Entrance Antiphon: Proclaim a joyful sound and let it be heard; proclaim to the ends of the earth: The Lord has freed his people, alleluia.

Communion Antiphon: If you love me, keep my commandments, says the Lord, and I will ask the Father and he will send you another Paraclete, to abide with you for ever, alleluia.

PLEASE PRAY FOR MEMBERS OF OUR PARISH COMMUNITY:Our sick: Bernadette Farrugia, Gavin Abbey, Lina Beghetto, Archbishop Anthony Fisher, Leanne Frost, Michael Steel, Janno Punla, Conrad Murray, Fr Jaime Bonet, Mary Cunney, Joao Merchado, Therese Grima, Geoff Shalala, Alexandre Branco, Leonor Flores, Fay Sommers, Richard Hannigan, Maureen McLoughlin, Audrey McDonnell, Steve Estrada and Jacqueline Vella.

Deceased: We pray especially for the deceased of our parish.

Birthdays: Marg Borg (1 May), Joanne Fong (2 May), Sienna Knight (4 May), Terrance Cross, Daniella Bezzina (5 May)

Death Anniversary: Joan Morgan (30 April).Congratulations to Allira and Agus on the commitment to have their daughter, Caitlynn, baptised this weekend.  We also congratulate Gabriel and Renee Thielbeer on their commitment to have their twins, Charlton and Heidi, baptised this weekend. May God bless your families always and help you as you raise your children in the Catholic faith.

Our next CWF appeal will take place next week, May 7-8.  Envelopes are available for you to take home and

complete if you wish to have your donation tax deductible.  Our Parish is required to make an annual CWF contribution of $12,600 regardless of donations.  Any donation you can make towards this is very much appreciated. Thank you.

ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH, ROSEBERY Fr Greg Morgan Parish Administrator

Phone: 9663 1183 | Fax: 8964 9885 Office: 1a Morley Ave, Rosebery 2018

roseberycatholic@gmail.com | www.roseberyparish.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/roseberyparish

6TH SUNDAY OF EASTER 1ST MAY 2016

WEEKEND MASSES:

Saturday 6pmSunday 7:30am

Sunday 9:30am - Family Mass with Children’s Liturgy

WEEKDAY SERVICES - 7am

Monday: Communion ServiceTuesday - Friday: Mass

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Saturday 3:30pm - 5:30pm

Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday 4pm - 5pm

Baptisms & WeddingsBy appointment

PARISH MINISTRIES:

To offer assistance or to make enquiries contact the following people or the Parish office:- Altar Servers, Eucharistic Ministers & Acolytes: Rosemary 9667 2955- Readers: Josette 0409 662 468- Public School Catechists: Kath 9667 3505- Visiting the sick, elderly & lonely: Grainne 9663 3945- Music & Choir: Phil 0423 233 109- Youth: Phil 0423 233 109 & Sarah 0426 892 945- St Vincent de Paul: Bernard 0408 114 789- RCIA: Parish Office - Parish Morning Tea: Helen 0414 397 105

Verbum Dei Missionaries: 9313 7099 verbumdeisydney@gmail.com

OLSH Sisters: 9663 42119 Kimberley Grove, Rosebery

Tue, May 3rd: Saints Philip & James, Apostles

Please join us for morning weekday mass (Monday communion services) from 7am. The

Sacrament of Reconciliation is also available in the Church on Saturday from 4-5pm during

Eucharistic Adoration.

