Emmanuel CentreA SELF HELP CENTRE

For People with Disabilities25 Windsor St Perth WA 6000Tel: (08) 9328 8113 (Voice)/(08) 9328 9571 (TTY)/

0401 016 399 (SMS)/Email: EmmanuelCentre@westnet.com.au

Website: www.emmanuelcentre.com.auFacebook Emmanuel https://www.facebook.com/Emmanuel-Centre-Perth-431678073532315/ Catholic Ministry with Deaf and Hard of Hearinghttps://www.facebook.com/CADHOPWA

EMMANUEL NEWS – MARCH 2019(Check before coming, could be changed. Look inside for more info.)SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WED THU FRI SAT

10 Mar 9.30am: Mass St Francis Xavier Church (Interpreter & Power Point)

11 Mar9.45-10.45am: Challenges-Moulding with

playdough11-12.30pm: Cooking/ Spinning/ gardening1-2pm: Community activities

12 Mar9.30-10.30am: Painting (Geoff)11am-12.30pm: Cooking/ Identifying

fruit & veg1-2pm: Bible Study/ Community

activities

13 Mar 14 Mar 15 Mar 16 Mar

17 Mar9.30am: Mass St Francis Xavier Church (Interpreter & PowerPoint)

18 Mar9.45-10.45am: Challenges- Catching &

throwing, bowling11-12.30pm: Cooking/ Spinning/ gardening1-2pm: Community activities

19 Mar9.30-10.30am: Painting (Geoff)11am-12.30pm: Cooking/

Community activities1-2pm: Bible Study/ Train set

20 Mar 21 Mar 22 Mar 23 Mar

24 Mar9.30am: Mass St Francis Xavier Church (Interpreter & PowerPoint)

25 Mar9.45-10.45am: Challenges-Where food

comes from11-12.30pm: Cooking/ Spinning/ gardening1-2pm: Community activities-craft using tiles

26 Mar9.30-10.30am: Painting (Geoff)11am-12.30pm: Cooking/

Community activities-colouring, puzzle, memory games

1-2pm: Bible Study/ Dancing

27 Mar 28 Mar 29 Mar 30 Mar

31 Mar9.30am: Mass St Francis Xavier Church (Interpreter & PowerPoint)

1 Apr9.45-10.45am: Challenges-April Fools Day

Jokes, masks11-12.30pm: Cooking/ Spinning/ gardening1-2pm: Community activities

2 Apr9.30-10.30am: Painting (Geoff)11am-12.30pm: Cooking1-2pm: Bible Study

3 Apr 4 Apr6-8pm: Seder Meal

5 Apr 6 Apr

7 Apr9.30am: Mass St Francis Xavier Church (Interpreter & PowerPoint) followed by morning tea

8 Apr9.45-10.45am: Challenges-Health & well-

being11-12.30pm: Cooking/ Spinning/ gardening1-2pm: Community activities

9 Apr9.30-10.30am: Painting (Geoff)11am-12.30pm: Cooking; Easter

Egg painting1-2pm: Bible Study

10 Apr 11 Apr 12 Apr 13 Apr

14 Apr9.30am: Palm Sunday Mass St Francis Xavier Church (Interpreter & PowerPoint)

15 Apr 16 AprChrism Mass St Mary’s

17 Apr 18 AprHoly ThursdaySt Mary’s

19 AprGood FridaySt Denis

20 Apr

21 Apr9.30am: Easter Sunday Mass St Francis Xavier Church (Interpreter & PowerPoint)

NO PROGRAMS DURING THE TERM HOLIDAY. ACTIVITIES WILL START AGAIN ON MONDAY 29TH APRIL 2019.

