BRISBANE ORATORY IN FORMATION

PARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBINPARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBINPARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBIN Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C [OF] &

Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost [EF] 13th/14th August, 2016

Readings for next Sunday

13th/14th August, 2016

1st : Isaiah 66: 18-21

2nd: Hebrews 12: 5-7

Gospel: Luke 13: 22-30

Parish Office

14 Ferndale Street, Annerley 4103

PO Box 3131, Tarragindi 4121.

Office Hours:- 9:00am - 1:00pm

Monday, Wednesday & Friday

Phone: 3848 1107

Fax: 3848 1855

Email: annek@bne.catholic.net.au

Web: www.annerleyekibinparish.com www.facebook.com/ annerleyekibinparish

www.twitter.com/AnnerleyEkibin

Parish Priest : Fr Andrew Wise

Parish Team

Ms Shirley Sadler (Parish Secretary) Mrs Kathy Ducker (Finance Officer)

Miss Ria McIntyre

(Assistant Sacramental Co-ordinator)

Mr Richard O’Neil:0427 484 679

† Mary Immaculate Church

616 Ipswich Road, Annerley

† St John Fisher Church

17 Messines Ridge Road, Tarragindi

† St Elizabeth’s Chapel

61 Effingham Street, Ekibin

St Elizabeth’s Primary School

Phone 3848 0828

Mary Immaculate Primary School

Phone 3848 8965

Our Lady’s Secondary College

Phone: 3848 7462

St John Fisher Hall

17 Messines Ridge Road, Tarragindi

Phone 3848 1107 (Office hours)

Brisbane Oratory in Formation

Oratory House - 3392 9247

16 Ferndale Street, Annerley

http://brisbane-oratory.org/

Fr Adrian Sharp (Moderator),

Fr Paul Chandler

Fr Andrew Wise

Fr Scot Armstrong

Br Shawn Murphy

Br Tyson King

Br Conor Power Br Matthew Buckley

Frassati (Young Men)

David Powick (0409 711 786)

Flores Teresianes (Young Women)

Elise Hewitt (0400 204 995)

Frassati Youth (High School age)

Catherine McDowall (0431 117 139) frassatiyouthbrisbane@gmail.com

St Vincent de Paul Helpline

Phone: 3010 1096

Homeless Hotline: 1800 474 753

From the Parish Priest I am grateful to Sister Genevieve Carroll and Mr Brian Matthews for sending me some interesting background information for the large painting of Our Lady that has been restored for Mary Immaculate Church. There is also some valuable information about the artist, who we now know was Mother Mary Zahel RSCJ. The following information was originally written for a laminated ‘plaque’ that was prepared by Sister Rita Carroll RSCJ in 1997 to go beside the painting when it was hung in Mary Immaculate Primary School.

On a related theme, below is Part 1 of a reflection on the Assumption of Our Lady from the aspect of purity. The Solemnity of the Assumption is a holy day of obligation for attendance at Mass. Please see the ‘Upcoming Events’ box on Page 2 for full details of Masses being offered on that day.

I would certainly encourage those who have never attended a Solemn High Mass in the traditional form to consider coming to that Mass if possible. It is longer than a normal Mass but I feel sure you will find the ancient Catholic chant and liturgy very beautiful and prayerful for participating in the Sacred Mysteries.

Fr Andrew Wise

The Assumption of Our Lady and Purity. Part 1

On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII issued the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, in which he proclaimed the dogma of the Assumption: "Mary, the immaculate perpetually Virgin Mother of God, after the completion of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into the glory of heaven." This was truly a wonderful event, a moment in which the faithful around the world received with certainty a ruling from the Chair of Peter, one which formally proclaimed what was already held and guarded in the deposit of faith the Catholic Church received from Christ through the apostles under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. In reflecting on the sublime wonders of the Assumption and the life of the Mother of God, rays of discerning light flood the intellect, illuminating many aspects of our earthly lives. We live in an age in which there exists immense forces within our culture which labor to draw us into conformity with what is often described as dark and evil. To Page 2

Our first church building in Annerley was opened in July 1914, when this district was part of the Coorparoo parish. Annerley was proclaimed a parish in 1916 under Fr James Gallagher, and the presbytery and convent were blessed and dedicated in February 1917, by Archbishop Daniel Mannix of Melbourne. Classrooms were enclosed under the church, and on 30th April 1917, schooling was commenced by the Religious Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. While in our first school, Mother Mary Zahel (pictured left) painted this life-sized picture of Mary Immaculate.