THEWEEK

AHEAD:

ROSTERS Readers Extra Eucharistic Ministers

6PMThis R Cooley/A Lobo R Cameron/P Di Cristo

Next G Norton/L Azzopardi R Cameron/D Tolliver

7:30AMThis P Murphy/M Burns J Sciberras

Next J Sciberras/S MacDonald K Atkins

9:30AM

This J Buist/J Maher S Sangha

Next M Steel/S Middleton J Buist

CountersThis T McDonald, G Elliott, T Lumibao

Next N & P Paredes, J Buist

MASS CONTRIBUTIONS: Thank you for your contributions towards our Parish. You can also contribute via electronic transfer:

Our bank details are: Account Name:

Rosebery Parish Church Account BSB: 062 784

Account No.: 537 5002

VERBUM DEI NOTICES:Dear friends, We want to thank all of you for your

kind words of support when you heard the news of our moving.  Providentially we have found a

provisional accommodation in Eastlakes, so we will be moving out on Saturday, April 30th.  Thank you

for all your prayers and support.  Juana, Maria, Kylie and Louise Verbum Dei Missionaries

PENTECOST RETREAT: Let's call  on the Spirit for the strength, light and love to live life to the full. Sat, May 14th, 9:30- 2:30pm. Given by Verbum Dei Family disciples, all ages welcome, lunch provided. For more information please call 9313  7099 or email verbumdeisydney@gmail.com.

PARISH MORNING TEA: Join us at our Morning Tea after the 9:30 mass this weekend to farewell and thank Sonia, Nick and Mikalya Sangha before they move to Albury. Sonia is an important

part of our Catechist and Sunday Liturgy teams and Nick has been magnificent in being available to open the church

for our Lunchtime prayers. Please come along.

For more information about youth events in the parish or to make any enquiries pease call

Phil (0423 233 109) or Sarah (0426 892 945).

MAY CELEBRATION IN HONOR of OUR LADY to intercede for World Peace and the Welfare of Australia- ST MARY'S CATHEDRAL Saturday May 14, 11.30am – 1.00pm. Fr. Peter Joseph will celebrate the Mass. The Mass will be preceded by; 1. Entrance Procession of Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima. 2. Rosary and Litany of Loreto. 3. Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

May 7th - Reflection Day for Women - Presented by Sr. M. Isabell Naumann. The topic is: “Give me a Drink (Jn.4:7) – Charity and Mercy”. All women are invited to attend this day where we will reflect on the gifts of God’s merciful love and charity. Cost: $25, BYO Lunch (Morning/ afternoon tea provided). The day will include Holy Mass and the opportunity for reconciliation. Information available at: Email: movtoffice@schoenstatt.org.au or Ph: 4773 8338 – Mount Schoenstatt Spirituality Centre, 230 Fairlight Road, Mulgoa

The Living Word 6th Sunday of Easter, Year C

St Philip and St James were two of the twelve apostles chosen by Jesus. After St Philip was called to be an apostle,

he persuaded Nathaniel (St Bartholemew) to also follow Jesus. At the feeding of the 5000, St Philip passed the remark that, “200 denari would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little”. St James was the brother of St Jude, and is often referred to as “James the Lesser” to distinguish him from James, the son of Zebedee. Some traditions believe St James was a cousin of Jesus, and others name him as the author of the Epistle of St James. Traditionally, St Philip and St James share the same feast day because their remains were both brought to the Church of the Apostles in Rome, in early May, 561 AD.

CROSSWORD

What did Jesus tell his disciples about the Holy Spirit? Unscramble the tiles below to reveal his message.

Across1: to have life 5: follow orders6: to have listened7: any person8: to help somebody remember9: The Holy _ _ _ _ _ _12: devoted to the service of God

Down2: all things3: another word for dad4: to order something to go to a place10: pass knowledge onto others11: Jesus told his disciples, “the Father will send the Spirit to take my p_ _ _ _”.

First Reading Acts 15:1-2, 22-29A reading from the Acts of the Apostles

It has been decided by the Holy Spirit and ourselves not to burden you beyond what is essential.