Mass & Morning TeaCatholic Mass with Auslan (Sign Language) Interpreter and PowerpointWhere: St. Francis Xavier’s Church, 23 Windsor Street, PerthWhen: Every Sunday morning 9.30am. Morning Tea: 1st Sunday on every month we share a morning tea social gathering after Mass at Emmanuel Centre. Welcome to bring DO YOU REMEMBER THIS FRONT COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE? IT WAS IN 1966. WHAT WERE SOME OF THE

LEARNING PROGRAM ACTIVITIES SHARING STORIES; LEARN TO KNIT: DANCING: CONCENTRATION; THROW A BALL

MORE SIGNIFICANT THINGS THAT WERE HAPPENING AT THIS TIME ACROSS THE WORLD?A half-century ago, the war in Vietnam continued its escalation, National Service conscripts fly out from Richmond RAAF base in Sydney bound for Vietnam. NASA’s Project Gemini was completed after ten manned launches, and the USSR successfully landed a vehicle on the Moon. The first Automated Teller Machine (ATM) was introduced, along with miniaturized televisions, while race riots and anti-war protests swept the World. Charles Whitman shot and killed 14 people from his perch atop a tower at the University of Texas at Austin, and doctors at the Veterans Administration hospital in New Jersey conducted medical tests on 10 beagles, attaching them to machines designed to let them smoke cigarettes for years. Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, retired and is succeeded by Harold Holt. The Beaumont children are abducted during a visit to Glenelg beach in Adelaide and are never seen again. Decimalisation of the Australian currency; the Australian dollar replaces the Australian pound at the rate of ten shillings to the dollar. Clubs can sell alcohol on Sundays, driving with a blood alcohol level over 0.05% becomes a criminal offence. In troubled times I want to remove myself from the troubles, ignore them, run away from the world. When I look at the world today, like many people it would be easy to do just that.But God is not dead and he is even more powerful than whatever is happening in the world at this moment. God made flesh in the birth of Jesus shows me that even death has no hold over Him.

One of the things that I decided to do each day during Lent was to spend more time in contemplating God’s creation.

Each day I have committed myself to spend at least 15 minutes in the stillness of the early morning, the late evening or during the day at Emmanuel Centre, just watching all of God’s creations. Spending time in what God has created gives me God’s resilience and grace as I witness the power of God in the diversity. I have met willy wagtails, groups of ibis pecking at unseen things in the lawn, the tiny ants walking in line across the cement slabs, the sparkle in the pools of rain, the different feelings of wind in my hair and on my face, the beauty of the Moreton bay fig trees in the church grounds and the different calls of the birds, including the sound of the crows, depending what bird and time of the day it is. This is just a few I can remember.All creation is made in the image and likeness of God. Every dust speck, every human being no matter what faults or failings, we are all made in love and we do not have to earn God’s love. He/she freely gives us unconditional love.More and more as we continue our Lenten journey I know I will be given many many opportunities to love others. All are God’s creations. Those people who challenge me by their behaviours, by their attitude to others, by their goals about what life is about. But they too are loved by God unconditionally and I will be asked to be nonjudgmental, forgiving, welcoming. Once I accept this God will meet me in every encounter, but he/she still allows me the freedom to choose grace to meet others in love.

“LOVE OVERCOME”EMERGING FROM A COLD TOMB,

ALL THE TRUTH, MAJESTY AND CREATIVITY OF A LIVING GOD, TRANSFORMING A BROKEN HEART,

MAKING A QUIET RETURN, IN A STILL AND SORROWFUL GARDEN, THE GRAVE STONE ROLLED AWAY, TO RELEASE REDEMPTIVE LOVE

JESUS RESURRECTED AND RESTORED,COMFORTS A WEEPING WOMAN,

SPEAKS WITH TRAVELERS ON A JOURNEY,MEETS WITH HIS FAITHFUL FRIENDS,

AND THEY BOWDOWN, BEFORE CHRIST ALIVE,AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE SAVIOUR HAS ARRIVED,

THAT THE WORD OF GOD HAS COME ALIVEAND THAT THE EXTRAORDINARY TRANSFORMATION

OF HEAVEN AND EARTH IS COMPLETE“Love Overcome” copyright 2014 Julie Palmer

WE READ IN THE BIBLE THAT JESUS CELEBRATED THE PASSOVER WITH HIS DISCIPLES

The Catholic Catechism (1096) under the heading “ Jewish liturgy and Christian liturgy says, “ A better knowledge of the Jewish people's faith and religious life even now can help our better understanding of certain aspects of Christian liturgy. For both Jews and Christians Sacred Scripture, is an essential part of their respective liturgies…… Christians and Jews both celebrate the Passover.

