WE JOURNEY TO JESUS WITH AN OPEN MIND,

OPEN HEART, OPEN WILL!

SUNDAY MASS TIMES

Queen of Peace: Altona Meadows - Saturday 6pm,

Sunday 8am & 11am

St. Martin de Porres: Laverton - Sunday 10am

Stella Maris School Hall: Point Cook - Sunday 9am

Reconciliation: Saturday 10-10.30am Queen of Peace

3rd Sunday of Lent

7th March 2021 - YEAR B PARISH NEWS

Community

St. Martin de Porres

Syro-Malabar mass every

Sunday at 4.30pm.

Queen of Peace

Portuguese mass second

Sunday of the month at 4pm.

Piety Stall: 1st & 3rd Sunday.

Parish Team:

Fr. John Healy - Parish Priest

Franca Zanoni - Baptism &

Nursing Home Co-ordinator

Grace Gingco - Parish Bursar

Robert Saliba - Admin. Assistant

Elaine Koch - Parish Admin &

Volunteer Co-ordinator

Office Hours & Address:

Monday: Closed

Tues, Wed, & Thurs: 9am - 4pm

Friday: 9am - 3pm

62A Everingham Rd. Altona

Meadows 3028

PO Box 68, Laverton 3028

For all enquiries including Baptism

please contact the Parish Office.

9369 6877

Laverton@cam.org.au Or visit our website…

www.lavertonparish.org.au

Important Notices

Weekday mass times this week

NO MASS AT St. Martin de Porres

Wednesday 10th March: Mass at St. Mary of the Cross

Thursday 11th March: Mass at Lumen Christi

Friday 12th March: Mass at Stella Maris

Saturday 13th March: 9.15am at Queen of Peace

Reconciliation: Every Saturday from 10am-10.30am at Queen of Peace.

Fr. John’s Calendar this week:

9th March: Advisory Board Meeting Archdiocese - 2pm

Finance Meeting Emmanuel College - 4pm

10th March: Reconciliation for 2020 Queen of Peace students - 11.45am

11th March: Reconciliation for 2020 St. Martin’s students - 12pm

Zoom meeting - 2pm

12th March: Meeting with Primary School Principals - 1pm

13th March: School Aged Baptisms at Queen of Peace 10.30am & 11.30am

Mass Bookings: Please continue to book for weekend masses, via email or phone

(details below). We will only return your call or email if no places are available.

When signing in at mass please print your name clearly. If you do not tick that

you are returning to mass next week your name will be removed from the list.

Stations of the Cross: every Friday at 7pm at Queen of Peace Church.

KID’s CORNER

CONGRATULATIONS

To the Grade 4 children from Lumen Christi &

children from the Preca Community who

celebrated their first reconciliation this past

week.

“IF IT’S FREE, THEN

IT’S FOR ME” The above is a quote a parish-

ioner shared with Fr. John, and

he believes it is a quote for

him! Fr. John has managed to

acquire 40 wooden pews, for

free from Corpus Christi Parish

in Glenroy. The pews will go

into St. Martin’s Church

replacing the current pews,

and should be in place by the

19th of March.

To all who have donated so far to supply the new

plaques for Queen of Peace Church.

Your contributions are greatly

appreciated.

To mark the beginning of our Parish Celebration for

the Year of St Joseph on FRIDAY 19th March, the Feast

of St Joseph - a holy hour will be celebrated at Queen

of Peace Church. Stations of the Cross will not be cel-

ebrated that evening. The format of the prayer will be

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, moments of qui-

et prayer, scripture, a reflection on St Joseph, con-

cluding with Benediction. Mark the date in your diary.

To Joe & Charlie Farrugia who have given the Q.O.P

Church toilets a much needed facelift.

FIRST READING

A reading from the book of Exodus.

God spoke all these words. He said, ‘I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery’. ‘You shall have no gods except me’. ‘You shall not make yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything in heaven or on earth be-neath or in the waters under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God and I punish the father’s fault in the sons, the grandsons, and the great-grandsons of those who hate me; but I show kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. You shall not utter the name of the Lord your God to misuse it, for the Lord will not leave unpunished the man who utters his name to misuse it. Re-member the Sabbath day and keep it holy. For six days you shall labour and do all your work, but the sev-enth day is a Sabbath for the Lord your God. You shall do no work on that day, neither you nor your son or daughter nor your servants, men or women, not your animals nor the stranger who lives with you. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that these hold, but on the seventh day he rested; that is

RESPONSORIAL PSALM

R. Lord, you have the words of

everlasting life.

Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ, king of

endless glory! God loved the world so

much, he gave us his only Son, that all

who believe in him might have eternal

life. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ, king

of endless glory!