She used as her model for the face of Mary, one of the school children, Rita de Lange, whose father was chairman of the original parish committee. Originally this was a rectangular picture that was hung in the wooden church. When the brick church was opened on the Ferndale Street corner on 1

st May

1932, the upper corners of the painting were cut to fit into the arches of the Sanctuary. In 1941, when the marble high altar was constructed, this picture was removed into storage for some years, before being hung in this place of honour when this [the current] school building was opened in 1955.

Mary Philippine Zahel was born in St Leonards, Sydney, 1st May 1865, to Vincent Zahel and Bridget Watson. Mary entered the Sacred Heart Order in October 1888, took her First Vows in Roehampton UK, 13th November 1890, and was professed on 2nd July 1896 at Rose Bay NSW. Mother Zahel died on 6th December 1946, and is buried at Stuartholme.

Mother Zahel is remembered as being artistic – self-taught. She painted frescos at Timaru NZ, and at Glen Iris, Victoria, which gave much devotion. There are two pictures in the Parish church at Rosalie, Brisbane, painted by Mother Zahel.

PARISH DATE CLAIMERS Wednesday 17th August Parish Finance Council meets at the Parish Office at 7:30pm. Friday 19th August St Vincent de Paul Mass at 6:30am at St Elizabeth’s Chapel for Twinned Conferences in India, Bangladesh, Myanmar & Thailand. Wednesday 31st August Parish Pastoral Council meets at the Parish Office at 7:30pm. Tuesday 8th November Final Anointing Mass for 2016 at Mary Immaculate Church at 10:00am.

WE PRAY FOR: Those who are recently deceased: Mary Stasny REES,

Patricia Marie PHARR, Salvatore (Sam) SIPALA, James BASSOS, Marjorie Joan BOND, Father Ruben NADALICH, SSP, Patrick & Mary BROPHY (Cairns), Maria SZKUDLARSKI, John McKEATEN and Eileen AXEN.

Those who are sick: Esther ADENEY, Theresa BAGLEY, Gabrielle BENTLEY, Monique BENTLEY Neil BETTS, Ksenia BORODIN, Stewart BOYD, Jeremy CARROLL, Robyn CLEMENTS, Jim CLIFFORD, Hilary COLLINS, Rina COOK, Rochelle COWARD, Marietta CRUZADO, Diane ELLIS, Rowena ENNIS, David FARRELL, Jane FARRELL, Madge FARRELL, Joan FLEW, Mary FORRESTER, Anne FRANETTOVICH, John FRANK, Gwen GAIR, Helen GIAQUINTA, Dulcey HARVEY (Ingham), Jan HEGARTY, Peter HEGARTY, Keith HOGG, Marlene JOHNSTON, Dominic KENNEDY, Robyn KINNES, Ryan MacGARY-WALSH, Des MALLON, Cherril MALONEY, Bernard McALARY, Marie MITCHELL, Harry MOHR, Kathryn MORRIS, Robyn O’DWYER, Bernie O’HARA, Valerie & Kevin ORTON, Ron ROFE, Joan ROONEY, Julie ROWEN (Mackay) Dorothy RYAN, Nick SHANAHAN (Jnr), Florence SNELL, Mary STUART, Heather TERRILL, Charlie WINTER, Fr John WORTHINGTON SM, Gary WYLIE, Josephine & Bill WRIGHT and Matthew ZEMEK and Marlene ZIERVOGEL.

All the faithful departed, especially Kevin John TATHEM.

COLLECTIONS LAST WEEKEND $2,417.25

ELECTRONIC CONTRIBUTIONS AVE. FOR WEEK $2,015.00

Thank you from a grateful Parish

Upcoming Events - mark your diaries now!

Vespers and Benediction on Sunday, 14th August at 3:30pm at Mary Immaculate Church: There will be chanted vespers and benediction, according to the Extraordinary Form, for the vigil of the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Vespers is the official evening prayer of the Church. It gives thanks for the day past, and makes an evening sacrifice of praise to God.

