Welcome to the Cathedral Parish of

SAINTS MARY & JOSEPH

132 DANGAR St (PO Box 2025)

ARMIDALE 2350 PH 6772 2218 armidaleparish@armidale.catholic.org.au

www.smjcathedral.org.au

• Faithful to the Teaching of the Apostles

• Faithful to Prayer

• Faithful to the Breaking of the Bread

• Alive in the Community of the Spirit

• Sharing what we have with those in need Acts 2:42-46

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16th Sunday In Ordinary Time (A/1)

Sunday 23rd July 2017/Psalter Week 4

LITURGY THIS WEEK SATURDAY: 9.15AM, 6PM Vigil Mass Cathedral SUNDAY: 16th SUNDAY in ORDINARY TIME 8AM, 10AM, 5:30PM MONDAY: 7AM, 12.30PM OLA Chapel TUESDAY: St James 7AM, 9.15AM OLA Chapel WEDNESDAY: Sts Joachim and Anne 9.15AM, 12.30PM OLA Chapel THURSDAY: 7AM Cathedral, 9.15AM Mass OLA

Chapel then Eucharistic Adoration 10AM-10PM

FRIDAY: 9.15AM, 11AM Ken Thompson Lodge, 5.40PM Cathedral SATURDAY: St Martha 9.15AM, 6PM Vigil Mass Cathedral SUNDAY: 17th SUNDAY in ORDINARY TIME 8AM, 10AM, 5.30PM

SACRAMENT of PENANCE FRIDAY: 5-5.30PM SATURDAY: 11.30AM-12NOON; 4.30-5.30PM

ROSARIES THIS WEEK: MON 24TH JULY, 12 noon Angelus

followed by the rosary prior to the 12.30pm Mass. TUE 25TH JULY in the home of Faye & Bob Watson, 11 McIntosh Cres at 4pm. WED 26TH JULY, 12 noon Angelus followed by the rosary prior to the 12.30pm Mass

Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion Fr Francis would like to become acquainted with all extraordinary ministers of holy communion to re-establish a roster for the Sunday Masses. If you are a commissioned Extraordinary Minister please contact the Parish Office 6772 2218 or armidaleparish@armidale.catholic.org.au

MARRIAGE & FAMILY WEEK

24th to 30th July The Family Praying Together: The Domestic Church

Special classes will be held at St Mary’s with

Grandparents day ….and the “EXPLORE” PROGRAM

will be held at O’Connor Catholic College…. providing an

opportunity for young Catholics and their friends to hear

about the concept of Christian Marriage from couples

trained in the Explore Program who will be visiting the

College.

The week will end with a family Mass in the Cathedral on

Sunday 30th July at 10am. After Mass St Mary’s Catholic

Primary School will host a morning tea followed by a

conversation, beginning with John & Linda Hanrahan

sharing their experience on the topic, ‘The Family Praying

Together’

Kerry Steller will speak at each Mass this weekend inviting

families to come along and join in the discussion. The

suggested discussion questions are as follows:

• What is prayer?

• How did you come to know about prayer?

• Why do you pray?

• What method/s of prayer that appeals to you

most?

• What stops you from praying?

• How do you help your family to pray?

• What are the challenges you experience in praying

as a family?

• How do you deal with these challenges?

• And others?

The pamphlet ‘Parents Passing on the Faith’ is being

handed out this weekend. This publication has some good

tips for parents on this topic.

CHANGE TO MASS SCHEDULE THIS WEEK

Please note that ALL Masses Monday, Tuesday

& Wednesday will be celebrated in Our Lady of

the Angels Chapel and not the Cathedral due to

installation of the replacement loudspeakers

from the lightning/storm damage early this year.

Let us once more take up the song of the Psalmist. In the home where husband and wife are seated at table, children appear at their side “like olive shoots” (Ps 128:3), that is, full of 12 energy and vitality. If the parents are in some sense the foundations of the home, the children are like the “living stones” of the family. (cf. 1 Pet 2:5).

