Weekday Masses
Monday, Funeral for Patricia
Rayner
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
10.30 am
No Mass
9:15 am
7:00 pm
9:15 am
Sunday Masses
Saturday Sunday
6:00 pm
8:00 am
10:00 am Reconciliation
Saturday 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A 20th August 2017
SEASONS Newsletter of the Catholic Parish of St. Thomas More, Mount Eliza
313 Canadian Bay Rd Mount Eliza Vic. 3930
Phone: 9787 7777 Fax: 9787 9734 Email: [email protected]
Web: www.stm-mteliza.org
Pastoral Leadership Team
Fr. Laurie (Parish Priest) Lys Crowe (Pastoral Associate)
Peter Whyte (School D Principal)
Ange Virgona (Chairperson) Jacinta Griffin Carolyn Gascoigne
Sue Carr Paul Stinear Justin Crawford
PPLT Email: [email protected]
PCC=Parish Community Centre U=Undercroft
C=Church
MPR=School Multipurpose Room
SSR=School Staff Room
Diary
This Sunday
Movie Group, Hampstead 2.15pm, Mornington Cinemas
Monday Poetry Group, 1.30pm, PCC
Tuesday
First Eucharist Mass Practice, 7pm, C
Thursday Social Club Mornington Golf
Club Lunch, 12.30pm Liturgy Team Meeting, 7.30pm, PCC
Holy Communion During Communion adults or children who are not Catholic or not
receiving Holy Communion are welcome to come forward for a bless-
ing to any of the Eucharistic Ministers.
Please indicate your wish for a blessing by crossing both arms in front of you.
First Eucharist this Weekend
We celebrate with, and congratulate, our young people who are receiving the Eucharist for the first time this weekend.
at 6pm Mass - Zoe March, Will Kent, Mitchell Batten, Ava Zammit, Olivia Cooke, Keely McIntosh, Ashleigh Smith, Alice Webster, Leo Steen-holdt, Aiofe Currie, Sibella Verhoeft, Noah Palamara, Jorja Cooling and Jiro Mirabella
and at 10am Mass - Kaiah Parkyn, Lucy Storen, Molly Clutterbuck,
Ike Ryan, Michael Latu, Ashton Kelleher, Sienna Russie, Matilda Smith,
Poppy Seeley, Xavier Barr, Amelia De Jong, Charlotte Snow, Olive
Larner, Anthony Martin and Lorcan McCarthy
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Liturgy - Twentieth Sunday Ordinary Time 8am Mass
First Reading: Isaiah 56:1, 6-7
I will lead the foreigners to my holy mountain.
Responsorial Psalm Oh God, let all the nations praise you!
Second Reading: Romans 11:13-15, 29-32
The gifts and call of God are irrevocable.
Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!
Jesus preached the Good News of the kingdom, and
healed all who were sick.
Alleluia!
Gospel: Matthew 15:21-28
Woman, you have great faith.
Those who have died recently
Irene Anderson, Patricia Rayner
those whose anniversaries fall at
this time…
Thomas Smith, Ruby McCartney, Kevin Sheehy, Wil-
liam Lindner, Dr. Trevor Connolly, Ida Smeeton,
Frederick Taylor, Rex Smith, Doris Hill, John Bourke,
Ethel Blake, Valerie Crowe
… and the sick
Diana Herrmann, Russell MacGregor, Wal Gibson, Bill
Hodges, Anne McGrath, Robyn Davies, Jinny Rein-
hard, Rod McKenzie, Maureen Anstey, Stephanie Mul-
cahy, Jake Steyn, Pam Montgomery, Arnold Mann,
Penelope Allen, Gordon Foulis, Len Crowe, Des Ley-
den, Pat Crowther, Margaret Beale, Angela Butler,
Sue Kelly, Maria Kelly, Will Murray, Sr. Tarcissius,
Frank Nolan, Fr. Michael Walsh, Shane Dobson, Ken
& Mary Allen, Ray Grant, Rob Nicholls, Adrian Gobel,
Rachael Sanderson (nee Davies), and all of the sick at
the George Vowell Centre & Ranelagh Gardens Nurs-
ing Home.
and the parishioners of St Thomas More Parish,
Tequinomata, East Timor, St Therese Parish,
Bathurst Island and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
Parish, Alice Springs.
We pray for...
Next Week’s Roster
Mass Time Lector Commentator
6 pm 1st Eucharist 1st Eucharist
8 am Catharina T Mercia Gleeson
10 am 1st Eucharist 1st Eucharist
Mass Time Ministers of the Eucharist
6 pm
Barbara Hunt David Wirth
Lys Crowe Pat McConvill
Michael Robertson
8 am Tricia Woods (Book)
Marie Alaimo (Gifts)
Mary Goss (Gifts)
10 am Peter Royal Lys Crowe
Jim Bourke Gui Hone
Pat McConvill
10 am Children’s Liturgy
1st Eucharist
Counters Julian Collins
Larry McEvoy
Maurie Hutchinson
Cuppa after 10am Mass
Your hosts this weekend will be An-
drew, Chiara & Siena Postregna.