Solemn High Mass for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Holy Day of Obligation, Monday, 15th August at 7:00pm: The Frassati Mixed Choir will be singing Missa O Quam Gloriosum by T.L. da Victoria. Mass will also be celebrated at St John Fisher Church at 7:00am and Mary Immaculate at 9:00am, both in the Ordinary Form.

Oratorio Concert on Saturday, 10th September in Mary Immaculate Church at 7:00pm. Supper will follow in the Marymac Centre. More information to come. All welcome!

In the Mood Dance on Sunday, 2nd October at the Marymac Centre from 6:00pm. All you dance-goers save the date! More information to come as the date approaches. A portion of the proceeds will be going to the Brisbane Oratory.

Brisbane Bush Dance on Saturday, 8th October at the Marymac Centre. Save this date, too, all you dance-goers. More details to come.

Brisbane Oratory Music

Please contact Ronan if you would like to audition for the mixed choir, the schola or the children's choir (5yrs - 15yrs) Lessons in sacred music are also offered.

‘Be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and

making melody to the Lord with your heart’ (Ephesians 5:18-19)

Contact: Ronan Reilly, Director of Brisbane Oratory Music, brisbaneoratorymusic@gmail.com, 0402613963

From Page 1: There can be no doubt that the diabolical nature of these struggles with temptation and bad example are often orchestrated, to some degree, by the Father of Lies: that powerful fallen angel whose pride swelled to perhaps the greatest depths of corruption. While these temptations we face are not entirely new, they are magnified by modern culture in powerfully new ways. One such detrimental, negative element of contemporary culture, heavily engrained in the West, is impurity.

St. Paul reminds us that "All of us once lived . . . in the desires of our flesh, following the wishes of the flesh and the impulses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest" (Eph 2:3). It's probably safe to say that every adult is, to some degree, wounded by impurity, whether giving in significantly to the many temptations toward impurity, or in being

confronted by the various malignant influences impurity promotes in the world.Those who have, by His Majesty's

wondrous grace, arrived at a point of heartfelt repentance and conversion often anguish over their past life, recounting with misery the many self-inflicted wounds of impurity, bringing to themselves no small suffering. This is so by virtue of a greater closeness to God which always illumines our own sinfulness. As our Father draws us to himself by his loving providence, he nourishes an awareness of our limitations and failures, that we may fly all the more securely into his arms,

where we may quietly rest in his protective love.Some feel they are forever damaged, as if they can no longer be

counted as among the pure. This is not so, however, for Christ our Lord holds the crown of purity before us all, desiring to place it on our heads, if only we should trust, if only we should try our best, if only we should love him more than what our eyes might cast themselves upon each day. What has happened in the past is gone, borne away by the healing graces of the sacrament of Reconciliation. Now our Lord's hands softly reach toward us, the gleam of purity reflected in his eyes, an imperishable crown of immeasurable worth rests in his fingers; a gift he waits to give; a gift of which only our Lord himself

can make us worthy to receive.St. Paul reminds us of the new life we are given, a free and merciful gift from God: "But

God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love he had for us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, brought us to life with Christ (by grace you have been saved), raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the heavens in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus" (Eph 2:3-).

Parish Diary & Mass Times: 15th - 21st August

Monday 15th August

7:00am Mass [OF] SJF

9:00am Mass [OF] MI

7:00pm Mass [EF] MI Solemn High Mass

Tuesday 16th August

6:00am Mass [OF+] SE

7:00am Mass [EF] MI

9:00am Mass [OF] SE School, Year 3

Wednesday 17th August

6:30am Mass [OF] SJF

9:00am Mass [EF] MI

Thursday 18th August

6:00am Mass [OF+] SE

7:00am Mass [OF+] MI

9:00am Mass [EF] MI

Friday 19th August

6:30am Mass [OF] SE

9:00am Mass [EF] MI

7:30pm Holy Hour MI

Saturday 20th August

8:15am Mass [EF] MI

21st Sunday in Ordinary Time

5:30pm Vigil [OF+] MI

5:30pm Vigil [OF] SJF

Sunday 21st August

7:30am Mass [OF] MI 9:00am Mass [EF] MI 9:00am Mass [OF] SJF

5:00pm Mass [OF+] MI

OF = Ordinary Form | OF+ = Ad orientem | EF = Extraordinary Form]

MI = Mary Immaculate SE = St Elizabeth’s SJF = St John Fisher

CONFESSION TIMES:

Mon 6:45pm (MI) Wed 9:40am - 10:00am (MI) Thu 9:40am - 10:00am (MI Fri 9:40am - 10:00am (MI) Fri 7:30pm - 8:30pm (During Holy Hour) Sat 7:15am - 8:00am (MI) Sat 4:45pm - 5:15pm (MI) Sat 5:15pm by request (SJF)

Sun During 9:00am Mass where possible (MI)

The Angelus and the Rosary are prayed half an hour before the early Masses, Monday to Friday, at SE & SJF.