ENTRANCE ANTIPHON

My eyes are always on the Lord, for

he rescues my feet from the snare.

Turn to me and have mercy on me, for

I am alone and poor.

GOSPEL

COMMUNION ANTIPHON

For anyone who drinks it, says the

Lord, the water I shall give will be-

come in him a spring welling up to

eternal life. Holy Trinity Catholic Parish

Is committed to the safety, wellbeing

and dignity of all children, young people

and vulnerable adults in our community.

Holy Trinity Catholic Parish acknowledge

the Kurung-Jang-Ballok Aboriginal Peo-

ple of the Woiwurrung Clan as the Origi-

nal Owners who have walked upon and

cared for this land for thousands of years.

NICENE CREED

I believe in God, the Father

Almighty, maker of heaven and

earth, of all things visible and

invisible. I believe in one Lord

Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten

Son of God, born of the Father

before all ages. God from God,

Light from Light, true God from

true God, begotten, not made,

consubstantial with the Father;

through him all things were

made. For us men and for our

salvation he came down from

heaven, and by the Holy Spirit

was incarnate of the Virgin

Mary, and became man. For our

sake he was crucified under Pon-

tius Pilate, he suffered death

and was buried, and rose again

on the third day in accordance

with the Scriptures. He ascend-

ed into heaven and is seated at

the right had of the Father. He

will come again in glory to judge

the living and the dead and his

kingdom will have no end. I be-

lieve in the Holy Spirit, the Lord,

the giver of life, who proceeds

from the Father and the Son,

who with the Father and Son is

adored and glorified, who has

spoken through the prophets. I

believe in one, holy, catholic and

apostolic Church. I confess one

Baptism for the forgiveness of

sins and I look forward to the

resurrection of the dead and the

lift of the world to come. AMEN

RECENT DEATHS Please remember in your prayers...

FIRST READING cont...

Why the Lord has blessed the Sabbath day and made it sacred. Honour your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God has given you. You shall not kill. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour. You shall not covet your neighbour’s house. You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, or his servant, man or woman, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is his.

The Word of the Lord. Thanks be God

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

A reading from the holy Gospel

according to John.

Just before the Jewish Passover Jesus went

up to Jerusalem, and in the Temple he

found people selling cattle and sheep and

pigeons, and the money changers sitting at

their counters there. Making a whip out of

some cord, he drove them all out of the

Temple, cattle and sheep as well, scattered

the money changers’ coins, knocked their

tables over and said to the pigeon sellers,

‘take all this out of here and stop turning

my Father’s house into a market.’ Then his

disciples remembered the words of scrip-

ture: Zeal for your house will devour me.

The Jews intervened and said, ‘what sign

can you show us to justify what you have

done? Jesus answered, ‘Destroy this sanc-

tuary, and in three days I will raise it up.’

The Jews replied, ‘it has taken forty six

years to build this sanctuary: are you going

to raise it up in three days?’ But he was

speaking of the sanctuary that was his

body, and when Jesus rose from the dead,

his disciples remembered that he had said

this, and they believed the scripture and

the words he had said. During his stay in

Jerusalem for the Passover many believed

in his name when they saw the signs that

he gave, but Jesus knew them all and did

not trust himself to them; he never need-

ed evidence about any man; he could tell

what a man had in him.

The Gospel of the Lord Praise To You Lord Jesus Christ

Bertie Bowman,

DEATH ANNIVERSARIES Please remember in your prayers...

SECOND READING

A reading from the letter of St. Paul to

the Corinthians.

While the Jews demand miracles and

the Greeks look for wisdom, here are

we preaching a crucified Christ; to the

Jews an obstacle that they cannot get

over, to the pagans madness, but to

those who have been called, whether

they are Jews or Greeks, a Christ who

is the power and the wisdom of God.

For God’s foolishness is wiser than

human wisdom, and God’s weakness

is stronger than human strength.

The Word of the Lord. Thanks be God

Please Join Us For:

Stations of the Cross

Every Friday at Queen of

Peace Church at 7pm.

Maria nu Doan, William Snelling, James Doughty, Alice

Lynch, Charlie Marmara, Mary Tham, Joyce Mallia,

Joseph Vella, Robert Kennedy, Mildred Moreira, Mar-

garet Willoughby, George Willoughby, Bartolome

Cabatan, Michael Grant, Ignacio Dizon, Felisa Enriquez,

Jane Morrell, Mira Zarzycki, Antonio Perri, Teresa Vella

Starting the 15th April we are beginning an amazing series on being a follower of Jesus. The process is called ALPHA and involves 8 evening sessions. The format of the evening involves a

shared meal, a presentation and discussion. The program looks at such topics as: Who is Jesus?, The Bible, Prayer, The Holy Spirit and others.