29th september 2019 year c 26th sunday in ordinary time
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My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9)
25 Vergulde Road, Regents Park
Mon - Fri 8:30am - 2:30pm
Phone: 3884 7600 Fax: 3800 2646
Email: [email protected] Website: www.stbernardinesparish.com.au
Parish Priest Fr John Conway
Email: [email protected]
Parish Secretary & Safeguarding Officer Mrs Christy Gracias
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 0423 275 975
Coordinator of Lay Ministries, ALPHA & Youth
Mrs Carrie McCormack
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 0481 008 317
Finance Officer Mrs Barbara Malicki Email: [email protected]
St Bernardine’s
Tues: Light and Presence 7:00pm
Wed No Mass this week. Sat 6:00pm
Sun 9:00am
St Catherine’s
Tues 8:00am
Sun 5:30pm
Our Lady of the Assumption
Sun 7:30am
St Paul de Chartres
Mon, Thurs 8:00am
Tues, Wed, Fri 9:00am
Sat 4:00pm
Sun 8:00am
Youth Events
Youth Mass 1st Sat of the Month @ St Bernardine’s 6pm 7th Oct Youth Night 6pm 3rd Fri of month. Next Gathering is Fri 18th Oct
REGENTS PARK CATHOLIC PARISH Comprising of St Bernardine’s Church, St Catherine’s Church
and Our Lady of the Assumption Church
29th September 2019 YEAR C 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gathering Hymn: God has Chosen Me GA497
Psalm Response: Praise the Lord, my soul! Offertory Hymn: Where There is Charity and Love GA323
Communion Hymn: I Am the Bread of Life GA204
Recessional Hymn: City of God GA498
Mission Statement We the Catholic Communities of Regents Park Parish, guided by
the Holy Spirit; commit to building a welcoming, inclusive, faith centred community grounded upon the Gospel val-
ues of leadership and service.
Sunday’s Readings: Amos 8:4-7 St Paul to Timothy 2:1-8 Luke 16:1-13
Next week’s Readings: Habakkuk 1:2-3, 2:2-4 St Paul to Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14 Luke 17:5-10
Ministry Matters PLENARY COUNCIL 2020
Our September focus for Plenary Council: How is God calling us to be a Christ-centred Church that is
Humble, Healing and Merciful Church. On Monday Night, we have arranged a wine and cheese night to suit and talk about the next part of the Plenary Council journey. Through September, our focus has been upon our Church becoming a humble, healing and merciful Church. I would ask you to think about how this can come about by our commitment to endeavouring to make our Church, humble and healing and merciful. While our gathering on Monday Night will use this idea as our conversation topic, it is not restricted to just this area of life and Church and ministry. Bring your ideas and concerns about our Church and what it will be in the future. This Night is an opportunity for us to get together and to talk about where we may be going into that future as committed people of faith. Perhaps what the Church will be is in our hands, and when we get together, when we share our thoughts and our wisdom we can make a difference. Come on Monday Night and enter into the conversation.
CELEBRATIONS Birthdays or wedding celebrations! Who is celebrating in the Month of September?
HOLIDAYS—Monday 7th October to 28th October The office staff will still be available as per normal.
God bless, Fr John
Parish Contacts
Parish Mass Times
Meetings
Pastoral Leadership Team meeting 4th Nov 7:00pm
My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9)
As we enter into the next phase, a reminder, what is a Plenary Council?
A Plenary Council is the highest form of gathering that a church in a particular country can have. It is a process by which lay people and clergy can be heard. The last major assembly for the Catholic Church of Australia took place more than eighty years ago in 1937. Our next
will be in 2020. This is our chance to make a difference.
ALPHA 2019
As we commit to being an Alpha parish, we offer a number of opportunities to connect and learn. Please text Helen or Juan on 0481 008 317, for more information. Currently Alpha runs on Wednesday’s at 6pm at Our Lady of the Assumption Church. Thursday ’s at 10am at St Catherine’s Church and Thursday’s at 6pm at St Catherine’s Church.
LIGHT & PRESENCE PRAYER VIGIL
On Tuesday at 7pm at St Bernardine’s Church.
Youth Night
Our next youth night is Fri 18th Oct starting at 6:00pm at the Presbytery. YOU’RE INVITED.
Our next Youth mass will be on Sat 7th October at 6:00pm, followed by sausage sizzle.
November 15th—Save the Date!! Have you heard, we are planning a Trivia Night? Get started practicing - stay tuned for more info.