All night Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament takes place each Thursday at St Elizabeth’s Chapel beginning at 6:00pm and ending at 6:45am on Fridays.

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament takes place on Saturdays from 7:15am - 8:00am at Mary Immaculate Church.

Rosters for next week

MASS INTENTIONS

Saturday, 13th August, Private Mass: For all Souls in purgatory, especially deceased members of F.O.S.S. 5:30pm Vigil at SJF: For Joseph Paily Kuttikottayil, 12th Anniversary of death Sunday, 14th August, 7:30am Mass at MI: For all Souls in purgatory, especially deceased members of F.O.S.S. 9:00am Mass at MI: For all Souls in purgatory, especially deceased members of F.O.S.S. 9:00am Mass at SJF: For the Intentions of Dolores Lightbody 5:00pm Mass at MI: For the People of the Parish: Pro populo Monday, 15th August, 7:00pm Mass at MI: For the Soul of Marjorie Joan Bond, recently deceased Tuesday, 16th August, 6:00am Mass at SE: For the Soul of Kevin John Tathem, anniversary 7:00am Mass at MI: For Margaret Aulthaus, for God’s healing graces Wednesday, 17th August, 6:30am Mass at SJF: For the Soul of Patricia Marie Pharr, recently deceased Thursday, 18th August, 6:00am Mass at SE: For the Intentions of the Donor 7:00am Mass at MI: For Michael Anderson Friday, 19th August, 9:00am Mass at MI: For Melinda Leigh Melvillle, Birthday + R.I.P. Saturday, 20th August, Private: For all Souls in

St Gregory’s Latin Mass Community Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost: Wilston 7:30am

purgatory, especially deceased members of F.O.S.S. 8:15am Mass at MI: For the Repose of the Soul of John Patrick McMahon, recently deceased 5:30pm Vigil at MI: For Thomas Mathai, 11th Anniversary of Death Sunday, 21st August, 7:30am Mass at MI: Mass of Thanksgiving from Brian McMahon 9:00am Mass at MI: For the People of the Parish: Pro populo 9:00am Mass at SJF: For the Benefactors of the Brisbane Oratory in Formation, living and deceased 5:00pm Mass at MI: For all Souls in purgatory, especially deceased members of F.O.S.S.

Rosters for next week

MINISTERS OF THE WORD

Sat (SJF) 5:30pm Kay Holmes

Sun (MI) 7.30am Brian McMahon, Noel Everding

Sun (SJF)9.00am Louise Brooks, Anthony Smallhorn

Sun (MI) 5.00pm Anna Herbert, Liam Herbert

EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION

Sat (SJF) 6:00pm: Bert Jacobs, John Lesina, Prem Nair, Kevin Rowen, Valmai Winter

Sun (MI) 7:30am: Bertha Clark, Joan Coghlan, Paul Coghlan, Ester Evangelista, Charles Grugan, Kathleen Grugan

Sun (SJF) 9:00am: Peter Menagh

Sun (MI) 5:00pm: Liam Herbert (also available as a reserve.

Please phone 0417 727 480)

COUNTERS

Monday, 15th August, 2016 Paul Coghlan, Joan Coghlan, Bernie O’Hara

CHURCH CARE

Sacristy (SEC) Maria Monro

Sanctuary & Sacristy (MI) Mabel Saah, Alicia Cooke

Church Cleaning (MI)

Laundry (SJF) Pat Smith

Laundry (MI) Mabel Saah

Warm congratulations to Cassie Lees who will

be Baptised, Confirmed and receive her First

Holy Communion during the 5:00pm Mass

today at Mary Immaculate Church. Cassie will be

marrying Dan Moloney at Mary Immaculate Church

on Saturday, 3rd September. She has been preparing

for her Baptism with Fr Wise for many months.