For Jews, it is the Passover of history, tending toward the future;For Christians, it is the Passover fulfilled in the death and Resurrection of Christ” and why we have

the Eucharist today.

EVERY YEAR EMMANUEL CENTRE HELPS PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND A LITTLE MORE OF HOWGOD DRAWS US TO RESPECT EACH OTHERS ROOTS AND UNDERSTANDING OF GOD IN OUR

LIVESOur Passover Meal (Sedar Meal) will be held on Thursday, April 4th from 6-8pm. You must book a place at the table. Ring Barbara 9328 8113, SMS 0401 016 399 or emmanuelcentre@westnet.com.au.

There are very few empty seats left, so contact us today.

EMMANUEL CENTREWHEN?

Thursday April 4th 2019 from 6-8pm

WHERE? Emmanuel Centre, 25 Windsor St, PerthFr Pierluigi from Rockingham Parish will share with us an under-standing of the Psalms that Jesus

would have sung at the Passover with his apostles.Newsletter

If you would like to receive Emmanuel Centre’s Newsletter; give us your name and address and tell us how you want it in:* Hardcopy (posted) * Email* Large Print * Audio CD* Or other format Please let us know.Email: emmanuelcentre@westnet.com.auWebsite: www.emmanuelcentre.com.auFacebook Emmanuel https://www.facebook.com/Emmanuel-Centre-Perth-431678073532315/Catholic Ministry with Deaf and Hard of Hearinghttps://www.facebook.com/CADHOPWA

SMS: 0401 016 399

TTY: 08 9328 9571

VOICE: 08 9328 8113

The Australian Catholic Youth Festival (ACYF) 2019

The Australian Catholic Youth Festival (ACYF) 2019The Australian Catholic Youth Festival (ACYF) is a national gathering of Catholic young people in Australia. It gives young people a chance to have a deeper relationship with Jesus and celebrate the life of the Church in AustraliaThe Archdiocese of Perth is hosting the festival this year from December 8th to 10th 2019 (9.30am to 8.30pm each day) at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, 21 Mounts Bay Road, Perth.Who is the festival for? Young people from year 9 to young adults 30 years of age are invited to the event. Young people under the age of 18 must register as part of a group and be supervised by a group coordinator who’s an adult (over the age of 18). Registration is open now online at www.acyf.org.au.Adults over 30 years of age cannot register as a participant in the festival, but they can support the festival as a group leader/ coordinator or as a volunteer.

EMMANUEL’S ENVIRONMENTAL EFFORTSFor 25 years Emmanuel has been involved in RECYCLE NEWSPAPERS, CARDBOARD, BOOKS, PAMPHLETS AND OFFICE PAPER. Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water, 380 gallons of oil, 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space and 4,000 kilowatts of energy-enough to power the average Australian home for six months-and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by one metric ton of carbon equivalent (MTCE). Last year Emmanuel’s efforts saved nearly 800 trees. “I will leave you to do the maths to demonstrate what other effects this had”. We want to thank all those people who dropped off newspapers etc at Emmanuel Centre and we thank the parishes that provide bins for collecting and then bringing the papers to Emmanuel

ARE YOU ARE YOUNG PERSON WITH A DISABILITY OR A PERSON WITH DIFFERENT ABILITIES?WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE SPONSORED BY EMMANUEL CENTRE TO ATTEND THE CATHOLIC YOUTH FESTIVALIN PERTH FROM 8TH-10TH DECEMBER 2019? CONTACTBARBARA 0401 016 399 (SMS), EMAIL HER ONemmanuelcentre@westnet.com.au or ph 9328 8113.