Hospitality
We are looking to grow hospitality at St Bernardine’s Church, so that after every Mass you can stay and have a cuppa. It is already fabulous at both OLA and St Catherine’s . So, keep an eye out for the set up, in front of the church, feel free to
bring along a plate to share. Let the office know if you need more information or would like to help.
Wine and Cheese Night—Plenary Council Conversations
Our next event will be Monday 30th September at 7:00pm. Come ask some questions, hear about the next stage of Plenary Council.
Taking place at the Presbytery starting at 7:00pm. BYO drinks. Special Guest is Mike Humphrys from Evangelisation Brisbane—our link to the
Plenary Council Committee. See you there.
Baptism Preparation Session
The next Baptism Preparation Session is Monday 28th October at 7:00pm at St Bernardine’s Church. Please RSVP to the office.
Deanery Events
Sunday November 3rd, 3pm to 8pm. Deanery Event with a focus on Parish Renewal, including workshops on music and Evangelisation and a Panel focusing on being involved in Church. This event includes a Deanery Mass with Archbishop Mark. (Please note there will be no Mass at St Catherine’s) Please mark this event in your calendar, more information will follow. DEANERY YOUTH MASS
Sunday December 1st, Deanery Youth Mass 5:30pm at St Patrick’s Beenleigh, Please join the Youth of our Deanery and celebrate together.
Legion of Mary
The Legion of Mary will celebrate Mass on
Saturday- 12th Oct, at 9:30am at St. Bernardine’s Church followed by
Public Square Rosary in the grounds of the church.
Enquiries
3297 0007 or 0407 593 671. Please bring a plate to share.
My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9)
Break Open the Word for 2020
For those of you that are interested, we are
ordering our liturgical books for next year. If you would like a copy of Break Open the Word,
please let the parish office know as soon as possible, by either ringing, or by including this little ad, in the collection plate, with you details
filled out.
All requests need to be in by October 9th 2019
Details
Name:______________________________
Mobile:______________________________
Book Quantity:________________________
Please put the ad into the collection plate.
Please remember in your prayers
In Sickness: Sally Mollony, Michelle McLain
Recently deceased:
Juliana Saavedra, Lance Gunna
Anniversaries: Tony Gavendran, Mary Falconer, Duglass Longmah, Robert Henzell, Irene McKenna.
Turning Waste Into Opportunity
As you may be aware, we have just started collecting milk bottle tops for Envision Hands. There have been some questions about what sort of tops. They are all flat soft drink, water and milk bottle tops, including those from long life containers. The tops should be numbered either No 2 or No 4 in the recy-cled triangle but not all are marked. Any tops with other numbers like 5 or 7 are not re-quired. We also ask that the caps are cleaned before they are donated. We also can’t take tops larger than milk bottle tops, so if you have a vegemite lid, please use your recycling bin.
Emmaus College Open Day
Wednesday 16th October - 9-10:30am. Please arrive 8:45am.
48 East Street, Jimboomba for more information please call 0755479990.
Enrolments are open for 2020 and 2021.
CLIMATE CHANGE: What can we do?
Climate Change is now a most significant topic of conversation across our dinner tables and across the various organisations across the world. From the UN Climate Summit, where the leaders of the world were ticked off by a young Swedish student crying ‘How dare you” when highlighting he inaction of various governments of the world, both first world and developing world. ‘How dare you’ she had said to them all.
In our own Land, Sir David Attenborough has chided our Government and perhaps all of us for our excessive use of coal and fossil fuels, thus damaging our precious environment, particularly the impact on the Barrier Reef. Climate Change seems to be a stark reality in this fragile world in which we live, in spite of the nay-sayers who speak against it.
Our world is being damaged by all that is hap-pening today. Even Pope Francis has spoken of our responsibility to care for our world, because we are trustees of this world for future genera-tions. Time and again we are told that Australia is responsible for just .01% of the world’s carbon footprint, while other nations are so much high-er.
That may be true, but do we not have a respon-sibility for that 0.01% and a responsibility to do something to ease the pain of the world around us. Somehow we are meant to make a differ-ence in our lives TODAY! The time has come to change our ways and perhaps save our planet. ‘How dare you” may be the cry of the genera-tions who will follow us if we do not change our ways today.
The time has come. Let’s choose life for our
Healing Mass
On Friday November 1st from 6—8:30pm St Bernardine’s Church will be hosting a
Jesus Heals Healing Mass run by Shalom Media Australia with Fr Jilto George presiding. For those that wish to attend, please keep the
date free. For more information please call Shalom’s office on 0401 444495.
My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9)
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