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C

13th/14th August, 2016

SUNDAY MASS READINGS

First Reading: Jeremiah 38: 4-6, 8-10

The king's leading men spoke to the king. 'Let Jeremiah be put to death: he is unquestionably disheartening the remaining soldiers in the city, and all the people too, by talking like this. The fellow does not have the welfare of this people at heart so much as its ruin.' `He is in your hands as you know,' King Zedekiah answered `for the king is powerless against you.' So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the well of Prince Malchiah in the Court of the Guard, letting him down with ropes. There was no water in the well, only mud, and into the mud Jeremiah sank. Ebed-melech came out from the palace and spoke to the king, `My lord king,' he said `these men have done a wicked thing by treating the prophet Jeremiah like this: they have thrown him into the well where he will die.' At this the king gave Ebed- melech the Cushite the following order: `Take tree men with you from here and pull the prophet Jeremiah out of the well before he dies.'

The Word of the Lord Response: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm 39

(Said by all)

I waited, I waited for the Lord and he stooped down to me; he heard my cry.

He drew me from the deadly pit, from the miry clay. He set my feet upon a rock and made my footsteps firm.

He put a new song into my mouth, praise of our God. Many shall see and fear and shall trust in the Lord.

As for me, wretched and poor, the Lord thinks of me. You are my rescuer, my help, O God, do not delay.

Second Reading: Hebrews 12: 1-4

With so many witnesses in a great cloud on every side of us, we too, then, should throw off everything that hinders us, especially the sin that clings so easily, and keep running steadily in the race we have started. Let us not lose sight of Jesus, who leads us in our faith and brings it to perfection: for the sake of the joy which was still in the future, he endured he cross, disregarding the shameful-ness of it, and from now on has taken his place at the right of God's throne. Think of the way he stood such opposition from sinners and then you will not give up for want of courage. In the fight against sin, you have not yet had to keep fighting to the point of death.

The Word of the Lord

Response: Thanks be to God

Gospel Acclamation:

Alleluia, alleluia! My sheep listen to my voice, says the Lord; I know them, and they follow me. Alleluia!

Gospel: Luke 12: 49-53

Jesus said to his disciples: `I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already!

There is a baptism I must still receive, and how great is my distress till it is over! Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. For from now on a household of five will be divided: three against two and two against three; the father divided against the son, son against father, mother against daughter, daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.'

The Gospel of the Lord.

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

Memorial Acclamation: Number Two When we eat this Bread and drink this Cup, we proclaim your Death, O Lord, until you come again.

ARE YOU A NEW PARISHIONER?

OR ARE YOU FROM ELSEWHERE IN BRISBANE BUT

REGULARLY ATTEND MASS HERE AND WOULD LIKE

TO BE REGISTERED AS A FRIEND OF THE BRISBANE

ORATORY? If so, please fill in the form below and place it

on the collection plate or mail to our Parish Office:

P.O. Box 3131, Tarragindi. 4121.

□ I am a new parishioner

□ I am from elsewhere but would like to be

registered as a friend of the Brisbane Oratory

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RCIA : for adults wishing to become Catholic

Our next few RCIA sessions are planned as follows:

August 17: Session 18, Sacraments of Marriage

and Holy Orders

August 24: Session 19, Catholic devotions

August 31: Session 20, Moral Action

September 7: Session 21, Baptism and Confirmation

The RCIA group meets at the Parish Office at Annerley at

7:30pm. For more information, please phone 3848 1107.

DO YOU HAVE ANY SPARE WOOL?

Now that the cold weather has set in, the nursing homes really

appreciate receiving knee rugs for their residents. One of our

parishioners will gladly crotchet rugs, so long as she has a supply

of wool. If you have any spare wool, please leave it at the back

of the Church or contact Marie Melski on 3848 0338.

Please support the

2 0 1 6 A n n u a l

Catholic Campaign

(September 10-11)

and help give a Catholic education to children suffering

significant hardship. Your gift will be a blessing to a child and

bring hope to their family through the Mary MacKillop Brisbane

Catholic School Access Fund, which provides bursaries to cover

tuition and fees. Last year, your donations gave this

transformative gift to seventeen bursary recipients.