Some men came down from Judaea and taught the brothers, ‘Unless you have yourselves circumcised in the tradition of Moses you cannot be saved.’ This led to disagreement, and after Paul and Barnabas had had a long argument with these men it was arranged that Paul and Barnabas and others of the church should go up to Jerusalem and discuss the problem with the apostles and elders.Then the apostles and elders decided to choose delegates to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; the whole church concurred with this. They chose Judas known as Barsabbas and Silas, both leading men in the brotherhood, and gave them this letter to take with them:‘The apostles and elders, your brothers, send greetings to the brothers of pagan birth in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia. We hear that some of our members have disturbed you with their demands and have unsettled your minds. They acted without any authority from us, and so we have decided unanimously to elect delegates and to send them to you with Barnabas and Paul, men we highly respect who have dedicated their lives to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Accordingly we are sending you Judas and Silas, who will confirm by word of mouth what we have written in this letter. It has been decided by the Holy Spirit and by ourselves not to saddle you with any burden beyond these essentials: you are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from fornication. Avoid these, and you will do what is right. Farewell.’

The word of the Lord.

Responsorial Psalm Ps 66:2-3. 5-6. 8. R. v.4(R.) O God, let all the nations praise you!

or

(R.) Alleluia.

1. O God, be gracious and bless us and let your face shed its light upon us. So will your ways be known upon earth and all nations learn your saving help. (R.)

2. Let the nations be glad and exult for you rule the world with justice. With fairness you rule the peoples, you guide the nations on earth. (R.)

3. Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you. May God still give us his blessing till the ends of the earth revere him. (R.)

Second Reading Rv 21:10-14, 22-23A reading from the book of the Apocalypse

He showed me the holy city coming down out of heaven.

In the spirit, the angel took me to the top of an enormous high mountain and showed me Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down from God out of heaven. It had all the radiant glory of God and glittered like some precious jewel of crystal-clear diamond. The walls of it were of a great height, and had twelve gates; at each of the twelve gates there was an angel, and over the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel; on the east there were three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. The city walls stood on twelve foundation stones, each one of which bore the name of one of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

I saw that there was no temple in the city since the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb were themselves the temple, and the city did not need the sun or the moon for light, since it was lit by the radiant glory of God and the Lamb was a lighted torch for it.

The word of the Lord.

Gospel Acclamation Jn 14:23

Alleluia, alleluia!

All who love me will keep my words,

and my Father will love them and we will

come to them.

Alleluia!

Gospel Jn 14:23-29 A reading from the holy Gospel

according to John

The Holy Spirit will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you.

Jesus said to his disciples:

‘If anyone loves me he will keep my word,and my Father will love him,and we shall come to himand make our home with him.Those who do not love me do not keep my

words.And my word is not my own:it is the word of the one who sent me.I have said these things to youwhile still with you;but the Advocate, the Holy Spirit,whom the Father will send in my name,will teach you everythingand remind you of all I have said to you.Peace I bequeath to you,my own peace I give you,a peace the world cannot give, this is my gift

to you.Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.You heard me say:I am going away, and shall return.If you loved me you would have been glad to

know that I am going to the Father,for the Father is greater than I.I have told you this now before it happens,so that when it does happen you may believe.’

The Gospel of the Lord.

1 May 20166th Sunday of Easter, Year C

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Reflection by Michael Tate

Some people have the idea that God is awfully remote, dwelling beyond the edge of the cosmos. We make contact by sending a prayer like a long range rocket, hoping it will find its target.

This is far distant from Our Lord’s teaching in today’s Gospel.

‘If anyone loves me and keeps my word, my Father and I will make our home with that person.’ It is not in outer space, but in inner space that Divine Love will make a home.

What turns a house into a home? It is in sitting around a table sharing a meal. So, Jesus created a sacred meal for us and invites us to share in the Heavenly Bread and Spiritual Drink.

When we do so, we find, in the words of St John Paul II, that we ‘digest, as it were, the secret of the Resurrection’. We take into ourselves the Real Presence of the Risen Lord who makes his home with us.

Coming to Communion, even after a long time away, satisfies the yearning of the human heart because it is made to be the habitation of Divine Love. We could pause for a moment to reflect on the gracious fact that God chooses to dwell in our hearts. Let us respond wholeheartedly.

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