Solemnity of the

ASSUMPTION of the BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

Tuesday 15th August 2017

Schedule of events: 9.15am – Mass at De La Salle Chapel followed by a talk from Fr Gerard Ryan 11.30-12.00pm – St Mary’s talk (Fr Gerard Ryan) in St Anne’s Hall 12.30pm – Mass in the Cathedral 5.30pm – Rosary procession commencing on the Cathedral forecourt followed by Mass in the Cathedral 7.00pm – A talk (Fr Gerard Ryan) in the Torreggiani Room. Soup will be provided and will conclude no later than 8.30pm. The Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima will be in the Cathedral for veneration during the day and evening when not at schools.

ROSTERS THIS WEEKEND

6PM 8AM 10AM 5.30PM WELCOMER KMcMahon TFlynn Hallmans RMenz READER JWard TFlynn Chapman Roff

CMitchell CathSteph Toakley Roff

KMcMahon GBurton Turner Beeby CLEANERS Volunteers

ROSTERS NEXT WEEKEND WELCOMER RDavis EFitzgerald McGraths Stellers READER Brennan FCowley MEdgley PBoston

Atchison MBarrett Chapman Chin

Atchison TFunnell Hallman Davies CLEANERS Jean’s Team

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION PARISH PROGRAM 2017 (For students in Yr 3 at St Mary’s & Yr 4 and over all other schools)

ENROLMENT/PARENT NIGHT

Wednesday 26th July 6.30pm in the Cathedral

LESSONS

Sundays 30th July 6th, 13th, 20th & 27th August & 3rd September

9.10 – 9.50am

RETREAT/RECONCILIATION/REHEARSAL

Friday 8th Sep, commencing at 2pm with a short retreat. For

children, NOT at St Mary’s Parish School there will the opportunity

for confession prior to the rehearsal from 3.30-4.30pm, in the

Cathedral

SACRAMENT GIVEN

Saturday 9th Sep, 6pm, and Sunday 10th Sep, 10am Mass

MYSTAGOGIA SESSION

Sunday 17th Sep, 9am – 10am

Enrolment/Parent night is for all parents of children

preparing for the Sacrament of First Holy Communion. It is

essential that parents attend this meeting to ENROL their

son/daughter for this Sacrament. If your child was baptised

outside of the Armidale Parish, you must provide a copy of

your child’s Baptism certificate at this meeting. All enquiries

to the Parish Office 6772 2218.

REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS THIS WEEK: RECENTLY DECEASED: Shirley Khoury, Aliah Moussa,

Warwick Bartholomew (Melbourne), Patricia Elton (Kempsey), Alice Nicholson (England), Audrey Little (Coonabarabran), Baden Heath, David Magill (Chatswood), Jose Conjares (Philippines), Fr Bernard Kenny, Maria Soliven, Anthony Foster, Edgar Perdriau (Lindfield),

Mignon Spessot ANNIVERSARIES: Joan Kelly, Henry Fittler,

Geoff O’Hearn, Joseph Power, Patricia Fittler, Sally McKenzie, Joyce Flint, Mervyn McClenaghan, Jack Lasker, Rolando Hong, Sr M Cordula

Hartman rsm SICK: Fergus Watson, Hannah Whitton, Kath

Russell, Marge Britt, Danny Jones, Ghodsi Amini, Susan Maye, Michael Zhu, Michael Moloney, Aeron Ryan, Helen Hesketh, John Fleming, Laurie Fahy, Blake Ross, Gemma Milliken, Joseph O’Brien, Deacon Peter Harrison, Frederic Koelmeyer, Kay Robertson, Maureen Veitch, Maria Selvey, Eleanor Pankhurst, Kay Goodwin, Norma O’Brien, Anne Simpson, Silvia & Ralph Bowles, Justin Post, Dean Doran, Alice Payne, Jane Obbem, Gladys Navarrete, Desiree Redlich, Alexandra Curtis, Marie Trevanion, Michelle Owens, Sheetal Patel

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