Mass in Portland. Bishop Paul will celebrate the 10.30am Mass with us this day and a lunch to follow. Please keep it free. (This is also UP-welling Weekend)

Tuesday, 29th of October 5:30pm. - Adult Faith Education. Contact jphowman@gmail.com for

the location. This week; Church Fathers: Clement of Rome, Didache & 1st Cent. Sum.

Sunday, 24th November - 10.30am Remembrance Mass

Parish Plenary Council Discernment Meetings Meetings will be held at All Saints Primary School Library on the following Thursday’s between

5.00 - 6.30pm:

2019: October 31st, November 21st, December 5th

2020: January 30th 2020, February 13th, March 12th

All Saints Outreach Op-Shop: (In Target Car park) Phone: 5521 1587

The Parish Outreach Op-Shop is in need of good quality clothing; bric a brac or furniture.

Please ring Outreach for pick up if necessary. Thank you all for your ongoing support of Outreach.

Outreach is open Monday to Friday 10 am - 4pm and Saturdays 10am - 12 mid-day.

Outreach is a significant fundraiser within the Parish and we regularly need Volunteers to give 3 hours

in the mornings or afternoons.

Please contact Marg Herbertson at Op-Shop for further information.

Columban Calendar The Columban Calendar 2020 is available to purchase at the All Saints. Outreach Shop for $9. Support Missions - Fr Pat Baker (Columbia). It would make an ideal Christmas gift

Catholic Mission Church Appeal

Thank you for supporting this year’s Catholic Mission Church Appeal through your kind gifts and prayers, and for reaching out to children and communities in need in Ghana and throughout the world. Your generosity makes it possible for programs such as the Nazareth Home for God’s Children to provide love and support for children rescued from life-threatening situations. Thank you also to so many parishioners who have become monthly giving partners through our Ghana Mission Partners Program. Parish Total: $1,254.65 RCIA Diocesan & State Conferences, “It takes a Village” – Registrations Open “It takes a village” is the theme of both the Diocesan and State RCIA conferences this year. The Diocesan Conference will be held on Friday, November 15 from 5.30pm – 9.00pm and the State Conference will be held on Saturday, November 16 from 8.30am – 4.30pm. Both events will be held at St Patrick’s Cathedral Precinct, Ballarat. Registrations are now open - go to www.ballarat.catholic.org.au. A Profoundly Rewarding Mission Working in Education, Health and Trades? Assist to reduce poverty in overseas communities by sharing your skills. Mutual development assured! There are five places left on Palms Australia’s January 4th – 12th Orientation Course. You must apply now for a position beginning any time in 2020. Call or text 0422 472567 (M-F). www.palms.org.au

JOIN US IN CELEBRATING

175TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST MASS IN PORTLAND – NOV. 1844

SUNDAY 3RD NOVEMBER 2019

Mass will be concelebrated by Bishop Paul Bird CsSR and Fr Gregory Tait

at 10.30am at All Saints Church

followed by a light luncheon at Bayview College

ALL WELCOME

If you would like to attend the lunch after mass please reply to portland@ballarat.catholic.org.au or call Di Kierce on 0427 946 053.

PARKING Council have advertised that to accommodate the running of the 3 Bays Marathon on Sunday Nov 3rd, Bentinck Street between Henty & Julia Streets will be closed to traffic (and parking) between 9.30am – 2pm. Parking will be available, as usual in Bentinck St out the front of the church on both sides of the road as well as Henty, Richmond and Tyers streets.