COME AND JOIN US FOR THESE EASTER CELEBRATIONS

HOLY W

EEK 2019

SATURDAY20th April6.30pm The Easter Vigil is the First Service of Easter. It starts with theSERVICE OF LIGHT FOLLOWED BY THE EUCHARIST, AT ST DENIS CHURCH Cnr Roberts & Osborne St, Joondanna. WITH PowerPoint, Auslan Interpreter and Audio Induction Loop

14th APRIL – PASSION (PALM) SUNDAY

9.30 am – Mass with Blessing and distribution of Palms

AT ST. FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH, Cnr West Parade & Windsor St Perth (next to Emmanuel Centre) WITH PowerPoint, Auslan Interpreter and Audio Induction Loop

16th April – TUESDAY CHRISM MASS7 pm – Mass, Blessing of Oils to be used in all Parishes of the Archdiocese for the year.(Please be seated by 6.45pm)AT ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL Victoria Square, PerthWITH PowerPoint, Auslan Interpreter and Audio Induction Loop

19th April – GOOD FRIDAY3 pm – Reading of the Passion, Receiving Communion(Please be seated by 2.45pm)AT ST DENIS CHURCHCnr Roberts & Osborne St, JoondannaWITH PowerPoint, Auslan Interpreterand Audio Induction Loop

21st April – EASTER SUNDAY9.30 am – Mass AT ST. FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH, Cnr West Parade & Windsor St Perth (next to Emmanuel Centre) WITH PowerPoint, Auslan Interpreter and Audio Induction Loop

18th April – THURSDAY OF THE LORD’S SUPPER

7 pm – Mass, Washing of Feet and Adoration after Mass.(Please be seated by 6.45pm)AT ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL Victoria Square, PerthWITH PowerPoint, Auslan Interpreter and Audio Induction Loop

HAVE YOUR SAYOn draft Terms of Reference for a Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and

Exploitation of People with Disability.The Australian Government wants to hear from people with disability, their families and

carers about supports you may require to compete the survey at engage,dss.gov.auIf you need help ring 1800 880 052. Closing date Thursday 28th March 2019.

HE IS RISENDEATH IS OVERCOME

ABORIGINAL AND CHRISTIAN LITURGICAL ART COMPETITION ENTRIES WELCOMED (from the e-record)

Schools and parish communities are being encouraged to take part in the 2019 Catholic Liturgical Art Competition, inspired by Aboriginal knowledge and the Catholic faith, set to take place in conjunction with the NAIDOC week celebrations in July. The theme of the competition “Our Sacred Song Lines Upon This Earth”, aims to represent the Catholic faith and Aboriginal culture’s commitment to the stewardship of all creation.The collaborative effort by Aboriginal Catholic Ministry (ACM), the Archdiocesan Centre for Liturgy and Catholic Education Western Australia (CEWA) will work to design and create artworks that can be used in the liturgical and prayer life of the parishes and schools in the Archdiocese of Perth.Auxiliary Bishop Donald Sproxton said the art competition is a unique opportunity for schools and parishes to connect and embark on a spiritual journey through the eyes of young artists, as they unlock for us through art, the breadth of God in the wonder of His creation. ACM Director Vicky Burrows said the competition

was officially launched on Monday 3 December 2018 together, with a workshop and information day conducted by a local Aboriginal artist.Ms Burrows added that the competition will be judged in four categories, namely: Primary, Secondary, Group Entry, and Open Group.Winners will be announced during NAIDOC week (artwork may be made into an item for use by the Archdiocese) and the works will be exhibited at the Angelico Exhibition for Primary and Secondary Schools and Colleges in August 2019.If you’re interested, contact us and we could give you a copy of the competition guidelines. For other queries, contact ACM Director Vicky Burrows via email on vicky.burrows@perthcatholic.org.au or CEWA Curriculum Coordinator Genevie Baker Genevie.Baker@cewa.edu.au

From the Catholic Mental Health NetworkFollowing is beautiful sharing from a member of the Catholic Mental Health Network on how the Mental Health First Aid course has helped them in their journey: