Brisbane Oratory in Formation

Parish of Annerley Ekibin Palm Sunday Year B [OF] & [EF]: 24th/25th March, 2018

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 Scot Anthony Armstrong

Parish Team:

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

Ms Teresa Martin

Sacramental Co-ordinator)

Mr Richard O’Neil

† 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)

The Brisbane Oratory in Formation

Oratory House - 3392 9247

16 Ferndale Street, Annerley

http://brisbane-oratory.org/

Fr Adrian Sharp (Moderator)

Fr Andrew Wise

Fr Scot Armstrong

Br Shawn Murphy

Br Tyson King

Br Conor Power Br Matthew Buckley

Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable

Adults Parish Representative

Contact for Safeguarding concerns

Marie Melski (3848 0338)

Catholic Enquiry Group

Lauren Le Feuvre (0410 939 661)

Frassati (Young Men)

Dylan Shogren (0449 994 929)

Flores Teresianes (Young Women)

Bernadette Tomlin (0401 446 613)

Frassati Youth (High School age)

Chris & Taylor Da Silva

(0433 775 429) frassatiyouthbrisbane@gmail.com

St Vincent de Paul Helpline

Phone: 3010 1096

Homeless Hotline: 1800 474 753

Readings for next Sunday

31st March/1st April, 2018

1st : Acts 10:34, 37-43

2nd: Colossians 3:1-4

Gospel: John 20:1-9

Dear Parishioners, We celebrate this week the high point of the liturgical year and the convergence point of all the mysteries of the faith. Some passages from the Compendium are instructive, and help us to ponder the love of Christ for each of us:

112. The Paschal Mystery of Jesus Christ, which comprises his passion, death, resurrection, and glorification, stands at the centre of the Christian faith because God's saving plan was accomplished once for all by the redemptive death of his Son Jesus Christ.

131. The Resurrection is the climax of the Incarnation. It confirms the divinity of Christ and all things which he did and taught. It fulfills all the divine promises made for us. Furthermore, the Risen Christ, the conqueror of sin and death, is the principle of our justification and our Resurrection. (Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church)

You may have noticed that this year we are celebrating the full Easter Triduum in both forms of the Roman Rite. This is part of what we strive to do as an Oratory. Many thanks to all the readers, musicians, sacristans, cleaners, decorators and servers who will make this possible. Parishioners who desire to attend Easter ceremonies in the extraordinary form may appreciate knowing, for their own planning, that they are very lengthy. This year, we are delighted that Ella and Joel will be received into full communion with the Catholic Church during the EF Easter Vigil, and extend our heartfelt congratulations to them. Obviously, the celebration of the sacraments of baptism and confirmation will significantly extend the time of celebration of the EF Vigil. Please remember to take this into consideration when planning your attendance of Easter ceremonies.

On behalf of the Fathers and Brothers of the Brisbane Oratory in formation, I would like to wish everyone a blessed and happy Easter. Let us pray that the peace of the Risen Christ may radiate even more into the world.

In Christ, Fr Scot Anthony Armstrong

Day Time/Ceremony Venue Notes

Holy Thursday

29th March

7:00pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper [OF] Watching with the Lord until 9:00pm

SJF Night prayer at 9:00pm

7:00pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper [EF] Watching with the Lord until midnight

MI [EF] Sung Compline at 9:30pm

Good Friday

30th March

10:00am Stations of the Cross [OF] MI With confessions

12:00 midday Solemn Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion

SJF

3:00pm Solemn Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion [EF]

MI With confessions

7:30pm Tenebrae (confessions heard during the liturgy)

MI Chanting of psalms from Divine Office with lighting & extinguishing of candles

Holy Saturday

31st March

7:00pm Easter Vigil [OF+] MI Liturgy of Light begins in portico of church

9:30pm Easter Vigil [EF] MI Includes sacraments of baptism and confirmation

Please note there will be no Easter Vigil Mass at St John Fisher Church

Easter Sunday 1st April

7:30am Mass [OF] MI

8:30am Mass [OF] SJF

9:00am Mass [EF] MI Missa cantata

Please note there will be no evening Mass on Easter Sunday

PARISH DATE CLAIMERS Saturday 21st April Baptism Preparation for Parents at 9:00am in MI Music Room. Please phone the Parish Office to book.

WE PRAY FOR: Those who are recently deceased. Those who are sick: Bob GILLESPIE, Luke ADENEY, Ksenia BORODIN, Rex BOWEN, Joan BRAMMER, Ted BUTTERWORTH, Sylvia DELUCA, Shannon EMSLIE, Jane FARRELL, Bryan FITZPATRICK, Joan FLEW, Anne FRANETTOVICH, Gwen GAIR, Vilma GHOUSE, Bronte GREER, Marlene JOHNSTON, Aroha McCORMACK, Marie MITCHELL, Valerie ORTON, Mila PICKARD, Ron ROFE, Joan ROONEY, Rosa Maria SANTOS, Matt VASIL, Josephine & Bill WRIGHT and Matthew ZEMEK. All the faithful departed, especially Pat BOYLE, Patrick BOYLE, Katie & Norm TIMMINS, Norman, Patricia and Daniel TIMMINS, Karen BAKER and Mike WEST.

The Catholic Inquiry Group continues each Tuesday at 7.30pm in the Parish office. Adults interested in learning more about becoming a Catholic, completing their Sacraments of initiation into the Church, or learning about the Faith for the first time are most welcome to come along. Please contact Teresa on 0413 763 256 for more information.

Reflection It is God’s custom to interweave human life with a trouble and a consolation, at least, of an interior sort, alternately.

St Philip Neri

"The best way to establish in ourselves the admirable reign of Jesus are precisely those of continual prayer and peace of soul....Don't measure your love of our Lord by the depth of your feelings, this is truly a small measure. Respond to all misfortune, whatever it may be, with gentleness, peace, tenderness and interior moderation before God, abandoning yourself simply into His hands so that He may make of you and in you what He pleases.

(Jacques Philippe, Searching For and Maintaining Peace, Sceptre, New York, 2002).

Promises of Our Lady of Fatima to those who make the devotion of the first five Saturdays: “I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation all those who, in order to make reparation to me, on the First Saturday of five successive months, 1. go to confession, 2. receive Holy Communion, 3. say five decades of theRosary, and 4. keep me company for a quarter of an hour, meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary.”

Tuesday Rosary: On Tuesdays 27th of March and 3rd of April, the Holy Rosary is prayed for the conversion of Australia through the intercession of Our Lady Help of Christians, the Patroness of Australia. It begins 5 minutes after the 7am Mass in Mary Immaculate Church. All welcome. Enquiries: Legion of Mary Mystical Rose Praesidium on 0421 258 418 (Bill).

Sacramental Program: For those children who were Confirmed in 2017, First Holy Communion will be at the Vigil Mass on Saturday 2 June and on the Feast of Corpus Christi, Sunday 3 June 2018. The preparation sessions will start on Tuesday 3rd May at St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School. Further details closer to event.

Parish Diary & Mass Times: 26th March - 1st April

Monday 26th March 7:00am Mass [OF+] SE 7:00pm Mass [EF] MI Tuesday 27th March

7:00am Mass [EF] MI 9:00am Mass [OF] SE Wednesday 28th March 6:30am Mass [OF] SJF

9:00am Mass [EF] 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) 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 weekday Masses, at SE & SJF.

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

Please note that there will be no Adoration at SE on Holy Thursday, 29th March, 2018

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

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament takes place from 9.40am to 11.30am on every First Friday at Mary Immaculate Church.

The Holy Rosary is prayed at Mary Immaculate after the 7am Mass on Tuesdays, at 7.30am on Saturdays and after the 8.15am Mass on every First Saturday.

Rosters for next week

St Gregory’s Latin Mass Community: Palm Sunday, Wilston 7:00am

Holy Thursday, 29th March, 7:00pm Vigil at SJF: For Jesus Youth 7:00pm Vigil at MI: For the repose of the soul of Frances Banwell Holy Saturday, 31st March, 7:00pm Vigil at MI: For the repose of the soul of Gladive Lutvey, anniversary Easter Sunday, 1st April, 7:30am Mass at MI: For the repose of the soul of Lynette Larkin, anniversary of birth 8:30am Mass at SJF: For the intentions of the donor 9:00am Mass at MI: For spiritual blessings for all Oratory Altar Servers

PLEASE NOTE

Weekday Mass changes this week

Monday, 26th March, morning Mass at SE will commence at

7:00am not 6:30am

Holy Thursday Masses as per front page

No Masses on Good Friday

PREVIOUS MASS INTENTION Wednesday, 21st March, 9:00am Mass at MI: For Fr Senkus, recently deceased 101-year-old Lithuanian Priest

MASS INTENTIONS Saturday, 24th March, Private: For the intention of the donor 5:30pm Vigil at MI: Mass for the People ‘Pro populo’ Sunday, 25th March, 7:30am Mass at MI: For the Holy Souls in purgatory 9:00am Mass at MI: For the Pope and the Bishops Monday, 26th March,7:00am Mass at SE: For deceased members of the Boyle, Timmins, Baker and West Families. Please see Page 2 7:00pm Mass at MI: For the repose of the soul of L. M (Jim) Childs Tuesday, 27th March, Private: For Ted Butterworth and family 7:00am Mass at MI: For the repose of the soul of Norm Banwell, anniversary Wednesday, 28th March, 6:30am Mass at SJF: For the Holy Souls in purgatory 9:00am Mass at MI: For the repose of the soul of Cecil Shorthouse, anniversary

DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY: 8th April, 2018

In the lead up to Divine Mercy Sunday you are invited to

begin praying the Divine Mercy Novena

on Good Friday, 30th March. Flyers will

be available at Mary Immaculate

Church, St John Fisher Church and St

Elizabeth’s Chapel.

On the Feast of Divine Mercy, Sunday,

8th April, at Mary Immaculate

Church images and Divine Mercy

material will be available.

The DIVINE MERCY CHAPLET will be prayed at 3:00 pm

and there will be the Blessing of Divine Mercy Images and

religious objects, followed by a TALK about the link

between Divine Mercy, Fatima and Saint John Paul II.

SILENT ADORATION AND BENEDICTION will follow from

3:45 pm to 4:45 pm with reflections supplied from the

Diary of St Faustina for private meditation.

MASS FOR THE FEAST OF DIVINE MERCY commences at

5:00 pm. All are warmly invited to attend.

Rosters for next week MINISTERS OF THE WORD

Sat (SJF) 5:30pm Kay Holmes

Sun (MI) 7.30am Michael Cooper, Sol Dobinson

Sun (SJF)8:30am Deidre Vokes, Dianne Shanahan

Sun (MI) 5.00pm Maggie Soares, Ken Meissner

EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION

Sat (SJF) 5:30pm: Bert Jacobs, John Lesina, Prem Nair

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

COUNTERS

Monday, 26th March, 2018

Bernie O’Hara

CHURCH CARE

Sacristy (SEC) Maria Monro

Sanctuary & Sacristy (MI) Mabel Saah

Laundry (MI) Mabel Saah

EASTER 2018 For ceremonies and times,

please see front page.

Palm Sunday - Year B: 24th/25th March, 2018

MASS READINGS First Reading: Isaiah 50: 4-7 The Lord has given me a disciples tongue. So that I may know how to reply to the wearied, he provides me with speech. Each morning he wakes me to hear, to listen like a disciple. The Lord has opened my ear. For my part, I made no resistance, neither did I turn away. I offered my back to those who struck me, my cheeks to those who tore at my beard; I did not cover my face against insult and spittle. The Lord comes to my help, so that I am untouched by the insults. So, too, I set my face like flint; I know I shall not be shamed.

The Word of the Lord

Response: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm 21 (Said by all)

All who see me deride me. They curl their lips, they toss their heads. ‘He trusted in the Lord, let him save him: Let him release him if this is his friend.’

Many dogs have surrounded me, A band of the wicked beset me. They tear holes in my hands and my feet, I can count every one of my bones.

They divide my clothing among them. They cast lots for my robe. O Lord, do not leave me alone, My strength, make haste to help me!

I will tell of your name to my brethren And praise you where they are assembled. ‘You who fear the Lord give him praise; All sons of Jacob, give him glory. Revere him, Israel’s sons.

Second Reading: Philippians 2:6-11 His state was divine, yet Christ Jesus did not cling to his equality with God but emptied himself to assume the condition of a slave, and became as men are; and being as all men are, he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross. But God raised him high and gave him the name

which is above all other names >

> so that all beings in the heavens, on earth and in the underworld, should bend the knee at the name of Jesus and that every tongue should acclaim Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

The Word of the Lord

Response: Thanks be to God

Gospel Acclamation

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, king of endless glory! Christ became obedient for us even to death, dying on the cross. Therefore God raised him on high and gave him a name above all other names. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, king of endless

glory!

Gospel: Mark 14: 1-15 - 15: 47

The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark will now be read in Parts.

The Gospel of the Lord.

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ

Memorial Acclamation: Number Three Save us, Saviour of the world, for by your Cross and Resurrection you have set us free.

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P.O. Box 3131, Tarragindi. 4121.

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COLLECTIONS LAST WEEKEND: $2,339.20 ELECTRONIC CONTRIBUTIONS AVERAGE FOR WEEK:

$1,856.54. Thank you from a grateful Parish.