You are all warmly invited each week
after 10am Mass to linger for a cuppa and an oppor-
tunity to get to know some other members of your
parish community better.
Next week’s host will be Katie Rodgers and Ruth
Pusic.
Stewardship Received last weekend .......................................$2,010
Pledged last weekend .........................................$2,260
July Average ..........................................................$3,087
Presbytery Received last week ..............................................$1,160
Thanks to all of you who give so generously to support our
parish.
Financial Matters
PAGE 3 TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR A SEASONS
What’s Happening Here...
Have You Walked The Camino? Later in the year, as part of the Parish
Pastoral Plan to hold Spirituality Nights
throughout the year, we are planning
to have a night where those parishion-
ers who have walked the Camino
could share and reflect on their experi-
ences of pilgrimage and journey with
the whole Parish.
If you are one of these people, could you please con-
tact Ange Virgona - email [email protected]
or phone 0407 535 704 so that this group of people
can get together and share and plan!
Thankyou in anticipation.
STM Open Gardens Proposal: to organise an Open Garden
Weekend in Autumn 2018.
Purpose: to raise funds for our parish.
This is just an idea at the moment. Be-
fore we proceed, we need to establish
the availability of suitable “autumn” gar-
dens. We would need to have three or
four gardens available over one weekend in autumn
next year, date yet to be decided.
Would you be prepared to open your garden to the
public, or have a family member or neighbour willing
to do so? It is anticipated that a team of parish volun-
teers would be present at each location to attend to
the various roles required to run the day.
For further enquiries or expressions of interest, please
contact me via email or phone: mareetaver-
[email protected] or 0425 721 207.
Nametags: The Parish Pastoral Leadership Team
invites you to wear a nametag to Mass! This is just one
way of us getting to know each other better. You can
BYO, or we will have some stick-on ones available
each week.
Monday 21st August - The next gathering of the Po-
etry Group will be hosted by Keith Donovan at
1.30pm in the Parish Community Centre. All most
welcome to come along.
Thursday, 24th August - Mornington Golf Club
Lunch, at 12.30pm. Enquiries to Grevis on 0414 527
172 or to Colleen on 9787 2479.
Tuesday, 29th August - Committee Meeting in the
Parish Community Centre at 10am.
Wednesday, 13th September - A visit to the Morn-
ington Art Gallery, Dunns Road at 11am to view the
work of Constance Stokes, followed by lunch at Stee-
ples at 12.30pm (lunch only will be fine). Please book
and pay $10 deposit at the Monthly Meeting. Enquir-
ies to Grevis or Colleen.
The Welfare Officers for August are Margo Munro
and Carolyn Gascoigne.
STM Social Club Fun & Friendship For All
New members are always most welcome!
Membership fee is $20. All enquiries to:
Grevis 0414 527 172 or to Colleen 9787 2479.
Sunday Movies The Social Club issues an open invita-
tion to anyone in the parish who
would like to join them to see Sunday
movies at Mornington Cinema adver-
tised in Seasons. We usually meet at the Mornington
Cinema about half an hour before the start and often
go for coffee after.
This week’s movie is Hampstead starring Diane Kea-
ton @ 2.15pm
Contact Fiona on 5976 7064 or 0420 764 234.
Baptism Welcomes This weekend we have the Rite of Welcome at the 8am Mass for Alexander Hollier (Parents –
Matthew & Rachel).
Congratulations and Welcome to Maximillian and Henry Reid (Parents – Philip and Elizabeth)
who will both be baptised after the 10am Mass on Sunday.
Wall of Remembrance Bronze plaques are available for
the Wall of Remembrance,
please contact Irene in the of-
fice for an order form, or to
make an appointment to come
in and prepare a draft.
Plaques usually cost around $235, depending on the
wording, and images (if any).
If you haven’t already reserved/purchased a brick - to
which the plaque will be fixed - this will need to be
arranged at the same time, at a cost of $120.
What’s Happening
PAGE 4 SEASONS TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR A
Baptisms These are held on the 1st & 3rd Sundays of each month at 11:15 am or at any of
the Parish Masses on the 2nd, 4th or 5th Sundays.
A compulsory preparation night for parents takes place on the first Tuesday of
each month in the Parish Community Centre at 7:30 pm. Children to be baptised,
and their families, are then invited to a Welcome Mass prior to Baptism where
they are introduced to the Parish Community and welcomed by them. In order for this to happen, preparation
needs to begin at least 4-6 weeks before the Baptism, with a call to confirm parents’ attendance at the Prepara-
tion Night.
When children of school age are to be baptised an extended preparation time is required. It is important to re-
member that Baptism is about the initiation of a child into a community of Faith or a community of Disciples.
There is no such thing as a ‘private’ Baptism... it is something done by the whole Church.
Would you like to advertise
your business in this space in Seasons?
In colour
Business card size
$50 for one week
We print 200 copies per week, and distribute to all
STM School families by email. It is also available on
the Parish website for six months. Please contact the
Parish Office on 9787 7777 for further details.
Melbourne Catholic Magazine The August edition of Melbourne Catholics is now
available from the Church foyer. $4 per copy.